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Ladies and gentlemen, this is MLO Philippines season 15. out. Philippines minded takes this game. And with that, oh to a score, we’re going onto a game number five. Next round. Is it going to be the soaring of the focus or rise of the Finnish army? And they love it. Pro team and we have a game number Two left to defend further. Oh my gosh. God bless the next round. The quest for immortality continues as we have our final four teams of today. Who will ascend and claim their destiny to be immortals in the Champions Arena Galleria? And this is your very own Odin. And this is also the time to witness. This is also the time for them to be more than legendary. are non the grand finalists of the trailblazers of the new era Aurora Gaming on Philippines because it’s the neverending Clash of Titans season 13’s grand finalists. It’s Team Liquid Philippines going up against Team Falcons. Odin everyone, we are about to find that out because this is the second day of MBL Philippines season 15, the playoffs. And welcome to the English panel here for day number two of the playoffs. here. It’s me. Nice to And it’s Come on, man. I You know, they’re used to seeing us sitting, man. So, like, I I already uh I incredibly missed the desk. Not going to lie. I didn’t realize how much it it hit and it did for us. But yeah, no, I’m happy to share the panel with you. It’s the first time I think we’ve shared like a a panel style, like analyst style uh together throughout our entire careers. And now we’re doing it for the playoffs and in a very crazy day as well. A day number two. Day number two, man. And we were Hey, we were on desk yesterday. We we got to see some of the the clips for that. It was a full day, 10 games all around fiveame series and it was one hell of a day to kick off the playoffs. Unfortunately, we had to say goodbye to two teams and now we are here in the upper bracket semis and we can’t wait to see exactly what unfolds here. I like how Hans and Odin mentioned it too. These are some former grand finalists, you know, in different seasons. So, before that, we have to go ahead and give a thanks to our sponsors. Now you equipped with all day 120 FPS system. The nextG Infinix GT30 Pro is the new official tournament phone powering the next seasons of the MPL Philippines. Yeah. And it’s exciting because we’ve always just been talking about the GT20 Pro. Now we’re in the 30 series. Yeah, we’ve upgraded. But that was also more for the MPL fans and X fans. You guys can get ready to witness the best students teams battle for glory at the Infinix Campus Cup Philippines, the local group stage. Yeah, that’s going to be livereamed from June 14 to 15 and the national finals will be on June the 28th only on Infinenix Philippines Facebook page. This is XCCPH # where legends rise all throughout the Philippines. There have been more tournaments popping up for the ladies scene. We got the Athena League and it’s so great. I know we’ve talked about it so many times before just a lot of the collegiate athletes getting opportunities. I love that there’s so much competition, you know, going around because if you get to watch us here, of course, for the MPL Philippines, you also have every other region still competing. You guys have seen the graphics going around, too. You know, the teams locking in the spots for what’s ahead of us. All the eyes are starting to get set on what’s going to be happening at EWC, for MSC, and everything else. Um, and we’ll find out shortly in the next couple days which our representatives will be from the Philippines. Now again, we’ll be shortly taking a look at our playoffs bracket. And if you guys missed yesterday, I highly recommend when you get some time, go check things out. You know, go check things out. Go check those games out because what an electrifying way to go ahead and start off the playoffs. I don’t think people thought from the first series. And I know Renmar, we talked about this on the desk a little bit that that was going to be a fivegame series. Yeah. Uh this is the first time we ever got a 10 game day number one for the playoffs since the start of the franchise system uh since even way back uh season 7 season 6. So it’s an absolute first. The fact that Twisted Minds got to take Onyx to the limit almost taking them out. The fact that TNC Pro team almost stopped the hopes and dreams of Flap TZ F and company to making it back to Riad to try and get that MSE trophy that’s eluded them for so long. Well, it didn’t happen. Falcons are the ones that went on to push on. One of them had to win that battle of the skies and it was Falcons that goes forward. Now, today’s schedule once again, we’re kicking it off with our match number three of the playoffs. It’s going to be Aurora versus Onic Philippines. This was the rematch from just last season to the grand final. And then, of course, later on for our second matchup, we have TP versus Falcons. And that was season 13’s grand final. So, a whole lot of action here. And if you remember, we touted that really as the Battle of the Titans. Yeah. And it’s so cool because it sort of redefineses what it means to play in the champions arena for the playoffs of MPL Philippines. Not because of the organizations or the organizations as champions. It’s the players in Aurora. You have world champions, multiple time champions. Same goes for Onyx, uh, Falcons, Team Liquid. There’s so much uh illustrious history and so much gold on the weights and hands of all the players, the top four in our playoffs. top four, you know, and even when even coming into this, like our top six teams, I feel like you could put any of those teams really on the international stage and they’re going to go ahead and compete, you know, and I think even with our first match up with Aurora, we have had that whole story of what I felt like this season was kind of like a redemption in a way for them from their last, you know, couple uh international appearances. they improved so much from the learnings that they had uh from those and they’ve gotten themselves to this point. Now, our big thing yesterday was during that time off from the regular season to, you know, where we are in the playoffs, how much the teams improve, you know, and I think Aurora was already massively ahead in in terms of some of their play styles and their aggression and the way that they calculated things that I want to see what they bring now, you know, after the break here because this is the the thing about it is we can go ahead and recall what paved the way for basically the new era of last season. That was when Black Echo or AP Brand, they they didn’t make the grand final for the first time since season 9. And that kind of set the stage for a lot of these newer, I guess, story lines to come into place. Yeah, 100%. And it’s so cool to see that we’re already getting this as early as day number two. This might not even be the last time we’ll get it for this playoffs depending on how the matchups go. But speaking of this matchup specifically for the Trailblazers of the new era, Onyx Philippines has a 5 to1 series win lead over Aurora. But it was Aurora who started the whole track of difficulty for Onik Philippines this season wherein they just could not get a good ball rolling for them up until they finally hit their stride with that 10 series win streak to close off the regular season in season 15. Yeah, I remember when that happened. I’m trying to think, was that like a week three thing or a week two? But it was a week uh one thing. Oh, it was week one. Yeah, it was week one. Their very first match up. We were already treated to our Aurora versus Sonic, but then boom, Aurora just shocked Onic with a 2-1 victory. I feel like that kind of depicted what our season was going to be like, the regular season. Like, so that that upset, if you will, with Aurora, you know, making the Kings kneel for the first time in the season right off the bat was a lot of like a wakeup call to like everyone being like, “All right, what are what are we going to expect for the regular season?” And a whole lot happened here. And speaking of just what happened in the regular season, man, I feel like everybody had like a duo, you know, we had we had, of course, as you can see of Aurora, we’ve got the Kite brothers. That’s Demon Kite and Doming Kite. And across from them, we mentioned this even before, it’s that KK connection. Uh the two are really compared a lot of the times here, Renmar, but what do you think like is this what what sets them apart here? Because they’re both amazing duos, but what gives them advantage? cuz there’s a lot of advantage right now for the KK duo. Yeah, statistically for season 15, there’s still a lot more leaning towards the side for Onyx Philippines as KK for Keldra and King Kong. But when it comes to uh the Kite Brothers here in season 15 compared to what they were like in season 14, it’s just Aurora are sign getting significantly more kills compared to what they were getting last season. If I’m not mistaken, we’ll also get to see the season 14 head-to-head comparison. This season is at around eight average kills per game compared to the season 14 stat line which we’ll see in a bit. It was at around 6.15. There we go. Very different story for Aurora this time around. Last season they weren’t getting so many kills, but they were winning the objective game. I remember that was the story line we had for Aurora. It’s like you can count on them to get the objectives. It’s not going to be super flashy, but it’s going to be so down to the fundamentals. But then they’ve in injected a bit of that KK connection style of play. They’re a little bit more flashy. Dominic Kite is showing some really great things. But I’m sure you like this graphic as we go back to history when Demon Kite was still skinny Kite. Kro was still a kid. He wasn’t the god of the gold lane just yet. Yeah, this and it brings me back to my first international. You know, seeing Demon Kite there, Kings of the Sea and then of course Kro, he’s both of them have grown so much. Kra secured his first what championship title finals MVP in 2021 and then in 2022 Demon Kite’s RSG had to eliminate Kra’s then Omega to reach the grand final and eventually defend the Philippines title. I was there for it. It was heated as heck and I love to see it and uh you know I was very adamant on the fact that I loved watching RSG play. I was a big RSG fanboy. Fortunately not here anymore. But that was a lot of uh in credit to me liking Demon Kite back in his amateur scene when he got into the MPL. I really just liked watching him play and you know, but since then PH has yet to win MSSE, you know, so um you can actually go ahead and really think about the advancements that have happened around the globe to catch up to that I feel like the level and the competitive that we the competitiveness that we have here in the Philippines. But you know that’s maybe we talk about that another day. Yeah. I don’t want to start a debate here. I’m sure I’m going to say this now where the people are again we haven’t won MSE in a while in for the past two installments but it’s because we’ve had to go up against some incredibly insane teams. The 2023 Onyx from Indonesia where they almost completed the golden road. The SRG team in 2024 that was going on that insane win streak. They continued that even past MSE 2024. So, it takes a next level of teams, some great teams internationally for us to win uh for them to win MC. Let’s go ahead and say hi to our uh fellow casters over there. Hello guys. How you doing? Can you hear us? What’s up? Nu and Renar, Bria, Rockhart, and Leo here chilling. Uh, we’re enjoying uh your trip down memory lane talking about old Kafk or young young old and young. We get it. We get it. You can barely recognize their faces in their old graphics. Yeah, man. The hair the hair has definitely changed, you know. And uh guys, you hear how loud it is in here? I mean, I’m maybe you guys are a little closer to the action. They’re they’re heated. I I feel like this is almost like the grand final from last season if I remember. I mean, we were here technically the casting desk. We had a little flip-flop, right? Yeah. It was in the second floor and you guys were down there. We were downstairs and me and Leo were up here. I’m getting a little flashbacks, man. Oh, I was actually somewhere else. I was at a watch party during last finals and I could like feel the energy of the crowd because it was late. It was game seven. It was all the way similar to what happened yesterday. So, you know, like it could be another game five maybe. Hey, you’re here. So, maybe. So, let’s go ahead and ask our community guys. You can let us know in the chat right now. Is this the new era? Is it Onyx era? Is it A, it’s Onyx time? Is it B sees the win? What do you guys think on the caster desk? Yeah, I think it’s still Onic time. Yeah. Yeah. Still on time. How are you, Rockart? I can kind of see the lights here. And so, bring it in. Where are you going? Bring it in. I don’t have a watch, but I I also feel like it’s Sonic time. It’s also Onyx time. Not a girl. Okay. Well, it’s it’s a two to it’s a two to one split. Wait, is that also their match predictions? Are those your match predictions also for this one? You guys got your emotes there? There you go. Okay. All right. Show off the emotes cuz you guys can go ahead and grab your battle emotes right now. Don’t forget to grab them while you can. Uh they’re amazing to go ahead and spam, of course, in your own games. And you can grab them for relatively cheap as well. I think they’re what 109 diamonds or so, you know. Yeah, it’s for a limited time only that you can get them, but once you get them, they’re going to be there with you for life. The good thing is that limited time is all the way up until August 5. So, you have what? That’s like two and a half months. Yeah, quick math. Two months. Keep getting those uh those battle emotions. What should they not miss out on? Uh I really like the Falcons one. This amazing deal on the amazing deal. Oh, he’s a guy. It’s all right. He’s a Falcons guy. He’s a power. He’s He’s not locked in like he should be. I’m still high on that victory. That’s later. That’s tonight. Yeah, tonight. That’s going to be later. Uh guys, I know you guys are excited about the game. So, of course, we can’t wait for that. Keep them up and we’ll see you guys relatively soon. Um again, electric here in the Champions Arena. It’s already packed or nearly packed for all the teams here to get locked and loaded and ready for this one. Remar, in just a second, we’re going to be inviting the teams out here. What was what was your prediction? I mean, can we predict? Yeah, I think we can predict. Uh, it’s tough here. I’m leaning a little bit more towards Arnik, but it’s it’s so close. I think it’s a 3-2. You think it’s a 3-2? Yeah, dude. Hey, man. I I I don’t want I wouldn’t complain if we get another 10 games today. Like, we had it yesterday. We were here for a long time. I can’t wait to see what happens today. And I think for a lot of the fans out there, they would also like to see all these games go the distance, go five games. You guys can let us know in the chat, of course, who you think is going to win as well and predict. And then make sure you get the emotes to support your team. For me, I mean, if I was going to ask myself or you were to ask me, yes, I would probably say I’m going to have to go with uh it’s onic time, man. Oh, it’s onic. I think they’re on this like redemption like I don’t know. Ever since the win streak that they’ve had and let’s be honest, everyone was on the edge of their seats yesterday. And it wasn’t just because we were part of the, you know, super fan rap battle. I mean, I was doing a whole lot there. But uh I I h I am going to go ahead and say I think it’s Any uh that grabs this win. Either way though, I’d love to be surprised. That’s not to discredit my boy Demon Kite, though. Demon Kite, hey, make me a believer again. I’m still season eight. Since season eight, he that’s the first time I ever heard you say you were a fan of fan of a player like, you know, that Demon Kai kid. Big fan of him. He’s pretty good. Pretty good. And then look at where he is now. Right. He’s here now. But again for Aurora, they’ve got a lot of great things, but the stats didn’t lie. If you guys saw them when we broke them down, they are going to go ahead and compete. Now, now even one of the teams that loses here, of course, they still have a chance in the lower bracket. So, it’s not an elimination day, so they’ll still have that option for them. And uh I think if there’s anything that we can say about yesterday, man, the drafts were pretty spicy. Like, there was a lot of good new picks coming out. Yeah. And I’m pretty sure that’s going to continue. Uh we’re still going to see Bre uh Basha, Frederick, Lucas, all contested, but Dang is definitely going to be a big player for this series. Uh who whatever goalender they’re going to end up with. SP drafts spicy. Drafts are spicy. The players are ready. And let’s go ahead and welcome them out to the stage for the matchup. MPL Arena. Please welcome our marshals for this match. Joshua, Chico, JJ, and David. It’s time for the upper bracket semifinals with the first match of the day. Aurora versus Onic Philippines. in the EXP lane. Edward and Curr in the jungle. Demon and King in the mid lane. You have Super Free. in the row. Ready and score. And in the gold blade, Dank Knight and Kra and welcome their coaches for Onik Philippines, Coach Ron, and for Aurora, Coach Master the basics. Your last year’s grand finalists, the trailblazers of the new era, MPL Arena. It’s game time. Alrighty, they are locked and loaded. And this is the lineup for Rollin that we’re looking at once again. Let’s go ahead and introduce them. It’s Edward, Demon Kite, Uway, and Doming Kite. Keep your eyes on the Kite Brothers for this one. And not only that, I always feel like you always can’t count out Mr. Consistent, whatever you want to call Edward these days. He has so many names. But he does play a big part of this. We know how important the XP lane is. UA loves to bring out. It’s so funny seeing the Sicilian there still for that top hero picked of his. And then of course Rene the hitman, the heal man, the everything man always brings so much to the Rome, you know, and that is a high impact role for them to make work. Yeah. And for Onyx Philippines with Kirk, Kingov, Super Friends, Brusco, and Kelra. Actually, if Onyx has their work cut out for them in terms of trying to think about what US going to end up playing in the center of the map, Aurora has the same problem with Super Friends, the Farsa, the Selena that we don’t have a record of the US showing up with. And of course the Valier that Super Friends reintroduced to MPL Philippines with Onyx this season becoming a huge success for them which now for Aurora then okay if you have to think about Super Friends how then are we going to ban around making sure that King Kong doesn’t end up with a comfort he’ll always end up with a comfort. How do we make sure that Bruce ends up with a hero while at the same time not taking a hero away from Rene because they have a shared hero pool. They’ve got the shared hero pool man. And speaking of that, look, 47 to 48. Both these teams are so flexible in the draft and that’s why we were saying before we introduced them, it’s going to be a spicy draft because of how much flexibility overall there is. Yeah, there’s still the hot picks going through, but ultimately this is a good chance for some of the teams to bring out some of the more maybe unorthodox picks that we haven’t necessarily seen just yet because of the fact that they are in the upper bracket semi-finals. And then other than that too, like we were talking about, man, I think realistically, yeah, mid lane, you leave a lot of room for for something new there. But I mean, even the Eve, the Eve was such a surprising factor in yesterday’s games and either of these guys can play it. Uh, of course, you had the Valy like you mentioned, too. So, I think really what I want to look at is the XP lane. Yeah. because of these two, Kirk and uh Edward, and that what kind of impact they’re going to have because even then, like we saw in the box planted in the XP lane in the hands of Flap yesterday, and these types of XP laners when you have Kirk and Edward, they can be a little even a little more different than what Flap likes to do. Yeah, and I’m so glad that you mentioned the exp lane here. Of course, with a lot with the draft difficulty that playing around the mid lane, drafting around the mid lane brings to the table. You have to look for stability somewhere and that has to come through the exp lane, which now has an extra option in the box. You’re not just stuck with the Hyos. Even Edith has showed up yesterday, and it’s a reminder to everyone that we’ve seen her sparingly all throughout the season, but she’s definitely still a great pick. And before we get to the matchup again, we’re going to have to go ahead and check out our players ping test for this match. Let’s throw it over to them. tablerent pesos 10 pesos Let’s check battery. What happened? I know. Bamba, right? Papa to med. And that’s our smart ping test, bringing you low latency gaming with smarts promos. Subscribe to Only 5G with non-stop data for non-stop gaming on your favorite loading platforms or the smart booth right outside our MPL venue. For our international audience out there, we basically had a couple, I guess, trending things going around right now in the Philippines. Calro was doing a pose that I’ve been seeing everybody do, but I have no idea what it is. And then you had uh Demon Kite going ahead and doing the what’s what’s happening Bella thing right now. So uh but this matchup, let’s look at the inflict keys to victory here, Renar. Yeah, if you’re Aurora, you have to definitely punish Onyx overextending tendencies. One of the best qualities of Aurora this season, as Demon Kite stares into our soul, is their capability to punish even the slightest of errors. Onyx are really great at that, but it’s because they mask it with just some really good aggression, early aggression, so they can prevent Aurora Snowball. Aurora, another thing that they do very well is that they understand their timings. But if you take them out of their comfort zone, well, it’s hard for them to make a comeback. Play the series one game at a time for Oro and Onyx. We mentioned that there’s a lot of pieces you have to think about in terms of the draft in just the mid lane. We haven’t even talked about the other lanes as much uh yet. So, take it step by step, pick by pick, sequence per sequence, then you can get the victory. You know, I really like that last one, man. It bring it brings me back to my days of playing uh sports and I had a coach that always said that because even when we were in the championship run he said guys one game at a time one win at a time basically you know so you don’t have to think about too much cuz sometimes when you are in the playoffs and you’re competing whether that’s a sport whether that’s an esport and it’s all the same you want to be able to focus and hone in on that one game you’re going to play right now you know it’s the best of five but don’t worry about the other games possible four just focus on what you’re doing now. And we’ve seen that time and time again with our players just here and of course around the world and how they’re able to stay at a high level for you know such a long time in a series. You think about it, we had some of the longest games yesterday to kick off the day. What are the major I think the average was 20 plus minutes. Yeah, I think on average it was around 20 21 22 minutes that we were doing it. Real quick, nice if you were the coach of both Aurora and Onyx. How would you give them like a very quick one-worded pep talk? One one word. Okay, fine. A quick little phrase. Lock in. Lock in. Just that. That’s it. I’d look all in the eye and just say lock in. Yeah, we actually got to see Coach W do a little bit of that. The Onyx players were laughing around. Coach W gave a friendly little tap to the back of the head of Super Fris. Oh no, I think it was King Kong. And then everyone just shut up. Then everyone locked in. That’s that that’s basically coach speak. Yeah, that’s coach language. So ladies and gentlemen, I know you guys can’t wait for it. So we’re going to jump into the draft here in just a couple seconds. It’s game one in this best of five for us to kick it off between Aurora and On Philippines, last season’s grand finalists. What will change this time around? And uh jump to the draft. I think we’re going to have a little bit of health here too through this. But right now, you can see the bands coming out by the way. Bands are already coming out. Uh Renmar, how how’s it looking here? All right. Uh we did mention the Badang popping up and it pops up as a ban because Badang frequently showed up as the first two picks on the red side. Aurora of course taking away the two main comforts of Onyx which is the Lo Yi super friends and the joy of King Kong while Ony is just doing their due diligence but taking away the Matilda and of course making sure that Demon Kite doesn’t end up with a Fanny. But yeah, I think uh yo Briggy, we need some help here. Hey, they took out the Harris. So that leaves the Kala open. Not even a high brick. Come on. Yeah, you didn’t even say hi. She was just like, I’m going to go straight to doing my job. Hey, but any Okay, fine. Because at least say hi to the Brigades. Come on. There we go. So, Redmar and everyone watching English right now. All right. Wait, so what’s your prediction here for the first pick? Yeah, the Clay is there, too. Uh, but I believe the Junian has also appeared in some cases as a first pick for certain teams. And however, Aurora does have a tendency to go for other. And there you go. They go for the chip instead. Yeah, that’s the other pick that we mentioned. But if I’m not mistaken, the chip is uh not as successful as Aurora would want it to be in their hands. Highly punishable, which means Onyx are looking at potentially locking in a Lucas at maybe the third pick. Do they go Boxia in the first swing or no? I I wouldn’t knock it. I like the box, but I think to be safe, they might want to consider taking the Phobies or the Hilda Hilda. And this is Aurora, by the way. Yesterday, we’ve seen instances of teams just introducing other picks to counter out lineups, including the Baksha. There were teams that sensed it. So, they took out stuff like the Xorg and all that, whether it’s very likely for Aurora considering that this is Demon Kite. He’s the guy who stick with the Suyo even after the patch happened. Yeah, he’s also just one of the formidable players that brought out the uh Lucas and Wow, they go one-on- one with the Clea. Well, all right. Uh it seems like Kellra has enrolled in the school of Benicuti. How to play one and they lock it in as the first two pitch instantly and of course they get the Ka. I think you pick up the juice. And now if you’re Aurora or maybe something a little bit brisier for the mid, you definitely pick up comfort for Edward. Fious and excuse me, a demon kite that has to show up here too. A lot of has to consider actually. Yeah, there’s a lot here. And interesting again, you’re building around the fact that you have this chip that you can utilize. We saw we saw a lot of good usage of the chip, but also just kind of throwing the chip towards a enemy team can also cause havoc to you and you lose those team fights pretty easily. But hold on, that’s the Freder going to be locked in with the Granger here. Yeah. So, I like this because Onyx, I think this is them them picking up the W one in the first two picks sort of showed that a part of us kind of expected the Freder is coming out cuz W1’s great for those slow frontto back style of team fighting. While Aurora, I like their first three picks. You have the surprise factor, the sudden entry, easy access for a Frederick to go in while you also have strong range damage for the Granger. Very balanced first three picks for Aurora. Yep. and on right now they can definitely take out some other heroes particularly mid lane heroes which could pose as a problem considering that they have the one-1 in their hands. Yesterday we did see how the fara has responded pretty well to these kinds of instances. It’s not just the mid lane heroes too that they’re considering right now. It’s also the focus which we earlier mentioned since Laura decided to prioritize the Ranger and the Yeah, I think Onyx has to consider taking out the Hilda, but I remember we’ve talked about this before. If Onic aren’t careful, Edward might have his hands on a Beneta by the end of this considering there’s a Freder in your jungle, a Chip damage, get some good damage in there. You need that. Yeah. And uh if they really wanted to, I don’t know if they if they actually would, but maybe even to the extent of an Edith, like he’s one of the players that can also play an Edith there in the XP laner, but Benadeta would be great. Just, you know, go for that damage. You can see here, too, just how successful we’ve seen the KA in the hands of Bruce. You know, he’s played it six times. 83% win rate. You always got to remember the way that teams have adjusted to the Ka for the most part is usually at least one purify or double purify that they can work around with. That was a quick response though. Tramonic Philippines immediately after the Valentina ban by Aurora. So they take out the Pharamiss which is another potential response to the crossbow of Tang which happens later on. But that means that they definitely have to consider the picks or picks like the Hilda which you mentioned because those are the kinds of XP laners which might be able to sustain things a little bit more. Also opt for an early winter crowd if ever they want to. But I’m still open to the possibility of a damage XP lane. damage, XP. What else? Let’s see. What’s the last ban going to be here? Is it still going to be in the mid lane? They’ve got the the the choices here are narrowed down, but we already talked about how UA and Super Frince are so versatile in that lane. I think they have to ban either the Forsa or the Valier, but now they’re willing to give it. They want to pick up the Oh, well, CC is actually really great against Linux, the chip, a slower style of a Freder and Onyx immediately picking up the juice. Okay, so they’re not going to be going for burst. Onyx’s lacking burst. Uh, this is slow building up damage. The kill potent the kill potential might not come in until later for Onyx Philippines. You think UA plays Zask here? Sicilian, his favorite still or just Sicilian. You know what? Why not Zask, right? Like Zask against the Ducian. Yeah, last season and even in the regular season in season 14, that was the main trade. It was Juice and Zask. It was those two that we always uh saw going up against each other. We saw a bit of it yesterday, so why not, right? Yeah. be a good option here again. We’ll find out when they decide to go even for that XP lane if they’re going to go and lean towards some more damage. There’s the Arlet Frederick combo. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You forgot about Damasha. Yikes. Masha damage. The main problem that Onyx has is Aurora has all of it. They have all of the damage that Onik wish they had. It’s like burst early game and then you know Masha gets the late game and then she’s the burst. Yeah, it’s like it’s me now. Yeah, the damage profile of Aurora is really good. Strong map presence. This is going to be an incredibly tough fight for Anukica so far. It looks like Aurora has won the draft. Oh my goodness. If you watched yesterday’s series with the with that chip and the Masha. Oh, we were there. This is such a we were there. This is such a reminder of what happened just yesterday. I mean last night or I feel like it was just last night for I think me and Renar both. It’s just like yeah I think that happened last night and I know exactly what you mean. So Philippines they decide to go and opt for the glue pick to go ahead and bring that in the XP lane. So interesting final thoughts here Renar in the drafts. All right I like the glue. It’s the perfect answer that you could go for with everything that Aurora has thrown to the table if you’re on Philippines. But there’s something about the lineup of Aurora that just screams easier to pull off, not as hard to mess up. And the damage is what scares me the most about their lineup. I’ll go for Aurora for this one. Going for Aurora for that one. Again, the champions arena is ready for this. We get one last look at the lineups here. And that’s a whole lot of big dam for Aurora, as I would like to say. Plus with two purifies to play against the KA. This is going to be a tough game for Onic Philippines. We’ll see if they’re able to pull it off. Once again, these picks that have come through are crucial to get your foot in the right direction in this best of five. Remember too that the team that has to deal with this, well, we’ll go down to lower bracket. Let’s throw it over to the casters to take us into game one. Trailblazers of the new era in action. Game one in a best of five. Moving forward through the upper brackets is the winner. It’s Aurora versus Onyx Philippines. Leo latch service here with Rockhart and bring it up. Bring you the action. I will I will echo Renmar. It’s very rare that we actually just agree on a draft. This is difficult for Onyx to execute even for them. Yeah, like looking at the lineup itself, there are several counters which are already pretty much present. But hold on. Okay, that was close for Bruce Going back. It’s not just the Ka that can potentially be countered out by the purify that’s in Aurora’s hands, right? It’s also the stacks that could come in from Keller later on. Like if he gets to at least land two and just back one the moment he just UAE either UA or Donai decides to pop the purify then that’ll almost register the entire efforts useless. I really love that you mentioned Keller because as much as I really do agree. Hold on F though. Look at that. Rene Jay might be in trouble here. Going down first blood. No ultimates yet. No shortcut ready. Fing means he’s going to go down. But Demon Kai does allow him to get a little bit of vengeance. Get some of that gold back in. So that was interesting. I mean, it’s Onyx who we’ve been we’ve been constantly talking about as a team who might be potentially lacking in terms of early game damage or even kill potential in general, but they just really went in aggressively trying to invade even a Fred jungler. As I was about to say earlier, I feel like yeah, I mean, I love the Aurora lineup, but you look at the when you think about Kelra and you think about the Wan, what do you remember, right? like you remember that insane 1v4 maniac play that he did on his own uh a few years back and you think you know what this guy is scary that’s right in the summer of 2022 this was one of Kelra’s main flames the one one personally it’s the reason why I call him the Filipino savage is he would play forward in your face now super prince starting with the crimson beacon first turtle up oh look at that beautiful gauge here coming in from Kirk but will be slowed down a little Brusco can’t really do anything yet. Doesn’t have the tsunami slam. King Kong will be getting that turtle and they could get a bit of an edge here on the coming fight. But looks like Aurora going to decide to disengage. Rockard don’t even need it. On brute forced their way into scoring that first objective. Yep. Kirk did a great job in managing Edward from getting out of his lane. It’s not just that. It’s also the way Onyx Philippines were able to immediately force out the purify from us. He barely could position himself in a spot that would guarantee space for Aurora. This is better though this time. Tsunami slam is on. And here we go with a pinser here coming in from Edward and Rene. They’re basically tanks though. Edwards a good damage will not be usable yet on Masha. Here comes the shortcut. They’re diving in on Kong and Kong gets taken down. The Sigma King falls. Now Super Friends falling back. Oh boy. Great follow from Aurora. Super Friends trying to get some of that HP back but no go. It’s going to be a lot of bodies in the foe here for Onyx. And they basically show us this is how you punish others. Oh, wait. There’s another engage coming in from Onyx. Are they going to commit? This is Demon Kai though. He’s really tanky. King Kong’s going to catch up. There we have it. Take it. Bruce go out of range here with us. Feeted air strike. Edward is a huge threat on the front. Look at this guy going 1 v one on Kirk here. Oh, if there’s anything we’re going to learn about that first turtle fight is Onyx can only re-engage when it’s time. So, Onyx time, that’s what they’re going off of this very single-minded lineup. They can barrel through you, but only when they’re ready. If Rora comes in and says, “No, you’re not ready. We’ll flank you.” It’s over. Yeah, and I think this is one of the main pointers we had in the keys to victory earlier. It’s that Aurora can potentially capitalize on all these overextended plays that Onyx may potentially commit in the game. And we’ve seen a couple of them even in early as just four minutes of this game. So, this is something that Onyx probably has to take into consideration because they’ve been forcing out a lot of reactions from Aurora. Yes, but Aurora has the tools to actually punish them successfully. How about Turtle 2. Onyx having a go at it once more. King Kong starting up. Demon Kite spotted him. Rusco to the scene. out. Ready to get back there. Oh my goodness. Ready out of nowhere here. Getting another kill for Edward this time around. King Kong is gone. No more Turtle Retribution available here. Shortcut is still active. They could go back if they want to. They could also bring Kirk maybe, but looks like that’s not going to be a thing. They’re going to just whittle him down slowly, force a flicker out, and then just keep the fight going. Why walk? That’s how he got there. Why walk? And Onyx did not check that portal. Yep. There are some crazy back and forths that are happening right now. Dominite didn’t even need to join in the fight because Aurora has the necessary damage or just even their mere presence and dominance on zoning out Onyx Philippines away from potentially contesting that turtle. So that’s the first objective. Oh my goodness. I c I thought the concussive blast was actually going to get it away from him. Yeah, how tragic would that be? That would be so a singular chip in the face of two members of Any with the retribution on cool down. that that would that would not fly which is normally you know what it’s not a big threat but then you are trying to force off that retribution uh coming in from your enemy jungler that’s already big and Rene he’s been doing this non-stop every single time he’s on the chiff major flinch that’s that’s that’s a power play all right if there’s anything that can rely on in the face of this 4,000 gold lead Aurora is approaching is the fact that Keller hasn’t joined any fights yet the fact that the chip has uh the shortcut means Dominite has been an active part of all of Aurora’s assaults. We’re waiting for Keller to get online. Yeah, there was just this one moment though which happened just now that Dominic indeed did not decide to join. But it seems like it is indeed time for Keller or unfortunately he might just be even forced to join in on what is trying to do from this point onwards because they’re being forced to defend so many of their turrets. I liked how Rockhart did mention Renj and how proactive he is in terms of using the chip because he comes in at the most unexpected timings and only Philippines seems like they’re struggling but they go for the engage. Yeah, that’s a beautiful engage. Rene will be able to still activate the shortcut and actually was enough to keep him alive but only for a moment. Double kill for Doming though. That means that’s going to be stacked coming into that Granger. Now Demon Kite is on the jungle here on a bit of a pinch of maneuver. Edward dyke a bullet straight into super prince going to be able to at least push him back. But no kills happening for Aurora. Flicker forward. Thunder clap. You know what? It’s not even the fact that he didn’t get a kill. The fact that they forced Onyx back all the way is worth it. Yeah, it’s only been 7 minutes, but just look at how they invading. There’s an absolute domination here. Portal is active on that shortcut and Kirk is all alone here on the front. They can’t really go near, but they will be able to take out the hitman. Rene is costing them so much. It’s not like he didn’t die recently for another two for one. He came he respawned, came back and then caused them more trouble. Yeah, Onyx feel it feels like Onyx already know that they really have to deal with Rene which is why they tried and attempted to take him out but it just cost them a lot more especially as they have to consider the other damage dealers. They have to consider U. There’s no one essentially who could reach the damage dealers at this point. Both bombing Kite and UA are proving to be a huge problem. And this is what you get for a glue. You get to start things front to back or ideally in this kind of scenario because you can’t risk going in too deep. Aurora, they’re the ones taking control of the entire map. They’re denying Onyx’s main strength. You can’t even come in. It’s sadistic what Aurora is doing. You saw that last turtle how they were saying, “Look, look, look. Turtles at neutral.” All right. Demon Kai’s not even close to it. King Kong, come on. Come on. Full scale denial. Yeah, if they do that, King Kong gets punished. Here comes Kirk. And they’re trying to do this. Kirk is the one trying to do the punish. And the stick stick to come in. Um home though. Shortcut is active once more. But this time around, looks like a better engagement coming in from Onyx using that tsunami slam to isolate Rene J. And Kirk got away with it. So this is the first win for Onyx since that first turtle. Yeah, the the shortcut was um or was launched right after the uh UA actually used the wings by wings alongside Kirk with the grab grab. So he were able to or Kirk was able to take advantage of that uh shortcut with us readily available. And the fact that Onyx during that team fight were able to split up or even just zone away the damage dealer was again courtesy of Kirk. They were able to take advantage of the entire scenario, punishing at least one member from Aurora, but this still doesn’t change the fact that there exists a 6k gold lead in favor of Aurora. All right. Uh it’s a blessing to know what’s wrong. And so far, Any has figured out that if we divide and conquer, we can cut down that lead. We can get away with free wins. But Aurora, they’re still in the driver’s seat. Gas pedal to the metal. And look at that. Edward is not letting up. These holy shields are going to go. That’s right. Just like what we saw like in the games yesterday, right? Exactly what Rearty has been doing. This Masha really starting to get into form. Yep. And that Masha is on the way to a second item. B O. So imagine if actually Rene J gets to look for the perfect target with the shortcut and then just calls for Edward to try to burst him down with all the thunder claps that are readily available. And now on needs to watch out for that portal near their purple buff because Renj might decide to come in anytime. And that’s exactly what they’re doing right now. It’s a favored uh portal for Rene. And again, how unfortunate that it’s close to the lord, too. Yeah. And and Rene could actually do it, but he’s a little far from uh from zone here. Doesn’t really have that much information. They’re waiting to make a big play essentially. They don’t want to be too crazy. And maybe looking at Edward. Maybe he’s waiting for the call from Edward on top. Yeah, this is a very difficult lord dance for Onyx to partake in. They don’t know the steps. They got two left feet and they know that Edward to get a split push. Clean take. Roora scores. Nothing on it could do. That was a perfect time, perfectly timed Y walk there for Rene as well. Yes, they had to deal with the waves. And as much as Busco had the information, he was just standing there in the brush right next to the portal. there was nothing they could do because there were other things that they had to deal with. Again, the waves and you couldn’t contest an objective that was already almost burst down here technically by Aurora. There’s the um winter crown pickup by the way as well by Demon Kite. So, you could expect them to play this a little more aggressively because they can just bait out that crossbow of tap. Yep. The way that Demon Kite is building this Fred again, he’s very comfortable with the hero. Not just because the resurgence of utility junglers is he having to play this. He’s used to the old fren about two years he had to play the fren to stay on top of uh mobbe sports. He’s building it very efficiently. Antiquas rainy armor and then the affforementioned winter dungeon. Like literally he is just a wall a walking brick house. Yeah, he has to be the wall for Aurora at this point because Edward is literally going full damage here or so far. He’s going for the damage items and Rene Jay, he picked up the fleeting time and now they might actually look for another kill. Oh, that’s a very early pen air strike here activated by UF forcing back on it inside the base. Go turtle for the meantime. Although we have a lord, they’re doing the big defense and it’s really hard to actually get near. But at the same time, Rora can’t really touch these turrets too much as well because of the threat of the Gala. Yeah, how unfortunate is it that we went past 12 minutes by the time the waves were in sync and approaching their base turrets. It was very fortunate for Onyx that they didn’t lose a single base turret, but that was enough for Aurora to deal damage to almost all of them. And now though, oh, this could be big here. Ren J getting pulled back in. Shortcut is active, but he will go down. There goes Keller with a crossbow tang, but Kirk, their big front line, is now out of commission. They’re going to have to back off here. Two for one again. The hitman capable of buying so much away from the Zubra Win. Oh my goodness. That wind chant was right on time. 1 second less and that could have been it. Will stay alive for the meantime though and will still allow Onyx to clear. Yep. Air strike coming in from UA, but they’re just zoning out Onyx. They don’t want to go away without taking a single base turret from Onyx. And there’s 30 seconds before the next objective. But it is looking very rough for Onyx. Considering that even when Keller was able to dish out the crossbow of Tang earlier and despite the presence of the corrosion scythe with Tonker and the Hasclaw, he barely felt the damage towards the members of Aurora. Uh between the three items uh four that Kellra has, I’m guessing it’s all utility right now. Life steal, the attack speed, the the extra farm uh with the wind talker, the wind of nature penetration. Uh invest in what is this? Uh another sword. Yeah, they should. They should. Um this was a this was a build that Benny QT2 decided to offer yesterday when they were way behind up against um team Falcon. So this is exactly what’s happening to Onic right now. So we definitely see the need for them to wait a little more. There’s picking up the feeding time, but I don’t think they’ll be able to go for any setups and attempts for now. Just look at how Aurora is managing the macro so well through Edward. Here’s what’s worse. Onyx lineup isn’t even really built to deal with waves. I’d put their wave clear on a scale of 1 to 10, like a 6.5. Yeah, 100%. I feel like uh they also know this, right? That’s why they’re not even trying too hard to go for the contest on that Lord. Oh god, Lord’s inside the base. What a synchronized push by Aurora. This is a huge push. There’s just no way that you can deal with all of this. Everyone is brought together with a big Federate air strike from U. And that’s going to be it for game number one. It’s going to be Ror taking him out. The defending champions seem to still have some thoughts about yesterday and this didn’t feel like a game that they were all in on. They came from two different sides and they made it work. A shortcut on the other side and that feared air strike was perfect. Let’s check in with Nisu and Renar to break down game number one. Man, oh man. That’s all I can say. What a gamer one. I I knew it was going to be heated, man. But Rora came out swinging. Yeah. I mean, Leo and I, we felt the same way. We were just like, dude, this is definitely going to be going Aurora’s way with how they drafted and how they executed that. It was perfect. It was like if you got the best qualities of Blacklist combined it with the best qualities of good old classic Death Ball RSG if you were there during that day. That’s what it felt like watching. I felt like I was watching season 9 RSG all over again. Yeah. And I like again every every single time I see these kind of compositions come up or even a change in the jungle where you know you bring in some of the utility, it’s great to see. But this man right here, our MVP Rene Jay, it was it was picked first in the draft with confidence, I could say. And he played it exactly like that. The Hitman was the portal man this time. Yeah, it was the most utility roam to supplement your utility jungler to supplement the entire team. It was like support on support, prom max, ultra everything, pro everything. 