🔴 LIVE | GROUP STAGE DAY 2 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

🔴 LIVE | GROUP STAGE DAY 2 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

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As in Saudi Arabia? Yes. Why are we trekking through the jungle? MSE started off in the tropics before it started to take over the world. Yes. Oh, guys, guys. This simple. It matches the cub frequency. I think we’re getting close. You guys hear that? The format is calling me. I can feel it in my gut. Your guts. You just skip breakfast. Guys, look. Eight different warriors, all from distant lands. One sacred path. Oh my. Japan is back. Eight teams drawn into two groups. JSLR match with PO3 matches, but at the end only one team advances. We have to find the next piece first because then we get to write the story. Imagine it. Lapels MSE 2025 Fury Pro Max Plus. Ain’t that good? Yeah, I like the sound of that. It’s okay. I got this. What’s that? Great, Scott. It’s the group stage format. The MSC 2025 group stages is going to consist of 16 teams broken into two groups. Each group balanced and regionally diverse. So all teams will be drawn into two seeds and teams from the same region can’t be drawn into the same group. Groups will then play a BO3 double elimination. Teams with a 20 record and teams that survive with a 21 record will then advance. Eight teams will then fight for the ultimate glory. Is this still a group stage or a group LM stage? Well, it’s kind of both. It’s the best of both worlds. Maybe we’re intentionally lost. Oh, you mean like the time a strong team lost to a weaker team, then claimed it was a strategy to go down to the lower bracket for a more dramatic comeback. Yeah, that sounds right. Yes. Yes. Oh, look, that seems like a shortcut to the finale. Perfect. Now we can saw the final format before it even get here. Let’s go. Brigas, let me teach you something. When you see something shining, just smash it. I found it. The sacred format ahead of everyone else. From now on, you can call me Lel, the great format discover. Lel, I think you broke the format. Oh, we can still fix the format. Thank goodness I’m out with you this time. Don’t touch anything else. No. Let’s look at a knockout stage. The MSC 2025 knockoff stage. 20 teams will get to choose which 21 team they want to face. Will the two teams just pick a weaker team for a better matchup? Or they could just find a tougher team just to play. The real question is which team gets to choose first. most game wins or shorter game time. We’re going to have to wait until we get to Riad. Until then, let’s have a look at the playoff practice. Quarterfinals and semis will now be best of five. Oh, and there’s now a best of five third place clash before the grand finals. The final best of seven to crown the ultimate champion. There you have it, the MSC 2025 format. Wildc cards to glory. Yes. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Hold forward. [Music] Just one more trophy left. Nobody expected this. That’s fine. for you. [Music] We’re locked in. I can’t live like the opposition. 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I mean, we’ve got a lot of interesting matches and more importantly, oh, once we get into it, I’ll explain the face paint in just a little bit. But hey, Miracle, I mean, you saw half of yesterday. I got the first half of it. How did it all line up? Hey, we were actually able to cast two more full best of threes. You know, I don’t know if it’s a Brigittita curse or if it’s a I think it’s both Bragitta and Naveen working at the same time. But yeah, we got some absolute bangers almost so close to upsets. Yeah, some uh very interesting story lines that we have in preparation for the second day featuring Group B. Uh we have a good old Malaysia versus Singapore matchup coming on. Uh some powerhouses showing up. So, I’m pretty sure Group B is going to deliver. Will it deliver more three game series? Let’s see. Uh before we talk on a little bit more further about what to expect, I just want to ask for again quick recap for yesterday. Are you guys surprised with some of the drafting decisions, the gameplay decisions? How are you feeling? Honestly, in terms of the raw drafting, I think that a lot of teams are uh well, I I don’t want to say that they’re hiding their draft so far, but it definitely feels like they’re trying to test each other a little bit more. you know, try with a bit of a riskier draft, kind of test the waters, make sure that they can flex a little bit more on their opponents just to just to see the power levels just like Sanford and the hero shot, right? But, uh, yeah, I feel like a lot of these teams are still trying to limit test, still trying to see what MS is all about here. We saw Mythic Seal go for a very risky lineup with a Selena and I think that was the only Selena we saw in day number one after I think last time we saw it in the grand finals of MWI. Yeah. So, we’re clearly seeing that the creativity of teams in terms of their drafting and their final hero lineups heading into the matches are still being tested and are still being proven. We’re still stretching the limits of what this meta can bring. And I mean, I couldn’t ask for more when it comes to MSA here at the Esports of World Cup. Yesterday, yes, we’re full of surprises. So, we’re going to be seeing the top plays show up on your screen in just a moment. And there were a good amount because what I loved about yesterday is despite the results with uh team Philippines dominating Ultra Legends, Onyx surviving CFU, the matches of SRG against uh VP and then Mythic Seal versus Corinthians is that there were a fair share of highlights per series. Oh yeah, you can definitely see that the mechanics of these players, especially the champions, uh I mean the champion, I want to say league, but it’s really the champions group here in group A. It’s it’s very evident, right? Everybody is making sure that they minimize all of their mistakes all across the board. But we also saw a good amount of challengers, right? VP against SRG being able to take down a game from SRG’s side. To be fair, I do admit that the draft was a little a little funky from SRG’s side, but hey, everybody loves a good game. Yeah, I think it was a little bit funky for VP2 as we got to game number three. You could see that just the way that SRG were able to outdraft VP outplay them in game number three. And after that, we got to see a really, really hot match up in Mythic Seal up against Corinthians 2. And that matchup in particular was just all about the drafts. Those risky moves that didn’t really pay off as much. Yeah. Uh outside of the drafts and in games, we’ve seen some really great reactions as well. Brought to you by Crunchyroll. Uh Yumes being vocal. Even a little bit of a table slam there. Even Creme after the match against Pro, he stood up and pointed as if it was a name like a the attorney, the ace guy. Yeah, it’s uh Ace Attorneys. Uh Steven Bright, I think. No. [Laughter] Oh, you even see some shrugs here and there from Vertus Pro. You know what that reminds me of? Sunset Lover at M3, dude. Like the whole dance against Toad and same pattern. Like they won it and then they lost the series ultimately to a point from Creme. Yeah. Hopefully we get to see the the players today loosen up a little bit more, a little bit more taunts. I mean like our ladies from MWI were very though they were very vocal and they were very active in getting into the minds uh mind space of their opponents. Hopefully we get to see more from the dudes as well of MLB. Speaking of MWI and Team Vitality, well they are still currently in the leaderboards for our club championship here at the esports world cup. Again, not only historic for the MLBB esports space, but for the leaderboards again it still remains the same. Team Vitality are the only teams so far that are qualified to lift the trophy at the end of the esports World Cup. Hey, hey, hey, don’t forget about some of the other teams that could potentially be in contestion, right? E, Evos Esports already got 1,000 points from Freef Fireside, but I’m looking at Team Spirit. I’m looking at the Vertus Bros because this win of MSE will shoot them up into the standings and honestly start them on their qualification run for the EWC Club Championships. Yeah, don’t forget about RQ as well, just lingering there at 12. They’re all tied for 750 points with VP2. So again with RQ here, rumor rumors have it that they’re doing really good in scrims. If they can have that performance beyond stage two, it’ll be great for them to get some more club championship points. Remember, there are uh around 17 game titles left and the race for the most points still remains wide open. You see the top side quite heavy and then one tournament uh or game title win could completely change how the top side of the table looks like. Remember, it’s a total of 27, that’s a lot of zeros, million dollars up for grabs for the 24 most successful clubs with the champions getting 7 million. Now that we got to head into some uh big figures as well, it’s been a record-breaking year and a half for MLBB Esports. It was a record-breaking day one as well. Thanks to you, we got to reach over 1 million views just in our very first day of MSE here at the Esports World Cup. Now though, it’s time to celebrate. So, please uh vote for us. Esportsawwards.com/vote. There are three categories for MLBB. Uh you got the tournament of the year, game of the decade, and game publisher of the decade as well. So, thank you so much for all of your support. We literally wouldn’t be here without you. Yeah, I don’t know where I’d be. Yeah, I don’t know where any of us would be without you guys. Hey, if we’re able to beat a million PCU yesterday, how about today? Support your favorite teams. And even if they’re not from your own local region, definitely make it a little spicy in the comments. We want to hear you guys for this for sure. Yeah. Time. I think it’s time to remind our viewers though of the bracket that we find ourselves in cuz interestingly enough, for some reason, we still are getting a lot of questions in the comment section. So, let’s take this time to remind you of what to expect for our group stages, how the format works so that everything is clear. We have two groups. We’re going to focus on group stage. Wild card is already finished. So, we have two groups of eight teams with 16 teams, double elimination, and the top four per group advance to playoffs. Uh, maybe you’d want to talk a little bit more about playoffs, Marco. Yeah, playoffs going to be brutal as always is the classic MSC format ever since 2023 that we’ve been seeing single eliminations. Yeah, it’s really brutal. And with this format, it’s actually interesting to see that the most dominant region, Philippines, has not been able to really get success with this format. Right. MSE 2023, 2024 last year as well. They got to the finals last year, but it was both years. Yeah. Uh we’ve gotten to break that curse uh through other tournaments, but hopefully here at MSE in the Moon Cannon events that we’ll be able to do that as well. Again, $1 million is the first place prize. There’s a lot of shared prize pool between the wild card teams from 18th to 23rd, 5th to 16th here, past the wild cards in groups, knockouts in this main stage. But you know what? I feel like if I was on a team, I’d be sad if I get second. But then if I’m reminded as to how much team uh money I’m actually winning at second place, I think I’d be okay. Oh yeah, because I think most people are like, “Ah, yes, you may not be a world champion.” And group A and has bunch of champions and group B is just playing, you know, their story arc mode and campaign. But generally that prize pool is life-changing money. If you win MSE at least one time, you basically out earned a majority of these organizations combined through their own local MPLs and even their world championships. Dude, you saw SRG went from being, you know, at least in the leaderboards of most earned, right, most earnings when it comes to prize pools. They were nowhere in the top 10 after MSC, boom, they were all in the top five. What the heck? Yeah, one sudden launch up. But now we have to look at group B because that’s going to be the group getting focused on today. Not as many champions uh from the previous MPL or qualifying regions. However, there are still a fair share as well as champions from MCC in Team Spirit, MTC in Aurora Gaming, the China qual qualifier, uh, it’s Dianai, and yeah, the SGS9 champion in Team Flash. You’re going to be seeing all of them match up today. I know you’re already going to be looking forward for the homeboy flash SG match up as Malaysia versus Singapore, but what’s your matchup that you’re looking out for, MCO? TS versus DFY. I’m a big fan of TS. a massive fan of DFY and I really want to see another new region here pop off in MSE. We’ve been seeing backtoback like non-Filipino region. I’m sorry Renar we’ve been winning a bit too much. Indonesia MS 2023 Malaysia winning their first major international. I would love to see China or hey ECA get their hands I mean get their job done. Yeah, and it’s going to be a revenge match later on in the day for the final match up between Team Spirit and Dian Fong Yanguay as they met up in the Super Cup earlier this year, which delivered a well a very prolific win. FY do not want to remember it. Yeah, they don’t want to remember it or carry it on their shoulders to see if they could win. But that’s the final matchup of the day. And if you want to join us for MSE, if you haven’t gotten your tickets yet, the tickets are still available. Just look for them on weebook.com. And remember, we are here in Riad all the way until August 2nd, the very final day of the knockout stages. You won’t be able to watch the group stages. So, because we’re in a separate arena, but once we get to the knockouts, once we’re in the big arena, then you could join us there or just drop by the boulevard and say hi to us. I guess I think we’ll be we’ll be very much okay with that. Now, let’s talk about the Saudi National Bank match of the day. We’ve had our own opinions of what it is, but our match of the day is on PH versus Aurora Gaming from Turkey. Oh man, I wasn’t expecting this. I Okay, you know, maybe personal bias here, but honestly, on a PH versus Aurora game, this is going to be interesting because every single time we’ve seen Aurora Gaming, we’re like, yeah, these are the dark horses. They’re going to be smashing so many teams, but then they always get paired up with some of the top seeds right at the very start. And based on what we’ve seen in history, every single time they start with a top team at the very beginning, it’s just a long struggle through the lower brackets. It really depends, right? Because their first ever I mean their debut in the international stage in M4 in Sanio Supremacy, they were able to be Blacklist International. The top dog at the time made it to the grand finals, too. And yeah, it’s unfortunate for Aurora. The narrative right now is you’re only as good as your previous tournament result. And they were grouped in the Swiss stage of M6. They’re going up against the world champions here in Onyx Philippines. It is a tough matchup, but with the meta shaping up to be as it is right now, I think Aurora have a pretty good shot. Yeah, and considering the fact that their coaching staff is made up of two coaches from the Aurora Philippines squad, meaning that they have two members of their team very very familiar with how Any operate in the draft and how they operate in game. So, it is an interesting matchup to watch out for and I’m excited to see it as our match of the day later on. So, at the very top of the show, we discussed a little bit about the drafts and I think if we bring our viewers back to what happened in patch 1.90, if I’m correct, uh we can have a more in-depth discussion as to why we see the patch operate the way it does now. Yeah, I mean again big buffs to the exp lane, significant changes, Arla and as well as Lapu Lapu plus Esmeralda has been the new additions. I wasn’t expecting Esmeralda to be as good as she is in the current metag game. I would love to see a little bit more Yudong, but I think a lot of it just comes down to siege minions and then the faster crap respawn time, giving you more incentive or 15 seconds more incentive to fight back against your opponents in lane. Yeah, it’s unfortunate we don’t get to see Yuzong, but I think the big problem with Yuzong currently is the petrify, dude. Like when you get tough boots, usually you go furious that petrify and it’s an auto combo. You land that. With the tenacity boots right now, it’s just hard to get it. Even with uh the petrify, you don’t get the second part of the fierce dive. But I think the biggest change in this patch is actually what was not highlighted there. I think the movement around the river has changed a lot uh in terms of the team dynamics and how many more team fights we’re getting early on. Plus the delayed jungle spawn, jungle creep spawn. As much as I love to talk about the patch and keep going for another few minutes, we have more chance later on, especially in the drafts and especially in game to discuss uh what’s happening in the meta and how it has affected the play. Now it’s time to look at it from the tournament perspective and let’s look at our Aramco power ranking. So heading into day number one, we got to rank our teams personally and I think it still remains the same. We are now looking at Oh no, this is the same graphic from yesterday. So we’re seeing a good amount of group B teams actually in the Dark Horse and Fighters column. Yes, I I think this is where it gets a little uh hard to kind of predict how group E is going to go. I think everybody has like a rough idea of how group A should quote unquote should shape up unless you know you know some of the bigger teams drop a couple of games here and there and dip down but group B is where a lot of the story lines are going to be built off from the MSE. It’s a strong foundation especially for regions outside of what we know in Southeast Asia. Yeah, I think group B is filled with I remember we discussed this yesterday. Group A, it’s like a story that tells itself. M group B is a lot of them have a lot of stories that go back years back. Uh tournament results we see good amount good amounts of that in group A as well. But there’s something about group B that I look at. It’s like if there is going to be a team that you don’t expect to make it into the finals. They might be coming from group B like with the roster that they have there. Uh the stories that they have. So let’s see uh if group B will be the group that delivers surprises. And no, I did not get shocked just now with uh hopefully you got to hear the battlecries because uh if you didn’t, then I’m just the dude who got surprised out of nowhere. Uh let’s start talking about the two teams that are going to be fighting out for our very first series of the day. It’s Homeboy from Malaysia, Team Flash from Singapore. You’re the Malaysian of the table here, Gideon. So, what what can we expect from Homeboy? Look, Homeboys have had a completely new revamp of its roster. From what we used to know, the Flame Boys being really spicy, being in your faces with an aggressive play style. Now they’ve kind of humbled down with a completely new roster built from the ground up. I’m not Singaporean, but I’ll take this one. Flash SG. It’s weird because you would expect this to be an upgrade on paper. Say, a world champion coach coming in to coach an allstar SG lineup, but unfortunately, this was literally their shakiest performance to making it to an international yet. Yes, they’ve had some changes in the XP lane and I think that could have been what contributed much towards that shaky performance in Ken because he is still inexperienced. He’s still new compared to Diablo at least. That’s going to have to change, right? Ken will need to improve really quick because they’re up against homeboys who are new too. A lot of them are making their international debut, but for some reason it just feels different. The aura there like they are confident with air pong at the helm. I mean I in in comparison right when you have Vel Amal as their jungler IAMI you want to put the Y I didn’t expect him to change MLQTT this roster is looking to try and shake things up especially for the Malaysian representatives these guys have definitely failed in making it far within their own groups if not getting knocked out super early in internationals. This is where it all changes. Remember last year it was home boys who was taken down by team flash at the top eight portion of our knockout stage. They moved on forward and gave Singapore it is highest placing in an international tournament in such a long time. They could declare themselves as one of the top four teams in the world at the end of MSE last year. This homeboy squad, let’s see if they can uh enact some vengeance for what happened to their previous counterparts in last year’s MSC. Mhm. I think for the homeboys at the very least, we’re looking at that midtrio to work well. Amal, Izzanami, and as well as Ivan. Their side laners are pretty stable overall, but they’re not exactly the most lane dominant. I mean, sometimes it is. And when you see that lane dominance, that’s when things start to shake up. And you can see the teams have way more options in playing the map. Yeah. So, it’s really more of team fighting for the side laners, too. They just really they want to shove in the lanes and go and rotate. And hey, this is what the patch is about. You just go pick up ready to fight go laners and fight for turtle one where you can look for the snowball. And homeboys have been doing a whole lot of that even before the patch. Yeah, let’s see what team flash will bring to the table. It’s a roster that you’re very familiar with. Miracle touched on it earlier. The only difference is their exp laner can. But you have the returning we call him the emperor Akihiroan JPL in the Rome for flash who is now in his excuse me six six MSC appearance. Yes, he has not missed an MSC just yet. JTL as a veteran, the Shogun, some may call him, our emperor, Akihiroan, is looking to guide this squad to their victories. But that’s not the only people that we should worried about. Certezy in particular. Last time, what shocked the world was with some of his stranger mid picks, right? We saw Martis in the mid facing off