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I can't see a transport and try to hit me with that.
She said she might poop, but I'm single though.
I can't help just went like a friend or though.
I'm anti-social, but less mingle though.
You mad finger, bro, because it ish.
But unfortunately also means that we will say goodbye
to two teens today.
My name is Shox.
And I'm joined here at the Riot Games Arena
in beautiful Burlinger.
It was actually sunny today.
It was so sunny.
What happened?
Yesterday.
I'm pretty sure.
Gantime, who knows.
It's sunny right now.
It is.
You guys are coping.
It's only sunny for like 10 minutes.
Okay, I'm here with Janou and Kobe, as you have,
that was already heard.
And we will be going through this day,
which could be a great day for them.
Something else is gonna happen
that's not an MTK and a TL victory?
There is also a draw at the end of the day.
Now I'm thinking about that.
Okay, okay.
We're gonna win so far some of the results
and the bracket and, yeah,
potential draws will have them at the end of the day.
So, dangerous routes.
There are some dangerous situations.
So if you're playing Minesweeper, we already know where the mine is right now, and BLG being
one and two in the pool, the executioners are there.
Everyone's trying to avoid that.
That is crazy that BLG are down there.
They were supposed to be up there!
Yeah, but they're down there.
And here are some of the Hooper comments.
I guess it's like, Freddy's Reddit, we're mean over here on Reddit, look at this.
Every time World comes around, they'll remember how to turn invisible and forget it after
World.
and this is about night 2.4 out of 10. Yeah, I mean who will always goes very extreme with other
reactions. Yeah, but you know BLG being down here. I would say all of the other teams in the one to
pool don't think that they're invisible. Very much paying attention to them. So we'll see how that
draw goes. But at the same time, maybe they're gonna keep losing. They actually might. It will
be crazy two times ago when we were in Europe the number one seed from the LPL
didn't make it to quarters it was LGD back then yeah LPL tradition if you
think it's only if you're losing too much that they're mean it's not true even
when you're winning 369 has been catching a lot of strays in the
Hupu comments it's funny because they keep referencing back the flame it's
quite funny most of them stem from the rumble game getting killed
Maybe try 60 and 0 next time, see if that helps, 3.3 out of 10.
Oh my god.
Maybe with a versus Gen G, come on.
Exactly, they lost one time, oh no, to Gen G, you know, another of the tournament favorites.
Yes.
It'll be fine, it'll be fine.
Okay.
Yeah, fair.
Yeah, you're okay with that?
Well, they can't play T1 again.
That's the other thing about the draw that's going to happen is it's going to be a complicated
draw.
No rematch.
I mean, coming into the tournament too, people were not that scared of T1.
T1's recent form didn't cause a lot of fear, but now after that victory everyone's looking at the meta change
Yeah, for faker gonna be great and T1 at worlds. You always get like this aura buff
You know how
Some guys are like it's anyone's been ripped before and then they're like not ripped for a bit
It's easy to regain. It's way easier to get ripped again because of the muscle memory
Why do people think that T1 is just like suddenly not good because we watch
Yeah, but they were just getting ripped again, they were just reloading and now they're
balking up again.
They didn't skip that step of getting kind of weak though.
No, never.
They've been great the whole time.
Hey, also we were really happy yesterday, both FlyQuest and G2 got a win.
Let's start with the G2-1 because obviously I'm biased, yeah.
About caps, they said every year we have you to catch the tiger, felt surprisingly
reliable.
and their tiger catcher about Jahu is the spring king.
But unfortunately at Worlds, it doesn't always work out.
Yeah, at Worlds in Europe, where Caps is the king,
there you go.
And to me, yeah, Caps, you can always rely on him
for Europe, he's like the king of Europe.
But Broken Blade, by the way,
we kind of like share a little bit of ownership
like Broken Blade, he learned a lot in NA.
He won the LCS before he won the OEC.
He is German, Turkish, okay.
You do not have anything to do with it.
But Broken Blade on the Galio,
I'm just like, Broken Blade is also an inspiration.
I feel like performing super well,
so very happy for them.
We were talking about the lore actually about the Galio
because there were also the people comments about like,
PTSD for Xiaohu from the Galio from Faker 2017
and you said that's actually another meme that got warped.
They got memes on memes, Josh.
That's crazy.
That's good.
That's the explanation, memes on memes.
Yeah, memes on memes.
They're gonna tell the story.
They're gonna layer them on.
And talking about, you know,
the West Fly quest yesterday.
Wait, what a nervy game, though.
Yeah, but they won.
They're in the 2-1 pool because they're the same quality
as all the other teams in the pool, is what we've learned.
Yeah, I agree with that.
Oh my god, that was such a scary game
because Bwipo looked like he was just gonna keep running it
down on Renekton until he ran it down in a good way.
They didn't even take him below half health.
He engaged this amazing fight in the mid lane.
He got some really, really glorious comments on who to
as well.
Yeah, I just want to shout out the user
for providing all these amazing translations always on Reddit.
There's also a Hupo account on X you can follow that has these ones and they always have the spice.
So, but let's get into our first best of three of the day, Madline's Koi versus Gam and Lore caught up with Melzett, their coach of Madline's Koi.
In today's Verizon Game Day interview.
Thank you so much for joining me ahead of this important series for you guys.
You tweeted some stuff a couple of days ago about reactions from the fans on social media,
about the champions and what you have been drafting.
Can you tell me more about this reaction and also how much it affected you guys and the players maybe?
I think people in social media tend to analyze games used by champions or builds and flint the players
because of that it happens also to Hansama with the Lord Dominic and all of that
and the reason behind losing a game is not use the champions and the build only
is a small percentage and I think that affects a lot of the players
I'm tired of that shit so I tweeted that because I was angry we are here to learn
we were learning how to play against the best teams in the world so yeah
the champions are not the problem.
Keeping these fundamentals in mind and hoping that you guys are ready for today
What has been your biggest improvement from the game you played against PSG to be ready today for this series?
I think we are now more confident on what we are trying to do now
About how we play the map, how we hold the spots, how we play the waves
So I hope that shows off anyway. We came from loses so the confidence is not super high
But I hope we can show it. You can thrive in these kind of situations every minute
Thank you so much Melzeb and best of luck today. Thank you
Yeah, it can be rough at Worlds, but also in general, people always have something to say.
I hear what he's saying.
Do you agree?
It depends.
I would say draft is part of it.
There are some big sins that people have come to recognize, and giving away Yone is one
of the biggest sins right now.
And especially if you have good combinations with the champion.
We're also seeing all the success of Rumble and everything.
That's where the stuff builds from.
Obviously, not one thing is always going to be the problem.
Yeah.
Where I agree is where he says not just.
Yeah.
Right?
Because I do think it was an issue, but it's like,
you have a lot of problems with your car.
Like if you don't have a door and you have a flat tire
and everyone's talking about not having the door.
Well, that depends on how you look at it.
Perhaps.
Who knows?
You can move on.
Anyways, we shall move on.
It is an elimination series for both of these teams
and very different contexts.
But we can feel or we can find rather common ground
as well.
It is Madline's coin now, but I think a lot of people still kind of connect the Madline's brand with some of the failures at Worlds,
but they also had some great successes.
And I think the fact that it's the rookies in El Yoya now making it to Swiss is great, but they don't want to be knocked out yet.
Yeah. And all these MDK Worlds histories are the El Yoya era.
He's been top four MSI 2021.
He made it into the quarterfinals in Worlds 2021, wants to be able to get back here.
But we are in the lowest of the low bracket that you can get in the Swiss stage before being eliminated.
So it's definitely time to stop playing.
So that you get knocked out.
They did great.
Yeah.
Are you really in Swiss save if you don't win a game, though?
You know we'll see.
Yeah.
Yes, you are.
That was a trick.
Regardless though for GAM, I think, in summary,
ever since they burst onto the scene,
I feel like there's a ceiling that they, for me,
haven't been able to puncture yet.
And of course, they'll have to survive today
in order to show if they can.
And that's a good point, because they're
at the ceiling right now.
This is the ceiling.
So if they start punching up, if they
can actually break through, then it'll be super fun.
I mean, this already, you're really happy for Levi and for Kia.
And you're kind of like hoping for more success,
because they've gone through so much stuff with the league
and all the troubles.
Absolutely.
And of course, next year, there'll be a merger.
So this is very important on many, many fronts.
And talking about Kia and Levi,
those really are the strong points that have also
inspired us, I feel like, in their world run right now.
For sure.
I feel like Gam are definitely
going to want to play topside of the map.
Meanwhile, you look at Mad Lions.
They're probably going to want to play the other side of the map.
But topside for Gam, even in their losses,
I always feel like Gai is doing so much
to try and get them back into a positive place in the game.
Him and Levi have been the two biggest points of power.
So that's why I kind of see this matchup as both teams
focusing the opposite areas.
I mean, we'll see about drafts,
because draft, of course, it can always be crazy,
especially with Merwin.
But I feel like that's where they should be focusing.
You mentioned Super and Alvaro being so big for them in play-ins.
Yeah, Alvaro was the stand-up player for Matt Lyons, for me.
Every time they needed the big play to happen in the play-in stage,
he was absolutely there to make it.
Just incredibly clutched.
This was one moment where just like frame perfect,
interrupting Maple's Akali.
This was a pretty much game deciding moment.
Another one here, PSG actually had to lead in this game.
He stops the Blanc completely in his tracks and then Supa ended up getting incredibly fed on the back side of these fights and carried the team to victory.
So those two almost need to reach back to the type of confidence they're playing with in the playing stage.
And then the elephant in the room would be their sole energy to step up.
But I think to Kobe's point, like, we're going to see, it's not a mirror, it's the bot lane versus the top lane.
I think we're going to see a lane spot.
Like, I really think we're gonna see a lot of hard lane swap
to try and put Kiaya behind
and allow the bot lane super in the upper row
to have Roman on the map.
Exactly, because the lane swap disproportionately benefits
teams that wanna play through their bottom lane
because top laners are the ones that starve.
So if you're facing Gamm,
very good strategy to try and get their best players behind.
Yeah, do you feel like the meta is incredibly open
and then it's best of three?
You know, you can make certain choices very differently
from the other teams still.
And as a viewer, I feel like that's really fun to watch.
100% I think the meta right now is really, really fun because they have not fully figured it out and the best player in that wild card of of picks is going to be mad lions.
You know, bin had actually really funny trash talk for some headlines at the beginning of the tournament.
He was like, this is when he should pull it out.
He was like, you're going to need to save your crazy picks for when you are zero one.
But now they're facing elimination zero to already so they cannot save any strategies.
you cannot save any crazy picks,
pull them all out now.
Yeah, and if you think, oh well,
wouldn't you want to take it, you know,
more standard because it is elimination?
No, you know, in game five versus G2,
they pulled out the Nidalee.
So they really don't care what time it is.
They just want to win quite obviously,
but if we kind of summarize both of their stories,
we touched on it already.
This is, you know, potential final showing for the VCS
in this form of their league.
You know, we have the merger coming up
with the PCS as well,
which is a theme throughout today
in the Battle of the Americas later as well.
So I think it'll be very important for those guys
who say who've been through a lot in the VCS
and really don't want to go out with a whimper.
Absolutely, Levi is an absolute legend.
He's a huge threat along with Kiaia.
I think it will be an interesting meta
to see what type of Shavonna action we see today.
Oh, yes, I almost forgot.
I think the action might be in the form of ban, yeah.
I don't know, there's so many bans
and I know we don't have much time
but the Ziggs and Rumble are the AP threats
that allow the AD mids to exist
and those have been taking up so much banned space
that it's allowing other stuff through.
So if you start banning the Shyvana,
you're opening yourself up to the Yone stuff again,
but that's for later in the series.
I mean, hopefully we'll see,
we'll be able to talk about it.
Of course, I do wanna check in
with our MasterCard fan prediction of the day
to see how our fans have voted.
And yeah, MDK, 69.1%.
Nice.
Nice.
And GAM 30.
Cause Matt is the favorite.
Yeah, yeah, super nice.
Yeah, super nice.
I'm gonna say, we were talking about this matchup before
and I feel like, for MDK,
I feel like they have regressed a little bit in the context of this tournament because they came out.
They had the best of three. If they won versus PSG to them promptly lose the PSG, right?
They don't feel like themselves currently. And I think I need to see that again.
All right. That's what happened to Flypuss at MSI. We had a little switchery with PSG as well.
It's the mental game. It's the mental side of the world championship.
Just because you're playing against a minor region team at Worlds doesn't mean there's going to be anything less than.
And I got to remind people last year, I don't have to remind people what I'm going to.
GAM knocked out a 0-2 TL in this exact same spot.
So GAM is going to be the competent team in this situation.
MDK needs to overcome whatever tilt they're feeling
from being down here in the first place.
Yeah, it almost feels like GAM are specialists in this.
0-2 specialists.
0-2 specialists, you know, the final knockout
to one of the teams that it expected.
But yeah, we haven't.
How do you feel?
Are you nervous?
I am a little bit nervous, because on the one hand,
I feel like they have shown a lot already,
and nobody even expected them to get to Worlds for Mad.
But I hate giving up a team before they've played,
because I think that is disrespectful to what they could show, right?
And you just have to look at the games.
So we'll see.
It's going to be either Gam or Mad Lions Koi
that leave us, unfortunately, today after having fought valiantly.
Let's continue with the Swiss stage of Worlds 2024.
After such an exciting day, number one,
the Swiss only open things up.
There's going to be a deal that they must get done.
More defense happens.
I'm not sure. Maybe they'll get done in a week.
They play a lot of crazy stuff.
Of course, I'm sad, I'm frustrated, I'm angry, I'm not playing my best still.
Yes, she did their revenge from playing.
I want to figure out what's going on exactly, because I think we're capable of way, way more than what we are showing right now.
After everything, I think I need to recover quickly.
Because I still have that in my mind.
In these times, there are many challenges and challenges.
If you don't have a lot of time to practice, you can't play like you did in the game.
If you don't have a lot of time, you can't play like you did in the game.
The level here is very high.
And we still have a lot to look for.
But we have to face it with good eyes and use it as motivation to come stronger.
The most important thing now is the team not to break, to continue trusting each other
because we need one of the others to win.
While we were a team and trust each other, we still have a chance to seek this redemption.
This last chance we have.
I think when you have issues like this, I actually thought Liquid had a good
solid chance in that game and then they threw it. It's very important to look at
the man in the mirror and just figure out how to fix it yourself. My mentality is
honestly just that we can do it.
For my achievements, I confirm a lot in each of you. I hope that you also trust me.
We're currently in the same position we were last year, but the difference this time is
we're still all mentally sound and it feels very winnable.
Keep believing in us and we'll make it.
We're trying to make it to the quarter-final, so we need to make it into the quarter-final
That's the game change.
We may not be the best in the world, but we have one of the best players in the world.
We are with you.
We will do everything we can.
is our remaining these teams have got to put up or shut up.
Yeah, and I think that's really what
get all closed out to today.
Gam has had some great moments in this tournament.
MDK, we've seen incredible performances from players
like Alvrog, but you need to put everything
on the line here today if you want to try and bring it home.
And honestly, it's two teams that basically
have had the same tournament.
They both did very well in play-ins.
Gam went undefeated in play-ins.
Matt was really strong in play-ins as well,
but haven't really been able to get it rolling
on the main stage.
They know that they can beat this team.
They both are going to be feeling good.
They're both are going to be feeling confident coming into today's match.
I think it's really just going to be about who can play confident and who can actually really show up on the day.
And I think it's about going back towards your playstyle as well.
And I think when I looked at MDK's last draft, they're going for things like the Smolder and the Ziggs,
which kind of just felt very out of the real house.
They're a team that likes to come on to map early, take over and try and run away from the early game.
And I felt like we didn't really get a chance to see that.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, as far as playing your own playstyle, Matt does not want Levi doing that on the Shyvana.
No.
Not only did he do well with it in play-ins, it was actually his most played throughout
the year in the VCS, it was very, very effective on it.
I think Levi really is at his best when he's playing this form-heavy style.
The animant curious now is to use the respect given to Kia as well, because I think his
Jax in their last game was almost the reason they had to turn that game around.
So I think a lot of respects has to be given to that top laner too, because he's
a monster.
I think if he can control Merewen, that could be the end that can't need for this
game.
Biggest problem I'm seeing right out of the game, he didn't even take them till
I got to say the name out loud game playing on the red side.
They banned the scarner.
They banned the Nidalee.
They banned the Aurora.
But the pick of the tournament so far,
this Yone with the absolutely insane presence
and win rate 16 and 3.
This champion so far at Worlds 2024.
Game lets it through.
Mad are swift to pick it up their own bands,
the Shyvana, the Rumble, and the Poppy.
Anytime you get Yone, you are feeling great about the track.
Absolutely.
I mean, it is pretty shocking that game Argon
we willing to give it over.
Obviously, Aljouya did really well on the Nidalee in play-ins,
especially that was kind of a big focus from him there.
Skarner is a pretty high-prop, so is Aurora,
but the tournament is all about Yone,
and while Akali is a pretty strong answer here,
Akali is a similar style of champion.
The biggest difference to me is that Yone does not have to
really commit himself to the play in the same way.
With the solo unbound, you can go forward,
you can always snap back if it's looking bad.
You're not in the same level of risk
that these other assassin-style champions are,
like Akali, when you go in.
I think on the upside though, Liva is still getting a lot of comfort here on the Wukong.
And near 87% win rate on this pick and it's absolutely absurd in his hands.
And we're still seeing the Ziggs come out for a super.
So, MDK going back towards the style that I'm still waiting to see if it works for a super in the bottom lane.
But at least you have Frescay going on towards these melee champions that he does like to control.
Alright, let's see what Gam wants to go ahead and respond to.
The second round of picks for Mad.
Not just going to be that Ziggs with the Malkai along with it.
So they will have some engage, a little bit of lock up for the damage for that Yone for the Ziggs.
Over on Gamside though, it is dive, dive, dive, Akali plus Wukong plus Kaisa, they are going in.
Yeah, and I think that's where you're going to see more than likely support pilots trying to come through here for M.D.K.
Yeah, I'm still having that first rotation, so I think that will try and lock in Leona or some of like Rell on that next one.
But at least maybe you can try and get something a little bit different.
Avro's look great on the Alistar, but even on Nautilus works very well with the Ziggs.
It's kind of interesting though, because honestly, if I was MDK, I'd rather be banning out top laners
because there's so many good supports that fit in the same class to me, where it's like you have Alistar,
you have Rel, you have Leona, you have Nautilus, you aren't going to be able to really deny everything
that they can go towards. So I'll see if they do want to go that route. But I do think throwing
some protection bans before Merewen is smart because Qiaia obviously going to be fifth pick here
on Redside. He has been to me, undebatably, by far the strongest player from Gam. He has
Really good this guy is world-class
So I think you need do want to protect your top laner and hey it looks like in the case thinking the same thing
You are a sale Jack's gonna be the first ban here from them in the second half
Meanwhile game taking the Alistar out of the picture very very powerful counter engage on this champion alongside engage
I can see the value in not wanting your divers to all be
Vulnerable to a pulverized at the same time being knocked back away from the head
But Leona now also gonna be banned out there
So taking out two of those potential tanky engage support.
Yeah, I mean if I was mad now, I was gonna say you could even just potentially not do another support ban here
And you could do a Nautilus World Trade, but if they're happy going for a different direction, I think that's fine
I would expect Nautilus. I mean it's like been the most common pairing with Kaisa pretty much since Kaisa came out
Blitz would be pretty spicy, but I don't think we're gonna be using this without knowing what the support is
Yeah, I think the Rakan is your best bet if you want that sort of engage tool still and with so many of the
other big engage tools down that feels like it fits perfectly in the middle house.
The only thing that I've really seen bring in a Blitzcrank has been like JG
they're playing this like mouth type blitzcrank comp. You can see if they can make that work
but I think the Nautilus works really well here. It's something we see a lot compared
with the Ziggs just because you get that point and click ultimate from the Nautilus.
They set up then for the follow up ultimate from the Ziggs and if you've even got
a Yone in the mix too it means that something like a Kai's dead could very quickly be
mowed down.
They changed last second to Lulu, everything was like, oh interesting.
It could also be Lulu top, we have seen it before so.
Never under his care, it's champion 4.
Alright, so we do have the Nautilus locked in here for MDK and the top laner will be
one of the classic blinds in NAR.
So what does Kiaia want to pick into this?
The Jax, the only thing they banned out in that second phase to protect the top lane.
I'm curious where Gam's gonna go here.
The rest of the team is all going in full send.
Oh, okay. This is gonna be really interesting. So it's it's very likely to be smolder top here
There is some small chance that it actually flexes around. Yeah, I should be smolder top
I'm gonna be interested to see how this actually goes out
You know, I do expect that everyone should be winning the one-to-one in the early stages smolder though
You're just kind of playing for push you're playing for stacks
You don't really need to be winning the actual one-to-one fights as long as you can kind of ignore the
NAR and just kind of like the minions. Yeah, I think it's just a case of hey look
I've got a slightly longer range. Maybe I've been looking for some stacking opportunities on the narrow
But as I say in this just to take it easy just pray for that push from smaller and make things
Neutral in that regard you get to scale into their portion game
I am definitely keep my eyes on the level six though for this big jungle from time because I feel like
Kali hit six and we can't hit six those boy group fights can be so explosive for this comp
But it's up against how kind Yone on the opposite side and you know this split including a playoffs a regular season
This will be the sixth smolder for Kiaia.
He is 4-1 on the pick thus far.
So has been pretty successful for him.
Not one of his most played, but he
does have an incredibly deep champion pool.
A lot of his most popular picks, obviously, banned out here.
But going towards that smolder and does give them
a bit of that scaling win condition potentially here
over on the game side.
But I will say it maybe feels a little bit
disjointed from what the rest of the comp wants to do.
Though, of course, the ulti is always
good at assisting guys.
Yes, the big question I have is how does it fit in with the rest of the dive?
Can they get the value out of it since everybody else is going full send all the way in?
And that's what I'm really kind of worried about for the dragon here is that it's like,
you know, yes, you can throw out the ulti if the rest of your team is diving in,
but at the same time, if Yone's in your face, no one is really going to be there necessarily to peel.
It seems like the rest of the composition all wants to go forward.
So you could end up in these weird situations where you're kind of just like fighting against the Malkai and the Yone and always losing out.
So, we'll see how they do make it happen.
It's also as you start to move in towards like top side skirmishes.
Yes, this motor is strong in the later portion, but very skirmish is definitely on the way of MDK.
We are already starting out with a couple of punches being thrown back and forth here as Emo loses about half the HP.
Of course, it's so early on in the game time.
It'll be very easy for him to go back and recover that with no real meaningful loss.
Where are you guys expecting to see most of our action early on here in this game?
Because I feel like with these two teams, it's got to be a bloody one, right?
Well, I mean, already we're seeing them all stack up level one, so, you know, MDK are looking for a five-man invade here towards Raptors,
trying to get some vision, potentially trying to figure out, is there going to be a lane swap here, you know, Ziggs and Nautilus obviously can be pretty effective in those lane swaps,
but I also think they'd be pretty happy to be going up against this 2v2 here from GAM, so I think they're really just trying to get intel,
figure out where this is going to be going, and they're actually initiating lane swap.
Yeah, I think it's a try and just punish Kiaya, right?
Because this motor is not going to do well left and it's going to be underneath the tower, and it's also paired with Rakan,
So someone that's also quite squishy in those early stages, so I think for MDK
It's hey, we get to leave super on his own
He can just farm it out and then we can start to move over on the map and get him involved very early
Because I think that's also how they break up in this game is after this lane swaps complete
Trying to play around for a schedule with the yoyo with the overall and get this Yone rolling
And MDK are kind of going for the very what I consider to be like LCK style lane swap where you just have your support lane mid
You know alongside what in the regular season was always another AD carry
but in this case it is going to be Kiyaya landing with Emo here for now
he's just going to be kind of that backup and looking to see if he can get some stacks on these melee champions
and those early levels, but yeah
It is going to set that smolder quite a bit behind obviously on the other side
Mere one is going to be set behind as well
But it's less important for the NAR. I think it's also the fact that in their last game
Gam did not look so hot when it came towards the lane swap
It said easy look very very far behind and yes, Kiyaya did come in on top in the Jax push
I think that's where MDK kind of looks at that and said Gam just don't really look
They're fully prepared for this now Alvaro has moved down. We've seen this before the TP should be coming through very shortly from here
We're going to join them on this bottom side. I don't think this dive is gonna be very successful for that
Let's see they still got a few more minions to clear through on the wave
They are crashing the way the top lane tier one
Alvaro already flashing hits level two right after the flash Levi has to back out of the way of the turban aggro
So Supa arrives, and the gam dive fails on the first pass.
It looks like they're coming back in to try to keep it going here as Alvaro about to be killed.
There it is, Supa wants to get one back on the Levi, but it doesn't quite have the damage here just yet.
Flashing past the grand entrance, Supa picks up Levi, makes it a one for one.
I think the overgreed coming through from Gamma on the repeat dive, they've gotten away,
they should have just looked for the resets, but instead they try and go one more.
Supa comes up with a kill and Mirwin is chasing these Gam members right the way home.
Yeah, this is actually, you know, at the end of the day though, still not that bad.
Nice play from Supa flashing over that Rakan W there to be able to actually trade a kill back.
If they didn't get that, it would have been really good for Gam.
And we do have TP available on Kiaia.
So you can just TP straight towards top where Merewind TP downwards bot
and Supa TP downwards bot as well.
So at the end of the day, you got First Blood on the dragon here for Kiaia.
I think Gam are still pretty happy with the play.
You know, definitely was a little bit more dicey than I was expecting
because Alvaro got level two right as they were going for that dive.
and that made it look more difficult.
Alright, let's check back in mid here where everybody's still just farming pretty normally
for a scowie down to about half HP but still comfortable enough here.
Down to about 10 CS though, so falling a little bit behind is Alvaro and Supa trying to get this wave pushed up,
crashing to the tier 1 turret, Alvaro caught by the grand entrance,
so a little bit of damage going to find its way into the health bar as he's down to 300,
going to need to be a little bit careful here as Levi is still in his blue quadrant,
could make his way down if MbK stay pushed.
And that's why I don't think Supa was really helping him out on the engage.
He was tossing everything in towards that wave to just get a crash
so they're not overextended for a potential play from Levi.
But at the moment the CS lead working out well for them.
It's just when you look at that top side, Kyaa could have had a lot of pressures.
Leo just goes in for a sec.
Yeah, it looks like Elio's just trying to annoy them, stop the backs.
But he is now pretty low on HP down to 200, gets out of the way of the satchel charge,
which looks like Supa was trying to interrupt him in the battle dance,
maybe stop him from getting away on that one, trying to get a summoner spell.
But does not quite have the placement of the timing. Yeah, and I think he's going forward
You know kind of trying to harass them there and see if they over commit on a chase because again as he touched on earlier
Levi was in the area. He was in the pixel brush in the river
So, you know if mdk did get a little aggressive in that 2v2 could have been bad
But also super does lose a little bit of tempo here
It's gonna give more time for easy love to be able to crash this wave
I don't think super is gonna lose much if any of it
But at the very least it'll give easy love the time to be able to get this wave in and get his base off
Well, TP back to the mid lane from Emo.
First purchase is gonna have the Hextech alternator there.
Always feels good to be able to at least have enough gold
for the first major component after you use that first TP.
For Scowie's now gonna take the opportunity,
go back to base himself, grab Zercher Greaves,
now full build on Yone, back up in top lane.
He, I have to, I have to, man,
the champion finally has the win rate
that justifies my disdain for him.
As Mirwin, below half HP, gonna have to be a little bit careful here.
He might be looking.
They have some disdain for the jungler here pretty quick.
Yeah, Ilyo also mookin' his way up here, alright.
Mirwin is in some trouble, tries to get the bounce away, nicely done, flashes over the wall just in time to avoid the knock-up from the grand entrance.
Yeah, it's nice room to escape, but this wave is still in an awful spot for me.
There's no TP to get back here, and the wave is pushing away from him.
And you've already got a nice, bold lead, opening up tanks that already killed for Qiyahia, and that's only going to extend even further now.
And that's why I think the dive actually was quite good for game, because they got double TP out, like upper split.
Yes, you traded kill, but overall they went out pretty heavily on the map, and smaller than good spot now.
Ooh, nice! Treads lying there, coming out from Alvaro.
Ely wants to flash away, but it still don't matter, let's go Nade, baby! That's why you ban him!
Nicely done, the fates sealed by the best, but for Skally recognizing you can still flash forward for the last little bit of damage.
MDK up 1 and that's huge for Aliyah. It's actually set up these void groups because yes
You've got that big need for Kayan that topside
But a lot of that lead was on super who was trying to roam up that play
But was going to be a little bit late so the fact you get that kill in mid just sets up beautifully there for MDK
It's not only with the gold but the objective as well
Yeah, and the kill going on the first cowie is also going to feel so good
He's looking pretty low here
You can see MDK are thinking about do we want to actually go for the wraparound dive
Aliyah and Alvaro in this spot to do it and if he is
Cut window shopping.
That was so close.
That looked like it was here.
That was calculated.
Honestly, that looked like it should have hit
with how Nautilus was normally lollipop.
At the end, yeah, exactly.
I thought he was just about to just die.
Obviously super agreed. That immediate ult was like,
oh, I've got him, and then just barely escaped.
If it did hit, he would have been in a sweet spot.
I feel like that's...
He just walked away.
Some guys as well.
Just the flies are the helmets.
Things going good for MDK right now.
Up one kill, up a little bit of gold,
but the free void grubs is the best part so far,
but Levi has stolen away the enemy red buff.
Alvaro flashing over the wall to chase him here.
Levi now critically low as to try to get away.
Flash is over the wall himself.
Gonna be protected by his support,
but he will not be protected enough.
Levi's got no way home except in a body bag.
Nicely done from MDK, but they aren't done yet.
Emo's your next target, 3v1, Akali popping the smoke, trying to get away from this one.
Emo firing back with a 5-point strike, but there ain't nothing else to do.
MDK another one for nothing trade, punishing the red buff steal.
I mean, he's a nice top from Levi, go for the invade, get the red buff,
but he's a little bit too late because Yoya had already come back on the map,
was moving down there, and they just get caught out with the numbers advantage.
Now that's two kills over to this Yoni in the mid lane.
This is a great punish from Alvaro, he's moving around the map.
He has been so on point, I think, for MDK throughout the tournament,
especially in play-ins there's a lot of hype around how much he was getting done for this team as the engage player and
Again smart movement here helps to get another kill for Frascau is the only two in zero now
And that is gonna get frightening and I think this is a big test now for Frascau
Because we've seen him get leads in the LEC before but he hasn't always been able to convert them across
We think back to like the Tristana gave me had against Fanatic plus now on this Yone with such a great stars
This is a moment where he can step back and kind of shake off some of those narratives
Absolutely and I mean honestly you know for a tournament where I think a lot of people were expecting maybe more from the MDK
Soul laners, you know, there's a lot of high-firing mirror when coming in
But it's been more around the bot lane and the jungle right you know, I think super and Alvaro have really stepped up for MDK
They've been getting a lot of these games that MDK is winning across the finish line and I really has been really solid as well
So, you know for us cowie if mirror when can start really playing strong and start carrying some of these games
You never know how far you can go even though you're in a bad spot right now
All right, we've got the gank squad coming up Alvaro and El Yoya
But it make this dive happen on Kiyah who eats the sweet spot of the mega inferno bomb
It's so easy for El Yoya to follow it up with the twist of advanced bramble smash to secure the kill nicely done MDK
With a 4 to 1 lead and this is great
And I also think this is where MDK are at their strongest when you've got El Yoya and Alvaro working together like this
Playing around the map is something we didn't always get to see when Alvaro started to shift over things like the braum
but right now Garm are feeling the pressure of what this duo can do.
