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I guess we button in the end.
wants to take him down, especially G2 today, because one of these two teams will book their
ticket to Paris and then BLG will take on PSG and the loser has to go home.
It is the seventh day of the Swiss stage here in Berlin, Germany and I want to say because
It is in Germany and in Europe there is so much excitement because of what happened in
2019.
As we see G2 and T1 in our studio, I mean, my name is Sharks, can you tell I'm excited
and I'm here with Dracos and Emily to lead us through the best of threes today.
And it's G2, T1 next!
Let's just make it a regular thing, just build it into the format.
We get it so often, it's my favorite part every time at every international tournament
other than the finals.
It's just gonna be such a good day.
It doesn't matter where your allegiance lies.
I think you're not a League of Legends fan
if you're not excited about T1 versus G2
and kind of the best East versus West matchup
we've had throughout the years, Em.
Yeah, it's not even, like for me,
it's not even about East versus West,
but it's about having some sort of really great
international rivalry between two storied organizations,
right?
Like for a lot of people, T1 is the LCK,
G2 is the LEC, and they've met each other
so many times on the international stage.
And G2's modern international reputation is built on beating T1.
Yes, they've taken on other teams, but their rise to glory in 2019 and
that reputation that they've held onto is all because of the series that they've
beaten or been close to T1.
Yeah, I mean, I know when you look at this, you might think, well,
it's only really here that 2019 you have to be super excited about.
But that would be disingenuous to some of the series they've even played
this year at MSI, right?
So there's always that hope that's going to be incredibly, incredibly close.
And since there is such a storied rivalry between the two,
I did want to take a look at some of the most important resources
we have in low esports.
The most popular Reddit comments we've had across the year.
So basically, I'm going to show you both a Reddit comment.
And it's pertaining to one of these matches
that they played versus each other.
And you just need to guess which match it is from.
You get it?
Yeah.
Let's go.
I'm going to run it down.
Let's go.
All right.
So here we go.
SKT.
Oh, that's SKT.
And G2 battle for the final playoff spot. Man, what a time to be alive.
Final playoff spot.
Final playoff spot.
Yeah, I mean, trickstered.
Why are we being because the problem is sometimes Red just says stuff.
Yeah, I know.
And there's just also the SKT is throwing me too, because it's all that didn't
happen until like post-2019.
I think we have to guess.
I'm going to say I'm going to say 2017.
Final playoffs, I'm say 2017 group stage MSI. That's actually my guess. Oh wait, 28. I'm gonna go 29
2019 group stage. Yeah, I don't know why. Oh my gosh, can this I have your face Emily. I swear
It's kind of a flip like yeah, okay
Next I got the one in our pre-show and I'm not gonna get another one after that. No, it's odd. It doesn't count
I know next
Okay, it's a whole chain
SKT yes, I got SKT SKT
I mean but maybe this is on purpose by production right that they say now that you think it's SKT era
Give SKT an inch. They take a mile give she to an inch. They give you two towers for rift herald
No, I think we're going 2017 finals would be my guess from what I remember that was insanely one-sided
What do you say? 2017 MSI finals okay in Brazil also there yeah okay Emily there as well
The beardiest photo of me we have yeah online is just like it is 2017 MSI
I'm having trouble clearing the problem is it's so hard because it's not really like yeah, it's like
The name that they're beating G2, but that's all of 2016 and 2017 like none of it looked good. Yeah, let's get to our next one
All right, we're cooking guys SKT got Baron we win game now
If you get one of LEC's best mids, he has a 50% chance to carry. That's why you get two. Okay, so we're in 2019 territory.
Yeah, yes. It also still mentions he shall not be named, so it's all context clues.
Wow, context clues.
I'm gonna say...
Seriously, this is amazing. They gave up almost all objectives for more math.
Wait, wait, wait, is this... but could this be the one where like T1 started there and but then G2 finished it?
Remember that mid?
I think this is MSI for sure, just because people seem surprised.
I think people are surprised.
Yeah, I'm gonna go.
People want to surprise the world when G2 just went,
that's true, that's true.
That was the one year we came into Worlds with Ego.
I already guessed it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I already guessed it for MSI, but I'm going MSI, okay.
MSI semi-final.
MSI semi-final 2019.
World semi-finals.
We had Cloud then!
Why are people doubting?
Why are people surprised?
There's a close one.
Man, that is full of red herrings.
That's all I'll say.
It's true.
I did get the question in pre-show after that very very serious run down of the history between these two orbs
Let's take a more serious look back at the history of G2 versus T1
Today's featured matchup presented by Mercedes Benz is a look at the greatest east versus west rivalry in league history
G2 versus T1
The years T1 was seen as the unkillable galt of league led by the demon king himself
They were untouchable, and even Europe's promising new champions could not make a dent in their armor.
Oh that is absolutely sick!
What?!
That's disgusting!
I can't see a work back!
But after reaching Worlds finals in 2018 with Fnatic,
Camps shocked European League sports by transferring to G2,
ushering in a new era of European dominance and changing the landscape of this rivalry forever.
Even with domestic success, European fans had muted aspirations on the international stage.
It was rare for LEC teams to take games over the LCK and LPL, let alone win an entire Best of Five series.
Misfits taking T1 to five games during the 2017 Worlds quarterfinal was still seen as one of Europe's greatest moments.
So when G2 entered the Rift opposite T1 at the MSI 2019 semi-final, few fans predicted a victory against the three-time world champions.
But instead, they were treated to one of the greatest, most intense series in MSI history.
history.
Captain's trying to find the kill, Matta's in trouble, Faker's low, but they've already
got one at the Matta, where is Teddy, follow his HP bar, that's a turn for one, the death
from Baloo, for the double, for the ace, for the Baron and the base.
G2 beating T1 shook the league world and they continued on to win the tournament
and claim the first international title for a Western team since season one.
Fans started to believe that maybe the gap between East and West was closing and
worlds that year validated those feelings. G2 took down T1 once again, the greatest team
of that history of League of Legends, taken down by the greatest team Europe has ever produced.
But this time on European soil in front of the home crowd earning themselves a spot in the 2019
World Finals. But 2022 saw the introduction of a new era for T1. Faker still captained the team
but now guided a younger roster of upcoming LCK stars. They dominated G2 on the international stage
at MSI that year and ultimately went on to compete in the World Final. They fell short,
but returned to let the summoners come just a year later in 2023, proving once again that T1 is the
most legendary organization in the world of League of Legends. It comes if it is still ALONE!
G2 2022 and the MSI series versus T1 was a wake-up call since their World Final
appearance in 2019, the gap seemed to have widened and had now been cemented by this loss against T1.
No flash for owner, but the category's amicciloting up, owner, shut out!
So it seemed fate that the fans would seem more of the same when G2 first met T1 at Amasai this year.
Any clean ace for G2!
Here was G2 who had no recent international success facing up against the literal world champion gods of T1.
All G2 could hope for was to put a good foot forward, but once again fans everywhere
We're treated to another magnified game series for the history of G2!
This was the day they almost beat T1!
But T1, it's just another Friday!
How do you want to play the most?
I mean, T1 would be fun, right?
Yeah!
These two teams represent the successes and failures of their regions.
The beating hearts of the LEC and LCK,
and today they take to the rift once more,
for pride, for glory,
and to earn their spot in the 2024 Worlds quarterfinals.
Unbelievable video, incredible job, MEDIC,
for a ticket to Paris just like in 2019.
We saw a lot of caps versus Faker in that video,
and I think you have to mention it
because they are so much the centerpiece
of the respective journeys of their teams since then,
and again now, also for a little hope in series.
Caps leads five to four versus Faker,
In games, Faker leads 13-11.
I mean, series are how you win international events, so we'll take it.
But I think it's important to know while these guys are the beating hearts of both our organization,
G2 are still incredibly reliant on Caps to be that big carry.
And in contrast, Faker surrounded by a T1 team that while he stepped up,
certainly stepped up at Worlds in these big moments,
they don't always need him to be that centerpiece.
And that's going to be a really big contrast on what teams need from both these respective players.
Absolutely. I do also want to talk about the top lane just a little bit, Emily.
I feel like Broken Blade has gone through such a journey.
And we know that so much has been focused on international performance specifically and knowing that say is he's on the other side.
I think that is definitely something to look out for.
Yeah, I'm super curious to see again if these two teams are going to swap the thing that was most impressive to me with broken blades.
As far as I really loved in particular his lead that he was able to get in the waybo series specifically because this sets off this entire composition that they have with the
that lead right off the bat
and I think when you look at
G two semester performance week
early games was always the
criticism. So when you have a
player that's going to step up
and deal the lead in a one V one
matchup that you should not be
able to do at this level. That
is incredible for G two. You
might wonder why do we have two
pictures of T one behind us?
Well, it kind of shows very
well how they are experts at
growing up for fall and winter
where most people do it for
summer for T one whenever they
come into worlds. They just
look much better, Emily. Yeah,
really quick. I just want to
say thank you to all of
you guys for joining us
for this week. Thank you
Yeah, really quick. I just wanted to do a check in on T1 because even as late as their series against K2 roster to qualify here, they looked really uncoordinated at times.
They looked a little bit lost in draft. They weren't able to necessarily get faker on stuff that he was really comfortable on. And I think looking at coming out of this, their performance thus far, very small sample size.
But I mean, they're kind of major draft sinners a lot of the times and drafting like these hard
Forcing bot lanes that I feel like with the Niko flex. They've been looking a lot more comfortable on that
They've looked more coordinated
I think they can still work on neutrals and teamfights a bit
But the biggest thing is this to me in that TES game
They actually were able to get a 2k gold lead by 8 minutes off of their early map movements first turret topside
First blood onto 369. It was so much more well coordinated than anything
I saw out of them in their run to get here where they kind of barely squeaked by a KT to make it
I think it's a massive improvement and it's a struggle for T1 because they're always judged against the best version of themselves
And the best version of themselves is the best team in the world
It is a huge huge glow, but I do think when it comes to contesting the best in the world
There's still a little way to go but the contrast between those regional qualifiers and today is astounding. Yeah
There is a chance I think we saw eight games of this at MSI, right?
And that is what's making me a little bit nervous for G2 watching it back with my breakfast
I thought they were sour milk in my coffee because
Some of these games, you know and especially that game five that they really had in the palm of their hand for G2 and
To think of the fact that T1 is a team that always levels up. They will have looked at that series
So I think it all comes into play today
Let's see what the fans think because we're always wrong and the fans are mostly right
They have like a 70 or an 82 percent
I know the fans are usually wrong. Oh, yeah, we can't trust the fans
It's good. I'm not sure these numbers are right for sure that G2 number should be higher. Oh
I think G2 this is a tall task T1 showing efficiency in the early game against G2 who was not been consistent through leaves
And their biggest game against HLE. It's a tall task, but if we can commit the late game on even footing
I have a lot of hope for G2. Yeah, that's the big thing for me is how strong are G1 going to be able to come out
How well coordinated are they going to look and what are they going to lock in because like I said when they draft for comfort a lot of times
It is these early game compositions where they really want to fight you early or push through like a hard to be too
And I think the draft is going to be a central point because when you look at that MSI series
It was all about the unique picks that G2 brought to the table the rec side the Zach the poppy
Do they have another creative angle today because we saw what happens when that angle is removed?
That was the second best of five series where they got three zeros
So hoping for a little bit of that draft creativity as well to give G2 an early game edge
They might not otherwise have games of that
Anyways, what a day we had ahead of them absolute glory waiting for T1 or for G2
MSI will be in the back of G2's heads
And they will know what happened when they were in the two and two match last year at Worlds
They want to erase that blemish completely and they want to be T1
but T1 and Faker want to show that they are still on top of the world.
Match point for T1.
The question is, can they finish it right now, right here?
When I won last year, I thought about it the first time.
Shower, now taking a whole lot of damage in Faker.
He's in the Shroud. He's toying with them.
It's a double-closing backflip away.
And back in again. It's a triple.
The Faker!
I think it's fun to be able to make our fans happy.
To be back in Europe, it's amazing.
We have all the crowd supporting us.
It definitely feels like we are on our home ground right now.
Last Worlds, I remember when we dropped out,
we were feeling so sad.
We were all feeling so sad.
The last Festage of the LEC is wiped from Worlds 2023!
We really believed that we could achieve really amazing things.
You have another chance now. We're getting closer and closer.
They're in the same tournaments proving they're the better squad.
We need to take our revenge and I think we can.
If I win this match, then this would be my ticket to go home.
Of course I'm going to take it.
If we really have a strong strength, we probably won't be able to win 1-2.
If we win now, we might not be able to win 50% of the time.
Now we are already 1-2.
But we have to think of ways to achieve this kind of pressure.
You can't do anything.
If you are under pressure,
you will become stronger.
But if you are under pressure,
we can't become a strong team.
I think
we should be
doing our best.
We are doing our best.
If we lose one game,
it will be over.
We will have a lot of pressure,
but we will keep our pressure.
I think it's okay for us to be on the same page, we will prove ourselves step by step.
And then we will prove that we are the best in the LPL1.
Let's go for it.
really built up because it's hard to keep trying your opponent.
But both of our series today are redraws.
So it's really fun to kind of continue the stories.
Now, obviously, the OG playing against PSG back at MSI G2 and T1
the same happens there.
It was very close in the first series, not so close in the second.
T1 took that 3-0 and now we sit in the 2-1 matches.
The winner of this goes to Paris, goes to quarterfinals
and gets to battle in the capital city of France.
But the last time we were in Europe was 2019.
That worked out pretty well for G2, beating them at both MSI outworlds.
But it is a different beast that we're looking at here today for T1.
So definitely a uphill battle for G2.
It certainly is, and that's a good point in, you know, coming into this series
that the Grand Prix does need to be laid here for both of these teams.
And by opinion, it was a very different look coming into this tournament.
Neither team really looking at their peak T1 struggles,
obviously well documented in summer. But for G2 as well, even though they did end up winning,
you know, a lot of the early games would be quite sluggish having to come back in a lot of the games.
And so it has been nice to see here at Worlds so far, even in the few games that we have seen
really early on, that each of them have truly embraced their own medas and really started
to improve on a lot of those issues from summer. And that's why someone I think was
ready-stepped up for a T1 is owner. He's been fantastic in their game, and specifically
on things like the fight. So I was wondering if we would get a fight ban, but we're not
going to see it instead. It's going to be the Renatic and Kalistaan Brom taken away.
So immediately, still an Orianna open available for Caps if he wants to go towards us.
And I kind of like that from G2 because one thing that T1 have done, they've stayed
true to Guma and Keria wanting to play really heavy attack bottom lanes, really
aggressive double range bottom lanes in multiple games there. Plus G2, we already saw the
the Orianna-Nocturne combination, it was beautiful,
but Nocturne has been demonstrated
to work with so many other champions, Gen.G, of course,
using with all kinds of other things,
the Ori, the Aurora, even the Twitch,
so the possibilities are endless.
Yeah, I think a lot of people think of Nocturne
as only the champion that goes in,
but you have to think about turning off
the lights in a teamfight,
and how impactful that can be.
We talked a lot backstage, Dagger,
you were pontificating on, if you leave the Nocturne up,
will we see the Orianna immediately picked up by T1,
Instead it's the Ori for Faker.
And that's what I thought we'd see is the Orianna taking away
and then you'd have some adaptation for something like a Niko
or something like that coming through for caps
to try and facilitate alongside the lights being switched off.
But they're going to go back towards an Aries Garner,
which I'm not a big fan of,
because I think it lacks a lot of damage in that mid lane.
But it does mean that you're going to be relying
on something like Gumi-Yushi to come out with something
like a Kaise or something along these lines
to really be that damage dealer for the mid game
and facilitate this low damage mid jungle combo.
And the biggest thing to me is for T1 is almost always Zaeus, and I'm very happy that he's on red side.
So you're like, oh, okay, you know, they got a Skarner Jungle, they're gonna have some tank there.
But Zaeus having basically guaranteed counterpick possibility for him, I think it's huge for T1,
since to me, Broken Blade has really become such a big force for G2,
and his flexibility was one of the biggest tools that they used, you know, the Galio counterpick into the rumble and whatnot.
But in this game, he's probably gonna be forced to buy it.
I think it's also curious if you end up leaving the counter pick for Karrion, right?
Because I think he has been fantastic in that role, where he's been able to get that
Orphalab counter pick, bring out some unusual supports like the Niko and that,
and then try and terrorize you through that.
So maybe that's it, but with the Jackson and Locked in,
potential here to just take that counter pick immediately for Zayas.
Exactly. Now you can counter pick with both rolls.
Best of both worlds.
Let's see what they decide to lock in early here before the second round of protection
bands come in.
the top 10. Jackson's
something broken blades around.
It's comfortable on his
foot blade. Gragas is going to
be the lock. This is a long
term known counterpicking to the
top lane of the Jackson ever
trying to jump in. You just
body slam him away. You can
also have to sustain him in a
lot of matches and I have a
fun fact because I was just
looking at Zaya stats and I
was scrolling down and Gragas
is one of his top 10 most
played and it is the highest
win rate within that top 10
pack at 83.3% win rate
Not only is it a very well-known pick into Jax because of the body slam because you can keep Jax at a distance
And deal with the counter strike, but also it is one of his highest win rate champs
Yeah, I mean he's been absolutely exceptional in his hands
I don't think when you're looking at a combo that is definitely a heavy one to jump in on top of you with
Nocturne with Jax with more than likely another engage support for Mickey having that disengage off the cast is gonna be so important
and you can already see they're banning away. A lot of those immediately, one on the rail side,
but on the opposite side, a lot of that anti-dive for the AD carries. As I had gone,
I wouldn't be surprised with an Ezreal to be taken off the board here as well.
I said removed by T1, so we're not going to see Gumi Ushi on that in the bot lane.
Yeah, I think this is the setup for the Ezreal pick, Kai'Sa kind of your traditional
counter to that, and Ezreal at least has two dashes that he can try and avoid
some of this engage, although it is still difficult. So I wouldn't be surprised with the
is real here. Keep the counter pick them for carry on or five and see how it goes. But I'm not a fan of this one. I think
Gragas gives you a little bit of damage. You can run storm search Gragas as well if you want. So often when we see
RV Jin, the question is, where is the damage coming from in that composition? Gragas gives you a little bit of it.
Also, Jin does give you good control of answering fights.
When I've seen BLG basically run this exact same comp against T1, it was that lack of damage because you don't
oftentimes have your topside with you when you're trying to play off of side lanes and that. I think that's
That's where you're really going to struggle here is T1 is in this core that's supposed to work around early point robes and dragon of Draven.
It's Hans' Draven! Let's go!
Oh, we talked about this so much, you were like, you can't beat the Callista early because the Draven might get locked in here.
Hans laying down the Gordnet against Gumi-Yushi.
Hans, his Draven was so well known, he was a solo Q-Terra on it before he even joined Nisfits and Rogue,
and then every now and again we get to see it pop up for him.
And there's so little backline threat from here as well.
Well sure there's a cast but in the grand scheme of things you should be fine
to try and hide behind a lot of your setup here as the Draven now with the
Nautilus locked in as well this is a pure aggro bot lane.
And I love going for this when you have the first pick Nocturne guaranteed already
because you're talking about hiding and Nocturne will just turn off the lights
and you get to go so aggressive with positioning on top of that so lots of
dive here and how is Guma gonna get to play this game there is a Orianna
a nocturne that's always gonna look for him because faker's gonna play ari and ari has his own has her own dashes
Plus you're gonna have a Nautilus casting Nautilus all time you it's like Guma does not get to play
And that's the big problem for T1 here. You see how much dialogue there is from it's G2
I love the fact they've decided to go for this in all in composition
It's taking the fight to T1 T1 on the other hand do have good disengaged and if a fight gets disengaged
Jin can start to rain hail, Ahri's dashing around the fight, you have the Gragas ultimate as well to split it up.
It feels like T1 in multiple small skirmishes might be able to win as opposed to a full-on 5v5.
Yeah, I think it is still a little tough because I think G2 did a good job of getting rid of a lot of these anti-dive tools like the Renad and the Tamkent, right?
So, sure you've got some type back with the Ahri and the Gragas, but you still at some point have to turn around a fight
and then you're running into things like a Draven and that, so I think G2 definitely on paper have a good start.
good start. It's just a bit kind of they have a good early game to facilities. And I
will say T1 they have had some good early games and they have a lot of pick
potential on their side as well. If you're looking at things that will make
it difficult for hams to play, Leona Ultimates is a very very good braggist
and Skarner it's not the same as an Octurne but you can go through walls
and something interesting about Skarner in lane swaps it gives you a
lot more options than junglers usually have usually junglers kind of go
to sleep in lane swaps and just go for jungle camps, but Skarner does have a lot more angles
to surprise people from, so very interested to see the setup here.
The third time this year we see T1 and G2 go on to the Rift in a series, in Chongdu
it all came out in T1's favor.
Here the European fans behind them, can G2 make it third time lucky?
On to the Rift we go.
You talked a little bit about the possibility of a lane swap for this Skarner.
Do you think looking at the compositions we're likely to see one?
I mean if you want to get away from Draven Nautilus, there's definitely a possibility there.
Doesn't look like very early on, anybody's going to make a move for it?
And honestly I want to see these two bottom lanes fight it out anyway.
So I'd be happy with that situation.
Gonna have a little bit of a movement now though, you see him already starting to shift.
Yeah, I think the only downside for Mickey is that you're definitely playing a more passive version of the bot lane matchup thanks to the supports.
Like Nautilus wants to try and hook Keria out of Vizinus Blade and set them up, but we'll have to see how they're going to try and play that one out.
That was an interesting cover there, kind of expecting a little delayed invade there.
Oh, Mickey. Mickey carries there. Mickey tries to dredge line away. The charm moves him in place.
And I don't think Mickey needs to burn the Flash, and he knows he's done for.
first blood to T1.
And I really think G2 actually had the slight read on this.
They thought that there was going to be a delayed invade.
That's why Broken Blade actually hovered over by Raptor Camp.
But then they felt like it had been too long
and T1 wasn't still going to go for it.
But T1, they just upset them with the timing.
It was actually something that happened in game one
of the first best of five at MSI.
Faker got caught out moving round toward that RazorBeats
to get the ward in that he so often does here.
G2 read T1, but T1 read G2 reading T1.
and they just outmined game them here.
Mickey will get back to Belayne, didn't burn either of his summoners.
So that first spot going over to Goomayushi is so impactful for the lane,
if you can go back and spend that money.
Yes, but even the fact that you just get push allows you so easily to do that.
Now that you have that advantage as well, it's hard to sum up being late to the lane,
so you get to reset, set things up a little earlier.
And as he's, as I was talking about, the fact that you have the Leona here
actually makes this the more aggressive lane for Goomayushi,
because he can look to play on that, not only item lead,
But the fact he's the fireeer as well gives him a lot more trading power in the potential all-in.
So I think if owners had to get down here off of the resets,
I think T1 could look to punish further the G2 bot lane.
And if you look at those junglers,
Yike is the one clearing down towards the bottom side,
but owner's gonna make a quick move over here,
because they know that they were able to sweep out Mickey's ward,
and he's got a path towards Caps.
That's been trying to pressure Faker in the mid lane.
In comes Ona, just why Caps ever decided to sidestep him.
that might have to burn the flash to get away from the charm.
It misses two.
Caps with the fancy feet.
So smart from him, dodging towards Faker,
even though Oner coming behind him,
and it's a little bit dangerous going towards the Ari,
he's able to avoid both of them.
Side steps the Skarner as well as the charm.
It's nice job hiding in front of minions as well,
constantly side stepping so that then
you're always having some body block in front of Faker.
And now that kind of alleviates a lot of that pressure
for Caps in the mid lane,
Plus, when you look at the IK, you just continue to farm up.
So you get a bit of a quicker reset off and you can be back on the map first.
That battle in the mid lane is one we have to keep our eyes on.
Obviously, both of these players just exemplary when it comes to mage play.