against Aloy certain times, 2v1ing teams who weren’t expecting these options. And now with Vanx kind of becoming his own man throughout the past year, they need to make sure that at least Hades has some support because he’s always this big player, but he needs that little bit of oomph to get him over the edge. Yeah, but Ma, they have an uh Indonesian coach in their squad now, Coach Z. What can you fill in our viewers about that? Technically, he’s Singaporean, but he was he did win with Indonesia with Evo. So, yeah, Zace, he’s always been a controversial figure. I’m going to be honest with you, especially in the just recent years, recent times. He’s always had his own idea in his game and he’s very he’s very strict. He’s very military style when it comes to coaching a team and I think that’s why Flash were kind of culture shocked by that. They they weren’t ready for that all this time. I think Flash with their all-star players have had kind of more of a relaxing time with their coaching staff. They would be they would just be chilling, you know, having conversations. Meanwhile, Zay comes here and says, “I know you better than yourself or you pick my hero right now.” Which can be good in this meta. We know how massive the pryop pickics can be here and that’s what I’m expecting from Zay. I’m hoping that the meta sticks together here for him just in the group state and then later we get to see the crazy stuff like the martis mid etc. You would imagine that because Singaporeans now have mandatory national service that Zay would kind of fit in nicely. Well, they were able to win a championship in Singapore for Pete for team flash. But of course, as we all know, esports players go through a lot. They sacrifice a lot. Well, I think this one is a story worth hearing. So, listen in on this. This is NIP Flash. Yo, what a set. What a petrify. I’m confident in my team. So, here we are. It’s quite a long story. So, basically before the start MPL, some unfortunate things happened to my mom. So, she like uh she passed on. Despite that, I did uh still try to perform for NPR state, but I feel maybe my performance wasn’t as good. You got Mand with the treble. Another maniac as they wipe out Flash SG as well. This is going to be a brawl right now. Still, it is going to be Curtis backing away. The follow up here with JPL and the stone as Flash SG goes up to the grand finals in a beautiful head and shoulders wipe out. with the addition of Ken in the roster. I think that’s why they decided to use Ken instead and they had better results with him. Afterwards, I was uh like a sub. Then we were having a two two screams basically to determine who will be the playoffs. Then uh I felt that I wasn’t able to keep up with the team. So my performance wasn’t as good. I think therefore they they chose Ken and I accepted it. I didn’t want to pull the team down. So therefore I didn’t play in the playoffs. I probably won’t be the starter because the team spent a lot of time training with him. So, probably will be Ken after that. Well, uh we got to we got a chance to talk to Diablo earlier today. It seems like he’s in a good spirits to help support the team in what way he can and uh no pun intended there in what way he can, but uh it seems like he’s very happy to be here as well. team brought him out and we might not see Diablo play, but know that he’ll be backstage really supporting team Flash in just a moment. We are now going to be seeing the draft and it’s time to talk about the juicy picks that we can expect. Can we actually expect with what you mentioned about Coach Jay and his style of coaching for Team Flash to bring out one of their signature what the heck is going on? How is this working picks? I’m expecting more orthodox picks here, especially in the group stages for Z. knowing him and his patterns before as well in the regular season, he likes to play it a bit safer up against the bigger teams when there’s a lot more risk. But yes, later on when we get to see a more lopsided matchup, if you think so, we will see more of those crazy cheese picks from Flash. I don’t know. Is it hoping too much for me that I kind of want it right now? I mean, that makes so much sense. You can literally yell it out to him right now. Guys, come on. Guys, come on. Please. No, I I I totally agree with the miracle here. I think that if there is any time that Ziggs would be a little softer on the team in terms of what options that they’re going to go for, probably it would come if they win this match up and still are in the upper bracket. That very first game is where they’re going to do it because right now being able to keep those two lives for as long as possible is always going to be a high priority for a majority of these teams. Going down to the lower bracket is actually kind of dangerous knowing the potential teams that could fall down. But let’s jump into the draft, right? Team Flash SG on the blue side facing off against the home boys on red side. The priorities are looking a little similar from what we saw yesterday. Yeah, but it’s a bit odd knowing Hades and you know how he really likes to get his hands on assassins. You wouldn’t really expect these kind of bands. Harth gets taken out. So that means that maybe Flash SG are still trying to plan out for an assassin like a joy. But I think the big picture should just be a box that we have been seeing a whole lot of pryo from the first two matches that they won, but then completely forgot about it in the last two matches that day one. Look, I don’t want to get into that, man. Like that’s that’s where it got really really I I got I’m not going to lie, I got really salty about it because the diversity of damage was like such a problem sometimes that you’re forced to put Kimmy into an awkward spot and then Boxia could have just completely counter it, but nobody wanted it. Yeah. Oh, there we see. But it got taken out and I think this opens Oh, wait. Weirdly enough, this opens up a Uranus rush for Flash SG. Box is one of the main answers to that and they could go ahead and prioritize it. By the way, yes, JPL, it’s his five prior MSE appearances. He has scored 337 assist, the highest among all players in the tournament series history. It’s not a Uranus first pick. It’s a 1-1 rush. Yeah, and this is a very, very risky pick. Again, yes, 1 is very prior, ladies and gentlemen, but it is very easily countered. This was the first pick for CFU against Onyx ID and it worked out for them mainly because I think Any ID just completely disrespected it. Did not pick any of the counters which are open up for grabs for homeboys. They could just pick up a Farsa and then build off of that. Yeah, we’ll see how this is going to go, right? Because again, Flash SG wants to kind of skewer and kind of influence the draft with this first pick. They could have gone for Kimmy. They could have gone with Farsa. They could have gone for the Uranus, but now the homeboys going for the into the Arlet. come down for it, right? Because it still tells Flash SG, we know that you don’t scale as well, so you’re forced to be looking for these scaling style of heroes, especially in the mid lane. Yeah, first two picks really good. You already have the lane response of the one-1. And then in the overall team fighting picture, the Arlot should provide enough disruption to what is expected to be a very condensed uh play around the tanky fighter jungler lineup for Flash SG. Yeah, what’s scary to me right now is the fact that homeboy are kind of setting up for a Freden in the jungle with the Arlet pick, right? If not Freden, maybe we’ll see something like an Akai. And both those picks are pretty good for the one pick up. So flash SG could try to build more for the mid pryo. Now they go for the Juin and the Kala. That should guarantee mid pryo. And in a way it is not really the best combo. You don’t usually want to pair up Ko with Juin, but I understand it here. Ka, you lock people down. So the one gets a free crossbow or tang. And now it puts even more pressure from homeboy for homeboy as they will have to decide whether to go for the utility jungle in Freden. is very unsafe or keep it keep it steady and just go for a flex pick again to get into second phase. I mean they can also lock in the Kimmy almost straight away as well knowing what their R4 could potentially be in but then that opens up a lot of options for Flash SG to look for these big punishes in that second phase. So far I think that flash SG has a really good option. Homeboy now leaning into that front line tank. This this is perfect, right? This is planned from the get- go with the 1-1 opener. H homeboys. Uh they’re going to need a little bit more burst damage to the center of the map. I think their control is already solved pretty much. A little bit more reach is needed. Uh they respect ban the Tigriel of JPL who actually played five games in the grand finals of MPL Singapore. Oh, that’s Tigriel. Mhm. Tigriel taken out here. Interesting. So, they’re expecting the KA to go XP. I think that’s something we actually haven’t seen since the change of the range of skill from Kala. But okay, it’s a take from them. They want to ban it out. Maybe again Arlet and Freden is super vulnerable to those big CC abilities. But for me right now, I think homeboy, they’re drafting for a very normal like previous meta draft too, right? They want to probably go far Kimmy that was going to get taken out instantly. That’s why I thought maybe the fara should have came come up first. That’s what I was thinking too. I I I was hoping that maybe they get their mage a little bit earlier. They could have saved the Irrithal if not play in Moscow later down the line. Knowing that Flash SG actually likes to play the assassins, we finally get to see the Uranus banned out the side of the homeboy. And if Flash SG is going to do Flash SG things, I would expect that this is going to be a Kimmy ban. Yeah. Okay. With the Kimmy taken out for homeboys, that leaves uh Zeten. But then Zeti and Fred together in the entirety of MLBB here at the Sports World Cup has been so missed. not even hit or miss is usually missed because it’s overload on utility and not enough damage from the early to mid to cross you on over to the mid to the late game. Well, here’s the thing. There is actually an idea when you have the Arlet in play, right? That’s the main reason why people take the Arlet when you have these types of utility junglers on top of utility mid laner. So again, we don’t know whether this Arlet is going to be playing as the mid trio or the exp lane. There’s no way to kind of predetermine that matchup. So let’s see what R4 has to offer for us. Right, this should technically be the mid pick. If not, we probably will get a predetermination of who’s going exp and who is going support. Mhm. I really don’t I’m not a big fan of the Arlet in Rome. So, I would say Arlet should be XP here. I’m thinking of Flash right now. I think the Lapu Lapu works really well and I think Flash have already banned out proper components that would strengthen Homeboy lineup. This is just about how you finish the draft. Homeboys, they go for the Milda. There you go. So, that’s the guarantee. Arlet will be going XP. Matilda and Fredin flash. Do they now try to go for I would still say go for what I said earlier right in XP. Lapu. Yeah, go for the Lapu because at this point, right, if even if people are thinking, okay, if Kalia goes into the exp and then we get a Cho to get mid prio, it it’s kind of a double down on the exact same thing. Two pickoffs, sure, but then everybody from the side of home boys when they saw Kalia was going to set their battle spells to purify anyway. So unless they want to play around, we’ll see how Flenty dashes to work with on the enemy side to buy that extra bit of time. Oo, Akai Esme. Yeah, Akai. Yeah, and I think that was the trade that Flash was already thinking. They I feel like they expected the Fred to go to the side of homeboys and then with all the shields now the side of homeboys, especially if they pick up a Esmeraldo would be very happy. I am quite fond of the flash SG draft, but if they don’t get there early, it’s going to take a lot of time. Well, I think that right now it almost guarantees that Curtis kind of needs to build into the sky piercer because there’s a lack of damage from from team flash. I’m not going to lie. Right, we have the traditional matchups of the Akai into the Fred. We know how that’s going to work during these neutral fights, which means that homeboy actually has to play around that. How they’re going to do it, I’m not too sure because in terms of like raw wave pushing, Ill needs at least that wind talker to kind of push the lanes really really fast and then participate in fights. And even so, you would rather have three items before you get into these battles in the first place. Okay, homeboy. Oh, they go Valentina. That’s not too bad. Yeah, it’s pretty good. They can get the heavy spin to it and now it makes it pretty difficult. We thought that maybe with the Kai turtle one guarantee, but the Valentina changes everything. All right. Yeah, you two can expound on this a little bit more once we head into the game, but real quick, Miracle, who has an easier lineup to pull off? Flash, what about you, Gideon? I’m going to say, yeah, Team Flash has a much easier line off uh lineup to pull. My main issue is that early game, right? That mid from Curte and JPL is going to be quite devastating. I want to see how Homeboy kind of neuters them, slows them down. All right, let’s head into this Singapore versus Malaysia mashup. It’s Flash against Homeboy. Thank you, Remar. All right, Flash SG versus Homeboys from Malaysia. The battle of the causeway. Years in the making, a rematch that people waiting for for a very long time. Luckily, nobody is up for eliminations. Mirao, it’s going to be you and me as we start making our way into the land of Dawn. How you feeling about this? Because even for me, I’m looking at the lineups. I’m worried for both sides cuz a single mistake could snowball out of control here for the mid-season cup 2025 here at the Esports World Cup. Hey, a lot of questions and we get to answer those questions here. We get to elaborate on our previous answers and I think I might have to backtrack on what I said earlier. Flash having the easier comp. I forgot again of the combo with the Valentina taking the heavy spin to give the constant resets on vengeance, right? It’s Beyblade X, baby. Oh my lord. It’s not just going to be the Fredin. It’s also the Akaida that’s going to literally let it rip. Mhm. On the hands of Allen. Yeah. I I think that’s why when I’m talking about like the later stages of the game, this is going to have quite a fun time, right? everybody while minimizing the amount of gold given to our opponents because if we’re talking about like early invades as well, I would say that the early invades are pretty looking really good, especially pre-level 4. If we’re talking about like the traditional, oh, Kimmy uh plus my support plus my jungler, we walk into the top side of the map since we already have an advantage there. We might as well just plow through and deny level four from Frederick. Yeah. Uh I’m thinking about it right now and yeah, I think even in the individual lanes, it’s just difficult for flash SG to keep up with what Homeboys have already drafted. The matchup is ridiculous for the one-1. Like you don’t win those. Maybe level one with the inspire, but that’s about it. I don’t think they’ll take an Inspire. I mean, K’s on the other side. So, we didn’t get to see battle spells just yet. One took inspire. Okay, that’s fair enough. But even so, right, that that’s again a mistake that most gold laners tend to make, right? They walk up instantly, try to go for that level one initiate. If that inspire doesn’t get mega value or at least get uh sorry, not revitalize, a rejuvenate out of their laner, then okay, you got to play a little safer. You don’t want to trade as often. I think that’s why they covered their weaknesses in the gold lane by picking up a crazy uh mid duel with with pryo wise, right? like the Juicin and the Kala should be able to clear faster than what homeboys have already picked up for themselves in the Matilda and the Valentina for sure with concussive blast as well with concussive blast and then they’ll just rotate into the bottom lane give the one a bit more space then as expected I think both these teams will be sending their gold laners into the fight which should be the big gamble that’s what we’re going to be pointing our fingers at guys and for you guys watch turtle one big contestion point especially considering now we have two heavy spins a fren two utility jungles they both need the turtle. Yeah. No, it’s a 50-50, right? It’s either we go down to the gold lane or we have to fight for lithal wander and then we’ll see what happens there. Either or I don’t think homeboy is going to like even walk up where they’re like, “Hey, you can take it, boys.” And there’s more pressure on flash because they can’t really play the weak side of the map. The is just too safe and is a winning matchup already up against the W one. So, you either win turtle to one or you wait and scale. And I don’t think you want to do that with a one-1 in your composition. This is a pick that wants to snowball, wants to get those mid game team fights rolling and ending. You want to end the game before people get Winter Crown, unfortunately. Yeah, the winter crown is going to be a bit of an issue here. As we look through the players, you can definitely see that this is a high gamble from the side of Flash SG because again, it’s not dependent on the team play. It’s more dependent on that first minute of the game. How do we play this lane? If we can get an advantage, that advantage will slowly increment itself to something bigger coming into minute 2, minute three. And that’s what I’m worried about for the home boys. If homeboys are able to kind of survive that first three minutes, go into that turtle, they don’t necessarily even have to contest the turtle. They can just walk away. Yeah, exactly. So, there’s no no pressure for Flash to fight. They have ridiculous disengage with Matilda. And yeah, as expected, purifies across the board also for Ianami. Mhm. I All right, we’re finally getting into this. Oh, wait, hold on. Hades is walking up. Uh, is he going for an opposite purple start? He’s going to the orange buff to try and steal this away. Is there any information whatsoever? I don’t think so. Nobody knows that he snuck through. Hey, I’ve seen a whole lot of things in MLBB, but one thing I would never expect is for an Akai to invade level one. He’s going to get it, too. And there’s no punish. Yeah, homeboys are just playing it classic. Hades going for more. He’s playing like a Nolan on this Akai. It’s so smart. It’s so smart. I mean, he’s going to find out fairly quickly, but it’s so smart because he knows, hey, Ill has to make sure that, you know, she has lane fire. And now the first little wander is going to come up. And Hades, he’s like, who wants to fight? He’s going to get it. Oh, it’s Amal who secures it, but it is a big retro use. So, Hades gets level three. Amal is stuck on two with a Fredin and it’s impure rage. Gideon, we have to talk about that. Usually you go concussive blast to clear a bit faster. Amal has gone the sustain route. You lose out a bit of that clear pressure, but now it is a big big advantage to team flash. Akai is going to hit level four without even going full camp. Mhm. Mhm. And the worst part is that homeboy can’t even try and look for a camp of their own. They can’t go for the counter invade, especially since Esmeralda is controlling the wave and already confirmed the position of Amal. Now looking at the emblem set so far, everything looks pretty standard all across the board. A lot of wilderness blessings coming in from the side of Izanami and Hiva knowing that they’re not going to have priority, but they want to be able to keep up. Look at this. The way the flash SG are just playing. You see the juice in rotate over after getting that mid pry that we were talking about. We expected them to rotate up top to help Vanex, but Vanex has just been playing a safe game as the juice in starts to leash for the Akai. This is turtle one guarantee of team flash. This is beautiful from the side of team flash. Very mechanical, very uh honestly, this is kind of reminding me of some of the good old days of how SG likes to play a very technically perfect game. Look at that. Vel zoned away by the Esme. The winning lane pryo. I don’t think they can contest this. That’s an Akai with level four. Tunami slams a heavy spin there as retribution comes in. Vel is just going to be pinned down. That’s first blood over to Curtisi. JPL wants some smoke. Walks. Purify from Ezenami. He didn’t want to get pulled back. Interesting. Vel a pretty bad flicker angle there. Probably was thinking to get on the opposite side of Hades. Didn’t get what he wanted or at least over the wall. Uh first blood falling over the side of Team Flash and now they’re just going to maintain this type of pressure. This is exactly what Team Flash has wanted for their early game. And I’m not even sure if homeboys can actually Oh, JPL with the jump of the flicker. Mel QT doesn’t have purify here. No sprint either. It’ll be a free kill over to Fanex as they go for more. Hades tanking up the turret and it’s a win for the losing matchup in 1. Everything is going as planned here. Ivan knocked off. They want to go for more, but it only just distracts Amal who’s already behind and will be even more behind as Hades still has a full jungle. Mhm. This is a beautiful early game coming out from Team Flash. I may be a big Malaysia fan bias here, but Team Flash, they’re coming up with their own piece of artwork. Let’s look at the lead. So far, it’s a 1.3k, rather small, but significant, especially when we’re talking about not only the jungles, but now that W1 has that 500 gold lead. They’re going to have a full component against Melt, who opted not to go for purify. Oh. Oh. Oh, no. This could be bad here. Yep. They’re able to disengage. Unfortunate for Val. Uh they get a green camp, but you as as you saw, they needed four members to take one away. Flash are still just going to have incredible pryo over for the neutral objective. And because they’ve gotten such a big lead in the early start, early portions of the game, I think Vanex, he can just shove this lane and rotate over to make it a 