League of Legends at EWC 25 – Day 5 – Grand Finals
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Clubs will be able to compete at the Esports World Cup in as many titles as they can qualify for. The clubs will then earn points based on their placement in each title. To qualify for the club championship, a club will need a top eight placement in at least two competitions. But to win the championship, a club must place first in at least one competition. At the end of the esports World Cup, the 24 clubs with the highest number of points will earn a share of the 27 million with the winner taking home a staggering $7 million. and of course the title of the best esports club in the world. Who will rise above and write their place in history? Watch it all here at the Esports World Cup. Temper. Okay. Candies. Did you camp? Enemy in foot. No. Okay. videos. It’s by Okay. miner. Oh, you get Time. What if your button? I’m done. No competition is as ruthless as the esports world cup. Its trophy system is no exception. The club championship trophy awarded to the one club that rose above the rest and reigns supreme across all EWC games. The game trophy. When a competitor closes their eyes, it’s all they see. And it’s not complete until it’s sealed with a champion’s key. Every participant earns a key engraved with their name. That’s their right to compete. This year, returning champions hold a key unlike any other. Only one can place their key into the game trophy and become an EWC champion. The frame of the champion’s key is embedded into the totem, a stone marker of legacy displaying every champion of the year. The keys of the eliminated will be crushed. The champions select three broken keys as a personal token, a reminder of who they have humbled. Beneath the totem, a resin block holds the remaining keys, a graveyard of fallen contenders. Will your dreams be broken or your name carved in golden stone? At EWC, nothing is granted. Everything is earned. Welcome back to the 5-second rule. This time I’ve got the MCOY bottom lane, the classics and super narrow for my home reaches. Good to see you boys and you boys made it. Uh, now here at the EWC, we’ve got another game and we’ve been playing games all day. This one is all about answering within 5 seconds, but it’s about confidence. You’ve got 5 seconds to answer the question. From the time you press the buzzer, you must press the buzzer once you’re finished your answer. If it goes over 5 seconds, other person gets a point. If you get it wrong, other person gets a point. We’ve got five questions. If we go to a tiebreaker, the fifth one is going to cook your brain. It’s something I made quite annoyingly. But let’s start off, right? Let’s start with something easy. First question is, name three yortle champions. Nar Lulu and this one again. Big one point. Albra. Nice. He gets it. All right. Second question, one point. Starting with Albra. The champ with the lowest move speed. Now, before you press it, I said it was demounted rail. That was wrong. That’s just base. No. Oh yeah. Yep. Champ with lowest move speed. Base now because even though it’s valid, there is a champion with lower move speed than demounted re. She’s at 315. Yeah, I will flip press it again. One point. Well done. Going to say I got it. I got it wrong. I was thinking you as well, but no, it’s and demounted clips 285. [ __ ] Yeah, I was thinking if it comes with the speed of it does count. It does count. So, apologies to the fly quest. The fly quest guys. All right, third question. Name three dragons. Oceanan, Infernal, and Hex. Boom. Easy question. I know. Two points. I know some of these are going to be like, but this fake mother Aelion. Oh, okay. I’ll give you I would give you a point, but otherwise not going to be fun. You’re on match point. Three champions to start with. Hell, uh, Luke’s Lisandra and Oh, missed the point. That’s two, two. Lulu would have been a good one. That’s why I didn’t want the flip. That’s why. That’s the flip. Here’s the hard question. This is the tiebreaker. The winner takes this. So, really think about it. I wanted to hear this question. That’s why I did it. Oh, this is why you did it for content. Maxing content. Listen to the context. If I took every dragon on spawn, dead on the spawn. I one shot it instantly on spawn. Think about when first dragon spawns and every dragon would spawn afterwards. What is the earliest time elder would spawn? 25. Incorrect. It’s 26. Elder is 6 minutes from the last dragon. Oh, I thought it was 6 minutes after you kill the elder that it despawns. It’s 6 minutes after the last dragon sold. No, it’s fine. I want to risk, you know. No, I wanted to risk. That’s what Dan said backstage as well. I was thinking it’s 5 minutes everyone and then when the elder one is like dies, it’s 6 minutes after. I didn’t know if it was 6 minutes, but it makes sense. It makes sense, bro. Shake hands. All right, super winner. Well done. This this is a good example for Alvaro. Patient give you the the win sometimes. You got to remember. All right, 5-second rule done and dusted again. Congratulations, Super, our next winner. Week two of the esports world cup has reached its conclusion. It is championship Sunday. You can feel it in the air. Legends will be made today, not just in Freefire, but here in the STC Arena. It’s a nice shiny, beautiful stage, but it will actually be a battleground. Two titans going at it. Ag versus Geng for a brand new League of Legends at EWC winner. Who’s it going to be? Let’s get into it. Hey everyone, I’m Kitty and I’m Atlas and today is the grand finals for League of Legends. Yesterday, we saw two frames get put into the totem. And of course, we have to mention MLBB Women’s Invitational, having Team Vitality win their grand finals against Gaming Gladiators 4, meaning they get $150,000 prize pool. Oh my goodness. Alongside that as well, yesterday we had the Dota 2 title winners announced as well as Team Spirit managed to take down the club championship defenders in Team Falcons and they took home a million. It’s insane. I wish I had a million dollars. Anyways, in League of Legends, since we have the grand finals today with a $2 million prize pool, let’s see who can come out on top. by my side, the club championship trophy. Geng currently hold their top spot in the club championship leaderboard and they are looking to secure their spot even further through winning the grand finals in League of Legends tonight. On the other side, we have Free Fire where AGL and Vitality are still looking to get some points over Team Falcons. However, it’s looking hard because Team Falcons are firmly in the lead and they are looking to get their EWC club championship trophy once again. We started with 12 keys and only two remain. We will find out today which one of these keys will survive and which frame will be immortalized in the totem. Yesterday we saw Ag take down the title defenders T1. They will be still fighting for that third place spot though. Yeah, that third place match of course G2 joining the ranks there after a very hardfought loss, but a good one for an EU fan here against Geng. That third place match versus T1 will kick us off before we get towards the finals. Yes. Then we will have that best of five AJ taking on Geng, a rematch from MSI, but we’ll see which team is going to be the new winner here at EWC for League of Legends. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. It’s been a long journey here at the esports world cup. We started with 12 teams from around the world vying for the second ever title of winner of League of Legends at the Esports World Cup. There are the former defending winners in T1 looking to try and bounce back today in the third place game now arriving to the boulevard thanks to our friends over at J Motorsport. And here is G2 as well, bouncing back after a close tough loss against Gen. Thanks to our friends over at J Motorsport. You need to make a deal. Head on over to Jal. Grab the wheel. Take a steel. It’s J. Fans have started to show up at the boulevard as well to watch two of the most famous teams across League of Legends to do battle. And we are so so excited to kick off Championship Sunday with such a storied matchup between two fantastic organizations. Welcome back to the esports world cup. It is League of Legends Championship Sunday where a new titleist will be crowned. I’m Dgon here with Medios Wolf and special guest straight off the plane here in Riad. It is Double Lift. Welcome, brother. How are you feeling? I’m I’m great. I’m great. Uh I’m not that fresh. I was here yesterday filming some other secretive content uh that might be posted later, but uh I’m feeling amazing. You know, I’m fresh. I’m ready. I’m excited for these games. Yeah, excited to have you and get your insight. And also just wolf being in the presence of these two guys who are the pillars of North American League. Yeah, I I am from North America myself, but kind of sold my soul a long time ago. Moved to Korea to to work on Starcraft, League of Legends, a bunch of other games. So, I feel more Korean than North American now. But, uh, I guess we’re all from the same place, you know, we’re all on the same team. Yeah. Medios, I mean, again, getting to do stage stuff here with Double Lift. I feel like you guys did so many different battles. How does this feel? Uh, it feels pretty natural. I mean, we’ve been doing the co- streams for LCS or I guess LTA. This is a little more buttoned up than I’m used to. I’m not going to lie. Yeah, it’s a little bit uh higher production value than we usually do. Just uh pajamas from our bedrooms. But uh yeah, you know, it’s cool. Yeah, very excited to have both of you here. Wolf as well here. I’m just loving the fact that this is going to be my desk for our pre-show. As we get into the third place match on Championship Sunday, let’s see how we got there with some of the top plays from Kadilla yesterday. We had some huge, huge matches. It was Gen going up against uh a big one here uh in G. Who did Geng play yesterday? GG beat G2 yesterday. Gen or sorry, not TL’s not here. T1, you messed me up. Non messed you up. Gen G2 A1. That’s the Heat. It’s the Heat. It’s making us lose our minds. So for me, like I I wasn’t on the the desk. I didn’t say it, but I you guys know I’ve been walking around saying it um the whole day before. I thought that AL were the massive favorites coming in. They just looked cleaner this tournament. T1, on the other hand, really sloppy game one. Game two a lot closer. had a really strong draft, but played fairly desperately. And Al’s team fighting has just been so good. Even with a draft like this where they have a Yoro, they don’t have Senna damage until later on, they were still able to outclass T1. I was super impressed with H as well. I didn’t really think they would beat T1 personally cuz even though they’re good, they lost to him last time and I feel like a broken record at this point, but T1 at international events is just completely different monster compared to every other team. But I think the fact that Agl beat them so decisively 2, uh, it’s a huge shock and really shows just how legit this team is. Yeah. And then in our second series, it was that Gen versus G2 match and it was so much scrapping, uh, so much fighting. Uh, and in the end, Genji ended up coming out on top. G2 feeling pretty good about it. I mean, uh, double, when you have matches like this and you have international experiences, uh, win or lose, it it still allows you to grow because you’re playing against some of the best teams in the world, right? Yeah. I mean, 100%. I I think any time uh anytime any team is going to these events, they never go in expecting to lose. And I think like, you know, you basically just come with a confidence that like we can win this, we are going to win this. And then if you lose, it’s obviously it’s always shocking. It’s always disappointing. And then you you try to come back stronger the next time. But I I I don’t know what is going like my my read on this G2 team is like I feel like they’re missing the magic from the previous iterations of G2. Like that X factor that they had before is it’s kind of fizzled out a little bit and I just I don’t know like some of that spark feels different this time around. Yeah, absolutely. I feel like matches like what they had against Genji pushing up against the wall and just a team fight away from possibly winning compared to earlier in the split where it it felt like G2 was still trying to figure out how to work together might be what they need moving on to the summer as those were some of our crunchy roll top reactions. Now, uh, Double Lift, since we have you here and you know, you might play a game or two of League and might know a thing or two, there might be things that you also don’t like. And so, for our doctor’s notes, we have Dr. Double Lift joining us to give us insight on something that maybe he would change within the gameplay of League of Legends. So, Double Lift, what Dr. Double Lift, what would you change? Uh, wow, that is a tough question. What would I change about the game? Okay. Well, I think right now from a spectator perspective, maybe maybe I could be in the minority thinking this, but I feel like the game is a little bit formulaic in terms of strategy. Like there’s only one way like I would diagnose like the game only has like one way of playing, which is just to stack every objective possible, right? It’s it’s very much like Drake, Grubs, Drake, Herolds, and then a team is usually at two drakes. They play for soul point. That is like an extremely big lock in. and then the team that gets addicon and and soul generally just like closes out the game or you know the other team outscales they steal away a drake they stall the game out they’re playing late game Jinx or something like that late game Azir and then uh I I generally feel like the game has that kind of formula and how I would go about fixing that is I would probably just knock down the power of objectives a little bit I think this should be important but I don’t think they should be the only thing that matters I I I I generally feel like there’s so many games where I see a team loses three people it’s like three for zero but they get the objective and overall that seems worth it for them which feels wrong. Um, so I think that could be changed a little bit. Yeah, a little bit of balancing of the objective. So, uh, thank you very much Dr. Double Lift for that. For you at home, remember he’s not actually a medical doctor, but for all your medical doctor’s needs, head on over to Dr. Sulaman Al-Habib Medical Group. Now, let’s turn our focus on over to our matches here in Championship Sunday. It all kicks on off with our third place match based off of the bracket that we had filled out with yesterday’s huge huge semifinals. It was Gen G against G2. G2 great attempt, but Gen G the best team in the world. Back-to-back MSI champions proven why as they booked their ticket in the grand finals. And then AGAL upset T1 not 2-1 but 200 here in a very very impressive showing Medios. And when we think about yesterday’s semi-finals, uh, how would you kind of summarize that? I think yesterday was pretty interesting semi-finals. I think it wasn’t easy to predict what was going to happen. Um, I think G2 overperformed expectations. Taking a game off Geng is huge, especially from a team that was struggling through MSI. uh they looked like they were playing way better than they had been and they’ve just been leveling up, you know, every single series they play. Whereas T1, on the other hand, kind of did the opposite. I think they underperformed expectations a little bit. Granted, they probably have the highest expectations of of any team ever, but getting too old and, you know, kind of having lackluster performances wasn’t really something I expected. I I think there’s a huge momentum difference between these two teams right now, right? T1 got absolutely blasted two, right? It wasn’t close. It was one of our more close or rather one of our more one-sided matches that we had at the tournament. And then G2, most people expected Genji were just going to roll them. They had a great series. Even the final game was definitely winnable, was definitely playable. Han Sama ended up getting caught, right? Chovi’s got the flash taunt. That’s a defining moment. And G2 were so close. I feel like when your expectations were lower as G2, you still perform well. And now you’re going up against T1 again where people probably expect you to be the underdogs. I feel like you have this extra mental edge. Yeah, definitely. And you can see the stakes that they’re playing for. Now we have our uh esports World Cup club championship points as well as the prize pool. You get uh extra chunk of money here for that victory. It looks like $70,000 more here from third to fourth. So, still significant stakes to play for between these two squads in our third place match as we get on into T1 versus G2. doesn’t matter. Please come over here. Welcome. This is the pre-match interview for G2 verse T1. We’ve grabbed Han Sama for today. So, it’s almost like this red string theory that you guys will meet T1 at the international stage. You guys just beat BLG unfortunately falling to Genji yesterday. So, how are you feeling coming into today? Uh well I feel u excited to play against T1. Yesterday was uh very sad but uh today yeah we just going to do our best to enjoy enjoy it and yeah fight for the third place match. Thank you. And of course you guys will be laning up against Gumayushi and Carrier. So what would you say is going to be your biggest advantage going into the bot lane 2v2? I mean I think we have a great form right now. So, uh I think we like didn’t do that bad against BLG bot lane or like Genji B lane. I think we can definitely beat them today. So, uh keeping our confidence there and u playing the matchups that we really want to play would be what would make the difference for a spot. And what does it mean for you to be able to get that third place in the esports World Cup? Oh, well, um for me, uh it’s going to mean more to actually beat T1. uh more I think about that more than just getting the third play place match and uh yeah we’re going to do our best to uh to beat them. Best of luck and we’ll see you soon. up. Thank you very much, Kitty. As we will see Kitty later on in the show, and we’re going to see Han Sama in action against these guys, the reigning back-to- back world champions in T1. Even though it’s early here in Riad, the fans have shown on up and it’s going to be packed. A lot of eyes on that man Doran in the top lane trying to bounce back from a and regain some of that form that we’ve seen in the LCK. Uh, Wolf. Yeah. I mean, I I think that what we saw from T1 at MSI was a lot more of the driving force that T1’s so famous for at international events. Coming into this event, like Hanwell Life Esports, who fell even earlier in the tournament, it feels like it’s a little bit sloppy. It’s not as calculated. And it it it felt to me like AL wanted it more. And that sounds weird to say given that T1 is the most winning League of Legends organization of all time. And this is like basically the longest standing roster that we have in international events right now. But they just didn’t play as cleanly. There wasn’t the crisp sort of team fight calls that you expect from T1. Yeah. Which is unique because when you look at the opposite side of G2, it feels like as a group of new guys kind of coming together. Three vets, two new players integrating on in, they played more like a team. As we pull up the G2 rosters, they have been surprising in this tournament. And I think it’s mainly due medios due to the baseline that they’ve set through 2025 up until now. And then hey, look, things are starting to work out. G2 has been a cool team to watch this tournament. I really liked when we had Ski on the desk earlier because he talked about how at MSI he admitted he got gapped by Inspired Canyon, but he learned a lot from them. And he even said some of the stuff he learns was, you know, if he walks in my jungle, I’m going to fight him. not going to overly respect him or uh give him, you know, too much space, which is a really common thing when you play against these teams. You know, the best team in the world, you don’t assume they’re going to be making a mistake, right? When they’re walking into your jungle, you think, oh, like there’s probably reason for that. I should back out. But we saw him in uh game two yesterday against Genji when they came out ahead. Canyon tried some invades and Skuman saw him and he just ran at him and started fighting him. He, you know, I think it’s so cool when you see somebody able to learn from past games and put something into practice and then see the results for it. So, it’s been really awesome watching him grow these tournaments. Double Lift, you’ve played across some of the biggest orgs in North America, which meant you had to kind of recalibrate with new teammates and and uh get used to them, have them get used to you. What is that process like? uh if you’re trying to do it the most efficiently, I’d say um I would say there’s like a baseline and sometimes you just click and you don’t need to put in any work. It’s just like instant chemistry is established without like any any games, any reps, not even like any discussion. You just like you just play well together right off the bat. The toughest stuff is when like you you join a team or you know you’re part of a roster and like things kind of you know it’s like it’s like you’re you’re doing the dance and you’re stepping on each other’s feet constantly. you’re talking over each other in game, you always have different ideas and that is I think that ends up really testing how you are as a pro player. Like really like how professional you can be, how understanding you can be, how well you can meet in the middle. Like in the beginning of my career, I was never really able to. So it was like my way or the highway. But then as I got older, I was like better able to kind of like find that middle ground with teammates and find something that works for everybody or honestly just like articulate myself better or listen to their perspective better and be like you’re right or I think I’m right and this is why. So, um, that is honestly the sign of a great team. Now, like the best teams in the world, they’re always, it looks like there’s there five players, but it’s like one mind the whole time. Yeah, I I love how you pointed that out. Maturing with time, which is kind of what we’re seeing G2 in this iteration of the roster do live here in front of us as we take a look at some of their stats from EWC compared to MSI. We know that MSI, it was in that playins run where they had the scare early by Gam Esports. They had the scare early by Fia and then uh they got bopped by uh BLG here. Wolf, I I’ve been really impressed with G2’s bottom 2v2s. Like Hansama has looked really good. They’ve been taking the right trades, the right fights. You can see they have an increase in first blood. A lot of that is in the bottom lane. And they also are playing super well in terms of macro trades around turrets. They’ve been able to get a lot of first turrets this tournament. And they’re not afraid to actually scrap in moments like this where you can see on top is getting collapsed on. He realizes, okay, I’m dead here. Here. I’m going to go for the flash play onto Ruler. Gets a little bit of help from LeBro, but barely they’re able to take him out with that ignite. Plays like this where it looks doomed, they’re able to turn it around. It’s the confidence that this bottom duo has right now, especially against a bottom duo from T1 that’s underperforming right now that should give the G2 fans a lot of hope, I would say, here. Yeah, this is the potential that when this roster was created, uh, G2 and G2 fans hoped that they would reach. Now, they got to do it more consistently. That’s always a different talking point, but we finally got to see it at a high level at an international tournament with pressure on here. Medios. Yeah. And one question I’ve had is uh obviously going from MSI to EWC, they’ve done a lot better, but part of it wonders is like was their troubles at MSI exaggerated? Because if you look at what they were playing, I think their drafts weren’t that great because especially early on in tournaments, people don’t always have the right read on champions. you know, they were playing a lot of TF, a lot of Kalista, these champions that with what we know now are kind of free loss champions, right? So, you’re going to look a lot worse if you’re playing weak stuff. So, um it does make me wonder how much of that was exaggerated. I think Hansama also had some really weird builds in MSI, whereas at EWC, he’s looked a lot more refined. and you know, he’s playing the crit carries, he’s building lord doms, doing doing ad carry things, and uh yeah, I think they just look a lot better when they’re maybe not overcooking their strategies. Yeah, I like that because we know that Dylan Falco is one of the most longstanding and consistent coaches in the West. So, those changes as well as the jelling of this team does make it scary. But speaking of scary is the man in the mid lane 4 T1 the legend the goat and he was standing by earlier with Ox at the players hotel. Hi I’m here with Faker prior to his third place match against G2 at the EWC. Faker we wanted to get some insights into your thoughts on the match. So first up you’ve played against Caps many times across your career. What do you think makes him stand out as an opponent? So, he’s very experienced and he’s also very flexible in many situations. So, I’ll try to keep in mind on that T1 consistently find a way to level up their form when heading to international events. What is it that allows you to always be an international threat no matter the circumstances? Uh I think that’s because we are trying to be in shape as much as possible in the international land and trying to focus more on trying to bring our best condition as much as possible. G2 did not perform too well at MSI but did significantly better at EWC. Is there anything from your perspective that you’ve seen them improve on? Uh I think in terms of both Amazon and EWC is very short-term competition. So I think uh they’re not going to be much of a difference in overall performance but I think mostly I think it’s uh overall condition wise or even trying to be in shape or form uh in in that particular um period. So I think that’s the one uh that’s difference that makes. Thank you very much for your time and good luck in your match today. Thank you. Thank you very much to AX and translations by Maddox with Faker again the face of EWC probably the face of esports here and uh for him to give the time before the match after yesterday’s tough loss and losing the opportunity to be defending title winners. Uh still giving insights on how he continues to grow and what he wants to achieve against this G2 roster. As we take a look at the T1 lineups, it is Doran, Owner, Faker, Guma, and Keria. This roster that we’ve just gotten so used to. Even with Doran slotting on into the top lane here, Wolf, you just know kind of the magic that they bring at international stages. You say that, but I feel like Doran in the top lane is the thing you know the least about. And when you doubt him, he overperforms. When you’re ready to trust, then he underperforms, right? But I feel like he hasn’t really been the main part of T1’s woes. It’s been some of the bottom 2v2s. Like Guma will have a game where he and Keria get crushed in the the 2v2 lane, but then the next game he’s the best performing member on T1. I felt like that was the case in AL in game two. He looked really good, but the team was so far behind. We’re just not seeing the same level of coordination and great objective setups that T1 is so known for, right? You know, the bottom 2v2 really tricky to pull off in situations like this. The flourish misses, you know, Goomba ends up getting taken out. was these small edges that Al got over T1. It’s not to say that Carrie and Goomba are having a bad tournament or they’re playing really badly. They just got outclassed and you don’t expect to see that. Now you know where I’m going, Double Lift. When you’ve had long-standing partnerships and all at at bot lane and then it starts to not work. How do you work through that to get back on track? I mean, do that flip was so tragic. It’s so hard to hit skill shots off of Re’s uh RW because it’s like moving them twice and they’re knocked up at the end. So you almost have no idea where the hitbox should be. And it’s like man like I feel for him because that’s a that’s a very easy mistake to make and you know those are the kinds of mistakes you can make playing against the best in the world. You you do a small stuff like that now you’re 2v2 killed now the game’s kind of over. Um so I mean like yeah how do you how do you like lock in with your support? I mean it’s just through a million reps. A million billion reps. I think like probably at these tournaments on average, you know, you’re doing your scrims and you’re doing 2v2 practice afterwards, you know, finding a bot lane to kind of just like do 2v2 sparring with. There is just there’s no there’s no replacement for just like good practice and then when it’s time to perform, you got to lock in and you just have to make it work. Yeah, Medios, when we take a look at this T1 roster, owner usually one of the good parts there and and has been one of the most consistent parts, but in yesterday’s match against Agal, uh, Tarzan got the better of him and how do you try to navigate that as a jungler and have that conversation because it’s not just you that can fix that 1 v one of the jungle. What are those conversations like? Right. I think Tarzan played really well yesterday. I think it also came down to the drafts and the champions they were on because in both games Tarzan was on the stronger early game champion he played uh I think it was Trundle and Zen Xiaou and when you have those jungle discrepancies you know it’s not like a lane where there’s hard counters but based on whoever’s stronger early game you can kind of dictate where you’re allowed to go right because if you know like okay if I face check this guy I’m just going to kill him it’s a lot different than okay well I got to be scared of every bush cuz if I walk into him I’m dead right So, I think that part gave Tarzan a little bit of an edge just based on the champions, but he also just made really good decisions. And I think that there was a lot more than just the jungle that made it hard for Owner. I think, you know, the it was like that picture of the dog with the kitchen on fire or whatever. It’s just like, you know, it’s really hard when you’re just losing because there’s no right play, right? It’s like people ask me, “Hey, Moses, how do I win a jungle with three losing lanes?” and it’s like, well, spoiler alert, you usually don’t. Um, that’s just how it goes sometimes. So, I think Odor’s really good, but Tarzan uh just had a better day. As we turn our focus now to getting on the stage pretty soon here, I want to get the final thoughts from our analysts about 2 and 1/2 minutes away. So, Double Lift, you know, G2, you know T1. When you think about these two teams and two orgs, what comes to mind? And then what do you want to see happen today? I want to even make you make a prediction. What do you want to see happen today? I just want to see some G2 magic. You know, I think it’s good for the West if we get some Hopium going. And uh G2’s always for me been the most exciting western tune to watch. You know, Paresy, I know from being from NA, but like you know, G2 has done crazy things. I was on the receiving end of the fastest VO5 in history. I don’t even say that proudly, bro. That’s that’s embarrassing, but like that like the team is historically just so insane sometimes. Like when they are on, they they do stuff that no other team can do. And I honestly think the the main guy that I like, you know, that I attribute that to is Caps. He’s he’s a long-standing guy at this at this point on the team and he’s played at an elite world class level for so long. So, I just want to see a little bit of that coming back. All right. Some magic there from the G2 side. Wol, let us know your thoughts here using the word magic with about a minute left here. I mean, the magic for me would be for T1 to bounce back, right, and end up getting third place their defending winners, right, from last year. I want to see the LCK rise to the greatness that we saw at MSI. I mean, they were one away from winning MSI itself, right? But if you compare expectations to what we’ve got, I feel like I’m kind of leaning towards G2 potentially making that magic happen, making the upset happen today. They just look like they are so locked in right now and T1 are going to have to recover. All right, Medios, 30 seconds. What you got? I think it’s kind of a battle of attrition at this point. You know, both these teams are coming from MSI. They’ve been traveling a lot. It’s kind of hard to work with motivation when you know you’re not playing for the finals. You’re not playing for the win. So, I think it’s just whichever team can like really dig deep and want to win this match even though it’s not like you know the the ultimate stakes. All right. Well, here we go. The third place match. Two teams very familiar with each other. It is G2, the pride of Europe against T1, the reigning champions of the world. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. It’s Championship Sunday, the end of the road in League of Legends at the Esports World Cup and one final opportunity to leave on a win. Absolutely. We got two giants fighting for the third place medal. They have been through it all, but now it’s time to see who walks away with the win. It is indeed. Look, it’s about legacy. It’s about pride. It’s about all of that good stuff. But let’s address the elephant in the room here. A win is worth $320,000. That’s what you get. Come on. That’s what you get for finishing third. Well, look, on one side we have League of Legends royalty. They have etched their name into the game’s history for so long. Yeah. On the other you’ve got Europe’s final hub. They are determined to make sure that their region has a podium finish. The time is now. Let’s bring out our contenders for our third place matchup. For our first team, it is a team that suffered two losses and they need this win. The Ambassadors of the Rift. Please welcome team one. Their opponents defied expectations and reminded the world exactly what their badge is all about. Please welcome G2. All right, the mission is pretty simple. Leave Riad with a dub and a big fat bank account. The fight for third place begins. It’s the West versus the East again. And it’s our third place match as we welcome you to the 60k difference that is on your screen. The winner of this best of three locks in. And although they can’t win the tournament, they at least get themselves a little bit of extra help. My name is Derek. I’m joined by Finn and Voldemort is alongside us as well. Bold analyst as he’s known in his local language as well. Hello sir. Hello. I’m very excited to be here and be doing my first cast at the esports world cup for League of Legends and be an analyst at the same time alongside of you as Sterics. First time and uh yeah, just just really happy to be involved today. Yeah, also really nice getting to cast with Voldemort here by my side. We’ve been sitting on the desk together throughout this event and now we will be casting this generational battle between T1 and G2. I think just such a long-standing rivalry and now having both me uh from Europe representing G2 and Voldemort here to my left. How long are we going to kick this off? Take a minute, but that name is stuck has locked in. Obviously, your expertise on T1 is unmatched. So, I think we’re going to have a great show. I hope so because yeah, T1 need something of a good show, right? When they first AL the other day, it was a stomp. It wasn’t close. Game one so one-sided. in a quick what 27 28 minute game two a little bit more competitive but still there was no hope and T1 getting two when they’ve just had a match up against anyone’s legend at MSI whereas a 5game series is incredible to see the turnaround from the LPLC but for now they got to beat the west and show again they are still worthy here in this tournament as we go into draft look already targeting schemond in the draft phase the ma being taken out which is his classic by as well as we see the pantheon baris bands as long as the Taliban My eyes are on that Faker Azir right now. Talia being taken out so early really sets that champion up for a strong first pick. So now let’s see with G2. Do they want to take that out or do they want to kind of limit the jungle pool even more so at least they can kind of hinder Owner’s options a little bit. Yeah, I think Owner has been one of the most consistent players we have seen at this tournament and it’s actually going to be his lease in that is taken away. We did see a top lease in, but we uh don’t really want to talk about that all too much. The issue with this, of course, is that you’re giving Faker Azir for game number one, which is going to be huge comfort for this player. Caps has been very adamant about this any counter pick, which fundamentally it’s a little bit weird just cuz how hardly or how hard she gets outranged. But with the jungle meta being so fight heavy and you pick all these skirmish bruiser junglers and it works great in tandem with them and really makes taking those fights a lot easier with the setup. The Trundle gets locked in as well. We’re thinking about things like the Wukong Suani still up and available for Azir pairing. Where do we go next? We’re talking about owner and what jungle pool we can add with the two already taken out as T1 just say no, ignore that for now. We’re going to pick up the Lucian and the Braum pairing has been the most popular. Yeah, I mean this has been the big one. We saw that uh Ruler and Duro went back to this in game three against G2 yesterday and were able to capitalize on it and they picked it relatively early just like we see here. I think it might be a little bit difficult for Owner. You know, this Trundle is uh rough for him. He loves to play the Shinji. He loves to play Pantheon, but it’s banned or it’s not good into Trundles. So, they’re going to forego his pick for now and just pick a strong bottom lane duo instead. Yeah, Senna being a champion Han Sama utilized regionally very well. just getting those stacks can be difficult when all these swaps end up happening. So, you really want to solidify those lanes and keep them there. Try to get all those stacks on that Bra in the early game. Uh Lowi now probably look for a support counter pick on four and a counter pick for broke on five later in the draft. No, not center. I feel like it’s been the pick at the tournament so far. Well, you know, it’s four out of five win rate, but more so it’s just been the games and the impact has had set safe scaling. And with Han Summon, that’s what G2 need here when we’re already starting to ban away some long range options that maybe can match into it. Rumble’s the first one to go. What is that setting up for with Allistar also on the side? Maybe a pairing that G3 could be goodwise. Yeah, I mean, crucially, they’re still targeting the junglers a little bit there from Owner. But champion that has been very popular for the man in the top lane for T1 is the Gwen. something he has relied on a lot. Uh dying to the kugs and then reaching his final form as uh first G2 must pick their support. Not to send just such a classic combo here. You are against the Braum. Usually not inter Braum is not really favorable, but you just want something that has a go button to really help to bounce off that pillar. Yeah. And definitely we have our eyes here on what owner is going to pick with all these bands against him and having to deal with the Trundle. Uh the Wukong you mentioned might be an option here. And also with Doran, he does have to go ahead and blind pick into Broken Blade, but just never a comfortable spot to be in. Shinjang will be some comfort here for Owner. He does love this pick. It’s uh you know, Trundle does often get picked into this. So, we’ll see how deals with this match up. Yeah, G2 really like pivoting the draft. So, he kind of was forced to play Shinsha there, giving them a favorable matchup despite lining. Now, if you pick Gwen here, you run into a really scary jacks on five. So I could see Dorne really looking for something else that has a little bit more lane control in the top side being the Aurora that kind of had struggling struggles against yesterday and now get to see what Broken Blade has in mind. Broken Blade has a plethora. The problem is like we’ve seen with the Warwick top in certain matchups sometimes he goes too far. Jace yesterday we didn’t like against the Gwen now up against the Aurora option could just be safe play a tank and I think broken blade’s one of the best role players. Yeah, S into Aurora is a little bit hard before he gets his first base off. But when he gets that MR, when he gets that MR Sunfire cap and just starts oneshotting those waves, it can really dictate the lanes in the mid to late game. But that early laning phase will be really tough. Yeah, it’s definitely going to be tough. I think Doran has an opportunity here to get things going and and start winning that lane. I think especially when you’ve got Lucian Braum in the bot lane at the same time, you have a couple of lanes that should be comfortable early on. Definitely a lot of eyes on the mid lane as well. You mentioned how Caps is loving this Annie into the Azir. How can Faker do? Faker’s gotten some solo kills himself, but he’s also been solo killed as well by some players. So, we’ll be looking to see how volatile that mid lane match up to get. It was that rough rise flash. Remember the other day versus Jojo P. EU’s already tested and thrown out the works into Faker. Like, is he going to have a better final showing here at the Esports World Cup? their final game, their final series rather for third place, G2 versus T1. Vinn, you already talked up the rivalry. I remember back over to MSI 2024. They blasted G2 into the ground, yet there’s been some series, some games close over the years, but T1 really have felt that they’ve had their number. It hurts EU. T1 are definitely definitely behemoths of the region. me reminisces back reminisces back to 2019. I remember MSI semiinal 2019 where G2 really had their number followed by a world semi-final 2019. Sure, T1 has had recency uh recent success in this matchup. But let’s not forget that G2 was the one that tested them on the world stage back then. Yeah, it’s kind of funny that was a very long time ago and you mentioned the recency uh from T1 has been years ago. Yeah. Um 2019 with Europe. Yeah, we still think about it. Shout out to the crowd. We got the hund set today. I don’t know if we got it yesterday. Orcs and I or I been searching for it. Yeah, but we obviously here we can’t hear crowd as much. So, shout out to the grand fans that came in. Uh yeah, 2019 is a big meme for Europe because it we latch on to it, you know. I know you being LCK caster uh Voldemort, you’re like you honestly you get to lather up each year and just go, “Yeah, the 2024 good year. 2022. Yeah, not bad. 2022. Yeah, great year.” Yeah. Uh but there are definitely some uh scars, you know, some some years where it didn’t go all so well. We we do not like to think about 2018, 2019. That wasn’t exactly a day for LCK. Um, but still had some strong teams in the mix at that time, but it is really about T1 and G2 today. Both of our uh analyst desk members were talking about the magic, you know, the magic of G2. Can they rekindle that? But also the magic of team one where it feels like they’re inevitable. Um, but they have fallen here to the third and fourth place match. So, that is one step down. I do wonder where their mindset is going to be heading into today. As you say, it’s very true of all this. Um I think right now though maybe have a fight here already. Yeah, with this fight that probably stops it there for Carrier. Get some autos down and nice from Kuma as well, but it’s only onto Lrav and Han Summer gets a bit of soul usage out of that trade as well. Yeah, what I was going to say is that feel like T1 at this tournament isn’t really showing that performance that we kind of expect from them. Meanwhile, G2 came in as looking as massive underdogs, but really has really stepped up this tournament and showed why they should still be respected on that international stage, showing why they once were a team that was threaten threatening the the international competition and showing why you don’t count them out that easily. Yeah, this is one thing I was looking forward to for T1’s lanes. They’re already dominating bot as you would expect. Uh picking the Nautilus into the Braum can uh sometimes be difficult. You have to take very short trades there. And also, as you were mentioning, Finn, up in the top lane, Dorne is going to bully Broken uh Blade a bit in the early game until he does get that first back. So, maybe gives a little bit of extra room for Owner to move around the map and make some plays happen. Broken Billy will suffer for Dorne has chosen that grass rune which is not scaling as well in the damage department but gaining that health just keeping the lane state solid and having that defensive capabilities in case S wants to go for a heavy trade it’s really nice for the early game but I don’t think it scales as well you don’t really get that burst damage when you get your items uh as much seeing more trading down bot heals going to be burnt by carrier owner on a ward bot is pathing down bot as he clears all camps down here. And notice as well that being matched by Schuman, but naturally the Trundle as he gets to some of these solo camps will blitz through. Doran, it just continues up and top of Broken Blade gets shredded a little bit. And I feel like the only other Aurora that in counter match up has really been bullying and being that successful in this tournament has been Keen. We saw him in a different matchup versus a Rumble, but still like his Aurora was very clean in lane. So far, a similar start to Doran here as with the grasp he’s making full use against Rox Blade. Faker going in for some of these trades. There’s been so much action around the mid lane whenever T1 is playing. It’s either uh T1’s or rather Faker’s teammates trying to help out Faker and get ganks going. We saw multiple ganks from like Owner and even Kerak coming in in some of their games, but also teams trying to punish Faker and trying to gank him. So, expecting a lot of action around the mid lane as once again, we’re just trading down in the bottom side here. Faker will go back mid. I feel like Ona has been a helicopter parent, you know? He just he’s just always there for Faker. Carrier is like the brother that just dropped in unannounced as I do a quick route and there you go. Faker’s going to do it himself actually and Caps has no stun. Auto to death with a little tempo if there’s another soldier to arise. Yes, Faker hits the high note for first blood. Massive by Faker finding a solo kill onto Caps. Caps disrespecting that lethal tempo damage. He probably could take one more attack but had to respect that. Had to flash out. Faker knowing his damage so well and really really really getting a small little lead here for T1. And this is what it’s been about for Faker. He’s been getting those solo kills. Yes, he has taken some himself, but that is a massive start as I mentioned before. Supposed to be winning a couple of lanes and yeah, it’s just Caps not respecting Faker’s TP back here of the lane. Yeah, camps wants to crash this wave and then base so Faker doesn’t clear it, but he wastes the stun on the caster minutes and Faker sees a moment to pounce, sees that he can go for the play here and that’s soldier and the lethal tempo little thing flies at him and little thing. Yeah, ends up falling to that extra damage. Perfect play by Faker and just the right amount of damage. He’s also falling behind in CS, so that feels like kind of a revival for the lane. Faker as well. He goes back, gets a recurve bow with an amplifying tome. Those autos are going to be a little bit more dangerous and precarious for Caps considering that as we’re talking about Faker gets a lot of attention. Caps did hold on to that flash, but Faker is the approaches al it’s danger territory for G2 as Skan starts strike. Yeah, start dragon, but G2’s bot lane has so much control in this match up. One potion up on La Hansama versus Gumushi constantly pushing him under tower using that private now to secure this first dragon. And once you get this dragon, that is when you can really look for these swaps. I think Broken Blade is going to need some relief. He’s really struggling in the one in the health department. He’s getting a lot of the creeps, but he will want to base soon and maybe look for an down to the bot lane. And if they can manage to mismatch these lanes, I think sign will be very happy. While Aurora ling against that Senus, she might have a bit of a roughy, one might say. Yeah, you could definitely feel G2 taking over control of the bottom side of the map and able to get that objective off of the back of it. Faker does take the tivers to the face, but he’s just fine. He’ll go for a back himself. And here’s that swap you were talking about. Not really much going to be missed at all. Looks like maybe two minions in the top lane for Han Sama, but he’s totally fine after getting through that early stage of the Lucian Braum just fine. Despite the mid solo kill, it feels like G2 is kind of dictating this early game. And it’s all in the back of G2’s bot really strong laning phase. Really impressive to go against that Gumayushi, Kerri, Luc, and Brahman just has so much impact in these first 8 minutes. I feel like again, you know, a lot of center lanes haven’t been punished. We’ll pause on that though. Owner’s coming in. Caps piv is already out, so he doesn’t have ulti to bring in, but Faker is just getting a bit of support morally from Carrier and Owner. Again, there’s a quick drop in from Carrier and Owner once again making sure the boys are playing well. But for G2, they’re hovering out cuz Scuban has his ulti. Owner does not. The difference here could be big as Redline pulls in, but six now. Cresard pulled out straight away. They turn onto Lev, but as he flashes away and the piecing darkness flies through a turn onto Ono has the flash as well. Caps gets the electric with the ranged auto. One for G2 here. 40 seconds before Grub spawns. Owner levels up the moment Labro hooks in really baiting that. But the Senna from Hama is the difference maker. Caps getting the kill at the tail end of that electrocute proc. Really impressive play here and great team play. Hama did get a little bit chunk to the top. So is going to have to base. But I think all in all you really happy as G2 to really stabilize this early game and get a little bit of kills back. Yeah, T1 definitely underestimating the potential damage that would come out from the Senna and from the Annie uh over the top and so they’re just able to get Owner down. He he felt so safe with this crescent guard coming out at exactly the right moment, but it just was not enough. Now with that chunking on a Hansama, there’s a massive wave in the top lane that’s being dropped here. Hansama is going to come back and catch some of it. But yeah, leaving Hansama here as of course Labrav was in mid with that fight. A lot of lot of pressure around the grubs right now. It does look like Owner is able to start it up and Dorne is able to push them back as Ensemble was shunked out earlier. Be really hard to contest this. Hang on. Flash away from Goomba. Broken Blade with a nice decimate and he’s going to turn it into a smash at that. Goomba max range cleanses. Broken Blade out of mana. The roar of the slayer will not reach either. And Guma gets out alive. I was looking for it. They wanted to throw the minion at his back, but in the end didn’t have enough damage. But still really good getting both of Kumushi summoners there with that play. H going to make it really nice. Now we’ve got match lanes as we see this replay. Look, the moment Labra hooks in, owner levels up. But here the dawning shadow from Senna comes in and does so much for this team and the electric is just enough to killer with another little rude thing. T1 fan. Oh, okay. Maybe she’s a G2 fan. I don’t know. I don’t know. I see some betrayal, but I see caps now who’s up 250 gold after that earlier solo kill from Faker. Remember, he was maintaining a CS lead in this lane. So, just because he’s been able to match the kill now gold in his favor and the cap’s good start, I would say, but he has his flash available. Might have to burn it as the Emperor’s Divide. No, he’s going to stand his ground. Doesn’t want to lose the summoner and Ona takes him down. Yeah, Caps should have been able to flash away from that one. He just didn’t have any vision. He’s sitting in mid against an Azir. He has to flash that Emperor’s Divide, but instead he just kind of accepts his fate. He will hold on to his flash, but now he’s dead again. The V2 is going to begin though. Meanwhile, Carrier has ultimate available. Layers it on top of Lrav who flashed before. No escape for him. A free kill over to Goomba on Lucian and T1 in this early game starting to race a bit as Han Sama Winter’s bite causes the flash. T1 getting a lot out of their two. A very different story to the Anyone’s Legend series so far. Yeah, big mistake by La Disrespect there. Despite the early lane going so well, you are still only level five. You can’t walk up and take that fight. You do not have your ultimate ability instead of before. It was on cool down when the fight started. I think they got a little bit too confident because there was no summoners on Gumushi, but still that ultimate difference is just too vast and you got to play a little bit more respectful in these situations. It’s got tower plating as well by the way thanks to two grubs. So again, another lane to talk about here for T1. Yeah, it’s definitely a very nice spot for them as Guma is going to eat a bunch of damage with the dawning shadow to his face, but um yeah, definitely got to be careful into the Braum. Even even if he didn’t have the alt, he can get stunned up. Le Bravo was sitting there with no sums. Uh definitely a bit of a risk. So, he does pay the price and that does mean that T1 in a pretty comfortable spot in this game were able to pick up a couple of the grubs as well and are holding on to a lead in this one. Imagine broker made open his top side here and then GT tries to secure the second dragon. That would be great. Really solidifying that dragon wing condition that we so know well. Uh Tr is going to finish up his full clear as goes to match the Azir. He’s going to be very fighting against that is clearing the waves and we look to join the fight with teleport as there is ghosting on gaps. Yeah, but Wind’s out of range. Good pillar to disengage from Skumon. That dragon mentioned before number two here for G2, but they’re not going to get anywhere near it for now. T1 hold themselves pro. Really important law here in the game that we’ve missed out on. Goomba and Han somehow have matching skins. Husband and wife goals for the Senate Lucian. Very important. But they they didn’t talk before the game, at least as far as I know. So that’s just a happy accident. Not like marriage, by the way. Marriage is definitely not an accident. Yeah. Uh absolutely. Uh that is going to be a barrier, you know. And it is a cloud soul that is on the way. So pretty uh incredible soul for both sides, I can say. Um definitely going to be fighting for that one here. It does look like Skumand is able to pick up the final uh sad lonely grub that was waiting there in the pit for quite a while. It is sad, isn’t it? What do you think he was doing all this waiting? Thinking grubbing about grubbing about. Yeah, what a grub doing their down time. Cap’s accepting the wave. Look at T1 the setup here on Broken Blade. He went for the plating and he thinks, “Okay, maybe I can just ult out.” And I think Carrier knows it. So yeah, he walks it out. Good plating picked up. And the fact that he’s within reach when the early part of the lane was so bad. These mismatch, these swaps seem to been working out pretty well here. And this is kind of what you want to do with a sign. You just want to Luma goes for the cooling here. I don’t think he’s going to get that much heal out. Caps the bot to get a try to get a chunk on Dora and knowing they have the numbers advantage. But Kuma and Carrier are trading down bot potentially. So dive would be difficult as probably going to be a deep vision take here from Scuba and Labra walking together. Something that we really like to see and a big of the criticism towards G2 has been Skum and Labra not working together well enough. The gate all it takes is the pillar. One hits the other does not. And I was looking for that depth charge but because it’s no dredge line T1 are just going to walk this out. Unfortunate for G2. Yeah, I really like that angle. I like how they’re playing around their vision and trying to look for pockets where they can really abuse where T1 do not have the vision and it kind of worked but their engage is uh not there if the Nautilus doesn’t work. But now Skumu runs into carrier again. That layering of the ulti. He flashes but into a wind by concussive blows. Skum nowhere to go. T1 give another over to Gmba and slowly but surely they keep picking up the kills here as Faker looks for broken blade. He’s got lethal tempo up and available, but there won’t be enough damage to cut through as again another kill over to Goomer is big news. Oh, sad day for Scuban as the Roku is getting a little bit surrounded here. I don’t think they can dive him. He’s a little bit too tanky. But I don’t know if you saw Gumayushi actually stole his chicken while he was hitting it and then killed him after. That’s the biggest disrespect that can happen to you. That’s very unfortunate. That’s the worst thing, isn’t it? owner just picks up all the rather jungle camps from top side in the meantime. So that play of Skon getting caugh out means he loses two camps. He loses his life. Gold lead for T1 is about 2,000 gold as well. I think outside of you know caps finding that kill uh with a return onto owner. Everything has been T1 favored here in the early game. We see an Azir, we see an Aurora, like we see a lot of team fight setup here. I think they’ll be chilling with how this early game’s going. Yeah, they’re in a very comfortable spot. bottom and their Lucian is gigantic right now. Guma just so fed at this point in the game as now we got a TP up to the top side, but that is a Scion, so he’s just going to run away. Oh, yeah. So, a a lot of the lanes here being controlled by T1. It does look like G2 at least able to invade once again. They’ve had control of this jungle for quite a while, funnily enough. So, they’ll uh they’ll sit there as if it’s their home. There’s a bot in keep on mid and Ann is walking up. They don’t want to give this Herald on G. just going to walk towards this jungler. Broken blade teleport now down which means Faker might open up for the next wave. The uh Herald is the next call, right? Shelly has some business to do maybe with G2 as Owner just backs off and they’re going to receive waves first, but someone has to receive top because G2 are losing a bit of minions, bit of XP, bit of gold for this. It’s pretty awkward for G2. They use both their solo lanes to rotate towards mid, but they don’t really get anything with the time that they both use. Meanwhile, Dor and Effectus is pushing both sidelanes. And now both while G2 has to go and catch those waves. Demonus is going to take control of mid, take control of the top side river and most likely gain control of this Herald. I don’t think Skuma can walk in there, especially with no flash. You just got to give it. And that’s what happens if you use your your your turn to walk mid and you don’t actually get something next 45 seconds. Maybe they get something afterwards. Decimating smash needed though. Owner hasn’t pulled the ulti out. T1 want to turn it. Two versus four for now, but Doran’s in. Carrier on the way in as well. Faker has bought time with the wall up and available and the layering of carrier. It turns into a T1 master stroke. Doran with the followup after Caps finally joins him, but he has no stun. He’s got no stun and he ain’t here for fun. The exhaust is down. He’s going to take a while to stack up, but before he can before Tibis is out, T1 launch on the mid laner. Kuma will be the sacrifice. His life is now Hanama playing it back. Tibis was angry. Four members low of T1. G2 might have an angle, but as a dredgeline comes in, LRO getting bursted down. Faker flushed away, dies, hits the ground, but the stun up and there’s still good damage. The rank from Doran keeps him at bay. G2 sending back here. It’s a messy one, but the Herald still was secured by T1. But it’s not a bad fight for G2 at all. They actually trade evenly and manages to keep the tempo now on the map. Looking for this top tier one, looking for some chunks on some of the target. Doran ultied up decimating smash but under turret. Broken Blade’s now caught here and Carrie’s going to get a couple of concussive blows. Auto attack after auto attack and this Aurora does do damage to Broken Blade. Meanwhile, Han summon dies to the jungler. Decimating smash onto Carrier blocked away by the unbreakable. Broken Blade is trying. We are devolving to chaos, but T1 like it. I mean, this is a super messy fight, but T1, they had to calculate it the whole time. Or at least that’s what I’ll tell myself. They defeated them in 2v4. They brought them into the river. Faker looked like a tasty piece of eight there and G2 did get run down, but they were coming back and then eventually they just pushed it a little bit too far. And T1 are getting massive wins all across the map after this. They get that kill on a Hansama. They get the midlane turret as well. And it does look like Skum was able to sneak in here and take down the drake, but that is just a consolation prize at this point. So Finn still still G2 favored. Like where did we end there? cuz there was there were two parts of the fight. Maybe I that was maybe my first caster curse there might sol for Trundle getting that dragon. But I mean that’s is a T1 classic. I feel like they play so well on max range with low health bars. Like you see all these low health bars. And we’re doing it again, aren’t we? Look at the layering. Carrier just sends out the ulti. Vakuma comes in. Culling is now layering down too. It must be a day of cake in game one cuz I love the layers that T1 are bringing in for fun. A double already. Kuma going to send it for Relentless Pursuit and with the piercing darkness or rather light almost finds broken blade at the end over steps under the turret. So T1 do lose their jungler but it’s the cost of two for G2. Hang on. Three. Oh, we’re doing it again. Carrier Winter’s bite is the bait in. Faker is backing away by the way. So it’s just Goober. But he’s got seven kills. Yeah, we saw G2 do this to Genji yesterday and Genji could not keep up. But G1 are keeping up with flying colors. They say bring the it is fine for us. And they feel like they caught owner here but owner just decides to go in before he’s retreating and they get a good chunk of fake but here Dor comes with a massive between worlds and car with a massive and all the Avengers come to help them and Cap Steve is in there but he has no stun. He can’t look for big tibers but because he needs time to stack that. He tries to flash away from the carrier’s concussive blows here but in the end he gets a lot of damage out just before dice. And look at his tippers. This t makes it really difficult for T1 to kind of approach and it kind of kind of leaves carry out to dry here because Tim is just so sed and tired of T1. I’ll quote medic a little bit. Uh that TP sucks. I think that TP from Caps was a roughy especially when you don’t have stun up and available. This is going to go on for another 5 minutes because we Yeah, here it’s where it’s kind of devolves and rages a little bit. What do you mean here? It devolves. I think it evolved 5 minutes ago, brother. Ro thinks has enough damage but Keria saving the heal breaking in. And now Anamo is just left alone with an angry man with a spear trying to chase him down. And despite the flash and despite all the attempt from G2, there’s just not enough damage in the bank right now. Yeah. And guess who gets the kill? It’s Gooi after all of that. I think that was kill number five in the game as he’s sitting on I think seven or eight. Yeah, he’s at seven at this point. Wow. On the Lucian. One of the early picks in the draft. Goomba’s running away with this one. But now we start out and T1 we’ve already come back and it’s a 5k. G2 have to walk into this but again carrier sets down the glacial fisher the unbreakable as well. Dredge line in after a decimating smash and carrier will die but is secured. T1 still looking for a fight however and onto cap who again doesn’t have his stun available. He’s in trouble. Decimating smash a two man though. G2 this could be their time. Faker though auto attacking after a threeman knock back is big but G2 have five kills stronger. Where did he go? He got sent upwards and now escaping in the Herald. Not only have we devolved, we have evolved in this game one as he’s also going to look for something bit. I don’t know. He’s just traveling and getting out of there. G2 won the fight. He’s an astronaut. He’s a driver. What does an all I thought we had a puppy in the game. Where did he go? Uh way up in the sky, it looks like. Uh yeah, T1, that that’s some classic happy gaming right there. They lose carrier. They’re like, you know what? I think we win anyway. 