But at MSI, it was Caps who kind of got out on top of it,
apart from a couple of great plays from Faker.
Across the course of their history, you can see Caps actually has the advantage
in terms of series, but Faker always comes up in terms of games.
And if you're looking at this year, leading up to this tournament,
People probably would favor CAPS individually.
I think another thing that Gank does in mid, of course,
is show owner cleared bottom side to top side,
like guaranteed, they for sure know it.
So now it should be very easy for G2
to play around owners positioning.
Already, Yike was able to steal away top scuttle crab
because of the mid lane Gank.
And now, CAPS just has to hover down to the bottom side.
Faker, charm flash, always a possibility.
Cap skits, charm jikes on his way as well.
There's the edge of itch flow,
but doesn't get the stun into the wall.
Faker force low, owner walking away as well.
Cap's didn't burn anything again, and the gank is low HP.
And it's a really nice job here in the early stages
from Yike.
He gets the top crab, needs you to move bot.
Gets bot one, covers there, and the mid plate for caps two.
And now, you're in a position where you've a bit
of a nice ATS lead for yourself for the second play.
Then Kevin's gonna have to flash away.
HanSama, one more adoration behind Sama on his Draven!
Draven cashes in!
Even though Mickey went down to the level one, HanSama gets paid here.
That's quite nice.
That's really going to even up this bottom lane.
Let's see what they're going to get on their timers back here,
because Dragon also back out on the map,
and then you're already looking a minute ahead of time for the GrubSwap.
Yeah, maybe Messi sort of skirmished there in the bot lane,
but the important thing for HanSama on this Draven
He is building up those passive stacks and if you get a kill without dying you get that extra influx of gold
You can see he's 50 gold ahead right now
But you have to remember Gumi you she had first blood so technically he should be ahead if the CS is even yeah
And I think it's just a really nice job here from the G2 bottom
You have to turn down you get the route on towards carry you didn't have the aftershock in the engage
So Han Sam is just able to follow up and get that damage down
And when you think back to when G2 were considered the strongest early game team in the LEC back last year
It was this Draven that so often they would play around and get these big leads and
able to punish T1 in this bottom side and getting this Draven off to a BF sword start in this bottom lane.
And then there's the swap for Grubbs immediately.
duo lane going up towards the top side, Brooklyn blade wants to try and push a little bit worse.
Oh, first. I mean Zayas has flash, has the explosive cast, Hans has both the summoners as well, but Hans' summer continues to put axes into the back of Zayas.
The cleanse away from Han splashes forward. Zayac splashes away. We'll get the slow with the cask.
Han's now in the middle of the minions. Doesn't have a ward to play. Zayac can open up and Zayac finds it.
A solo kill for the Gragas. Meanwhile in the top lane, Hux is going to land on to Onah.
Broken Blade looking for the stun. Root goes down. It's like Mickey and Broken Blade disengage.
Love that play from Zayac. He lures Han, Sama in, trying to play off of the Draven ego that you know all Draven players do have.
And again, coming into this game,
Xeus has a 20 and 4 record on Gragas.
Nice little punish there, but G2 still
going to get those topside grubs.
I think the important thing for Hans Summer
is although he burnt his flash and his cleanse,
Gumi Ushi had to do the same on the other side of the map.
So it's not just he's expended his resources
with nothing happening to his enemy AD carry.
I think the play on towards the topside
they already helped out G2 obviously
because they do force T1 away,
which then gives them boy grubs.
Traditionally when we see the AD carry swap
and you don't move your Draven up towards the top end.
It becomes very easy for T1 to outnumber and out-damage you
in these early stages, but not having the Draven there
still worked out for G2 just off of being
able to push T1 away.
We see that classical exchange, Grubbs for Drake.
As you say, G2 did a good job of getting the prior
in the top lane to make sure the Grubbs away safe bet.
But T1 will happily accept a Cloud Drake for themselves.
Obviously the action has been around our bot laners
so far, but perhaps there's here no flash.
happy explosive cast coming back off cool down in a second and as soon as you see Keria you call
off this dive. Good read from both Keria and G2, spotting that Keria was up there.
Rotherblade now trying to force owner away but I think it's more of a bluff than anything else
that I think you want to overaggress on that is Caps completely out of man in the mid lane and
you had the Gumi Ushin hitting level six in that potside. I think the Grubbuff really is
going to be critical in this game too because both of these teams do have so many ways to
pick off people in the side lane so if you can get the towers down quicker then you're
you're going to open yourselves up to snowball very quickly with these compositions having some of the similar goals.
So next spawn of Void Grubs is going to be a banger boys.
Yeah, that's the important thing. It's the breakpoints of 4 and 6 Grubs, right?
So the expectation is in about 2 minutes 40 seconds, we will see G2 and T1 making sure they have the topside's prepped
and looking for that fight.
At the moment, Broken Blade matching into Gumi Ushi is having a bit of a struggle here, trying to get as much farm as he can,
but he knows he's on the weak side of the map.
You can see T1 have wards in the river, one towards the Razorbeak,
where Broken Blade has no vision of any approaching enemies.
Yeah, I think as well the fact that Zayas has his TP available
is kind of why we're seeing G2 opt into these transferred lanes
because you don't want to have a moment where
owner can potentially play up, have a gank on towards Broken Blade,
you then have Zayas TP back in, you can get a little bit of more of an advantage
for this Gragas who's already up.
A nice little bit of CS lead, or CS and Gold lead,
thanks to that early kill, so G2 at least trying to minimise
where the Summoner's Bell advantages are for T1 on the map right now.
He's currently hovering around caps in the mid lane. Faker and Carrier will do the same.
This mid lane priority can be very important. My duo of the mid laners have their teleports fakers on a slightly longer cooldown than caps.
To use it slightly later into the game, Mickey has worked his way all the way up towards topside here,
but Zeiss already starting to back away, realises that he doesn't have too many friends in the vicinity.
I think for G2 what they're looking at is trying to get the flashback up for Han Zama
So ahead of this white grub fight that is inevitably going to come
But you are gonna have the flash for Zaeus back up
Gumi Ushi should be just around the corner as well
So as Komi was already saying I think this is gonna be an absolute barren of his crap
And with the rotations already coming through for Zaeus moving up here
I thought they might actually try and transition him down to the bottom side so he can TP up to the flight if necessary
But it may be T1 looking to say Zaeus can have more of an impact then Gumi Ushi in this first skirmish
Thanks to the early gold and the fact you've got so much CC in the case for the practice
And we may get to see our first, you know attempted execution of a Nocturne Orianna combo
That is going to be you know one of the opportunities here if you're able to draw them over first as you can see
They're all very early trying to get some extra vision mid-final turns into vision towards that setup and owner already
Into the river they are sending faker bot lane
He doesn't have the teleport so do you want to think need to make some sort of play beforehand to deny the 4v5?
and that broken blade could potentially TP into.
So they're a little bit late in the resets here for T1.
You can always go with the strat of saying,
hey, maybe we won't deny you the 4-grub buff,
but we'll at least steal away one with a smite for owner,
especially with Skarner,
a champion that can go through the walls
and get out pretty easily.
Because Yikes not going to be able to smite all three of them,
so if you kind of put some pressure there,
but now we have the resets.
So Faker already back to base,
Lucidity boots, and heading out for it.
But they are late.
I mean, 5 seconds now on the boy groups, and you've got pushin' top, you're pushin' bottom.
Broken Blade gets the plate, and you're in position to G2 first.
I think T1 have fumbled this a little bit.
G2 will start up the grubs. T1 are looking for a Barney.
They're looking for a fight here, Mickey.
Looking for that hook. Onus stepping forward, eats an axe.
Caps and Mickey standing around the side. Caps low mannered.
They go into carrier paranoia. There's the shockwave as well!
Mimon and the one on Broken Blade's gonna look to try and keep Xayahs around.
One, Obedio, there's Yike. Kills off carrier Onus, killed Caps though.
I know Yaik has some one for Baker and Gumi-Yushi,
and they're so low in the pit.
He gets two, and some of them will answer with one.
Kanz is away, but he's not gonna be able to get too much more here.
He can get a second!
Gumi-Yushi able to win out of the fight in the end,
meanwhile in the bot lane,
much to do about nothing.
Oh man, it seems like Keria is getting blown up so far.
The initiation onto him gets him so low
that then Yaik is able to ult into the back line,
take out him, and they did get one of the grubs.
So our kind of like first objective for G2
was at least get one void might spawn and they did at least acquire that but
great play from his ass right because bro actually I was surprised but here from
the TP to counter broken blade has to flash early needs to keep himself away
from his ass that flash body slam combination faker has no spirit rush
does have the flash but broken blade will just back all the way under the
safety of his tower yes who says going all into the bot side to prevent the
TP from broken blade coming in and this is where as you said carry gets
completely blown up but human use she's staying well out of harm's way and
And then even the Shockwave, not doing a huge amount of damage, but look at the suppression coming through from the Skarner.
Locking up two members of G2, making sure that Caps couldn't have any real follow-up damage.
Yai ends up going so far to finish off the initial killer to carry it then.
He can be focused down by a fake from Gumi-Yushi.
And Mikki is just trying his best to help out Hans a little bit.
But it's still Gumi-Yushi, who's there to clean up at the back end.
The important thing for Hans on that draven is he did get a kill before he died.
So he gets those adoration stacks again, but you can see it's only a 400 gold lead for him.
Now has the bloodthirster complete as G2 have set up towards the topside, T being away from bot as well.
Broken Blade giving up the ghost on that tower.
Xeha's going to get hooked in here, still has the explosive cast and the flash, it's more Mickey acting as a distraction as G2
trying to rattle their way through this tower. They'll take the second turret of the game
and they continue to push forward here. Five drops helping them out quite a lot in taking these towers quickly.
And the price of course that they are going to pay is not only the push on the opposite side,
But the dragon number two here 4 to 1 which owners able to clean up faker
There's not a teleport already use this cut out with a counter strike though and this is met with the world in death
The curtains open on summer solo but break play can tank that up well enough as G2 managed to escape with a kill cast is looking
For a little bit more though. Gumi you she has the flash has the barrier
And I think G2 realized they can't really dive this. Yeah, but look at the bot side fakers completely pushing in Gumi
You she's still looking for more broken blade and have to place a word so we can hop on out of there
there it is, but as they went for that engage, Mickey hooked on towards Zaeus right as the
cast came through, so I think it ended up a little bit more wonky than expected, but T1
are picking up so much on the map.
Yeah, I think the calls from T1 in response to that commitment from G2 were very, very good.
T1 did not panic at all. They also did not overallocate resources. They only had three
people to defend under the dive, and they're like, it's fine if you kill someone, we're
going to get a return kill and stop your five person push, and they just had owner instead
Instead of coming to try and trap, he just pushed mid lane as well, so not only Faker pushing bottom lane, but also getting that push there.
It's these small things.
Axe locked against the wall, but knows there's no one else in the vicinity to really be a threat. The game's so even so far.
That's what I was about to say.
That's seven plates.
To seven plates?
Well, a lot of the topside objectives go into G2, Dragons for T1.
Rift House started by T1 here though.
Means that they should be able to get that advantage when it comes towards the objectives.
objectives and already with the pressure that you can have with Baker on the side lanes,
I think that's where you can transition Baker from side into mid and look to crack
open this mid lane structure. I think this is what we were all hoping to see as well though.
You like 14 and a half minutes in the gold within a hundred, the difference between the lanes is
well topside is winning for T1 and bot side is winning for G2. T1 do have those two drakes in
their pocket as long as it kills the Vithode as well. There's a possibility of a dive in the
bot lane but diving a Gragas is a very tricky affair. Solar flare comes out, Mickey able to
to walk out of it, only gets slowed up.
Yeah, Keria, once again coming for the defense here under towers.
T1 has been the priority, and now after resetting with Rift Herald,
T1 have a lot of options for themselves.
Looks like they're going to try and fight G2 off of this bottom quadrant of the map.
Saw this not work out for DK yesterday.
We'll see if T1 have a better affair.
As there's the suppress, immediately they lock him in.
The shockwave coming out as well as both great tries to survive.
The tower will dive, the caps is low.
Faker diving forward with a Paranoia on him, and Nikki's gonna be the first to fall G2. All hail the retreat!
Try to get the hell out of here, because T1 are hungry for blood.
Faker will find another as T1 find two when the ball ain't dying.
T1 reach G2 perfectly. Faker had already moved in towards this bottom side, and the second broken blade leap-striked in.
Xeus was like, you're all mine. The cask into the blowback and immediately kill him afterwards.
Great stuff by T1.
This Zeyas Gragas that he has pulled out here,
looks like he's gonna even further improve
on his win rate with this champion,
with how he's playing.
He's just been...
He's behind.
Faker doesn't have flash,
and Habsburg rush carry's gonna try,
and he caps busy.
Onak comes across the wall with the edge of itch though.
Will get himself to the blast cone in time.
Faker's still trying to retreat down
towards the bottom side,
but he'll get out as well.
And all the meanwhile,
Zeyas just tepees the top lane
and takes another tower.
I think the next thing you have to look to,
42, is you're really worried about your mid tower,
since T1 have the riff-trail in their pocket.
So, T1 just got a bunch of gold off his defense,
and look at Zayas, he's so smart.
He goes for the knockback, plus killing the minions,
and there's only one melee left,
so it's right in the hands of owner.
It's just the coordination here is so nice from T1.
They fully reset, and they try and punish.
It's also really smart just keeping their damage dealers
away from the start of the fight.
You can see the Shockwave hits three people,
but it's owner's Zayas and Keria,
and it's like, who cares?
They're tanky enough.
So then Faker and Guma come in later,
and actually start putting the damage down.
And that's where every single fight we've watched
it's been very difficult for G2 to operate with this Orianna Nocturne combo
on towards the backlight.
There you've got a terror in the way, they don't want to dive too far
and completely be separated by the structure.
And in the initial teamfight over the second-boy grubs,
everyone was clumped up so they invite all that to be burst on towards the tanks.
So T1 are just kind of setting up for these teamfights incredibly well
and being able to pay through, as you say,
the damage dealer is constantly being safe and a massive threat in his fights.
I think what G2 really need to leverage right now is this Nocturne's ability to pressure the side lanes
because at least the tower did go down in the end, even though it has been a little bit rough in the last sequence of plays for G2
and they're starting to drop a decent amount of gold.
They still do have a lot of territory to work with now, and if you can get one more level, you actually get a nice range boost on your ultimate, but...
So the flair, like this of the Shroud, in goes the Stinger, and down into the backline goes Jyke,
boom, that Paranoia, Mickey knocked in as well, Gumiushi has to flash away, the Whirling Death coming out from Han's armor,
and Faker's on the flank, Kamiya chased out by Broken Blade, Delby won, Faker trying to get on Han's armor as well,
lands the charm, on his data health, the cleanse from Han's is not enough, and now it's a 3v4, T1 advancing again,
Gumiushi was able to escape, fake adds another spirit rush, the charm goes wide, Jyke and Kaps,
alongside Broken Blade able to keep on to their lives right now, Zayus, though can look for more.
Broken Blade stepping forward into the darkness. Rift Tower pushed in the mid lane. That's going to take the tower.
It's only a Chem Drake. The T1 really care too much about it. G2 realized they can't fight around it anymore and they're back towards the bot lane.
The Kask again from Zayas, putting up that fight perfectly in favor of T1. It looks a little dicey for Gunma Yushi as they have to flash over the wall, but T1, these team fights consistently going their way.
And this one, yeah, Keria gets focused early, but Keria's a little bit of a bait.
Track this Leona throughout it. Broken Blade ends up having to flash to finish him off.
But here's a look at that initiation you're talking about.
Yeah, you get to grab on towards Caps again, he just gets caught out.
This looks a little dicey, he's going to use, he has to flash away.
But it means that there's actually no backline up front like for Hans-Sama.
Xehanze immediately goes on and Faker turns on to my late cleanse
on towards that charm as well.
Means that he can't get the last little bit of damage out.
And as G2, they're getting pulled apart in these fights.
Yeah, we talked a lot about backline threat on Hans-Sama.
What do you want to doing so well is having multiple avenues of approach you can see faker coming around the back there
You see the initial engage going out from carrier from owner and then they really pincer in on this movement
Do you want team fighting absolutely? Superbly right now?
Yeah, pull the part and push the part with the Gragas ultimate
Actually beautiful stuff there and again that did result in multiple objectives because of the rip trail
Do we talked about you know getting pop from them as well
So now T1 are in a situation where they are going to have a lot of the leverage to actually draw G2 to them.
G2 really wanted to be in the position in this game where they could actually dictate first before these objectives are coming up.
But because of how the last few minutes have gone for them,
they're going to have to be reactive and come up with some outplays.
But it's gonna be really tough because look at Faker's build. Hasn't gone for your traditional, like,
pure control mage. He's gone for this Bip-Hush build where he's looking at the Lich Bane,
and say hey I can actually take structures very well,
I can have a 200th friend on side lanes,
and it's basically leverage the fact that Orianna sucks on the side lane.
She does not want to be there, she's incredibly vulnerable,
and Faker's just saying cool, well I'm going to push out everything on the map,
make it impossible for G2 to try and play through Orianna's nocturne,
and just draw again G2 further around so T1 can continue to put the pressure on.
And I don't want to like inject false hope into you guys, but...
You might need some right now, in situations like this are when I've actually seen G2 shine
a lot, you know, when they are forced to come back in creative situations, often times they'll
say fine, T1 are going to be efficient and they're going to play all three lanes and close
in on us and G2 like overload one side with the Orianna and the Nocturne and the Draven
ult comes through and they just, you know, commit to picking off one of the points
4-T1 and then they kind of surprise you with being somewhere that's not completely optimal
But then they're able to snowball objectives afterwards
And try and fight their way back into the game or come back that way
So maybe they'll get crafty here and pull off something yet
Does have at least his rank to ultimate here give them a little bit more room to play with
So what you're saying Kobe is G2 are so good at playing from behind because they've been behind a lot of the time
I've seen yeah, especially
I mean, they did really well versus Fnatic, you know?
I think T1 may be a different beat,
should we have just to put that one out there?
You take the nameplates off and then you replace them
with whatever suits your...
And actually, you could do that.
Instead of having the actual opponents,
you just replace it with like humanoid.
They make it a bit easier for G2.
They have had Fnatic's number this year,
but T1 have had theirs.
Two series, two wins.
It's the LCK number four seed,
and currently they are looking to make it 1-0 in this third.
Especially because, you know, Dagda is mentioning Faker's build.
Faker's build not only is a very burst heavy, but it's also very far ahead
Into the shockwave they look for Gumi Ushi
He doesn't have the flash and they will find him another hook's gonna land on Twana as the chase continues
There's coming in with the explosive cast though and G2 have to be careful because TV coming in from Faker
Mickey dodges away from the explosive cast pulse carrier in the truck goes white on summer still cleanses just in case
See one lose one. It's only Gumi down and Mickey answered in response
Oh, Koby has missed, so you're a genius!
They get the overload on mid, but T1, they respond so well, it ends up being a one for one.
Still, Kumi, you shot them up, might set up more.
Faker has flash.
You won't want to burn it, obviously.
Broken Blade can just jump across to this wall, trying to dodge away from the charm here.
Faker with a fox fire.
Charm goes wide, Broken Blade won't be having him any more of that action.
Pox prescribers, G2 trying to set up on this top side now.
You can see Zayas pushing out bot, but he's got teleport to join a fight that might erupt.
Yeah, G2 actually drew it up pretty cleanly there.
They drop the top wave, the faker wave, where Ari was pushing,
and they just force on mid, but a little bit too close to the tower in the follow-up,
and end up not being able to snowball it as heavily.
Though they do still get some critical vision around the Baron.
Really what you're looking at is a soul very early on in this game in only 30 seconds,
and so it becomes very difficult to both keep vision of the Baron,
because you know T1 will also rush down that and be happy to give you one dragon,
But also keep sight of the soul. So here we go. Now is the real test for G2.
And I think at least the cheat sheet for them in this test is the fact that Han Samma has picked up three items.
You haven't got the Infinity Edge completed for Kimayushi. He's incredibly close to that.
So they might have that small advantage when it comes to where the AD carries.
Even the two items just can be completed for caps.
Means he's quite dangerous when it comes to that Nocturne Orianna combo.
So on a fire. On to caps. Thank you for going in with the charm.
Only hits on to make it come cool coming out as well.
There's the Impan and Mickey's just dragging a double-gatter strike into the shockwave though and Faker is a down explosive cast with separate caps
and Hans-Sommer from the fight Zayas on that front line three items strong and he's trying to use them to that full effect
I want her down to about half HP Zayas low as well Hans-Sommer trying to open up on Goomay Ushi who still has the flash in the end of support for mid lane trade
What a pick from T1 on towards Mickey
The fact he managed to get him out of the fight means there's very little set up
doesn't even get to use the ultimate to try and set up, and T1 then get to continue marching forward.
It is one back on towards Faker, and to G2, feeling they have the damage to fight this.
G2 with no ultimates, Broken Blade dashing in here, jumping across that wall, owner.
They're trying to smite the Drake, would be sold for them, counter strike from Broken Blade.
Here comes Zayas, bash, then it's great, they look for the engage onto Han's summer, who has to flash away himself.
Caps is down to half HP, Broken Blade jumps across the pit, and now Mickey's here to bolster the defences.
Faker on his way back doesn't have the teleport the drake secured him solar now for t1 g2
Begin to back away from the fight realize they don't really want any more of this action yikes load up though a hook goes down only on
The owner caps not back
Zayas finds him and now yikes running for the hills locked up with the captive audience yike down to
It's a Baron on the cards for t1 g2 took the most dangerous route ever to that fight at t1
We're happy to collapse. They're gonna be able to move over towards the baron
I don't think he can go for this as a contest here for G2 mickey. Yes has the ultimate available plus
It's five members of T1 and faker is fishing for the charm
Huns has the world in depth maybe looking for a steal across the wall fake your back
There's a little bit of vision here for G2 that war just outside of it giving them a
Sense of what's going on inside it broken blade looking for the flank no no flash on him
But does have that grandmasters might make it come to the engage, but realize it's pretty sharp
Obviously can't go for it still charmed up spillage for fanfaker. There's the curtain calls as well and his curtains from Mickey
carry it takes them and
T1 take the Baron they are in firm control of the game as hun summers over step two
Hun summers down to
T1 six care ahead of soul a Baron and maybe more of his broken blades charmed and T1
Continue to collapse the jump away from broken blade will keep them safe for a moment
But T1 are knocking on the door.
Dude, Xeos is just the go.
Holy moly.
He is such a playmaker.
You think of the God of Lightning with him,
but you know, God of the Cakes in this game.
Really, really impressive.
Game number one here so far for T1.
And after the Baron push,
already taking mid inhibitor,
they have so much money to spend.
You have to think it's going to be a quick reset for them
and right back out to pushing.
They have so much money and so much time.
two minutes left on that Red Bull Baron powerplay. The Voodoo got 3.5k off it. Miki contributing
to the Nordeless Death Dunt misses the hook as Carrier goes wide with the Zenith Blade
2. Miki has to flash away. It's another engage tool lost for G2.
I mean it was another death for Miki. It's nearly going to be 0-8 in this game but G2
now is starting to push out. T1 did stick around a little bit long so maybe G2 will
fake or separate. I feel they have a chance to go in but I think it's still incredibly
difficult because honestly that's only a flank angle for Faker.
Very small window there to engage. They did have a little bit of vision, a TP coming in.
Zayas will be the one on the front line, Faker will be the one on the back, but Zayas and me duty locked up.
You can see how much damage he can tank. Faker going in with a charm, it goes wide.
Zayas almost falls to the whirlwind. He's alive!
He's alive and he still has the locket. Faker dodges away from the hook.
Zayas going back in and there's your contribution.
Mickey falls, the shot bait from Caps. All he can do is buy him a second to wait.
to wait. The flash jump and faker. It's all done, it's all over, but the Nexus falling.