Absolutely, and if you start getting the push, if Ziggs are getting access to the towers, it can be frightening.
They obviously already have those three grubs.
Emo is going to be able to trade one plate down on that bot side, and do have some scaling threats,
but MDK really in control, feeling comfortable thus far.
Yo, a little bit less comfortable maybe with the enemies taking the dragon,
but first dragon, Cloud Dragon, doesn't really mean a whole lot of anything.
anything. That's pretty much the only thing Cam have acquired this entire game.
You can see total gold on the left side of your screen. It is the carries of M.D.K.
leading the charge and it's about to get even worse. Bait, shield, and dredge line
again. It's Alvaro setting things up for Frescali but they just barely don't have
enough damage to get another kill. Emo just barely able to escape away from
that one. What nicely done to get away because I thought he was doomed in
that position but good flash and the follow-up on the perfect execution
managed to escape. I mean survives it's nice but at the same time it
It feels like every one of his ultimates is using to run away, right?
It is being used on that defensive.
So now he has no flash, he has no ulti.
So when you're looking towards this next fight at grubs,
well, what is a colleague going to get done there?
Probably not a lot.
So MDK could potentially look for that sixth grub play here.
And we'll see if they're going to go for it
as Sufis is just TPing straight back to mid.
He has the Ludens companion done now.
So it's going to be a quite a strong point of the game.
I feel like these neutral objectives are far more
desynced than they are in most games that we see.
Usually, they're around the same time
where one and the other gets taken.
Sometimes, desynced by a minute or two,
but four-minute desync means that everybody's pretty much
just only got one thing they're looking at on the map right now.
And MDK are the first ones to the prize.
Four grubs are already secured, so they will have Voidmites
that they would love to have the extra ones here
from these other two.
And Gam is nowhere in the neighborhood.
So it looks like this will be an easy six grub game
one for MDK.
Yeah, they're kind of window shopping
in a different neighborhood, though.
I wasn't sure if they wanted to try and hop over
wall and go on towards super Alvaro was just on the reset bus instead they're
just going to try and steal away some of these camps on the bottom side of the
first game we're going to spot out it looks like Lila in a second.
Meroin trying to get the extended trade here on Kiaya, Narbar nearly charged
transforms there with a wall up onto the cannon minion just to make sure he
gets the extra little bit of HP is getting kind of low here.
Yeah and Kiaya does still have the ulti available so Meroin has to be a
little bit careful and if you get tagged by a couple more spells you
might actually be able to look for the all-in. I mean one more Q at W and
You could actually die here. So Mirwin just trying to push out that wave, but this is getting a bit dicey
Yeah, the plan all along was to try to bait him in for the mouth guy the mega inferno bomb even made its way up there
But flap flap flap Keia takes him out
He knows there's no way back to safety
The only way home is through a gray screen and Keia with the execution gets the outplay
Mirwin way over plays his hand you're playing with fire the dragon's definitely gonna burn you Mirwin was so low
But really stubborn, you know didn't want to give up the push there really want to be able to make it crash gives over an easy one to
Kiaia and the fact that he didn't even get a single auto on him for a trade kill means it's an execute and
Gamm are gonna be feeling pretty happy about that, but still the six grubs they take down the tower
Yeah, it's still you know gonna be a positive gold play here on the map for Gamm
It didn't even have to use the helicopter parent of that one
All working well out for a gambler
Yeah, as you say, the tower taking the golds, they're gonna be there.
And the fact you're still investing a lot more time for Gammon.
The bottom side sets up mid.
Alright, they wanna go in after easylove here.
He commits the killer instinct pretty early, pops both summoner spells as well.
Honestly, kinda surprised that easylove wanted to spend everything there,
considering it was just the Malchi and the noddles going in for him.
That's what I was gonna say, is I think he didn't realize
that there wasn't any damage dealers coming.
I think with just the ultimate alone, yeah, you're gonna take some damage,
but you can kinda just slowly walk your way out,
and maybe was nervous about where Presgawi was on their own.
I think he was also wasn't certain on Super's ult time because you can see it's about to take up and with that damage coming in
off the top maybe that's enough boss
Yeah, I think you can definitely see the pressure on gam to make sure that they're not giving away some of these easy kills
I mean hey, that's just going to be that many more opportunities for NDK to put a target on this guy's forehead
Right like it'll be very very easy to kill this guy so without those resources
Considering how easily they've been finding picks so far in the first 14 minutes of the game
Well, it's kind of a similar problem to what we saw happen to Emo in the bot lane where he loses his summoners
He loses ultimate right before a fight. Well, guess what? In a minute here, we're gonna have the dragon spawning
You know, Herald is up now
So it's like you can't really fight Herald with no sums and no ulti on Kaisa
So even though they don't earn themselves a kill, MDK are gonna earn themselves objectives with every one of these plays
It's a down payment, right? You don't get anything immediately, but here in a couple of minutes
You're gonna see some dividends as now they're looking to see another kill
Emo trying to get himself away, but the Rambo combo man immediately.
Nature's grasp mega inferno by fate sealed one after the other after the other.
And right now it is Matt's game and Gamert just living in it.
You can see it on the mascot later, kind of a snapshot, but it might be a good change.
His memory will just hop away, but still it's just good moves are in the map from NDK.
Yes, they will lose mid-turbo. They've got so much gold.
I don't know, so they broke the base.
They broke the turb as well.
It's not even 15 minutes, bro.
They broke the base.
Isn't MDKs in the ups and downs?
It's happening.
Well, I mean, they're getting a lot of gold.
It's just been trades on the map here for game.
They're not going to defend on top side.
So instead, they push in mid.
They do get that tier one.
They get a little bit of chip damage down on that bot side
as well on the tier two.
And they will go towards the dragon.
It is now a 2.5k gold lead for MDK, though.
They have been punishing these side lanes so effectively
with that zigzall.
I mean, Supa is really strong at this point.
already a 1k and that zigzall hurts.
I also think this is just, oh hang on, here we go.
Okay.
Oh, Yoya and Alvaro.
Find Elio in the brush, but it's not really the target
you want to engage on.
They don't really have a whole lot of vision
on the rest of the game.
Yeah, Meera and Megan are about to take out,
but this is a significantly cleaner version.
Well, they're TPing on the fight.
Yeah, we got the TP going in as Elio engages
with the quickness.
Mom swoops in.
Alvaro's the first to die as he telegraphs the kill.
Emo versus Supa off to the side.
There's another shot down, going away again.
Elio in the middle of everybody,
Flashes back over the wall into the bot side river trying to use the bramble smash to get himself away as emo's gonna be cleaned up by
Merewin and now another one killed on gam side. Hell yoya so incredibly low
But he goes back in Levi still takes him out Merewin's about to go mega gnarly slams that Wukong back into the wall
And gam drops to the power of the gnar Merewin showing up big with a triple
gam tried everything there and it looked dicey for a second for mdk, but the wallets are just too big
mdk able to turn it around exactly to me it's all about the target selection here
for gam look at the targets that are caught it is the support it is the
jungle it is not the carries that are really being threatened evil on the
side does catch on to super but the gnar the yone are largely untouched are doing
so much damage you know leave us flashing over the wall again chasing to
try to kill off the enemy maokai it's just not the right target to be
dumping the damage into man what about great of kaisa had clans and flash
And that's what we were talking about earlier, the summoner spells, the long cooldowns that they got earlier, it earned them this fight.
The Mierwin is able to just stomp his way out of with an extra thousand gold in his pocket from all those kills.
It does show you though that you can never really be caught sleeping against Gam though.
Because if MDK weren't able to collapse, that could have been the moment for Gam, so it may not be working out for them in game number one,
but MDK definitely going to be wary of it as this series goes on.
Alright, Levi gets caught here by the twisted advance and now Alvaro again just ready to keep him locked up for the dredge line
Malkai ulti coming through to super backs up
He knows that Levi's only potential play here with me to try to jump on to him and find some burst
But it ain't gonna happen
Mdk up
5,000 gold 17 minutes into the game and they might just take a tier 2 down here in bottom lane and build it even further
Another nice engage from Alvaro
They get the kill on Kiaya through the flash anyway
Elio's way too late to try to save anybody, and Gam is absolutely shattered in game number one.
MDK is showing them how it's done.
And this is some of the cleanest League of Legends I've seen.
MDK play all year.
Like, it's great working through side lanes, playing through Fresco's lead,
using their pushing midoff of Super to access these side lanes.
This is a very clean map state from MDK,
and it's a big thumbs up from a lot of LEC fans.
I mean, it's a massive gold lead at this point, just about 7,000 in the advantage for MDK.
They got the six early grubs off of that early pressure that they were putting on there,
never allowing GAM to really be in a good spot to fight prior to those objectives.
And GAM realized the game was slipping away, go for that one punch in that TP play, can't find the right targets, get burst down.
And now, it is just feeling nearly impossible. Yone on those two items, incredibly strong.
Everyone across the board has a massive advantage.
It's 2.68 gold lead for the Yone. That's almost an entire item.
Yeah, and I got to give more props to Alvaro.
I feel like the dredge lines have been so on point throughout this entire game.
Nautilus is the champ that I pick every year in my pick-ups to be the inting king.
This champion is so easy to just throw yourself into the black and white screen on
and he's been doing a great job of setting up plays, not overextending,
putting himself in a spot that I really just cursed.
No, he's fine. He's fine. He's fine.
All right, he got away.
I had to make sure. I'm so sorry, Alvaro.
But I think you're right, Ferris, and this was something when initially he came into the league back in winter.
He was phenomenal. Everyone was like, oh my God, we've got this rookie support that is terrorizing the league
in conversation for one of the best supports in our league right now.
And then it kind of drifted into spring and summer, and we just didn't see that same Alvaro.
But coming into season finals and playoffs and now on the world stage,
Alvaro is showing why he was making such a name for himself at the start of the year and it's great to see this
Rookie performing on this main stage once again.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean players love to talk about how much you can actually learn at a tournament like this and to be able to see, you know,
So that development here live on stage is awesome.
MBK also picking up so many of those luxury items that are going to deny any possible comeback.
Oh yeah. There's Double Locket. There's a Seekers on the Zakes. They're going to go for the Gage.
Ooh, Super with the Flash away to deny the quickness.
Alvaro keeping Levi zoned out here as well as Mir when makes his teleport into the fight.
fight the satchel charge secures the destruction of remember this is the
second tier three turret destroyed in the game base that first one up in the
top lane was destroyed five minutes ago the Akali smoke has to be used here as
super now with no flash left to try to get away killer instinct jumps in from
easy love of the face you're coming back from press now he's found his way
on the key eye and now we're gonna tear him apart instead key eyes first to
die easy love's gonna be killed a nice days is from super to survive the
dive in from emo who's still trying to go back in for him finds the kill
finally but he's gonna trade his own life back for it anyway free dead on
game for only Supa on MDK. They are pushing straight for the throw. Miro is just in the
base the entire time, caring about these minions and now it's just a red carpet and it's
Garm's Bluette that they're walking over. It's Elio and Levi trying to stop the game
from ending just barely 20 minutes in. Levi's about to die and Elio can't do a thing about
it. MDK still got a couple of minions left. They have the next wave marching up. It's
a couple seconds on easy-loving Kiaya, but the turrets are already gone.
MDK are on to the nexus.
Gam will try and fight by try as they might their say.
Good night, MDK with a 20-minute win in game one.
What a start here to the series for MDK.
Talk about a confidence builder.
You come out, you crush your opponents in this first game.
But I've got to say, no way are they leaving Yone unbanned again, man.
just no way. I'm in shock. I can't believe how clean that was. This is insane. That was damn impressive
from MDK in game number one. They run it back like that again, and we might have ourselves a pretty
fast series here to kick off the first elimination day at Worlds 2024. We'll be back with more
right after this. We're heading to a break. Don't go anywhere.
I will say it's awesome obviously because I'm from Europe, not as awesome though for Gam unfortunately, quite surprising.
Yeah apparently it's the ninth fastest in world history.
What?
I just heard.
There's not a lot of world games.
That's almost more impressive than fastest in this world.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
this this world's yeah because mpk or mad lions you know they're known for
fastest game in a different direction retaking control you know retake the
meme retake the narrative talking so much about kind of the the coach melzett
and the way he talked about the draft and you said jack well yeah you made the
car analogy does it continue it is pretty funny they're saying it's not the
only issue but like upgrading your car is still gonna help your driving ability
I will I will say this so having you on here now kind themselves was pretty helpful
So similar to the way that the draft wasn't the whole problem previously draft wasn't the whole solution
But it was a big part of the solution. Yeah, Yone was at the core of it
This is the number one, you know sin that we mentioned at the beginning of the day was giving away Yone in draft
And obviously it was huge there
but they also got to pair it like you're saying with the big a leaf from our guy with the big
priority pick that zigziz as well and
This was full meta from MDK, and it was beautiful.
And I will also say, Gam did not cook with their draft.
I don't exactly, they have all these flanking champions
and then like a random smolder top, that's not gonna work.
So I will say, at least, Keia was one of the really early adopters of top smolder.
Even in spring, he was playing top smolder, so that's, you know, the angle.
But I completely agree as far as the draft overall and even the execution in-game,
Even though he got that one solo kill into execution for himself, it was definitely a
very rough look for Gamps. I would say they probably won't make similar mistakes here in
game number two, but this was not close. This was a complete blast thing.
Yeah, it was. And thanks, I guess, partly to that first pick and for our HyperX Reflex
replay. We're just going to watch this Yone Cook because he was unleashed and he leashed back.
He jumps back and he jumps forward.
I don't know what to do there.
I mean, this individual performance
was probably the best game for Scowwees
had at this entire world championship.
I can't believe if I'm thinking about,
I'm very self-sure, my crystal ball pick-ups.
I never put Yone for highest winner
because I never thought you could have a champion
with that win rate that just continues
to be led into the game.
That's crazy.
And I would also note that in a lot of these replays
that you're seeing on your screen,
There's another character here that is very frequent.
Really?
Yeah.
Shocks may be your favorite player on the team.
This game, Alvaro.
In fact, we were talking about this very early on.
I said, Gents, should we create some kind of a role
to highlight how good Alvaro is doing?
And you said he hasn't shown us anything yet.
Kobe was very anti-Alvaro.
What?
He's entirely anti-Alvaro.
You are literally shamed.
I was talking about how good he was.
And the Kobe was like, no, I only want to see Yone.
Yeah, he's like supports don't matter. I hate them actually those were his exact words.
He did say that.
What the heck? What are you doing right now?
Look at the assassination!
We're going to show you the good, not the played from all around.
Yeah, come on. You can tell me this isn't good.
No! I never said it was good!
Yeah, like, oh, he's just watching over all. Anyone could do that.
I do it every day.
Yeah.
He has been so good for this team, though, and especially just all worlds.
We mentioned at the very beginning, but you know getting them their wins very early on in plans and being such a consistent performer and playmaker for them
Just look really good. What's the game here for him to get? Yeah, it's interesting. Well, I had into game two
I was looking at of course gam up played in the Swiss stage. They played
Fanatic and fly quest. Yeah, right and they didn't manage to win those two games
So you could say for for mdk would be on par if they win
But I feel like it should be closer because I expect more from gam when they play at their peak
Well, this is interesting too because I asked you right before you went live shocks of like if if you were surprised and I said
I wasn't and you said you were but I think it's the mental game as well. Yeah for MDK and even for gam
Because like I said last year we saw a gam knock team liquid out in this exact match when they were both 0-2 and
We've seen teams at worlds if we're looking at MDK shoes when they go down 0-2
They receive a massive amount of community criticism during the tournament as well as before the tournament
It is easy to self-combust, come out on stage and actually prove everybody right even though they weren't right in the first place.
It's a good point and you talked so much about kind of how the meta is and how it comes down to your bot lane being very proficient just because of the lane swaps, right?
But do you think that if that smolder top is not present and we see something there that can at least have a little bit more help or pressure?
This is a different story or does it not change?
I think your name would also have to be not present.
Yes, of course.
That's a given.
That's a given.
But once again, you know, the lane top is a big topic that we talked about in this matchup, too.
And, you know, that could be repeated with very different drafts anyway.
Okay, I think, again, definitely have to make sure that my line square don't get off to as good of a start,
because that snowball, it was rolling down that hill, and nobody could stop it.
But I wonder what our casters think about this game, too.
Welcome back everybody. It's time for game number two here in M.D.K. versus
Gam for an opportunity to still stay in the competition here at Worlds 2024. We
have learned, we have been informed, that Gam has substituted out their
strategic coach for this second game. Yeah, I think that's a really smart move
after leaving Yone up on Redside.
Oh, no.
Oh, shit.
If you do it, it's the Yone who, he's too good, man.
He's too good in this tournament.
But we were talking about it backstage between the games.
Honestly, it wasn't just a Yone diff in game number one.
It's not like you could just look at it and say,
yeah, they lost because Yone.
MDK just played better start to finish.
Exactly.
You know, I do think Yone can't be left open,
but at the same time, MDK just played the map
so incredibly well.
I thought they played through sides,
especially really really well. Setting up for Supa who was playing through mid lane, he'd rotate to a side, they'd land Nautilus CC or Malkai CC, Ziggs ult comes in, free kill or forcing summoners, forcing cooldowns, gaining yourselves objectives, slowly pushing the game forward and forward and forward until the game felt they had no choice but to force a fight, which MDK outplayed and they win that fight, game over.
But that's it's such a different look from MDK because traditionally you'd be like, oh, we're looking for skirmishes
We're looking for fights. We're gonna try and play that stuff
But you pay for these sidelines is great, but you only open and immediately
It keeps happening
I think it's really shocking. I mean, it's one of those things that it's interesting
I mean clearly in scrims people are being able to have answers to it
Right and there is a little bit of a trade this time at least because rumble is open
So those are two of the most successful champions so far here at worlds
it feels like but if yone is to win you know the mdk fans definitely not going to be happy if
this goes through all right so let's just go ahead track our band since yone did get through it is the
scarner nidalee and zigz banned out by gam poppy aurora shavanna banned out by mdk but that's the
thing with zigz now gone you've gotten unless you want to go for a kaisa pick here oh it's
going to say there's very little ap options and it is going to actually speak to canon that
they're going to go for in that top side so at least facilitating that and curious now to see
how much damage this is going to do and how many exhausts we have in this game.
Yeah, I mean, I was just literally about to say exhaust is so incredibly important here.
I think against the Kevin it's the easiest to exhaust the ultimate feels like in the
entire game and one that is most required.
So once again, similar to game number one, I am seeing three mega dive champions for
GAM in the first half of the draft.
Both sides, it feels like, you know, we got Viari on the other side that's all
about zeroing out these champions. And the question is, is Yoni a good enough
target for that and you know if not then I was gonna say you know and became
needed to ban off the most safe AD carries right so I think banning out
Ezreal that's kind of the number one safest AD you can play you want someone
that you can jump on you really want easy love on like Ash or Jin if you can
force them into those kind of situations where you can just get
freebie kills over and over and over Vile equalizer Ariel dead I'm still
mostly looking if game wants to do this super dive type of composition I
want to see it be fully coherent compared to game number one where
The smolder just felt like, I forgot the smolder was in the game, you know?
So I want to see how this draft gets rounded out for them.
And also, what MDK is going to do to continue to work with this buy and this already this pick potential here?
We do have the Ash and the Ezreal banned out.
Kalista also banned out.
It's three for three Marksman Bands in the second half of the draft.
Yeah, I think it now comes down to do MDK just want to try and take the Kaiser.
Because I agree with a sale where I think Ash is kind of something you want the enemy side to take.
Okay, they're not going to.
I think Kaisa though kind of has a lot of the options to facilitate that dive
You know so like say the cannon gets good access in the back side of the nation to go
But he doesn't want to go back for this
This is kind of like another option obviously not that safe
But at the same time you can kind of follow up on that dive with the bullet time pretty well
They don't have like a tremendous amount of CC
But obviously you have the knockout from the wukong follow up knockouts potentially there from the yone
Stuns could be coming through as well from cannon and you still have your support to pick who's gonna be
potentially bringing a lot of that lockdown and since there's so many AD
bans like all the primo supports are really still available so to me I think
a rel would be the number one pick I would be wanting to go here. The only thing
I was gonna say is maybe you take Leona to deny the solar fare from answering
the effort but they're gonna go for the rel instead so maybe Alvaro wants to
go towards Xalistar which was banned away in the last game but I think Leona
could facilitate that but Rakan, Zaya works out for you exactly they were
built to be played together and that's what MDK is going to go for here.
Zyra having a lot of potential to get away from the dive that comes in from Gamm.
Yone's fate sealed, you see the rectangle, you have enough time to respond.
Kennen, he has to get three stacks for the stun, you have enough time to respond.
Rell falls slower than molasses. You better be able to press R before you get crashed down to Pawn.
I feel like Supa should have plenty of outplay potential against this engage from Gamm.
I think as well, it's just MDK are all going to be playing at different parts of this fight, right?
You've got a violin area that are diving the backline with an equalizer to help facilitate that
Then you've got the peel that can come through from Alvaro
And also Mirren kind of playing that mid-range in the fight as well
So it feels very difficult to get like a big five-man wombo for a cannon or an MF when it comes to this fight
I'd also say I think this is gonna be a game where the person who actually starts the fight is gonna be pretty heavily
Advantage right because if MF gets jumped on first MF is never gonna get a full bullet time off
never going to be able to actually have a lot of value in the fights.
But if you're the ones hard engaging, it's Q flash from rel, it's, you know,
WR going into the back line, creating that chaos.
You're buying space, you're buying time for them to be able to get it off.
And Alvaro with about two seconds left before the game launched, swapped to exhaust.
I was actually getting pretty nervous that they were not showing exhaust.
So I don't know if he was thinking about it as chatting or just forgotten
and then last second remembered.
But yeah, he literally one to two seconds and barely got the exhaust off over in time.
Very, very important to have that summoner spell against the cannon man.
All right, let's get into it.
Game number two in this elimination, best of three.
MDK made that first one look easy and Gam has got to find an answer here in game number
two.
Otherwise, man, they're going home.
Their world run is over.
Yeah, absolutely.
And you definitely want to at least be able to get one win in the Swiss stage here.
You really want to be able to show up, show what you've got.
I do think their comp is more cohesive this time than it was last time around.
And we're going to have to see if they're going to be able to execute,
because the MDK just looked like they were on a different level in game number one.
And that's for Gam as well. I think you want to show up,
because Gam in the last couple of years has always been a team that
has suddenly found these big upset wins.
Like you think of Top Esports 2022,
and Fanatic last year that really threw a wrench into the works
for so many of these big teams from major regions.
But after looking at that last game,
as you say, it feels tough for Gam to kind of wipe that slate clean
and then come back out onto the Rift once more.
We are in a pause. I'm sorry everybody.
We will let you know as soon as we have more information
currently figuring out exactly what has gone wrong,
why we are paused.
Hopefully we will be able to jump into the game here
very, very soon because I want to see really
how game is going to adapt to this.
The previous game, I think that every LEC fan
that I talked to before this series today
was definitely nervous for MDK, right?
MDK has not been a team,
has not been an organization that in the past
has been one that fans have a ton
confidence in at Worlds, but that last game was clean. It was effective. It was methodical.
Absolutely. So what is happening is we have a delay because one of the players is saying that
their rune did not change. So now what has to be investigated is was it actually a bug with the
game, which is then prompting a restart, or is it a player issue where they didn't actually
swap it over or did it too late and that kind of thing. So they have basically recording
ShadowPlay where they can watch back and see exactly what happened, what the clicks were,
everything like that and we will give you the updates as soon as we do have them.
Kind of curious what rune it actually is. That's what I was going to ask.
Yeah. Well, hold on. I wonder if it's like...
Is everything kind of seen? So, we have the game on a screen here first.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
It's possible you don't want it to swap over to grasp as well. We're seeing that some,
but who knows, right? Either way, we'll give you that info when we do get it.
But for now it is just a waiting game until we get this figured out but MDK obviously going to be coming in
I think with a lot of confidence here at this point in the game
I will have to wait and see but yeah, I think for MDK
I kind of want to see them go back to but what just worked for the right playing through strong front dimensions on side lanes
making sure that they're all fine, and I think they can try and leverage something similar, but
I'm also wondering if it is going to be a potential lanes pop not so much because I think it's good for a particular
you know 2v2 or the top lane matchup. It just seems to me like gam art as practiced in those and I think maybe you just want to say
Hey, we come off of these early leads. Thanks to that. It's interesting because I definitely agree that you know game in
Southern previous games look pretty out of sorts, but in the last game
Did you think that MDK much an advantage because I felt like game actually kind of came out ahead?
Yeah, I think the the ziggs getting that early lead was the big one for me
Because even though we saw the top lane matchup get that early like 300 gold
It was answered on the bottom side of the ziggs being able to pick up all that early CS and with the TP as well
I am curious if it is going to make a difference, but to me it felt like the Zeke's having that early lead just set up
MDK so well to play through Super, play through Alvaro as well because Super's doing well.
Exactly, yeah, and I think that's where for me, I'd start to look and say, hey, if we can just
go back towards that, we can play through this strong bot lane, play through the jungle support and look to take over the game once more.
And it's also kind of reminiscent to how I feel like MDK were playing in play-ins, where to be honest,
it was all about Supa, right?
They were doing these lane swaps,
they were playing things like Jinx,
and they were just trying to funnel as much gold as possible.
Anytime there's a stacked wave, Supa, here you go.
Anytime there's a plate to get, all right, everyone back off.
Give them solo gold.
They were really funneling a lot of gold into him,
and they clearly had a ton of faith
that he could get them across the finish line.
And in the play-ins, he absolutely was able to do that.
Yeah, and I think that's when NendiCave looked their best,
is when they're able to funnel resources to the bot lane,
not only because Supa can do a lot of work
with those resources, it is really for me
about unlocking Helio and Alvro
to move around the map better together because these two as a unit are the most devastating
parts when especially all you guys on something that can be a bit more of a playmaker or even
a bit of a carry like all you guys are aside the volume you're just in such a good spot
then to aggressively invade look for picks look for plays but the sideline control for
MDK was very surprised me just because it's not a style we've seen them go for.
And if MDK are winning games through playing through their bottom lane right having super
be the carry I think when you look over a game it's a very different story as
Zale, you already touched on it a little bit back before game number one.
Kiaia has been kind of a standout performer here for Gam.
He's been a very effective, very powerful top laner.
However, in the previous game, I think the draft did him no favors,
being the one who wasn't diving with the rest of the dive comp.
He got completely shut down.
The lane swap also did him no favors, and it just felt like the most effective
piece on the board for Gam was removed right out the gate.
So there was no bug, in fact, and I did get confirmation.
This is kind of what I thought it was, is that Kiio's comment was not the intended rune,
so he probably wanted to go Aery, obviously.
You know, generally you play Comet if you have some sort of slow on your ability to
attach with it to be able to hit confirm that, so, you know, not sure how valuable it's
going to be, so he is down that Aery, or Aery, excuse me, might be a little bit frustrating
for him going into key number two.
They're down the Aery as well, because we're trying to get him out of here.
They are down in the Aery, and in the Aery.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, all right, wise guy.
All right, all right, all right.
Okay, okay.
When one game and you think he gets top three.
This is all I'm here for.
You think he gets tough?
This is all I'm here for.
I'm back.
I'm chilling.
I'm already going to be in a cloud.
I'm ready to go.
I'm really confident, I respect you.
I'm going to let my nerves kind of settle now,
and then I'll let you guys kick it up for the next series.
All right, players are typing.
There are in the chat, so we are about to jump back in.
Reminder for those of y'all who might just now
be joining us, it does mean that Kiyah
has to play with the room because it was player error,
not a mechanical error on the client.
So Gam are going to have to run it with Comet, Kenan.
If Kenan manages to kill somebody with a Comet this game,
we're going to make no of it, all right?
I mean, it's probably going to hit when you all, right?
It better hit when you all, it can't hit when you all.
It can't hit.
All right, let's do it.
Gam fighting for their tournament lives.
If MDK win this, they will get to stay in Berlin
at Worlds 2024.
Gam will be going home.
The game went in, hey, we're going to game three.
The battle will get bloodier.
This time, Emo on the Yone.
This champion now at what, 14 and three
throughout worlds, including play-ins, I believe?
It is very, very powerful.
I believe the crowd has a favorite here in the studio.
No surprises.
You can see for us, we're going very laning focused
ruins here.
Not only is it the grass, he's also going scorched.
So really trying to play for that 1v1.
We've been seeing a lot of this people pretty much picking up grasp on everything. It feels like these days very strong
Like ruin as far as the laning and I do think it can be underrated how much extra HP you can stack
Obviously, it's not a massive amount, but throughout the course of the game
Especially when you're playing against burst heavy comps
Sometimes that little bit of extra HP that you've stacked over the course of 20 minutes can be the difference between you know
Are you alting out to safety or getting burst down before you can react?
Especially with the nerves people work
It just works out nicely to have that extra little bit of sustaining the lane as well
But we'll have to see exactly what the game plan. It's gonna be here for MDK is at the moment
It's just standard lanes. Yeah, it's a much calmer level one than what we saw in the previous game, right?
Last time around we're seeing MDK grouping up looking to invade enemy jungle getting ready for a lane swap
This time around everything is stock standard exactly what you would expect both junglers beginning on the top half of the map via
Her red Wukong it is blue and we'll see where they can get involved first
Yeah, so far pretty calm stuff, but I don't think that there's going to be any like massive advantages created in the early landing phases
And I think both junglers are pretty happy to be farming pretty heavily, you know, if there's one to make a move
It's likely to be a L. Yo-Yo, 3-6, or Levi
You know, he's almost always one of these guys who really does prioritize farm looks to get a farm advantage
Show up towards those teamfights and try to create his edges there rather than in the early game
He's curious how much approach we have down on towards this bottom side for him because
the way for MDK, I think you can try and put pressure through Alvaro to burn some early
summoners from EZLove and then just make things a bit easier for Super and Alvaro
on that bottom side of the map and it's something we've seen a lot for MDK of these
early ganks to try and alleviate some of that pressure but you've also got an incredibly
strongly jungle that you can look to play through in these early stages as well.
That was something kind of cute there from Kiyai. He just walked into river basically to do a fake ward
To just try to say hey, I just dropped the ward so you can come in and do that a little bit of a different timing as a result
I was kind of checking into that river and a mirror women may have an idea that could be one there as they'll go
Yeah, potentially gonna sneak around here on mid lane
Let's see if you can find a whole lot of success with it emo
Blashing now ball breaker collides. There's your charm
There's your orbit exception. There's your first blood for mdk. A nice job from all yoy and frescoe
They just wait for so long and all that CC so they force out that early flash from emo and when you're on this
While you can just basic sucker punch with that quick cue
So you kind of have to burn it early, but easy though meanwhile the 2v2 in the bottom lane easy love having to pop the barrier down
To 150 HP wants to get back away trying to bait him in a little bit further because Levi is also down here
Levi going to encounter Yoya in the jungle now. It is a level 4 Wukong plus one level advantage against Del Yoya
Trying to force him all the way back gets the flash out of the lie
So game gonna come out on top for now
But Supa's ready to keep the chase going easy love down to just a sliver of HP
Supa continuing to try to chase him around find that last hit there
It is nice kill coming out for Supa
He no longer has his flash, but he still has a barrier
Elio chasing after him. Levi is here. Surely Supa dies on this one.
I don't really know why you would use the barrier there.
Feels like just a waste of a summoner spell when you're guaranteed to die ends up being a one-for-one.
But still at the end of the day, good things here for MDK, especially where the kills are going.