25 and four. This is Rej’s first win on the chip this season. Now, this win puts him at one win, three losses. All of the previous chip performances of Aurora definitely did not go their way. That’s why uh there was a bit of skepticism when that first pick came up, but then they paired it up with a Frederick and it was so good. Well, it’s always a risk anytime the chip does come up. That’s exactly what you know it’s going to be. We have seen it just yesterday as well and you know that’s the main thing, man. But Renj played this so well because of his reliance on the team. He knew that he could go ahead and send this in. And honestly, when you go through that portal with a shortcut, you’ve almost got like a green light to just take whoever you want because of this lineup. I mean, the Fredan can just kind of lead the charge. Eventually, Edward can go through it and just kind of stomp down on someone. And we didn’t really see an answer from that from Onyx Philippines, you know, through this. So, um, again, the lineup was so wellrounded and that was a big point of it. Like you mentioned even in the draft, you got that early damage from the fara, but then later on you got this Masha that is just popping off and it just didn’t seem like there was a room to breathe for on Philippians. Yeah, Renj provided so much space. Yeah, he’s still five and four, but everything that he did, every lead that he had was a trade. It led to Aurora getting more things, them getting more kills, building up more stacks for for uh excuse me, for Dom and Kite, the Kite brothers. cuz I got all mixed up. So, so everything just uh supplemented the main damage dealer. So, well, with Ren Jane and the demon Kai providing so much space, UA and Domig relatively unharmed, which gave even more space for Edward to go straight to the back line, like blow someone up and then just back off, run away right away. You see Demon Kite going back to the front to hold and he was so tanky in this one. Yeah, he was tanky enough and uh you know just across the board it it solved the issue because like we said the Ka has been a big pick for ever since the Cleo was released. But you take a couple purifies, you get a little mobility and then a little bit more of a beefier lineup I would say then you can actually handle the Ka pretty well. There was a ton of utility over here for Onyx Philippines but they weren’t able to go ahead and utilize it fast enough. The game just kind of slipped out of their hands. You you’re seeing it, man. They had no turrets, no really objectives except that one turtle. So, you know, they were really kind of just bleeded out quickly from the start honestly with this lineup. Yeah. And it’s crazy that no one on the side of Aurora had to build the dominance ice. There’s no anti-healing there. There’s maybe one seabird, not even only one glowing wand in the hands of UF. Uh that’s how much the healing that Conning had with their lineup that they could have gotten. Spellb through regen, anything life steal was so inconsequential in the big picture here for Aurora again with just how solid demon kite was on that Freder. He rushed the anti-aras. All right, you’re already answering the damage of the Suyo. You then build into the radiant armor. Okay, you already answer the damage brought out by the glue and the juice in. It’s like after that, what are you going to do? Turtle for the entire game to hope that Kelra can get even more items. But at that point, Aurora just would not leave Onyx jungle. There was no farm for Kellra to get. Yeah, there wasn’t. You know, and uh you can see the carry there, UA, he did 62,000 damage. He did more damage or let’s say three members combined from Monic Philippines. That’s just how much damage that a far can do, especially when you don’t have to worry too much, right? Because you you do have the mobility that comes with the wings wings, but also just relying on your team to kind of zone everybody out. You’re free to feathered air strike as much as you want. And that’s why during the cast they mentioned even hey that was pretty early feathered air strike. Well he could have just been happy uh on on the trigger with that. So this is our BPI rich guy. Of course it’s doing kite an insane 917 GPM. Again this was a rather quicker game and very dominant for Aurora. So you have these kind of numbers and do kite has been able to do this in a lot of situations and that’s why we talk about the kite brother so much. But Renar I know you’re going to break this down a little more. Go ahead and take us through this one. All right. So, I haven’t done this in a while. I’m very happy to be back in front of a TV screen, you know, just telling you analysis. It’s like a huge throwback for me. All right, so let’s talk about what we witnessed in that game. Let’s look at the goal difference. So, it was very close early on, maybe say up until like the third minute mark where we started to see the divergence between the two. And then you see the blue side here. Of course, that’s clearly Aurora’s line. That’s just them never letting up with the lineup that they built, with the lead that they had, and the fact that they were taking care of the map alongside with being aggressive. There was barely any room for Onyx to do any split pushing so that they could maybe get a bit of a balance in the towers. No, they couldn’t do that because he’d run into Renee, who suddenly brings the rest of the team. Other lanes are covered. If it’s Dominite, it’s Dominite plus one. If it’s Edward, it’s Edward plus two. See the very dynamic uh defense that Aurora was playing around the map. And sure that their gold lead would stay this way. That Onyx Philippines, yes, they were getting steady gold, but it was just never at the pace that Aurora was getting. And that’s just pure dominance. That’s why in the beginning I mentioned it’s just shades of the old Blacklist International and RSG Philippines. Well, I mean, I know the Blacklist fans there would argue that season 10 Blacklist is sort of like RSG plus Blacklist International, but you know where I’m getting at, right? It’s just playing as an incredibly solid unit. That death ball we used to attribute to RSG, that’s exactly what we saw here. And then we go back again to what Aurora did. They did not give a lick about the the the regen, the life steal, spell vamp, anything. It’s just a glowing wand. No dominance eyes, no sea halbird elsewhere. Then if you look at the item progression here of King Kong, yes, he got his Warax. Yes, he got his under strike. But at that point, the front line of Aurora is so tanky that if you can deal damage to Demon Kite, he’s going to slap you back with even more damage in case how afraid in case you all forgotten how afraid it works. But then worse is, bro, how am I going to survive the damage already getting dished out by UA? How am I going to survive survive the damage getting dished out by Demon Kai and even Edward? Everything that Aurora had here was just so punishing for Auyo that was part of the front line. He needed to be up there into the faces of Aurora so that he can continue to deal damage. Kirk Brusco all right they were there but Brusco was getting popped very fast every time Rene would see him. That would always be the main trade. It would be Rene taking down Brusco. Brusco taking down Rene vice versa. And then once Kirk goes in with his uh with his grab grab, suddenly the rest of Aurora has dispersed, but that’s good for Aurora because that means that Edward has some room to move around and then suddenly find someone to nuke down and then run away. Just a great sequence by Aurora, a great game by them. So, let’s revisit their meta. What has their drafts look like? most wins. Of course, we discussed so many of the key heroes, but the key one that they stuck with for this game was the Granger of Domingite. When they play around a long range style marksman for Doming, then they can play comfortably because then they’ll just think of utility and providing space for Domingite who is 124 with the Granger heading into the playoffs. If you look at their most pick, those were their most wins. You see there’s a lot of utility. You have the high loss, Fobius, and even the Sicilian there in the mid. So, if you go back to the main picks of Aurora, and you look at the draft that they showed up here, it’s still very much within their identity. A lot of utility at the right places, but making sure you also have damage at the right places. If you were here for the pre-show, we discussed this year’s Aurora is different from season 14 Aurora because they get significantly more kills compared to last season. And that’s what we saw. You saw utility, you saw damage, and you saw Aurora getting an emphatic win against Onyx Philippines. I like it, man. I love the breakdown here. It’s nice to see on the screen again right there. Yeah, it felt good. I miss breaking down. I mean I I’ve still broken down recently analysis but not analysis like that right it’s different when you got the of course the teleustrator with you and um it’s good to see how things like those those details you know someone who might not uh go ahead and and pay so much attention to that stuff it’s I like to have it go ahead and broken down even for myself really interesting to see how the teams of players adjusted to some of those things happening in the game and broken down in detail so thank you for that in just a bit we’ll be throwing it over to see exactly what’s happening in the audience because it’s it’s packed, you know, it’s packed here. They’re all going to be getting ready for their power poses. There’s a smart power pose that the audience can go ahead and join. They’re going to be imitating a player and then they get to go ahead and win some redeemable codes. And uh do we actually have that yesterday? Why do I not remember? We did. We always have it. Power mode. We have two guys with red hair. Hey. Yeah, that’s true. We We This one’s pretty easy, man. Someone’s got to be able to do it. Come on, Rora. We got a ton of you guys over there. This is for Rene Jay’s pose. The smart power pose. Who’s going to do it? Why is no one putting their hands? Got one. Oh, there you This is on the other side. On the Onyx side. On knows the the agenda here. Yeah, some of the Northern Lights were kind of shy, but it’s okay. That’s okay. Oh, there we go. There we go. There we go. I think she’s adding a little bit though. You know, that’s that’s a smart power pose. There we go. Got a couple more. Let’s see your best, guys. Come on. There it is. Oh. Oh, that’s pretty That’s actually pretty good. That’s Yeah, that’s really accurate. That’s a good one. That’s pretty good. I wonder uh those codes if they upgraded them for playoffs. Oo, yeah. I wonder I’ve actually never checked what’s in there. I know he’s good, but I just I actually don’t just don’t know what’s in there. Well, I think we got a winner. I think this I think he’s the closest that we got to the Rene J post pose right here. So, we’re just giving him hope. Yeah. Wait, is he standing, too? Yeah, he’s standing. He is standing like Rene. And we’re going to take the hope away from him in three, two, one. Oh, why? How? We took the hope away. Well, congratulations for winning the smart power pose. Maybe that was also cuz she was on the Aurora side, you know. Um, but hey, we got to also ask you guys, do you need some prolevel speed? Because you can make the smart switch and stay ahead of the game. Get your smart eent today for only 99 pesos and experience ultraast 5G connectivity on any device. No SIM swapping needed. 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Boom. me go to watch app. It’s a complete package. This sounds very familiar. Watch app. Reminds me of another app. Anyway, anyway, grab it while you guys can. Um, what’s your favorite Filipino movie, Renoir? Favorite Filipino movie? Yeah. Um, okay. It’s I forgot the title, but it was about a old couple who met each other before they go into heaven. Okay. So, it’s like their spirits meeting, but it’s like it’s as if they’re in an old folks home, and it’s them rekindling their love after all these years. That sounds really interesting. Yeah, it’s very It’s very sweet. It’s very dramatic, too. It made me cry. All right. Well, right now they’re going to be crying if Onyx doesn’t even out the series right now. Yeah. How come you didn’t share your favorite Filipino movie? Maybe another time. All right. Sure. Fine. Fine. I’ll take I I’ll I’ll be the only one to share now. Yeah, for now. For Brusco though, he’s leading a lot of these stats against Rene, man. Um, you know, but I think either or when you look at both of these rors, you you I I mentioned this with Brusco yesterday. I was like, he kind of reminds me of the Hulk. Like he gets, you know, he takes a lot of damage. He might have a lot of deaths, but then you won’t like him when he’s angry, you know, and then all of a sudden he’s making plays. I feel like Rene is almost the same way. Like the hitman, he just kind of locks in. He obviously also, like you pointed it out during the breakdown there with the teleustrator that one of the most unique hero picks that this team has is from Renee. It was the Eztez. It is very uh you know it’s a signature hero if if you guys know what I mean for for this uh this draft. But that’s the thing you have that versatility for Renee. You have that versatility for Brusco as well. And they bring it to the play style of the teams. Now, looking back at game one, Aurora was so dominant because I I just feel like they’ve taken that flexibility of their draft and they’ve refined all their lanes to an essence of, you know, we’re we’re so confident in our own laning capabilities, but the rotations, the timing, the being able to follow the shot calls because we’ve heard it in the mic checks all throughout the season, man. You know, a lot of these teams that especially the top four right now, their comms are so clean. I know for our international viewers sometimes it’s all you know Filipino and they might not be able to understand it but relatively well it’s very uh clean comms and they’re able to go ahead and secure wins that way. So again game two upon us. Aurora dominating in game one. Will Philippines be able to go ahead and lock in and even out the series here? That’s what we’re going to find out. And once again as we jump into the draft here in a little bit we’re going to be inviting Bria Bria. I don’t know if you can Can you hear us? Bring it up. Yes. And I will say hello this There you go. There you go. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for inviting me to be part of this where anytime all day this day. Oh, well there’s one thing I request. I hope I get to hear Nisa’s favorite too later on. Oh, you want to hear my favorite movie? Yeah. All right. We’ll talk about it later. Yeah, for later. For later. Oh, okay. All right. Clea right away. Of course, for Rene J. I think this uh will significantly change how the game is played for Aurora this time around. While Onyx immediately just fast picking the Baka and the juice in. Oh, that was fast. Baksha immediately appears for Onies and there are still other options in the jungle for Demon Kite if he does want to consider that. Now the pred is still available as well but I feel like it’s going to be quite difficult if uh you look at the first two picks so far of an especially with the mere presence of a juin already in their lineup. I like a you know we don’t know just yet if the box is going to go uh flexed but imagine this it’s actually in the hands of King Kong and we have a Frederick box jungle showdown. Yeah we do. That’s what we get. Is that what we’re getting? He has a freak show, bro. I swear I swear we we’ve we’ve come back the long way around. But what if what if it’s flex in the XP? Ah, what if that like that that’s the only that’s the only variant I or what about Rome? Well, yeah, it could be. We could just say like let’s just go ahead with that. It’s going to be Fred and Baka. Like that’s that is literally going way back. Yeah. Yeah. We we probably get like one or some sort of answer based on whatever Audi’s going to pick in this slot. Unless they go for a gold lane. They leave us in suspense. And they leave us in suspense. And they actually will go for a gold lane. Hey, that’s playing to the advantage. That’s flexibility. That’s adaptability. That’s what they’ve done. They locked in the the uh the one once again. What do you think though? What do you guys What do you guys think about the Kel’s performance on the one? Why was he not able to really utilize it like what we saw from Betty Cutie yesterday? He was literally throwing needles at a wall. That’s true. Like a big musly wall named Frederick. There’s only so much damage output that you can do. And again, they didn’t have burst. Uh Onyx insistence here of pairing up the Wana and Juicing together. I mean, it’s not the worst combo in the world, but they’re already up against a Farsa and Frederick. They’re going they’re picking these uh in in game number one. They picked the 1-1 knowing that the Farsa and Fredin is open. Now in this game number two, they pick the one- one after the Farsa in Fredin. It’s uh feels like they’re batting their heads against the wall here, but I don’t know, maybe they’re they’re maybe they’ll find damage elsewhere. Yeah, probably the exp although the CZ is already gone, which is probably the next closest thing you can consider in the current options for exp at least for Kirk because we do suggest that the potential of a damage XP later is out there and they do have the back which has a potential to go into the jungle. So there’s a chance that it’s too but for Kirk, right? Like what options are they going to He just goes Edith. Yeah, maybe Edith. Uh that’s something that Kirk likes to pick up. Yeah. Uh, if you guys need damage, Edith might be the best bet here. I Hildam might struggle. So, you usually pick the box in the exp if you want to disrupt an assassin jungle since you’re up against a tanky jungle. Putting the box in the exp is a bit of a eh should shoot you. So, now it could actually go into the hands of Brusco in the role, but or the Ka versus Baksha together might be okay. So, that’s might that is what we might see. If we want to go throwback, throwback, we saw King Gothic Lance yesterday. What if we see a classic Lance Fred battle, which although historically never went well for the Lance, that’s why Fred was dominating the meta for a long time. There are other XP laners though uh that have been popping up against the Fred, too. the likes of the Terithla like just directly answering back. But I don’t think Onic is going to be opting for that, especially in the situation where they definitely need to show us a bit more of their damage unlike what happened in game number one. They definitely wouldn’t want the same exact scenario to happen again. See how uh they decide to go with this next pick up now for the second phase. This is going to be a telling sign I feel like because it’s either going to be that uh it shows if where this box is going to be going. Maybe they pick up the XP laner here too if they decide not to put box in the XP lane. Um again this is Kirk who does have a pretty good hero and it’s it’s going to be the Phobies. We we kind of forgot that the Phobius was open. Yeah. Honestly, the only thing I can think of is why though. Why though? Uh you don’t see a lot of dashes. Are you thinking it might be a Harth on the side of Aurora? Like does it just deny the focus into the one because like there could have been others too. Yeah, that’s true. Huh. Okay. Uh interesting choice. Not the choice I expected. Although I’m still leaning towards the idea that though we might be seeing a good old Basha Fred jungle matchup instead of a Basha in the room. I hope we see it, man. I hope it is. Like if I have a checklist, a wish list for this playoffs, please. Baksha Frederick for at least one game. But the carry there answers so much. Yeah. of Onyx Philippines lineup so far. And I heard the Lucas I heard. Okay. So this is a Lucas jungle, right? So where the No, I think XP Lucas XP. Yeah, it has to be right. Okay. Okay. Let’s see. Uh h does a Lucas do well against the Phobius. I mean in the lane not really. Phobius uh eventually just is the guy. Yeah, it’s just the guy. But the thing is, yeah, they get uh a lot of damage. They supplement again. There’s another lineup that just supplements the carry and the fara together. Dom and UA are going to have a happy happy game this time around. again. Let’s go here or there we go. Called it earlier. Oh man, it goes with the Lancelot. Oh yeah. So yeah, Bruce go on the Rome box show. That solves the issue. And hey, we saw when it was picked up yesterday, man, in game five, we saw how locked in it was and it was the quickest game of the series. Y. So are they looking to emulate that? bring it in here for game two and make it a quick one to even out the series for Onyx Philippines. Last quick thoughts here at Redmar on the lineups. Uh Lancelot against a Lucas Fredera. All I could say to King Kong is good luck. Good luck. I’m thinking the same thing here. Uh once again as we get a glimpse here in the Champions Arena for the lineups. You can see what they’re rocking with. Whole lot of flickers, whole lot of athleticism for Aurora. Okay, sorry. It was indeed a Lucas. It was. Yep. Hey, let’s go ahead and throw it over to this the caster desk to go ahead and take us into game two. Theory confirmed. Remnants of yesterday’s series still haunt Onyx Philippines as King Kong once again brings into the land of dawn. That lancelot in the jungle. Welcome to game number two. First on the board is Aurora on yet to score. Yep. By the way, fun fact, I think King Kong got the highest GPM yesterday, right? And that was on the Lancelot. But I really agree with what Renoir just mentioned that it’s going to be hard pulling up the Lancelot this time considering Aurora’s lineup. I really love that throwback as well to the era where Lancelot and Fredin just, you know, they just met and then that time right after people realized it’s really strong. You know what, Carl? You’re throwing back to a time where in Fredin was new to the game and this is what early season 10 but let me throw back to about 2 or 3 weeks ago maybe a month when in the XP lane Fredin was played by BTR’s Luke to a win. So this is this is not weird in the current meta game like the it’s very exotic but it happens. Yeah, it does. And I feel like it responds well against the lineup of Onyx who really needs to almost always close in towards Aurora’s lineup for them to actually pull off a team fight. I mean, Jin in itself is kind of mid-range and we did mention that it can be quite difficult, but for a team that or for an idea which is just simply trying to stop Onyx Philippines and I feel like it’s going to be really effective or even just catching Brusco or stopping him in his tracks. Oh, speaking of getting stopped in his tracks, Renegade might be in trouble here. forced to use a flicker to get out to make sure he doesn’t die. But that is a huge resource and uh very basically done here by Onyx. Amazing dodge from that phantom execution. He saw it a quarter of a second before King Kong pressed it. Yep. Fortunately, there was the flickery that was available, but now it feels like just because of that simple resource that Oni Philippines knows is unavailable for Aurora, they will be the ones to try to scout the area first. But Demon Kai, he’s quick to respond and he’s the one starting things up. They’re actually start getting started here and they’re focusing on the Frederickin. Very interesting choice here now. They’re fighting with very low HP bars and King Kong will be able to get that turtle and just buff up his teammates just a little bit more, forcing Aurora to disperse. Icing on the cake. King Kong focused on the turtle, helped his teammates by scoring a shield, which allowed for them to push on forward. Two free kills. big objective. Superfam on. And I feel like we’ve seen this yesterday, too. King Kong, even on a Lancelot, just being set on taking the necessary objectives, avoiding the team fights early on, going for the turrets. And with the Demon Slayer emblem in his emblem combinations, too. It feels like they just know that this is the way to go, especially if they want to avoid the struggles or the challenges they’ll probably face up against Zam or Aurora if they decide to fight them head on. Yeah, it is throwback Thursday. It was called Demon Hunter. Now it’s season hunter. It’s the same icon. And this is what SDZYZ then in season 9 used on this very hero to show us that hey, you can play Lancelot to a utility form. You you you can play it like this just objective wise. Now Rene gets caught once more. Yeah, Rene again in trouble here. No flicker to save him this time. Oh, actually he’s back on. What? Wow, that was a short cool down, but you’re not going anywhere. Super Friends pulls him back. They just don’t let him get away. Now, this is clearly Onyx Philippines being the ones to rotate faster, especially considering the bapt Oh, that was so good right there for King Kong. Gets answered immediately by Demon Kai, but it feels like Aurora are just trying to cauterize the wounds here. They’ll get another kill into the Super Friends. He’s on a killing spree. Super Friends and Brusco 2 v1. Those are two support heroes taking down Demon Guide. Super Friend Prince feels like he’s mad. It reminds me of the way he just suddenly played the Selena so aggressively after a loss of the regular season. And now they’re again back at the quick rotations, even stopping Edward right here. Yep. And go pulling pulling it back for the next possible turtle fight. But I don’t know. Aurora doesn’t feel like they’re ready to take this just yet. No, despite having a Fred Rain again in the XP lane and a Lucas being so strong when they’re fighting in the paint. Aurora seem to be doubting their early game strength. Onyx has single-handedly used the Lancerot once again to full effect. It wasn’t a fluke yesterday. That wasn’t a fluke. That was a fluke. Oh my goodness. It’s already a 3k gold lead for Onic Philippines. And they know fully well where Aurora is. And you could say the same for Keller this time around. But it’s Onyx in the lead. So you could expect him to go online a little bit earlier compared to game number one. Check it out. Edward’s first and last veteran game was back in season 12 in a playoffs match against Any. Wow. Wow. That’s a that’s a big throwback. I’m very glad our stats people got it. It wasn’t weird. It wasn’t weird. It wasn’t weird. It happened. This We’re not Mandela affecting y’all. All right. It is It is throwback Thursday and uh our production is confirming that this did happen. Yep. Right now looking at the uh items so far for both of our teams. Only one has already or only King Kong and Doming Kite have already secured their core their first core item so far. But this is Onyx Philippines paying full attention to the gold lane. Fortunately, Rene J is here to guide and protect Demon Kite, but I feel like they won’t be letting Demon Kite freely do his farming any further. Yeah. Uh, just to add to that, there’s not much Renj could do. Dom Kite senses it. Here’s the conceal. Super Prince still engages. Man, Super Prince like Rick Dimension is very, very mad or looking like it inside the land of dawn here. Just even diving under that second turret. Oh, forc him fight on top side though. Beautiful engagement. Three on one. No chance for King Kong to make it out. That was so quick. The flicker into the title strike even with barely no vision on where exactly in the bush he was. Other word pulling back Brusco as well. Super Finn still has some pretty good DPS even on his own putting Renj on almost half. Look at that. This is probably one of Super Prince’s most or scariest forms like when he’s able to do all this on the Jin without being or without any fear up against Aurora despite the potential presence of like a setup into the burst damage that can be provided by UA. They just seem to know that they’re way ahead for them to fear that Super Prince is here to prove to us that this lineup works again despite the lack of burst. Again, the conventional understanding what burst is in the current metag game. The super fam has a chip on their shoulders. They want to make this lineup work and so far it is two turtles in a solid 2 and a half thousand gold lead. Junglers are beating up. Yeah, speaking of junglers, look at those two junglers on top side. King Kong and Demon Kai. A little bit of a high five to each other. And look at that as well. Onyx forced out the feathered air strike. So I think that’s a very confident turtle going over to King Kong. And it was Bruce who started it all. Now they’re going for mid. Big knock up into the tsunami slam, but there’s just no coordination whatsoever on the side of Roa. Everyone is just running for their lives. Leo, unfortunate to be fair. I think Renegade was taken away on from his backline. All right, that’s why he brought him there. But it cost him his life. It was worse. Even Edward had to pay the price. But Kar, when you’re down 4K like this, fresh off a turtle take and Onyx means business, this is what you can expect to happen. Yeah, and it was really surprising to see that the crow of that was still cast and win. There you go. This time around, no fear whatsoever in the eyes of the super fam looking at Aurora head on and looking at them under their towers. It’s only been 8 minutes, but look at this. Even Rene, he’s feeling the damage from the single thorn rose that King Kong is able to dish out. Super Fris, you’re a mage. You’re not supposed to be underneath a turret with no minions like that. Okay, fair is the one of the tankiest mages in the game, but still right and the guy who introduced the entire brave smite concept tank emblem combinations for a mage. So I surprised to see that he’s not higher up there in the damage taken leaderboards, but you know, he’s remixing his own rendition of the Zushin. It’s a remix of a remix. This is a 2025 version of how you play it. And here’s the thing. Here’s what I’m afraid of. All right, Keller’s only been getting assists. He hasn’t really even taken to the skies to actually get kills. And compared to earlier, there was no need for him to go for the wind of nature immediately. But Rene Oh, straight into the fight. I think that was a pretty forced tsunami slam. He’s going to go down as well with a few easy hits. King Kong playing it under these two turrets. And again, no fear whatsoever in the eyes of the super fam. Sic almost gave everyone from Aurora a signed face photo card. Here we go. Shing, ching, shing. Look at that. Just using these feather air strikes to clear the minion waves. Aurora is trying their very best to survive. Yeah, this is a huge problem though. If your lineup is like this, oh my goodness. And they get to slow you down really well. Enough for Keller to just freely throw out his arrows. Like this doesn’t normally happen. The one gets bursted down. But in this scenario, Onyx Philippines through the Jin through the Baksha whenever Aurora gets a little close, they almost always find a way to stop them from getting back safely. Again, hindsight is 2020, but I think this is what Onyx was going for in game one. This kind of play style. I mean, it’s pretty similar, right? Uh Zushin and the core of it as well. The one exactly. So, that probably was the plan all along. And only now they’re able that they’re able to show us how it actually is executed with that almost 10k gold lead in 10 minutes that they’ve been able to secure in their hands. Aurora at least they have the fara this time around. They have the carry as well to deal with the waves that could potentially come in, but they have to be careful of Kelra and the cough path. He is applying pressure alongside Brusco. I don’t know if Rora knows that Kellra is here with the bruiser. Lord spawns in mid waiting to march in 10k up. This is Onyx game to lose. Sealed by Brusco. 11 minutes on the clock. They are diving in with that lord. Two man knocked out by Kirk here. Edward is in trouble. His brother can’t really stand the DPS for long. And now that turret is going to go down slow and steady. He doesn’t even have enough time to use the appraisers around if he wanted to. You can’t. You just can’t. He flickered away. That’s just how fast they’re able to burst him down without any major ultimates used just yet by Onyx Philippines. And Onic, they’re starting to go to the drawing board. They’re looking for an angle of attack. And they are attacking a west way. They know how. Right in the front, right to the base of their opponent. Diving in. That’s going to be King Kong going down though. But where is Kra? What’s Kra looking like? He’s going to be forced to back off. That’s two members going down for Onyx. This this attack is not as clean as I thought it would be. For the first time in a while, Onyx suffer casualties. Two for two. Edward and Neimite for Kirk and King Kong. Man, that last inhibitor on bottom cost Onyx a lot. Yep. We’ll be seeing the instant replay in a bit where Kelra actually in that particular sequence was able to use the crossbow of tank. But fortunately for Aurora, it actually transferred immediately from Edward to Demon Kite. Two of those heroes in Aurora’s lineup which are expected to tank the damage from Kelra. And so U Doming Kite, they were just able to focus down on clearing out the waves and defending their base. But this is something that allowed Onyx to clear all of Aurora’s base turrets. And that just keeps that 10k gold lead intact for Onyx Philippines. Closer to about nine, but they have stopped the bleeding. But the onslaught continues. Oh, what is this? Okay, nice try here from Rene, but that’s going to be purified out of the way. 4v5 right now. Onyx is on a rampage. They’re just not stopping for anybody. Edward can’t even put down the appraisers strap in time. And now it’s an empty base. Three members of Aurora to defend against an onslaught of Onyx members is just impossible to fight. Demon Kite goes down even after that full combo. And that’s game number two in the bag for Onyx. The inevitable win for the Super Fam here. One to one on the board. Sonic PH. They had their individual highlights in this game. Even up until that very last moment, that flicker dark wave setting things up, making sure that Aurora will no longer be able to defend. Man 1-1 for this series. Let’s throw it over to Red Bar to talk about game two. And there it was, man. you know, quick game two dominant. It’s now one to one in the series. And I’ll say this, I feel like this is expected. I think we’re going five games here. Oh yeah. Uh what on got to do with that game, the fact that despite the lineup of Aurora looking significantly better, they just played better in that one sequence for that very first turtle fight, they held on at the right time. Superf got the crimson beacon out, deal the damage he needed to deal, punished the members of Aurora. That was a massive loss early on for Aurora. That allowed on Philippines to take control of this game. We attributed Aurora with being great at punishing. Well, on Philippines is so good at that, too. Yeah, the Lancelot struggled, but it was the juicing of Super Friends that took over and said, “Yeah, it’s my time to shine.” And it was his time to shine. Super prince on the Duchin, the MVP for this game number two, played a huge part to the success of why this was such a different game overall for Onic Philippines. And I don’t know, man, maybe also in a sense too, the the Lancelots’s a little bit of a lucky pick that they bring up, but this was also just overall a better game for everyone uh when it came to the lineup of Onyx Philippines and Aurora seemed to struggle a little bit to deal with some of that aggression that was being thrown at them. We’re going to take a look at the highlights here, especially for MVP for Super France. And that was the main thing. You know, you just had so much tankiness early on because even that Revitalize helping out with Brusco on that exchange, but then so many options to go in, force these fights, force these pickoffs and capitalize on them. I mean, the damage early on from Lancelot is still something that you really have to worry about. Um, and if he gets an opportunity to go ahead and pop off on the Lancelot, it can be troublesome. But still, if you took out King Kong, you have the rest of the team to back up and clean things up. And that’s really what happened here. So they just played the parts, the roles to the tea and made things work. And I think because you have, you know, Bruce go on that uh box, but then also the phobias there for Kirk. That’s enough of your front line that you don’t really have to worry about too much of the the the tankiness anymore. And you just let everybody shine. And I think that’s also why I would say Kra had a better time this round on this uh one in comparison to game one. Yeah, exactly. Uh with the game where in the Lancelot is really going to struggle here. Kong didn’t end this game with not a brilliant uh KDA record, but it was Kurt, Brusco, and Super Friends that was holding everything together for Onyx. They were the glue for everything that was happening. And because of their efforts, especially that first turtle fight and then with the rest of the game, Onyx Philippines were just able to ride on through to victory with Kellra. Again, as we mentioned, having a much better time this time around. Super Fris will actually rock pulled yourself together into this one alongside with the brave smite. Went for the basic common emblem set and of course agility. I wanted to look at his emblems here because usually you’d see Ju since actually packing the tenacity, but this time around with fold yourself together with all the assist he was getting. He was getting his battle spell much quicker and that gave him some extra sense of utility and safety. And if you look at for Kirk and Brusco, then they also have a good balance of some damage with Kirk deciding to go for Thrill, uh, which gives him adaptive attack, but then at the same time, he decided to go for things like spell vamp so that he could get some regen for himself. Again, with super fist building pull yourself together, even though there would might be times he could get caught, even though he was bulletproof in this game, he almost always had access to his purify. Yeah, it’s interesting how uh the contrast between and the similarities between game one and game two. But now, you know, Onic Philippines is the one ends it around the 13-minute mark, but even down to the breakdown of the game, you know, 10,000 gold lead that they had, they’re very dominant. They had all the turrets down while meanwhile Aurora only had the one and you know, they took all the major objectives, too. So, it’s just it goes to show that when you get these kind of lineups that are meant to go ahead and pop off early on and then you don’t let that lead slip, how fast you can end games in comparison to what we saw yesterday where it was like, you know, there were these games that really dragged on longer to the 20 plus minute mark. And that just highlights the play style, but also the decision-m of both Aurora and Arc Philippines. And so, it also kind of throws up the question of what’s going to change in game three, right? Uh because I think that’s a big thing here. the the idea for Aurora’s lineup, I would say overall it was uh interesting. They even had that fun fact about Edward. The last time he played the Frederick in the XP was what, season 12? Season 12 against it was of course in the exp. Yeah. Yeah. And you know, it it just didn’t seem to be enough. Maybe there could have been a better pick even for Edward, although he was the sandbag. That’s what Frederick does, right? You just tank all that damage up. And of course you have super Frince this time around on the carry as well as the wingman. The BPI rich guy is going to be a countra with that GPM of 890. And maybe for him obviously because of what he had in game one. This was a much better feeling for him in game two on the one. I I don’t know. Are we going to see the trend in the playoffs where teams are just really going for the one instead instead of the typical Harth Granger or are those still going to be the dominant picks? Uh they’re still definitely going to be there. It’s just what do you feel like playing for today and then what have we banned out because with a Harth Granger it’s you get damage. You know what they bring to the table. Something like a one- one gives you a pick that is just so good with the extended team fight wherein suddenly if in the early to the mid team fight you’re not winning one ultimate from the one would just completely change things up and turn things around. So, we’re back on the good old uh teleustrator here. So, what I like about what Onyx did is that the moment they got to turn things around quite early on uh 2 minutes in was that they continued hunting down more resources. If you look at the timeline here for the objectives, it was at 4 minutes and 41 that they were able to get, if I’m not mistaken, that is turtle 2 already. 14,000 gold lead. Then they converted it to a tower. They got the to uh third turtle at 7 minutes and 32. They converted that into another tower. So this little exchange right here, the fact that they were able to convert the third turtle into a tower right away, that is something that you want to look for. Third turtle is your transition to the late game already. If you can get a tower after that, usually it’s uh third turtle, you get the mid tower. third turtle, you get the tower closest to the turtle, then that’s what you want. And that solidified the lead that they had wherein they went from 21 gold uh just 13 seconds later, they went to 24,000, climbing all the way up and never letting up after that. So, we look at the key idea here for Any, which is number one, objective conversion. Cuz yes, they were winning the skirmishes. Yes, they were getting kills, but you get the objective so that you have more space in the map and of course obviously get more gold. I want to look at the item progression here first of the uh Freder of Edward going for the anti-corrass first. He then had to build uh into Rome boots to maybe hopefully get a little bit more resources maybe because they needed to play catchup. That’s why you see them pick up Rome boots uh usually at around the after the 10 minute mark when it really feels like oh the lead has completely gotten out of hand. We need to try to build resources for up uh for ourselves so that we could potentially catch up. It’s not a sure thing that you will catch up. It’s a potential catch up if you can get a Rome boots early on. And then let’s look at Demon Kite and his Lucas. He got his War axe 8 minutes in. That’s a long time for your very first item. and then Hunter Strike later at 10. Just goes to show how much they struggled in this game to get resources and to get the gold they needed for Demon Kite. When they saw the Fobious get shown in the draft, they decided we don’t want to play the matchup of the Lucas into the EXP. We need to play the Lucas in the jungle instead so that we’ll be able to get a good source of damage to scale up and then the Fredin will be in the exp lane. But then that just meant Kirk was more impactful in this game this time around. So if you look at Super for instance, look at his midame stats stats 8 minutes in. So average for patch 1.9.64. Ever since that drop is at around 2.79, that’s kill plus assist. Kill participation at 79%. He got the MVP cuz look at where he is at game number two. Seven. That is his that was uh five kills, two assists if I’m not mistaken, and then 100% kill participation knowing that they needed to play around this juice in again. Go back to the game. Look at that first fight for the turtle. It was him being able to crimson beacon out freely damaged that supplemented the fobvious jump in on all of the heads of the members of Aurora while Brusco was just there, you know, leaving a trail of fire, throwing plates left and right. And of course with King Kong getting that turtle to get that extra bit of shield so that they can win that fight. I could jump on some heads. That would be terrifying. Dude, you’re like 6’1. Six six. You know, if it was uh online, I’d say 6’2. Online 6’2, you know, cuz everybody adds 61. All right. Sure. No one can tell the difference anyway. Yeah. You know, that’s fine. But uh again, thank you for the breakdown there. Before we move on and and think about game three, I think we’re going to have a little segment with our hosts. We got some special guests over on the audience. Let’s go ahead and pass it over to them casters. And now we have the our esteemed guests. Everybody, Champions Arena. Please give it up for your Cherry Tiggo crossovers. Of course, we have Aragalang, Abby Marano, Mileen Pad, and of course, Alina Vicar and Zakarand guys. So nice to have you here with us today. Experience MPL all the time. Welcome back. Welcome back, Miss Abby. Ano differenceerience before to the Champions Arena. Of course, exciting. You know what? Let’s talk about schedule to play like do do you guys really play ML or you came here to support every after training talaga? Pampalipas pampalas oras. Okay, let’s talk about roles. Let’s talk about roles since XP. All right. So XP dro main dro main jungler. Okay sis karang I like it. Main mo is Granger po and um Helgurt Granger. Okay. Mid naman sin mid mid mid lane support mage stars stars. Uh 50 56 56 Maya next time around. How did how does it feel that now you know we’re always seeing you guys play and you gave so much time and you gave your time. What makes you guys support want to support esports in general and MPL Philippines? I think cuz we share the same passion. We’re both athletes in in prof in professional level. They are um esports athletes volleyball athletes. both are passionate sports because we’re always when we always see MPL players playing a way that’s my volleyball players meon idol for everybody’s information before so maybe but hopefully we get more playing time moving forward I think now Odin where can we find you PVL will be starting on June 27 seven volleyball and now you’re watching live Arena. Very obvious. What is your message? Good luck. And of course, of course, thank you so much for being here. Cherry TGO crossovers as we head on to game number three. So final but okay well there we go. That was our special guest out there in the audience. That’s the PVL. That’s the Philippines volleyball league. Um and it’s nice to hear, you know, nice to hear that uh the enjoyment, the respect between the professional volleyball players and of course how they can appreciate and uh enjoy the professional esports scene for MLBB. Yeah, I feel like uh for quite a few seasons now, we’re getting more athletes in the Philippines very vocal about their support of MPL. So, it’s really great to see the uh women of the PVL to show up here. They are some of the most washed athletes in the country. If you’re not familiar with it internationally, they are local celebrities. It’s great to have their energy and their presence here. I wish I could play volleyball. I think you have the build and height for it though. But I can’t jump. You can’t Can you not jump? I’ve never tried. I was a guy who played football in high school for like what? Four years. I don’t You never got the jump, dude. I just run into things. I don’t jump. I’m not jumping over. Just run into them like we’re going to run into the draft right now for game three. And uh we’re going to be welcoming Bria with us once again for the draft. Bria, can you hear us? Good afternoon. One of one of these times, Bria, you’re going to do it right. Okay. You’re going to say good afternoon and you’re going to address the Brigadudes. Okay, you have to say good afternoon, Brigades. Oh my goodness. I got to address everyone. Okay, I’ll do it next game. But for now, okay, next game. Let’s go to the draft here. Fans are coming out. It’s looking very similar here, right? But this time around, they’re taking out the MVP hero from the previous game that Jin, you broke it down. It’s such a menace to deal with. Yep. They’ve always uh banned the Fang, too. So, it’s most likely that they’re going to ban out the Fatty for last here in Oni Philippine side. And that’ll leave again the the Kala open, but Aurora, do they want to go for that? Oh, they open the fanny open. They’re willing to give it. What if we get some good old early chose? What if we throw it back? You lock in the fanny for the first pick of Aurora. Then suddenly on the side of Audit, you hear see value in me. You should. What? What is the line? Same value with me. You should. You should. Oh, that was more accurate. All right. No, yours was pretty accurate. Yeah, that was pretty good. I give it an 8 out of 10. All right. Come on. Come on. Oh my goodness. It’s open. You take it. Is that Is it that simple? Yeah. If you pick up the fatty, they just go, “Okay, it’s not going to be the Frederick Rush.” But they do go Moscow Gala. They’re very familiar with the answers that they want to go for right away. It’s almost like a 100% a requirement now. If the other side is playing a fanny, you want to get the mosa with you. And I know there’s no jungler revealed to us just yet for oni Philippine side, but might Aurora want to consider something that can at least manage the Moscow in the early stage of the game. I mean, the Hilda has been a pretty good response to it so far, especially in terms of just managing it overall. But I feel like Edward too has a couple of other plans in mind in terms of the XP leaders he’s been showing us so far. He’s went with the Lucas or I mean the Freder XP lane earlier. So like he’s got so much to show us I feel. Yeah, this is going to be interesting too just because uh like throwing in a throwing in a Fanny in general is already going to change the dynamic of this. But now you see the Harth and the Faro locked in. This this is so much damage early on. And then oh Frederick, this is a blitz draft right now. H on they knew they wanted to get the Frederick. They knew they didn’t need to rush it. The moment the Harris showed up and I saw the fan like come on, it has to be a predator for Onyx, right? And there they go. They lock it in. So, they have a good solid front. I think it’s going to be up to Onyx to decide whether or not they’ll want something that can invade the jungle, which is uh you pick up the Hilda for Kirk or you want another solid wall so that you’re going to be putting everything onto the Moskov and whatever the pick of Super Friends will be. So, it’s either damage or tank. That’s like the main choice right now for the onic exp lane. And we still cannot turn off the possibility that the Freder might actually go to the exp lane, similar to what Edward and Aurora did in game number two. Oh, if if even Any does that, then I’ll be just open to endless possibilities for the upcoming draft that we’re about to see in the playoffs. But yeah, I agree. The Hilda works really well for um Kirk. Although there also is still the Phobus if they ever want to consider that since there’s the Harth in the side of Aurora and it’s still open to this point. But that could also be a potential ban for Aurora heading into the second phase. I feel that’s interesting too because when you think about the flexibility for Aurora specifically especially in the Rome um what do you want to pair up with having a Fanny knowing that you really got to be able to take care of it because obviously some more of the bands. I mean look at already the amount of Rome. Wo that’s an interesting one. the ban veil. That’s the old Gar right there. Yeah, interesting. Usually you want to ban the veil if you are a slow front to back style, but I think they were thinking about the Harth more wherein if they’re not careful, Dominic will not have any place to dance around with his uh Zammon force with all of his dashes because he’ll have to watch out for the wind blow and the windstorm of Veil. I get it though. I I I get why the they go for the veil bat. It’s still surprising. Yeah, it kind of uh works well as a way to interrupt. I feel like if you time it really well, too. Even whoever decides to just go in for the setup since it hasn’t been revealed to us just yet by Aurora. We’ll find it difficult to set things up if the veil is there. So, could they actually want to go for a dive composition considering that these are the bands they’re going for? All bands out the blue, however. Blue. Yeah. All right. Last ban for Aurora. Do they still narrow down the mid lane options? Are they going to try to force Super France on, you know, a pick? But again, this is Super Frince. He’s very similar to UI where their hero pools are so unique and uh quite deep here. So even if you go and ban another mid lane option like Super Prince has plenty of picks that he can go for. We’ll see if Aurora decides to go ahead and and expend one more. But that also goes back to the question of Rome options because you have that Matilda ship. The Baka for example takes out they take out an Arlock. Oh, they want that combination, man. Yeah, the R the Ar Fred Fred lock. Fred lock. Yeah, let’s go with that. Yeah, I like it. So, really the Fris hero Kirk hero. I mean, there’s still a lot of flex options. You can actually still go Cho for Brusco, put the Kala in the exp lane if you’re going to go Fred jungle. But no, they’re going to go for a good balance of damage and tankiness. They go for the phobias. Yeah, this is an allin support for Super Friends and Kellra. Whatever the Super Friends pick is going to be big and there’s a chance it might be Kimmy. Oh yeah, that’s funny. We haven’t seen her picked up uh too much. I mean, even yesterday, right? A couple times maybe. So, a couple times in the series that we had yesterday. And there’s the Jawhead and the CC. Okay, so we’re getting the jaw head. What? And then I was thinking what else you would pick, right? Super friends. What else do you have in there? And he’s one of the few players that made this hero make a statement so far in season 15. How do you feel, Red Mark? Yeah, I did not expect the Selena pick at all. It’s a good old Selena jaw head on looks solid, but the it’s always the thing about Fanny. You either get a really great Fanny game that snowballs or a Fanny game where it’s like, eh, let’s hope for the best. I’m so 50/50 on this one. 50/50 as am I. But hey, I’m going to believe. I know I voted for on Philippines for the series, but this one in game three, I’m going to go and lean towards Aurora here, especially with my boy Demon Kai. Give him the Fanny. Take one last look at the lineups here for you guys to go ahead and make your own guesses. Plus the fact that you got the two purifies to deal with that KA potential. Let us know what you guys think. Who’s it going to be? Aurora or Onyx. Let’s pass it to the casters for game three. With the scores equalized and some power picks coming through in the draft, who’s going to get one step closer to match point? Aurora versus Sonic. Game number three coming your way. Action brought to you by Brigida, Rockhart, and Leo. Quick thoughts about the Selena because Renoir alluded to the kill. It could have been in mid, but again, this is super. That’s true. I mean, I really like the Selena here. Um, just because it feels so powerful and had super prince, but doesn’t it feel like uh he kind of got a little bit forced into it if you think about it with with how they’re drafting this? Yeah, I think in general or like at a surface level, that’s what I’d also immediately assume. But like Onyx Philippines, they’ve had this history of just going for these very um mechanical demand that they need to be really well coordinated kind of lined ups. They used to go for the Jawed Selena which I feel poss and it comes down to play what you know. Something tells me there was a discussion and the Kimmy was a legit option. And it’s just the super fam decides. Prince, whatever you’re comfortable with, let’s make it work. Game three finally upon us. Roar early start. 