T1 are gonna go 1-0 up. Zayas can do no wrong. TP's in to what should have been his death,
but instead it's T1 killing G2 and taking game number one. T1 may have limped through summer,
but this is Worlds and they are here to stay. Broken Blade and Yike trying to do anything,
but they still have to impale the suppression afterwards with the edge of Ishtar.
The chase onto Yike, the explosive cast, and as you say, Zayas godly with his placements today.
The Nexus Towers ball and T1 will go one game away from Paris and quarterfinals.
Thank you guys again.
Worth.
Worth.
Nexus first.
The support game.
The mental game. It's the mental game.
Holy moly.
The god of crack and the cold on your screen.
That was absolutely insane from Zayas.
G2 not stunned?
Now they do, we'll see if they can bounce back after this short break.
Who gives you wings?
Two against you any differently, not in game one it's not.
And together, not to mention that it was executed flawlessly.
Yeah I think the big thing with this composition, again,
and I'm looking at the difference between T1 shakiness leading up to here to now,
is pulling out this composition, knowing exactly how you want to play it,
how you want to play it, making tweaks like adding the Gragas in.
Zeiss had a phenomenal game.
The Lich Fane, Ari from Faker, really trying to spread the map
and responding super well with this high execution composition
to what G2 wanted to do with the Nocturne Orianna combo
was really great to see from T1.
And it's really a testament to T1's preparation
that they were ready for this combo,
because everyone has been talking about how good Nocturne Orianna is
once the Aurora's and the Yone's are banned away.
Clearly, they were willing to give it up.
initially in draft were super skeptical,
but obviously they did their homework.
They brought something that can answer the
Gragas picked the poster child for that,
who has made Jin a champion that I otherwise really hate.
See much, much better and also helps bring up
some of the damage that an Ori mid maybe
won't otherwise have.
Faker did go grass.
He brought out Lich Fane as you mentioned.
So it feels like T1 took the matter that existed,
refined it a little bit and made a lot of picks
that have not been looking great look damn good.
Really good.
I think me and Draco are mad about the Jin
looking good a little bit.
We've been some gin haters.
Jackie loves versus T1 made one piece of gin propaganda that people are holding on a little bit too hard,
and it just really hasn't, other than that hasn't been good, but today it's been different.
I mean, Gumo watched it, it was against them, and he said, I can do better.
He did?
Don't you worry, and he did, but it wasn't just the picks.
We have to say that.
I mean, the idea of kind of tempo, decision-making, coming into the fights when they had to, as said,
to asset execution, Draco.
There is a lot to wax lyrically for T1.
Yeah, and every second counts, and thanks to the Rival Cisco
Network, Faker was able to get there in the nick of time
in this replay.
And as we take a look, the thing I
want to highlight on your minimap initially right
off the bat, Faker, not anywhere near,
but keep in mind he does have the TP,
and we have a perfect TP flank ward here.
Already a rescue for disaster.
You've seen this so many times.
Oh, can I watch?
If we can roll the clip, we can check a look at how
this starts.
It's actually not too bad for G2.
Hanson gets clipped, but he doesn't get stunned.
Mickey re-engaging here isn't bad.
A front-to-back team fight when Hansama is strong is good.
You pause, you can see the initial impact
of the knock turn, all this good.
They're getting Orianna disrupting on the front.
You're making sure that Jhin can't participate
on the fight, but the beautiful thing here
is that T1 aren't entirely reliant on Jhin
for damage output, so it's not gonna hurt too bad.
Faker, you can see at the bottom of your screen
is already on that flank.
And really, the moment that breaks this,
as we take a look at the center of your screen here,
is this Gragas ultimate on clear screen?
If we can pause it one more time
just to highlight what happens.
We now have a perfect division on two sides,
but Guma is safe and Fankers on the flank.
And all of these people for G2, you go,
oh, it's three people, it's gonna be great.
Ori has no ult, Nocturne has no ult.
None of those people matter.
The one person that matters is all here,
all on his lonesome on the side.
We can play out the rest of the clip,
you know what happens.
And the second that Hansama isn't free to auto attack,
you know how much damage he's doing.
There's no room for G2 to play this out.
Miki tries to make a heroic effort to save the fight,
but in a sustained damage battle,
when Guma is able to just flash away
to regroup with his team, G1 completely demolished.
And the fact that they get double value,
Gragas splits G2, which means Guma can flash into river.
He doesn't have to flash any further back
into the rest of the G2 team.
River would normally be a death sentence,
but does Gragas create so much space
and disrupts these fights so effortlessly?
I think we're seeing this pick a lot more.
Creating space, Badchent.
Summer, it's really one of those,
oh, you probably wonder how I ended up in this position
and T1 says, no, we knew you were going to end up
in this position.
I think Emily, something you were also mentioning a lot is that because T1 sees how the game
is going to play out, G2 had to use their Nocturnal defensively a lot, and that puts
T1 in a great position.
Yeah, it's like Draco's mentioned, they're not as reliant on the JIN as you would be
in other JIN compositions, but then also, the way that they recognized how they wanted
to disrupt what G2 wanted to do with this kind of instant burst from the Nocturne Orianna
and be able to reposition with stuff like the Gragas and then on top of that, the Ari
was so crucial in a lot of these fights and I can't understate the coordination from T1
is, again, not something that they were as strong at in the lead up here.
So to see this now from then could be a harbinger of doom for other teams.
Could we play them in the best of ones, man?
But we just lost and we've just been over.
What are you talking about?
We just lost the best of ones.
We lost games.
We lost games.
This is the thing that I think is genius
is because obviously both comps have a similar identity
in the terms of like, Ari wants to set up picks.
You have this Nocturne Orianna combo
to start a fight off favorably.
But usually whoever goes first is favored.
And the really big difference, again,
is that Gragas all because you can reset a fight.
So T1 get in, they get their cooldowns off first.
G2 then go, all right, guys, it's our turn.
But it's not.
The Gragas stops that from happening.
Yeah, sovereign game from T1 in game one.
And I know there's like two LEC casters there in 1A.
Colby, can you give them like a rallying cry?
Can you give them, I don't know, some hope?
You give us all a rallying cry actually?
I'm trying to give you some hope, you know, please.
I've got a very large stock of hope in him.
I would say you don't want it to be best of one
because to Draco's point, yeah,
you'd already be going home.
So that's a good place to start.
If you lose this one,
we'll just increase it to a best of five.
And it's a 2-2 after this, right?
So G2 aren't eliminated, that's where my hope comes from.
I'm kind of in the this series, I just want to see good League of Legends
with the mentality in the next series, you know, when we match up against the West.
Steven Cameron and Zayus then, you know, just go to the pro view of Zayus
because he truly was magnificent in game number one.
You know, it got to start off all flashy with killing Han-Sama
who the Draven had just cashed in, just bought, was like filled with, you know,
courage and kind of played him a little bit there by the tower.
but then also the team play that came in.
This was just such a big part of it here in each and every team fight.
And I think T1's team fighting has been absolutely exceptional worlds.
You think back to their game against BLG, where they win that four versus five
of Baron, they're completely separating their fights to butcher G2, where they stand.
And G2, they are opting back in towards the blue side, sticking to the same band.
So I'm curious if we get a very similar,
hey, we're just going to run it back and try and be better coordinated
on some of these thoughts.
I would say a number number one adjustment
because they're still, you know, banning the Kalista and Renata, but yeah, they add the
Skarner here.
I think a bigger thing was blind picking their Jax, like versus T1, this team is so good at
counterpicking because both Keria and Zayus really, really benefit from it.
And so you don't really want to blind pick any of your early matchups and just kind
of go the normal route, which is you just go jungle and then, I mean, I guess
if there's a priority on one of the caps champions, but you could just go your bottom lane
and not really reveal too much there.
I am always a little nervous though when I see
owner on Vibe, because he has been exceptional on this pick.
I was even talking to Chronic here yesterday,
and he was saying how happy and thrilled he is to see owner
really stepping up on the world stage.
And I think a lot of that has been his counterganks
on the Vibe, and able to turn around quick plays.
And we saw in the last game how good T1 were with that.
I still have to see if G2 are able to contend with it.
Let's go back towards the Orianna,
and now going for the blind NAR in the top lane instead.
I do think NAR is a better blind.
I mean, NAR has been so versatile and we've seen so many very strong NAR so far at the tournament.
We'll see if that's enough of an adjustment.
It does open up the Rumble. If we want to see that from Zayas in the top lane,
we went all the way through Six and Vans in game one.
Jax as well. It's more of a skill match-up, but Jax will start to take it over as the game goes on.
Personally, I do like the Rumble with the Vi, just because you do get that equalizer-violence combo,
but they're going to go back towards the Jax and try to have more of a thread on towards the side lane,
which can always work out incredibly well, especially when you see that Orianna already.
I think maybe the adjustment is that Rumble does sometimes struggle against Nocturne
because you're ultimate, you can't get full value, you know, sometimes it's really hard to see the perfect placement.
So maybe that's what he was thinking, not wanting to play teamfights and having to work around that.
Whereas Jax is definitely a bit easier, but again, yeah.
So you won, you have to do something we saw a lot at MSI from Micky, that Halo Blades Poppy was causing problems
who also sort of broke my top lane in matchups in Twiccassante.
Braum once again, found a wave by G2 that really don't want that unbreakable shield to have so much presence in the bot lane.
I have a surprise to see the Poppy though, because traditionally it's like, hey, a counter to the Jax, right? But you've already got the gnar.
And you're more than likely, again, going to see this counter pick for Karius.
So I think Poppy only really works in that counter pick role.
So I think if you end up taking Poppy, you could have gone back towards Nika or something that had this really devastating bot.
I agree with you, but I think with the prevalence of lane swaps, there's always the possibility that Poppy just gets to be out on the map and you've lane swapped away from it, right?
So I do get you, I think Poppy is more specific for countermatchers, but you already have three dashes on your team.
You try and want to stop the Poppy from having too much impact.
There's the Zyra bound away, G2 once again looking for that dive onto Guma-Yushi strategy.
Exactly. They're very clear about this. They're trying to ban out anything defensive for the bottom lane.
G2 really want to go very aggressive down there and kind of fight T1 on their own terms, honestly.
So, let's see what T1 do this time around. Very similar. Just going to lock up the G1 first.
I wonder if it is then just going to be the drive in Leona and take. I know we went nautilus last game,
but personally I think that Leona was kind of a little bit more helpful
in being able to set up for this non-committal engage and some of the follow-ups that could work
with the Orianna Nocturne, even just denying that access thanks to that sort of fare on the funnel for that combo.
At a point, Mickey really did fund the Nautilus death pole.
That was like, hey, I'm not looking at my paper, but I'm in Nautilus again.
Mickey used the Nautilus death fund for sure, he was in there.
Instead it is Kaisa over that Draven, handsome on Draven 2 and 6 internationally, even though he has about 62% history on it all the time.
So here going for something has long range poke they can be okay in the lane as well can get the push without a catty and rain
And now Mickey up. Oh, we're going back to the Nautilus. It gives you a great knockup. The ultimate is very powerful
And isn't on committal the problem is that we'll give us committal and that's what Mickey was using a lot of the time
And this is just so so all in dive
It is so threatening again
Even a chance to like previously we're like wow
It's probably going to be very hard for Guma to play the game and it would have been if weren't for really good teammate Peel
And set up on those teamfights this time around T1 do not have the Gragas cast to disrupt G2 and
They they are still going to be vulnerable to these Orianna knock turn combinations that now even have a bit better of follow-up
With Kaisa on the team, but I think as well
You've just got so much pressure on towards caps in the mid lane with T1 now
who's the skarner trying to play off the air in the last game by significantly easier to try and set up for those plays.
So I think there's going to need to be a lot more vision around this mid-lane to support captain.
It is going to be a little bit difficult to try and get that with Mickey having his own timers to try and facilitate
any sort of player in the mid-lane. I think T1 have an easy to execute early game into what was traditionally just a side lane split push from the last game.
nearly see the positions once again rounded out for G2 and T1, T1 one game away from making
it to Paris five years ago, they were last in Europe for Worlds, it was G2 that denied
them that opportunity, it was for finals, G2 obviously going on and losing, 0-3, 2-nfdx
but for T1 and for Faker it's been a long road home, managing to win last year, going
into Overcome Wave or after falling just short against TRX and now looking for Baker's
to T1's fifth. What an accomplishment that would be. Faker actually if he wins this game has a hundred wins at Worlds
which is 40 more than any other player, which is just an
astronomically large gap. But G2 obviously, you're at 2-1, you do have another series after this, but last year
things started collapsing after this sort of point. We all know, you know, energy beating G2 in that series.
I saw you giving me the side eye there.
You don't want to be in that spot. Sorry.
Sorry!
Honestly though, on your point for this T1 roster too, remember back to last year and their run
and all the interviews talking about, you know, they felt that this roster would even break
up probably.
So I've just been so happy to continue to follow this roster throughout the year and
for them to really start peeking again here at Worlds again would just be such a
cool story for them.
Let's see about the level one though. That was not a cool story for Mickey last time. He's getting the heck out of there
Yeah, I do think though like T1 was kind of on everyone's bingo card is the team that was probably most favorite coming into worlds with the big
Meta shift right faker being able to go back towards champions
He really enjoys like the Orianna and the Ari the these control mages in the mid lane
And then they spend it again played through curry tops owner being that facilitator instead of like you think back to
how strong he was and picks like the rail with these flash over the ash arrows into the big crash down to win tournaments for T1
So this feels like T1 starting to drift back into what made them so potent and what turned them into
multi-champion world championship title holders
No lanes walks here Kobe. I know you're quite happy about that fact
They are trading with broken play both of them gone grasped in this top lane
So expect a lot of that hitting each other with your handbags trying to get those that extra health
Yeah, and of course my favorite part about standard planes non lane swaps is that junglers actually get more choices
And you have a lot of options when the bottom lanes like this from champs of left
You're just like are so willing to make it spicy
And then you also have a top lane matchup in it like jack snar where is a she's trying to
Harass early on push the wave chunked the mini nar while he's very vulnerable there
I just feel like there's so much more skill expression for junglers in particular
during non lane swaps
That is just it's just more exciting skills
Expression in PvE. All right. You can do a lot to get there is a skill expression in lane swaps as well
It's very different. It's in with the ball breaker caps doesn't flash away
Oh, no doesn't burn his flash either the caps now at 100 HP
Does have the TP to get back that wave not in a good state there and this one I was talking about from draft
It's significantly easier for owner to again
Just go for this transitional gank pick off cops and completely turn the lane in favor of faker and now it becomes
incredibly difficult for G2 to try and set up because Yike wants just free farm until
six. If you end up putting pressure on towards mid lane as this doctor and owner shows up
that could be an absolute disaster but he's trying to do so nice and early.
Now Slash is away from the charm. Does spring out from Yike for a little bit of extra movement
speed on the chase. Faker here might have to flash because Yike is looking for that
fit. It's a red buff slow but he doesn't know where owner is so has to back away.
Exactly. You can't over chase in those situations running past those mid lane brush and
So it is in the end gonna be the advantage there with the flash
So we'll see about repeat ganks because the number one most obvious thing in the entire game is Vi plus Ari
Level six guess what you're dead and now captain's not out of his flash
We'll see about the timer for it to come back up
But that is a huge huge
Alarm and that goes off and kind of changes your mid lane vision priority
Like you constantly have to keep track of him even look at this path from owner who sweeps around through the tri brush
To come steal away your second Raptor spawn whenever mid lane matchup is a big point
The mid lane steal away of Raptors for junglers is always a very very high objective
Because that allows you to continue to camp around mid lane without dropping resources
I don't know look for that gank once again camps
On dissonance himself and has enough movement speed to get back to the safety of the town
Yeah, Faker was pushing it the way if he wants to try and reset
But it was a little nervous when I saw owner taking those raptors because immediately you can just go in towards that mid lane
And if Caps is trying to play aggressive to deny Faker's reset that could be very punished
But didn't end up going that too far forward and his owner moving back up towards his topside for his own camps responding to make
Sure that he's gonna keep this little bit of a what can't bleed thanks to that raptor still yeah
And of course the icon on the opposite side, you know doing some similar stuff there
They got the Ward onto the second spawn of T1 Raptors, so it will see owners positioning
I think owner
Oh, is that it?
They're gonna go on to Mickey here, tries to dredge the line away
The chase continues as Han Solo tries to put some damage back onto Gumi-Yushi
Mickey down to 200 HP, Han Solo stunned as well, the hook wide there for Mickey
Trying to set up perhaps for Yike to come in for a fight
I think Yike might have even been a little bit too far away to follow up on that
So maybe a bit of blessing disguise, that one went a little bit wide
So Gumi-Yushi will get the lane pushed in
and I think right call to stop the reset and actually pick up this wave because
owner is going to be on that top half the map but yeah I think this is a still a
nice little win for the T1 bot lane in the 2v2.
Much better than game 1 for them. We did see
owner topping the stats for most of the junglers here at Worlds so far. I think
coming into this series owner would have been my standout player for T1. Xeus
after game 1 kind of puts his name in the hat as well but owner I think is
It's just been so consistent for T1 here alone.
Especially on the Vipe, like you think back to their game against BLG, where BLG were
consistently trying to make plays on sides, but as owner showing up, now you get Yaikou
trying to hover around mid with Mickey, and it's owner in position, alongside Keria.
It was kind of this duo that was such a threat in the early stages to deny a lot of these
early leads, or accelerating some of the early gold leads that teams have picked
up against them.
So, it's great to see owner firing on all cylinders, but it's terrifying if
you're a G2 fan.
Interesting sequence of movements here. T1 sending Zayas down to the wall with the bot lane where Caps has gone to try and push out that wave.
G2 brought Hans and Mickey into mid to try and get the shove there as well. The problem for G2 is if they do look through and engage, Zayas still has the TP where Caps does not.
So this could very quickly turn into a 5v4. Broken Blade very low on Rage as well, starting to build it up as he jumps onto Oner.
He's only a third of the way there so far. Oner going lower though. Dustbringer coming out. Double flash as Mickey looking to flash hook.
Me one and the bot lane kept straightening up with Zayas.
Terrier going back in, Faker with the Spirit Rush has two charges left.
G2 needs to get away because Faker can look for another Spirit Rush, another over deception.
Won't find too much more. G2 start up the grubs, they're quite hurt though.
Harvick B on Yike.
Rokkenblot building up towards that mega, looking for a Narm into the wall if anyone advances through that choke point.
I love G2's calls, they're playing for damage.
You saw us caps down here actually poking at Zeus and then immediately jumping on the two separated in river to just play for some health bars
To be able to get yourselves the objectives first the small chunks in damage allow them the opening again
A three grub start here for G2
That's even trying to keep that pressure up because you see how hard T1 were fighting to try and deny them but
A nice job from Caps as well on that bottom side, because one of the big things that
Azmedic was alluding to, the potential TP, but Caps puts pressure on towards Azmedic
to deny that opportunity to try and come in, and T1 were trying to be sneaky against Broke
and Blade there, but the ward just spots them out.
Okay, start for G2, T1 though will still be relatively happy with the position
they're in, they have a slight gold lead for Azmedic, they have a slightly larger
gold lead for Gumi-Yushi on this gym, and they really start to come online when
they get that first item, second item now, both level 6 on owner and 7 on Faker,
means they have that cease and desist spirit rush combination.
That's his flash back up for G2.
Makes him a little safer in a side lane.
Doesn't have the TP yet though.
And it looks like he's going to shove out one more lane
on the bottom side.
I mean, I'm not even trying to give you guys a coat.
Don't do it, man.
Shot, shot, shot, shot, shot.
We want to kill these legends.
No, you're up.
No more talking.
Shot, shot, me too.
But I legit actually prefer the G2 comp side
with the small adjustments that they made in this game.
because they have the actual versatility of the Kaiser for later and because this
time the top lane matchup is NAR versus the Jax instead doesn't have to worry
about the disruption from the Gragas I actually really like the little
adjustments here so for the sake of the fans as well who want more excitement
I mean it would be much more exciting if G2 were able to take this game and
obviously as LEC casters we are slightly biased in that regard but continue
watch the game and just want the best League of Legends we can see. T1 here
will be able to get the Drake. G2 really shouldn't fight this because Broken Blade
TPed up to the top lane only a few moments ago if they try to invest
obviously Zayas can join the battle and they would be at a numbers
disadvantage again. They won't battle against it. See Yike just hovering
on Summer and Mickey in case anything does happen but with Goomoo and
Carrier backing away just gonna be this wave getting shoved out. Big question
will be.
Can T1 with the Auri plus the Vi here find themselves a pick?
Already you see the bottom lane moving up.
One of the biggest objectives when you do have Vi Auri is trying to control the vision between
the river here so you can have these alleyways where you go for those picks and then you
get to turn them into extra pressure on the map.
And so Karya and Guma also doing their part in that trying to keep it clean from
bottom lane.
control wards all the way up through the river, warding up here too as well, and so
Caps, I mean he has that confidence this game in his movement, which has definitely
been very key and his flash cooldown that was actually blown has gone
unpunished, so at least they're doing quite well on that turn.
I'm curious to see how T1 are gonna open up on the map now, because there is a way that they can
immediately shift Gumi Ushi in towards me and try and make some sort of play
on towards Caps with the curtain call, especially when you've only got
50 seconds until those void groups are off, but it looks like they're just gonna shit fake up towards our top side
It wasn't sure if they just went all in I'm trying to burn that flash for Mickey
Oh, thank you goes in with the spirit of the charm landing as well and Mickey is done for
First blood in the first two games Mickey dies owner takes the kill by Ari
Pretty good at getting fixed because they can jump over walls there
But also, you know props to Mickey keeping up with the Nautilus death fund. That's one more for us
What? I do as well as that.
Double Oats burnt. Like you've now burnt both fake results and owner's
old drug before the void growth spawns. So I'm not gonna say it was a pawn to go
to death, but it could actually work out as a decent debt here for G2 when they do
actually go to try and contest on towards those next round of void growths.
It's interesting because Broken Blade doesn't have teleport, but owner's
actually heading towards Broken Blade rather than the void growths.
As looking at his playdown towards the Bumside, Broken Blade flashes
immediately met with a fist in his face. Broken Blade trying to get away from this.
Obviously that's a try and escape from owner who flashes forward another bolt breaker broken blade trying to dodge it
Oh, no holds it forever
owner
Finds another has broken blade can't escape his clutches
There was no escape there owner waiting over the wall broken blade try to sidestep the foot look off motor just hold on
But still on the upside boy groups galore and it will be I imagine there starting to put a bit of pressure here
To answer for some of the turrets is faker in no way. He catches Mickey again
You put everyone on pause
Oh, Micky, you can flip the hook here.
So Yike can come in with a power noir.
That's the dead charge as well.
Chase forward.
Kevin's joined.
Here's Midlaner.
Faker flashes away.
Dignity on him.
It wouldn't be enough.
That's the Sun.
He's a shooter.
Great.
Stay back into the solar power.
Into the death.
Obi-Wan.
Rob, the low was heard around you.
They were so close, but they just couldn't quite find the damage to kill off Faker.
Um, Harprow, come here so close.
Micky, though.
None of them have played.
I don't know how to see some assists here,
I don't think she might just be coming off board and decides against going for a TP to the top lane by Faker as well
G2 will walk away wounded and 1.6 K behind. Oh, man Faker with one of his getaways
Regardless, Mickey should be able to get out here with just a gromp steal for owner
But man another one. This is a big investment too as we'll take a look you mentioned the
Ultimates used to kill Mickey now. It's kind of the reverse situation and Faker did get that little
you know site of Mickey so good vision toggle by the observers and then the
engagement through from Mickey and it's a nice set up carry here to try and help
but oh bot side oh Zeus flashes away he's hit with a house and cap some broken
blade find a kill carry us looking to clap save as well as Guma you see but
this tower is already quite low down to one plate remaining on it carry it
going in with his end of play Guma you see there with the deadly flash as
well broken blade still pretty tanky though yikes here to join the play
has the paranoia can't go into Guma but there's a flash and a barrier on
that AD carry making it a little bit more suspect to go for the dive. Mickey and Hansa are coming to
collapse and this will be first tower over to G2. Faker even dropped off that top tower trying to
move down to see if he can cover the mid lane so then G2 can't always just push in towards mid as
well but so much of this early game has been about these cross maps. The void groups for the
bot player and towards broken glading and a ton of plays on towards Zayas and then you see Faker
in the top half of the map so G2 make the bot half play but now because G2 are on the bot side
ZAZE TP's top to get the top turret as well.