5v4. Yeah, the tempo is on the hands of Team Flash and they’re not going to waste it just yet. Right. Next turtle is going to be contested by the home boys, it seems. Oh, LQT not prepared for this. Tsunami slam over. That is a crossbow. A tang and spire. A bit unnecessary, I feel, but it’s all right because they get a trade over up top. And now it’s up to homeboy for a big fight. Let’s give the heavy spin the zone. Hades away. And it does seem like Amal struggling to take this. Hades walks up, gets in place, and wins out the red tree as JPL rotates over two mana as Hades is trying to escape now. Fell looking for the vengeance stacks, but it will be Kurt who peels off of Hades and it becomes a bad fight. A 4-0 start to the game for Team Flash. They go for more. A super long team fight and homeboys have no damage. Another pull back just to let Ken dance on Bell. M. So far, Team Flash really has gotten everything planned out from minute one all the way to minute five. This is a disgusting bout. Four to zero. Homeboys have zero pressure and all these honestly it all started with the fact that team flash they’re exploiting every little thing from the side of homeboys. You don’t have a priority over mid. MQTT decided not to take purify. All right, they can divide and conquer and now Hades has extra confidence. Look, even Vel can’t really deal with the pressure coming in from this Esmeralda. Ken is playing a strong game, too. It’s so good for team flash at this point of the game, man. Gold distribution. Oh man, 30 minions already taken. Well, not that’s not 30, 30, 30 gold over from the minions. Now they’re going to go for the mid lane. Ken rotating over JPL leave it back. Able to get the knock up, but it’s a double Beyblade battle. He’s a Nami Con in the midst of it all just dancing around as that’s a big appraiser’s wrath that lands, but Fanx gets taken out by the crossbow. Now another knockup from Curtis 342. Team flash looking for more now. 4,000 sar gold lead over to Mel. Good guiding win to get him out. But you can see that even with the photo, it’s an advantage to Ken on the Esmerald. The first 2 minutes of the team flash rotation really just set the tempo. And homeboy, considering that they’re playing an Irrith as their gold laner. Bro, this is going to take a long time for them to make a comeback here. 5,000 for team flash. They’re diving past the first turret. And the comeback angle here from Homeboy now will have to come from them capitalizing on a team flash mistake because we are getting to the point where the chances of Homeboy finding a turnaround increases. Team Flash took some hits and took a few losses there. Live view. Live view. There’s a bit of a battle slam over. Uh-oh. A walking way too aggressive right before Turtle. Yeah, not like that. You’re not going to be able to find your turn around in the mid game. Uh 6 to 8 minute mark like that. So are going to have to hunker down and accept the fact that it is going to take a long time for them to fight back against team flash. They can just continue this aggression, control the river, control the jungle, and most importantly get the third and final turtle of the game. All turtles go to team flash. It’s one thing being behind in the jungle on a Freden. But against an Akai, it’s a rare sight, man. It’s really is unusual. JPL will get caught. They finally get something here of a trade when it comes to the turtle fights, but it’s a ror tool. Oh, I think Team Flash are all right with that. They get a big resource out already with the Valentina taking a heavy spin. HD steals the orange buff again. Oh, homeboy. I don’t know. I don’t think the catch on JPL is worth a turtle and an orange deal at this point. It’s really difficult for homeboy to actually push back into it. Right, the lead is very, very clear. The timers are running out and worse yet, Team Flash has almost hit that checkmate angle, right? 6.4K so far. And look at them. Homeboys are forced to stay together, forced to fight for every little objective, every little buff. So, what we’ve been already talking about, the fact that homeboys will already struggle to get back into the game through laning. Now, because they’re sticking together, they’re going to get less and less gold. It’s going to be dispersal. Oh my lord, that’s almost a 3,000 gold lead between the gold laners. And it’s supposed to be the counter match of JPL to conceal a play. Able to go for a tsunami slam. Banish with the lock down as well. That is should be a free for into the backline too. Ivan melting down has the purify but you cannot purify damage. Amar massive appraisers wrath but he’s a bit too behind to deal any damage. Holy shield. I mean team flash right now is playing a strong fundamental game. Exploit the weaknesses, maintain that tempo and utilize your lead against your opponent because you’re so not only so far ahead but because your alltimes are just so much better. Homeboys have to use everything defensively. Every single time they react, it’s a winning scenario for Team Flash. Man, Mel walked up and JPL felt no threat. He was just like, “All right, I got you, fam. I’ll walk back as well.” This is Team Flash’s I would say maybe this could be the explanation to why they were super shaky in SG. It was Zay implementing his style of MLBB into the team and it took a while. It’s It’s tough, right? This is very executionheavy. This is very macroentric. Every little micro in a lane is taken into consideration. And if somebody misses a timing, it really starts to snowball out of control. And now that the homeboys, they’ve reacted a little too much to what Team Flash has offered on the table. Everything is up on the table for the side of Team Flash. Nothing can be uh really stolen away. I even when we’re talking about big plays, there’s a huge lack of damage from early to mid on the side of Homeboy to even make it work. Now, Melt, two items, doesn’t even have the Berserker’s Fury. Recently, Amos just finished the Radiant Armor, and that’s the problem, right? Because the big lead is coming from Vanex. He’s got everything. Four items already. Holy. Yikes. Milic gun at 10 minutes on the 1 is a sight to behold. A freaking losing four levels against Anakai. We were talking about two, me and Renmar. Now it’s four. It Oh, that is just brutal. And this is something that I actually didn’t expect. I was about to say that I’m glad Kurt didn’t buy the sky piercer when you have a one on your team, but he did. So, one of those will be neutralized by the other. I don’t think you want actually it could work well if you get crossbow tank and then you execute while the crossbow tanks on them then technically yes. But yeah, it you’re just going to have to coordinate that. You you you not only do you have to coordinate that, I think it also gives incentive for Vic to if you have an option to go for the crossbow tang early, just let it rip, right? You still got Curtis as your insurance policy. Not to mention again with these timings if the fight occurs prior to the lord before it spawns. And I mean I don’t think they can wait. Can they look to close out this game? They’ve got the 10k. They could look to try and muscle in against the homeboys. Let’s see whether Hades finds an angle. An arami walking up here for homeboys. Not as good. A charge up top of the lord. Able to get a base now. But there’s going to be a second wave coming down into the bottom lane. Flash rotating down as Ken tries to provide some space over from the Lord. Ivan doing a good job of just standing in the middle, giving some space over to the rest of the team to get the guiding win. It’s a good defense despite everything. A 10,000 gold lead. Flash having so much more tempo. They’ve only kept their losses one following. Smoon charged up from Ken might be looking for a big engage, but decides against it now as Vanax gets free hits over to the base in the mid lane and it will be three. Oh, the final slash in the back now. able to get away. Curtisi Crimson Beacon Hades pinning them down as that is a soloami to just spin in front. Go shoot. It’s JPL over Ken just dancing and flash lose vanics for Ianami. I mean it was a good play coming in from the homeboys but at the end of it all team flash are walking away with three inhibitor turrets at the 12th minute of the game while homeboys cannot keep up. You can see that yes they are scaling. Izunami is doing a good amount of damage, but not enough to close out on a majority of the kills from the side of Team Flash. They can look for the chase if they want to, but I don’t see Ezami there. Mhm. I guess they’re thinking, you know, Vanex is down. We got to make the most out of the situation, try to get something back, but it’s so difficult when you have a front line like this. You can’t ignore him, but you don’t you also don’t want to target him. There’s nothing they can really do about it. I I have to admit that this is a losing scenario for the home boys unless they can have two successful base defenses against team flash then sure but then we have to start considering what does the siege look like and it’s so much better for this side of team flash they can bait things out and more importantly you saw it with Ken right star moon okay able to get back over to tsunami slam great targeting over to bell too crossball tank ready and it will be cancelled just for a bit until it gets unleashed onto a praiser rat landing good body started from Ken on three as they collapse on him. One more shot. Vanex gets another. It’s a double for Vanex as Ivan gets swooped back into the base. Curtis with three of the sky piercer stacks executing the members of homeboys with a wipe out and a stomp in game one. And this is what I’m worried about every single time we see Singapore versus Malaysia. And especially with this lineup from Team Flash, the higher the prize pool, the probability of them winning just skyrockets. My goodness, Team Flash look incredibly sharp. Uh I think both of you said it, they are so systematic. There is a scary formula to how they operate in the early game that within just like what the first two to three minutes it looked like next game Team Flash already has this. I I think it’s it is bringing back the SG of old. Last year when we saw Team Flash, they were like, “Oh, it’s a meta where we need big playmakers and that’s why Diablo was such a huge integral part.” And also, uh, let’s not forget about Curtis with his crazy picks. But now, now they’re going back to the good old. We take small exploits and see if we can chain them together to make a huge lead come through in the mid game. And I I love this version of Flash better than the previous one. They’ve literally just traded out those crazy picks in the draft to crazy plays in the game. Those just those little movements like invading early on the Akai, a subversion of Homeboy’s expectations took them out. Yeah. Uh that subversion I feel like shocked not only Homeboys but all of us here. Uh there’s always an asterisk when you talk about Singaporean teams in international tournaments, when you talk about Team Flash in international tournaments. Here this time it feels like in their first appearance it’s a very loud statement right away. It’s like this isn’t the SG or team flash of old anymore of recent old. It’s more of like the classic Singapore teams of old. It’s the guard, you know. JPL’s been here for six six MS. It’s he’s been here for a very long time. But the fact is now what is the adjustment coming out from home boys, right? Because Team Flash, they planned it from the very start with a Juan opener on their side. The fact that they didn’t pick their mid lane super early as well. They waited to see what Homeboy was willing to drop onto the table and then I think all of this could have been prevented Homeboy figured out straight away. Wait a minute. The Sakai Hades has just stolen away our orange buff. Now we have to force vertical jungling. Yeah. And you they can’t really do it. That vertical jungle was non-existent, right? Cuz he rotated over the top and they decided to fight for a few camps instead of trying to look for other trades. But even then, I think it was just difficult because even if they decided to go for the vertical jungle in the bottom lane, Ken was the one having most of the pryo. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. And again, we were talking about it earlier in the draft that Esmeralda is actually going to be very happy in the hero match up that he’s facing up against. And with how JPL and Curtis were rotating, especially it feels like wherever homeboys wanted to go and get something. Yeah, they were able to steal what one lizard at the beginning of the game when they had to sacrifice the first turtle. After that, they tried to contest a second turtle, but at that point, Flash had enough control in the map, had enough of a little gold advantage that homeboy were just desperate. Exactly. So, really, what it comes down to is find a way to force lane priority on your side. Be able to be able uh be able to contest your opponents, especially when you know your opponents are looking to kind of force you in a non-existent, more so a scaling matchup. Right here, it’s not about scaling anymore. It’s how far can we take our lead? And unfortunately, Homeboy kind of fell into that trap lane with only a single win condition rather than having multiple outs. Yeah, the single win condition was really just a Fred and Arlet combo and Eritho winning lane, right? It’s Wow. I I was just honestly I don’t really think this draft is horrible in any uh very safe draft. It was just a flash SG played it so well. Again, that little invade, that subversion of your expectation. You would never think that Akai level one would invade your orange buff. Mhm. Yeah. I mean, I do that all the time, but I die. Team flash or how to do it, right? And from there, it just seems like they were operating. I was observing their comms. Uh you could hear very specific shot calls. One guy wanted to go here, they’d be going, “No, at this moment, you have to be here.” So, they’re at that level now. Oh, yeah. They’re playing not only systematic, but they’re trying to work like an absolute machine. This again is probably what Zay is implementing for this squad, right? He comes from a very traditional MOA background. So he understands each step of the game has a timing that they want to hit. And if you don’t have priority on one side, that kind of alters the plan just a little bit. So again, it also forces the team to play at a high execution rate. Cuz let’s say Vanx ended up dying in lane. Oh boy, now we have to adjust. Yeah, this this is what it feels like to I feel like we are just witnessing generations worth of STEM focused education. That’s what we’re getting right now from Team Flash SG. Yeah, I I really want to go even deeper here to understand why they did it. Akai level one. You just again expect why would you go level one? I think the setup was already there too because they understood. We actually mentioned this before the draft or before we got into the game. Wan one will win against level one. You have one way more kill threat level one with the inspire. And that’s what I think opened up the window to an invade early. If the walked up, there was no way for you to actually outfight that composition level one. Yeah. I I feel like now though what the homeboys are going to be looking at, yes, it wasn’t a bad draft, but at the end that’s why I pose that question of which draft is actually easier to pull off. So maybe that’s where homeboys are going to look towards that and maybe even more multiple win conditions. But it feels like because of the ordering also, I remember both of you mentioned this, some picks could have come a little bit later. they could have had more room to adjust, but then with the first three picks already, it feels like they were just shoehorned into playing this way that Team Flash had enough room to adjust it in the second half of the draft. Yes. I mean, let’s also consider that this may prove to be a potential exploit for the side of team flash, right? Because again, if they are going to be saying, “Hey, we want to be able to get Vanex on these particular picks. Can he play every single gold lane pick?” And because Hades, he’s flexible. We know he can do it. And as long as they have a mid duo that’s actually winning, things become a lot easier for them. I think now that homeboy have kind of identified, all right, not only are they playing for mid, Hades is kind of a non-factor in a lot of these matchups because he can play this Akai in that three tank trio in the jungle. We need to make sure that Vanx has a bad matchup now. Yeah, I think you just have to lie. Homeboys have just been too brutally honest in their drafts. Yeah. Oh, wait. No, I feel like that’s been the theme that we’ve had so far from MW. Yeah. Sometimes you just got to lie. Sometimes you just got to be dishonest. Yeah, we’re talking about drafts here, folks. Uh we’re not we’re not saying anything else. Don’t cheat on your wives. Yes, that’s Especially at a concert. Good. Hey, that’s cold. That’s cold. All right, so now for the second game. I feel like I think we’re all in agreement here. Perhaps wise, homeboy, be a little bit more dishonest. Don’t show your cards too early. And I want to go back to one band that they dished out. Do you think that Tigril ban was a little bit of an overink? Because if they knew that they were going to be playing a Kai h, excuse me, Arlot, and that they stole away the Freder, and that most likely Team Flash are going to play utility, it’s obvious that they were actually going to play a Kai. I think they were reading into uh JPL’s hero pool a bit too much. They were like, “All right, this guy plays Cho and Tigil for the most part, right, from previous internationals in MLSG as well.” So, they were like, “Take away the comfort even though it doesn’t make sense yet. Take it away.” That or Vel was like, “Guys, I don’t want to play against Kalia as Arlet. This is this is a nothing matchup. like I’ll do anything to not be in that matchup. Let’s get rid of the Tigrilla instead. Okay. So, in a way, it’s I feel like they they were just drafted in the corner. It seems like the more we talk about this, we now have to look at Team Flash as they drafted this incredibly well. They played this really well that Homeboy is just after they got their orange buff stolen. Yeah, they just really had to think about the next game already. But here’s the thing, right? I think that right now a lot of this is lying relying on the cornerstone of Arlet, right? Where does Arlet kind of fall within the meta? because Arlet affects certain heroes and can cancel out certain abilities, but Team Flash went around it very clearly going around it. They could have gotten far if they want to, but they instead went for the Zushin. All right, so those are our notes of what could happen or what the Homeboys could look to fix heading into the draft for game number two. But before that, let’s learn more about Team Flash’s journey heading into EWC. [Music] Definitely feel grateful that I get to play EWC the second time. It wasn’t a smooth journey we had. We were struggling quite a bit in our league. Lost kicks back. Oh my god. fight the face of team flash almost being able to bring up the uh honestly I feel that uh the most important thing for this current EWC is who can adjust to the current meta the quickest teams from Singapore especially flash are notorious for doing good when the prize pool is big coincidence I think not got the JPL though extending down. Vanex shows up. Ban finds the kill. I feel like Team Flash is such an absolute wild card every time and they always seem to perform in international tournaments last year. No one expected them to make it into the top four uh go that deep run and they did. They put Singapore back on the map. NIP Flash. Sean Pen first blood. The INIP Flash bring out the pestify. They sent the home boys home. We are hungry for more. Well, very clearly that Team Flash are very hungry for more with how they played in that game number one. There’s no doubt. So, what now then can uh Homeboy do as we continue our little analysis of what Homeboys can adjust into the draft? I’m saying I’m I’m throwing it out there. Take blue side first. Take blue side. See how they respond on red side. And I think the order of bands need to change just a little bit more cuz again Uranus could have been taken there. They could have a nonoff lane. They prioritize that combo a little too much. And I think teams need to kind of uh need to flex it a little differently. If they show Fredan early, okay, sure. But then at least then the signals aren’t as clear. Yeah, I think I think I’m pretty okay with staying on red side. I understand why you want to go for blue side, but even staying on red side here, I would just say get more, just lie a bit more. Uh, be dishonest in the draft because again, when they picked up athal, we we knew what was coming and flash knew what was coming a few moments away. Like, they knew the Fant was coming and it was already countered by the Wan. So, they picked up the Aiththal, which was going to be a counter to the Wan, but then they gave more value to the Wan in the end. Like if you want to go for the counter, I would just say go for the fara then if you want to play that kind of composition where you can at least outrange and burst the wan before the fren gives a free crossbow tang over. This could be a double-edged sword though for homeboy considering that they are going to be going on the blue side which means that the whole dynamics of the draft changes from how they were drafting onto the red. It seems like on the red side they were pulling a putting a lot of power priority into their side lanes with the Arlot and the Irl. Should they change their focus and look at the center of the map instead? I think they need to start to disrupt some of the other combos that are currently within the meta. I think that the Kalia the fact that it got so far is already pretty interesting. We see a Fanny Bam being pretty consistent on Flash SG, which is kind of strange to see it on red side. Usually it’s more of a usually it’s more of a hey I blue I would rather like I would rather get rid of it most of the time but I think that’s totally fine. Yeah it’s a bit odd I would say like considering again I think flash SG they usually want to get Hades on a pick like a Fanny and again Lancelot was the previous ban on blue’s side. I wonder if they want