200 gold lead. Forcing a flicker from Prince. Oh, that was very nasty shots here. Forcing flicker as well is a pretty big resource, especially for a Selena, which usually you would use that to really take out the target. Yeah, Brusco will be having a huge responsibility in this game. like he has to protect multiple members of Onyx Philippines or primarily Keller later on but for now it’s super Fritz and they’re just so aggressively oh look at that Bruce go as well man Demon Kite is you can feel it right you can feel a blood lust in Demon Kite right now really how often you get your hands on a Fanny and it’s this pick really that defined how could play around with the remaining five picks not just three or four the five picks the whole draft they had to cater to answering demon kites Fanny, which opened up for the Jawhead, which opened up for the Harit, even the CC. So now lane to lane, you could say that maybe that mid trio is where Onyx struggles. How about the sides? Yeah, sides are pretty much um what you would definitely want to go for if you just want the way to manage things out, not necessarily directly winning. And that’s in terms of the gold lane. They are going to definitely go for the farm later on, but the CC definitely is supposed to have a great time in terms of the exp lane, but there we will be seeing some assistance from King Kong, however. So, they get to include Kirk as they set up for this turtle. Yeah, that turtle is going to be pretty solid for Onyx. I don’t think there’s uh any danger immediately unless strategy does stuff like this. Look at that. It’s Bruce go up on front zoning it up as much as he can for King Kong to take it with the retribution. Demon Kite missing out on a few cables here, but there you go. Tsunami slam slows them down only for a moment. Going down to the Klaya, but the rest of the team from Onyx is actually in trouble. What? Oh my goodness. King Kong gets thrown back to the Wolves. In comes the rest of Aurora. Oh, it’s a maniac. What? Mr. Consistent with the perm. He’s feeling himself. Gets a maniac to open up game number three. the bottom for the player out of Kelra and that is going to be a huge resource just when you fought these two low laners are very 50/50. In comes Demon Kite and there is the threat of the fanny and that is probably the only thing that isn’t consistent about Mr. consistent and it’s his hair. The hair but oh it was so surprising to see him actually get that maniac. is way ahead of everyone just because of that and you were expecting this kind of result in terms of the ling phase but for it to extend all the way this is going to be a huge problem for Philippines Aurora can be playing it a lot more aggressively than they are tit for tatic and Aurora are outwinning and outplaying each other was impressive how Kirk ran away and survived the initial onslaught of Aurora right flickered away even when he got caught by the ejector from Renee but man how Aurora kept their ground and forced Onyx to stay in and scored those four kills. Another turtle spawning. I was actually trying to recall like the exact sequence which happened. It was supposedly a great start for Onyx since the Abyssal Arrow from Super Prince did deny that Federate air strike which could have eliminated Brusco. But it just so happened that a fight extended too long and Aurora were able to find their footing. But the killer Oh, kill demon Kai again. Pretty easy to dodge those sods if you are a fan cabling in and out. Takes that kill pretty easily. But look that despite that maniac Edward getting given a hard time here on top side. Thou shall not touchun Jing Jing. Aurora overkill on that attempt with Kra, but this does open up the turtle. Yep. They’ll get the trades and a turret away from Onyx Philippines and Onyx are yet to secure a turret for themselves which means that Aurora still despite this turtle that’s secured by Onyx are in the lead somehow and that is something that you still have to consider if you are Onyx Philippines. You see the potential but so far Aurora is able to capitalize on even the slightest miscalculations that Onyx Philippines does. Keeping it tight here coming in with a tunami slam. Brusco. That’s a perfect target. Edward is out. No current call available. Means that they can kind of go crazy. But here comes Dolman Kai and Demon Kai. That combo is so scary. The damage is just erupting. DK coming in so fast. He was glitching. Dom Kai gets hit by the spear of destruction does not click in. All right. Honestly, the entire story changes once Demon Kite joins the fight. So have to be very calculated in terms of whether or not they want they want to fully commit in the team fights. Knowing fully well that Demon Kite can just follow up any moment because that’s where the cleanup can come in. The damage that Demon Kite is able to provide at this point is something they should definitely take seriously. He’s a level ahead of King Kong. And now Aurora looking to take another turret away from Onic. I really like it when demon dominites uh synchro efficient and uh chrono dashes just go toeto toe with the with a fanny. Oh my god. Can really turn down targets into dust. And that’s mainly one of Deckai’s strengths is he understands and he smells a good fight even miles away. Rene here put down to a fifth of his health. We’re waiting for Kelra to feel himself too. We’re waiting for Kelra to say it’s go time. But I guess the whole super fam understands that we have to play on the back foot defensive despite getting both turtles so far. Yeah, cuz Keller yesterday I feel a lot of us have seen just how phenomenal his performance was on the Moskov just constantly pressuring the lanes and even trying to close out the game a couple of times, but this is different since they have or Aurora has the Fanny. So there’s at least one member in Aurora who could actually deal with him and that’s what we were talking about. There’s a solo kill you get when you have a Fanny again. Not so surprising. But what’s surprising here, Super Prince was more forced out of a flicker, keeping the team fight going. Kirk is going to have to take a backst step here, but he is trying to get in with Infernal Pursuit, but not going to be enough to slow down Rora. And this time around, it’s going to be the Northern Lights with control of the Turtle Pit. Final one going over to Aurora. SOD thrown up by Kelra. He knows it’s best not to temp fate here. And a push. Oh my god. Aurora converging through the roof. Here goes Bruce go again. For some reason doesn’t really pull off the tsunami. He doesn’t have it. It’s on cool down. And now they’re going to just watch as they just walk away. Defensive maneuvers by Aurora. They’re happy with what they got. And Onyx is ever more getting buried in value. 3,000 gold lead now. you have it’s getting very difficult for Philippines to actually do things across the other side of the map or look for the trades because that one instance wherein they did try because that is what you would typically expect from a Mosov in the gold lane right you go the opposite lane wherever the objective is and you just use your SOD to catch up to the team fight but D1 Kite he just made sure that he was able to see where Kela was planning to go take him out first before proceeding to the turtle and that is just Aurora being very decisive and knowing how exactly to deal with Onyx Philippines lineup so far. They can’t do much because again this is a Fred Rin jungle. So you’re really expecting them to invest in the potential team fights that can happen later on. And what’s worse is Aurora can do this with very little punish from Onyx side. Onyx can commit to again that Fred Rin can protect Kelra and Aurora if ever it fails they can just move. They can just go elsewhere. Yeah. And again, it’s all that tsunami slam is just so crucial here because it’s basically the only reliable source of CC they have aside from energy eruption. So, are you going to use it on demon kite or doming or whoever, right? Even energy eruption isn’t confirmed. You’re not a flicker fren, you’re a retribution fren, so you have to walk up and make sure you get that taunt on two solid targets. Yeah, the thing is it’s always Rene going in first, but it seems like this time around it’s going to be a different guy targeted here. Ready J flickers out but will go down to the appraisers wrath. That’s a minus one. But curtain call already casted by Edward. Here comes demon kite but I don’t think he’s ready for the party. He’s not dressed quite there yet. I think he only has some shorts and slippers and everyone’s just all uh pipped out. This sounds too specific to be just theoretical. Aurora now retreating. They know they can’t pick this fight for B5. Oh no. Onyx blitzing. I don’t know if they can answer this. There’s a good knock up from the Lord. He to be the phantom fifth man. And there goes Edward going down. U still keeping it steady. But even the better air strikes will not be able to slow down on it right now who only has demon kite and doing up on toe against four members. Make that five. Lord still standing and p scores and they get it. There you go. The lord going over to this time around. What a clutch stle title strike coming in from Brusco just to deny that retribution from Demon Kite because he was just standing there. It could have been a red battle between two of these junglers and Aurora were willingly taking that despite them not being complete, despite them losing a couple of members of their members before that team fight. And it’s just on Philippines now knowing to how to take advantage of that messy team fight that’s that’s taking over that’s happening all over the place. Check out this Infinix hand cam. I would imagine that as the Fanny Demon Kite had to what have 13 14 fingers to make sure that he was in the right spot to even have thoughts of stealing that Lord. I could swear. Oh my god. Kurt picks off Renee. That was out of nowhere. And I think on can really use this leverage. Not to mention there’s a lord walking on bottom. Oh my god. Very bad for Onyx. The comeback for the super fam. from the capacity crowd here in the Green Sun Hotel, the Champions Arena are feeling it. Suddenly, the defending champions are on the offensive. Yep. Everything changed the moment they decided to engage in a full-on team fight with Onyx being prepared. That’s what happens when they’re actually able to position themselves first compared to Aurora because the moment Renji decided to check the area. They were able to punish him to some extent, forcing them to hesitate somehow before actually taking on the next fight. And that is a very similar scenario to what happened in that objective. And now this is where all the bodyguards come in for Kelra. This is where he can freely do his thing. Hey, Kelra so far all season 15 long. Number three least debts. No, he is up there when it comes to bulletproof stats. King Kong number one average gold per game. He understands how much Kelra needs the bank. So suddenly Andigar are playing on their feet here. They’ve adjusted well enough to now have a gold lead. For the first time, for the first time 12 minutes, they have the gold lead. I guess it it boil down to just biting your time and knowing when to actually overtake your opponent and the they did it the best way they know how. Pick someone off and capitalize. Yep. Even when we see that uh or even when this entire maniac when Edward was able to position position himself well earlier, now they’re taking advantage of all that. Wait. Yep. A capitalizing right now on one going down. Is Rene again the victim of the tsunami slam. Edward still available as a front line, but only for a moment. He is actually very low as well, forcing Aurora to go back. That was a difficult trade. They exposed Kela to stop Aurora’s forward momentum. And it came at the price of just Rene. Not even his flicker, just Rene. Yeah. And Aurora probably knows by now that that’s pretty much what they have to do once you take out Keller. You saw how Onyx immediately was forced to retreat. They cannot proceed with a fight, especially considering that there is an upcoming objective. They can’t lose any more members. And that is what they have to consider right now. They have all their eyes set on Keller, which you did mention is supposedly up there in terms of the bulletproof leaderboards, but he’s already four deaths in this game. This is not an ideal KDA score for Kelra. Lord Dance initiated. Doming Kite at a third of his health. I think Aurora have to reconsider. And that all came from one arrow hitting by the way. That was insane. And the Lord knock up and everything else in the fifth man. This is where the Frederick comes in. This is where you would have the Freder nine times out of 10 instead of the Fanny. A lord dance like this. And Onyx doing again. They’re blitzing the lord. They’re doing it again. They have the damage. They know they do. They know where the roar members are. Demon Kite, where are you? Are you going to be in an angle to go for the retribution steal though? He will get stunned up. That’s vision for Onyx. And I think they will blitz it out this time around. King Kong getting that lord. And the fight is going to be very very bad here for Aurora. But super pins on a different angle. They’re jumping. They’re piling onto each other. And there you go. Roora remembers three remaining. Make that just U. And I think that could be Onyx running it down mid. 111. Make a wish at the 14-minute mark. On just force Aurora to play in the paint and Aurora can’t do that. It’s a wipe out for Aurora. And you did mention this. It’s exactly the angles that Super Fris just played around with. Beautifully done. It’s Onyx Philippines in game three. Match point for the Super Fam in the upper bracket semis. One game away from dropping Aurora to the lower bracket. Can’t believe my eyes. Super prince. Whenever he gets the Helena, you just see the most surprising angles come into play. Play what you know. Play what you know. And it seems like now Onik is comfortable. Well, Leo, we’ll tell you what we what we know, and that’s it’s match point right now for Onic Philippines. I’m actually rather surprised. I was uh I was thinking that was going to go to Aurora, especially the way that the early game started. I mean, was it an early maniac, too? Yeah, that was a maniac. At that point in the Philippines, we have a cultural response to that. Uh nice try. Do better next game. I got to go cook some rice. Why? Why rice? No, it’s like a Right. Right. I’ll cook rice. My mom wants me to cook rice first. I’ll put the phone down. But that’s just you actually tilted. That’s just you tilted. Okay. Well, this guy’s not tilted at all. Super prince. Another MVP performance. And this time it’s a signature pick I would really say about Super Prince. The Selena, one of the few players that does find success with this hero makes it work. And you know, I I he was on point providing the vision. The arrows were usually landing on the right targets. Like think how many times Demon Kite was actually stunned up or something. And that’s a fanny too. So the fact the super free priest reads the map like that is like I will throw my arrow here at this direction at this time and I will hit a high-profile target and that’s what happened. Especially that last lord clash it was him. It landed on Kirk the moment it landed on demon kite as he was just positioning in the bush. Onic knew like all right it’s time for us to just rush this lord. We’ve already gotten the info where demon kite was. That’s why they were hesitant. That’s why they were slowing down the take. They needed to find the fanny first. The super fra uh super prince helped find that fanny eventually leading to the wipe out as he got another arrow as the last dragon member over was trying to escape. Yeah, and I you know the fanny was great to see. It’s it always is the case, especially when you have an early game like this. You know, you just think, man, this is going to be a scaling game for Aurora. They’re going to go and pop off and then end the game quickly. But this also showcases how Onic Philippines has been in pressurous situations before and it’s that discipline that they like to play with this pickoff potential where they they play around their pickoffs uh options and if they don’t then they slow the fights down to choose the right targets and that’s really what happened here. Kro was able to freely move in a lot of these exchanges and fights just because of how much space was provided with the team even with a Fanny a demon kite fanny flying around. Yeah, and this is why we said at the end of the draft, I really felt like this is a 50/50 match. And we saw the 50/50. We saw Aurora taking control of the game, then we see we saw Onyx taking control of the game, then we saw that 50/50 of all right, who’s just going to execute this better so that we can win the game. And in the end, it was Onyx in this last lord fight that was just absolutely brilliant. They waited for the re-entry of Demon Kite. They were ready. Keller was able to dash on out and be able to free hit which meant that everyone else were on those beefy front liners just provided the space for Kellra. Yeah, and again you have a ton of options in in terms of even your durability if you’re on a Philippines here with that phobius with the Fren. I like this man playoffs the Frederick is starting to come back even more. I feel like he’s even being limit tested in other lanes, but ultimately if he’s parked in the jungle, that’s going to be fine. Even against a hyper assassin like the Fanny, King Kong made it work. But that’s with the right composition and the right execution from them. As you see the stats breakdown here, too. This is man, this series overall has been relatively quick games. You know what? Everything has been sub 15, right? Yeah. And that’s just again showcasing for both the teams that they know how to end the games before it gets too out of hand. And it’s usually around that uh first or second lure take here. So for Onic Philippines, pretty decisive win I think even with that it makes you wonder how Roro will go ahead and adjust uh going into the next game. The CC was what was banned out in game uh game one? Game two. Uh game number two it was banned out game one and two and two. So you know the fact that Edward got his hands on the CC this time. Yahi might have gotten that uh you know that win in the early game for them with the maniac, but still uh it’s just not enough because of how much can happen when a Fanny starts to get her you know her back against the wall essentially in these stages of the game. Yeah. And it’s reflective of the relationship between Jawhead and Selena. Call back to when Jawhead and Selena was the main trade and main focus bands of MPL Philippines season 8. Then it was early game jaw head. At some point if the Selena starts landing the arrows, it goes Selena for the mid to late because the jawhead won’t just be able to uh easily toss someone. He’s going to get stopped. He’s going to get crowd control or blasted even before he can engage with the unstoppable force and the ejector. And that’s exactly what we saw in the reflection of the two teams and how they play the game. Early game, Jawhead, Rora, they were doing it. But once Super Fris were landing those arrows, then their gameplay just stopped. Yeah. And it’s that’s why he loves to go that way. The of course BBI rich guy here for Kelra 768 GPM and this time around he was able to just go ahead and solidify his dominance in the gold lane. Let’s go ahead and have this breaking down further. Renar. All right. Uh BPI rich guy Kellra. You saw that there. Download now on the BPI app. BPI. I’m waiting for your call. Anyways, so the fact that Kelra was able to get BPI rich guy is a bit of a miracle because Aurora were absolutely hellbent on doing everything they can to give Kela the most difficult farm that he could find. Let’s look at these two teams. All right, so the fact that despite the early game start of Aurora, look at where Onyx is in the graph. So close, so neck andneck the whole time. The gold lead of Aurora never went beyond 5,000. It was always just hovering around the 3,000, maybe even inching a little bit closer to the 4,000 mark. And that means that despite the early game wins that Aurora were getting, Onyx Philippines found their center point of balance quicker. Meaning that, okay, Aurora’s the one taking control of the game. They’re the one who is getting a little bit more kills. They’re more comfortable getting towers farm. Let’s see if we can find else uh farm elsewhere. Let’s see what we can do to help Kelra. And at the same time, wait a minute. Aurora is taking a little bit too much time getting wins in the gold lane. Hey, that’s leaving the objective for us. Aurora only got a one turtle, the very last one. On got the first two. This would have solidified the lead, but it wasn’t a massive conversion into a tower. It took a minute plus um after the third turtle that Aurora was able to get another tower take, their last tower take of the game. While for Onyx Philippines, you can see after getting the lord, it was just tower conversion after tower conversion to the win in the second lord and the win in the game. Conversion of objectives, conversion of kills. Key theme in this game so far. I want to keep looking at Kelra and Dominicite comparing their farm. So Kelra of course would be getting the Corrosion site first and Starleium for Domingite a little bit later on. Still within in pace golden staff at 8 minutes could have been a little bit quicker, but you know what? We’re not going to complain. We’re going to take what we can get. More expensive items for the magic damage uh dealing golder. All right, that’s fine. Feather of Heaven not too late after. Despite all of the wins Aurora were getting, Onyx were still getting their farm. We then now look at King Kong who after building the anti anti-cor caress at the six minute mark. We look at demon guy who was only able to build up the war axe after the 8 minute mark. And we know how expensive anti-corrass is. So this is still within the timeline. Although although this war axe could have definitely come a little bit sooner. Then we go to King Kong. When did he get his second item? The radiant armor at around 10 minutes. But at that point that was already getting closer to the point where they if I’m not mistaken are just about to get the first lord. Maybe this came around after them being able to secure the first lord. Now we look at demon kite got his maleific roar. All right. Everything’s still within uh within uh good terms for Aurora, but it could have been significantly better. The fact that you started off the game with a maniac and your opponent still got to keep the game so close that your key figures are still getting their gold. That just hurts to see. And especially with King Kong getting the antique harass early on, you already shut down the very good um interaction between the jawhead, the fanny, and the CC together because you those three together supplement all of the physical damage getting dished out. But having the antique carass was just great for Onic Philippines. So let’s look at the midame stats. 8 minute mark for King Kong. So he went a little bit more utility routed here. Of course, obviously as he is in the Frederick, usually averages around 2.38 kills plus assist. Now it was just only at one less in the kill participation. Damage dealt of course less gold as well. The gold differential again struggling. It was minus 1,423. There was a lead there, but that could have been worse. He still kept it close up against a Fanny. That is at the 8th minute mark. He was still level 10 at that point. That could have been closer to a 2,000, maybe even past 2,00 2,500 gold lead. The fact Onyx kept things close in the gold is why they eventually won the game. They eventually won the game with making that happen. Uh thanks for the breakdown again, Renmar, there for game three. So far, honestly, from game to game to game and all these three games, it’s been really relatively I don’t want to say completely one-sided, but it’s been dominant. Like the the shift the shifting ways of these games is really evident. Uh now game one and game two, you could say both teams had their uh dominant performances and game three was uh a little back and forth. Now again, game four, these drafts that we’re seeing, they do come with uh similar play styles at least from game to game. What could be one of the biggest changes I guess for Aurora to go ahead and uh make things happen? Uh I I think that at the times where if it’s still close in terms of the gold, I think we’re seeing Rora getting a little bit more into their systematic approach. I want to see a little bit more surprise factor similar to what they did in game number one. That’s why they sh uh they shown in game number one is because once they could see that angle, they immediately took it. In this game number three, it was more of like should we uh it’s still starting to get a little bit even out. A bit of hesitation here and there. Yeah, exactly. It’s because they only have the the the shorts and the slippers. Yeah. To the party like Rockart. They showed up to a to a white tie a black tie party with shorts and slippers. Shorts and slippers, man. You know, um so maybe they they come in the full outfit for game number four. Um we’ll find out here. But we are going to get a little bit of an update on what’s happening over on our MPL playgrounds which is happening here at the playoffs. 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If you’re here at Mo venue, don’t miss out the chance to visit Mo playgrounds cuz we have games, booths, exciting giveaways, and green watch party hangout with Ben things. So come over, first come, first serve basis again. So see you at NL playgrounds. Hey, we’re missing out, Renmar. We have not been to the playground in some time, but this is a playground that I would go to. You know that NBA I’ve been to play I’ve been to playgrounds. Uh, no, not recently. And yeah, anyways, so the ones downstairs, it’s a test of willpower cuz I want to buy everything. You want to buy everything? I wish I could buy everything. They just You’re surrounded by merch, dude. Like, wouldn’t Wouldn’t you want to just be like, grab a liquid jersey or their new jacket or the new jacket they were all supposed to pre-order? Uh, you know, by the way, by the way, by the way, what’s up? If you are you guys watching, I I’ll tell you what, we’ve seen a lot of jackets. We’ve seen a lot of team merch. Yeah. But there’s something I I don’t know what it is. Maybe it’s the effect of the jackets or maybe it’s just the uh the the effect of the marketing, but as soon as you see the pre-order thing, you’re like, man, yeah, I need that and you like can’t help it. Yeah. It’s not want It’s like, I need this. I need that. And then, you know, it’s funny because they’re like, isn’t it really hot in the Philippines? Yeah, it is. It is really hot. But you know what? Team merch drip forever. It’s worth it for the style. Plus, come on. If you can wear a Letterman jacket in the deserts of Saudi Arabia, you can wear it in the tropical humid country that is the Philippines. You’re darn right. Brick is laughing so I can hear her a little bit. Joining us for this game number four draft that we’re going to be jumping into. Bria, are you there? Hello. I forgot that my mic was already on. And yes. Okay. And what else are you going to say? Um I must say um hello. Did I not say something? Oh, come on. Bring it up. Oh my gosh. Why do I keep forgetting? Hello. There it is. Thank you. Okay, the draft. The bands are almost done here. Fa, what do you think is going to change? I already asked Renmar this earlier on. What do you think Rora needs to change to take us to a game five? Well, they’ve been changing their last bat every now and then. Earlier, it was always the Lui Joy Madang, but then they switched it up to a Jushit and now they’re respecting the Kala. So, could there be a chance, however, that they they themselves be the one to pick it up? Like, it’s been a it’s been a recipe for Onic Philippines so far, you know, like they’ve been either trying to make that and one work and it only changed when they had their hands on the Selena. Okay. Well, we’re going to find out what that first pick priority is going to be. You know, some of the options they went for earlier in the series are out of the picture. You got the the chip that they went for earlier on back in game one. That’s not going to be there. Fanny’s banned out. So, hey, they’ll take the box this time. First pick for Aurora. Boxer right away. What are you cooking, Rora? I mean, we did get to see that yesterday, so it’s not unprecedented, but why? What are they trying to set up for? Are they just really playing into the very strong flex of the box? I feel like it’s Aurora though that can really flex this if they wanted to. Okay, there goes the blue shade. It’s still going to go into the hands of Onyx. The question is if they’re still going to pair it up with the one one for the third consecutive time in this game. Yeah. Are we going to get another one game here? Uh, no. All right, they’re not going for it this time. A little bit safer this time around. I like it. Unless Kite does. Will he? Maybe that’s why they picked up a boxer. So they already have a solid front. I’m still leaning towards the idea that we’re already just going to see a UA pick up. Um Oh, not a BA jumper. Yeah. Okay. So, it’s a Baksha. It’s still flex. It’s either roam or exp goes through the jungle with a Hayabusa. And I think we’re getting Farsa here. That’s interesting. They went with the high voice. Okay. Yeah, Harth. I was going to say maybe the Herth since it’s the Granger. And we we did comment on this earlier on. You know, Granger still being a pretty good option for the gold lane, although we’ve seen a lot of Wan lately, but um we’ve been Was it Clinch yesterday, right? We did. Wa one game. Oh, they they go for the ling right away. I mean, King Kong’s been using the extreme assassin junglers recently, like the lands a lot. And I was I was thinking along the lines of Auyo since that was also still available right now. But, uh, seems like they really want to go all in this time, picking up the link. Honestly, after some of the Suyo performances we’ve seen near the end of the regular season at the beginning of the playoffs yesterday, I feel like uh we’re see we’re going to start seeing a little bit less and less of Sasuke. Yeah. Moving forward. Yep. They can work on that. Okay. Next bands too. You want to be able to still focus I think I think the fact that Super Prince has his Jian locked in and then what do you want to put in the mid lane for UA? you know, is there a possibility that he reaches for the Sicilian? Are we Is he just out of the Well, technically UA was playing the Sicilian before it was really meta anyway. Yeah. And against the link, that might be a good option. Although if they want to play the more unique and effective mid laners which have been popping up recently, the Zask is there too and that works well with the Harris in terms of like just making sure he gets to dance with the Talon Force and create the space for him. The Farsa is also still good. Yeah, although I feel like Bria has convinced me with the Sicilian pick up for UF. She convinced you. Yeah, I mean you brought it up. I didn’t convince you. She explained it. You brought up the Sicilian. I was like, and then she explained it. I was like, “All right, that’s for a job.” That’s true. And considering that it is for the ling if you mess up your entry. Yeah. Yeah. Sicilian can be incredibly punishing for a ling. So, I’m all right with that. But that makes it a very greedy lineup. You have Hayabus in the jungle, Har Gold, Sicilian in the mid. You’re going to need a very strong pair in the Roman EXP to just hold things down for as long as possible so that they can farm. Yeah. And uh if any they at least need a way to stop or catch the link cuz so far that’s going to be a potential problem later on. Like the way it’s just going to keep diving in and they paired up with a hyos too. Okay, they go the high lows here for Any. This is um are we thinking this is most likely XP then or is this going to go in the hands of Brusco instead or is this just is that the question? Is that the flexibility? High juice sounds okay? Yeah, high loss juice and ling are very strong invade combo. Plus the link’s quite protected in the juggle if you put the high loss in the Rome. So that might be the route that we’re going for. Aurora. They could shut down a high loss exp if they pick up something like a Esme. Oh, there’s a Ah, no. There’s a ling. So, the Valer can be Yeah, playing a ling isn’t Oh, they’re going Cho. Wait. Okay, so they go Cho. They’re putting Baka in the XP, right? Yeah. And then they picked up the Kimmy. So, this is a Brusco hero we’re looking for. Yeah. Or no, a Kirk hero or Brusco. Whoa. Golly. Signature. All right, Renmar. How are we feeling about this one? How’s the draft? Is this It’s match point right now for Onyx Philippines. Ah, is this enough? It’s down to Renj and Brusco. I I’m going leave it as simple as that. Better roam, better positioning, better vision given. You win. You win. It’s a different story now. We’re seeing the Kimmy finally back. Yeah, at least there’s a quick sand guard though, so like you can sustain yourself a little longer, but if it gets out of hand, you guys go crazy. Well, we’ll find out here. We’re get one last look for you guys for this game number four draft. Once again, we get a little look at the index here. I feel like this is the first time we’ve seen the index for the series or even even possibly from yesterday. But let us know which you team which team you guys think has the better draft here. is Aurora to take it to the game five or it’s going to be Onic Philippines to win the series. Let’s go ahead and throw it over to the casters to take us into the land of Dawn. The Super Fam is at match point playing out of red since yesterday when the playoffs started. They’re looking to use their old lineup. Like nothing changed really here for Onyx to take it all the way. Moving through the brackets. Rora, they got an ultimatum. Welcome to game number four. Brigida Rock Leo at your service here. How do we feel about Kiwi coming back? Well, I’ve been seeing it a lot, you know, like in other tournaments during the entire 3-week break. Like, it’s been a common pickup or a priority even in the first pick. And that was something I was looking at heading into the playoffs, but it appears that teams are being a little more careful about picking the Kimmy. And it’s usually paired with a cap capture in the previous games that I’ve seen it go, but it’s different this time. Funnily enough, I was uh actually saying yesterday, where the hell are these Kibies hiding? And yeah, if we finally see it, and usually lineups love to play against Kimmy uh usually love to pick the box, but this time around they’re on the same team. So that’s a very interesting thing that Award did. This is the Filipino flavor of the Kimmy, which is again often seen in our neighbors. ML has a very strong uh Kimmy uh presence. Mostly played in the mid. I’d say seven out of 10 Kimmies are played in mid and some in gold. Uh but if they like their Kimmy, MLM love their Kimmy. Almost a 90 to 95% contest rate since she came out of uh that initial ban when she got reworked. And they mostly put her in mid, too. Yeah. And I feel like even despite it not being a gate Kimmy type of combo, I feel like there are a lot of possibilities that we can expect with the Cho and the Kimmy because the Kimmy in itself can actually do some insane chain CC, you know, and you pair it up with the Cho, there’s a lot more that can happen. Yeah, speaking of pairings, look at that powerful combo of the Hyos and as well as the Khaled just pushing back Rene as well as a Hayabusa from Demon Kite. But again, they can kind of just go around this here. No uh rage sandstorm yet for Brusco means that they’re not so scary yet. Demon Kite though could have super friends in his sights. Crimson beacon away. Prince pulls the trigger. Edward holding his ground. Goes for the boxer unite. I wonder if they know that King Kong is still taking his orange. Both team taking their time. I think they are they are they do feel that where is King Kong right now is about to get into the fight, but it’s going to be Brusco going down. Might be a little too late. Super friends going down as well means that King Kong will probably just back off for the meantime. Oh no, they caught Kirk. Onyx took too long to make a call and a lot of them fall three for none so far. And they’re not done. Oh, they’re not done as of yet. Tempest blades being forced from King Kong means that you know what, that’s a bit of a statement here for Aurora. Get back in your lane. Oh my goodness. Even the mere Jeet Kundo into the traction pulse or the traction pulse first then being followed up by a way of the dragon from Rene. Those are just some of the possibilities that they began to show us 3 minutes into this game. And it was fortunate supposedly for Onyx that the first traction pulls didn’t connect. But for some reason Aurora just played it aggressively. They just brute forced their way into forcing a fight and now they took advantage of Onyx. And again, as you mentioned, King Kong still taking his time on the purple or the orange buff. Yeah, I rarely say this, but it feels like that was more on Onyx. They took too long and Aurora punished him for that. Yeah, that was taking a lot of time on the orange buff as well. Some people would say not really the biggest priority, especially if you already have your purple. So, yeah, they really suffered for that and looks like they’re going to suffer even more. But at least King Kong still gets his purple clutch. Demon Kite forced him to do that. Demon guy even use his own retribution. And that’s when you know Aurora is in the driver’s seat. That’s when you know Aurora means business is all right. I’m willing to go throw away my retribution to risk yours. Yeah. And honestly, if you look at all the lanes, it feels like it’s working so well for Aurora. The Vaka into the high loss. He’s just managing the lane so well. And Dominic, all he needs to do is just really get that farm, just clear the lanes and potentially even go for the double lane because he’s being guided here by Rene. And so when it comes to the team fight, now that they’re in the lead, there are less things to worry about for Aurora. Yeah, long and short of it, Aurora now 2,000 gold lead approaching. Oh, trash ball started. Oh, that is a beautiful ulti for U again. Super friends being picked off over and over again by Demon Kite using that shadow kill. I was going to say Aurora living red on Onyx side of the map. And that was just as such a small thing, but imagine landing the shadow right into the timing of the traction pulse, capturing Super Friends at that moment. This is pure dominance that’s being shown to us by Aurora. So far, Kitan Brothers online. Second turtle scored up top, down bottom. Even forcing a flicker out of Kelra is already massive enough. Renew close by means that Kelra feels like he needs to back off now. Oh my goodness, this is terrifying. Sky pierce her first pick already for already online for U. So they have to be extra careful about the kills that he’s going to get. Look at that fourman squad pick at five trying to block the purple buff from being stolen but I don’t think it’s going to be enough. King Kong actually loses his purple and Aurora will also get a kill on Brusco there with the beautiful placement of the Zaman force. And of course, it’s Aurora asserting their dominance once more, displacing Any from their own jungle. King Kong knows what this feels like. Just yesterday, he was bullying a ling. Kirk trying to defend. They’re trying to wipe out again. Edward going to get a lot of tower hits and will not be able to survive long enough. But look at that. The push back is very, very strong from Aurora with a kill as well onto Kra. Oh, they’re not dying. Two more friends. Oh my goodness. They’re just going back for more here. Even under the turret, Aurora are just firing on all cylinders. Oh, imagine having to lose two bodies just to defend that mid lane turret. And King Kong, the only thing he could do was go for a trade as a top lane. You know, it’s bad because I’m looking at Demon Kite’s items. He’s on his way to a sky piercer. Oh my goodness. He built it. Two Sky Piercer already for Aurora. But Edward, Edward again being caught up, but this time around the turret will be falling. He’s going to go down as well. But look at that. They’re trying to punch it back. Demon Kite misses a few shots of that shadow kill. And now it’s Onyx who are on the hunt. Helping a lot. Okay. Okay. That’s the red carpet to push back Aurora. But you know what? On are pulling back the gold lead one at a time. Yep. Renar mentioned it breaking it down. As long as that’s a manageable 4k 5k gold lead, maybe we’re talking. But demon kite now forcing the issue, putting Kellra down to a fifth of his health. Final turtle. I’m I’m I’m feeling that Onyx might want to contest, but I don’t think it’s a wise thing to do. Yeah, King Kong probably knows his timings as well. And this is very similar to how he played the Lancelot even. It’s just really being extra careful. Not until there’s a clear window of opportunity for them to capitalize on their lineup, then they’re not going to risk it. just yet, especially considering that Aurora, whatever you say, they’re still in the lead and they have all their tools ready for whatever may happen in the next few seconds. All right, pushing it forward bottom lane. Aurora’s focus right now. There’s nothing Onic can do here. They just have to accept the fact they can’t fight this. Yeah, they’re losing turrets nonstop here. And Onyx are just looking. Again, this is pretty similar to what they did in the previous games as well. just biting their time, looking for that perfect moment to strike. Uh they’re very disciplined still. Yeah, as much as we really want to look for King Kong and the things he can do to manage the macro, he’s up against the 2k gold lead in Demon Kite’s hands. And even if he does want to go for the split pushes, he’d have to consider that there’s Edward a Baksha XP lane that can just constantly hunt him down and deny whatever attempts he wants to do in terms of managing the opposite lanes. So, this is clearly Aurora managing things pretty well and they’re they’re in such a position that you can’t deny the magic damage that’ll potentially burst down key members from Onyx. Looking at UA and Dom and Kite. Uh-oh. Speaking of getting bursted down, that was very, very close with the jump from Edward. Barely missing King Kong. Here comes the traction pulse pulling back. Brusco as well again. Forcing him up, but look at that. That was a faint. They were busy with Kel on top. We missed the sequence, but Rene J caught the wave of a dragon that cost a million bucks. Keller was underneath the turret. I I I I could I would wager he was underneath there thinking it was safe and then a nuh-uh. Nuh-uh. Indeed. And look at that Aurora again. No reaction, no way to actually clear quickly the minion waves means that Onyx will have to look as their turret has fallen again. I would give their wave clear a D minus. That’s pretty rough. I mean, look, look, how else do they clear waves? This is a fighting lineup. Like, there’s no way they’re managing waves. In game three, the Zucian was had pretty good DPS, I think. So he that was excusable, but and they were winning for the most part. As soon as they picked the fight, they were winning. But now, oh my god, Ra’s breaking the 5k gold lead threshold and they’re taking Lords like it’s nothing. Yeah, and I was honestly about to take what I said or take back what I said. Oh my goodness. Did he get Dude, you just took it. He just took it and King Kong spent his rat tree. Oh, that was painful. Yeah, this is pretty tough. Um, even if King Kong does get out, he’d at most get to deal with one wave that would be immediately answered back by Aurora. And this is no joke considering that they’re way up ahead. 