A huge amount of this gold back and forth thanks to these plays.
Still, I think it's a hugely beneficial kind of response from G2
because they get their bonus first turret gold as well.
And those are the types of plays where you really want to see the reset
and kind of set up for it on the other side.
But they jump on it and they get the small benefit,
even though they have had a couple of speed bumps here,
are able to get a little bit more gold.
And now you've got first items almost completed across the board.
It's only BB who doesn't has that reset that he can go for
and the teleport back in.
But I'm curious now what you want to do,
both Dragon and Rift Herald open available.
I think T1 going to focus up towards Rift Herald,
which is probably right against the Kendrake.
And G2 going to see maybe if they can make some sort of play,
but there's no terror for BB and he's so far extended.
See the lane economy snapshot brought to you by Mastercard.
Very much in favour of Ona.
No big surprises there.
Broken Blade trying to hide in the top lane. He's gonna TP away. Will he escape?
You can see it on the minimap. The Counter Strike finds him alongside the cease and desist and Broken Blade doesn't have a hope in hell of escaping this one.
Zayas leaps on his base and takes another 4-1 now to T1. It's interesting that they have such a
bounty on
Broken Blade's head it feels like. Not in a literal sense, but they've got a target on his back.
T1 keep on going for these assassination attempts on the Broken Blade.
It's almost like when they gave up the six grubs they were saying you are not gonna have a split pusher that can use these
We're gonna make sure of it because while we did give up the six grub buff
You know we killed broken blade when we did that and then we're gonna keep looking for kills on him and try and really put
That nar behind to the point that Zaze is gonna be able to control sidelines Baker is gonna be able to
Once again Mickey thought he was safe in his own jungle
But there is no where safe from T1 and this is the moment of the game in game one where we saw T1 begin to
explode it away from G2's grasp. You can see already two and a half thousand gold ahead
now with the Riftel charging through mid they're gonna open up the map and make it so much more
tricky for G2 to do anything. Charm wide there by Faker but he's just creating space. The solar
flare hits, Hans Summer has to burn the cleanse and Xeus is on the line. The counter strike, Hans
Summer flashes it. Riftel charge forward as Zona can jump across that wall and look for
Hans Summer yanked with a fear only on to Xeus. They're looking for the damage to shock them,
we'll find him. Hans Summer surviving up towards the topside for as long as he can in the
The face of owner, but now he's down and Kavya's down alongside him!
G2 find two, they lose their mid tier one, can they find anything more?
I think the answer's no for now.
That darkness was crucial for G2, being able to dodge, took dip dive and dodge and the
darkness away from everyone was beautiful and it meant that they got the turnaround
on Turcariot and Xeus, even with Mickey missing the flash hook.
Yeah, Xeus wanted to play the tether range on the fear there and he was just a little
bit off and got locked in.
Shockwave from caps ended up getting it but here's another look at the start and they're trying to go for the dive
They even get the riff to help knock up there on the caps passing through but right there
This is not quite break the tier feather
And that is enough to allow caps to get a good shockwave
Then you have the desync from T1 as carrier goes back in whether the rest of them are cutting away
It's still actually cost them the life of Han Sama though
So in the end it was just a little like one extra kill and both of the summoners from Han Sama as well as
Xezez has his flash, has that counter strike for it, next engagement, 2.5, 2 minutes 50 on the next drake
means it's likely to be a little while before we see that battle beginning.
I will say though, 4G2, even though it is just some gold, it is into the hands of caps
and that's exactly where you want it.
The big shockwave plays are going to be the ones that you need to try and leverage yourself back into this game.
You have the nocturne delivery, we'll see if they're able to make something.
It won't be now because of course they're splitting and trying to grab tower first
I think it's still will be a little tough for G2 though because caps has gone to this more defensive build often in towards design
Yes first means he doesn't really have that big fire pair
I think it's the correct way to go because there's a lot of threat here with the die from owner and faker and even carry
Being able to follow up, but it does mean that you just lack that that oomph in your ultimate for this Orianna
At the moment, T1 in control of the game, about 3,000 gold ahead.
Drake Capice means there's no soul points soon, but we see caps pushing in the top lane and the TP behind.
Zayas on the collapse, has the flash, caps goes one way, Zayas goes the other, now he tracks back,
knowing the caps is there, the parallel coming out is Mickey,
and Yike looks to collapse the flash away from the shockwave, but Zayas is gorgeous!
And once again, Zayas in this series puts Jitsu in their place.
one of them doing such a good job of collecting G2 members on these side lanes. Every time
they step up there's a TP behind, they're punishing the overextensions and that's twice
now on that top lane that the solo laners of G2 have been caught.
Yeah, that one was a little bit questionable. I know that they also have gnar pushing on
bottom side, but aftercaps took the first tower on top side and then pushed the
next wave. You kind of thought that was going to be the moment for him to actually
Back off but the deep ward allows a yes
The ability to pincer and the only thing I can think of is a potential Zanya's completion
He wanted just one more wave to finish that because he's fairly close to it seemed us still I think very great
Well, see always that mental edge of T1 just took our tier 2 in the bot lane
Let's at least get a chunk on their tier 2 in the top lane as well
As you say Zanya is almost there for caps one item as well on Han's summer to the on Gumi Uchi on that
Jin is the mosquito build, but Jin's been doing quite a lot of work with it at this world.
Anyway, T1 trying to gain control of this bot side jungle.
Their vision control has been pretty solid so far.
Miki almost caught out, has to blast Kono Ueno, safety in towers in that bot lane,
and the inhibitor tower still remains there for him.
30 seconds on the mountain, Drake and T1 have control of the Rift.
Okay, Han Sama, if they could wait a little bit and buy some time for his flash to get up,
It's not a lot of time that they need, but it would be very impactful for the next teamfight.
It's only 20 seconds.
He did just complete his rageblade, so they definitely have some really good looks here.
Maybe he's just finished his mega now and he's gone in.
He still gets the gnaw into the wall with the backline coming, and she flashes away.
The shockwave, everything where he went a little bit early there.
He's broken blade, his full slow, Spirit Rush forward by Faker as T1 begins to collapse,
and Miku's burst on the menu again.
Faker with the Spirit Rush across the wall, looking for Yike,
no Curt and Cool connects, and G2 are able to walk away.
great target selection from T1.
They see the broken blade is about to go mini now,
immediately gauge onto him,
and Goomayushi, the perfect timing on the flash.
Caps doesn't get the shockwave onto him,
and T1 are to win out on the fights.
Just massive from T1, as you say,
that flash timing from Goomayushi, absolutely perfect.
They're looking for the third drake,
and we'll go back towards it.
They were just kinda checking to make sure
the G2 hadn't snuck towards the barons,
trying to take that away while T1
but getting themselves two dragons in this game.
Timing really has been the biggest advantage for T1.
I feel like not only the defensive kind of timing there
with the Flash, but also they never hesitate
on their engages.
When you watch this T1 roster, when they're at their best,
it is always these very quick, flashy engages
that they do not hesitate on,
and they punish you immediately.
I mean, right there even,
they jump to, as soon as they saw their first target
in river, immediately go for it,
and Pinsir from the other side as well,
it feels like this T1 are a bit more locked in
and they are not gonna leave any openings for you.
And this is the T1 that a lot of fans wanted to see
coming into Worlds, right?
A team that can be proactive in the early stages,
played through a strong main jungle,
have that pressured end towards sides
and then start to cross map pretty effectively.
Their team fights have been at standing this event
and it's everything else now
that is starting to level up against G2 here as well.
Dr, you're also mentioning the Vi for owner,
which has already been good for him.
It's pretty good.
Cat at Worlds.
It continues to be very, very good for owner at Worlds.
And, you know, that's the exact execution that you want.
Faker now as well finishes Storm Surge.
Six stacks on his dark seal.
So there's plenty of potential damage
behind these quick reactions from T1.
Now they're gonna split into their 4-1 split push first.
Zave's down there on the bottom side.
G2 have the possibilities of trying to put,
you know, pressure on the split push.
But because T1 have the extra leverage now, it's just hard for them to even gain control of the mid-wave first.
And so then you can't really afford to send anything down as AIS because they will jump on that baron.
This is T1. You know they will go for it.
That's what I was going to say. It's not a very quick baron take from T1, right?
So I think it's more, as you can see, like losing side lane turrets for investing on that bottom side.
Again, T1, playing off wave states, actually pushing mid, catching out G2.
now G2 trying to move in mid but they could get collapsed on from behind says
it's a movement brewing here
TP behind that's Faker, counter TP being used by Broken Blade Kerven called coming in as the stopwatch is used
Dyrone onto the backline jumps Guma, Ushia, good shockwave as well onto Zayas
and now we see Hunts Summer having try and get away from this owner going in
as he puts the damage down onto caps owner flashing away Zayas the same as the other instinct from Hunts Summer
gets Zayas in response now Faker diving around the fight, a host coming out
Broken Blade trying to get into the Mega Knot. He'll jump on the axe.
Goomba stopped him. Faker escaping.
Carry it. On the topside, Yank killed up Goomba Ushi.
And G2's done now.
Find a fight.
Only Faker gets out alive.
G2 are going to get some extra money with the Tower of Mid.
And Faker just barely does so.
Broken Blade hunting for him, but he's not going to find the hiding spot.
G2 strike back.
T1 thought that they were going to be able to collapse,
but look how long it takes him to get in.
The TB from Faker down towards the bottom side, where Zayas goes in.
The stopwatch from Caps to the boys a bunch of time.
T2 able to punish Zayas and also then immediately jumping on towards the Jaina at the topside.
Bys a ton of time for Han Sama to escape away.
The target selection for owners to go into Caps, but Han Sama diving in towards the back line obliterates the duo there.
And then Faker as he tries to go in.
I think Broken Blade, the jump, went on to carry.
I know, yeah, I think he went on to carry instead.
Not being able to get that final proc, but still, going to win it on the fight, Faker barely escape.
Wow.
Looking at each other's screens as well during the paranoia to get that little bit of extra vision.
I love the not using the shockwave, but immediately they do!
Paranoia in! Faker down, soloflown to the backline as well!
We see Hans Summer balling full at Nicky, trying to get into this fight.
Brokenblade on his way across as well, carrier, owner, there as well with Guma.
Yushi trying to get away, doesn't have the flash, owner doesn't carry it, goes back in with his end of fight.
He's a sacrifice a sacrificial lamb for G2 as there's two more on the board
Then keep the pace up G2 they do not let you rest firing off play after play after play
You saw it earlier where even on a failed play they were immediately able to get back on the map
But this time around they they do it after a successful one Han Sama
He had just a few seconds left on his on his ultimate
They still got the advantage though and I have to say the knock turn going so deep in both of these plays
This is the real key playmaker here in the previous one soloing out Guma. You see finding him isolated
See if G2 can keep this up because do you want still with the gold advantage and still with the better?
Play on the map. It is still the four people here as you can see BB and Nautilus trying to make you try to come there from the top
Side so they're able to burst out Han Samma
It's about now trying to buy time for the top laner and supports come in
but Dragon is now open 30 seconds and that's where we're going to be looking at the next pace and
Baby doesn't have to control the top wave on bot pushing in against G2
They have to sort out side lanes before they can really contest this
I'm really glad they actually got to show us the beginning of the play because I was under the impression
G2 would just pull the trigger down. Yeah, when it jumped back to us
I was under the impression that G2 were the ones starting out
But it's actually Faker who went forward and Yank just tried to punish himself
Let's see about the next dragon set up here as they move in T1 once again full access to the river first
G2 are forced to make a decision here. Is it going to be a dangerous face check or are they going to try and get control of the midway first?
Thank you, looking for the hook. There's the chum. WF is going in, Ona. Look at that back line. The solar flare hits two.
Pam and Ona are coming out. Ona can't go in with the engage. Zayas now locked out. Pops is still watching by himself.
A little bit of time. He's fair though. The shot break hits Ona. He's on the engage.
Goes in with the season assist. The Guardian Angel still standing on Ona's shoulders.
We'll bring him back to life. Broken blade with a good double nine to the wall. Ona trying to get back in with that shield from the both breaker.
that he will fall! They can turn a scape broken blade!
Gumiushi now trying to dance his way away!
But they aren't going to carry up the G2!
Let us move on more! Gumiushi will have the plate, will have the muesli from this gin.
Broken blade chucks a house out, can't quite land it.
Onto Gumiushi's back, counts with the dissonance.
There's the slow from the red buff.
They dance to the captive audience, and Gumiushi's down too!
An ace for G2!
G2 are coming along!
They're working out for them!
In the middle of that, use the darkness to hide the Orianna ball in the brush as T1 went to walk forward
and it catches them out completely unaware.
Their T-fighting is just so much better this time around with the small adjustments that they made from game number one.
Xeus does have his teleport ready here, but you have to think that it's still going to be a G2 Baron.
You said it in game one, Kobe. G2 great at fighting from behind and here we see them coming to life in Berlin looking to get themselves to 1-1 against T1 in this quarter-finals qualification match.
You can see the difference that Zayas is having when he doesn't have to brag it's in that big ultimate. He's trying to play in the front line and get involved, but it just doesn't have that same effect.
As the darkness comes through, they're able to buy space then.
Xeus has to go in, goes golden, but watch the Orianna fall.
He moves in towards the bush, then sets up for that big shockwave as well.
And it's after that again, just moving back, buying space here as BB,
using that ultimate, clears out two members,
and it's G2 constantly rotating this frontline to block spells, block abilities,
until Broken Blade is just able to take over in the backline.
Yeah, T1 could... Nice!
Pressure, caps there.
Caps actually just taking over on the Ori really good kite back from G2 and then pushing forward on the transformation of the NAR as well.
Now with the Baron buff they can get so many rewards. Tier 2 tower doesn't stand a chance.
That's another 800 gold for the team immediately picked up. Voidmites from their six Void Grubs spotting out.
Faker being forced back to the fountain. Has the flash, has the TP, but G2 are trying to open up the base.
looking for that flank. His GA not back off cooldown yet, about half the way forward inhibitor tower,
and inhibitor for G2 in the top lane. They take a gold lead for the first time in what feels like
the series, at least in the last 30 minutes or so. The low reset broken plate was adding pressure in
the mid lane. Drake still four minutes away. G2 have a minute and a half of this red buff and
power play to really try to put the screws into T1. So earlier when you didn't have help,
I was trying to give you guys up
It's a bubble we are we are close to faker getting a death cap on
Very iconic champion for him the RE here
So I think that is gonna be one of T1's main goals to get the death cap for faker and then have one of these
Kind of classic faker plays to try and pull it pull out a big pick
And dissect G2 as they're looking to push in as Geotark are looking to close the loop here on T1
You know, they already have topside taking care of with the inhibitor now with the Baron buff
It's very easy to four once foot push
But will T1 be able to pull something magical out?
They're trying to say this is in this topside trying to shove in they sent Ari to try and help him out
So looking to go for that cross map just G2 though dropping only paying off of two waves now
The reset comes through for broken blade has no TP so T1 maybe looking for the TP
Where that's right in behind them at the moment. You can just see it on the back of your screens
But G2, they end up purling away, don't want to overextend.
That ward had my heart in my mouth for a second, because you could see it's ASTP.
He's in, catches a couple of stragglers off the reset.
G2 will just take the tier two in the bot lane.
4000 gold lead for them as well.
Three items on Hans Summer alongside that Seekers Armguard.
Three on caps, but the king has got his crown.
Gatgat completed for Faker.
It may be heavy, but Faker was the one that stepped up at MSI.
in that five game series to deny G2 game five.
Will it be Faker again to deny G2 a chance
of making quarterfinals today?
Fiddy Nios has the ring to match the World Championship ring,
you know, yeah.
I will say though, this G2 comp with the small changes
that they made, there's so much more durable.
And you see, not only the stairs gauge
that was on Yaikir on this top turn.
Wait, Niki's passion to a wall and hooked.
Never seen that before, eh?
No.
I think you must have seen it.
I never saw what he did actually, he's just crazy.
Back to Yike though, he's also got a Guardian Angel, so, you know, Yike is going to be able to go deep,
and Caps has been able to stay so safe with his Zonjas in the back line, just constantly providing so much threat.
So, we'll see here, you even have another Stasis built by Hansama.
It's just so durable for G2, they're just bullying them.
I'm gonna fly a huntsman dodges only get slow broken plate goes in with an arm only onto owner Zayas is tp'd in behind
And he dives onto huntsman immediately and huntsman has a stop watch, but he doesn't have much life left afterwards
He manages to get away with the kill of instinct Mickey and caps are running down owner face burst the wall this time broken blade
Lefted to his own devices until you want clean him up the flash in from Zayas with a counter strike Mickey trying to
Dredge line his way out of this one the bakers on the chase as is carrier and Mickey those hooks are sending you to
But Davy Jones is locker. Baker will take it. T1 will take the fight.
Mickey is gone six feet under, but G2 cannot fathom how T1 have got in behind them so consistently.
It was a delay playing on the TP. It's a delay take on Mickey because 50 seconds of the dragon
will deny a lot of control to G2, but T1 again, these great teleport flanks for Zayas.
And even though that looks funny to follow him around, and Mickey knows he's a dead man,
It actually is strategically sound to delay the Nautilus death for a longer death timer there.
So they actually even hurt them further knowing that he is a dead man walking, chasing him around, but it's all about the teleport.
And look at this setup as well, right before the tower goes down.
Yeah, his broken blade goes on towards Oner, but it's faker as he starts to shove out his voice as the ZSTP comes in.
And it's handsome, he's basically dead to rights as this play starts off.
The teleport flank gets right behind them their back line has to scramble both Honsama and caps at nothing left here
Even though owner fails the flash over the wall and isn't able to go get caps
They do chase down Honsama and the dragon's soul is theirs to set up
Wait, Zayas has hiding once again. Look at him. You can see Mickey's only just getting up towards where the red buff is
The paranoia comes out. It's Guma. This secures the Drake
And looking up towards the topside, Zaeus called out with the paranoia, gets the counter-strike but there's the fear as well.
The Killing Instinct coming in from Han Solo, as they look to catch out Zaeus, the rest of T1, trying to come back to defend their top laner.
But Zaeus will be down before they can get there. G2 find one. They lost to Drake, they lost to Sol, they go mid, Kobe.
They can hear your call. G2 knocking on the doors of the Nexus now, with T1 trying to defend.
Shockwave is still open available for Cap, so you have to be so careful as to what if you try to defend this.
to g2 want to try and take super minions on the top side as well it's so big three
inhibitors here you're gonna get up what can they get three top just respawned
as they were taking the second one so it looks like it's only gonna be two t1
able to hold on not have those double supers pushing in every lane Baron is
still there and if it's all inhibitors exposed that could be the deathmail for
t1 g2 starting to move over t as is 20 second death timer no teleport it's so
risky though because you have no wards left for Mickey he puts this one
control board down, all Onor needs to do is get into this pit and he might be able to
snipe this away. The curtains open and Encore for Gooma, Yuji Ono gets it!
He gets it!
He takes it! Ono will pay the ultimate price for his ability to steal the Baron. He keeps
C1 in the game and G2 just couldn't dot their eyes and cross their T's.
owner has been a beast for T1 at this championship, barely getting in over the wall, gets the
smite and G2 now with that dead timer though, they want to try and end it, Zayas had pushed
him mid with Gumiuchi and Karius and G2 trying to fight back against the Baron buff, they
should be able to get another inhibitor for themselves, but T1 with that Baron buff
should be able to defend.
The tankiness the minions get from the Baron buff, they'll be spawning in a few
2 seconds time for T1 there, they are, they'll help them defend, Faker goes in,
dead charge, shot win! There's two more tapas, there's Sardine on the back line,
they're not coming out from the road and they're just doing so much work!
Caps down, Hans-Sama running for his life! Faker charms up Broken Blade,
Zayas is just ripping through G2! Faker survives on the back line,
Yike trying to do everything he can to paranoia, will help him take out his enemy jungler.
Hans-Sama trying to survive here, Zayas has to call off the chase,
chase but T1 once again hold on to the game. Someone's gonna chase them but
they're gonna get out at least two there survive for G2 but the defense from T1
at Nexus tower 4v5 they pull it off they chase G2 out again. Man the tankiness
on this Jax is insane the widths end and more and also happened at
Abyssal Mask means that this primarily AP damage Kaisa cannot get through
caps cannot get through them and because Broken Blade is spending so much of his
attention trying to buy space in this fight there's just no one to take him
down but there the steel just barely able to get in towards the pit and you'll
see it here in the teamfight right? Faker goes in, Goodsharm the shockwave is
grazed but as Broken Blade goes forward it's Zayas who nobody can get
through this health bar. This Kaiser relies primarily on the passive
damage but it's just not doing enough with this much and more on the
Yeah, the layering of the Leona ultimate into Zeus Jacks jumping onto the back line there was so big got them so much space
And then the chase down there as well getting the extra couple once you can see how close they are to extending this series
But you're never fully there against T1 until you actually can blow up the Nexus
Here we go though splash as well as you say G2 looking for another push here on summer
Mickey in camp pushing out that bot side.
Conceives this has his teleport up.
Faker does any flanking wards G2.
Have to do their due diligence here and climb out as many as possible.
Double supers pushing in for the next minute and a half for G2.
Zayas though an absolute monster so far this series continues to be a thorn in the side of the LAC number one representatives.
Most painful thing for G2 is that they have to fight into this mountain soul.
It is so difficult the extra durability on T1.
And T1, constantly, you're seeing how much burst damage they can apply.
Ooh, Faker here swinging a miss though. That might be a nice opening. G2, again, double stacked up.
Lines of super minions coming in. So much inevitable pressure. Look at top lane as well.
Faker, yes, the charm. Only on to Mickey.
Deadly Flourish will find him as well, but Mickey, tanky enough now.
Has the nice fowl and the locket. And there's Mertred.
Faker's going to deal with push in the top side.
His Furt Rush will be back off cooldown relatively shortish.
As he has of that malignance, you can see already a quarter of the cooldown has gone down. Double Supers now pushing in bot.
Faker being met by Broken Blade. Mickey on that front line. Cap's trying to do what he can here as well.
The Nexus towers are under siege from the Super minions, but they've been cleared out.
Owner charging up the bolt breaker, looking for a little bit more. Doesn't go in.
On summer looking for those void seekers as well.
Baby is half health though. Faker did a good job of chucking him out.
As Zayas is now stepping forward, nobody willing to hit him.
G2 pushing behind as Faker. He's coming with the spear, rushes up in a seconds time.
Faker's met by Yike. Mickey on the front line. This shot grape going out as well.
as well. Brooklyn Blade lands the Naba, doesn't get a stun on to anyone and G2 disengages.
They're desperate to try and get anything here, but T1, they just cannot be fall back.
The health bars are so good, the waves are still crushing in, but Zayas is standing tall,
the difference making for T1 once more.
Honestly, it is a slight, like that's a mini win for G2, the teleport, because teleport's
a very big when Elder Dragon is coming back onto the map, you know, only 30 seconds,
And while both inhibitors now here respawn for T1, and they kind of deal with that extra
pressure from mid and bottom, they're still going to be forced into a situation here where
G2 should be first to the objective, the biggest one on the map, the Elder Dragon, the Evening
Factor.
The big thing for G2 as well is T1 haven't left their base in about three minutes' time,
so there's no deep wards possible unless Keria has snuck his way in behind somewhere.