to just replicate what they did on blue saying hey this strat works both sides. H I wouldn’t mind. Again, it’s all relying on that one opener. Whether even homeboy want to consider it, right? I mean, we’ll see. Harth, another another interesting band here. I feel like Melu, it’s interesting because Harth is one of those heroes where it’s like if you have the mechanical ability, the lighting phase becomes a non-factor until you get to the very end. But then now that you’ve taken away a uh a gold laner that actually utilizes magic damage, you’re forced back onto things like all the Bruno. You’re forced back on the all attack damage oriented heroes. I feel like also flash as you maybe may know some things from scrims but the results of yesterday as well where we saw some significant Har performances maybe getting taken out of course for home boys uh Een Shin might be available for them to pick up or the Uranus I think to keep things simple for them to keep it standard now nothing too crazy with their ideas I’d like them to consider just prioritizing those two Een Shin or the Uranus or maybe just maybe even the Kimmy yeah I think the the Een Shin should be the choice year for homeboys and that’s why flash SG have already changed a bit of their draft. I mean at least in the bands they banned Lance a lot second previously. I think now they’re definitely thinking about whether they should take out the Yun Shin or to go for the lance again because the lance technically enables the Akai pick. Usually teams have always gone for lance when they see an Akai on the other side just to out farm the Akai and to have a way to just be unargetable when he goes heavy spin to win out neutral objective battles. I think ooh they’re going to leave everything up in the open. I think this is more for Hades than anything else. Right. You say the Akai, okay, you get the Lancelot. Worst comes the worst, you’re going to be able to get the Yan Shin. Either way, there’s going to be value for Redside because let’s see what homeboy go for their first pick. So, this is actually going to be dictating the draft. The Kimmy ban. I agree with you there. Really changed up how the possibilities here for the first two picks for Flash. So, now homeboys are going to be way, wait, they’re going to be getting two power picks, aren’t they? We really just have to settle on one. I’d rather go Uranus. Well, excuse me, Juice. Okay, center of the map. 100% win rate here in MS. I’m not going to knock it. Not going to knock. They’re trying to do it again, aren’t they? They’re trying to get the Arlet, Frederren, and Jusian. I again, this is I’m just ballparking it here. I’m not entirely sure whether that’s going to be the endgame composition, but Flash as of right now can immediately just go for natural combinations of Kalia Farsa almost straight away. Force your entire composition to take purifies. You could also just deny the Arlet. Pick it up with the Farsa. That works too cuz you as a Farsa player, I don’t think you want to go up against the Arlet for sure. M I think the worst part about uh the worst part about that is that it does compromise it does compromise Ken a little bit and I think that’s something that Flash actually want to avoid. If we’re going to play weak side, we might as well put it on Vanx. I think he’s a little more comfortable that way. If Ken can basically I don’t want to say flatline, but sandbag the exp. I think that would be more ideal. And they’ve already gotten a way to deal with the Arlet already. Like the Esmeralda was a great answer. They could also just threaten it, threaten to take it here and then play around Hades deep hero pool if they can play an Akai like that. Any hero fits. Yeah, I want to see home boys consider picking up a flex right now. Something that doesn’t really show their roam exp or jungle just yet. But what I think at this point Arlet is too volatile. Arlet is way too volatile if anything. Ooh, okay. Lancelot. An early pick Lancelot for the side of the homeboys knowing that they’re going to have to play into the Kalia. But now the natural counter to Kalia and the Gth thought as a means to Hey, it’s a two for one here. Kalia goes for the pick feather. Air strike comes out. Oh, guess what? AoG coming through. Yeah. So, okay, they they clearly show the roam. We don’t see the just the exp and gold. All right. So, homeboy being honest with this unless somehow they put it in the exp, but we rarely see Gazaka exp lane anymore. It’s almost always in the roam while flash. Oh, did homeboy pick up the landslot because they were expecting an Akai to come out again? That could be a possibility. Could be Flash. Okay. Uh, do you want to go gold at this point and just like try to take away the gold lane counters? Like cuz if they go for Granger here, I think it’ll be a bit too crazy with the fara already there, right? Like it’s so hard to land your abilities against Lance. So they go joy. They go joy, then they’re probably going to take out something like the Moskov. They can leave open the Granger. Um, you know, historically Granger does not like Joy. Absolutely. I I I I think it’s actually more beneficial for Flash SU to actually pick up the Granger on their side because keep in mind right Joy at this point of time is looking to try to clean up a lot more fights rather than initiate on these fights. You know, because with the temporal changes, temporal rain and old Starleium sites you can go in and out, chunk you out, get your alt back, come back in and kill you all over again. Now, they’re probably going to be playing for their mid trio. make sure that Farsa is strong enough to be able to launch the feather air strike early, hold on to Kala’s alt, chunk you out, and then let Granger and as well as Joy look to start cleaning up the messes. Uh, Esalda, I feel like that’s a little bit of a signal that they might be considering Uranus in the exp lane or maybe even the Arlet themselves, right? We’ve seen that Arlet is actually a good way to deal with the landlot. If she keeps dashing, you just keep on getting those resets, too. And you already have two members on your team with CC to go for more resets. You can just pick up another one later on, depending on where. Well, you gold lane with CC probably not then. Yeah, I I still they have one form of scala. Well, tact two forms of scala damage. I mean, joy full item build is still pretty ridiculous sometimes, especially if you don’t have like rose gold meteor ways to kind of protect yourself. Even if sometimes. Yeah, even if something happens, uh, it does get pretty ridiculous. But hey, we see that the Uranus is banned out. It looks like Homeboy is, you know, taking it at face value. And Coach Zay’s is trying to be a little sneaky here. CC band. Oo, I thought they would want to consider the CC for themselves cuz they already have, as you mentioned, really good scaling. They need something in the early around the exp lane that allows them to apply pressure, that allows them to be aggressive. Will they consider something along the lines of maybe a maybe a even Hilda exp lane? Hilda XP got taken out by homeboy. I actually thought it would be better for homeboys to go for Hilda XP over Flash, right? Because unless Flash are trying to bait out the Granger. Oh, I guess homeboy want the Granger here despite being up against the Joy cuz I if not I think they have already a pretty good draft against the Hilda. You know, I don’t think it’s Oh, wait. No, but then there’s still Moscow for the side. Okay. So, at the end of the day, in terms of like gold trades, it’s a lot better for homeboys right now. Also, I feel like Flash SG, you know, sorry, Banics, you know, there’s good chance that you’re going to have to face either a Moscow or or an Ithl. Either or. As long as you play safe and you’re on a Granger, your team will do a majority of the damage. You just got to make sure to have Sky Piercer by that time. Yeah. Okay. So, I feel like that’s what Flash is weighing right now. Which gold laner they’re going to be going for, if ever. No, not yet. Did not expect that high loss. Wow. Yeah. Surprising considering that it’s not going to be in the Rome. It’s going to be the exp where it does a better time considering there’s a juice in on the other side. Okay, that’s why they b the S morale though because Hyos can’t do anything against her and the the CC too, right? But a notorious counter to the Hyos is the glue actually that I think could be pretty good here. Just keep on locking them down. But then you need an explosive gold laner damage wise cuz I think that’s what they’re lacking now. They have a whole lot of utility with the first two picks. Depending on what the land slot goes build-wise then you’ll have a little bit more damage but into later stage of the game. So you need someone to push a that is a bit more into this. Do they really want to dive that hard? Okay, it just means that right now Iami is going to be the main anchor for the team. I thought that Mel QT plus Mel QT plus Izzanami were going to be that duo as the anchor like they usually do, but this time around I think they want to get a little bit more explosive, right? The disrespect from game number one is not going to go unnoticed. So if they want explosive, they could go carry. Honestly, they already have a good zone out for her. The Granger still fits too. They have the Granger. They have a lot of CC. Set up the Joy. Uh they honestly they got plenty of options. Yeah, it’s like they can’t go wrong anymore with with a gold lane pick at this point. There’s nobody’s really going to counter them unless you make a mistake like, “Oh, I picked up and excuse me, Team Flash, what are you cooking? What are you What are you doing?” Well, seems like I got my wish. Uh day one, we got the spicy pick. Is this a leore gold lane? Excuse me. Is this We’ll We’ll see at the very end once we get the final composition. I I um How does this work? How does this comp work now? I mean, Liam is one of the few heroes that’s really great at cleaning up messes like almost guaranteed because of his passive. Yeah. Okay, I’m going to dish out my analysis real quick. I think of Team Flash has a leg advantage. They have eight in total just with the Leo Mort and the High Loss alone. That’s it for me. You guys can take over. Hey, they’ve already built the chariot composition. You want to dive into us? We’re going to run you over, run circles around you. I I’m I’m even curious about what battle spells this Leo is going to take. You have to You have to try to visualize it. The speed, Glorious Pathway, Joy, and Lioort. It’s literally supercharged. The fastest comp you might ever see as we head on in to the second match of our very first series here. Homeboys on the blue side, Flash SG on the red side. Let’s get this show on the road. I thought the cavalry played yesterday, but I guess we’re going to see it today, too. We I got to We So, it is Vanex on the Leoord with a brave smite flicker tool. So, even more mobility, right? They can run. They can also blink. But this this this is going to be something, right? First couple of interactions here, we’re expecting Oh my lord. Yeah, we’re expecting team flash to have priority. Like Lapu, yes, he clears the lane, but Ken, he will use his early base damage to say, “No, I’m going to zone you off as far as possible and I will tax your HP.” Look at the punish though. This is the reason I wasn’t really too big of a fan of the Moscow because you need to scale up and it actually just gave the opportunity for Flash to pick up a gold lane like this. Moskov cannot bully early in the game, even with the master assassin here. And even if you do get a few more hits, Fanic just needs to land one. gets back full HP with the brave smite and festival blood. Mhm. Mhm. He’s going to sustain, right? But I want to see how homeboys is going to look to punish this because a lot of this comes down to mid priority. We already saw that JPL got Oh, hold on. The damage over to JPL. That’s a lantern flare to JPL to look around. Amal puncture accurate gets first blood for HP. And this is the thing, right? Team flash. It’s very clear that they are looking to push, not only push that lane, but tax Iami. We saw it right at level one that they’re looking to trade more than actually fight over priority for little wanderer. As long as they control that mid lane by taxing them, then at least the side lanes can breathe just a little bit more. But once mid priority falls into the side of homeboy, they’re moving over to the turtle. They’re going to leave the gold lane on its own for now. Looks like they’re going to be trading this. The joy is over to the purple buff. They want to take it. Homeboy have actually blitzed it really quick. Val spider to get JPL off of him. And this is going to be a risky choice here to go for the purple buff because he just spawned in. Hades with the retribution secures it. But look atami constantly on with lantry to pin him down. Brought back to the team. Now it’s bananic walking up but he cannot do much. Ivan very close from getting the taunt over to Curtis. Really good punishes from the side of the home boys right very nicely coordinated as soon as they notice purple buff is happening. Oh through that spirit of destruction to double confirm get the initial slow to allow the butterfly stacks to come out. Oh, JPL. Oh, boy. Another air strike coming down to JPL gets away with a number of HP as panics. Uh-oh. This time doesn’t have the ultimate to go through. Unfortunate timing. Okay, let’s see how Homeboy plays this now, right? Because now that they actually have priority, they’re going toe to toe and they also have a little bit of a lead of their own. Tempo will fall into the Malaysian squad’s hands. Team Flash now has to play a little bit more reactive to how homeboys are going to look to move across the map. They know that the purple buff is already down. So, they can pretty much track the location of Amar at this point of time. So, with Hades pathing towards that top side and JPL now hitting level four, Mel QT still so greedy does not take purify. Mhm. Could also be a win for him knowing how much mobility is Team Flash has. You got to remember the purify doesn’t really get you out of the constant slows too. So you need a bit more maybe your blinks here trying to outplay flash SG and so far it’s been working for them that mobility on their side has been able to trump flash’s mobility and Vanex hasn’t really been able to join the team fights I guess they’re banking on Turtle 2 then right cuz that’s his side of the map I think h Turtle 2’s sure we’ll see whether Vanex is going to be strong enough I think he will still need a fury hammer completed not entirely sure what build he’s going to go for whether it’s just pure sustain or like hey we’re going scale until the very late games and then you let me get involved. But so far, oh no, flicker out already using ultimate defensively now. Pure stun. Lancer flare locked down. Tsunami slam bringing it back now. It’s going to be Ivan falling to the turret. Ken with a cut with the glorious pathway. Kill over to Curtis. Zonami running away and I think he should be able to get it done. Yes. Walks out as Ken rotates over to Turtle. Ivan for Vatics. Honestly, not too bad. And now team flash can look to actually play the fight without having to worry about the home boys looking to instantly have space with the AOG battle going to be close. Phantom execution cancel now. Amos able to get it in towards him. Thor too, but Hades wins out the red tree battle with find so lands. Curte falls and spider bell as lancer knocks Hades up. Fell gets away and in this long team fight homeboys still can hold their own. Nicely done. Nicely done. Honestly, well played coming in from Hades. he completely stops hitting the uh hitting the neutral objective, forcing the homeboy to say, “Hey, if you’re going to throw abilities, make sure it’s towards that turtle side because there’s a large chunk of health on this turtle that I can’t get through alone, especially when Amal is at one HP.” Another attempt. That’s a turtle. Oh, but he still catches barbell. Walks up over to Ivan slowly but surely. Now dragging him back to JPL. Not enough for Flash to commit, but it is a good way to avoid what could have been a bad pick. I I mean we got to call it as we see it. That is counter synergy right there. Pushing him back away from the taunt that Ivan was about to set up anyways. Like come on. The He knew that he was going to be in one straight line because of Barbiel. Let’s let’s keep it clean here homeboys. Unluckino trying to go for the clear in the bottom lane. They will be able to do it. So now the big question is for team flash. When are they online? When can we see the chariot composition fight homeboys? cuz it almost feels like for homeboys they’re all right with this. They continue to scale. JP to flank but it’s only onto Ivan. Banics has the ultimate picks it up now to the back line demolished by the famous fighter of Bell who’s still going at it. Eami in a minute is all falling to the music of Hades. JPL now constantly giving the sustain over to the team. No one has lost HP. Flash are healthy and Mel’s getting ran down. He’s going to have to respect this. Hades walks up 1 2 3 and won’t go for it. But they will cut Mel QT off to get a turret. Mhm. The counter dive is going to come out. Wait, does Vel have all? Yes, he does. He’s going to be able to clear this wave no problem. He gets a kill on Barrett. That’s funny. But for now, he should be okay. Two man stun. Crazy sustain. Lapu Lapu. Lapu Lapu tings. You know what they say. You know what they say again. That alt is so short, right? He goes into the middle of that fight, uses the bravest fighter, and then walks back down to try and stop the counter dive from Team Flash. And now we come to that third turtle. This is going to be pivotal for Team Flash. Their alts are about to come back up. They need to win a fight for the air to start things off. The bra spider gets used up again. Double turn into the stun as doesn’t land. Curtis flicker flying away to the other side. Is the Nami ran down by Barbie as Hades continues to dish out damage. Curtis with a fight, but it’s only on to Ivan. Mel QT picks up the kill. Can taunted looking for the damage. Mel QT with a spear of misery, but actually displaces him towards the dash. And in the long team fight, it’s two for one. Homeboy on the turtle. Melonic. Ken looking for a Hades. Has an angle to go for the steal. Walks up. Doesn’t get it. That’s a retribution over by Amal. And that’s another stun over and won’t be able to find Ken. Another taunt over to Hades with the music. He tries to get away. A few spears to almost take him down. Hades walks away. Beautifully played by the homeboy. They weren’t expecting that Hades was going to get back into that fight. All of a sudden, they weren’t 100% sure, but they used the process of elimination. And more importantly, they used Mel QT as a dangling piece of bait, hoping that somebody would eventually bite. Even so, Team Flash, they were very focused on what they wanted to do. They tried to steal away that turtle. got very close to doing so, but homeboy it’s the better execution so far. I have to talk about the fact that Team Flash their timings are so alt dependent. They got no alts. They shouldn’t be here in the first place. They can’t go for these long sustained fights. Team Flash are kind of like they’re kind of a mix where they want to go for some Yeah, they really want to win out in like instantly, but it’s it’s just tough cuz like you want Hades to come in last, but you need the damage from Hades, too. the air strike and just Vanex won’t be enough. I think it really boils down to the HP difference. If somebody’s put down to 50%, that’s when Banix is more confident to walk in. So, they’re allowing Hades and Cartezy to just rip their alt as soon as possible to see how much they can get from it. But even so, I mean, that’s when the value from Ivan’s Revitalize comes into play as well. It’s like when is he going to release it? It’s a battle mind game. And hey, Mel QT wins this one. He’s been losing a whole lot of the crab battles, but he’s gotten the green raptor over there. And Mel is very close to his item power spike. So, the clock is actually ticking away for team flash. Mhm. Once that DHS is available, Vanix is going to struggle even when you’re on top of barbia. I am curious what he’s eventually building up to, but here we go. AoG crimson beacon to Hades. Oh, gets away just barely. A thorn rose one HP and Hades gets away. Now the re-engage for glorious pathway. Good stun from Vel. Lord spawns in and they bait it out. One, two for four ultimates. So four ultimates of homeboys, but they’re going to be up quite quickly and more so they know for a fact that Team Flash can’t just blitz down the lord without committing a couple of their own alts. So homeboys actually are fine with this. All right, we’ll eventually get our alts back up. We can take our time. Vel, his alt is expandable. Amos, same thing. Ezanami, you got to chill out for a second with Ivan. Okay, Amal, he’s out of there. No problem. But you can see both team flashing as well as home boys. Nobody wants to take first position on this lord. Homeboy know that they need to bait out some big resources. Great CC immunity from Vel. Now a stun over bit of poke back and forth. They know Vel doesn’t have the brave spider and they want to go for it. A cut down but they are struggling to find a target. And now it’s even both XPs lose on a turret on their ultimates. Tsunami slime over. Oh, what is that burst? Fell able to get away now. That’s going to be vanish. Walk it up. Getting the shut down over a full dive to the back with a carrier. But look at the bottom lane. Mel QT still going for landing to the back now. Will he take it? It is an isolation of JPL. Spear misery from Mel QT. One last shot. The flicker in. Ken gets the stun. Hades walks up. Mel caught on the back. Gets a spear misery. Amal wreaking havoc back land as falls to a double kill and Hades will be forced to run away. Mel one HP. One more shot to get him. doesn’t get it and Flash are again almost wiped. Woo! Down to the wire. Homeboy, as honest as they are, are winning out in this situation thanks to the economic advantage. Amal having enough items to be able to start cutting down the members one by one through the blood wings as well. Let’s look at the replay one more time because in this fight, right, that spear uh that spear