4v5. Let’s run straight at the Annie and all group up for the Timbers. Uh not the best decision from T1. I’ll I’ll say that as we’ll take another look at the fight here. We got to be able to break it down there. T1 starts data and G2 approaches for this really tight choke point and it becomes really difficult for him to approach and T1 just finishes it now. Carrick gets caught, but now they’re like, as you say, Valdes, they’re like, “Okay, we can maybe fight still.” But now look at this Q from Broken Blade getting so much knockups here. And the Labro follow sends Oer into the stratosphere, goes to the moon and back. And they don’t know where he is. There he is. Now he’s back and suddenly he picks up his car and takes for drive. And the fact he gets out after coming back from the moon, maybe we should just salute. I don’t know. Like stranger things happen in League. I think not. We’re fighting again. It’s been a great third place match so far. You know, I’ve got the perfect coke asses with me for this as we’re going to just send it out. Okay, culling into schemond. He’s stunned up. It’s concussive blows. Carrier. The Braum is adding so much value as owner re-engages. Cresant guard in. He fears not as Doran’s angle is now there too. Lrov gets him with a hook in again. The dawning shadow helps out G2, but not enough. Lov too squishy as the between worlds is going to find Broken Blade. He slowed down to Buggery. He flashes out, gets out. T1 still winning fights. It’s still their game despite the gold being close. And they’re going to head towards the dragon to make number two. Yeah, I think G2 just overstepping a little bit there. It just feels like a very brawly game. They want to bring the brawls to T1, but there’s just so much lockdown between the Braum and the Shinja, and they have a lot of ways to keep guys like the Nautilus around. And so LRAV, you know, trying to make things happen for the team. He’s just the sacrifice. And that does mean that uh the first cloud drake here for T1 will be given over to them. Still a relatively close game when it when you do look at the gold, but a very fed Goomba, a very fed owner as well, who’s got the biggest lead right now. On top of that, Ottoon is going to be pretty huge for T1. Yeah, the big solids for G2 is this Senna that is stacking. 83 stacks at 23. It’s actually a really good number. Usually the breaking point is 60 at 20. That’s the median. So 83 at uh 23 is super strong on him. really hard for T1’s comp to kind of catch him unless they get a lot of different angles and he’s really scaling having a really good game so far. And this is the avenue where G2 can kind of get the way back into the game. And so on top of that as well, I mean, Broken Blade, although he still can be killed, we got a Nazir, there’s constant DPS, I feel like Broken Blade, who’s in a good position, who’s still quite tanky for the game, also adds that flavor, right? And uh what’ you call him before? Broken Billy, like he he’s getting to his third item. And for Broken Blade as well, like T1, we’ve seen it’s he’s already quite hard to kill, so he’s got a bit of time to play with. And I think for G2, that can only be a plus. So, the game’s not over yet. 2K gold lead for T1. That’s it for now. Two dragons a piece. The fact that G2 got earlier dragons does seem to lend itself to their windcon. Yeah, it does feel pretty good for them. I I think they’re in a relatively comfortable spot. I I do worry, you know, they have the scaling of the Scion and the Senna, but um yeah, you really can’t get too far behind. This is going to be the really critical part of the game where it’s like, okay, we got Baron spawning. The drakes are kind of even going to brawl again. I guess on he gets a three talon strike. Cresant guard out again. A route in for Hanama, but he’s not with the rest of the fight. Doran’s in first. And I just talking about broken blade being tang versus five members of T1. It’s unbearable between worlds for Doran. He jumps in then jumps back out. It’s a ruse with Carrick and the glacial fisher for owner to snap in. T1 made it messy at the start of this game, but that was the cleanest fight we’ve seen. I mean, Owner’s just an assassin on this Shinja. I mean, he spots caps and he’s like laser focused onto this Annie. And I mentioned how this was going to be the critical time. Yes, you’ve got your scaling elements, but you’re giving up Baron. You’re giving up so much here to T1 as G2. It is the the backline of T1 has just so much damage. Whoever they hitting the front line of G2 just can’t keep up here. Look at the skirmish in top of G2 doesn’t want to give up this red buff. They don’t want to uh concede this, but Owen decides this is a great time to fight. Dashes over the decimated smite from strike from Scion. And here, Faker just goes in and broken blade. You might be tanky, but you still get shredded. Yeah. And then look at Caps here. He’s like, “Okay, I I should be okay, right? Bit of damage comes in from Dorn. And then take a look at Owner. How quickly he kills Caps. Look at this. This is insane.” You’re right. He didn’t. Wow. I can’t believe it was the last pixel as well before Caps flashed. unlucky for him but great for Ona who as you said 11 out of 14 KP is having a great game. It’s a tough position to be in for G2. They have no flash on neither Annie or Senna. So it’s really difficult when your two main carries just has to be so far back because as you say owners in assassin there’s a door and they can jump on you at any time and as we all know all roads lead to him fake. You can also look for the shuffles now with those flashes down. So G2 really needs to try to stabilize the map right now and they need more time to to scale up. You’re right because the damage on owner is not enough. The range from Han Sama doesn’t seem to be enough. Even on Goomba, he has to kite his way through just to do something in the fight. I mean, yes, there is some good follow-up damage as soon as they have that disengage or rather lack of. But Lro walks in and when Concussive Blows, he’s going to get stunned up again. On the perfect ultra cresant guard to keep G2 away as he dives in again. He’s unkillable, unnatural. Owner is the one on this Zin. Zhouson can’t hold the pace as Doran flashes in for the final piece. Faker, meanwhile, is having a date with Broken Blade. And I think Broken Blade feels a little bit shy versus the goat. Kerry has joined in with his unsealed TP. And that’ll be all from G2 as this was the most entertaining game we have had at EWC so far. Game one over to T1. Just fantastic stuff. A very entertaining game, very back and forth. Props to G2 for sticking in it for a while, but the damage from the Shintow and the Lucian was just too much for them to handle. Guma and Owner having a day out here. And the rest of the team also playing extremely well for T1. It just felt like they they kept opting into these fights and T1 kept knocking them down. So good team fighting from T1. Just all these skirmishes, they’re so precise in their clicks. They know exactly what everyone’s role is and they always look for the proper fights. Usually Doran doing so much damage and Sama tries to kind of match that but I mean these Doran ult in fights they kind of went a little bit unnoticed but that damage just adds up so much. Everyone is just getting so slowed and makes it so easy for the carriers of T1 to follow up. My only regret with this after watching this is that we do not have a best of five between G2 and T1. It has been glorious. It has been a beautiful game one. You’re watching some of the highlights after again owner put on a masterclass Vest himself. He was assassins in D. He was just that far ahead. God damn. Let’s hope we get a little bit more. Let’s hope G2 can stand up to the play. Ladies and gentlemen, we’ll go to a short break. But when we return, our third place match booster match point for T1. Heat. Heat. Hello everyone. It’s Mirwin from Aarco here and I’m here today to do a challenge. I have to find as many figures as I can in 1 minute. So, let’s get started. one crazy minute and I will make sure I will find as many as possible. So, the first faker I can see is in the red base at the start. I’m looking for one here close, but I can see another one here in this flower. For now, it’s not really difficult to find them. Okay, another here. We have three for now. Four in this bush. Five in the national. Uh, six in the ground. And let’s see. Let’s see. Uh, seven in this tower. Eight here. Nine here. 10 in the base. Let’s see this jungle. I don’t see. Okay. 11 here. 12 in the red. 13 one in the rotors. So basically I got 14. I don’t know how how many there there are but I think I found actually many. I don’t think it was really difficult at least for me. Hopefully I’m I’m the top one. We’ll see. Okay. So we are looking for fakers. I already see one faker here. Second faker here. Um third faker here. Uh this striker. Yeah, it is fourth striker. Uh another one. Fifth striker. So they can also be on the towers. Uh here sixth. Seven. Seven. Seven. Seven. Let’s see more. Five more. Oh, here. Eight on the edges of the map. Okay. Eight. Nine. Nine. I see the nine. How nine? It is pretty hard. I had to really look into it. All right. Three, two, one. Let’s go. Okay. So, one picture of Faker, one of this, two pictures of Faker on here, three pictures of Faker, four pictures of Faker’s. Five of Fector, 62 here. He’s getting actually seven eight pictures of fake. Nine pictures of fake here. 10 pictures of fake 11 pictures of faker. 12 pictures of fake 13 pictures of fake 14 pictures of fake 15 16 pictures of fake. So, if I’m not wrong, I think I got 16 pictures of Faker. I’m not sure if it was the maximum. I probably think I missed a few of them, but I think it’s like pretty decent score. Level up your gaming experience with over 8 billion playlists only on Spotify, the official audio streaming partner for the 2025 esports World Cup. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. It doesn’t matter. If they counting you out, it doesn’t matter. You’re still going to win. Hello everyone. Welcome back to the esports world cup. We’ve got our third place match underway. T1 up 10 Z over G2 in a scrappy very very entertaining battle. Deon here alongside Medios and Wolf to break that last one down. Medios, what’ you think of it? Well, it was a little underwhelming I fear. Um, it kind of felt like a lot of Western games versus the top eastern teams where you just do nothing and lose. I think that uh G2 drafted somewhat of a low damage comp. They had a lot of crowd control and uh like team fighting capacity, but they just weren’t able to get it going. I think they didn’t have a lot of pryo in their lanes on top of T1 having a fairly slippery comp. So yeah, I mean they tried a little bit of stuff early game, but ultimately they just kind of rolled over. Yeah. Uh well, we actually have right now standing by live from the SDC Arena, it’s Atlas and Kitty for their thoughts on that last matchup. What’s up y’all? Good day, Deon. It’s uh it’s pretty loud in here as some of the MCOY folks have come in with banging some drums, making sure that they keep the hype levels as high as possible. And we can see LEC representation. It doesn’t matter where it comes from. It’s all here for G2 today. Respect to the fans from Europe because they always always show up to any arena in the world. And of course, we have T1 fans on the other side that are just as excited. Exactly. Of course, the T1 fans feeling a little bit better after that one. I agree with Medios. It was certainly looking a little one-sided, maybe a bit too one-sided. However, it is a best of three. So, like yesterday, G2 might just get a better draft for game two and bring it to a one:1. Exactly right. I mean, this is the best thing, right? You lose game one and then you come back. It’s like the reverse sweep mentality. This is how G2 did it, right? They got that one win and then that was all they got at MSI. You turn it around this time and then you can possibly make that comeback. So hopefully they can cling on to some of that energy, make something happen. And I hope people at the desk aren’t going to be game one and because G2, what are we going to do to T1? Let’s go G2. They almost followed it. T1 fans, are we just going to clean sweep this one? Yeah, that’s what I thought. All right, thank you very much y’all for the check-in from the STC Arena. We’ll get to hear from Kitty and Atlas later on in the day. Now, let’s go ahead and break that last one down. Kitty suggesting maybe a different draft here, Wolf. Well, for me, I I think whether they call it a game one, Andy, I I think the game when you look at the end result, you look at the seven kills on the Lucian, you think, okay, this game was incredibly one-sided. But several of the fights were actually pretty close, right? T1 almost getting caught there around the Baron pit before Odicon. It looked like the fight was definitely winnable for G2. If a few things go a little bit better, if it’s a little bit tighter play from G2 or a little bit faster on the rotations, they might have won those fights swimmingly. They might might have been the ones that people are saying they took a one-sided game. So, I feel like despite the issues with the draft that Medios already brought up, it was playable. They just got outplayed by T1. Yeah. And we have examples of that in a couple of our highlights. Starting with highlight number one, which was a very long extended fight that it felt like G2 looked good early on, but a big big uh Emperor’s Divide by Figer changes things. This was a really interesting fight where in theory G2 should be better because they’re starting with a fourman engage onto two people from T1, but it kind of goes down to them just not having that much damage outside of Cap. So they started the fight without Annie and then Annie TPS in late, doesn’t have the stun ready and they just end up in a horrible formation. So what could have been a good play for them just ended in tragedy. Caps, he shows up right after taking a back swing so late. He has a good angle, but like he mentioned doesn’t have his stun prepped. And Doran’s uh on the Aurora actually just bought so much space for T1. Same with Faker, right? And these are the T1 quintessential plays where it looks like, oh, T1’s out of position. They’re caught and then they buy enough space for everyone to rotate over and they end up having the man advantage. They have the advantage in positioning. This was a bridge too far from Broken Blade as he leaves Han Sama out to dry and also dies himself attempting to get that kill there but ultimately gives it over to Goomba and it’s just a bit of a disaster here. I feel like it was pretty rough after the loss in the fight but this made the game almost unsalvageable. Yeah, and the I think the tough part from this, if you’re looking at yesterday’s match, G2 had a long drawn out fight in the top lane where it was very, very scrappy and they ended up coming out on top and it turned the game back around. So, I think maybe a little bit too much focus there on trying to flip the coin early. However, over at Oticon, the game did stall out a little bit with a huge huge stun by Caps. This was a perfect example of the doctor double lift what he was saying with objectives where T1 just recognized Otakon is so strong in my mind it’s one of the strongest objectives right now you know almost as good as dragon soul maybe better than Baron because the fact that they get it even though a lot of them died afterwards and you know since JA went for a crazy ride right there uh T1 is pretty happy with it you know it’s an insanely strong buff it gives you a lot of scaling a lot of XP for your whole team on top of the takedown uh AoE slow. So yeah, you know, I think that definitely reinforces Double’s point that it’s okay to lose a lot of people for an objective. And we did see at the very end of that fight the combo that LRAV gets the dredge line. The ult does come through, the stun rather comes through from Caps, but there was so much time with there where he’s trying to stack the stun up and everyone in T1 knows he doesn’t have it, so they can fight through that choke point. It did ultimately end up going poorly in the fight for T1, but they got the objective. owner is able to sneak away and it’s just these fights I’m talking about where it’s so close if that stun is prepped if G2 are a little bit set better set up then I think they can get the punish. Yeah. And then from there they had a definitive gold lead. Uh G2 clawed back a little bit but then here at the red buff is our third and final highlight where uh we get to see Assassin Ziao. This is a jungler’s dream. It has to be. This whole moment is really all about the Baron. Like yes, they fight over the red buff here. This is what it looks like is happening. But T1 have control over the Baron pit. They have deep vision. And so G2 kind of have to leaprog their way step by step closer. And these are the kind of fights you when the game is basically over, the winning team gets to force and dictate. And man, uh, bye-bye Caps. He exploded there at the end. I wasn’t sure if there was like an Aurora Q still on him cuz that was more than just damage, but I think that was another fight where Caps just wasn’t there at the beginning. And when you have one of these comps like G2 who you’ve got a tank Nautilus Scion Trundle’s like he’s kind of a tank. He doesn’t do that much damage at this point in the game. Uh you really need your Annie there to start things off to just get a lot of damage in. Uh get that initial CC but he wasn’t there. Broken Blade ends up just getting jumped on by everybody. Goes down before Caps even arrived. So uh it just Yeah, I don’t know. They just weren’t able to find the right setups and T1 just did a good job finding those fights. Yeah, G2 with one more opportunity to try and bounce back, get together as a team and send off with a good note back to the LEC or will LCK’s really big darlings of the league be able to close it on out here at EWC. I did not know T1 were LCK’s darlings, but I understand why. Thank you, Deon. Voldemort and Finnegan alongside me. Hysteric. What a what a game. What a day so far. What a good time we’re about to have for game two. Don’t you think? This was a spaceship owner in last game. We’ve just come back. We’ve just come back from visiting owner in outer space. Yeah. Uh yeah, that was fun. I mean, god, like that was just I don’t know. That was a bit of spaghetti. So, so brave of him, so brave. Incredibly brave. He was running the challenge for five in space from him. Um, G2 got to be brave here up against T1 in game two. I think that uh the draft was fine. Like I I think what all of our uh guys on the desk were saying was absolutely correct. Like T1 up the tempo, G2 up the tempo, and then G2 just couldn’t keep up. They took a lot of fights where they didn’t have some of their main damage dealers and T1 just ran them into the ground eventually with some really fed uh players. Owner consistent as always, very reliable. He picks the Shinj of the Trundle, says, “I don’t care. I will carry this game.” And that he did alongside of his 80 carry brother. And now we’ll just have to see what their draft looks like from the red side. Fair. Yeah. Now G2 kind of has the ball in their court. they can kind of dictate what they want to do with draft going on the blue side. Most likely there’s going to be similar bands as the previous games. Usually on red side you end up banning that barriers and Pantheon having that third ban that is a little bit more flexible. Uh here we see targeting the Nico carrier and taking out the Friiana. If I’m T1 I would ban Maai. That’s what I’m saying. The EU tree fin. That’s surely got to be the priority. Yeah. I mean we’re going to see the third B coming soon. I imagine it’s either going to be the Maokai like they did game one or it’s going to be the Varys. I mean, in general, Varys is the stronger pick, but GG’s had so much success on that Ma. It’s such a comfort pick. And going down tier one in the series, you really need to put your players on something that they know works, something they can perform at, and something that really pulls the team together into one unity. And I think for G2, that pick has been Maokai historically. Uh, but obviously it’s not uh never going to be easy against T1. And they’re going to leave the Maai open. Actually, it definitely looks pretty enticing, but I’m not sure about a first pick here. The Varys not going to be on the cards. Um, still some strong stuff left available. I mean, we only saw Luc Braum and the Senna down there, but also some strong mid lane. Uh, control me mages still up. So, what are G2 going to go for? They’re spending their entire time, and it is the Maai choice. What a classic. I think we might see a VI as a response here. That would be quite standard for T1. Also, the Gwen is now up and available. Something Dorne has played a lot. Um, Gwen and the VI work pretty good tandem, but you can also try to secure bot lane. Bars is out. Senna is out, which is like two of the prime ad carries if you want to pick a strong laning AD carry. Guma had a great game of Cork yesterday despite them losing in the end. something you could lean towards, but the Gwen is something they picked so much and something that most top laners at the at this tournament seems to think is the best top lers to blind and uh generally as a rule at the LCK, you don’t give ownervi. Uh he is one of the guys you do not give this champion to. I know the champ has fallen off a little bit in terms of priority and that’s why it does fall through the draft here and with the pryo on the on the pick of the Maai for Skumu, it does make sense in that facet, but I think it still does stand that you do not want to give that pick over to owner. So a fantastic one two extreme comfort for the side of T1. Although BB at least will be playing that Jax into the Gwen and Glenn is moving away from the Jace that we saw yesterday. Didn’t really accomplish much. Didn’t really do what we wanted to see from a Jace. I was screaming at him to pick the jacks but ended up doing it now. It is something he’s had so much success on. Solo King been in this matchup being really comfortable in this. Now Caps doesn’t have to pick his mid lane if he doesn’t want to. Alistar kind of when Re is out allar kind of rises in pryo that Re and Al Re and is like the main two supports and now Alistar kind of starts getting their way back into the drafts in the second and third games. So for T1 here I want to advance the draft. I was going to say you take Silus here with Alistar locked in blind. Normally, it’s an AI pairing, but Faker on Silus here. What an angle. I mean, it’s gigantic. I think it’s a great call from New Herics. Not only is the Alistister there, which is really the main pick you want, but it’s also better Maai, as we love to call it, especially when Maai was very meta. Um, you know, they throw out a Twisted Advance, you you throw out a Twisted Advance, or if you’re in a better spot, you have the unbreakable will, you can front line for the team, and you have incredible engage and and tankiness with your VI. And I don’t know, it just feels like a slam dunk pick for Faker in this game. Yeah, a lot of options for Faker with the Silus pick is as you highlight beautifully. And now we will see what Caps wants to play into it. I was thinking about that Yon is rightfully being taken away quite fast by T1 rise as well. Something that Silus could struggle against. What I see in T1’s comp is a pretty short range comp that really wants to dive. So, I don’t know if Caps wants to pull it out, but I’m thinking like something like a Casio would work great into those champions that really can kite back. Uh we’re going to see what he wants to play. Meanwhile, they’re just targeting the strong pairing with the supports. The Karma Estrol that we saw yesterday or the Syrahan that has been very prominent this tournament is being taken out. This Gumayushi returns to one of his comforts I would say. That’s a bit of range into there as well for G2. Thought they got to throw a Hail Mary here as well. Hansama last game having the same impact. That is not what we mean. I might see Porky come out. That is not what we mean. Hans Draven. What do you think about the Draven angle here? Ah, Civer too safe. Okay, also a popular AD carry. Civer is great against all the dive that T1 has. One of the AD carries that has a little bit of security with that spell shield also really uh bounces off. But the Tristana is something that Caps really plays a lot and the the Caps spit push is something that is such a menace in Europe. just disappears for 5 minutes, goes to Sidin and suddenly re-enters the game with a 10 uh thousand no not 10,000 1,000 gold influx and now Skuman is going to be that solo ape mcap probably going to go towards that Leandre and blood letter’s curse and we’re going to have to see how Caps plays this match up because while Caps is stronger in 1 v one we know that Owner and Carrier really likes to give Faker that extra hand and really likes helping him get through those early lanes. Yeah, I I I think he’s going to have a lot of help with that V and the Bard, as you did mention. Bard, it’s it’s Jinbard. Like, we’ve seen this so many times from the side of Gumaria can be a little bit iffy into the civer for sure. I think she can dodge a lot uh just by running away from the Jin and being able to dodge a lot of his abilities, but also the alt from the bard. We saw unfortunately in some of our past games here at EWC, not very good into Civer, which is not a big surprise, right? So, um, at least the ultimate part of his kit. So, it’s going to be pretty interesting. I think it’s a lot of comfort. It’s a very nice composition rounding out from the side of T1. You have fantastic followup with the Jin bar behind it and tons of setup for pick potential with those things, but there’s still a lot of tools on the side of G2 that that can kind of keep T1 at a distance as well. Or something that usually comes out later in the draft, but it is really good against these immobile AD carries and mages in general. And you might think, well, Ja doesn’t have that, but how the Tristana W interacts with Bard is that because of the big wind up with the Tana jump, she just gets knocked down if she tries to jump out of it. So, it kind of works as a great picking tool against Tristanas because a lot of them tries to get out of it with the jump, but they just end up being caught by it and then standing there without jump after the effect ends. So, I like the pick and to me, Carrie is one of the only people that is allowed to play Bard. He always puts on crazy numbers and a crazy show playing this champion. I remember some of the amazing faces made at Worlds with this champion around the bot in tier one and going to this game. I I we need to see more than more from G2 than we did in game one. That’s for sure. We definitely do. The onus is on them. It’s a single best of three elimination, but also the final destination is third place. T1 with a win here. Secure G2 with a win. Go to game three. They put up a brilliant fight against Genji only yesterday whereas T1 got blown out of the water by Al who are now waiting in the finals after this. Remember that finals will follow this series. This is going to be the last game’s biggest question. I see comfort again. You guys were talking about the Bon carry. I see Goomer and Jin. I see Faker in a great silus angle. Bas you were just saying that owner a lot of people do not give in this champion. Even fishing. Oh one hang on hold. I love the Does he get the 10? Wait. Oh, hold. Uh-oh. Hang on. No. Wait. Wait. He’s got one more in him. One more try. Can he do it? All eyes on him. Broken play. You make it or you fake it. Hey. Hey. Don’t worry about the invade. Go away. He’s out. Hey, what did he get? A thank you. Observers actually goed big W. Thank you so much for that. Yeah, if their invade happened, chat, don’t worry. Wouldn’t have covered it. There’s Skim on the late invade. Oh, Faker’s on him. Flash away from the gonduct. And Caps can’t do a thing, but watch. Now Schuman has no flash and he’s got no camp to start. At least Caps gets a good trade on Faker, but that’s about it. I mean, honestly, he got away with only flash in there. That is not too bad. Yeah, I was really scared that they would end up more than that, but I guess V level one isn’t that powerful. Also, Gwen doesn’t want to go too far away from her top when Jack is standing here on the wave. So, will just be the flash and a little bit of delay on the clear, but yep, they’re trading on the bot lane here. Hama using that barrier early and probably using the heal. It’s pretty tough for the side at this early levels. It’s going to feel fantastic here for Guma and Karia. They’re should be able to hit level two here first, which Karia already did. So he’s getting in their face as you do against the Alistister. Very curious about the Gwen versus the Jacks. Broken Blade very confidently in the draft immediately picked up the jacks into this blind pick Gwen who has gone for the ignite actually. So Doran does not have the flash in this matchup. And the logic with the ignite on Gwen is that normally when you go play Gwen Jax can just jump on you and kind of trade you. But with the ignite suddenly if you just hold your ground you have enough damage to kind of win that extended allin. So makes it a little bit harder for Jax to just force trades on two as you kind of got to keep that jump. But Faker is wait for the Obscond abduct. It matters everything here as Ona comes in and Vreaker trying to predict instead. Caps doesn’t get out. Absuck missed. So Caps actually gets away with a light trade. Yeah, kind of interesting there. There was a ward in the river that did spot owner um which is actually pinged by T1. It looks like he was able to hop over the wall and avoid it. So Caps didn’t know, but he was also very safe and was right there. So uh at the end of the day, not amounting to all too much as the bottom lane still going pretty well here for T1 really good trades here. Lauren is getting very chunked. Probably has the base now. He’s going to get dove. So h not found the base. He’s probably going to get either a rune crystal or an amp to come back. Let’s see if can deny that cannon minion. Well done. And now Doran is a sad sad scissor lady. And uh she’s going to have to come back with just a lamp to and probably broken can get a better base here and probably start really getting control of this match up on this bounce cuz that’s when Gwen kind of struggles when Jaxi is walk up on the wave and she has to fight you. And if you manage to actually cue those Gwen snips really well then you dodge a lot of her damage and can look for the allins. Obviously with a grasp you don’t have that really extended all in threat but still quite happy with his lane state I would say. Yeah, it picks up a a bit of cool down reduction and a long sword as well. Sorry, ability haste. Uh, as I’m completely wrong, owner, we’re back to the scene of the crime. This is where Skuman lost his flash early up, but Bramble Smash is so good at camp taking and Skuan just smites down for the steal. Yeah, I mean any amount that you can steal away from the VI and delay a level six uh spike for Owner is going to be fantastic obviously as that gank potential from the Vai just levels up so much from there. as once again we see Doran kind of struggling in this one. Looking for another trade down level. Oh, but he flashes behind the snip waiting for the counter. It’s broken blade. Not sure on the time, but as he bops away, Doran wins it out. Yeah, and that’s the power of the ignite. Suddenly, you can’t just jump on Gwen and fight her cuz Gwen if you jump on her and she just keeps holding strikes back up and available. All it takes, all it takes is a jump in. But broken blade has had to jump back. Now owner’s here. No flash of broken blade up against the wall. A vault breaker. Temple, but Ona autos him for first blood. Lro’s come up to help out, but Carrier is quickly behind and G2 uses it as a swap, but it’s still T1 walking away with the gold. It’s a disaster for Broken Blade. He was feeling confident because Labra was coming there, but owner was a little bit closer and now he dies and it won’t be in time to catch that big bot wave that is now crashing and a big lead for T1 already. Impatience by Broken Blade and if you play a little bit slower, your bot is coming. Gwen is stuck there. She has no TP. You would be fine there. But um he really saw kill with the with his eyes but wasn’t good enough at this time. Yeah, I mean Broken Blade has had some star performances on the Jacks and I think he he saw it as his moment to look for the outplay. It can be a very tense match up especially when the Gwen does have the ignite but instead as you mentioned he oversteps and owner’s right there ahead of the play makes it happen. Flashes in just to make sure 100% that broken blade would be punished for the play. And so that’s going to be huge. I mean, you got this Gwen now ahead. The VI also is accelerated. Doesn’t have his flash, but he’s going to hit level six relatively soon and might look for a follow-up gank at some point here. Area just hanging around mid. Quite sad for Scuban, who was doing really well in the early game, taking away the raptors from Owner, but now owner getting one kill kind of equalizes that lead and going to come into the next fight kind of on even terms. Both feing level six now. Vine needs one maybe two more cams for level six. So Schuman having that slight lead still is going to try to get the dragon while barrier owner is stuck farming camps. Schuma just pulling out the summoners out of Hans and simply Hans just doesn’t want to fall too far behind on HP as we talked about dragon the next objective sitting there waiting already started up and Schuman has brought scuttle in with it as well. So a nice bramble smash here to continue the aggro while sitting on a ward but for T1 trying to play this through multiple angles for now. Very bold of T1 trying to contest his own is only level five. He’s a little bit away from the other side, but yeah, and Doran just walked in. I mean, this is just bad from T1. Doran, I don’t know what they were thinking here, but bold definitely a short word Finn. Yeah, I mean, he doesn’t have flash. I don’t understand where all that confidence came from to walk up against four people. Big punish by G2 getting the dragon and that kill onto um Doran is really nice for Broken. Now he’s going to be left alone with his bottom tower. Probably with the M going to get one or two blades and come back with probably a sheen and almost a fage. So really nice for broken blade to kind of get back from that early little mishap. Yeah, the comeback is pretty huge here for G2 after what happened early on. I I think that he was standing next to Kara who’s barred and he’s like oh I can magical journey out of this. It was like some very kind of uh you know this false safety in his mind especially cuz his team was trying to collapse and trying to make their way into this fight but obviously it’s a mistake and Keria just leaves him alone. I I don’t think even a magical journey gets him out here and it comes out late. But yeah, just a bit of a mistake from Doran. He knows it and G2 will capitalize. It’s like when you and your kid did something naughty when you were young and then the the friend you went with just runs away and leaves you there consequences. True. Not my problem. T1 dropping that kill didn’t really lead to anything apart from losing the dragon. And now of course bit of gold for G2 as we’re saying but grubs are being taken and against Tristana against the Jack side laning does feel like T1 getting all three grubs or at least two here is still a bit of a win. Caps of Scuck not going to find him as buster shot taken away by Faker and Ha is going to go for all three. Look at Skum on both. He’s looking for this Gwen without flash behind there. They’re trying to get a cross mapap going but Doran respects but he walks over a ward. I think Broken Blade is going to try to step up now. difficult to get the ultim because of the the immune but but I mean a counter-strike is not going to be difficult. It’s going to run right into a circle. Doran sends up and he gets the armor MR from his lovely circle but he’s on the wrong side of the rift. Nature’s grass will layer down and now work’s done. There’s no extra healing, no incentive. Owner’s coming in but not in time. Kill unfortunately goes over to Skumon but more AP on G2 might just be what the doctor ordered. Impatience by T1. It reminds me of that play yesterday where Ono was getting a dragon and then Gumian K ends up dying on the weak side. Now Doran does the same thing. Or was coming there to help him push out the way, but it’s 5 seconds away. He gets a little bit impatient and tries to go for it before he actually has the help close by in proximity. Yeah, G2 now up about 500 gold. Goombas doing a good job in this lane. He’s going to open up with the alt. He’s going to at least find a minion wave. Maybe Hans if he can dodge everything, which he does. He barriers in the end. Fancy feet but nervous fingers pulls out another summoner. Area still here. I mean Hans is extremely low with no barrier. There’s a chance. Oh, they want to forot Q this. There’s no ignite from carrier though. There’s flash from Lrav onto Guma. Doesn’t away though. Probably thought something else was happening. Reward shot. Deadly flash will not kill here. Fuma does not have himself to collect it yet. But meanwhile capped in mid lane. Vault breaker there. Flash from Ona. No chance to react with a chain lash. Well done. I mean, there’s a reason you’re telling me that owner should not be given by. Yeah, I mean, he knows all the angles and Dana, you think about one of these very safe mid laners, especially caps with flash, but just trying again to push in that final wave and he just gets caught against a VI who has flash and owner so good at lining up the Q, flashing on in and just giving the Tristana no chance at all. You think about the champion itself should be fine. Let me in. Not not Caps this time. The carrier just wants to stop the back of Han Saba and Labra is just the bodyguard. A great play by owner here using sweeper so he knows he’s unspotted from fog. It’s very hard to react with a View flash. Can’t really do much here as cap. You can probably hug the other side more, but your allar is top side. Your Malai is top side. So it see it feels very safe to hug that side knowing that’s around the area they are. But true. And tempered bait used. We come back to live and LRAV scored out now. Lavrov has no flash. He’s got a teleport. Alternatively, they’re not going to help him. He dies, drops down. T1 crawling in gold again as just members, these carries are getting up. Look at Goomba. Goomba is 30 CS up and he just got a kill. So there is a very big problem in the AD carry position again as on to Caps. It’s just a dive in. Faker now has the unbreakable will. He gets past the nature crash, but Owner getting chunked out. Caps a full lethal tempo. It’s nice for G2. They’ve got an angle here, but Faker out with the absconduct and meanwhile hunt some of the dive doesn’t go well. Carry a magical journey. Curtain call there. The first shot from Goomba takes away Han Sama. A trade cross map here as things are getting a bit bloody but Faker. Obscond abduct. He’s back in with the king slayer. Obscond doesn’t connect. Faker now getting space and caps knows he has nothing. Waiting for those cool downs. There’s a rocket jump but Caps will not take it. 200 HP for both. We’re diving now. Okay, we’re playing bot lane as well. Every side of the map is my map here as G2 get another kill. And it’s actually across the map. So many individual plays happening at the same time. K barely missing that redemption being too far away to put it on Doran’s head. Ends up going down there. Broken, you probably can’t get this wave. You got to be a bit little bit careful here. There’s a Bport and a V coming your way. You got to run away. Kill again. Broken Blades just going to run. But yeah, that was greedy. And he’s going to pay the iron price. Owner another kill as Caps is now getting mid and I love it. We started a little bit brisk, but we have turned into a fullon jog in game two again. Uh we’re just upping the tempo. You know, game number one, that’s the way it went. Game number two, we’re we’re right back into it. And maybe some more action here. No, not really going to h Oh, I say that. Faker going in, going out. Really strong though, hitting this tower. That’s three plates. Gigantic. And Carrier jumps in. Disrespect. The flash away. Lethal tempo almost kills him. Carrier’s flash now down. Caps, the Yale is paying dividends here for the mid laner. Time to track Caps in the side lane cuz he he might try to make his magic that he always does in the LC where he just goes to side and starts pushing. Doesn’t have the grubs, but he will still destroy those towers if left alone and TP. There’s always been a pressure point keep is in there, but there’s anything to get down there. Dragon given over. G2 will pick up number two. And this is kind of like game one. G2 had early dragon control. T1 started winning fights more and more and then losing out as GMA’s just jumped on by Caps. Again, we’re doing this as Caps has the ulti. There’s the flash. Lev, he gets a match by Guma. The ulti in. Oh no. So close to Curtain Call bring you back. That’s revenge in an instant. And Caps just got crapped. Yeah, I mean Goomba is just styling on them today. He has made Han Sama just a nonfactor in the side lane. He beats them in. I don’t know if that was on purpose, but he gets the final word in and the final shot straight into Caps’s back and he’s going to be the big carry for T1 if they end up winning this game. I Finn, you got to respect that play surely. That’s like a looks amazing if it works at the 50 HP. Looks bad if it doesn’t. You know, I was really close. He was he was looking for the ultimate into the act you’ve seen 15 times, I’m sure. But he doesn’t end up getting that attack at the back end of that Tristan and ends up looking a little silly because of it. going to stop bathing broken bit to jump in but I think broken bit sniffs out the carry in the background seeing those hot chocolates or whatever those are behind him. I don’t think he’s going to get baited in there. Is that what they are? I think so. Okay. Okay. Let’s go back and and um summarize what happened there. Capsu looking for the angle here. You’re going to see really confidence play here. Leon looking for the flash combo. He finishes out but now he’s looking for the outl but just out of range to get the last out attack but no I mean he you see the confidence of caps. You know this kind of caliber player he is. He goes for those plays and sometimes doesn’t end up working out. But you feel good having a player like that on your team. You want your mid laner to see those angles and go for them even if they don’t always in your favor. That poke knows. He’s like, “Oh man, you can’t love him at his best if you don’t respect him at his worst.” Something like that. Well, you know I’m there for you. Skimon bramble smash away. We’re fighting again. Really good. Twisted advance. Skimon outplayed it. But the tempered fad is twoman caps rocket jump to safety for a better spot. Owner on his head. He’s just got this caps auto attack after auto attack. Labro now in a bad spot unbreakable will stolen from Faker, but Lros will do nothing. He stands there to die as T1 get the fight win. But broken blade versus Doran. A 1 v one. BB getting redemption for MSI. G2 walking it back with a curtain call on Caps. It’s Carrier. You little rat. He steals it away with a cosmic binding. Carrier should have had a little bit more trust in Goo to hit that final shot. It would have been, I think, a fourth kill here for the Jin. But yeah, Faker’s TP just a little bit quicker than Caps getting over there. And they’re able to not only get the Alistister, but also pick up Caps. And yes, Broken Blade at least able to win the 1 v one in the side lane. Doran now at 0 and four. They’re going to have to do something about that because that is the big weakness right now for T1. Will be the piece of Valor for G2 taking that tower down there. Maybe not yet. It’s my bad. But yeah, big solo kill by BB onto Gwen. That’s why you give it Jax tries to go and has the Aliser. Feels very confident. But sure, you are tanky, but you are not immortal. There’s three people there. And for G2, they’re really relying on the Brav to find a good engage, but Faker is quite slippery. Protobelt in the inventory. And as you said so well, it’s the unbreakable will that gives him confidence. Faker really the only one keeping trail with their opposite laner. Whereas you see on the other side, AD carry top, big leads individually. Let’s look at this by look at owner. He actually misses the Q flash onto Skeman. It makes the play look a little bit awkward. I thought he messed up here by missing that combo. But in the end, Carious ultima to come here, walk up and all these thunder sky pros by owner. The redemption, the shields. He’s so tanky despite overcoming so far with your flash. He doesn’t end up going down and labrov walks a little bit too far forward and don’t have the boys there. Maybe it’s redemption arc already onto Kumushi. He’s got no flash available. Lov’s angle is so superb. His pulverize sets up SK to come down but carry his ulti the dead but fate no it’s a shut down Han summer gold back and that started off labrov being initiative massive pick there onto really clever by Labrav to know that he has no flash go from behind and head in first and then save your polariz for when he’s trying to escape buying time for come in there trouble if there’s one member you can keep exposing it’s Doran onto Lev though he’s been ignited down the need to work is denied And Doran is 05 right now. That’s G2’s hope as Caps is trying to auto attack this one out. And again, Carrier is walking in. Magical Journey. Caps is going to take it. Own is following. He’s got a cease and assist. Great cosmic binding as T1 bring Faker into the mix. Yeah, I mean looking for that angle. There was Faker, but Caps smartly is going to back away. It does feel like the tides are turning a bit into the favor of G2. Or at least it’s getting back towards even just with how gigantic Broken Blade is on this Jax and he just keeps getting fed. I mean Doran’s stepping very far up in the lane with no vision in his own jungle and Broken Blade and the whole team is coming in. Oh, if he gets this here too, he will be a rich rich man trying to run away now. The Gwen will TP will probably die for that cap’s hiding on top side as well. Got duck but Faker’s taking his ulti. Lro helping out and Faker’s just going to disengage him to the wrong side of the rift but G2 have three members and Faker has no hijack. Nate just grass going to line as oh broken blade losing on the other side of the map. He got in it for this. It is going to be a trade but remember the croc comes out. At least G2 got a turret for it. Faker is buying a bit of time here as Goomba’s going to push mid and I think right now if Faker gets out it’s criminal behavior. Flash match caps. Autoing autoing ordering. Redemption heals him up. Faker waiting with Fate. Faker’s out. They’ve also opened up mid lane and they get dragon T1. That is for sure criminal behavior. He can’t keep getting away with it. How does he escape these positions time after time after time? There’s free men on him. You don’t have an Alisa rule there. Looks like there’s no way to get out of that, but he just manages to do it every single time. And it’s just, oh, it just keeps happening. Heartbreaking for G2 because Jax was dying there on the bot side. We get to see this play from the man himself. Yeah, I mean Faker does a great job here. Uh you see that Caps has to respect, but really props also to Carrier who just seems to be everywhere on the map, right? You see the pings coming in. He gets the redemption down. Even the tempered fate was coming in. He’s been in every single team fight has been carry. That’s why his bard is world class. Grump is a paid actor. Yeah, for sure. That too. I mean, the escapes, what a classic T1 really. They’re escaping any allegations that were made after Al in fact after the semi-final performance. This series has been a lot of fun, but also for T1 mainly and one of their cleaner performances here at EWC. Owner again on a carrier performance. Goomba two items plus the armor advance. Like these lanes are big. The only only saving grace right now is that Doran is 05 on his Gwen and Broken Blade has two items for G2. I just want to highlight that G’s free outbased champions. Maybe we get a fight there. Not dead. He just free up tempered fake. We are going to get a fight indeed. Skewond has been kept in place. But look at owner with the flanking angle. G2 getting snip collapse. Fake has the unbreakable will. Owner holdies out. Caps gets a buffer. But the rest of G2 are left alone in a pit with the demon king and his four spawnlings again. The collapse from T1. Imminent has broken blade. Finally joins in. Stops the curtain call. But as he runs in, he finds them all. Five members of T1. He disengages but it’s gone abduct blind in the end. Chain lash counter strike. It’s melee versus melee but G2 have lost the battle and the war of attrition as Skumand will run to his death on the wrong side of Summoner’s Rift with Akan being taken. It’s clear that T1 want to show they’re the third best here. Yeah, this is what T1 does. Five men show up for the fight. They go for it even though the temper fade doesn’t do a whole lot. sets them up for success and Caps has to jump out so early in this fight as he was threatened and the rest of the team just kind of got left in the pit and alone. Also, Broken Blade a little bit late to this fight. So, T1, everybody’s there just chomping down on the weak bits as you save all those taps having to jump out in the middle of the fight just means that despite they’re using the the V on him, they still don’t have the damage to fight back. Bottomless TP being a little bit too far away as well. joins the fight too late and just an easy clean up for T1. Rotate tries to make something happen here at the back end of that fight. But it’s just so difficult when your Civer goes down so early. And Finn, I see you’re holding your hotel key. You you’re assuming that right now, you know, T1 just going to clear this up two and zero. It’s obviously not an early night. We have finals after this, but I see what you’re insinuating. You know what am I come from? Where you going, Finn? We got We got another You think it’s left? No, but god forbid the man has coping mechanisms for stress. It’s got to be. I mean, fair enough. EU cast watching G2 right now. Their downfall, but maybe their pick off. Nature’s crashed again, but Kuma gets out of it. Joe jumping in his broken blade rather as he gets out. Kuma got out. How did Kuma get out? Now he can play Ranger with a curtain call. Doat, who’s been zero and five, adds a bit of flavor into the mess owner against the world. Faker does the same. Broken blade does get a shut down but again he’s got to find a little bit more deadly flourish with the larying of Doran runs in. G2 getting low but so are T1. It’s scrappy but cap ran in against Faker and he gets shown his maker. T1 with another win. Looks like Broken was doing so much on the back end there. Solo killing Carrier. I thought he was going to blank and kill them all there but Faker being so strong in this game. They’re really spacing out that counter-strike well and ends up killing him before it gets much done. What they get from it as well. I mean, this is uh this game is going off the rails once again as now Hansama I see that I think he might die. Yeah, I think I think Doran made the right choice not to go in there. He is not the Fed member. He is still sitting on one item in this game and and yeah, this just sets up once again over here in the blue side. Keria is just it feels like he’s doing everything when he’s playing the Bard. He’s setting up the exhaust angles. Guma does get caught, but Carrier keeps him alive as well. And it’s like what can’t this man do? This is an enemy team Bard here. You see Broken jumps onto there and now starts chasing down Carrie on the back end. But Doran buys a lot of time here with the morning mist and while he gets knocked out of it, you see Broken killing carrier. And here I thought the fight was really good for G2, but Skuman ends up dying really fast through that Faker and owner combo. And here while the stuns land and knockups collapse, I don’t think the CC layering was that good there for G2. I think if waited a little bit until after the counter-strike stun had finished to go for the knockup, maybe that would have been a better fight. But in the end, just really clutch play by T1 here. So annoying as well. This B, as you said, it definitely does feel like enemy team B when Broken Blade, the heaviest member on G2, or rather the strongest, is being drawn away. But T1, I see red. I see glory for them in a two. And I see redemption after their crushing defeat against anyone’s legend as Doran is going in deep, but maybe a flanking angle. Lov’s going to see him first, but it means they get on to Schuman. No problem. The pop away sends Doran closer to the EU tree. A cease and assist for Caps who just went on a lovely stroll, but Ona decides to punch him in the face. Fair enough. I guess that’s just society for you as T1 are going to look for an inner turret topside. Faker disengaging against Broken Blade. Broken Blade can win this, but never mind against the Unkillable Demon King who misses his ulti. Maybe not. Forward he goes. Good zas, but there’s an abscond an abducted fate. Carrier saves the day only gets Faker. So G2 awaiting. He heals with a King Slayer. He still doesn’t die. You cannot step to Faker and expect to live to talk about tomorrow. He survives. And T1 out class. I mean, they are actually unkillable in this game. Faker can do whatever he wants. He’s got Zas, he’s got Tempered Fate, he’s got the redemption, and he’s diving the most fed member on G2 by himself. But he’s got his whole team right behind him. And even though Broken Blade’s ahead, it’s not nearly enough. It’s a master class from the unkillable demon king as the spare starts creeping in for G2 as we get the pro view here. Really well play paid here. Flash Wing to guarantee the damage. Keeping the E until after this looks for the E on the block. But now the tempered fate is the crucial point. And he still has that Sonas. He can still play aggressive and he lands a beautiful chain onto Hama threading the needle and just goes in and Carnage follows wherever he goes. I feel like Operation Keep President Faker alive was a success, but then again, the president kind of did a lot of that himself. Uh it’s it’s a masterclass. 