The folks gonna land onto Oner. They look for the engage. Oner now has to burn the flash.
Zayas has his TP and he's gonna match the supers pushing in the top side. G2 have control of the river right now.
Solar flare, Hunts Summer only slowed. The caps is the one they dive into and immediately assassinate him.
Caps is swimming away to the fishes and Hunts Summer is gonna join him. T1 immediately pounce and G2 don't know what hit him.
T1 are forever clutch and G2 are finding out about it in the worst possible way.
Zayas chasing down Broken Blade as T1 turn towards the outer yike.
The last one was stolen. Can you find revenge?
A vision in the pit, Gumi. You should try to keep him at bay.
No paranoia for yike, but does have the flash. Gumi will take the blast cone.
Yike, can you do it? We saw you steal one versus Hanwha alive.
He puts the dustbringer over the wall and then immediately backs away.
G2 have called. Do not fight this fight. We can take the next but the next will be versus a very scary T1 and elder and a baron buff
And so little stands in the way of T1
Inhibitor turrets are the only thing blocking them in Europe against a double-fifth up T1 that have been relentless at denying you in this game
That was crazy the face check there
Then owner flashes away and they use the blast cone to jump on the caps his head even with these defensive items
We keep pointing out for G2 the guardian angel and sterics for yike the double zonias for both caps and Han Sama
Do you want to just keep on?
assassinating
They get stayed here owner flashes over the wall and then as they start to step up again. I
I mean they spot caps for just a second there at the back and it's a set up that they need to follow up immediately
And they absolutely destroy the Orianna. The owner is crazy. He's just done so much this game
You know not to mention stealing away the Baron but
Constantly good engages for them. A
minute left on the elder Drake
2 at 20 on the band all three inhibitors stand for G2
but I don't think that's going to be the story in the next minutes time.
T1 now advanced down mid lane, five strong.
They have been for the last two years looking to defend their world title.
A minute left on this outer dragon as well means that two more waves
that you have to try and hold off, but I don't even know if you get that.
T1 could just start to look at Nexus turret off this wave.
It's got to be something miraculous.
You've got a G on Guma, you've got Faker with the Spirit Rush,
the curtains open.
I don't think G2 is getting a second act.
The dive on the back line by Yike, but immediately his low caps are going to be assassinated in the back, and T1 are just ripping them to shreds.
T1 absolutely melting G2 under their nexus towers.
History doesn't repeat itself, but it damn well rhymes. It's another Friday. It's another T1 win.
Monumental stuff from T1.
The incredible performance from Zayas in Game 1, showcasing how good their teamfighting is.
Into some of the most clutch after clutch after clutch plays to bring the two-oh win against G2
T1 are such a hard team to finish off at any game
That they are T1 advancing to the quarterfinals
We're gonna head out to the analyst desk before we get into the second series of the day
This is exactly why we were so excited to see this matchup not because G2 lost mind you
But because of how these games can play out and how if you put T1 with their backs against the wall
They will find solution after solution to knock you down and you have to be pixel
Perfect. It is what we've seen from T1 versus G2 all year and I'm not excited about it
I'm actually really sad about it, but I'm happy for the side of T1 and the side of faker. He now has
has 100 worlds wins with this
one and we got to say he was
instrumental once again with the
flanks in this one. Yeah, the
Ari pic has been great for him.
He's looked great at this world
again coming from domestic
performance to here. He's looked
way more comfortable. My the
thing that stuns me is not that
obviously I know that T1 are
very capable of running high
execution compositions. But
again I cannot stress enough the glow up from qualifying to regionals to fighting
back in these teamfights owner on the body god scene crazy he was crazy this
man other people spend their lives trying to get a trophy but he lifts them
like Skittles interview I just lost an interview but I'll do it again it's
Zayus for the Verizon post game interview.
We'll see.
Okay, I think we're going to reset.
It happened to me before.
We got to sync it with everyone around the world.
Hence, it needs to be pixel perfect.
Everybody needs to hear what that man in top lane has to say.
Yeah.
Saw the Gragas, where Jack started a bit rougher,
but rounded out incredibly well.
That team on top side is...
It's so terrifying.
...as an EU opponent and furiating.
We are going to the interview now.
So Zayus in the Verizon post game interview,
standing by with Laura for real this time.
Give a stage for this interview with Zares
after a commanding performance from T1 against G2 Esport.
I have G-Son, of course, to help me with the translator.
So great to have you here.
Thank you so much for joining me after this series 2 and 0.
I feel like everyone was hyped about this matchup.
People even talk about a rivalry between G2 and T1.
Would you say that it's a rivalry
and what was the excitement for you guys
playing against them?
Today was a game that a lot of people expected, but you won 2-0 cleanly.
A lot of fans are also interested in T1 and G2's rivalry.
Do you think there is a rivalry between the two teams?
And did you expect a lot of matches today?
First of all, G2 dropped the T1 in 2019,
so I think I always feel like I'm getting revenge.
And I think there's something that you can't say in the tournament, so it's hard to say it.
Well G2 knocked T1 out in 2019, so I was coming here looking for an revenge here, and G2 every time, there's something with them that I cannot really put in words, but something makes it really difficult to play against.
It is always a special matchup for you guys and for the fans. How would you rate your performance today?
How do you want to evaluate your performance today?
I think there are a lot of competitions and tournaments that I want to show my top laner.
I think there were a lot of parts that I didn't want to show.
And I think I could have won more in the first two games.
But I don't think I can do well, so I think I need to look back on that team.
I feel like in both games my team fights and skirmishes were not ideal.
I think I left a lot to be desired, so I think I have to work on that.
Also in both games as well, I think we could have pushed a little further in the early game.
So I think as a team we have to rewatch the bots and you know talk about it.
I see it is interesting given the fact that people talk about T1 at Worlds.
Regardless of the fact that players were not the greatest for you guys,
You always show up at Worlds, you always defy the expectations.
Do you feel like Worlds is special for you?
And how do you explain the fact that you always can bounce back?
What do you think is the source of the bad things you've experienced during the season?
I've seen some bad things during the season.
There are many reasons.
I think there are many bad things going on.
I think the players are good at that time.
When it comes to the Worlds, there is a place where they can do their best.
I think the players are talking about it very seriously.
Yeah, sometimes we have some bad things happening throughout the regular season,
things happen the season as well. I think it was a collaboration of everything really bad for us,
but we all know that we can just move on and also focus on worlds entirely, so we were able to
give our all here and we always have a lot of communication about it.
And focusing on Worlds in the next step, we will see you guys in the next stage.
Last year was about being the last seed of the LCK, fighting in Korea to finally get the
The victory, what is this walls about for you personally?
I feel like we're going to have a lot of competition.
Personally, I think we had a lot of difficult matches,
and we had some situations, so we need to keep up with them.
I mean, storylines, narratives are not something that we write, you know?
It's going to be completed once we just do our best,
and it's going to be completed by the fans and by the environment.
So we're just going to keep on focusing our own performance,
and I think there are a lot of moments where we almost lost the games as well throughout the run.
the run so far, so I think we still have to do our best.
Let's write a new page in history then.
In WKN7, Nida, thank you so much, Sirius.
Thank you so much, Jitsun, for the translation.
Let's go, and T1 advance to the next round.
That's all, big wave.
Third, let's go, Mr. Trophy.
Let's go, Gen.G, this is yours.
How about the M19?
Listen, here you go.
Giant T.S., that's when it's all.
Let's go, G2, this is yours.
Do you want to fight it?
Let's go, time and sport. Let us get it. Let's go for that.
Let's do it all.
It does mean that G2 gets another chance to live another day,
but their fate will be decided by the draw tomorrow.
Who doesn't get another chance if they fail here is BLG and PSG
because we are moving into an elimination best of three
in the one and two side of the pools.
And I think we got to start Emily with the fact that BLG is even in this one and two position
is one of the biggest surprises of world so far.
It's really shocking actually,
because I know coming into this,
I was like, okay, of all the teams coming in from the LPL,
BLG is actually the one that I was the least worried about
for two reasons.
One, they were by far and away the strongest team.
And then two, the meta looked like
it was going to be a great shift for them, right?
Like I'm like, okay, there's a lot of stuff
that Knight can play,
Wei can interact with his lanes a little bit more maybe
with some of these jungle picks,
and they've looked not great in this meta.
I have not really enjoyed their meta, Rejko.
I haven't enjoyed it either.
And we take a look at some of the big picks
that they've been prioritizing.
It's not that it's uncommon for the picks
that they're choosing to be high prio,
things like the Jhin, the Poppy, the Ori,
but they're using them in ways
that are highly questionable.
I think Poppy's an incredible counter pick,
but if you're blinding it, it's gonna feel bad.
The Jhin is well not powerful,
but as much as I would love for that
to be the talking point,
the biggest thing, the biggest variable
is this jungle substitution,
which I think screams to the world
the BLG know they have a problem.
And this to me feels like a last ditch effort
to turn things around.
Yeah, and my hot take is actually
that they play very similarly with both junglers.
It's just that Shun is a little bit more risky
and will potentially go for more carry picks.
So I don't know if they're gonna change their meta read
or if they're just looking for some way to do better
and sub Shun in.
We'll see if it works.
They gotta do something, Emily.
They're up for PSG with their tournament lives
on the line as well.
And of course this is a rematch.
it went all the way to game 5 at MSI and PSG could not close it out.
The question is, will they be able to do it here?
That is the major question on our mind, Shox,
because we've already had one MSI rematch go.
The way that it went at MSI can BLG bounce back
from a very disappointing start to Worlds 2024.
And when we see PSG continue to make their way up the ranks
and surprise a lot of teams with how well they can play.
And I think it's actually fitting that they sub-Shen back in now
because Shun was playing at the MSI series, of course, and was a big part in it.
I mean, one of the games that PSG won was one of their lane swaps,
where they actually put Shun and Bin very far behind.
That was the Bin-Bain game where they were able to dive up between towers.
But the other one was where Maple was in a rally in Seoul
and they had to actually scale back into the game.
PSG, in that series, you know, people will remember
they actually pushed BLG quite far in many of the games.
And it was very close. So while on paper, this should be very lopsided. What we just saw fairly recently at MSI was competitive.
And but the thing was, it was PSG punishing a lot of the over aggression from BLG, right?
Especially when you look at the bot lane, like Alcanon trying to play heavily into that 2v2.
Consistently, you're having judges show up and punish them with that respect.
Then when it got in towards the later portion of this turn that we've seen so far as well, like against T1.
T1 punishing that over aggression from Billy Billy. So it still feels like a lot of the weaknesses from BLG are on show
PSG have a framework in which they can operate to try and punish that
I think the question for BLG is
Is what we've seen from them at world so far where they will peak at worlds because if they play anywhere like the level
They did domestically they should be a quick to well
They should be able to dominate a team like PSG even if PSG play well
I do agree with Emily though. I feel like a lot of the issues with Billy Billy have been a lack of
Good meta reed where they've kind of gone for these low damage drafts
So they've kind of been trying to facilitate night who he's exceptionally strong with these control majors
But haven't had a carry either in the gene that Elk has been prioritizing or in their jungle from way
So I think bringing shown back in feels like they're going to try and shift back over towards a lot of the more
Cary oriented of picks that should have been renowned for at that way has some but not add to the same extent to show
And they've been pretty open that both shun and way have been sharing scrims, you know, at different times
So both of them playing with the team if they slam a kindred pick like that will actually be a same go
It's literally Italy comes out here for shun. It would be it would be super hype
but
Not really the way that this meta has gone
Whereas at MSI both of those were very prominent picks the PSG on the other other side
You're looking at better you're looking at maple both of whom are having very good tournaments so far also woody on engaged champions
Is a force to be reckoned with so that's where my eyes are really focused
I think Azure is a serviceable top laner and can have moments to shine and obviously the battle between the two junglers
It's going to be paramount in this season. All right, Yone or Aurora here
You actually have to give one of the two over both of those have been highly prized
Powerpicks solo laners here. I
I and much of the community would favor the Yone band side of it, but Aurora, Nocturne, okay, so they actually give both and they want whichever one you don't pick, we are going to snatch two prior picks instead.
And this is actually what we got a trade like this. A Camerawake game was earlier in this tournament as well, where we got the Yone first pick and the Aurora counter and the Aurora actually ended up coming out on top.
I think I want to say was cream being explained in that mid lane because you do have a lot of control
You're able to push back and I think Rora as well
While she has a lot of great utility in her kiss her scaling on her ratios is absolutely insane as well
So I'm not surprised the ability going towards this one because it can match up into the only fairly well
But do you also get that flexibility where you can't put it top if PSG don't take the only hit?
Yes, you have to take the unit. I agree give it either to Azure or to Mabel
and see how well you can do it.
Maybe played it once already, of course, here at Worlds so far.
Alongside that, are you looking towards jungle?
Skarnas already being removed.
Vi is already being removed.
Do you want something that has non-committal engage,
which is what we always talk about?
Sejuani fits that wheelhouse very well.
Yeah, you would have had to ask that question way earlier,
because Sejuani is always instant lock with Ayone.
There's very, very straightforward Melee synergies there
to lock up the Suns.
Really puts that pressure on a lot of the matchups
where the unit does rely so much on these E trades.
Pop the E, go in, put a bunch of pressure on your opponent,
but you have to throw this edge,
wanting to turn it into a whole new level.
The next kind of mind game though, that has emerged,
that I actually liked what FlyQuest did
when they gave it over, was that they know
that if you're gonna go into this style,
you are going to be committing
to some melee short range compositions,
very often dive compositions,
and then you can try and craft counter dive
large AoE answers to that. It is very dangerous, of course, but I actually do think the Aurora
was a good place to start and they're going to follow it up here.
Yeah, with the Wukong again, kind of that more cariori into the pic they were talking
about potentially coming through for Sean. And I think it facilitates well in the, hey,
I'm going to use the Aurora ult to group everyone up and then Wukong comes in and
just swings that staff around and knocks everyone up. So a nice little combo for BLG and
I think this is definitely a shift away from what they came in into the last couple
the games with. This feels a very different style and at least one that BLG have already
kind of identified that many shifts they need to make.
And then to begin to it though, you can see there's this kind of battle of zone control
in teamfights of these big AoEs. The Cyclone versus the Slicing Mausstrom. Obviously, Bin
or actually going to be Knight on the Aurora has a lot of ability to control where the
teamfight is fought. Like, Kenan can't get through the between worlds. You can't
break that shield unless you go through with a flash. So, we'll see how effectively
Azure is able to play. This is one of his most played course of his career.
Now we move down towards the AD carry and support roles.
Ash band away by PSG, removing some of the pick potential
and also the knowledge of where people are on the map by taking away that choice.
Yeah, a lot of times if the opening of the draft is very AOE and very cluster oriented,
then the AD carries start looking at,
alright, we either got to be able to follow along with all of this dive in action that's going
or we have to be able to escape it.
So you see stuff like this, you know, like the utility of the Ash arrow getting banned
with a kaisa follow up, or you can also start to think about things like Ezreal that have
more mobility that could try and play around them.
Kalista is also the one that stands out to me that he could be trying to high up for
and just take that on the next rotation and even then it opens up for Renata too.
So it'd be interesting to see what Betty decides to end up going towards because you've
already got that AP unlocked from the cannons so you're able to just go into these
heavy AD focused picks.
to try and ban it away to try and make that a little bit more comfortable because Elcanon
I will be very happy to play it. Like the Rakan is a respect banned on, but the Kalista
and Renata were two of those big picks that they went like to go from the past.
The OG actually decided to ban away the Kalista themselves. Now picks some more A0E13
fight in the form of the rel. Elcanon could look towards something like the Lucian
Dami that has served them well in the past, but it's a little bit susceptible to
being jumped on by the enemy team does give you a lot of lane pressure though. I think Elcanon are
actually having pretty good year on Lucian army as well if I remember correctly. Well still not quite
locked in but you have to feel this is where PSG are going. I do think though this is an angle
where you could just go back towards the gym. I wasn't a big fan of it in their last few comps
because it just felt like you didn't have any supplementary damage but you've got it in
bolt loads with what's been drafted already for BLG and it then means that you can play
fairly far back from the likes of Ione or Kennen. What potentially go for the MF?
Similar kind of idea. Long range ultimates. You don't actually have to be
up close and personal in these fights as they start off.
Would be for AoE if they did go for it. And then Leona definitely pairs well.
I'm interested that we didn't see a Venator from either side as well. You do have it like big AoEs,
but when you have this much engage it feels like Venator can do quite a lot of work
at just disengaging the enemy team, right?
Yeah, I agree. I think the only caveat is I think teams kind of look at it saying hey
we like compared to Calista because she's a very vulnerable through to having that
Invulnerability from the fates call can make it tougher just always come out safe
but on the up there are ended ups inside they're actually going to go back
towards the NF so you already call it a big AOE and I don't know if Betty wants
to answer but his own AOE. The biggest of clusters we're gonna have these
These team fights will be a big bang for sure.
Let me just get another play-by-play on the desk
instead of one of you guys for the team fights.
They say, look at the explosions.
Oh, there's the Ezreal.
OK, so that was the other part of the AD carries
I was mentioning earlier about you
can try and go for the survival tactic in these cases.
And Betty is a very good Ezreal.
It has invested so much time into this champion.
I will say to you, because we actually
were casting this series at MSI and the same set up was there where Betty gave an interview
with Pentacure.
He was talking about Elk and specifically Elk on the Lucian is the AD carry that everyone
wants to be, you know, aspires to be has so much respect for for Elk and on as a bottom
lane.
And he really showed up and proved himself against kind of his, you know, heroes or
players that he looks up to in that series.
I'm really looking forward to the part two to this and kind of the follow-up and I mean Betty
Willows would be very familiar with the right played on orangey rogue warriors back when Elk was still jumbum
So there's a lot of history both in the LPL now at the international stage as well
And I think having this Ezreal at least gives them a chance to try like arcane shift and there's bullet cyclone of weird
Dean that's going to be coming his way on the LG side
So he can have a major performance coming into this game if he's able to keep himself safe
have a bullet-hell experience for
G-Aries in this game for BLG.
They're only sitting at 1 and 2, performing well below expectations so far
at Worlds 2024. PSG looking to
add another name to the list of teams they have
defeated over the years. BLG. Well, PSG were very close
to doing it against BLG at MSI. Can they go one step
better here? Best of three for a spot in Paris,
for a spot in the quarter-finals as we go on to the rift for
the third time today. So much goes along with this series as well with you know
the interview and Maple kind of referencing that this might be his
retirement year. Such a legendary player on the international stage and he's been
given the pick of the tournament. That pick of the tournament that Yone of
course was not free to come at the cost of giving over Knights Aurora but
Definitely will be looking at Maple, especially with the support of a Sejuani jungle
that is back to make some big plays.
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I didn't realise.
I was like, BLG, setting up down towards the bottom side.
Did look for a moment like they might lane swap,
but instead they were just trying to get bush control in the top side.
Often we do see a ward placed when you do this.
I think Knight may have placed his ward in that bush.
Actually, he's gone over towards the Razorbeak.
So what you often want to do is if you're playing melly into range is you want to try and get a ward into one of the bushes to
Make it harder for the range to drop minion aggro in that top lane
And it looks like Azure should be able to continually harass that and so bin and him trade towards the top side
I think you should be relatively okay. He's been slow to get pushed just thanks to that
Counter-Strike it works out very well
We saw it from BB on the opposite side in the last game where even with the Nari couldn't really do too much
so then gonna be fine and
Hey Woody, not quite going to be able to get the crash down there but with the push on top
and also slowly starting to come through and imagine the mid lane as well, I think you're
going to be fine as shown to move up towards this top side and contest for scuttle riches.
Really where you want to be is this blue con because hitting level 6, getting out onto
the map as quick as possible with that ultimate is so crucial to the success.
Yeah, one of the things that we saw actually a decent amount more I feel like from BLG
when they actually put Wei in instead of Shen was more attention towards Bin and Topside
and he is on his legendary Jax, but of course with both of those junglers sharing scrims
with the team and playing it all the time, very could be evened up by Shen.
Wukong, notoriously looking for the level 6 though, so you would generally just on paper
give the early ganks a bit more potency on the side of the Senbani until the level
Six thumbs in and the wukong a bit more scaling and damage threat, of course
And that was the thing on the opposite side when we saw
Shun coming in he kind of put a lot of focus on towards that bottom side for a lot of their games
Especially when you look at like third series against LNG and that so I think for BLG
It's going to be a case of trying to see if they can have that access to the bottom side
I don't think they can really get Woody because Woody's I said Betty
I should say because Betty has that arc and chip but what he would be way more vulnerable to that sort of
especially with the lockup that Ankhun provides, so I think BLG more gonna be looking towards he say the level six with those potential gangs
But also void grubs as they start to come through that second
See I'm kind of
Harking down towards that bottom side to get scuttle crab. Junjit has taken control over the top side bin had to TP back as he was
harassed by Azure
Not too much surprising in this early game the MF managing to get pushed into a Ezreal lane
It's kind of to be expected she has a lot of damage in the early game and obviously more she gets to was that blood thirsted to
Yeah, definitely a fearsome lane there with the Leona
Of course worth noting that the Leona there on is
Taking the exhaust for the cannon later on into the game
But also serves its purpose in those all-ins if our junglers do find themselves, you know ganking the bottom lane and trying to
Play off that wave management
It definitely does kind of put a stop to some of those very very heavy all-ins
Just give my eyes a bunch of nits of secrets. Oh, hang on in then gets a counter strike
Can look for the empower in a couple of seconds as well as you're deciding he has to flash your way
It doesn't want to be hit with a lamppost from bin
That's pretty crucial though because you like having those solar liners hit six just in time for like boy group fight
They're anything about this one not having this I say not having that flash available for that combo is gonna be fit
Flash in, onto, on here. Doesn't have the exhaust in the flash of his own, then it plays onto Junja to try and get himself away. Exhaust on the Zed Juan in all the target you want.
Jun trying to join the bay, Elcaving's cleanse, flash away as Jun is now caught with a shadowing strike in PSG. Find first blood in the bot lane and will force Jun away.
Nice job by Woody to get the crash down on for his on. Trying to base in PSG hoping that Jun would be in position but Junja's already there and the value at this early stage for the Zed Juan to get him multiple CC chains off
off is just perfect for PSG. Yeah the timing was so nice too with Jinjiya
heading down, finish up the gromp, and the flash from Woody, he has had so many
set-up plays for some of the biggest moments for PSG. The first blood acquired
for PSG and in the area that they wanted, yeah the Sejuanias wanted to
actually get the final hit because On did a pretty good job of trying to use
Genjiya as an exit, but still very happy to actually cash in and very nice gold
loop for PSG in the opener. And a lot of that control that PSG got in their series
against BLG at MSI was through that bottom lane, so starting to see a repeat
performance is knight in trouble. They're still going in, knight's gonna be able to jump away, can use the between worlds to dash out, but that's an
ultimate for ultimate exchange in the mid lane. You'll take that though as PSG,
because knight's way less threatening with that ultimate down at these early stages, also the
like that you get mid push means you get to move over straight away towards these void
groups and look at Sean he's not even close to level six and being in the same boat so
he's a little bit off has to finish up this wave which means BLG not ready to position
to contest.
Yeah for sure PSG just going to be able to get these void groups no problem and if
you look at the domino effect of some of those plays guess what a mid-pryol for Yone
Ked turn into it's more ganks on bottom side.
Genjiya could go down back bottom side as well as possible Maple Rooms.
So there are a lot of good things building up towards consecutive plays
since not only on use summoner spells in the bottom side,
but it was also Elf in their attempts to evade.
Also, just putting Knight on edge a little bit.
Making him burn his ultimate is so important
because Knight has so consistently been a stalwart of the LPL.
I think if people only follow international League of Legends,
they won't really see Knight as this dominant character.
But he's a five-time LPL champion, tied first in LPL championships.
He's been at Worlds four times, and although the furthest he's ever made his semi-finals,
he's widely regarded as one of, if not the best midlaner in the world, depending on the time of year.