Again, they have a kill on the Aria, a kill on the Zyatt from this spot.
Can you feel really happy about that? And that early gank in mid lane was just so well played by Elio.
You walk in and apply the red buff slow, forces out the flash, then has the Q there,
and then you are a slow DNA trying to dodge this Q charge from pretty close so good stuff from all your early
He was definitely the one that could make an early play
Levi though. I think had a good response as well pushing him out of the jungle
He's created a farm of damage. He picked up a kill so you can see the gold edge is therefore Levi
And it's gonna put more pressure on him to make sure that he is showing up big time in these 5d5s and getting things done
Whereas I'll you yeah, you can kind of sit back a little bit more and hopefully depend upon those carries who you've set up
for success.
I mean, when we think about Levi as a player historically,
when we think about Gam as an org historically,
I feel like the greatest moment for this team,
if you remember back to like the 2017 era,
the Power Farm Nocturne level six ganking the level three
bottom lane, this guy has been a carry jungler,
feels like forever.
And that's what you want to see him on.
If you want to see Gam be able to take this to a game
three here, off to a start with a nearly 400 gold lead,
getting that first kill for his team,
I feel like that's a great spot for Gam to be.
Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, the gold overall slightly favored here towards MbK,
but more of these minions obviously here to collect for the game bottom lane.
So they're going to be collecting that wave.
There's a way of pushing in as well in mid lane for Emo.
So all things considered, we are very, very close here.
And MbK not running away with it in the same way that they seem to very quickly kind of in that last one.
Yeah, I think the main focus we're going to see now is as solo lenders take over level six,
things like the boy groups.
And El Yoye is down on this bottom side and at least in LEC we did a shift from Voids to Dragons, but play boss.
Yeah, Levi's ready to join this 2v2, making an unfair fight.
Supa trying to get back away, nice use of the feathers there for the root.
Now El Yoye ready for the counter punch.
NBK gotta be careful about this one, Alvaro jumping right back in, but a nice couple of punches nearly takes out easy.
Another root!
El Yoye grabbing the kill on that one, but Supa also dropped.
80 carry for 80 carry so far.
El Yoya continuing the scrap with Levi.
Nice fall breaker as Levi's gonna try to stay alive.
He hit level six, he goes back into the side float.
You gotta be kidding me!
Levi makes it a jungler for jungler trade as well.
Now both supports the only two left standing
here in the bottom lane, 3v3.
Man, I think that could have been
so much worse for MDK,
but Supa had two brilliant blade callers.
He rooted Levi twice in that series of play,
slowing him down from getting the initial kill,
buying a lot of time for Elioya to arrive.
And then again on the chase down,
finds him once more with that route,
which bought a lot of time for them on the other side.
So very scrappy stuff on that bot lane.
Levi hitting six helps it from being an unmitigated disaster
down there, but still pretty even trade overall.
Seven kills in seven minutes.
I feel like this is a lot more of what people were
expecting coming into the series.
That real League of Legends.
That real League of Legends.
Wrappy bar fight League of Legends was what a lot of fans were expecting coming into this one
And it feels like game two is delivering Alvaro still at only 200 HP down here is recalling
But he's on top of a ward meanwhile, Elioa clearing out the scuttle crab at the top side river the grubs are live
Yeah, they're trying to see if they can go over towards them
But they by now trying to move in he doesn't have that ultra available. Oh, you only just hit six
I need to get out though. Yeah, Elioa was sitting on top of a ward and didn't know it
with Elio messing up the crash down there,
so not going to find any sort of engage onto the MDK jungle.
And this is a great read from Gan,
because Alvaro's stuck on that ward,
which is like, hey, look, we have a numbers advantage.
Elio's able to get out onto the map first,
we can make the play, and they're covering mid once more.
Nemo has to snap on back, lost half HP there,
going in after Frescally with the stolen bow.
Yeah, it was really just Charmbear for Frescally,
and now that loss in mid lane,
plus Alvaro arriving, plus Mirwin TPing back,
means it's gonna be MDK grabbing the rest
of the grubs here. There was one at least. It's snuck away there by Levi, so he'll get
that gold, he'll get that bonus XP and continue on farming here, trying to maintain that advantage,
trying to get to a really fast one item spike here, where Wukong can really run these 5v5s.
I do think that is really the strongest point in the game, I feel like, for Wukong
Jungle when you get that really fast one item, you can be such a different maker
in these 5v5s.
Easy love, using the ulti there to clear out some of the waves, but not all of it, not entirely sure if that was it.
I think he was hoping to clean it out so that there wasn't any pressure of maybe Alvaro going underneath the tower with exhaust and charm,
and then Supa even being able to reset tower agro with his own ultimate push.
Just with the pressure coming through from Supa, man, he couldn't fully clear it out, but yeah, Ilya's joined him in the bottom side.
He needs to be careful of a yoyo on this top end.
top end. Both junglers are here. They engage first on Merewen who flashes away from the
first cast of the Cyclone. Giaia having already used the slicing maelstrom. Merewen's going
to survive. It costs his flash and you can see on the summoner spell cooldowns on the
right side of the screen he has just teleported back into the lane so he's not in a great
spot. Exactly. TP'd it back up there for the grubs but the other side of it is
it's both ultimates used from GAM. So Yoya can go right now and look for a fight.
he still has his ultimate whereas the Cyclone was used by Levi.
So if there is a 2v2 elsewhere, in the short term, it really does favor MDK.
Especially something like a dragon.
As you get this push down to the bottom side,
for Skelly goes back mid, he should have pushed there.
I think you can see Elioia.
It may stop off as Blue Bull,
but I imagine it's going to be dragon that they're really going to focus down
over the next couple of seconds.
It's actually so big, right?
Because, oh, you know, looking for a fight here.
Should disengage, but, you know,
I talked about that one item,
Spike's Under the Sky, now done for Levi.
He is really strong right now,
but without Cyclone, you aren't really going to want to try to take that fight over by the dragon.
And the cooldown on this Rank 1 Ultimate is quite long, so it still has about a minute or so left on it.
And you've already talked about how this is the big power spike, this is one of the strongest spots,
it's not the strongest spot in the game for Wukong, but the thing is, I think it's even more important in this game
because he's all three of the kills, all of the extra money earned for game is on this jungler.
At that point, you don't have an opportunity to make a play.
You have a responsibility to make a play and put that money to good use.
His free boots have also kicked in because of the kills knocking the timer down.
He is at a great spot and Cam needs him to get something done.
It's just so hard to actually mirror and get some good damage here, you're gonna be forced
right in the way back.
Ultimates weren't quite available, but at least given a few warning shots, should be able
to get back up a little easier in a couple of CS, but I'm still keepin' my eyes on
this dragon because MDK don't feel like they feel very confident to go for any
sort of play and Levi 8 seconds left on that Ultimus. This could be a game-changer.
Oh TP's also gonna come in from MDK immediately the engage, but the counter
attack coming in from Elio with a magnet storm into the crash down. The clone
takes most of the damage as Levi tries to get himself back away over the wall
here with a blast cone. Keep your eyes on easy love. Bullet time flies out but
it doesn't find a whole lot for Skawi getting the kill on Elio, but now El
Yoya's down to 200 HP. Levi grabbing the kill on El Yoya. Easy love's
going to drop next, a double kill back to Fraskawi, MDK, getting themselves a two for
one deal.
It was scrappy, but MDK arrived to play it out, good uses of the ultimates coming through
from super, being able to dodge away from a lot of easy loves damage, and also then the
coordination coming over the wall because this is where Levi is just barely waiting
for his ultimates to come up, but they're trying to escape away from this scene that
Fraskawi is now TP'ing towards the side as well, there's good knock up, but easy
doesn't really have any access here and as they start to move forward it's this help over the wall that really spells disaster for Gau.
Exactly and it's kind of what we were talking about earlier.
The team that actually starts the fight gets such an advantage because you never really find that proper setup.
He doesn't have a good angle to get an effective ultimate.
And we got a couple ticks on Alvaro and they force out the ultimate from Supra,
but it's not really that much and ends up going down without using his flash there,
which gives that extra kill over to MBK and even more kills going the way of Frescali was in a great spot.
Last game on the Yone and now has three early kills here on the Ari sure it's good that wukong is strong
But wukong isn't going to carry through the late game and these timings aren't working out for Levi either like you're just looking at
Eight seconds down to avoid groups are open that long timer on the ultimate isn't back available
As a yo-yo is just a couple seconds away
So I think this is where again with MDK having that push in top. It's so difficult for a gam to really contest his
I mean just look at all the ultimates right you're missing bullet time
You're missing fated seals. You're missing a lot of these key alphys here over on the game side
So they would like to try to delay mdk, but I don't think that the lines are gonna give them the time
They're just gonna start this up right now
Easily done forum remember they only need to get two of these and they will have void might spawns first one already secured
Smite still available for elioya Levi and the rest of game now stepping up
Levi wants to try to seal one of them away, but you already got four grubs now for mdk
Alvaro finding the knockup immediately followed by the charm a lot of damage for MDK under the support but a beautiful bullet time
Emo grab the kill on super
That's another one traded back though onto Elio slicing maelstrom in the middle of everybody Elioya about the die will not get enough
Damage back under the cannon as fresh cow. He has to get away towards the tier one turret
MDK lose to gam comes out on top in the fight
Yeah, nice thing done there by gam actually focusing down super who did not have his ultimate during the fight
That was the one key ultimate that was still missing from that bot lane fight.
So we talked a lot about the missing ones there on the gam side,
but they delayed enough time for Cyclone to come back up,
for Bullet Time to come back up,
and then they burst down Supa before he can get out.
And that really was the difference maker here.
Yeah, they turn on towards the rail thing,
they have a chance for the knock-up,
and then Supa not flashing from this follow-up as well from Emo,
means that he ends up falling to Bullet Time by Nautuna's base,
and Kyaa coming in on the side,
just matters to CC enough of the MDK players
that they can turn on towards El Yoye as well.
Once no exhaust was actually available there,
they used the exhaust earlier on,
so it didn't have it for that cannon.
And it's a big fight there for GAM.
It does a lot to boost their hopes,
to boost their chances here as Harold is up,
and it looks like it will be going the way of GAM.
So it is, the four grubs obviously on the side of MDK,
but you got two grubs over for them,
and they should be able to grab the Harold.
The MDK a little bit laced with this,
but you can see on the face of the GAM coaching staff,
how stressful it is.
This game could be their last,
at the World Stage, but at least you're denying it though, in the grand scheme, the things because
the push is not there in the lane, so honestly a bit of a win for Gal.
I'm getting away from another attempt at the Vi-R-E combo. One thing that I do want to point out
here, unless this turns into a fight, we saw the total turret plates taken up in the top,
it was one and three this time around, last game it was five and eight. This game has been
so much PvP, there hasn't been time for objectives, there hasn't been time for lanes
in place. It's just champs, champs, champs. Yep. And we saw that the I the Herald there
did expire. So no one from Gamma was able to actually sneak over and pick it up, unfortunately
four of them. And you can see in the Mastercard lane economy snapshot that it's kind of Levi
versus the world. Everyone else on the other side does have that slight gold advantage.
So very close game overall, almost dead even as far as the total team gold goes.
But Levi is such a core component to this fight. He's got to have great ultimates.
He's got to reach backline and key targets or their goal to vintage is nothing.
Good awareness, good instinct there from easy love, alting that wave, getting rid of it
because you could see how many MDK players were looking for a dive if that wave would
have stayed.
Don't have another ulti though and Aliyoya is behind him.
Still though when you look at the Wukong Levi down and taking the first dragon to
the game of 15 minutes and now that's easy look off.
Yeah, there, easy love tried to flash away from him but he's already dead before
the TP can arrive and try to save him.
Elioia wants to vault break back on the wall, I would think.
Jump back into the tri-brush where Alvaro is waiting to protect him.
Meanwhile, Supa just given free firing time onto the turret.
They'll take this Tier 1 while Levi secures the drake.
I mean, credit to EasyLove for realizing that they were there the first time at Alting,
but then he shouldn't be staying there the second time.
It costs his team the TP.
Levi looking for the 1v1 against Mirwin won't be able to kill him,
so it means that even more gold is actually going to go to Levi
because Kiyah gave up the wave to TP top and cover.
You lose the tower anyway.
used barrier flash on MF and die so made a good play but followed up with a much
worse one that MBK were able to punish and create a pretty significant advantage.
And again it's kind of coming back to the same thing we saw in game one which is
MBK just playing the map out better. Can have had moments where they've caught
them out but in the grand scheme of things if you can continue to take
down these terrors you're just gonna open up such a massive gold lead for
yourself and the fact for Skelly is very close to that Leandries as well.
He's gonna be such a threat when you look for these pick plays with the yoyo and with overall and when you're trading those tier 1 turrets away
For a Drake it feels way worse when his first Drake at 16 minutes into the game
That stack is not gonna pay off for a long time last game. We mentioned down payments. We mentioned investments
You're not cashed in on this thing until your senior citizen voice
This is gonna be a long way off. Well a leak of legends years. We're all getting there anyway
Oh, come on, we don't need that.
The harsh bite of reality here today, Decta.
Come on, come on.
We're just trying to enjoy some video games.
All right, all right.
So we got our next Drake spotting in three and a half minutes.
MDK have a 1-0 turret lead.
That means there's still a ton of standing gold on the map
for both teams.
If you're game, what's the play?
I mean, the play is just continue to try to enable Emo,
try to get in the farm, you know, look for these 5E5s
and just try to get that proper setup.
I think it's all about getting the jump in these fights, have Ilya creating that chaos with Levi and Kiyah,
building space for EZLeft to get a good follow-up ultimate.
You know, it's really all about the engages, their comp is built to 5v5.
And I'd love to see them trying to get some sort of vision on towards the enemy side of the map as well,
because Emo on like a flank TP or even Kiyah in that position as well could be so crucial.
But a lot of the times what we're seeing is that they're so focused on trying to get the lane in order
as MDK go for counter play that they're not getting that vision on a cross map
or something set up there.
So I think there's a little bit of worry for Gam,
as Kiyaya wants more to focus on this top side,
but at least there's members of Gam coming to support.
DK wanting to steal away this blue buff.
Elioa's got the smite in time before Levi can arrive.
He'll show up and bonk him on the head just one time.
And there's not a whole lot left for Gam to do in response.
He's just going to walk back into the mid lane,
continue farming up the wave.
And you can see Elioa is trying to anticipate
where MDK would look to attack next.
He's thinking, okay, you probably play around the RA,
So he's been shadowing this yone for quite some time and first cow. He is gonna have to respect this
But Alvaro has read the play. He's down there in time to protect any sort of threatened dive
You're just gonna continue pushing up there as key aya goes in for the slicing maelstrom immediately bursting through about 75% of
Miren's HP and you know the Levi has the damage to get rid of that last little bit
There's your stun and again
It's now six kills for Levi out of the seven total on game
The Wukong continues to pile up the money and this ultimate from the MF being used in the wave every time is kind of denying
Mdk third answer on the map you can see a yo-yo was trying to move into position to look for potential type
And as the wave is gone, they're already shoved in the bot side so there's nothing they can do so come they get the kill
And they get a terror so you wanted an answer so what they could do you just got to see it
Yeah, absolutely
It's kind of interesting the way that they are using the MF right because you know a lot of times when we talk about playing
Through side lanes how champions like six can really enable that with great wave clear our champions like a Nivian the old days can
really enable that with great wave clear.
MF is kind of doing the same thing with her ultimate.
Denying the counter play, obviously Rumble
can do similar things as well.
So a good run of play there for Gam.
They're able to pull right back to even,
even taking a slight goal lead just under 100 gold there
at this point.
But this is such a close game here.
And with no team anywhere close to Seoul,
there's no sort of like big threat on the horizon.
So I think both teams can really think through
what fights they want to take.
And I think it's for a team like Gam,
when your entire tournament lives
could be on this game having that little second or two to think or get a bit of
breathing room is so important getting a little bit of extra gold and you can see
the win probability power by AWS how close this game is right now and I do
think Levi just having one ultimate could be the difference maker to take
down MBK but a good fight where you're able to set up for super where
fresh we can get access to easy love I think that could be disaster for now
hold on now Alvaro might be in a little bit of danger here there's
Here's your magnet storm with Levi following up the sidequil, but he's already been exhausted,
so we won't find a ton of damage here with the very start.
Alvaro barely staying alive.
The exhaust kept him breathing, but now Mierwin's got to try to get away.
Fate sealed right through the uprights, not going to find anything with that one.
Ki misses everything as well, game through it all down the sink, and now MDK might
have a chance to hit back.
First Cowi throws out the charm, but Elio sidesteps it.
MDK, get away.
Yeah, nicely done by MDK on the disengage.
Gamm just kind of threw everything out there and with Levi forcing up the Exhausts early,
Supa could be in some trouble, but...
Oh, he's feeling good.
Levi remember has no Cyclone, MBK knows that Gamm spent most of their resources trying to make that collapse.
Yeah, but I mean, with the Exhaust being forced up by Levi, you would think,
hey, you're setting up for a really good fight for Kiaia and Emo,
but they completely whiff with all of their Alties there, and it's right before a Dragon.
You didn't even really need to try to force the play.
When there's no exhaust on Alvaro, just try to look for a proper setup.
Maybe rock around the bot side, play through mid,
and look for that kind of pincer play on MDK as they go for the dragon.
And you could have really set yourselves up for success here,
but just getting a little bit over eager,
saying, hey, maybe we can find a play right now.
You throw everything out.
Nothing hits. It means another objective here for MDK.
And you can see the stress that they're under
as they just try desperately to get anything.
Even that engage, the flash from Elio, and then the follow up from Neva.
So much use trying to set things up,
but MDK are just calmer in it.
There's no, well, they are getting caught out
on some over extensions, but when it happens,
they look way more calm on the execution
and it's playing out well for them.
I mean, it's a good point.
You just compare the Summoner spells, right?
There's multiple additional flashes here,
still available for MDK.
Obviously, Yoyoya, Elvaro,
still have their flashes available here in Supa,
just that the IE's had kind of a more quiet game
on the Zaya, but you're now on Essence Reaver IE.
You're on a really strong two items at this point.
Obviously, a while ago for Skawi,
completed his second item and he's working towards that void staff now so
MDK have their carries in a fantastic spot. I do think though the fact that
Gamma been so clean in dealing with all these pressure points from MDK though
at least you know last play taken out of us means that they're actually in an
okay spot like the terrors aren't crumbling all around them in fact Gamma
are actually gonna go open terrors off this play they've been able to hold
on to mid and the pick plays playing off of this area haven't really
worked out so at the moment like you look at the go to the top of your
screen it is dead even playing it well it might not be dead even after this super
pops the ulti tries to get away but easy love has his number hell yoya now the
target game picking up a nice kill there this game is less than 500 gold apart
tied 8 to 8 in kills game 1 was over at this point yeah I mean it is dead but
it's not even for super he's gonna go down there they do find the pic and
again that's both summoners down you know sometimes you just have to kind
of take the loss when you realize you get caught out there because that's
So punishing it's all about the next play now as equalizer going to be dropped to just try to clear this one out
Oh, but the dive is coming in from game the bullet time over the top of the slicing maelstrom
They're gonna find two more kills on alboro and al-Yoya for scally and mirror when trying to get something back
And that's something will be illio
So they at least get a little bit of a trade in return
But game our blood thirsty for scally was trying to make his way up from bot side
But at that minute of getting that dive off immediately before he gets there and it is a great execution
Execution video hanging over the wall Alvaro just getting caught underneath this with a great knockup from emo as well
The follow-up was perfect from Levi
They only downsize they didn't get that terror, but damn
Definitely still fighting in this game. Absolutely. I mean Alvaro didn't even get to move
It was great CC really perfectly timed and layered, you know, not all the overlap
They're able to get everything down there again
I still do have concerns for game just because of where the gold is
junglers generally can't carry those later stages fights you know this point
of the game when the carries are getting towards three items jungler generally
start to fall off you become more about the utility the initial engage but then
the follow-up has to be there from your team so we need to be able to see easy
left emo shown up in these fights being able to get something done here there
is a pretty big farm advantage for emo though so despite all the kills on
ari the gold is very close and it'll come down to execution all right our
The next drake is two minutes away.
We'll see if we have another fight randomly before it
instead of at it.
I'm not quite sure.
These teams just really, really just
want to go out there and hit each other.
But that's the thing, compared to this game to the last one,
right, where we're praising MDK for how well they
played at the map.
But MDK, this game, just haven't really
quite been able to find that same success.
And it hasn't been like Alvaro and Nelyoya
being able to move off to a side,
trying to play around for a scowie who's really strong
at the moment.
Instead, they're just butting heads continuously
and not really getting anywhere.
I think one of the things that MDK played so well with last game was the Ziggs which was banned out this game
Right, you know really enabled them to get up towards the sideline super controlled mid
Was able to make these half rotations out and then assist his team in getting picks in the sides
And I think that's really how MDK kind of choked game out of this game through that sideline domination really utilizing the Ziggs beautifully
And this time it is a little bit harder because you're more built just purely for the 5v5
You're not going to win a game through sides, you know with Ari Rumble and
We'll see if they can find a pick here. Oh
Oh, Imo wants to get all the way away with the paint sealed, but immediately the Vi jumps in, meanwhile down to the bottom lane, Miura's about to be taken out by Kiaya as the Yone is shut down back in top.
It's a 1 for 1 on opposite sides of the map.
This is kind of what I wanted to see from MDK though, which was, hey, you may not win out through just sideline pressure, but you can definitely find picks and open up opportunities to just go for an objective, try and take a tower, but the fact that Miro went down on the opposite side, that's really where the problem is,
because now, Gamm still gets to play on the map.
Levi gets the four super off of mid wave
and suddenly that kick, that kill that could have opened something up
is just completely gone.
And especially because MDK committed three members to kill off the Yone,
where it's just a straight solo kill on the bot lane,
so you have the additional men on the map for Gamm
that are moving around, they're controlling that vision.
You can see some wards down in that bear.
In area, they're dropping them.
Pink's on that side of the map,
but it is looking like another potential fight here around the dragon,
so we have to take note of the ultimates of the summoners available
and it's looking like for the most part almost everything is up but Kiaia doesn't have ult,
there's no Rumble equalizer and there's no Vi all still.
I am curious though how MDK decided to play this because the mid lane turret being up has
given them so much struggle this game where if you ever relieve yourself of mid lane for GAM,
I think MDK just pile onto that mid lane turret and try and look for it,
just to try and open up the map, even if it does cost them a second Cloud Drake,
I think it's worth for MDK whereas for GAM, I think this is nice, threatening baron,
so it makes it very difficult for them DK to set up everything that they want on this play.
I mean talking about turrets it's not just mid lane. Indicator only claimed a single turret so far this game
makes it very difficult to play the map when there's still all of these obnoxious checkpoints for your opponents to play around and retreat back towards as
Gamm not being too eager to make anything crazy happen just yet. The 1v1 in the bottom lane continues between Kiaya and for Scowie.
Both of which have their unleashed teleports ready to go and both of which are level 16 with flashes also
available immediately Alvaro getting jumped on but he tries to turn it back
around and nice engage with a quickness and Levi's the first to die. Gams in a
bad spot as for Skowey makes his entry into the fight and now they're going in
trying to find the last little bit of damage on the easy lump but it ain't
to the work how Yoya's already dead and Elio's grabbing the kill. Gamm doing a
good job fighting back after losing their jungler they actually come out
on top and MDK loses to Elio down to 200 HP but he continues his retreat.
Nice fight though from Frescali. He saved that fight getting in the back line landing the charm and he's pushing him out
And emo even turned around try to land the theta seal that was a whiff so MDK
Yes, they do lose the extra man on the fight, but they went out in the HP they push back game
They take the mid tier one so things still continue. We are 20 minutes 28 minutes in it is basically dead
Even it's a hundred gold 200 gold between the two teams
Yeah, it's been neck and neck this whole time and the fact that Levi ends up falling down at the start of this fight
It's crucial, but there you go.
Yeah, Frescovy interrupting the bullet time that was doing so much work,
even when trying to go back to peel off of Frescovy,
but we're still getting good damage done.
But as you said, it's the health bar advantage on the back of this
with super pushing people away that sets up for the mid lane terror take.
And it feels like we're just seeing so many missed ults from Emo.
I feel like, you know, if you're having trouble hitting them,
you need to play off CC from your team.
The cannon the ult is going to set up CC.
You have rel the set up CC.
You have the cycle in the set up CC.
Like you can use it as a follow up.
It doesn't have to be that primary engage.
And often you'll even see people just use a self-setup
with the Q3.
The numbers just popped up in that small little update
above the champion portraits on either side.
The average level for both teams is 14.0.
So down to the decimal spot, they are in EXP.
The gold was within a single percentage point,
49.5 to 50.5 or something like that.
Absolutely crazy how close this game is as MDK
is looking for a potential pick.
They interrupt the Elio as he goes for the crash down
to try to get away, but they don't
want to commit any more onto the rel.
You can see how much control was just set up
on this top side from DK.
Ward here, they placed a ward just at the back here,
alongside the pink.
And all they were trying to do was draw Gam
into this barren area.
So they already had for a scouting position,
a TP ward available for Mereman,
wherever the fight went to take it.
But it's only Elio's flash that's burned in the end.
Gam's kind of getting out of that.
Still pretty critical one too, Burn.
Obviously a lot less effective so easy to react to without the flash
But when you do have that flash for a Q flash to actually set up that crash down
It can be very very difficult
You'll play with fire a little bit and DK clearly trying to control vision in this area here
We have a 1v1. Yeah, Emo wants for a scowie here. He hit that fate sealed
But not enough damage to finish the kill for scowie gets away
Yes, he's gonna lose his ultimate, but it's an ulti for ulti trade. It is ulti for ulti trade
And I think if you can keep fresh scowie out of the fight, that's the six kill member here over on MDK
He's been making so much happen for them in the 5v5.
So in this case, you know, maybe Emo is happy with that trade.
Doesn't look like we're going to get any more of a fight
with the time that he bought from Fraskawi having to be called though.
You're going to see Merewen push up the wave here in the bottom lane.
He has his teleport ready to use.
Still no dragon left to take for another three and a half minutes.
Still everybody playing around this top side of the river.
Still everyone with eyes on Baron.
I'm also going to say Cloud is really strong for a lot of champions in this game.
If you get CloudTool, you're looking at champions like Alvaro and the Rakan, you're looking at the Kiyah on the Kennen, you're looking at champions like that.
And even the Wukong is so ridiculously strong with it, so I do think it's a pretty powerful soul.
Also, I just want to point out a really interesting build from Erwin, going towards the Abyssal Mask here, but might have to hold onto the point.
as Elio has no Flash, MDK wants him, but they basically say hey look Gamera,
we're all gonna jump in on top of us and my ultimate's probably gonna be me,
Nile Ultimate anyway, so getting value for that and sending it up for Frescauio,
I think it's a good adaptation. Alvaro popping the quickness,
they put a little bit of damage into Elio, but they don't want to over command immediately,
though Gam jumps in with a paint seal, that one's gonna do the trick,
Mirro will be the second to die right after Alvaro, Gam's over to grab two,
make it free as Supa is caught out beat down for Scowey and El Yoya trying to get themselves away.
Gam just got free for free. Levi leads the charge. For Scowey he's got to try to use the spirit rush
to get away. They'll keep on chasing him. All they got to do is keep him out. As soon as that
ulti expires it is far too dangerous for the R and you go anywhere near the Baron pit.
And they have Ward on El Yo-Yo walking towards the bottom side so they know there is no
contest whatsoever here game gonna grab the Baron and I love the comments from
Ilyo there not just using the crash down a retreat in a situation like that
realizing his team is in a spot to reinforce he just turns what look like
an MDK pick into one for himself start the team fight out emo is there nails
the ultimate this time around they crush the fight they take the Baron and gain
what feels like the first major advantage in the game yeah big time the
fact that you might should get some of the kills and then the burn off the
back but this is MDK just having no vision of what was happening in the area.
Ilio goes over, MDK are like hang on can we look for this but they don't realize
how many members of Gamma are in the area and the second they get locked down
by Ilio here. This is essentially 3v4 the follow-up is there the ults are
perfect the front line is completely deleted and you can look for Skewi no
access to the fight El Yoya no access to the fight and Gam steamroll MDK.
Love the look into the coaches room, alright guys calm down, calm down, it ain't over until
the next is to explode boys.
Gam pushing forward towards that objective right now, bullet time, just getting rid of
75% of Supa's HP just like that, tier 2 turret falls, Gam up, 4000 gold.
And you can see they're going to try to play through 2 lanes, you can see the Yone
try to push up through bot and they're kind of just moving back and forth in this
bot side area, controlling vision, trying to wipe out these wards and make sure
they can bounce between these two lanes to try to play for the Tier 2s before they look
to threaten for these other towers.
Elio with a hex flash over the wall, ready to pounce on anybody from MDK who might be
disrespectful enough to try to defend these Tier 2 turrets.
It is now five turrets for Gamm compared to the three of MDK.
Only the Tier 2 turret in top lane is left standing outside of the MDK base, still
90 seconds of Baron gameplay left for Gamm.
And 30 seconds until the third dragon, so just controlling this bot side jungle
is all you really need as gam because you can fall back towards that at any point in time
so many of their items are going to come to to fruition as well like Kiaia having that on
his airglass makes him such a big threat he's going to be fishing off his Crip Bloom very soon
as well so these presets now kind of ticking over to that fourth item for a lot of gam members
makes them so threatening against 70k and sterix on the Wukong too you jump in you have that
massive shield to be able to survive any counter burst that they might try to do
guaranteed almost that you're going to get the second cast of the Cyclone for the extra
teamfight power. And it's amazing to see Liva again showing up on this Wukong and 85% win rate
nearly for him on this pick. It's been such a name stage for him and the fact again he controlled
the early game, brought it into these teamfights, setting up for so much of his team. He's kind
of been the X factor, the kind of rallied around this game and now they're really putting the
herd onto MDK. Yeah they absolutely are and I mean they created a pretty significant advantage
at this point. They're a good 4,000 gold ahead but that being said they didn't crack the
the base so we're really just kind of back to the same situation where it's
gonna be about playing for these objectives playing for these team fight
setups and it is game now on sole point so a lot more pressure on MDK to be able
to get a proper setup at this next dragon but that being said if they do the
game is definitely not out of reach whatsoever. Five seconds left on the
Baron buff Elio with a quick shattering strike there on the Alvaro as
NBK pushing the enemy territory. They want a full send in here maybe for a scowie
They get a TP deep behind a beautiful trauma to easy lobby pops both some of the spells trying to get away
And immediately fires back with a ball of time easy love on a rampage
Alvaro is down El Yoia trying to get away
But it ain't gonna work leave I goes back over the wall to escape the equalizer and super tries to stay alive
Merely for a scowie can't get anything done here super still trying to get the kill on Helio
He knows there's no way out
and Elio just lets the turrets shoot him to pieces.
Levi was a hero in that play.
The dive had come through to try and pick off easy loop,
but the Cyclone interrupts the dive from Alvaro, denies the CC chain,
and Gam rally back and beat off M.D.K.
The Scali tries to get away now,
wants to escape with a Q3 from the Yone as way too much.
Levi's got the extra damage!
4 kills in total for Gam, nothing going back for M.D.K. They thought they saw their moment,
but yeah they caught him there. Able to punish them big time as Gam is going to be able to push up mid lane.
Take the inhibitor tower as well. They finally cracked the base. It's not with the Baron.
It's off of the counter engage there on this flight. We can watch it one more time.
It's the early TP here coming in on the bottom side of your screen, but the summoners are available.