coming through hitting that back line was a very big game changer. We thought he wasn’t going to take it, but once Curtis was in an awkward spot, wait for the last second. He walks down to the mid river. Bang. That’s where they catch him. That was super greedy from Curtis thinking that nah, there’s no way he takes this. And everybody was scattered. They weren’t on the same page. JPL wanted to fight in the front. Everybody was like, “Yo, bro, there’s an SOD.” And then I guess Kurt was like, “You know what? I’m going to help my boy. He’s almost dead.” He walks up and then he falls. But the rest of the team were like, “Dude, no. Please. They need somebody to fall back to. That’s why anchors are huge in the current metag game. An 8.3k lead coming up from the side of the home boys. Oh my. Where did he go? Where did he go? A magic trick from home boys. You blink and you miss it. Hades got sent back to the underworld now to Lord in the bottom lane. Getting a full charge in. And I have to say, Team Flash without a marksman, their clear is pretty bad. They’re struggling right now. Ken’s going to be the next to fall, right? No, drops the revitalize at least. Three man knock up and SOD in the back line. JP was an army snam able to lock Ivan down, but there’s still no damage to follow it up. Mel QT just going at it with the spears. It’ll be Fan next to the chopping block. Amar walking forward with a puncture. And now Mel QT locks onto the crystal. Let’s get a full threeame series, folks. One to one so far. I’m I’m just shocked the fact that I mean homeboys they played kind of honest with their drafting phase and then we see that final pick. Nobody saw it coming. It didn’t work out the way we were hoping for. I don’t think it’s because of the lead but it became very clear without with at least without the blade of despair. It becomes a problem right because the scaling coming in from Vanic’s like yes I am sustaining through the damage but then there’s Iami who’s like okay you want to sustain? Sure. I can do this literally forever. I can keep picking you up. I can keep trucking you back. And most importantly, Ama played a solid game. His damage was so relevant. Yeah. And to help set things up for homeboys in what was a very honest draft against a very local draft. It was Vel. He was a solid anchor for Homeboy to Lynch on. He really felt like a Swiss Army knight for homeboys at times. making the most out of the bravest fighter, the raging slashes, even the land shaker stuns becoming sort of like another roam option alongside Ivan. That was one of the stuns landed incredibly well by Valve. I think in this particular game like JPL, I was expecting him to be a little bit more uh up front to try and bait out the abilities from the side of the homeboy. But it’s just really unfortunate when you’re facing off against things like Gatot, you’re facing things up like Revitalize, and not to mention Vel who has just CC immunity. multiple ways to disengage. The tsunami slam loses so much value and Mel QT is like and no purify win games. Yeah, he doesn’t. No, no purify by the way. He went flicker and he’s just like I’m good. I’m good in the back. And so right now I think for team flash there’s just no one to target there. Literally you go for the lapu lap with their CC immunity. It’s really really tough. Yeah, I felt like the lineup of Team Flash had a very specific win condition. It would have been easy to pull off if somehow miraculous miraculously homeboy completely messed up in the early game and gave them like what five kills within the first 5 minutes or something along those lines. But that’s a win condition that’s like at that point that’s sort of like wishful thinking. No, not a lot of teams will give that. So homeboy just played it, you know, by the book. Play around your gold, play around the fact that you have a very steady lineup and then you can win from there. Yeah, I think the first blood was what changed a lot of things here. the tempo shifted towards homeboys almost instantly and I really feel like for flash SG they needed to get vanex online quick I thought turtle one was an angle for vanics to join but because they gave Amos such an early lead with first blood it was difficult for them to rotate over I think the plan was far clear out mid with the ka rotate up top get the pryo help van clear to get level four and then rotate together into turtle here’s the thing I think that vanics most people are going to imagine that like oh you know leer board is absolutely non-existent for like at least the first 8 minutes of the game. But the truth is I think really it boils down to could JPL as well as Curtis find the big chunks first and even if Vanx decided to quick clear, you know, he’s never going to be able to clear as fast as Mel QT, but especially in the early game, get him out of that lane quick, go for that fiveman rotation, go for those big assists, get as much gold as possible, and put Curtis in a better spot because by the end of this game, he was the one taking the most amount of punishment. Yeah, I think we one way to help contextualize a lot of this is to also look at the matchup between the Lapa Lapu and the High Laws. The high loss of course very utility, great slow, great healing, but he doesn’t really do much. He he stands there, deals a little bit of damage, but the impact of Vel with the skills that he can drop and use and if he hits them significantly outweigh what the high loss brings to the table. So everything that you guys mentioned plus that factor with the exp lane matchup just equal to home wish running away with this even though they had less legs literally. Mhm. Let’s visualize it again. I would say for flash, right? They decided to take on a lot of weird 4v4s without Fanax cuz Fenix was like holding on uh in the gold lane or even in the XP lane when they traded. But it’s just bad for Flash SG to take those 4v4s because Hades wants to come in last. He doesn’t want to be in first. And so you’re just left with a Farsa doing like getting feather air strikes that is very easily dodged by this composition. That’s a juicing and Lancelot like none of them are going to take those shots and is just going to jump on you every time he gets the chance to. So there was literally just no damage. A lot of sustain with the revitalizer and the Kala constantly getting the procs of the passive but no damage. Yeah, not only no damage, right? I I think the big as you’ve mentioned Renmar, this Lapu Lapu coming in from Vel definitely was the glue that kind of makes his composition sort of sustain even if things go bad. We saw the Brave Spider used as a disengage tool sometimes. You saw that even Hades, he jumps in. It’s like, “Oh boy, one more dash into Electrifying Beast.” Wa, that’s a big stunt. I’m I’m going to step back in that one. Let’s cough down for a second. It’s funny cuz we were looking for a glue in the draft. We got a glue, but not the glue. If you know, you know. I’m not going to spell it out for you, but yeah. Uh Vel did a fantastic job. the help anchored. But yeah, looking at the center of the map, the fact that Homeboys were able to read the very early counter jungle rotation of Hades after they gave up the first turtle, catching him out there just meant that Homeboy ran away with it. They didn’t slip on their foot anymore. I mean, at least they didn’t slip over a banana peel at this point, right? I think that in terms of mechanics, we we definitely saw a couple of like counter synergy moments of like, hey, hey, Barbell, we know he’s going to come in a straight line. the taunt. You just have to taunt him away from RBL gets pushed into the awkward direction. But besides that, I think for the most part at least homeboys are kind of like now, all right, get a bit of confidence back. It’s really just boiling down to the draft more than anything else. Yeah. Uh and it seems like the early rotations as well of how they’re going to be handling what uh their opponents want to do in the jungle. More highlights all throughout there for you. So, do you feel like it this draft by Team Flash, similar to what I mentioned earlier, is it was it a little bit too local? Was it a little bit too specific in their conditions or Yeah. was there something that they could have done to made this easier to have made this ether easier for themselves? Excuse me. I think it is I think it just is a bit too one dimensional. You’re just banking on the fact that you win turtle fights, right? Like you’re utilizing the river changes to get mobility from your gold lane over to the turtle and then you fight. It is straightforward in a sense, but yeah, it things could have changed had the first blood not happened. I Ooh, I think they could have recovered from the first blood, right? I think that the second turtle was the interesting decision coming in from Team Flash. They knew they could potentially contest, but then Barbiel comes up super early and homeboy forces it out of him. I think that’s where you needed to make the call of like this is not happening at this point, right? Turtle one, we see the initial invade. It was pretty close. Like if assuming that Hades made it out alive, it would have been worth his time, but coming into it, I think they need to adjust their decisions, especially if the plan isn’t going exactly the way they want it. All right. Uh maybe for Team Flash, go a little bit more textbook yet again. I I appreciate and I love that we got to see a crazy attempt of a new hero, new new strategy for the uh group stages, but now considering that you really do not want to head down to the lower bracket based off of what we saw in game one, Team Flash when they’re going for textbook uh it goes very well. It seems like the rotations are good. Meanwhile, for maybe that is what they can decide to continue to push Homeboy towards and try to put them back against the wall. Well, again, if you’re just joining us here now, it is heading into a game number three for our very first series of the day between Homeboys and Team Flash. Flash got to take game number one. Homeboy taking game number two confidently after Team Flash was uh able to, you know, pick up the Liam. Hopefully, you did get to see that. Yeah. If not, watch it again. Yeah. If not, you know, you can go back real quickly and uh watching uh watch it again. So, uh seems like our teams are just about ready. We are going to be heading into the draft in just a little bit. What can we expect? That can be the question left up in the air. For now, let’s look at the journey of home boys heading into MSE at the Esports World Cup [Music] team. and ready and improve. and Karina. This team has so much potential, right, with a meta that is shifting into a more diverse style of play. That’s the back line, but he is still going. Lord is still alive, but homeboy, this is a completely different homeboy squad compared to MC 2024. I think they’re really going to use that as motivation to show the world that MPL Malaysia isn’t just all about SRG OG. Don’t forget about Homeboys, too. It’s a wipe out [Applause] at least top four. [Music] [Applause] You know, a little bit of an understatement there by homeboys that it was a bit difficult their journey here. Their journey was incredibly difficult. And if you haven’t seen what they had to go through in the MPL Malaysia playoffs, uh, multiple fivegame series against DXOL against Selongor Giants, even almost being the first team to qualify here for MSE is a fantastic story indeed. So, let’s see if this series is enough. Everything that they’ve experienced is enough for them to take the win over Team of Flash cuz we’re working for this like the difficult part about analyzing a game number three wherein you’re working from two very opposite sides of the drafting and execution spectrum that you now you’re just trying to find that in between for both teams. So, what is that in between that we can focus on? Let’s start on first with Homeboy. Okay, I think all of it boils down to put on your tin foil hats here. The fact that I have taken off my face makeup here without the mask. Think about it. Home boys were losing the game. As soon as the face paint came off, they started winning. Coincidence? I think not. Oh man, I think that phrase before. I think the guy who looked like you repar. Yes. Good. Good. You at Esports Reptar feel five way. Full name. Government name over there. Government name. Well, for flash. Yeah, for flash. back to blue. That’s the way to go. I think stick to the orthodox traps and maybe save those little cheese strats for a bit later. I like that they tried in game two. They had a lead, so they were like, “All right, if we get this done, we’re going to shatter the expectations of everyone in the tournament.” And then they’re going to be looking at flash and being like, “What do we need to prepare? Like, what is that? Do we counter?” You see, it makes it very difficult for the later matches. But now, I think stay chill. It’s about impact. And I think now we need to talk about adjustments, right? cuz homeboy saw what that first game draft looked like and now we’re seeing a couple of similarities except this time maybe possibly wan ban rain is going to get let through. Kalia might not going to get let through. The power picks are substantial for blue side if we follow the exact same pattern from game one. Uh so far it is the exact same pattern with the family lancelot bands the yeen phobia band. So maybe team flash uh if they change things up and it’s not a Harth band this time around. Oh, okay. It is a Harth band. So it’s up to homeboys to decide whether or not we’re going to be playing with a similar drafting field as game number one. And we are not as they take out the 1-1 right away. There we go. That’s what we wanted to see. Does mean that team flash again still plenty of power picks on the table. I want to see what the different style of opener is. Right. Look at he’s he’s looking at notebook. It’s like, okay, okay, different opener, new hand. Let’s figure this out. So Baksha finally the fin final ban from home boys I believe in game number one right so they take it away first time we’re going to seeing the box today thank god it’s been so long because this now again takes away a little bit of value from Izzanami he can’t just go oh yeah I’m going to take my Kimmy my best performing hero during the regular season so homeboy what are you guys going to do uh play around the midlane cryo maybe uh rush a juice in if you want to cuz it seems like they’re very comfortable playing around the juicing with heroes that can just bully the center of the map, dictate the tempo of the center of the map. It’s still 100% win rate. There you go. Yeah, it’s still 100% win rate, but now it also kind of forces home boys into these awkward spots. I can’t pick Kimmy. I can’t pick Kalia as well. Gatot on top of it doesn’t do very well into the Boxia. So, as long as we don’t know the position of whether Deboxia is going to go into the jungle or into the support side, I think homeboys need to kind of narrow down on what their mid lane duo is going to be. Ideally, it’s something that clears really, really quick and interacts with the opposing side a little less. Okay, so for Flash now, do they just go for the Kimmy, the easy pick here? I mean, it’s already up against the juice in, right? That’s where usually you would find comfort. It’s already set up by the box, too. Mhm. Yeah, I feel like it’s the safest pick right now that go and Angela. Whoa. So, they really want to bang out the box Angela combination. Yeah. Okay. But then at the same time uh they have enough room for flexibility in their draft that if they ever put up a different like for example the batch goes roam you get a CC in the exp. That’s also another classic combo with the Angela. So there’s a lot of options and flexibility for flash heading into the second phase of the draft. This does mean that homeboy could potentially look to kind of pivot their composition to a more pickoff style if necessary. Right. But it it really boils down to who’s going to be the big burst. And right now, the fact that they’ve already lost the jungle and mid roll, it only leaves what just uh just the marksman roll at this point, the gold lane. And I don’t think Yeah. And with Granger as well, not unless Granger has like an absurdly winning lead or a huge lead, then sure, that makes sense. But I don’t see it because all of their cores have basically been revealed. And Homeboy’s got to ban Aithal. Now we know the combo the box Angela Aithal to be very lethal and it’s a composition that would uh that will give the a lot of value right now if you look at it right the juicen this comp everyone gets punished hard oh yeah I mean and they still need the front line they really need the front line so I I’m hoping homeboy just just please pan out the get that out of the way make sure again now that is out of the way don’t have to worry about the home the household domestic abuse that’s going to be applied by flash SG but Let’s look at Flash SG side, right? What are they genuinely worried about? They’ve got one of the strongest heroes in the meta so far on top of like the ultra sustain and the early game from Kimmy. Like things are shaping up to be well for Flash. I think CC uh a good choice to go for for home boys right now. They need a bit of shred. So I’m thinking like CC maybe uh glue as well something that can deal with this utility jungle, but they just take away the Ka. Uh they homeboy need something active here cuz looking at the lineup of homeboys. It’s so dependent again on similar to flash in game number two. Homeboy needs to get on a really good early game going here. If they don’t if they can’t keep it close if they lose considerably within the first 5 minutes of the game. The comeback is going to be so hard just through the three picks that we already see on the side of flash alone. So they definitely need a early game facilitator for their lineup. They can go wait they’ve got Jushin on this side. They’ve got Granger who’s most likely not going to take purify this time around unless given otherwise. We do see a Lapu Lapu bang come out from the side of home boys. Is this one of those games where you can technically Oh, but then okay, so Redside’s going to get that first play. There could be an opportunity for Ken to kind of flex flex a little bit more. If he wants Benetta, if he wants to go into like the big chunkers in the exp lane like Yuzong, this might be a game they can actually do. Again, Kimmy is a pretty solid anchor, but at the same time, if Joy gets too far ahead, it’s not going to matter. With the box in the jungle, do you just want to go for some setters in the XP to just help for turtle one guarantee? Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. Do you want to go for a bit something a bit crazy like the Masha in the in the XP? Some more damage just in the sheer burst alone. Mhm. Cuz usually, at least in Indo, we see the Masha a lot against these three, the Juice and Joys and the Granger. seems like a pretty okay time to go for it, but obviously it depends on what home boys go for. Now, CC does get banned. Mhm. They want to tank. I mean, Uranus is still technically open. Homeboys could pick up Uranus for themselves. It’s like a nice little uh Ooh, I have Mr. Shred and I’ve got a core two cores that can actually benefit from that MR shred in the first place. And with that, you deny the Masha cuz the Uranus, you’re not picking Masha into Uranus. Oh, yeah. God, this going to be such a boring matchup. But let’s see. Let’s see whether Vel wants it or not. The Basha can Okay, they go bad. Good flex. Yeah. Uh they needed something to help facilitate tempo. Okay, they can uh just add that with another piece in their exp lane with about most likely going Rome. If flash goes something crazy again, I’m going to lose my mind. But I mean this three alone is like it’s good. It’s like you don’t need to add any more options for the Angela. That’s more than enough options already for her. They won’t expect us to go Leo one more time. More time, but this time with an Angela. Or if you want to go really crazy, they go Alice. They put the boxer into the exp lane. M they flex it and play jungle assassin still jungle damage. Yeah, I think the safe choice would just Oh, there you go. That’s the Masha. Oh my. No one will expect it twice. Nobody sees it again. Oh my lord. Whoa. Call the Masha, but the Leo Lord’s just like, “Hey man, I’m back. I’m back one more time. Try and play that Moscow.” Sorry. Try and play Moscow one more time. Oh no, it’s Granger. It’s different. I This is a more difficult matchup for the uh Le. No, the Granger. I do feel that like JPL has a lot of like deliveries to make. He’s going to be like, “Oh, is somebody a little low going to run over to your lane, top you up, and then go back into the mid lane, fight for the next wave.” Oh no, we got to split our resources again. It’s a new skin. Moon marathon runner Angela. Wait, are we going to be so sure that this is going to be like a Rome? Angela, what if Angela goes mid? You put the Kimmy in gold and then jungle jungle more. Hey, it could go any way right now, but the glue does come in. Something I personally expected to be banned over to Kala. Mhm. Big glue energy. And I I think at this point we’ve sniffed it all out. We sniffed out the glue. We sniffed out the Masha as well. These sweaty exp laners. At least the displacement and the fact that they can look for these big lockdowns for the side of the homeboy. Whoever gets hardguarded can be displaced and pulled away from the fight. And that’s the most important factor. You get a free two for one. Can you smell it in the air? And it seems like we’ve got a local game in our hands. The second time a Liam appears at the hands of Flash SG. This time paired up with an Angela. Who will win game number three? Will it be them or will it be homeboys? Gentlemen, your turn. Thank you once again, Remar. Our desk closed giving it up to us to go into the land of dawn for one last time between these two teams currently at match point. Homeboys at one point, Flash SG at one point. And they’ve changed it up a good amount of times. This time around for our matchup. We’re going to see that Leo Mort one more time. Is this experiment going to work with the lineup with the Angela or not? Flash SG on the blue side. Homeboys on the red. Second time is the charm. At least that’s like the saying that Zu likes, I guess. Let’s see if it actually works out here. Everything does