6K. Demon Kite always lands the shadows, the OG shadow kill on the right targets. And there’s no clear source of crowd control to immediately respond back to Dominite once he decides to just use the Zammon Force freely against Onyx Philippines. That’s not very Sigma. Not very Sigma. Oh no. Lord crashing through mid popping that holy defense. Onyx going to lose something here one way or another. That’s right. And the traction pulse again pulling back. Brusco is going to be fighting back with his own raging sandstorm though. Look at that. Edward now on the mercy of the turret. Demon Kite trying to get some damage in but no casualties at least for now here. But it’s King Kong on the back. He’s looking for blood, but will be answered immediately almost by Demon Kai. And that thing that they were going to lose was the Sigma jungler himself, King Kong Falls, but traded for two. I I’ll say it’s worth it. I even thought it was going to be Brusco, you know, but the mere fact that the way of the dragon was still intact, it could have been different for Onyx Philippines if only Rene decided to risk something in that Lord Siege. But he was very patient and careful in terms of whether or not he will be using it. And the moment they spotted out King Kong trying to do something, they knew they had other ways. They knew they had other things to use it for. Demon Kite again. This 1v3, but Demon Kite feels very confident to just take this. Absorbing so many hits, but getting pulled back at the last minute by Super Friends. Demon Kite walked into the wrong street and got ganked. He got shafted by the super fam. And that 6k gold lead we were talking about earlier, it’s almost down to half now for Onyx Philippines. They’re slowly regaining their confidence of going out of the map and looking for things to do, especially as time goes by. King Kong, he’s getting his hands on the necessary items. They’re starting to feel his damage, especially towards the back liners of Aurora. I’d say King Kong needs maybe one more item. He’s about a trinity in to this ling build. if he gets one more item and if somebody somehow Onyx can do just that again trick Demon Kite or U into walking down some weird corner of the map. Even dolman Kai hasn’t died yet. If they can do that to Dolman Kai then maybe we can talk then maybe Any can come back. Yep. Kai though just picked up the blade of despair as well. So, he’s still undeniably up there in terms of the gold leads, although King Kong is really starting to catch up now. This upcoming Lord is definitely going to be a very contested objective. You have to watch out for the setups from Aurora and Kirk has to start things up. Yeah, Lord started the setup already with two man knock off Edward and Demon Kite. King Kong is close by. He’s joining the fight. There goes the red carpet and Dolman Kite is very happy to just take these targets one by one. Two will fall, but the retribution on the lord will go over to Onyx. They’re going to have to run though. They are running. King Kong is getting chased down. Yua with the flicker as well. Yay just with a little bit of flare takes down King Kong as well. Aurora are taking no prisoners. It’s just super French left. And yes, Onyx do score a lord. Uhoh. But Aurora want to end. They’re looking at that turret. They are spamming all the emotes they can, waiting for the perfect time to wait for that Lord and take care of it, clean it up. But look at that card. Oh my god. Did he get killed by the by the fountain hit? Yes, he did. Oh no, they wanted to end it. Two members of the super fam respawn just in time to hold him down and punish the rest of Aona. That was close. They could have lost more. That was probably a fight Philippines willingly took. It was risky. It was a retry battle. My eyes were glued to these two junglers who were just trying to contest for that lord. All the while their other team fight was happening near their base. But they knew it. The death timers, they weren’t that long just yet. We’re less than 15 minutes into this game and they could probably catch up to Aurora who definitely tried to force their way in. I won’t lie, no cap for fur. That last sequence felt like deja vu. That’s the kind of thing Onyx would do. They would send King Kong all the way to the back, steal the damn lord, and then we’ll play from there. And here they understood that the risk was worth it. Here they knew that if our front liners died and King Kong were to fall too, Frince can hold the fort down, and they live to fight another day. Yeah, Super Finn definitely has the right hero to actually deal with this. Uh, and something makes me wonder, did Roa wait a little bit too long? for that push to happen. They needed minions, man, before they could break down mid. And then they got the minions. But again, picture perfect, frame by frame, second by second, Onyx held on. They knew that these two would respawn, Kirk and Brusco. And that’s where we are now. They knew exactly where they were and they are I I I I’m really surprised as to how composed they’re able to remain to make all those calls to make all these decisions despite them being in such a difficult spot up against Aurora. Now again going back the goal lead it hasn’t increased as much compared to what we’ve been seeing earlier and King Kong also just picked up his blade of despair earlier but the purple buff they need to contest for this. Oh no. Oh, look at that. Happy to take it. Two down. Pulling him back with the traction pulse. But now they are have going to have to run with the help of the glorious pathway from Kirk. That’s a few skills going to be super useful. See all that? Just to deny King Kong the purple. They know that if ever they let him have it, that could be Onyx suddenly turning on them. Yeah, that could be like a big split push. Yeah. Seven on the clock saying, “Hey, we’re going to fight now.” And Aurora can’t take that. They won’t let that happen. Lord spawning lower quarter so far. Lord a piece for Aurora and Onyx. Looking at the stats, it’s Aurora who has the Lord take lead over the Super Fam. And they’re looking to blitz the Lord. Listen, half health. They are blitzing it, but looking like they’re trying to go for Kirk as well. Running it down with Glorious Pathway. King Kong is ready with a retry, but they choose to reset. They take down Kirk as well as Brusco. Double kill for UI. They’re chasing him up. Ready J. He finds the target. He finds Kro and now he’s chasing it. Two man knock up once more for the hitman and you’re surrounded. They get taken out. It’s King Kong on his lonesome. Aurora have wiped out Onyx effectively. Technically, King Kong is a nonfactor in the next few moments of game number four. And there they officially wiped him out and we’re actually seeing a game five. It’s time to clear it out, says the lights. And we are slowly getting into game number five. All the way. Our season 14 grand finals rematch is going all the way. Aurora two and two. Oh my goodness. You see how how happy the lights are? The northern lights. This feels so nostalgic. It feels like just a couple of months ago that they’re able to make the world champions steal again. We’re approaching a year to the very moment. Let’s go over to Redmar and Nisu to talk about game number four. Man, oh man, there’s a lot to talk about here. And I I got to say, we said this earlier on that this is going to feel like the grand finals. I mean, it does. Not only is this a rematch from last season, but now we’re sitting here once again at a game five upon us. We had two of the series go the distance yesterday, and I think it’s going to happen here today because even the second match is going to be amazing. What? I don’t know, man. What do you think about this, bro? After a day and a half of MPL season 15 playoffs, we’ve already played 15 games of MLVP esports and it was crazy. Aurora were just dominant from the beginning. And bro, I said it at the end of the draft. Better Rome wins game. And in this specific game, Rene was the better Rome. 1 zero and 12 on this show. The hitman, the kickman found exactly who we needed to. And it looked a little like honestly at some points of the game it looked a little spicy where it looked like Any Philippines was able to going to be you know pulling off some of these team fights or some of those skirmishes but Rene was able to find the right targets and you saw at the end there too that the way that they kind of pushed and pulled with the ultimates that came with this lineup from Aurora versus Sonic Philippines and they played it well sometimes they just got the ultimates out and then Rene was able to follow in even with just a G Kundo. So looking at the MVP highlights here early on in the game, that’s when the momentum started for them and you got to really see I mean at this point already early game they were online man. They were locked in. They were getting these kills. They were making plays happen and it felt like Philian was just playing on the back foot for the majority. Yeah, it was really tough for Bruce. He could not find the right time to really just catch up to what Renj was doing across the map in tandem with UA and or Demon Kite. And I like also that if you look at the positioning of Edward and Rene together in this game, if they’re not together, they’re in separate quadrants of the map to try and get the different information just to make sure that things are covered when they need to get covered. This was 100% going to be determined to how good Rene and Brusco would be in this game. And in the very first sequence, the very first turtle fight was just the better man here. Onyx took their sweet ass time trying to dance around the turtle. I don’t know what for. Were they just trying to force a reaction over reaction out of Aurora, but Aurora had their jungler much closer to the turtle in that scenario? Oh, this is crazy. King Kong was so far and this was where we thought like things would get turned around, but now Aurora held on here and maximizing the crowd control capabilities that the Joe has over a Khaled. Yeah, over that. But also it works so well with the Kimmy, you know, I feel like that was a big part of it, too. You have that Kimmy, the the utility that that brings to this table here. Relatively uh closer game, I would say throughout it. We got a little bit of a longer game, too, at the 17 14minute mark here. And again, Onyx Philippines showed some signs of trying to come back into that, but ultimately I think Rooro just it they couldn’t Onyx couldn’t keep up with Aurora’s pacing and uh the team fights alone were so difficult for them to deal with. So, I don’t know, man. Game four is exactly I feel like we’ve been going up in intensity every single game. Game one and two one-sided for each team, right? They get the one to one. Game three is a little more even and then you get game four now and it’s Aurora showcasing just how solid they are. Uh what even with a draft like this if it’s going to be pickoff potential if it’s going to be more of a slow burn or burst style they’ll make it work. So what does that leave in store for game five? Only time will tell once we get there but again great showcase here for Aurora. Yeah and uh with Aurora having two very mobile presences in their lineup. Of course, Keller can only get four assists in. It’s tough for him to get a kill with everything that he has to watch out for. The entry of Demon Kai, the entry of Enig. A quick little call back in the history of MLB as a game. Back when there were an insanely amount of overpowered heroes that we had, it was Cho and the Hayabusa together uh as one of the main combos that people would dread to go up against in the ranked game space. I’m talking 2018 2019. So if you see a Cho and a Hayabusa together, good luck. You’re probably going to lose that game. You’re already thinking about the next game that you’re think uh that you’re going to go into. So here in the in more in more modern MLBB, yeah, it’s not the sure win, but it’s in the hands of two very capable players with how Demon Kite was just so unashamed to dive under the tower, take super prince down early so that it stops their rotation even more with how Rene was supplementing that with really good vision saying kite kite kite, go here, go here. It was really good. It was really good. Uh BPI rich guys demon kite and I know you’ll break this down further. All right. Uh beauty of a game played by Aurora wherein I was going at the end of the draft. Yes. Emphasis on the two rors because let’s go back to what Cho and Khaled bring to the table and why they are one of the major trades in t in terms of the Rome space. The speed of their rotation, how they can go around the map. Aurora got hella objectives as you can see from this list. was only two towers and one lord that Onyx was able to secure at the 13 minute mark. But again, we go back to the gold difference timeline. On BH has an uncanny ability of keeping the games close in terms of the gold, supplemented even more by the fact that they have a fast roaming ro that, yeah, did not have a good game, but at least you can get to the spaces quicker to tell your gold laner and your jungler, hey, go here. Speaking of the jungle, you have someone who can just freely split push, go to the furthest lane, try to equalize the farm out there. That’s why even though Aurora was winning the game, similar to the previous game, Onyx Philippines still kept it close. But Aurora stuck to the strengths of their lineup. The sheer crowd control advantage that they had with the Cho compared to the Khali and of course the Cho paired up with the Bakshia even more so. So the boxing the highlights together provided the same role here for Onyx Philippines and Aurora. Both have revitaliz both will literally just hold the front line. Their ultimates provide slow and utility. See same kind of hero. That’s why Box and the EXP lane works because it’s technically just another version of the high loss and vice versa together. But with Aurora being able to go around the map much quicker, plus getting kills because of this man being hellbent into force in game number five and hunting down Super Friends and that juice in which is the key figure of being able to transition to a more comfortable portion of the mid to the late game for Onyx Philippines. It stopped the development of Onyx PH as a team cuz Demon Kite got to stop Super Friends. So let’s look at the item development. It took eight plus minutes for Frince to get his very first item in the glowing wand. You see, UA got his sky piercer very quickly early on. He knew that there’s a chance for him that he’d be get kills. He’ll be able to get kills, excuse me, and build up the stacks. And he built up his second item just seconds. Excuse me. No, that’s around like 35 to 40 seconds before Super Friends even got to build up his first main. His first component of course was the elegant gym. Typical part here of a juician. But this took way too long. That just really showed how snuffed super Frince was in terms of getting gold. Now let’s go look at the two rors. First item was the radiant armor for Brusco, which came in closer to the 10-minute mark. At that point, Renee was already well into building the radiant armor, being able to already build the silent robe by at around the 10-minute mark already. Considering that they had the lead, the antiqueas plus the silent robe means that’s the enough magic defense built already to further make sure that super prince’s effect in this game is taken out. Components are so important in MLBB now. That’s why Ben things/ Kyrie did mention components. The Chopsui meta is where we are at right now. Let’s look at the early game stats for UA this time around of course much better compared to his season average after the latest patch dropped three in this one and damage taken significantly lower because of everything going on for the rest of the team. You will had a much more comfortable time being able to survive, avoid taking damage while dealing an insane amount of damage. Look at the comparison between his average after the patch and of course here in this game number four close to 10,000 damage dealt difference 5,000 in the average. So that just means that U had a such a much better time here again because of how Demon Kite and Rene were setting the tempo for the rest of the team. Now, as we head into a pivotal game number five to determine which of these two teams will make it to the upper bracket finals first, let’s look where we are at in terms of their team stats. Blue side for Aurora favors them so far. 15-8 in win loss. The red side of Onyx 17 to 12, quite close to 50/50. If I’m Aurora, you’d want to go blue. If I’m Onic, you really just have to make sure they’re ready to respond in the red. if ever we are still going to stick there because the entire series has been determined by Rora Blue Ony Redside. So let’s see which side these two teams will pick up. I am excited to see what the draft is going to show because uh so far Demon Cat has been uh absolutely on point with being able to play with the assassins and then at the same time he’s shown flexibility and diversity in this game as well. similar to King Kong. Honestly, if I’m Monik, if there’s a way to bring back the Lancelot for King, game five might be the game to do it. Oh, like clutch it again. Yeah, just clutch it again yesterday. Well, here. What was it? It was game two where they did it, you know. So, they made that work. 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Um of course too it’s really exciting to see that there are some new countries and teams that we’ll be showcasing uh and talking about more later on even in the wild card once we get there. Uh but it’s definitely an exciting time for everything happening ahead of us. So, hope you guys get to go and tag along and keep an eye on everything because if you’re a fan of the MPL Philippines or just MLBB in general right now, the past day and a half so far have been probably the best one we could hope for. You know, this is another game five series. Oh, yeah, definitely. Uh I did not expect our playoffs to go like this. I I thought we wouldn’t start getting five game serieses up until we got to the top four. Well, the top four, right? Yeah, top four. I thought day two, but then Twisted Minds and TNC Pro team showed up yesterday up against uh Onyx Philippines and Falcons. And then now Aurora and Onic are delivering another instant classic. Again, it’s cool because as we talked about, they’ve traded dominating games. There was that one very even back and forth 50/50 game. The last one, yes, Aurora won it dominated most of, but there was also another Glimmer Hope that really looked like on Philippines would be able to crawl back and turn things around. So, it’s been a fantastic series so far. an absolutely banger of a playoffs. Uh it’s it’s great. Season 15 has been amazing. Yeah, it’s been amazing. And uh you know, at the same time, I guess there was a little more tension yesterday because you knew that one of the teams had to be eliminated this one. You have them going down to the lower rack here. Let’s go ahead and invite Brigida for one last time in this series for the draft. Bria, how are we doing? How are we feeling about game five? Hello, Bri. Yeah. Five games. No, after four games finally. I got it right. You got it. How are you feeling? Like, okay. You know, you mentioned some of the some of your ideas last time. This is another Boxia first pick for Aurora in game five. Are they doing what they need to do to solidify this series for them? Honestly, I kind of like agree with what Ren was saying earlier about like just what if they go for that same do or die kind of lineup or picks heading into this game since it really much worked out well for them yesterday. But I guess the difference now is that there’s no surprise factor anymore. Like the teams probably already know how to deal with it if ever the Latin or something along those lines comes out once again. H. Okay. So, the juice of the Harris getting locked in. Y Foxa, what route are you going to go for? Just pick up the Hayabuza rush right away for Demon Kite. Worked out very well for them, but then it’s up against Harris, so maybe they’d want something that could uh scale up a little quicker. Nope. Hayabuza rush it is. And they go for the old Granger versus Harth matchup. The old Granger. Granger and the Harris match up hasn’t changed too much. Oh, is it a ling again? So, he went for the ling once more in this game. I mean, I feel like there were moments earlier where it did look like it wasn’t going to work, like it was just taking its time. And the difference, I guess, now is that they’re on the Harris, so they can play a little more aggressively in terms of the prolonged team fights that are about to happen later on. Yeah, if they’re going to go down the strat again, I think for they just have to remember two things. Just be decisive and be disciplined. Uh they slipped up in the early game completely costing them the mid game in game number four because they weren’t decisive enough and they weren’t disciplined enough. They looked like they were contesting an objective actually. No, they contested an objective mainly without their jungler which is way too far. They gave up a lot of kills early on. Aurora just uh took the lead on from there and then Onyx Philippines had to crawl back. They barely crawl back into it. So if they’re going to go down this start again, should be decisive and be disciplined. Yep. They took out the Kimmy as well though, so that’ll probably allow for Onyx to be a little more comfortable playing this link aggressively into the lineup of Aurora since the only other options that are possibly left for mid lane are along the lines of the Sicilian. Yeah. And the unless they want to go for the other like the Valer, the veil was banned out earlier, too. Yeah, they uh this I don’t know, man. I think like even for Philippines with this these first three picks they have, how do how do they make sure that it it’s not well? Well, never mind. They they take the choke. Maybe that’s part of it for Bruce Go. Uh I like that. I think we’re going to end up seeing a switch. Uh the K might end up in the hands of Rene this time unless they really switch things up. Although I feel like would struggle here. Yeah, they don’t necessarily have to go for something uh like that. If they want to still play the pick off burst, they go Jawhead. But wait. Oh, it’s a box robe. Okay, in the exp and they pick up the Zask for U. Oh, that Zaz might end up becoming the Xfactor winning pick in this game. Yeah. So, they did go for the more unique mid laners and I feel like it’s a more comfortable pick for us since he can still play as aggressively and have a backup plan to survive. Like the dominator’s descent just buys so much time for him to either reposition and get away from danger, especially up against Kong. But yeah, what does Kurt play into this? We were talking about the Zast too for a bit like we were, you know, throwing that out there when the Jian was picked up throughout the series. And so now for game five, Yo will go ahead and take that. And uh they’ve got the they’ve got the really the the front line covered here for Aurora, the last pick. Uh we mentioned this from Kirk earlier on the Edith this time around. He’s going to go for it and put it in the XP lane. I mean, it does kind of like work well against items who just want to keep going in. It can kind of answer back towards the Bakshia with just if you make a single mistake with the BA shield unity then that can be an immediate punish. Yeah, but again it feels like you’ll need a bit more time considering the link is in their hands on my focal point in game number one is the Rome. Now it’s in the exp lanes. is the edict of Kirk and the iconic Edward of Phobius that if I’m not mistaken has less than three losses this season double digits close to 15 in wins. Well, I can I can barely hear myself think the Champions Arena is erupting right now. One last look of the lineups here. We’re going to go ahead and throw it over to the casters to bring us into our final game of this series. Take it away. There’s no turning back. This is the point of no return. One of these teams are making it to the upper bracket finals. The other drops to the lower bracket. Sudden death between the Trailblazers, the heralds of a new era in MPLph. It’s Aurora versus Onyx. Game five. We did talk about all the unique picks that can potentially come in. And here in the last game, Aurora indeed decides to show us one in the hands of U. This is going to be the Zask. And it was indeed mentioned that it could potentially be the X factor for this game. But I’m really looking at what can we potentially expect as well since we did lay in the gold lane since we did lay out like the typical standard matchup and all that, but earlier it felt like it wasn’t entirely the Keller performance we were expecting from him, you know? Yeah. Not it didn’t feel like its full potential. Absolutely. I was actually looking forward to the Keller performance. Um I gave it the benefit of the doubt because you know what ReneJ was on the show and he was hunting down Keller very severely in that last one anyway. So uh let’s see if he’s going to have a better time here. Obviously he’s on a very comfortable pick that is a little bit more, you know, a little bit more self-sufficient on this Harif. So maybe that’ll help a lot. and he does decide to play it safer, picking up the purify since the purify hasn’t been much of an option recently for um Keller in the previous game, but that’s also taking into consideration the kind of hero he did pick up. But hold on, Edwards. Yeah, very early on 2v1 with a Phobias that doesn’t really have the ultimate, but it looks like it’s going to be a trap. It’s Demon Kai to the rescue. might have not used the shadow kill, but will be able to at least get into the fight. King Kong, he’s low. Edward used the flicker and he says, “You know what? It’s worth it. I’ll take that kill.” That was a long drawn out sequence. An amazing response by Aurora into an eventual punish and then a trade-off once more. And the fact that Demon Kite is still on the map makes it worth it for the Northern Lights. Eternal scored by Demon Kai here. Not even needing the red tree. So unfortunate for Onyx Philippines. They showed how decisive they actually were in trying to get the advantage. Potentially setting up for the first objective of the game, but demon kite and his rotation, it was way too fast. And he got the better of on Philippines earlier. And just this is what we’re talking about. Even in the laning phase, Kel is clearly struggling against Doming Kite. Complete opposite side of the map. Let’s go coast to coast. XP lane a disaster for Any gold lane despite Kelra being on a hero that he has what a close to 80% win rate on the Har he’s getting punished hard and we’re not even at the point of the game where the team fights are happening just yet. This is just Keller up against Doming Kai. What more when you have to think about U. What more when you have to think about Domening Kite or Demon Kite rather because the first rotations have been heavy on the exp lane. So now you would think that he’d be a lot more free to at least just manage his lane, but that’s not what we’re seeing so far. Yeah, we haven’t even seen the doing uh sorry the U Zas dominators descent. So I’m looking for that again using it for survival at least for now. But the fight is actually happening near Keller and Rene’s going to get caught out here and uh the backup is close but and trying to get close to Kelra. Demon Kai as well. Doming Kai is dealing with three people here. I think that’s an overall net loss for Aurora. They are able to take Keller as a consolation prize. That’s a two for one. Rene and Domingite for the gold standard. Up top though, they’re able to isolate Edward. I think that’s a blessing in disguise for the fact that that fight happened without Edward. If there was Edward there, oh my god, you can flip that on its head and say Aurora can take three for free. Yeah, so far it’s a really close fight. They’re just exchanging blows every now and then, but it isn’t entirely a full picture just yet. And we’re seeing how Aurora successfully forces out so many things from Moni Philippines. However, just even in that previous sequence, Keller was just forced to use the purify to get rid of the shadow, but not even that was enough. He still fell to the hands of Demon Kite. Yeah, it’s going to be a bit of an easy turtle take here for Aurora with Edward and Rene this time around. A duo at tandem up on front. 100% a turtle so far. Four and a half minutes in going over to the Northern Lights. And I’m afraid to say it, but it seems like King Kong on the ling has accepted his fate that he’s going to have to play on the back foot despite having two kills already to his name this early on. He’s saying, “Yeah, we can’t let game four happen again.” Let’s throw back to yesterday. Yeah, and this is very unusual, right? We just talked about the entire turbo jungling pattern of King Kong and that was what happened yesterday or what Zida tried to do because it was a lineup very similar to what Aurora’s fielding that Falcon’s got a win in about 11 and 1/2 minutes. Yeah. So this is complete denial of Onyx patterns but wait. Woohoo. Demon Kai tried to do something nasty there but Rusco was very quick with the answer. Ha. Fortunately, he was there, so they had a way to directly answer back. But the Dominator’s descent will be able to defend this mid lane turret for Aurora. And Kel’s holding on to the bottom lane as well. Will he really take them on? Well, Rene Jade proving to be a very tough target. But with the help of the rest of the squad, you know the old saying, nothing is really, really tough against four opponents. I think that’s a Filipino saying, but yeah, you you you translated it. I’m sorry. I had to. It It still makes sense. That was literally four members of Onyx just trying to puncture the wheel. Man, now the fight continues once more. Edward jumping on the two Super Friends pushing them back. Here’s the thing is we talked about how you do Dominator Descent should be the game changanger, right? But just demon kite being a man possessed, just Aurora all in all being more in sync compared to the Super Fam being more on time. It it’s letting you as Zask look like it’s taken easy. Just like just relax and just very chill. Honestly, on top of that, it feels like he’s almost always in the middle lane. Like, we haven’t been seeing much rotations from him just yet. And it’s also probably because by him being in the mid lane, on Philippines get to immediately see how they’re able to force out that Dominator’s descent from U, but this is different. He still has it this time, so they can play aggressively if they want to. Yeah. And has vision with the nightmare spawn on the far left. So, now they can focus on the right. And Edward is jumping in trying to get maybe someone to take the fight, but no one’s actually biting here for Onyx. That’s a good deal though. Are they going in? Looks like they are. That’s a two-man knock up from Kirk with Earth Shatter. There goes the Primal Rapid. He’s going to get taken out before he even can let down a single bullet. And now it’s going to be King from the back or from the side rather facing off against Rej demon Kai. Well, there’s also a bit of a fight happening with UA getting taken out by the this time around Super Friends. Three for one. Kirk for Edward Yu and Doming Kite. I think on can smell it in the water. Blood like sharks still circling. Demon Kite and Rene checking range. King Kong jumping through. No one home for the purple. Okay, not what I expected. Especially if you were King Kong maybe right on time though again. Freeman from Onyx just so bent on just pushing them or keeping them under the tower while King Kong gets a purple. Oh, it’s his turn to steal. Oh my goodness. This is such a wellthought plan by Onyx Philippines because you would have thought that yeah the task might be a problem but aside the fact that we aren’t feeling it just yet on Philippines now that they’re able to group up together. We see the essence of their lineup. We see how they thrive in all those drawn out team fights just by merely having the Edith which again earlier didn’t last long because that was a sacrifice he willingly took. But the Jian and the Harit, they’re literally making things happen for Onyx Philippines and Aurora, they’re just forced to back away. Uh these are all parts of Onyx lineup that are very different from TNC’s yesterday when a same Zask centered draft bodied them. So already we’re approaching a very different trajectory. On very patient, they’re taking their time. They’re picking their fights and they’ve actually gotten a lead of their own. Oh my lord. Almost 9 minutes in and they’re up a thousand. Yeah, there’s a thunderbell already for Kirk, but other than that, he went for that typical chopsui build. So, he’s just really preparing himself to tank up majority of the damage. I feel like a range and armor will be also a potential next option for them so they can be a lot more confident to take on Aurora in the succeeding fights. But they go for the setup first. And there goes the setup we’re talking about. Brusco very happy to take it into Edward. Can’t really join the fight anymore even with Infernal Pursuit. And now they are getting picked off one by one. Red J is going to go back first. Low is going to be Edward and Doming Kite. So they can’t really go hard. King Kong is on the side waiting for them to make a move and they are going to have to disperse. They took Renj down for a bargain. They almost lost two, but instead retreated at the right time and even forced out of Revitalize from the Hitman and Super doesn’t care. He’s like, I’m just going to keep repositioning these nightmaric spawns or even the Dominator descent itself. comes when it was close enough to the turret. U was forced to walk away so he could keep himself safe. And now they’re in control of the Lord. Lord dance initiated. Aurora thinking twice about it. Edward hiding back behind the fence brush. Kirk holding the pixel. Rene spots two, forcing them out of that river brush. And again, just because of sheer numbers and the little Johnny’s, our good friend Tex likes to call them little Johnny’s. They’re able to win parts of the map back. Oh yeah. But there is no flicker available for Brusco. So that’s Aurora probably taking advantage of that in order to take control of this area. But Brusco still will try to scout them. Split push. Brusco’s on the side. There’s also a push happening on the bottom. There you go. He’s looking for Demon Kite actually. And he actually gets taken out. That’s going to be Retribution removed from Aurora. Make that two members going down as well. And now it’s a disaster. Everything’s falling apart for the Northern Lights in this game. Doming Kite, the lone survivor of Onyx Onslaught. And Bruce didn’t need the flicker. He just walked towards King or Demon Kite, who unfortunately got knocked up by the Lord. And it wasn’t an immediate response either way. He waited for a few moments and it was sort of an off angle kick, which we will be seeing in the instant replay. But nonetheless, just the mere fact that they were able to hold down Demon Kite for a moment. There’s that immediate burst damage coming in from Keller already and King Kong and Kirk. Not to mention how this was poetry in motion. An orchestra of violence that the super fam waited so long. They waited two games. I’m thinking that was the wind up game four. The reason why they were so so so scared to just fight is because they were waiting to unleash something like that. Yeah, that was basically three or four projectiles thrown to de to demon kite while he was in midair. So, wait, he’s been in midair for a while. He got knocked up by the lord and then the way of the dragon kill up top. I don’t How did that even happen? That was insane. And now it’s just going to make the defense even a little bit more troublesome. Luckily for Aurora though, no major objective on the map. Is it just me or am I smelling a wee bit of impatience? A little sense of urgency gone arrive for Aurora where we’re out of we’re we’re out of our breath. We’re we’re not in control. What do we do? And then they just they send resources where they shouldn’t be. Yeah, super prince picked up the clock. He’s a lot more tankier, but Rene Oh no, definitely tankier. King Kong is in the middle there. He’s distracting three members of Aurora. Actually getting the kill for Demon Kite as well, or Doming Kite rather. And now they’re gonna have to just watch as the tower on the bottom will fall. King for Rene Jay and Doming Kite. I’ll take that trade any day twice on Thursdays. They have a wave still in coming. Brusco 2 has a flicker. No fear with the Dominators ascent. That’s going to be the ultimate from disaster removed from the map as well as its owner U. And Demon Kai and Edward are going to be left on his own. I don’t think that they’re going to stand a chance here and they’re going to focus it down. Edward trying to keep They’re trying to push him back though. Oh my goodness. It’s a double and that’s a wipe out for Philippines. Roora is running in. They’re taking no prisoners. King Kong just respawns in the nick of time, but technically technically that was a wipe out. Why do we keep saying throwback Thursday? This is a different version of what we saw the last time these two teams met. It’s the complete opposite of ever. Aurora are able are able to successfully pull this off, but the timers are still low. It’s a very similar scenario to what happened in the previous games. On can still get back in this. Could have sworn rockar thought it was over. Aurora just know how to defend. They do. But mentally, you just take care of the waves, make sure no minions stand within range of your base, and you’re fine. But could have it could have been probably better if King Kong decided not to just dive towards the backlines earlier and just smack the base and right on front. Yeah, we were just saying that. Do we send some sort of impatience from Aurora? But it feels like Onyx, too. They showed some bits of that. That’s the major whatif series presents to us. Lord dance imminent. Demon Kite, Dolman Kite just wailing away. Lord approaching half health. You’re going to have to check the map here. Aurora feel it out. Where is King Kong going to come from? Demon Kite is very, very vulnerable as well as Doming. But there was a commong with a lord steal and they’re going out with held hands held high. Brusco got caught though. He tripped a little bit and I think that’s enough on it. Very very happy with that. That was the perfect timing that King Kong was building up to all series long. He failed in game four, but not here, not now. And prior to that, he forced out the flicker from Edward. So now they don’t have it in the hands of the Phobias, but they were able to successfully take care of the lord and that’s all that matters to Aurora at this point. Took just a little bit too long to take it down. Bought enough time for King Kong to get in position. There’s a conceal. Suddenly Aurora back on the offensive. What are they looking for here? Rene leading the way. Jumps the wall. Both teams are not in any shape to force this. I’d reckon it’s either someone folds and then we end here or wait for another lord. Yeah, Brusco felt the damage of UA earlier though he already picked up the divine bl and the holy crystal. And as much as Bruce does have the Athena’s shield, he receives majority of the damage that UA actually throws out. And when it’s well positioned and when it isn’t the first target, which is happening of more often than not, then that’s going to be a problem in the long run for Onic Philippines. Something I’m thinking here is how Aurora is actually dealing with the waves. They’re very conservative about picking fights. Now remember that 1 v one kill by Demon by by King Kong on Demon Kite up top. Expect Aurora is never going to do that ever again. Feels like a one-off at this point, right? Yeah, they’re only ever going to send Edward and Rene alone. And a little thing that Rene does well here is I love that he picked up the mold essence. He’s going to need that to bump in the waves and clear fast. Yeah, because already, I’m telling you now, even with the flops that Onyx uh, you know, fell into the past 2 or 3 minutes, they’re still at least winning the map. Yeah. And at least for them, they’re the ones who can do it first now that they’re in the lead. Now they that that they have better map control. And King Kong, he just has such high mobility that even if there’s a threat of a black immediately rolling and Demon Kai catching up, it’s not the same this time. There are a lot more ways to escape from Aurora. Yeah, as long as King Kong has that purple buff, that’s he can do whatever he wants at this point. That’s why it’s so crucial. That’s half the battle. Yeah, securing the purple is half the battle. They spot him out. That’s going to conceal use up already for Onyx. And that might be a pretty big resource, especially with Lord coming up in 20 seconds. Again, even with all the mid lane turrets out, they find a way to force the Dominator’s descent. Yep. So, what do you get? What would you rather have? You know, dominator set or conceal. I’m thinking Aurora walked away with a bargain there. I think this is a safe go and that’s going to come off of cool down. On is just going to blitz it. Oh lord, they’re bliting it. They are blitzing it. We don’t need conceal if they can see us right here in their faces. And we’re going to be pushed back a little bit with the Zushin again. They’re waiting for someone to make a move. Who’s it going to be? Brusco is on the right side. Doesn’t have the height up very, very soon. Might boil down to a 50/50 on the Rey here. Oh, by the way, these are enhanced minions in the mid and the bottom lane. Oh no, they’re going to have to take care of that. Big boys and carts and the wave should take care of itself. But do note this is the first time in a while that a lord dance happens that Rona knows exactly where King Kong is. That looks like he makes himself visible here. Oh, pushing up top. Rene J getting knocked up nonstop here. Forcing to use the revitalize, but he’s not going to be healthy enough to actually tank any hits here. will be forced to maybe back off and regen for now. All right, Lord Evolves, King Kong secures his purple. Demon Kite just saying, “Hey, Dominic, take my purple. This is your go now.” What’s Dom Kai to do here? Yeah. Oh no, they’re still going on. Okay, still going to BK. All right, keeping their distance. Kite Brothers together and the Dominator Descend was already available again for U. So Aurora was successfully able to buy enough time, but that doesn’t prevent Onyx Philippines from potentially setting things up. The flickers are all available. Be it for Kurt or be it for Bruce Rene on the back. He’s trying to do a pinser maneuver here, but will be spotted out on up on front. He’s going to get knocked up non-stop here popping up on the immortality. Got good catch here on the Brusco, but I think they bought just enough time. That’s two members going down for Renjing. And now they’re getting chased down by the rest of Onyx Philippines. That is going to be it. With that wipe out, it’s Onyx for the win. The Super Family is going to the upper bracket finals. History repeats itself as the defending champions take down the rivals, both trailblazers of a new era in FPL Philippines. Three to two on Philippines. And I guess this completes throwback Thursday. It’s the exact same outcome. Be it a best of seven or a best of five. I admire how Onyxing Philippines are able to adjust and respond to everything Aurora decided to bring out in this game just like that with their very own set of surprises. All the way is all the way. You can’t change that. And this team has played redside all weekend long. They know what they do well. They know how to do it well. And they did it again against the best of the best. Yeah. Not taking away how close that game actually was against. They were neck and neck up until the very very end. That was a thriller. That was a suspense film in mod form. Yep. was so close, but still a very commendable performance too for the Northern Lights. Oh yeah, no doubt. Once again, just as they did last season, they pushed the defending champions to the limit, folks. Quick reminder, this is not the end of their journey towards immortality. They are dropped to the lower bracket. They still live to fight another day here in the playoffs, but still GG. Well played to Aurora. They put on quite a show. They did. I loved how confident they felt throughout the entire series. Even during times where in it felt like Onyx was already ahead. You could feel it like there’s been so much growth for Aurora, but in the end, it’s really Any who still prevails. Speaking about Onyx, we have them on stage right now joined by our hosts. Let’s hear from the super fam after their win. from starting in the playins to now one win away from the grand finals. Give it up for your winners on Philippines. Boys, congratulations. Five games. Five games. Super friends. Talk to us about that game one after that game one loss. So is that the session? All right. We see that Odin Bruce Bruce Bruce before start best rivals new trailblazers. They’re going to be fighting at the lower bracket right now. Mad respect. But now you’re here mistakes with shot calling. Those were the things moving forward. So with that being said with Aurora, were there a lot of preparations or considering especially with finals before? preparation since they’re already familiar with that just you know fortifying today before I road to MS very mature. I like it compared last. Well, there is still a possibility. Speaking of which, Team Liquid Philippines and Team Falcons. All right, we’ll give it to them as well. I think I talked to Coach Wolf. But if I remember correctly, birthday n coach Hayes today. Coach Hayes naman. All right. Champions Aren Champions Arena. Can we please greet Coach Hayes a happy birthday coach Hayes in one two three? Happy birthday Coach Hayes. There we have it. Coach, happy birthday. This is a win that you need. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Once again, your winners on Philippines, you may now take your walk of victory. And with that win, you may now take your vow on Philippines started at the playins. Five games, five games today. Both are victories and grand finals rematch against Aurora Gaming Trailblazers MPL. There’s going to be a lot of things to talk about. We’re going to be tossing you back to our panel. Congratulations On Philippines for winning the series there. another five games for them. They played 10 games in two days, man. Congratulations to them. Uh I feel like the old saying continues. I’ll say it in English. It’s uh so difficult to win in the Philippines. And Kilra said it best. Uh in the life of a professional esports player, you can’t get tired. And they couldn’t have gotten tired here cuz if they would have slipped up, and they almost did almost, almost, Aurora would have capitalized greatly. There was that one moment I think it was just like King Kong left alive. Yeah, and I I know myself and probably everyone else was just holding their breath to see if able to end the game there. But again, the timers weren’t that long for the death timers just yet. So, uh, nonetheless, that is a game five that I want. That’s how I like to see the game fives go. And our MVP for game five, of course, is going to be Brusco. He had some words there too, of course, to the opposing ROR in that matchup, Rene J. He loves to go ahead and have those rivalries with the rors, you know, and specifically Rene really respectful there again on what these roams are able to do. You comment on this earlier on the impact of the roams in general, but especially Brusco and Reny and how much they bring to their team and this time around I like that he took the choke after the performance that Rene had in game four. Yeah, I think uh the thing that really solidified him getting MVP here was one play. Lord one, Bruno kicked Demon Kite. The fight for the first Lord uh not Bruno, Brusco. Brusco was able to find Demon Kite and take him down. And that’s what solidified Onyx being able to march into the maze of Aurora and really take control of the game moving forward. But I’m still going to go back to the presence of Kirk here on this Eiff. Uh after the entry of uh Brusco being able to kick Demon Guide, it was followed up with a really great flicker earth shatter forward to knock up three even more. And it was this play as well that allowed Onyx to get a little bit more control of the map. Kirk sacrificed himself. King Kong was able to get two kills. And it was this play right here. Bam. GT though knock up and then Kirk went forward as well at the right time. It was just a great sync play by Brusco and Kirk together. But definitely MVP honors welld deserved for this man. Oh and that too you know that we didn’t get a whole glimpse of that one v one. You never can because really when it’s like the ling the high boost it just happens so fast that sometimes you know you you miss part of the fight. But nonetheless, this was also a great defense. Or no, this is so this is gamewinning. But before that, they have that great defense from Aurora. Then you commented to this in the game. Or is this one? This is the one. This one. It’s this one. Okay, that is the one. And then it leads into this lord where King Kong is able to get it, but uh it gets a little dicey from there. Yeah, it was a great decision by King Kong to instead of focusing on to demon, excuse me, Doming kite, it was him jumping walls, avoiding Edward on the Phobus to eventually sweep in and get the lord in the last fight. Yet again, Brusco found Demon Kite with a kick. That’s why Bruce was the MVP. Yeah, really good at that target uh acquisition on the cho from Rene in game four. Now, when you look at this, I like it. I it it sticks with it, man. I was saying, you know, every single game gets a little bit longer, gets a little bit nicer. Here we are, 19 minutes for our game. So, every single one was an increase in time where again, game one, game two, relatively quick under the 13-minute mark. And then it went up from there, man. You can you can hear everyone getting ready for what’s going to happen next. And like we mentioned even over on the stage, Kelra said it himself, you know, basically Bah who ends up winning and facing them tomorrow, which essentially means it’s up to them basically. So that’s going to be a good one. Yeah, this one though on in Philippines, it was up to them to not slip up. Uh much better game this time around for King Kong as well. And of course again supplemented with a very strong front line with a lot of crowd control, big ticket crowd control, multiple sources of setup which meant that King Kong and Kra would be able to have a good time as well as Super Friends being able to supplement even better even though it wasn’t always a slow front to back style team fight that you’ll be getting. Uh Jen has enough mobility and repositioning with the Crimson Beacon and the fact that she can move her second skill as she moves as well. It’s a perfect type of hero for these kinds of lineups. That’s why she’s so versatile and so highly touted in this current meta game. Yeah. And as you can see here too, the breakdown for the top four stats. BPI rich guy for King Kong of course playing the part and that’s so difficult too when you think about it with the ling uh sometimes when you’re fighting for your buffs and you got to rely on the rest of your team to help you get that or the decisions you have to make to push across the map. So again as BPI rich guy from King Kong back on his old hair do when he still matched the colors here. at 892 GPM. And yeah, part of this again was his own decision-m cuz a lot of the times when the fights were breaking out, and this is more so in the mid game or even towards the late game when they were in the base, he was so good at putting pressure on Domenite. He was really able to put pressure on Domite and usually win that. So, let’s go ahead and break it down further. Remar. All right. Uh, as the series went on, we really got to see these two teams hellbent on doing one thing right, getting the first turtle right. Because as we saw all throughout the series, if you mess up badly in the very first turtle fight, you get punished, but you can recover. One thing that we’ve understood and learned about Aurora and Onyx this season, we mentioned it mostly as an Aurora thing, but I feel like maybe that’s one thing that Onyx Philippines got to improve heading into the playoffs was the again the age-old idea of understanding your power spike. So, these two teams were just trading blows for majority of the game, kept things close. The main divergence point happened around the 10-minute mark. That first Lord fight when Brusco was able to find uh Demon Kite, kick him, and make sure that Onyx gets the first one. That happened at 10:26. And that’s why you see the gap here. As it goes on even more, it got even closer because of that moment where Aurora was able to defend and Onyx Philippines overstepped just a little bit in trying to end that game. game dragged on even further, but it was Ony who was able to come out on top with great target acquisition and lock down by Brusco onto the Hayabusa of Demon Kite. So, when it comes to the major objective team fights, we have to then go back to a very simple idea. Each person has their own assignment. Let’s look at the two rors between the Baksha and the Cho. The Baksha is someone who can get info safely. If he’s the one who gets kicked by the Cho first, he’ll be able to survive long enough considering that he has to revitalize with him and he is incredibly tanky. At the same time, he can pop his ultimate so that the members of Onyx eat that up, which means that Onyx Philippines are going to be playing at a mild disadvantage. So, Bruce go locked in on making sure that he could get Demon Kite down instead. You don’t want to kick the boxer so much. Edward maybe, yes, but then that takes time as well. If you can save your kick for the right moments to find the jungler, you get it. So that’s the difference between the two rors here. Rene is like the just that safe option for being able to hold the front line. Bruce is going to be the set man followed up by another set man who can do the same job. Again, we’ve talked about it all throughout the in uh season, the interaction between the ROR and exp juggling who goes front line, who stays back line so that they can follow up with even more setups. Now, as we look at the items for both of these two teams, let’s look at the item progression of the main carries because of the efforts of the front lines. You look at Dominankite, you look at Kelra. Still very close to when they got their key items. Understandably, so that Kellra would take even longer to get to the Holy Crystal because of how expensive it is compared to the Sea Halbert. Most expensive item in the game by the way. And then as we progressed even more, we then look at the two exp laners and where they’re at as to why it felt like Edward had a slightly more difficult time here compared to Kirk. Thunderbolt first item, Radiant Armor by 12 minutes. Dominant size Radiant Armor. Edward was getting his items a little bit quicker here compared to Kirk because Kirk was playing that sub ROR role alongside Brusco. They were trading that up. Um, Edward was getting his items faster, but still that applied a lot of pressure onto him because he’d be in the thick of the action a little bit more compared to Rene’s Baksha. So, just a few things. Uh, there could be so much more here, but I’m a little bit more interested to hear how the players deliver their coms and key moments. We’ll go into the to the comms of the key moments here. So, by the way, let’s go back to the schedule. We’ve already seen the best of five, Roar Ony. Later, it’s going to be Team Liquid versus Falcons. I think the mic check is ready now. Let’s do it. Kingard go. Take update. And there’s that winning mic check there with Onyx Philippines. Again, a great breakdown there of game five. And yeah, you could hear I don’t know if they have noise cancelling or not, man, but that was the one of the first times that I hear the crowd that much come through the mic check. Yeah, I think they do hear the crowd uh in some key moments, but not so much. It’s still going to be really muffled. I feel like from their perspective, it’s just really loud. That’s what it sounds like. Yeah. But that concludes our first matchup uh for today. Again, blessed with five games. We have another matchup here. And this is what we like to tout as the battle of the Titans. It’s TLPH versus Falcons Philippines here. And that’s the thing, man. When you look at this, too, this was back in season 13. This was the grand finals of season 13. So it’s like we are what they call it throwback Thursday. We are going through throwback Thursday. So we just completed it with our old our old grand finals from season 14. Then we get to see season 13 grand finals. Yeah, it’s really cool. For the longest time, Team Liquid Philippines could not get Team Falcons back. Uh the last major win they had was in the grand finals season 13. But in this season, it’s been Team Liquid Philippines dominating Team Falcon. So it’s going to be a tough climb for the birds if they want to take down the cavalry. Uh we’re going to have to see if they’re able to do that. Again, thanks for joining us for this first match. We’re going to take a break before we head on to that. Again, I’m Nu and this is Renmar. We’ll see you after the break. Heat. Heat. What heat? Teenagers, you make a move. The data gi with smart power all 99 with 10 gig data to power your games plus only Facebook or only Tik Tok. Vote now Heat. Heat. 