5k damage from Faker. And yes, he is still not dead. But I think more importantly, I can’t believe Doran is that relevant this game. It just shows you the rest of T1 picking up the slack, but even Doran in team fights and a Gwen that’s scaling is doing a lot now, too. And that was kind of the end result of T1 realizing, wait, if we just match Faker with broken blade, all our all our worries disappear as they jump into him. He flashes away Faker takes away on the hunt. Really nice. Gets out of the nature’s gras from Schuman. Now the Kuma is here as well. The range will start ensuing. Doran ready to follow in with the level 16 needle work as Labra gets AoE shocked. Carrier a cosmic binding. A tempered fate at the ready. It’s doesn’t matter. They don’t need it. They’re going to cease and desist and stop G2 from getting closer to third place as three members left alive. The flash now comes in. Tempered fate finally used. And on the spot, the chain lash of Sconduct from Faker is gorgeous. T1, they didn’t come in in a strong way, but they’re going to make sure they go out as well as they could. MSIB Dan, they came second. They came close, but here, well, they won’t be able to revisit Gen. They’ll be able to remind the West who their father is. T1, your third place at EWC, are still styling. Props to them for waking up here in this best of three and absolutely stomping them out in a couple of games in a row. T1 are back as the victors at least for this matchup. G2 having some good moments for sure, but they were not able to step up. And in recent times, G2 just can’t get it done against T1. T1 are indeed on top of them. And there there wasn’t much they could do today. Finn, what what did you think about G2’s performance today? I mean, as you save all this, while T1 came in and showed domination, I still think G2 was able to trade blow for blow sometimes, but it’s not like T1 was just inevitable. They were slowly creeping into more and more dominating positions on the map. and Faker just being like a ticking time bomb this game is getting stronger and stronger and stronger. It was G2’s plan. I think they were attacking Dorne a lot and that was really working out for them. But the moment they put Faker into Broken Blade and that venue of attack disappeared for G2, that’s when the map kind of started falling apart and it was really hard for G2 to get a single hand into the game. I mean, again, you could say hands differs like a baseline, but the the intelligence from T1, you talk about matching lanes. I feel like Carrier’s ability to sync up with owner throughout that whole game was incredible. It’s part of the reason why T1 are just so clean with their players. Now, I’m told that there’s an interview on stage, so we’re going to hand it over after T1’s dominant third place victory. Thank you so much, gentlemen. We are back on stage after a clean win from T1 against T2 locking the third place. I have Kira with me for our Amazon winner interview. First, Kira, congratulations on the win. My first question to you. It’s not the trophy that you wanted, but it was a statement finish. So, how would you reflect on this very long week? Yeah, it’s been a tough week that um we straight went straight over to EWC after MSI. So, it wasn’t easy preparing for it. But that being said, we should have brought it more uh to our overall performance. So, I think that’s a bummer that we couldn’t bring it. Absolutely. So, you and Kumayushi have entertained everyone in this series. Everyone can commend what you did in that game. So, how are you and working together so far after all these years being together with T1? Yeah, there’s been a lot of ups and downs, highs and lows, but still I think I like we can still uh put up more uh each other. So I think in that sense I think we can still achieve more as a team. Well, you and T1 fans have showed here at full force in this arena. So, since this is the end of your journey in the esport world cup presenting League of Legends, what would you like to say to all of your fans right now? Well, thank you for all the fans uh came for us for a long way to cheer for us. I know it’s a it’s a very long way but it’s and it’s been very grateful and also thank you for all the fans watching over the TV and um yeah well I think was we it’s a bummer that we couldn’t bring it our overall performance but there is another game coming in the LCK so we’ll try our best to be uh in our develop form good luck to you in your future endeavors and congratulations once again on behalf of the sport world cup we would like to present to you the framed with the bronze heart to cement your win as third place at the esport world cup presenting League of Legends alongside $230,000 and 500 championship points. Now we will go to Kitty with Broken Blade. Waiting for our exit interview. Take it over. This is the postgame interview of G2 vers T1 by my side Broken Blade. So once again, you meet the same fate versus T1 where you will always get the shorter end of the stick. So what do you have for reflections today? Um I think we didn’t play as good as we did yesterday. Honestly, I think if he did, we could have gone out with a victory today. Obviously, it won’t play great. They played mechanically very very good. Um, it’s a bit sad to go out this way, you know, especially to Zero. We did I feel like we didn’t put up a fight the way we wanted to. So, it’s a bit it’s a bit frustrating, but and in our previous interview, I know that G2’s goal has always been to overcome the Eastern teams, and you guys were able to beat BLG for unfortunately falling short to T1. So, what will it mean next time when you will face them at the international stage? I think we’ve shown a huge improvement uh from the last international tournament which was MSI and I’m looking forward for the next one. Hopefully, we will qualify for it very soon uh coming in summer split where we will take the title for the first time this year. So, thank you BB. And of course, one last word for the G2 fans as G2 exits the Esports World Cup. Sorry. One last word to the fans as you guys leave esports World Cup. Thank you guys for coming. T2 gave it their best, but it was T1 coming out on top two to zero in this third place match at the Esports World Cup. $230,000 going the way of T1, $160,000 going the way of G2. Fourth place, great experiences, great international experience and matches, and they’ll go back to the LEC with uh greater knowledge on what may or may not work for them in the future. For T1, it’s back to the LCK as they prepare to qualify for worlds and defend their world championship title in 2025. As we take a look at some of these big big moments here, Ton here alongside Medios, Wolf, and Double Lift for the big talking points of that last one. Medios, when we look at this game too, what jumped out at you in this second game? I was uh pretty impressed with Broken Blade’s performance. Um, he got a huge lead in the top lane, but that about does it for what went well for G2. Caps actually had a pretty good early laning phase, but after an unfortunate tower dive um that he forced super hard, it didn’t get much better and uh yeah, he kind of became really weak. Yeah, there were some angles in game one. Like I said, it felt like there were some fights that were really close and you could really feel like if just a few things went better for the side of G2, they’d end up getting the W. But in this one, outside of, like you said, what happened with Broken Blade on the top side, most of these fights didn’t feel that wable. There were a few scraps, right? There were a few moments where you’re like, okay, maybe Caps gets the resets, maybe he could pop off the near catch on Faker, right? While they were losing Broken Blade on the bottom lane, there were some moments, but T1 were really in control. Start to finish. You could see it in the gold difference over time here just how one-sided this game was. I I mean like Capsule was legit owning mid like 30 CS ahead. He was plates ahead. He had early Yall. I thought he was in a really good position to carry along with PB, but then yeah, I think he kind of lost his mind a little bit at one point where he went for the dive. I maybe he didn’t he underestimated that Jin Rush steel caps which was a smart buy by Guma. Um I do want to point out there was like a pretty cool play that I haven’t seen very much. Maokai immune vise ulti once with his W. That was really cool and I haven’t seen that interaction very much cuz it does require pretty fast reactions. So, you know, big props to Schuman there and I think G2 is going to go back to LEC with uh some good learnings. Yeah. Well, we have Wol here with us who’s going to be on the call for the finals. He needs to go get ready for that. We also have Caps and Dylan Falco standing by. So, we’re going to take a short break, reset the studio, get the insights here with Double Lift Medios, Dylan Falco and Caps, and then start setting up for our grand finals, Gen G versus AGL. Don’t go anywhere. You’re watching the Esports World Cup. like my new jagger in a mix like scammer. Extremely real. That’s a real pass. When [ __ ] gets real, so the real don’t got bread and butters on the bread like it’s cold out the out. That’s my baby. Let me shine and never shady. Girl same cute but I don’t phase me. If you ask him let me say got a queen and she crazy. Please never play me. He said please never break me. Switching station to Mercedes thinking me. I can look you through the dark and all my days like my new playground like my ex playground [ __ ] got a ring and feel safe now I’m pretty but I don’t want to play it’s a me I lost a couple bros on a climb I don’t mind ain’t nothing better watch my ex my new bad entertain don’t move like that move right back shot time to shoot right back robust you can tell we move like that it’s a playground [ __ ] got a ring now I see a better want a cage out on the road like a playground like a playground. It’s a playground game like my ex. Hey guys, we’re here at EWC for 2025 where we are getting closer to deciding the League of Legends winner for the EWC 2025 tournament. Now remember, players aren’t always on stage at the STC Arena. And although we’ve had bangers and awesome games so far, when they’re chilling out, you must wonder where do they go? Well, I’m here to show you today where they hang out. All League of Legends matches are happening at the STC Arena, but for the players that aren’t playing or aren’t involved on the day, they can chill in this nice area behind me and enjoy the games here. They’ve also got the Heroes Club which has a massage chair for that very busy and unnerving day when you just need to relax. For many players and teams that are out of EWC, there are some awesome opportunities that Riad has to offer, like the desert experiences that it’s so well known for, some of the awesome shopping here, the cultural and heritage experiences that are also here to offer, as well as some of the amazing food. All of these experiences and more are available for the teams and players at AWC. Players don’t have all that much time to enjoy all this. To a surprise to no one, they have a pretty packed schedule, so usually they go straight back to their hotel. But don’t worry, we’ve got you covered there as well. The Player Hotel has even more stuff to offer, like the big luxury pool, the spa, or the gym for the players to enjoy in the morning. There is also a hotel lounge area where players from different games can meet up and enjoy the games together. There you might meet G2, Gen G, or even T1 who are enjoying their off time and watching some League of Legends. Well, that’s all from me. I hope you enjoyed this little tour around, and I’m looking forward to seeing you at the League of Legends final for EWC 2025. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. So, in our third place match, it is the reigning world championship champions getting the victory T1 over G2 after a solid performance at an international event for G2. We have two guests that could speak to that very intimately. Joining us on the desk is Caps and head coach Dylan Falco of G2. Joining Double Lifted Medios, this is such a dream right now. Everyone, if you’re watching at home, you couldn’t imagine this kind of desk. Welcome, gentlemen. Uh you guys just finished playing. How you feeling? Uh well, not the greatest here for sure. Uh a lot of lot of ins, so not not the best, but um at least happy with the the overall tournament. Yeah, I think especially cuz I feel like we’ve been playing very well this tournament. um kind of wanted to come in and win and I do feel like both games had some some good game states. So it it feels kind of bad watching from from the sidelines and being like, “Oh my gosh, we’re actually winning this game. We can win.” And then I guess some fights went not too great. When when it comes to something like that and you had these types of close moments, how do you go ahead and turn those into teachable moments for the team moving forward? Well, um I think it depends. Like it depends on the way you lose. Like for example, at MSI, a lot of the the games we lost was like some very specific like lane swap stuff or draft interactions and all of this. And I think there you have a very specific point. Um I think here a lot of it was maybe we were taking a lot of 3v4s, 4v5s, chasing them a lot around the map. Um like either way you just rewatch the game and review it, right? But I think the types of things you’re looking at are going to change depending on I guess the way you lose or the way you win. Caps, I want to get your experience here on what feels like the traveling tournament. you went to MSI and got to scram a lot of the similar same teams. Then you come here to EWC, you make it further along, so you still needed to scramble a lot of the similar teams. What is that experience like compared to uh I guess the LEC buildup? Uh yeah, it was definitely a bit strange. I mean, usually after the national tournament, we have like a week off or so and then it starts off slowly with like LC, right? and and and playing uh a lot weaker teams. But now we kind of just got thrown back in in with the Wolves. And I think uh I was quite curious how we would do just because of how poorly we performed at MSI. But I think we actually took some good lessons away from from MSI and I’m hoping we’ll do the same from from EWC. Oh, dude, you want to go? Okay. I mean, like, God, I have like so many questions. Like one one is like uh you know, what Dylan was saying, a lot of learnings from MSI and and stuff like that. Do you and and specifically with lane swaps, you know, that’s like something that I’ve always been interested in because it really involves bot lane and I think like in the beginning people swapped exactly around seven minutes because it’s like it makes sense. It’s right before grubs. want your bot lane to have like tempo and like set up for grubs and then it just seems to have evolved so much through through MSI and EWC that like bot lanes are swapping earlier and earlier and is that something that you guys actively like sort of like uh evolved with and like why do you think that even is like why what is even the advantage in bot lane swapping so early? Um well I think like we played our first best of five in MSI in the main bracket against Geng and I think both our top and bot were behind like 1k or 2k gold every single game of all of our losses and everyone’s like oh we just got gapped these lanes these players are bad and if you just watch the games a lot of it was just our misplays right in in in those swap situations. I think a lot of it is just wave management and TP management. If you swap on good timers you can get TP advantage or you can get waves frozen and denied to the enemy. And obviously as it always is in swaps, right? Some top laners are better at handling it than others, right? If you lock in NAR, I think we had one of our games and they had Scion. It’s like classic, right? Everyone knows if you get a swap scenario in that case, it’s going to be better for the scan than the Nar. So there’s a lot to it. I think Caps, I just wanted to ask you because in this tournament, you’ve played against some insane midlaners, right? Like your last three series, you played against Faker, Chovi, Knight. How has that been? Is that is that something you think about when you’re in the game? Are you thinking like, “Oh, I’m going up against this like legendary worldrenowned mid laner.” I mean, you’re in the conversation, too, for that obviously. Um, but do you think about who your opponent is in these matches or for you, do you just think about like, I’m this champion, he’s that champion, it’s a match up like any other, or uh, yeah, just, you know, what’s the experience like? Uh, I mean, definitely think about the players. All right. just because we also do a lot of scouting beforehand. So like certain players have certain tendencies. Um and especially if you go up against like someone like Chovy, it’s like if he ever has a bad state, you know that there’s someone coming to help him out. Like he will always try and and keep himself in a in a solid state. So make sure that you are ready for who you’re going up against and like figuring out like how you can actually get leads against them. Um also some side lanes have like tendencies to to Oxund a bit so sometimes that can be good to roam on them as well. Uh so definitely try to keep in mind like who you’re playing against. Obviously not in terms of like oh wow this guy is like so insane. Uh I mean I think like Fe did a lot of very good things the last game we played right but it most just saw in like preparation. Um for me just and I think for so many of the fans they want to know what it’s like integrating two new players to this roster that has been so stable for the longest time. It felt like with the previous iteration of G2, it was about uh scraping the most out of what the potential was and moves like this, bringing in Schuman, bringing in LeBro uh feels like a a whole new shift and maybe a higher ceiling, but that also means maybe a little bit lower of a floor. So, what has that process been like moving on from older roster and also uh learning how to grow together here? Either one. Yeah. Yeah. So both of you obviously it’s it’s always a big change when you change two or I think before we changed three players to make to make our last boss you’re running with. Yeah, you need to learn the strengths, the weaknesses. You need to learn what types of team compositions we’re going to do good with, do bad with. Sometimes you learn the hard way, right? Um you think something’s strong, it doesn’t work out, you adjust, you keep adjusting. Um we’ve had to change our processes a lot. Even from MSI to EWC, we’ve changed how we do a lot of our match preparation to try and be more adaptable and sharp in in the Fearless. So, I don’t know. Like, to me, the thing is we changed two players this year, but it was also fearless. And I feel like the fearless thing is almost just as big. So, so much has changed this year of how I need to do my job and how we need to do our jobs that like Yeah, it’s just a lot for sure. And then, Capes, I think for you to follow up on that, how about the personalities on the team? You’re the leader, but now you have a different group of people that you need to lead. So, has your leadership type changed a little bit? Uh, I mean, I think uh obviously Labro is like a very funny guy. If you get to know him, it’s always fun to to be around. I think Screw is is is a lot more serious. I mean, obviously has has fun times as well. Uh, but coming into his first year in LC, he has really high expectations and uh sadly we haven’t like lived up to them. same for for for our expectations yet, but we still have a a split and and a hopefully wells as well to to really stand out and and make make the rest of the account. So, like with Schuman, right, it’s uh he’s relatively early on in his career and you’re literally like a legend. Do you feel sort of like you do you feel pressured sometimes to have the answers when he doesn’t know what to do like with the mid jungle situation or like oh like should I skip this camp to do this or that? Like how’s the relationship like? Is it more like mentor and student? Are you guys more equals? What is it? Uh yeah, I mean thank you. I think for sure um I mean I don’t know if there’s so much pressure. I think both Labro and Scrim coming into G2 I think they try to listen a lot. I think something we had especially in the beginning was I I was trying I think we were all trying to get them to to speak a bit more because like there’s a reason we got them right. We also want to hear their opinions and I think they have very good opinions. So whenever they share them I think that that’s great. Uh and I think in general I obvious of course try to help him wherever I can whether it be like on how to adapt to like moving to international tournament or how playoffs will be. Uh and I mean I guess now there’s also the fearless stuff which I don’t know that much about. I’m still still learning about this all but there’s a lot of lessons that we can learn together I guess. And also with league evolving every year like for example the lane swap thing is a new thing right it’s like I don’t really have all the answers. It’s also something that I’m figuring out as we go along and with the meta shifting and all these things. So, I think all of us are just trying to to learn it on the fly. I wanted to ask a little bit more about Fearless, uh, specifically for Dylan. How has that been coming into this year? Because obviously it’s a huge change. Um, and when I’m sitting there watching the games, it seems like not there isn’t, you know, one strategy for Fearless. It seems like team by team, even just series by series, it’s so hard to predict what’s going to happen. you know, there’s um the individual game bands, there’s like 40 champions band going into a game five. Uh how has that been for you, you know, as the coach is the one who like shoulders the burden of drafting? Um you know, just how’s that been? Um it’s been really up and down. I think at a base level, I think it definitely just increases the variance. I think if you have the most skilled teams and you can grind the same strategy like 50 times going into a best of series, your chances of winning are just higher in the old format than now because now there’s just so many different variables that can’t be accounted for. So I think that’s probably why you’ve seen a lot of different teams win. Um like there’s a why was there a different set of teams at MSI than at firstand? I think Fearless definitely has a decent amount to do with it. Um we’ve been messing around with a lot of different approaches um like how we use our bands. Are we using our bands for for reserving champions? Are we using our bands to try and create better game twos, game threes? Are we taking each game individually? Um, I don’t know. Like like Cap said, we’re just trying to learn and develop on the fly. I think this tournament I’m actually pretty pretty happy with what we’ve done. I think we won a lot of game twos and I think game three Genji draft I’m very unhappy with. But I think the rest of the draft of this tournament I think we did a pretty good job with the Fearless. Um, and yeah, we’re just going to keep developing our our new stuff. And dude, like sorry if this has been asked to you guys before, but like dude, this has been talked to death on Twitch, Reddit, co- streams, everywhere in Twitter. Like what is going on with Kalissa and TF and Scrims that is not showing up on stage, you know? Like like is are these Thanos champs that are just going dropping 20 kills and the scrim ends in 15 or or like is it just that uh maybe like on stage it’s not the right draft for those picks? Uh sure. I mean I think I mean for sure TF was doing quite well. uh we’ve I guess we were mainly scrimming a lot of EU teams I guess before we went MSI so we’ve also winning a lot of our games but uh but in general he was like he was very strong in in most of the scrims and I think like historically as well TF has been performing very well at at the pro stage uh and I think similar with Kalista um of course it’s it’s always like difficult I guess going into the tournament uh to to figure out just how how nerfed they are because something like Kalista got nerfed like 10 times 20 times in a And I guess finally it it hit the it hit the turning point. Yeah. So I think it’s different for both. For Kalista, I think it’s pretty clear. I think it’s a core champion pool for champ for so many players at the tournament. Like we have Hansama on our team. It’s his most famous champion for example. Um and it’s very good into the engage comps having Roda. So once there’s four, five, six, 80 carries gone in the draft and they start locking in engage champs, it becomes very tempting to lock in this this champ you have hundreds of games on, especially if the scrims are okay. But it’s just been nerfed so many times. That’s that’s my take on it. They just kept nerfing it. If you look at solo Q, it’s just like it’s like the lowest win rate ad in the game by like a lot. So, I think it’s just nerfed too too much. As for TF, I think TF can be viable in pro play. I think if it’s picked late, picked in good scenarios and you have a good TF player, it’s it’s it’s buffed in the last couple patches. I think it probably can be played well. I think there’s just too many games where TF’s just playing against like five tanks and a mage and just gets outscaled and just becomes useless. But I I believe I believe the pick is not a zero percent win rate pick. Actually, neither of them are probably actually all right. It’s just also just a bit unlucky. Dylan, do you read like any sort of like, you know, Reddit comments or community uh opinions and stuff? And if you do, does that ever affect the way that you see drafts? Okay, so it’s like it’s like hit and miss, right? Um sometimes I just won’t read social media for few months cuz I’m focused on my job and doing drafts. Sometimes I’ll read a bit. Um I find it funny because a lot of the times if you lose you you it’s just stressful, right? flame the drafts G2 bad drafts because that’s why we lose. Sometimes they’re right. So sometimes I’ll I’ll read some comments and they’ll be like, “Man, they have zero damage in this comp and they just have full tanks. How can they ever win this game?” And I’m like, “Yeah, true. It’s it’s it’s not good, right?” So we we definitely blunder on stage sometimes in draft and sometimes the community sentiment is obvious and it’s just right and what you guys see is just correct. But sometimes draft was actually fine and we just misplayed. And and that’s that’s kind of what I’m interested in. This is like a new period where G2 isn’t dominating and leading the line for all of Europe. Has the losses led to a change in the systems that you’ve created or was would you consider like this whole process part of having new players fearless and just some performance both during the draft on your end and the team’s end and then in the game? Is it changes in systems or is it performance? So, I think our ability to keep drafts mentality and performance stable is probably why we didn’t win in Europe. Um, I think we’re up there with the top teams and we went winners bracket both sides to finals, right? Like it’s not like we’re we’re a weak team in Europe by any means. Um, I think the difference between MSI and EWC, we made big changes in how we draft and what we are talking and thinking about and doing in game. Like, it’s not like we just ran it back with the same approach to gameplay and the same approach to draft. So, I think this isn’t just random variance performance stuff. I think it’s because of the work we’ve been putting in. Uh, Caps, as we take a look at the prize pool here that you guys earn, getting to play some of the biggest uh, teams in the world, I kind of want to get your thoughts on the event of being able to bring in all these fantastic players, all these fantastic teams, and what it’s like. I guess do do you know that do you feel that you are participating in a larger uh ecosystem for G2 since G2 has other teams or is it just like I’m locked in on League and we’re going to do good for us and our league team? Uh, I mean definitely focus I guess more on on us in the league team, but it was cool to um I guess see a lot of other teams and esports uh at like the hotel because we don’t interact that much with other other teams and and and stuff and um I yeah I mean just seeing seeing some players don’t know like most of them but I I know a few I guess and and that was cool to to see. And then specifically for league were there players here I guess over your international travels that you’re just excited to meet and hang out with? Yeah, I mean it’s it’s it’s always cool to see like as you said right we played against like Fagger and Chovi and and Knight as well right and they are always there every national tournament so we we get to meet a lot I think uh a new guy here was was Shanks right at MSNWC and we actually did some Jersey exchange with him and he is a very funny guy so that was was quite fun to to to meet him. Yeah, we saw the Indonesian boat Tik Tok or Instagram that you guys did. It was just so so funny. And Shanks seemed really down. So that’s really those are the types of interaction I think are cool about EWC. Uh Dylan, go ahead. And then Meteor, you have a question. Okay, Meteor, go ahead. I I just want to ask um how do you guys feel about EU versus NA right now? You know, I have to ask it because at MSI, Fly Quest got the better of you guys pretty handedly, but bringing back this tournament, you got your revenge and just obviously uh day-to-day tournament results can go either way, but do you have any like overall feelings on the strength of the regions? You want you want to take that one? Uh yeah, I mean I think definitely was a bit a bit tough for us for MSI. Uh but going into EWC like we took a lot away from MSI. We we were watching a lot of the games back and I think we leveled up from it. So I feel confident going into at least Fly Quest I guess from from NA right now. Um we also just came into the mindset that like we got cheese at MSI. So we’re going to win now at EWC. Triple cheese. It worked against Flagquest. It worked against um BLG. Yeah. Sadly Genji had a bit more cheese left. So give me give me like a Dragon Ball Z power ranking here. like how is Fly Quest right now compared to like Team Liquid a year ago or two years ago, you know, cuz you played against NA teams almost every single year. Yeah, both of you are so uniquely equipped to kind of gauge against the history of some each one is like better, you know, in terms of the pecking order. Actually, last year we did not play against any any teams, although they did and managed to make it out of group stage at Worlds. We had some um different opponents, I would say. Oh, my bad. You didn’t even scrim them. You didn’t even like play. No, we played them actually. They they were looking pretty good at worlds. Uh they were very ahead on lane swaps last worlds actually. But when we screened them later in the tournament where lane swap stuff had been more solid, we were doing a lot a lot better, I think. But yeah, I mean I think I mean I think Flyers is doing very well right now. Like we’ve been playing them as well in Scream said like they’re good team, right? Obviously not as as good as Team Liquid when you were there, right? Yeah. Yeah, that’s that’s what he wanted. He just turned it into a stream. That’s what he wanted. Yeah. Yeah. But almost almost there. Okay. Thank you. I I think Fly Quest obviously is good, right? Good team. Um they had a pretty good MSI and seemed to go pretty close with the Asian teams. Uh still haven’t taken a set off of them. Um but they did beat us 3-0. So there’s there’s that. Um at least from our perspective, like the goal isn’t just to beat an A. The goal is to beat the Asian teams and be even even better than that. So obviously it’s like a huge huge failure for us if if we’re getting knocked out by NA or a Western team in the tournament in general. So like good to them. They’re they’re a strong team, but we we have higher goals. Last couple question. You just called us a trash mob. Like actually, was it? You just called us a trash mob. Sidewise, we’re not even we’re not even like If we die If we die to the trash mobs, then what are we, right? You got no chance against the boss. I mean, all right. All right. I see how it is. Yeah. The last several years it’s been trash mobs coming out on top against not only G2, but Europe. However, looks like things are starting to change. Y’all, it has been fantastic sitting and speaking with all four of you here. Uh G2 guys. Uh final thoughts here to uh all the travel to MSI to EWC and all the fans that have supported you. Caps, we’ll start with you. Yeah, I mean big thank you for all the support. I mean honestly it was kind of crazy to to to be here and have everyone support us and in between games there was like so much cheering going on. And I think it’s the first time that there was like a cheering section for each team. So it was like very focused as well. So that was cool. And especially when we lost yesterday, there was just yeah so much support for us anyway. And everyone was was really cheering us on to to win today. We didn’t manage to do that, but we will come back stronger for for summer. Dylan, yeah, it’s it’s amazing. Um, I think both MSI and this tournament have had so much support. There’s been so much fan hype and we’ve gotten to play so many games with people watching. So, I’m really looking forward to it and looking forward to the rest of the year. Uh, thank you very much y’all. Caps and Dylan Falco of G2. It has been great watching you play, great watching you grow, and best of luck in the rest of the LEC. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. So, we do have our grand finals coming up here in the second ever uh esports World Cup presenting League of Legends. We will set that stage for you over the next around an hour. So, make sure to stick around for that. Don’t go anywhere. You’re watching the Esports World Cup. The next player I inducted into the hall of legends in my opinion should be someone like Caps. Someone from the western scene. It would be cool for sure for the community. maybe ambition just because I played against him my first year in like season 7. We also played against Haru at the time like they had Haru and Ambition and you could really feel the difference like obviously Haru was also playing very well but when ambition was there it just felt like they had full control of the map they he would always put very good vision and it felt very hard to even get a single kill against them. Okay. I believe Caps deserves the next spot in the Hall of Legends. you know, a player from each region would be a cool way to start the top four. And I think he’s made the most impact when it comes to Western League of Legends, at least out of all the players that are, you know, greatest of all time. I think he should be left. He’s had a really long history in the game. But if you want to change a role, I also thought about Mata. I think both of these players have been just for too long playing and are really historical names to leak. So somebody iconic and that played a while ago that’s retired now. I would say someone like Madlife or Insect that really kind of revolutionized what everyone says about Madlife or that you’re insect. So I think that’s pretty historical. I think at the moment if a player had to be inducted right now that was still playing besides Faker. I think it’s too early but I definitely see Chroy in the future being inducted in the Hall of Legends. I would say it would be cool to see caps in there. Uh just cuz we’ve had one uh LTK player, one LPL player. I think if any EU player was to make it, he’d be the most deserving ruler maybe because he’s won LPL, it’s one LK, he’s won Worlds, he’s won MSI. He’s been good for a very, very long time, almost 10 years at this point. 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Do it like this. Do it like this. From the underground belt. Every night the world got You don’t feel every night. Don’t feel Everyday. Don’t you Heat up here. Heat. Heat. It is time for a celebration of League of Legends here at the Esports World Cup as we have AGA, the LPL champion, looking to win the first ever title here at the Esports World Cup in League of Legends for the LPL. We’ll see if they’re able to do that in just a little bit. Welcome back to the studio. Dgon here alongside Medios the Valdanist Valdez and Dubliff. Welcome back, brother. Uh how was that cast for you, man? It was a lot of fun. Uh as a T1 enjoyer, I enjoyed it very much. Right. Uh it was a big stomp. It wasn’t a very close match. So, you know, it could have been a little bit more interesting, but in terms of pure enjoyment as an LCK caster, very, very fun. Yeah. uh while we’ve got the time, you know, we have two of the greatest talents in North American League of Legends history and some of the biggest streamers of the world. And so we figured we’d just kind of dive into Medios and Double’s experience here so far at EWC and here in Riad. So, how’s it been so far for you getting to scratch the itch being live here on the desk a little bit different than what you normally do? I’ve had a great time so far at EWC. The food’s been really good and the weather’s hot, but it’s kind of like a comforting hot. I don’t know how to explain it. It’s It’s nice. Um, and as far as the event, it’s it’s been great. You know, the desk is a lot of fun. It’s cool hanging out with all the like LCK casters and meeting everybody. So, I’ve had a blast. Yeah. Obviously, you just got here, but you were already shooting stuff. You’ve now seen one of the games with all the fans kind of showing up with the big players. Uh, how’s your experience been so far, and how do you see this kind of growing in the future? I mean, I would say the first uh I mean, a bunch of things uh stand out. Uh my first 10 minutes here, I think I got a sunburn on my nose, which uh at that point I was like, I really got to apply sunscreen, especially if I’m out during the day. Then I got to the hotel in the arena and I realized there are so many uh and I didn’t expect this so many Saudi um like League of Legends players. So, I I basically just got recognized the whole time checking in at the hotel, walking around um at the arena. Obviously, there’s just like a ton of people around the center and I’ve just been having a blast. Uh, I also just like I’m really into eating like local foods and stuff and trying out stuff. I’m really adventurous with food and every meal that I’ve had here has been absolutely delicious. Um, yeah, haven’t had a bad bite yet. So, yeah, all in all, just been a great experience. Having a lot of fun, meeting a lot of people. Uh, Valdez, you’re a multi-title caster, right? You do multiple different games. Obviously, most people know you with LCK, but you’ve done multiple different titles. How’s it been being around just some of the best in other titles and just getting to interact with other casters and kind of share stories and secrets of the trade? I mean, that’s actually the most fun part of events for casters, I would say. Like casting, doing your job, that’s obviously still very fun, but like getting to just get insights from every other game, every other scene essentially. Also to be surrounded by so many talented and like awesome people that a lot of them you’ll just see them on the screen, but you get to meet them in real life. Even as casters, we’re still like fans of all of these other people. So just getting to interact and kind of like get outside of our shell over there in Korea is is always really fun. I’ve always wondered like uh you know pro players we get a scrim, we get to play solo queue and stuff like for casting do you ever just like do a practice cast or how do you prep? What about like a one v one with another character? A a cast off. It’s like it’s like a rap battle. Yeah, it’s like a cast battle. Honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever done that, but we should do that. That’s that’s a really good idea. Um, in terms of prepping for casting though, we’ve been doing it for so long that it’s more so like mental prep than like actual physical prep. Like our mechanics are very crisp. So, it’s like, you know, we can like warm up our voices and stuff like that. We can like watch some VODs and get ready for like the narrative points and stuff, but it it’s not like actually like, oh, I need to practice doing a hype playbyplay because we’ve done that so many times. It’s more so like getting in the zone and, you know, what are the stakes here and what what does this matter for the teams? is like who should we be pointing out and stuff like that. Yeah, it is very unique and it’s just cool that we get to share that with you as you guys are uh getting to pick up the the the craft of being on camera content creation now in the live setting. It is very fun to be uh sitting here with you. Super excited to see what both of you guys have in store in the future and for you the rest of your EWC journey. So, uh thanks for spending the time that you did with us here, Double Lift. Thanks, guys. All right, so with that, let’s start setting the stage for our grand finals of League of Legends. First up, it’s the road to em. It’s a road to EWC. A G AO. Say Fore speech. Great to hear the journey of AGA here to the esports world cup grand finals for League of Legends. And joining us now is the COO of AG Global. It’s Eddie Chen. Mr. Eddie Chen, welcome. Hello. Hello, everyone. Uh, kind of give us some insight here on the AGL merger for those League of Legends fans that are only familiar with anyone’s legends, but it’s actually the same. Yeah, actually, we are the same owner for a long period of time. uh but uh uh because we use like a dual branding uh in the China market and then for this year’s uh WC and then we combine uh and create a new brand called the H together is that what it’s going to be moving forward for this year or for beyond for both teams we are still thinking about that but this but for this year EWC we prepare a lot so uh we uh have created a new logo for our AJ and hope you guys enjoy it but as I know most of the fans uh like about the new logo. Yeah, one of the big things is the the panda, right? There’s the panda that’s associated with AGA. Why is that? Oh, because uh actually our our uh club’s um headquarter is in the Chandu city, which is uh city of the Panda with most of the pandas living there. So, uh Panda is like a very signature iconic uh mascot uh for our team. Uh Valdez, you have a unique connection with AGL cuz you knew about AG before League of Legends. Yeah, I’ve known about AG All Gamers for so long. Actually, I’ve been casting another game. You were talking about this uh Crossfire for uh about 5 years now. And All Gamers is one of the best, if not the best team in the world for that game. So, uh uh I was curious, you know, that’s a really cool connection that we have, but I was curious, what is it like to have such a dominant team in another game and then try to expand to other games and try to be as dominant in those new games? Uh actually it is uh quite uh is uh quite hard for us uh to expand to uh every different game but because our clubs have uh already got 25 years of the history. So uh by building up different team in this uh 25 years uh we have uh been looking into like the League of Legends the honor of kings the crossfire and uh and uh other different games and then starting from two years ago we decided to go to the global market. So that’s why we established the AG global at that time and then uh uh in this two years we already uh uh went into different countries to scout for the best talents from all over the world. Uh right now we got uh 10 teams from uh 10 different countries. Uh because all of you may know that uh in the China uh some games are very popular but there are still uh many games in the UWC uh that we need to sculpt for the best talent from all over the world. Uh media, you have a question here for Mr. Eddie Chan. Yeah. Um what are some of your other favorite games that AG is in for EWC? Um um there are quite a lot of games. Uh right now we have got nine titles right now. Uh but uh I think the honor of kings and also the crossfire will be uh and also elite of legends definitely will be one of our mainly focus and uh right now we are already planning for our next year’s plan. So I think I hope next year we can have more titles to be getting qualified into. Uh so you’re the head of AG AGL global. What has been one of the I guess biggest learning lessons about taking a normally Chinese organization and then globalizing it? Okay. Uh first of all language is is a problem and then the time zone actually right now I work like 24 hours a day because we got some teams uh from the America and also we got some teams uh uh from the Africa as well and also from the Asian countries. So I think the time zone is one of the biggest challenges and then also like uh many legal taxation accounting issues there are quite a lot of things and also the culture. Yeah culture is also a very big difference but uh because uh when we go to when we want to go to the global market we decided to have uh the localized team in order to run that. So that’s why I think all the uh challenges that we can be tackled through. Uh, and then kind of let’s focus here on this League of Legends squad, AGAL or anyone’s legends winning the LPL. What do you want to see from this League of Legends team? Uh, okay. I can see um they are working very hard and then um actually they spend a lot of efforts and a lot of time uh in order to improve themsel and to study uh for the opponent’s strategy and then um we can and also um the coach uh Tabby actually he’s also from Hong Kong city as same as me so uh I have some personal favorite on him and uh and hopefully uh definitely we want to win. Yes. All right. And then finally, what do you have to say to all the AGAL fans who’ve showed up here at EWC and are very, very hungry to win an international crown? Then, okay, the final words I want to say to AJ is AJ Chio. But indeed, again, this AGL squad on the cusp of doing something very, very big. In the way, though, is the behemoth. One of the best teams in all of League of Legends. It is Gen G. And uniquely enough, we have CEO of Gen G standing by on the stage. We will hear from him in just a second. When you look at organizations like Gen G, what do they do that makes them so great and you can kind of emulate and learn? Okay. actually uh like a few months ago I personally go to visit Genji uh and then uh I uh sincerely would like to learn something from them and uh I know that they are doing very great in the training in the academy. So that’s uh I think we can learn from the uh how to operate like an academy. Yeah. Thank you very much Eddie Chan everyone the COO of AO Global. Now, let’s send it on over to stage within Chambers standing by with CEO of Geng Arnold. It is so good in here right now. Hey, Riad. Everybody having a good time? Jen GC Arnold Hair is in the building. Arnold, how you feeling about this? Uh, this is crazy. Wow, you are eyeing up this grand final. We’ll get to that. Let’s just talk about the run that Geng have been on as of late. Back-to-back MSI champions, grand finalists here at EWC. What’s the secret to all of this success? Uh, I mean, the secret has definitely been the players, the coaches, the staff, all of our fans. Um, you know, I I love the fact that, you know, whether we’re pushed to game three, whether we’re pushed to game five, down 02, down 2-1, uh, team has always come together and figured it out. Even just yesterday, uh, when we were 1-1 and we had lost that match against G2, you know, Chovi came in, uh, in the room and said, “We’re not playing to the level that we need that we need to be.” Wait, wait. Any Chovi fans here? Yeah, let’s talk about him. Let’s talk about him for a minute. They don’t like him over there. He is just a big time player. Comes up when it matters. How much of an impact does he have on the players, the team, and even the meta? Um, I mean, it’s a team effort, right? And and I think Chroy will be the first one to to talk about that like even when we were winning, the first thing I said even after right after MSI, I think I told that on the broadcast is I asked him like, “You did great. Your Aurora was incredible.” And he’s like, “No, no, no, it wasn’t me. Everybody stepped up, right?” And I think that leadership, that teamwork, everybody from top all the way to Duro and bot lane everywhere. And I think Duro also deserves more credit. I’m I’m a big Duro defender because he’s not getting enough credit. I love him. Um but every single player has really stepped up, the coaching staff. So, you know, it’s going to be a really hard-fought battle. They look incredible. Um AGL looks incredible. So, uh we’re just hoping that, you know, we’re ready for them. Let’s talk silverware because right now this is the thing that is in grasp. It is in reach. You’ve got a best of five fight on your hands and it’s going to be tough. But on top of that, you’ve got the club championship that is bubbling away in the background, but every club here wants to get their hands on it. You are currently top of the leaderboard on 1550 points. You’ve obviously had solid displays here in League in Valerant and Apex as well. How much do you want it? Uh, I definitely want to win this. Um, at the same time, I also know how great that team is. I’m a huge fan of Shanks. Um, so, you know, I think the the big thing is, you know, one good sign though that I saw, I noticed the little triangle has the instructions in Korean, so that’s a good sign. So, I’m hoping that that’s going to bring us good luck. Nothing is granted. Everything is earned. And if you do want this trophy, you’ve got to earn it against AGL. What’s your prediction and can you get it done? So, I think it’s going to be I think our we we can definitely do it, but we know they’re going to bring their best. So, I you know, I don’t I’m not one to do predictions, but I feel really good. Team feels really good. They got a lot of sleep and they had a pretty reasonably healthy diet, which I’m happy about. So, uh you know, let’s I think it’s going to be a great match and I I think it’s going to be awesome to watch. The Geng fans are here for it. They are loud and proud and in the building. anything you want to say to them. All right. So, I don’t know if you guys can see on broadcast, but the uh the AGL team is here and they are incredible, too. No, no, no, no. Come on. Come on. Come on. And they have a drum. So, we got to be really loud over there cuz they got they’re going to be very loud. All right. So, So, we’re going to have to give our best as fans, too. So, har. Wait, wait, wait, wait. A fans, is this man going to cry tonight? I’m kidding. Look, best of luck. It is going to be a battle for the edges. Cannot wait to get into our grand final. Thank you so much for joining us, Arnold. Enjoy the show. Right now, it’s back to the man with the sexiest red hair in the business, Deon. Thank you very much, Ian Chambers. As uh as much as all the fans out there have a lot of noise, maybe some drums as we welcome everyone back into the studio, we got ourselves a Finn on the desk, he’s on in here. Welcome back, Finn. Great cast on the day. You’ve been all over the place. How’s it been for you so far? Thank you. It was a a little bit disappointing seeing G2 kind of crumble under the weight of T1, but it’s good to back on the desk and ready to break down some good oldfashioned Asian team League of Legends action. All right, let’s get on to it. LCK versus LPL. Let’s start with the MSI back-to-back champions in Geng G as they have been so so good off of like since maybe the beginning of last year. Valdez win percentage in the ‘9s. It has just been uh an amazing run to watch based off of a couple of those guys on your screen. Chovich Cannon. Yeah, I mean especially internationally, right? It it felt like 2024 was where they began to uh really pick it up and obviously in MSI they were able to get it done. Um World’s not quite getting there, but T1 was able to pick up the slack for the LCK. And then obviously this year big favorites after once again winning MSI. So not a big surprise that a lot of people do have them slated to potentially win this matchup, but it’s it’s not as one-sided as you might imagine as AGL are definitely having a good tournament, too. Yeah. Uh they’ve been pretty dang good. Medios, when you look at that roster, I mean, who has stood out to you at the most since the beginning of this tournament here at Esports World Cup at EWC? I see Keen as the best performer. Granted, they’re all doing very well. You know, this is Geng pretty much the team everyone wants to beat, the team that most people probably, you know, try to copy for their own games and learn from. So, yeah, great team, but I think Keen has kind of had a standout performance. He’s playing all kinds of stuff, different play styles, and I don’t know if he’s had a bad game. No, I don’t think so. I mean, he’s looking pretty good for the Sony MVP of the tournament. Not locked in yet. Uh because they also have a pretty fantastic established AD carry and leader, world champion in his own right. It is Ruler. He’s standing by right now on the stage with an interview. Hey everyone, this is the pre-match interview for the grand finals between Genji and Agal. I got ruler from Genji. So, welcome to the pregame interview. I’d like to ask that this is going to be your second best of five against AG. Last time you guys merely took the win. So, what’s going to be different today? Yeah, I think it’s going to be a really close match uh like uh before. Oh, okay. Interesting. Because you guys both swept through the EWC competition so far without dropping a single series, might I add, without dropping a single series within the last 23 series. So, what is keeping you motivated for you to continue this type of achievement? I mean, we’re fully motivated and I think we’re trying to do better as a a game after game. I think that’s uh the greatest uh reason that we’re uh getting a win a win streak. Thank you so much. That’s going to be all for now and best of luck. Thank you very much, Kitty. As is another fantastic interview as it has been all tournament long. Uh Maddox with the translations and then Ruler there. Uh they’ve just been so so poised and answered every question so far in 2025. It has been so fun to watch this team here, Valdez. Yeah, they’re just consumate professionals, right? They’re fantastic. And just like they are on the Rift as a team, moving S5 in and out of these team fights, they do the same thing in interviews and off the stage as well. They’re always super professional, have the best interviews, just a fantastic team to be a fan of. Now, but standing in their way are the champions of the LPL. AGA and this squad here stacked with talent still uh room to grow here and are looking to become the first team in quite some time to win one of these international titles that isn’t from the LCK. I mean this team has just bulldozed through this tournament and you know I came into this tournament and I wanted to highlight how beautifully they play team fighting. I’ve been I can’t shut up about it. You keep talking about it. The flanks the flanks. I was ready for it to come into fruition against T1, but they just stomped them two games in a row. I didn’t even get to show those beautiful team fights and I feel like they’ve just been so dominant. That’s the man I’m looking at. Tarzan has just had a such a standout tournament. Him and Flre for me has just they they’ve gone super sane. I don’t know what’s happened with them. They are just monsters at this tournament. They’re stomping a lane, consistently getting advantages, and snowballing it masterfully. Yeah, Medios, it’s been so much good decision-m from Tarzan to stifle opposing junglers and then just give that lane advantage by uh fake ganks that could potentially be there and then the lanes start to fall behind. Yeah, I think Tarzan’s been great at this tournament, maybe the best performing jungler because although Genji’s in the finals as well and Canyon’s very good, he hasn’t looked quite as untouchable as he normally does. you know, the game against G2 where they lost, he was kind of playing a little loose, a little bit silly. Whereas, I feel like Tarzan has just been completely locked in the whole time. He took out T1, and he’s doing a really good job with these aggressive early game junglers and just pressuring the entire map, not making a lot of mistakes, and uh yeah, just getting his team huge leads. Yeah, you got to see on that bracket, they are the slayer of the LCK, and they’ve got one team to go. They beat the number three seed in Hanual Life Esports earlier. and we got to see them dismantle T1 and now standing in their way is the final hope for the LCK in Geng. It is a step up for them, but they’ve taken every step so deafly and are looking to do so to etch their name into the totem for 2025 for the esports World Cup. And get that special notation, the champion slayer after defeating T1, who were the current reigning title defenders of uh League of Legends here at the Esports World Cup. that’s been on the back of that man. Tarzan, is this the exact comp that T1 just played? Yeah, right. I think T1 just copied their homework. Whoa. No way. Who Who would have guessed that? Teams look at other teams and scout from there. We have two and a half minutes uh left on in here. Another lane that has been so good for Ag has been the top lane. Flandre backto back Sony MVPs of the day uh in the last two days. Yeah, well, Medios is really praising Keen and I think these are in my opinion the best two top laners in the world right now in terms of their playing style. I feel like Flare against Doran yesterday and in general even against Zeus, he just showed that he is just outclassing them individually, macro fundamentally on every single thing in the game. I just love the fact that he has these pocket picks like the Yoro that you have to respect in draft. He has the Zion that he’s so capable of playing and also the Aurora, the lane dominant kind of team fighting style. He just does everything so well. He’s a jack of all trades. Master of all. Yeah. And I love that because when you take a look at the names of the top laners that are here, you have Bin, you had Zus, you had Doran as well, you had Broken Blade, you go up and down the list, it’s like, wow, this is a pretty stacked role and he has been on top. So Valdez, when you think about that, how do you feel like Keen versus Flandre could match up uh going into this grand finals, especially best of five fearless as well? I mean, for me, it just feels like especially in these tournaments where you get through a couple of fast best of threes into a best of five towards the end. It’s like it’s all about momentum, right, and mental state. I feel like right now Agal still have the advantage there over any other team, right? They have rolled over everybody and they played a lot of games as well and they just look more dominant than than anyone else. And so while Keane is a very strong top laner laner, I do wonder about how he’ll deal with that momentum coming through the top and uh jungle of AGL. All right, final thoughts here before we start wrapping up and sending it to the stage for the finals. I just saw flawless KDA 18.5 KDA for a top ler. What is this man doing? I need to get on some of that because that is incredible. What a [ __ ] standout. All right, time for predictions. Medios, let’s start with you. Which way you going in this best of five grand finals in 2025? It’s a really close one. I could see either team taking it, but I’m going to go with Geng. They’ve just been too good. They’re on the hottest streak I’ve seen in a long time. And I don’t know. I think they just have the momentum. 