The QSS is available, it's a full BT shield as well on easylove, plus a locket, there's so much shielding, the barrier, the BT shield, the locket, everything comes through, he gets a good position here to really chunk down Aliyoya, and then on the other side of the fight,
Supa is trying to make some magic happen, kiting out Welles surviving through the fated shield until that solobound does expire, but realizes there's no real way out, they've lost on the other side, Mirwood and Frescauio have been pushed out, so there's nowhere for Supa to go, except donating kill into that tower.
and he even used the barrier to try to get the extra little bit of time for the last attack on Elio,
but he could not do it, so that is both Summoner spells there for the AD carry of M.D.K.
As now, they're down a lot of resources, two minutes to go, until the soul for GAMP.
Exactly, and you track the flashes, so many were spent in that,
but both Kiyaya and Levi have their flashes available, really critical on that side,
whereas over for M.D.K., it's only Alvaro, so yes, he could try to make something happen with an engage,
But the threat from this cannon, from this Wukong,
is absolutely enormous at this point in the game.
And the big thing too,
desynced spawn timers on our two neutral objectives, Baron.
Spawning in 30, the dragon gonna be spawning
in about a minute 40,
so if Gam wanna go straight for the Baron,
if Gam wanna just try to rush this,
maintain control over that,
MDK will not be able to take the dragon away
as an opportunity for trade.
I think it's also the fact that Lleva
has now completed the Guardian's Angel,
makes him so much more threatening in these fights,
because he can just full send us and then get on towards Frescali or Super,
just completely change the entire aspect of a fight and still have that second life.
So I think for MDK, they need some sort of miracle.
And at this stage, we're hoping for Frescali would be able to get a pick, get something,
but the fact that MDK haven't been able to play through that big strength in the mid lane
has only just leveraged, can't be able to play through their own.
I mean, Ezielov is still sitting on brown bags, but he's got everything else fully kitted out.
He is on six items here and now, ridiculously strong.
Over on the other side though, I mean, for Skawya and Supa are no joke.
Again, if you execute well in these fights, they have the four fully completed items.
They are very, very strong.
They just have to be able to perfectly execute.
But for Skawya and Yoya are coming around for a pincer attack.
M.D.K. looking for their chance to maybe punish Gam here.
Oh, he's looking weird at that.
As a group, Alvaro jumps in, but Al-Yoya's got to be careful about this.
He's trying to scrap with the Yone.
They chunk him down by about half, but a Magnet Storm onto Al-Yoya.
Gam sees the opportunity, killed the enemy jungler.
Levi's going to keep everybody else busy.
Bulletsheim comes through over the top for a scouting
at the back line, looking for Emo,
but he ain't going to be able to find if the fate seals.
Seals his fate indeed!
Kiaya keeps going forward, a nice stasis
to make sure that he doesn't die.
Alvaro with about 50 HP.
Kiaya is down, MDK at least get that one.
Supa and Alvaro both barely clinging to life,
but them surviving might be the difference
between the game ending and not.
Exactly, it's massive.
Supa barely survives.
They're kiting out.
He's able to stay alive,
And that's the only thing that actually stops this game from ending.
Merewen's TPing to bot side.
They want to try to contest this because they know that Levi is still low on health.
Wouldn't be able to actually recall.
You can see that Emo is in the enemy jungle here.
We'll see if Merewen can find some sort of a miracle play, but no equalizer.
No equalizer for Merewen.
No smite for MDK.
That Drake goes the way of Gam.
And MDK can't say a thing about it.
I think MDK, we're hoping, hey look, if we get one or two picks,
maybe we can turn this over towards a Baron.
Especially the recess to actually come through because Ayoya back on the map for Skewie has TP
Maybe they even still consider going for it or at least look for a pick in the jungle because it's very dark on this top side for gap
I feel like there's there's nothing wrong with just flipping at this point
It does get very difficult you can see for Skewie keeping out towards top side
So they're gonna get the push they need to clear out this pink ward that is in the pit
Because obviously there's no threat if that remains alive and BK have done that now
They've gotten the waves moving and we'll see if they want to try to move for something more Levi still has his flash
El Yoya moving around the backside but Gam knows that he's there because he's
clearing out the control ward. Elio's still here on the front threatening MDK as
he pushes forward. Emo's just gonna use the soul unbound to clear out some of the
vision. Levi stepping forward with the control ward of his own to clear that
out. Gam with that cloud soul that you already touched on earlier Azale for
Wukong for Kenan. For the rail it's so powerful. Frescali now gonna be caught
out. Giaya stunning him up. Fate sealed and gonna find the extra little
the extra little bit of range but it does not matter the monkey's got a stick
and he's jumping over the wall to beat you to death with it for a scowie dead
for 50 seconds that's baron for game and he came need some sort of miracle but
come to turn in it's immediately over choice ejected all game immediately
jumping in the rumble is already down game has found their angle super with
a feather storm finds a nice opportunity if only they weren't so far
behind Emo getting the kill on Alvaro, El Yoya just going to be annoyed to death by Elio
and Gam should be able to win the game right here.
You can never discount the VCS, they always come in punching well above their weight
class and now as they start to look at the base, Emo wants to tear it all down.
Emo's just standing here waiting for the minions.
He went to the base, still clear out the wave, everybody else will take their victory
March down mid lane. This game was dead even for 30 minutes. These teams traded blow for
blow but we are not going to see the VCS go quietly into the night. We are not going
to see a 2-0 series. We're going to game number three.
It's all going to come down to that final game here between game and MDK. The pressure
Really on for both teams and the best players in the world step up in those moments and how about this game from Levi
9 2 and 13 he was smurfing we're going to a break and we'll be right back with game number three
Listening that we've had in a while and then in the middle
It was easy to praise gam in that video or in general
Because even though it was close for a very very long time
It's one of those where I'm always on the fence because I will say, you know, some things you want to talk about
So let's start with the yoni update. Yeah, please because yoni was given over again
We knew it was going to be a big discussion topic no matter what but this is getting to just crazy levels
18 and 3 it's crazy like just the fact
So we're trying to figure out why it's been let through so often and I had a theory that
that rumble ziggs aurora were really pivotal to pair with yone because they're safe ap's
and ken would be a step below and maybe that makes it less good.
Man, still good.
That was too great.
Also, last game it was definitely the reason MDK won.
This game.
Levi was the reason that they won.
It didn't feel like it was about the yone.
Yeah, I mean, Levi got a lot of very early kills, which allowed him to snowball, but
Whenever we're watching this team, you're always looking at Levi and Kiyahia.
And you mentioned the Kennen being the big AP part of any sort of, you know, yo-day composition.
This is really cool though. We didn't know what they were doing, just hitting the minions until he hit level 6 and almost turned it around.
Yeah, he told Ilya like, help me, help me hit the minions so I can get level 6.
And from that point, like, really, really nice snowball from them.
there were some that were not on point some of the some of the plays towards big games but some
really really big ones for them plus the more standard setup also benefited them. I feel like you
have to do something along the lines of lane swaps and stuff so really put both Levi and Kiaia
behind early on. Anything you can do to put those two behind is going to increase your chance of
behind and not let him get to, like, oh, is it 5 or 6-0 so quickly into the game.
Also, when you talk about, kind of, the later game, it feels like you said, okay,
Madd's probably just outscaled, but they had no way to really win the fights
anymore despite having an Omega-fed Ari, Jack.
Yeah, Frescali, I think, had a good start to the game, but I'll also say
they were very much a one-shot team where they would have the Vi Ari
with the rumble, so it's pretty easy to itemize a little bit
bruisery against them.
And once you don't have the threshold to burst someone,
you're kind of out of options.
You are.
A guy a bit nervy.
We have one replay that we wanted to show you.
This is not to like dunk on anyone in particular.
I will say that, MDK was getting picked off a lot.
Trying to make up territory.
Yeah, this is the mid lane fight, I believe, right?
Yeah, it's going to continue for a while.
So MDK gets picked off.
And this was more, so we're not
more pulling this to dunk on the teams were more pulling this to say like this, it's absolutely an elimination game and you're trying to fly in and make all these big plays and sometimes you're going to look absolutely foolish.
And this is not the type of play that gam would have made at any point this year, honestly, until this moment where they're up against elimination point, but they were able to recover after that and still continue to pull the trigger which to me actually shows a really high level of mental fortitude and this is interesting.
How are we getting on there first? I bet he's writing in chat like, you know, I was fed my team did nothing
I'm kidding
But that was not the case I think in general
Okay, so now we're looking at a game through and we came out of game one thinking. Okay
This is looking quite comfortable for Madline's koi. They have everything figured out
Is it are we gonna give them the same advice that we gave to gam in terms of the yone going forward?
or are there more structural problems going on here that they have to address right now?
Yeah, I think the two biggest problems are that they have to do something about Levi and Kiaia
because these two players, regardless of draft, regardless of setup, are always such big threats on Gam.
And you have to do something to neutralize that. You just saw them getting on the stage.
The stark difference between M.D.K. and Gam. Gam's getting up. They're all smiling.
They're on a roll now. They're the ones coming off the win.
I think Gam have the momentum now, and you're going to have to do something starting in draft,
but continuing in game and in execution to put a stop to that.
It goes to show who the pressure is on.
The pressure is so much more on MDK and they're the ones that you need to calm themselves
down and so much about like the expectations that you put on yourself and how you deal
with those expectations.
It's honestly so much of the struggle from like from an LCS perspective.
That's the struggle I see LCS teams have all the time.
And I feel like MGK is kind of in a similar situation here.
Absolutely, and I think for the side of VCS,
we already talked about kind of the maybe possibly
the last huzzah for the VCS in this form at Worlds.
And Levi just stepping onto that rift
and pulling off the shirt like Superman saying,
why?
I'll do it myself.
And I think that is so poetic when you look at everything
we've praised Gam and the VCS for throughout the years,
Levi has been such a big part of it.
So I think it is incredibly fitting
that also on the other side we have El Yoya, who
going to have to come to depend on and to see we believe make them believe only one more either
team here looking at this one that's the best of three for you so much comes down to it absolutely
the tension of the series definitely reaches its peak we're so far away from the conclusion to
start of this series but right now we're we're so close let me do the topic i'm the professional
All right, that's all the behind here for the VCS and the LEC and yeah, who's it gonna be? Let's head over to our casters
Ladies and gentlemen welcome back
It's time for the third and final game in this series between MDK and game for one of the two
It will be their last game played at Worlds
2024 game number one was a stomp MDK looked clean
game number two was also League of Legends. We got to see a lot of punches
thrown every which way. Yeah absolutely. I mean game two was an all-out brawl and it
felt like game just we're more confident in that game. They were the ones
starting out the fights first you know getting the advantage on those setups
as a result. We are into pick and ban. I need to know is Yone gonna be open here
one more time. Alright champion select powered by Omen and HyperX. Show us a
Yone Band for the first time this series, please will it be here?
So some key ones are going to be up regardless.
It'd be Rumble not banned, Ziggs not banned, Yone not banned.
So some big ones, and they're leaving it open again.
It's going to be another first pick, pretty much guaranteed.
And they didn't even waste time.
They didn't even waste time.
I mean, it's just so strong.
It just kind of wins every single time, man.
I think it's absolutely crazy.
I don't think that the series has really been about the Yone,
but I just think this champ is ridiculous.
But there is Aurora available, that's another one of the OPs that hasn't really been banned out,
so we'll see what GAM can get as far as the trade.
Yeah, I feel like it's going to be the Vi, more than likely here for Levi,
just a very strong pick that maybe she already got that AP option, could be taken away.
But we've also seen things like the Maokai with this Aurora as well,
because it just offers you so much hop-down, but yeah, I think the Vi just even taking that away from a Yoi is so nice here.
I also just don't like Levi on Malkai compared to something that has more brawling potential, right?
Like, I would much rather see this.
Now, that is a Levi champion. I brought it up earlier.
The most famous game moment, the most famous Levi moment from all those years ago, the Nocturne performance.
Absolutely. I mean, they're getting there. They just want to play Dive, right?
You know, you're going to be looking with this Aurora to be able to set up pick.
If you have more AOE champions, more Dive champions piling in the Aurora can begin to pick the Nocturne can fly in.
And I think back to the play-in stage, where we saw some monster games from Kiaia on the Aurora.
Their first series that they played, they played back-to-back Aurora games,
and he was smurfing with some of the strongest Aurora games we've actually seen at the events so far.
And we're going to have to see if Mirren has an answer for it,
because you imagine that he's still going up towards the topside.
Obviously, it can be flexed. We've seen it in the mid lane boss.
Yeah, Rumble, could you keep the answer?
Rumble is your first three. It's so strong. It's weaker in the lanes.
He's going to go for the stronger 1v1 matchup with Vanar.
But still, I mean, Wani, Yone is such a strong 2v2 pairing
that I feel like there's very little way game we're going to be able to kind of find their way in into 2v2.
Well, we're going to get to see the opposite side of the previous game's matchup.
I always enjoy when we get these types of things because it really does
let a guy show that he has mastery of the matchup.
You can play it both ways, you can win it both ways last time around.
even though they lost for Scoway and have a very impressive performance on the RE against the Yona.
He absolutely did, but we also have to remember it was a Yoya that set him up on the Vi with that early
gank. That was where they got that first kill. He got him in behind, and it's that combo that I think
is so powerful. So far on the first three, there's zero setup for that charm, right? You know,
the Vi plus RE combo is so strong because it guarantees the CC in the full combo lands.
And that's why I'm wondering if there's going to be something like a gin here. Just try and
get that slow setup for some of these plays to start happening, but I do agree. I think
I think you're in a bit of an awkward spot here, where you need something to follow up here for Elio to really get things started,
especially with Rel already gone.
Imagine something like the Leona or other big engage support taken off the board.
Exactly. That's what I'm expecting. Double engage banned from M.D.K.
The Rel you already mentioned has come through first.
Gam are going to ban out the Ash first for themselves in this second half.
Ezreal also going to continue to be banned away as one of the safe long-range AD carries.
And that's the thing, especially when you're trying to play dive with this Nocturne,
having something that can peel for themselves, it's going to be a bit of a nightmare.
Super Maid, just go back towards the Zaya, in that regard, just to say,
hey look, I'm going to be safe. Open up Ravro to go towards the Recon,
and then you can still play for this heavy dive function with so many frontliners
to provide that engage setup for the Recon.
Yeah, it's interesting because there's not, like, super easy to kill champs
over on the MDK side yet, and you're very front-loaded in your damage
over on the game team, right? There's three burst champions on your topside,
very low sustained DPS, you're going to go Kalista, so
they are really overloading I feel like on the early game here and just depending on the fact that they're gonna be able to dominate lanes
Create advantages, but MDK can just lane swap. Well, I was gonna say do you also try to take away something like the robotic here?
Potentially like just go hey look we've already got enough dive in the top half of the map
We don't really need more and maybe you just look for in the takeaway
But not something like traditionally think of with the chiseler book
It's still working very well in the heavy just plunk that bail out on you as you just chuck on yourself into the back
It is true, but at the same time, I don't think that there's enough melee champions to really warrant
Yeah, we're not coming out because it's like yeah, there is a lot of dive, but it's Aurora
But it's already you know champions that still have a little bit of range to have quite a bit of mobility
So, you know, I don't think that it would be the best pick on their side. I actually feel like if anything
Renata is definitely stronger for gam
So it will be interesting to see if they do go that route, but then you are very low on setup
You have basically zero hard engage. So I do think knowing gam style. We're just gonna get a hard engage champion
We're gonna get like a Leona or an Alistar or something along those lines brahm
It's honestly kind of shocking to me. Yeah
I think that I've seen
some times like if you look at changing in stuff where they've already
Operated with essentially what the gam topside has been which is hey
I'm just gonna play very heavily for a pick and prods that are sorry pick and poke style with this
Aurora ult into the nocturnal to follow up from the area as well
So I think even though you lack some engage
You can get a surprising amount done with these three champions on the top half of the map. Yeah
I mean I agree that they have pretty good pick, but at the same time it's like I
Don't know. I just think that there's no really kind of point-and-click CC
There's no instinct go button
I guess besides just like throwing down on the roar also on someone when you're coming to later stages of the game
You know, it's not gonna be that easy
I think just like walk up in a rural someone have that be the go button for the fight
because you're still going to have to walk past this edge,
wanting to walk past the NAR, walk past the Nautilus,
which is really a big concern for me.
The Braum feels kind of very disjointed from what
the rest of the draft wants to do,
unless they're just seeing it as, OK,
our three members on the top side
are going to dive in the back line and kill off Zupa.
And then Easy Love and Ilya are
going to be cutting back and trying
to win out a skirmish on the other side
and kind of in that way.
But yeah, I just think the draft is honestly not very
strong.
Yeah, I think the huge advantage of this
relies on Kyaia finding those good ultimates.
and harking back to play-ins where he was very good at finding these flank opportunities to set up for these big ultimates
that would catch key carries and avoid some of the tanks, but if you start too far behind, this is a composition that just gets completely steamrolled,
and it is difficult to operate, so Gams really needs to come out the gateswinking.
It's like who are you diving on, right? For Gams, like Gams can only go for Supa. That's basically your only target, right?
Like you have one target on the team and it's a champion that can go invisible later in the game can alter in away from your dive
You know like it feels very very difficult to to pull off
So we'll see you know if a game can make some magic happen here
I think mdk massively favored after the draft. I agree
Yeah, I think they're it's just a hope and pray for God that you can't find those small
I'm trying to make it. This is their tournament lives here. They need this. That makes it sound worse.
You didn't even give a real energy look. Well, I think. No, just take the shovel away from me. Take the shovel away.
Oh my God. Well, we'll see. We'll see if they can make it happen. I do think there's potential for them to definitely get prior in lanes.
lanes and you know maybe you can't just get ahead and then nothing else matters
you know you definitely can erase competition all advantages with just
better play or with you know large gold advantages so we'll see but it's harder
to get ahead in lanes with lane swaps being a thing and you can see right
here with super up in the top side that's exactly what mdk are planning as
game we're gonna do a delayed invade but they do it right over top of awards so
mdk are gonna have knowledge about this yeah and I mean I think this is
really smart, honestly from MBK. You just are setting yourself up for success and you're
playing against the Callista Braum. Nautilus can never engage in the early game into that
kind of a lane, so you are going to be really on the back foot. And traditionally Aurora
is considered a pretty heavy lane bully in the early levels in a lot of these matchups,
so you're denying the strength of two of the lanes here that Gam have picked. You
have much better scaling, you have much easier to execute compositions, so MBK
just kind of need to play it simple play slow. Yeah, just gonna start the slow
push they hovered on the way for quite a while on top side didn't start it off
immediately waiting for easelove and helio to appear on this bottom side of
the map so at least information is there for both sides but you knew with
Nautilus on the midway that this was already going to be a lane swap
scenario anyway it just means that Mirwin hasn't stacked up any of his
break which is traditionally where we see this TP come through now with a
they are, they are not making our available.
Alvaro trying to make his way down to the tier one turret.
Level two, he's got the dredge line to make his way.
They are a little bit faster.
He is one before.
He flashes forward to try to lock up Elio
for the last turret shot, but it ain't gonna work.
Levi's gonna take an extra little bit of damage here too.
Mirwin arrives, but it's not worth the whole lot.
He's still pretty low.
He tries to jump back over.
They tank the turret beautifully with Kiay.
The game has three men at death's door, but it's MbK who lose two.
And that's why I was so confused watching the MbK on topside,
because they didn't start hitting the wave.
Miren didn't start hitting the wave,
and it meant that they've only now got that wave crashed.
Miren just came in level two, but doesn't have the mega now,
and he's so squishy, and now mid, he'll flash the wave,
and he's fine, but big whoopsy on the bottom side.
I mean, it's huge.
And also, as you're saying, you know,
not only are you not pushing to kind of get that faster XP,
but also because you slow-pushed,
Kiyaya after the dive goes top,
and he cuts almost the entire wave.
There's like two full waves up there for him to collect so he gets a kill and he's going to be able to get the additional experience off this
The DP comes through here pretty late
Alvaro tries to flash forward and root in the braum to be able to get a kill with the tower
But with the e up he's able to survive and then yes Levi is low
But he is full easy love is full so they can just juggle the aggro here
He is just gonna pull threat without a step out and they're able to easy pile in here
Grab a couple kills key I get the farm on topside so not only kill and assist
but he is up, you know, a good wave and a half already.
Absolute disaster for M.D.K. in the bottom lane.
In the lane swap that they initiated,
now everything seems to be going back to where you would expect it to be.
But Gamma, the one and a half thousand gold lead here early
with this composition that we pretty much said needs to be ahead early
because it feels so much less cohesive than what M.D.K. has drafted.
It's exactly what Gamma needed.
Well, especially because Kiyana just kind of gets to fully out
out in that top side of the map already has the Amplify and Talment advantage
but he's gonna have the range advantage too, level advantage, he continues he
pushes in, gets turret plates, he becomes a massive threat on the side lane. As long
as Meroon is in this mini-nar form you can see how aggressive Kyaa just gets
to play up and that's gonna open up so many opportunities for Gamm not only in
just a lane but being able to transition Kyaa around the map, being able to
look and fish for these roams off of side lanes for that big ultimate that
you're talking about 4K.
By popping the scryer plant there to see El Yoia,
who is trying to make sure that Mewen doesn't get dove here.
I mean, with this wave, perhaps you get to the turret.
If Mewen would have got dove, that's just kind of the end
of the game for him.
So you got to make sure you're shadowing that.
Got to make sure you're keeping the guy protected.
Alvaro.
We missed.
Oh, we missed the dredge line under the terrain.
Alvaro does not have flash either.
He already used it in the bottom lane.
Oh, my god.
What is going on?
We started off this series so incredibly well for MDK,
but it's gone from disaster to disaster this entire game long.
Yeah, I mean that is rough.
He's just straight up missed the wall.
Wasn't even close to the wall to be honest.
You know, he was trying to go for that max range hook
where you just lollipop on the wall
and didn't really pull away.
But I didn't think he had to.
Any sort of decent hook, and I think he's probably
going to be able to, at the very least,
force flashes to be able to chase in and get that kill?
It's also, you don't really lollipop when you're hooking.
Our lollipop story, when you hook onto walls,
it's the center, if you have the animation up.
Yeah, it's basically the straight line in the middle
of the hit marker that actually attaches to the wall.
It's the outside ones that attach onto the champions.
So it was always going to be a pretty difficult one to go for.
And now again, bot lane further behind, more control here
for easy love at 700 gold and both top and mid.
That's right, in Boston top.
And now you just move over towards all these objectives
that are just waiting to be picked up by them.
It's over 2,000 gold down at six minutes.
That is definitely crazy.
And MDK definitely going to need
to use every little bit of their compositional advantage.
Now, this could be a good start, though,
Has an idea that something could be going on but gonna get the bad news nice stretch line finds him MDK
They at least force the flash out of the AD carry for gam
But now he was made this way down as well
There is no flash on this support. He is gonna die again
Helio gets it they charm up super but he's ready to try to get away
Prescow he's joined the fight and he goes in for the face deal
They get one back in the case on the board makes it an even trade and gam still coming out though
Look at top lane, Miro in a bit to fall, Miro's gonna finish him off, Miro with a flash out man, you're dead to rights.
You can look at Kya in the player cam, this man is very happy, Miro is very happy.
I think for Gam, this is exactly what we're talking about, you can never underestimate the VCS coming into these international tournaments.
Top esports, Fnatic paid the price and now MDPK paying that one as well.
Yeah, they've dug themselves a pretty big hole and they're gonna have to dig out of it.
Do you think it's smart? Laney Simon's here from game as Emo pushes out Flawth.
Well, EZ loves runs back towards mid to catch that wave, so not missing a beat on the map.
They've got nearly three plates down on the bot side.
They got two plates top, they redove Merewen, got his flash,
and it's 15 CS on the NAR at 7.5 minutes into the game.
Levi, along with getting that kill up in the top lane, also got three grubs,
and this gold lead is about the gold lead that we saw last game
And post 30 minutes after the Baron was taken.
The support is 500 gold advantage.
Everything is just going wrong for MDK right now.
But Alvaro has more CS.
God.
Plus three.
Yeah.
Four.
Four.
We got one.
Yeah.
Yeah.
There it is.
All right, MDK has got to try to stabilize.
I normally say you want to staunch the bleeding,
but they're walking around with one leg at this point.
We need to turn it, good boys.
Reattach the leg.
Yeah, we got to do something because MDK's early game has gone about as poorly
as it could possibly go, and Gamm are capitalizing.
Hiaia now getting jumped on by Merewen, who does have the Meganar,
the weirding though, gonna force him back.
Levi can't get in there just yet.
Merewen still getting away for now.
Levi not having the range there on the paranoia,
ends up being the saving grace for Merewen,
who can make it back to the tier one turret.
Still a good ulti from Levi, because it actually pushes Merewen back,
because I think he could have potentially had that solo kill in this position.
And now, Aliyah has to cover.
The ulti is coming back up here for Kiaia,
but they're not looking for this dive.
So, Mirren, good bit of pressure.
He forces out the Nocturne ulti.
These are the little things you need to constantly do this game.
Shift away at the advantage that game has.
Stay calm.
Don't allow the lead to extend.
Just try to keep it at this point.
Yes, 3K is a big lead,
but if it's 3K at 20 minutes, that's totally playable.
That's a situation where you can show up to a team fight
and just out execute.
So they just need to make sure, you know what,
we made some mistakes in the early game.
Let's calm down, take a deep breath,
play for the waves, play for vision.
Don't allow Gamm to get more advantages.
Closest lane comparison right now is in mid for Scowie doing a good job.
Just pretty much staying neck and neck with this enemy mid laner, with his Yone.
5-1 overall to score, 4 Gamm.
Kill spread out pretty evenly, quite honestly.
The only one without a kill being Emo in the mid lane.
Double up there, 4 easy love.
4 out of 5 kill participation on him does feel pretty bad with the side of M.D.K.
but Kalista not one of those hyper scaling AD carries so it means the game like you already talked about Isaac is going to need to keep the
Pressure on and utilize the early power of this champion
And I think that's where they want to try and just move in towards this mid lane get push for emos
We can start to roam alongside Levi cuz then you open up for potential dives and towards super
And he's forcing them off of terrors looking at dragon tanks as well
Yeah, I just play enough the fact that Ari has so much control over this lane against the young and they need to play for every single objective
Right you need to say okay MDK you don't want to fight us now
Guess what, we take every neutral on the map, we play for six crows, we stack dragons, we threaten soul,
and we try to put you in a position where you can't just AFK farm until you're in a good spot with your comp and you can then try to fight.
And that's why I think the fact that the resets have already come through for M.D.K. are pretty clutched.
15 seconds until the next Void grows, first item completion for Aliyoya.
But maybe they can try and find something back here, but already, mirroring on this bottom half of the map,
they're starting to push out a little bit, but all five members of Gamma are in position.
and Gamma have a big advantage, but they have zero completed items, so the gold is not as big of a deal as it would be.
Exactly, that's the power of playing a tank jungler. You can buy these lower price point support items,
you can get something like Convergence, and even though Levi's ahead, he hasn't been able to put it together.
Gaya hasn't reset, he's been hiding off of vision this entire time, looking for the Kaiser on the backside.
Alvaro, it's charmed up, gonna take a little bit of damage here from Emo and Elio.
Fourth grub, already secured by Gamma.
El Yoya and Alvaro still thinking about maybe making their entry into the top side river fifth grub those over the game
Smite still available for Levi smites that went down all six grubs no fight from mdk
Yeah, at the very least they didn't fully over commit because mirror was getting plates and bot side
He got the push in you know, he's closed that CS gap quite a bit
You know, he was down 15 CS, you know only a couple minutes ago, so he's actually getting some farm
You know, he's closing that goal lead a little bit. Yes, they couldn't get in actually stop any of the grubs
But I do think mdk didn't over commit because that would have been really tragic if they just sent all five members there
And couldn't get anything and I think that's why it was good positioning from Kiaia not resetting keeping pressure on towards super
So super couldn't really enter the fight and from that position for a scowie still had to control the mid wave
And I think that's why now having this six point groups is gonna work out brilliantly for cam
They're gonna have the pressure from email who could continue to push ship away at turrets using that burn in that book
And same for Kiaia who look even though Mirren still got a bit of gold. It's still a 1.3 cake
Still a huge lead, yeah.
Rastawi, being smart here, was walking towards seeing if there's an angle for a plate.
You can use the solo unbound for that of course, but Ilya up towards the topside
is going to help Emo get a reset here, who should be sitting on a lot of gold, honestly.
He's sitting on 1700 gold at this point in pocket on the RE, so once Helm gets this reset,
he's going to be able to do just that.
You can see that he's going to be trailed by Levi down on this bottom side,
so they are going to look to continue attacking Mierwin, who has been chunked out a little bit,
Mega is nowhere in sight, so if he does overextend, it definitely could be an easy-killer.
Okay, so we're talking about MDK needing to stop the game from continuing to snowball against them,
and for the past few minutes, it seems like they're doing an okay job at it.
The gold lead, the peak that around 3k is still at 2.7 or so, but it's not like it's growing.
The clock keeps marching forward. Yes, you're down six grubs, but the gold's not bleeding.
But that's what I think MDK are playing so heavily down towards this bottom side.
side it's if you get a pick from Kiaya you get the crash that way you get your
resets mid until the Rift Herald you're in a great position down in the Mappas
they've scotch up but MDK swing and a miss on the ultimate from Ayoya they just
want to try and keep these plays up while they have that time in window. Yeah I
think of what they were trying to do with similar to what they did in the
first game you know even if you don't get a kill there you're hoping you
force lands you're hoping you force flash but Ayoya might have to flash
himself no he's gonna be okay they didn't continue the trace but you
know I don't think we've seen a single Void Grubb spawn until just now as
is going to be able to actually get towards that bottom side.
They haven't been able to get access to the towers,
but now with Kiaia hitting that bot lane tower, they showed mid.
So now this tower is pretty much just gone.
Levi's in the area.
It's going to be very tough for Mirwin to defend this.
And that's what I think, Gahn.
Yes, they could move up towards the Rift Peril,
but the fact that you've got TP on Mirwin still
may be putting a little bit of anxiety in their stuff,
as they don't want to fully get play into a 4v5
with the TP advantage for M2K.
But I think for Gahn, you're happy as long as you can keep the wave shoved in.
Ooh, nice use of the Glacial Fissure there, but it ain't gonna be enough.
MDK and the 2v2 getting a kill for themselves, finally striking back against Gam.
But all the meanwhile, bottom lane, they get that Tier 1 turret for Kiyah.
Yeah, Ilya has been really half hazard with his Braum shield.
So like, he's been jumping in and just denying queues for last hits on minions and things like this.
And in this situation, it was a great buffers. We're gonna see Supa.
Oh, easy. Love is taking down Supa!
Flex and those muscles stepping up when he absolutely needs to getting another kill for mdk big step up for the mdk
bot lane first the kill and then super seen his moment to get that pick
Desperate gold needed for mdk some control on the map as well
But come back it on twiz looking at this riff Charles
All right, Alvaro getting back away here as a Yulia secures the next blue buff for himself
Ilyo and Levi both continuing to move forward. Sit down some vision a little bit.
Now rotate back over to the mid lane to take out this tier one turret. Remember the
plates are gone. The demolished procs gonna do some good damage.
Elioia scoots in just in time to try to keep it her protected but the burn will
take it anyway. Now Paranoia's popped off and it looks like Alvaro could be
in some trouble. The fear tether procs. They're trying to save him with the
glacial prison but it won't matter. Kiya gets the kill on Alvaro and now
Now with a 5v4 and Rift Herald alive, it's control over the top side of the map for Gamm.
There's an echo.
Kiaya going between worlds, Suple gets caught for a second, the weirding still hits him.