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You’re watching MBL Philippines season 15, the playoffs at your service. My name is Leo here with Rockhart and Brigida. We just came back from a very short break and if you didn’t join us, well, you missed out on a lot. It was a best of five between Trailblazers of a new era wherein Onyx took down Rora in five games. They completed throwback Thursday. Yeah, throwback Thursday again. Basically 15 games since we started yesterday and counting. Wait, wait, wait. Yeah, that’s right. I I just did the math. Okay. Okay. Okay. And this is likely I wonder why another one, you know. I I I kind of know why, but yeah. No, it’s because the Filipino teams are so strong. Exactly. And we all understand uh how the metag game works and what we’re good at, and that’s where we stand, you know. There’s no curse. No. There’s no such thing. None at all. But all the fans of Aurora should not fret because they’re still in the tournament. All right. They have dropped to the lower bracket and will be fighting for tournament life. All the while, the Sonics all over the world should rejoice because they are but one best of five away from punching their ticket to MSE. It’s been five games which compared to yesterday were quite faster, you know. So, I’m wondering what are we to expect for this upcoming best of five? Um, another match coming your way. But first, let me remind you that Time Zone has an exclusive promo just for you. Get 400 pesos worth of power load for only 200 pesos. And all you have to do is register on the Time Zone Fun app. Insert the promo code TZXMPPL. Again, just TZ as in time zone, X as in, you know, your favorite social media, and MPL and redeem the voucher at any of your favorite time zone venues. And so, don’t miss out on this amazing deal. Hey, got it. Oh, was it? I’m sorry. I thought I was going to finally say maybe I can. You will eventually. We got another deal for you all. can get a 2,000 peso discount on your next purchase by using the TT Racing XMPPL Philippines exclusive voucher code MPL2000 over at ttracing.ph. Plus, don’t miss out on exciting TT Racing gaming share giveaways during MPL Philippines. So stay tuned for more information. Don’t miss out on this amazing deal. Just remember for those who dream, work, and play, TT Racing has your back. We usually put it at the end, but we’ll allow it. I was too excited to say it. Yeah. No, she really she really wanted to put in there. Yeah, folks, we got another best of five coming your way. It is what they call the Clash of Titans. Two former world champions, two former MPL champions in Grand Combat for your entertainment on its way. But first, a recap of what the current brackets look like. Again, this is the franchise bracket wherein four teams will be going through a playins and then two teams will be waiting in the upper bracket. Sadly, one of those upper bracket teams have already fallen into the lowers. That’s right. And that is going to be Aurora who really pushed it until the very end. I got to admit, uh, that was as closer than a lot of people actually expected. This is kind of like, you know, the way Team Liquid Philippines was able to bring back their their glory, the way they were just so powerful back in last year’s MSE season. It’s so similar to how we’re seeing them right now, although with a slight change in their roster. But for Falcons, we’re yet to say completely the same. Like they’re on the road to getting back out there, but they have to go through much more compared to Team Liquid Philippines. Again, they weren’t in the upper bracket. They got to survive this stampede for them to go on another world tour. All in pursuit of the Immortal Cup. That’s Smackdown, right? Is it? Is it there? Is it? It is right there. It’s right there. camera can’t catch it, but it’s behind this barely huge podium right smack dab in the middle of Champions Arena. So folks, we got another best of five coming your way. An upper bracket semis match. You’re not going to want to miss this. Once again, on behalf of Bron and Rock, my name is Leo. We’ll throw it over to these lovely gentlemen, handsome studs, Na and Renar. You know what else is here? Us. I thought you were looking for us, Leo. What’s up, guys? It’s me, Na, and Renmar. We have refreshed after another fivegame intense series and hopefully we get another one between another throwback matchup that we’re going to be seeing back from season 13’s grand finals. This one’s going to be amazing. Remar, how we doing? I’m doing good. Uh to translate what Ner said, we ate now we feeling it. Now we are. But again, from Trailblazers of the New Arrow, this is now uh then that was from last season. And we’re now going to the MPL Philippine season 13 grand finals rematch between the Titans of MLBB. That’s TLPH and Falcon. Basically, this rivalry, when did this start? M4 and then like when did this start? Cuz they were the M4 champions and we have the M5 champions and then uh we have the Amazing Legends on these teams as well. I think it was in uh season 13 when we really started following the journey of these two. Uh I know because of uh what uh the former roster of Ekko did in M4 and what the AB brand did in M5. Of course, once we head into season 13, that’s when everything started because then they faced off in the upper bracket finals, then the grand finals, then many tournaments across the world from Asia to Eurasia even. It went worldwide, their rivalry, and most of the time it was Falcons coming out on top. The first last major victory being Team Liquid’s win over them, this roster in the grand finals of season 13. But as we mentioned earlier, uh this time around, Liquid looks like they have read Falcons like a co like a book and are just so familiar with them now that they’ve dominated them all throughout the season. I read covers that way, too. You know, once in a while I read it that way. And uh the clash for mentality and the missing MSSE trophy for for both of these teams is obviously something that they want to go and accomplish and what more for Falcons, you know, being Falcons to go to EWC at MSC and get a chance at once again getting that MSE trophy. Now, I will say for both of them, for both the teams in the regular season so far for this season, TLPH for me has looked the cleanest. I mean, there’s something about the way that they play. And speaking of the way that they play, this is the race to 20,000 kills for Carl Tezy. Look at him. He’s at 1996. I shout out to the people born in 1996. Hey yo, that’s me. Yeah, I was born in 96. So, it just goes to show why my Carl Tezy is my personal coach. Man, you’re old. Hey. Oh, yeah. No, that’s true. Yeah, he’s only four kills away from being the first player to achieve 2,000 kills. So, it’s going to be monumental. Watch the games. The first time you see a four for Carl Teasy, we are all going to be celebrating. We are going to pause the game. No, we’re not going to do that just to celebrate the uh the achievement. Yeah, cuz he’d be the first player ever to reach 2,000 kills in the MPL Philippines. And look at the gap, you know, between Carl Tezy and the rest of them there. So, this is once again going back to the story other than Carl Tezy’s achievement or milestone is that quest for the missing MSC trophy. It’s it’s basically a race. I mean, these guys are the goats here. Yep. Carl Ty, uh, three time MPL champion. And, of course, for two world championships, still missing an MSE. Two MPL championships and two world championships for F and Flap teasy, both also still missing an MSC. So, that’s going to be an important part uh of the storytelling for these three players. And most importantly, these two teams because you have multi-time champions in the Philippines and multi-time world champions. But then the players are they’re playing with multiple world champions as well. Although only one time so far, but multiple MPL champions of course in the case of OHB on world championship also going to be looking for an MSE. So the young goat uh do we have a goat name for few? At one point it was the golden goat, but then eventually that went naturally went on over to Kelra. I always just feel like F is like the grandfather. He’s the grandfather goat. The goat father. The goat father. The goat father. Few. Yo, English desk. I hope you all heard that. He’s the goat father now. And then the Filipino. Isn’t he Isn’t he one of the oldest? He is. He’s one of those. I mean, he’s been playing the season one dog. Like Yeah, he just plays a season one. And he’s like, you know, man’s one of the more more composed. Like he shows up usually in his glasses, you know, and I feel like he’s he’s hanging with the fam because look at Flap. Look at you as he’s like shaking his head. The those are two of the greatest players of all time in the role in the mid laner and exp laner and you got Flap there just doing that. I mean, that’s why a lot of people like really I guess relate with to the dynamic of team Falcons. um that AP when they were still AP brand and then transitioning to what they are now. They’re just they’re so animated. They are absolute memes. And if he was just there, it’s like a these kids. Yeah. All these kids. And I would say animated is probably 70% flap. Yeah. He is the one that usually is bringing a lot of that personality. They’re all great though. And Falcons themselves, that roster that has really achieved so much. They might have struggled a little bit this season, you know, here and there, but ultimately they really kind of refined their play style say in the second half of the regular season. A lot of teams did that though. But whereas on the other hand, TPH was just rather dominant, you know, going toe-to-toe in a lot of the uh standings with Aurora specifically. And so they was back to that uh express play style. But we’re going to go welcome our casters once again to join us. Casters, can you hear us? Yes, we can. Loud and clear. We also heard the goat father. That’s right, Brietta. Wait, there’s a horse man. Yes, Brietta, you have to say it at least once in this series. That’s your challenge today as analyst. Okay. All right. You got it. All right. Uh guys, we’re going to go ahead and ask you how you’re feeling about this matchup. Any predictions for you guys over there? Want me to start? Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Okay. All right. Oh, yeah. So, uh, whatever your prediction is, make the sound of the corresponding animal. Okay. Wait, there. We’ll save Leo for last. We’ll save for last. I already know what Leo’s going to say. Yeah. And by that, I mean sound. This is a challenge. Hold on. Pretty good. I like that. I like that. That’s good. That’s good. That sounded like a horse that just got She did it so she did it so good that I lost my feedback for for a moment. For a moment. For a moment. Yeah. I know. It’s weird how we’re unanimously going for uh Wait, that’s not what I was expecting. Well, what do you want me to go? What’s the other sound? This? Oh, yo, that’s good. That’s so good. That’s really good. That’s pretty good. That’s pretty good. We approve. Okay. Uh, so we we’re just unanimous. Is that where we are? Hey, Falcon Sky. Wait, wait. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You didn’t ask me. Okay. Hey, what what are you what are you? Let me My prediction and I was waiting for this all day. Y’all know what it is. I’m not wearing my Falcons jersey. Sorry. No, but yeah, it’s Falcons. I’m predicting Falcons. That’s what I’m going for. He’s a Falcons guy. Remember Oh, wait. I have to make the sound, right? Yes, please. Wait, that’s a crow. Okay, you guys, uh, don’t forget you can grab your emotes as well while you can. Uh, so make sure you get those for 109 diamonds. We got a Community poll question for you guys though. Who will inch closer to immortality and the MSE trophy? Is it going to be A, Falcons are here, or is it going to be B? Let’s go Liquid. If you guys are sitting at home and you feel like joining us and making the sound while you vote, feel free to. Your family won’t think you’re weird. We promise. Take a video and send it to Nisu’s Instagram. Yes. Please do. Please do. Please don’t. My My Instagram is being flooded with other things right now. So, we’ll leave it. We’ll leave it at that. Leave your sound effects out of there. Hey guys, I hope you guys enjoy the series as well. Uh, enjoy your sound effects. We will be seeing you guys really soon and uh we’re going to take it away over here to finish things up. So, enjoy the series and have fun casting. Renar. I have to throw mine out, too. You went So, you went with Falcons. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is but I I understand why I am uh outmanned here that unanimously it is a liquid uh a liquid desk. I I acknowledge that. I acknowledge how great Liquid are. My Falcon’s heart tells me to believe. My analyst brain tells me what are you doing Falcon Sky? Why aren’t you predicting for Liquid like everyone else is cuz they’re just so good this season, right? But the Falcon Sky heart in me believes. So you got a Falcon heart? Yeah. Did you uh did you know that based off uh the geographic channel they have one of the smallest hearts out of all the uh birds? That explains a lot. So, keep it going. I’m going to go with Team Liquid, though. Got to get that check. And uh I’m that’s my vote, man. Team Liquid. I think, you know, I’m going with the Stampede. They’ve been in the Express version themselves and uh I can’t wait. Understandably so. Uh they’ve just been so sharp. They’ve been clean. uh not the cleanest, but they’re clearly far and beyond the best team at the end of the regular season. That’s why they’re a top one there in the standings. So strong. Uh the Baby Kicks duo making their debut. Oh, he and Carl Teasy, of course, this season. Uh Sans duo really strong. They’re just way too good. You know, I’m going to have to let you cuz I I heard I told you earlier the sound effects blew out my ears, bro. Oh, it blew out your ears. They blew out my ears. So, you know, you take us in. All right. So, it’s time for the Clash of the Titans, Liquid versus Falcons. MPL Arena, please welcome your marshalss, Joshua, Juven, JJ, and David. The next teams that will battle to claim their right to be immortals. Team Liquid Philippines and team Falcons. The EXP leaders Sanford and Plat. The junglers Carl Tey and Kyle Tezy in the mid lane. Dante and F, the Rors, JP and Oakland. And in the gold lane, oh heaven and super Marco and their coaches for Team Liquid Philippines, Coach RC. And for Team Falcons, Philippines, Coach Trevor. The Cavalry versus the Falcons. The classic clash of the Titans in an epic rivalry that began seasons ago. Which team will ascend to go beyond legendary Champions Arena? It’s game time. All right, let’s go ahead and take a look at the lineup here. It is electrifying in the Champions Arena. It’s TLPH. It’s Sanford, Carl Tey, Sanji, JP, and Ob. And they have been looking good all season. We got to keep our eyes all around this lineup, man. Carl Te especially in the jungle. I’m going to be interesting to see how he plays this cuz we’ve seen some changes so far. But still, you mentioned it earlier, Redmar the Rome. The pressures for the Romes in this matchup are going to be phenomenal for them and a huge testament on if they win the series and who starts off on the right foot here. JP has to be that guy. You can see he is one of the players that like to play the jawhead throughout the regular season, even the Hyos when he was a standard in the earlier weeks, but so does Oakwin. Let’s go ahead and introduce Falcons. Yeah, I’m glad that you brought up JP and then you linked it to Ogen as well cuz these are two rors that to me are very similar in terms of how they like to play, how they like to set the tempo. Although Ogen is a little bit more temperamental compared to JP, he’s might be the old master style despite JP playing longer than that’s what you’re going for. But for the rest of our Falcons, L Kyle, Super Marco, and F, their play style is very clear. They all just want to build advantage ASAP. That doesn’t necessarily mean they play fast. It’s just that moment they see that little moment, they’ll take it. They’ll take it. One of the things that stands out for me is look at the hero pool difference between the two teams here. 37 for TLPH and 51 for Falcons. And that just goes to show that, you know, TPH, they stuck with kind of what worked for them. They didn’t need to go too far out of the current meta or test a bunch of things. It was mainly their play style, the way that they like to start fast, the way they like to play aggressive and make things work. And again, that’s also reflective of Carl Tezy, the goat himself, being so close to a big milestone achievement just for the league in general of 2,000 kills goes to show that even when it comes to the jungle picks, he can be aggressive. He can go towards that utility if he has to. And it’s funny because right now in the current meta, we are in that position again where you could bring up the fragrance, the boxes, the other utilityesque junglers, or you can play aggressive and go the assassin choice. Yeah, it’s crazy to think that we are in a meta right now where Carl Tezy can look at his M2 form and his M4 form and say, which one do I feel like being today? Do I want to be that young goat? That Carl Teasy that racked up so many kills so fast. He racked up kills as fast as Oh my Venus racked up assists in MPL Philippines. That is insane. That just goes to show how much kills he got for the entirety of his career. You know be amazing if he gets the milestone 2000 kill. The 2000th kill. Yeah. With like an Akai or just something, you know, something like most people, no, it’s got to be the landsl or that. No, let it be something like the Akai. Yeah. they just end up going for the utility instead. I mean like why not, right? Like he thrived during that meta as well. But then at the same time, Kyle Tezy is the same player. He went into a league that forced him to change. Child Peasy went in MPL Philippines season 10 as a guy that shined with assassins and they struggled somewhat, shined somewhat, but it was his change into becoming Frederick man and Kai man that really solidified them as world champions in M5 here in Manila up against a legendary ONI esports squad. So now as we look at the infinite keys to victory, let’s look at liquid. Showcase turtle fight mastery to execute the liquid staff lead. Put it simply, get turtles so that you can go fast. You know, ride the momentum from your victory against TNC team Falcons. You’ve already been tested. You saw it earlier. Even on Philippines, the defending champions got tested. They got tested. You got tested. Who’s to say that you can’t get your revenge against Team Liquid? a team liquid squad that has beaten you all season long. to for both adapt and adjust on the evolving playoffs met me met me met me met me met me met me met me met me met me met me the point that we were both making here it is now rewarding to go as crazy as you can get of course within the boundaries of you know what’s actually acceptable within the game just don’t pick Lilo right away but be adaptable and be flexible and that’s what I like you know it’s uh it’s it’s interesting because when we go into the playoffs here usually you have your mindset on okay the meta is like this but now there’s still that breathing room there’s still honestly a lot of those um picks that you can bring to the table here. And like I was saying earlier, this is one of the days where you can go ahead and maybe test some of those limits because again, the losing team here in this one will go down to that lower bracket and fight their way from there. But that’s also to be said, you know, I think uh in the current standings of things and everything else between both teams, you got the Falcons going from the battle of the air and the skies yesterday. Now they’re going to be going against TLP and the Cavalry here. The adjustment is going to be uh interesting too because the play style I feel like between um TNC yesterday and for Falcons is different when they have to approach TPH here. They have to be a lot more uh decisive and also just kind of calculated on how they approach this. We’re going to jump into the drafting phase here. I believe once again we’re going to be joined through this series by Bria. Bria knock. Who’s there? Wow, you’re great. Okay. It’s us. I thought I was supposed to say hello Brrigudes again, but the response was who’s there, right? Yeah, but you can if you want to. Okay. Hello, Britudes. Who’s there? Hello and red. All right. Welcome. It’s getting longer. Thank you. That’s good. Welcome to the draft. All right. Bands are already out. Fanny Baka taking out TBH is on the blue side. Falcons over on the red. They took out the Phobias, the Joy. What is this going to leave open? Cuz this is already a little bit different than what we’ve seen from the previous series. Yeah. Uh, I wonder if Steb are going to be going into a first pick where Matilda is going to be open. Although, we have seen scenarios where Matilda wouldn’t even be locked in as a first pick right away. But a Team Liquid, it goes so well with their play style. Plus, you’re talking about flexibility. They’re really opening Matilda up. Is she going to get picked right away or later? Yeah, and I like how they banned out the Harren since the Phobius and Joy Band set up perfectly for that, but it seems like they’re prioritizing the Kimmy as their first pick. not either in. Yeah, interesting decision there for Koshari, Juice, and Loi all open, but he decided to go for the Kimmy instead. Uh, is he thinking of it as a flex pick? I mean, one of the strengths of the Kimmy is that you turn off the opposing squad from wanting to actually pick up the tanky fighter junglers, while at the same time, if you want to go tanky fighter jungler yourself, that pairs so well with a Kimmy, especially the um what the Freder, you know, the uh since the box is not there anymore, you get to play around that. But yeah, like you said, it’s could be a flex too. Neither mid or go in the hands of OB in the gold lane. And now the response from Falcons is going to be the badang. Speaking of flex, this is very again similar to what Falcons has showed us yesterday. They really prioritize the bad and this time around it’s alongside the ju which I feel like they also showed a high level of priority with yesterday. Even using it as their first pick one time in the game. So it’s a it’s still a flex to some extent. And I like how it’s a very confident pickup considering that there is already a Kenny from the other side. Oh, there it is. But there’s a chip all along. Yeah. Uh this is similar to the lineup that Aurora showed off against it earlier, game number one, a Freder and chip combination. And that’s why they picked up the Kimmy. So uh sort of telegraphed move by team Philippines. That’s why Falcons decided to go for the Badang because Badang has risen up to be one of the best answers you can go for against Chip. They come out of the chipmortal, you bring out their wall, and then you punch them. Yeah, I I think that’s a good answer to it. Um, but this already from TLP, like you can see the game plan. Uh, and then on the flip side, you’ve got the Lucas being picked up now for Falcons for the Yeah, most likely the jungle option. So, how’s this going to look in the jungle? You know, you got the Frederick. We’ve already seen Fred be successful what yesterday and today so far. Yeah, I think um more than that it’s more denying again the chip and having direct answers towards the shortcut since um if is if it is going to be a Lucas strung up against a Freder and there you go. It’s a typical utility jungler matchup that we’ll potentially be expecting. But the mere fact that it can really respond immediately back towards whatever setups, shortcuts JP will be planning to lay out and this will mess things up for team liquid Philippines so they can carry out their plans accordingly. The damage outputs are going to need just a little bit more. So it’s going to be coming from their gold leader mainly. This is going to be a jungle gold core juicing. It’s going to be very utility based team Philippines slip in the early team fights especially around the first turtle. Both rors are level four then same as both mid laners. We saw it earlier. The juicing can really punish that. So that’s one main condition for Team Liquid Philippines. As we were talking about earlier, if they want to reach that Liquid Stampede form, they have to get those turtles. But JP so far this season has a 100% win rate with the chip. When it first came out in season 13, they wanted to keep the chip away from JP. It was constantly banned then. Yep. and seem to be their number one in terms of turtle control transage. But there they ban the blue. I’m wondering if would cons oh they can’t go for the per anymore because they already have the ju so the other sources of the AoE that they’ll be opting to go for later on but they pick up the great first and save that for last. Okay, so we’ll see what coach Trevor has up his sleeve to go ahead and round out that draft, the last pick. But for TLPH for their final two picks here, they’ve already got a great start with the first three. Like you just saw 100% win rate for the chip for JP. We already talked about how important these rumors are going to be for this series. And then you have the Moscon locked in. Uh OB going to be fine. So that also just lets us know that this Kimmy is going to go in the mid lane. And so what do we have for XP for Sanford? I want a fighter. You’re like, “Give me a friend. Abandoned dead off something.” Okay, this is okay. Yeah, that’s okay. You would fight her than you were. I was like, wait, friend. Yeah. Yeah, they just slipped up. But hey, Bria alluded to this thing earlier. Yeah, but that was like against the Fred. Now they’re using it together. But it also works well cuz like you throw in your targets and then you just keep overwhelming them with crowd control. So, they just can barely move around the team fight. And I feel like that works perfectly in terms of what Falcus has right now. So this has to be a very careful pick for Oak. I don’t know. I feel like this um Badang goes to Roman. Did you pick up something like a Yuzu? Let’s throw it way back. If it’s throwback Thursday, right? Why not? The lapu. Oh, wait. There’s a kitty though. So like Yeah, maybe they want that. Oh, what’s it going to be? Matilda. So, okay. So, Matilda going in the Rome. We’ve got the bedang going into the XP. I don’t know how. So again, this is why I like the meta we’re in. This is a very interesting draft on both sides if you really look at it, Renar. Yeah. All right. So I’m leaning a little bit more towards the Team Liquid Philippines lineup here, but the difference is Falcons has the Lucas Melon combo with them paired up with the Vadak. I I’m going 60 6040 Liquid in terms of the hero lineup. 6040. Okay, we’re going to take one last look for the Champions Arena at the lineups here for you guys at home alongside with the index. You can let us know in the chat which you think is the better draft. Is it TLPH for game number one or is it going to be Falcons with this? The fact that they locked in a Matilda 2 for Owen here is a whole lot of mobility and utility. And this is one of the first times you see all these flickers coming in for both teams. We’re going to go ahead and get ready to throw it over to our casters to take us into game number one. Game one in the Clash of Titans, a chronicle that spans the seasons here in the Champions Arena. A best of five for a race towards the upper bracket finals. You know what? I’ll side with Renar. I think I do like how JP alone, his chip, who has 100% win rate, opens up so much with this Carl Teasy Frederickentric lineup. Yeah, I mean I’d like to think the same, but if you were to ask me, I’m I feel like I’m sort of 50/50. You know, like the hero synergies in Team Falcon’s lineup, they’re just too good. They look too good. But again, overall, if Team Liquid Philippines, they’re able to take the team fight strategically, then they can take the upper hand either way. Considering that this is Sanji on uh Kimmy, I I feel like it’s an exciting uh uh it’s exciting to see him on these kinds of heroes because even way back when he was using all these Novaras and he he is that kind of guy who just plays the mid lane aggressively and so well. Yeah, very nuke ccentric definitely. So JP right now obviously is just going to poke it a little bit, but we were talking about like the win rates earlier or the the the percentages. I really do agree with that 60/40 just because of how well we know Sanji will play this plus the un unpredictability that a Turisla might actually give for this matchup. That is the X factor out of the XP lane. I think the fact that we’re seeing a Terisla after so long that might change the way Falcons plays again. I’m sure they’ve seen this in scrims, but through a shortcut with a Freder with a Mosco from across the map. Like these are all lethal combos that Liquid PH could use the stampede through Falcon synergies. And that’s probably a new version of the Stampede cuz it’s a debut pick for both the Fredin and the Terisa for this season. But hold on. Oh, that’s a very high hard committee. Strain Super Mar. I mean, that was already a really good spear of misery, but maybe would have would have been off for Navy Chu. Luckily, he was just shy of one hit away. Quick shift up top near the turtle. Falcons definitely have a bit of an advantage here with Clap T already with that piss crack combo, but look at that nice dive in as well. Sanji staying relatively safe in this fight. They’re also going to be able to take out FW, but the turtle going over to the Falcons this time around. 40 for F. I don’t know how the match checks out. Bring it. Is that a good trade? Well, honestly, I feel like you on the Jin doesn’t mind. It’s more of like him being a utility at this point, but then Sam for there, right? It’s It’s like that was supposedly a setup that Team Liquid Philippines could have really capitalized on, but then they were just exchanging blows. There was a beautiful fist break combo too from Flap Teasy. And so I feel like both teams are just even pretty much even with it. Turtle did go over to Falcon. So I guess that’s the deal breaker. You know that’s that’s what makes it worth it. So now 3 minutes in a thousand up. Falcons are a kill a piece. Look at this. What’s going on bottom? That’s a very crazy shortcut here right in between two turrets. It is a very confident TLP fighting it out. Clap teasy going to get caught out here a little bit. Will have enough movement. Pew to the rescue. And there you go. There’s going to be some punishment coming in from the Falcons this time around. Oh god. You saw what 40 tried to do again. They were in too deep and they already overcommitted. I think 40 needed like a second more to just get out with the shortcut. But few denied him of that one second. He just made sure that there was no way 40 was getting out of that. And now he’s currently on a one two one. But wait, JP is going to be taken out here with just some really really good firepower coming in from Super Marco and Oen. Those whisps really do hurt in the early game. Can’t really ignore those. Yeah, we’re starting to feel the heroes synergies like how will Owen complement these heroes of team Falcons who by themselves have some pretty good and reliable mobility already but he just amplifies all that so they can just immediately go to positions that team liquid Philippines can just immediately catch up to. That’s another flicker. They are really bearing down on Ohe. Baby Cakes duo currently not online nowhere to be seen. Has been quite a while since we’ve seen Carl Dy and Ohem do great things as a duo. Towards the twilight of season 15, the regular season, they kind of just did their own thing. Now with Carl Dy on the utility jungler, he’s just focused on getting subjective. Feels like a different fight right now. Carl Easy really good on the retribution still. It’s five man Falcons. They have the capability really punish here. And there you go with a fist break. Going to be catching so many members TLP. They’re just running. The cavalry are just running for the hills here. Two down for the cavalry. Flap teasy has dynamite in his hands. The Filipino cannon has unleashed in the TLP in their orange buff side of the jungle. And oh no, they might steal it away from Carl. Yeah, they’re definitely going to have enough firepower. But look at that. It’s going to be JP from the back with a shortcut. And there you go. Good enough projectile. Traction pulse pulls it back. And that’s another two answering really quickly by TL. Yep. Beautiful answer provided to us by Team Liquid here. Tact also thrown out and they are immediately able to trade out a turret from Team Falcons. Earlier it felt like 40 had such a great responsibility. It seems like every single time he goes in with the penalty zone, he already has to expect that he’s going down because he’ll force out the unleash the beast. He’s he’s forcing out every single reaction from Team Falcons and he’s the first to fall. But in that moment where in Team Liquid Philippines was able to regroup, that play by JP coming in all from the back lines just to set things up for Team Liquid Philippines to go for the fight and the punish. Now they’re able to somehow turn things around against Team Falcons. Again, a fundamentally broken hero when it comes to map mobility. Oh, Sod. OS OD straight to the face here, but a nice intercept coming in from Flapy making sure he has the force OH back once more. And there you go. They have enough sustain because of the Matilda and no injuries at the very least. Hold up. Did he catch OH midair with a fist break without using flicker? That was crazy. But yes, he did. Exactly right. Like how does Flapy do all this on the bad? It feels like his warm-up’s complete after using it multiple times yesterday that he’s able to interrupt so much, deny so much from Team Liquid Philippines in as much as they want to take the team fight strategically step by step or systematically even. How do you do that when there’s this Badang constantly trying to deny you of that? Yeah, and they’re doing it as much as they can, right? They’re grouping up so hard. But there you go, a flying QB and they take out OH in just one combo. Right up on front is Sanford. It’s going to be Carl Heasy trying to soak up as much damage as he can. A brace rat goes down, but he will also fall. Dear lord, a flying unleash the beast tracking towards Ohm. Of course, you have to concede the last hurdle of the game. Of course, Kyle Tezy will take it easy. Wow, that’s a solid hit from Super Marco here. They’re going to be taking out taking out Dert with ease. Yeah, Team Falcons at this point, they’re just constantly able to bypass every single member of Team Liquid Philippines and hunt OB down. OB is having a very difficult time trying to position himself in the team fights. If it’s not Flap that’s after his life, it’s Kyle Tezy who barely minds anyone else from Team Liquid Philippines. Once he gets his eyes set on OHV, that’s all he needs to that’s all he needs to know. He’s literally just going for it. Whatever happens, what is Flappy just walking it up from the back? What are you doing there, brother? You usually come through the other side. That’s where your side of the map is. Red side, but oh my lord, the Filipino cannon. He’s a loose cannon. They spot. Do they know JP’s here? I think they I I don’t think so. I don’t think so. Flaps a little too deep here. But again, he seems to be very confident in how tanky he is, you know, walking up on the turret. But look at that. Because of Falcon’s attention to the top lane, they forgot that OF can just do this. He pushes it all the way. Tier two down. Yeah, but I’m liking how O decided to do this instead. They can’t afford to risk the fight anymore. Here it goes again. There’s a retreat. Perfectly times. Spear misery. But the catchup is really, really strong. Plus, the contents you get because of Owen’s Matilda. That’s going to be Ohe getting removed here. And there you go. JP again all alone. There’s just no answer for TL. How do you answer a rampaging um Falcon squad like this? Here’s the thing. You see a Liquid Stampede, it makes sense. They’re horses, right? But what if a flock of Falcons just come down from the ground and start attacking you? What do you do? I can’t believe how Kyle Tezy looked so decisive. He just This is a problem for for Ov. Definitely. We mentioned it earlier, but all the more now looking for Sanji, he barely or he hasn’t died just yet, but he could be next. You know, like if Falcons gains that much of an easy access to OH, then that pretty much denies Team Liquid Philippines of getting their power spikes early on, then what more now for Sanji? There’s such a huge role he has to fill. Right now, it does see feel like TLP trying to set up the team fight that they want to happen. Here comes Kyle. He’s actually quite low, but he will still be able to secure that lord. But that’s going to be jungler down. How’s the fight going to look like here? Sanford is very low in the middle of the fight. Actually, most CPH members are super duper low. They’re getting chased down by Falcons. Sanji, he’s kiting. Fist break misses, but will be caught by JP. Sanji survives, but JP is going to fall. Falcon’s front line is just too sustainable. They are pushing forward. This might be at less than half health and they shrug it off like nothing happened. Popping holy defenses after taking that lord again. Giant birds from the sky taken to the ground to take you down. Yep. What do you do in that scenario, right? Big five birds there. They’re like 200 lb. If you’re Team Liquid Philippines, you got to wait. Probably like you mentioned it, the front lines, they’re too sustainable. And Team Liquid Philippines, their damage output, it takes time. It takes time before Team Falcons actually gets to feel the damage coming in from Team Liquid Philippines. So that just goes to show that they definitely need to take a little more time, get those items in for OH and Sanji because at this moment, no matter how good of a setup Sanford is able to provide against Team Falcons, there will always be the counter setups too from Team Falcons and there will be that lack of damage that wouldn’t do any good for the cavalry. Rockart 11 minutes in. Should Liquid be regretting picking the Terisla? It’s starting to look like it. We haven’t seen the value of the Charisa quite yet. Fist crack is activated by Flap, but Carl TZ trying to see if he can pull someone in with the energy eruption. Not really going to get any targets, but like we mentioned, where’s the value of the Terresa in this lineup? All right, JP gets spotted out of that brush. Gets hit with a circling eagle. All right, he’s has shortcut. Will use conceal as well. But again, going through that shortcut feels like a really risky play. Sanford though is I guess he’s tanky enough to do something. Spear of Destruction hits Super Marco. I don’t think they’re going to pull in. And speaking of pulling, no one gets pulled in by the traction. I think they were considering trying to go for the fight since they knew that Kyle Tezy was getting their orange buff, but even then, you feel the hesitation. They can’t fully commit just yet. They weren’t in the right position. And Team Falcons, they’re still the guiding wind. those ults, that sequence that could have happened here in Liquid Philippines’s purple side jungle. I think they were like two seconds off. A shortcut into the penalty zone. The SOD into the full collapse. Like those could have worked out. It’s just Falcon’s never allowed it. Like they always kept themselves scarce. Yeah, they were at the same time. They weren’t enough for Team Liquid Philippines to feel confident enough to taking that fight. And so we see the multitude of problems that Team Liquid Philippines is currently facing. And it’s probably somehow also because of the limitations that they have in terms of their lineup. Like there’s no one person you can expect to just fully disrupt. That’s at most probably JP. But just one mistake in terms of wherever he comes from could get immediately punished to by Falcons with their lineup. I guess that’s the danger of having like a pure DPS lineup. You can’t really take them take fountains by surprise. Like they’re going to get started though. There goes Latzy already using the fist break. Kyle Dy is looking for Sanji while the rest of them are trying to juggle it around that lord. Sanji again removed instantly by the Lucas. And it’s going to be Carl Dy coming out with the Lord anyway. But at what cost? JB all alone. And the wipe out happening for the Falcons. Falcons not losing a single member. screaming where death is, we are not being in a beline towards mid. Not even looking at the Lord. I can smell a quick game one victory. That’s going to be it. They’re going to be breaking it really hard into a 13-minute game for game number one. What a showing by Team Falcons. Completely denied whatever idea Team Liquid Philippines had in terms of them fielding out this lineup. The front to back clearly didn’t work for them and it was team Falcons coming in from all sorts of angles. Liquid got a little too creative. I wonder if our panel agrees. Nicer Renar, how y’all see that? Teresla. Get in. I want to say I think the Teriz was afraid of the five big birds. Yeah. I mean, I know he got a big hammock and he has a wide ark, but there was a lot of some big birds, bro. You know, at that point, everywhere it was. Yeah. And they were they were technically led by a a bird woman or like whatever. That’s true. Yeah. Matilda. Yeah. I think she’s just a woman with birdlike magical powers with a circling. Just say circling falcon. Yeah. Circling falcon. There’s no more circling your MVP Super Marco right here on that Granger. Uh just a great performance. Of course, 704 didn’t die and a big part of that was because of the Matilda, the utility, the shields, the mobility that is all offered through that and just the momentum that this lineup that Falcons brought into game one. Um they played it perfectly there. Yeah. Uh simple math equation when you add winning the lane with also getting help that usually means happy gold laner. Happy gold. He was beating OH in the 1 v one and then once he got into the rotations it was Falcons being able to help Super Marco more and Super Marco first because again with how fast they can get around the map with the Matilda and the Lucas together. In the words of Carl Tezy, it was a flying Q. Man, it was there was I mean there was that one moment too where he almost killed OH earlier on, but even without that, you just see Super Marco play the lane so well, but then also be supported so much from the team. And anytime you think about Super Marco’s performances in the gold lane, it’s usually because of that. He’s such a good gold laner on his own, but then when he does get that support from the team, that’s usually when he’s able to go ahead and make these plays and make moments like these highlights that we’re seeing here. Yeah. uh with all the space provided by Open Kyle and especially Flap who timed the usages of his uh fist break and his fist crack together the fist in his full on combo. There was just so much space for Super Marco here that yes, it was hard for him to at times get the right lineup, but there was always someone in front of him that was at least taking damage for him so that he’ll be able to if not make the most out of the the Rondo the Rafides at least he’ll be able to get some basic attacks in. So it was just so much set up for a gold laner that of course had a great time. Yeah, and this was one of those instances too where you know we we do have to kind of talk a little bit about the Tisla. Bria mentioned this earlier on back in the first series. I don’t know it it seemed like early on Sanford was able to get a couple good penalty zones and maybe lock downs, but it just didn’t seem like you you really saw the effect or the value of having that there. And maybe even with a uh with a chip again, this is JP’s first loss on the chip because he was 100% earlier on with those two games that he had win. But I don’t know, it just seemed like there in this kind of lineup there was a disconnect. I mean, even to the sense that Sanji on this Kimmy really wasn’t able to utilize like what we’ve seen it before in the mid lane. Yeah, I think a dis disconnect was clear here for Team Liquid Philippines, but more so the times where it like a good connection would come in, Falcons just had a better response. So Sanford picking up this Turisla. He wants to do what a Badang does so easily. Badang gets his uh cool downs much quicker. So Sanford had to compensate with picking up Rupture as part of his emblem set so that he has more damage. You see him actually leading into a damaged item if he could have gotten there near the end. So the Terisa here is really just attack considering that JP is spending most times in the shrubs looking for shortcut angles. How a chip plays. Sanford is the substitute Ror. That’s why we really get didn’t get to see him bring the effect that you wanted to see if he was more of the aggressive type because he couldn’t be. He had to be conservative. He had to wait for JP. Had to wait for Carl. Yeah. And uh you know that’s what we’ve been talking about for the XP lane for a while now is how they do kind of turn into that more of a ROResque role depending on the hero that they’re playing or just overall in the rotations of the early to mid game even. And again, it’s just one of those facts where, you know, like Super Marco having that experience, that gold lane experience, OB didn’t. And all he had to do or or all he had really left to do was to just sit on the opposite end of the map and try to farm up or put pressure where he could. But the problem with that is that snowball effect was happening so quickly for Falcons that even then, if he had joined any of the fights that he landed the Spirit of Destruction with, he would have just been taken out, right? So, um, again, here’s our breakdown for the top four stats. Super Marco, of course, the rich guy. He’s also the carry. He did so much damage because he was allowed to. He was activated to be able to do that. And then, like you mentioned, Sanford was the tank. He took most of the damage. And so, for our VPI rich guy, Super Marco 893 GPM, solidifying again just how good he is in the gold lane and and is able to go ahead and continue to do that. Now, Renmar, take us through some of the detailed stats here for this one. All right, EXP lane in the Philippines, as we’ve discussed before, incredibly demanding. A demanding role for the EXP. You can you either have to be the Rome, the the sub ro when you can a carry at times or a setup guy. So, what happened here is we got to see a tale of two different EXP laners. You saw the Turisla and the Badang. Sanford had to be conservative. He was the team’s tank. uh flap teasy. Yes, you could say that too. But then considering that they are paired up with a Matilda who can just provide shields whenever they need it, it was easy for him to go as Lao said loose cannon mode and at the same time supplement uh Kyle Teasy with what Rockart said earlier as the flying Q QB because they last picked the Matilda. They found the perfect pick that supplemented their lineup. Well, looking at the goal difference timeline, they got uh they both got objectives, a lot of towers for Team Li Philippines, but of course they are playing with a Moscow and with Falcons playing the aggressive three, fourman hit squad style play style that because they have to group up together considering that they’re up against a chip, they cannot leave one or two guys just vulnerable to getting jumped on with a whole shortcut portal. They had to go together. that opened up tower uh takes in the side lanes for Team Liquid Philippines. But it wasn’t just that. They were also converting similarly to Falcons from the major objectives. After the turtle won, Team Liquid Philippines played the map, then they got turrets. After some key skirmishes in uh in the river in the jungle when they would see each other, Team Liquid Philippines would get towers. You saw one after at around 8:21. There’s a big difference here. And then of course leading into the 929 uh team Philippines won a team fight uh between 8 minutes and 21 and 9 minutes and 29 the Beler gold to 4,000 and of course when they got the lord there at the end but then at that point that was just like you know couldn’t get it. That was that was the end of the game already. So you all know what happened there. Well for Falcons similar story. They were able to convert those wins and skirmishes to get objectives. They got kills, they got turtle. They got kills, they got orange buff. They got kills, they got towers. I’m sure you understand where I’m trying to get at here. So, we look at the profile for these two teams heading into the playoffs. Side selection, win loss when team liquid Philippines is uh selecting the side, it would be at 114. Uh that would be for both blue side, red side. blue side is a strong a stronger side for uh team nan Philippines at 13 and5 while Falcons is more of a little bit of a redside team at 11 and six. Now, when you look at uh the lineups for the two that was brought out here, again, the difference in the ROR style, excuse me, the EXP laner style, there’s good reach, good damage profile for Team Liquid Philippines. They have the Moscow and then the Kimmy, but Falcon spent a lot of time sending their resources to make sure that the Moscow had a difficult time. You saw that even there at the end, Ob was dealing damage. That was a problem that Falcons needed to answer, but they answered it already at the right time and they were able to delay the farm of Ohe enough so that once it got there into that final fight, even though he was dealing damage, it was significantly less damage than he could have if he got a much more comfortable farming time. While Falcons played so well around making sure that Super Marco is supplemented with great ganks. Yeah, and I think a big part of that supplementation was the Matilda. That was like a crucial pick. Um, like you know, you mentioned the Yep. that too. Uh, very fitting for the game plan that Falcons went in uh with that initially, but also you you mentioned this when we were kind of watching it just how much shielding and healing was done. You saw that during the breakdown, how much healing was done. And if you think about that, what was it? 28.1,000 or something like that. But in the sense of a what 13minute game, that’s a whole lot of extra health bars or like shielding that you have to work through. And if you’re a team that’s already behind, that’s even more difficult, right? Because you’re not only getting outmaneuvered with all that mobility, but then you really don’t even have enough damage to get through and get people low enough on Falcon. So TLPH will definitely have to go ahead and adjust even down to the draft because when we jumped in there earlier on some of the first draft or first bans were even different. So they might consider actually banning out the Matilda now which we’ve seen banned out. Was it almost every series? Uh almost every series. Yeah. Still uh so far for today Matilda was constantly banned. She was constantly. Yeah. Yeah. And I think even for yesterday it was a lot of Matilda Basgo were not. I feel like the field though would have been good for some teams yesterday if it popped up but no it was just never given and I think uh we got to see why. So we might be going into a series where moving forward is going to be out of the picture but if it’s Falcons on the red side it seems like they’re not going to ban it. They probably won’t um you know working through that. they might depending even how this goes with the uh the sides and you know the the first pick seems to be really important on blue side but we’ve seen some teams kind of opt for different heroes even when it comes to the first pick and it really does kind of showcase what kind of game plan they want to take in that game but also before we get to game two we’re going to have a take a look at uh our clear head super fan of the day oh that’s not uh we got to see your we got to see some good hair. That’s Wow, that’s okay. Okay, this guy, if he does not win, okay, he’s automatically winning. Yeah. 