20 seconds. Valdez. 3-2. Genji. I I got to go with my boys. I I think they’re going to do it again. Final thoughts here, Finn. AJL. I think they got it. I think their form is just immaculate. I believe in them. The best team in the world, back-to- back MSI champion. Gen G are on a trophy run. But the LPL looking for revenge and trying to etch their name in the history books. It is AGL. It is Gen G in the grand finals. Genji just feeling too far ahead this time. They want to be silent and the title defenders will not return to defend their crown. G2 had killed their chances of another final appearance. They were so close. the back breaker. and Genji just walk all over them here. And Faker down in the dirt. The fight is ending. T1 are dying. Heat up here. Hey, heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up here. Forget favorites. Forget underdog stories. This is a collision of two beasts from the east. Two teams gunning to end each other. Your MSI champions are looking for two international triumphs backto back in a space of a week to show the world they are truly built to win. Their opponents weren’t invited here to join the elite. They kicked the door off of its hinges. And now everybody who doubted them know what they are about. They have taken down tournament titans. And now they are at the grand final of League Falendons at the Esport World Cup. Not to compete, but to conquer. Now, of course, we have a $2 million prize pool. We have club championship points on the line. This trophy of course, but on top of that, playing on all of these players mind is our key graveyard. This is where losers reside. It represents heartbreaking losses and monumentous joy for the victors here in Riad. Winners win titles. Legends stack them up. Are you guys ready? Are you ready? Dead set on a backto back silverware. Please welcome Jen G. Heat. Heat. From hopefuls to history makers, one more victory here makes them legends for real. It’s a G A L. Riad, are you ready? Every team fight, every baron, every lane, all led to this moment. The grand final of League of Legends at the Esports World Cup is now. Welcome everyone. Thank you so much gentlemen for that incredible introduction. I’m Atlas. I’m joined by Wolf and Valdez here to bring you the grand final. Genji, the number one seed from Korea, and AGAL, the number one seed from the LPL. It could not get better than this, boys. The last time these teams faced off against each other, it went to five games. We have told that story so much this year. We had this team failed to defeat both Korean representatives, MSI, but now have the opportunity to take out three. Anyone’s legend took out Hanual Life Esports and T1. They are the Korean killers, the LCK killers here, and their final opponent to lift the trophy is Genji. It’s their best opportunity to do so. And I think they’ve got a pretty good shot at it. It will be our first fearless best of five of the tournaments as well. So, we are going to be potentially going the distance. Everybody I talked to says we will be going the distance and five games should not be a big surprise. It’s kind of hard to say. AGL have been having huge momentum so far at this tournament. But Geng scraping by G2 and after winning MSI still a big favorite. So who’s going to step up tonight is really what matters. One of the big questions we always have for teams uh especially from our region of the LCK is will they hit their peak? Because it feels like you know AL are hitting their peak every time. And that’s the scary part about this this team right now. I feel like I think factually, objectively, they have been the most consistent of our teams here at EWC. We have seen some really high highs though from Geng and at their best they look amazing. But here we are. We are ready to get into the draft for game number one. This is the first time, of course, this is going to spice up as we head hopefully to five games. There has been one series that Genji have taken part in since the road to MSI that hasn’t gone all five out of like what four best of fives that they’ve been in. They played 10 games against T1 in a row at MSI to take that title and are now looking to see whether they can take an EWC title as well. They did go to five with AL like you were talking about. We’ll see what does happen here as already the Varys going to be locked in first here for Geng. a lot of priority onto Ruler to give over the Azir as well. Crazy to see a Zia ban prioritized over the bars here on red side. They get that and it’ll be exchanged for the Azir, which looks like that’s the gamble that AGL wanted to look for here, but the the Tyia is up if Genji want to take it in response. So, and we may see the Shinjia to go over with this Zer pick. It’s a strong rotation, but I feel like this forest pick has been the main threat in terms of AD carries the most successful pick. Yeah, I mean in terms of big picks here at EWC specifically, it’s been Varys has been a lot of Pantheon focus as well in the bands. The Azir uh coming through for Shanks is good to take away from Chovi, but as you mentioned, I I feel like Chov’s best champ. Many times the Azir has been Tia, so may have just kind of walked straight into that one. We saw the uh the EU Maai before. We’re going to see if Canyon here an old favorite from him. and Chovi immediately slamming down the Yon. This is a really strong setup for Gingi because remember the Rumble is also still up. I think that ban is going to definitely get a look in the second phase here for AGL as they’re looking for that final pick. They could lock it in here as their third pick, but that would give up jungle. I actually like taking this uh Alistar instead. You know, it’s a strong pick for the lane and is going to be incredibly powerful for those team fights and it’s a pick that you’re never going to get your hands on if you don’t grab it here. Yep. Bunch of answers now available in the bands as well if they want to go there. And have Geng been screaming against EU teams. Is that the thing? Because we know the Maai still very popular over there. That’s the one region. Maybe Mcoy and G2 have been giving them some ideas. Well, you know, T1, as I think it was Finn was pointing it out on the desk, they were playing the exact comp that were playing just yesterday. So maybe Gen G after playing up against G2 take a little, you know, little bit of learnings from that. Yeah, I think that’s not a bad idea. Uh, we do see the Poppy coming out as the ban here. I do wonder about a potential Silus flex with the top Y. I think that would be kind of crazy, but you know, something to think about. We just saw Faker playing the Silus to a amazing degree. And with Alistar picked here for Kyle could be a consideration. I’m not expecting it though. It’s definitely a consideration for sure. Um, the Poppy pick makes a ton of sense here or Poppy ban rather. That Rumble is still a big question for me because we’ve seen Rumble Maai just be so successful uh in our region and just in general around the world over the last few years is Rumble, you know, just has been a mainstay top laner. So, that’s a pick I expected to see banned here by AGL, but instead they’ll take away the Ambessa. You know, what’s also really good with Maai is Blitzcrank. It’s something that Duro has played quite a lot, and we’ve seen a lot of that tech over in Korea, the Maai Blitzcrank. I do wonder if that’s another consideration with Duro. Uh maybe not the best into the Alistister, but there’s going to be a lot of other picks that you could look at. It was the It was the Genji special, but it wasn’t Dur, right? It was leen like both of them actually have played this, you know, even with two different sports. Now, the Rumble will be taken away here because the the pick priority does go over to anyone’s Legend here. So, it’s just going to go into Flandre’s hand. So, there’s a lot of really strong scaling damage here in the side of AGL. But, what they are missing is a strong front line. And you know the Alistister can help shore some of that up here. But I do wonder what we are going to see to round this out in the jungle. Something crazy. Could be a flex of the Maai to the bottom lane, right? And then you could pick something a little bit more aggressive in the jungle if you would like to. Um some crazy things that you could get done there. But the Casante Keen Sante going to be coming in as the answer um against this Rumble. And I was thinking that maybe like you could have done a rotation here of like on Trundle for example and then you could have really shut down what this uh Rumble wants to do as of course the Rumble doesn’t have the greatest time against the kind of an awkward spot here for support with the no Poppy. I guess they’ll just go for the Rakan but doesn’t feel like you really want a range support here. you want a little bit more engage. Damage is going to be somewhat of a concern here for Genji, especially if they go lethality on this forest, but Trundle is it’s so devastating. It is incredibly strong now that the Casant is locked in and it feels pretty free. I have to say like I I thought Genji had all the cards at the beginning of this draft, but as we’ve gotten deeper and deeper into it, it it seems like Anyone’s Legend have really just gotten a draft that scales incredibly well. had some front line issues, but that’s somewhat mitigated by the Alistister ultimate, by the subjugate. This trendle is going to be a menace on the front line, and Jyn is gonna have so much space to work with. Yeah, I’m not really sure what happened in this trap. It does feel like Gingi kind of fell apart towards the end. Like we did see Flre have some success on the Casante, but that was a very different matchup, a very different situation in that game. And uh yes, Keem Sante is something of legends that we do know over at the LCK, but it’s not the highest tier pick. So definitely a question mark there. Duros recon, it’s pretty good. I I think it’s a great answer for some hard engage on top of the Maai because with just Maai, you might not be having enough. But yeah, that Trundle, I I think that’s the big one we were looking for on the side of AGL. That really is like the nail in the coffin for the AL win in the draft. I think Genji are really going to have to control space on objectives because I I think it is going to be lethality bars. You know, I think on hit isn’t necessarily going to cut it here. You’re you’re up against a mostly squishy composition where the uh carries that you want to be poking are the main targets and you want to be able to poke those down. But if you end up losing control, I just don’t think this comp has enough damage. If you have to use your Maokai defensively, I just don’t think you’re winning any fight like that. It’s just going to be too tough. Your Casante isn’t going to be doing damage. Is frontlining for Avarus really only in terms of that DPS. the Yona can get a lot done if those ults are clean. The Maai could set that up, but I think map control and objective control has to be maintained, especially in the mid game. Yeah, I also think that winning out in lanes is going to be pretty important here for Geng. Top lane is, like you say, going to be so incredibly tough, but mid jungle could be somewhere that they can attack, but already it does feel like AL off to a great start. And last time these two teams met in that best of five, uh yeah, the the the the rumble situation wasn’t necessarily dealt with um by Genji. And maybe it’s a bit of well, let’s get that one out of the way so we don’t need to worry about banning it next time. Yeah, it definitely does feel like there were a bunch of mind games going on within this draft. There are a lot of different layers to this one as it appears onion slight issue as we will be getting through this one as soon as we possibly can. It’s crazy to see the entire arena just stacked with so many fans that are obviously so excited for this matchup. It’s it’s a real treat to to get Jenji up against AGL, especially with AGL in their current form. So, I’m really looking forward to it. In terms of subjugate targets, I think the Casante is obviously one of the best you could ever have, right? But at the same uh thought process of what this Trundle is going to be able to get done, you shouldn’t, unless Lavarus is making a mistake, ever really be able to be anywhere near him. I don’t think the Yona is going to care too much about the pillar because he’s going to be unbound. He’s going to be looking for old angles anyways. So, it’s hard to lock the Yona down. So, I’m curious how much value in team fights the Trundle can get. Sure, you could again, if there’s no summoners on the Varys, if he’s playing too aggressive, if he’s too far forward, you could catch him there. Maybe you can catch a Casante off guard if he’s up too far in a lane. there are uh places where you can find those catches. I don’t feel like it’s a giga sick Trundle angle outside of that subjugate value. So, we’ll see what uh they can get done with this because I think that’s going to be one of the big sticking points here for AL. I think the best thing about the Trundle is that it reminds Ruler of what happened yesterday. So, basically what Tal needs to do is walk towards Ruler and then Ruler will maybe just pause the game again because he’s a little bit too frightened. um what Skuman did underneath that turret in mid lane will be burned into my brain for a very long time. The champion is just really strong um in my opinion. It’s not necessarily the greatest of matchups in the jungle though, so maybe they can get uh some advantages there because of course Maai does like to build a lot of AP these days and you can kite him out with saplings placed well and things like that. So we’ll see whether Canyon can find some angles. Canyon wasn’t really the Maai guy though, right? like that was sort of Peanut’s MMO in the LCK and uh Canyon played a heck of a lot of it, but it wasn’t necessarily the iteration of Canyon that we really liked. I I think Canyon’s still very good on this pick and I think it’s a fairly easy pick to play in a draft like this. So, I’m not worried. I do agree it’s not necessarily one he’s known for, but one he definitely can play in a finals like this. Well, here we are, ladies and gentlemen. Everything is solved and we’re under the rift for game number one of the esports World Cup League of Legends Grand Final. It’s a best of five, so make sure you settle in as once again, I believe I spied a Rumble in the jungle. Um, there’s a few people backstage uh that are going to be saying that it’s not the greatest skin of all time, but they do not have a microphone now, and I can tell everyone though that line of pineapples, ah, it’s just glorious. It’s a good one. Uh, you know, I I think that whoever doesn’t have the mic currently is incorrect. So, I would agree with you there, Atlas, as we’re thank spamming some uh I’m not looking angrily at him or anything like that. There were no threats um that were mouthed or anything. Just take my word for it. Did you see the shout outs there from Ruler? He’s got the old Samsung Galaxy flare and also the JDG thrown up there. Uh just showing that Ruler has been everywhere. He’s gone over to China. He’s won in the LPL and now he’s back with Genji in Korea. Hope was his predecessor uh on JDG back in that 2022 roster. I was super high on Hope that year and I thought JDG were going to make that run. It was DRX ultimately who won it in the end. But uh Hope now plays against the one who replaced him. So very interesting to see all of this. Again, not a surprise to anyone probably that we see double unsealed spell book across our supports. Ruler going for the comet will be going for that lethality variant which I think is again is extremely common and makes a lot of sense here but it does mean that consistent damage is not something Genji necessarily have in a longer team fight especially consider that Azir damage and some of the rumble damage that can come through as well. You know what I really like about Chovi here on Y in game one is I feel like this is his stomp champ. you know, it’s like he picks it when he wants to send a message like he has done it to so many midlaners in the LCK and internationally on this champion. Obviously, it’s very strong nowadays, so that’s another good reason. But I feel like in terms of that, you know, trying to get into their heads, if you have a really good game on Y and your Chovi right from game one, I think you’re going to be sending a great message. Let’s see how it is going to go. Already playing pretty aggressively in the lane as Shanks holding on to things. Will get knocked up here momentarily. It is just uh get as many minions as you possibly can and try not to trade your entire health bar for it as Keen is going to be able to find a cute little queue here. So far feels like the lanes are relatively neutral outside of bottom side where the push seems to belong to anyone’s legend. It’s good to see things starting off real close. Kobe looking aggressively here. Just going to hang out on the edge of that turret shot. Those are the kind of plays you have to make like you were talking about Atlas where you get the minions you can, you get the trades you can otherwise a tough match up to play as Duro D going to spot that he went home. Does mean that Kyle does have to walk as far away from this lane as possible. Not really going to get fully punished or anything like that. A little bit of a delayed back. Yeah, desync backs really matter though when you’re trying to go for a lane swap like this. And this going to hurt the pacing here. True. Maybe now it’s just going to be a jin top situation. Um the Jin against Casante is going to be uh the answer as Tarzan moving towards the mid lane. Just going to try and help sort this lane out. Give Shanks a decent back angle. Looks like Fantre will get his back off without a problem here. And there’s no crash. So, uh disaster averted here for AL for the time being. Yeah, absolutely. Uh just waiting for this very early swap. We used to see this all the time at 3 minutes 30 seconds. You just want to make sure you have better uh matchups in your lanes. Um I forget who it was we were talking to on the desk, but they were just saying like you really want to go for the swap immediately when you feel like your top laner is going to have a better um time into the two into the duo. I think it was Busio. Yeah. Who was talking about that. So, in in terms of specifically going for lane swap timings, uh definitely want to get that Jin away from the Varys, who can be an annoying lane bully, but also feeling like Keen won’t have as good of a time in the 1v2 as Fandre will. Yeah, Flandre losing a little bit of farm here. You can see that’s starting to add up in the top CS difference even though they’re not ling against each other, but did not have to use his teleport to get to the lane. So, is still holding on to that one. Keen obviously same story up here on the top side. has not completed his first back just yet. Kind of awkward. Um the Keen is sort of just there on an island trying to get as much experience as he can. He’s well and truly zoned away from actually killing any minions, but I think is in experience range trying to do the same thing on the other side of the map is Geng to Fandre. So, it’s going to be some uh some pretty low Econ top laners, I think, which does favor the Casante, you have to think. I mean, Casante does a lot with a little. Rumble is going to need those items a lot more. And Keen is happy to just not even take a back here and sit in this lane. He is soaking a lot of that experience even though it’s lower eco than otherwise. He’s about half a level up on Blondre as Shanks. Yeah, Shanks level five. Actually taking so much damage here. There’s the flash out. One more auto um before the snapback would have been death and Chi not even going to invest the flash. Shanks going to have to go home and has a long walk back. I mean, you could see that both the junglers and the supports are kind of hanging around that mid lane because Chobi is creating so much action. And again, he’s setting the tempo. He is setting the pace of this game. And he’s saying, “I’m going to control it on this Yona.” He’s like, “Yeah, melee into range. Doesn’t matter. I’m playing Yona. It’s OP. I’m going to win the trades. I’m going to have my team there to support me so I can continue to put on that pressure and essentially just do whatever I want is what Chovi is saying. We’re having a swamp back here. Looks like Keen’s going to TP bot. Looks like they’re going to maintain that lane into the Keen Sante here. The teleports will be traded. In fact, actually, Fandre, I was looking at this thinking he was going to just TP back in, but the wave stayed on the top side means he doesn’t have to. So, he’s actually going to maintain teleport advantage over Keen, who had to go down there and catch that wave as it was being pushed in very quickly there. So, he barely gets the back off top side there with that wave and goes straight to the bottom lane. Hope and Kyle will down will go down and match him. Yeah, I like you guys have been talking about this chovy lane pressure that’s been generated is exactly what you want to see. Gives you hope that this Yona is going to hit the mark in these upcoming team fights. Speaking of, we’re a ways away from one right now with no dragon control really to either team and the grubs aren’t spawning for another minute 30 as Keen level six. Yeah, he just takes a beating and uh he’s just kind of okay, I guess. the mashal um sorry the negatron cloak helping more than I think it had any right to at this at that point in time is still retaining a decent CS advantage as well as we’ve seen that combo before this time he’s going to be able to eliminate it as that’s an all out this is 1v2 Keen what are we doing this guy’s absolutely insane but he’s getting away with it absolutely will be able to dash away deadly flourish is going to slow him down but I don’t know whether you’d want to stop him from leaving hope it was looking dicey Yeah, I I just feel like uh that’s why I was talking about earlier the reasons why you would swap. I I feel like it’s actually a better situation for Gen because Foundry is having a lot of trouble into the recon and the Dvarus with unlimited sustain and the insane damage from the Nvarus, but the Jin and the Alistister don’t do anything to Casante. They can’t stop him. And and we’ve seen Casante be one of the best lane swap absorb champions even before lane swaps were massively nerfed. But we’d see them at level one. This was Keen’s life for like a year, right? And he’s winning it this time. He’s got so much practice with this. And lethality bars with the Durk in hand here. It’s just going to smash laundry there on the top side. The sustain you mentioned from those raus is going to come through. And so they get to steal some of the jungle away, set up some of those deep wards there on the top side of the map. But Genji control of both sides of the map right now feels fantastic as Grubs have spawned. Yeah, Canyon looking to try and contest this. Full vision available to Al. Canyon walking on forward. should be able to watch this first one go down. We’ll see whether that’s all AL can get. Although they are still in this pit. Four versus three for the moment, but Ruler is moving over there. Flandre level seven does have equalizer at the ready. This is a dangerous fight for Genji to take as Ruler throws out the ulti. It’s going to be met with Tarzan’s flash and hope really speed ran the uh the curtains there. They were they were closed and then they were opened and then they were closed again pretty immediately. Yeah, not the greatest fight set there for Al. It’s really desperate, but I think after Tarzan flash, as you know, you’re going to have to give at least two/3s here of the grubs and taking a fight followup after that is just not going to be possible. You were talking about this in the draft. Wolfe just giving over Varys essentially in trade for a Zia ban. You’re like, “Okay, we want to ban Zia. We’ll give you Varys.” But Ruler with his Varys, it feels like he’s run the lane and and obviously Toby’s done a really good job in mid as well. So now they can just kind of roam the map as a as a a fourman unit and take whatever objective they want. Like Hope playing this Jin right now has zero impact compared to the Varys in these team fights. And uh yeah, he was just being bullied essentially by Chobi and Duro who weren’t allowing him to do anything. So Genji get two grubs and they get the first drake. So off to a great start there. Yeah, it’s just the objective control that is so necessary for this Genji comp, but they are very strongly holding tightly onto in this early game. Uh just their lane pressure alone as Duro is on this controller here lurking. I don’t think he’ll find any opportunities, but does hit level six here. Can just get some deep vision on Tarzan’s pathing. And that’s going to be the end of that, but just going to wrap his way all the way around. Yeah, this is looking a little bit weird. Yeah, I’m starting to get a little I’m like, what’s his plan? Hm. He just wants to get as much information as possible. They do kill his ward immediately though as the lane assignments are kind of interesting. Kobe now laning up against Floundry towards that top side as Equalizer was actually invested just a little while ago. Not entirely sure. I think it was probably just to eliminate a minion wave as following Tarzan here towards top lane. Chi says hello to his former jungler from Griffin and does do a whole lot of damage. Snaps back to that soul. Landre was just unable to really help out. So, it’s just a sacrifice of 50% of Taan’s health bar. Has the King’s tribute to get that health back that Keen has into this Rumble. Works into the Azir as well. So, he’s actually just sitting here chilling going, “Well, I’ve got all this MR. It’s hard for you to put a dent into me. So, I can continue to trade with you.” And Chovi is also just happy to trade into Flre here because he can snap back when the flame spitter comes out when the silence comes through and just avoid that damage and take these aggressive trades. We’re going to see that TP here from Shanks now as they try to swap away from him. will be able to catch the wave. But Jingi have had so much vision on the top side of the map. Like Duro can make those plays where he’s just surfing through the jungle and dropping wards everywhere cuz he can see literally everything. There is no risk whatsoever to what he’s doing. And Genji, look at the wards they have all over the map. Like they have such top lane is insane. It’s just a Christmas tree. Yeah. Yeah. It’s not the first time Jenzi have done this. I think there’s a reason why their macro game is considered the best in the world as Duro in a little bit of trouble here. He’s got a lot of players on him. Well, the combo is Hope throwing down these bullets. Not quite going to land any, but they didn’t need them because Tarzan has teeth and he’s able to take a chunk out of the Rakan and that’s first blood. It’s kind of insane that it is 11 and 1/2 minutes into the game and I feel like there’s been a lot of stuff that’s happened, but that is the first kill that they’ve actually had. It feels like a caster crisp, but I feel like it’s almost also this sort of um caster explanation we gave cuz he had so much vision top side, he can make those plays, right? He can be anywhere he wants. on the bottom side. Not so much. They find him, they kill him. He’s trying to get wards on both sides of the map and he’s punished. Yeah, you got to be careful. I feel like Duro sometimes on Rakan, you can feel immortal, right? Because your amount of mobility that you have is just insane, right? You can hop to allies, but he was alone, so he couldn’t hop to allies. He used his W and then he just got caught by the pillar. So, you’re just kind of out of options at that point. So Duro, you know, still very much a newer player compared to at least his teammates and maybe a little bit of a rookie mistake there. Got to be careful about that. Still a very close game at this point though. Yeah, and I think holding on to the flash. An interesting choice there as well. Not a whole lot to fight for right now, but a fight around the Herald, something like that somewhere that a Raan can get a whole lot of value in. So we’re going to check this one out one more time as yeah, the deadly flourish placement just glorious there from Hope. Even if the bullets didn’t necessarily land, it didn’t matter. He is able to deny the kill uh onto the Jin. Uh that movement was pretty good there. So it’s still significant that that doesn’t go over to Hope because that’s definitely what they would have rather had. It’s not the end of the world that it goes over to a Trundle. Still valuable. Um but that was well played by Duro. I think that’s why he commits the alt there. It will be back up for the objective. Doesn’t commit his flash though. Knows that extra movement should be enough. Yeah. And sometimes in tournaments, some players just they they have this ability to just they’re like a magnet. like all the kills go towards them and it feels like Tarzan he’s always in the right place at the right time. Him him and Flandre have been the big names from uh this team that we’ve been mentioning over and over but Tarzan is just part of everything right he is the core of this team and you know it’s a little thing it’s just one kill on Turkan but again it’s like this Trundle you get that little bit of a fear in you that this Trundle is going to get super fed once again. Yeah. And uh Kane’s like stop feeding the Trundle man like uh I want to be able to build my tank items. I want to be comfortable and if this subjugate gets too scary um then it’s going to become a little bit of a problem as Joy here towards his bottom side of the map dealing with Flre continuing to do so. Tazam is shadowing Shanks make sure that he can get this crash might even be able to get another plate. We’re trading plates top for mid it looks like here as you can see where Canyon is on the map right now with 10 seconds until dragon. I favor the position of Genji here. Diving this is going to be so tricky into a Casante. Andre is going to equalize here, but that should be a free dragon. Let’s see if King can survive cuz Subjugate will come through, but he’s still Casant. He’s still got flash. Yeah, let’s see where the Showmaker is going to be talking about this one. Three versus one is dangerous. He gets the all out and he uses that to leave. Unfortunately, he brought Taran with him and that guy is real scary and can put pillars up that wreck your day. And that is exactly what happens. Maybe though the double lift principle of like you lose somebody, you get the dragon in return feels good. But if they get that whole turret with his Nashers to uh Zir, I think that might be a price that’s a little bit too big to pay here for Gen. Yeah, a bit of an issue. I I think he pulled the Trundle over. So that was definitely a bit of a issue. I mean, they were kind of stacked on each other, but yeah, there’s that first turret going down that you were talking about, Wolfe. They’re just going to get it essentially for free after that kill. So surging into the lead in terms of gold here is AGL. It’s not a gigantic lead, but with I believe it’s Inferno on the way, going to be feeling pretty good. We’re going to check it out on from Tan’s perspective as he takes the Casante ride and just flashes after him and eats him. Look at these mechanics, guys. I don’t know if things would have been that different if he pulled Shanks, but I think that the Trundle was problematic uh to say the least in terms of the target he pulled over there on his attempt to escape. But with the turret going over and with two kills to zero, even though Gendi have gotten all the objective Beats of Strength, it’s just one kill now for Beats of Strength to go over to Al. So another significant factor that comes with getting that turret. So two dragon lead here for Geng. It’s a mountain soul for their Casante. So, you’re still feeling pretty good about that. Uh, we’ll see though as it ends up being a lot of gold injected into this Azir. Toi again just kind of doing whatever he wants in this game. He hasn’t been part of any of the action because there hasn’t been a whole lot, but it does feel like whenever we’re looking at him, he he is doing a good job of bullying his lane opponent, but he’s still 400 gold behind Shanks who did pick up the kill. So, uh, going to have to deal with that. Obviously, now that he finally has his Bor, he becomes even more of a champion. does on the on. It’s looking pretty scary there as Taran once again sacrifices 50% but of course Hawk goes unbound in the soul soul department does have to go back to the soul. I think that’s the saying maybe a little wordy um but uh not going to be too worried about it. Takes the crab and here on the bottom side Shanks continuing to push. One more kill and that will be feats of warfare for AJ and some upgraded shoes to boot. Oh, that was not the pun that I was looking for. Take it away, Wolf. I think I need to time out. Like you said, one more kill. As I was mentioning before, who knows when that’s going to happen, though, as we won’t have a fight really here for a while. 3 minutes until this dragon will spawn. And it’s been a relatively quiet early game. There’s no real pressure points on the top side of the map for Genji anymore. Herold will just be used here to try to secure this mid turret with the Varus wave clear that Ruler can provide. See if AL will be able to defend. They don’t have equalizers, so I think this is just going to be Genji getting a turret in return. Yep, there it is. It’s not going to be first or anything like that. Still there and the pillar is going to annoy Shelly and she just decides she doesn’t want to turret. Great play there from Tarzan. Yeah, beautifully done. But it was all a distraction, guys. They used it in mid. And look at where Canyon is. He’s the guy who dropped it. He’s in top. He’s like, “Okay, I’m getting my vision. I’m making sure that Toby can push the top lane and get that turret by himself.” So, they’re going to get a turret eventually. Uh although as I say that it does look like is trying to join in here onto this fight. Oh, there’s an exhaust immediately here as the charm comes down. Chains of corruption. They really want to kill Tarzan. And guess what? They’re going to do it. That’s one kill to answer Ag now only two away from getting the feats beforehand. Actually a kind of interesting race towards our feats of strength in this game as Chobi will be able to finish off this turret and that gold advantage that Genji has is only going to surge further forward. game is still extraordinarily close, but it feels like Geng starting to come alive. They’re starting to get back control of the map, right? Like Valdez was mentioning, you know, the charge didn’t go off, but Chovy got the whole turret top side. They use Chi’s pressure there and the attempted defense of the turret to get deep vision into the red buff and then look for the fight there. And Genji just kind of end up getting two swings there um in mid and top lane off of the Herald that didn’t even crash. Still incredibly valuable. This is the oppressive macro Geng that we talk about so much that feels like hasn’t been that relevant in this tournament. We haven’t seen it too much and it’s only a small gold lead here. It’s minuscule. We’re talking about 300 1,300 gold here, but Genji at the same time like have really never given Al any core in this game. They’ve just constantly been in control of the tempo. Yeah, it’s very nice to see Genji getting right back on the horse after a little bit of a shaky series up against G2. I like what Arnold was saying on the stage earlier, how Chovy went back and he’s like, “We’re not playing our game, guys. We’re better than this.” And maybe they’ve come in with that kind of fire and that energy for the grand finals here for EWC League of Legends. There’s a ton on the line, obviously. And it’s it’s very nice for us to watch Genji at their full form because I think that’s where we’re going to get the best series. It’s been really hard for Hope to farm in this game, too. Look at how far behind he is in terms of Ruer’s farm. Ru just constantly clearing these out. Feels like he’s found an angle. They stand in front of the ulti, but Duro going to make his way down. It’s the double charm to save his mid laner. And Kyle couldn’t find the angle now. He might be needing to press that ultimate button to keep himself alive. And I don’t even know whether that’s going to be enough as the will is indeed broken. And in goes Canyon. He thinks he’s found the angle. Still has the bramble smash. Uses has to get the heck out of there as Duro is at least able to battle dance his way around. One knock up onto Tarzan and he has to flash to get out of the way of the chains of corruption. Keane’s found his way in to see what the heck’s going on, but he’s a little bit late as Genji. They take the one kill and they look to answer it with a dragon. This is such an important timing. We got the dragon up. We got the Otakon up right here and they massively overextend to try to kill Chovi who is Yonyi with flash. They’re not able to do so and AGL don’t have their jungler. Oh, the curtain call comes in though and Canyon will be taken down. And that’s the feats of warfare to come in as Hope misses the fourth bullet. But that may not matter as the flash out from Keen shows the Geng. They just need to run. The harpoon comes in from Fandre, but there is still a turret down here towards the bottom side. And Geng should be safe for now. But are they actually able to fight for the 20 seconds on Canyon is so critical as you mentioned Valdez. Toby has TP. He’s going to back here and I mean contesting this I think is just not realistic. Look at where the TPS are going. They’re looking to actually get a top inner and that mid turret instead here. I think this is a wise call from Genji given the game state here. Fortunately, Ruler doesn’t have a big wave here, but can clear this one practically instantly. But watching the fight again, like you said, it’s a Yona that they’re collapsing onto. Already unbinds here, and that’s why Shank says, “Okay, I’m going in here.” Looks to interrupt the ult. The pillar placement is good. They force the flash, but it’s Duro who does all of the real heavy lifting here. Kyle gets charmed there on the last possible second on the and Jendi rotate over. This could have been a lot worse here for Genji if that play from Duro isn’t as crisp. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, Duro’s there. I feel like AGL though, the only way they get Chovi is if nobody’s there and it’s a threeon-one, so a bit of a a low probability look potentially. Uh, does not work out for them. I I guess towards the end of it all, it kind of does cuz they do get that Oticon, but it is a third drake here for Geng and that could be potential mountain soul on the way here in 3 and 1/2 minutes. Yeah, and they do end up getting uh that damage done to the turret here on the top side. Okay, it was a little bit less damage than I expected. It was hidden there by the Rumble portion, but I thought they got like half of it. Mid turret did go down though. Ruler was able to clear that one up. So, for the double TP play there, they were able to get a lot of map control on the top side after this, but I think the mountain soul point is incredibly valuable with the lead that you already have here as Gen and Keen is just going to be such a monster in this game. Not to mention the fact that he built the force of nature. I actually find that really really interesting cuz yeah, we don’t see this item ever, but it’s actually kind of good into the Rumble and the Azir. Of course, a lot of little magic damage happening all the time is how you stack it up real fast. It’s not necessarily like the best stated um magic resist item, but if you’re ever going to build it, this seems like the place to do so. And having movement speed is always underrated. So maybe Keen is on to something here as he’s uh a little bit above half health for the minute. Genji here clearing out vision where they can and setting up for a dragon that isn’t spawning for another 2 and 1/2 minutes. Could just be to make sure that they can get this outer ring of turrets. I mean, look at the vision on the top side. Still Atlas like they have vision and the control ward there and the entry to the kugs. They have deep vision there behind the red buff. Like everything that Tarzan is doing is known like they could see him here as he rotates through his jungle. Ser backs up, lets the wave push in mid. They get that bottom outer turret. Joy can continue to pressure onto Shanks, and they just are trading like, “Okay, when you guys are clear on that vision top side, we got the vision bottom. By the time you come to deal with that bottom vision, we’re going to put that pressure back up top side.” And this has kind of been the rinse repeat during these down times between objectives we’ve seen from Genji. I’ve got a theory. Yeah. All right. So, what if AGL are actually giving up mountain soul because it’ll give more defensive stats over to Gen. So, it doesn’t matter who Tarzan subjugates, he’s going to get so many defensive stats. Wow. Just think about it for a minute. I think if you mind Atlas here, yeah, if you give me like a 10page paper by tomorrow on that, I’ll consider a theory. You know what? I think I’ll pass. I don’t I don’t know whether I could sell it if it’s actually going to be documented. I’m happy to say it though uh to as many people who are willing to listen as all right going back Genji like we uh mentioned I’m trying to figure out why you know they’ve been allowed to get so many dragons but I think it was mainly because they prioritized that over the later on. So will it be the soul that’s actually going to be picked up here in a minute’s time for Gen as right now the control of the map dictates that perhaps they can but al have been grouping and team fighting really really effectively. Yeah, it just feels like Genji have been winning in the macro game little by little. Uh there have been a lot of uh you know plays around the map where like Chov’s getting the top lane turret or they’re they’re able to put a lot of pressure on so that they can sneak away a dragon. I mean they even got the two uh void grubs as well. So certainly a lot of little things going their way bit by bit in this game. We do have the Baron about to spawn, but I think this game just a bit too close and obviously the mountain drake is going to be the more important objective right now in about 20 seconds. Like I said before in the draft, like Genji can never let objective control go. Like they always have to be the ones who are defensively set up on it, sieged up on it, and they just always have been like every single time. And I mean, once again, this Maai could just keep everyone a distance. And Al have just been sitting back losing vision and letting Genji run the map. And that is just going to continue here. And when Ruler has this much vision to work with and it’s so hard to collapse on, look at how much damage he can do pokewise here in the neutral. He just sit back sits back and free fires. And Chovi can start the dragon up by himself. And good luck crossing that nature’s grasp. And Ruler has been getting every advantage from the leads that Genji have put together. He has the biggest lead in the game’s mountain soul is just gone. Even though the chains of corruption don’t do anything. There is nothing more that they can get done as Kyle has to, but he’s down so incredibly low. They’re trying to play it defensively, but Keen’s going forward. Ruler untouched, but Keen going to have to get himself out of there as the mountain soul comes in. And now Genji are one step closer to immortality in this game. You know, there’s not a lot of things that are free in life, but that mountain drake, that mountain soul was so free for Genji. They had immense vision control. There was no entry for AGL at all. The Malai they had to run into with all the trance. It was just way too much for them. They had a Cassante blocking the entrance. They had a nature’s grasp at the ready. They had chains of corruption which didn’t land. They had Duro on the angle so he could set up a charm to deny any entry. You were just never going to get close. And by the way, the whole time Ruler is just chucking damage at you while you’re considering how you’re going to approach. He just hits you again, again, again. Three item lethality bars, 2,000 gold ahead of his opposition. And Geng just hunkered down and said that’s mine. More drakes to zero in this one. And even though Oticon went over, it’s a relatively low pedal game. We’re looking at Chovi a whole level up on his opposition here in Shanks. It feels like Genji are the ones who are holding the Oticon. And uh as far as you know the the satisfaction of this game for those of us that really don’t like Jin, it’s really up there. I’m not going to lie to you. Uh it’s been a tough one here for Hope as Chroy going aggressive. He can snap back. Tarzan once again down to 50%. That has been Chroy’s hobby so far this game and even going further and further. Keen on a ward, but that is not a sight that A wanted to see. This Baron down so low, but that pulverize was amazing. And Tam flashes in and steals the Baron. Can they keep themselves alive though? That’s the question as Tarzan utilizing that subjugate to keep him alive for an extra 40 odd seconds. Maybe Keen diving on forward. The Empress Divide connects onto the Rakan as the all out to bring hope to the death chamber. Doesn’t quite work out just yet. Although Chovi does send the Emperor of Shereima to the death chamber himself. So Genji, they keep three alive, but it is only a few that die on the side of AJ and they get a successful steal. It’s a very messy fight both ways, I can say. I I feel like Kyle did a fantastic job getting in there and it looked overaggressive almost, but he created so much space and a big distraction, knocking three guys up and allowed Tarzan a way to get into the pit and steal it away. And the the kills are very similar in this one. It just got so messy towards the end. And it’s a big win for AGO. Now, Canyon is like 5 seconds away from his ultimate. So, there’s some hesitation here. Do we pull off completely or can we turn on this? because the Maai ultimate is the best way for them to buy space. They still have chains of corruption, but it’s not the same setup they had on dragon here. Kyle doesn’t hesitate though. He goes in. Then you see the duro peel. You see the chains of corruption equalizer here. Would have been great if there was followup. And unfortunately for Hope, he’s just trying to get damage done here at the end. Keen does get on top of him here. Luckily though for him, he does survive. He andre will be able to keep the baronss here. So it’s not that they got nothing out of this as he barely survives. Look at that. down to like singledigit health and Al are just going to try to make the best out of this Baron now. It’s their one way back into this game. Oh, Chains Corruption going to connect this time around as 50% of Shanks’ health just goes in the blink of an eye. Flandree almost loses 100 though as meanwhile on the back end of the fight. It’s Hope that’s just being thrown around like a ragd doll. Kyle going to get the same treatment and Al I mean it was a decent attempt. They managed to steal away the Baron and this is this is not the result. This is not what we wanted to see out. I think this may be the beginning of the end of this one. Atlas Geng winning the fight here, punishing the siege. Al had one chance, one baron to work with. They wanted to make the most of it, but now they are dead. Yeah, flash forward there from Chobi is going to steal Fandre’s fate. And this Rumble performance a little bit different to that of what we saw at MSI. This time, Genji able to deal with it and they’re looking to push through and take game number one. Shanks going down low as there is the attempt to knock off from Duro. It is going to get the Zas out of Shanks, but Keen is just having the time of his life. Manages to take down the Azir and chase the corruption flying around and they can go to Nania. They don’t need that to do the damage as Kyle fresh out of the death chamber, but he’s going to be going back. He left something there. I think needed to go pick up his keys as now Tarzan going to fall as well. Nexus turrets on the ground and Gen G will win game number one here at the EWC grand final for League of Legends. Absolute masterclass here in this first game. Just great stuff. Gen is back in form here and declaring it in game number one. AGL some nice moments where they were nearly able to come back. Nice Baron steel, but that over push in mid and they just get caught by the chains of corruption by Ruler who was having a fantastic game the entire time and they just felt like a house of cards. The big story for me Valdez is the amount of vision control Genji had this game. They took lane pryo. They were able to get control and they just had wards on both sides of the map nonstop. Never giving any vision, never giving any angles to AL. An absolutely amazing performance here from Geng, but it is a best of five. There’s still so much League of Legends to come. Time for us to take a short break. When we get back, this the I almost said the space going to break it down. The boys in the studio Heat. Heat. 4 3 2 1 zero. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. I started playing the game seriously around season 6 and jungle was the strongest role at the time. Feels good to be better than your opponents. I hated jungle players, so I just became one. Desperation. I think you just get flamed for every everyone’s mistake. Like you’re just skate bullet to everyone. uh you can make a lot of creative plays. Uh play around vision really well. So I think that’s one of the specialties of jungle. If you’re not where you have to be can really make the map harder to play. You should generally know like how to play the map, what you want your teammates to do, not just what you want to do. Until then, it’s your responsibility. Hey everyone, I am at the free fire stage joined in by Gideon once again. Thank you for having me. Tell me more about what’s happening today cuz I heard it’s the grand finals. Yes, the grand finals is going to be crazy. We have 12 teams looking to battle for one championship spot to be the winners of the entire tournament. And I mean, even yesterday, right, they got a bunch of points just to try and give them a head start for today. So there some people are coming in with an advantage. Ooh, well talking about advantages, yesterday we also had our semi-finals and going into the championship weekend, we have our grand finals from League of Legends between AGL and Gen G2. So tell me more about what’s going to be happening today. Well, today these 12 teams and some really big organizations are looking to try and get that top spot. Of course, more importantly, money is on the line. Everybody wants to be that champion. We’ve got a million dollars worth of prize pool to kind of spread around the uh the block, but hopefully I’m looking for at least one team from Latam all the way from Brazil to win it all. Oo, Latin America stepping up. Thank you so much for joining us, Gideon, and I can’t wait to see what plays out over at the FreeFire Stage. Thank you very much, Kittya Grande, as it is a big big weekend, not only here in League, but across the esports World Cup ecosystem, as there are many championship points on the line across two different titles here at League and at Freefire. We take a look at the EWC club championship presented by STC. We already know that Team Vitality is on the mark at the top with 1,700 points thanks to their win over at the MLBB Women’s Invitational. But right there, right behind it is Gen G at 1550 and has a chance to climb up the leaderboards as well as AGL after we had the opportunity to talk to Eddie uh Mr. Eddie Chen for uh AAL. They have nine different titles that they’re participating in and a win here would do wonders. Welcome back to the esports World Cup presenting League of Legends. It is game one in the books. Gen over AGL 1 Z in our best of five grand finals. Dgon here alongside Medios and Finn to break it all down here. And this one was a methodical game of League of Legends. Plays right into the hands of Genji. Medios. Yeah, this is pretty much what Genji is known for. just having a very slow, you know, not very volatile game, very controlled. They just basically stack dragons on cooldown. Um AG wasn’t really able to contest any of them. Even when it came down to the soul, Jenji just got the dragon soul without like having to fight for it, which I thought was pretty interesting. I think it just comes down to their like really good macro and just their tempo being able to set up and AG just wasn’t ready for it. Uh Finn, this is our first best of five, so we know that the draft is going to, you know, continue to evolve over time, but it felt like this was a draft won by a certain team here in your opinion. I mean, I really like Genji’s draft and a little bit of a question mark from me regarding Al’s choices. I feel like Genji got everything they are known to do. Really the biggest question mark for me was that Varys being given over to Ruler and together with that Maokai that poke with the Maokai Varys combined with the two bouncers of Casant and Allistar makes it really really hard to retake areas that are controlled by Genji. And as we all know, Genji loves pushing out those lanes, securing that deep vision and controlling the river. And this just plays right into their kind of identity their the magnum opus that they do all the time over to LCK and globally. and they just know it so well and it felt like Al A didn’t really draft good answers into this play style. So, it was 3 to2 for the longest time here and then we finally got some some more scraps that led to kills. First highlight here uh the Oticon setup was a big big part as we take a look at this fight. Yeah, I mean here we just have a fight. Uh Genji really tries to get his dragon, but in the end canon does end up dying at the tail end of it. And now it is just a short cha chase here from A trying to get some flashes, try to get some health bars, chip damage here. Flounder looks for his fight, but in the end, Genji seems to be quite happy with this trade. Sure, Canyon died, but he did end up getting that dragon uh while Al a got that in the end. I thought it wasn’t a good trade, but they proved me wrong. I generally would prefer Attakon if I was in that situation. But I think just because of the pace of the game, you know, there wasn’t a lot of kills, which then translate, there’s not that many pedals around the map. Um, also, you’re not gaining more pedals because that’s part of what makes the buff so strong is each time you get that uh execute and like the little AoE, you get another pedal for your team. So, I think that Jenji was kind of okay with it. They figured, you know, it’s not that much value for them. Uh, and then they were just able to get a quick soul. Yeah. Well, the focus on objectives was on full display here. Our second highlight, the big moment, a baron steel that went away. Yeah. Um, Jenji just started Baron. I mean, they just did it and they just kind of assumed that either they’re going to get a really good fight with a turn of Maokai or they’re going to try to 50/50 it or use the Maai Q smite. Mala Q smite is one of the more powerful smites we have in the game with all the percentage of HP damage. I’m sure the jungle surv medios can come into that. Yeah, I was uh I don’t blame Genji for this one. You know, sometimes when people see a Baron get stolen, it’s usually like, oh, you know, why did you start this Baron? Like, why’d you let it steal? But I think AL actually had a pretty good setup for the steal. Um Alistar went in right before Trundle did and he was able to get a three-man pulverize which kind of slowed down the DPS a lot on the Baron and then Tarzan was like 1 HP and he just like did the yolo flash in and uh go for the steal. It worked out but I think most of the time that probably would go Chinji’s way. So yeah, you know, not not ideal for them, but I think it was okay because even if that happens, you’re still really ahead and you’ll win the fight. Yeah, MVP type behavior there. Again, we’re still wondering who’s going to be the Sony MVP. So, y’all at home, let us know in the chat who you think that should be. Finally here, highlight number three. It was the midengage that closed off the game. And from here, we’re kind of like, do they end? I guess they end off this. Yeah, definitely destruction. They got that Baron, right? Then he used the Rumble to try to get this tower, but Varys ends up connecting onto the Zir. And here, hope is left alone by this angry K Sante on the back end of that fight. There’s this all leave him. Okay, leaving for the fishes is going to die and there Kale dies as well. Little bit overzealous by Ao to go for the tier one. I think they really felt threatened that they had to use that baron to get something and the mid to run usually can get but good defense by Genji and not giving them a single inch. Yeah, I think that kind of uh showed how comfortable Genji was engaging from multiple angles like like you mentioned the Varys alt hit Azir the same time Maai alt’s coming in on everybody. Keen I think it was a teleport flank but uh they were able to punish Jen for not having flash cuz he used it in the the previous Baron situation. So just a really good team fight by Geng. They didn’t really seem bothered that the AGL got Baron cuz they knew they could punish. Yeah, and that’s the thing about Gen G, right? They might have made a mistake earlier, but if you make the mistake, you step up too far. They always find a way to make it hurt even more. In this case, it it ended up costing the game. You had some uh lives come back in line straight from the fountain, and they tried to do like a 1v5 defend, a 2D v5 defense, and eventually uh the chain dying ended up being game number one in the hands of Gen G. So, let’s turn our focus here to game number two, gentlemen. Uh draftwise, very Gen Gsided. It felt like getting Varys, getting the Maokai, something that they’re all comfortable in, comfort picks for them to play their style. That’s not the game plan here for Ag as they now shift on over to the blue side. Finn. Yeah, man. I feel like AGL, they really thrive when they can just take fights no matter like I think they thrive when all of the players or at least most of the players in the team can kind of start fights, get them going. It felt like they were kind of running into the wall that was JG. They were like banking on it, banging on it, but they just couldn’t really get any progress. And I would love to see a little bit more proactiveness in their draft. gives him like some more skirmish heavy champions. Try to include the flange more. He was kind of stuck on his rumble just catching waves in the swaps and couldn’t really get into it. Same with Taran. He was also Yeah, I just felt difficult for him to get a foot in. I would love to see something with more engage or at least something that really focuses on these team fights cuz I think that is where AG can actually beat Genji. Yeah, we saw the top side for AJL that game was Rumble, Trundle, Azir, which doesn’t really have much hard CC. A lot of the time when people play those top side uh drafts, we’ve seen it with Braum, someone who just has really good lockdown, who can keep the other team from being able to kite. And uh one thing I would be a little bit concerned about for HL is they did actually lose with Trundle, who’s one of the strongest early game uh duelists. And that’s kind of a big deal because I think when you have a match up between two really good junglers, uh, being able to get the most out of your early game champions is going to be a pretty big deal. So, the Maai was able to neutralize it. You know, you just have phase rush, you build AP, you’re not really a great subjugate target. It’s hard for Tron to really do anything to you. You just kind of avoid him the whole game. You make it so if they face check a bush, they take, you know, 15 20% of their health from a sapling and it’s just super annoying. So, I agree. I think AJL will probably try to get more engaged in their comp. Just some inevitable team fighting champions, maybe stuff that can dive. And uh I think for them they’ll really try to up the pace of the game because I think these uh like slow low kill games are so much in Genji’s favor. Yeah, Jenji’s not afraid to scrap, but that’s not their normal setting. We got to see it on full display here in game number one. Uh I want to think I want to talk about MVP front runners here for both squads, right? We did have the steel. We know that Tarzan’s had had a good run. Flandre has won the daily um MVP over the last several days. On the opposite side, Keen has been leading the line. You just brought up Canyon with his itemization in this matchup specifically. Oh, Chovi R. I mean, Duro, you could hear uh CEO Arnold calling out Duro getting his uh uh plottits. Who do you have as your front runners for both squads here, Finn? I mean, this is so difficult because I think I think for AL it’s been quite easy this tournament. For me, it’s been Tarzen and and Flandre that really has been the front runners. But when I look over at Genji, it’s like, wow. It’s really hard to pinpoint one individual in this team. This is such a welloiled machine. And they all like they’re all different cogs and they all twist and turn in their own ways. And it’s really hard to highlight any individual players. I think for me, it’s going to come down to whoever has a standout series now in the finals. And for me, it’s a little bit early to say, but really like what I’ve seen for Chovy on the really like what I’ve seen from Duro. And honestly, Ken has had a great tournament as Let’s source soon. I think I would have to go with Keen as well. I think he’s just looked so solid. Um, as top lane, it can be hard to have all good performances. You know, sometimes that’s the role where like you just get short of the stick. Uh, but he’s somehow managed to avoid that. Even this game as Casante and to Rumble, he was able to neutralize the matchup. He’s put in a lot of swaps where he, you know, almost got a 1v2 on their bot lane. I think if a few more Q’s connected, he would have uh potentially been able to kill Alistar, at least force some summoners. So, I think he’s doing a great job and uh yeah, it’s just awesome watching him play. Yeah, I know. Just getting to see League of Legends at this level and see that we know how good everyone is. There are no free passes. It’s not like, hey, we won’t get punished by uh a stronger team. This is the stronger team. You are getting punished. How do you respond is so fun over and over again. Both these squads getting ready on stage in just a little bit. Should be round two minutes, y’all. So, hang tight as we uh buy a little bit more time for the players as they get themselves back on in position for this game number two. Finn, as a player that’s played in playoff series before, what do you do when you reset after the loss, especially in a long series? What is the best way to kind of reset your mental after uh it’s it’s kind of like a you don’t go out with bang, you go out with a whimper in game number one? I mean, there’s one thing that almost every player does, I think, that has played on the stage. It’s just such a common ritual after a game like this is you go to the bathroom. Um, the first thing you do, I’m sure me just kind of confirm you drink so much caffeine and water that just like you got to get there fast. And then while you’re there, you’re thinking about the drops like, “Oh my god, what’s been wrong with this game? Oh, this guy griefed me. Oh my god, we got to change this up.” And then you go to your coach and you say, “Okay, I want to play this side and I want I want to drop to run this.” And then it’s like, oh, we show the other side. And you’re like, okay, I’m speaking a little bit from experience here, but like in general, it is that you got to look ahead, right? You got to think about what went wrong in draft, what can we fix in games, quick fixes. You can’t make fundamental changes to your team. But if there are one or two things that you messed up last game or one or two picks that you really need to secure, that’s what you hone in on. What can you do and what can’t you do? You got to really focus on what you can do. Yeah. Yeah, I think from a mentality perspective, something that teams I was on always did was just try to not think about your previous games in the series on C9, we’d always say, you know, like, okay, just treat it like it’s zero. Whether you’re up two in a series or down two zero, you don’t really think about it. You think, okay, just focus on one game at a time. Um, don’t worry too much about what’s happened. I think with Fearless, there’s probably a little bit more to it just because the draft is such a interesting part of the game. I think you’re probably thinking about, you know, what’s available this next game. What do we want to play? And also, what do we want to play into? Because these any given champion is only going to be available once per series. And it’s like, do we want this on our team or do we want to give it to them and then try to counter it. So, I think there’s a lot going on there that people are probably thinking about. But ultimately, you just have to not think about the games beforehand, especially if you lose because I could see AGL being kind of antsy after that last game, right? It was like Genji just sort of choked them out. they didn’t seem like they had a lot of opportunities to play the game, which can be really frustrating, but you just have to forget about it. Just go into a game with a fresh mind and uh you know, play how you know how to play. Yeah. And when I think about last year’s tournament in 2024 here at the Esports World Cup compared to this year, it was a 3-1 in the grand finals, T1 over uh Tees. Uh there was no Fearless at that time. So, it was still just a lot of trading some of the uh meta mages in the mid lane and uh checking out those jungle mid matchups that you just got to perfect rather than okay, we have to kind of remember what’s gone, figure out what type of composition that we’re going to build around these power picks that have been, you know, banned and now we’re going to start letting some go. So, that they let some go here, Finn. Yeah, I mean I think that’s a big liberty for some players because I remember one of the most stressful moments as a play pro player was those long draft meetings before you played official games. You sat and you went around in circles. This guy wanted to play this. This guy wanted to ban this and you just sat there went around and around and around and around. It’s like people never agreed. They never came to a good conclusion. I mean, of course they do sometimes, but like a lot of the times there was this massive discussions and at least now in Fearless you could try something. If that didn’t work out, you don’t have to worry about it again. you can go on to the next game and really try to look for a fresh start over and over. Like Meteor said, it’s all about resetting between the games. It is so true because you can’t linger on the past. You really got to look ahead and just focus on what you can do. That is the most important part and then you try something different. Yeah, I I I feel like that’s a really good insight there on uh the fearless mentality and uh trying to identify how to fix your problems. It’s don’t worry about them. Let’s set our own pace here, which as we set the pace, it seems like we are about a minute out from going back to the stage. So, lot of yapping here. Let’s do one final reset. 