Yeah, I mean, he's definitely the best midlaner in the LPL, and he's the kingmaker in the LPL.
He's been in the last six LPL finals, he has won four of the last finals,
and is now starting to tie people for most LPL titles, like some Shao Hu and these guys.
Like, adding a world title to this guy just makes him the most decorated LPL player of all time.
And it feels like such a weird thing to talk about when a thousand go behind PSG in the 1-2 matches, right?
Because this is not where BLG expected to be.
It's kind of where PSG expected to be. As best he should be able to go away here.
The Zenith played going in, then he tried to trade back onto Elk on,
went in with the Zenith played himself, doesn't have the exhaust up.
Now he's taking the Magnus on, coming out as well.
And what is he doing?
Looking for the engaged, thinking Shun would back him up,
but he was left to his own devices and in the end he's left to his demise.
Well the thing is, one of the players that has been involved in some of these worlds winning rosters was Junja and he's keeping it going.
Junja was in with a Glacial Prison, the cleanse was available for Alchemy Holdsend!
The bullet time opens up, Jun going in with a Cyclone, looking to make a Tempest.
They'll take one, Junja falls, Woody trying to get the CC onto Shun to keep Betty alive.
Jun holds in and dies in the end, trying to flash away, but Betty puts him in the dirt.
And PSG, the reason they keep forcing on those bottom sides is because all the setup work that they had done, all these extra advantages going into it.
So even though Shun is there to cover on the first attempt, and it actually takes the second attempt for them to finally get a counter kill,
it is still so much more worth for PSG because they blew all the bot lane summoners first time around.
And then as you can see, Shunji could just kind of walk right by Shun and they punish on again.
He was still only level 4 to Woody's 6, like massive, massive difference there.
There's no way you can ever fight the even numbers, and it's just by the skin of their teeth, like,
what HP was that, like 30 maybe?
Left on elk that he didn't even go catastrophically wrong for BLG.
So while in the end you're kind of like celebrating Shin got one counter kill at least,
it is still so overwhelmingly into the game plan of PSG.
For them to continue to play around here and we'll see if there are there are extra knock-on effects
If you know maple becomes unleashed as well
Well, the thing is the knock-on effect is I just had a free lane to himself
And he's been doing a great job against being you can see a 600 gold lead opening up thanks to CS and the turf
Lates he's been able to get and now when you start to look at things like dragons that are still open available
The LB void groves in a minute's time
Asia is in prime position to be an outright carry for PSG talent
BLG need to find some way back into this game.
Our PSG talent can just run away with it.
Just look at the bottom of the screen. It's like a good library. Red, red, red, red, red.
You know, it's so strong for PSG right now. Gold leads in every single lane.
BLG trying to get mid-controlled so they can fight over this Scuttle Crab and the Grubs
that have come up in 40 seconds time.
But PSG are using the time to take a drink for themselves.
They know they can then go across and even try to catch Nidale, who'll get the blast.
but Ginger's going to follow him across.
Knight still has the flash, has the ult, has the dash with the weeding.
Caught out with Glacial Prison. True shop rush coming out as well.
And Knight now has to invest that summoner to escape the clutches of Ginger.
So much damage could have come through, and that's a key summoner spell again.
They still have three people on bottom side. You see Leona coming to hover,
but Knight just has to stand and watch. Look at all these minions dying to the tower.
He's waiting for on to come escort him into safety,
But another very smart play here from PSG to cut off more resources from the hands of BLG
So many minions dying and funnel Betty who has just been such a
Monumental carry for this PSG roster as well like after he left the LPL and came in towards PCS
This guy was an absolute beast and he's only continued to show up for this roster
Now that he's on 2 and oh he's gonna have the Troy Force completed off of the three set as well
He's in prime position to play out of his mind to try and kite PSG across the line close again
You don't have a huge amount of lock-up that can really keep him in check
He has the cleanse for anything that on has then has the arcane shift and a flash for so much of what BLG
You're trying to bring to the table
Exactly one of the few ad carries that doesn't completely pull out their hair and scream that an aurora is on the enemy team
Actually has some options
some playability. Plus as you can see PSG obviously targeting Knights over and over
multiple ganks towards him you know catching him in transition constantly
trying to burn the flash take away resources from that Aurora make sure it
does not become a nightmare for them later on.
It's the one they're gonna have to watch over these next few minutes still a while
before the next drake and we saw Grubbs exchanged for denying Knight a
couple of waves in the bot side so it's three Grubbs a piece for both
with these teams, but a TP coming in by PSG.
They know Knight has no flash.
Wait in the darkness in the tri-bush.
Will Knight expect it?
Maitre here to catch the wave on and shunt
on their way across as well.
You can see the ward placed there.
J'endure and Woody looking for the invade
towards the red buff.
They are pushing mid.
They are pushing bot.
Betty here to join at the battle.
Maitre gets the first move.
Can look for a flank here with the Fate Seal.
Dashes forward and binds his soul on down to half HP.
The soul of Flair goes in with a bullet time
and that's two locked up.
That would be the first of all.
Maple was distracted by Knight, Betty dashing back in.
Between worlds, Knight can look for more.
Maple dives in with a fade seal, but PLG will happily take the triple for Elk.
And just like that, it crumbles in PSG's fingers.
It almost turns to dust.
A triple kill for Elk is huge.
That almost brings them back to Goldparody.
Still a lead for PSG.
But you have to be so careful when over chasing into the jungle like that, into so much AoE, the idea was there, but the execution was off.
Going into those tiny corridors is just perfect for the BLG composition and PSG pay the price bin.
It's still relatively low and I just snuck in here, but there's so many members of BLG collapsing.
Shun cleared out the ward, it's on on his way up as well, TPE coming in, it's PSG, well they're not going to do anything to help out Asher here, he's dead, Knight takes it, BLG will get the push in the top side and that gold is even now.
And that was just good timing from BLG, you could look at the rest of the map and PSG hadn't set up their waves to really be a threat anywhere, they're still slow push on bot side from Maple and that wave disintegrated for Betty.
So BLG, getting time alone with this turret, maybe in a position to match on towards this top, our bot side play, but we'll still be first tower I believe for PSG.
No, I think the OGs take it. They have three people in the demolish from bin. They should be able to take this one first.
Maybe we'll try to match, as you say on the bottom side, but BLG with the TP in, invests a lot to make sure they take the first turret.
It does give them that golden fusion that they were looking for.
Yeah, BLG, you can make mistakes against them like that very fluently.
They immediately take control on the map, offensively up to the top side,
steal away the red buff in addition to that top tower, and just chaining the
objectives here. This is well ahead of the timer for the dragon too, so they can
even match up for that as well. You can see the flip on the Mascar lane
economy snapshot when it comes to where it's gold, but PSG want to flip this
objective as well. Ben has no teleport so the fact that Ajax walked here and BLG
see Ajax here they should know. Alright fine PSG you have the numbers we're just
gonna keep Ben splitting on bottom side you can have a rip trail which will at
least be a nice takeaway. Yeah get more gold back for Ben who is 24 CS down as
expected in a range into melee matchup in the top lane that was left to its
own devices but it's only about 250 gold out of pocket right now what are
you looking towards top lane though? Knight does have that between worlds in
his flash probably about 10 seconds away from coming off-call down hill respect it
and back away because of that PSG should just be able to secure the tower and I
might come back though wonder is he gonna step forward they don't have vision it's
just waiting in the way yeah I think he's respecting it on a reset shouldn't
reset and it actually started to shift kind of over towards mid to cover that
mid lane play so it's a nice read from PSG and now it's just not wanting to
give over that little bit more just sticking the bush and think of this
Look at the quick move, Rift held and Toe. They're going to try and crack mid lane for this as PSG.
The drake up, you can see Azure's actually crept through the darkness in that bot side jungle to apply a bit of pressure with the flank.
He'll catch up Shen who goes to that decoy, pops the clone, the Rift held to get a charge down.
Can't quite take the tower, but it does get mid prior over PSG.
There's a second drake afoot if they decide that is their priority.
What is their priority?
Maple has TP, Knight doesn't so Maple gonna hide him out, seeing if he can wait until Knight
disappears and we can both threat onto the tier 2 while also keeping threat onto his dragon.
PSG playing at the top well right now.
But the LG now have a bloodthirster and a VF sword on Elk.
He was so far delayed in this game now even Stevens in terms of gold with Betty and if
he is left at the back of a fight with no one threatening him he is just going
to rip you two shreds.
You like playing into the gungeon, but in League of Legends, just dodging every bullet you can.
Another big pivotal thing to look at in this setup for the next teamfight is who will mark this Kennen.
Always so big, especially when the Kennen does have Flash, the effect of the flank coming in for the big teamfight.
And BLG have a lot of members that could do it as Maple is making his escape here.
Aon still chasing them.
It really felt like they just wanted the awesome out of him, right?
It means that if you are going to fight around something, it comes a bit easier.
Make him burn that has to wait for the cooldown
But yes
She will use the fact that on is on the top side of the map to start themselves up a dragon
That's what's gonna say is what is that something right for BLG because there's no top turret really put pressure on to
PSG you're still holding on towards mid they have push on boss
So it kind of was like a hail Mary it feels like nerdy for BLG to hope they can cross map something
But I think you're pretty happy as PSG that you get everything there for just maple's ult
Which is three quarters of the way I say red a third of the way done
It's always interesting when a game gets to this sort of point relatively even to Drake's to PSG is like gold leader as well
And then you look at the comps. It's like
Can't really tell who scales best it really comes down to execution right like if Azure gets in without being exhausted
Obviously, he's gonna rip through PLG if the MFO gets up and hits three people obviously helps gonna
But they're always the most fun right where you just get to see everything thrown in the kitchen sink
It's you comes out on top. I know, you know
You know, Yone's got the magnifying glass on him for the whole tournament, but I'm truly looking at Betty.
You guys were both correctly so, giving him so much praise earlier.
I really think, you know, he's in position with Glenn Slash, Ezreal to be able to now...
Oh, the ultimate down now for Aja.
I guess the Wave, and because of that they decide not to dive.
Meanwhile in the top lane, look at the pressure PSG are putting on TP from Knight away from the Wave.
PSG should be able to get the tier two here, but they might sacrifice their tier one in mid for it.
Elk opens up on the tower takes it and the tier 2 will be exchanged BLG
Deciding that they couldn't defend anyway, and so they want to make sure they open up the map
And it's not a bad idea you do get two towers there for it
So at least it's something but in the grand scheme of things PSG talent are still open towers
They're getting more gold so it's a great spot for them to be in and a huge event that obviously going in towards the hands of maple
Gonna help out with the fact he's really 800 gold lead for himself in that mid lane
And the towers on summoner's rift are not all created equal. The outer ones are only 500 gold for your team
The secondary ones are 800 gold for your team plus there's an added benefit of the secondary ones are more funneled gold because more of it is local
So you get like more concentrated power and what better place to concentrate that power?
It's kind of some true, but I will say we're going down this animal farm roots
I feel like the mid lane towers are quite important as well now the PSG have managed to get one in response
obviously that's great but they do open up a lot more avenues to get into the enemy jungle
and to actually create these pockets of darkness, pockets of vision that you can play around.
I think you do need a lot of control on the map to try and make get value out of that, right?
And obviously BLG are doing a good job of setting that up at the moment but
Azure still has good push against bin, he's in a decent spot and Maple is a massive threat
on the sidelines against people like Knight. So the windows of opportunity for BLG to really
punish this are tough. I think it's more of a case we're going to need to wait and see if
how this next teamfight turns out a dragon so then that vision could maybe be established by BLG
otherwise PSG just get to continue to play outside in their favor.
Alright, well that side lane focused tower gold actually completed a stridebreaker for Maple?
Okay you're right, you're right. The top lane tier two is more equal than the others.
I mean the power of concentrating gold in any mobile honestly is just so so big so we'll see
We'll see what Mabel can do with it, of course, we're talking about the setup too of, you know,
his interview and possibly even being his kind of last dance here, would be a BANGER.
Obviously, they were able to pull off a really big upset.
Yeah, what a last answer would be.
Around since 2013 on the Mina Bears, all the way back in the age of yore, you have
to feel, and in terms of modern League of Legends, has been so consistently on top
team so consistently challenging at world championships would be an incredible performance
by him if he is able to make it to the quarter finals obviously alongside his compatriots on PSG.
The game's still relatively even though we talk about it with the slight PSG tinted glasses because
they are slightly ahead because they do have this Yone and this Ezreal and so much power in their
comp. The BRG can definitely fight back from anywhere on court out, will burn the flash,
He's got a flash.
He creates it for that glacial prison solar flare coming back onto Woody as a flash of his own and won't burn it in response.
They're just never going to back away from home.
But yeah, I think as you say, the PSG to be able to take down BLG just the number one seed everyone who is expecting to be an absolute beast.
But even for Naples as well, like he got replaced by nice on, I said replaced night on SUNY back in the day as well,
which was just kind of like a big cut at talking point where people were like, oh, we're getting maple in.
He's been such a standard mid laner for us, but it's night then kind of moving on to bigger and better things on top
Esports as well. So I think there is definitely a little bit of a friendly rivalry between the two mid laners as well
Very much agree
for the moment though
Although it is a slower game that has been a lot to talk about we've had a lot of trading across the map
My expectation is things might speed up in the next 20 seconds or so
That's because there's the drake on the cards and would be so point for PSG if they can find it
Yeah, and I agree, and on the side of BLG, they were like,
all right, we don't want to fight into your two-item power spike
before we get our two items.
Well, you know, that's not fair, so they want to delay a little bit.
They want to wait till they can catch up in inventory here.
One to remember.
On, did burn his flash towards the top side.
Does have the solar flare back in one second time.
Now it's up.
PSG start the drake.
BLG looking for an avenue to approach.
Bin looking to reset and get a TP in.
and Maple going to that gromp to stack up his Q3 PSG.
So fighting over this dragon TP coming in from Azure as well.
He's just finished the Shadow Plane.
Two items on the Kennen.
Bin will TP to the control ward
down towards the top side of the fight.
Jun is in the pit.
Azure is behind them.
There's a control ward there.
Betty putting damage into the...
On right now, Jun going in with the Cyclone
onto the back line, finds Maple but doesn't find Betty.
Azure and PSG will disengage the fight.
Jun has to flash the wall
and he's locked up with his Fate Shield.
Bin now in the pit trying to battle against Jun.
Jun and Maple.
The BLG are all retreating.
Will PSG look for more?
Azure has the flash, has the slicing mouse,
but PSG decide that's enough.
We got soul point, and now perhaps the Baron too, as well.
The patience from PSG there was so beautiful.
Their setup was way, way better,
with Autra teleporting in and coming onto the back side
of the team fight.
He had such an amazing possible flank
that they all left the run.
They get completely chased off,
and BLG just end up separated.
PSG, they're on Baron and the last teamfight they divide and conquer. Can they just get this objective?
A bin uses the hexagates to there to see the information would he diving in and he stops out from putting on the bullet time to slice him out from the backline as well.
Knights in the pit for Maple puts him in the dark bin. Now going in for a little bit more of a counter strike on Maple.
Another is down on his fall and how beating BLG.
They're running circles around them, dividing Cokker again right over the wall and Maple comes up huge.
They get the Baron and they get the teamfight.
Avain goes over and trying to see if he can get into a position to come into the pit, but it's so well played by Archer.
He never used this storm in the last fight. He just stood there, medicing as this mouse.
And then as he comes into this, interrupts Elk. The weirding doesn't do enough.
Betty barely survives in the backline as well.
The smallest thing, the between worlds wasn't quite far enough away from where Elk was ulting to stop the crash down hitting him.
As soon as Woody hit him with the crash down, he gets bounced back by that wall.
We're talking a matter of like, two centimeters there.
And Betty, evading the Leona ultimate on the edge of the Aurora ultimate on the edge of the Misfortune ultimate.
So much for PSG off the back of this though.
Now they can just take over.
They're at three dragons.
They have control of the entire Rift right now.
And they got the Sun as well onto Elku.
Has the Flash and will use it to dash away from any follow-up engage.
Sun going in with the Cyclone, trying to make a Hurricane Rift through PSG.
They'll find one already.
Jhun's stunned up.
Azure flashing away from the Solar Bear.
All the while, Betty and Maple were pushing in the bot side.
They take a tier two.
Maple looks for a little bit more.
On lands the Sun with a shield of Daybreak.
The Weeding out from Nightfall.
A little bit of damage as well.
True Shot Barrage between the uprights of On and Night.
that still clips Shun's heels.
The boundary remains for the next minute and 20 seconds
for PSG, but right now they've called off the push.
And there's three items on towards Betty.
He's gonna be able to reset and get even more.
Look at the goal difference.
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PSG have been playing immaculately in this
over two and a half minutes now
until this sole potential for PSG talent.
They just push outsides.
They take this nice and slow.
They deny BLG access.
And this should be a game win for PSG talent.
PSG pushed BLG to the edge at MSI.
It was the full five games there,
getting into winning positions in some of the other games as well.
And they're not going to let this one go lightly right now.
A huge winning position for them.
And because they have the Baron buff,
it also makes it easier to reset up.
Maybe let's just finish off the red buff before he joins the rest of the squad,
but still the easy setup with their split.
I also think for a lot of people,
this is kind of what they're hoping to see from PSG talent
when they came into the play-ins.
A lot of teams disappointed with their performance
where they didn't look as clean as they possibly could have.
But here.
Cyclone again from Jhin.
Shushabh Rosh coming out from Bedi as well.
Between well, Jhin just locked up in it.
He'll flash across on falling low, 200 HP on him now
as Bedi looks to open up.
Fade sealed, the Scythe's in motion, coming in two.
Jhin's down!
Bin's down!
down and B-O-G are off. It's only Knight and Elk left alive.
Can they defend against PSG? The T-B is going to come in from Azure.
The bullet time to clear the wave. And that might just be enough.
There's another wave on its way. 10 seconds from hitting onto the inhibitor tower.
The 27 seconds on Shun. Knight starting to back away.
What inhibitor seems to be the prize PSG gets for winning that fight?
Elk and Knight will try and defend at the Nexus towers and PSG probably won't push for more.
They don't invest the TB from Azure, they will retreat after finding that inhib and a 7,000 gold lead for the PCS number one seed.
It is not just PSG pushing BOG, they are dismantling this team.
The only good BOG play was actually the mess up of PSG red invade.
That's the only benefit they actually had in this whole game.
PSG have been running it from head to toe.
Let's take another look at this even with this said Johnny ultimate not able to find the full chase here
And because on was on the other side this Ezreal just takes them down
They have they have no further openings here. No possibility of even escape there on the side of BLG. They're just so far behind now
Completely out itemized. They're the ones that have to pull out the surprise play
I think a lot of people forget that this was
Hang on, PPS!
What he's going to be engaged on here, but on is now in the meat grinder.
Maple goes in with a face shield and Asher is just waiting for his opportunity to open up.
Bin's taken one, the slicing mouse room will find another though.
Betty being chased out by Jun, he'll flash away.
Jun dies to Betty and Betty survives.
Bin diving in onto Maple who can unbind his soul and then dash back.
Jun's just trying to keep the dragon aggro for now.
Maple put into the dirt by Bin.
PSG still have two alive, Elk's going to try and keep the dragon aggro.
but Betty can do a lot of work for an all-of-a-range right now.
Elk has the bullet time coming up in seven seconds.
Ginger trying to heal himself back up in the jungle.
Elk there, makes it rain.
Bin gonna try and get through the reset.
Elk still full HP.
Bullet time, no flash, no...
Has the flash, but no cleanse.
Bin TP's in.
Ginger's looking for it!
And Elk finds one!
The shot down!
He'll find another great cleanse from Elk!
Ginger able to survive!
Remember!
We'll take the drake, the soul, not quite, but PSG.
Ben wins those! Oh my goodness, he wins the 1v1 with Maple on Yone!
Up on the top side of the map, he teleports back.
He's actually able to finish it off and deny the Dragon Soul.
BLG will not go out without a fight.
This was such a close fight, though. Maple ends up getting on towards two here,
but they're not able to catch Elk out with that initial ult for Maple.
Asha, this ultimate doesn't connect onto many people either.
It's a little bit too early, and then Elk is in a position
where he's able to continuously kite away from the crucial members of PSG,
bin finishes off Maple, and Elk is just chasing out PSG from this pit.
It's a couple of just barely missed ultimates onto the key members of BLG
that put PSG back in their place.
What a tense one here, but Jinji and Betty lying in wait over the top of this wall,
trying to get the burst damage, but not only is it denying the dragon soul,
There's a thousand gold shut down into the pockets of Elk
in the attempt to acquire that soul for themselves.
On a 9th edge, it's putting it lightly here. Still a 5000 gold lead for PSG, but
4 minutes on the clock for BLG to recuperate, to wait out.
They can continue to delay the game.
PSG trying to gain control of this topside Baron. They're called. Azure, no TP.
It's now resetting off the pushing out box.
That's my early point on the comps as far as Betty's position in the overall game too.
I still have a lot of faith in PSG, even with this slight speed bump that they have run into.
As soon as he gets his summoner spells back, it is just so hard for this BLG setup to actually
put the necessary pressure on the Ezreal.
And up until that point, he had been deathless, he had basically been the king of the map.
A thousand gold though, we'll see if that actually ends up paying off there for BLG.
as Ben is trying to dive across them.
Betty and Maple the only two left alive for PSG.
Maple will flash for the bullet.
Still finds his back. BLG win the fight.
PSG were so close, but these last few fights,
BLG have been able to outmatch them in the team fight
and now it's Baron for the LPL for a seed.
Huge pick right there.
Maybe it was a cast of curse. BLG looking like they're on the warpath.
Another objective bounty on top of it.
A lot of bounty gold, both objective and champion, going the way of BLG.
Huge, huge comeback swing available in the last couple of plays.
And a bunch of tears still for them to take. You can see the goal basically even about 800 between the two now.
After On missed this, I thought PSG had a way into the fight. They catch out on, but he's able to escape.
They don't really have the CC follow up and then this between worlds is just so devastating for PSG.
Especially since it denies Maple access to the fight. He went with the soul back towards the original starting point
Which meant he couldn't get above the old tier as well
Just barely denying as you access to elk once again means he gets the full
Unleash of the bullet time. There's they have to rip through them and you can see they're from BLG
Lumo laughing a little bit. He knows he's getting away with this one
Yeah, BLG fighting their way out of a very tough spot in this game
Now they're the ones with the push available though. You mentioned all the the towers and the standing gold here available on the map
Let's see if they can close in and get it because I was just trying to find a way for a flank
You know this Kennen
Constantly looking for the devastating flank but on has his exhaust ready
So goal number one for BLG on mark the Kennen always be on the same side as the Kennen
You can keep them out. There's no flash on the Kennen
So it honestly should be pretty easy for BLG to avoid that devastating flank
I think if you're a PSG you just sack a couple of towers, you try and put up a little bit of a front
but it's more of a game face than anything else, right?
Especially with the waves crashing at the same time cannon in the bot lane, still harassing that tower down mid lane.
So it is taken up by BLG, the gold swings in their favor for the first time in a long time in this game.
I think there is an angle for PSG though to create pressure on this top side.
You already look at where Maple is, 30 seconds until the dragon.
BLG have to respond to this because it's an open inhibitor so if you can see BLG
I'm going to be able to use this barren buff to crack the turret with a minute left on us
You have to get dragon you have to tear a top wave
So these G they forego the outer turrets
But they hold on to what are the important ones in the grand scheme of things?
Oh BLG setting up something here
Junja able to dodge away from on puts the glacial wisdom back in him down to half HP the mystic shots from Betty and on is off
Betty now locked in the pit with night
Do you really want to be locked in there with him?
TP in from Azure as well. Looking for that slicing mushroom.
Remember there's no exhaust as well, because on is down.
No flash for Azure, but the Drake up and Soul on the cards for PSG
if they can find a TP behind by Bin.