seem to be normal. So, there’s no crazy flexing to the end with the Voxer going roam in the Leo going jungle. It is the Leo going gold as expected. Masha with lethal ignition. Oh yeah. Oh man, look at that damage from Amar already. Mid pryo coming down early. Ivan with a flicker forward forcing JP to flicker to Cartezy forced to run back. I’m all for it right now because at this rate, homeboys have even adjusted their starting buffs. Expecting Team Flash to go for that initial push and invade. Wow. Okay, this is actually working out really, really well for the homeboy because you would imagine that with JPL on this Angela and Curtis on Akim, they shouldn’t be losing this much health. Yeah, at least you can heal back. So that’s a good thing. Bargain hunter and the inspire here. The choice for JP on the Angela and it’s the weapon mastery. So don’t expect Ken to be participating in a lot of fights early. He’s just going to be farming up to be a monster. So Team Flash now, I think they might be playing more to mid to late with the emblems alone. Yeah, I’m more worried about Vanex right now because like in comparison to the Moscow matchup, like this is a lot easier for me to just go pew, I’m just going to chunk your HP. What are you going to do about it, sucka? Especially at level two. But like at this point like Vanx is a little nervous to walk up every single time he’s thinking about the wave he’s just I have to clear the wave. I can’t even trade back. And it’s so annoying because on the Leo you can’t really last hit without shoving the wave. You throw out that big skill AOE and it pushes the wave to Granger Mel can just freeze it up. Hades with the shield. Unity going to lock Eanami down as immobilization as well. Big damage coming out. Amal is able to dash into the back now. Losing a bit of HP beats big resource. Let’s see what Flash can do with it. Wow. They didn’t Okay. I mean, AML definitely didn’t want to die early there. He could have looked. Oh, hold on. Another opportunity. Yep. This a glue over to the back. Actually able to find Curtis. Knows he has purify. Goes to the back. Now, Vanic’s rotating over. Something we expected from game one or sorry, game two shows up here to purify out from Curtis over the mountain. Now, Vanic still able to push him back into the mobilization. And now it’s Ken who rotates forward, gets the Thunderclap, enables the kill. Hades gets away barely. And Ken thunderclaps a mau. And that’s why Boxia is so nasty in the meta so far. Rapid boots being purchased by Ken going to be useful, especially after he loses a bit of HP off of the wave and can rotate and still maintain a healthy amount going into these neutral fights. Either way, this is what a game. It’s so crazy, Gideon, because we were talking about the lane matchup for the Granger that should have been better. I think we’re going to have to hold on that thought because both teams Okay. Okay, we we can talk about it. Granger should be the better match up, but because it’s so much of a better matchup, Mel decided to shove the wave and rotate mid for the double lane, I think. Right. So, that’s what enabled Vanex to rotate. Actually, it’s Mel looking to trade against Vanex a little too heavily cuz keep in mind, right, when you are using that rapidity, the waves are a big proponent. So, you got to move away from the wave to find these angles and Vanex allows Vanex to kind of walk up and clear quickly, which is why we saw him move first. So, that’s that’s kind of on Mel, I’m not going to lie. But the communication should have been there. Like the the flicker coming in from Belle in the mid lane, that should have been a completely different direction. Cuz the idea right now, I think, is for Homeboy to have Vel or to have Mel constantly hold Vanex down in the lane. You don’t want Vanex to rotate. You saw what he did with one rotation, but flash SG are making it hard. They’re already on the turtle. Oh, he’s not going to be able to do this again. Let’s see. I will lock down the pin down already, but Ken is dealing a lot of damage with Thunderclap and he gets the last one. The electrifying beast enabled the reset. Cartezy mounted this time. They’ll purify. But look at the boys. Shield. Unity. Hades is rolling over. Bell going to be stunned up. Can has three more health bars to go for three more. Big Thunder Claps, but he doesn’t even need it. Cartezy gets a sky piercer stack off of that kill. Wait, look at the response. Iami getting right on top of Vanix. Bang into the shooty mcshies. Vanex. Oh my lord. Flickers out to safety now under the turret. LQT doesn’t have the bullets. Not enough to take Vanex down. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. Vanex. Hey, JPL is here. He’s Does he have the hard? He doesn’t have the hard, but he will top up Vanex. Oh, he’s playing with fire here, but at least he’s able to heal back up. I’m pretty sure that the items the Warax. I think he’s got the Warax. He’s healed up a little too much there. Let’s look at the items. Yeah, Warax first item. That’s crazy, dude. He got like half HP worth of H of health. Just boom into the minions. It’s a fat wave. It’s a fat wave. But can we talk about Cartisi? The fact that he’s like he’s a little greedy boy. He’s like, I’m going to go for the sky pierce here. I’m a little dirty here. He saw the early game. He knows that he and his team are very much in the lead. So, and he actually isn’t the main damage dealer. Uh, it’s actually the two side lanes. So, he’s like, you know what, you do damage, I’ll rack up kills, and later I’ll do the damage and execute everybody. All right, so Barbiel has already been thrown out here to try and get some not only control over the lane, but an opportunity onto Mel QT. It has been nullified because both JPL on top of Ivan very nearby. Wait, Boxia. Boxia. Uh-oh. Mel QT, you can dish out damage, but can you sustain? Oh my lord. Hades is a walking rock right now. No one can crack him. You can knock him up. You can punch him in the face. You can do whatever you want, but Hades just chills there as he pops in the po. Oh no. Up top. This is what I was talking about, Gideon. The Masha into Joy. It’s so good. Yeah, that that Thunderclap is a little too strong with the the anti- synergy here at any time. Ivan could have just dropped down that wall and I think it would have been enough space to collide into the turret. I mean, to be fair, Malci probably could have communicated. He got no dash. No, at least his flicker is back up. But let’s see how they play this next scenario, right? Cuz alts are available. Look at Vanex. He’s setting up for a proper flank here. If Homeboy takes control of mid push, that’s actually going to be good for team flash. Turret up top means that’s more pryo for flash and Hades will utilize it. Shield Unity cancelled. Have to look at the position of Vanex. This could be massive. He goes back into the mid lane now. He has the ultimate. Hades on the neutral objective. Gets it for free. Now traction pulse. Homeboy, just give it. Yeah, I mean, you might as well give it at this point, right? A 2.5k lead. Honestly, you need your team to actually scale a little bit more into this game before they’re actually relevant. And most core items haven’t been built in the first place. And I think that’s what they need the most, right? AL has already taken two deaths. Hades has a full level lead on top of having five assists plus a kill. Oh my lord. Again, the Thunderclap this time. Not enough damage to get the reset. Over Fell looking for a possible pick, but he knows better than they go in. They know there’s an Angela on the other side just waiting for a hard guard. Yeah, it’s just not worth their time, especially with resources on the table still for Team Flash. Right now in terms of like resource training and alt economy, it’s so much better for team flash rather than the homeboy. A lot of these fights aren’t without much commitment cuz Ken, he doesn’t really care, right? Just take my HP bar. Give me my resets on my thunder clap. I will take you on every single time. And Amal, he’s really struggling with it. Very much so. Right now, I think the big concern is it really it’s just pen. They need pen, dude. They need to get through the healing and the sustain plus obviously how tech Hades is. Yeah. It’s I don’t think we’re going to see homeboys actually threaten the front line of team flash which is the box up until we get like to 10 minutes maybe. I’m thinking 12 considering how team flash likes to eventually when they have a clearer lead like let’s see when they get when they get to the 5k mark right oh hold on yeah Ken is kind of cooked here has to flicker out but will just be initiated on now he does a lot of damage over to Ianami at least it’ll be a to get the kill now fish over JPL flickering out just in time homeboy is pushing the pace excuse me how I’m I would like to see the items what is Ivan building right now what he’s chunking out JPL like a little too much here goes for the Thunderbell first item. Okay, sure. I would have imagined that JPL would have tanked a little bit more, but with Flask of Oasis, it does go to show that at least for JPL, he does he needs to not get caught in these types of positions. Yeah, I think it was the fist crack together with Mel just shooting rapsity that looked like it was purely fist crack. But yeah, that was a bit weird to see too like who wa wa damage. That’s damage down. What’s going on here? But either way, despite everything that has happened in the game, look at Vanx, right? already. Oh my lord. Yet again, purify, but you will fall to Mel QT with the sky piercer. Now Vanx walks up. Oh, too much to stay now. Vanics able to flicker in forward. Can the one v one against Amal has a ton of cloud but Amal is already out sustaining. It’s a one for one. Ken for Amal and it’s Ivan who picks up the kill. Hades mounted on brought back again into the bullets of Malut. This time without the help of hard guard bangs ultimate. Mal QT free to go for the hits. has to be Ivan constantly peeling. That’s a shield. Unity to lock him down. And the damage from Banic now catches barbell over to Ivan. He goes who needs to run. Oh, Belle wants to go for it. Jumps in with a slam slam and spread spread. It’s not an easy match up so far. Belle should be the next to fall here. No problem. Yunami is going to try and cover, but this Lord should fall into the hands of Team Flash. I mean, they’re kind of dragging this out and now they’re even committing the hard to make sure that Hades stays alive cuz they know Joy is on the way. But look at them. They’re just blowing through this, right? Cutting through that HP like butter. There’s a very specific win condition right now for Homeboys, and it’s to catch one of the damage dealers before the fight starts. You get Ken first, you should have enough of an advantage to beat that four. Mhm. But it’s so hard to get. It kind of relies on Flash overextending, making a mistake. I think right now the main mechanic, Ivan needs to punch Ken out of the Thunderclap, right? He’s going to again keep your eyes on Cam cuz he’s going for aim out every single time. Trading one for one in these types of positions is so much more beneficial when neutral objective is up for team flash. Therefore, Ivan can’t be that guy to open up the map. He has to play peel and let Vel do the rest of the work. That’s why it’s kind of botched though because yes, you want to peel, but your peel while doing damage gives Ken another thunderclap. That’s a reset constantly. So, I think it comes down to Vel. like Fel needs to be the one to just hold Masha down. Hades gets the hard guard. I don’t know if that’s a bit too early though. And hard guard. Um I mean, you know, at the end of the day, they just need to get that mid tier one. If they get an inhibitor, that’s always a plus one point, but they don’t have enough of a lead, right? We were talking about that 5k lead earlier. They’re nowhere near it. It came down to 1.7. Oh my god, that’s a pin down over to Carti. That’s a win condition mounted on as well. A free kill over toami as might be next. has to run away and does get out. Kurt needs to respect this glue a bit more. He was just waiting for the slam slam. He kind of he kind of ate it. Honestly, I thought maybe like like they had to set it up with Ivan flickering forward. Oh, wait. And all into the back. Good flicker off from MQTT. HP bar from Ken getting wrecked. Ivan though will be fallen here to Vanics as he walks forward with help with hard guard actually buys a bit more time as Val mounts Hades and Amal comes in. Ken, I don’t think he can go in with just one HP bar. Mm-m. Mm-m. He’s got to help. He’s got to heal himself back up. But right now, we can see that the clear ideologies from Homeboy and as well as Team Flash’s side. Both are looking for these initial picks. Both are willing to trade one for one. I They got a punch above their weights for whoever they are trading for. And I think so far in terms of like the raw lead. Finally, we are seeing Vanex in an unbelievable position. He may be 50 and two, but he only has an 837 gold lead, which arguably isn’t that much considering that uh you know, Mel QT he’s only died twice. He should be way further behind, but he’s been farming well. That’s a Granger for you, man. You could die solo kill three times and still be ahead just because of the gold crab control and the minions that your team will technically always have to funnel into you just so that you have more stacks to play with, more bullets to play with in the fight. And that’s also considering homeboy with Granger comeback potential is at an all-time high. All he needs is I think two, three more stacks and then he’ll be online for sure. Yeah, look at this, right? Because if we’re talking about gold distribution, uh slight minion advantage for the side of team flash, but like pretty significant when it comes down to the jungle creeps. Other than that, passive gold exactly the same. Kills and assist huge for the side of team flash, but it’s being distributed rather awkwardly, right? I would have imagined that Vance would be so much further, but that’s really coming down to an exp lead more than it is a gold at this point with 3.2K. Let’s see how they roll the dice. This 50/50 is all about map control. You see the hard guard being pointed over. Hades walking up. Ken losing half of his HP already and Vanx is one who gets the hard guard. It means Hades is up for grabs for the rest of the team. Now it’s a pin down over Vanx. No all. Hades no all. Three, four big ultimates down and Vel capitalizes. Three man slam slam pass there as Ken walks up but will just be peeled off. Ivan gets a fist crack down. Ken’s very low. Almost a sky pierce stack for free. Vanex wickers out of the mountain that could have brought him back to the team. And homeboys have just baited out all the resources getting tier one mid. Yep. very powerful position that Homeboys is currently in. And more importantly, so they played that so patiently. Even Vel, he could have quickly just hopped onto any of the three targets that he pushed back into Team Flash’s own jungle, but waited until the very end and got battle spells for it. So the value that we see from homeboys right now currently is within this next minute and a half. Vanex though, he has his alt ready. Everybody’s got their alt ready, but without those flickers, they can’t make significant plays. They need homeboys to initiate. It’s about the small windows for team flash when their abilities are up when they can actually go for a fight, a winning one. They need to be very clean with their engage. They can’t just randomly go in because homeboy, I mean, it’s visible earlier. They can disengage and engage back so quickly. Cartis has to respect. Oh man, the poke from Mel. He can get topped up from the side of JPL. And I think that Curtis, the only thing that’s making him confident is the fact that he has he has his purify available, right? And for now he wants to walk up. He wants to try and get a reaction or at least a flicker out of the side of the homeboy think that he may be able to outplay it. Vanix and as well as me QT honestly pretty close when it comes down to the damage ranking. Not too surprised that Mel QT has more but now ford already put down to one/3 of its HP. It’s going to be battle. Hades forced to go away in this shield. Unity. Let’s be the hard guard as well. But that means bananics is actually pretty free. Ivan three man pinned down now as Amar was forced back there in the back line. Mcken fell and amar on the fight as now is the fist crack desperately. Banex picks up a monster kill. Two members have to recall. This is a green light for Flash to take the lord and they can’t slow it down either. Team flash really literally bulldoze their way to break the battle formations from the side of the homeboys. They need to kite together. They cannot allow to get it in half. Flash are not going to go for the lord. What? A goes in finds the kill. He’s an army gets wiped down as well. Malqt kab flick around. Attraction ps landing now. Fan the flicker forward. Val pops in with nature. Val, can he peel for the marchman? No, he cannot. Cartis with the sky piercer kiting away. Val with the flicker forward. That’s a pure fight to get rid of the stacks and to put Fel in a tough spot now. It’s a mount over to Hades, but Hades just bringing him over towards the base. Another way to roll in Fel. Good night, buddy. Wow. I did not expect Vanex to have so much value, but once again, break through those battle lines, have an Angela on top of you, Windsom Nature, trade your flickers, doesn’t matter. Vanex full item build, and unfortunately for LQT, no matter how many shots he’s landing, the heart guard just tanks so much. The sustain too good. But now the big question for Flash is, can they siege? I think they put uh well I think they can assuming that Cesia hits a mega alt. He needs to hit a traction pulse of a lifetime. We’ll see right because now this lord almost guarantees them at least one inhibitor turret. I don’t know how much more they can get after that one is guaranteed. Two is really really good. Three is how did they do it? But let’s look at this fight one more time. Right? Because as you can see right the anchors from the side of the homeboys get kicked in the chest and once the wind is knocked out of them the whole team disperses into multiple different directions. Amal is the only one who’s flexible enough to weave in and out, but the peel is just not good enough, right? Ivan ends up dying. Vel, yes, he can displace one person at a time, and that’s the big problem. He can’t control multiple people. Mhm. You can see, I mean, this point, Vel was like, “All right, take me. Just take me. You’ve already won that fight. Home, boys.” H just have to defend. They just have to try to bait out some of these big resources over because really for team flash, it’s all about those big ultimates. It’s all about utilizing one cycle of skills to win out the battle and then to capitalize with objectives. In terms of the raw item power builds here, oh no lantern actually purchased from Ianami. Looks for raw sustainability, right? Even a brute force breast wave to try and keep him alive. No force to flick around already. Lord charging down able to get the damage onto the base. per teasy constantly goes in. Ken can’t really go on Ivan. Bas falling down to the bottom lane as Hades pops it up for and the hard guard comes through as well. Crimson beacon now. The pin down over to Hades with Mel QT just shooting him down. But Hades is healing off of those shots. My lord, what is that sustain? God, just my goodness. Just too much. There’s too much to get through. And when you think he’s about to go down, oh hey, Flask the Oasis starts kicking in. Oh hey, favor starting to kick in from JPL as well. Oh wa Ken with a flicker forward. Mel cut handle in nature. Knocking one man down. A diving to the back finding JPL as well. Ammo with a big play. That should be a free triple. No flicker for JPL. He jumps back in just to give another to homeboy. And now it’s Team Flash on the back foot. One man and it’s the Leo Mort. Hey. Hey. Somebody’s got to go back. They got to clear those waves. Two huge waves are starting to collapse from top and bottom into home boys’s space while team flash. If they can just get rid of that get rid of that wave, that’d be great. Barb coming through. That’s a lantern flare over to Vanex. It’s a cannon minion. 10 seconds on Ken. Look at the small caster minion coming down as well. Vanic able to clear one. Look at the caster minion. That could win them. They need to take this up. They will be able to. No, it gets cleared up. 2 seconds for Kurt. Can he walk up and clear? No, he cannot. Homeboy pull off the one straight push against Flash ST. No way. I look, as much as I am a Malaysian fan, that was too close to the wire. Team Flash had full control over the game. They were winning at least 80% of these team fights in these 5v5s. Remar, get into this. Chime in on this. What was that? Oh no, not like that. Ken was just too hungry to force a reaction. out of home boys diving straight to the backline driving straight to Mel Cutie. Yeah, they force out of winter nature, but the just everything lined up perfectly for the badang of Ivan to turn things around. It was going so good until it wasn’t for Team Flash. And I’d say it’s the pent up frustration of being able to win out 80% of the fights like you said, Gideon, but never being able to really capitalize on turrets as much. So, they were like, we we need to end. If the evolved lord gets taken, it’s an easy win for homeboys. Yeah, I mean the conversions weren’t the greatest for team flashing. It was very slow. It was very incremental. But then the problem with sieging against the homeboy became extremely evident towards the end. They have to throw bodies to protect themselves against the projectiles. And even so, Amal with a super play as team flash were disengaging from that final fight turns it all around because look at how these fights end up always happening. The only times Homeboy were able to win is if they snuck away a core and Curtis if not forced JPL to quickly use this alt as soon as possible. What a win by Homeboy. A lot of things that Team Flash needs to learn from from that one, especially with trying to end and win the series. But congratulations of course to Homeboy. A prolific win against a prolific combination now for Team Flash. We’re going to toss you on over to Eterna at the stage for an interview with the winning team. I’m sorry. I’m sorry, Zenami. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry. I accidentally called Stormmy the prince of mages yesterday, but you are the true prince of mage. I’m sorry. Do you forgive me? Yeah, it’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay. So, I can tell to stop like harassing me. Yeah, that’s okay. Okay. All right. Okay. Once again, congratulations. You’re here. Thank you. Okay. How was that for you? How was that first experience here at MSE? Uh, I think it’s kind of hard because this is my first international after long time not playing in international. So I think a bit nervous and yeah team flesh also um they use their like cheese threat. So yeah it’s a bit hot for our first match. Oh so it was a little bit tricky. You were feeling a little bit nervous. Okay that does make sense because I mean I think a lot of people were really surprised with the Liam pick in gold two times in a row. Did that surprise you? How did you guys like communicate about that? Were you worried? Uh actually I think yeah we a bit worry because we never fight like this threat in uh training. So yeah a bit tricky and hard for us. Yeah but we we can adapt. Yeah we can adapt to the meta. So yeah that’s perfect. That’s perfect. You guys handled it really well especially in the final bouts of that previous game. Now Isanami, why do you have Yayo at the back of your name? Where did that come from? Uh actually uh because I use uh Yayo in my main account. So why not I used in MSE? Yeah. Because before before we qualify to MSE, I already thinking about uh I want to use this name. Oh, so it wasn’t Arpang who was like you have to use YoYo at the back of your name. Okay. So it was a a personal choice. Yeah. He’s he’s the one copying me. Oh, he copied you. Coach Erang, be more original. Okay, so flashbacks to last year at MSSE. Homeboy was able to No, actually Homeboy lost to Flash SG. So, coming into this being able to even the score. How does that make you feel? Uh I think we feel happy because we managed to beat team flesh but I think it’s still early because after this we we will fight either team spirit or dfy. Yeah. So I think both of them is a strong opponent for us. Yeah. Both are very strong contenders. Cuz that also brings me to my final question. Ianami, who do you think you’re going to be fighting up against in the upper brackets? Um actually I think both both of them is strong but uh I think we will maybe we will fight team spirit. Team spirit because they got like so many experience in international and they also have a good very good player. So yeah I think maybe we will fight them. Okay. Okay. Okay. Isami thinks that they will be meeting up against team spirit in their next match. So, maybe a final message to Team Spirit. Uh, Team Spirit, good luck for your match and I hope we can fight later. Hope we can fight. Do you think you’ll win? I don’t know. I don’t know. Okay, that’s fine. It’s okay. Confidence boots later, uh, backstage. So, thank you so much, Prince of Mages, Isa Namo. There you go. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters. [Music] Great to hear from Isaamo. Yeah. Uh that is his actual name and that is how it’s going to be pronounced moving forward here in MSG. Yeah. Yo, team flash. Uh again, it was just one moment. It was one moment where they slip and I think this is a strategy that I hope they continue to carry moving forward. Just refine it a little bit more. I like it. I like it. I mean, refinement is something because I I feel like right now it’s it’s uniquely positioned in the metag game, right? And I think as you heard it from Izzanami, the prince of mages himself, it was it was a little awkward to play against, right? You can even tell from LQT is like, “Oh my god, this guy on a horse doesn’t stop. That hard guard makes me do negative damage to him on top of it all.” And when he does, there’s a woman coming in thunder clapping. Boom. Constantly as well. Luckily for him, well, not luckily, he was just really locked in because look at the reaction. Mel QT with Win of Nature instantly right as he saw the Thunderclap cuz that could have been really bad. Had he panicked just a bit with him dying could actually have turned into a big win in for team flash. To be fair, we got to give that to Ken that if Melu died in that engagement, that would have been a big win. A really good trade. XP for gold laner. Hell yeah, you’ll take that any day of your team flash. But they didn’t get that. And eventually homeboy just wrote it out. Again, when you’re going up against a Badang, I feel like this is always the thing you really have to think about, especially if the Badang is in a team that sie that defends siege scenarios very well. When are you diving the turret and where is the badak? Because if you line up at the wrong time, we’ve seen this so many times in Malaysia, Indonesia, and in the Philippines, you will get punished. Mhm. I mean, hey, at the end of it all, I would say, you know, the big one who saved the day, Amal, right? Sick mechanics, right? Go in, get those four stacks, press one button, run at your opponent, just take them out. I mean, Curtis once again, he got dis again. He got disrespectful one with a glue. He’s like, “That was kind of funny.” He gets pulled, dies, like, “All right, I learned my lesson.” Then finally, the one time that Ken doesn’t actually eliminate the droid. That’s when he goes down. And honestly, he could have gotten a double kill on top of JPL. So again, the plan started to crumble once the pieces started to be rearranged. Yeah, I think it was just tough because again that was the big question for us too. You can win the team fights, you can get the lords, but how do you siege in? It was especially because here we’re talking about Curtis how he disrespected the the range and the engage potential of the other side, but it’s also just like you have to walk forward to get the shots on the turret. In the end, it’s a lose-lose cuz you also needed purify. You can’t go flicker. Maybe he was just wait at this point. We need two battle spells. We we do need two battle spells. That that would be an incredible change. And and I think the only way that Flash SG is able to kind of overcome that sieging potential is if they have a whopping lead, which Home did a very good job at kind of mitigating for throughout the game. Yeah, that’s what surprised me. Were moments where I would be thinking, hey, Flash should have like a right 5,000 6,000 gold lead. Yeah, it’s only like 2,000. It’s like, where’s Homeboy getting this farm? How are they still somehow supplementing their gold laner and their jungler? So, got to give credit to Homeboy for that. for Flash SG though. Did with the lineup that they brought up and what Homeboy brought up, like was the early game expected, was it expected that Flash would run away with it and take control and homeboy would just try to be mitigating the losses? I mean, me already called it during the game, right? We were expecting them for first early rotation on that uh on that first turtle, especially when you have Vanix on barbl, he really needs to kind of participate and clear up because he’s pretty strong at his first level four power spike. And then from that point onwards, it went as expected. They try to snowball, but I think the thing that we didn’t see was the big conversions after the team fights, right? I think Homeboy did a very good job of if we were going to fight, we want to mitigate the amount of uh economic damage that we ended up losing. I mean, look at this, right? When we’re looking at Ezanami, he’s playing extremely defensive. No. Uh he’s not looking for anything crazy, but he does go for the brute force breastplate. He does go for winter crowns. He doesn’t even complete finishing up uh that gleaming gem. He’s letting everybody else do the work. He’s just an extension to his team. Yeah, I like it when I see juices, especially against with the lineup that flash brought up to the table building brute force breastplate. It is an uh understated item pickup. That is an option. Not always the one you want to go for, but with all the crowd control of the opposing side and you want to be able to pump out just a little bit more damage, it’s good. Mhm. I just like seeing juice in same. Not like the hero to splash out especially, but yeah. Yeah, I mean in the game, dude, for Flash, it was just all fights really. And like I think it comes down to just that, you know? Yes, it was really good from the other side from homeboys that they were able to always set up the waves in a way where there’s never going to be full capitalization from the other side. But even if they did have full c like great waves, it would have still been hard because they they needed to throw bodies. That was the gamble that they were playing with. win team fights, maybe be kind of less active around the sieges. If they get a big fight, they win. If not, then yeah. Uh, with all that discussed, I think it’s time now to see who the Sony match MVP is from I don’t I don’t know. I didn’t get a spoiler. It’s Mel QT on the Granger. Interesting. I mean, throughout the games, yes, Mel QT has been pretty consistent. Obviously, I think he had it the worst when it comes down to like what what is this cheese supposed to do to me? And I think he felt it. And that’s why now on that Granger, he felt a little bit more comfortable and then he forgot, oh man, I haven’t seen like a Liamort six items at hard guard. Like, man, I really can’t do much. Uh, that felt like a game for a Granger where it’s like, I’m just going to try to farm, man. I’ll just do whatever I can, find whatever I can get and get it. And congratulations to him for getting the Sony MVP of the match. 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[Music] The first time since MSC 2022, RRQ returns to this stage to try and find the crown that they have been trying to really get for a very long time now. And they are going to be facing off against North America’s Area 77, an unexpected competitor to our stage. Could be a very interesting one leading up to the match. My name is Renar here with Gideon and Marco. Still now, by the way, just in case you forgot, we still got tickets available for our knockout stages happening later on. So, please go ahead get your tickets. Not going to be able to join us for the group stage, but don’t forget knockout stage tickets are available. We’re here until August 2nd. That is the grand finals day for MSE 2025. Now, Argu versus Area 77. I I feel like we are all very aware right now of what potentially to expect here considering the experience of one organization against the other. The sudden rise of area 77 into the stage though hungry as they are. I don’t doubt them with really wanting to get a good result here, but it’s a harsh start that they’re going to be going up against RQ. Yeah, it’s not going to be easy and and considering that, you know, Sa the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has honestly been so good to us, allow RQ to set foot and face off and try to redeem a crown that again has eluded them so often. So many second place finishes. So many times that they’ve been knocked out early on, making Indonesian fans across the world just like, when is it going to happen? When is it their time? It brought up narrative of them being literally just the local kings too in Indonesia. So again, they’re fighting against that narrative. They’re fighting to prove a lot of people wrong. And I would say out of the two Indonesian teams, this is a scarier one in the group stage. They’re so good at the systematic play style, fighting for just orthodox meta picks in the early game for the first few objectives. Yeah. So, let’s uh dig deep a little bit more into the roster of RRQ to see what to expect. And there are two names I’m going to be looking out for here. though they are filled with stars in their own right. I feel like as much as uh I really love the rotations to mark the macros and everything, Rins and Edok are going to be the center point for RQ. Absolutely. I think this team is definitely with the addition of their coach Kes has done a phenomenal job at like reforming this team and turning them into a into a game style that is highly dependent on their execution in the earlier stages of the game. We’ve we’ve talked about them being a little bit more adaptable. But we’ve seen them in their regular season during MPL ID where we did see the adaptability actually come and shine through a little bit. Yeah, I think for RQ again, we’ve just been talking about so many of their mistakes in the grand finals and I think they even use that to improve their game. Been hearing a lot of people just saying this team is looking to really conquer MSE this time around. They’re doing really good apparently in scrims too. So we’ll see just how good they are cuz we’ve been talking about this even in NPL ID. Sutsu Jit better on utility picks. Hey, it’s the utility meta right now. Yeah, when you look at the roster of Area 77 and remember the story of RQ, I feel like now they are also similarly to RQ a team with a lot of pressure of expectation on their shoulders. Well, for them, people were expecting them, yes, to just flounder. But I know doubt that Joy Boy Bunch and I who actually qualified for MC 2023 but were unable to attend due to travel complications, they’re going to be the focal points here for the squad. And especially I also want to add a little bit more there onto Ureshi the exp laner long time very experienced veteran in that role. Mhm. I mean I I think you know for area 77 a lot of these members you may even recognize some of these players names especially from some big NA streamers on the opposite end cuz these are the people that they naturally meet because the server is relatively small and especially at the highest level. These are the names that you naturally pair up against in those pubs. Yeah. It’s the same few dudes you see in NA again. And like again their their community is so small that they can just go and play together every single time. It’s almost like a band of boys is always meeting each other up in the tournament. So that’s good in a way where they learn so much from each other. They talk to each other. They’re always, you know, just calm voice commenting together as well, playing together. Whenever someone’s inactive, that should be a way for area 77 to utilize synergy at least. And I would say they’re the unknown right now. RQ might not have a lot of preparation for A77. Yeah, I I think that’s a good angle to look at. R Area 77 knows more about RQ than RQ knows more about area 77. That could be a factor that could play into here. But then when you I feel like that applies just a little bit more towards drafts. When you look about it in game, when you look at the region of Van Net and uh even if you take a glimpse of the finals that they uh competed in heading into MSC, it’s clear they love those pickoffs. Yes, but that type of team that yeah, they love the pickoffs too, but they’re always so good at the long counter engage that comes after team fight in your opponents. Yeah, but that’s the thing, right? I think that right now it’s going to be the litmus test, right? RQ is probably going to be I I don’t know whether they’re going to go that far in terms of like we’re going to get a really disrespectful draft. We’re going to just out Mechanic Q, that sort of thing like we saw from SRG OG Esports yesterday. And I think that Kescute once again is going to come into play saying, “Hey, I’ll give you a decent draft. You’ll figure it out from there. Let’s see how far we can go. And especially if Area 77 shows some form of resistance, then you got to, you know, flip the switch, turn into those killers that we know them to be. Now, I’m just hoping that A77 doesn’t play too safe, right? That’s their edge being unknown. So, maybe go for some crazy picks here in the group stage to snatch a win from under RQ. Yeah, try to go fast. I mean, we saw a glimpse of that when Ultra Legends went up went up against Team Liquid Philippines that yes, against some of the best teams in the world, you can still rattle them in the early game. s here. Area 77 go aggro. But does that mean they go for their jaw head in this very first game? Because that’s their signature aggro pick at the Rome. Oo, we haven’t seen a jaw head in a hot second. I’m not going to lie, there’s still a couple of uses for it, but even so, there are very tight timings. Honestly, when it comes down to like raw ganking, it’s hard, especially the side laners, do know the initial approach and more importantly which buff the jungle has started on. Yeah. And also, if you lose in the early game, you’re done, right? That’s the problem with Jawhead right now. You’re very one-dimensional in a way where you want to brawl, you want to fight, you get the fight, sure, you’re good. But you don’t So, as we head into the draft, we’re going to play a quick little game here that I just I totally did not think of just now. So, I’m going to name a player from Mari Hoji. And I want you to name the hero that first comes to your mind. Okay. All right. So, you guys have to go quick with it right away once I once I give it uh Edokel Franco. Oh, okay. No, we’re in the draft. Never mind. I was expecting to we could do we could do the game a little bit longer, but okay, here we are. Faro juice. So Arc respecting the pickoff style that uh A77 could go for while seems like A77 are going for those heroes when you think about counter engage and macro and aggression. Yeah, but at the same time it’s interesting right Lance sure I I I kind of get it here but also going for the Zen this early on. What is the hard prediction for the side of a area 77 now RQ standard opening right? Go for the Boxia opener now you get one but you also make sure that you get the fious. This does open up an opportunity for maybe Area 7 to7 to say, “Hey, let’s get a winning lane.” But instead, no, they’re going to double down on reinforcing that mid lane. Yeah, I think this is so good so far. Like RQ, this is literally what we’ve been talking about for RQ, right? Even in the grand finals, you play for the Sutsu Jin utility. You get Dy on a comfort pick. You put you get the pryo pick on on Toy, which is right now one or Granger. This is the RQ template. They’re not trying to prove anyone like to try to prove the uh doubters wrong by saying, “Yeah, okay. We’re just going to play with our strengths. Doesn’t matter. No. Gordon Kescq strikes again. Yes sir. Gordon Bruce is Wayne though. Uh no I mean last year last year he was Kescue back Bruce Kescq Wayne. And now at this point we’ll see what Kescu is going to be you know cooking up later down the line in terms of evolution for the team cuz again he likes to keep things template. He likes to keep things extremely structured something that his team can keep on following and most importantly reproduce every single time. Yeah, you can see that A77’s a little bit uh quicker on the draw here, while RQ I I think with what we we discussed earlier with A77 knowing more about RQ compared to vice versa. Yeah, they’re really taking their time, but they are basing it off of like the template answers that you could go for. So, I like how RQ, they’re not trying anything too spicy here. They’re just going with the flow while A77 uh they have their work cut out for them. But I feel like I’m okay so far with what I’m seeing with the bands and the drafting picks. Mhm. Honestly, the bands and picks are just so honest from the side of our RQ. It’s just like, “Here are cores. You know exactly where they’re going. Here’s a couple of counter picks we’re going to get out of the way. Now, what do you do?” And Area 77 has decided to go with the Akai this time around. Akai expas. Yeah. Yeah, I think it is going to be the Akai XP. So, RQ, they’ll already have the Phobias and that should be a winning lane before level four. Should be pretty good. Valentina and Farsa. Yeah, the Akai exp is just like a lane manager. You don’t win that. Wait, what’s up in mid? Um, everybody everything’s banned. That’s actually a really good pick against the Akai. Yep. Vision. You said you said Franco. I said Tig. No one said Cho. Yeah, nobody said Cho here this time around. Interesting why they want to go for the pick up, especially when there’s like a Kai on top of like the AoG from from the Gthar. We finally get the final pick being in the gold lane is going to be Granger area 77. Interesting sight of the composition. RQ seems very standard with the only thing that’s lacking being like a consistent amount of damage from their mid lane. But hey, it’s big burst and more importantly it opens up the map. So that way 77 might not be able to go for those big flanks that we’re looking for with the Akai. Yeah. Uh same thing for A77. I feel like their lineup actually puts an insane amount of pressure on the Lancelot and Granger to get a good game here. So, let’s see how it fares out for them. It’s RRQ versus Area 77 for this game number one. Who’s going to take it? Well, right now, Gideon and Marco are taking away from me. Thank you, Renmar. All right, this is the very first time we’re seeing a new representative from North America, and they must fight against the faithful. Some may say the strong, but the most consistent team making it into the Internationals, RRQ. It’s not going to be difficult to try and knock down the pillar here of MSC 2025 here at the Esports World Cup. Live in Ria and RQ will be facing off against Area 77. RQ on blue, area 77 on the red. RQ playing the orthodox draft, just going for what works with their comp with their own play style. Except I would say that Cho, this is a bit new. We’ve seen it, I believe, in SPS in the group stage as well, but even in ID, this is a rare sight to see Edok on a pick like this. Usually he wants he does go pick off sometimes but it’s more Franco and oh good steal from Ren and already RRQ just making it known to Area 77 that this is their territory but I do agree with you it’s kind of strange to see Edo on this chill. He definitely prefers like safer pickoffs but so far Area 77 are playing their lanes well as of this time. Now, I would I am curious about the exp because it looks like Areshi is kind of beating down on Dyron up on that top side trying to use that base damage early on top of the timings of his uh concussive blast to try and generate an advantage. Yeah, but Dyron, you can see that he’s