1 Z Geng over AGAL, the LPL champions after a game where AGAL felt muted. They tried to make plays. Geng ready every time. The only kind of little blip on the radar was the Baron Steel that went their way. Meters, what’s the key here for game number two for either side here? What do you want to see here? I think a should probably try to get more hard engage, more ways to just get the fight started. And there’s a lot of options for that. You know, you could try to get the VI, something like Nautilus, you could go there’s a nocturn or Oriana combo. We’ve seen or scion even. There’s a lot of champions that kind of have these inevitable engage tools that’s like, okay, you know, when you press this, the fight’s going to start. Let’s hope we can win it. So, maybe something like that could be good. All right, 5 seconds. What you got here for me, Finn? Genji is keep on doing what you’re doing. It’s going well. All right, there it is. 1 zero to Gen G in this best of five grand finals for the 2025 esports World Cup presenting League of Legends title. Let’s send it on over to the stage to get into game number two. All right, Real, we’ve got a grand final on our hands. On one side, we have Genji looking confident, looking calculated. Do you think it’s going to be a full sweep? I don’t know. These AGL bands are very loud. AGL, let me hear you. Look, this is a big matchup. This is a huge matchup. So, let’s go a little bit boxing influence here. In the red corner, AGL and in the blue corner, we have Jen Rang. All right. Hey, you know what? Let’s have a face off right now in the middle of this stage. Who’s going to take it? We’re going into game two. Jet G versus Ag. Oh my goodness. What an incredible matchup here between Panda and Tiger. I know if this was, you know, the Wilds, I know where my money would be, but you never really know. You can’t count them out. Even though they lost game one, see how the Pandas are going to perform. Welcome back, guys. We are ready for game number two. Although, maybe like game number 1.5 as we see the result between Tiger and Panda. What do you think, guys? Uh, who takes it? Uh just given um how tigers and pandas uh work, you know, I’m going to have to favor the tiger. Uh although in terms of the two mascots, I I think it might be a draw. You know, I I feel like they’re pretty evenly. I thought you were going to say just give it to the general. Just give it to the general. I mean, game one was such a stomp. It’s really the onus now on AGL to say, “Okay, we’ve got blue side now. We’re going to have a better draft. We’re going to draft more hard engage like Medios was talking about. We’re we’re going to lead the pace of this game because game one it kind of felt like they were just being dragged along, you know, but Geng got to decide where we were going. I think the VI is 100% going to be banned by Geng. The TIA stocks are going up. So, you know, Pantheon will probably be the third ban on Redside or Gen. and the identity of the draft. We’ll see here for AGL is what I’m most curious about cuz it it does seem like those are the obvious bands right now with what was taken in game one. The Varez is gone, but otherwise kind of an unusual draft for Jenny. So, there’s the Pantheon. I imagine Vai will be second. We’ll see whether the Zia continues to get banned as well. Um, as that could just be taken away here on the blue side. You have a little bit more flexibility, but instead the Nico is going to be taken away. Something I’ve been looking at a lot recently, last couple of days, has been the Lucian Braum as well. We saw that Buler and Sturo went to that in game three against G2. And then we just saw that T1 were willing to pull it out very early uh up against G2 in the third and fourth place match. So, could be something they look towards. I don’t know if it’ll come out this early. And as I’m saying that, we are going to get Lucian actually banned from the red side. So, certainly the power level of that duo has been going up. Yeah, that’s really interesting. Something that we were talking about and Atlas was mentioning a lot is the fact that now the Trundle is gone. A lot of these tank picks also really rise in priority. The Scion, the Or are a lot more viable to play in the top lane with the Gwen ban here. That could be something that AGL is looking for here potentially perhaps in their their second rotation. The Tia I was talking about is banned away. Vi is still up though and I feel like it’s so incredibly powerful with so many different types of compositions here. I would be surprised if Genji let AGL have it. Yeah, that’s certainly a big pick. It hasn’t found the same level of success as we’ve seen for the rest of this year, right? Like by has been pretty much perma status globally until I guess MSI where we saw some smatterings of it. And that’s kind of what Geng feel as well. The Wukong is what’s going to be taken away from Tarzan here. And will it just be the Vlock in? Of course, I think on red side, you feel a little bit better cuz you can pick a one-two punch, you know, like if they don’t take it, then you get by, you know, and it’s just so scary. I feel like it’s mandatory because of that, right? Uh, you know, you don’t want to give Jenji that one two punch, but they will take it here straight away. One of the best options into the Vine can be the Zia at times, but we already see that Rakan was selected earlier by Duro. So, that’s fearless ban. So maybe Ezreal. Do they want to go towards that Ezreal? You don’t have to pick it here. Um but definitely getting something that has a decent amount of safety is a good idea. Senna, another choice if you want to get a big front line and then you have huge amounts of range and just try to play the scaling option and just try to avoid early fights. But that does mean that AGL uh immediately even just after seeing these first couple of picks, could have some good early tempo in this game. Yeah, it’s certainly the opposite of Ezreal in terms of safety. Um, very risky pick here and a blind Gallo. Gallo has been so successful this tournament. We’ve seen it blind and still find success. Uh, especially Chovi’s Gallo has been so incredibly good. His catch on Hansama defined the end of that series yesterday in the semifinals. So, going to just lock this one in. And it looks like it will be into the Annie rather than the AI here for Shanks. Yeah, of course, similar idea of you’re going to have a fair bit of damage in between those two, hold them in position, and then allow that layering of CC to come down. So, will still be a lot of mid jungle power. But I do feel like Gallo answers Vi really well, right? Like, she presses R on someone and then you press R on them and she has to stay there in that big circle of being knocked up and that’s not a whole lot of fun. Shanks, what are we going to be picking here to round out the first round of picks here for AGL? Yeah, it just feels like we’re already seeing these compositions take shape. Genji going to be playing that, you know, backside just protect the carry of probably uh the uh Senna and maybe something in the top lane that Keane could bring some more damage in. I wonder if he would consider something like an Aurora into the Z. We’ve seen that before. The Camille also another very good shout with the Gallo and offers you that bit of extra damage because if you’re only running Si Senagallio I think you might want to just grab a support here or a jungle pick. They’re going to go for the Ambessa instead. This is both a decent amount of front line for the Senna but also an aggressive pick into the Scion. I feel like Jenji would have been very happy themselves to get the Scion because the the mid laner here isn’t a ton of consistent damage. is just engage only and the Senna would have been really safe if they had that silence. So, I think that’s a nice pickway here, but it’s a good answer from Keen. Yeah, immediately gives you that extra bit of damage as well. It’s a pretty aggressive composition already from the side of Ag Corki with huge amounts of damage followup as well from close and from afar, I think, is a good shout. Um, especially because the Corki stalks have been rising a lot. Tom super obvious here just with how safe it is into the VI Annie. Maybe a Caitlyn ban would make sense here. Uh just simply because it’s a strong pushing lane into the Senna, but we’re really just talking about 2v2 here as in terms of Kaisa followup to the dive. That’s also an incredibly strong pick. Isn’t obviously going to be winning the 2v2 lane as hard as something like a Caitlin, but they do opt for that ban instead. I don’t think we’re going to see a Thresh here. You know, there’s no other real safe pick for Duro to play with this Senna. What about Blitzcrank? uh is what we always just want to say when it comes to this guy. Um but the scanner banan actually kind of interesting as of course we are still looking for Canyon’s pick. Uh the jungler already locked in as Tarzan does have the VI but what is uh Canyon going to do as oh man Noturn Gallo that’s a little scary as well as the semi- global globals are continuing to pile in cuz you got dawning shadow to layer on top of everything at the same time. So Genji able to sort of turn on a dime to decide who they want to kill and that just might be a jinx at the start of these fights. A dangerous jinx angle here, gentle. Yeah, I feel like the Noctturn was in part to just deny the Jinx. obviously can be really good into dive as well just because you turn the lights on and then it becomes really hard to coordinate those fights and set up those Annie stuns after the V ult goes in and then you can re-engage but Jinx so so powerful in the lane and if you get any pick onto any target doesn’t even have to be the Senna could be onto an ult could be onto a Gallo that gets caught or an Abessa who’s just a little bit too far forward then the Jinx will absolutely carry those late game fights well just have to see what the answer to this Braum is going to be from Duro Maybe not a blitzcrank, but we’ll see where he is going to go. Don’t know why I’ve just got robot on the brain at this point in time. I really liked it in the last draft, but yeah, the bard uh rising up a lot and uh can’t be very safe into dive and also can set up your pick potential if you do want to go for dives yourself, especially into something like Jinx. Uh, got to be careful though because you you really have to get your setup before the Jinx gets excited because if she does if they get that pick, I I feel like it all falls apart like a house of cards for Gen G. Like the Bard’s not going to be able to do anything. Jinx is too fast. You don’t have enough peel, I would say, with the Noctturn selection, which allows you to go both ways. But yeah, I I think the Bard is a good choice, but it will rely on Genji having a lot of control before the team fights get started. Based on what we saw from last game, that control you’re talking about, Genji knows how to get. they can wrestle it away. And when you have the double global Nocturn Gallo playing through sides and shutting down this Annie, as we saw a little bit happened to Caps yesterday, shutting down the Annie or even just stopping that Scion from being relevant, it’s already going to throw up a little bit in side lanes in this game means that you should be able to dictate fights. But I worry about what happens, you know, if we get to a Midame where Al is just ahead. if the Jinx gets accelerated because you just don’t have damage for Genji and you need time for that Senna to get her stacks online. So, it’s a really risky yet confident draft here for Genji. I think they were really making a statement here in this game, too. Yeah. And I think they also need to get their combos in order, right? It wasn’t as much of a combo draft last time around. It was a little bit more we can kind of hands diff you all over the place, find these angles and make those outplays. Whereas this time, it’s going to have to be layering of ultimates, making sure that they eliminate these key picks to start off fights because if if hope gets excited, then the hope is going to end for Gen here in this game number two. But we’ll just have to see how well they’re going to play. Match point on the line for Gen. And Al wanting to turn this into a best of three. Seeming pretty likely at this point to be honest. I I do really like what Agal have drafted in this game number two. I think it’s very aggressive. It allows them to grab hold of this series and fight it on their terms. Uh the one big thing on the other side for me that I’m scared of if I’m AL is Chov’s Gallo. We were talking about how strong he was up against G2 just yesterday. It’s it’s a classic. It’s a legendary pick for Chovi. Uh there have been so many huge plays even right here on this part of the map for Chovi. the flash like fiveman taunt that he got in that one game a long time ago. Um he’s just fantastic on it and I was going to do a segment earlier actually on Genji and the way that they that they love to team fight and it really came down to Chovi moving in and out of vision and making the aggressive Gallo plays work. So uh a lot of onus on him but he can handle it. Yep. And you were talking about his terrifying for exactly the same reason, right? It’s uh fear the cross map and fear the rotation um that Troy is so good at. Uh him and a lot of his other uh mid lane counterparts in the LCK known for that sort of uh style of play. Something that Chroy has really developed over the last few years. I’m not uh there’s nothing the type of draft where I feel like the bard ult is necessarily going to be gamedefining. It certainly can stall things out or turn a 5v5 into, you know, 5v3 for a minute for you to get into position, do some additional damage, but the ability to rotate around the map with a magical journey, I think, is super valuable for a lowrange composition like what Gingi is. Sure, the Senna will have a lot of range later on, but a lot of these fights, you’re trying to get your melees into position to threaten that Jinx or get to the backline, force the Annie to use her stun defensively. So, that’s what I’m most looking forward to here for Duro on this bard pick. There’s a lot of inherent risk with this pick though because if you fall behind, you’re a squishy support that’s going to struggle to get vision into this dive pop with the VI that will just blow you up. If you ever show your face, if you ever have face check, if you ever try to go towards an objective you don’t have control of, there just really isn’t a recourse for the bard that’s going to get blown up because he’s so squishy. Yeah, sort of uh does feel a bit unforgiving as we have a look at where these lanes are situated right now. Andre on this scion having a real good time at this point in the game. Believe we saw this match up previously and it didn’t look quite this good uh for the scion here at EWC but still very very early into the game. So things could certainly turn around for Keen where he’s going to be having a bit of damage onus on himself. Those are two items he needs to get to as soon as possible to make sure that he is going to be a threat heading towards that back line. And you guys have been singing the praises of Al’s uh comp and I just kind of want to echo it. I love how well it sort of bridges towards late game with the last few picks that they lock in because it was quite late that you got the Jinx and the Scion into this composition which allows them to team fight really effectively just front to back into Geng with their sort of fancy combo composition that they have here. will certainly be still difficult, but uh it’s just AL playing some pretty classic League of Legends and setting themselves up for it with some pretty good picks for the situation as this. Here’s the lane swap. This is uh what we’ve got very used to. Yeah, look at the timing of this. Hope catches this gigantic wave. It’s just kind of almost funneled into him, right? It’s like the Scion sets up a giant pushing wave into him right after he gets a coal. He’s gets the into free coal stacks. Oh god. And he’s just farming up there. He’s having a great time. There’s no threat from an early game Ambessa, of course. So, these another early swap comes out from AGL. This one, I feel like uh does make a bit more sense. You know, I I think you can absolutely bully the Ambessa a lot more with something like a Jinx compared to a Jin into Casante like last game. And you’ve got Scion who never cares about anything. Yeah. And also, if you’re farming alongside, then you’re absolutely fine because Jinx wants to scale and scale and scale. You’ve got a Scion that’s going to be getting infinity health as the game goes on. And so definitely a much better scenario. I’m glad you bring that up because that is very, very important. Not going to feel as much of that pressure in these side lanes as Genji will answer the swap now. Yeah, I mean, you could have left the Senna into the Scion and just sit there and chill and stack, but you’re not going to get any sort of advantages. And the Jinx is just going to get such a big advantage if you leave her alone like that that it’s super frustrating. And with the tempo they got with that fast swap and the call by they can go, “Oh, your Senna’s back top side.” Well, we’ve already rewapped bottom lane and that’s just going to continue. This is part of why we’re seeing unsealed spellbook taken for supports these days because sometimes you’re going to need that teleport to get back and catch the tempo. Won’t necessarily be the case in this game, but this time Al are the ones running the show, at least in this early game, whereas we saw that for Genji the previous game around as Chang’s going to get taunted. Yeah, doing a bit of damage here. Otherwise, not too much else happening. And Shanks able to find a few extra pyro blasts. Chi moving forward. I’m not sure about this cuz these autos are raining down on top of him. He really wanted to push that wave in. He’s Yeah, not really going to be able to. Meanwhile, at just taking a free uh dragon. This is of course after the re swap of the lanes. They have their bottom laneers in the bottom lane and so they’re able to have that pressure on the dragon and take the objective this time. So AD this time in control of the pacing of this game. Yeah, I mean be just really going to get a ton of value out of this. They’re going to get a plate here as well for Hope off of this wave and Keane just really has no recourse here. He hits level six, but he’s playing into a Braum, so the allin just isn’t a thing. He’s not going to be able to do anything with that. You can see he’s stunned by the concussive blows here already. And even with Kyle sitting on level four, I just don’t think Keen is going to be able to find an angle. And sure on the top side there’s a little bit of push for Ruler Enduro, but it’s just not the same amount of value into this Scion. He’s stacking for free, but Jinx is stacking money and stacking a drake. Yep, also stacking himself. So there you go. Um there are sort of stacks all over the place here as Kenyon looking to steal away some jungle will do. So Tarzan just going to move out of the way. Bit of an Eláico as far as the LCK history is and Taran as Shanks could be in trouble. The exhaust comes down and you know what he does the walk quickly strategy utilizing that phase rush to get him to safety. Beautiful. Yeah, I think that was a bit overzealous on the play. It’s Annie who’s got stuns, has flash, and phase rush here. Just really wanted to cycle through the summoners. It was fine. Yeah, I guess so. Um, at the end of the day, they don’t spend a whole lot to do that. But yeah, unless you’ve got heaps of CC, you’re not going to be locking down this Annie anytime soon, and it was just Gallion at that point in time. Is level six at least, so maybe he can look for a play soon. Shanks was also so well positioned there. Like, he wasn’t really vulnerable. You know, Canyon ults, he just walks under the turret, doesn’t care. There’s a really opportunistic attempt there by Geng. And if this is like a Leona or a hard engage support, maybe you could have made something happen with Chovi looking for the taunt. But instead, Shanks is just like, “All right, nice try, I suppose.” Yep. And so the result of this early game is one objective, one dragon going over to Ag and Genji being able to uh utilize some shove some of these swaps in order to get a bit of a farm advantage. That is about all we can really say. Most of that money is on Keem, who has done well as this Ambessa, but we know Scion doesn’t necessarily need that much money. He will still just be a body that they can put in front of a Jinx to hopefully soak the damage so she can kill everyone, right? Like will still do what it says on the tin, as we like to say. Void grubs have popped up here as Canyon looking to get something done here towards this top side. Paranoia at the ready. Yeah, I’ll say that this Noctturn at this point in the game, uh, you don’t have a lot of setup. you can’t really gank the Annie. Uh you you cannot do anything with the bard in the top lane. So you’re just level six and you’re kind of just hanging out because you can’t you can’t gank the Scion obviously. So he would love to do the objective, but Al again, they’re in control of this river at the moment. And Duro is just magically turning away from this fight for now. If they can get in there though, this could be a pretty good angle for Chovi. Canyon can place that gargoyle wherever he wants. I mean, I just don’t think really need to fight for these grubs at such a risky point in the game because it could just open things up super hard against them. And if they get grubs, like it’s an Ambessa. If the Scion gets grubs or the Annie gets grubs, it’s an Annie or a Scion, right? I like playing it slow like this, looking for the later TP here from Chovi and just slow playing it. I thought for a moment they were going to try to hard force with the Nocturnal, which I think would have been a huge mistake. Just try to win the War of Attrition with the Senna. Even in the early game, you can actually kind of just chip away at those health bars and win out. And that’s exactly what they’re going to do. Late TP here from Shanks, though, a bit late for the contest, but they could look for a big stun. Well, magical journey just gets you out so comfortably. So, that teleport does come in. Shanks makes it over to the top side, but it is only one measly grub available here for Gen H for Ag. So, Genji after this one is finally taken, they will even out. Even the feet of strength count here between the two squads and the gold is practically even as well. And so you look at the teams that have a lot of extra scaling and that’s both of these teams. Hyper carries both of these teams. Uh and so I’m I’m feeling like this is an even one at this stage of the game, gentlemen. Yeah. Uh I would agree with you, Atlas. I I think you’re on to something here. It’s close. It’s a very close game. I’m making the hot takes over here. Yeah. Um, like I said, I just don’t think grubs are that important for either team that much. So, you know, blowing the game and and tossing it, flipping it basically at this point would just be such a silly choice to make, especially with Genji kind of slowly getting control there. It was a late TP from uh, you know, to reenter the fight from Shanks there and didn’t end up leading to a fight because of the magical journey. You could see what the value of the bard is there, but because he commits that, he loses a plate here bottom side, right, will lose some farm because he doesn’t have the TP anymore. Keane getting an advantage there. So, small victories here for Genji. They have a very slight lead, but this game is by no means really in their favor right now. We’re going to have to wait and see what that first team fight looks like. The second break is up here. You can see Gendier slowly grouping down towards that bottom side of the map. Toby does not have TP to join the fight, but he can of course, if he can traverse some of the map, bolt in. See whether he does do that. I love that little fight towards the top lane. really did epitomize this whole game which is pretty much meaningless damage um and jostling for position as Keen does get his fangs into Shanks here does do a decent amount in that trade. The Eclipse has been completed. A big spike actually for Keen on this Ambassa freshly teleported into this lane with that power spike and Genji thinking that they can utilize that to try and take down this dragon ruler. Not able to fight quite find the snare, but the dragon it goes down. Yeah, double snipe working out really nicely here as in goes Tarzan and off go the lights. The public execution will avoid the cease and assist and first blood goes over to Canyon and it’s not going to end there as the Braum shortly to follow. Canyon looking to continue this fight as feats of warfare is keen in the backline and Genshi they just tear them apart. Choby wasn’t even there. They didn’t need Toby at all. Well, it was just insane the way that Genji turned that fight around. I mean, you were just talking about the item spikes. Nobody’s got an item here on the side of AL. It was an incredibly forced fight from our Chinese team. And on the side of Geni, they just wait. They turn off the lights and the turn in the fight is unbelievable. Keem is the guy. He pulls the jungler away. Duro then isolates him. Duro secured the dragon with a smite before this. And it felt like AL just felt forced to make something happen here after giving the objective. They’re like, well, we just can’t simply give this up for free. But I think you just had to be willing to do so. Remember, Shanks lost half his health bar to the Eclipse in the bottom lane just moments before. They were by no means in a position to contest that. A huge mistake to go for that call. Disrespecting Kane’s reaction time as he goes unstoppable. Looks for the exact re-engage he wants there. And Duro catches the VI with his ult. I mean, how more uh well played could that have been for Genji and how much more risky could have been for AL? Well, like Al could have hit like Tarzan doesn’t need to go for the only guy that has Unstoppable in his kit, right? Like that’s just uh it’s a little bit of a mistake there. Was the only target presented right there. But just because it’s the only target doesn’t mean it’s the right one. Sometimes you got to walk away. Sometimes you got to say it’s unfortunate we lost this drake, but we’re going to have to make a play elsewhere. And AL were just not willing to do that. Yeah. And I really feel like Ag had uh you know a lot of tools in their kit in in some of these team fights. They they have so much great engage but as you mentioned Max you can’t use it onto the bed ambassador the one guy who’s just going to turn it around and and that’s what the knockturn does right if they overextend you turn off the lights you make it really confusing and then the counter engage comes in so easily. This is not great. He’s the one guy. Uh and he is well going to get an ulti down but that’s four people. Keane um what did he mean by this? Divers was there. I’m not entirely sure. Yeah, sorry. Five people. Uh, sorry. Four. F. Yeah, five people. Did you get a plate for it, though? That’s the That’s the trade. I’m going to say that’s a trade in the southerntherly direction. I feel like this was a good collapse there from Ag, but at the same time, you know, it wasn’t that big of a deal for the side of Geng. Keen didn’t have flash there. He’s super mobile. Thought he could get out as we are going to see a Gallo TP top to get the uh minions there. Yeah, that’s a red dot TP. That’s not an aggressive TP. We’re going to be fine. Yeah, this is going to be Fandre taking the opportunity to back here. He is a Scion after all. So, money was picked up in the mid lane. Like you said, it’s not an even exchange in terms of where the money went there. It was a big shutdown for Shanks onto Keen, but they’re going to need a lot more than that. Just a a pick on the Ambessa before anything is really relevant. Like, they couldn’t turn it into an objective fight isn’t going to matter. But still, every little piece of gold you can get is significant. Very true. Once again, Keen just going to be face checking her brush and loses out on that trade against Flandre. But Flandre not going to be able to offer enough in order to deter him from continuing to lane. So it should be fine here for the Ambessa as he moves down to put pressure on the bottom side. 1.5k is going to be the resulting lead here. But one objective away from feats of strength here for Gen. That will be a big deal. Those buffs do not go anywhere. Those shoes will be available for them as Ruler with his uh static shift just going to park himself in this mid lane from now on. Make sure that the center is continuing to get these stacks. We can see 40 already acrewed here by the 15minute mark as Duro might just be straight up dead. He flashes, he magically journeys and he’s unfortunately now stuck inside the pit. Chi could press his R button and he does get the cosmic binding down. Kyle now in trouble as Rul over the wall doing so much work. The magical journey is up again. I’m sure never mind it’s not. Um it’s a magical journey to the death chamber and Doro just with a bit of egg on his face. Another one of these buds that just not looking super hot right now. I mean every single win that Al gets has a return by Geng somewhere else. And all be maybe that was the grand plan. That’s first turret and that is feats of strength going over to Geng. So kind of worth um a little I think if he gets out it feels very worth I feel silly. I shouldn’t have been uh been talking down to Duro. He knew exactly what he was doing. But at the end of the day, I mean, it’s still going to be probably a turret to go down here on the top side for a be able to get some of this money. It just took so long to kill Genji get two. It’s the macro game again, just like game one here where Genji, yeah, maybe they give up something small, but they get something even larger. The amount of uh objectives that were just bought by Duro being a little bit of a silly Billy in a herald pit was kind of nutty. Genius maneuver. Yeah. something like that is just he’s just on another level. We we just do not get it. Uh look at this. Not going to quite get the charge, but turret also not going to help out towards Kyle here. I’m pretty surprised to be honest that they commit the herald top because they got the top turret for free, right? Like they were going to just get it naturally and then they wanted to double down because dragons up which by the way also goes to Genji with the bottom side control. They had shielding and healing with this composition actually kind of legit. They could have just tried to transition that topside play into a vid herald drop to pull Genji off of the dragon or look for some chip damage into the turret. Instead, they just fully sent it topside and then Duro’s like, “Well, I mean, I do have this really cool old and I’m just not even going to let you get the charge.” So, very low value play unfortunately for Al again comparison to what Genji got on the map. Yeah. I mean, if you guys were watching the first series of the day, which I’m I’m sure you two guys were, we were here. Yeah. Um, but yeah, it it was incredible how Kerio was able to just neutralize so many of the plays of G2 with his bard. And I feel like Duro um obviously, you know, the beat play into the rift pit. Maybe not on purpose, but it worked out for Jenzi. And also, he’s he’s doing the same thing, right? He’s going to have his ultimate for these hard engages from AGL. He has the redemption. The chem soul is coming in. They’re going to be stacking those. The heal from the redemption is going to be huge. And from the Senna as well. It it feels like Duro’s game is kind of panned out. He he knows exactly what he has to do in this game as long as he doesn’t get caught out in those weird spots. Uh again, he should be just fine and in a great spot to help out his team. Yep. Ruler also in a really good position right now. Rapid fire cannon now completed. Does have the swifties done as well. So actually a lot safer than he was previously with all the extra movement speed. what his two first items and the shoes as flash actually has to be invested here by hope because he would have been set up for the cosmic binding after that ulti wears off. So Gen really scaring a a right now that’s your your main target. You know you you were hitting the nail on the head. You’re thinking exactly the same thing I was like ruler’s on two items now. He’s stacking really well. He’s a 56 here at 18 and 1/2 minutes. Now your Jinx opponent doesn’t have flash. Oh, spell shield not quite working out here as Canyon going to be very early ulting. Heroic entrance to come down here as Canyon getting into that back line. And there’s a public execution. The B is dead yet again, but they trade it for the V here. Ruler not quite able to auto attack though in this fight as the winds of war are so scary. And Keen wanting to kill even more of these AL members, but they are going to be playing it real slow. actually letting them kite back and just moving towards the next objective on the map which will be spawning in a minute’s time. Yeah, it’s kind of funny. You know, there wasn’t any objective on the map. Both these teams are sending all five of their members to join this fight. It feels like finally AGL are stepping up to Genji who very aggressively try to take control of the map with their vision as we saw in game one. And now we got Shanks in trouble. He really is. Justice Punch going to connect as Ruler doesn’t quite find the snare, but it doesn’t matter because he finds the auto attacks and that is going to be Chroy locking that kill down. They have overloaded the top side. Troy takes a lot of damage, but they’ll get another turret and then they can move over to this Artakan. It’s going to be up in 23 seconds. The the truth of the matter is, and we talked about this a lot in the draft, is it’s a silion on the other side. So, he doesn’t have agency to try to make a cross. I love that sign. It said revenge for T1, pick Bod 3. There you go. But like if you have Kyle and Flare going, “Okay, they’re stacking top. Let’s make a play there.” With other champions, maybe you can actually stop Keen there. Maybe you can get something done. Uh maybe if he’s not 1500 gold ahead as well. But they just don’t get anything in return. And these are these exchanges we keep seeing with Genji where they heavily commit to a play and there’s a trade, but their trade is a massive trade up. Even this play here where it’s a support for jungle trade and they end up winning out on the health bar so significantly that it’s hard for Al to make any play afterwards. And the Genji fans are loving the dominance we have seen so far. This game was relatively close but now 4,000 gold the advantage is Genji set up for Oticon. Yep. And that MVP discussion I think it’s feeling a little bit more keen favored as we’re heading through this series. This guy has been playing so well all tournament, but also I mean I had Duro there as like a a dark horse as far as MVP was concerned. But I I think there’s no taking away from Keane after this game unless something crazy happens in the next one or the one after that or the potential one after that if Ag are able to grab a cheeky victory here or there. This game not over yet but feeling very much in Genji’s hands for now. Khan has taken many teams though and so it might claim Genji here unless they’re very very careful getting his ducks in a row here towards his bottom side as far as the wave is concerned. Ag will they be able to get an entry and will Taran be able to achieve the steal. This is indeed started. Shanks is basically the main character for setting up that first pick here for Hope to get the reset. But Genji have all of their ultimates and they have a noturn composition. It’s really tough for AGL to play this out, but they can’t just walk away and go wobble side lane. Not with this composition. So, Genji really have him here between a rock and a hard place. Don’t use that phrase too much anymore, but like what do you do? Kyle, well, you get taunted just a little bit here. He throws out the ulti. The door has worn off, but it did its job. And so, Kyle is going to be alive, but maybe the other is not as Chi just being a bodyguard here alongside Duro finding the brush. And yeah, I don’t like Chro so incredibly tanky. They’re just not letting Tarzan get over here. It is still relatively healthy. And into the backline goes Flre, but they hold him at bay. It’s Canyon that’s dealing with it. He gets scared as now the dawning shadow to lock down the Braum. And Keane just goes golden with the help of the tempered fade. And now they’re in the blender. Now they’re taken down. And Al are just getting decimated fight after fight here in game two. Oh my goodness. That could not have gone better for Genji if they had asked for it. That was incredible. Keen once again sets it up right on Kyle. The followup from the knockturn and the Gallo was there and Duro’s ultimate perfectly timed for Chobi to taunt them all and knock them down. These Genji keepaway comps are just so insane. We saw it with the Maai last game, but look at this. They deny Flre entry. Hope is so far away from any of these targets. So Kyle gets caught here. Suppressed, right? the followup Gallo ult on top of the tempered fate means double taunt and then hope guess what now that he’s isolated he is destroyed sure he gets one kill in exchange but the whole team is wiped when he’s excited down he goes G crushing them dominating them the combos that you were asking for Atlas are we going to have to see them it’s going to be a little bit trickier to pull this comp off than game one and the answer is Genji 100% can pull it off and I have to say as far as compositions that utilize tempered fate, well, this is a really good one, right? Like the Gallo lands, you see, doesn’t get the knockups, but then you are freely able to position the easiest taunt of your life for after they get out of that stasis. The setup here, if you can hold them in position, is just insane. They don’t even start the fight off with the Nocturnal. Those Noctturn comps start that way. They end it that way. You have no peel anymore, Hope. I’m just going to go right on top of you and kill you. The fight is already over and Sheni now looking for soul point here and taking Oticon that felt impossible but this they won’t even try. Yeah, I I feel like the Braum in this composition was meant to try to help the Jinx not get absolutely bullied like that. But uh I feel like when you have so many abilities and champions that just go over the top of the Braum and do not care at all about the Braum, like think about the Gallo, the Noctturn. You’re not even interacting with the champion really outside of being in melee range. It just feels feels like that Braum is falling very short. Maybe they should have gone for something a bit more aggressive uh just to really all in on that engage composition. But yeah, you you guys were talking about it. I mean, a lot of these champions go both ways. The bard sets up either the defensive ultimate or it sets up the Gallo perfectly. Same with both the Gallo and the Noctturn themselves. Yeah. And uh the start of that fight as well, just to go back to it again, like Canyon’s spell shield to make sure that Scion is completely worthless. It’s like they just have every answer for what AJ are trying to do in this game and it’s making things really really difficult for the LPL squad. 5,000 gold plus is going to be the advantage here as yeah teleport to come in. Tempered fate doing nothing this time as there is the heroic entrance to also not find the angle but in goes Keen and Hope is dead. Blundry now just getting destroyed. Finds a nice double knockup but Keen is just running him up. They are way too distracted in that back line. And even though a whole bunch of buttons go missing, it does not matter. Geng is still just going to wander over to a baron. I mean, AGL is just trying to fight for Pryo and they’re losing control of top side. Toby’s pushing their Shanks is like, I got to TP top to defend my turret. The second he goes, Keem teleports on the flank and he’s like, “You guys want to contest for Pryo? I am right into your backline.” And Hope dies a third time in this game. blown up, unable to get excited, unable to be that scaling jinx that their comp so desperately needs. And Gen will take a Baron. I don’t know if you guys saw it, but Duro’s double binding in that backline after the flash from Hope. It really just snuffed out the hope of AGL in that team fight. And yes, at this point, you know, Gen, they pick up the Baron. They’re very far ahead. But this was kind of the last hope of AGL this fight. They try to throw everything at Hope who does have flash. But look at this flash double binding and it came from the left with his own TP. Gets the perfect angle after Kyle sets him up. You know what would have been really nice is an Annie to peel there, but he went to the top lane and he was not there as Duro very dead. Yeah. Um Canyon is going to press his R button as well. His mega cone thankfully is going to be here. Shout out to you Valdez. Um utilizing that one for the disengage, but Duro wasn’t able to do so. It feels like a bit of duro giveth and taketh away in this game. And I think the positives do outweigh the negatives as we have a look at the gold. It is cresting 8,000 at 27 minutes as there is the engage onto Canyon. He’s taking a fair bit of damage from Ruler as well. Oh my god, the stacks are really getting higher as Hope is looking for the reset, but he doesn’t quite get there. The zap isn’t going to land. And now Ruler is dealing with a teddy bear whilst also just murdering them. Redemption comes down. There’s the flash in. says, “Thanks very much, buddy. I’ll take the MVP now.” As he picks up the triple kill after all of Ruler’s hard work, and I think Geng are going to probably add a nexus to that one. Well, I think that’s enough responsibility. Yeah, that’s Ruler is 1v4ing plus Tibers, not caring, kiting it out, waiting for Keen to find that angle. He has flash as well. And so close to an excited Jinx were so many of those moments, but it just wasn’t meant to be. And Gen, their most dominant series of the tournament so far. Maybe the last one, the one where they lift the trophy. Now up to zero. Yeah, this is the best that they’ve looked all tournament long. And Gingi one nexus turret and a nexus away from winning this is there is the route onto Tarzan. Ruler is going to be able to take that one. tempered fate just to single out Shanks as we have seen your bear tippers but unfortunately it hasn’t done enough as it’s a triple for ruler this time the quadra comes in and he’ll be able to take down the nexus after one uping Keen at least after the last little skirmish Genji poised to pick up the title here at match point absolutely crushing AL and they’re just one game away from crushing their key as well. It is just insane the form that Genji are on tonight. It is not a close series. We We had faint we had hoped that Ag’s comp would be good enough that they could bring it back. We would be tied and it would be a fun back and forth series. That is not the case tonight. Absolutely incredible performance here by Geng. It is time for us to take a short break. We’ll see whether AJ can pull themselves together because it needs to be a reverse sweep from them if they want to destroy Gen’s key here. We are going to go to that short break. We’ll see you again soon. Heat. Heat. Hi everyone. I am live from the AGA crowd by my side. Al fan, welcome Shanks fan. How long have you been supporting Shanks? Where did she come from? She came all the way from China and flew for 10 hours. Sorry. Hi guys. J here. Hi guys, Jenny here. And I’m Finn. And I’m Oux. And we’re here at the Ride Games Arena to try some games, have some fun, and see what’s up. J here. And myself and Ox just went off against former retired pro player Finn from the LEC in a 2v1 to see whether or not we could beat him. And we actually could. So, it was pretty easy. Banning. Banning. Oh, you can ban my champ. Can I ban? Yeah. Why are you tryharding? It’s not It’s not an LE. I’m just going to see what you’re doing. Yeah. for you. Okay, you’re in there. Wait, there’s no healing. Oh, easy. Double healing. You can do that. No, that is not that is not okay, by the way. Oh my god. Stop. Oh, that’s a scary Lucion. He’s going to care if he does that again. Don’t care, Jenny. I have flash now. I have flash. Don’t care. Oh, there’s no way we have barrier. A little bit of a skill issue, I think. Well, I mean, I guess you did really great. There’s a lot of yappa yappa yappa, you know. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Oh, this is so I can make light when the games are playing. Hey, this is epic. I always wanted a 4in wristband. Me, too. Does it light up? Oh, wow. This is great when I can’t find the bathroom in the night. It’s a different point where uh where you hit it. Okay. You ever have aggression? This is what you do. Jimmy, what was that? Okay. Okay. I was distracted by the Teemo. Okay. Okay. You That didn’t even hurt on him. Like, it’s not about hurting. It’s about hitting the target. Oh, yeah. I think that’s a I think that’s a bingo. Are you supposed to break it? I’mma get 4 3 1 0 Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. terrible. Hey everyone, I call myself a really cute Genji fan. Please share with us where did you come from? I’m come from South Korea. So good. Who’s your favorite player from Geng? My favorite player is Gim. Do you want to show us your sign? Ah, this frog. It’s a cute frog. This is super cute. Who do you think is going to be the best player for this series today? Jen Gi vers. I think is Chubby. Yes. Thank you so much. Best of luck, Genji. Gingi fighting fighting shirt. One win away for an EWC title for Gen G in League of Legends in 2025. They’ve looked like the best team in the world throughout the year and continue to do so as that fan is on the point. Keen has looked so dang good and Geng one away from making history. Welcome back to the STC Arena everyone as we break down game number two and get us ready for game number three. Deon here alongside Medios and Finn in front of this soldout crowd here at the STC Arena. Let me hear you. All right, let’s get on into it. Game two, different game plan in terms of the draft, Finn, but still same outcome as Agal are trying to find any type of fight, but Geng are just constantly finding a way around it. I mean, you heard us on the desk. Game one, we were a little bit disappointed because Agal couldn’t find avenues to actually attack Genji. Couldn’t find avenues to engage onto them. So, we said, “Okay, let’s draft more engage.” And so, they did. But, Genji drafted even more engaged and went even harder in the paint. You see this draft by Genji full dive that Nocturn Ambessa Gallo combo made it so difficult for the carries of AJL to put out any damage. Yeah, this was very reminiscent of their third game against G2 where they played the Ambessa Gallo combo and they just look so good on it. Uh, shows that they can play more than just, you know, like a slow dragon stacking comp. They can find really good engages when it’s presented to them and it was just awesome. Yeah, again the control around objectives was huge. Uh, one thing that you wanted to point out there, Finn, the Jinx pick early on, it was something that, yes, there’s engage around, but the Jinx pick very, very vulnerable to even more engage as you said. Yeah. So, your one, two, three is already the Scion, Annie, and Vice. So, it’s not really a great peel and then you see this Senna, Gallio, Noctturn, and Bessa coming your way and you pick Jinx. And I think if you do this, you kind of do need some kind of help to help her like a Tom Kench. Maybe they can eat you if they all go on you. I feel like Pope really put himself in a hopeless position this game because there was really no way for him to put out damage these fights cuz all these threats were coming from every single time and if your Jinx dies in the beginning of the fight before getting any sort of resets, I don’t think the rest of AGL’s comp has the damage to kind of compensate for that. Yeah, Medios. I mean, if you look at uh Canyon and you’re the knockturn, you look on the opposite side. Here’s the Jinx and they have a lot of dive for our carry, but I don’t have to worry about that. It must just be a play day there for Canyon. Yeah, I thought that uh it was really clever by Genji. They took Senna in response to Vi, which I think helps your dive comp, but also it makes it kind of a hard target for Vi to alult because you know you can just press E if V is trying to alt on you and she’d have to like throw down a control word to get vision of you. Uh so it’s a little uh deterrence against that. And then yeah, I mean playing Jinx into Bard, Noctturn, Ambessa, Gallio, it’s just nightmare fuel. There’s literally nothing you can do if they all go on him. So um yeah, that was pretty hopeless for him. All right, I love that you bring up that Ambessa because that’s where we go for highlight number one at the Drake Pit. Keen staking a claim to becoming this tournament Sony MVP. Look at this ult. He nullifies the VIL and dodges the bar. The Revard goes on the V himself goes onto the backline of AGL and with one button click, he has won the entire fight for Genji. So clutch, really sloppy by AGL to just put so much into them best. They can easily use nonify all their abilities. Yeah. and and it seems like a lot of these fights, Medios, are fighting around objectives. We take a look at the second highlight here over at the Oticon. And the setup around it has been so consistent, not only here at EWC, but throughout the tournaments here for Gen. They love setting the traps and forcing people to come fight into them. Yeah, Genji just did a really good job proving for the objective. And then I like how Canyon used his W to block the Scion alt and then as Al did try to come from different angles. It wasn’t exactly what you want to do against a dive comp because they can just commit to one side, Scion wasn’t there to peel and then uh it was just unwinable for them. Yeah, I think you could hear there on the microphones. Uh Geng has joined us on the stage and are ready to go. A little bow by Ruler to the crowd who has been very very impactful. But they’re not alone. The AGL fans have been showing up and trying to will their team to a win and that means they’ve been trying to find a lot of these fights but here in our final replay again just a little bit too far behind at this point and it gets turned around on him. I mean at this stage it is just a nightmare. You see here, Jinx, you walk up on the mid wave. There’s 15 coming away. Teleport. Great flash Q by Kyle. Finds him there at the back end of that fight. And here you see them try to go. They try to fight back. But when you lose your Jinx in the beginning of the fight, all your hope kind of falters and there’s no way to get that reset. There’s no way to chain those kills and there’s no way to kill the onslaught of Genji players clicking at your base. I love that. You can see it behind us now. Uh the AG players coming onto the stage. The Gios ringing from the left side of the stadium trying to will their team to victory. Agal again winning the LPL earlier in spring trying to find and win an international title for an organization that isn’t from the LCK cuz all of them are currently owned by the LCK. But down 02 Finn, I feel like there’s so much work they need to do. A tall mountain looms ahead of them. But he who must climb the ladder must start at the bottom. They got to take the necessary steps by steps by steps. And they got to do things right. Against a Genji, you can’t be slippery. No, you can’t be sloppy. You can’t mess up the steps. And you got to really do it by the book. They got to finish up their objectives. They got to set them up right. And don’t mess up your side lanes cuz that is where Genji will fight you and punish you. Yeah, these first two games have been pretty one-sided. Genji seems to have full control, but I think AGL might have some tricks up their sleeve. I know Tab is just a very good coach. He probably has some draft contingencies ready. So, I’m looking forward to it. I hope they can punch back and give us some more games. Love that you bring up Tab who’s had a lot of success with different organizations in the past. We look at the RNG, we look at BLG, any team that he’s gone to, he’s been able to elevate their level of play. who was able to do so with AGAL earlier in the year during the LPL run, which is why they found the success in their domestic league, able to bring it all the way to MSI, get them a third place and one game away from toppling T1 to make it to the grand final. Now they’re here. They’ve been able to do it, but they are O2 and trying to battle back for the pride of LPL, for the pride of Chinese League of Legends. However, on the opposite side is the most dominant team over the last two years in League of Legends adding to their hardware. Will it be the esports World Cup for Gen G or will we have a game number three for AGL? Thank you very much, gentlemen. And yes, Deon, we will have a game number three. Don’t you worry. Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee that AL will be able to take the win. We’ll see whether they can as the reverse sweep will have to start right now. Remember last year at League of Legends at EWC, we had a relatively shaky run for T1, right? They almost lost to Team Liquid. It was super close. They came into a finals against Top Esports where a lot of people were saying, I don’t know, Top Esports has looked a little bit more consistent. And then we had that 300 stop. T1 crushed them. Faker lifted the trophy, got the MVP, and it feels like history might repeat itself, albeit with a different team here in that Gen lost to G2. You could argue the series were close leading up to this. Sure, they were in control of game three, but had things gone a little bit differently. It was definitely a series that G2 could have won. And AL coming this was super consistent and yet Jenji has the best performance of this entire week here of League of Legends in the series that matters most. And they’re now poised. I think they’re favorites to take this 3-0 if they can continue the form. Yeah. I mean, it’s just incredible uh how different they look today. And I I think that AGL, they need to go back into, you know, the the players lounge and think about what they’re going to do to change things up here because they have not looked like they are on the same level as Genji tonight. So, you got to do what Chovi did yesterday and say, “Hey guys, we’re not playing up to our form. We can do better than this.” Um, it’s not easy though because even to us, we watching Genji and it just looks like they’re they’re unstoppable at this point. Maybe as some of the more comfortable picks for Genji get taken away, perhaps EGL can get something going here in this round. Well, that’s exactly the time that it is. The Gwen is going to remain permanently banned. The Pantheon is also going to do the same thing as there is that Scana ban coming in. A lot of respect for Canyon’s Scana so far this tournament. And Wolf, you brought us back to what happened last year at EWC. It was a very disappointing tournament for Gen. I like I think a lot of people probably even forgot they were there because they left so incredibly quickly. This time around, something to prove saying, “No, no, no, no. This time this year, it is ours and it’s one game away.” Assuming they win that third game. Keen is definitely the front runner for MVP, I would say, for this finals. And he was the one who said he was most disappointed by their performance last year. So, a lot of story lines colliding here and AGL, they were so close to moving on to the finals at MSI so close to actually having that opportunity to win that international title. It felt like coming into this, they had the momentum and it is just completely gone now. This will be their last side selection game of the series regardless what happens. So, we have the Pantheon gone. Nico’s gone here. Scarnner banned again. We’ll see what that first pick is going to be with the rise here. I feel like is the safest one. Yeah, this it almost feels like bait, right? Banning away the rise like do it because if they don’t then it’s likely that Chroy will just snap it up. Yeah, I mean you can’t give Chi to I mean in its current form maybe because in the scrims in the games we’ve seen like it doesn’t feel like Tia is as dominant as it used to be but it’s a dangerous proposition to give that over to Chovy in a first pick. That’s first pick route. Yeah, I mean they’ve had struggles fearless bands. They have had struggles with engage this game or this series rather I should say. They’ve really been unable to get onto the backline and they’ve been completely outplayed by the mobile recon obviously later on the bard. So I could feel the frustration but I just don’t know if this priority is warranted to be totally frank. It is Kyle right even back when he was in the LCK when he was debuting this was his champion. His uh his re was absolutely fantastic. Of course, the champion was a little bit different back then, was finding a lot of success in a lot of people’s hands, but Kyle was certainly one to find a lot of that magic as there is a corky answer. Things are getting weird here in game number three. It’s not necessarily the priority list that I had in my head, but of course, you have to do a lot of gymnastics to work out what is there to answer what and what is the highest on the priority list as the Nautilus is going to be picked up as both of these teams really valuing a lot of engage. Yeah, I mean it’s one of the final pieces of hard engage from the support role that you can pick up. So, they want to get it early on to match the real and make sure that they have something. Also makes a little bit less uh likely that we see uh more of those immobile AD carries that can just be locked down from the Nautilus. But there’s so much pryo still available here in terms of tier list picks and they give two over to AGA and Shinjo. I’m really disappointed with this Nautilus lock in cuz you could have gotten either the Shinja or the Tia instead and they already locked their support. So, it just doesn’t really make sense to me. Yes, now you get counter pick for both potentially the jungle or the the mid pick here in this third rotation, but it feels like you gave over way too much here as Genji in this position. They will take the Wukong that was banned previously in game two here and keep it a little bit flexible. Chovi loves his uh R5 unusual like you know pick that comes through. We’ve seen him play like R5 Casante mid in the past. So, we’ve obviously seen him play things like the Aurelian Soul for Supreme Scaling and he’s going to keep it a bit of a mystery here. I don’t agree with the decision yet for Genji, but let’s wait and see how it plays out. Yeah, see whether it’s his set once again coming out of the mid lane. Um don’t know whether that is going to be his pick into author banned away. Corki is something that Chi has really enjoyed in the past as well. Um, so that might be something that’s forward on their minds. But now the last couple of bands to come through here for Ag. We’ll see what they’re fearing the most as top lane still hasn’t been locked in here and Keen has been on an absolute tear. And I could imagine taking away some of his options could be a good idea, but never mind will be that Oriana to make sure that Chovi isn’t pulling a fast one. Yeah, always got to be careful about that. Speaking of which, we have seen him play a lot of Corki in the past. something he could do in this game. I don’t think that’s the current meta that you would go for carry, but yeah, it’s something to consider. Yo, Rick, Yorick is gone. That makes a lot of sense given how well Fandre played just yesterday on the pick. But yeah, front line, I’m going to smash your face in Yoric is what he was playing. Kind of team fighting J. I’m kind of starting to feel like the angles here for Hope are are dwindling, right? because they’re not playing Kalista in this comp, right? Like you might just end up with an MF composition here, which is a little bit awkward with the Tia and Corki so safe, right? It’s hard to actually lock him down. Looks like the Aurora is going to be the flex pick that comes through here for Genji in this fourth slot. Really just keeping everything open. It’s a mega flex. We’ve got mega flex last pick here for Duro. He’s going to lock in like either a top laner, a mid laner, or an AD carry. And we don’t know which one it is yet. We don’t know which one it is. I I think with Civer and her priority coming up a lot nowadays feels like the obvious choice here, especially with what you already have. Cell very strong. You’ve got the Shinjel that can lead the charge with your ultimate and obviously spell shield for the Nautilus. And they’re going to look for a front ler here for the top lane. Renekton can handle if anything gets flexed on him. He’s always going to be a very strong laner and obviously a very strong pick in general. So what’s the final choice here? You could just I see something as simple as an or pick here for Genji. You know, just absorb the Renekton pressure, scale up for later on. You’ve got some really strong engage for team fights with the Wukong already. You add the Orhorn on top of it. You’ve got a really strong front line for this Corki and Keen isn’t talking all that much. So it is looking like maybe that Aurora is going his way. The Ahri last pick is going to be locked in. Confirms ruler is going to be playing the Corki and we are going to be having that Ahri in the mid lane. Ari Wukong has been something that we’ve seen find a fair bit of success, but a lot of magic damage towards the top side of the map and not a lot of beef, you know, not a lot of beefiness here in this composition. It’s going to be mainly Dura on that front line alone and otherwise just a lot of damage. Genji have both a lot of zone control and pick potential because the burst damage of Corki, the Wukong works well with the Ahri. you could you get single target blow up. One spell shield is not enough unfortunately for Cipper I think to deter all of this aggression and AGL started off with the TIA pick but this comp didn’t really turn into a single target pick composition. kind of became a scaling frontto back comp that still has weavers while it could play through. But I think a lot of this game for AGL, a lot of their game plan was to try to get this Renekton ahead and play through it in sides with this Tia. But now the Renekton’s bailey into the ranged Aurora top side and it’s going to be hard to get that pryo there. I feel like Genji have a pretty big draft edge here in this third game. Yeah, it’s definitely a heavy amount of comfort which they are able to find here in game number three. We’ve we’ve loved the Ari into Tia in the past and Keen is just in love himself with this Aurora pick and playing range into melee is just that’s right in Keen’s wheelhouse. Feels like he can do anything especially today like this guy is holding the reigns on that MVP. He wants it so badly. Might be able to add some extra points here with this Aurora performance. Could be. I do think that the Tier is going to get a lot of value in this composition for Al. I think that that was a big risk that was taken by Gen. And so if this is the turnaround, I don’t think that the draft is illquipped to deal with what Geng are doing. I just feel like AJ today have not been equipped for Gen. They just haven’t been able to stand up to these Titans from the LCK unless they can prove us wrong here in this third game. It is do or die. They’re key on the line. And Geng as far as the club championship is concerned as well. They can rocket themselves to the top of those standings absolutely massive not only for the League of Legends team but the for the organization as a whole cuz you have to remember the esports world cup is more than just League of Legends. So support’s going to be meeting here towards the top side which is interesting that they both had exactly the same idea at the same time. Maybe just some supportal combat. They agreed. Okay. top al cove. Let’s go one v one. That recall animation threw me for a loop. I thought perhaps he was going to look for the dredge. I mean, Keen is closer. Well, he’s just gone and gets the ward down. Oh, the last Yeah, does get it. Okay, there we go. Uh something interesting to point out. Um we have seen almost all of our supports go for the unsealed spell book, but Duro on the Nautilus, understanding that this champ, if you don’t have Aftershock, you just kind of go in and die, has elected not to go for the unsealed spell book. I think that’s definitely a good choice, especially into what you’re looking at on the opposite side. You remember the glacial augment when it came in the first time? We had so many nautiluses just explode over and over again. It both makes you powerful into uh the types of ways you could get caught and it’s it’s a safe defensive tool into Ag, but it also empowers your engages and your setup for the Ari composition that Genji are running. So, makes a ton of sense. I feel like even though everyone is running Unsealed Spellbook, there are situations where you just have to buck that trend and go what’s good for my champ, what’s good for my comp. I’m going to move away from what’s overall the meta and focus really in on what this game looks like, what this draft looks like for me. And it’s press the attack Renekton. This is like we did see a little bit of shenanigans with the electrocute up against Aurora just because you want to go in for bursty trades. I believe that was Ambessa that did it. Um this is press the attack Renekton which with some help from Tarzan Flandre will be doing a lot of damage as Kyle going aggressive but the shattering strike is going to miss here as they hit level two still gets a lot of use out of his Aftershock as he makes his way out and Genji a little bit late on that level two themselves. Yeah, kind of interesting. I feel like Duro not uh totally respecting that, but as you mentioned, he wanted to go in for the aftershock. Took a bunch of damage, still has some potions. Definitely taking a look at that top lane and watching Keenan just bully as we did expect. Looks like Tobiy’s doing a good job in mid at the same time in terms of the health trades so far. Looks like Shanks though will be able to get a push and go for a back here. Uh definitely looking towards Canyon to try to hit level six as fast as possible and link up with Chobi. We have seen Genji uh winning a lot of these early games and getting a bunch of tempo and kind of controlling the pace. We’ve said that a lot today. See if they can do it again. Bit of aggression absolutely everywhere, but it’s Kyle taking the worst end of it. Down to about 250 here as Genji stand their ground and still has heal. They actually need to be careful about a re-engage like Ruler and Duro double flash plus the heal. If another Gatling gun gets fully shanneled like that, you are just out of luck in this lane. As they hit level three, will be matched. That’s the end of that as Tarzan comes over. Ruler Duro not knowing where he is going to play respectfully and back away. And this top lane is a huge issue though as Keen just keeps grasp stacking and he’s chunking Flandre out. And this is a pryo lane they expected to get right. That’s why you draft Predictton in a comp like this. And it is unfortunately just absolutely not going to work out as Canyon’s coming over. Fandre is low. No Fury. 2v1 underneath this turret. We’ll see whether Fandre can get enough of his health back. Oh yeah, without the fury it’s really really difficult. But he does slice and dice and that’ll get him to safety. Keen didn’t want to be the one that tanked up that turret to start things off, but he does get a demolish proc. That is going to be plate gold. And I don’t think it’s too bad. Canyon was looking for a back anyway. The full clear was completed. And yeah, Keen is like, “No, Flre, you’re not allowed to approach this minion wave.” Yeah, you can see how he stacked the wave so that it would push into him. So, it kind of forces Flandre to move up and he has help from his jungler. Keen going to spot this and just flash away. So, that’s actually pretty good here for Fandre and Tarzan. are able to immediately clap back with a bit of a flash takeaway from Keen as here’s Duro hanging around mid. But yeah, they’re going to swap top here and it’s going to be Keen heading down to the bottom lane. He has enough time to get there without tping, which is huge for him as you know mid lane. Yeah, supports join here as the lane swaps commence. They don’t really need uh each other as Kyle going to get charmed. Yeah, not going to be able to crash down out of this one actually. And he doesn’t have a lot of options remaining. Still not enough damage here between Duro and Chovi at this stage of the game. So he will be able to make his way out and even holds onto the flash. The guy off to the side is looking to take down these raptors. I don’t know if this aggression is over yet. I think Genji can continue to put the pressure on here. Canyon’s going to get these raptors at least. And Kyle’s low health bar here is such a problem. And also we did see Flre TP top. So TP advantage to Keen right now. Genji has so much agency information advantage here as Kyle wasn’t actually seen. But another shattering strike goes wide. K actually struggling a little bit here in this early game. You can see there are some wobbles that he has to get out. These shattering strikes that we’re so used to seeing land from this guy just haven’t been hitting the mark as Ruler just really happily going through his history book as far as the champ the the teams that he’s uh won titles on. Samsung Galaxy certainly being one of them. Yeah, the 2017 above that Shanks now getting chunked out. It feels like uh especially if the AI is just getting guaranteed charms. That one wasn’t a guaranteed charm, but he was just able to land it. But if you got the Nautilus nearby, you have to respect the damage even with no items here in the early game. And Kyle unfortunately was not able to do that. So, a lot of tempo did go over to Genji in those early trades. Still pretty even though I mean AG have their bottom lane down here. You see Tarzan immediately running at the dragon. Meanwhile, Genji, Duro, and Ruler are in the top lane. So, we get on to Foundre. Very aggressive from Fandre who looks for Duro here. almost finds him as the Dominus has been picked up. Roller only level five, but he can see a bit of a gank onto Keen on this bottom side as well. So, he gets a fair bit of damage towards Hope and he says, “Nice try and walks back.” Civ has some of the most memorable uh voice lines, by the way. Like the better duck. Oh, so good. Which is the better duck, by the way? Which one’s she talking about? I I want to go I want to go back to to game three of the game and talk about Darkwing Duck. Yeah. Um so the the trade here onto Flandre. I mean he ends up losing all of his health. He doesn’t have teleport as another charm connects and I mean this is going to be a trade that favors Chovi but Aurora does have TP. So Keen yeah he gets threatened almost gets taken out. didn’t have his flash, but he could just TP back to lane. And at the same time, Jenji continue to control every other aspect of the map right now. As you can see, Fandre slowly heading back to lane here. And looking for another angle. Still the flash for Keane. Yep, King going to have to try and weasle his way out of this one. Does do so with the ulti. And yeah, he’s fine. Uh, never you mind. Just slip between worlds, ladies and gentlemen. That’s your way of escape. That is why Aurora works on the top side of the map or the bottom, whatever you want to call it. Yeah, definitely putting a lot of pressure on a keen at least not making his life very easy. But, you know, with the civer, you’re not going to have a huge amount of damage unless you’re locking down the champion for quite a while. But, as you mentioned, it’s Aurora, so not really having a fun time of doing exactly that. We’re zooming in on Teen. Can he get all of these minions under the This is the height of the excitement in this game. He got all of them. All seven. Insane. Kobe is going to lose a lot of health here. Uh, not actually landing a charm on this one. This is not the trade he was looking for. But the end of the day, Genji starting up this dragon, but because Chovi gets chunked, I think they’re just simply going to have to regroup. Grubs are up as well on the top side of the map. So maybe they’ll just simply pivot to this and let that Chem Freak go. Either way, it looks like uh the Grubs are going to be the focus on both sides as Blondre going to lose a plate here towards the top side. Ruler is just making his life difficult as Duru is hovering making sure that he keeps his Corki safe. Kazan will start this up as AGL definitely with the priority on the grubs as we were talking about. Still might be able to make a a run for the drake as well. As you can see the blue vision top side and bottom side very good around these objectives but Canyon looking to make his way over wanting to take at least one of these as Genji also looking for the fight. Couldn’t quite get the knockup onto Tarzan there. Curo as they get into the backline. Canyon found no one with that cyclone either. It’s not exactly the fight that Genji were looking for, but still they take first blood. Still Shanks has to flash over the wall and still he’s looking to go down as Chobi needs to find the charm. He doesn’t quite get it, but still he gets the auto. It’s not fair. It feels like it went as well as it could for finally their kills start to come in and they even out the trade. Canyon gets some shellfish here off the back end of the fight and in the end it was pretty even between the two squads. And the cyclone wasn’t amazing. a lot of stuff whiffs and Genji I think could have had a way better fight had a lot of their big tools actually gone off but it still ends up being a pretty good turnaround for them because the grubs went over to AGL they wanted to get something back they so desperately needed to get something back here and now you’ve generated a pretty significant lead here for Chovi in this game but it’s still pretty close this is definitely AGL fighting back in a big way the initial part of the fight though is so split for AL it’s very weird yeah it definitely was uh this was kind of like three fights happening all at the same time. Ruler a bit zoned by Floundry. Keep in mind that this is four on four for most of it until hope comes up here on the civer. So four on four that are winning. They get a bunch of damage on Shanks. But Shanks, he’s got the the footwork. He’s dodging everything. Yep. And he’s now able to single out Ruler here as well who just wants to get himself out of here. Although he’s pretty dangerous. Magnustorm comes in. Seismic jump and Ruler is just dead. Didn’t have the flash from the previous fight. And so Al going to finally be able to take down the Corki here and now looking for a dragon. It feels like the winds are potentially starting to change like maybe there is a bit more in this series. And for the first time in a while in this series, Tarzan actually finds an opening where Canon is just not there. He’s just not able to actually match the the gank there. And there’s no cross mapap. So it’s just AL looking for a pick there. Ruler doesn’t have flash. He’s unable to get away from that shove. Finally gets taken out. The super rotation comes down as well. I mean, that was just completely under Al’s control and Canyon’s just doing his jungle. You know, he can’t impact the play. Keen is trying to continue the pressure here on the top side, but Genji get nothing in return. But with the resets, we’ll finally very late into this game take the first break. I mean, we’re just kind of trading objectives by the end of it all. uh the three grubs that did go over uh to the Renekton can be a bit of a issue a little bit later on for the side of AGL, but uh still a relatively even game. It’s kind of going to be the civer who’s getting out of control who has a call is very ahead on gold. Already has a kill and two assists. So kind of the ball is in Hope’s court in terms of trying to carry for his team. Also, Fandre is actually doing a pretty good job even though early on in the game he was definitely struggling against Keane. who was able to come back in a big way. And it’s going to be up against Jovian and Canyon, who are the two fed guys for the side of Geng. It’s it’s it’s Ari Wukong. We’ve seen a lot of uh duos make it happen uh in many different regions. This game continues to be annoying. So, it’s going to be interesting to see which story line does play out in this one. Look at the vision that AGL have on the top side of the map. This is really reminiscent of what we saw from Genji when they controlled vision on the top side in game one. This is the first time in this series we have seen Genji put on the back foot quite significantly in terms of map control and it comes down to that play onto Ruler. His second death of the game stabilization of Fandre here. It’s still a gold lead for Genji, but they don’t actually have full map control that belongs to AL on the top side right now. And let’s see how they utilize things because they’re the ones who also have this global TIA. So this next team fight is going to be really interesting. probably not going to happen for a while unless they’re able to find a pick angle here, but certainly AGL are in the right position, the right conditions to actually blow this game open on the next fight if they can keep that map control. Well, Canyon has been taking a lot of crabs. Uh that’s what I’ve seen recently. Otherwise, not too much as Genji holding on to a sliver of a gold lead, about 500 in it as some skill shots flying around. Kyle finally getting his eye in on that shattering strike. will be able to land it onto Duro and it is inconsequential. So mid lanes and supports hanging out in the top lane. You got an AD carry off in mid. Junglers are jungling and you’ve got Chi versus Flandre hanging out there towards the bottom side. Everything feeling pretty even. No one really finding big tempo leads or control of this game as it’s ping ponging waves waiting for the next objective. Speaking of which, that is going to be the uh Herald. It’s going to be up in a minute and a half. see who’s going to be able to get some control as already. It’s a gentleman’s agreement as far as the wards are concerned. Some deeper vision here on the side of Ag, but I don’t think Geng are really hurting for control at this stage of the game. You mentioned the call. It’s just cashed in. He had the Yall’s way way way accelerated in this game. Uh you can see ends up picking up the Zeal as well here. Has his boots now. He’s very very powerful. Talking about hope of course in this game has a significant I got them a gold lead. Yeah. And I mean AGL looking for this next fight here over Herald. They’re already grouped up. They already have the better vision on top side. This is where Genji are going to have to make a really tricky decision. You know, do they TP Kenan heavily commit? Look for the Canyon engage angle. Ruler does have his triforce here. So, it’s definitely playable, but this is a really tough fight. This is not going to be Genji having those wombo combos are just completely dictating the pace of the map cuz there’s also a Tia on the other side. Shanks can come through here. Unfortunately for AGL though, they did concede control. Like they had vision, but they did not actually seize control of the river early. And now Geng have a contest angle. Yeah, they definitely have an angle in this one. But it does feel like, you know, with the control that AGL have with their composition, especially the Shinja, it just feels like he can just run into brushes and be totally fine and even game states. It’s part of what makes him so strong. Um, a lot of pressure down on the bottom side as Tarzan is all the way down there. Tarzan’s just given this up. Like he’s not even anywhere near this. I think for Genji, they’re probably a little bit surprised by that as well. And Al just playing extremely safe, but it’s going to potentially cost them big as Canyon has an angle here. Yeah, Al looking to come in. I think now they’re realizing that the Herald has spawned, but it is going to be be given up on here by Geng. They’re respecting a whole lot as Tarzan finally does move his way in. Duro going to be their target as on the hunt has been popped. Duro trying to get himself out of there and he will be able to do so. Just using the heal actually still has the flash available. Can go for some cheeky plays with that death charge if he would like to as nowre off on his own. Keen moves up as well. 5v5 now a possibility as a Magnus storm doesn’t quite work and Keen takes that as an invitation. The hook to connect onto the jungler and it’s looking like a disaster here for A to start this one off. And they do manage to find finally Fandre getting in there. But is it too little too late? That’s the question is Hope will be able to get himself a kill. And now Ruler trying to get himself out. Man, that was kind of crazy, but it’s not going to work there for the AD carrier Geng. And Hope is looking for Chovi who’s walking around with about zero HP. Not entirely sure what just happened there as the back is going to come in here for Flandre. The clone from Canyon looking to try and save him. But I think the crocodile is just going to eat the monkey here as finally the flash is employed and Canyon looking to get himself out. That was a very wild fight. I mean H2 who even won they threw everything in the kitchen sink at this Nautilus and Juro’s like yeah okay cool story and we were looking at this like Jenzi were going to turn it around in a big way and just sweep the fight but that was not the case because Flandre just spun on all of them at the Watch Kyle in this moment decide he wants to go in here. Gets the shattering strike but then cancels his engage. Flashes away. Doesn’t get on top of Keen and Chi and Ruer are able to do a ton of damage. Butre being this big and this untouched getting this massive Q wins the fight for Ale. If he doesn’t get there, if he’s not able to make that happen, I think Genji clean this one up. Bandre had such a big part to play in this. And with the late Weaver’s wall here, the chase is good on Rul. The flash was incredible. Well, it was almost enough to turn it around for him, but it’s not quite there. That was a great salvage though by FAR cuz otherwise this game might have just ended. This finals might have ended, but the Renekton comes up big. Massive team fight damage. Almost 4,000 in the fight. That’s that buffed dominus, baby. It is absolutely insane. It’s just a tale of two top laners here in this series. Yeah, it really is in the series entirely. Like Fandre getting the Sony MVPs the last couple of days and Keane trying to get it today. But what’s going to happen? We got another brawl brewing. Yeah, second drake on the line here for Gen, but it is going to be a full 5v5 as the Magna Storm is decent, but the Cyclone is looking better. That is Tarzan getting the dragon, but oh god, the ricochets from Hope Keen getting cut down. Ruler suffering the same fate and Chi is the last man standing. Shanks looking to put him down as it’s a double here for the croc. Oh my god, Geng just fall apart at the seams. Okay, Charm not going to quite connect there, but Flandre moves in. Wants to give the kill over to Shanks. Good guy, Floundre. It’s been the same way, I swear, since 2015 when he was on Snake. He’s just a good guy. Bit of a whiff on this one for Geng though. That’s going to be the mid turret going down on top of the dragon. And it looks like we might be heading towards a series here in our grand finals with a near 3,000 gold lead now for Hope who did so much ricochet damage in that fight. Could take that turret. could take the Herald here very late, but they will secure it. And AGL are fully in the driver’s seat now. Yeah, it does feel like this time around Singi trying to scramble to fight for this drake, but this time Kyle gets that great engage and you see that the follow-up is right there. Flandre is unkillable. The ruler doesn’t do any damage at this point and uh yeah, he gets kind of bullied as well by Flandre and just breaks up the entire fight. They crash down straight into that banana brush and take control of the fight. The angle too at which Al had that dragon where they just held it. They’re like, “Yeah, I know you you’re not in smite range.” Canyon. Canyon allins towards it. Goes for his warriors tricker gets on top of the dragon, but it’s not in smite range. So, they just wait and take him out. And then Fandre gets in and it’s just super easy. Genty used all their tools to try to secure the objective and were unsuccessful and then didn’t have anything left for the fight. And now it is looking like a very uncomfortable position for the team that did have match point 40. Like that is absolute insanity. And yep, that last fight, that’s what did it. A massive influx of gold for Andre now able to knock down this outer turret that is only going to continue that aggression here for AGL as two turrets off the back end of that team fight as well here for AL. Just means that they have skyrocketed into the lead. Now it’s moving towards 5,000 after that top lane turret went down. Now Artan is going to spawn. A possible way back in for Genji if they can find something heroic, but also a way to really put the nails in the coffin here for Al. They can get control of that Articon and get that big buff. Yeah, it’s kind of crazy uh just thinking about all the great top laners we have at this tournament and how it does feel like it’s coming down to a headto-head between top laners in this best of five. And it’s crazy because Hope is the most fed guy on the rift. We’re not even, you know, we were talking about his damage and his ricochet damage and all that, but he doesn’t feel like the main character at this point. Genji looking for a dive here on a Shanks. Even committing Chob’s TP. They have to get there, but they will. They certainly will be able to kill Shanks, but at what cost is the question because the as we said, spawn towards the top side. And they don’t have it. They have one teleport, so they’re going to get the bottom inner turret as well. At least that’s the assumption here with Keen and Joy holding this push here as ADL are going to take the backs here. It’s going to be a slower Oticon. I like this decisive call. Is it a trade up at this point with a relatively low pedal count? I think it’s okay here for Gen. It’s not what they wanted, but I think making the call to say, look, we don’t have any top side control. They’re leaving this vulnerable member under a low health turret bottom side. Let’s all in on the bottom side. Look for that turret instead. Double turrets go over. Gen shore up some of that gold deficit. and now cut it nearly in half. Is the best choice they could have made given the circumstances. Yeah, for sure. It does still mean that AGL are very much in a commanding lead at this point. They’re going to get a bunch of those pedals up to 25. And it’s h it’s another crucial time in this game. We haven’t talked too much about the dragons, but looking to get that next dragon. It is mountain soul and then of course the baron spawn in 3 minutes. It does feel like AGL have total control over the map. There are a couple of wards that were just placed down here from Geni, so they should be able to clear those out. But yeah, I just I don’t I don’t really feel like Chovi and Canyon have an angle to carry this game. It just feels like the Floundre show in game number three. Yeah, looking a little bit rough here as well. I I mean, a lot of the focus here from Genji is on the things that they can get, right? Killing Shanks certainly one of those options, but right now Shanks is like a zero damage Kalia. He is not part of the equation when it comes to what’s dangerous. He’s the setup he and he’s the setup to potentially get picks, but then Flare is the one who really gets into the backline and keeps Ruler from dueling with the Tia. Keeps him from touching Hope, right? And the ways in which Genji have to come back in this game. The the margins are so thin, but again, they cut down that gold lead massively and they have to just kind of sit back defensively here for a while in this game and clear waves because they’re playing into this civer. So, the fact they were able to find two turrets is like the best case scenario I feel for them. And now they’re going to have the better group here on this dragon. We do have a rotating Tia here. Shanks is coming down. He has that weaver as well. Renekton’s on the flank here. A tough fight for Genji to win, but they’re going to stick the drake. Yeah, looking for that flank angle. They do have control vision. He does walk on in as Duro is waiting for him. Hook is going to connect max range here as they’re looking to blow him up before anything’s even started. And they do manage to find a Kyle gets a Magnus, but there is no one there to follow up. And now Keen is going to get thrown back. But it doesn’t even matter. The dragon goes over to Geng and Al. They’re just stun locked here by a Genji that have discovered how to team fight with this composition. Shanks and Opa still there. They can offer some damage back. D Rose going down exceptionally low and Hope still has those ricochets. Maybe I spoke too soon as Shi at full health is looking for the targets as Ruler will finally find one back. But these rocks are on the floor and Shanks is controlling the fight. The flash in from Keen is not going to work. Chov’s sideeps need to be immaculate. And there’s the flash forward to Boomerang for the double tap onto Ruler. And hope is holding on to this game. Val holding on indeed. Such an incredible end to that fight for the side of Ag. I mean that was looking all Geng. They they shut down the one guy we were talking about all game and Flandre. They take him out immediately. They used their burst damage, their pick potential excellently. And then AGL just barely able to eek it out towards the end of the SP. This is such an incredible call to drop dragon and go on to Floundre even though he’s going to get a massive Q. There’s just too much CCing the CC chain is there. Like you mentioned Atlas Kyle can’t really set up for any follow up here. They get the dragon as well from here. You could be happy to just walk away, but they want to get the wipe and get more. And this is when the outplays start to come through. Shanks is flash here. Beautiful against Chovi. Tarzan is able to absorb so much pressure. Duro falls low. Right. Canyon is 100% dead. Tarzan flashes for the kill. And then from here, you could still just kind of kite your way out, but look for the outplays. Keem flashes and whiffs here. And then, you know, at this point, you’re just trying to force to flash this way. Well, but that whip from Keen is so important. And they just will not concede the point. And the greed here from Genji is insane. They skill check and they lose. Yeah, Rand not too happy about that one either. And I can understand some of the stunned faces from the crowd because I mean as a playbyplay you often get into your mind what the vibe of a team fight right and who’s winning and stuff like that. I got it wrong. You know Geng were dominating but then it was actually a win for Al in the very end as you can see Hope is still so incredibly far ahead. 605 three items on the Civer and now Genji kind of reeling. It is still only a 2.3k gold lead and at 25 1/2 minutes that’s borderline meaningless. But there’s Artakan on top of it which is only getting more and more valuable as it is only Ag that’s going to be getting pedals from this point on. And there’s a lot of these intangibles that they have been able to take control of. But Genji do at least have some dragons that are starting to stack up. Yeah, they get that second dragon. Uh that’s a big part of that last fight actually that they were able to pick up the one. Take a look at the XP and the levels. It’s actually Hope on top. It’s all those kills, all those assists. He’s got the max bounty on him right now. And yeah, I mean, Genji, it was a good read to say, “Okay, AG, they love to go for these flanks. They love to come from so many different angles.” Finn was talking about it all tournament long uh on the desk. And they do they’re they’re fantastic at setting up the team fights, but Genji were able to get ahead of it and uh just, you know, they were able to do that. But they don’t have a real answer for Hope. Like we saw in that last fight, Duro was able to hook onto him, but it just got spell shielded. They don’t have that hard engage onto the civer who is basically untouchable at this point. They used everything on the Renekton and then Hope just didn’t whiff, man. He didn’t mess it up. He played so carefully. He was the last to flash to secure the kill, right? He was not playing defensive. He was playing defensively. He was not playing aggressively until he knew he had the guarantee as there’s a pick potential on Canyon. Yeah, Sh does come on through there as Canyon looking to try and make his way out. The Magnet Snorb doesn’t quite do it, but still the wall is going to come down and Al are looking for their targets. The Crescent Guard going to go in, but Al not quite able to get their teeth all the way in, but still they push them out. And now they’re going to look for a Baron angle. They have double control vision here on the approach to the Baron, and Genji are going to instantly TP back in, but I just don’t know if a contest is possible. Canyon has no flash. It’s coming soon, but I think they’re just simply going to have to give this up, which feels horrible because the dragon is 45 seconds away. They’re not going to be able to trade objectives here. They just kind of have to sit back and let Al have it. Yeah, in terms of trades, I mean, the the health trade was huge. They got a lot of summoners down as well, just trying to push them out of the jungle and essentially make it so there would be no contest. And that’s exactly what AG did. A did fantastically in that last fight. And the timing of this is great because they can just regroup, buy their items, and go straight to the mountain drake and really try to solidify that lead. It’s It’s still in touching distance for Genji, but you’re really beginning to see it float away in the hands of AGL here. Yeah, two inner turrets left on the map here. So, AGL after this Drake is secured can head up there, grab that extra bit of money, that could really break the camel’s back, as we like to say. They are just going to start this one and Genji have no interest. No interest in contesting this whatsoever. Minion waves are going to be the priority to make sure that this Baron gets as little value as possible. Some of the things I think we have to really be tracking of and watching now here for Genji’s potential miracle comeback in this game are Canyon’s flash, Chovy’s flash, like how do they get past the front line? How do they get past Vandre get a spell shield out of hope and kill him, you know? And there’s no teleport wards really. Like there’s one that’s very far away from the AL push here that you could try to go for as Chovi, but it’s so risky. It’s so greedy. This feels like it’s all but over here in this game. Flash forward on top of Keen. They saw that that stealth was on cool down. He tries to get himself out, but hope he had the Beyblades in the air and he’s able to take down the Aurora. Trophy flashing away. Doesn’t get the charm. And Hope is just a freight train. And these Nexus turrets are under fire. Al, they are not interested in the rest of the base. They just want to take down this nexus and look for a second to try and bring us to some silver scrapes. Gen will put up a bit of a fight, but it’s a flash away from Ruler. And that will expose the last Nexus turret here as AJ, they are not out of this without a fight. This game three was all theirs and this series just got interesting. We finally have a series on our hands. ATA finally woke up here at the SDC Arena. Wonderful stuff to see. It was a close game, but you again, just like when Genji were leading, this time it was AGL were leading and you could feel it the whole way through and Hope getting such a lead. Playing with such confidence in that skill check from Genji. That was the defining moment in the game when he and Shanks were able to outplay after what was a great collapse here on Defandre. Genji get the dragon but then get incredibly greedy and AL hang on through what was a rocky mid game. They had a huge lead. Genji fought back but this moment here is what sends them to that fourth game. Incredible resilience. Absolutely incredible stuff here from AL and for the last couple of games felt like maybe they hadn’t shown up today but instead they were fashionably late to make sure that they give us as much drama as possible. Now we’re going to go to a short break. When we get back, we’ll prepare for that game number four. 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Being a top leader means that you need to be adaptable in the way you play the game. Whether you are a carry or a tank, you have a really big part on the game. My favorite highlight moment in my career is the one and only panic I’ve had, which was actually against G2 as well with Darius. this MSI when I soloed killed Broken Blade on Atrox versus Warrick. It was pretty fun, not going to lie. I used to be a really I really like the design of the chambers of toughness like really tough guys. The champions I’ve excelled on in my role are casante that are both playmakers and also are like unique mechanics to to play them. Ambassador Renw is the type of that I like the most. To play as a top laner, you need to have a lot of game knowledge about the wave state and trading patterns. Knows how to put yourself in the game. And that’s a little bit hard. So, let’s go a little I grabbed another AGL fan. Welcome. I’ve been a Shanks fan for a very long time and I’m very glad that I’m able to see him to shine on the big stages. Where did you come from to watch today’s I work from Riad so luckily I was able to catch an AG fan. Do you have any that you want to say to Shanks? Number two, thank you so much. Welcome back to the esports world cup as AGA start firing off on all cylinders. Get themselves a hardearned victory over Gen G in game number three. Much to the chagrin of the Gen G fans. The gamers have showed up and all of them are finally gaming. Welcome back to the studio. Gon here alongside Finn and Medios after that last one. And again, you’re thinking, okay, AGL have this, but then some of these fights start to get close. Genji may be making uh a miracle comeback here, but not to be. They were denied a great job by AGL, the defending LPL champions, to close the door and force a game number four here, Medios. Yeah, this was a sick game. Um, I knew AGL had something left in the tank. I I didn’t want to accept a 3 0 for Genji and uh it was really Flandre who pulled it out. He was playing his Renekton against Aurora which you know playing against range tops can be pretty tough but he just managed to have so many good team fights and you know just got a team a lot of advantages in that part. When in doubt LPL Ren baby I mean I like the fact that they kind of went back to this really skirmish heavy style. They had the Shin Sha Ren on Talia which is just like you take any fight and as long as in the river you’re kind of winning it cuz Talia will come in and the some really good engagers. I really liked Kyle stepping up this game. I feel like he always went in really deep and locked down the key targets every single team fight and I felt like AGL was more synced this game. They were more willing to just when Genji starts to set up, they were attacking them. They didn’t really attack them after Genji had all set up. They were trying to beat them to the punch. And I feel that’s what you have to do against Genji. If you let them play their game, let them get the vision lines and control the river as they always do, that’s when the fight becomes impossible. So, you got to fight them before that happens. I thought AJ’s bot lane also had a really, really good game. I thought Hoop was super aggressive on the Civer, especially in the lane swap where they were 1v2 up against Aurora. they were managing to like chunk Keen out, force him to use his ultimate. Uh just prevent him from farming comfortably and uh yeah, I just thought they found really good angles to get on him. Yeah, I feel like this is a player that we didn’t really talk about too much in the buildup. Hope has been consistent and now standing out up against Ruler. Ruler had a couple of opportunities on the Corki to try and make some plays, but the spacing holding on to his summoners very very well on a civer who’s not mobile, right? You pop the alt, you can run fast, but no dashes there. Hope came up huge here in this game as we take a look at some of the highlights from that game number three. We start off on the top side of the map at Grubs early on. Yeah, here Nus gets caught a little bit out of position. He walks up and tries to find an engage, but here you see why Kyle just played so well. He went first before Duro got into engage angle. Kyle just went and forced him and made it a little bit awkward to fight. And this fight was really volatile. A lot of things going right for the the Renon here. He just gets all the right angles and ends up being a solid fight for AL. I mean that was for their Renekton show through and through. He just it it looked really bad for AGL in the beginning. I think Keen kind of just solo alted the support which wasn’t ideal but Renekton just being patient and then finding that window to get so much damage on everybody and just swing the fight was really good. Yeah. Next one here over at the Drake fight. We’re talking about uh Keen being MVP front runner. Don’t forget about the guy that’s won it the last couple days in Flandre. Yeah, if the last fight was the Renon show, this was the Reington Masterclass. He went so deep getting the stride breaker on so many people and he was just such a behemoth in these fights chasing this Cork in just really attacking the backline. This was the team fighting that I wanted to see from AJL. These different angles, these dive comps that just really separates the fights and kind of gets Genji in their structure to separate. Yeah, and you were waiting for Chroy to kind of pop off in that one that I mean when you’re the Ari, it’s that kind of midame fight. If you haven’t gotten the picks in the side lanes yet, now’s that opportunity. Misses the first charm. And then Fandre doesn’t hesitate, gets on the back line and decimates there. And then our final fight that we have here was one of the best ones where Genji looked like they were going to turn the tide at the Drake yet again. You blow up Andre, you don’t have to deal with the Renekton. And then they bite off a little more that they could chew. medias. I thought this was a great look by Duro recognizing that Al wanted to flank and just hitting that max range Nautilus Q. I think everybody’s been hit by a que that they didn’t think they should be and they were just able to quickly kill Renekton which should be, you know, winning for them, but I think the rest of AGL really stepped up, especially Hope. You know, it’s not easy to play these fights as Civer. Sometimes there’s a lot of threats. You’re pretty low range, but you know, this fight was just so down to the wire. You know, everybody’s about one shot and then he just gets off as much damage as he can and then finds Ruler with a really insane key flash at the end here. Beautiful. Can we get into slow motion? Can we Oh, amazing. Such a good fight from Hope there and really stepping up because I think when you look at his AJ roster, this is one of the guys you don’t really talk about that much. I feel like he’s going out of the raider a lot because Tarzan, Flounder, Shanks, even Kale, I think, is overshotting him a little bit. But you got to remember this guy’s worked his way back. He had a 2023 run with JDG where he kind of disappointed and worked all throughout 2024 and now stands on the ground the stage now in 2025. And I think you got to say he’s earned his flowers. Yeah, he’s uh definitely pulled them back on in on the civer. The placement was great. Uh, also just great to see life back in some of those guys that we know that can be so good for AGL. They need them there to go ahead and come up huge as uh we take a look at the stage now for the keys. I’m in front of the key crusher here before this finals concludes. And I’ve got all the broken keys here from the tournament here at EWC for League of Legends. These broken keys will be put into the Champions Trophy. Three of them to be precise. What are they going to do? Are they going to bring up their region or are they going to put the opponents that they crushed along the way? The question is there, but I can’t wait to see which ones are chosen to implement forever. Thank you very much. Again, remember, you get to pick three. The rest go into the resin underneath the totem for the whole year. So, uh, a very, very unique portion of the EWC format. However, you got to get the win. Gen still one win away, but AL able to claw back here. What do you think is going to happen, Finn? I’m a sucker for silver scrapes. I really hope we get five games today. I really hope AGL climbs back and I hope they can show why the LPL can still compete with the LCK at the highest level. Medios, I agree. I would like to see Silver Scrapes. I think AL proves that it’s not going to be as one-sided as it seemed like it was going to be. And I think they got one more in them. It’s not an easy feat to win the LPL. Ag has done that. Now they’re looking to get themselves into a game five to force the opportunity against Geng who are looking to close on out the number one seed from the LCK, the reigning back-to- back MSI champions trying to become EWC title winners. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Let’s see whether the dream remains alive here in game four as blue side has been chosen from Gen. That will continue. A bit of an uphill battle here for AGL, but still momentum is so important. Reverse happen because of that winning mentality that can seep in and AL looked so much better in the last game. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, this is exactly what we wanted, right? A series on our hands. CGL making their way back in. And I I’m very excited. A lot of our deskers here, they’re they’re feeling the hype, you know, the comeback potential as Joy looking to meditate a little bit before we do get into game number four. It’s game four of a fearless best of five. Always going to be fun. As we get down to the wire, I’m always most interested to see if these teams and these coaches can really create a comprehensive five versus five composition. It’s not always easy when so much is banned away. We mentioned earlier uh in the game three draft that it would be the last time that AGL has side selection. Genji will have it now here for blue side into game four. So they get that first pick priority. The rise is the mid laner now with the Tia gone, the Azir gone, Gallio, right? Annie gone. So Oriana is still decently strong, but the nocturn has already been lost to Fearless Span as well. And things are going to get pretty interesting here. I think Chroy’s going to showcase how wide his champion pool is for the remainder of this series. I would agree. The Scana has been a really big one for Canyon as well. So that one is going to be taken away. Has been on the ban list so far in this series. As we get into the picks, what is that coveted first pick going to be? That is the question especially now with so many champions. 