A little bit more damage is all it takes and Kiaya gets the kill, nearly dies, but close
ain't good enough.
Easy luck getting away from Merewind in the bottom lane and well the 2v2, 3v2 back
in the mid lane for Skowie trying to reset his position, the fatesfield ain't
going to work.
He goes unstoppable but does he have the damage?
No he doesn't.
It's more kills for Gamm.
more tragedy for MDK.
Gamkona, massive in these fights here.
First a pick on Alvaro, but then MDK decides
they want to try to get something back.
They're looking for these scraps when they're not
in the position to do so.
And they lose so much more, erasing all the good work
from their bot lane there in that mid lane 2v2,
where, you know, Eziel could have just altered his braum.
The safety didn't do it.
They're going to kill there.
Then he oversteps, he gets a great solo kill on him.
But they have got to be cognizant of their spot
in this game.
This got really close because the two-fold hex, that Q first one missed.
So Supa almost able to do it, but then the TP in to try to get something more from Vreskawi,
it's just way too far.
And you've got so many members of Gam that are just able to collapse.
Supa can't really be a part of this, so for him, I'm sorry, the Aurora can't really be a part of this,
but there's still enough members there on Gam to just finish them off,
and you can see the frustration in the back.
And the whole start of this was bizarre from MDK as well,
because the call was already there,
Hey, we're gonna take bot lane turret and give Rift Herald.
But Alvaro takes a step too far forward.
He gets caught, then Supa overextends on the mid wave as well.
It's just these small errors that are being punished by Garm
extraordinarily well.
OK, so for M.D.K. they have finally claimed
their first neutral objective of the game.
They did get the Rift Herald.
It is traded away for the second drake
going into the possession of Garm.
They're up 2-0 on those, 6-0 on the Void grubs.
8-3 in kills, 2-1 in turrets.
4,000 gold lead.
It's just about 17 minutes into the game.
How are we feeling about is this enough for a game
when we were talking about MDK needing
to slow things down and scale?
Honestly, I think it's more than enough for now.
You're a 4,000 gold lead here.
You have six grubs.
You have two dragons.
You're about to extend that gold lead even more.
So I feel like compositional advantages don't really
matter at all with this sort of a lead.
So MDK are going to have to find some way
to slow the pace of this game.
Thankfully for them, it's Chemtek Soul, which is largely really useless for a lot of the
chance on the game side, so that is a little bit of a feather in the cap there, you know,
Rora, Ari, they're going to get like zero from that almost.
But that being said, a Soul is still a Soul and is combat power, but MDK got to be really
happy that's not like a, you know, a Hextech or something like that.
And the fact that Gamm do have a very squishy lineup can still play a factor
of MDK, can find a pick or Gamm over extend, because I think that's the way
that they really get back into this game like the way even the push is still in
favor of gun because they have multiple of these range and carries but if you
overextend like a here for example if you like to find a big ultimate on
towards easy look suddenly that slows that pace down and buys that time you
need. Alright with Kelt summing up in the mid lane, MDK trying to make a play
for the tier one turret, Merelyn with a flash out does not want to be caught
there with the last hit. The winners bite as Emo and Levi jump in but
Levi might just get punished. A beautiful glacial fissure trying to keep the jungle alive.
Levi barely surviving a little bit more damage from the glacial prison.
Just might kill him off, but the Kiaia is already on a rampage.
Pestawi is down. Levi and Elio gonna be traded though, as now it's dead bodies on both sides.
Free dead for MDK. It's about to be four.
Mere one wants to fight back, but a little bit more damage as the spears start flying and the lions start dying.
It's a triple for the Aurora, for Kiaia, for Gam.
The gam shots are flying and they are finding their mark.
MDK thought they could push in onto that mid lane turf,
but gam immediately saw their chance.
The TP from Emo, the flight in from Leibah,
even Kyaia getting access to Fresco in that backline.
It was a wonderful setup for gam.
Yeah, it's all about this initial engage for Kyaia.
I think he was trying to find some sort of an angle for a flank,
but he's way too far up.
So he has to use the fated shield just to run.
Then the solo imbound is used in a spot
where you're kind of guaranteed to never get away.
So you're using all your tools there as the Yone,
so you're able to get really nothing.
So it became so difficult for M.D.K.
There's obviously the focus on Super.
The rest of the members burst him down.
Giaia finishes off for Eskawi.
Mirwin, who had to flash earlier when the Herald crashed,
has no way out.
And this is just massive for Gamm,
feeling so good about their spot in the game now.
And you can see a little bit of relief now
on the coach's faces as they're starting
to look a little bit stressed, less stressed.
Yeah, but then the camera shot immediately
After you can see the stress, you can see the pressure setting in for M.D.K.
Things are getting further and further out of their control now with over a five and a half thousand gold lead for game.
I mean, just look at the items. You're comparing the top lane items here on both sides.
You're comparing the mid lane items on both sides. The gap is massive.
Supa is still strong, but it's the soul laners that are going to be such an issue here between these two squads.
Hold on now, he tries to get away, but Merewen is still caught, the fear tether still finds its mark, and a glacial fissure looking for two more.
This game are not yet done, a charm immediately forcing out the cleanse from Supa.
Gam will not get an additional kill on top of the pit they find on Merewen, but they force out some summoners, they force MDK back onto their own side of the blue jungle.
And when their tournament lives are on the line, you're seeing that experience of veterans see on this world stage that put for gun.
Gam, Kyaia doing amazing, Levi following up so well.
They're picking off these members of MDK who now have to try and find some sort of success here in this game.
But Gam are butchering them where they start.
Yeah, that's tough, you know. You can see for us, Kyaia was pushing through bot side.
Doesn't have the confidence to stay around and try to actually finish off that tower.
And now they're looking for Supa who has no plans.
Alright, that was a little out of control there for Gam.
They're way committing to try to find the kill on Supa.
Instead, Elio now gonna be punished.
He'll be killed off, he'll yoyas down to 100 HP, but he ain't dead yet.
Easy Love trying to get back away from Friskalli.
He goes into the page sealed.
He goes too far.
The turret shot will not be enough to kill him.
A beautiful shot down coming up from Mirwin.
Easy Love's looking to grab one back.
Mirwin is up to HP.
Kii has baited his way into the fight now with Alvaro tries to lock down Easy Love.
Super's been killed by Easy Love.
Just when it looked like MDK might have got something.
It ends up trading even.
And hasn't that been the story of this game?
Every time MDK try and set up, there is a brick wall in gam waiting for them saying you will
not go further.
This is the end for you and gam turn over towards a dragon as just another cherry on
top.
It's a good little punish on the initial play though, as Ilya was kind of going too
far.
They're overextending, trying to take off Supa and MDK have to look for these small
moments.
Supa has been so big for the team, they nail this ultimate here onto Levi, they
put a lot of pressure on him to get the kill on the brawl, but it's just the
Gold difference in action here as FDK push forward. They're trying to put this pressure here on the easy love
Kiaia has zoned out Levi's not really a part of the play
It's only the flash that keeps easy love alive and all of this focus here on the emo
Why is easy love the time to try to turn it around and to set up for the re-engage here from Kiaia?
If that boomerang had landed maybe that's something boss.
Gam still coming out on top and now with the setup available
It's Dragon's Soul available to them for four and a half minutes.
The push on sides, the Baron still sitting there, and MDK just keep getting picked apart.
A tale of 280 carries in the Teamfight damage right there.
4,000 from Supa, 6,000 from Easylove.
And I feel like when you look at the scoreboard itself, MDK's only chance is this marksman.
It is this player that you're talking about was what they were focusing on back
during their wins in play-ins.
If Supa can't do it, nobody can. Alvaro now might be caught out as Cam again hard-forced their way into the jungle of M.D.K. for yet another kill on Alvaro.
Well, this is so problematic because they spent nothing to get that kill, so now they're going to be able to start the Baron.
They still have all their tools to turn here. Aurora ult is available, so is Nocturne ult, so is Ariel.
Nierwin has the Narvar. He's ready to go in. Everybody is stuck in the pit.
Cam going across worlds to try to find their way into the fight now, but Elio's already almost dead.
Levi's jumping in the back looking to kill Snoop, but he ain't gonna find enough damage here just yet.
Merewood's still taking a ton as EasyLove goes on a rampage.
Narrow Yo-Yo is gonna try to get away, but Levi's ready to flash up on the wall to slow him down.
The fear is here. Good bye, Senjuani. Another kill for EasyLove.
Gam don't lose a single man. Alvaro's back alive, but all five Gam players are still here.
They are still in the topside river, and they are still looking at Baron.
And that's the thing. Gam get pushed off, but they just go right back to it. That's the kills Alvaro.
Hope goes wide. Super trying to command Frescayoy, no ultimus.
Emo running in appearance. Baron down to about 4,000. They've also got a Calista.
It should be an easy secure. It's going to be secured by Levi.
But what about the fight? Frescayoy's got the chance to go huge here, but he ain't going to find it.
Another death for Alvaro. Everybody on Gam's still alive and Baron in their possession.
and gam up all the tools they need now to close out this series to keep their
world's dream alive here nearly 10,000 gold ahead here was the initial turn
good job by super surviving against Levi and emo but it just doesn't matter
because there's not enough damage in the tank on the other side fresh kawi
it's really all up to him in this spot but he just couldn't find the angle
couldn't find the opportunity to get in there and really turn something
around on gam yeah and i think shadow too super he's doing his
because Dan does this game to try and claw this back.
He is having the best game he possibly can,
but Gam just will not let up.
Again, this Nocturne thread catching at Alvaro,
consistently paying off this Aurora.
It's a very similar comfortable he saw from Gen G,
and I wasn't sure Gam would be able to find the success
with this, but they've been playing so well
around this early lead that they managed to get.
I mean, just how damn good is Kiyaya?
This guy has really been impressing me.
You know, I do think sometimes when you come
these leagues that have the smaller regions right you know people are just
overlooking these players and saying oh he's good but he's probably good for that
league yeah it's just straight good this guy is incredible he's playing an
enormously high level and you can see that win probability powered by AWS that
is just that hair is breath away from a hundred percent I saw you squinting
yeah trying to see he's like so you're telling me there's a chance
he's got the microscope, let me double check
we'll see if MDK can find that slim opportunity gentlemen we've got a 7-0
We've got a 7-2 and 7 Kalista on the side of GAM. We've still got 80 seconds left on the Baron, plus 2,000 gold on that already.
And the soul will spawn right before the Baron dissipates, so GAM should have total control over Summoner's Rift for the entirety of the timer leading up to it.
They're shoving down the bottom lane now. They're pushing towards the tier 3 turret in the bottom lane.
They're just going to give it. Merewen's not coming.
Yeah, Merewen not there. He's just trying to get something back on the tier 2 for a scowy.
Now he going in for an ulti, the turrets probably gonna die before the TP even completes, they're going between worlds.
Levi diving into the back as they fight Super the game is gonna be over right there.
And immediately, Emo jumps in, easy love is dominating, three dead on M.D.K.
The final fight will not even be won, Cam just run him over, the TP that guarantee the minions stay alive.
Merewen and El-Yoya will try as valiantly as they might to defend, but the turrets are all ready, gone!
Vietnam still has some fight left in them, and they will eliminate him 24!
And what a story here for the GM team qualifying for the Swiss stage, taking down and became in a best of three.
This is massive in Levi's final worlds.
The major region assassins always come to play.
It's another head on a pike for them,
and they are looking at several more as this tournament goes on.
An impressive showing from Gam to bounce back after that first game.
The desk is standing by.
Tell us what y'all think of that series.
It's crushing for the side.
It's crushing for the side of Madline's Koi and El Yoya
after having to fight up against no one,
believing them for the entire year.
they showed them wrong but eventually it wasn't enough to beat the might that was
Kiyaya and Levi and Gam in this series after what was a promising start and the
mental went kind of back and forth but a couple of key picks a couple of key
moves and we've said it so so many times Kobe but that top side of Gam is no
joke. Kiyaya was magnificent they got the Aurora they even gave away Yone and
In the face of the stats, they took him down.
Honestly, as well, we were recommending lane swapping
to Mad Lions, as a means of actually putting Tia behind.
But they were still lit on their teleport
from Merwin on the bottom side that actually just
fed two kills, and Gamm blasted them in their own lane
swap to get further ahead.
I'm stunned.
But maybe I shouldn't be?
No, I mean.
Because Gamm was the best team in play-ins.
They made a true 4-0.
Last year they did this to the number three seed NA team
and Team Liquid.
And then this year they just did it to Madline.
So I know people are going to say, ah,
classic Madlines, blah, blah, blah.
But it's also like classic GAM.
Yeah.
They do this more often than they don't.
I think the classic Madline's curve is unfair.
Just like I said, we were going to bring up Hunter Thieves.
But just like I thought it was unfair to say that too,
about like four rookies and one more veteran player,
right?
I think that is unfair.
I think they can be proud of how
far they got, but in the context of the series, I think they should be very frustrated because
they know that they could play better than what they shown in Game 2 and 3, but at the
end of the day, it was Gam, and Kiyaya is our upper player of the series because Held
his own also in Game 2 and was destructive in Game 3.
Because Kiyaya is really good.
His Aurora is undefeated.
He won it, won with it twice in play-ins.
He was an absolute force this game.
game 2, his Kennen was pretty unstoppable. Even in their loss earlier in
Twisted Fanatic, his Jax was an absolute menace to deal with and almost carried
them to victory. So Kiyah has been, as much as we want to talk about Levi as
the leader for this team, Kiyah has been the closer for sure.
Yeah, I mean, and honestly, this series, it took a lot from all of the
members of GAM. I was really happy to see them step up, especially EasyLove
on the Callista in the mid-fight. Really, really impressive.
Really impressive indeed and we talked about how for gam and their region
It is so incredibly important for them to get this win and to continue showing up and we're heading over to the Verizon post-game interview with Levi
Damn advances to the next stage and save the world's run
And I have Levi and co-op with me to talk about this amazing series first things first
Congratulations! That was unexpected given the first game. Talk me through the evolution of the series for the first game that Mad Lions won into your recovery. What changed for you guys to keep the victory?
In the first game, Mad Lions will have a battle, a battle against the island. How can you and your team win the game?
I think that Tummin laughed more than in the second game.
We had a lot more laughter compared to the first one.
All right, well, a lot of confidence, a lot of laughter, and I think that when I think about VCS, when I think about GAMMISports,
the first thing that comes to my mind is the crazy pigs that you guys bring, the craziness even in-game,
but it feels like this version of GAMMISports is way more refined and focused on the macro side of the game.
Can you talk me through the evolution of the team from when we saw you guys at MSI and making it at Worlds?
What has been the main focus for you to get better?
When they mention the game, they will remember the
intense fights and they will continue to fight.
But in this world, we have had a fight that is much stronger than before.
From MSI to now, what have you changed?
I always try to make efforts to develop.
As I said, because of my efforts, I have been fighting better.
I've always said that our team is the one that always tries non-stop, and if we keep
on trying, then we'll be playing better.
You were just telling me about the fact that you guys started laughing, started having
fun, and this is what was the turning point for you guys in the series.
Tell me more about the mood and the relationship you have with your teammates.
Can you tell us more about the relationship between you and your teammates?
When I was at the stage, I told Emo that when I was at the stage,
and I was looking at the team, I could see that they would lose.
I told Emo that I don't want people to think like that,
so I had to put up with it to laugh more,
so I could have confidence at the stage.
Before we went on the stage, I told Emo about how we as a viewer
can look on the stage at the face of their players and tell if they are scared or
are pressured and if they would not be having a good game and I told him that
you don't want to be like this. Is that okay? Is that right? And then I wanted him to
change the mood. That is amazing and you guys managed to change the mood and
grab the victory but I know that you still have a lot of international
fans who are really really happy to see you at Worlds. Do you have a message
for them in English. Thank you guys so much and I think no matter who we play
next match we're gonna play with a lot of confidence I think. Cannot wait to see
that confidence thank you so much for the interview Koala thank you so much
for the translation as always that's all for us here on this side of the set
we're gonna be right back in a few minutes with the second game of the
day pain gaming versus Team Liquid State Tournament. Chuck presented by Mercedes
fans, we have an elimination match between the representatives from City
Law and the other fans of both regions. The stakes could not be on one side.
Pain Gaming's Teton, City Law's most international experienced player on
Brazil's most famed organization, are fighting to keep the hopes of the City
Law alive and advance in the tournament. Teton has proved himself to be a
confident and aggressive player, but he's going to have to put himself
once more against a team that was one series went away from an
Unbefeated split in the LCS.
1v3 and now Shao, doing the same.
He has to flash away, get out of there while this reneged it.
TL, running them down.
His direct counterpart, Yon, has tied and again
been a point of power for Team Liquid on the world stage.
But the LCS second seed have yet to win a game in this tournament.
They are now both playing to remain in Worlds 2024.
And Yon is going to have to pull up all the stops
in order to shut down Teton and Payneville.
bot lane and hype matchup overall the battle of the Americas.
We've got pain gaming versus team liquid,
both up against elimination.
We have a very special guest with us from the CBLO broadcast.
Takeshi, welcome.
Thank you.
Thank you so much for having me.
It's a little spoiler for the next year.
Yes, the future.
To come in America's region.
And here we are.
Like, Jeff, I don't want to be mean,
but in the beginning of the day,
I saw you saying that nothing different
from MZK winning and Seenleaked winning would happen today and you are wrong.
You're first in the lead.
Yes, I'm usually wrong a bit.
So I guard out of the way.
I can't be wrong twice in a row.
Surely.
Sure.
Takeshi, before we go on, it's true that you are the most successful ex-CBLO pro
player to never win a title.
Yeah, I think the Odoamne from Brazil that I met.
Oh, he actually won.
Like five finals straight and he didn't get the title.
Odoamne is the guy that I'm talking to.
When playing since like 2010 and I just like retired in 2019 and they enjoyed the broadcasting
I just had to throw out the mic
No, that's fine, that's fine
That's the most common thing that people do in Brazil
They just play me every time
I do want to bring back this matchup because we might start off jokingly and it is friendly
between us but you said it already next year looks completely different for the CBLOL
and for the LCS because of the merger and that makes everything a bit more intense
I feel like to catch up
And the spoiler for this game, it was like the most traditional organization in CBLO history,
playing against Team Liquid, which is the one of the most traditional ones.
They've been there since the start, yeah.
Yeah, so fighting in a build tree, going do or die matchup, that's going to be insane.
And I think Titan has the experience to bring us the victory today.
Yeah, I am more nervous as the day goes on, especially you're talking about having
upsets already. Plus also we came in with really high expectations of Team Liquid and
we've already seen some errors and some cracks really form in the games that they've played.
You know, coming down to just mechanical errors coming from them, it is both like saving
flashes, flashing late and then in some teamfights, the positioning just way too aggressive,
especially some of the carries like APA of course that's some really big highlight
And so Team Liquid, it's this dichotomy of they still have made a lot of smart decisions as a team.
So they still get themselves into these good spots and you still see, you know, gold leads and you still see them in games
setting up for good possible objectives. But then when they go and do the fight, they mess up the fight.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Can we bring the graph back, maybe?
I mean, it's fine. It goes in the middle and then it's bad.
Yeah.
In these fights, as we see the graph again, it's their mid-game being very strong, which makes everyone hopeful.
But I will also say their early games aren't nearly as strong as they're used to, so after their powerful mid-game, they're not with the gargantuan lead.
They're in a slight advantage. And then, I'd say like, overall the team is just trying to play too fast in the actual team fights.
They're trying to make, like, APA specifically tried to make the big play in both of those games, failed in both of those games.
And like, they just got to calm down.
that we have in Brazil is that APA goes to the impact silent so much and if that
not goes well for them then just they just get lost and it's got to go well
for them today here they are team liquid taking to the stage trying to get that
first victory and pain gaming with all of Brazil behind them and you got a
kind of love the position that they're in not the zero two but the fact that
there are a lot of people that would like to see this upset happen right
Right, I'm the one of those people, I believe in Titan, I think he has the same game against
T1, soloing, Gola Yoshimura, Laning phase, and the 2v2.
I hope that they do not put wiser in a bad spot for this next game, because Impact is
going to be the guy that I'm looking forward to have the potential to carry TL in this
match.
For sure, and I would say from a mentality perspective, I'd love to be in pain's
game issues.
When you're coming in as the underdog that feels like they have a chance of winning, but if you lose
You're not just gonna get flamed all the way home
It's a different mindset to enter games into and I think that is something that I feel like they're gonna be able to
Yeah, and the mindset for Brazil generally like the pressure is on the planes
I think then the Swiss stage we didn't get that much pressure. Okay. The god of the draw
It's not Brazilian for sure because we got G2 we got C1 and now CL
But I think that the pressure is much more on team-laked side. It's a good point
actually got a very very difficult draw the same could go for Team Liquid as well yeah
I mean there's just so much pressure because of the America's merger and because of already the trash talks you want more
Ammunition for north versus south trash talks, and this is priming us for an entire year
So I will say that things that are most important things to me
Aside from giving away Yone, the Vink though shocks us.
It's actually a negative because we're banning it on blue side,
and we were worried that APA,
because he has not played a Yone game in his entire career.
We were holding out hopes that they've been practicing
in secret and they would still be able to use it,
but it is a very bad sign that we are banning it
on blue side, and we are not threatening
that we will first pick it.
I take my excitement back.
Yeah, I'm already a bit worried on that,
because the two most important things to me
in draft for Team Liquid here are going to be APA's champion pool and getting empty on a tank.
If we have empty on Sejuani, Malachi, even Skarner, they actually ban out the Skarner themselves too,
so Sejuani and Malachi, I'm really banking on those. And then APA, because of what we've seen
with his positioning and teamfights being a big risk, I really want him on something that has
mobility. I don't want to see the Syndra again multiple times. You know, he flash forward
or even just walk forward into very vulnerable positions.
Maybe Auri is something like that.
Exactly.
Something like Auri, something with any sort of mobility.
Oh, okay.
That's the good band.
So yesterday I spoke with Buzio and he said that we should bend the Sejuani against the
TL.
So I think that the bands that Ben just did, it's incredible.
We should bend the Yone, but TL just helped us.
They helped you out a lot.
Is there anything we have to look forward to that something we'd really like to see
on the side of the team?
Like everyone was banning the Lucian and Jax, so TL just first picking Jax.
I think it's good for like the TL draft in general and about playing in general like we play two sources of engage
If karaoke is playing more like carry jungler then Titan goes more for like team and ash to help a set of things
But if karaoke goes like malchai something like that Titan can go kaisa
And I think Titan is really good and kaisa we didn't see it before in this
Championship and I think that he can be in today
Yeah, it could open up for nocturne oriana, but I think you want to see what team liquid has
for AD carry and mage before you commit to that.
I wouldn't be surprised to see him out here, don't you?
I kind of already like this, Dr. Bit,
because if you're showing Jax,
there's gonna be some side lane play.
And Dr. Bit is so good at shutting down side lanes.
So regardless of the combo that they put with it.
I want the dispatch for us.
I don't think Tinkero can bring Ari.
I don't think he'll play Orianna that much.
He doesn't like that much mages.
I think it's more the Ari or something like Niko,
Something like that for him is better than Orianna.
He doesn't excels at playing control mages that much.
So here either we get like a rel or something,
you know, lock our support early,
or we go for the APA champion.
And I kind of want them to get a good APA champion first.
But we'll see.
They would have to be blind though,
if they pick the APA champion here.
So they're gonna wait in four, five
and have a few bands kick in.
I'm totally fine having the rel for Core JJ.
Having hard engages is strong.
Okay, that's a bit like I like the calm the not sure and I don't combo
But yeah, you know, Ryan is not like what he excels on and I think crew is probably looking for an Alistar angle
He's having same Alistar and he can just like counter to Ralph on quad DJ
Okay, that surprised me a bit. Let's see. Let's see. All right
We definitely need the mobility frame if you like this is the thing I'm worried about most in the draft like
Combos are gonna threaten him now. So yeah
I mean, Niko is a good champion for him, even though everyone's going to look at the Niko game, he had big blunders, but most of those blunders were around, it looked like just being so rushed in B-fights and everything, and he could have made those errors on any other champs, so I still think it's a good ban.
I think now we should be worried on like Aria and Viq combo for the CL, so I would ban Aria or Vi in here for pain.
Orianna does beat Aria on the laning phase, so they can manage that, but I would take off the Viq if I was dead.
Are you happy or sad about the first three picks of this game?
I'm actually, I'm liking the first three picks from Team Liquid, I'm feeling pretty comfortable with this.
I'm confident as well, but like, I'm just a little bit with some fear about thinking about this laning phase on Orianna.
and they're not like banning the vine arey, so if
Ponte and I can do it. I'm worried for Tinkero
I really like the bands from pain here with Malachi and Niko because I was hoping to get empty on more of a tank champion
Now he would go more for the comp or what the standard would be and I'm more expecting to see by Ari or something like that
He has played it. Okay, I wouldn't say he's played it super well. That's nice. You definitely had
He mostly had a success on the champions that are currently banned.
Okay, so now we're probably going for the sport here, right?
Let's see.
Yeah, they could just take Leona, Nautilus, Alistair.
I love Kuryasther.
That can help a bit.
Is there a power pick ADK who hasn't been banned out yet?
They would just be clearly the best.
I think just like Jir and Nash.
Okay, he does love the Ezreal.
And do you love it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I don't think Ezreal, I do love it, like his win rate in Brazil is like 90% in like 40 games, something like that, that's like incredible win rate that he has in Brazil.
But let's see in this match, I think he has a hard game in here like Jax, Rael and Kaisa, Kaisa can dive Ezreal if they get through them, so that's going to be a complicated match.
Yeah, I think later on into the game, like, Yon has a very, very high chance of being able to take over,
but we'll see about the early stages, because it could be painful in lane phase.
You're saving here at your last pick here for the support, so...
There's the buy that I told you, Chuban. I mean, why?
Probably R2, yeah?
Just the combo?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, you're Nightmare from the picture.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.
We'll see the last pick. You do have to run right after it, because I believe you're interviewing
But you can watch the last pick and then the next one.
That's awesome.
And what do we get?
Oh, that's a risky pick, but Cori likes it as well in the Brazilian scene.
But I would go to the Alistar in here.
I think he is really, really good on bar, but his Alistar is something else, you know?
So I would pick the Alistar here.
Let's see.
Okay, okay, okay.
We're good in all the stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, guys, I'm going to the Brazilian broadcast.
Thank you so much.
Bye bye.
Thank you so much for jumping together.
Awesome.
Yeah, what do we think?
I think by the book, Team Liquid's Team Comp is good,
but I'm a little nervous about the execution barrier
that they have with the Viari.
I'm pretty happy with it.
I mean, I came in really, really worried,
but I actually really like the clear game plan.
Okay, we got a clear game plan.
We got a lot of hope.
We got a lot of stress.
It's the Battle of the Americas.
Let's head over to our casters.
Let's get ready to rumble North America
Versus Brazil in an elimination of best of three to determine who deserved to still keep playing here at Worlds
2024 welcome back everybody if you're just now rejoin us just now joining us off the bat
I'm captain flowers joined by a zail and dagda now gentlemen
Let's go ahead and set the stage here because I did ask our stats people to go ahead and
Look into the history of this head-to-head. Hello. We're gonna remove the sales curse today too by the way
We're winning.
We're winning, too.
Magic, the air.
No curse.
We're going to win.
We're going to move.
There is no curse.
We're going to move.
However, let's go ahead and look into the history of NA
versus Brazil at Worlds.
I had our stats people dive into it earlier today.
The all-time record at Worlds for NA versus Brazil,
including in plans, is 9 and 2,
favoring North America.
So 82% win rate for NA.
The two losses are the BRTT versus Double
lift match up back in 2015 and Jax Team Liquid losing to IMTZ in 2020.
Yeah, and Jax even told me that required him to run it down exceptionally hard and draft.
He said that they drafted the best Merc Treads team ever.
Renekton, Lilia, TF, Ash, Thresh.
Yeah.
And he said they built five Merc Treads and they lost.
Yeah.
So he said just as long as Team Liquid doesn't do that today, he thinks they've got
a good shot and I don't see any of those champions on Team Liquid's side.
liquid side by the way keep your eyes on the prize here in the bottom lane the
featured matchup presented by Mercedes Benz yawn versus Chiton this is two dudes
who both have the opportunity to step up and really make an impact here in
game one and one thing I will say is I am a little bit nervous about the impact
jacks not because I don't think he can play the champion yes he can play the
champion you know yes he can perform well on it but he is just so
exceptional on these enablers on these kind of tanks and more supportive
style champions that I never really like when I see him on the carry and I do
think that he does have some really bad tendencies when he is playing carries
because he is so selfless and when you are playing champions like Jax you need
to be greedy, you need to play for waves, play for your farm, play for your levels
and at times he'll put himself in these spots where he's just sacrificing for
the team he's over grouping and then you're gonna end up being really
really useless on these types of champs so we'll see how they can do but
TL are gonna initiate lane swap. They were spotted though, this is a great war just as they were actually playing.
Oh, he's peeked it!
He's just gonna stand here.
Chiton just took the forward brushes,
so he can just soak all of this experience.
He's just gonna stand here, he's not gonna do anything.
Cause I was about to say, Karioka got in
and he stole away Raptor camp on the strong side.
Actually may even steal away the rep up as well.
So, Karioka is getting a good amount here for himself.
It is answered by Umti on the bottom side though.
So, they're in a similar position,
but this is huge for Impact.
Impact is loving this man.
Look at Nar on the other side.
Wiser has to go mid and share XP with Junkato.
So they actually have solo XP being grabbed by APA.
Junkato and Wiser are sharing experience.
And Impact is going to be getting all the experience
on that first wave.
And now with this crashing, he knows
that Curry's probably not here.
He's going to walk back.
He's going to actually be able to farm the wave
or the very least-soaked experience here.
This is incredible as far as I'm starting here for Impact.
Yeah.
Counter-strike immediately, forcing the arcane shift
out of Chiton.
Side steps, the mystic shot.
Not farming the wave, but over the wall comes
Umpty, nice early flash from Cheetan,
make sure that he avoids the flash bolt breaker from Umpty,
gets himself back, but still the state of the experience
in bottom lane that you're talking about, Azale,
that's the big story here for Impact.
Yeah, especially because Voizler has already had to burn that TP
to get up to that lane to try and match.
Courjage has moved down to this bottom side though,
so I'm curious if they're trying to set up
another play on towards Cheetan,
but he still has that arcane shift,
looks like they're just worried about
if there was gonna be some sort of double up with Curry
He starts to move down to this bottom side.
Exactly.
And they also don't know where Karaoke is, right?
So if Impact is pushing this out,
he could get wrapped around on.
So I think it is just to give that safety for the crash here.
APA taking the bad ends and trades here in mid lane
from Junkato.
Obviously, he was in that 1v2, so you can expect him
to be getting pushed in.
He did lose some health early on from that NAR.
But APA is going to have to go back to base in TP.
Now, umptean, just hanging around,
making a quick pass through here
as Scuttlecrabs are about to spawn
on both sides of the river.
Let's see.
Payton Gaming does have their jungler down here in this bottom side.
Impact and CoreJJ both level three.
However, a 2v3 is not going to feel too great for him.
Now with Karaoke at level four.
Curry doing a nice job flashing in for the pulverized headbutt.
Impact has to try to escape on this one.
Counter strike, flashback over the wall.
150 HP left.
Team Liquid's top laner gets away.
Really good though at the end of the day, that's three summoners there from Payton.
Flash off Curry as well as Ignite and the Flash on Karaoke.
Just for the one Flash there from Impact.
So Impact is going to be happy to survive, to get out.
and the wave is pushing towards him, so he just TP's right back to the bottom,
CoreJJ will be here, there will be no threat with no summons on the Alistar,
and Impact is going to be able to collect all of this farm.