As they're looking for the pincer movement, PSG.
Trying to get the push through him in through Maple.
Bin still looking for that flank. Woody's going to try and mark him.
They see him. The counter strike goes in.
The bullet time as well. Azure's ripped to pieces.
Fate's sealed from Maple. Isn't enough bin.
Diving onto Woody and that's two.
Betty forced away, has to dash away from Chun, and Bin is just doing so much work on the backline.
It's a double for Elk, the flank sublimer from BLG.
At the end of the day, it's Bin Jax in back-to-back dragon fights.
He gets the job done, and with the Baron buff, BLG are inside the base.
And it just helps that Elk so much. The bullet time is perfect.
The flash away from the Yone ult as well.
Elk needed to be that follow-up on damage, and he's putting PSG down.
It's Betty, it's time to show Annie opens up on Elk who tanks the tower,
Bin going in with a counter-strike as well, they'll just take one Nexus tower for now,
but Betty gets the slow, Knight goes in, and Betty dashes away, he can't survive the weirding!
Puts him six feet under and Elk BLG will open up on the second Nexus tower,
Woody going back in, looking for Bin, again, the Bin somehow still survives!
PSG wiped away under their Nexus towers.
Azure spawns just in time to watch the Nexus fall.
What a comeback for BLG.
They woke up just in time, fellas.
I mean, they've given one more play over to PSG.
That would be a very different story.
A very different start.
A little bit too seriously about the next one
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BLG special, right, looking either like dropping the first game in the best of three or looking
really shaky and then coming out and and credit to PSG.
I thought Junja had an amazing early game.
I thought they had really good setups until the overextension on bot side at Red Buff,
which got elk back into the game.
It did.
Yes.
And a lot of fighting.
Well, and I think the big thing for me is while there's so many fights to break
down ultimately BLG were able to hold on find a way back in the game and we look
at the big final fights they were consistently out executing in the 5v5
right yeah and it's so infuriating yes PSG didn't need to let them back in the
game they were in complete and total control but they got hands dipped in a
couple fights and then BLG were back in the game and just continued out for
And it rewards them. It rewards them.
This is my problem.
Oh, Emily's losing.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
You're taking away the wrong one.
And yet I get mad every time.
Some better replays then from BLG in our HyperX Reflex replay.
It is the BLG Baron at 41 minutes in.
At which point I think PSG had already squandered it just a little bit.
Yone's losing record is padded again.
I don't know how to be critical.
Maple's not very good at Junging. It's just kind of long and short of it.
He egregiously misplays in so many fights, and well at this point it's hard for him to do too much
because DLG have found a way back to the game and kind of have the forego metamins since play picks off.
You can see that there's a lot of desperation in the way PSG are playing,
and this fight to me is kind of the last straw, where I don't really think this was ever going to be a good fight,
but this is the culmination, it's important to highlight for PSG, of so many little mistakes in previous fights,
where they were very favored to win.
Yeah, and in a game state where they were extremely favored to win with our composition as well,
and I think that is what is so frustrating, because this is only a best of three, right?
Two games and you're out, and you're not just out for today,
you're out for the entire world's tournament, and you have to turn that around.
Are you confident that they'll be able to get similar leads,
and are you confident that they would be able to close it out,
or are we just dealing with a BLG that actually thrives in game states like this,
although they wouldn't like to be behind?
Confidence, neither in both of these teams, is shaking.
It's shaky because I think Jhinja, like we highlighted, had a way better early game.
Way more impactful. The counterganks were great. The early plays were great.
Like this guy was a hero all throughout the early game, but then when they had a lead, they mis-executed.
They picked some bad fights without complete information.
And so it's a situation where PSG had all the tools to win the game.
Most certainly, and they just got sloppy in the execution.
Yeah, that overextension around red that literally got elk back into the game was actually massive.
Like, and they didn't have to do it. And then they all went in one by one.
And again, if that was the only mistake and the game was decided on a coin flip at 12 minutes,
it would be a little bit more palatable because that's the one big moment, hey, you miscalculated.
But they kept making these individual mistakes in the context of fights.
And it puts them in a position where BLG made a gambit and draft. They said,
will trade a roar for Yone and it paid off and it should not have it should not
have but multiple fights Maple misplays really don't want to be too
critical in the context of a very high pressure game but he's missing Qs he's
missing alties he's over committing on an E where he doesn't have an angle he's
not stacking his Q before fights if you are going to pick an STR champion you
have to play at an STR level and if you can't you need to be willing to
ban it away because the trade is not favoring you yeah and then on the
side of BLG like I do love this team so much when they can execute in teamfights
right like they can be a massive team fighting team we know just how good this
team can be but I think on the flip side of that I'm still not super confident in
their execution I talked about their meta read at at top when we had like a
really short amount of time to talk about it but it's also just been
their actual like execution in lanes their execution in fight setups
their understanding of the map I don't think Shun was able to have the same
impact early that Jinja was certainly and that would have been a massive
difference maker if PSG had been able to close out and now I'm really curious
to see how BLG looked going into the second game because like I said it has
been a BLG classic where they've been able to come in and stop. They can bring
it back and they are up versus elimination so they really have to
here would be sad to see PSG go but we'll see if they can bring it back
game two. That we will because it is an elimination match as they said so accurately on the desk.
It's like it is difficult to overstate what goes through the mind of a competitor when they know
they might be eliminated from something they've worked the whole year towards and for some people
have worked like years on years on years like Maple has been in our world since 2013 and now
it may be his last dance he said in an interview that he was thinking about retiring we don't
I don't know that for certain, but what a way to go out if it is you almost win game one and then you lose game two to BLG and it's just over. It's you know, it's just gone.
I think it's better for Maple when he's a guy who's previously made semi finals really pushed a lot of the LPL and LCK teams to the brink.
Now not only this tournament, but an MSI been very close to taking down BLG as well. It's heartbreaking, but we'll have to see as we get into champ select powered by Omen and HyperX.
this one is going to plan out because I need to see something different coming through here and Corgi the coach for PSG
He's to come up with something from the back of his head
You guys talk about mentality. I've been watching the player cams and in contrast to the PSG cams
Everyone is smiling and laughing and they know they got away with murder in that last game being able to come into this one
One game up so they have to be feeling great
You know on red side here with a counter pick available to them
They were able to come into this one with a dub
They're not going to give you the option of the yone or Aurora on blue side PSG
They are going to deny it
So they're gonna cover their bases and kind of the the more expected red side bands here
But it means that doji have to now found your as well
Otherwise you're just giving it over to PSG and they have the option to pick it
Nocturne is something we have seen first picked a couple times today for G2
Obviously it works really well alongside the Orianna, but then you are giving knight his Orianna if you want to
Most of the Vi open available and I think Junji has been exceptional when he can get his hands on this pick
So potential to try and hyper focus on towards that jungle matchup because I think giving him shun that across could be a bit worrisome as well
They are hoping this corner here
I think skarner does work well in champions like Vi where it's a bit more telegraphed when you're gonna go in
You can preemptively get off the skarner roads, but I still think the Vi
Kind of a tear above it in my eyes
Well, at least PSG did ban away Nite's Ari, so the very famous Nite Ari plus Vi turbo threat is not there, and in stead, you're going to go the melee option, grab that Sejuani synergy for the Jax very early on.
I'm just kidding, Jax, right? He's just like, hey, can we just pick Jax all the time because I'm really good at this champion and I can win a C5 later on.
If you just give me this champion, please.
I'm curious if they're trying to beat the Orianna pick up from maple and then night will go silence into it because you've already got this edge
Wonnie nights of really strong silence bear as well
And this could work out very well when you've already got I mean not a huge amount of ultimates like available right now to be known
But I still think it's strong into some of the picks that are here
Said it is going to be the smolder very strong scaling something
We saw kind of fall out of the meta for a little while at least we thought it would be some of the changes that happened
But in terms of scaling, he's just as strong as he has been for the last few months.
Obviously not as strong as he was when he was first released,
but still gives you that execution, still gives you that burn.
He's still stacked up to around the 20-minute mark.
Poppy now locked in as well for PSG.
And the other good thing about this modder is that it's flex-pic here too,
so you also don't have to fully give away, right?
And Poppy pick I really like as well because it denies something like the Callista,
which could be taken here because it's already going to be a match up for
the decent frag on the top lane against the Jax,
but it does denail a lot of these other picks.
And even things like the Kaizen kind of struggle because that steadfast presence can't block the ultimate, so it makes things a little bit more difficult for Elk on when he wants to try and take these fights, but still going to go towards the Kaizen and still have that backline
press for what BLG you're setting up as a tithe.
Alright, and then in protection vans because Kaizen doesn't have the strongest of lanes, want to take away the ass, want to take away some of those bullies down there, and BLG drops some vans in it.
It's interesting because you kind of want something to put you towards your smolder getting stacked up, but you need a little bit of damage in the early game if you're going to take fights.
Obviously, you also have the option to just try not to take the fights and get towards that point, but I don't think that really is how either of these teams always play.
And that's why I think a Callista Ban for BLG is really good here because you deny something like Callista Ranada on this next rotation
It's also something that can bully out the Kaiser and gives you that bridge to the later portion of the game
I think it's just the easiest takeaway in this position
And then I think it becomes a question of what do you want to see for Betty?
Maybe it is just the MF to try and go for hey skarner grab into MF combo and something that can bully out of that bottom side
But no Callista Ban just yes, it's going to be there a massive problem instead
Interesting too because PSG are going to have to fit some AP into their composition, so you're also looking at the previous Rumble ban, the Kennen didn't really have the big Kennen moment that you wanted in the previous game, so it's going to have to dig way deeper, because the Aurora's ban, the Rumble's ban, we'll see how deep they go, or if they actually do want to swap to Smolder.
He said that Tristana Band comes out here for Waves to Naja.
I feel like he...
I'm trying to remember this correctly, man.
I want to make sure I'm right before I say it.
Udyr.
How do we feel about Udyr Top?
I think he just gets Poppy.
I think he's fine with the Poppy, right?
Yeah, you don't think the Poppy is too complex.
I don't think you need to.
I think you're just happy with where it is.
The fact is, no Clista either kind of takes a little of the value on this bottom side for BLG, so...
We're actually going to be like, come back towards the J, so...
Okay.
This was something he was really good on back in like the 2021s and that and when he was playing back on top of eSports
So not fully surprised to see it
But it's not something that I was expecting to see with the shift away
But obviously let's all of the bills not something you see a huge amount
But at least can match that push against this motor and not actually give over to a stacks this motor
Because you're not paying that me like magic and this is something you know people were like theory crafting on the
14-18 busts that the J Scott, but never really had a strong foothold, you only saw like very small instances of it
So I do like you know playing playing it out here gives them the possibility of that double poke
You know I said if elk does go AP heavy route, then you also have some poke options later for the standoffs
The Nordle is the last pick here for BLG
I'm not abusing to that death fund again, Betty and Woody went for the Zyra Rakan which
gives you a little bit of safety as the Zyra obviously did her own with the Featherstone
but also can do a lot of damage in the late game.
I think it's also really interesting because BLG have kind of identified Hagnus as a GST
talent, don't have a lot of engage tools.
They're a lot better at poke, or sorry for disengage.
When you look at BLG, Jace and probably an AP Kaisa, you're going to have a ton
of poke damage there.
Then the immediate follow up from SH1 or a Novelist.
I think BLG as long as they can play this end slow, or actually it really goes far where PSG talent just can't push forward enough to hit them
It feels like a range difference, really
BLG have much more range when it comes to poke later on in the game, Jace and Kaiso as you say teaming up
If PSG can find and engage, they can do a lot of work in that position
You have a lot of
control of areas in teamfights, but it is going to be very tricky for them to find those engages
PSG it is do or die here in Berlin. A loss here eliminates you from contention at Worlds 2024
and after you have such a strong game one against the
LPL champions you'll be hoping that you can put up a good show and
At least take us to game three. Yeah, you don't want to be remembered just for pushing BLG at MSI
pushing BLG in some games
You know, history really does remember the victors.
So we'll see if they can get it over the line here.
Small door, of course, you know,
once you get your rapid fire cannon,
then you've got, you know, your range
and your little bit of poke as well.
But we'll see if they can actually get
to that stage of the game,
because the Sejuani is also a great pairing with Jace.
Part of the buffs, you know,
for the Jace was the slow
when you go in for your melee form as well.
So I feel like Shen in this game
just has a lot of options with lanes.
Like he has really, really good lanes to play around.
All these BLG lanes should be fearsome,
should be like creating advantages for themselves.
And so then it's just up to Shen to like be able
to track Jijia, make sure the skarner is not poking out
through a wall to mess up one of their lanes
and then lend that Sejuani CC to get them off the ground
and really snowball them.
And I think that Shen this time around
is in the position to have a way better game
than we saw in the previous game on a week.
It is kind of quintessential BLG.
Like in the regular season in the LPL,
they lost five of their eight first games in their series.
So almost losing to PSG in game one.
It's kind of what we come to expect from them.
Emily was talking about it on the desk as well.
They just have really slow starts to series
and then start to ramp it up.
That's where the best of all is just not their thing.
It's a good curse for them, right?
But yeah, I think that definitely the,
there is a bit of a meme there,
but it is still been a very slow adaptation from BLG coming into worlds and also then coming into what the meta has been
so I think BLG definitely have a loss if they manage to beat PSG Talon here to learn before they as they start to move on even over the course of this weekend, right?
We'll have to see how that adaptation comes through as we get another different pick for Knight, something that we haven't really seen coming through
but we'll have to see if the Jace is going to find some work wonders from this one.
I mean, it's something Knight has, you know, quite a bit of experience on one of his top 10 most played, 76% winmate on it across the course of his career.
It was one of the big flexes. 5.369 actually played Kari champions on top esports. They flexed things like the Jace and then Knight would bring out something like the Zoe and they played these super long range compositions.
But now working instead with Junction with Elk, I think it is going to be something that he'll feel right at home, Mass.
If you can just find some that are the successes as Kobe was already saying the ability to player in shun
Go into melee form stack the passive stone for the sage one. He's gonna be perfect for BLG
Maple kind of getting the push in at the mid lane
It's like a ginger's look a long route around his jungle was only just got to his blue buff after
So he's a slight bit behind where shun is
You're kind of going as expected here for BLG with their top pushing, with their bottom
side pushing as well.
Elk and On, kind of nicely getting Betty and Woody under tower trying to deny as much as
they can.
Both junglers, as you say, will finish here towards the top towards the crashing wave,
and then we'll be able to candy fully get this one in.
Those range minions just outside, a little bit annoying there, but junglers might meet
up on that Scuttle Crab regardless. Ginger's already halting towards it, she's actually
looking for the mid lane instead, deciding he doesn't want to battle over the top side
Scuttle Crab. Instead he will go down towards the bottom side, unused the fact that Elk was
looking for a Cheetah reset to get his cull to then move up as well. Looks like Ginger
might try and sneak behind bin with that wave, not in the best of states for the
BLG top laner. Yeah, and you can kind of tell on the moment of the comms too.
Bin backing off after he cut off those last couple minions because the Scarner
is, one of the few junglers actually still loves... well...
I mean, it's just stacks. That's all they want.
I think Shunjo almost dies, but he'll be okay. Meanwhile in the bot lane there was a look-in from Shun, but
even with Betty and Woody having the wave pushed up, Shun wasn't quite able to find the gank he was
fishing for.
This is dangerous though. Shunjo trying to get his
camps right before Shun arrives.
He'll get them, but Shun will arrive in time to flash away from Shunjo.
Get some to safety no longer has that summoner for the next five minutes
So Junji reading correctly that Shun was gonna try and go for the respawn of this raptors camp there
But having to burn his flash makes this scanner way less threatening on a dive. I can't even now shun over a bot side again
He's gonna recess
It shun off to a nice start in this matchup. And again, he's got lanes that want to fight
He's got the flash advantage over enemy jungle. It just seems primed right now
It definitely is and I think that the big thing that you have to look at as well
Kobe is the bot lane look how far Betty has fallen behind elk because of the way
that wave was frozen because the fact this shouldn't came across like Betty
and Woody have actually struggled to unfreeze this lane now they'll be able to
do it ginger path towards his drug so he can be there first but it's gonna be
about you know 200 300 gold at the end of all things and that's weird
elk having got a reset to get his cult. Yeah and again he can continue to
freeze here once more so this doesn't have to realistically crash because
You do have the Nautilus coming up behind. Can he hold it? Yeah, he should be able to just hold it up in the wave.
Ana's now reset getting his own boots, and you've got the Senjuani still in the vicinity, so they're moving the Skarner here to show his face on the bot side
just to try and, for most, essentially, threat that they can crash the wave, but BLG not having any of it on, essentially faking that his jungler is in behind them
and kind of calling Dringesane, are you really going to try and play this when you have no flash?
I love that point especially because on does this so much oh yeah where he he
fakes that someone is behind him you know even not in front of his own tower a
lot of times you know walking into entity territory you can get free vision or
free plays like that it's so beneficial to both you and your jungler of course
it kind of allows your jungler freedom on the other side of that too but here
we are on the grubs and that will be number one some has to use the
flat. They're smite for it though. Knight's coming across. Maple working his way towards
the river as well. Junja should be able to secure at least one of these. Chucks out another
rocket, Jun and Knight. Bin now moving from the top side. Junja using his smite to secure
the second grub, or the first for his team, but the second in totality on here. Woody
joining the battle as well. Bin still keeping that grub aggroed. Jun has his smite back
up. And he can get the Scuttle Crab and the grub as well.
So that was kind of what you want to see from BOG, this slow pace when it comes to the fights.
So then you have to try and back up his PSG because without Woody there, they don't really
have a big engage tool.
Maple didn't already use his Ultimus on the waves, they didn't have that poke to answer
for a knight kind of chipping away at him.
And you can see how much respect PSG gives.
And it's even good for the 1v1.
Elk here, level lead down there poking him under tower.
Betty is definitely in pain this game.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team here.
they picked this up looks like should not be well actually scarner heading back
over we'll see if he just clears out I think he's just gonna do his camps I'm
really think he wants to challenge this and it's so interesting how many things
kind of domino into each other in that bot lane right like elk getting the
reset then being able to freeze it out he has the colors already 49 stacks left
on it so he's over halfway towards completing it but because of the way
that they then push the lane out oh you're actually getting caught here
There is Jun going for the engage on with a great hook and Junjo falls for first block.
And to your point, Medic, this is what prime BLG looks like, this movement from on, constantly
shifting around the map, holding positions so that he can get out and work his magic.
And now Maple is running, hoping that he can find some sort of way to teleport out
of this jungle, but short of magic or a miracle, I think he might be done for.
And he gets clipped as well by the accelerated Chocolast, meaning an execute is no longer
an option for Maple.
Shun should be able to chase him down, who dashed across the wall with a flat, flat, flat.
Knight still chasing here, Glacial Prison used, just to make sure that this dragon is going extinct alongside his buddies.
Knight will secure the kill of his second of the game.
He was able to get one turret plate before he had to run into enemy territory and was chased all the way through.
Good death, good death.
A couple of extra smolder stacks on his way down.
At the very least, but yeah, I mean, BLG, really good kind of transition there, up from the bottom side of the map.
all the way through to grab the extra objective.
I think this is where you get to see BOG kind of continuing up on this pressure.
The fact that again on his free heart, he's controlling that wave on both sides.
It's up for Elk.
He's going to take over to level six fairly soon.
If he starts to move up towards it, Voidgrub's in a little bit.
That's a little cheeky ult from Majid though.
Tonight, I'm being accessed to this wave, but now is the ultimate.
If Shun wants to try and move up here into this top side.
So yeah, I think he rightfully kind of backs away
after picking up the dice.
Perfect damage calculation, gets to the plate, denies some extra minions there, and they're
going to need that money because PSG, like their whole comp is set up for late game front
to back teamfights, you know, BLG have poke advantages, BLG have options for later for
pushing on sides as well, so PSG trying to funnel all their money, kind of huddle
together, wait for their later stages where they can really synergize with their five
on fives.
I will say, if I'm trying to funnel my gold on this PSG comp, I don't think Azure is the one that I really want to funnel it on.
You gotta point it somewhere else, yeah.
Try and get someone Maple who's about 700 gold behind in the mid lane and maybe more as there's the flash engage function.
Maple down again and she joins Knight on the scoreboard.
A great gank in the mid lane, managing to get that flash onto Maple, denying him any sort of way to get out of that.
And even the ultimate, a little bit late for Maple so he doesn't get the heal.
And now for something like the Boyd Rubs, Naples has no real access, so that should be going to BLG's way as well.
This is exactly the game I was envisioning for Shen when we kept talking about, oh, it's Dream for him.
He's got the Satuana, he's got his lanes on the right.
This is him definitely executing quite well.
This is also very similar to how MSI went between these two teams.
You know, really close sort of games where BLG looked like they're on the ropes.
PSG obviously picking up a couple there.
But then Game 5 was a one-sided stomp.
You know, it is very, very strong from BLG, so it's interesting to see that sort of back-and-forth
and interesting to see how BLG kind of wake up across the course of the series.
Hubris for night.
An item we don't too often see has been seeing a lot of play in solo cubies, and they are in ARAM, but...
Kobe, do you want to elucidate why he may have gone this?
Ah, well, it's obviously because of the world song.
Heavy lies the crown, and it's a crown.
Also, if you can't get a murder book, you need a murder crown.
I was gonna see it shouldn't getting caught up here PSG trying to fight it been going over the counter strike
What he misses the gets the charm doesn't get the knock up and now he needs to get the hell out of there
They're charged onto ginger. It's another but not he's stacking the hubris put them back
Under the ground night finds another double and there's 19 stacks on his hubris already
Yeah, this is kind of the night speciality. He loves his stacking stacks
He's actually stacked up a huge amount already the murder book is what he's most known for in the LPL
which is obviously the
The fact the major I said they say to get a ton of kills for but now having the hubris as well
He's just doing the exact same thing
We're looking for the engage onto Elko dodges away with the killer instinct has that flash as well. We'll have to invest it
Just to escape to the 2v1 in the bot lane
Yeah, I mean it is a big investment, but well played by Elk in response to both of those it's kind of
You know one for one on trades for ultimates and flashes used there with woody investing everything
Maybe that can open up a place for PSG to attack. It's just it's so difficult because they well set up with the teleport
Maybe they
So Betty has no feather storm but does have a cleanse in the flash
I'm just trying to get on top of him to get the staggering blows down
They're gonna land the dredge line on to Woody who dashes back with a battle dance and escapes well played by the PSG
Botlane to get themselves out of dodge
Yeah
The point that I wanted to focus on though was the five grubs now being hit for BLG because that's gonna open up so much
Threat on these side lanes with night and being because while we focus on the poke night being this far ahead
You can see it on the side of your screens
He's just gonna be such a menace in a sideline push and now having that burn off of five grubs as well
Maybe we just won't be able to stack up and sure he's getting a little bit back for himself here with junja and
Also, I should keep in control on me close as the game goes on
I think BLG have a lot of winning answers to PSG's questions
As a side note open
for love ever fight here
to force as you're out of this
Push goes in with the counter strike night dives in onto may pull the quickness coming out as they look to dive onto my
tonight mama is called as you're now on the front line BLG will disengage but
yeah that's a side note you know no no no every fight is like something's gonna
happen that's fine hubris basically what it does gives you lethality and attack
damage and then if a champion that you have done damage to dies you get a big
burst of extra ad for the next 90 seconds and that can stack up as well
right so you get stronger through the course of the fight through your
hubris which is probably why yeah yeah it was named that way it used to make
little golden statues in the fountain and then yeah yeah maybe sad I love the
little golden statues as junja tries to hover around this botside to keep this
tower alive maple's here as well shun it's gonna meet him in pale lands onto one
the dredge line short from on Elk's though still looking for the plate there's
one minion still alive on will now tank up the tower and Woody will have a
the grand entrance and give on a grand exit.
I mean, that's actually big.