30 have been fearless band and six just banned right now in this game. A lot missing as the victor is going to be chosen as the creme de la creme here for Geng. Yeah, I mean Wolfe was just talking about all the mid laners and how this pool is being chunked down quite a bit. I mean every pool is, but certainly the top tier midlaners are where you’re going to look. Shanks definitely having a great series so far, but also Chovi is they’re not the main characters, but definitely incredibly important. And you know, Oriana Noctturn take it away. Victor feels like the standalone best mid laner you would go for. I thought maybe with a couple more jungle bands, you would take a jungle pick here for Canyon first, but instead they prioritize for Chovi. Looking at the Oriana here for Shanks makes a lot of sense. If we’re just going down the tier list, we’ll have to see what it goes with. The question, yeah, becomes what’s the ball carrier here? You know, we’ve seen a lot of creative attempts with even stuff like Nefiri uh with this Oriana, but the main one in the Noctturn is gone. So, Jarvin is also banned. And they’re looking to set up shockwave bullet time combos. Like, that’s kind of the desperation we’re reaching into here in terms of setting up for dealing with this Victor scaling later on. But, this is very straightforward, very face up here for AGL. There’s a ton more flexibility in just having a first pick Victor that’s going to scale well no matter what. You could play the or still the ornaments are going to empower Chovi. You could play a slower frontto back comp and just try to avoid those combos. That may be the name of the game here. Just grab or a safe jungle pick and sit back and and try to outscale. I also don’t mind the just lock Sichuani Jax or Sichuani something that does a lot of damage and just play for side lanes. That’s exactly what they’re going to do, at least uh theoretically with this Jace pickup, which hasn’t seen as much success as it has in the past. As uh Brendan, you’re looking a little bit quizzical right now. Yeah, I just don’t think that Jace is in a good spot right now. He doesn’t do a whole lot of damage. They already have the shielding from the Orient. They’re going to grab a Poppy for the front line as well. It just feels like, you know, you mentioned the Jax. I feel like that could have been good, especially with so much taken off the board in terms of something that can counter a Jax. They try to get the Jace to give a good laning phase for Keen, but I I just don’t think it’s in a great spot. I’m a big fan of Poppy as well. So, uh I’m on the AGL uh draft hype train at the moment. It does weaken uh a potential Gwen pick. You know, Gwen is still available actually deep in the series, but you can just say, I’m going to lose pryo, but I want to play a tank into this Jace and absorb that pressure and then be able to to empower my comp later on. I don’t hate the Jace here, but I I do agree with you that it’s a little bit weak for what it looked like Genji wanted to build with that Victor first pick. We’re so low on engage here. Leona is going to be banned away. This is completely unsurprising. Uh I don’t think Poppy MF is a lane you’re going to expect to see in the bottom lane, although it is technically possible and playable. And we’ll see what comes in that last ban spot here for the side of Genji as the Lucian is now taken away. the safe. Zia is gone. Yeah, you got to be looking at stuff like Ezreal now. I mean, Zary, we’re going to be digging pretty deep into the AD carry champion pool. It felt like, you know, with the blind Jace that Ruler and Duro wanted to kind of know what they were dealing with 100% in the bottom lane before they chose their bottom duo. Might not get a full chance to do that if the support isn’t picked here. Looks like Atrox thought about, but then Gragas also another good choice here. Gwen being totally ignored for now, but maybe he’s just doing a bunch of hovers before he selects it. I feel like Gwen is in a really great spot right now, even into Jace. I I don’t like playing Gwen into Jace because of the pryo you lose, but I do agree with you that she is going to be more relevant later on. Blitzcrank being the heavy consideration and Kyle will lock it in. So, this is completely blind. By the way, uh we have no idea what Ruler and Duro are going to be playing and it’s super face up. So saving that counter pick, but they already know what the top laner is. Kind of a weird choice. Almost feels like they weren’t sure and they just made a snap decision. Yeah. Um the Blitzcrank is kind of odd when things are uh certainly still pretty up in the air as far as that bottom lane is going to look like. It also limits the flexibility of this Poppy one step further, right? Because at that point in time, she was being triple flexed in top jungle and support. The Kaiser is going to be locked in though here for Ruler. certainly a champion that he made his name on um years past. What is Duro going to be pairing alongside it. I also feel like having to get up close and personal against this AJ composition is a very scary pro prospect and there is a Shen to be at least hovered and locked in here for Duro. I mean there just really weren’t a lot of good options, right? He had to pick something but I think that Shen is pretty good. You know, you can at least provide a front line. You can still build tanky. you have the ability to dodge a lot of at least the damage from the MF a bit. Um, not the best choice, but again, not a lot of options if you go for that full crit build for the Kai’Sa and you have the shields to come through from the Shen plus her shield from her ultimate. Feels pretty decent as we’re going to lock in Cho’Gath as the final pick here for the side of Ag. Pretty weird one here, especially into the Jace. normally used as a anti-tank counter pick. It is also going to be very difficult to disrupt what Genji are trying to do in this draft because they have so much range. Now that the Cho’Gath has shown, maybe you actually have the argument to go for that more AP mixed build here for Ruler and just Jace and Kai’Sa pick or poke rather away from this comp because they need to combo the MF to really do damage. You can just kind of keep this composition at bay. I got to say, of the drafts we’ve seen in this series, these are by far the weirdest and the ones that lack the most cohesion. Yeah, it’s um it’s a pretty strange situation. There is like I don’t know microclms of like things that work well together like the Killer Instinct plus stand united, right? That’s a big shield on a Kaiser. That’s cool. Bring your help with you, right? If you can actually uh you know get some plasma on someone. So that is going to be an opportunity. Um, but otherwise I’m feeling like elsewise it’s a weird draft here from Gen outside of being able to outrange a bit with the wombo combo to come on the other side. And I just feel like Poppy wasn’t remembered by Geng. That champion is way too strong um to be getting through once we’ve gotten here to game four and I think has so much power to deny Arctic Assault to make sure that people cannot get out. And Killer Instinct is a lot harder to utilize uh when the Poppy gets on top of you. So Tarzan going to be absolutely huge in this game. I hadn’t really considered the Cho’Gath followup to the shock wave, but I guess I guess it’s a one. I mean, Hood was the one that showed that. Okay, that was when Faker’s shockwave finds them all. But actually, it was Wol’s Quickness that found them all and Hon’s Rupture that also found them all. And then the Shockwave did also find them all. But that was there. That was part of the combo. Still counts. And the Cho’Gath is going to count for something. I I think if Flandre can get a big Cho’Gath game in for game four and tie this up at two, then it’s absolutely a tiebreaker our two top laners. We got We got Unsealed Spellbook for Kyle, Unsealed Spellbook for Fandre. Fandre’s ult is also a smite. Oh god, they are not losing a smite fight. That’s I copy. They could just ult the enemy jungler away. I think they want to get the objectives. I basically they want to get the objective. You’re exactly right. I Well, you got to you got to be on position on the objectives to actually do that. You definitely need to hit Canyon with it. So maybe Canyon needs to build a Banshee’s Veil. Maybe that’s the answer because then like Ruler can killer instinct back. He can stand united back if you do it and the other two can teleport back, right? And so Canyon just cannot get alted away. Look at that sign, by the way. The cover up of the zero. Yeah, she meant that from the beginning. I think she was prepared. 3-1. Um, we’ll see. We’ll see if that happens. Um, yeah, you were talking about ball carriers as well, by the way, Wolf. Um, you know, it it kind of just feels like Oriana by herself in this game. It doesn’t really feel like Yes, the Poppy can get in there. Yeah, Poppy slams someone into a wall and boom, carry the ball in. You know, they they didn’t have a lot of options. I mean, they could if they really wanted to opt into it, maybe they pick something like a Zack or like a even a VGO could have been better. So, yeah, just Oriana choice as just a straight up control mage for the mid lane. Nothing nothing crazy there. No big combo, but yeah, the Oriana does have a lot of wombo combo potential with the rest of the team in the team fights at least. So much of this is going to be about when Genji decide to go in, like when they decide to commit that Kai’Sa ultimate, when Chovi decides to go to commit in and actually start doing damage because if they just sit back and poke with the Jace and the Kai’Sa, then you know, Shanks doesn’t necessarily have that angle because there is no carrier, he is not necessarily going to be able to get into shock wave range. So that’s what I’m most concerned about here for AL cuz both these comps are wonky, right? They’re a little bit weird. They don’t have strong themes necessarily, but it’s going to be about control over the objectives. And sometimes you could just say, I don’t care and I’m going to press smite three times and take the objective away and feast. But what if you die? Then it might not actually necessarily matter that you got the objective. But yeah, that’s what I mean. The feast being essentially the third smite in this case. All right. Well, I mean, I guess he has unsealed, so like four smites. Sorry for miscounting even though I was the first one to bring this up. Still too many smites. is still absolutely too many smites as we have a return to lane here from Shanks here in uh in mid towards the top side. We do have Keen putting on the pressure here towards the top side of the map. But uh Flandre doing decently well still farming things up. You know which pick I feel like feels the best in this whole draft is the Seduani. Uh we it doesn’t have like a huge amount of synergy in terms of like melee lanes and stuff like that, but it just offers really reliable engage, which there is. So there’s just not a lot of left. It’s it’s fearless. We drafted what was it? Six engage champions for the support role over and over and over again. And of course, a lot of our junglers are also gone. And Strundle’s also gone. So you just feel like Canyon, you know, he can get fights started extremely reliably. He’s going to be a front line. He can just kind of throw out his alts and there’s really not so much that EGL can do about it. Feels like a great pick here for game four. Yeah, he is insanely good or she but you know in this case can insanely effective into MF as Tarzan is going to be flashed. That was a great timing there by Joy. Couldn’t go south. Kyle was coming up the river. Don’t give a wall for him to smash you into and so it looks a bit weird walking straight towards the jungler, but it works out. Still has to use the flash. Though it’s not uh exactly the greatest of situations as Keen putting on the pressure here towards the top side. Feral scream from Floundry to try and clear out these minions, but it is still a plate going over to Keen. The biggest the pressure is there. Yeah, the biggest winner for me, Val, is I really like all the points you made about the SG. I think they’re all valuable, but I and I think she’d probably be a second for me. But I think the Jace, which we were a little bit skeptical about initially, is the biggest winner for me cuz getting on top of this pick, trying to threaten him or win lane against him in this early game, is just so difficult. Canyon is unfortunately going to take an extra turret shot here. Still looking to commit to the dive. Yeah, doesn’t actually have the the frost armor after that, but still going to go for it. Here is Landre. Bit of an early flash and isn’t going to be able to make it as if Canyon dies. It’s purely because he took that turret shot early. Bit of a disaster there as they go one for one as now Chovy in trouble. No flash available as Tarzan looking to make his way in. And the hook goes wide. Oh man, Chovy reads him like a book. You got to hit those. If he hits that, Chovi is dead. And then you’ve got Canyon down, you’ve got Chovi down. You’re really clapping back Geng after the early plays, but uh just wasn’t meant to be a very close one. Like the dive, you know, this is what you want to do. You want to play around your J. It’s Kane’s G. He is so fantastic on this pick. We don’t see it all too much nowadays, but game four of Fearless comes out once again. Yeah, he is going to have to rush back, but he’s going to miss a few minions here. Not going to be the end of the world, but it’s no canyon w cannon wave. And uh it’s going to be a little bit of extra damage down there on the bottom side as we do have those lane swaps to come through. Do like Al’s position a lot better after they were able to get that counter kill there on the top side. Really helps out with this early game tempo. Looking forward to seeing what R is going to be able to get done this game. I think that his Corki was very muted in the last one. Had some flubs as far as the team fights as well. So I think going to really need to lock in on this Kaiser here as that side step that shows that maybe things are working out a little bit better. Void sticker connecting but just a little bit of poke damage onto Al and Hope really has been phenomenal. Uh the last last game especially looked exceptionally good. So he is going to have a big target on his back and Ruler can certainly find assassination angles onto this misfortune if she does decide to ult in opportune time. Benji pushing out here towards the top side of the map. And on the bottom side, Tarzan getting as much vision as he possibly can. Genji revenge for T1. We’ll see if they can do that. Definitely got off to a great start. I think that AGL coming to life in game three was exactly what we needed to make this series uh a very interesting one. would have been a little bit depressing to get another 300 um here at the esports world cup. I think LPL fans legends. Yeah, we’re probably not hoping for the tradition to to be made here in our second year as uh it’s definitely a big bounce back here for AGL. And another hook will miss. Yeah, that’s thanks to the ward more than anything as the shadow dash able to get Duro to safety. Shave just to soften up Trovy in the mid lane. kind of like that play from Shanks keeping the pressure up as much as he possibly can. Do see this from uh Oriana’s quite a bit when they’re playing pretty aggro, but Trophy is not too worried about it. He is 6 in the lead and is going to be able to retain some control as Ruler. Supercharger now on cool down as Kayle looks for the hook doesn’t get it. That was a greedy one as he wanted to take ruler with right in front of him. And now the taunt is going to come in. Canyon does have that glacial prison. The flash forward on top of hope does get the flash out from him as the perafrost to come on forward and oh dear that’s a goal in my country still doesn’t actually matter as they manage to lock down the kill onto the blitzcrank and give that kill over to ruler. Chovi dies in the mid lane though. Yeah, what happened there? Ganked by Tarzan as he wasn’t able to impact the top side play but he is able to get that kill onto Chovi. Still flashless from that earlier exchange. Now we have a fight over Grubs. Yeah, these engages, these answers are happening everywhere as Duro actually just doing the world’s shortest uh stand united. Um he was already united. Um we should tell him stand united. Ah, so he was he was sitting or slouched. Yes, absolutely. Okay, so he’s now standing united. Nicely done. Um better than sitting as Fandre taking a bit of damage here from Keen is ahead in farm but not by that much. Right. I think uh is going to be pretty happy with how this game has gone thus far despite being a bit of a punching bag as Kyle looking for a bit of an angle. Can he outplay it yet again as against the wall is Chroy and that is not what you want to see. Still not exactly taking that much damage and the turrets being tanked here by Tarzan. Shanks with not very much damage at this point with only a catalyst. So Chroy just is fine. Tarzan here with the push. Chi has no flash. Has only his ultimate which offers a lot of damage back. It’s not quite enough. Yeah, you can see him scratching his head there. Not happy with the way that one played out. Just gets caught out in a position where he didn’t expect it. This is the gank on the top side where Canyon did kind of score a goal a little bit later on. But they do get the kill at least onto Kyle eventually. As you can see, he’s just mentally in between the both of them because they want to get that kill on Kyle and then al hope, but not quite able to do both. They still get the kill on a Kyle, but AGL do get at least the kill onto Chovi in mid, which is going to be fantastic. Gets Tarzan uh to that first item a bit quicker. Oh, Ruler hook. He’s going to connect. Kyle finds that one as the flash has to be used. The silence comes in, but Ruler is going to be okay. Actually using the barrier a little bit late to make sure that that doesn’t get destroyed by the ulti. But still, that is a lot of summoner spells now missing here from Ruler. only catch the wave down including Duro’s heal he uses at the very end and that is definitely a huge win especially because ruler has to back and no one can catch the wave that’s incoming here’s no real answer I mean Keen doesn’t have TP chobi does not want to TP bottom so this is going to be some additional plate gold going over to hope for sure as well as some deny of the CS if Keen had TP it could go down to answer instead they’re going to try to make a cross mapap play here before that swap back here ontore but is just going to get out. Yeah, he’s just going to run real fast. Tarzan in position as well. And in fact, the cavalry is about to arrive. Kyle will be coming out of the fog of war and this is dangerous now for Geng. Canyon wanting to make his way out. The stepass presence still there and the knockup means that he is not going anywhere. Tarzan just holding that W to make sure that there was no Arctic consulting away. Al they managed to get the feats of warfare yet again. I mean they they saw him coming a mile away. Now Shanks is not going to expect this. I mean they have snuck into this brush. Can they catch him off guard? No. Shanks smartly going to back away. I mean he has flash and the only way they could really engage on that as if Keen like flash hammered him back in and he’s just going to be able to react to that. So unfortunately I think optimistics to try to make that happen. Maybe could have gotten his flash but ultimately will just be a free escape there for Shanks who picks up his broad of ages and Al going to take this dragon here on the bottom side. Another late first break here as the action has mostly been mid and top in this game. But some of the plays we’ve been seeing here for Genji are relatively halfhazard, right? A lot of disrespect on where Tarzan is on the map. And Genji have been in control of so many games this series and so many games this tournament. They’ll get back to their MSI as well. This is what they’re known for is getting a lead and never letting it go. But in even game states like this, if you make those aggressive plays and the enemy is ready for you, you end up tossing some of those leads away. I mean, Keen had a pretty significant one, but now he’s actually technically behind. Yeah. And there’s actually uh we just saw there the vision toggle actually really good to illustrate the fact that Al have a lot of information. A lot of these wards uh were swept out. Those couple that we saw just there, they weren’t as somehow he’s out of vision. That was uh that was kind of cute. So just going to be backing. Canyon goes back gets the hard steel completed. FLre in a similar boat on that front and Tarzan he’s also getting stronger and stronger on this Poppy dangerous. Yeah definitely a big vision game up on the top side which was very nicely shown by our observers mentioned by you Atlas. uh does feel like uh Kyle is trying to fight back in terms of the vision game, especially for Blitzcrank, right? Like it’s so important that you know exactly what angle they’re coming from. You want to deny as much vision as possible. He’s got cleansed, too. It’s so low risk for him to be out here like this. Cleanse the uh the Jewani ulted him, he’d be totally fine. Now they’re looking for Keen. Yeah. Looking to try and overload here as Keen clears out the wave instantly. in Stand United means that uh there is no aggression at all to be coming on through. So this is what Genji’s composition can do, right? You can turn on a dime. If you try and overload, then there are a lot of options for answering. Still, that’s a long cool down. See what Al can do. With that now on cool down, they get it pretty comfortably here without investing too. Yeah, you know, funnily enough, I feel like if they waited for Agl to commit to the dive, like to actually use a bunch of stuff and get turret aggro, maybe they could have turned that one around. The Kaiso was running up as well and Ruler could have joined the fight with his ultimate. And it’s Grasp Jace, you know, he he’s not the tankiest, but if you wait just a couple of seconds, wait for the engage to actually come through and then use the sand united to to get some of that shielding through and maybe keep them alive, maybe you can actually get a counter dive going. Yeah, they they react almost too quickly and so AGL just they just ran away and they didn’t have to spend anything really for that play. I I I feel like, you know, when we look at the game state here and and the nice plays we’ve seen from Ag, the the lead they generate is somewhat small, but it’s been a pretty good start for them in this game. A lot of it’s been through trickery, right? It’s been through some mistakes from Genji. We haven’t seen it really through a true 5v5 fight, which is the big issues and concerns and worries I had for their draft. So, you know, don’t count your hit your your tickets before they’re hatched here in this one because I do feel like we haven’t yet really seen what this uh composition is necessarily going to look like when we do hit those 5v5s where Jenzi are playing a little bit of keep away playing through this Jace. We are seeing the Kraken Slayer build to come out here from Ruler who almost has his completed uh cull can still later on build an Ashers too. We’ve seen some of those teched in late as third item, but not going to be there for a while. But AL with the control they have, I think they should really hold on to this because that empowers the blitz crank, that empowers the shock wave engages. All right, let’s see what Genji can get done as the Rift Herald has spawned now. Hook is going to come through and Ruler just caught out. Killer Instinct going to be used as the flash bullet time is going to secure the kill. They do take a bit of damage off the back end. The glacial prison was there, but I think that Rift Herald was earned by AL. I think so. And that’s the vision game. You don’t you don’t know where the Blitzcrank is. You’re going to walk forward like that. You’re going to get punished. And Ruler again killed, but also loses summoners again. So, he’s another vulnerable target for anything followup wise that Al can send through. They are not going to need the Rift Herald to get this turret. And the mid lane is going to be the next target where they can drop it to potentially get a two Drake lead here to use that pryo on this next dragon. And things are looking up and up for them. Yeah, it’s it’s really interesting to see Kyle having so much success on this Blitzcrank. I mean, fantastic hook once again. The vision game that we have been mentioning all game long coming through once again. And remember, he only picked this Blitzcrank when he only saw the top side of the map. And we were like, huh, interesting choice. You know, we don’t we don’t exactly say, okay, Kyle is the Blitzcrank guy, but he’s certainly making a name for himself on this pick here tonight. Yeah, it was like a solo Q lock in. He’s like, no, no, just trust me. I’m good. I’m good at the crank. And uh trust Give him the crank. So far, I think we’re going to have to continue to trust. But it’s one of those fights where it’s a win for AGL out of the trickery, right? Out of the vision game, out of the pick potential. And that’s the kind of lead they’re going to keep holding on to. There’s a TP is going to be committed by Chovi. Okay, they just want to take this turret. They might be able to get first brick actually as Rift Herald is going to go down in mid. They’re going to be able to get the charge, but the turret does go down. So, no feats of strength just yet. as there’s still one more objective needed to be pick up picked up by Ag and two if Genji want to be able to claim it as this uh this Rift Herald is really getting put through her paces. I don’t know if there’s any way that Jinder can stop this dragon from going over and charge two turrets. Two turrets plus the top turret that’s basically dead here means that attempt from Chi comes at such a heavy price cuz that is going to be the objective feat of strength to come here with this dragon. Like they get everything on the play. Okay, so that’s going to mean a balloon of the gold about a,000 now in the lead for AJ, but they’ve got two dragons, a mountain soul once again, I believe. Is that like our second or third so far this series? Quite a few mountains. Pretty mountainous. Um, but that is going to mean a whole lot of durability, especially for Fandre. My goodness, this uh Choath could become monstrously big in this game if they’re able to stack that one up. So, Soul Point coming up next. See whether Genji can get themselves into a position to fight for it because right now looking pretty muted. Ke finding a shock wave onto Tarzan and Taran um saying you what uh to that one. I’m pretty sure. Yeah. I mean, this is just the best position you can be in as AGL. You took down the mid turret. It’s just going to make Blitzcrank value skyrocket in this game. And so, you know, Reer was already having trouble farming in mid. He’s been having trouble farming in mid this entire tournament. And uh now he really is not going to have a great option to do so. Chov’s in the side lane, but Ruler, you know, already three 300 rather gold behind his opponent in Hope. And I do worry about this Kai’Sa. At least Chovi is doing a decent job. And of course, Keen kind of got this free lane into the tank Cho’Gath where he’s farmed up. But again, uh haven’t seen too much Jace value at this point in the game. So, kind of just waiting it out, farming it out here in this mid game. Chang does end up trading this turret while also deleting a lot of those minions uh so that a little bit less farm will go over to Gen. So, it’s a trade of turrets, but I think this is still pretty good for AL considering how much they’ve already gotten. And the map control on the top side that comes with that turret take. Look at the triple wards there uh on the top side makes it difficult for Keen to step up here. He’s finally going to complete that Muramada uh stacking in just a moment here with a few more of these waves coming through. But the leads you can really feel here for AG. The question is, is it enough of a lead? 1,000 gold, two dragon stacking lead here to be able to win 5v5s consistently into this composition here for Genji that punishes them so hard if they’re out of position. If they lose map control just once, like if Genji wins one team fight, they get the vision control. This game turns on its head instantly. So, while it’s an amazing position for AL, don’t get me wrong. They definitely can’t rest on their laurels in this one. They need to make sure they can continue to hold on to this. Staying vigilant I think is going to be aim of the game here for AL. But if they do I mean the amount of control you do have when you get control of the map right with the fact that Poppy’s Keeper’s Verdict is going to be so strong and the Blitzcrank always demanding respect if you can’t see him. It’s such a big deal and AL now with control of this top side has been very very powerful and is once again on the rift spawned in. It’s going to refresh wards and come back. Okay, getting softened up a little bit by some of the poke from Genji. Yeah, should be a decent amount of poke coming off from you’ve got Victor, you’ve got Jacea. Yeah, if you can see where to poke, you can see Gingi is really struggling to clear, but they are going to get this vision away. Yeah, Ruler didn’t want to risk it that time around and you can’t really blame him as death ready to come on through. Hope moving around thinking that maybe they’ve got a bit of a window on Troy here. slowed down by the make it rain as Fandre lumpers his way forward and Shanks looking for that back timing does manage to pick up his crimp bloom is now looking to join this fight two items now intact gets them before Chroy look canyon he’s just in the enemy jungle right now is he going to find Jens Shanks rather and take a 1 v one or something he has snuck in here this is very risky but it may pay off he’s seen though that’s going to force a TP comes in from Kobe who makes way back with his Leandre and toe. It took a long time though. It was a slow play, but Genji actually get control over the objective. It took a really long time. It was very methodical, but this is the type of fight where Genji can use their poke. They finally have vision control and they’re going to force AL for the first time to come to them. And come to them, they must. Yeah, Tarzan going to get stunned up there by the gravity field. Can they manage to get this as they knock them all away? But is just stolen. And Gingi, what was the plan? We knew that the Poppy was going to be there. He just flashes in and takes their lunch money. We knew also that they had about 50 smites. They had so many smites and they only needed one. They just had Tarzan just straight up smite it. And you know what I mean? We talked about this so much. We thought that EGA would need position on an objective before really being able to secure them. But not clearing out all the vision is very unlike Genji. They leave a ward directly in the pit. AGL saw everything and it was the easiest setup for them to just poppy knock away and smite it here. So that’s a free anacon over to AGL. You’ve got to consider the keeper verdict angle in a draft like this and be prepared to deal with it. But they decided just to burn as quickly as possible at the end of the day. Al big winners here again. Well, this time Tarzan doesn’t have the ulti available for this dragon fight. Let’s see whether Genji can take a little bit more control this time. The gravity field does go down. Death rays layered on top here. The poke is landing as Genji now try to get some control. Hook not quite going to connect there as in goes Duro does manage to get the taunt as there’s the shock wave to finish off the Shen and Kyle is actually able to limp his way out of there. The Arcane Storm getting some work done. Killer Instinct there from Ruler gets the shut down onto Blondre. Kyle still alive though in this fight. Chovi looking a little worse for where is Tarzan now going to turn away from his former teammate and look for his as Genji look to back off. There is the okay point blank ulti comes on through as canyon I don’t think he’s going to be able to do this alone but he does manage to get at least one of them flashes away now as Tarzan absolutely massive steadfast presence comes in and oh my goodness the buckler is what finishes off this jungler and Genji they get the worst end of this trade as well it’s just such a it’s such a rough fight to try to take has to do everything in the fight he gets incredibly low maximizes his damage as Chaos Storm is decent. But Genti were in no way, shape, or form set up to fight that as they’re looking to deny this dragon now. But I just don’t think they have enough between this Victor and Shen. Tarzan is a jungler. He has smite have smite and Duro did not have smite set up here. But look at this fight again because so much of this is about the fact that Jeni are trying to do multiple things at once. are trying to poke but also hold this dragon and Chobi has to position really well and then they engage instead of waiting for Chobi to be able to do more damage in this choke. Duro basically sacrifices himself for that and then watch how much heavy lifting Chobi has to do in this fight as Tarzan is on top of him wailing on him. Really goes in for the ulta puts himself in a burnable spot and Chobi can’t help. Everybody’s solo has to then flash away. Wants to get out of here. Has the blast cone but he just leaves his teammates to die on the top side of the map and Shanks no fear here. Yeah, it’s just a very messy fight. I feel like it was a bit desperate of an engage and AGL were just so ready. Like so much went into the Cho’Gath and Blondre is like, “All right, if you want to hold on to me, sure thing, buddy.” I mean, now you’re totally out of position. You’re super low and it was just in this extended fight. By the way, Tarzan not checked at all. Just a really tanky Poppy doing a ton of damage. I think he did the most damage in the fight and he’s a Poppy. and he just sat on top of Chovi like the half of the fight down to like zero health as Ch’s trying to push everybody else back. 4,400 damage for the Poppy. He’s an absolute monster. The fact that he finishes off Canyon with a buckler at the back of the head as well must have been very cathartic as the Baron has spawned about 20 seconds ago. Hasn’t been started just yet, but you saw some jostling as we did have the picture and picture there. So going to defend this outer turret and everyone’s favorite first item Poppy build here. It just means he’s doing so much. He’s super sustainable. Four kills on this Poppy as we group up for the Baron. That residual vision here from the skull crab is going to feel pretty nice here for the side of AGL. They know there’s no way that even with this Leandre’s Victor with Rod like that this could be burned down by Genji. They have all the information now. They’re just going to clear this vision away. And we talked about it a lot, but AGL have really never given up that that control. There was that one fight on dragon where Genji had a little bit more, but kind of botched the execution. But since then, they just keep holding on to this and it makes it so hard for Keen to hit shock blast. Like look at him. Oh my goodness. Okay, Canyon going to be the target. He’s the jungler. That could mean Baron. And they do take him down. There’s the nom nom from Flandre and Al. That was the target that they wanted. They get it simply and now they’re looking for even more. The keeper’s verdict is nothing, but I don’t know whether they really wanted them to go away because Al kind of want to kill them all. Duro getting into that back line as there’s the knock up on Ruler, but he takes down Kyle now a second to come in as Tarzan’s on top of him. Will the passive be procked? It will as the Alcane Storm doing so much work and Geng. They are just going to ace them. Yeah, that was on my card. What a fight. Incredibly low ruler. Chobi does 4,000 damage as he just kites his way through. And Keane could not have played that better on the chase. What a scrappy broken up fight. I was watching it. I didn’t want to believe. I didn’t think it was going to happen. I didn’t think it was possible, but they just barely pull it off. Oh, you got to watch Ruler in this one as well. I mean, this is incredible. Now use so much in this fight to get the kill onto the jungler. And just take a look at Ruler. He’s in the backline. Nobody’s checking him. And Tarzan’s like, “I’m the guy in this game, not you.” Instead, it’s Ruler picking up thousands of gold. The triple kill into the quadra by the end of it all. And he’s just calm and collected. Doesn’t even have anything special to say. And look at this in life. They take the baron. And even how much money that was insane. Chobi dies there. He does so much damage before he goes down. The arcane storm stacks up as part of why Ruler is able to do enough damage to take Tarzan out in the first place and continue to clean up. So much damage from Keen though. Why is nobody talking about this guy? He is just a huge huge impact in that last fight. Just completely untouched. There’s just too many threats here and the fight was so split up for AGL. This is the team fighting power of this Genji composition when we reach this stage of the game. And now for the first time they take a massive gold lead. I’m pretty sure Ruler just went back and built Terminus outright and a GA and a yacht and a mansion at the same time. Why not? That is ridiculous. He’s now four items to the two and a bit that Hope has put together. This guy is massive. And with a G there for the extra layer of safety, it’s the game went from very straightforward for Al to quite difficult. Uh, you can tell why Jingi are sometimes taking these crazy fights where it doesn’t look like they have an angle because they just know that guys like Ruler are fed enough that if they find the right angle, they can get the job done. The angle the previous fight to go all in on the Cho’Gath was not it. But in this one, oh boy, he just got so much money. And in a broken up fight, Kai’Sa sometimes is queen, right? I mean, she’s just able to do way too much, especially this Fed. And also, if a hook lands onto Canyon, maybe that isn’t really what you want. Genji have control over this this angle, they’re going to get the banana brush control. And now, like for what feels like the first time this game, you just can’t walk towards this team. The keeper’s verdict is desperation at best. And Gend won’t get their first dragon here. If Al tried to force into that choke point, it would have been the end of the game. But look at the difference between fighting against vision and trying to to face check with Canyon and try to look for those wards versus having full control, having Keen with the angle he wants, having Bruer able to follow up on anyone who steps over the line. The zone control that the gravity field gives Chovi. This is just a completely different scenario. They still have Baron. Yeah, this is exactly what you were warning everyone about and the fact that we needed that constant vigilance as Ruler does have to utilize the flash to get out of the way of the hook. Good respect there from Ruler, but won’t have that tool for later on in this game. The rupture just trying to hold these minions at bay as another hook is going to come on through. This one used on that siege minion be able to take that one away. And so now Flandre looking a little smaller as the Cho’Gath really wanted to make this one work. And look at this desperation here as the glacial prison comes on down. Canyon looking to try and just brute force this inner turret. He should be able to do it as Tarzan comes over and Genji say, “Yep, that’s what we wanted.” And a 3,000 Baron power play here as the dust settles. And my goodness, Genji well and truly back in it. And I’m actually surprised because we had a look at the gold grab and the biggest the gold lead for AGL was was about 2.3k. So they do manage to get things like this which is not necessarily represented by the gold which does give you a bunch of extra power. But uh yeah, the gold was never that far in their favor. To me, the gold was less important than the map control and the vision because the map control and the vision allows them to take those objectives, right? They had control over basically every objective this game. They had all three dragons. But once you lose that fight, you lose control. Like that’s when the game really swings. That’s when the pendulum goes back towards Genji’s side. And it’s that incredible turn there that that scrappy fight that Jenzi were able to clutch out just through raw mechanics frankly in a lot of ways in that one that suddenly put AL in this position with the draft where it feels unplayable. You know, who do you hook? Who do you set up with? Who can you keep his verdict? Such a hook rule. That would be a good one. I think that would be good. Uh I don’t even know if that would matter at this point. Maybe Keen based on this damage. What is going on with Keen? Like 30k in this game. Wol was shouting his name as we were all looking at Ruler. I mean, the two of them just able to do so so much. And I said it before like Keane’s just been given a free game essentially. Like he he laned against tank Cho’Gath who was sitting there feasting and kind of doing nothing. And we know what Cho’Gath does, but it does mean that his opponent kind of just gets to sit back and relax. And when it’s Jace, it actually, you know, begins to really pop off in this game. Some of that damage was on hitting a Cho’Gath, but most of it was just on team fights, but not from Poke because he couldn’t see. Now he can see, now he can poke. That number is just going to get bigger in this game as we fight for neutral objectives. A minute 20 before Baron, 2 minutes before the next mountain drake here for Geng. You can see Al are already concerned about trying to to wipe some of this vision away because the double threats of these objectives are so frustrating to deal with for them as they lose control everywhere on the map. Oh yeah. Uh bit of double poke landing there onto Hope, but he’s got a blood thirst, which is a pretty good answer to it. Death Ray coming on in as Al is trying to hold on. They do spot out a lot of this vision. These control WS that they’re getting down are consequential. Kyle fishing for that hook angle. Can see a few of them and doesn’t quite get Duro almost gets beat actually as Shock Blast going to connect on to Hope. They’re a little bit split up now, but Genji not overly committing. It’s actually Canyon looking for Tarzan towards that top side. Tarzen not pressing an alt button, not even pressing W just yet as the buckler comes on in. The fight for the red buff now is going to be secured as the shock wave comes on in, but the flash out from Canyon will keep him safe. The heroic charge and then the knock up on a Troy for Taran just doesn’t really do anything. And the followup is not there onto the Victor. He says, “Cool story.” I mean, they’re just baiting out so so much. Like these fights over the red buff, they don’t feel like they’re that important, but they are actually huge. You get the red buff. It allows you to stay healthy. It allows you to potentially get a lot of vision control. Though, when I look in the jungle, it’s all to the side of AGL. Denji don’t care. They’re just going to start up the baron in their face. Canyon still low health here, but Tarzan doesn’t have flash. And Chi’s got the choke point control. There’s that gravity field. The gravity field so incredibly good here. As now Duro looking for that angle as the arcane storm comes down. He’s just going to walk in for Andre. He just eats it. And obviously he does as there’s the setup. Kane is going to be able to take down his opposite number. And can they actually win a fight after this? Killer Instinct is named well here as ruler goes in, but he’s slowed down by the make it rain. And Genji, they do manage to get a Cho’Gath. And that’s I guess a purple monster from the void, but the Baron works out better. Duro goes in though and they really want to force this. Keane goes down as Hope gets the kill. And now it’s the ruler show once again. Shanks is going to get taken out. It’s actually a double here for Joy. and Hope stays alive. Tarzan as well. And they are going to be the sole Baron owners that will not get a look in at this mountain dragon. Maybe you ate the Baron, but you ate it right after that. Got taken out. It was never going to be a team fight win there. And Gen G, despite having the Baron against them, are able to get the clean up here. Just walk it away. Buff timer. Where’s that one? And that’s going to be another dragon going over. But look at this. This is so silly. Look at these mechanics, guys. How many smites we got? They just did00 in front of the team that has like 17 smites. We talked about it in the craft. We talked about it so many times. Ultimately, in order to do it with how patient Jeni were, they’re going to trade the tanky the tankiest one of the most frustrating members to deal with out while also Chobi is damaging every other person. Remember, this is a misfortune. So, she’s kind of more combo oriented. That was a cute attempt. He’s not a traditional AD carry. So even though hope is full health here, he can’t really offer damage on the chase back here to provide heal for his team as they try to get away. So once a Cho’Gat’s gone, once Chob’s got everyone at half health, they just walk across the red carpet to victory. And Geng take a lead in kills here, but it’s the 3,000 gold lead, the double drakes here, the momentum away from Al, and all of that vision that they’re going to take away from AL. Again, that’s the biggest problem. I’m sure you got the Baron. You technically got a positive play on this one so far in this one, but how long does it really last when your Baron’s on a Poppy and an MF? Yeah, they’re the only ones still. It’s going to be up for another minute. So, maybe they can get a little bit more. The power play is not negative. So, not yet. Um that it it’s not negative and therefore that means it’s positive, right? Uh still going to work out. The base gold it’s it’s less than that. So, they did get the money for killing it. They denied it from Genji. They didn’t manage to get to the dragon though. So, soul point available for Genji next. Of course, it is still there for AJ. They are stalling this one out. But it really felt like this game was taken out of their hands. And now it’s even because of their mistakes rather than necessarily uh Genji and just being like winning this game from the get- go, right? Things were looking pretty good for AL earlier on. See whether they can pull it back into their hands as Guandre once again. massive. They’re just sieging up against the very lackluster Baron buff here, RGNG. It’s crazy how aggressively they’re playing it. It It’s almost like they’re saying, “Okay, if Blitzcrank doesn’t have hook, he’s not really a champion.” To I mean, maybe a little bit, but if we force fights on our terms, we always win. So, it’s almost like whenever they see Ag and the hook goes wide, they’re just like barreling straight at them. looks almost ridiculous, but you can kind of understand where they’re coming from, especially with the amount of damage they have with this fed Victor. Well, he he’s got four items now at least this extremely fed uh Kai’Sa and Jace and with a build from Joy here with the Zonas plus the mountain breaks they’re stacking here. He’s so difficult to kill even if you do get on top of him. He also has that activatable right blood letter’s burst 400 armor. Yeah, that’s pretty big. It’s hard to get it’s hard to cut through these champions, especially when you’re AD carry is really just the R button unless you’re already winning the fight, right? And with the control that Genji have over the map because they just shut the Baron down so hard, it becomes even trickier to play this out. Now, Genji, there’s only two or there’s a pull 2 minutes before these next objectives. So, they can kind of continue to side lane, try to play around this Victor wave clear here. But an overextension, I think, is the best way back into this game for AGL. So, maybe this is the cut off point. Maybe from here just move back and clear that vision. Don’t try to siege these inhibitor turrets just yet. Yeah, right now they’re searching through these brushes with mostly Keen and some shot glass. Hook is going to connect, but it is onto Canyon yet again as Ruler is out of the fight. In goes Duro, but he didn’t want to be there. He thought that he was following up for his teammates as Keen. Yeah, he’s going to try and boop them away. The red is obviously going to go over to the team with a billion smites and Al they just take two and give nothing back. There’s just no reason to to force it beyond the wards there on red buff and this is a huge swing here for the side of AG because Baron is now 70 seconds away. They have control. There’s no vision here for the side of Genji anymore and all those issues that plagued Genji in the mid game can pop right back up here. Momentum completely on their sails now. They also can just go straight up into this mountain storm with this massive Cho’Gath with the huge Poppy that’s on the side here of the LPL squad. The choice is theirs, but map control completely belongs to Al. And why push forward past the line? This is the thing, right? This is the composition. You get the hook, you get the knockup, he’s silenced, the the guy dies. It doesn’t matter how much armor he has. It could be 400, it could be 400,000. The guy’s going to die. And that’s exactly what they do. And it feels like Teni are trying to bait out Hooks and go from there. and try to like set up the hook. They beat it out the hook and then died. So, that’s not exactly the play. I think AGL are playing this fantastically. They’re trying to set up. They know they’re on the back foot here a bit, but they play around their one win condition in these fights, which is really land the hook, get the follow up, get the kills, and from there, you can do anything. The sync on the objectives makes this a really tough call, though, as Jeni can go, okay, you have Baron vision, but you don’t have full vision on dragon. Let’s play through that instead and pull Al down. This may just be the right call, the best call Jenji can make here. And Chobies is offering a decent amount of pokes. All right. Well, there is the rupture connect onto Canyon. He’s looking for his angle here as the alt is going to whiff everything. In fact, he’s going to whip and he’s just eaten like a ham sandwich. And now you can see Genji continuing to try and find the fight. But Al, they’re not interested. They’re just going to move over towards the Baron. And Canyon, you just come out of the death chamber. You didn’t need to go back that far. There’s just no reason to go in like that. I mean, they were starting to get frustrated cuz even though Chob’s got Leandre, he’s got that poke. They have the the Keem poke. It just doesn’t feel like it’s doing impactful damage. They get a little bit of patient and fortunately for AGL. Sure, you gave the dragon, but this is the third drake for Gendi. It’s not the soul. Still, that’s a lot of resistances that they’re stacking up, but this is way more valuable here for AGL to get the Baron. They make the right choice there with no jungler on the side of Gen. And this might actually be the beginning of the end. Sure, gold is even, but we’re 40 minutes in. That means nothing. It’s just about the pick potential that Kyle has now. And they’re just going to push these waves through. Starting to take out those inhibitors. Mid lane also now being pushed by Fandre as TP could join at a moment’s notice. Well, Keeper’s Verdict is just going to be held on to for now as my goodness, this turret just gets three hit by Hope, but uh you can see Keane doing a fair bit of damage there. Somehow Ruler finds the backline. There’s the alt in. Can they actually get him? But the answer is so good still. Ruler is going to go golden. The shock wave connects onto four, but that may not necessarily be enough. Taran manages to get the G out of Ruler, but it’s a double kill for Chobi. He is knocked around like a ragd doll, but they still have the carries. Taran going to go down and Ruler may have saved it for Genji once again in the same game. Oh, it’s incredible how close these fights are. They’re still chasing and another seeker’s going to hit on Abladre. He should be going down here. There it is. The end of him. It’s 3v1. It’s only Blitzcrank. Can they hold? I don’t know. There’s just so much damage in this Jin D comp if you don’t end up wiping the carries. You got Chovy. You didn’t get Ruler. The longevity after the combo’s gone after you’ve used your buttons as Fandreas. Shanks has used his buttons. Ruler’s like, I’ve got auto attacks for days. They take Hope out and he wins the fight. But starts off with this angle here. He’s able to find this follow up, get in the backline, force back, and because he has the ability to stasis here and get out and the G, he’s just so survivable. And they almost got ruler. They almost got him, but you only get him once. He pops out of that resurrect and he just cleans up the fight. And the target selection was exactly what Genji needed in that fight. Shanks goes down first. Hope is very quick to follow. And then they’re just lacking damage, right? And so Genji will swing that pendulum back the other direction. And now I even have less of an idea of who is going to win this game. is that’s a negative 300 gold um baron power play. And what was it? The third baron so far of the game. We have three dragons on both sides. It’s 2 and 1/2 minutes on a dragon soul for someone finally. And yeah, I I I just have no idea who is going to be able to win this. You’ve seen there’s been multiple examples in this game of what winning looks like for both sides. And let’s just see what happens in the next fight. Yeah, I I think we’re just going to have to to sit with baited breath here and see what does occur as pushing forward into a Blitzcrank has not been a success story for Cheni in this game. Canyon flanking flanking. It’s crazy how much pressure is on Kyle right now. He needs to hit hooks. He needs to hit the right targets because if they get chipped away, if they get poked out, you talked about ways in which these teams are winning. The ways in which Genji win, they land poke, they get into the backline, they assassinate the squishy targets. The way that AGL win is getting hooks, getting picks, you know, blowing someone up. It doesn’t matter if it’s edge one combos the the the ultimate from the Poppy, you know, splitting the team fight up, basically cheating the fight. AL want to cheat the fight. Jenzi want to play the standard fight. Like that’s how these comps work. You hook someone, you split somebody up, you get that combo, you win the fight instantly. Genji want the longer fight. Oh, you almost got our carry, but you didn’t. And they clean up the fight. That’s the difference in these comps. But vision here and pryo does go to a still 70 seconds away though. It’s a bit early. They hold on to it for now as we’re going to see it back from Fandre. We’ll see what he gets for that final item. It’s just going to be a ward by. Yeah, wanting to make sure that they have as much information as possible as once again Canyon’s lurking. He’s spent the whole game lurking for better or worse. now looking for once again another angle as Flandre lumbering toward like if he stood in the pit I would assume that he is a neutral objective right now as he is gigantic and Canyon clearing out vision where he can as once again we are moving towards the AAM scenario moves up make it rain comes down glacial prison not really answered but Ken finding a great angle shockwave connects and down goes canyon yet again but can they win the fight that’s the questions there is the nom on to Keenan it’s a Disaster here for Geng Ruler going in. You can sense the desperation as he will use the Zas United was there. The delivery of the Shen may have almost worked here as Ruler is just trying his best to get everything done, but they take down Toby and Ruler just cannot do it. Al that is a clean sweep over Geng. Only a Shen remains, but he’s a ninja. He’s just hiding and this should be the end of the game. I don’t think Ruler could have done more, but it still wasn’t enough. Canyon goes in again. I think it’s his eighth death of the game. Wants to buy space. Wants to find that angle. But AL one game away now from that reverse sweep. They stand tall. They stand strong. The resilience of this squad here is something to remark about. 46 minutes on the clock here. An absolute slugfest between these two teams, but AL will bring us to Silver Scrapes. And they’re poised to reverse sweep Gen G here in the grand final of EWC presenting League of Legends. I can’t believe it. After already dispatching of both other LCK representatives, they’re about they’re looking to do it again after what looked like a clean sweep for Geng after game two. Well, it doesn’t get better than this. I mean, that game was so incredibly close. Could have gone Jenji’s way, but it came down to this final fight. You see the old miss on the Shanks who was just running straight into the bush and it just wasn’t enough. Canyon goes down and at take it from there. Just got to say, you know, some of the desperation we saw to Geng felt really, really tough to watch at times, but Ruler, man, he just didn’t give up. Look at this fight for him. Watch him in these final moments how close he gets to saving this game. But this time it’s not enough. It didn’t quite work out. We were talking about that pendulum. We’ll see where it’s going to swing as we go to a short break. When we get back, it’s that silver scrapes in the game five. Heat. Heat. First question, solo lanes are the hardest roles in League of Legends. Second question. Chinese solar queue is the most competitive solar queue in the world. Either super server or normal server, but the most competitive in the world out of any solar queue. Third question, Yumi should be removed from League of Legends. Fourth question. Games of League of Legends are won and lost in draft. What are you? 