And that's what I was going to say is huge for him, because Wiser's just reset,
but he's got to walk his little legs up there,
whereas for TL they just get to collect this entire wave,
CoreJJ just keeps on checking,
he didn't even engage here.
Just jumping in on Chiton knowing that he has no flash, he's low on mana,
it's not very easy for him to avoid that damage.
And the other thing that's kind of a bit of an untold story so far
is the fact that because Impact hid here, got all the XP and defended the tower,
not one plate taken by Payne in a lane swap.
So it's not only the experience, it's the expectation that you'd be getting all of this,
all of this gold on that bot side here, you know, because Payne normally,
you know, when you have that lane swap, you get that 2v1, 3v1, sometimes 4v1 scenario,
where you get two to three plates on bot lane tower.
Yeah, with CoreJJ going down towards the bottom side though, TL haven't got a plate either,
so it's a bit even Stevens in that regard, but you're still opening up the nice TS lead
For Yan, and as you say, the experience and all that extra CS,
well, still kind of working it for Weiser in this one.
Junkato now under pressure.
Ballbreaker charged up.
Doesn't even have to fully commit it.
They forced the flash out.
Junkato knew he had to use that Summoner spell.
Otherwise, it would have been a real nasty situation.
So getting rid of the Summoner there from the mid laner.
We'll see if Team Liquid can make good on it
before the cool down comes back.
Let's see them by Ciel, though, going in,
putting a little pressure on, not committing any Summoners
themselves, just the threat of that engage.
forced out that early flash here from Junkato.
And now that means you're Orianna against Vi-Auri with no flash.
So when they hit six, there is a bullseye on his back.
Pain is going to have to play around him,
going to have to really protect him.
And we'll see if TL can actually execute on that
because that is the bread and butter of these comps.
Low mobility major, you've got to punish.
And that's why karaoke and courier
is starting to move up so quickly to this topside
because not only is it just to level six,
it's CoreJJ now opening up on the map.
He can be such a threat here.
And now, as APA takes over to level six,
I think that's exactly what they want to do.
Core JJ stepping a little bit fur forward.
Umpty wants to join him here with a ball breaker,
trying to back up his support.
Shockwave comes in, but APA wraps around from the side.
It'll be first blood over the pain gaming,
and Karaoke is getting pained.
Corey wants to get away, but he's running back
into the team, licked with jungle.
A little bit more damage, he'll take him down,
and APA is on the board.
Y'all needs to keep on running.
It's an even trade, but just barely.
Y'all on popping the barrier at the very end.
A frame that last little bit of damage
from the command dissonance.
He escapes even game.
Yeah, dead even game right now, but it's
first blood going over to Payne.
And they have the winning HP.
So they're going to be able to take the grubs off of this
back as well.
Payne can be feeling really happy about how those skirmishes
went.
Still, TL overall, obviously, when
you initiate the Swain Bladeswap,
you're expecting to be down in gold.
They are not.
So not too bad at the end of the day.
The Hex Flash, though, here, getting interrupted just
barely by Core JJ, getting that shattering strike
into the crash town.
But still, the knock away, right,
is that ultimate from the Orianna came through.
They don't only catch on to empty,
and then TL at least are able to come in and pick off.
The low health bar on Korea is CoreJJ mounts up to walk away,
but that was very close to being a little bit more of a disaster
if they're not back onto CoreJJ hadn't come through.
Yeah, and that barrier from beyond late there,
actually on the distance of the damage
had already come through, so definitely not perfectly timed.
All right, wave crashing into mid lane, tier one turret.
Junkato just going to keep farming that one up.
The first blood did go over to the Nocturne, karaoke, having the paranoia ready to go now.
This is always one of the biggest points of the game for Nocturne, that first ulti and
how much value you get out of it.
Absolutely, but UmT is now 6 as well, APA is 6.
Of course they have those ultimates pretty much ready to go here, and there's no clash
on Jankado still, so we'll see if they can actually find that kill in mid lane.
That's where they're going to be looking.
We'll see if UmT can find a play.
Just like APA still has a little bit of time left in the cooldown for his, so they will have
to wait a little bit longer to try and set that up.
Umpti back down around the bottom lane now.
Corkjai J only level 4, but Yon is level 6 for the killer instinct.
Chiton's still only level 5 on the Ezreal, of course.
True shot barrage, not as impactful as an ulti in these melees and these big scraps
as the killer instinct would be, but a very powerful tool for wave control and team
fight damage.
If they get into a bigger fight, Umpti's going to start up the drake now though
for TL.
like this for TL, he got pushed in mid, shadow bot side would only need to make sure they can get the show
and it's very difficult for Kara Yoko to actually try and contest this.
He was shifting down towards his bottom side so he needs to get his camps to ensure TL don't get both dragon hands.
This bottom side jungle, it means he's also not in a position to try and counteract or counter punch on the top side.
So overall just good map movement from TL and go to the side where Kara Yoko was going to be in the map.
Okay, and as we often see neutral objectives early on traded between the two teams.
The first three grubs went to Payne, first Drake went over to Team Liquid.
The timers are not synced up at all, though, about three minutes separating them.
So I'm curious if we're going to see much of a fight here for the second set of grubs.
I think we will because TL is actually already swapping their bot lane head up towards top.
Impact just gave up that big wave that was pushing towards him,
and he's going to allow Yon to collect that while he heads out down towards bot
to collect the wave that will eventually bounce off of Chiton's tower.
APA does spot Curry there.
And that's a little bit of damage onto him.
Honestly, not a whole lot to write home about.
He does have the spirit rush ready to go again.
He does have Flash, Humpty, also with a Flash and Ulti of his own.
Everything pretty much up on both sides impact down here in bottom lane.
Has his teleport ready to join if a fight breaks out up in top side.
But remember the teleports are still not yet unleashed.
Should be ready to go by the time the Grubs are also spawning.
As you can see, Yon still just farming up there in the top lane.
60 stacks left on the cull.
Yeah, I think Cori has done a really good job playing around Junkato here.
He is the most vulnerable member to this R Viper combo and they have not been able to find any sort of a go with it
So far on the TL side, but you can see Chetan has moved up
They clearly want to contest Grubbs and it's gonna be about this play though because impact has the TP advantage on bot side
Why is there a TP down towards bot?
So I feel like pain to kind of watch the setup here a little bit because as long as he can't get interrupted by the
Meganar he can always TP to join so if pain over commit towards the Grubbs
It's gonna go really bad for them and that's what I was gonna point out
It felt like you know cheat time was still down in that bottom side as wise or tp'd in so you had a wave where you could have waited for
Some sort of like walk down, but it's then ends up going for it
And now your grubs aren't even up for another 20 seconds
So impact should be up to clear this wave and then still be in a position to follow up
The only reason behind I could see it is that they're basically just trying to force feed Jim Kato right now
He got the wave in mid then transport himself up to that top side
So then he could get another big wave that was crashing there
So it definitely feels like pain gaming are trying to get a lot of resources into this Orianna right
Karaoke stepping up here a little bit
Pain does not want to allow these grubs to go away for free
But team liquid is trying to keep forcing this vision line further and further ahead
You can see they've got a ward in the chicken brush already
They haven't spotted umpty though impact could be in trouble
Yeah, why is there with a nice slam back into the wall wants to throw the boulder impact with the flash away
Nearly solo killed down there in the 1v1 bottom lane, but a nice engage ball breaker flash coming up from Umpty
Corey tries to get away, but APA's got the damage. Team Liquid were the one for nothing so far
And a nice charm onto karaoke's gonna put him in a little bit of a compromised spot here too
Fight fades as PNG walk away one man fewer
Beautiful Q flash there from Umpty though actually connects on two members knocking them up getting that damage
Just should be able to get them the grubs here, but it's also a big win for wiser on the bot side
and he's opened up a 700 Gold lead now against Impact,
who first picked this Jax, almost got solo killed there,
had the flash away to safety,
is now down 20 CS and 600 Gold.
And I feel like if you've been watching the LCS this year,
if you've been tuning in to Team Liquid
and how they've been playing,
Impact had a monster performance.
He won MVP in summer.
He was constantly making every other top laner
in the league look silly.
And now to be made to look the same amount of silliness
his opponent wiser, paingaming stepping up.
But it's your most improved player that I want to praise here because that was a great
shift from him and it feels like whenever TL come off to these early advantages, it's
off the back of APA in these roams like pushing into side lane, starting to move towards mid.
He's looked great on picks like the Taliyah in the LCS and now on the area as well,
he got that first move.
He was the one that helped to set up while Jin Kiela was still trying to chase the
fight and if TL can continue to play around APA like they normally do, I think you're
in a good spot to continue burning well punishing the fact now that you've
burned Cheetan's flash and also Curry's as well. I do agree but honestly it is
concerning if you start losing that side lane 1v1 the game gets so much
harder if you're falling behind in that 1v1 you're getting pressure there's
always the threat of the Nocturne coming in and then looking to set up that dive
plus we have the Nocturne Orianna combo which has been showcased a number
of times at Worlds is incredibly strong very difficult to avoid to deal
with you know CL they are playing a pretty heavily execution based comp here
And that is where they have failed at Worlds.
You know, this team has put themselves in good spots to win against some of the best LPL teams out there.
You know, LNG, they were in a good spot to win.
That's the team who went 3-0 first.
But at the end of the day, they have failed on their execution.
That's what they really need to clean up.
First items coming online in a few different spots.
Midlaners have both of theirs.
Archangels finish for Jinkado.
Malignan's first for APA for the extra ultimate cooldown.
Sundert Sky for the Vi.
Oberon the other side.
Experimental Hexplate for the Nocturne.
We usually see this or the Stridebreaker first.
Experimental Hexplate just going to give you the greater amount of stats compared to the active of the Stridebreaker.
Up there in the top side, still impact working on that call.
Trying to regain a little bit of the money that he's fallen behind compared to Wiser using that one.
The static shift for Yon, also a pretty big first purchase here for the Kaisa.
With 15 seconds left before the turret plates fall, before the rip herald spawns.
Mountain Drake still live on the map and right now it looks like it's pain gaming wanting to start it off.
Why is there having popped Megan are though couldn't be the opportunity the TL need you didn't see the wrong coming down from the APA again
Just slightly ahead of his opposition, but everyone I'm paying gaming back to way
I don't think they can yeah, you can see the can't contest the dragon wiser having popped that Megan are just makes him so much less
of a threat in this fight
Looks like he's still hanging around the area karaoke securing that blue buff for himself level 9 on the knock turn same as umpies by
Yon's gonna come over, help Omki finish this one off.
Oh my god!
He stole it!
An early smite from Omki and it's gonna be stolen away by Cheetan.
But instead, Team Liquid turned into fight.
Now they've got the first kill for themselves, but immediately one comes back as Omki falls.
Now APA is stuck behind them in lines, going in for Kara Yoko.
Yon flies in with a killer instinct and Team Liquid is up two for one so far from the
fight.
Impact wants to go in for the counter strike, but it does not have the stun here.
Just yet one last voidsieker.
Kaboom for Yon!
It started off as a heartbreak but that rebound is looking real good for TL.
The steal on the dragon just clipped the edge.
He literally didn't use his smile.
But this engage from CoreJJ was brilliant.
The charm follow up.
Then look at the opportunities to get on towards the backline.
I got a little nervous when I saw APA dashing towards pain gaming.
But Jan supporting his mid laner going directly in onto Karaoke.
And it was that one two punch that really sealed the deal for TL.
Exactly. And I think that's why he's diving forward.
knowing that the killer instinct is ready,
knowing that he's gonna have that assistance
in the backline and the major cooldowns
are already gone from pain.
Nice play though from Teton
and definitely a failed execution there from empty.
He did not combo his smite, he didn't even press smite.
You know, if he just e-smites there,
he did it when it was a bit above 900 health.
But if you just press e-smite, auto-smite, anything,
that's a guaranteed kill.
And we'll see if this comes back to bite them later
because now you're set back on that road towards Seoul.
You gotta smite the damn Drake.
I know that sometimes you might be thinking
about min-maxes save it for later whatever but in moments like that you
don't want to be given away the objectives nice it up from shitan but
now it's jinkato in trouble they wombo combo a little bit of crash down with
charm but it's gonna be outplayed by pain gaming looking good up here in the
top lane jinkato just making core an APA look foolish this Ari just doesn't
have enough damage in the tank we saw it yesterday from all of our aries we're
seeing it now for APA when you want to go for these Terror dives there's
It's just not enough to burst down a member.
Okay, now we got a TP coming in for Payne.
They want to force the Tier 2 down here in the bottom lane.
A little bit of extra burn from the three grubs.
Payne gaming, they might be down and kills,
but they're up in gold.
They're out playing Team Liquid around the map.
And the impact is going to be completely useless.
You know, he is completely out of the game.
He is, you know, first picked this on Blue side.
That is where you're putting the cryo,
and he has just not played it well enough.
You know, had a really clever level one,
got the experience, but Wiser has been heavily outplaying him
In those side lanes, in the 1v1, almost solo killed them.
Has now taken multiple towers there with you since this is up to T.
Umpte having to flash away there from Curry as he jumps in for the headbutt pull combo.
APA finally going to claim this turret up here in the top lane,
but it's still only 1-2 in that count as well.
But it's Pain Gaming showing that they're not out of it just yet.
This is a team that many were like, oh, but they made it to the main event,
but Pain Gaming want to show so much more of what they can achieve here.
This is the first time we've ever seen a CBLOL representative make it to the main event.
They played against their idols in T1 as well, but now they want to try and see if they can go toe-to-toe with TL to bootish.
It has been a long time, but they have made it before. They made it, you know, eight years since the CBLOL made it, nine years since Paine made it, so they have made it to that main stage a couple times, but definitely been a long while.
And representing their region well here, trying to show that they can take down one of the big dogs here, and going to look for Janketa once again this time. He does have the Archangel shield still ready.
He goes over the wall, but the ball breaker does not find the target.
He uses a very early ulti on the Orianna.
Junkato's still alive for now, but Yan goes on a killing spree.
The team liquid 80 carry 3-0 and 2-5 out of 6 kill participation.
Really trying to make this one happen as APA goes over the wall,
finds Chiton, gets him down to 150,
but can't commit anymore of the paranoia protecting the Ezreal
from what would have been death.
Pretty surprised that Chiton didn't actually use glass.
He just kind of sapped through that, very close to going down, and ended up working out for him.
I mean, you just kind of trade the Alties at the end of the day. Nocturne also very long cooldown here at rank one.
You know, not level 11 just yet for Karioka, so APA is still going to be pretty happy about that.
Especially with a mid and until the next dragon, not having that tool available is going to hurt.
And when you want to try and set up for this combo between the jungle and mid on playing gaming.
So nice pick, a nice use of that ultimate from APA to the turn, and when everyone now resetting,
You're getting control over mid. You're starting to set up on this bottom side
Should be able to shift this weight with APA from mid to that bottom side and guarantee yourselves a turret tank
And while impact is very behind yawn and APA both in great positions yawn in fact is been
Massive in this game thus far. I think he's played really well at worlds overall and is now nearly
2000 gold ahead of Chiton on this kaisha is set up for success
Okay, 20 seconds until the drake spawns
Now there's not nearly as much pressure on pain to fight for this as there might have been otherwise
APA immediately getting comboed by Curry the Alistar threatening so much follow-up from the rest of pain
APA forced to use the spirit rush this could put TL in a really bad spot for this upcoming Drake fight
They might just be so under it. Yeah, they have to give it up
You know APA just playing with fire there now gonna get his recall stopped not really a recipe going down to that
It actually is gonna push out top side
But now you've got one dragon stolen the next dragon is actually boss here by a little bit of
Overconfidence there from APA moves too far forward has to drop the spirit rush
And you're not really going to be able to trade much of anything for it.
I think Weisner is going to get up there before there's really much threat on the tower.
So Impact will get a little bit of chip damage, pull the gold a little bit closer,
but they all left him to try to solo it.
Team Liquid does not want to allow Payne Gaming to get this for free.
Karaoke's going to claim the Drake. He flashes away.
He stays alive with about 200 HP.
Payne retreating back to the mid lane,
but at the same time Impact is left free-farming up in the top side.
Well, beating of the tier two.
This is actually such a misplay for Payne,
because they had guaranteed themselves a dragon,
and everyone's like, okay, Karaoke's got it.
No problem. No one helps him out. That means not only does Corkett in there and force them to actually contest
He has to use his flash. He has to use ult and wiser had to leave top lane to walk back towards the fight
Because he was thinking there was a 5v5 going to break out. So instead of impact getting nothing them getting the dragon
They end up getting a tier 2 tower top. They end up forcing a flash. Yes pain still get the dragon
But geez that was really kind of watch there and look at the gold difference now between impact and wiser
That was sitting above a thousand gold now
It's only a killing the difference and that can definitely change the such a big factor in this game for wiser
Not having as much control on a side line as they start to scale towards this, you know level 14 15 60
I mean the tier two towers are just worth so much gold, right?
So, you know that really did hurt that one be one and you could say wiser
Maybe should have just gone to defend the tier two anyway, but it is always tough when they think hey
Maybe a fight's gonna break out. Maybe I need to be there
But either way, you know TLC the opportunity as everyone from pain just walked out and left karaoke
to do it. They go in, they put that pressure on and now in fact in a much better spot as
a result, Jan's on two fully completed items, but Pain fighting well and are winning out
in that Dragon game.
And for Pain, you can kind of see they're a bit unsure of themselves how they want to
try and approach the map. They're trying to cover wise around that top side, but it's
leaving space for APA in the bottom end. There's also multiple members that aren't
really holding onto this mid-wave as well, so TL now starting to put a little bit
the threat on towards there. So I think Payne is struggling on the map side.
This was something that was kind of touted for them coming off of their
domestic play was they were get off these great leads. They had a strong early
game but unsure about themselves when it got to that mid-game scenario and now
against TL it's going back to her. Alright 21 minutes into the game so
Baron is live. Payne gaming trying to make sure they've got control of their
own Redside jungle with the bottom lanes in some trouble. Empty and APA
That's the wombo combo. You draft these two champions for Vi and Ari
Wiping the Orianna off the map applying more pressure to the bottom lane tier two while CoreJJ and Yon keep the wave
Shuffed up into the tier one in mid lane. Karaoke hovering between the two
But there's nothing to even do about this bottom lane the tier two is deleted and team liquid is 4,000 gold ahead
And that's a great play there from TL and on top no flashes cost
And on the other side, Jinkato lost his last end die.
So now it's so hard to play side lane at all on the Oriana here,
knowing that Vi is waiting, knowing that Ori is waiting.
Second item gets completed and it's the book.
APAs feel incompetent here.
The book of Yap.
Yep.
This is the kind of thing that you're ready to do.
You heard of the death note.
This is the Yap note.
I did love the idea of scrolling through to find out
what he's going to say in all of the chat.
He's been quiet so far this tournament
because they have been getting to better
of them so not a lot of yapping has come out so far for the American.
Maybe that's why.
That's true.
Maybe the yapping is his power.
He was the bracedy out.
He came on with this.
Exactly.
He did pretty well in the LCS, but Yann working towards that third item, he has been very
accelerated.
He's going towards that AP variant.
I prefer it so heavily over just like full on AD.
Another tower falls here.
It's five taken off the map by TL as they're going to try to move to pressure the
spot side once again.
You can see him back pushing up there and empty was trailing him, but he'll happy to just play through these sidelines and keep looking for picks with the five.
All right, gentlemen, we are sub 90 seconds away from our next Drake this game.
I'm expecting to get another fight for it.
Curry and karaoke trying to maintain the vision in their own red side jungle as we are also at the point of the game where these buffs become team wide.
So grab the red is going to feel pretty good for everybody.
Everybody team liquid taking the chance to secure the scuttle crab here in the top side river and all the extra vision
Did that also provides ump the picking up the red for team liquid at the same time as these timers are pretty well synced up
Corj and APA staying pretty close together as the scryer trinket is used by pain just to make sure team liquid's not trying to sneak
In early Baron exactly when you see a kaiser this fed with the rage blade there and does die incredibly fast
Of course, they don't know where the vibe is so they don't realize that empty is not on the side of the map until
wouldn't be doing it in backs maybe gonna find an angle here we'll see if you
get spotted out curry could be in trouble yeah curry finds yawn head butts him
back this is the aftershock there now immediately they jump on the Alistar
unbreakable will does not live up to the name yawn goes on a rampage team
liquid with a free pick they were trying to set up for the dragon that's a
veg spawn hoping that maybe they could frighten TL into some of these
positions they get a war town but it ends up causing courage left to
kind of get the reset and now it's a baron instead of a dragon team liquid
No, they have the man advantage for the next 10 seconds.
It's a support that's dead, so it's not like he can TP in either.
At the very least, they're gonna force pain to step up and make them stop.
Team Liquid though, already have the Baron down to 3k.
Karaoke trying to use the Nocturne ulti to go into the pit.
Impact's already gonna be killed off as APA tries to get away.
Karaoke is still down to the pit.
Yaw needs to grab the damage.
The Baron is going to go over to Team Liquid.
Wiser still trying to fight for Yaw, put it out, play him and slay him.
He has to turn to retreat now.
CoreJJ gonna cover that exit.
There's only two men left alive on Team Liquid, and one of them has to die.
It's Baron for TL, but at the cost of four dead bodies.
And Painter gonna get sole point here as well.
Painter are really starting to pull back in this game.
TL decided to just go for the flip here, basically, APA's trying to zone,
but look at this combo.
Into the backline, Karaoke gets in there with Chiton's ultimate.
Coming over the top, they burst out multiple members,
and it's only thanks to the heroics of Yon here, dodging out with the ult,
with the barrier, kills off Nocturne before he can smite the Baron and kills the Baron himself,
or this would have been an unmitigated disaster for TL.
The fact that you get that damage on a carry, okay, like he got this might, but it was like
basically panicked to be like, I'm about to die, give me something.
But that turn around for Pain gave me that so much gold, and as you say, Dragon now
too, and the opportunity to get back out on the map.
They didn't do the Dragon, I think that's a mistake.
No, actually, yeah.
Dragon's alive.
Cause it's better to say, when you look at the items for this Orianna now,
She's got the storm surge, she's going to be working up towards potential rabbitons or the Shadowflame next.
She's now been accelerated thanks to that gold, and now you're in a position where pain gaming are able to potentially fight physical combos.
And I want to rewind the tape a little bit, Azale.
You said, back with that Drake, we'll see if they end up regretting this later.
If that smite or lack thereof comes back to bite him.
And yes, sir, it has.
Soulpoint now demands Team Liquid's attention in the Drake Pit every five minutes for the rest of the game.
Exactly, little things in League of Legends can build up to become incredibly big problems here.
And that stolen dragon, that Miss Might by Umpty, means now you're one mistake away from giving over Ocean's ult.
And that's a permanent buff here. You know, TL still in the driver's seat, still heavily ahead in gold.
But taking the plays, I think, it feels like they're behind.
You know what I mean? Like the plays that they're kind of taking at times, like going for that Baron on a flip.
Or up 6k. You could just play for the turn.
Yeah I think seeing that Curry was down there like oh well that's kind of their
quote-unquote engage tool but kind of forgetting about the mid jungle combo
and learning to regret it plus still at least getting some use out of this
barn buff because you can still see for the red bull barn parry plate up about
1200 gold which when you lost how many members helped out that it's managed
to recover just a slight base but still the base will not be cracked and I
think that's kind of the saving grace for pain gaming where they do get
time to continue to scale. And you could see though when the vision was
toggled. Pain gaming does not have a whole lot of lights on across Summoner's
Rift right now, so they got to be careful as they slowly creep forward, take
back control over their own side of the map. This Baron is going to dissipate
here in about 15 seconds. APA still farming up from the top side. The
problem is with that Baron fight too, that book has no pages. It's a cover
and a cover. The thing is empty. Not exactly what you want to be working
with here on this RA team liquid. Still about a 5,000 gold lead, but
But if pain gaming gets this soul here in three and a half minutes,
that pretty much erases all of that value.
Yeah, basically entirely.
And a lot of what Yon filled is, it's got poke, right?
And Ocean Soul says, well, I don't care about that.
So that becomes definitely very problematic.
Of course, you can still win with Soul,
and there's no guarantee that they'll give it up.
But Jail going to have to play really heavily towards it.
And off that string of plays, Wiser, again,
created a pretty big advantage for himself.
He's now up over 1,000 gold over impact.
Again, it's really all up to Yon and the APA.
These young NA carries here on TL
they've put so much faith into that have improved tremendously over this last year
they have got to show up and carry this game.
And that's why I think you honestly so careful when you're trying to get control of this midway
because if you end up with a knock turn coming over the wall of the Orianna
well you're certainly finished and a lot of this is TL trying to play this 1-3-1
but it doesn't even vulnerable if they don't get the waves in the right order.
At the moment they are doing a good job you can see nobody kind of pressing too far forward
and there's always that core of the 80 carry jungle and support working together
One misstep and pain gaming compounds free big purchases right now though seekers arm guard on both the jacks and the kaisa
Huge for avoiding that combo that assassination torpedo that you're talking about but also rabbit on step cap done for the arie in mid lane
Apa does a significant amount of damage with this and shadowflame after that malignant for the original alti cool down
And wiser just pick up his wit's end and a giant spell on top
So he is getting very tanky now at this point. That's merch reds. That's you know
You really are going to struggle to deal with this guy and there's actually quite a bit of magic damage over on the TL side.
Obviously, Jax is mixed, Aria is pure magic, Kaisa is pretty mixed as well here.
So not going to be easy to deal with this NAR has created a pretty big problem for himself.
But yeah, you do have that Seekers on Jax. That is great for that potential 5v5.
But Zonius is not a strong 1v1 item and Wiser is just going to take even more prominence in that side lane.
Yeah, I gotta praise wiser for just how much better he's played this first game than impact zero one and two for the Jax
Two one and two for the NAR wiser is up over 60 cs compared to impact, but now karaoke could be in a little bit of danger
There's not enough firepower from team liquid nearby to finish off this kill, but APA that's what I'm talking about
That's the amount of AP that he's managed to build up on this Ari can pose a serious threat to so many targets on pain gaming
You can see this Tier 2 turret nearly dead. The burn from the Void mites nearly taking it out, but not quite there
It is 60 seconds until the soul for pain gaming spawns
Team Liquid must be ready to answer this because pain would love to pick up this buff
But that's why we're not seeing TL overextend for this turret or trying to use any of these big spells
Right as that objective is about to spawn they just want to try and keep pain gaming in the dark and in their own base
And they've been doing a decent job just far so far
But APA needs to be a little bit careful as pain now should be looking for their own resets
He's trying to finish off some of the lightest cheat on just got his third
You're still looking at a nearly that's on you's complete for Chinquero. I'm kind of waiting for impact reset
He's been on the map for a long time here, you know with way less items
It's three and a half over on wiser side. He only has a 1.5 K depth set
So like he should have enough to complete an item
We'll see if you can actually get back in base in time to be able to do that as TL again
Thuring out some vision over on this bear inside of the map
But wouldn't want to see them play for Baron and trade for soul
I just don't think it's worth it whatsoever giving over that permanent buff, but they are going to be starting it up here
We'll see if they can do this one a little bit more cleanly than the last time as pain are just moving down towards soul
And I think it is gonna be that trade I was talking about yeah, I mean you have to get so much done with this for it
to be worthwhile because
The ocean soul is forever. They're gonna try to get here any test, but I think it's too late
APA is teleporting down team liquid
They aren't going to be able to challenge for the Drake
They do want to try to kill pain afterwards see if they can manage to get some sort of a punish here
But they're not there in time.
Curry, the only man lagging a little bit behind.
Voidseeker shot off.
Not going to find any contact with that.
When Upti coming around for the pincer, assaults.
Yawn and impact, still chasing.
Upti over the wall, channeling the ball breaker.
Jumps in, but he won't find out that immediately.
Counterattack coming out from Payne, gaming Upti.
Loses his sterics, loses his flash.
Team Liquid loses their chance in pain gaming.
Get the soul and get everybody out.
I mean, it's just a horrible call from Team Liquid.
It's not anywhere close to a game ending baron here.
I don't understand why they feel thrown advantage.
They're up 7,000 gold.
Why do you feel you can't actually just fight
for the dragon there?
It really makes no sense whatsoever.
And it's a frustrating play to watch here
from a team that is normally so good on the map.
That's how they were getting advantage
against these LPL teams.
But it's also they just burned both their teleports.
They're now trying to spread out on the map
and get full value out of this baron ball.
It's going to be really difficult in pain
kind of realizing that they're happy to contest TL
as they move in towards this jungle,
but I think as TL, you kind of have to group.
I mean, the goal lead is irrelevant now, right?
So now you've thrown away your entire advantage
that you've built throughout this game
through a missed smite and a bad call
on a trade of Baron for that.
So we'll see if TL can get a lot from this Baron
because they absolutely have to,
or their advantage is gone.
If I'm paying, I'm just waiting it out,
just sit back in the base, a minute 30, great.
You can take some jungle camps.
I don't care.
I just got 4,000 gold worth of stats
from the Dragon Soul.
And I like the fact that you brought up earlier, Isaac.
It nullifies a big advantage of the Kaisha, specifically the style of build that goes heavily into AD.
Those Void Seekers are normally obnoxious. They can force you out of situations that you could otherwise contest,
but Ocean is so good at just completely getting rid of that X-Factor.
Impact is trying to split push up here in the top lane, but again, he's just so far behind.
He has struggled so much to find any relevance in this game, and Team Liquid just seems completely out of sorts.
There we go, the engage. Paranoia down to the bottom lane, APA is going to get caught, he's already fleeing and Karaoka and Jinkado pick them all.
Now that's exactly what I was talking about, the 1-3-1 is so difficult thanks to this knock turn, but they turn on top.
They want to go after Weiser, he just turned back into Mini-Nar, but the Starex is enough to keep him alive.
Team Liquid is going to hard force down the tier 3 turret in the top lane, but they won't get anything else.
Shattering strike on Curry to stop the Alistar from moving any further forward.
Carioca's coming up around the side, but without paranoia,
he can't find any way to jump on Team Liquid here.
So it'll be a trade.
APA, third tier, three turret.
Man, at the end of the day, it's not too bad for Payne whatsoever.
Impact though, overstays.
This could be really good for Payne, never mind, never mind, never mind.
Impact, Impact jumps out.
The way that, I'm just going to be blunt here.
The way that Impact has been playing so far this game,
every time he gets caught, I'm thinking he's dead.
This feels like a totally different impact from what we saw at domestic.
I mean, just look at the farm difference in top lane, right?
You know, you're playing with Jax again, this is kind of a problem
where you're playing with Jax to be able to have side lane Pryo.
You know, he's spending so much time moving towards the theme,
trying to threaten flanks, trying to do these things.
Guess what? You're falling more and more and more behind the farm.
Even if you find that flank at a certain point, it doesn't matter
because you're useless.
And the fact that now Baron has just faded off them
and you haven't even cracked an inhibitor
gives a ton of opportunities for paingaming to continue to play
at the map state.
And as long as it's wiser who's protecting that top lane,
he's always going to be a position where he should be
We find that 1v1, I'm able to teleport in.
Absolutely, and I think the game now has gotten to a state where it's basically just going
to be a flip for Elder, right?
GL basically need the Elder to actually win the game.
So now you're taking a fight at Dragon, you know, at a point where it's basically equal
instead of taking the one you could have taken five minutes ago when you were up
7k.
Well, we've also got that ever so nerve-wracking state of League of Legends where both Superbops
will be spawning almost at the exact same time.
It creates this really tense macro state where teams have to try to juke one another, try
to lead the guy down the wrong path and see if you can manage to sneak one of these away.