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And like I was saying, this is something we want to pay attention to throughout the playoffs is what is that priority pick for the blue side. It’s changed really from team to team. And that is just going to be kind of a picture at the everchanging meta that I feel like we’re in because every single time we get to the playoffs, the meta technically is somewhat different from the regular season. And this time around too, we’ve already seen that just in the past 2 days. And remind you, we have played now 16 games in two days uh or witnessed 16 games so far for our teams to duke it out. Now, on the flip side, I know in just a bit we’ll be joined by Brigetta, but TLPH, man, they need to go ahead and bring a better composition, I guess, that they can execute early on in the game to get them into the 1 to1 series here. Yeah, I just want to see Sanford in something more active. Yes, the Turismo made sense in that regard. Yes, it was the right thing. Uh because that’s what they needed. But come on, it’s the Apex Predator for a reason. Well, we’ll see what they do. Bring it up, are you there? Can you hear us? Welcome. Hello, Renoir. Nu, I hope you’re all having a great evening. We are. Someone just saved that sound clip. Bring it up. What? How did you feel about the Turisa? Because you mentioned this earlier. Yeah, but I did say it was supposedly a suggestion against the Frederick. We gave it a little bit of like hope in terms of how it could possibly synergize with the Fred, but they were too limited in terms of how they could do. So now we see they probably will be switching things up or they’ll be forced to since the Fred is banned out here by Falcon and they pick up the Oh, it’s been a minute since we’ve seen Joy first pick, but hey, Matilda’s open too. Yeah, got a Freder ban right away just so that they can set up the Joy for success and they can pick it up. I think that’s an important condition for picking joy now these days. Yeah, it’s interesting. Um, majority of the uh bands that go into the uh blue side. There’s the booies every now and then. They’re they they aren’t here for team Falcons. They were really heavy on the utility junglers against Carli which is pretty interesting. And although the other options like the Aayabusa could be picked up for red three if ever he want to consider that or is really forcing him to Oh, we’ll see. Super Marco is going to get his hands though on the Granger again. So, it’s going to be the classic match up of the gold lane which is to be expected. And then there you go. So, you got the Hayabusa locked in. This has to be the game also that Carl Tezy hits the achievement. Yeah. Right. Like, wait, what what was he at? What is he at? Does he need two? Yeah, I think he needs two more kills to reach 2,000. Yeah. So, he needs two more kills. If he doesn’t get two kills on the Hamuza, something’s something’s not right. We’re in a different reality. Something went terribly wrong or terribly right for someone else. Well, taking a look at the hero stats here for OH. Loves this Har pick. 75% win rate, a massive KDA of almost 11, but sitting at 10.92. He’s played 12 games with it as well. And again, this has been the gold lane kind of go-to pick throughout season 15. It’s mostly been the Granger and the Har. So, they take out the glue. Uh yeah, the glue gun together would be really great setup for the Granger. I think more range is what they’re going to be looking out for. The fact they’re picking up the Gat this early on. I know it’s because you really want to use the unbreakable as your best crowd control possibility of taking down OH. uh use that taunt and I think at the same time it’s also a safety for JP unless they’re already thinking about picking up a static mid laner. That’s why Team Liquid Philippines were so adamant on picking up the Hayabusa as the red three because if ever Falas ended up with something like a Fara an Eve in the back line, you already have the Hayabusa to deal with it. Yeah, I was also thinking along the lines of a Kimmy cuz the Kimmy got really works well. But there is a Hayabusa. So, it’ll take a lot uh for team Falcons if they ever still want to pick up that kind of hero against this lineup with the Hayabusa and the Badam too. I mean, the deny of the Badam for Flap, I feel like it’s a huge decision too made here by Team Liquid Philippines, which could potentially switch things up. Okay, well, there’s the last ban. It’s going to be the Jawhead again. One of the choices. It was the top choice of JP through his favorite heroes so far for the regular season. So, his options at least for the Rome are down to a few. Maybe we see JP. Why don’t we see JP on um I know the the trip is still open. The Yahoo like does he does he go for I want my 100% Oh, he can’t get his 100% win rate back anymore. But I want my redemption. Huh. Well, uh, the Matilda is open, but I don’t feel like it’s going to synergize well with like what teams has drafted so far. So, ooh, yo, Rome. Ah, they go Hildy. Yo, just put the G out in the Rome and then you pick up an ES or EXP lane. Then you’re up against a Hilda Badak Har right away. Hopefully, they’re thinking about the Esmeralda for Falcons. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And uh we saw Esmeralda pop up because it was up against Hilda Badang and Har. Exactly. I believe that was e was it Edward who brought it up. It was going to be top 14 in the Philippines if Edward does get through. But if looking at other options, there’s the CC. Oh yeah. Yeah. A CC would also be great considering that you need at least the curtain call to bring it down. Ah, as expected. as Moralda of course one of the other wow key players for the Selena in the MPL Philippines is few himself and over across the room they’re going to go with Sanji’s far so a lot of damage a lot of magic damage over on TLPH but maybe this will set things up for a better early game if they can be a little more aggressive and again I think a big part of this too is how Carl TZ is able to rotate and maybe snowball in the Hayabusa But this, hey, if he hits the milestone here, that’s going to be a great hero to have for him and we’ll see if they can even out the series. Any last thoughts here, Red the compositions? I really like the S morale pickup. I’m leaning towards Falcons in this round. Okay, Falcons. Going with Falcons. You are the Falcons guy. Kaka TLPH though. I I would love to see them get to the point where they even out the series here. Um, we wouldn’t want to have it any other way. You can already take one glass and a glimpse of the compositions and champions arena we will be throwing over to the caster desk to take us into game two. Falcons looking the cleanest they have ever been all season long. And what perfect time to do that here in the champions arena for their clash of the titans against their fated rivals in team Liquid Philippines. They’re first of the board by the way. 1 and0 for Falcons. Can they hit match point? Yep, they’re one win away from getting just that. And with that Esmeralda pickup, we’re really looking at how Team Liquid Philippines will manage all this. But it seems like it’s by an aggressive rotation early on from Sanji on the far, which by the way felt like a very confident pickup, too. You know, you already saw the Selena, you already saw everything you’re going up against in the line of team in the line of team Falcons, even the Joy, but he still decided to pick it up. Yeah, you’re talking about confidence. I mean, why would you not be so confident with your Selena? You are def you’re practically one of the first players to actually play it in a professional professional level, you know what I mean? So, and playing it still at a very high level maybe around 7 8 years later, that’s that’s impressive. And you were there. Rockhart was there in the height of Fuse. Selena Run won a championship off the back of it with Signal Ultra about, you’re right, 7 years ago. Oh, seven years ago. And he’s still playing it today. And people are still scared of his Selena. That’s a goat father for you. The goat father. Oh my goodness. Look at that. Two consecutive Abyssal Arrows connecting to the mid duo of Team Liquid Philippines. So that’s the goat father and the Selena for you. And that’s probably going to be a problem too since JP, as much as he wants to like become a problem to Team Falcons, if they’re guarding their junglers so well in the mid lane just by doing all these or just by throwing out all these abyssal arrows, then they won’t be able to get the job done. This is an odd time to pick a roam Hilda. It’s great for dancing though, don’t get me wrong. Here’s the turtle early on. He catches an arrow. Yeah, arrow straight to the base. Stanford can’t even react here, but Sani already able to pull off a beautiful feathered air strike. That mean putting Flapy quite low, but you know what? They’re going to be all good and all fine cuz they seem to be Oh, not really. Carl Easy, he actually went back. JP though walking out still here and we fight. Yeah, we’re keeping fighting. We’re just going going non-stop here cuz Falcons they know that without Carl Tezy still inside the base this retribution turtle is vey closes it and cleans it all out but might have been overstaying a little bit. Good answer with the Hela though it’s too much arrows the falling star moons all that while you’re able to immediately eliminate Sanford. So there’s no threat of a setup from Team Liquid Philippines because JP, he can only do so much. He just stands in front of everyone. He tries to get the information, but the setups are supposed to come in from Sanford. So what’s the game plan here? Uh again, I hate to say it so soon, but 3 minutes in, JP’s Hilda is feeling like Sanford Sizda and they’re both for Liquid. That’s uh that’s tough to hear. Oh. Oh, but look at that though. Oh my goodness. out of nowhere. Even F couldn’t really react to that. Just pure unadulterated damage coming in from TL’s duos. Yeah, that can be an angle for Team Liquid Philippines just really trying to go for all these pickoffs every now and then since Team Falcons, none of them actually have the purify anyway. So if they’re able to lock down a particular hero, which I feel like they failed to do as well in game number one, given that the Terisa jumps in, gets to catch a couple of people, but they can immediately run away. So this can be some sort of change for Team Liquid Philippines heading into this game. Team Liquid Philippines still not letting go of the fact that they might go for a turtle here. 30 seconds up and JP’s clearing bushes, keeping tabs on what, multiple heroes. I guess this is a good use for the Hilda early on. That’s right. I mean, essentially the same usage with uh Selena today. As much vision as you can, but JP obviously can also tank in the middle of a fight. Problem is, he can’t. He’s not really tanking for anybody. Kyle Tez is he’s trying to catch up on the gold. Oh my. But but imagine this. You’re JP. You’re trying to scout so much information, but in turn, it’s Falcons who gets to constantly approach you and deny multiple green pamps away from Carl Tezy. Fortunately, he’s still able to make it to level eight. So, let’s see how this turtle fight goes. They’re very happy to just stay up on front. TPH are still very confident that they can take this. Owen is going to have to be ready here with a a good AOG cuz they have a very hard lineup to lock down here. Yeah, hard reset here for the turtle. Purple buff seems to be the call for Kyotezy first before anything goes. Clap easy holding on to that turtle. And yeah, neither team wants to go for it first because I think Carl is going to go for his purple then. That’s a fair call cuz you also need to check the XP and uh the buffs as well. Yeah, I know this is a this is a slow turtle take. Turtle number two. Yep. Sanford’s doing his best to try and block off you, but it doesn’t change the fact that Flap teas’s been holding this turtle for a while and been and he’s been absorbing the shields that JP produces every now and then. But that bought enough time though for team liquid Philippines to get into position. Look at that. Fabi has been in this turtle uh so long. He’s starting to develop a relationship with it. And now the meantime though, nowhere to be found is a retribution. Ki decided to just go for the turret on B. Very proactive. They’re like saying, “Hey, we’re not going to dance anymore. Uh we’ll just get something that we for sure can get.” Oh my lord. And they already use the feather air strike. This might be an opening for Falcons if they can make an arrow, any abyssal arrow hit. But again, they are just making sure that they don’t die in the first place. Yeah, team liquid Philippines do a great job at avoiding the uh AOG coming in from Ogden because they could have potentially started out a fight in that moment, but none of them or they weren’t really complete. So, it’s probably just really being careful for now for Team Liquid Philippines, especially considering that the gold lead isn’t that big just yet. Super Marco is doing a great job here against two in top lane. There’s not much pressure again. If Carl can’t find you, Marco can just start hitting you. Conceal. And now they are doing the pressure this time around. It’s CPH with a fourman squad pushing the Falcons back just so that OB can get that turret. Very beautiful maneuver for TL. Okay. So, it’s either Cary gets you or the other four members get you. Yeah. Yeah. And Carl Dy, by the way, is uh maybe one or two kills away from actually getting that milestone because he already got one earlier. But hold on. AG, they catch here. It’s Sanji. Wings by wings keeps him alive. But Carl Tzy, there you go with a shadow kill. Barely takes out Flap T. They don’t want to give it to you. That was so close for Carl Ty, but they split up the damage of the Oi Shadow kill really well. And 20 seconds before the turtle team Falcon seems to look like they want to take a pick off before that happens. Hey, they’re chasing Ky says, “You know what? I’m a joy. I’ll just keep going. I’ll electrify you. But Sanford is tanky enough to take a What the heck? All right. All right. He’s He’s alive. Slows down the recoil. The Predator becomes the prey in case the gold lead is still giving you doubts. Falcons are in control. That already feels like a pickoff more or less. That’s right. Carl’s easy going to be taking out that turtle with the retribution. But Owen is also going to be next on the docket. Shadow killed keeps him alive and the shadows actually he might be able to do it against Blap his fellow TZ brother going to be able to make it out though. Carl Dy wants to hit that milestone in this game. How poetic would it been if it was Blap that he was able to take out right his TZ brother as you mentioned but they just retreat for now and it feels like Team Liquid Philippines are able to regain control of the game so far and the game is in Liquid’s hands. Is that right? The gold lead just suddenly ballooned because engagement needs to get popped. And there you go. AOG at the back, but there’s just no backup whatsoever. Owen, I think, will fall without much of an answer here coming in from Falcon. Super Marco hitting his marks, but the hits are just not as solid as they thought they would be. Look at that though, Carl. Easy for the back. Going to be able to get something. It’s a two for two in the end. What was Carl doing that deep? He What was that? He killed Oakland, but I don’t think that’s worth it. Not for 40. for Sanji. Yeah. And on the other hand, Kyle TZ did a great job at trying to look for that pickoff against Sanji and they successfully did. So they prevented any further aggression from Team Liquid Philippines. So we’re seeing the contrast so far by now between what’s happening in this game. But Team Liquid Philippines, they need to consider this carefully because they’re already in control. And here’s the thing. Kyle got away with it. So now you’re questioning what is this economy? How is Liquid continuing to grow this 2,000 gold lead, approaching three and still lose these smaller fights? I guess they’re trying to get leverage over the fact that Flap Ty can’t really dive onto them too much cuz once he dives, that’s a oneway one-way trip. That’s an aggressive wings by wings coming in from Sanji. However, that’s the D we’re talking about though. But this time, it’s going to be a sandwich play coming in from Falcons. They’re trapping the cavalry in between a rock in a hard place and bear in a hard place. They’re going hard in this time around. TPH are on the run. They’re helping the Lord as well. The Lord with the assist, the man, the fifth man for the day. And that’s going to be four cavalry members wiped from the map. And just 40 left. Set home by the Falcons. They coraled the cavalry. Nowhere for these stallions to run. That felt like a huge miscalculation. The moment they burned ma their major resources of actually getting away the the quad shadow, the wings by wings. We mentioned it and that was when team Falcons knew that they got them surrounded and that they could engage in that fight. And what better timing if not right before the Lord objective. It’s as if Falcons planned for it, which I think they did. Lord spawns down bottom lane. Carl Tezy I think he is at the milestone or is about to reach it. One more kill. It’s just not the right POS. You can’t celebrate it. Not like this. Not like this. You’re getting pushed into your base. You’re getting a lot of waves coming into your all three lanes. You’re staring down match point if ever this goes Falcons away. And just earlier it was Team Liquid Philippines who were already trying to approach Team Falcons and their base. But could it be another scenario of impatience coming into play for the cavalry? They already had it. They nearly had it, but now it might get away from them again. There you go. They’re jumping in. Falcons feeling a lot more confident. They’re probably just waiting for another Abyssal Arrow to hit from uh from Fu here, but not really being given here by TLPH. So at least at the very least they don’t lose any base turrets. Yeah, still a break. Defense does pop down bottom. Although there is about 20 seconds left on it and it come spots flap. Oh, he knows better than to commit that shadow kill. I think Falcons are now just again to say playing with their food. They’re just waiting for Liquid to fall for another trap because no one at this point could probably answer back to Flapzy and what he can do. He can just dance in front of Team Liquid Philippines. Not unless they go for the second engage. That’s a supposedly fourman AOG, but they’re going to be able to walk out. Walk it out as usual. And there you go. They try to get trapped here by the fist crack. And it’s not going to work. Almost though. Almost pinning him down against the wall. But so far, it’s only going to be one man down for Falcons. It’s Owen. All right. It seems like Liquid have learned their lesson. No longer are they aggressive for the sake of aggression. They know that. All right, this is a win. Small win. We’re trading. We let it go. Get that dub. Yep. Taking these step by step by now. But Carl TZ has to secure his purple buff. Oh, I thought Super Marco got the last hit with rapidly. Unfortunately, he did not. So now Team Liquid Philippines, they need to stay composed, taking things step by step. It’s been working out for them so far, especially if they’re able to punish a member from Team Falcon, similar to what happened with Owen earlier. But you could probably say that Oaken could have avoided that too. Oh yeah. No, they they overcommitted. This is Falcons now maybe looking to end the game wherein they should have just waited for the Lord. It was under tier two up top. Yeah. And again, just a little bit of gold actually is uh you know starving out TLPH. Those waves are very hard to manage if you are TL cuz you are going to have to commit so much to just control a wave. Yeah, luckily they have good wave clear. I’d give this uh an eight and a half out of 10 in wave clear. You know, uh they have the Farsa, they have the Har. Uh they can send Carl TZY over and then Shadow out. But this Lord dance I I don’t know if this is a good lord dance for Liquid to commit to Carl picked up the Malefic. Oh no. Oh, Kyle Tezy is going to absorb so much here. What a beautiful entrance, but no followup happening so far. Flat teasy is going to fall. JP following suit as well. It’s a pretty good trade, but at the end of the day, it’s TLPH running out of steam. Their big nuke mage is out of the picture and this might be the lord for Falcons. Team Falcon’s rage is just superior. The damage they rain down from god knows where is just tilting liquid. Kyle Tezy just took advantage of JP’s position to reach the members of Team Liquid Philippines which they least wanted to get poked down before that objective. That was a that was an OG shadow kill that was forced out of Carl Tezy. He just had to use it to survive. I think that is what makes it so difficult for Liquid. There’s no middle ground. It’s either we take you down from 2 miles away or you die under the paint. You die here in the trenches. And now Liquid’s still fighting back. Yeah, they’re fighting. They’re trying to catch Owen behind the fist break, but it’s a no-go. Owen’s a little bit more durable now. And Vlati is also helping him by diving into the big center mass of TL. And here’s what’s difficult. Liquid has no purifies. I wonder if Falcon is keeping tabs on that for at least 20 more seconds. Falcons can just run through them right now. JB has to be careful for wherever he decides to position himself and all the more for the damage dealers of Team Liquid Philippines. They might want to play around with the ankles, especially as even the Abyssal Arrows. Somehow they find their way towards Sanji and it’s very unfortunate that it does, but it’s a really great job so far for Team Falcons. And there’s the conceal. Yeah, they’re keeping eyes on the Baby Cakes duo. He’s one’s on the left and one’s on the right. Few definitely keeping track of where Sanford is by hitting him with the arrow as well. But look at that. They’re basically giving so much space for that lord and just absorbing so much from that center mass. It’s going to be Kyle Ty with the Lord though and there’s going to be the chase. Falcons, will they go for more? Looks like they are going to be able to get JP down. Immortality is going to be popped. He have the shadow kill. He does not. JP falling. OM though, look at this guy. Look at this beast. He is not giving up. But few will shut him down. And that’s a wipe out. Falcons are here. And it looks like, can they? Will they? Sanford’s going to come back in 3 seconds. But he’s up against Kyle Tezy. And a bunch of minion waves marching down mid. Not just any minion waves. It’s a Lord. Minion wave on top as well. 9 seconds on the JP. Do they have the clear to deal with this? It’s all on 40. The Apex Predator has to commit to a defense of a lifeline. Here comes Danny JP. Here we go. It’s a 2v one. Is pretty far off, but the lord already has it. Sights onto the base. And here comes at the very last moment. And oh will not be enough to stop him. We are at match point. How how in all of season 15 did Falcons just now figure out how to defeat their rivals? Titans of MoB Liquid are currently drowned in this series. This is not the sweetest revenge after an entire season of not winning against them. Oh, let’s throw it over to NaSu and to the ultimate Falcons guy, Red Bus. I’ve got the Falcons guy right here and he Oh my god. The last sequence. No, I No, he’s not chill. We’re not chill. We were freaking out. The last sequence. What was that? What is going on? It looked like, okay, Falcons got that, but then suddenly Liquid Oben clapback. almost got fenalized there, but then suddenly Kyle Teasy from out of nowhere to swing it back. I felt like that last team fight was just an excellent example of how these two teams know each other and the level of MLBB that we have to expect when going up against each other because TLPH it was a back and forth for a majority of the time. Suddenly OB woke up and then came in at the right time. Then the arrow from the arrow from Fume, but then Caltey coming in at the perfect time there in the end with electrifying beasts. These two teams were just so good in this game number two, but Caly coming out on top 71 and five. Yeah, 911 GPM. This Joy, it’s been a while I feel like at least at least so far in the playoffs that we’ve seen the Joy picked up, especially first pick on that blue side. It was open. They locked it in. Kyle Tezy gets the MVP here and it was that last sequence and even the way again it was a joy because you had the electrifying beats at the end. He was able to go ahead and clear up those waves and then end the game with that push there and it was just overall a nailbiter towards the end because there was a moment there was windows there for TLP to actually win their favor and it could have even come down to one of those lord fights here. We’re going to take a look at the highlights um of this game number two. Again, it’s a it’s a good back and forth where even for TLPH, they had some good team fights in the beginning, but unfortunately, this is what Falcons I I don’t know if people actually forget about this, but if they do, Falcons is the team that was known for being so objectively um dominant, you know, when it came to back when it was all the lord dances, like they were the team that really perfected that. And when it comes to objectives and the decision-m around it, you see that still today in this current meta on how they approach these fights, how they approach um even the lord dances. Yeah, I’m thinking if uh Team Liquid Philippines were not able to foresee the Esmeralda coming in considering that they of course they locked in the Hilda and the fourth and then afterwards the Esmerald that came in cuz uh for Team Liquid yeah they had JP on the Hilda to get vision and whatnot but it wouldn’t be able to disrupt Cali so much because he’s up against and got the Gatcha in the Rome and then ultimately as we mentioned it was the Esmeralda pick. Uh there were times where it looked like Flap teasy what are you doing there? It’s just like, dude, it’s because I’m sucking up all the shields that their lineup has that I can afford to do this. It’s so easy for me to walk up, deal damage, front line significantly more than I can compared to the heal up on the other side. And this is this is the sequence we were talking about here at the end. That was just amazing to see, you know, how this played out. That was the few arrow we were talking about. Kyle comes up, cleans things through, and it’s just like, man. And then that last kind of push into the base was handled so well. Able to clear those minions because that electrifying beads of the joy. So once again, look how close this is. I mean, even in terms of gold through it, it’s a 17-minute game, but still even down to that last end, you know, TLP was basically in it. Yes, they didn’t have um maybe some of the best positioning, but they still had fighting capability with this kind of lineup. And that’s why Falcons had to be so kind of cautious in choosing those fights. Yeah, Carl Dyer was playing out of his mind, man. This Hayabusa, you can make a quick little Tik Tok video compilation of what Carl Tezy did here just to show how good he was in the Hayabusa. Yeah, it was 43 and six, but those three deaths came in from Oakwin. Timing is unbreakable. will uh at a good time or him just really getting caught out before he could pop up the shadow kill or expensing his shadow kill shadowing out. But then there were members of Falcon waiting and ready to take him down. But he was fantastic in this game. Sanji as well did everything he could to position as good as he could against a lineup that has all the tools it can to make a Farsa cry. He still walked out walked away with dealing almost 55,000 damage. So Sanji and Ob did everything they could with what Falcons brought to the table. In the end though, again, it seems like Falcons have just solved something or something click. Maybe it’s because they’re so battle tested from yesterday against the NC World Team that they’re just making a little bit more right choices and it’s not a significant gap. Team Flicker Philippines were fantastic in that game number two. Yeah, they were. You know, you can’t really just look at it that way and say, “Oh, it’s it’s smash point now for Falcons.” like TPH played a great game too. It’s just unfortunate that towards the end there, they weren’t able to go ahead and win that team fight cuz it could have really been something different. Uh cuz you can even see, you know, OB being the carry here popping off on that damage. We saw previews of how just bursty he was um sitting there and like you mentioned even with Sanji JP as well soaking up a lot of that damage. But our BPI rich guy is going to be none other than our MVP. It’s going to be Kyle Tezy. 911 gold per minute and a total amount of 15.5k basically. And again, this is what you expect. It’s when you don’t see the hero pop up as often as it did before, you kind of get surprised when it does perform like this. So, Redmark, break it down a little bit further for us. All right. So, what I saw in that game number two were shades of their Titanic matchup in the Snapdragon Pro series. uh RA the SPS season 5. Sorry, I almost said mobile bastards, but I just realized it’s a whole different tournament. But yeah, SPS season 5 where they uh went up against each other in Malaysia Quill City Mall. Uh there were times where we were wondering what’s going on with these two because it wasn’t as disciplined and whatnot. But then we realized it was just the next level of their style of play where in Okay, pretty much every time we see each other contesting for an objective, not just a lord or turtle, but buffs, purple buffs, orange buffs, key areas in the river, just holding that which explodes into follow on skirmish. It becomes an excellence and execution battle. Looking in this game, of course, blue side now Falcons are sitting at 13-11 after that 13-5 for Team Liquid Philippines. of course a significantly better record but look at the crowd control time of the madang 22.2 2 seconds. Fantastic game from uh Sanford. Did what he could but and then at the same time you have Flapzy on the Esmeralda front lining and tanking again. 134,000 damage take taken. But then look at the crowd control time of you almost 30 seconds secured by hitting those abyssal arrows onto the key targets. that also is affected uh this number is also affected by the slows he can dish out as well from the abyssal traps that uh that adds to crowd control time. So when you look up at this lineup, yes, for Carl Tezy on the Hayabusa, it wasn’t such a direct approach of like who could he go for, it’s mainly just the Granger, but these three are playing such uh excuse me, these other four are playing such separate games that it’s a hard for a Hayabusa to make up the most of a shadow kill, but he would be able to find Granger and whoever he could at key times. Again, Carl Ty was wild in this game. that Falcons had to be even better that Selena in the hands of few had to land onto so many people just so that they could make the most out of it. And at the end of the day, Team Liquid Philippines fell to the Falcons. Despite Falcons looking like at times they would slip, they didn’t. uh at the right time they were able to call on Kyle Tezy and F for some heroics. Man, I think they’re going to have to do that for game three. They’re going to need to go ahead and if they want to get the match point. I It’s just I did not think this would happen in all the matches that we’ve had. If this ends up being a sweep, maybe everyone else can agree on that or not because again, this is Battle of the Titans. This is back in our season 13 grand final matchup and like we mentioned everything that they’ve been fighting for here. If this ends up in a sweep, I will be flumxed. I will be shocked. The same. I mean, I I predicted I’m the only dude that predicted for Falcons in this series, but I’m just as surprised as you are and as everybody is with what we’re seeing cuz uh I expected a significantly closer game in terms of the point. I thought we’d be 1-1 at this point, but the fact that Falcons are one win away from making it to the upper bracket finals to try and challenge Onyx Philippines for that first grand final slot. I I I can’t believe it. What what a story that would be, you know, but we we’ll have to see if that ends up happening here. We do want to go ahead and introduce Corinthians Esports though. Uh this is again taking a glimpse at what’s ahead of us, and that is MSC at EWC 2025. Corinthians is one of the MPL Latams reps reps at MSC at EWC 2025. It’s empowered by a Filipino player. You might re recall here, a former TNC player, and that is Hu. Uh, some of his teammates are also familiar faces. Of course, you have RQ Akira players over there, and they have been one of the staples in the Internationals that you’ve seen. again uh their their stats speak for themselves, but I’m wondering how Hessu fits into this because you know the likes of Luis and uh just all of them really. They fit in very well. And I say they because it’s not just Hess is a Filipino there, but he has a fellow Filipino in the jungler flick who ever since in his introduction into Corinthians esports have just been playing really well. And now at this point where they’re going to be going up against Latam’s influencer rage in the grand finals of MLAM season 3 on the June 8th. Well, let’s go ahead and take a look at our video here for Hessu. Oh, I think we had a I thought we had a We do have a VTR, but you are the video. You get to see us first. None of us are Hess. Yeah, I remember when Ezu was still back here in the Philippines, he’d always do that dance. Ah, we can’t do that dance, you know. But, uh, maybe he’s going to do it in the VTR. Let’s go ahead and take a look at this. Hello, I am Edu from Corin and I’m playing on seasonal. How is different from any other regions that you’ve played in? For me, the biggest thing I had to overcome was the communication for the whole team. But overall, they made me feel welcome and truly accepted. See you at EWC Corinians. Uh, how would you describe your team? For me, my team is very bing and brothers. I’m closest to Fleek because we can make jokes easily because we’re Filipino. But I’m also close with the three of my teammates because they also joke with me and I joke with them. Sometimes I don’t understand, sometimes I understand. 2022 I think MSCW Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much then and I love you. I am inviting you guys to support me and my team Corinants in the upcoming MPL Latang season 3 grand final. See you soon guys. I love you. And again, that’s Hu there uh giving a little bit of a video and a catch up for everybody here in the Philippines. Um over there playing for Corinthians Esports. Hey, by the way, look at this. Carl Teasy, congratulations. The first MPL Philippines player to reach 2,000 kills. the goat himself. 2,000 kills. Congratulations to Carl T. That’s huge. That’s a huge milestone. Yeah, thank took uh 15 seasons to do it. He’s going to be the first player to do it. If I’m not mistaken, that should be globally, right? Considering that how long he’s been playing, how long it took him to reach the 2,000. I’m sure he’s the Well, it’s a MLP age player, so I’m not going to be the guy to say he’s the first player ever in the global MLB sport. So, congrat congratulations to the young goats. That’d be interesting to see, you know, like uh around the uh the globe, what are some of the other kill numbers there for some of the the players out there in the different regions and NPL’s even? But again, Carl Dezy needs to go ahead and channel this milestone into game three. Like, you know, there’s no way. I’m just I would be so surprised and I know our entire casting desk would be too because they were unanimous in their decision on what they were going for this series. And I would just be um yeah kind of scratching my head if it ends up in a sweep like what you know this TLPH team that we’ve seen through the regular season perform so well and get to the the point that they’ve been in uh the playoffs or getting to this point. It just seems like the disconnect is still there. Like that’s the biggest word that I could think of that’s really sticking out to me for TLPH. And it’s not that their drafts are like bad or anything. like the drafts seem to be rather the idea is there but the execution when it goes against what Falcons is bringing seems to be the problem here. I mean, okay, for me personally, when it comes to the drafts of team Philippines so far, there always seems to be like one thing that makes you scratch your head, question it a bit. Uh, you could think about it as like a bit of a the weakest link maybe. Yeah, number one would be the Terizla. But then again, in that scenario, it makes sense. Game number two, it was the Hilda, but then again, in that scenario, it made sense somewhat. a little bit less compared to Turisla by in my take. But yeah, as you can see, there’s always at least that one pick that makes you go, huh? Well, for the side of Falcons, once it gets when it got to their last picks, um, in the in game number one, it was Matilda, last pick, red side. Game number two, it was Esmeralda and Selena as one of the last two picks, blue side. That made you go a little bit more like, oh, I could see it. So, you see the dichotomy there. So, I feel like since I’m feeling a something as simple as that. Well, where what the That’s what I saw. That’s pretty cool. It’s Joey. Oh, bro. Sorry. My train of thought just got I love mascots and stuff, by the way. Well, you know what? You lost your train of thought. By the way, there’s more there. Bria, do you see do you see these big cosplayers over here? Yep. I saw them wearing their costumes right outside. That’s a Is that a Johnson? And yeah, that’s a Johnson. It’s a And then what’s the other one? Was it in a bellerin? Yeah, that’s a Wait, that’s a bell ring. Wait, wait, wait. No, it’s not the beller. It’s not easy. No, it’s Belleris. Why can’t I recognize what skin that is? Yeah, I I mean, we’re looking we’re going to You have the better view. But you know what? Let’s jump into the draft here. It’s game three match point right now for Falcons. And already the picks are coming out. You already got the joy. You already got the Granger. You have everything you need. And over on the other side, Bang and Har over here for TLPH. It looks like they pretty much got what works for them again in the previous game right here. It’s the joy and the great once again in the hands of team Falcons whereas team liquid Philippines they will be going for a similar trend as well to what we saw earlier. It’s still the haram. So it’s very likely that we’ll be seeing a similar pattern for this game. Yeah, so far it except Yes, same one. Har Padang and this is going to be a high boost again for Liquid. I I like the high boost in that game number two. It worked out very well for Carl and it is same drafts only that um they might probably not go for the far second to Selena if it ever does happen again or they bat out the Selena so they have more room to I like how uh Team Liquid decided to go more for the rot of refinement here. They’re not really changing the game too much cuz even they realized that like guys we could have totally won game number two. We didn’t need to do so much there. So, let’s just adjust something. So far, no major adjustments literally just yet other than the fact that the jaw head got banned before the low Y did by Falcons. I don’t know what if TLPH just goes like what were the other two picks that they had in the last in the previous game? We usually have the graphic for that for Team Liquid. Yeah. Hilda and Farsa. Hilda and Farsa. Okay. What if they did the exact same thing? Like is that would we still be scratching our heads? They banned the Esparalda though. So okay, Esmeralda’s taken out. They could. Yeah. Like what if they just lock it in again? Far and Hilda. There’s no Emeralda. I mean they were able to somehow deal with the like was that the biggest problem was just flap on the Esmeralda? Hell yeah. It’s either clap or but I feel like earlier it was really flap just like basing it off what it could offer against the line of kingdom. Yeah. So is it a lu man blast for so similar to what we saw the last game? Yeah. So uh if it if this is not the low ban then it should be very different uh the course of this game considering that team liquid Philippines now are going to be having that threat of a signature Sanji pickup. They banned the high loss instead. So still focusing on taking away a potentially great option for either JP and or Sanford. Yeah, and I’m starting to think that I definitely want to see that action type of approach from Team Liquid will be this action like Stampede Express. It felt a little like except for the previous game, I guess, but it’s it’s more of a passive version of the liquid stampede that we’re seeing so far. Yeah, maybe it’s a liquid brisk walk. It’s the the it’s the liquid trot. It’s not a stampede anymore. It’s the sound effect Leo made earlier when he did the It was a really good sound effect. The I can’t even do it. Oh, there something like that. Something along those lines. Okay, what are they going for? Last ban was the hyos though. Chip. All right, it is in a way redemption. JP had his first loss on the chip. He wants to go ahead and get another shot at it. This could have worked pretty well though, right? I mean, Chip Busa, the Har Chip Badam, not Chip Terisa. Yeah, Chipang, but there’s an AOG that could come in from Falcons. Yeah, the AOG was pretty on point last game, too. That’s the thing. And they did advance the Luigi, so they can pick it up here if they wanted to. That’s a That’s a way to match the global presence that Team Lab has. Plus, you’re going to risk giving the overload combo of Loi and Jim, though, I’m I’m not the biggest believer in that. It does work at times. This time around, Falcons get the Hilda and they go Selena again. So, the only difference is the Esmeralda that was banned by Team Liquid Philippines is now a Hilda for Falcons. So, what if it’s Nah? Because like if you get the Selena here, you would be hesitant to pick the Luigi. Do you just go far? I feel like they just go far. Yeah, like you just go far like kind of out of options. Just go with Farsa. But you changed it a little bit. So it’s not completely the same. It’s same same but a little different. Yeah. What do you think, Renar? Uh I’m a little bit more liquid here. You’re happy with it? I’m leaning a little bit more liquid here. I like the chip adjustment. Uh they still went for the parsa. Same same diff. Uh you’re still going to feel flaps presence, although it’s not going to be as bad as it was in game number two with that Esmeralda. It’s a little bit more manageable for Liquid. comfort yet again. Yeah, we could be going to a game of a four. Yeah, it’s going to look good here. I think for TLPH, this is a little bit of a better adjustment, but still the way Falcons has been playing is what I want to take in consideration here. Even as we look at the index, it’s going to favor them a little bit. And uh I think one of the big things for TLPH is they got to shut down Super Marco some way. So, we’re going to throw it over to the casters to take us into game number three. Let’s see what they have to say. Liquid has the lock in. That’s what I got to say. If we want to see this go one more game and give the Cavalry what they came to see, then they have to make the most of this very good draft. I’ll say that much. Welcome to the desk, folks. Uh, please uh bear with us as we uh figure out exactly how to give the players the best experience competitively on stage so that they could entertain us to no end, to the best of their abilities. My name is Leo. We’re here on desk with Rockhart and Riida. Carl, a minute. We have to talk about this a minute. How do you feel about Liquid’s draft? Uh Liquid’s draft feels like it’s trying to maximize still Carl Tezy, right? That’s Carl Tezy having more freedom on the Hayabusa. Hayabusa has been consistently banned out against Liquid for a few of their games as well. So, I feel like uh if they can really enable Carl here, they might be on to something. And again, it’s a little bit different, but it’s essentially the same as previous game. Anyways, it’s a good draft. I don’t see it doing anything bad, nor it failing on any fundamental level. Bring it up. What can you say about Liquid’s play? Because nice did mention Falcon is off the chain hook tonight. Is Liquid off? Are they the ones who are down? We did observe a couple times where it didn’t feel like they were in sync as much. They weren’t as coordinated as how you would expect the Liquid Stampede to operate whenever you watch them during the regular season. And it’s probably also because they wanted to try out too many things. You know, for the first two games, they’ve been introducing some interesting approaches to playing the game. And I’m not entirely sure if it’s working because they might have practiced this, but we don’t see the value. To put it into numbers pregame. Holy Whoa. Hold up, hold up, hold up. Owen, are they popping the revitalize? one. That’s early revitalized by Owen. And Kyle Dzy doesn’t really have any electron beats yet. So, he’s going to try and see if he can maybe fight Carl Sezy without those shadows, those OG shadow kills. All right, Tranquilo. All right, welcome to game number three. Fights just about to break out once again. Everyone’s low. Wow. Okay, hold on here. Uh yeah, they seem to be very uh at each other’s throats at the very least. Okay, a minute. Let’s digest the emblems here and talk about why Liquid is so gung-ho to experiment. Sanji getting hit by few here. Might be forced to go home. 37 37 unique heroes to 51 for Falcons. Yep. Suddenly now you decide to experiment, right? It’s been Falcons who like even way back in the regular season, they were the ones to use the thumbs and all that, but they were quick to adjust back and go to their old ways if they feel like it’s not working. And same with the Philippines, that might be one good option for them considering the outcome of the entire situation right now. And that is what we’re probably seeing with the way they draft or in the way they drafted their lineup only that again Fu few might be another X factor here in the way he’s going to stop JP. Yeah, those arrows hitting uh the targets properly. Definitely big X factors here for Falcons and they’re able to just push back the rest of TLPH at least for now. But JP doesn’t really have the shortcut. I don’t know why he’s up on front here. Maybe just trying to see if he can tag Flap teasy. Flap teas not on Esmeralda this time. He’s going to have some firepower in the early game. He’s doing a great job at hoking down JP. And there they can just keep going at it. Oh, it’s actually Dw who gets the turtle with collateral damage here, but uh that will result to a bit of an uh a bit of a bad scruffle here for Falcons using the AoE just to push them back. That’s Oen for you. OG thrown in the way of Kyle Tezy and the rest of Falcon. So Owen sacrificing himself for the sake of his course. I mean, they’re happy with the turtle. They are, but that’s an exchange of two bodies. Flap teasy and Owen went down in the hands of Team Liquid Philippines. And two assists. Two assists for Carl Tezy. It’s actually Sanji who got both of those kills. So, this might be a good sign for them in the early There you go. Feathered air strike. The last hit will actually uh connect into few there, which is a really good sign here for TLP. 3 and 0 so far. All right. So far, Liquid is pulling a clear man. They’re clearing out all the dandruff, all the flakes, all the kinks of their gameplay. And I hate to say that it’s coming at the cost of Falcons getting messy. Yeah, it doesn’t feel like uh Falcons are able to think through the way they approach the first objective fight. And this is probably Team Liqu Philippines remembering how it is to actually go for the objectives. the turtle percent, the turtle control percentage. Again, they’re top one in terms of that, but we haven’t seen as much in the past two games, but now we’re seeing finally that same form from Team Liquid Philippines. They just have to keep this going. Yep. An average of 1.97 turtles per game. Chocolate up to two. So, that means they’re at least guaranteed two turtles per game, no matter who the matchup compared to Falcon’s 1.67. So, it’s already weird that Falcon started off with that turtle take. Few got it off of a random trap pop. Another turtle spawning up top. How about with this gold? It’s all about this gold lane. How is Marco looking like at Om cuz Om’s trying. I feel like series all along O’s been trying. He has been. But this is Super Marco who ever since yesterday has been constantly getting the BBI rich guy on the Granger, you know. So I feel like he’s way too comfortable with the way he’s able to play the Granger. Be it in the laning phase, be it in the latter portions of the game. And so Team Liquid Philippines, at least for now, they don’t get to worry about that as much. And fortunately, Sanji is 3-0 on this fara, so they have ways to deal with that. A little bit more time for those gold laners to get some items farm up. But for now, Turtle Dance Falcons on Mass here on site. Oh, Sanford. I think they saw he already used the fist break. So that might be a bit of a go signal here for Falcons to keep the pressure going. Going to try to contest maybe here. And they’re playing on the Zan Force. Shortcut is also active. Carl TZ is going to be the one who takes Vernal alongside Oakwood. Oh man, Liquid Philippines smelling any sign of weakness. Cracking down. But this does leave Marco to push down bot. Yeah, more pressure coming in from Sanford this time around hitting those fizz breaks. Make sure that he’s able to push back Falcons at least for now. And TPH comes out on top. 1.4k gold lead. It’s different now that OH is finally able to join in. Of course, yes, at the expense of their tier one down bottom, but I feel like Team Liquid Philippines, they’re happy with the way things are going. Sanji is really activated right now on the fara 301 100% kill participation so far. And you can pretty much assure that they can create a lot more space compared to the past few games. And that’s just by looking at Sanji, not even what at what JP can do with the chip. We haven’t seen as much just yet. They did call up OB for that turtle fight. Uh, so we expected it to be a one-on-one gold lane for them to just, you know, stay there, duel, but they called in the Baby Cakes. Baby Cake served it up. I’d reckon if they ride that wave, yeah, they could come back into this series, but we’ll take it one step at a time. One more turtle spawning lower quarter. That turret made up for down bottom. So, it’s a tur a turret a piece 6 and 1/2 minutes in. The fact that Carl D is playing more disciplined now is making all the difference. It really is. I I feel like they’re able to just really get into focus, especially on retribution. So, they’re getting the objectives at the very least. It’s one for one, though. So, we’ll see if they can maybe get more kills after this one. That seems to be what they’re really good at here. OB removed from the map before he can actually do anything in the team fight. There goes Carl Dzy with that shadow kill and it’s going to be a one for one. There’s not a world where that’s worth it. Flamy for OH. I’m wondering, how was OH found there? It does feel like they were trying to set something up. JP was already holding the brush, but Team Falcons, they didn’t decide to go in that area and instead they caught