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And they have I believe they have just won okay their second match for the finals today. I believe we also have AJ competing in the championship weekend finals. Yeah, we have two grand finals going on just now at the STC esports arena and I can’t wait to see if they’re able to win in their own respective grand finals. Yes, on free fire we had two Thailand teams get the booya. First it was Buridam United Esport and just now it was AGA. We’re about to start game number three soon. However, we’re going to have a long day, ladies and gentlemen, for free fire finals. Exactly. And on my side, I’m not too sure yet, but I hope it will be a super competitive day. Are they even going to place they’re on the right game? Surely they have the right. If you were watching 2 hours ago, you might think that, you know, you’d be watching something else 2 hours later. However, AGA had other plans. They fought back and forced the series on their hands and sometimes hands on faces if you’re a Gen G fan. A reverse sweep is on the cards as AGL have battled back like minute after minute after minute into the longest match of the tournament in that last one. It is 22. The LPL champs are here to try and fight and have one of the biggest comebacks in League of Legends international history. According to Stat Guy on our team, Marcus, he says this would be the first reverse sweep in an international finals. So, uh, tall task here for Agal. Not done yet, though, as Geng still have an opportunity to come back as we take a look at this gold graph. It’s just wonky. What a great game. I love how this series has evolved where it started with Genji having a really, really controlled, methodical objective game, and now it has just turned into a full-on brawl, a fist fight. You know, this is kind of what you expect when you watch like uh two teams that might not be the Christmas macro teams going at it. 46 minutes. I don’t think there was a dragon soul this game. They were just constantly fighting and I loved it. I loved every second of it. We got to see some Blitzcrank. We got to see the Cho’Gath. Um I did not know which way this game was going to go till the very end. Yeah, and I love these fights cuz every time you watch the fights, if you rewatch them, you feel like you notice something new. This fight, for example, Tarson did a heroic job zoning Chi and keeping him out of the fight. It was a fight and the shock wave really burst down Duro. And while it looks like Genji is now going to chase into them, Tarson is making life so hard for Trophy here in the back. Constantly stunning him into the wall, forcing the flash out, and now hitting him at the back of head with a buckler. And these fights, they were just so clutch and amazing. There were so many moments where one guy stepped up, one guy seized the challenge and tried to be a hero. And it’s just going to be such a memorable series. Yeah, again just like Medio said earlier, it was all of this very LCKesque formulaic type of League of Legends, but Agal have found a way to drag Genji to fist fights who are down to do it, but AJ are just doing it better. Flandre has come up huge shanks on the Oriana gamebreaking shock waves that we’ve seen in international stages. It has been so so fun to watch here, Finn. I mean, you say the names, but like this feast by Flre really getting them back into the game. I’m not sure what Genji was doing. They just disrespected the Cho’Gath. Have they played against it? I have no idea, but this was so clutched by Trandre. Getting this was really the first stepping stone to the combat that we saw. Okay, I got a question ruler on this one. The Baron was 2500 HP. He had all the plasma stacks and the call of the void just said, “Hey man, hit it. You got your plasma stacked up.” And it put it in range for the feast. Granted, it probably would have gotten range anyway, but it was a kind of a, you know, intrusive thought, I think, for that auto on the Baron there. Yeah, again, you could you like the pressure, but there’s little to no world where you want to try and smite fight against the feast of a Choat that that’s that big. It’s just not necessary. The turn could have been the play there, but Genji battled on. They were able to get a bunch of kills there. However, this fight here sealed the deal as Canyon trying to find angles, not quite able to, and gets blown up immediately. Canyon was really struggling in these fights and to some extent, there’s not a lot he can do when he’s getting Blitzcrank hooked into a feast almost every single time, but you know, it feels bad to be in that position where he’s just, you know, kind of the the sacrificial lamb. I feel like Ruler played this fight so well, ulting over to the to the chicken pit, and it was really difficult for all of Genji to hit him. I mean the AO to hit him and Shi being untouched for so long oversteps a little bit tries to get the kill there but the silence of once again shutting him down and it’s just going to be a game of interest. When you watch these fights you see so many people with low health bars constantly playing at the edge of danger trying to maximize the damage trying to squeeze water out of the stone that is these team fights. Yeah, I actually thought Ruler might work some magic in that last fight. It kind of felt like it. Everyone was on such low HP, but I think the problem is he didn’t actually have vision. So, you know, around all those corners in the bush, he couldn’t really see everybody properly. So, while we can see them on the spectator UI, it wasn’t like that for him and it just gets a little too chaotic. Yeah. And but that shows how close this game was. It was only a 2,000 gold lead at 40 something minutes, like 79,000, 80, 1,000. It was just neck and neck throughout. Each time that there was an opportunity to possibly close the game, the other team would come back, especially in that second bar or the first Baron, they tried to push up down the top lane of Geng did Agal. They got caught, turned back around, and then we’re in this stall state for another 3 minutes, but the tension continued to build. You had opportunities for picks with the Suani, with the Blitzcrank, to get a numbers advantage with the Shen, and it felt like both teams all of a sudden were just so so tight. You could feel it in the stadium here, Finn. Yeah, and I am just so excited for this game five. The the energy in the arena is amazing. And Genji has shows some blue side that my jungler friend to the left of me was very adamant about what champion was. You know what’s coming. You know what is coming. It is going to be a Canyon Italy. He has to. It’s fan service. It’s just required. Yeah, I remember there was like when you saw the Chinese comments like when it goes game five, all of China, all of Korea, all of the West knows what champions is coming and it’s going to be the Italy. That is what we predict here. I really hope we get to see it cuz it’s so iconic and it’s just such a confidence move to lock in that champion because that champion requires perfection and perfection is what signifies Genji. I I I kind of wonder then, do you just drop that ban if you’re a GL and you’re like, “Yep, we’re gonna drop one and stick Niti in there because we know even without a Renekton, something that it traditionally that most other junglers need some sort of CC and damage that can lead to kill threat. Uh he Canyon can still make a massive massive impact. What do you think?” Yeah, I mean if if they’re scared, sure, banani deny the fans what they want to see. I want Canyon Italy game five. I’m gonna get it. I hope we get it. But I also think looking over to the side of Agal, I I don’t know why, but I feel like this team in draft game five, I don’t know what to expect. We saw the shen this game. I thought that was a I mean, the blitz crank by Kyle this game. I think that was a really good adaptation. The blind pick blitzcrank just signifies so much confidence and I feel like Flunder is also a champion that throughout his career on Snake was known for the weird champions. The York has been banned most of the series. I reckon we’re going to keep that banned and a lot of weight on these guys shoulders right now. Whoever steps up right now gets to be the hero. Absolutely. I mean, we got to see the panda Yoro skin earlier and how devastating that was in their earlier series in the semifinals. I wouldn’t want to see that if I was Gen, but it does kind of feel like it’s coming down to execution. It is game five. Genji’s been there. Al has been there. And it, you know, you go back to the uh road to MSI for Gen where it was the number one seed versus the number two seed in Hano Life. They were down 02 and were able to pull off the reverse sweep and kind of electrify the Busousan Sajic indoor stadium. Now they’re on the opposite side the way that Han life felt where man those first two games pretty easy going to be a clean three-0 sweep. They’ve got to pick themselves off the canvas one more time here. Medios. Yeah, I’m super excited. You know, we’re deep into Fearless. This is where it gets super interesting. A lot of the champion pools are pinched, right? It’s like what AD carry are we playing? What like are there engage supports left? Uh jungle’s looking weird. So, I don’t know what’s still available. There’s like Jarvin Nitali for sure. We need it. But, um yeah, I don’t know. I think this is definitely where people like reach into their pocket, deep into their pocket, and say, “Hey, uh I I won a Silky game with this thing one time. Let’s Let’s try it out.” 20 seconds, Finn. Quick thought. I just want a last game banger. I don’t want another stomp like we’ve seen in game fives. I just want this one to deliver. Two worthy organizations for the opportunity to immortalize their name in the totem at the esports world cup as the second title winner. Geng and AGL. Let’s send it on over to the stage to Ian and Fancy. It’s the kind of grand final a neutral fan dreams of. But I tell you now, the nervous energy in this arena, this packed out arena, is through the roof. Just one game separating our two teams from a potential trophy lift. Genji had the game. They had the glory. They had it all. But AGL refused to fall. Instead of them chasing this trophy, now they’re fighting for their lives. Genji fans, do you think Geng can clutch it up and win game five? Does it smell like a reverse sweep? What do we think? A L. If Genji is going to take game five, make some noise. If the trophy is coming home with you, make some noise. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s game five of the grand final of League of Legends at the Esport World Cup. Let’s jump right into it. Thank you very much, gentlemen. And here we are, game five for the grand final here at the Esports World Cup presenting League of Legends. Gen, can they deny the reverse sweep? Can they once again go to five games but not lose a series all but one time? That has happened since the road to MSI began for them quite a few weeks ago. And we are back here yet again. They haven’t lost a series in what, 25 in a row? 25 first stand 25 series ago was the last time they lost a game five to Hanwell Life esports. They didn’t go to their first international of the year in first stand and since then they have been able to conquer all of those lengthy series. Some a little bit less lengthy, some very one-sided series, but we’ll see if that holds water here again over AGL. Blueside Genesis in this final game with the two lead they had. Stopping a reverse sweep isn’t easy, but at least they have that extra edge. One thing I want to say here for HAL is well the the the draft uh has disappeared. We’ll be back in just a moment. It will come back. I promise. Well, I’m still going to say the thing is you got to ban you got to ban Smolder. Don’t let Joy have Smolder. There’s no more engage left. I mean, they were playing Shen and Blitzcrank in game four. There’s there’s really not much left. Like there’s orange, right? Um there’s stuff like that, you know, maybe like a Jax, but we’re really digging deep here in game five, right? There’s just we’re we’re getting down into the trenches. There are still a lot of big picks left available. Our desk was talking about Niti and stuff like that. You think about the Yoro, which as we saw was first spanned there. That’s a very good idea up against Flandre. Some big picks that are still needed to be looked at and I think you you got to ban the Smolder. Yeah, I think Smolder is a big one. I think another one is Silus. Silus a big pick for Shanks, one that he has been playing throughout his career to a very high level. And I mean, Chovy needs no introduction on the champion. Plus, if your opponent has some funny business prepared that has an R button, then can win you the game. You just get it as well. And so, you get to take their their pride idea and use it for yourself as Chovi going for that download, going for that reset. For me, more than any one champion, cuz we’ve got a lot. You know, you’ve got the Smolder, you got the Zia, you got the Jags, you know, the Pantheon that’s still up. Y more than one champion, I want to see both of these teams come up with robust real compositions if possible, which is always challenging in Fearless Best of Fives that go the distance because we said it many times in game four, neither team had a strong composition, but they were able to play to their wing cons well. That game was very back and forth. Both teams knew what their comps could do and what they were capable of doing against the enemy composition, but there were some mistakes made by Genji. Some great punishes there. Maybe in this fifth and final game, having a comp that has a strong identity may be what pushes you over the line against a team that’s otherwise trying to freestyle a little bit too much. Yeah, it’s definitely going to be very important. Uh looks like we’re almost ready to jump right back into the draft. the compositions in game fives we’ve seen a lot of times in Fearless where it’s like one team just gets a big comp edge and it’s kind of just lights out right and this is I feel like the game where it could be decided by draft the most and that’s why especially for the red side they got to really hunker down here and figure it out it’s a really long series you saw that illustrated by Kyle with the 5:00 shadow it is getting to almost exactly that time right now and in fact it’s an hour and a half afterwards so Yoro and the Nico going to be banned away here who has the tenacity to take this game five victory especially when it’s fearless. Look at these champions that have been banned away already. 40 just from the fearless fans. We just going to have six more seeing the same bands here for Genji. Unsurprisingly the rise the Gwen also gone here first. The deeper you are into into fearless the more you have to ban the same stuff. Yeah, because it becomes so much more powerful each and every game that goes by, especially some of those picks that are game one banned are suddenly Ztier like the Pantheon. But the Scarnner will make its way through here and Genji have been able to play around Cany and Scarnner so incredibly well. Domestically, he was really the only player at the end playing it as it fell off in win rate. The only one finding success, a safe pick, but again, we don’t know what this comp is going to look like just yet. And Leona is kind of the last engage in the support role that was left and that was snapped up there by Aj. Yeah, that’s definitely a good shout. So Lucian, Leona, not the most common duo, but certainly something that can get a lot of damage done. Uh would love to see just slam the smolder, slam the horn. Um it’s it’s hard engage the Zia also available. No recon of course. They could also just play like Zer Lulu, but they’re ultimately looking for the safe anti- Leona engage here with this Zia. And even though it’s very low range, so is Lucian. And you have a Scarnner to kind of pull uh those champions into you. You could play around choke points. You can make a choke point practically with a Scarnner with those fights. So, it does make sense. Looking for range support here to pair with it in this Ranada. Now, I understand that with the Leona on the other side, it might be a more of a dive oriented composition here for AGL, but you can’t really necessarily know that for sure. So, it’s a very risky Renata call, I’d say here from Gen. At least it’s going to be relatively low range. So, and as you mentioned, you know, the range support into the Leona. There’s that silence you were talking about, Atlas just going to be locked in right away. And uh certainly a good amount of alts that he can already steal here. Uh the hostile take over the first the first champ that comes to mind about this when I see this this melee silus especially with this low range comp into the ranada is smolder and tab thought about it long ago as well. Yeah well we’re going to be having a look at jungles. I wonder whether the taran ni is going to be something that Geng will consider as that one could be addressed. I think something like Lilia also um will be pretty powerful although there is still magic damage represented by Shanks. There’s a Tarzan special in the Olaf. I love that band. Yeah, that’s a very smart band. Um, you know, that’s the one thing that would actually just run all the way to the back if it gets fed through the Scarnner, through the Ranada, and just get straight onto the Zion. And, you know, pryo picking for Ruler, not a bad idea either. I mean, he had a fantastic game number four. So, uh, I I really like protecting him even more with this ban. There’s a few picks that, you know, Tarz can go through. You can see Tab was already even though they’re going to ban the Atrox here. They use that extra time to just run through what Tarzan may want to run. I think there’s a few picks like the Lilia that was mentioned earlier that are incredibly strong here with this draft. But even something like a Kindred could be something they want to draft towards with this low range composition and it can really help deal with the Ranata Glask ultimate as well, you know, and and basically force the the angle to be super awkward on how they want to play it. You’ll see a potential Z angle here. That would be an all-in composition here on the dive. Can avoid the Ranada ultimate pretty well because you can simply jump past it. Prior. Yeah. No, I don’t I don’t think we’re doing that. But I I do actually like the Zed. Um just bunch of burst damage is something that Zia can’t really deal with. Like do you feathers against the Leona or do you feather to survive against Zed? If the Zed ever gets fed in this game, Ruler’s going to have a hard time. They need a second damage threat here. Genji do, I think, because if you just try to protect the Zia, it’s going to be so hard. They just agree though. They just want more engage. Who says the support has to be the engage? It’s just TF Camille. We’re going back in time. No, it’s not even engage. It’s we just want a 1-1. We don’t want to fight you ever. We’re just never going to team fight. That’s what we’re going to do. And so Vladimir is going to come in the team fight extraordinaire. AGL have what? Like how many sources of CC? Two, three in this game. It’s kind of crazy, but there is so much damage out of the Vlad and the Zed. They could just pop a target before they can do anything. And everyone knows that death is the best form of CC. Both the Vladimir and the Zed are really easy to play around gold cards with. And even against Camille because the Vlad can go unargetable. The Zed can just circumvent the fight completely. But the rest of the composition is very vulnerable to this. The Lucian in particular, even the silus trying to engage in if he gets hex tech ultimatum or impaled by canyon is going to have a hard time for Geng. I think the key, we know that this team can play 1 131. We know this team can play through the Camille, play through the TF, the macro. It’s about Ruler making sure he’s able to survive against all these threats because you have the tools to set Ruler up for success, set up those feathers. You just have to survive long enough to do that damage and you can win those longer fights. This is a fascinating draft this time around and I actually feel like the comparison between game four and game five even though there are less champions available in the fifth game. The identities of these drafts I feel are so much clearer. On the side of AL though, I am a little bit worried by that lack of CC, that lack of lock down that they’ll have and the fact that a Camille and a Twisted Fate will be able to pick their target and decide who dies in a lot of these fights. So, we’ll just have to see whether Genji will be able to reverse the momentum or whether AGL can just ride the reverse sweep towards a trophy here at the Esports World Cup presenting League of Legends. Will bring that back for a different region for the first time as the LCK already claimed it last year on beha uh T1 did it on behalf of the LCK. Let’s just see if AGL can find it in themselves to win this final game and reverse sweep their way back to glory. This is going to be an intense game number five after game number four, which was just absolutely bonkers. Uh now we got all the weird picks coming out. You know, I we listed a bunch of standard ones, but a lot of good stuff got banned, too. you know, even the Jacks late in the draft and eventually we just end up with one of the old classic compositions, the TF Camille, just the we’re not even going to fight you comp. Um, just keep you at a distance. Correct me if I’m wrong, but was was Silus often picked into TF as a counter. I’m just trying to It was often picked yes, a few years ago back back in like 2021, this was extremely common. um you know after we saw Showmaker you know end up getting the TF skin when he won the world championship was following TFS everywhere during that time as was also in a really good state at that time. I’m curious about how this Vladimir Camille matchup goes because it’s not something that in in my modern League of Legends we see almost ever. Vladimir obviously incredibly strong later on, but can struggle in some of these uh earlier phases of matchups, not necessarily as much into melee matchups, but if they play through top side and King gets fed before this uh Vladimir gets online, it could be a huge issue. Shield of Daybreak not actually going to be utilized here by Kyle. A little bit unfortunate there for the AL bottom lane and now with the range advantage kind of big for Roller and Duro down there. We’re having a look xx sweep. Um, this is a start of your answer here, Wolf. As we have a look at the first little salvo of trading, I I feel like especially in game fives, you can sometimes you kind of have to throw some lane uh advantages out the window just because you need stuff that makes sense, that is tier list worthy, but also that makes sense in your composition. And so, you know, I I really like the response of Zion and Ranata from the side of Genji. They said, “Okay, we’re going to dominate this bottom side. The Leona is not going to have a fun time. The Lucian will not be able to farm too much. You see the other two lanes, you know, relatively even for now. Sure, you know, the the melee of the Silus will be pushed in, but that bottom lane should be dominance here early for Denji. Yeah, that ward got so much value for Ruler and Duro where they’re able to chip away, push this in, deny so much farm. Great handshake there, denying the engage as well. Does end up taking that extra damage there at the very end from Hope. But this has been phenomenal lane control early. Yeah, the handshake is pretty good, I guess, against uh the good old Zenith Blade as Tarzan is zipping around the jungle here on this Zed. Canyon doing his very best to keep up on the lumbering Scanner. Zel just continuing to have to deal with Geng knocking on their door over and over again. Taking the waves decently well, but it’s 7 CS to 17 right now in that bottom lane. It’s kind of a disaster. Yeah, it’s the lead you’re looking for. Canyon outpaced of course as we already mentioned. First back comes through from Tarzan on his full clear. Grabs double long sword and we’ll head towards the bottom side of the map. Try to help relieve some of that pressure here in this lane as scuttle will spawn. Kyle not quite level three just yet as Canyon knows he needs to come down near a match. He’s seen on this ward. Yeah, you can see Tan in the area as well and they don’t have a lot of information as there is the Zenith blade in. Kyle looking for that angle as Ruler is flashing after hope and gets the first blood. The bailout. Can they actually make it work? The answer is no. But now it’s another 2v2 as both junglers have made it to the area. And the damage from this Leona is non-existent. So Ruler is able to free hit. A double kill to start the game. Five for Geng’s AD carry. It is gigantic here for Genji in the bottom lane. But I love the idea from Ag. The timing was perfect from Taran, but the execution, it just wasn’t there. It wasn’t there. The damage was so insane from Ruler. He cancelled one auto in that fight. I thought that was actually going to be the back breaker as well. Watch this again as he realizes, okay, I have to go all in. Handshake here. Decent. Goes all in. Actually cancels that one auto as he flashes here. Doesn’t get the last one. You can see he’s clicking for it desperately. Decides to kite back here. But then the peel from the Scarnner is great. The miss here from the Z Q actually really huge in terms of the damage and with this push back they just cannot actually get that final hit onto Ruler. He will be able to take both of these kills and a massive lead. His CS lead was already amazing as you can see the stress and then the relief here in the Genji booth as now his gold lead is 700. Yeah. And I I guess he’s just reminding us all who actually came up with the skin that he’s using there towards now the top side of the map. That one’s his and he makes it look real good as Canyon going to be taking away this uh raptor camp as well. And Geng I mean this is the thing as soon as one of these lanes cracks Genji are able to push so much more aggressively this mid lane. I mean Chovi with a winning matchup in the early game and he is certainly making it look difficult here for the Silus currently 600 gold in the in the lead. I mean, what you said there, Atlas, is is very poignant because if that was their one opportunity, right? That was the one opportunity to get the summoners out at least or to get the kill onto Ruler and to really punish this double ranged match up in the bottom lane, but now it’s just all out the window. You got a pickaxe here on Ruler. He doesn’t have sums for now, but if he plays safe and they just farm it out, like you’re never touching this Zia. I mean, Tarzan’s got that one kill at least, so maybe a little bit later on, but it’s going to be a while. And you know that basically the enemy jungler has to camp Ruler otherwise he’s going to keep building leads. So the rest of the map just opens up massively and now we’re just going to have this 3v3. Well Canyon’s just driving in. He’s going to beat Taran to the punch as Kyle. Where is he going to go? The Destiny is going to come forward. But it’s Shanks that’s stolen it away. Chovy turns up as well. I mean everyone can be seen. Um Destiny’s gates all over the place and the top laners just say hi to top lane. Uh uh the mid laner, sorry. Say hi to top lane and then and then we leave. Sorry, I meant to say 4v4 here in the top lane as when when someone gets this fed this early, the enemy jungler has to respond or else that lead continues to balloon. That means Canyon also knows this has to come up and then the double global mid with the hijack means it turns into a 4v4. But Ruler’s untouched. They engage onto Duro eats enough damage and then backs away. And Ruler because he has that extra pickaxe worth of stats. The longer fight is always going to be his in these types of skirmishes, especially with this melee silus that isn’t able to connect CC. Look at the lead that Chobi has generated, by the way, in that range matchup, plus the gold that TF gets with his passive. He’s 670 gold ahead, 15 CS up. Ruler 10 CS up, has the two kills, and this early game is all Gen G. Yeah, did feel like EGL just kind of reaching for a second chance opportunity there in the top lane. I was talking about how, you know, maybe this is your chance. Well, Ruler has his sums down, but now that he’s got it back, there’s just going to be no touching the Zia and the Ranada who should be sticking around and Canyon. I love how he was just hovering around them as well because he knew that that was the one opportunity again for D to go in. Now, Kyle’s doing it here. Yeah, speaking of going in. Yeah, hope is rotating down. You can see Ruler was thinking about doing the same thing, but just testing the waters and AL. I mean, it’s so hard when you fall behind like this because they have so like Zed and Vladimir do rely on just doing damage to get rid of you, right? And if you don’t have the damage, you are actually just useless. And Taz needs to be making plays to try and accelerate himself. He is ahead of the matchup, but Scarnner will always be useful. You have only CC in your entire kit. And so you can see Tarzan now heading up towards his top side as we’re going to do this first go again. The hijack is up but the destiny and gate is not quite there yet. So Shanks should have the advant Oh unless he doesn’t have the the destiny cool down. So never mind. Not going to be able to head up there. I tell a lie. He could steal something else though and then move towards top lane. Just won’t be able to use it to teleport up there. No Genji getting free grubs here. Unfortunately for AGO, like every time you fail those types of uh ganks, like it gets tougher and tougher to pull it off. And this time without even the silus angle is just going to be so tough and they decide not to further push into this. Instead are going to hope for some mid to late game fights here with the Silus that’s going to be a bigger threat later on. and this scaling Vladimir which we haven’t talked about too much in this game but Fundre is actually laning really well here against this Camille and has generated his own mini lead here which is important because he’s now one of the biggest win cons here for AGL yeah I mean Fandre’s entire tournament has just been beautiful right like backto back Sony MVPs two days in a row and was you know he’s even in consideration for today right and it’s uh he’s winning this matchup before the plan’s even level 9 which is kind of like the the key level for the Vlad, but when he levels up his skew to level five, uh, still doing a good job into the melee matchup of well, the range versus melee match up of the K. So, having a good time there. We’ll see just how much damage he can do in this game. Currently just farming up as much as possible there. Only two grubs taken by Canyon. Immediately just went back to farming after that. Didn’t care for the third one. Maybe wanted to hang around the bottom side with this rotation coming in and look for a dragon or maybe just another fight on the bottom side of the map. It feels like every speck of tempo is so incredibly important uh for both of these teams. Canyon has made sure that he’s getting to exactly where he wants to as soon as he possibly can. Um where he wanted to be just then was right on top of a ward which is not necessarily the greatest. This dragon is going to be the next target though is over the wall he goes. There’s the dash out from Hope though. Still it’s feeling like even though they do manage to get out of the gank, they still lose half of the health bar on this Lution and the pressure is still mounting. He’s so patient with this impale, too. He could have looked for the twoman there, but he’s like, “No, I’d rather just have that for the objective itself.” When the silence comes through, even potentially the slippery Z depending on the scenario jack there from Ruler is pretty nice. But the culling softening up Duro quite a lot and that’s going to mean that Taran gets some control over this dragon. Mid lane is just going to be shoved in as now the destiny comes through from Chovi looking for the target. Tarzhan getting taken down low as Chobi just trying to distract them as best he can. A flash forward from Kyle on top of Ruler who’s in an awkward position, but the teleport comes on down. Kyle is going to die. Tarzan gets another great smite. But there goes the Leona and Al still not on the board when it comes to these kills in this fight. There’s a hostile takeover. Shanks is extraordinarily dead in this moment. And Canyon is the one that locks down the kill, making it the fourth for Genji. It’s so tough for these fights for Al because the running of Zed doesn’t really offer any CC at all, frankly, in these moments. And even though the fight looked pretty split up and it looked like maybe Chobi was going to be left out to dry as they engage onto a Leona. He’s able to kite it out. He gets another stun, he’s ranged. He could just kind of space his way out there as Genji look for the reapproach. Duro has flash. He has ult. He’s going to be able to secure the deny on Shanks’s re-engage. And ultimately Geng the decision to go onto Kyle which looks so risky does pay off. I mean, this is a pitiful engage on a ruler, but you don’t really have any other option as Kyle, right? He’s still at featherstorm this whole time and flash. And Kyle’s like, “Well, I’m just going to sacrifice myself. Maybe my team gets the dragon and gets out.” Uh, you see that Gen G, they’ve been doing this all night where it’s like if there are kills in front of us, we will expend everything to get them to get the leaves, to get the tempo. As Atlas was talking about, it has been so important, especially in this game number five. It’s two kills and it’s uh definitely a large amount of tempo going the way of Genji who are now 2,500 gold in the lead. I do want to give a shout out to Shanks for that hostile takeover making these two little 1 v ones off to the side really distracting Genji. It almost managed to get almost lethal damage onto Ruler as Keen was doing a bunch of work. But unfortunately, it was too little too late, right? The targets had already been taken down and Genji weren’t under any extra threat from the rest of AL. The TF was so important in the end of that fight cuz Joi’s offering so much damage, right? And and the extra CC. And if you’re playing Zed, you have burst damage, but not that much this early, and you can’t CC anyone. Like, nobody can lock Chovi down. So they are able to peel off the Leona and then just win the longer fight. And speaking of Leona, Kyle is going to be the target here again. Shot going to come through there as Keen down to 50%. Hex Tech ultimatum going to come in though as Solar Flare getting some decent work done. The culling is lying in wait and the heoplake does come on down as well as Canyon just going to present Kyle as a target. He is going to go down. Hexte sweep comes in, but now it is another gate combo. And this time it’s a Silus trying to make his way in, but he doesn’t actually get there. Doesn’t pull the triggers. Oh, Shanks flash for it, but it is actually Tzang that gets the max range shuriken. Yeah, that was a really weird fight. I mean, Tenzi were like, “Okay, we really want to kill this Leona. Let’s kill this Leona. Let’s do it again. Let’s They were so close to killing Kyle so many times and assist Leona, they didn’t want to overextend, but they finally got him.” And they did overextend a little bit. They just trade support, so it’s not the biggest deal, but not used for that weird fight. It’s why I was so concerned about the last fight where they collapsed on Kyle, but because it was split up and the rest of AL couldn’t actually try to save him or or follow up on the play while he’s tanking, it did work out for Jenji a lot better the first time around than it did the second. Still a pretty good fight for Genji at the end of the day, but I mean, this is a Leona that’s going to absorb so much pressure. You know, they end up ulting her, but she’s got Eclipse. She’s walking out. The redemption has to be used here. is so incredibly low. And then the suppression is used on Kyle as well. And Zed is actually doing so much damage here in the interim. And then the followup does come through. Tarzan, look at how much he does. Really funny to see Shanks um attempt here because he sees he thinks the handshake is enough to get Duro out, but Tarzan actually with the shadow is able to get him. He thought the shadow wasn’t going to be there in time, so he flashes for it. That’s another small advantage that Genji do end up picking up here that the fact that Silus did flash for that even though it wasn’t necessary. But at the end of the day, I think they were probably hoping Duro got out instead. And that’s the least of the Silus’s worries as well. As you can see, it’s a 2.1k gold lead here for Chovi. And well on his way to his next item, the Aether Wisp now setting up for the Lichbane after the Rod of Ages has been done for a really long time. He’s going to be getting that extra level. maybe sooner than is good, you know, because uh as you level up, you require more and more experience. Maybe he goes from levels 9 uh maybe like 13 to 14 instead of that 15 to 16 that you can often get with this item. He just builds it a little early. See when it does come in five stacks on it so far. He is joving out of control right now by the way. He is above 10 CS per minute easily. Keen in a bit of trouble in the bottom lane though. He is going to have to make a bit of an ultimatum here with Al as there’s the flash in for Kyle and where did she go? Um, this is what we were talking about. Best CC is death and they’ve got a fair bit of that. Yeah, the uh Vladimir pick into this feels pretty good so far as Oak going to flash and Canyon says you deserve the ultimate. He does press that button as well as the culling not going to be able to clear out the wave and that is going to be out of turret secured here for Geng. To be clear, the death on to Keen is not a trade up here for AL with that turret going down and the control trophy does have on the top side, but it is a little bit of injection of gold here to AL. Zen has all the kills right now. TP blank here is going to be interesting, let’s say, in terms of catching Gen. And they’re just going to opt to avoid it entirely and look for the Herald versus Break trade. Yeah, dragon going to be taken here. Second one for Al. Troy’s going to get that turret top side it looks like. Yeah, down it goes. So, he just has such a lead. So, that’s why I was saying, yeah, you got Camille, but you lose two turrets. You’re going to lose a Herald, which will guarantee a third. Is he going to hit 200 CS at like what, 17 1/2 minutes? He is going to hit 200 CS. He’s going to be very fast and very chovy. And uh, you know, we’ve talked about it a lot, the TF passive that that’s going to make him almost 3,000 gold ahead 17 minutes into the game. And it’s not just because his team is stomping or anything like that. that’s not even really happening. It’s just him and uh he’s already got his lichbane, two items and a dagger um on top of it all. So, and you know, I I feel like in general, especially with the cloud soul on the way, like the two drakes should feel really good for the side of Agl, but with the amount of tempo and the 1 131 style of composition that Genji have, I feel like the rift trail is just going to get so much value here. Time, I think, is all AGL are are praying is going to come to them. Like, they have two drakes, so that buys them a ton of time. They can avoid fights for a little while here and the Vladimir will become stronger and stronger. The burst potential of this dead onto the Zia force out feather storm for any other reason becomes a little bit more powerful later on. But it’s just surviving that’s the the hard part now getting that extra time living long enough cuz yes the silus feels so useless when you look at the 2.6k number on your screen when you look at the two items for Chovi but he will eventually get enough gold to be a threat in this game. There’s so many ways to get on top of this Z that one feather storm isn’t enough cuz yeah, Toby just gets more money. But I’m not I’m I’m really trying to say with so few words that AGL still have a chance in this game despite all of these deficits. But survival, that’s the hardest part. Like if they could live to see a 35minute game, maybe we can have that conversation. Well, the uh you can see the shadow was set up. Tarzan had an idea that perhaps there was someone lying in wait there. So nice little defensive play. still sacrifices a fair chunk of his health bar. There is one thing that I’m worried about and it goes back to Double Lift’s question earlier on in the day and that is you know why the TF and the Kalista these are two picks that haven’t necessarily been working. TF we haven’t really seen here at EWC that much and we’ll see whether Trophy can make it happen. His time is now as the destiny does come in, but the gate will not follow as he has found an inner turret, guys. And that is um that is something he’d prefer to have as the rest of AL are moving over and a gateless TF. Certainly one that is a little bit more killable. But look at the vision. Look, there’s like he’s flanked by control vision everywhere right now. And so far so good here for the TF comp. But I want to draw your minds back right to Chi of another time. And he like when TF was meta, he would do this all the time. And then sometimes they just lose anyway because it doesn’t do as much as a lot of his pivotal picks for getting AoE CC in team fights. You’re reminded of his Gallo, things like that. AoE damage with his Victor and his Azir. Uh this is a little bit more finesse, bit more side lane and a bit more map control. And in the past, it didn’t work. I’m looking forward to seeing the evolution of Joy as he tries to make it work here in this game number five for all of the marbles. Genji are just insane with how much they bully. Like they got this lead and now they just they’re like everything is ours. Your raptors, your wards, your red buff, your turrets. We’re taking everything and ag they found an engaged champion. But they there was still the Zia available. There was still the Ranata Glask available. And what target do you go on to here? It just feels like there’s too much peel for Gen G. There’s no there’s no proactive play I think you can make right now. You have to do exactly what Fandre is doing and like hold the wave as close to turret as possible. Hold Shanks’s wave as close to turret as possible and farm minions and pray that Genji are going to make a mistake. Pray that they’re going to overextend. You have two extra dragons worth of time for Soul before Soul is an issue for you, right? So that’s like 10 minutes of time they’ve arguably bought here as long as they can keep their inhibitors up. You will still have to do things like contest Odicon. You will eventually have to contest Baron in 4 minutes time here. But spend those 4 minutes getting any money on the map that Genji will allow you because right now that is all that you can do. Um Troy’s about to flame Horizon is top laner. This is kind of obscene. Um we can tell where a few of these minions are coming from. Kobe making sure that he accelerates as fast as he can. The rapid fire cannon actually very important item here for the twisted fate. Here’s that autocon take. Yeah, they’re looking for the angle here as the handshake comes in. And now they have to face tech. They have to go for this and what are they going to be able to do? I mean Kyle, he’s seen the destiny just gives you infinite vision. the black sheep wall just uh typed in chat feeling pretty good as Kobe hunting for a target with this yellow card. But Al getting into a decent position. It might even just be a 50/50 here as it is going to be secured by Canyon as he doesn’t find the impale but the hostile takeover is absolutely fantastic. Another handshake is good and Joy picks up the first kill of the fight. There is one back as Shanks gets one and now the Vladimir might be able to get something done. Shanks finding the chains, but he then goes down as it’s a double for Chovi. Could it be a triple? The answer is no as that kill belongs to Ruler. There’s the shut down as Canyon says he wants a double and Genji will win yet another fight. Grab an ace and they can take whatever they want. I don’t think it was the safe fight that Geng fans are looking for. I don’t think it was the safe turn they were looking for, but they secure the objective and they win the fight in the end. A fantastic impale from Shanks. almost saves the day, but they still had bailout. Kruler was still alive. He was able to do massive amounts of damage in this, but unfortunately, despite a really good performance from Blundre in this fight, he just doesn’t have the damage yet. He’s just not quite ready yet. And it feels so bad for him like he gets in and he actually does do a lot of damage. This Impalia we’re talking about, the stolen one is gigantic. And then you’ve got the primmancer right in there. Flandre trying his best. He almost bursts down Ruler and they finally get him through the uh bailouts as Ruler has to flash forward just to get the take down but immediately dies. Actually really close down to the wire but Genji barely get across the line and a huge reaction from Ruler as he knows okay we did it. Look at Tarzan’s face as well. Like that fight could not have been closer. And I think given the circumstances of how much of a lead Genji had in this game, it every Genji fan is like, “Okay, thank god it didn’t go the other way because it was a little bit risky the way they played that one out.” Yeah, that shouldn’t have allowed it shouldn’t have been allowed to be that incredibly close. Like you guys say, Shanks wrapping around and finding the angle as Kyle going aggressive. Another Destiny comes on in. They know exactly where everyone is. Kyle going to be the target and he should go down pretty comfortably as a featherstorm will be invested. It’s a decently large cool down. But Canyon is just driving around. He’ll take two ultimates for his trouble. Gets the suppression but he does fall. Another hostile takeover there. In fact, multiple of them all over this rift right now. But the handshakes are so good. And Genji are just controlling this battlefield. And even though they lose Canyon, they will win the fight. Yeah, I mean again another kind of close one. There were double ultimates used on the Canyon by Tarzan and Flander and they barely were able to chunk him down and yet still they almost were able to win a bit towards the end of that fight. It ends up being a one for one trade but like man again they’re just they’re bullies. They’re getting in there. They just want to take any fight that they can. You just have so much of a gold lead here. And this Zia is so fed and even Chobi does a decent amount of damage in these fights range wise that even if you kind of just roll in and and play it very aggressively. You don’t play it subtly. You don’t try to kite back and you just kind of go, “Yeah, maybe you got a hostile takeover. We still win by the way.” It might be enough when your Twisted Fate is 3,600 gold ahead. Your Zia is 3,000 gold ahead. Hope is often alive at the end of these fights. Be can’t offer anything as Kyle’s looking for an angle here. Possible 2v3 here in favor of AL as Tarzan takes so much damage. Okay, maybe it’s not as Keen will take a bit back and Duro he’s going to turn up. Chobi looking for the angle here as Handshake brings back the Leona. And look at this. They’re just holding them at bay. And down goes the Leona for the first kill in the fight. Now Canyon throwing rocks around. Hope is going to make it back to the turret and should be able to deal with this wave as rapid fire cannon is just such a ridiculous item. Now the destiny comes in. And that’s going to confirm the inner turret in this top lane and maybe they can move to a baron. Although that sounds risky. Shanks and Fandre do both have TP here. Hope is still alive. So I think trying to start this Baron with some pretty low health bars here for Dicky without a reset is probably not going to happen. But look at the vision control they have around the pit. In the pit to the left of the pit they can just reset and look for a take as Shanks is trying to delay those resets. Yeah, gets that information that Keen is in this brush as now it’s a bit of a a struggle and he will just get taken down. That is not the information that he wanted when he pressed that destiny button. And now the fight is going to extend. Flareree having to use that pull pretty early. They will be able to make their way out. Landre teleporting into that is also a really big deal because he was a big threat on that side lane. Making sure that he gets as much money as he possibly can to try and do that damage cuz that’s what keeps him relevant. Yeah, I I love this from AGL. They’re getting very scrappy. They’re trying their best to find whatever angle they can, but unfortunately little mistakes here and there are just tipping the scales bit by bit towards Geng and it’s already really heavy on their side. They’re just about to crest 50,000 gold. Yeah, the timing of that hex tech ultimatum for Dean was so massive because it denies the CC. He’s able to get on top of Shanks get past him there and then they end up getting the pick onto the Silus who still has TP should Gingi decide should they have decided to immediately start up that Baron again. But they still have vision control. They don’t have to force this right now. They are pretty big in terms of the AD damage they can offer with this TF and the Zia. It’s not enough damage to rush this down before a contest here. And you just don’t want to keep the game Flippy. You don’t want to keep the game in a volatile state here as Genji. You just want to push waves, keep that lead. You had choke out the Vladimir so she he can’t actually get the farm he needs to get that third item online. Just make it hell for AGL to even farm on the map. Don’t give them that scrappy fight they’re looking for. Certainly not looking like it’s a thing they can take right now as this inner turret going to be taken immediately. Dragon going to be up in 8 seconds time. And that may distract Gen for a few moments as they will send Canyon and Ruler over there. 3.3K is Ruler’s lead and we’re now up to 4.5k was approximately the advantage that Chroy had uh in this mid lane. So at 18 minutes, that was when really the second dragon was taken for AGL. You can see that extra 10 minutes of time those two DS have bought before. Now we’re at Drake par two clouds. No inhibitors have gone down. though Baron has gone over. It’s a threat that 9,000 gold behind Hal from But it but they do have a threat. The threat exists and it is this Vladimir that now has a shadow flame online. If there’s a fight they can take, it’s going to have to be stopping Genji on an aggressive Baron take. One more chance, one more try for the LPL representatives to do what they they could not do in game five against Genji at MSI. they could not do against T1 at MSI to try to take this title. You know what they could do? They could smite Baronss away from Genji. So hopefully Genji do not start this objective. I think perhaps they have leared over the last couple of games to just not do that. And as I say it immediately, that is not going to be the case. They do start it up. Can Tarzan, sorry, is going to be taking a lot of damage. Information advantage is massive with that destiny just being thrown out. And Al will move back. That ulti is going to wear off though before the Baron is actually down as into the pit goes Canyon. And can they burst this down is the question. Yes, they can because the blade caller is going to be there. Now Tarzan with the death mark, but the death is his in this fight. Now Troy just trying to kite around Fandre who gets out of hemoblake, but the pull’s on cool down. The flashes go forward and hope is a target. He’s taken down and in fact he dies with all the hope of Al at the same time as this should be the ace just after the Baron. And Geng they may just have done it. They may have just won game five and made themselves the EWC winners here for 2025. They have absolutely done exactly that. Atlas Gent will be your winners tonight. Gen accomplishing what they could not with the early drop off last year at 2024. Arguably their most disappointing result of the year and this time they’ll be the ones to crush the final key and lift the trophy. A hardfought series despite a two0 lead. Al did not give up. It was a hard-fought win in game five, but a dominant game five to close it out. An incredible victory here for Gen. Like you say, the history from last year making up for that, but also the club championship. Such a huge thing for this team that has already had success in two other titles. They will be skyrocketing themselves with all of the points that they’ve accred just here today as that trophy will be completed and Ruler gets to lift another one alongside his teammates here for 2025. That’s it. The key is inserted. That’s what this is all about. All the keys that were crushed but one as they will put it in that trophy and say this is my title. Denji your esports world cup pup for League of Legends 2025 winners. It just makes sense. They go from MSI they come over here and it’s like every series is super close but they always end up on top. Genji, how many titles in a row can they get? How many series in a row? Who can stop this squad? Well, we’ll just have to find out, but it’ll have to be in the LCK or at Worlds. You never know. So far, 26 series in a row for Gen as they take it in turns lifting the trophy and they must be getting used to this by now. He wants the crowd and he deserves the crowd, man. Ruler, what a fantastic night he had tonight. And now it is time to throw it over to that beautiful stage with Ian Chambers. The noise in here is deafening and so it should be. Joy, come here. Let’s have a a chat. What a phenomenal grand final. I do want to get to talking about the victory, the celebrations. But first, how when you were dominating so early on, did you let them back into this one? Well, I think we just made a show. You did make a show. That is for sure. Everybody here loved every second of it. And you have just led your team to the fastest ever back-to back international trophies in League of Legends history. You must be so incredibly proud of yourself and your team. Yes, I’m of course I’m excited, but I’m also proud how my team has uh has gotten into this trophy. One of the things you must be proud of as well is this time last week you were literally on a flight from Vancouver. I need to know how you found the mental resilience, the physical resilience to reset, start again and be so successful at another international event in such a short space of time. the fact that we won the MSI with made us mentally stable and also for physically I think the other teams who attended to the MSI had the same same problem. So I think that’s uh just kind of mindset we had. It was just let’s be our way and we can play if we play in our way what we did and we can win. Well, we’re about to witness history. The final key to be crushed here for League of Legends at the Esports World Cup. The brutal nature of this trophy system has one final laugh. A key is being crushed as we speak right now. You enjoying it? Well, I definitely feel relieved. It’s not our key in that key crusher. And that being said, uh we’re very grateful that uh we’ve lifted the trophy. Amazing. Right. Can I bring you with me around here, Chovi? Congratulations once again. I want to do this in front of the fans if possible. yourself at this tournament because you have been absolutely phenomenal. Yeah, we went here last year when we got eliminated so early. So this time I wanted to lift up trophy. So and I did. So I’m really really excited. You should be excited because I can now announce to here and you watching at home that I was Sony MVP of this tournament. It’s G League of Legends Sony. Ladies and gentlemen, one more time for your League of Legends at the Esports World Cup 2025 winners, Jenji. There is one last thing we need to do. We need to loot some of your opponent’s keys. Are you ready? And it’s been a golden tournament for the team with gold in their colors. Gen G stop the reverse sweep bid by AGAL and make sure that all international titles in League of Legends stay in the hands of the LCK. They win MSI and they are your second ever League of Legends titleists here at the Esports World Cup. After a huge, huge performance by Keen and the rest of the squad, you can see what it means to them as they now partake in the tradition unlike any other. They select three keys from crushed opponents dreams from earlier in the tournament to seal in the game trophy that they will have and bring back home to soul. I mean, just such composure by Genji when you feel like it’s slipping out of your fingers. The sensation to just clutch your hand and keep grabbing it and not let it go out of your hands. Just want to come back. do not let AJL complete the reverse sweep and they reclaimed their title. So, so far they’ve selected AGAL. They selected Hana and they don’t have to select teams that they beat. So, they could take everyone. Should you take the key of Cloud Defenders? Cloud N. Could they take Cloud9? What are they pointing to? There’s Hanas. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They’re like, well, we’ve already taken T1. It’s got to be T1. And yes, they will steal. T1’s key in resin underneath the game trophy. AL Hanife Esports and T1’s keys will be inside the 2025 esports World Cup League of Legends game trophy for Gen G. So, one bit of business now done as the tradition continues. They will make their walk to the 2025 esports World Cup totem and put their frame inside the totem where it will reside above all else, above all broken keys across all different esports of 2025 to say that they were indeed the best in League of Legends. What an awesome finals. That was so fun. started out a little slow, but it heated up for an absolute banger at the end. That was that game four and five were so much fun. And you know, ending with picks like Tarzan Zed, like uh we didn’t get to see it in Italy, unfortunately, but there was plenty of other awesome picks. The Vladimir coming out, the Silus, Chovi picking TF and somehow winning on it. You know, it’s just it is a storybook ending. Uh all he needed was the the Kalista as well to truly do the impossible. But I think winning with TF is pretty impressive. Yeah. And what a fight by AJ Ellen and then like what a ramp up this series has been. As you see me just I fully agree that just it got better game for game for game that game four by AL. What a fight it was between the two team in a 47minute banger. Tried this really aggressive draft in the end. I love the confidence with Tarson with the said I love the confidence with the Vladimir. Wasn’t enough this time, but AGL, we will see you soon again. Man, what a tournament it has been. Also, fantastic cast to our TriCast there and all of our casters that have done work in the booth. Way to go, Finn. Great job today. Thank you to you, getting to cast, getting thrown there in the TriCast. It has been such a great tournament. We are holding here in the studio for just a little bit as Gen G make their walk on over to the totem. They’re going stage by stage and probably being stopped by fans across the boulevard. One of the coolest moments here at Esports World Cup just right next to fellow esports competitors. And yes, there they are going from the League of Legends STC esports arena moving across Crossfire Dota 2’s arena as well later on. And then they get across the street here in the boulevard on over to the STC Gaming Hall where the totem resides. And my goodness, what a journey it’s been for this squad. Again, one of the most dominant teams over the last two years in terms of win percentage, in terms of series wins, that kid right there in the front duro joining the team straight off of BKX from last season, half a season that was just one split and then saying, “Hey, you’re the guy. We trust you with Chovi. We trust you with Canyon. We trust you with Keen as returning members. And most importantly, we trust you with the veteran ruler. You two are going to get along. And not only has he gotten along, he’s excelled and exceeded expectations. What a great event. You know, in this winning ceremony, it’s way more than just getting a trophy, you know, a congrats you won. You get to crush your opponent’s key. You get to put your key up on the totem. You get uh all the glory that comes with it. You earn points for your club. Uh just awesome stuff. What a year from Genji. Honestly, so far winning the LCK, winning the MSI, and now winning this as well. I think there’s just such a trajectory. I think the expectations, they were high, but I think they’ve risen one step above that. I’m just so excited to see what this team is going to be able to accomplish and I’m so excited to see how far they will go. And here is the moment with his Royal Highness himself, Prince Fisel, who has spearheaded the esports World Cup. and uh presents the frame over to Ruler, showing it off to everyone, shaking the hands of all the players. And it will be one of those players making the climb to the totem to put it in their slot as League of Legends title winners of 2025. They join T1 as the only titleists here. Again, all international tournaments have been won by the LCK. And it does not change here today at the Esports World Cup. Gen have their moment. Ruler has yet another notch in his belt in his storied career as he puts that on in and it locks in the legacy for Geng for 2025 at the Esports World Cup. Beautiful moment there allowing Ruler to do it. Um yeah, just congrats to Geng. They played amazing the whole tournament. a lot of fun to watch them. Got to see tons of different strategies, cool picks come out. And even though they won, it wasn’t all smooth sailing. You know, they had to overcome some tough opponents. Uh getting pushed to match point multiple times, but something about Geng just, you know, when they have to win, they they win. They look so comfortable in these game fives. And uh yeah, you know, that’s why they’re the champions. I mean it is just so rare to see a team with such discipline like Genji has accumulated over the course of their many years growing in this organization. Chovi Canyon Keen staying together rebuilding with Duro and Ruler. I the way they play it’s so magical. It’s like an arch piece in the making. And I mean finally come to fruition here as Chovi. He has been the chosen one. finally given his people the silverware that they deserve, getting the tournament wins. And here yet again, etching his name in the history books as Esports World Cup title winner of League of Legends in 2025. Congratulations to all of Tiger Nation. Gen G are your 2025 esports World Cup titleists. Heat. Heat. daddy. Hey Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat up Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat.
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1:30:38 ”I belive I can fly, I belive I can touch the sky!”
What is the purpose of choosing the broken triangles?
fan Gen is stupid
We have to admit that this version of GENG have a high fu**ing chance to wins worlds 2025 for sure.
Which soundtrack is this at 9:04:20? Can anyone plz tell me
another scripted trophy… damn esports lost its charm
Great final
Ruler is him
8:32:06 Hey hey ,we guess Zed 😂
First of all, congratulations to GENG for winning the championship. It's a pity that AL got the runner-up. They came back from 2-0 behind and then tied. I can only say that this final was not in vain. I can only say that GENG's hard power is still too strong. AL is a team that came to the international competition for the first time. After the failure of MSI, they only had two weeks to adjust and beat the veteran team T1 that defeated them. They have done a good job. It's a pity that GENG is stronger. But what I want to say is that a team always goes through a lot of hardships to become a champion. I am not a fan of AL, but the perseverance, resilience and story they showed are very inspiring. Keep it up and don't be discouraged.
Whose the caster that seems to hate on fearless? I mean, he always emphasises that drafts are wonky because of fearless. Instead of challenging coaches drafts. A bit annoying.
Because of fearless we have lots of game 5 and I am all for it!
Imagine Fakers carry power if he was poor like 2013 and see the prize money.
i don't get the point of playing annie that useless champ
Love GEN G <3
我是Geng我也選強隊當底座
底座是T1 HLE AL 比起 BLG C9 FUR 含金量高不少吧😂
I hope is gen g win worlds😢
they better win worlds 2025
T1 THIRD place! Hahahaha
kiin MVP
I know people say that T1 will get better at Worlds, but look at this Gen G squad. Chovy is the best mid by far and Ruler is the best adc. You can't go with 2 without 3, MSI, EWC and now it's Worlds.
W TOURNAMENT
Canyon手真的好容易同手同腳
Prime Gen.G ready to worlds 🔥
"BrokenBilly"
damn gen g winning everythingggg this year
Congrats geng