Sometimes it ends up getting traded, sometimes not.
Kirioka getting away here with a blast cone.
Umpte thinking about chasing him, but there's just no point in trying to press on the
guy when he's still a special.
Curry, gonna walk up, face check here, finds APA, Cor, and Umpte.
Curry jumps in, true shot.
Roger for the top of three.
Pain gaming, you're going in and Team Liquid's gotta be careful about it.
They try to jump back away, APA's nearly killed already, and pain gaming are looking good.
Impact has to try to retreat, APA's still almost dead, but Yon is dominating, and the
Alistar is up to the picture.
It's plus one for Team Liquid, and they're still thinking about some more.
APA's about to die, jumps back into the charm, but Yon's ready to go with a killer instinct.
She's on over the wall, Yon goes... YON!
This kid will not lose a double killback of a YON!
A triple killback of a YON!
And Evie is stepping up!
9-0 and 2 on the kaisa with the game on the line.
Yon takes over, flashback to last worlds,
disappointing performance from him.
He is refusing to lose.
Pain gaming put up such a good fight against Team Liquid.
But at the final fight, Yon makes it happen.
And TL takes game one.
The charm on the Alistar engage from APA sets up beautifully for Yon.
What a team fight for the NA boys.
Holy moly, NA vs Brazil is delivering here in game number one.
We've got more League of Legends coming your way.
Coming up next, we're tossing to a break right now.
Do not go anywhere.
Decision making, but on the other hand, a pain gaming that had some of the clutches moments.
I think I've seen with the Dragonsteel to just name one, but in the proactive place.
And this was the final fight where I think two days in a row,
Kaisa has kind of bailed out NA, because the start of this fight was pretty scary.
Super clutch charm there by APA, and then Yon had like a really big goal lead.
He was a full item Kaisa. He's able to carry this fight.
Yeah, the entire game I'm looking at it. He has such a giant goal lead.
He was so far ahead. I was waiting for the big moment for him to carry,
But they made it incredibly close.
And right there, the final team fight
with Payne having the Ocean Soul.
If they, if, like things could be so different,
if small things went a little bit differently,
if they don't rush in there.
Yeah.
And they played a little bit slower
then you get to take more advantage of Ocean Soul.
And so that's why my stomach was hurting.
I was on the edge of my seat.
Shox is here watching both of us.
And we're like, this series was the first game
being so close.
I am especially nervous after the previous series
You felt like Team Liquid felt on the wrist it feels like no. Yeah, I mean they look shaky
Yeah, they look shaky at the start. They look shaky for pretty much this entire game
I'm hoping that the nerves hitting them and then getting through this game are gonna let them be cleaner in game, too
But this is some examples of the things that are happening
This is after impact pulled off a nice move at level one to get a small advantage of the lane swap
nearly gets solo killed.
Umti smites 200 health early on the mountain drake
and it gets stolen.
That eventually turned into a soul.
And then there were fights after that as well
where it felt like they were fumbling a little bit.
Yeah, I thought Wiser did a really, really good job
on the gnar for the majority of this game.
It was a big threat.
He kept on retaking advantage and advantage and advantage
away from impact.
And Payne put a lot of pressure on TO.
probably as much possible pressure without fully taking the game.
No, absolutely. And I feel like I was waiting also because we saw the NAR was
was doing really well and you saw the Wombo combo. It existed. It just, luckily for
TL, never completely came to fruition because they shut the door with the
Kaiser, which they had to do. Yeah, exactly. And that was, they like waited till the
last possible moment to pull out a clutch team fight. They had been
messing up so many of the other clutch moments earlier on, which is what
got Payne ahead and Payne had, you know, the good Orianna Nocturne combo
You're talking about picking off APA in the side lane and you know constantly looking for these opportunities a positive for me
Though I would say aside from the bad smite that empty had I think empty played a good game
Yeah, he was creating a lot of action early
He was getting a lot of picks and side lanes
And I think especially when he was targeted so heavily in the band phase with the Sujuani band as well as them kind of self-bending
Skarner but just not being able to be on a tank jungler mouth
I got that in the four five. He was the creator for them for most of the game
I thought yeah, he's the one who got APA all of the money early on the RE it is a patented combo
because it really does rely on Divy always starting it off.
And he was the one that got so many picks started for them.
I think it's just because the objectives
and the dragons ended up being so big
that that's what people will take away.
But look at this, it's just,
yeah, our entire reel is him on Divy,
showing that not only the Sejuani and Maokai
and Skarner that we mentioned in champ select
that were all banned away,
but also being able to use Divy
the main engage and that's been the traditional role that Team Liquid have set up for a lot of
their successful comps has been core, umpty and a lot of the times impact being on engage champions
and really setting up and feeding money to Yon and APA. Yeah and we were having a bit of a heated
discussion here because I was trying to argue that I feel like Team Liquid and we haven't really
seen the perfect Team Liquid game the way they would like to play it and finish it at Worlds
yet. And I think that's what makes everyone a little bit more doubtful. And I think if you
then tag on the fact that again, the situation next year, the fact that TL has not gotten those
international kind of last hurdles that they wanted, right? This is kind of the farthest you
could be away from it because you're in the O and two is making them make this mistake. So you
have faith that this was just a game one situation. Or should we I think as we should
give Payne a little bit more respect than think that they gave them a run for their money?
Yeah, I mean I do think Payne deserves respect as they mentioned earlier in the cast, 9-2 all-time, not great, but also not completely free.
It's not some type of 99-1 game and then actually the last time Corn Impact played against Payne at Worlds, they did lose to them.
This was one of the big plays that made us super nervous when the Nocturne Orianna flies over the wall, TL just had one pick.
Again, if Yon doesn't last hit this Baron, we're having a very different desk segment right now.
So, Payne played such strong defense in this game.
Even though they lost five of their turrets they held that shell for like 10 15 minutes and almost pulled their way back in the game
And that play right there
I love from pain so much because they use the control ward over the back of Baron pit to bait in
Umpteen impact for the Ezreal and Orianna combo and then deleting both umpteen impact right there is what got them such a big opportunity
Yeah
This happens all the time shocks what when you're watching you teams or I'm watching any yeah, I am never
Comfortable or confidence. They're gonna win but then the other side is like
Like when I'm watching you too. I'm like, yeah, they're gonna win and you're just like a ball of nerves
And I feel like it's exactly the same thing depending on what perspective you're watching the games from because that game one was
Incredibly tense for me. I'm sure it was incredibly tense for Kobe as well
I am like massively more comfortable going into game two though
only because they were able to get through that struggle and I'm hoping that they can take the
momentum and make all the good plays and avoid the bad ones. And big question of course we heard
earlier that Cinque do we don't know about the Yone right but we saw that it was banned out
on the side on blue side from Team Liquid if that becomes a factor maybe we've got a whole
different ball game but we don't know it's pain game that has selected the blue side it could
be their very last game at this tournament but we'll see if Team Liquid can bring it home.
Well, I'm there. Can I can I know it's this way? Can I back everybody?
Back to our game to team liquid versus pain gaming game number one was a battle and honestly the last fight was pretty
explosive, and I feel like that game still could have gone either way, considering the
gold lead compared to the sole advantage that Payne had. It felt like we were heading straight
to a high noon showdown at the Elder Pit. Team Liquid ends up walking away with a win,
but Payne Gaming definitely had some high points in the game as well.
Yeah, I mean, it was just barely that TL were able to scrape that out. Honestly,
from some heroics from Yon, which I think he is just deserving of so much credit.
You're very excited, you're a fan.
You're a fan of Redside!
They've been to the Blue side too, so I'm not surprised.
It's a worse miracle, alright, I'm just saying.
But either way, you know, Jan got a lot of criticism,
and I think rightfully so for his performance last year at Worlds.
I don't think he was really able to get much of anything done.
You know, you didn't have any big games that you kind of look back to or remember.
It was kind of a passenger in a lot of those games.
And he has improved so much from last year to this year.
It really is incredible.
Even in a run where TLR obviously disappointed where they are at,
he has had some very bright moments.
I don't think he has really been a part of most of the kind of like big oofsy moments or mistakes.
He's been really consistent. He's been very impressive so far.
Yeah, it's a very similar trajectory to what we saw from APA.
I feel like the APA story ends up taking center stage most of the time
because he came in late in the season last year.
They started with Yon and Harry, then it switches to Yon and APA.
APA also came out much more of a like a trash talker,
much more of a big personality compared to Yon.
So his glow-up ends up becoming more prominent, but Jaune has improved so much
He really was the deciding factor in that final fight in Team Liquid being able to end the game
And let's go ahead and see how this game differs
That's why they're gonna ban away the Kaisa right make sure that Jaune doesn't have the same impact in the last game
Now I still think that boy Harry for um TAPA was a big
Proponent for their success
So I wouldn't be surprised to see them try and log that in on this rotation here
But kind of surprised to see the Jack's Bank come through because you saw the details
It was not looking so hot
I mean he didn't battle as much damage as the supports in that game wiser was really running him in the 1v1
You know have more impact in the team fight, so I'm pretty surprised like I've banned out
All right, so the bands here in this first round. It's ziggs jacks kaisa banned out by pain Aurora
Yone and Lucian banned out by team liquid first pick of the draft is not turned for pain
I love that. I feel like it's such an impactful champion win played
Well karaoke gonna be piloting that one again this time around team liquid
first picking the gnar for themselves taking it away from wiser
And do they take away the Orianna? Do you just deny that combo here?
because Orianna is still a perfectly good mage just by herself in the mid lane
and with the Aurora taken away those have kind of been the two combos that we've seen Nocturne paired with
but umpteen gonna go back towards the skarner and say hey look if you're just gonna jump on me
I'm gonna impale you in place
I'm gonna be really interested to see you know what kind of combo they go for if it's Nocturne and Orianna
you can also go towards the Kennen which is considered a strong early matchup into the gnar
and also does pair really really well with the Nocturne
So I think there's definitely some options there.
You know, there's lots of strong pairings, but looking like it is going to be Oriana.
Obviously, going to be piloting the Scarner here did have some disappointing
ults in that first game.
You know, you could see even in his player cams, you know, he was missing
some of the ults again, so I think it was at the LNG game that really had
some big reactions and definitely wants to prove how well he can play.
But that being said, his early games have been very strong.
I think across all of the games that you'll have played at Worlds,
and he has really been a difference maker.
It was able to be a part of the first blood in mid lane
in both of their first two games was a big part of getting APA fed in the last game, like
they were talking about on the desk.
So I do think overall his level plays been pretty high.
Alright, Renekton versus Nard, you can't get much more of a classic top lane matchup than
this, I feel like, at Worlds if you look back throughout the history books.
But that's going to be the name of the game here in this second head to head between
these two teams.
Wiser piloting the Renekton, and it looks like it's APA's Niko coming back onto
the Rift.
see him pick this in their first game here at Worlds. He had a pretty rough game on it,
but we've seen some pretty brilliant performances from him on it in the past as well. So I think
the NA fans out there are hoping to see APA Niko back in form here.
Yeah, and I think it can work out incredibly well for them, especially when the composition
that wants to try and jump in on top of you, you buy a lot of space for what should be a lot
of firepower in behind it. But at the moment, sure you've got some damage from the narrow in
in the scanner, but it's not enough to really facilitate what I think you need right now.
So I'm looking at a heavy late game scaling carry here for Jan.
Okay.
I'm trying to really bounce up and bring up that damage level, so then in the fights,
you've got that to rely on.
Honestly, I think if Ezreal's not banned now, he'll probably just go Ezreal from the
spot.
Yeah, that can work, Jan.
You know, and we'll see, you know, how he's going to be able to perform on that.
But yeah, this is, this is kind of two parts of that LNG loss where they had
two players who were getting a lot of Christmas and APA and UMT both playing the exact same
champions here, so looking to make good on that. You can see though that TL is kind of
showcasing that they want to go heavier on the dive, that's what the band on Zaya is
telling me, so we'll be interesting to see what the final band here is from Paine. They're
actually going to ban away the Ezreal, try to deny that for me on potentially.
Yeah, I'm curious if to the end of it, some sort of like even delving further into
that counter engage with Renat or something for CoreJJ, but I do think you actually
want a little bit more of that potential setup engage like Analyst or the relb. Poppy
also banned away says that chances are they're right up around for themselves here on pain gaming side
but they'll have to see if they're going to get down into that as a I don't think the james much want
here on even though honestly the as you said the azerial or something along these lines that can
play heavy in those team fights would be great jumping back a fourth between a whole lot of
different stuff is real or bearish calista and poppy banned out by pain azerial or bearish is
the only ones I believe in yet as real is kind of what I figured pretty early on just kind of
annoying his play style and when you're looking over and you're seeing Nocturne, well, you don't want to play something like a Varus really, it's so dangerous into that.
So, exactly. In this way, it's still very difficult though because you can't really flash the Nocturne Orianna combo if they time it well.
You know, the Nocturne's always going to follow you after that flash and you flash after he arrives. The Nocturne Orianna combo has already gone off.
So, it is kind of unavoidable damage if it's perfectly timed. But obviously you have that range, you have that safety, and you have potentially the follow-up into the backline.
Okay, well we've got the gin locked in for Chiton and the rel will be taken away from
CoreJJ this time.
Curry will be the one playing that.
What does Core want to play into it?
I expect an engaged champion here.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think it's going to be engaged pretty much 100 percent.
You know, I do think that Skarner can work on a flank or Dark can work on a flank.
But all of these champions in the first three are better as follow-up engaged,
I think than primary engaged.
So I do think grabbing Leona makes a lot of sense here.
Leona hits an ulti.
Leona hits an E. Everyone else kind of piles in.
You have that follow up of the E from Nico, of the stun from that Skarner.
And that's going to be the name of the game is really can TL get to and pressure Jinkato and Jitom.
Because I think that is really where you're going to get the success.
If the Niko alt is only hitting frontline, if the Naur alt isn't able to get into that backline,
that's where I think they're going to struggle.
I also think there is a window where you can try and just play through this mid jungle and punish Jinkato.
Just say look, that combo falls apart if you've got no damage on this Orianna.
So let's just try and focus her down early.
You've got good lock-up with the Niko, great follow-up from Scarra that come in from multiple
different angles.
It could be the point of contention for Teal.
Yeah, absolutely.
And like what I was touching on before, you know, in both of our two games, it was part
of First Blood in midgame, right?
He has been playing pretty heavily toward that, has been doing a good job of tracking vision.
So we'll see how Payne are going to be able to handle it.
I have to give Curry a lot of credit from the early game, last game, where I was
talking about how much he was actually covering Ginkado on this Orianna.
Yeah.
When he lost his flash, the Alistar from that game was pretty much always behind
and then covering him to push out these waves,
making sure he couldn't actually be afraid on
by this five-hour combo.
So we'll see if he's gonna be trying to do something similar
here in game number two.
All right, fellas.
Team Liquid, one game away from winning the series
and ending the world's run of pain gaming.
But pain, you know, they would love
to take this to a game three.
They would love, after the first time for Brazil,
making it back to the main stage in so many years
to then knock out a major region team
would just be an absolutely incredible accomplishment.
Yeah, and Chiton talked to Pedro Romero.
I was saying that look, even though we've kind of ticked off
a lot of our boxes, like getting to the main stage,
playing against T1, like Curry and Chiton were speaking
quite a lot about how, for Curry specifically,
it was great for him to kind of play up against
his old team in T1 and go against Gumiuchi and Kari
and play against some of his old friends
from back then as well, but they don't want this
to be over, they still want to keep kicking
They were definitely kicking and screaming to the last one as TL barely got across the finish line
And now it's time to see if they can keep that one rolling again
All right as our top laners dance back and forth a reminder to log into your riot account on lolly sports comm and watch
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You can spam at your lane opponent just like those fellows were doing up there in the top lane as TL are going for a little bit
Of a delayed invade here core JJ and yawn just walking through the enemy jungle as cheats on heads back to his tier one tier
But no lane swap this time around TL obviously really well known for executing on those incredibly well
Have been very successful even here at Worlds and we're gonna get some standard lanes
Which to me is always way more exciting honestly
I just want to see these lanes go head to head see what Corin-Yan can do against Sheetan and Cori
I am a fellow lane swap hater. I appreciate your opinion my friend
Okay, we'll see if they want to try to actually jump in there
But just gonna be looking for a little bit of folk looks like they'll just play for the bush and paint playing
intelligently on the other side of those minions so no sort of mystic shot
could actually land from that spot.
I like this fighting for vision control over the brush they do manage to secure that
first ward kill there. They're losing bone plating, mystic shot sidestep though, nicely
done on that one. Yeah I don't think we're gonna have too much action in the early stages.
I think the main one is again kind of waiting for some of these kind of level
5, 6 to be hit especially for their mid lane and then try to play through the
post. The opportunity for him to as he starts to move down towards his
Bottom side is the only one that I'd kind of be keeping my eyes on to see hey look
Have we actually got this way breaking either way or have we been able to find a big engage for creating Cheetan
Then maybe you can look to punish or counter that aggression
But at the moment Cheetan having that control
Ooh nice double shattering strike there from Curry followed up with a quick deadly flourish from Cheetan for JJ and yawn
Both already drinking some of those potions popping some other healing items
Yeah, it's hard to trade very effectively score JJ in the level one because you're able to do the crash down as well
You get that extra range on the auto attacks, and you can kind of poke from a little bit of far now
If you invest the the Q from core JJ you can get the stone back
But it's very hard to try and get through everything like the shield and that's on the trade
So at least curry up to play it
Advantages me in this matchup and we'll help get that push you can see APA though winning out pretty heavily on these trades
Junkie has already used both of his potions here
So APA has that additional potion with end HP lead to boot right remember back in game number one because of the
that it wasn't just a lane swap it was a weird lane swap where impact was still
able to get his EXP down there in the bottom lane and so APA had to deal
with a 2v1 lane situation early that caused him to get pushed back that caused
him to be down in HP now that it's a fair fight now that it's a 1v1 he
appears to be doing a whole lot better. Yep looking good thus far APA obviously
has had quite the journey from a player that was like kind of becoming a bit of
the laughing stock in the community people were you know constantly
criticizing him saying there's no way he deserves a spot on TL you know
that he's going to get replaced, he has put his head down and grinded.
This guy has worked so incredibly hard and that has really been one of the hallmarks of the entire TL team
and their improvement throughout this year has been how hard they have worked.
And we even saw a yike giving a lot of credit over to them and, you know, talking about how he respects
how much TL really has put in that work.
And as Humpty, you know, was looking for a potential angle on a dive,
but will at the very least feel a steal away these Raptors.
On the upside for Payton Gaming, this was supposed to be a squad that would in theory was
I was like a super team bringing in Chetan and Karey this year.
This was the addition that everyone looked and said,
oh yeah, pain gaming is going to MSI,
but they couldn't quite get a ripe for spring.
But now coming in towards summer,
this bot lane has been so good for them,
and even nail out worlds.
Chetan and Karey have been having a great time.
Hold on, Karaoke having a flash away from the Tangle barbs.
Otherwise, APA could have set it up with UmpD for a kill.
I think it's also been really, really fun watching Chetan
in Champions Q.
People are giving so much credit to him.
Hiving him up, he's actually really performing well.
so well individually. And he's just such a fun player to watch because he has this extremely
aggressive play style there, where he's looking for these 1v1s. He's trying to dash forward,
he's trying to make space and create problems for the enemy team. He'll force them to try to
look for some sort of ability to outplay him. Instead of just sitting back and waiting for
a mistake, and we can see there, he's able to force out the barrier from Yon.
Top lane also going better than it was in game number one, 14 Liquid. Ooh,
Nicely done from CoreJJ. They're throwing out the Xenith Blade, forcing a flash and Junkato.
This is also really nice considering our midlaners are about halfway to level 6 for Junkato.
Nearly all the way there for APA. No flash on an Orianna.
If you have the setup here on the Niko for a pop loss and Skarner driving through a wall, lots of kill potential.
It's also worth knowing that empty is going kind of that more scaling route here.
And he is going grass, which pretty much always means you go to the Heartsteel Sterex build.
Yeah, and that is much slower to turn on than kind of the other option which some people just go Zeke's or lock it
Or those types of supportive items, but it does scale very well
And we make you quite a bruiser in these later fights
Okay, umpty flashing forward to slam karaoke into the wall APA comes in with a pop awesome and finds to
Korge is gonna die, but APA is gonna get first blood on karaoke first team liquid continuing the 2v2 now against Korean
Jim Kato who has to try to get away back underneath the tier one turret of pain gaming one for one when the dust settles
The Sundry try from Curry just this way in any sort of follow up there from TL the snow could have been it but
Still they actually get a one-for-one all said and done
Yeah one for one, but it's first blood for TL and the kill goes on APA whereas in the other side
It's just going to your support here
Which obviously favors TL pretty heavily also means they have that kind of HP advantage there at least for now
So there's trying to start up these grubs to carry off his back from the base is back to full health
And umpti is getting low so this is getting a little bit dicey here for TL. Yeah
Umtia only at 40% HP gonna have to retreat away from this when Karaoke will say thank you very much and head back into the growth pit
Umtia is moving over to try and collect his crooks though because it should tick him over to level six
Which is why he wanted to get us to spot the crab as well
But I don't know if it's gonna be the same with the low health
So I think they want it impact us Megan are and flash meanwhile Chiton in some trouble down here in the bottom lane
Core J.J. She's gonna immediately find the shield a daybreak follows Chiton underneath the dirt
It's another one-for-one trade, but the money's on yawn, so Team Liquid's gonna call that one worth
Yeah, they're definitely gonna call that one worth and we'll see you know how much farm it does end up getting denied
Of course the wave is crashing on TL's tower right now
So she's done not losing out too much
But the biggest story is that he loses both of summoners there
So he's gonna be very vulnerable in these subsequent fights here as Jin Kato getting quite low
But does have Curry covering him just like he did in game number one
They should give Dragon to Unty though
You can see him moving at a base and need you move down to this bottom side
The kill on boss and then him taking over to level six, but looks like he's just going to try and shadow APA here as he pushes in
And pick up these rafters, but I imagine as young gets back into the map that'll be where they try
They can see core coming over as well
So they might actually look for a potential fight here on karaoke as he's gonna try to come forward karaoke has no flash
He's got no way out ump. He just immediately kills him with the impale drags him right back over
There's no way for nocturne to react with the spell shield when you don't know that they're there
He didn't get a chance to react, he just got locked up, it was a really good laning of CC.
You see Khorjaja just standing there waiting to smash that shield into his face before he even gets a chance to respond.
And it's just great play from the mid jungle here of TL, Impact holding out much better in that 1v1 here against Wiser.
That's 40 gold lead who cares, it's basically even.
But APA getting two of those early kills, Khor has been so active on the map.
This kind of is his signature style when he gets unlocked from map.
map. It works so well when he's pairing with that Ezreal because he can just get out on the map,
attack these different lanes, pair up with empty, pair up with APA, and cause problems.
I mean it's the reason why everybody always loves seeing CoreJJ on these engage and playmaker
champions. Remember that when he became a world champion it was back in season seven. That wasn't
just Enchanter meta. That was one of the darkest hours in League of Legends. That was Ardent
Sensor meta, right? That was the enchanter of Enchanter metas. But the man, it's not that
he can't play Enchanters. It's really so good at engage and Karaoke is engaging in the mid lane
now going after APA a nice shockwave to follow it up.
Jin Kato and Karaoke, they've got APA's number and Karaoke is getting paid.
And that's where you can start to turn it around. Jin Kato and Karaoke, we were just
praising TL's mid jungle but great pick onto APA, you still had no flash up because he'd
use it in that earlier skirmish around mid.
Exactly and it was a nice attempt by APA. He tried to use the E through the knock
turn to hit the Orianna to try to get the extended range there. Couldn't quite connect on it
And then when that happens, you just have to give it up.
You realize you're going to be going down as Impact trading heavily here with Wiser.
The problem is Impact doesn't have any buddies and Wiser's got a couple of them heading out.
So Impact, as soon as he turns back into the Mini-Nar, knows he has to hop away.
He will disengage before they jump on him.
Down in the bottom lane though, it looks like Yon is just going to keep on pushing,
keeps on falling, grab a little bit of plate money and keep getting fed on this Ezreal.
Yeah, exactly. We can see that Chiton didn't feel safe, right?
Because he lost his summoner so he couldn't actually answer a 1v2 on the bot side.
He would just get dove so he has to give that up
But unfortunately the temple kind of wasn't really there the resets weren't in time
So Jin Kato heads out towards bot but not before they lost the plate
Not before they lose most of those minions and she's on is the one that heads up towards mid lane to try to collect that
Until the boy groups as well. You can see the resets coming through to see how it starts to move off
That's one into a minion
He walked back to the minion wave to make sure he could get the transform
Cheetan doesn't count the wave and APA catches him off guard.
It just reminds me of the Berserker meme.
You know, Berserker sees two cannons on a wave and thinks it's his lucky day.
It's the APA's lucky day.
It's the APA's lucky day.
APA able to grab a kill.
Nicely done by him.
You've got to count those minions.
You have to be so careful about it.
It's one of the most frustrating things about Niko
is you kind of have to play this minigame the entire game.
If Niko's not on the map, you've got to be watching.
for those potential plays and you can see he's actually shifted over to Jan, but Jan's showing mid, so not going to surprise anyone about it.
It does mean you don't have APA's ultimate available though for the net upcoming boy group, so it is giving a lot of gold and resources.
Don't get me wrong with all these plates going down, but still, I'm curious how Pain Gaming want to try and react to this.
It still don't have like first-hand competitions coming through, so it would still be very risky to go for a play,
but maybe you can find a timing window as they come up with TL.
But with TL, they have a shifting topside,
Wiser might be the one who's none the wiser here.
Umpti and Karaoke are going to find one another here
in this try brush near top lane.
Doesn't look like we'll get a whole lot more after it.
Or will we never mind?
They want a full commit here on to impact,
who has to try to get away from it.
He flashes to escape, but Ginkado's already there
and waiting.
Shockwave brings him on back.
3v1 is no fun for the top laner of Team Liquid.
Nice moves from Pain Gaming to pick one up.
Yeah, really nice by Pain.
And especially the timing on it, because it's right before Grubb, they already have three.
If they can get six Grubs, this would be massive.
So, Umpti wants to try to stay away and see if he can at least steal one.
Exactly. Just smite the one Grubb, keep him away from six.
First one already goes over to Payne.
Umpti and Core JJ, they know they can't get any closer.
Junketa is still up there. Impact is still dead.
There's no real way for Team Liquid to try to get closer to this,
but Yon, Umpti and Core are still moving closer.
That last Grubb, it's very low.
It's still trying to fight Umpti now in the middle of four.
Team Liquid going way too far forward.
Why does everybody kill Umpti?
TL got way too greedy for the Grubbs here.
All six go over to Pain Gaming anyway.
APA trying to join up for the fight.
Now he has his Pop Blossom, but it's too little,
too late.
Pain Gaming get the objective
and the cherry on top for a bonus kill.
I thought Umpti would contest the second group
because the initial smite came down in the first one,
but he didn't try to walk in
to get just a smite and walk away.
Denied that sixth group both.
What it means now, TL end up giving over just more kills to boot, to pain gaming, getting that big advantage.
Exactly, I mean he's going to watch all the way in there and Pain are able to get an easy kill onto empty.
And to add insult to injury, APA then kind of gets drawn into the play.
He TP's down from bot lane, instead of actually staying and potentially finishing off that tower there.
That also means that this whole wave here is going to get denied because he doesn't have a TP to answer that.
So definitely a good run of plays there for Pain.
Starts with a great pick from them, topside on impact, gets them the six grubs.
but TL, you can definitely see those nerves.
Well that's the thing, I think now though,
with all these Ultimates back up,
they do have an advantage when it comes
towards this next dragon.
But Payne, honestly, maybe just give it up and go,
hey look, we can start to take some door of these baits
while it's still available, use that six group both
and keep control over mid.
TL looking to pick up Wiser,
return the favor here on the top laner.
APA and Ompty working together again.
Flash out from Wiser to avoid the angle
into the wall from Ompty,
but an ice use of the Impale
drags the crock back into the pop, lost him, and there's your damage for APA.
And one of the problems there from Wiser is he actually missed his slice, so he didn't get the reset on the E.
He didn't have slice into the dice.
If he actually had that, I think he would have been able to create enough space to potentially get out,
but he flashes then E's, so ends up being a situation where they're able to chase him down.
Now though, paying, trying to look for a topside play, you can see Jinz even moving up.
Karioka after impact knocks him down to half HP deadly flourish to follow it up
Keep the gnar locked up there, but impact has a way to give him the extra distance in the half away
So you've got Karioka and Junkato trying to knock down the tier one turret meanwhile dragon secured by TL
No steal away this time, but it does mean that TL are gonna be faster back out on the map to reset from APA
But yawn yawn
Not just shifting away, but shifting away slightly to the side so he's not where the deadly flourish would naturally aim
But here's the thing, APA is now back out into the map.
Doesn't have the notes available, but the resets for Rift child are there,
and see the timers that are here for pain gaming, they've still got to try and get back out,
so see how good it looks to potentially sneak this away,
but I don't know how confident they are on where pain gaming are on the map.
And look at the gold advantage here for APA, very ahead once again,
like last game, even more so this game.
Has the storm surge going to be working towards that proto belt,
so we'll have a very strong two item power spike.
That makes it a lot easier to get that backline access,
And we'll see if you can find those critical ultimates because Niko is so feast or famine you hit that perfect ult
You do so much damage you miss it
They all flash out all of a sudden it could be an easy teamfight loss after because you don't really have that much in your
Kid besides the ult the downside though is there's very little vision for APA to try and make these plays
TL Leon ended up moving down to pick up blue buff core JJ was trying to sync up at umpti
But he was clearing out his comp so impact needs to be the one that draws members of pain gaming down here as now
Now, mid control will give TL the space they need on towards the objective.
And that quick trade back and forth between Cheetan and Yon,
Yon used the barrier there to make sure that he didn't lose XS HP.
So that summoner spell is down for this Rift Herald fight if Paine decides to fight for it.
Rift Herald's already going to be started here by Team Liquid.
They are on top of a ward that has not been cleared.
So Paine Gaming know what's going on.
They're using the TP. They want to bring Ginkado up here.
They want to fight for this.
X Flash from Curry doesn't really find a whole lot of anything.
Wiser off to the side, Karaoke jumping in the middle, nice shockwave!
It's Team Liquid in trouble as Impact is already dead, but a nice two-man in pale!
Drags a couple back the other way, Wiser from the other side, coming in, looking for the angle for the pincer attack on Yon.
Korjaj barely getting away, a double kill back to APA, and Yon is ready to fire!
Wiser takes something out, but there's three dead on both sides.
That was such a close fight!
I think it was a good call from Pain Gaming to realize that APA in marking Wiser wasn't there for the big ultimus,
But as soon as APA gets involved, TL just have to turn around with so much damage off of this Niko.
Yeah, but still, the credits of the pain carries. They stay safe here.
Chiton, as well as Jinkato, they're not really targeted.
So yes, it is a threatening ult that comes over here. They try to find this combo.
But the first kill is actually claimed before Niko ult would even land.
And the second kill is flashed out of here.
Like it only lands on nothing, right?
So yeah, it looked like it was going to be a lot.
But look at Chiton over there. Look at Jinkato over here.
Also clever little play there from APA, utilize the clone to try to put it in Chiton's face and block the angle for the Jin ultimates.
So some nice little plays there, but it is always tough when you have this Niko that gets way ahead and has a little gold, you have to nail those ultimates.
In this case it didn't really matter, but if it gets flashed out of, you have not a lot left.
And look at impact, he still has flash, he still has Meganar, he died before he could do anything in that fight.