OV all alone, separated away from JP. And now they go for the turtle. Yep, it’s going to be a C easy turtle, but the collapse is really strong. Basically TLPH throwing everything but the kitchen sink. And they got Kyle. They lost out on the tur turtle, but they got Kyle. Okay, seems to be pretty worth it. They’re getting ready to maybe dive in behind this turret. We’re looking at Sanford. Is the fist break going to come in? But no, it’s shadow kill from Carl Tezy first. He finds few solo, but the timing is off because there’s no wave that they can convert for in that mid lane tier one. They’re going to go for this purple steel though. Did he get it? I think he got it. Yeah, he retreated. They’re going to sell with that. Oh, but Kyle Tezy able to get information that there’s someone around the orange buff. But this is indeed a very well balanced performance we’re seeing from Carl Tezy. Just the right amount of discipline and aggression and especially when he sees that Sanji is able to poke someone down really low and that’s something he’s really capable of doing at this point. Also on the lethal ignition, so you could expect the amount of damage to be really felt by both you and Super Marco. At this point, you have to look at where the attack is going to come from here. If you are Falcons, you have to be very aware because you have to you have to prepare for the fist break, right? Once the fist break comes in, you don’t really have a lot of flickers to use. So, you’re going to have to walk. So, look at look pretty attack. No flickers, no purifies. Everything that you’re going to do to get out of Liquid’s engagements is something proactive. You have to skill check your way out of a liquid stampede which has been slowly been ramping up. You know, the wind up is there. We’re seeing it and it’s coming off of the back of JP’s controlled approach off of Sanji’s killer instincts and of course Kyle’s discipline. We’re waiting for OM to come online. It’s a slow start for the Filipino sniper. Yep. And it’s nice to see that while they’re waiting for that to happen, it’s that they know they also have to take the necessary objectives. They’ve been taking away turrets from Team Falcon and that hasn’t been happening for the past few minutes. But JP is low. JP is one tough cookie now. Just now he’s using the flicker after so many skills have actually been thrown at him. He refused to use a shortcut. It’s not time. He says it’s not time. Not yet. Exactly. Yep. KZ already pushing up the waves up top. So, that’s a lot of pressure for Team Falcons, especially as they’ve already positioned themselves in the lore that’s or the lord fight that’s about to happen here down bottom. Okay, little known uh technicality here. I love how JP’s using Chip’s passive. Yep, he took a lot of damage and then walks away. Walks away for like 5 seconds like guys, I’m back. I’m ready. He has a passive guardian health. Yep, the chips. He just he needs to eat the chips and he can immediately get back and position himself for this upcoming objective. They also have to take note of the portal that’s right next to the lord, but Owen’s watching it carefully. So JP cannot take advantage of that. They also put a trap, so they know fully well the capabilities of a chip. So they’ll have to look for other angles if they want to start things up. But just the same, the counter punish is scary if you are team Falcons. Slow and steady the approach of these Titans are towards victory. Oh, there you go. A comeback for Liquid and a dominant finish for Falcons. So far, Liquid first of the scene here. Lorded half health conceal. Yeah, they’re starting it up. They see the HP bars and they are getting ready to fight. Wait a second. There’s a shortcut behind them. Super Marco is removed by Ohem. But that’s going to be gold for gold. What’s a 4v4 going to look like here? A Liquid split stampede. A kill squad sent over to Marco while the rest of Liquid go for the Lord. I was expecting the Lord to go to Falcons, but it was a calculated risk. Yep. JB knew what he had to do. They were locking. They were target locked onto Super Marco. And this kind of reminds me of the exact same scenario we saw earlier with the Lucas and he got hit by the arrow. Luckily enough, just enough time to walk on out there. And I guess the rest of Falcons weren’t ready to capitalize, but man, that the tanks, the front liners here of TLPH are very, very durable. They have to be they they have not just mechanically, not just literally in game, but they have to understand that if we die, that gives more room for Falcons to come back. JP jumps in. Speaking of coming back, it’s going to be TPHR coming back by a shortcut here. Uh, but I don’t know. It feels like it’s a one-way trip. There you go with a fist break, but Super Marco survives. AOG by Owen. And the dance is still going. And they’re playing around with a lord behind them. Sanji with a feathered air strike. Unstoppable kill on the flap. Better late than never. A delayed feathered air strike. Every salvo made count by Sanji. And Carl Tezy, he was able to use the Yogi Shadow kill on the right targets, too. They spent too much time trying to take down Sanford who got to somehow dodge all the ultimates that were thrown at him. And now TPH might go for the push. It’s a big nuke being thrown by Sanji here. And OB will go for the kunic. But oh my goodness, he actually took way more damage than he should have. Got killed by a turret. And this could be really, really bad for TL. It’s one by one. Free go down for the cavalry. Kyotezi swooping in like a birds of prey taking down 40 and Sanji the Sansen duo out of commission. Uh-oh. As they have a wave and there are 20 seconds left before three members of team the Philippines come back. They’re definitely going to take a base turret away with them. Carly will do his best to defend though. Nice clear. Okay, he gets to clear the wave. It’s all he needs to do. JP’s up on back looking for an opening but nope. Not going to be given here by Falcons. Falcons don’t know. So JP just waited there just in case cuz look the rest of Liquid the rest of Liquid just respawned two seconds later. If Falcon stayed a little longer JP would have come in. Yeah, someone was going to go down there for sure. Yep. They also probably sensed it right there. There are just sometimes when you say so alert you see the eye trick that there’s probably someone who has vision of you in that area. So they just played it safe, went for the recall, and did not decide to engage any further, especially considering as there’s five more seconds left before the next lord actually spawns. So they have to fight for this, especially as they kind of balance out the map, but it’s still Team Liquid Philippines who exposed their base turrets already. So far, Liquid have a solid hold on the top half of the map. That’s where the Lord is going. Wait, that’s a shortcut. Oh, shortcut. Big shortcut here on the jungle of Falcons. That’s F going down. Where’s the punch back though? Where is the revenge? It’s KZY going down. Shadow kill perfectly timed by Carl Tezy and JP will be able to survive with immortality, but not for long. Super Mario still is back into punch. Of dominating the gold lane opposition. Baby Cakes is back. PH wiping out Falcons. Sanport’s going to clear this minion as they slowly approach the mid lane. They have a wave. F’s going to survive, but he’s the only one who can defend. There’s going to be a pretty fast blitz here for TLPH. Even F can’t stop it. We’re going to game four. Finally, Liquid Philippines are on the board. One to two. The other half of the Champions Arena come alive. Still a do or die. But you see how activated they got. They cannot let go of this game. They do not want. Ladies and gentlemen, listen over to the nice little red bar talk about game number three. We need We needed it. We I I know the I know you guys mentioned the other half of the arena rose up. It’s been a minute since I’ve heard the let’s go Liquid. Let’s go Liquid. So, here we go. They’re ready. They’re excited. Maybe we are going five games again. Yeah. I mean, at the end of the draft, I said it’s like there’s just a little light of the Liquid right now. They’re just much better. Uh with Flap’s role significantly diminished now. Hayabusa on Carl Tease. He gets the MVP he wanted in game number two. He gets it here in this game number three. deathless now. 6 and six. A little bit sharper, a little bit more disciplined in the timing and it was just that little bit of adjustment. Selfchecking was all that he needed to back the MVP here. A perfect game. Yep. Perfect game for him. Definitely needed it. And again, very fitting after we just went ahead and congratulated him on the milestone of 2,000 kills for the MPL Philippines. The first one for the MPL Philippines comes into this performance and pops off. But a lot of that had to do with how things set up early on as we take a look at the MVP highlights here. And you know, that’s the thing. It just seems like, you know, Falcons, they were a little more aggressive than and taking some of these chances early on. And then that allowed TPH to get the lead that they wanted to. And a lot of these team fights, again, think about how much utility and damage they have with a chip available there in the Bedang. And then of course Sanji this time around really having a better game with the Farsa. Yeah, in the first four to 5 minutes it was really just small margins of differences as to why TLPH would win fights against Falcons. And again those little moments of just all right, let me just ease up a little bit. Let me be just a little delayed with my entry. All right, let me just conserve a dash or side step instead of going in for the chase and trying to secure a kill being aggressive. It all worked out for TLP. They started it off 4 and 0. Falcons then were suddenly slipping very quickly because they realized, oh wait, if we’re losing kills, that means we’re losing our placements in the jungle, which means it’s so much harder for us to farm up and get items. It took a long time for them to start really clapping back up until it got to this moment though where Falcons did take the right fight, but again, Team Liquid Philippines disciplined in the approach. Ob instead of putting down the zmon force right away the damage he was like let me just wait a little bit longer and then he brings it down to finish off the kill against super marco. Yeah and it it was really you know Falcons like I said towards the end there thinking about maybe taking some of chance some of the chances in those team fights to see if they could turn it around they were still pretty much trying to do the same thing. I mean, even Super Marco, his positioning was highly dependent on where were the arrows going. And even in that last sequence, he did pretty well, but unfortunately, you can only maneuver yourself so much uh on that Granger, especially when your flicker is gone. So, uh they weren’t able to go ahead and turn the tides of those later fights. But TLPH definitely needed this. They came back uh calm and collected, and they didn’t change too much. I mean, we said this uh was basically same same, but diff and the chip this time around for JP in his own right had some redemption as well because he had his first loss back in uh what was it game two? Game two when he had his first loss on the chip, game one. And uh so now you you look at this and again you can just see how valuable the chip can be in a lineup. Oh yeah. Um same team the diff but those that diff even though it looked like a small change was actually weirdly very big again compared to game number two. He was packed in a Hilda then. Of course, we know what Chip brings to the table with bringing the rest of the party uh to wherever he is. Uh those surprise appearances with a shortcut so that he could get into flank angles so much easier if Falcons aren’t careful. All those were happening because JP was on in a much more comfortable ROR for him in terms of being able to provide instant big gratification with just a simple press of a button. Yep. And so we’re going to take a look at the big four stats here. And of course he got Carl Teis though twice the carry and of course our BPI rich guy and Sanford really that was a big difference. You know that was that that minor change through the draft too played dividends here. And you can already see for Carl Te’s BPI rich guy it is uh nonetheless going to be that high booster performance. The GPM 824 12.260 gold here for him. And yeah, that’s that’s usually the trend, man. If you get to do the high boost and you get scaled up really quickly, you snowball. So, Renmar, how exactly they achieve that? All right, so let’s start off from uh the beginning of time. Not really the beginning of time, but the beginning of the game where of course Falcons looked like they were, you know what? All right, we’re very confident here. It looks like we’ll be able to sweep up our longtime rivals and go on to the upper bracket final. So then they were slipping a little bit in the discipline. They were taking small missteps that eventually turned into big investment favoring Team Liquid Philippines which you if you look at the red line here representing Team Liquid PH. Those little wins, those little kills, those moments where Carl Ty would be getting kills all eventually ranked up into an even bigger gold lead. Uh for team Falcons, the gap never dipped so much, but they were losing presence in the map so quickly. Because again, if they start dropping bodies and then they start losing positioning in the map, that’s so much space for a chip to take over and a lineup that’s it’s paired up with a Hayabusa, a Badang, and most importantly, the key pick here is that Farsa to really expand your domain considering with how much range a fee air strike has, then it’s deadly for Falcons to lose the way they did in the map. Again, the gold never got so huge in terms of the gap, but it’s the map, the objectives, the towers that Team Liquid Philippines got over Falcons that became the biggest difference between the two. So, since Falcons, their lineup this time around, they don’t have the Esmeralda, they have the Hilda, it demands them to be the one with slightly better map positioning. or if it’s not slightly better, at least if the other team’s in the lead, it’s close. If you lose map positioning, no matter how much gold you have, it’s going to be so hard for you to make the most out of the lineup that you bring to the table. Look at Super Marco’s farm compared to OH’s. Very neck and neck in terms of when they got their first items. 4 minutes for Super Marco. The Star for Ob came in at 6. And then feather of heaven slightly past 8. 8 minutes or between 6 and 8 minutes you get the sky piercer. See halbird at 10. Of course the holy crystal will come in much later. Ob took time to farm. Yes. Super Marco yes was farming faster but all of that came at the expense of control everywhere else. as Team Liquid Philippines, they were getting significantly more things in the map. That was the kicker there. Of course, with Sanji getting his items relatively quickly. Earlier, we had a game where uh the glowing wand came in at 8 minutes between four and six. Yeah, that’s the sweet spot that you’d want to be able to get the first item uh for your Farsa. And then lightning trenches slightly past uh 10. Although, yeah, it did extend it. It did extend because at this point the fara wouldn’t be focused on the farming anymore. You’re rotating alongside JP trying to get kills and if you’re not getting kills, you’re using your feathered air strike to provide the zoning and the presence so that you have a much better again sphere and space of influence that you work with. You look at Sanford and Flap teas item development night and day. Sanford gets his items very relatively quickly by the time the second item here uh came in for uh Sanford with a brute force breastplate flap teasy didn’t full a build full build an item yet he got the dreadnot armor didn’t full build the anti-aras had to go straight into the dominus eyes and then he went for the radiant armor at this point with the lead going to team liquid with a thunder belt on a batang which at that point probably had close to 20 or so stacks at around 10 and 12 minutes and then you have the brute force breast plate as well. You’re encouraged to continue being aggressive as Sanford was placing himself so that you can make the most out of what Badang brings to the table. A lot of crowd control and a hell a hell of a load of just annoying presence for Falcons to deal with. With all of that, the guy to lead the charge was actually the jungler, the assassin in Carl Tezy. With all the vision being provided by JP, by Sanford, by Sanji, it was so easy for Carl Dy to say, “Wait, yeah, now I’m going to go in.” Compared to game number two where it was like, “I’m going to go in. I’m going to go in. Let’s go. Come on. Someone come with me.” Now, this time around, it’s guys, are we all in position? All right. I’m going to go in as my Hayabusa. If anything ever happens and someone responds to the other side, at least there’s another dude here with me to help me get away or to help secure a trade. 86% income participation in game number three compared to the average for Carl TZ post patch 1.9.64 more kills and assist. It was just a significantly faster game here for Carl who again on a haya went god mode. Damn good game for the young ghost. Was a damn good game. He locked in got it done. Carl Tezy was a big part that Renmar was highlighting here. But of course across the board, it was everybody just really playing their part, especially like you mentioned with the chip. The influence that a chip and also a Farsa bring to a lineup to these team fights and everything else are quite devastating if you’re not able to control it. And that’s that influence that we saw from the lineup that they have here. So again, that’s that’s what TLPH that’s what the Calvary needed uh to get into the series to stay um hyped up because even the TLP fans here of course were waiting to see their team get the first victory in this series. Now before we move on to game four, we’re going to get another update update for our MPL playgrounds. Let’s see what’s going on over there. Hey there, Super. This is your very own Odin back here at the MPL playgrounds live with Onyx Philippines together with the super family. Happening right now is their meet and greet. To all the mythic ticket holders with stamps, just head over here at the MPL playgrounds right after their winning match because you get a chance for an exclusive photo opportunity and meet and greet. This happens every after the match with the winning team. My pro tip to you is arrive early because only the first of 15 mythic ticket holders get an access to this. So kids here at the ML playgrounds we have here our BPI booth visitors with BPI. All they have to do is open an account or if they have an existing account, spin the wheelchber certain amount from BPI. If you get five bills, seven bills tote bag and for 15 and up limited edition merch of MLBB t-shirt. Thank you. Oh my gosh, thank you BPI. I love my epic nukas with BTI. Welcome to Mobile Legends. A few steps before we enter the battlefield, the Champions Arena. And I don’t have to tell you why. The wall says it all. Champions Arena on this side. MLBB World Championship titles from M2 to M6. Philippines Philippines Arena MLP season 15 po. Wow. How about representatives for MSE? Um, Aurora Onik po champion for MLPH season 15. Onik Onik MSE representative apart from your champion on LPH. Wow. We’re here at the showcase jersey players together with their signatures eight teams MPL Philippines season 15. If you’re a ticket holder picture and if you don’t have tickets because everything is for free ground floor green makati so don’t miss out limited slots. See you at the MPL playgrounds. Again, thank you Odin for the update for the MPL Philippines playgrounds. And that’s actually a good thing to note because if you guys are here in the Philippines, you don’t have tickets to come watch, you can actually attend or just show up to the playgrounds, join all the festivities and activities going on there. But also, they have a watch party, I believe, like there. So, you can also view it from there. And I’m sure by the time we get through the playoffs, that place is going to be packed. So, uh, check it out while you can if you are here in the Philippines and have access to Green Sun Makatti. Now, shifting focus, game number four upon us. I you know you and me we knew they knew the death knew maybe you guys at home knew that this wouldn’t be a sweep. There’s no way that the Clash of the Titans is going to end in a sweep for Falcons. So TLPH gets the win they needed and I’m wondering if this is the first step. It is the first step to possibly a reverse sweep. Like I’m a I I am a Falcons guy. If you told me the series would end in the sweep later, I’d be like, “No, I demand a recount.” Even though I don’t know what’s going to bring to the table. So, I look at the regional jungle rankings. So, from MCC to MP Latam, these are the rankings globally. Kyle TZ in terms of the average kills is uh ranked on the lure end of the table, but of course, it’s a widpread for the data that we have a varying amount of games played. Marl is going crazy in the continental championship with how many kills that he’s gotten. And of course, the Kais is having a fantastic time over in Malaysia with Salamora Giants. And of course, RSG’s players Yan is having a great time in Singapore as well with five plus kills per game. Yeah, I always just feel like though Kyle Teesi was never the like he he you know obviously he does get quite a few kills here and there. Plays the assassins pretty well, but like he’s always been to me like that team jungler. You know, he’s had amazing moments that was like on the assassin picks, but even so, I just feel like the way that this team plays ever since, you know, they were um on even on their world tour before, there’s such a you there’s such a teamcentric style of play. Um, and I think again that can reflect some of the stats here. So, once again, you you love it. I know. I I love the cosplay we got here. We’re going to welcome up Brrietta. Bring it up. Do you like to cosplay? Okay, first of all, hello Renoiring. Uh, and to answer your question, I used past tense. Wow, someone find Brietta’s cosplay. Let’s go ahead and jump to the draft. The bands are here. We got Falcons on the blue. TPH on the red and the joy is going to be banned out. And uh they’re Hey, it’s Falcons. It’s like no more Carl TZ Hayaboo. So we’re done with Yeah, we’re done. The only difference now though is the back left open. So that can be something for team Philadelphia to consider. I mean the flex factor is definitely there, but just the same too. They actually want to offer that later on. Yeah, they could rush pick the boxer right away if they wanted. Not not even like later on. He’s picking down. We’re surprised that they suddenly pick up the This was like game day one yesterday. Wait a minute. Oh, wait. I mean, okay. Juice in first pick I am okay with as long as it’s not you picking it over a Kaa, but since Ka is banned, I would understand the juice in first pick. Okay. And over on the flip side, you still got the Harris being picked up in that first swing alongside the Gataka. So again, a whole lot of this for OB, you know, a whole lot of the Herth. Again, we we showed the stats earlier on just how much he’s played it. Had a phenomenal win rate with it, too. I think it was about 75% or plus at that point. And um you know, Granger is still open. So like the Super Marco still also want to play the Granger against the Herth. Ah, Granger and Ha, they’re still open, but so is the box. Ha’s banned. Oh, wait. Yeah, but it’s Suyo and the Baksha, you got the box. Yeah. So, instead of the Hayabus, instead of Kakashi, you get the traitorous Saskuke. Of course, I know it’s okay. But I I can hear the pitter patter of the keyboards of the Naruto the fans right now. No, he wasn’t a traitor. He was misunderstood. I know. What do they call the eye thing? Is a a Is it my Sherigan or my Carrian? I don’t know. Sharing. Carrian is something else, sir. You take that from the hidden village to the stars. So wait, what is it called? Shargon. My Sheran. Isn’t that the funny eye thing? Funny eye. You’re really going to call it. Now I’m really getting the Now I’m really getting the keyboard warriors. Yeah, you are really was spawning the eye of a bunch of Naruto. This boomer funny, I think. Hey, didn’t you mention you would try watching it during the break? Yeah, I guess how many I got watched break. What? one one episode. That’s fair. What was that lull in silence? I was just waiting for someone to start. Yeah, I’m think I’m trying to think that not trying to see I’m trying to cross reference my data for a prediction here. So, okay. Okay. Okay. Come on. Bring it up. It’s been It’s been one episode only. To be fair to be fair, we are now entering our 18th game. Yeah. The 18th professional game of MLBB in two days. In two days. Wait, is it the 18th? Yeah. Oh. Oh, no. You’re right. This is game four. It’s 19. It’s 19. So, see, I don’t even know how to do math anymore. Now, they’re taking out some heroes for JP. Yeah. Uh, I mean, if ever things go wrong here for the drafts in Team League Philippines, they do have the Gaja that they can put into JP’s hands instead. This Lucas can go either into the XP or jungle because it no longer has to worry about the match up against the foes in the exp lane. If ever they’re not feeling it in the jungle, they put in the XP. But considering that it’s only a box of Suyo juice and you’re suing, I think that’s already locked in for Carl Ty with the Lucas. So for the Sanford pick later on, there it is. They go ahead and pick up the glue considering that they’re going to be going up against a boxer that there’s instantly someone that he can latch to. Never mind. They pick it right now. So there’s the glue and super Marco for the last two minutes of Team Falcons. The Granger is still available if he does want to consider that. A pretty standard matchup we’ve been seeing all series long. Yeah, there’s the I think it would be the Granger. Yeah, you might like what what else are you going to do against the Har, you know? Yeah. Like no one’s surprised. No one 109 times picked, bro. That is a lot. No, at this point, no one’s surprised. It’s Granger Har. So, Granger comes through. And now this last pick. This can uh this CC C is actually still interesting that you guys did mention this also. Oh, people are reacting. Oh, it’s the Eve. It’s the Eve against the Baksha against the Jin which was commonly picked against the Jin way back. This is looking really good for TLPH I’d say. Yeah, same. Yeah, I’m leaning there. They they wrapped up their draft. Their last three picks are really good. We might be going to our 20th game in 2 days and I wouldn’t have asked for anything else. Guys, if that’s the case, we have to take a photo. Yeah, like all the 20 gamers. Oh man, we’re we’re going to get there. Let’s take a look at the index here for both the teams. You guys can let us know once again in chat who you think has the better lineup. Are we going to a game five? Are you guys excited for another game five? We’ll have to get through game four first. We’ll see if Falcons still sitting at match point can make it happen or will TLB get things together and will it be the case? Let’s go ahead and throw over to the casting desk to take us into game four. one win away from going all the way. Liquid may have found the momentum, but that doesn’t change the fact. The team Falcons BH are still at match point. Welcome back into the series. It’s game number four and I just got to say the draft to me doesn’t matter as much anymore. Yeah, because honestly it feels like Team Liquid Philippines, they’ve completed their reset. So now they’re fighting back against that was very close. Kyle Ty almost got taken out here by the skin of his teeth, by the blade of his knife. It was so close. And yeah, he’s going to get slowed down just a little bit, but he’s still on the path though. So they’re still pretty much close to level four, I guess. Carl also got sidetracked a little bit on top. That’s straight up Naruto versus Sasuke. Oh yeah, just when we saw that we won’t be seeing as much Sasuke anymore. I guess it looks like the first time we’re going to see it. We haven’t seen Suyo in a long time. Yeah, we we would have acknowledged it, but now for real, this is cannon. Just ask Sask. Maybe the last time was in week eight cuz like not even I don’t remember Suyo getting picked that time. Sonic BH put Team 7 together in one lineup. I don’t remember. There you go. Maybe in the next week. Oh, but look at that. It’s going to be uh KZY almost getting JP but saved at the nick of time with the passive. Man, that could have been a kill, but it went the other way. JP with a kill. First blood for TL. And was that not the second time they found Kyle just nearby all alone and probably very susceptible to being taken down by TPH. And here’s the thing, Kyle wants to fight, but I don’t think you want to fight as a Suyo this early without any items yet. Yeah, he’s giggle, man. That’s part of the dictionary now. So, I think we can’t use it. But trying to look for information, however, F is uh F is going to do his very best to maybe just push these uh big tanks a little bit, but Carl’s easy going to be able to secure Vat Turtle. TLPH is looking solid. Is it too early to say they are so back? Like this is the way they pull off the early game. This is the way they show their dominance early on in these stages of the game. I would say they are back. They are so back if we go to game five. But I’ll tell you this much, the Liquid PH playing here in game four is a very different Liquid from game one. Yeah, they feel more in sync. And this is what we were looking from for from them earlier. Like they’re mid trio, the way they’re rotating, it’s just so fast-paced. And JP, however, might find himself too deep. Yeah, that’s a pretty good harassment for P. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. J, you can’t fire me. I quit. So, that’s the AOG. I was a rand most random AOG of my life. Hey, better safe than sorry. That’s true. He was in front of three members, you know, and Kyle Tezy experienced the exact same thing when he was in this particular area. They wouldn’t want to hand over even the slightest bit of lead to team Falcons now that they finally find the control in the game. But this is Team Falcons responding to with we can do the same. We can like rotate together as one and find something across the map. So far so good. The recovery on Falcons uh despite that early stumble drawn first blood on Kyle and the turret uh sorry the turtle conceded over to Liquid. Next turtle spawning lower quarter, same spot. How is Falcons keeping this close? How are they still just 300 away? Yeah, I feel like the laning phase is being well managed. There aren’t any successful rotations just yet. At most, there have been there have been skirmishes in the mid and they’re towards Kyle Tezy and it’s only been once that they were able to punish that moment where KT found himself too deep. Now they’re able to somehow still hold out everything and position themselves in this upcoming turtle fight that’s about to happen. Although they do have to consider this is probably going to be a 5v5. Well, Falcon’s in a good position. The fiveman arrived a lot earlier here and they are trying to blitz that turtle over the bunk run. Oh, few and ag. He’s going to have to deal with so much here. Carl TZ is still coming out on top of the red tree and they’re just walking away like nothing happened. But they might be able to take out Oven with them as well. The master caught behind enemy lines and now few pushing back Sans. What is going on? That was they so they are indeed back. And where was this? Where was this in the past few games? Of got a double kill too during that entire sequence. So you could pretty much assure that he’s ahead of Super Marco in this game in terms of gold. And it’s not just that right now. Okay, Tapzy. Could he be the next target? Yeah, it feels like they have a lot of firepower on top, but look at the bottom. They’re also dealing with it. It’s a freeman attack for Falcons, and they finally slow down Carl’s easy. It wasn’t a shut down or anything, but they will force AoG as well. And I think they have just enough to dive under the tower and get two. So, it was a faint. I’m guessing Carl and JP wanted to just buy time for that push down bottom, but instead they pay the iron price. I think this is worth it for Falcons. just know go for the slow clap back and then maybe they can contest for turtle number three. Yeah, cuz as much as you want to think that uh they’re just really trying to enable OH, they’re trying to get him online, which is kind of happening already so far based on what we’re seeing in terms of the results of the early game. You would want Carl Tezy to just be that just have that same level of threat against Team Falcons because he’s the guy who can just constantly go in, force out the ultimates, even the Crimson Beacon, which is going to be very vital for Team Falcons as well later on and just not mind Owen once OB’s already able to rack up on the items to deal with him even when he’s left leave him alone alongside the other members of TPH in the back line. Oh, there it is. The Kashinar 1 v one again. It just keeps happening. It’s going to keep happening later for sure. And unfortunately in this meta, Naruto’s ahead. So, oh, at least in one v one. Turtle spawns. JP first of the scene pulling it over favoring Liquid. Few puts half health. That’s a low HP Zin. He will not be able to participate and there will no there will be no turtle steals here today. It’s another one for TL. That’s turtle number three. But a turret for Talins on the bottom. That was a false contest. Falcons just stood around. But the truth was they weren’t going for turtle at all. They took down that tier one down bottom. And look. Oh, can or catch him? Ah, I think that did that hit. It didn’t. It didn’t. It didn’t. It was probably like one or two pixels away from connecting to Kyle Tezy. How fortunate of him to be able to survive that. Even Sanford used the spread spread I feel just to scout the other brushes which weren’t in range for the salmon force laid there by OH. But at least now we’re seeing the way Falcons is responding to the pressure that Team Liquid Philippines is doing. What will probably matter the most is what happens in the team fights and how it turns out once they’re forced to meet each other already. Because right now it’s all mirroring. It’s all about the mirroring that they’re doing. Yep. Tier two trade top for bottom. But here’s the thing. Liquid is actually losing out on economy. There’s more pushes for Falcons. Yeah, they’ve already taken out three turrets. Team Liquid Philippines has only taken down two and they feel like they have their eyes set on the mid lane, but the defense shown to us by Falcons is just too good. So, they’re settling with what they can for now, but they need to do something in terms of that if they don’t want Falcons to get more openings to catch up. You know, finally, by the way, um, Super Marco might just start joining them more. He’s still 0000. So, uh, let’s see if that’s going to improve the firepower of Falcons here. Yeah, still bulletproof again. Number one least deaths in all season long, season 15, regular season. He aims to hold that all throughout the playoffs. Falcons playing defensively. JP caught up by two. Yep. going to be some pretty decent damage from Falcons, but not quite enough to burst down the gutacha from 100 to zero. Yeah. And he’s not going to use his AOG anymore. Yeah, exactly. Right. You could do that early game, but now like you want to hold it for the Lord or because there is a lure. There’s the Maleficar also picked up by Kyle Tzy. So, we could be potentially expecting a bit more damage from Team Falcons heading into this next fight, but they feel like they might want to wait. Is Owen actually scouting OB? Yeah, he’s waiting for maybe Carl or Ob. Yeah, but they probably will be giving the purple buff to OB at this point. So, he’s forcing a response. He knows that he’s winning that lane and this will benefit the dance eventually. He’s waiting for Liquid to do something. Yeah, now they have the information of where almost all members of Team Liquid Philippines are currently except for JP perhaps. They have no information whatsoever that he’s holding this brush. Now they do. And this is this feels like Owen just holding this side of the map so he could come in from the surprise backline angles later on when the team fight breaks out. Yeah, normally that’s pretty far, right? But if you’re a Voxa, you can cover that in like a split second. And that’s what makes this situation now approaching so hard for Liquid. For the first time in a while, they don’t have control over map rotations. The rotational speed is so slow, they have to commit to actually going from coast to coast, lane to lane. Yeah. Yeah. That or them just blocking out whatever Kyle Ty wants to do. And they successfully took away another turret. So Falcons is just being so proactive in terms of the objectives that they’re able to take even at like even assuming that they might want to position themselves already for the Lord one. No, they’re just buying time distracting team Liquid Philippines. Yeah. And this time no TLPH teleport shortcuts or anything. They’re going to have to walk each and every single one of them. It’s difficult to go from one certain kind of speed or mode of transport to another. Brigad would know, you know, the difference between a private jet and flying commercial. Oh yeah, she knows for sure. I don’t I I’d love to experience what it feel like to ride on a private jet, but this is honestly like overall it feels like Falcons, this isn’t the Liquid Speed. This isn’t the Liquid Speed. So, it’s like Falcons, they get so much in a short amount of time. Well, we don’t get to see any from Team Liquid Philippines. It’s just them waiting for something to happen. Yeah, Falcons feels like they’re starting to get a little impatient as well. There’s the knockup for Sanford. He flickers in. He’s diving in on Super Marco. And it’s going to be Carl Tezy with Bat Lord while everyone is so busy keeping Super Marco alive. And he’s going to be able to do it. It’s going to be a trade though, but it’s worth it if you’re in Raider or cavalry. Sorry. Any day I would give up a glue for a Granger. So this makes it the this makes the wait worth it for Team Liquid Philippines now because with the Lord they can probably even out the map against Team Falcons. But there’s the AoG. Uh-oh. Owen might be in trouble here. But again, that’s a box, man. So tough. At best. Liquid is just buying time for the rest of the map to equalize. Falcons know exactly what to do here. They need to do damage control. prevent Liquid from barreling forward with this newfound momentum. This is a very lowcoring game, too. So, you see how careful these teams are actually playing it out. Exactly. Knowing what to do and what not to do, but how does Team Liquid take advantage of the Lord? Yeah, they’re going to try to see if they can make a pickoff happen so the Lord push will be easier, but no luck so far. Nidar, we did see it. of shame. It it it it didn’t happen. It it wasn’t going to really come to fruition. There was a turret. And that’s a problem for Liquid, right? Like they haven’t really committed to taking down these major objectives. So, a lord or a free pickoff or a good trade will most likely just be short-term goals. Yeah, the lord differential probably is like maybe 1k, 2k. They didn’t get a lot from a lot of gold from that. Literally, it was just that tier one up top. Yeah, they seem to be constantly forcing the fight here in the mid lane though. Oh, there’s platform. He caught him. He caught open and that might not be the target you want. And now they know that the grab is not available to work. But also the crane call. So it’s a trade, you know, big ticket. Oats. This is just a clear sign for both Titans of Moliv to say, “Hey, let’s regroup.” Yeah. So if if they’re playing it this carefully, the next fight might happen by the next objective. I’ll be damned. I didn’t expect to see Sasuke versus Kalรบa. Not this early. Wrong franchise. My childhood. The crossover we didn’t know we needed. Thank you, MobB. 40 seconds until the Lord spawns. Upper quarter again. We’re back to problem number one. The major issue for Liquid, slow rotational speed compared to Falcon’s attritionbased play style. They’re so good at choking out their opponents. Yeah, I mean, just look at Owen standing here in the mid lane. And Fu, who is yet to die, by the way, in this entire game, just constantly holding down the mid lane. So, Team Liquid Philippines aren’t able to get their hands on the mid lane tier one or not even into a fight that’s really comfortable for them. like we’ve barely seen the real world manipulations and them being a able to maximize the real world manipulations because whenever a fight happens, it just feels like with the rotational speed, Falcons just gets away. They just regroup and fight back once they know that there are more things lacking from Team Liquid Philippines side. We’re approaching 14 15 minutes and it’s only 34 on the kill score. So, just goes to show what kind of lineups these guys are running. And not just the lineup, man, it’s the gameplay. This is PH Macro. TM. TM. Yeah. Did we apply for that? It’s in the works. For the past couple of years, we have redefined what competitive Mobile Legends looks like. And at the peak of it all, the technicalities uh of it all. The Philippines is the Floyd Money Mayweather of MOBB, the boxing. Like, we’re just so technical. We’re just very defensive, very control. JP catches some fire, some smoke from two. Another There you go. Another AOG moment. Better safe than sorry. Okay, I get it. But there’s a L. He couldn’t afford to do that. Unless No, unless Liquid’s Call is just take it slow. They’re willing. Oh no, but look at Oh my god, this Carl TZ. Look at his HP. He sw out down so hard and now he’s going to stay alive, but only for a meantime though. That is huge. Big ultimates being expended on TL and Falcon’s finally gain access to the mid lane tier one. Yeah, finally. Zan Force used uh AoG used um I’m assum Crimson Beacon. Crimson Beacon. If it weren’t for that revitalize, Carl Ty might have actually fallen and this whole time real world manipulation. Yep. We are yet to really see one that Team Liquid Philippines just utilizes to take advantage of a team fight. And Falcons, they’re just they’re just always okay with letting Team Liquid Philippines position themselves in the Lord pit and just do nothing, just do other things in the map. I reckon it wouldn’t hurt just yet. Maybe that’s why Sanji’s holding off by JP man. Flap teasy is going hard into the TLP line item. And finally JP uses AOG in the right target. But this time around might be a little too late on the retribution. That’s going to be turned rather going over to Falcons. But of course TPH is not going to take that line down. They get two kills. The art of the turn. Liquid Philippines fainted a Lord D and instead turned on the heroes. Flapped ED down. But these are the chunkies. These are the the big guys. And that one chunky hero, which was Owen, actually did way more than what we saw of him just tanking the damage. I feel like he blocked the shockwave blast, which of which could have potentially be been the combo for the red tree for for Carl Tezy to actually steal away the objective. But just because he was right there at that spot, he blocked it. And so it was a clear chance for Kyle Tezy to get the objective for themselves. Yep. So that means the map’s going to turn blue even more. Look at that. A passive push up top by Kyle and down bottom the rest of Falcons escorting the lord. You seem to be happy to just take this fight whenever. Now JP, are you going to go for the AOG on the offensive or will you just try and see if you can will down that lord? Looks like they’re going for the ladder and they are going to get slowed down just a little bit. Nice try on Sanji to go for the real world but no one is going to get caught. and Falcons. Their siege is still ongoing. Interesting angle the way Sanji dropped that RWM. A good wa AG. There’s the AOG we were looking for, but not the targets that he wanted. No one home. All right, back to what I observed up top. Brigad, I don’t know if you saw this. The way Sanji dropped the RWM, maybe almost half of it was not on the map. So, something tells me he might have just clicked in just take down Super Marco. He was just pressing buttons. But they don’t but they can’t afford to do that because the skills that they have it would work best if they are able to sync it up if they’re able to coordinate it well like the real world the AOG and then the Zaman force and place it in the right spot. Something tells me maybe Sanji just tried to go for max distance. The reason why a good chunk of that area wasn’t in the map is because he just wanted to get that corner over to Marco. We almost got him. Almost immobilized the Granger. But still, Super Mario is sitting at just one death so far. And Falcons is so comfortable being, you know, this controlled playing slow. Yeah. I mean, Sanji does already have the wishing lantern. If it’s just that, he probably has a couple other items, too. But glowing wand and the wings. Yeah, but that isn’t like the farao where it could just deal that burst damage towards Super Marco. And of course, Super Marco, he does have us a way to just dash out of that real world manipulation. So, flicker, it was just probably really damage control that Team Liquil tried to do because he’s the one guy you don’t want to get close to the turret, right? That’s true. 20 seconds on the next lord, by the way, item. Uh, and Carl Ty’s in a very interesting angle. I think they want to do a minus one before they get started. But yeah, Falcon’s very, very aware of this strategy. Not going to fall for it. Or will they? Oh, they are visible on top side. Wait, Team Liquid Philippines are also on the opposite side of the map now. Like they probably read into how Falcons has been doing it for quite some time. But the difference is Falcons can just go to the Lord way faster. Oh no, JP. Oh my goodness. Flap teasy. I think he already used curtain call. Yes, he did. Uh forced the Gaton Katcha back, but again, that’s the Gat with an immortality not really too scared of here. Easy though, eyes on him. But it is a losing matchup. Early, mid to late. If a CC finds a Gat, the Gat will usually fold. Almost 100 to zero. Almost. Yeah, he had to run away. And he’s just about to recall now. So, team Falcons are definitely going to position themselves first in this upcoming objective. Well, at least there’s the AO, so he can go away and few second window. F already use Crimson Beacon. That is a huge ultimate used on Falcons. And this could be the opening that TL has been waiting for for 20 minutes. Two big ticket oats spent by the cavalry and they force few to use the crimson beacon and the flicker. Does the math check out? That’s framework. Uh well, at least they still have other big ticket ults to rely on if ever the fight still proceeds to break out in a few moments. They’re still the only one from Sanford and JP, but are they going in? Look at Falcons. They are looking is looking for OB or Carl, but Flap teasy is going to get demolished here. Not going to be able to out sustain them. Oaken though going to get caught. Oh, he with a 1 v one on the box. The Falcons have fallen. They are slowly getting chased down. Few is not going to be enough to help with the contest. It’s two for none are handing out freebies. Two for none. Liquid steal the lord from underneath that free win. How? 20 minutes. We were waiting for 20 minutes. 20 minutes and two free kills suddenly come out of nowhere for Liquid. And one of those, the one towards Owen was pretty questionable. Like how did he find himself in that spot wherein he was just up against OH 1 v one with no one else alongside him. I mean, one could argue I got OB go. I got Om. Yeah, they he could be holding. Yeah, that’s true. But the order of things, how it happened. flap 12 first and then there’s nothing else Falcons could follow through from that. So if they’re not in control if they’re out of tempo, out of position, Liquid wins. I guess that’s the cost of losing Few the his crimson his flicker. He can’t really help. It’s like a crippled Falcon that we’re seeing who can’t fly. This is an evolved lord by the way. So they will be up until the maze. Sanford’s trying to see if he can grab on to somebody. That’s a dodge on the EOG, but the real world is providing a very good battlefield for TLPH to fight in. And there goes Flap. And they might just not be enough. Ladies and gents, we have a game five. All the way. The Clash of Titans are going all the way. And here in the playoffs, we are on our 20th consecutive game. Historically speaking, this may be the most competitive opening to the playoffs of FPL Philippines. I hope Tao and Renar are ready to talk about it. Game four. Are we ready to talk about it? Are we ready to talk about the fact that we are going to our 20th game in two days? Let’s go. Let’s go. I’m going to get a little bit of coffee and then let’s go. No. Again, this is I don’t know. Are we surprised? Back when we thought it could possibly be a sweep for Falcons, we did plant the seed that was like that one win that CPH needed is the momentum to get them possibly to a reverse sweep. Now they’re one step closer to making that happen. Yeah. And again, it’s two games in a row now. Fantastic adjustments by the coaching staff of team Lego Philippines. All the flowers to coach RC and how the team decided to pull this draft together to shut down Kyle Tezi Suyo and to make sure that OH on this Har has all the pieces he need with him so that he would thrive. 50 and three he was paired up with an Eve gota Lucas and a glue. So many space provided for OH to just go bonkers. That Eve is so good man. like and then you pair it up and you allow the team to go ahead and work into this. I mean, even a Harth paired up with an Eve allows yourself to just kind of be a little bit more safer, especially on the defense and we saw that a couple times where they had to go ahead and uh play that properly. Falcons was in good position in some in some of the aspects throughout the game, but ultimately TLPH was waiting for their moment like the caster said around that 20 minute mark is really when things started to change. But looking at the highlights here back in the early parts of this game, you see the back and forth between them. TPH had good control over the objectives. I believe they got three for three in the Turtles. They were getting the kills. Carl Tezy was also able to help lock down a lot of these early kills. But, you know, Falcons did fight back and I feel like that’s going to be a big story going into uh game number five because this series has been very uh back and forth uh essentially, you know, in comparison to our first matchup uh today where it was like, you know, you had some one-sided games, but then you had closer ones and it built up to the entire game five that we saw earlier. This time around, it could be anyone’s game because look at this. Falcons has a pretty big lead economically in this point. 