Any bit of gold that PSG can get at this stage in the game
could be very big for their dream
of team fighting their way out of it.
And Shen is gonna be able to execute no problem,
does get all the way into enemy territory.
So no further benefit came there,
but still even being able to skarner old under tower,
find up one kill.
Yeah, you could also point out
that these funnels medic are not in the correct places.
This one went into the support.
No, that is the right buff.
Ah, OK, OK.
Right, but anything here for PSG trying to get them
on some footing where they can actually use their fight.
But the riptard could be that footing.
Shun's still dead.
Jhunja coming back onto the map.
Riptard is up and available.
And this could be a moment where they try and find something.
But you can see the Mascar lane economy snapshot.
Knight is massive right now.
And even if you don't have Shun here for the start,
the poke and the control that he offers
He's a little bit terrified for PSG.
Alright, he gets the push out of topside.
I'm going to group up around the Rift Herald right now.
Bin doesn't have a TP. Azur does.
Azur, of course, can keep bin around in that lane,
but might want to just dodge around the side.
And hex flashback across the wall from on,
so rejoin with his teammates.
PSG are looking for that fight.
Jinger very tanky with the Zeke's Convergence.
Maybe he's also stacking up,
sneezing all over BLG.
Would he be looking for that flank?
Has the quickness? Has the flash?
In a couple of seconds,
engage with the Glacial Prison. Feather Storm coming out from Betty, Quickness from Woody,
they're looking for Arnbeth, the Death Charge will lock him up for a second on now, sacrificed
by BLG. As PSG managed to find a kill, Bin still pushing in the bot side. Shun being
chased out by Azur, but doesn't quite land the Sun into the wall. Shun just still looking
for Elk who has the cleanse, but goes for Nite instead, pulls him back where's the
damage. It's Azur right now, the keeper's verdict is that Nite is guilty. His hubris
This has been his downfall, as Jinger puts him six feet under.
There's no way BLG had the correct timer on Agis' teleport.
I feel like, you know, they kind of walk, walk into this, and even if they had gotten
this might there, this is huge for PSG.
Also, just great decision-making from PSG.
We talked about the potential poke and everything else I can come through from BLG, but in
a straight-up 5v5 front-to-back, PSG, if they can close the distance, are going
to be so much stronger, and we get to see exactly that.
BLG group up to try and force on towards the Rift Tower.
Woody putting pressure on towards the back line
as they engage on towards on here.
That really spells disaster for the Mas'Aja.
TP's in, on goes down.
We're trying to even get away from this.
They think they're safe under the terror.
Maybe they can start to poke back,
but the front line of PSG is so tanky.
Elkhony has to start to chip.
And it's the turn on tonight that really seals the deal.
I thought we've been warning about this PSG team fight,
you know, fully grouped.
They're the ones with the few seconds extra of teleport advantage, and they make it work.
That is not a mistake that you kind of give lightly here.
And even the silver lining of getting Bot Tower was just answered by Top for PSG.
Now, BLG will get this tower, but you can already look at Bot Side and see that PSG are going to trade as well.
So what had been a good start for BLG is really starting to disappear as Aja now solo under the tower.
This could be a bit of risky play.
He has the keepers verdicts in a few seconds, still has his flash, Betty trying to come across as well.
He's met with Knight, he accelerated Schukloss doing a lot of work on, looking for that turret TPE coming in from PSG as they look to collapse.
On not tanking the tower yet, has that concussive blow, Cephas person's coming out, there's the quickness.
Sony on to the tanks so far, but on to the first target, Glacial prison coming down as well with Slow Maple for a second,
but Ginger's here to join the bar, needs to join the fight.
PSG find another bin that is ping-pings to hit that mid lane tower, but there's still a couple of seconds before he can get on it.
Betty's gonna try and answer him. He has the demolish and five grubs. It will be enough to take the turret
But it's the exact same thing again BLG not respecting how quickly PSG can get across the map they recent on both
Also goes for Elk
Guess the cleanse out of him in exchange for his flash a ginger and Woody though can look for this and help back in in a
Precarious situation ginger just go for the Kaiser killer instinct out TP behind by bin as well
The impale hits on to Elk bin looking to do it in game one
but the verdict is that he can't get in there.
In the end, BSG don't find the kill,
but they burn both of Elk's summoners.
The biggest thing too, the objective on the map
is all the way on the other side.
So, BSG gonna have to recall now
to reset and run over there.
They were pinging it.
Dragon number three starts to get a little worrisome.
You know, BLGs, they already had the five void grubs
and the two dragons going their way.
If they can put this extra pressure on you
by grabbing number three
and the threat of the soul point
It would still be huge, but PSG, another teamfight victory, and that one was, again, off another teleport from them.
Let's see them try and just force their way in.
They do have to face check, but they can do that because they're so tanky.
And they know Knight's top and they know that Elk is bot lane, right?
So Knight still has the TP, but right now PSG get control of the river with their numbers advantage.
But he's going to be able to push out mid, can open up on that tower as well.
BLG going to send Elk across to try and answer the pressure in mid.
I don't think BLG are going to fight this though.
They're just looking for that tier two in top trying to accelerate the chase even further.
PSG, not really sure how they want to approach this, Aja has his teleport up, but he's still
going to run there, Terra goes down, and now if this Poppy shows on the wave, Jayce TP's
in.
There's the TP in, Aja can TP as well, we'll answer with one of his own, BLG.
Group up for the 4 for now, Bin's going to join them, Jhinja trying to get in towards
the pit to take the drake, unlocked up, the bikecaller coming back as well, and
Jhinja will land the smite, but Witty goes down first, Shun and Bin the next two
targets, it's support for support so far, Aja is still looking for a little bit more
night trying to put the damage down for a long range. That's what we talked about with this
composition, their ability to poke but in this fight they haven't really had the opportunity
to do so. Ginger can look for a little bit more. Trucks have rocked across the wall and hits.
Knight in his back. PSG trying to open up towards this mid lane tier one. Elkin Knight here to
defend. There's another wave on its way though. Yeah I mean Jace could try and poke but you've
got two fat tanks in front of you. Can't really get the damage around them. Forces the
blast with just the raw scarner ultimate and PSG, another one.
And the dragon off the back as well.
Junja with these slide steels has been exceptional this series
and getting the better of Shun once again.
This is where BLG TP might in but because Night wasn't there
the poke damage isn't really enough so PSG still healthy enough
to go for the immediate engage. On too far forward he gets knocked up by Woody
and the steal comes through from Junja on falls
And now BLG trying to play this slow, kite back, look for the poke, look for the damage,
but as Kobe was just saying, Aja and Jhunja are just too tanky at the moment.
Yeah, I mean, they like locked up Jhunja, you know, he's like stunned up there,
but he took almost no damage, and he's like, well, I'm already next to the dragon.
It's fine, stay here.
He's calm and collected. He's like, I don't have to worry about moving.
I'll just land this smite and then brute force with this composition.
Brute force is the way you want to play, and that's how PSG have just forced their way back in.
And it's a great build from Junja for exactly that reason.
You see when the win probability power by AWS goes down, but he hasn't gone for the hard steal that we've traditionally seen a lot of scanners.
It's been the Zeke's convergence into Warmogs.
Warmogs is one bright against all the poke, but the Zeke's in this instance as well just helps keep everyone slowed and close to you.
And when PSG are trying to chase down these members of BLG, it's exactly what you need.
So great decision making from Junja on this build for this game.
Two items on him, two as well for Maple with the mana movement in the spirit of Sojin,
two as well for Knight, or two and a half with the last whisper in his inventory.
Maple still sacking up a little bit slow as the hook goes down onto Jhinjo.
There's the double impale into the grand entrance with the charm coming back with the greatness
into the blade call.
And look at the CC, look at the suppression on BOG, and look at the flash forward from
Betty.
He tries to get onto Elk, he can't quite get the damage down.
Elk somehow survives through the burn, through everything.
Elk is still standing. Oh, Betty wanted it so bad. He saw it in his eyes so close, but they fumble it there.
Elk able to survive. BLG able to survive and fight them off.
We do start looking at the BLG dictionary though, because Slow needs to be found at some point in there.
Because going for these sorts of plays, just sets up for PSG to play with their strong frontline.
The damage coming through from Woody is insane here in these close quarter fights,
because he gets so much damage from the feather fall back and the great flash from Betty, but look at the health, the shields!
I don't like...
He's so blue!
I mean even the rebel from... I don't know...
I don't know, there was one auto that went onto Shun instead of going onto Elk, and I think that would have killed him.
I think that would have killed him so close, but I love the fact that Betty's feeding himself enough to go for those sorts of plays in a series like this when your world spot is on the line.
Yeah, he had so many feathers down. He wanted the biggest of blade callers.
Just needed a tiny bit more.
Behind.
Help not here.
Knight the first target, Azure.
Boxing up for a second, ongoing forward as well.
Azure still trying to chase Knight out.
Bin here to join the party, is on flashes away.
Keepers verdict on Bin is that he needs to come back in a couple of moments.
He's going to TP behind them here, but perhaps PSGF a moment in the 4v5
to really open up.
Mon comes down, the feather storm used as well.
But Bin finds the foreman, stun on the back line.
Hell cleanses away the blade call of root, and once again it's Gigabit in absolutely styling on fools.
PSG completely fall to the non-weapon of Bin, but he's an absolute weapon wielded by BLG in this fight,
and that will be the Baron taken for the LPL.
BLG, I'm sure their fans were not worried at any moment in any game in this year.
Honestly though, now with Baron buff it should start to look smooth again for them.
They did have a very, very good start to this game.
Just ran into a little bit of trouble in the last few teamfights, but here's a look at
how this one actually started out.
And it was a little bit more risky at the very beginning because of the positioning
here through River.
And they do get an ejection onto Bin, but he just says, fine, I will teleport back
for the flank angle.
And the thing is it's so hard to start these flights without Woody, but this is where
Bean comes in over the back hot ward hop in even goes to the flash past the feather pull as well from
Desire and then I think even maybe leap strikes away a second time
But really nice stuff from being but now we're dragging just open available
Maple moving back towards the top side PSG licking their wounds
Do not want to fight BLG once more and the important thing for the poke comp is to be ahead of the curve in terms of items in terms
damage and that's exactly where BLG are now. 6,000 gold, their lead, they have three Irons on
night, they have two and a half almost three on Elku, is going to continue to rattle down damage with
those avoid seekers and they can start to siege up and actually really utilize their composition
to its greatest effect, which is doing exactly that onto Woody and Junjie and just constantly
putting damage into the backs of PSG. And every comp with a bin jacks is just a bin jacks comp as
as well, especially if you have a Sejuani, but he's to over 2000 gold ahead now as well,
working on the frozen heart so he can be a tank in the middle.
Okay, onto Azure goes in with a death charge as well, he's impaled the quickness on the
backline but already the OG have taken one kill.
It's one for one so far on and Azure falling, Betty having to pop the feather storm.
It's been, baby, already we see Elk killing off Betty, been looking for a little bit
more of his woody dashes out of the fight.
wasn't even really needed just forces PSG away now the tier two in the bot lane the target for BLG
there's a nice attempt for PSG but being on the flank sets up for BLG to take the fight now he's
back on for his mid needs healthy as you like people has hit that execution threshold and looks
like PSG are trying to collapse onto bin no flash for him no way out you got a feel goes back in
with the out of nowhere who needs a way out this is Ben we're talking about a minute that's
This is all in with a leap strike, but I'm in the trash, Ben.
That's exactly what you need him to do in that situation.
For a moment, I thought there was no way out for him, but who's lost in where with whom?
When there's no way out, look for the way in.
I mean, he's a boxer, right?
So he just has to dodge everything, but he still gets hit by everything.
Maybe he's for the Homer Simpson approach to boxing.
He just absorbs everything.
Sundered Sky then goes in and there's just no real follow-up because the Counter-Strike denies all of the auto attacks and Maple goes down
Look how close he was to the execute there. So close to that rifle nose. Can you do the laugh at the end?
3000 gold ahead night the same
overall PLG
Cresting over towards that 10k gold lead that so often is insurmountable and for PSG it is a
a world's full of maybes and what-ifs they've been close on so many occasions obviously done well to get to one and two
But I think they would have wanted a little bit more with how well they've performed from time to time
Even the series against fly quest as well. It was a very close game in the early game until fly quest really began to take it away
They're still looking for more here though as ginger goes in with the impale the quickness coming out as well
Let's stop by the death charge with night is locked against the wall and been even he can't rectify this situation
can't bail them out the Baycaller back onto Arno has to flash away himself
Elk now joining the battle a double counter strike as the engage goes on to
Azure but BLG have only found one so far, Betty's on that front line no feather
storm for him and Ben finds it again. I doubted him for a second but he makes
you believe that Jax is the most OP pick in the game it's Ben again to
clean it up for BLG. Ben decimates PSG Talon and with us they will be
bearing out of the world's championship for BLG.
It's only one more step on what is a long road ahead of them.
BLG are looking to get to two and two
to challenge for the quarterfinals to continue to level up
as they defeat PSG and go to the next round.
Completely unrelated.
But if there's any player champion combo
that you want a world skin for, I want a world skin.
Yeah, it was all about him the series. It was on the back of in the PLG managed to make it through
Game one in game two so often the carry for them and
That's it from us for now. Is it from ESG as well as BLG take it over to the analysts us
Thank you so much. I don't think it's unrelated to Kobe because I mean he keeps doing these things on
On Jax and he is also our up-up player of the series
We went back and forth and I just wanted to give it to him because of that moment where
PSG poppy ults him out and then they actually give him the end to TP for the blank ward
I think that was sick and then after that he continued to completely dunk in style
Yeah, I'm any further validating the choice of forces PSG to put bow
I'm gonna talk about that a little bit but from the subject of BLG look like these games were a hot mess
Yep, across the board. This is the player talking about. Congratulations. You played yourself. That's what happened. Here he comes
He's just gonna come in right off super easy access to this PSG backline and prior to this you'd see
You know PSG would win a fight or they'd get like an advantage because BLG would overstep or they'd go into a choke and
and Ben got so much gold because they were just like,
no, Ben, you stay bot lane, you get that turret,
you stay mid lane, you get that turret.
And then in this fight,
he's able to get the TP flank off being Poppy ulted out
and shows up with already a lead and then comes in,
it gets even further of a lead.
It's actually crazy because I think that a lot of people
will be like, oh, this has just been on Jax,
and look at him in isolation, it's been Jax,
there's no question, but you really have to appreciate
how many situations the team was in
where Ben didn't show up for the team to get more gold.
So we could be this leaking threat.
Everyone on BLG conceded advantages to put him in that position
so he could make a montage at PSG players.
I know the interview with Knight is coming up,
but he was one of those players who were like,
what are you doing?
Apparently just feeding my jacks, okay.
Yeah, you would think that it was all a genius bait,
some would say.
You could say questionable itemization
or you could say he put a target on himself
by building hubris, which gave him the freedom.
It's just, I'm so coping, please don't say that.
I did, so I did.
I can't explain field. Yeah, I mean, I tried. We're watching together. Yeah. Um, I think the other thing I did want to point out with this G thick, it was super interesting from night. We will get to that. Oh, okay. Uh, we, I think we saw this at MSI previously when night was looking super, super strong. This is a pick he's defaulted to when it came to that point in the draft. I was like, Oh, he's gonna bring in the special. And he said, and by Lauren, the Verizon post game interview.
And welcome back to the stage for this post-game interview with Knight and Wendy.
Thank you so much for joining me, Nihao.
It's been an amazing series, but also a lot of back and forth between you and PSG.
Can you talk me through the expectations you had coming in today against this team?
What are your expectations?
We are looking forward to playing against a team that doesn't have that kind of pressure.
But maybe when we play against them, we will have some pressure.
We hope that we won't have any pressure in the next game.
Why should instead of Wei today?
But I still want to ask you why today is Xun, not Da Ye Wei?
It's actually based on our screens' results, and also this is also decided by our coaching staff.
Alright, well I guess it made more sense here to play with him today.
Can you tell me about Jayce?
We haven't seen this champion at all, mid lane especially.
Do you think it's the type of champion that we would see again?
And why did it make sense in this draft specifically?
In this game, you have to mention your J-Sport.
You haven't seen a hero in the final yet.
Why did you choose J-Sport?
Why did you choose J-Sport today?
Will you see more J-Sports in the future?
I think J-Sport is a bit boring.
I personally choose J-Sport because I play J-Sport well.
I'm going to consider whether it's a good match or not.
It's not that strong.
To be honest, I really feel Jace is out of meta a little bit at Worlds, but it's actually
the champion I'm very comfortable with and really got the confidence in.
Because of this, I picked it on stage today, but in the future, I like to rethink about
my choice as well because I think Jace may not be a very strong pick here on stage.
Alright, you talk about confidence and I want to follow up on this because I don't
feel like BLG has been playing to the fans' expectations, especially considering
the fact that your LPLs first seed, is this a confidence stage issue or is there anything else going on for you guys?
I don't think there are many players who play in the team,
but there are not many players who play in the team.
We will use the game to challenge them.
So I think why we have some fluctuation maybe here on stage
is because there are some players who are not that kind of experienced.
So sometimes we still be a little bit nervous playing here
and definitely we are going to use our stage performance to prove ourselves
and also use the stage performance to just enjoy the games.
Do you have one final message to the Western fans, Nite?
Thank you very much. We are fighting.
We are fighting. BLG is indeed fighting.
Thank you so much, Nite.
Thank you for the interview, Wendy.
Thank you so much for the translation.
And BLG moves on to the next stage.
They stay in it indeed.
They're not quite in quarterfinals yet.
May I just shout out the exceptional PR training
of our LPL players
because, you know, it was perfection. Also the question in terms of why has the performance
not been there? Lack of experience is cited, which I think, I don't really agree with that,
right? As a reason, but it's a great answer nonetheless.
Yeah. No, it's kind of a non-answer. You know, we'll give it to them. You know, obviously
the players are pretty experienced, especially compared to a lot of the names and faces,
but you never know, new environment, you know, new studio, maybe there is some
We've heard things we give them whatever the reason is the performances up until today certainly were not there
Well today was a hot mess
I think at this point if you're BLG you're happy to get the wins where you can and you want to just start building this momentum
As we go forward in the tournament especially because like again, we highlighted been this is a tournament where Jax is blind pickable and
BLG are clearly the best team in the LPL like you're really set up for success here
Yeah, and I think as we as we look through
some of these highlights. The big thing for me is that when it did come to some of the
team fights, the way they did fight with Jax was better. I actually don't think Vince
been having a super great tournament thus far, especially compared to expectations.
This is the top laner that we kind of unirrupt laterally said going into this is probably
the best spot here. And he is definitely not. This is kind of the first series
They've really, really seen him pop off and they gave him a lot of resources to do so.
So I think going forward, even though this is a shaky win for BLG, they did default to some comfort.
I hope that they can get some confidence from this and maybe continue to adjust their meta read.
I think they're still like the team you do not want to draw.
Still, we'll go to the bracket in just a second.
I would like to take a minute to talk about Maple because he has alluded to retiring.
We've had this in the past where it did not end up happening
But regardless I want to kind of treat it as such for if it does happen
And then this would be the last foray of him at Worlds and I think not as much dis tournament
But plenty of ones before this where he was the original
LCK killer right a fantastic imprint on our League of Legends and our lowly sports history
And it would be very sad to see him go
I would be as brilliant shame to see him retire because I think that PSG are the PCS and Maple is PSG
Right at its core and while other players have stepped up over the years and there have been contenders to
To kind of challenge them at the top of the table
This is a guy and who has always been on these teams who have found so much success
Who is at a career that's spanned across multiple regions now like he is wanted to me one of the most iconic players in the sport in its history
And I think he deserves that credit, but mostly I think what he's known for are the big upsets
I think people have to remember like how impressive the longevity of his career is
We don't even talk about his domestic dominance because we just don't have the same coverage of the PCS that we do of other regions domestically
But he is so good domestically and he always transitions it into a memorable result internationally
Yeah, he is a really memorable player
He is a very intelligent player
And I also think when you're looking at the way that the regions are combining next year too, right?
Like it's not even if he doesn't retire
It's kind of a sunsetting of what the PCS was going forward into a pack
So him on this PSG talent team, they couldn't get it done, but you know, I still think he is a stellar player that people really should remember within like a whole eSports canon.
And I think even if there wasn't going to be this kind of combination of leagues or these merging of regions, like you would still look at the context of the PCS as pre and post maple.
Yeah.
Right, like because this is a guy who just has always one has always one and that's that's something that no player has really ever been able to match in any region.
There's no comparable level I think of domestic dominance anywhere else in the world and so he will always be this focal point and he will always be this historic point for this region as long as League of Legends has played.
Yes, we're going to miss you.
Meful, thank you.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Thanks for the memories.
If you do choose to retire.
Otherwise, we'll glop.
Welcome back.
Also, you blew my mind out for a second because you said pre-imposed Maple and I was thinking things like pre-imposed faker
Preimposed cast. Yeah, and it's the same thing
Well, there was a weird like Yerxin
You have to include the detour, right?
Sure, the detour
They didn't have to have to be on the micro
Please cast them
And they came back to PCN
No, cast me so close to the LCD
I might have done a little bit of a narrative there
There were a decent number of years where he wasn't just in the region
European cast their narrative detected
Look, sometimes you got to spice it up for the people at home.
You do.
I think the statement stands, even if some of the details
are a little...
Speaking of spicing it up, give me that Swiss bracket,
because we are heading towards some possible two and two
matchups that are possible nightmare for the Western teams.
I'm just going to say it.
Regardless, though, we're going to go ahead to tomorrow first.
We have Fnatic versus Wabo.
This is all elimination.
And TL versus Gam.
Oof, I flaw.
Yeah, Fnatic, Wabo.
That's going to be really, really difficult for Fnatic.
I'm just going to say it.
I think Fnaticer and Freefall.
I would love to see them find their composure
because I think they can have a fighting chance.
They come in at full strength,
but that last series kind of took away
the last little bits of hope
because you could see them really lose the plot.
And the other times this year
where they've collapsed like that,
they've needed time
and they have been able to come back swinging.
But this is a very tough turnaround
to go from such a losing game,
such a catastrophic game
to then needing to show up in a best of three
versus Waybo.
It's a really tall task.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And then, I mean, TL, I know Jan talked about it when he was on the desk, but it's like, this is the grudge match, right?
Like, Gam were the team that eliminated TL previously last year.
This TL roster has not been performing to their own expectations, right, of what they wanted to do here.
And on the side of Gam, man, what a story, right?
Like, they stuck with this roster post, like, everything that went on in spring.
They grew together over summer and now they're here fighting to continue their tournament
Like I think gam is like a really great story. Yeah, make them believe it's made for them
Yeah, it really is so I don't want to do it to them, but I want to kind of simulate a result
So just see it as not jinxing. Okay, let's say
Expectations I think could say that weibo survives and TL survives then the tutu pool is DK fly G2 BL
I think if you're a Western team, you're hoping to draw another Western team, but you don't have one chance or DK. Yeah, because DK or hot mess. Actually, to be fair, maybe through a way, the remaining LCK LPM representatives are all very messy, like their performance against.
Yeah, because I do think Waybo can regroup. I've talked about what a surprise it was actually LNG was the first
LPL seed out
But yeah, it'll depend on how Waybo look against Fanatic as to how confident I am
I'll say one more thing for game if they do knock out to you and then they get matched against another
LEC or LCS representative and knock them out
They will have just killed more LCS and LEC representatives than any LCK or LPL team at this tournament probably this year
like that would be insane that is something that while I would hate to
see it because I have a lot of love for TL obviously knowing that region so
well it would be incredible to watch oh these last two days are gonna be insane
I I have a tummy ache already I'm so that's it for us we're gonna take a
break on that you know great notes we're gonna be back tomorrow for
those elimination matches at 2 p.m. Central European summertime 8 a.m. Eastern
U.S. for more Worlds 2024. Get a good night's rest and we'll see you then.