Now Umpty getting rooted up as he steps a little bit too far forward into the territory of pain gaming.
loses about 1 third HP there on the Skarner. Team Liquid up 1,000 gold, but it's really not a whole lot.
17 minutes into the game, they are going to start the Rift Herald up here again, down in the bottom lane.
It's Yon and Wiser, but Wiser hasn't unleashed TP to join up in the fight here in the topside river if he needs to.
So it looks like Yon's just going to follow him in case that Lizard tries to use the teleport.
Impact's ult is not going to be available here. Meganar is going to expire.
Payne had vision on that, so maybe they're going to look for a fight core season though.
Herald is low, but it ain't dead yet.
Paranoia popped, Rift Herald stood at about 2k.
A lot of damage comes out with the Magnet Storming gauge coming up from Korean Pain Gaming.
Jaan's gonna be killed here with the very start. His impact has to walk away in Mini-Nar.
Wiser still with a Dominus lock and a Mothman team liquid with some critical errors.
Has already lost two, they're about to lose. Three impact is dead.
APA staying alive just a little bit longer.
He's trying to hold the line. He goes in for the pop blossom!
He wants to turn it around, but everybody else is already dead. There's no follow-up.
And Omty whips the Skarner ulti again. Massive moves from Payne gaming.
Yeah, Payne is showing up huge, really understanding where they are strong, when they are strong, this combination.
With the Orianna and the Nocturne is so incredibly powerful.
And they're just spending all their resources to dodge damage from APA.
As long as they don't get caught in a big Niko ultimate, there's really not a lot of DPS left in this kit here.
So they get straight in, Omty on, they lock him up fully, yes he had Flash, but at this point you're too low, it's not even worth trying to waste it.
They did a really good job to find this skill. They know impact was not a mega and couldn't have any effect also great TP ward for
Wwise it right ends up zoning APA away from a lot of us
And then they're able to and make force to play on towards the side and then at the very end there
APA turning into the minion to avoid that last shot from Chiton at least nice heads will play but
It's kind of a very slim silver lining on the play and it is APA using his flash there
He did trade it with Chiton
So Chiton is not having that flash now as he went for that ultimate as they were sieging that mid lane tower
Gold very very even here the TL do have that to dragon lead right now
It is going to be another ocean soul game
But pain is first to the area and you can see both the TL jungle and top are up towards that top lane
So it's just gonna be a trade and they're gonna see if they can get one or maybe even two towers here
Yeah, I think they're fishing for the tier two because Jin Kato already securing that bottom one
They kind of need another turret to make this valuable
Chiton is gonna move over to Curry, but I think they should still be able to get it with just maybe end of TL members that are there
I'm surprised Impact didn't just ride it straight into the turn to be honest
Yeah, it would have been a lot faster for sure, but they will at least get that second charge
We'll see if they can finish it off
But Impact did just use his hop to actually just for the attacks to use the right hand and have it
Now Impact's in some serious trouble. Cordj. Jay wants to step up and help him
But Impact's gonna die before we can even transform
Tragedy after tragedy for Impact as now
Oh Cheetan grabbing a nice deal on Core Dragon. It's Yone! It's the inverse! It's all the way! It's deja vu!
We're back in the same spot we were! Yone stole the Dragon! Wow! There ain't no way man.
It's not Yone who was broken, it's Ezreal this whole time. What can junglers do? Press Mike.
Junglers hate him. There's one trick. There's one trick. Simple trick.
I cannot believe that in fact he uses E there though in that spot man.
It's right on vision. They see you. Yes, you do get the attack speed buff. That's why he does it
But he just ease to try to finish off the tower and it's an easy engage and a kill impact now zero and four
2.4,000 gold behind wiser
Again really getting out played by his counterpart, but this is the steel and this is actually massive. So again
Yeah, just some items available and it's not easy sometimes sometimes the specter client is wrong
But if it was up, that's a big oopsie and another flash force there by a PA
But this is the thing now so for a TL look that entire top side play went completely awry, but
Having three dragons now one you can either just hope for a steal from empty
But two you can also start to play elsewhere on the map and make things very comfortable for pain who have to every single time
Start to contest you because if you end up with like trying cheat on to poke you off of an ocean soul
It's just not gonna work out well for you very important purchase done now though for wiser
Sterics gauge completed on the renektin
Renekton with Sterak versus Renekton without feels like an entirely different champion in the team fight
because you can full send into the back line be this massive space creator this massive disruptor that everybody on the enemy team has to protect their carries from.
Yeah, and Nara on the other side. We haven't even seen him be able to get any mega Nara. Nice ult on the wall.
Nice and pale from Upti to find Curry there. Tracks him back over the other side. Yann wants to follow and gets the kill.
Now Team Liquid looking for a little bit more. They forced the Flash out of Kiriyoka. He has to avoid the Tangle Barb there.
I think it is ulti too, so great moves there from TLMT finding a key pick, pulling him back over the wall.
So, the thing about Skarner's ultimate, if you pull somebody over the wall like that, no matter what, they must then spawn on the same side of the wall as you.
Even if you don't move, they've got to be on the same side of the terrain, and it makes it so easy to follow it up with the immediate wall slam after.
They layer the CC, Yon is fearless, hopping over to follow it up with the damage,
and Team Liquid get a really needed pick.
I didn't know they played a lot of Skarner.
Oh yeah, you know, I dabble.
Okay.
And Team Liquid right now is still dabbling with a very close game.
This is really, really impressive, I think, from pain gaming
to be able to keep up with Team Liquid the way that they have.
Yeah, I mean, if you would talk about pre-term and expectations,
nice Juke by APA there, goes the opposite way he would expect with the clone.
But if you would talk about pre-turned expectations and tell someone before the tournament started that pain would not only qualify to Swiss
What would be pushing team liquid to the brink in a best of series?
You would be blown away, and they definitely have a lot to be proud of how they are playing here
Second items coming online for multiple different champions
You can see your Sarasen blade embrace plus storm surge both fully completed for Jane Kato
Who is 2-0 and 7 on the Orianna by the way really good performance on that champion this game?
Static shift plus infinity edge for Chiton's Jin.
Over on the other side, Trinity Force, Muramana,
core build completed for Yan,
who just now destroyed another turret as well.
Um, Dean, making Curry jump back over the wall there
towards the safety of his team.
Skarner has about 150 extra health
stacked up on the heart steel, so a little bit,
but nothing completely crazy here just yet.
Again, Azale, you mentioned it earlier,
but this is the build that scales further and further.
If you're playing a 40-minute game of League of Legends,
you would much rather have this build
than the Zeke's Convergence one,
but it does take a longer time to come online.
Yeah, exactly. And it can also be strong against melee heavy teams.
It's easier to kind of just walk around and just proc that on a bunch of people.
Right now it does do 254 bonus damage on the auto, which isn't significantly insignificant.
It can actually make a difference on getting some of those kills.
So it can be pretty strong.
And we'll see though if TL can close this one out.
It is 50 seconds just about until that soul is spawning here.
And TL are trying to get visioned down on the bot side.
You can see the resets have come through, except from impact,
who is still very very far behind and we'll see if you can find that correct timing.
Is this would be too weird if it's again now a trade for Ocean Solve and the other team
No shot, no shot. I refuse to believe.
Umpty, swooping around from the side there, finds Curry.
A little bit more damage without the Tangle Barbs connecting from APA though.
They're not going to pull a commit onto that.
I feel like if you get the root from the Niko,
you can try to burst the rail down but as soon as it misses they just give up.
Great poke, that's all you needed from TL, just to force them back and then you get to take over and
try to force your way through this topside with APA, being any one of the criss-er's that exist in this jungle
is what's gonna be terrifying.
And I think that was one of the things that TL struggled with in some of their earlier games,
where they'd get a chunk and they feel like we need to get more, we need to get a kill, we need to finish them off.
It's okay to just maintain position control in the area around the dragon, get a chunk and use that to try to play for the objective.
And we can see Impact here up on the top side, was in Mega just recently, so he has no NAR bar.
So even if he TP's in, he's not going to be much of a threat.
Do you need to slow play this and buy time for Impact?
Great play from APA though.
He's some clear vision there, he's very few wards behind, so he could get a great flank position.
Alright, Dragon's already at half HP.
Impact going back to base right now.
Clone from APA sent forward on top of the Dragon's position as now Impact is ready to join the team.
But he is mini-NAR.
He has Steric's gauge now purchased.
Wiser could be in some danger, already down to half HP, has to take the blast cone, back up the wall, paranoia used.
The karaoke mids no engage, the drake secured by pain gaming, but now they got to try to get away.
Ginkado is inside the drake pit as karaoke is caught, jungler down, pain gaming on the run, team liquid.
They force out the flash from the enemy mid laner, they kill the enemy jungler, Baron is alive.
Exactly, they're going to go straight over towards that Baron AP, they're going to push out bot first though, because he does have the TP available.
Great smite though from Karaoka to secure that because giving over soul on top of this run of play could have been game ending here
And now the game at the very least will continue to go out be it at a big advantage for TL
They're gonna try to come over and see if they can test this but APA does have TP and there is a ward right there
Yeah, pain wants to try to stop it the Baron's not dropping exceptionally fast
Curry still has Magnet Storm. Keep your eyes on that wiser coming around from the side
Dominus also ready, but the TP arrives for APA
The real one gets rooted up. He pop blossoms absolutely nothing. He's got to try to get away from the curtain call
He's juke of the shots well so far the Baron should be a guaranteed take for team liquid
They secure it with the smite and now wisers in the middle of a 1v4
The renec-ton is surviving for an incredibly long time and he goes with a rampage as yawn dies. CoreJJ will be next to go
APA's clone surely can't save him here. Team liquid they secure the Baron but pain punished with a double kill
Nice kills going through for paying gaming off the back of it.
Karyoku's ultimate is just nerdy off Kodama, wasn't quite there to try and get him into position,
but Baron secured for TL even if it was a little dicey on the exes.
Yeah, definitely dicey there. And I mean again, with APA not finding anything on the flank here,
tries to come in with the TP on the angle. It's a great initial catch there from Junkato,
and then the root from Teton means he can't actually rock a fell forward, he can't flash in for the kill.
The big one though is the fact that he got out the shockwave. They tried to hold him in place,
Here we go. We're not done, boys.
Umpty jumping in there trying to protect his mid laner
as it looks like the first tournament is already down
and they aren't done yet.
Pain gaming with a big shutdown on APA.
That Nico dead now for 50 seconds.
This combo is so terrifying throughout worlds.
We've seen how strong it is not only this year
but in years past as well.
And it has worked out fantastically.
The knock turn being able to get on towards the back line
wasn't quite the shockwave
but still that damage from the storm surge
to follow up is enough to finish off both players.
on terrors. Yeah, absolutely. An APA. He is most of the gold lead here for TL. So needs to be able
to find those big alties, but without flash now, it's going to get that much more difficult.
Lost that in that previous play. TL do still have Baron on a couple here, and we'll see if they
can get anything from this. But so far, that Rebel Baron power play, that's a negative 700
gold for TL. Paying to have pulled this game pretty much right back to even and are just
punishing TL on every single mistake. They're playing a really strong series.
I am really impressed by what we're seeing from pain gaming here today up against Team Liquid.
They are doing everything they can to fight these guys at every possible opportunity.
They are barely a thousand gold behind TL, but a big worry for pain right now. I think
still has to be that dragon soul as Umpty could be in a tough spot. Find the impale onto two.
APA ready to follow it off the rest of Team Liquid providing the firepower.
Umpty Starex Gage gonna proc, so now he's gonna be feeling pretty good.
Wiser stuck in a bad spot, he tries to slice and dice, but it ain't gonna work enough.
Wiser still going on the line, Nico into the back line as Kiriyoka falls.
Yon's gonna kill, and that's about to be a full ace for Team Liquid.
APA's wrapping around to cut off the escape route.
Junkato wants to get away, and Team Liquid will not allow it.
Brazil is aced and Team Liquid is marching down mid lane.
Liquid show up huge in that fight and they're gonna probably just try to end it right here right now.
Only five seconds left on Curry but it's a support alone.
Pain gaming stood so tall they fought so hard but they will ultimately succumb to Team Liquid
who will continue their fight at Worlds 2024.
I gotta say though, man, if that's a preview of some of the America's
I was gonna say next year pain has really been stepping up making a banger
But a great win 4tl at the end of the day
There was definitely some bumps in the road, but they can build some confidence here
They're still alive in the tournament and now they're gonna have to try to look forward to their next match
And there are some tough draws that you could get BLG's in there way bows in there
There are some really strong teams. I think you can still see the mid to late game mistakes there for TL
Well put, a happy face if you can get that win and start to move forward through the rest of the tournament.
But I think for Pain Gaming, just commiserations, they proved a huge amount for the CB Law of this world's event.
And I think they can be very proud of what they did.
Absolutely. Pain Gaming, they can leave with their heads held high, qualifying for the main stage,
pushing Team Liquid to the brink. But there will be the second team eliminated now from the main stage at Worlds.
Team Liquid, their journey continues.
Derst!
What do you think? Derst is broken!
Oh, that's good.
Yeah, so let's go.
That's nice.
You can thank Jel for that one.
Claps for pain as well.
Claps for pain.
Yes, absolutely.
Oh, it's scary.
What a close affair.
I mean, so many kind of clutch moments,
I think top lane.
That was phenomenal for pain in the series as well.
But I think for Team Liquid, I
see this as kind of, this is kind of,
you're on a stairway to what your potential is.
The things that you've shown your whole year, right?
and this was a very, very necessary victory in order to get back to being able to show
that versus the teams that you weren't able to be in the best of ones a few days.
Completely agree.
There's a lot of points in this game that they'll look back on and know that they absolutely
cannot repeat these mistakes against the teams they have in front of them.
The draw that we are going to have is very, very scary.
And if you have stuff like the, like the mic falling down off of your face, that
It felt like some of their plays.
Yeah, I mean, serious.
I'm thinking of like, OK, so Impact had a bunch where
Impact was having a very rough series.
Wiser was playing really well, got the better of him.
But also the grub fight where you
can tell the communication is Impact is going to revive soon
and he has teleport.
So he'll come back in.
So let's take the fight after.
But Umpty goes a little bit too soon.
Umpty just kind of walks into them
and it's stuff like that.
Some of these plays where you
can tell what the play is going to be,
but they rush it in some fashion.
And it's different players at different times.
And yeah, there's definitely some points
where we cannot make errors like that moving forward.
Lessons were learned.
I hope so, yeah.
It's so, God, the emotions make it so difficult
to talk about in a coherent way
because on one side, I wanna believe
that they are better than this,
but they also too old, right?
I shouldn't expect too much more.
And there is a lot of stress in the environment,
but it does not lead me with a lot of trust going into the next stage.
I do believe they are better in this because that's what they've shown all year long.
Kind of like what Shox is saying, they have built up this expectations
because of their good performance.
Yes, and CoreJJ did as well.
And he's standing by in the Verizon Post Game interview.
Team Liquid advanced with a clean victory today against paying gaming.
And CoreJJ, thank you so much for joining me after this series.
Thank you, thank you.
Tell me about this series and the mindsets you guys were in coming in today.
We know our American brothers are good, so we prepared well, but the game was harder than I thought.
Okay, and I've heard so many good things about Team Liquid, and the fact that scrims were going really well,
although we know that usually scrims going well doesn't mean that the stage is going to go well as well.
What have been your difficulties so far?
I think our hands are not working well, so we need to tear our brains that do better.
All right.
Do you feel like your hands are following your brain now?
Is everything fixed?
Well, I think we need to some stretch and make our blood working well on our body.
So it should be better.
Great tips.
I'm going to ask for hands stretching advice after that.
One thing that I've noticed watching you play Champions Q is that a lot of pro players and fans agree on the fact that you may be one of the best shot-callers in the West and in pro-play.
Can you talk me through your impact leading the team and what makes your shot-call better than others?
I would like to say this one, like after winning like Asian team, but after having like a little bit of disappointed series by myself, like it's very hard to say what I, how much impact I did on the game, because it was not a good game.
Is there anything that you would like to improve upon for the next stages and if so, what?
I will just go back to practice room and then play some solo queue.
Alright, better hands, brain functioning, play some solo queue, stand out, work out.
I know that in the opening teaser, APA was actually saying that you need to reignite hope for LCS.
Do you feel like you have a lot of responsibility with Team Liquid at Worlds?
I mean, the flag case is in the 2-1, so once they lose, two more games, we're gonna be
the last hope.
I hope you guys can keep some tears though, I love the interview.
Thank you so much, CorkJJ.
Thank you.
Congrats on reaching the next round, we'll see you in a few minutes after the draw,
and that's all for us here on this side of the stage, we'll be right back for
the draw show in just a few minutes.
Thank you so much, he's really funny, CorkJJ.
Effortlessly so, we've got you on here with us as well.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Stressful.
1 out of 10, how much?
Maybe 10.
OK.
OK, good.
Not that stressful, but like a little bit worried
that we're going to get knocked out by another minor region
this time around.
What was stress before the series versus stress now?
To be honest, more than stress, it was like worried
that it might happen again, like a return of last year.
But more than that, I really wanted to win.
So it cancels out a little bit.
Yeah, it does.
You also stole a dragon.
So did Titando in the first game,
and thanks to the reliable Cisco network,
we had not one, but two Ezreal dragon steals this series.
Were you like, okay, I'm gonna give it back to him
in a second?
So actually, he was hitting the dragon
for such a long time.
Yeah. I was watching it
because it was on the crab.
Yeah. I had full vision of it.
So I was just eyeballing it for like an entire 25 seconds.
I'm like, hey, what if I do that to him again?
Perfect.
Nice.
This was great because I think impact had just died on the top lane and it was looking really bad and when we're watching on the screen just on the corner
I see like, oh, you're so tracking and I felt better about it for a second. I feel like both games
I was just sitting here watching like on the edge of the couch
I was getting so nervous after you know some of the mistakes are happening, but I kept being like alright
Yon's gonna save us that's why we had to get you here like a kaisa game when you were so rich like
Well, what were the comms all game long because I you were the only one I was looking at
I was like please there he is going to take over you were like by the way you ended like almost 5,000 golds
Head individually. Yeah, so I really wanted to fight but I didn't really like give an example
How do I because they're they're compass very hard to like actually siege towers against so we were just playing the map like
Cora and everyone else was just talking about the sideways because that kind of game is way more
Scyling we're at Wyatt and I just kept moving back and forth to find something not very easy
but just a lot of gold nothing that he was used what about the the the call to take Baron and give the dragon soul
So we were actually just playing on one shotting and then fighting them, but we couldn't really get uh, I don't think we
Position well enough to punish them after they took it. I think if we punished a little bit faster and like
Wrap them a little bit. I think we would have easily been up to wipe them because you're so strong. I
Yeah, we can see what the double teleports used and then just kind of having to let them get away.
It was very unfortunate.
Regardless, how has it been kind of having to reset your own expectations?
Because I think a lot of people are looking at Team Liquid and I think still are, you know, from this point on as,
oh, all this quality that you've shown in the LCS, you know, your proficiency to also kind of take it to T1
one just to give one example right but that not really coming to fruition in those best of ones
do you feel more comfortable with kind of this lesson but also the best ofs that are coming up
now if you get you know the lck opponents again and the lpl opponents yeah so we definitely were
very confident going to this tournament because we were having really good practice i do think
that a lot of our matches were very close and we couldn't really execute the final straw
the final like lights I think we learned a very good lesson like if we have the chance we should
absolutely just keep going for it and just like use our brain or make sure our brain is cold and
look at things logically and besides that I'm excited just to play against every alpil team again
BLG is next probably okay because we have the draw show we have the draw show you got so
BLG is down there all right with our luck we're gonna meet BLG well there's one team you
can play down there. We have the bracket somewhere. I want to throw it up. We do, I would love to. Yeah,
Wabo's down there. We also have Fnatic down there. Yep, Fnatic is down there. We need our
brothers again. Gavis down there now. We got PSG down there. We got Gam there. Okay, so we got Fnatic,
BOG, Wabo, PSG. So it could be really good or really bad basically. Well, you have a 25%
chance of getting an LPL team and a 75% chance of getting Fnatic PSG again. Yeah,
Yeah, so like, because you can't play WIPo.
So like T1's gonna be TS, then we're gonna be BLG,
then we're gonna meet back at us.
Okay, so we're basically gonna run through
the entire LPL bracket.
Wouldn't you like to just take down the EU second seed
on your way there, though?
I mean, it'd be much more funny
if we get every single LPL team.
It'd be like the T1 of last year,
but the inverse, like you lose to all of us.
Maybe you lose to all of them this time around.
Maybe you don't meet TS.
I know you've beaten Fnatic twice this year,
but isn't it kind of hard to beat a team
like over and over again?
Yeah, I think they definitely didn't show what they were actually
capable of when we were playing against them.
So maybe this time around, they can actually show
how good they are.
I'm hoping with you, man.
But I don't know.
He said that they could.
He didn't hope that they will.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's interesting, though, because we, of course,
have the 2-in-1 pool draw coming up as well.
And you have some things that can't happen, right?
So like, G2 cannot draw HLE, but there's
a lot of strong opponents aside from that.
I think a lot of fans are wanting that Fly Quest G2 matchup really, really badly.
I almost think it's a trap for either side.
I mean, I feel like we've been denied our NA versus EU hype matches so far.
They're about to fear.
I want them now.
Yeah, they're about to fear.
Why do you two TL fanatic?
Get us both.
Let's go.
We have like 10 seconds left.
What's your prediction of who you're going to play?
I think we're going to play Beelzeb with our luck.
Oh my god.
I didn't want to say it again.
it by saying it again. We're gonna play fanatic. Okay. Okay. They're gonna play fanatic. I'm
ready. Let's see. It's time for the draw show for the next stage of our Swiss stage. I'm so nervous.
Welcome everyone to the world's 2024 Swiss stage draw show. Gen G and LNG have already advanced
to the knockout stage and we've had to say goodbye to MDK and pain gaming. I'm Laura and I'm
joined by Malou, Riot Games Tournament official. The remaining one and two teams have been
divided based on their results over the last few days of competition.
The first pillar here consists of the teams that went 2-1 in the second pillar of the
teams that went 1-2.
As a reminder, repeat matchups are not allowed in the Swiss stage.
If a team is drawn against someone they have already played, or if a draw would force
two other teams in a repeated matchup, the drawn team will be moved to the next
available matchup. Our two and one teams consist of Top Esports, T1, FlyQuest, D-plus
Kia, Honwa Life Esports and G2 Esports. Now, Malou, would you please draw the first team, please?
D-plus Kia. And they will be facing, now for the second matchup, the first team is
eSports and their opponents will be eSports, but it is an invalid draw so they will need
Another opponent
Now for G2's opponent now for the next matchup for Hanwha Life's opponent fly quest
and now for our 1 and 2 teams
Fnatic, Billy Billy gaming, PSG Talon, Waybo gaming,
Gam esports and Team Liquid Honda. Now Malou, would you please draw the first matchup please?
Team Liquid Honda and they will be facing. We bought a gaming but this is an invalid draw so we
will now draw Team Liquid Honda's opponents. Anna esports and now we will draw Waybo's opponents.
And now for the next matchup and their opponent will be PSG Talon. Here are the matchups for
Round 4 of the World's 2024 Swiss stage. Round 4 will be played over the next three days, October 10th, 11th and 12th.
Three more teams will advance to the knockout stage and three more teams will be sent home.
Remember, League officials will confirm the order of the matches tonight.
Be sure to follow us on LOLesports.com to see the schedule as it is locked in.
And that's all for us here on this side of the stage. We'll see you later. Bye-bye.
And the one and two teams I think TL specifically it's probably comfortable fanatic
Not so a couple of things stand out to me BLG PSG rematch is actually super hype
remember what almost happened at MSI and I personally would have liked to see G2
FlyQuest maybe but I think G2 T1 is the best at East versus West rivalry we
have ever had in League of Legends and I love seeing it. It is actually an incredible match.
C2 T1 is actually in a criminal matchup caps one of the plate T1 we talked to me I'm saying they're gonna win right but
It's fun that to me is amazing the rest of it. I was a little disappointed. We didn't get any
I was a lot disappointed. I really wanted to see TL fanatic or G2 fly
I think you two T1's more entertaining, but if our teams
Deliver, which we hope we'll get them in like the ultimate to too much. Yeah. Yeah, exactly
We've got a good NA EU in store for us, baby. Yeah
are you saying if G2 loses to T1 then they'll get a 2-2 against TL? Yeah! You want that? No
FlyQuest could lose and then they would be against that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They'll put words
in my mouth, but G2 could absolutely lose to T1. I mean that's all they've done the entire year.
It's really good though because that is the one with so much history is the G2 versus T1
matchups. So we're a bit salty that we didn't get any NAEU direct matchups but that one is
really good. I do agree obviously you want the best chances and I think for both of these themes
that would have been the case right. Yeah I mean it's a it's a gam versus TL elimination game rematch
again like this is the team that eliminated them from all the scripts from worlds last year and
they just did it to gam to to mad so it's like the reason that this is like a disappointing draw
for me is because I still feel like the sentiment is ah gam free win man but like literally they're
two and oh for eliminations of western teams and we just had yon here thinking about it already
Yeah, I didn't want to do that again thinking about it before this series
So they're definitely going to be thinking about it. Yeah, it's like something that's hard that you don't get credit for
You know not a good combo. No, and I think the the kind of the
The side effect of it being g2t1 was of course that we got a chile fly quest, which is really a very very difficult draw
I gotta say yeah, our chances are not that great
This is the 2-1 bracket, it's fine.
Yeah, it's fine.
It is the 2-1 bracket.
And then DK test.
Which you don't...
I think this is a good draw.
I'll come around on it.
No, I've actually come around on it.
Yeah.
Because I think Tiel will win.
And even if FlyQuest drops down, then we'll still have a...
We're just gonna have a lot of chances to make it out.
Yeah, it's true.
I like it being a little bit hopeful.
I think out of the 1 and 2 bracket,
Fnatic got the short end of the stick.
It's a hard matchup for them.
for them. It's a hard matchup for them into LPL teams generally. And I think they've shown a lot of
mid game issues right at times and macro over over pushing and whatnot. And you're going up
against the team that yeah has not had a perfect record, but G2's game versus them was by no means
an easy goal after that early game even right. So I think this is super difficult and for fanatic
this is really yeah now it's put up or shut up right. But it has the potential to be so
So excited right if they can get it together and especially like focusing on the draft and the you know the the tweet
I mean if they can figure everything out and and and focus up for this match
I feel like that match has the potential to be a banger
Absolutely every single one has the potential to be a banger
What was also a banger was our first best of three of the day, but unfortunately for Madline's koi
It was the end of the road here at worlds and we have an interview that was banged earlier today from lore with el yoya in the
Verizon post-game interview
And we're back backstage with a yoya. Thank you so much for joining me after this series
First question. What was the main difference between the first game and the rest of the series for things to end like this?
I would say game one we had a really comfortable calm that we are really used to and game two and three
It was also comes that we were usually playing but not sure what happened. I feel like we were not in the same page
I'll have to rewatch right now. I'm out of words for it, but yeah, I think we were just not looking at the same
I remember many times that
They were just catching us and we were not playing for anything so it felt a bit weird. Did you feel like?
Like, from playing to the match that you played today, that you had a hard time readjusting
or finding the right approach, did you guys feel lost as a team and felt like you had to
change something constantly?
We had to change the playstyle coming from playing into here because basically with
the way we were playing, we wouldn't beat any Asian team and at the end is what we
are playing for, like, being honest, we don't really care if we win today and
we lose tomorrow to Weibo Gaming.
the point like you're still out of play like of top eight so we try to adapt and play a
style that we're really not used to but that we believe is better to be in the Asian teams
obviously when you're trying new things and you're doing something different you're
going to play worse and I think today we really showed it that we played way worse
than we would do before but we believe is the way to beat the Asian teams and again
We would do it again. We would rather lose like this than beat them and go out in the next round.
And I feel like it's something that I respect and that a lot of people respect about M.D.K.
is the fact that you keep on saying that you want to learn.
If you fall, you fall. That's how you learn and that's how you get back up actually.
And when I consider your project at the beginning of the year, bringing in four players who did not have any LEC experience,
bringing them to Worlds, I feel like you guys learned a lot as a team
as a team and even for you as a captain, would you say so?
For sure. I think, unlike this last week, I would say we improved so much.
And I think one of the best proofs of it is game one.
I feel like we never closed a game so clean, like we did in game one.
So there is proof that we're improving. Obviously it was not enough today.
We know it's the way.
Yeah. And sense a really positive signal for the future of my alliance.
And for MDK, for me, honestly, when I consider all the success
that you guys found this year, even if the road stops here,
What are you proud about when it comes to this year and if you have a final message to
friends who have been cheering for you?
Well, I'm proud of the work I've put in.
I think it's the year I've worked the most.
And all the hours that we have put, I think I'm really proud about it.
So yeah, I'm able to stay with it.
I think coming into the next year, into the next years, we're going to show a
much better face because at the end, this was our first year together.
So I'm really positive about it.
Thank you for making us believe that anything is possible and that you can make magic if
you trust in each other.
Thank you so much.
Thank you.
Actually, a really interesting interview, especially the point that he mentioned about
feeling like they wouldn't be able to beat the team at the next round.
So they have to change their style because I think every, not every, I'm going to
generalize here, but almost every Western team that's ever gone to Worlds is going
to be near the top of their region or being able to find success because they have a specific
style.
And the reason they have that style is because generally they found that's what they're best
at.
However, when you are so beaten down in scrims, which often happens, like 80-90% win rates
for the Eastern teams, like the definition of insanity is continuing to try to do the
same thing and expect a different result.
So you're like, okay, okay, okay, well we need to change.
But like a lot of the time, if they had changed that, they probably wouldn't have
and made it to worlds in the first place.
So like, I absolutely understand the reasoning
of let's play champions we're not comfortable with
because we just feel like that could be the only way.
It's like you're just in desperation,
throwing something out and hoping it comes back to you.
And for what is it,
it actually has worked a couple of times
in the history of all these sports, but it's great.
But the greatest successes of Western teams
have been when they stuck to their own styles.
Even if you're getting beat down,
it's like, it's really hard test.
But it's really hard because like,
okay, let's just keep going and just hope it works.
Yeah, and we've had so many teams, I've had so many NAA rosters come back and tell me the exact same thing that he just said as the reason of, oh, that's why we copied the meta, that's why we are trying to fall in the footsteps of those LPL, LCK teams.
But if you think about the peaks of G2 and the peaks of the Western teams that had the most success, they're the ones that are sticking to their style and they're the ones making other people think, oh, we should be shifting.
I'll also say those teams, their style was probably working a bit before having to paint it.
In scrims, it was working in scrims probably.
Which one came first, you know?
Because we aren't getting beat so much, then we don't have to change our style.
And having to change it up means, oh, now we have to kind of first time things on stage
which we actually haven't scrimmed before we came to Worlds to scrim.
It's crazy.
It's usually a disaster.
It's hard.
It's almost like that was a disaster.
But I understand.
I want to button up the story.
Yeah, me too.
of the story just also for me of course yeah I want to just want to echo what
Laura said it's it's crazy what my lines quite achieved this year and this is a
blemish absolutely and some of the other games that they played this year you
might feel the same but they absolutely deserve to go to worlds because no other
team was as good as them to get that third place right and I'm definitely
proud of them for this year so that'll be it we have two days of break
and then we will be back on Thursday so we will recharge our batteries our
teams will maybe drastically change the meta. I don't know. And we'll pump up on our Hopium.
We'll be back here on October 10th at 2 p.m. Central European Summertime, 8 a.m. Eastern U.S.
time for more Worlds 2024. Goodnight.
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