4.4K, but they lose a major fight and it was all discipline from TLPH at that 21 minute mark which completely turns things over which inevitably wins them the game here. Yeah, at the end of the day it was just that one key thing, discipline, them being just a little bit more wary. Uh it’s not just discipline, it’s discipline mixed with just a healthy amount of caution as well. They weren’t scared. They just wanted to get a fullon understanding of what they were dealing with first before they would call the action and pull the trigger because it got to the point where Flap TZ CC was starting to become a problem for Team Liquid Philippines because of a brilliant bit of itemization that Flap TV did. He went war axe, silence robe, maleific roar as his second main item build, brute force breastplate as his third, and then radiant armor once he got the gold from everything else. That’s why in the last lord uh the lord fight where in team falcons one, we saw that JB was taking so much damage. Flap teasy died there, but he pulled all the attention so that Falcons would get the lord and then they were able to do that push and they did advancing their lead. But team liquid Philippines readjusted accordingly. Just kept strong to their ideal look. We’ll play around the EVE. We’ll play around our Har Sanford Sanji JP uh along with uh Sanford Carl JP. Just make sure you’re tight in your calms of when and where you’re engaging and we’ll be okay. And it all worked out for Team Liquid. Yeah, there was also so many jumps that played a big part of this for the TLPH lineup because of JP obviously too. you know, when you’re working at it to sometimes they were able to get the revitalized out early from Owen or at least make it a little bit more difficult for Falcons to play around this lineup. But, you know, when we were looking at it from the draft perspective before we actually jump into the game, we did say, you know, we were leaning towards what TLPH brought to this game and that that really showed here in the in the game as a whole. Again, JP tanked up a ton of damage. This is our big four stats here for everyone. Sanji the carry of course on that. The Eve is just so good right now. Uh same thing he’s there for the wingman and then of course you got Kyle Tzy BPI a rich guy. He was able to farm up pretty well and I guess even though the nerf was there like that’s still what Zuyo does really well. Like he’s always going to be a great farmer. So, he does get this. Um, gets a ton of gold, nearly 19,851 GPM, but still, nonetheless, it wasn’t enough for Kyle Tezy to completely turn things around once it all fell apart at that 20ish uh minute mark. So, Renmar, I know this is there’s a lot here on this one. So, let’s go ahead and break it down. highest GPM BPI rich guy cuz he had to spend majority of the game taking down minion waves and farming cuz that’s all that Kyle Tezy could do in this one. He couldn’t join the fights as much as he’d want to and be a big impact there because what are you going to do up against all of the pieces that Team Liquid has as a Suo? Again, he’s up against a Gatka, a Lucas, a glue, and he’ll have to do all of that underneath the starfield of the Eve. What are you going to do there as a Suyo? It’s such a tough ask. That’s why he’s a BBI rich guy cuz he was stuck farming. Look at what Falcons got across the board. He Yes, they were able to get towers. They got that one lord again because of the heroics of flap teasy after he already had the maleific roar and the brute force breastplate. But the towers going down in favor of Falcons were coming from the split pushes of Kyle Tezy who could not join them in major sequences. Majority of the time Falcons was playing 4-1. Four members of Falcons one split pushing Kyle Tezy. While for team liquid Philippines, yes, they give that up at times because it was like it’s fine. Why not? we’ll be okay until they weren’t until it was starting to look even better for team Falcons and then they found a much better gap at around the 16 to 17 minute mark once they got that first lord and you started to see it expand a little bit more. That’s where the lead came from. But for majority of it, the reason why these two lines are so close to each other is because Kesy was farming. He was doing everything that he can to get resources for well himself cuz they needed to. While at the same time you also saw members of team Falcons just clearing up minion waves, doing their due diligence so that they could slowly catch up in terms of the gold stay close in the gold because what team Lick had on the table was a strong lineup revolving around these two key pieces. So I decided to focus on these two because let’s talk about first what the Eve brings to the table. That’s your set. Not set, but that’s your set. You put down the real world manipulation. You put down your starfield. You play around that. But then what glue brings to the table is that you have an incredibly strong hero that does even with a lack of items has such a strong ability kit with what he can do. Grab onto someone. And the more you hit that, he takes less damage once the grab grab is done. So you wouldn’t want to hit him. So essentially, it takes out the fight while you’re going 4v4 using your ultimate. The glue is thriving. So they continue to play around that. And that’s why Falcons had to spend so much time just farming. Even though they were close in terms of Ky being able to split push, they were getting gold here and there. Yeah, sure. They just were stopped so much because their majority of the time the their main damage dealer was gone split pushing minion waves. Again, we go back to the point that we discussed earlier. flap disease itemization. His path he went Warax is not seen here. Oh, he went, excuse me, he went brute force breastplate to first, but at one point before building the brute force breastplate, he actually had a legion sword. So, a little bit of shift up here in terms of the item ordering and then eventually he’d be able to full build the items that he needed. That’s why again we got to see that turn around that lord with uh excuse me flap tz just jumping on forward bringing JP down low forcing a reaction out of team liquid Philippines which meant that they had the space to get that lord but then once it got to the siege it became a difficult reality for falcons of once we meet them in a very close fight where the glue is active Eve is active everyone is active for team liquid Philippines it’s so difficult for falcons to do what they needed to do. You’ve essentially reduced the Suyo into a more utility type pretty much telling KZ. Just do what you can, man. Do your best. See if you can just get some damage in there. While Super Marco, it’s like Super Marco, please save us. All of the baskets are you on to you right now. At the same time, one of the pieces that we haven’t really discussed a lot is because few on this juice in was avoided well by team liquid Philippines. I had another condition in my mind here. If ever Falcons wins this, it’s either because team liquid Philippines dropped the ball or because few went god mode. Team Liquid Philippines were so careful playing around that juice in playing around the Crimson Beacon and the Crimson Lantern that they weren’t able to allow F to pop off when he needed. So let’s take a look at the draft to recap here. The order of it was this. We go Juin, Suyo, Bakshia, Granger, CC as the last two picks. And then for the red side, it went Gataka, Harareth, Lucas, Glue, and Eve. That is two games in a row now that Team Liquid Philippines have won the last picks of the game where after the first two games, remember the point that we made earlier, it’s the Falcons drafts that are making us go, “Oh, those are some great last picks.” While Team Liquid Philippines last picks are making us go, “Uh, that’s kind of rough.” Now, for games three and four, it’s the other way around. You’re looking at the picks here of Team Liquid Philippines at the end of their drafts. Now, it’s us going to them. Hey, those are some pretty good last uh last picks. So, that’s why at the end of the day to get to this point was a massive team effort spearheaded by coach RC, the management of team liquid all in the area there. Of course, coach Shixac is there to overseeing things. The players what they have done to crawl back into a game five. Legendary. legendary it is. Some would say it’s better than great, right? But uh one thing we can definitely You blindsided me with that. I did not see that coming. Hey, if you know, you know. But uh definitely good points. And I think part of this too again is um the draft you saw kind of the breakdown there too. It’s uh they’re 14 and was it 14 and five for TLPH on the red side? Yeah. So they really like to go ahead and favor um the red side when they get it and they they they’ve drafted that way. The one thing I do want to see if it changes or not is if we’re going to see that matchup again, a Herth and a Granger. And maybe this time around, Super Marco gets to play something different. I don’t know cuz I I I mean, not to say anything bad about the the Granger performance specifically for Super Marco, but maybe there’s just something that they can bring out differently in game five. Maybe that’s in the gold name, maybe it’s not. Um, but I will say there are clear signs where sometimes you can see the struggle with Granger right now in the current meta on trying to use that. Uh, well, it’s a bit of a shorter range, but you’ve also just got to be able to get in the right positioning here. So, uh, what is what? We got a word here. The mother and daughter of all series, of course, guys, it’s the passive procking. Again, if you don’t know for the international audience, they’re here. It’s Bria and Chantel. They’re both on the desk, right? And when this happens in a row now, two days in a row, both on the desk, we’ve gone the full series. That’s happened all regular season. So, hey, bless up. Thank you, mother and daughter of all series. Now, also MWI at EWC 2025, we have some more information for you guys as Team Liquid PH. Yeah, the ladies here are again going to be representing alongside Na’Vi Philippines at EWC 2025. their performance over the Athena League. They qualified for MWI after placing second. So they went 72 and two. Then you got the 16-9 record there. Again, these are some familiar faces for you guys all here. Um so that’s the interesting thing though because last year two slots were allotted for Philippines for this year’s MWI. So we only had one slot last year. Y now we’ve got two. Mhm. So I think uh it’s us in Indonesia that has uh two slots if I’m not mistaken. And I might be forgetting one more uh region there. But yeah, uh so happy to see that more of our women’s teams have opportunities to fly abroad, play abroad, play for some really big prizes. And this roster of Team Lugan Philippines is talented. I personally have a lot of respect for the gameplay of Soju and Cla and I’m excited to see them play internationally at the MWI the esports world cup. Yep. So, don’t forget to go ahead and support our reps, guys, for MW as well as the MSC at EWC once we get more of the teams locked in here. And once we conclude this game, one of these teams, TLPH or Team Falcons, will be one step closer to getting to that grand final spot. As the team waiting for them, of course, is another team that’s been on a streak for a while now. On Philippines, waiting there. And uh I don’t know what whatever team ends up losing here and has to go down to the lower bracket. Either way, we’ve been saying this all season, man. Like this is one hell of a competitive season. Like and I think this is the best way to say it about the playoffs. Like now that we have gone the distance for every single series so far, I don’t know if I don’t know what the statistics are. Maybe they should put Briada and Chantel just on the desk for the rest of the playoffs so that every single series we play in every single day of the playoffs we go the distance. When has that happened? I know there was I know there was one region that that got really close like almost every series for the full series. I believe that was Indonesia if I’m not mist 44. Full 44. Let’s take a look real quick too. Speaking of the regionals, we got the gold lane rankings here right now. Obed smack dab in the middle right behind a fellow Filipino Emman there. Um he’s had a little more games of course for Emmon, but Ob sitting at 5.26. You can see again, you know, when you look at this, you have to take in consideration of how many games are played. You even got BK Zia up there at the top with a seven flat KDA right behind or average kills, sorry, average kills right behind Vanics. Yeah, look at Heo Mania still running wild over at MCC. 5.47 of the average kills already 32 games played. So yeah, it’s good to see join a stellar group of red pros. Still red side the entire they’re 14 and five. Yeah, 14 and five on that side. So, ever since game number two, TLPH has been drafting from the red side. Falcas has been drafting on blue. Last series, Aurora versus Onyx. It was always Aurora blue side, Onyx red side. This one though, it’s only been since game two, but it’s still wild to see. Wild to see. And they got the 80% win rate right now, too. So, TLPH definitely wanting to go ahead use that to their advantage as we get ready to jump into the draft. The last draft of the night. I remember specifically saying this, but sitting yesterday and now we get to go ahead and do it once more. Bring it to knock for the last time. How you feeling? Good evening. Nice to Renar and all the dudes. Who is there? Who is there? No, it’s us. Okay. All right. Welcome, Bria. Well, Championships Arena is actually ready to go. I mean, I don’t know if they come through our mics, but they’re excited. They’ve been excited, especially the side of TLPH. Now, first pick here. Bring it up. Falcons is going with Drew Shin. And right away, you’re going to see TLPH take that Gaka. And what is it? The Herit is banned now. So, do they pick up something else different here? Probably not. The Ball is still open since Granger. Yeah, the Granger will be the option since they already revealed the Gaton Katcha and they will lose that flex panel if they do go for. So, could this be another option for Falcons too since um it was the uh pick that Owen went with earlier together with the Join though? I mean, it’s like the idea was there. Yeah, I think we might see an ITL picked up for Falcons if that’s the case. We’re going to pair pair up the with the juice in and then just go double down on the old versus green match up there. Uh while for the exp lane, I think a flex would be good. Get down, but okay. No, no, no, no, no. They’re going to go Fredin. What? Okay. Um and Chip. Now it’s their turn to play the chip this time around. This is a significantly different looking Falcons style that we’ve seen compared to all the other drafts in this series. It was Joy Joy again and then a suyo for Carl Tezy. This is the first game where he’s going to be playing the Freder in this series. Yeah. So Carl Ty has to be extra careful with whatever jungler he is going to pick up if he ever does want to pick it up here. Earlier we were joking about the Akai, but like looking at the options available for the jungle, what if he just like is forced to use something else? Do you think he would actually play like the Maybe not. Maybe not. There’s the Lucas. There’s still the Lucas. Yeah. Okay, you go the Lucas. I mean, this is still this is still good for both sides. Um, a little bit of a switch up here for Falcons, but nonetheless, this is what I was saying earlier when we saw that regional rankings for Kyle Tezy with the the breakdown there. You know, it’s sometimes this is the game plan you have to go with for Falcons and it’s a little more on the utility side overall. Like you think Chip, Frederick, and the Dian like you know how do you round this out with damage potential in the mid in the gold lane especially uh knowing that you’re going against a Granger here and they banned out the one which has been a popular pick so far in the couple days of the playoffs. Yeah, I mean the one one and the brein together that’ll be uh terrifying if it does get into the falcons. But similar to what Redmar mentioned earlier, the sounds like a great pickup if you’re just looking at the lineup of Team Liquid Philippines now because they’ll probably be very dive heavy. There’s the AOG, there’s the unleash the beast. So you need a marksman with a high mobility. I think they’re considering the Batrix too if it’s not the Ill. If TBH read this and then they end up banning the Bayrix, that’s going to be a a great read by them because with taking out the E. They can go Bayatrix. They don’t necessarily need to go Iral here. They need a little bit more damage. Uh considering that they most likely will have a Fred in the jungle, Jin in the mid. If they still go Irrithal, you’re going to be lacking damage there. You go Vatrix if you’re Super Marco. Yeah. Um I guess the only thing that uh probably would be encouraging yourself a lot more is that like the sequence that can happen once you get into the short Yeah, true. You you get to use the heavy crossbow to just run around whatever happens. But this kind of kind of Teresa again. Yeah, Teresa. Okay, at this point it’s either a carry or Batrix. I’m still leaning towards Batrix here. you need more of that AOE damage. It’s going to be all dive. Uh it is very tanky on the other side. So I would understand if they go carry instead for the Super Marcos pick, but for Flap Dies pick, they can go tanky. And I think they should. So you alleviate a bit of the pressure on Kyle Tezy’s hand to be that main front line. So you put up maybe Oh, if it’s not a box show, what if they go Xorg instead for something a little bit more offensive minded? So Xorg Batrix is the last two picks. Maybe that’ be a swerve. One export coming out in game five. That sounds like a flap teasy kind of thing to do. There’s a CC to avoid. Yeah, the CC available. That is going to be the character of Valentina. Valentina XP. So this is an XP. Valentina Valentina, right? Yeah. What? What? Whoa. Wait, but so are they considering that the Lucas is No, this cuz he gets his own penalty zone or like what? No, but to against the Lucas, right? So, this is like one of the very few times we see a Valentina still open when there’s already a Lucas picked in red three. It’s It’s not a Valentina jungle. It’s not season 10 anymore. And it’s not an AAR up against Oh, what? It’s XP. Oh, it’s the juice. Oh my goodness. Oh, and it’s a Lui Chip battle. Last time I saw this, it was in Who was it? It was a Meong. It was Meong. Yeah, it was Legion Esports. Oh man. Oh man. Renmar, I’m going to ask you what I don’t I don’t even know what team to go for here. What do we It’s It’s such a wild card the juice in HP because it’s always been theoretical in the big regions of how good you are in holding lane and what you bring to the table. Mr. Rizler will be surprised as to how difficult it actually is to sustain lane. Flap needs to watch his positioning cuz Team Liquid are going to be sending people over to the lane of the Juicin. Oh my goodness. I know everybody’s probably scratching their heads at this draft, but let us know what you think. Casters, it’s the last game of the night. Take it away. We’re going all the way and it comes down to this sudden death. Game five in the upper bracket semies. The Titans momentum is on the cavalry side, but can the Falcons claw their way back and soar towards the upper bracket finals? Here we go. How do we feel about the shuffle up for Falcons? This is so interesting. The entire Jedit exp lane is definitely going to pose problems for the Terisla exp. And that’s the one thing TLPH doesn’t want to happen again. the way that Terisa was just unable to perform in game number one. Yeah, don’t forget we started this whole mess with Terisa just messing up that whole laning phase and uh the team fights that came after it. So, I hope that’s not what happens again for TL. But you know what? You got to have some faith in these guys. They know what they’re doing for sure. But look at that. A free kill for first blood here out of nowhere. Just as simple as picking a zouchin in the XP, you could answer the lack of presence via rotations. And that’s what they did here. Yep, they are able to spot out Owen who simply probably just wanted to do the same for Super Marco considering that he is on the carry. This is the typical Harth Granger laning phase in the gold lane. So, the carry probably needs a little bit more assistance so she could manage the lane by herself. Yeah, don’t forget, by the way, this carry is an OG Super Marco pick. This was one of the picks he was very adamant about in his first season in the MPL. Yep. Oh, Sanji’s all alone here, though. So, at least he gets to position himself safe near the turret in the mid lane. And yeah, and by the way, he’s also had a lot of deathless games on that hero. So, true. Something to watch out for later. as far back as season 10, Marco has been going ham with carry, but in this very match, I don’t know. That was a beautiful collapse. Fourman squad the TL. How do you answer that? No way. There’s no way. But they’re going to try. You know what? They’re going to try get that kill in. Sanford is up in front. Unleash the beast. He’s going to take down Daddy JP serving up a kill to Marco. They’re not going to proceed with contesting the or or are they going to contest the purple buff away? They deny it from Carl Tezy. So, they don’t get their hands on the turtle, but they get a kill and steal away the purple buff. Wait, where did it go? I’m back to their lanes. They disperse. I lost track of the purple. Where it is? I don’t know where it is anyway. Oh, I I think it’s on uh it’s on Kyle. Kyle. It’s on Kyle. Kyle. Okay. All right. Yeah, he hit it with the appraiser’s wrath. Yep. and they just immediately went back to their lanes. So, at least Falcons doesn’t let up. They don’t allow Team Liquid Philippines to just be all aggressive because they were able to get the early kills towards Odin and Kyle Tezy already. So, they were at least able to trade things out somehow because that’s what they can really capitalize on. The mere fact that Flap Ty does such a great job in preventing Sanford. Of course, that objective probably was an exception because it was right next to their lane. But the upcoming ones are or the next ones, the ones the ones that are just coming in later on are a completely different story. Mind you, the layering and the complexity of these fights are still about to hit a fever pitch. That was a what level three, level two fight. Yep. But what if they hit level four and they hit the This is exactly where it’s going to happen though. Sanford using the penalty zone just to try to see if he can move a few more pixels, but not going to be enough. Falcons are chasing them down. Oh, few of the stolen unleash the beast pushing away the real thing. Was that just a faint? Because they let OH just push in. I don’t think it was worth it. Yeah, and they also forced out the retribution from Carl Tezy which probably will make it if they get to buy a little more time for the upcoming objective. But the way things are looking right now, it feels like Falcons, they just are very decisive in terms of them wanting to be the ones to secure the next turtle this time around. even scouting Carl Tezy as he takes his very own purple buff. Yeah, definitely looking for that. Oh, jungler here, but it’s going to be JP with the jump. A OG. No one is home. Flapy going to be slowing him down as well. I can’t can’t believe he’s on the Zushin, but very rare occurrence. Uh, but yeah, so far as zoning is successful here for TL and Falcons. They’re just waiting for whoever wants to pull the trigger. The cavalry is doubting themselves. They could collapse. Yeah, they tried to collapse here. Carl TZ is going to be the one with the turtle, but here’s the shortcut. We are going into a big fight and JP has no way to get out. JP had to be the sacrifice. Uh, that was a beautiful usage of the penalty zone coming in from Sanford. So, they were able to stun the members of team Falcon momentarily and allow Carl TZ to just get his hands on the objective. But wave. Oh, it’s a it’s a pinser maneuver. OB is forced to use his flicker and that is a pretty pretty solid move there. Athletic maneuvers by the Filipino sniper used to close range combat like that. And here’s what’s difficult. The chip can come in and just call in his reinforcements. Sanji has to set it up. That’s the difficult that’s the difficult part here. So, we might see a little bit of that later. But look at that. Someone’s jumping in on here. Kyle Tezy is going to try to see get some good damage on the flap. Uh, you know what? Flap is all good. But look at this. Few 40. Ah, he got caught out there. That was a That was a big boo boo. That was um uh probably unexpected for F, but he should have been a little careful. Like Black Ty was already way up there, so there was no way to find out how Sanport or at around what time Sanford will be probably arriving in the mid lane. So clearly something that team FL were able to capitalize on but again a beautiful jump here and again the full Falcon squad. Nowhere for OH to go. That’s going to be a cancel on the diversion as well. And that is two for none. That’s instinct. All right. Your brothers in arms are getting attacked. You you kind of want to help but I guess the rest of Liquid said, “Yeah, it’s not worth it.” That’s all five of them there. Yeah, they weren’t even a They weren’t even able to get any trades. Another unleash. Look at this guy. F is very happy to just dive in here then transport and transform back rather. Yeah, that’s that’s what make that so broken. You don’t need resolve. Carl Dy has to fight, has to wait. F just has to press a button and has it every now and then like the cool down’s too short. That’s right. Going to jump in though. Super Marco with a turtle for some reason. But now it’s going to be the full collapse for TLP. I cannot see the HQ bars. They are all clubed together. But there is still going to be a diversion coming into that middle bush. Sanji looking for his targets but not going to be hitting anybody going to get 2v1 by his old teammates here on the bottom side. But oh just a little bit of revenge for his baby king duo. Coming in from the back short coming through. Fight’s not over. They’re keeping it going. They’re keeping the fire burning. JP staying alive, but only for a minute. And Sanji will not be able to help out here unless unless they just want to keep going. They want to keep the ball rolling. They feel like they have an advantage and they’re going to be able to take it. Sanford goes down. Falcons want to throw hands and Liquid got the smoke. I could have sworn Liquid was going to get away with cold handed murder, but again, the downtime on Falcon’s heroes are almost non-existent. Yep. And now it’s team Falcons who are currently holding the lead. Imagine that the team fight, it took that long that Team Falcons, especially with the chip, were just able to re-engage once again against Team Liquid Philippines. And the lack of members, it really hurt them. Now it’s Team Falcons who are potentially going to get the first few turrets of the game. Is getting chased by each and every single member of TP. For some reason, he will not be able to make it out. Shortcut was activated, though. That’s an option they can take. But Sanji got killed out of nowhere here. And now it’s the turn. The turn is real from Falcons. Chasing it up on TL. They don’t have enough bullets in the barrel. And for OH, that’s literal. He is running out of fumes. He is getting hunted down by Falcons here. Protect K1. Sanford is protecting K1. Falcons. the way that they position themselves, the heroes that they have, their kids, it’s just too much for Liquid to deal with. I’m pretty sure I saw this exact Valentina stealing away the Granger ult in the regular season in Team Liquid Philippines. Sanji did it, too. And now he’s feeling it right now. But they go for Here’s a diversion into the fight. You thought you were safe. Not really. TL are not taking this lying down. They will try to fight it out. Four members make that five actually present on the lord. The few 17 seconds on the clock. Man advantage for the cavalry here. JP zoning out too. Super Mario. Not exactly a good position for him to be. And AOG out. AoG out. That portal is a very very far. Here comes the zone. Finally a big bunny building zone for Sanford. And that’s four down. Four falcons and a lord of boot. Liquid Stampede. Look it up in the dictionary. you would see a moving picture of that very play. And that is coordination right there. The immediate unleash the beast right after the penalty zone and the free lord alongside that successful team fight for Team Liquid Philippines. They definitely took back the lead away from Team Falcons. We’ll see that play one more time. Again, when Falcons choose the range, when Falcons choose the time to engage, they win nine out of 10 times. But here it was all liquid. Yeah, they quickly turned to take away the members of team to take down the members of team Falcons and they were free enough to just resume taking the lore for themselves which is now marching towards the top lane. And team Falcons, they found themselves in this spot even though they were playing the early game pretty well. And if you look at the gold graphs there, you’re going to see a big jagged mountain there. I’m pretty sure cuz right now it is TPH with a huge gold deficit created against Falcons who were I think I think ahead by 2K or 3K. They’re calling the shots. They’re pushing lanes. Owen is now forced to hide in these bushes and try to scrge up signs and semblances of their early game. So far, what’s happening to Falcons is they’re playing to Liquid’s tempo. And much like that quote from the film from 2014 starring Miles Teller Whiplash, it’s not my tempo. Falcons have to keep up with Liquid. They have to play to this speed. Yeah, it’s too fast. It’s too fast, man. I It’s like a different genre all together. Oh no, they’re going for something first again. Oh, they’re going to collapse on the blab. They find another isolated target and that with a minion wave in tow could be problematic for Falcons. Wide walk by Owen taking this bush. I wonder if anyone saw him. Sanji Sanders here. You see Sanji and there’s no one to follow up for the meantime. Kyle TZ up on front. No one that will be able to help but chip unless energy eruption. Energy Eruption was activated. Kyle TZY at the very last moment and they’re forcing flickers. Top is low. They absorb that shock wave blast and they are now ready to go. They’re fighting back toe to toe tit for tat. Falcons have shoved out liquid without conceding. You shall not take down the master. This is unbelievable. Fortunately for team Liquid Philippines, the unleash the beast. The original unleash the beast made it. like the cool down was there, but if it weren’t for that, Falcons would have probably pushed it all the way. They could have went for Team Liquid Philippines and that would have hurt them so much since they’re already in the lead. But now they’re able to both reset. And this is very important because we have another lord spawning in the bottom side. All right, Liquid thinking if they should amuse and entertain Falcons as Falcons asks, “Shall we dance?” Kyle just checking range. Super Marco hidden in this bush. I wonder if they know I wonder if they know that Marco’s here. Honestly, the first time or the uh previous time we saw Hold on. Never mind. I Here we go again. And that’s a minus one. That’s the jungler. That’s the jungler removed from Falcons. That is huge. Shortcuts get smashed in Preston. Oh, there’s just no way. Not like this. Not like this. Two free kills for Liquid. And this is exactly what I was supposed to say. It’s always Team Liquid Philippines going in first, finding the right pushes. Supin is able to hold a couple of bushes, too. But he just can’t go for anything. He can’t start things up. The nature of Falcon’s lineup requires for them to take two or three extra steps. Sure, their downtime is nigh existent, but it is non-existent, but Liquid PH, they’re so proactive. They’re always looking for plays. Cross map, just checking bushes, ready to go any time. Oh my lord, 4K ahead. Another diversion. And they have the firepower as well to back it up. And now look at this. They’re just marching in on the mid. Oak is very far away. There is very little AoE on their lineup. Super Marco is trying his very best, but it’s Owen coming in from the back. He’s looking for Sani, but he flickers out. Forced to use it. Retreating behind his base. Flap teasy holding out the siege minion here. Two down bottom falls. They survive at least for now. Yeah, they didn’t even get to use the shortcut. But what could it do at this point where Team Liquid Philippines, they’re already all in front of you? And look at the damage coming in from Ohe. Yeah, he’s going to have to find a way to make himself very useful in the next fights cuz Owen, you’re right, the shortcut doesn’t really matter that much if everyone is just in their faces. And now this is going to be very difficult to do. But Liquid makes the call, decides to do the right thing, and be disciplined. Be disciplined. You You cannot afford to make such a huge mistake at this point. Your upper bracket finals ticket is already within reach. Just to put in context, winning this series puts you a best of five win away from punching your ticket to MSC at EWC 25. One more series win after this game. That’s literally one series, one step to possible world domination at MSC and a whopping prize pool. And these two teams know exactly what it feels like. Just a year ago, they were both our representatives at the very first MSE EWC. And that’s why it’s so important for Liquid to play this right. That’s why it’s so important for Fountains to find a way back. They were there. They were in Riyad for the for how many weeks? We saw them represent the Philippines. Just want to keep the world tour going, you know. Oh, ladies and gentlemen, we wish you were here. The Champions Arena is cold. It is quiet and it is tense. Yeah, this looks like another diversion play that can happen. It’s going to happen. You know, it’s going to happen. As funnily enough, Falcons also can get their own diversion. They they don’t need to rely on the chip this time. Yeah, but does does V want to opt for that the the the unleash the beast that he’s been coping. He needs that damage. I know. Eight nine 10 times out of 10 that’s the right call. But here’s the thing. to even make that decision. Liquid have to show themselves. F has to be within range. And that might not even be a starter. Oh my god. Speaking of you. Oh my god. He baited the whole squad. Here comes the diversion coming in from the back. And that’s a wombo combo that everyone saw coming. The damage is so immense. Free members get pushed back. And TPH are looking very unstoppable here. JP using the AOG. They’re jumping in. They are diving in. They’re trying to avoid these projectiles, but Owen is going to fall alongside. Flap. Two free kills for Liquid. And they decide to go for the throne. Falas have to defend. This could be it. Will Super Marco? Will Fu be enough? Cali, the crucial energy eruption. He uses it, but it’s way too late. And we have a winner. The victor of the Clash of Titans are the Cavalry Team Liquid Philippines are going to the upper bracket finals. Still no revenge from the Falcons for this entire season. They’ve been at the mercy of the cavalry. Oh my gosh. Rockart, you know exactly the genes, the DNA that run through Fuse blood. He was once called a comeback king, but he couldn’t pull it off. Not here. And they do the reverse sweep. They pulled it on him. Liquid pulled it on Falcons. Gi well played. The world tour may still continue some way somehow, but they have to grow through the lower bracket tonight. The Cavalry holds their heads high, but the Falcons have to fly back to the nest and regroup. And they’re going up against the lower bracket tomorrow. Hey, Any is going up against Liquid tomorrow, folks. No teams have been eliminated, just to remind you all. But for now, let’s throw it over to the stage and get into the minds. And here from tonight’s victors, Team Liquid Philippines, the reverse sweep is complete. Your winners, Team Liquid Philippines, boys. Congratulations. I think a lot of people lost their voices just watching you play and they came all out to support you today. Sanji, talk to us about game fiveers. Everyone wasn’t expecting. Talk to us about you know your communication in gameverse right there during the After that game five, how are you feeling right now? Game five. Words of motivation. JPula JPul after that match. So sani JP right now and to Carl TZ of course reverse car in your long MPL career title and how do you think are you going to get this title? Carl during the regular season to get to a point where you deserve the MSC. Do you think that with this performance, you guys deserve a spot not only in that grand final but also in MSC? Reverse reverse sweep. And yet they are your victors. Once again, your winners, Team Liquid Philippines. Gentlemen, you may now take your walk of victory. And with that crazy win, you guys may now take your bow. Odin, 20 games in two days. I cannot believe that this is the playoffs where we are nowers finalist and even for the playoffs. One thing is for sure, hello world, the Philippines is waving. We are waving. We are 20 games in two days. I I didn’t think it would happen coming into the playoffs, but after what we saw yesterday, I thought that maybe maybe maybe we would see this in Redmire. We have Yeah, that was a fantastic end to what is in recent memory one of the best series I’ve watched. Full five. Uh that last game was just it felt like two heavyweights on round 10 just tossing haymakers barely able to see but in the end it was it was Sanji who became the difference maker. Those diversions that really changed the game and Ob to remind the world his name why he’s the Filipino sniper safely from a distance raining bullets down on Falcons 92 and four in this game. Just a massive uh win here all around. And you know like I said they took the Granger from Super Mario. Super Mario was playing the Granger for so long like you know what we’ll we’ll take it. the Har was banned anyway. But that’s the thing, man. I love it when we have these five game series or the full series and like the fifth or last game is like this cuz I you know you know it’s kind of like antilimatic sometimes when we have a full series and then that last game’s a 10-minute game. You know what I mean? This was a back and forth the whole series really was. And we’re going to take a look at the highlights here for the MVP OH but also just as a whole for the team here. And you know, I don’t know if it was just too much to handle because both teams had a lot of utility. Oakin, I feel like just wasn’t able to get the positioning that maybe he was looking for the majority of the game. There might have been some moments, but what really stood out, like you mentioned, was Sanji. Sanji’s diversions, especially when it counted was crazy. And this is I mean, oh, yeah, the double right there is awesome. But there’s also a great response from Falcons through this fight. And that’s why I was saying it was such a pendulum swinging game in game five. Yeah, it was the diversion of the low Yi versus the shortcut of the chip. Who gets to make the most out of that and who gets to respond to those moments better. And again, it was just a pendulum, a lot of back and forth up until it wasn’t. Up until the diversion started catching Falcons off guard. Up until the diversion started forcing out some errors from Falcons and Falcons mispositioning themselves. They had no right to be sitting all that close beside each other up against a Turisla who has a flicker with him against Aloi as well. They should not have positions like that in that lord. And that just be started the slow downfall of Falcons getting spotted out by Team Liquid Philippines at the right time in the map, making the most out of their mispositionings and just getting punished over and over again for what felt like 10 straight minutes of Team Liquid Philippines reading Falcons like a book, but it was just like around six to eight of that happening. Just so good, man. Uh again, really showcasing in those precious moments how to make it work. in a lot of those uh fights that we saw too, I just felt like again and it wasn’t it wasn’t Owen’s fault, but like he was just a little too late in a lot of those crucial team fights, you know? And and I don’t know, I know you guys mentioned the uh Jin going into the XP lane. It if this was something else, would it have been better or was this the right choice for Flap to put in the XP? It was an interesting choice and honestly, I’m not knocking it. um before he started racking up deaths, he was a huge thorn in the side of Team Liquid Philippines and why there were some engagements that once they took it, it was just one two sin Crimson Beacon away and Flap Easy being able to lift up the members of Team Liquid Philippines for Falcons to completely change the narrative of that team fight that Team Liquid Philippines would initiate. So in theory to see it in practice now here in the Philippines, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen it. We’ve seen it in different tournaments all across the globe, but to see it here in this level, it’s really cool. However, Team Liquid Philippines, again, just on the-fly adjustments that they made, the things that you were mentioning with Oakwin coming in late, it was that plus me thinking, why would continue to go there as if he was trying to help when you’ve already lost that one advantage. There were two or three times where he was like, “All right, guys, I’m here. Wait, what happened? How come Open still ended up going there and he was left alone for Team Liquid Philippines to just take down? Yeah. So, you know, we don’t have the answers to that, but I was also thinking the same thing. And I’m sure our viewers that were watching internationally, we’re also thinking that. And maybe that’s just one of the crutch crutches of uh playing the chip sometimes, but then even if you try to back off or get away, you’re just going to get chased down ultimately, right? Um, but again, these are our top four stats here for this game. Oh, city got the bridge guy. We’ve also got him as the carry Kyle Teasy. Yeah, he took a lot of damage. And of course, Sanji there sitting at the wingman. And this is a signature pick for Sanji. So, it’s not a surprise. Also for OB, the BPI rich guy here, 810 GPM, a little over 14,000 gold. And again, he was just able to play with the space that was provided from the team that got him there. But again, like you said, a good reminder of why he is called the Filipino sniper. Even if he’s playing this Granger here, a lot of the shots, a lot of the movements that he was able to make were just on point here. So again, that hey, that was I couldn’t honestly ask for a better fifth game, but just like both series today. And I feel like we said this on desk yesterday. Yeah, 100%. Um, this entire day was just great. Uh the first series of Onik and Aurora though there were some dominating performance dominating games pretty one-sided. We saw a crazy amount of highlights there too. Now in the second series as well it it felt like there’s a great storybook ending to the series. And if this is the last time we’re going to see TLPH versus Falcons for this season, I feel like that’s a good way to cap it. But of course I would want to see more of Falcons and TLPH and whoever else. I’d want to see more of Falcons, please. But obviously if it ends there, it’s a good storybook ending to the Clash of the Titans for season 15. So we had uh two throwbacks matches going five games today and that’s uh exactly what we got to look at. And it’s a good preview of once again of just how competitive the MPL Philippines is. And honestly, at this point, like everything you’ve been watching, all if you’ve caught all the 20 games with us between yesterday and today, you you know uh that it’s hard to guess exactly who’s going to be champion this season. So, I can’t wait. But first, we’re going to hear our Infinix mic check for this one. Okay. Clear. That’s the kind of celebration I like to see. You know, uh again, it’s not all the teams that celebrate like that, but you get a reverse sweep, mind you, everybody was thinking it could possibly be a sweep, but you get a reverse sweep like that for TLPH. That has to feel good to stay locked in that long and get it done because again, Falcons, uh, they’re not a team that you can underestimate. Any of these teams here right now, you cannot. So, congratulations once again. It’s TLPH. Any last thoughts on, you know, uh, how how today has been, how yesterday has been, how possibly tomorrow, Renar, we might be here for 30 games. Uh, it’s it’s been magical, honestly. No other way to put it. uh the series, the stories we’ve been able to tell, the highlights that we’ve seen. Uh players who have often been on the receiving end of jokes, uh showing up having their own redemption arcs, maybe not making it all the way, but then still being able to, you know, vindicate themselves. It’s been uh an absolutely magical MPL Philippine season 15 playoffs, and it’s only been day two. It’s been day two and it’s been 20 games and there is at there is way more. There’s way more and this is what we’re going to look at right now in the playoff bracket uh to see exactly how much way more we have to go. As you guys can see, we’ve got the full packed action all five games from yesterday and today. This brings us to our next matches which will be happening tomorrow. Right. So, that’s going to be two matches once again. We have the upper bracket uh and the lower bracket going. I think we Yeah, we start with we start with the upper bracket tomorrow. Yeah, we’re going to start off with seeing which of the two teams between Onyx Philippines and Team Liquid Philippines will be the first to represent us in MSC at EWC 25. Yeah. And then we finish it tomorrow off with Aurora Gaming going against Team Falcons. And that honestly when I look at those I don’t know man you know I don’t know who’s going to win those either way will be in good hands for the first team to lock in the grand final spot and get to represent the Philippines. The way that they have played though you could also just be like man Onyx going to have the momentum but then the people are going to be like TLPH has momentum after this reverse sweep. So it’s like who let’s just cancel let’s let momentum cancel each other out. Yeah. and may the best team win there. And then even for Aurora and Falcons, I think Falcons will want to try to redeem themselves. We’ve also got our Infinix fanlan going on right now. This is the playoff stage for them. As you guys can take a look, if you’re wondering what this is, these are the teams fan bases or the fans that actually have been competing all regular season long and also compete here in the playoffs. It’s a little fun kind of competition that they have going on. And uh I’m not 100% sure what the prize for them is, but I know there’s a lot involved for our our fan teams out there. The entire roster gets phones. Is that? Yeah, that’s it. Each and every one of them. Uh plus diamonds. I don’t mean that’s it as in Oh, that’s it. Yeah, I think all of them get either GT20s or GT30 Pros. uh a whole buttload of diamonds and even more goodies, especially from their uh respective uh teams that they’re playing for as well. Why didn’t we join the fancy lab? Where’s the where’s the caster caster lab? Yeah, there should at least be like uh they should allow the casters to play like as one team. Dude, it’s been it’s been crazy. I can’t believe it. I cannot believe it either. This has been a fantastic day number two already for the playoffs. I don’t know even what more to expect. Uh we still have a few days to go through. Of course, tomorrow like we mentioned, you know, you’ve got uh you got the two matches going on. Look at this. Two. Look at this. So far, season 15 playoffs. Two days matches played four games played 20. Total game time played 5 hours 52 minutes 13 seconds. That is insane. We had really long games yesterday. Yeah. Like all of the I would say majority of them were what 20 20 20 plus minutes. Uh yeah around 18 to 20 minutes. 18 to 20 minutes. Today was a the games on average were a little bit faster. Much quicker. Um especially in the first series we had games that were you know under the 15 minute mark under the 13 minute mark and then they I think the fastest in match one was probably like 17 or or 19 minutes. Yeah. We’re finishing at least like an hour and 10 minutes earlier than we did yesterday. Yesterday was Yeah. But you know we had a little extra. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Extra stuff if you saw, you know, the openings and everything else. It was a jam-packed day yesterday. So, um that wraps it up here for us here in the panel stand and of course for day two as well. We’ve got plenty of more action for you guys uh tomorrow and of course the days following that. But tomorrow’s going to be a big day because now you have like two big things happening. One of the teams finding out who’s going to the grand finals and and and representing the Philippines. And it’s like you’re gonna have the later match being like the heated sad eventually sad ending for one of the teams as well. Yeah. Uh it’s tough to say that we’re going to be saying goodbye to either Falcons or Aurora tomorrow with the seasons both of them have uh they’ve had. Uh while for Liquid and Onyx Philippines to be in the determining match to see which one of them will be our first representatives to chase for that Immortal Cup uh I think for some people sort of expected that Immortal Cup man. Uh, looks amazing. Can’t wait to see what ends up happening. But that’s it for me. Nu and Renar on behalf of the casters as well. We’ll see you guys tomorrow. Odin, I don’t know about you, but this is the type of playoffs that a lot of people expected but never predicted. Peru, 20 games in under two days. This is the type of playoffs that we are all looking for. You’re right, Hank. And finally, we now have our upper bracket finalist, Honor Philippines and Team Liquid Philippines. They’re now one step closer to becoming immortal grand finals and be the first representatives of the Philippines MSC at EWC 2025. That’s Team Falcons and Aurora Gaming. They still have a shot at second chance lower bracket. It’s an opportunity for them to be better and more than legendary way back previous seasons ago bracket. But again, only one can come out alive. fans because a lot of things can happen when you’re on your path to immortality in order to become a legend, in order to become an immortal. And not only should you guys watch out for the matches because tomorrow is the day that we will award the players that are deserving of the Alamat Awards. Your MVPs, your most improved players, all will be determined tomorrow. Awards during the playoffs at Philippines season 15 and this is your very own. We’ll see you guys tomorrow. us. Hey, hold on. got on the lane. We become the monsters for the three stars to the top. No winning any game mobile I become a legend with pressure cuz Mama Hold on, hold on, hold on. Yeah. Lacking every beat. But next time I just imagine what we can achieve. Lacking every surrender. Giving all my we just cannot be defeated. We are unstoppable. Invulnerable young equipment. I have frozen my crowd control like the southeast. So without problem
This is Day 2 of the MPL PH S15 Playoffs. After 10 long games in the 1st day of the playoffs, there’s sure to be more action!
First up, it’s the Trailblazers of the New Era, the big match itself, the all-star showdown, Aurora Gaming vs Onic Philippines, the rematch of the Season 14 Grand Finals, who will book their spot in the upper bracket finals?
On the 2nd game of the day, we will see the Clash of the Titans, Team Liquid Philippines, tournament favourites going up against a familar foe in Team Falcons.
4 Teams, 2 heated match-ups. This is MPL PH.
Match Schedule:
โ๏ธ 3pm: RORA vs. ONIC (Bo5)
โ๏ธ 7pm: TLPH vs. FLCN (Bo5)
Catch you at the land of dawn!
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