just going to freeze this wave. Shirou walks up able to get the XP crab, but won’t be level four, so he has to rotate all the way down below now. He can’t invade as well. He knows that Cho is lingering somewhere in the river. And I think that so far so good, right? Area area 77 have to take their time a little bit. I am curious of how this composition is going to try and break down the battle lines of RRQ. Again, it’s highly dependent on whether Shirou is able to find a pickoff and more importantly so Uhi gets that huge flank. We’ll see because again Hunter is still it’s still possible to use the fury of the Phoenix not only for utility but more so just for raw vision before they make a choice. So it’s all about mid pryo now. Shirro rotating into the mid lane. Rins getting level four first, but Hunter follows through pretty quickly as well. Battle for turtle sujin is the one to start things off first. Holding on to it. Dy level four rotating as well. That’s a massive astro echo landing on three. Fantastic execution over to hero there. Joy block getting in taunt. Now it’s a fourman stun, but now he’s going to be brought back with a heavy spin. Dy constantly jumping in for pursuit now over to Hunter looking for more. Dark wave landing, but it’s only onto Areshi. Dy taken down. Oreshi with first blood with a turtle. Nicely done. Nicely done from area 77. Honestly, I think that Shiro played extremely well. Adjusted on the fly. Notice the immediate disengage from that turtle from RQ’s side, but still managing his stacks well so he can dash out of there. Toy and as well as Iso. Definitely this match has been played multiple times whether you’re in pubs or even in screams or scrims. It’s pretty straightforward, but then we start to need to look as RQ needs to find bigger conversions, right? So, Sujin does find the first advantage in that turtle. does have a slight exp lead, but even so, Shirou is losing basically nothing. An attempt from Edo trying to go for the way to dragon there, but won’t be able to get the second part. That’s Shanpoo over. Good taunt from Joy Bodgege. But yeah, right now for RQ, it comes down to the same thing that we’ve been seeing from them in the like majority of MP games. It’s just playing for neutral objectives, then going back, getting pryo from Edo, rotating for Toy. Now it’s crucial for toy to be winning the gold crab fights and it just hasn’t been happening. I saw with the rapsity. I mean he has a little bit of an exp lead thanks to Sutsu Jin being that homie of securing down the turtle. Uressi is trying to freeze on his side knowing that Diren definitely has a bigger advantage. But more so even if Oreshi tries to get on top of Dyron and commits to the heavy spin, pin him against the wall, he just doesn’t have enough damage. The only way for this lane to go bad for Dyron is if he’s a little silly boy and gets underneath the turret. Silly boy. Just a little silly boy. Maybe he doesn’t even need to be a silly boy. What if what ifies pushes him in, right? Cuz sometimes that could happen, too. I mean, that’s what’s happening right now. He’s getting the push back on that wave and area 77 right now. Like, wo, how deep is Ed in enemy territory. Wow. Very deep. Great angle of attack. ISO. Wow. He waited away the dragon so long that I was waiting for the purify and he just never got the opportunity to tap it. He died before that. Su Jin now baits away the retry and it is going to be a free turtle. Mhm. At this point, should our RQ say we don’t actually need this turtle, we can actually go and look to, you know, hurt the economy of area 77 by putting Shirou behind even further. But no, they’re so objective oriented. They’re not moving away from KZ’s plan, secure those neutrals, move and make sure they’re playing for their strong side. Cuz look at this, right? They’re trying to position themselves in a way that tells Area 77, hey, we could potentially be diving ISO. So, Hunter and as well as Joybot have to reactively move there. And now, once again, the holes in the defense show. And Edok sneaks in a little bit deeper. Oh my god, so deep in there. Yeah, this is not a 1 v one. You win Shirou maybe in late game, but in the early to mid, it is all phobias to win this one. And man, I mean, Shir’s trying his best to just take that farm. Edo able to get Jundo out. The Astro Echo landing on three. Good shot over with a star shatter. Okay, no alts being committed from the side of area 77. They chunked out EDO without having to commit too much to it, which is actually great. They got to make sure that they’re constantly clearing out their jungle because this is starting to become a very obvious pattern. They see the initial movement and then they place Edo in one of the open holes in Area 77’s defense, mostly in their jungle. For now, Rins, he’s starting to run out of mana. some point he’s going to have to recall especially if he consistently is getting into these fights from afar. But look at the position right they’re even getting here knowing that ISO is going to be the main target. The respect from Toy Very very good there even though he’s going to lose a cannon minion. He knows that something was up. Fact that iso is shooting out the wind talker. Oh away the dragon baited out the heavy spin. That’s what you want. Now the purple buff should be open to contest for sutsu jin. Joy bodgege walks out. Now this jumpoo onto the wall, but it’s okay. Red tree battle. It’s Shirou who secures the purple, but RQ are now putting the pace in the bottom lane. Wa! Almost a solo Ao from Joy Bod to provide the peel, the cover necessary for ISO to recall. All right, battle spell for battle spell being traded out, but the level lead from Toy is definitely going to make it evident that Iso has to be very, very careful, especially if Toy has that inspire available. Now, we can see has been trying to invade so many times at this point. He’s only keeping up with Shirou. It’s actually Shirou who actually has a little bit of exp tempo on him because of the movements that we’ve seen across the map. Now, Dy should be able to walk down towards with the help of the river uh river buff to go down and quickly join this potential fight from Turtle’s side. However, Uishi has shown himself. Uh-oh, great taunt over to now also a stun over that’s going to be the knock up from Oreshi to get the kill over to now to walking up the cost to be ready and it translates over with the help of the rest of the team. Oreshi taken low. He gets away. It’s another one for one in the low action game. And RQ will get three out of three. Yep. And that’s a roam for a roam. Turtle will fall into the hands of RRQ as we see a lane swap. Honestly, this is a really good move from the side of area 77, right? You know that that neutral objective is basically non-existent for you. So picks up that midwave, picks up top wave as well. Even I’m not sure if he got that crab on that last one, but even so, he is able to slowly scale up without taking too much damage. Let’s look at the fight one more time, right? Because again, Edo, I would say little crazy of him, you know, opening up that map, but the commitment where not even not even having to use the heavy spin. It already goes to show that this early to mid game area 77 feel kind of comfortable. They just need that one mistake from RQ. That’s a red tree from Shirou again, securing the purple buff. Another big Astro Echo. And as this continues to land, they will have constant vision on A77. Just look at the tempo they have in the map. Yeah, it’s 2 to2 2,000 gold lead, but it feels like with the tempo they have, it almost feels like a four or 5k gold lead. Mhm. It does. I mean, the level leads especially coming down. One from Toy, two from Rins as well. And I think that right now Rins, he’s utilizing his advantage nicely. He already completed the Lightning Trunchon. So, his pokes genuinely hurt. Oh, there you go. Almost all of the weakness points. Good move by Shirro and he still gets caught by the star shatter. So even when they display these, you know, good escapes, they get punished for it and there’s no trade. RQ making sure that all away the dragon and the star shatter locking him down. It’s a kill for the roam over towards Hunter. Rein’s pushed back, but it’s all G and not even a trade down below. The minions, can they do it? No. Toy’s rotating. He’ll be be able to make it there in time. actually. Oh, wait. I mean, the wave is uh unfortunately the siege minions were all kind of low. If they were full health, then maybe there was an opportunity there. But let’s look at the items so far because that’s three items already complete. Like toy has a majority of the gold advantage here. And now this is the time where you’re expecting RQ to kind of, you know, step on the gas. Oh my lord. Oh, Shirro with a puncture now onto rins as well. Thorn rose and a f execution, but that should be it in terms of firepower. Sutu Jin running him down. Big hit box on him. Sin will constantly land those big shield throws. Shirou gets away, but RQ get tempo up top and again deny a turret trade. Mhm. Shirou is leveled down on Switzer Jin. Now RQ really pouring gasoline. Hopefully they don’t smother the fire just yet. They need it to turn into a roaring flame. Are 77. It’s clear that they’ve got mechanics, right? They know how to push buttons, but they’re waiting for that big mistake. Here comes massive already. Hunter brought back again by the dragon now cancel, but heavy spin already as Diamond walks up. has the stack with infernal pursuit, but the heavy spin shoves them back. Orai’s too low. There’s no heavy spin. They baited big resources. Almost a star shatter from Ren. Clean. It It’s It’s an extremely clean engagement from RQ, but even more cleaner disengage from area 77. However, disengaging doesn’t win you games, right? We haven’t seen significant plays from the side of area 77 to try and crack open RQ. These neutral objectives have fallen into the hands of Arcu when it’s going exactly the way they want to. A four a clean 4k lead and now we see that area 77 are forced to kind of stick together to look for neutral objectives. More importantly getting rid of these structures once we see mid tier one collapse. Oh, okay. AoG into the sun with a shield. Unity turret down below falling to a tier two. Shirou throwing rose to evade from Gundo. And finally our area 77 gets a trade. But when it happens, RQ get a better tradeoff, right, with a turret tier two down below. I mean, sure, but like tier 2’s on the side lanes is basically free econ, right? What’s another extra 200 300 gold over to RQ when they already have that 4k lead? Area 77 using the EOG to try and protect this mid tier one was probably the better option rather than putting themselves in a compromised position. Sujin is just running laps around A7 right now as Toy continues to push on the pace. That’s a retribution and rose crossbow tank ready. Fire over ball in. Nope, he has the flicker gets him out to safety just in time. One last shot would have done it. A tier one turret falling in the mid lane and RQ are looking to capitalize. Well played by Toy. He He was expecting the clear. He was expecting the eyeframes to come up pretty quick from the side of Shirro and really takes full advantage before launching that crossbow of tank. And with that being said, a man down. RQ are looking to go for these inhibitors. The holy shield are collapsing all across the board. Fury of the Phoenix over Tyron taken low, but there’s really just no more threat. That’s another big structure taken down by RQ and it’s a big one because folks that’s the far lane for the next neutral objective. A77 were already struggling to contest. Now it’s going to be even tougher. Yeah. No, I I think right now the only way the area 77 is looking to win this game is if RQ make a mistake when it comes down to these neutral fights, right? That’s why we’re seeing that. Oh. Oh my god, the damage. Half HP brother. Oh, walks up. Somehow Sutsuen gets the kill with a shield thrown his way. Ores falling for the first time this game. Oh, he got melted down. There’s too much percentage damage. Look at Prince’s damage. He’s literally tripling the lobby in terms of just raw damage. 54,000. And now the siege. Here we go. Mhm. Look at that again. Fury the Phoenix coming down to try to defend Hunter. Almost caught by the Star Shatter there. Toy gets another base turret. Oh man, RQ, if we’re talking about medieval warfare, the traditional sieges are RQ top tier when they’ve got the right tools. They’ve got a trebuche in reins arm to throw area 77 underneath the bus if they walk up too closely. And even if they’re not close to the bus, the bus comes to them. Oh my lord, that damage from Rins. We haven’t seen Novaria at all this tournament. The one time we see it, it’s a nuke Varia. Oh. Oh my goodness. They’re going through the medieval ages really fast. Dark aeges are collapsing. No more trebuchets. Give him a hand cannon. They’re going to fight again. Again. Trying to go for the dragon. Rashi taken out by the star shatter. Dyron taking a few shots in. Sutsu Jin walks up with the help of the conceal from Edo and will be there to body block in case it’s necessary. Free lord to RQ. Look at this. Just perfect macro coming in from the side of RQ. They understand they’ve set the line in the sand and area 77 must not disrespect it. Jirro is going to try here. He’s got the mechanics and he’s gotten out of really tight positions before, but a single shot from a maxr- range star shadow from Rins really makes all the difference. It’s not to mention that if they stand too close together, unfortunately the AoE plus an extra from the lightning trunge, it makes all the difference. 50% gone just like that. M 2,500 gold lead for Toy. Full items almost has a magic blade. Very close to a rose gold meteor. There’s a sea halird and he’s going to shred like even without the crossbow. Actually, I’ll be surprised if he gets a crossbow attack. might actually melt people before he can get the crossbow tank done. Yeah, he is pretty far ahead in the in the game right now. It’s kind of ridiculous, but Oh, both the carries. Talk about targeting now. Shirou walks up. Rins with flicker out. That’s a big AoG that lands. Oh no, that’s Shirou in the front. Ty is holding it alone. Toy looking for the damage with the basic attacks again. No crossbow tank. No problem. Toy dishing out crit damage and RQ with a 10,000 gold lead get the job done in game one. Oh my goodness. I think this is what the Indonesians call whenever they see Rein’s throwing out another Star Shatter just to be like is a head shot man. Just this is just he is landing them. It’s godgiven. No toying around out at all for RQ. And that went as expected honestly like with what was brought to the table and what we mentioned earlier. So much pressure for the Landslot and Granger to win at their respective roles. But when you’re up against a mid laner who can loot you from afar, see where you are, empowered by a jungler who like I’m here. There’s like literally nothing much you can do to me right now. I’m a box. RQ takes it. I think it just feels like in the draft A7 drafted not to win but to not lose. Mhm. Mhm. Mhm. I think there’s a couple of times in the game, especially during neutral objectives, where they could have tried to force a play, but that’s the problem, right? when RRQ know they can kind of hunker down and wait for their opponents to make that move. That’s the big issue, right? They just need to win one fight and then they hold that tiny lead and it’s in the compound interest afterwards. Like this fight right here, right? This is the first time we see that RQ go into the faces. They’re like, “Okay, Shirou can try and take this turtle. We’re going to reset it and now we’re going to go back into the fight.” Obviously Dy made a little bit of a mistake, you know, holding a little longer than he probably should. Like flicker early now ends up dying to the last auto attack, but even so, it is a winning scenario for RRQ. Yeah, really tough here for Area 77 to pull this off. Uh again, they drafted into the more demanding lineup while RQ as textbook at as it is. I mean, it’s the easier lineup to pull off. Uh you know, the beats that you need to hit, there isn’t some clear obvious conditions. You could me you can afford to mess up within the first 5 minutes. Well, for Area 77, it was like a very precise you cannot mess this up or it’s over for us. Yeah, I’m actually surprised that Toy didn’t go for the attack speed build this game, knowing that he would have just gotten free crossbow tanks across the board. That would have just over to maybe a triple kill every time he gets a crossbow tank. Yep. As we look at the emblems right now, RQ really just played this uh as it should have been. Uh the fact that three of them are packing tank emblems. Uh the that delays even more what damage Area 77 can dish out. Again, simple as they needed to somehow find massive wins early on. RQ didn’t give it to them. Yeah, they didn’t give it at all. Which is why like this is one of the worst matchups for newer teams to face up because RO2 is just so some people may call them passive, but truly their pass their passiveness is because they know that they’ve got a lead or an investment and they love to hold it against you, right? You know, just the fact that I don’t need to interact with you is more than enough. Exactly. I mean, just look at the kills that they were giving over to A77 as well. Like the two the three kills that was taken by A77, it’s on Edok and Dyron. Those are the two guys that I think they’re like okay with every single time. Yeah. Uh there was something also about how RQ played that I did I liked that they didn’t try to rush anything. You could clearly see it’s like still respecting the this time my turn around. All right, let’s just go back. All right, let’s fight again slow. It was like a just a slow battle of attrition that Area 77 just tried absolutely everything they can to get farm to find wins, but if your opponent is not giving you any opening and they’re respecting you as if the gold was close, yeah, you’re not going to get anything from that. Yeah, I mean it also reflects in their builds like Dy initially didn’t go for the war axe straight away. He was actually building components into the anti-correscent as well as the radiant armor. Then after he finished his second, they realized like, wait, hold on, we just have to sustain. And then is already getting like a gigantic lead. I just need to live. I don’t even need to be that tanky in the first place. So that’s when he decides to get the Warax. Yeah, it’s really like not the build that people go for nowadays. Even in rank, people just go for Thunderbolt. But if you’re winning that hard and you can just sustain and the game was like three turtles to to RQ, a 4,000 gold lead with that looked more like an 8k gold lead, there was not much you could do wrong in the item builds. Yeah. And looking at what Area 77 eventually drafted into after seeing the fact that there’s a Baksha on the other side, I think more now I see what you were trying to get at America where area 77 as if they were trying to draft not to lose cuz there wasn’t like a direct answer to the Baksha in terms of disrupting his flow. It was more of just like see what we can draft to make sure that I saw Shiro and maybe even Hunter doesn’t die. It was just like let’s see if we can just hold on long enough to hit our power spikes and whatnot. It’s more reactive than it is proactive. It is. And and more importantly so in terms of like raw execution, the high in terms of like high mechanics, it’s really down to like Shirro on this landslaw and as well as Urashi to try and make these plays. Everybody else just presses one button to try and either disengage or really punish the mistakes that RQ are going to show. But that’s why it’s it’s such a big difference in philosophy because KZQ is so high on hey, we got to play to the structure. You have to execute perfectly. here from area 77 RQ. Yeah, they were literally just playing for P. Four out of uh four heroes out of five except Lancelot. Yeah, we’re just PE heroes. They wanted to kite back. They wanted to punish on mistakes, but expecting RQ such a systematic team, you you’d actually have a better chance hoping for ID to make a mistake. Like they were the ones actually push forward when they have a lead. RQ, they’re like, “No, it’s okay. We’re fine with 2K. We’ll just build off of more minions, cutting you off, blah, yada, yada, and for Area 77, it wasn’t what we expected.” Like, they need to just go in uh game number two, get rid of the safety. It’s all right. They They got nothing to lose. Yeah. I think a lot of more people are going to be able to see the pros of your gameplay if you’re just aggressive. Even though people would say, “Oh, it’s a little bit throwy.” At least we saw you try to be proactive instead of just trying to react to everything that RQ throws at you. And because of all of that, Toy was left to just farm, get gold, deal damage. Nothing could stop this one from just being able to get up in the air. Yeah. And I mean, not to mention that these again RRQ, they’re very good at taking small incremental leads and really squeezing a lot of value out of it. Like really milking it. Like Ren was getting so much value. You could see that his lead against Hunter eventually ended up being a two-level lead on top of a whopping amount of gold. And Toy, I think that he he could honestly try to make solo plays of his own, but he’s just he just remembers what’s what’s if he makes a mistake cuz Q is just like, hey, you know what happens here. Big back hand. Well, we’re going to be seeing that after the result of game number one. And uh I think right now unless we see some absolutely massive changes from the side of Area 77 that we might just be walking out of this matchup and this series with a sweep. And I think the second game again if nothing too crazy happens in terms of the draft and the strategy changes then it’s just going to be more of the same. It’s just like a slow whittling down and realization of area 77 where the map is getting smaller. Next thing you know, those little risks that you were willing to take in the early game, it’s just massive risks at that point in the mid game. So, let’s see if 77 is going to be able to switch things up and find a way to draft through RQ Hoshi. Maybe just a little bit more proactiveness, maybe just a little bit more picks that are aggressive might be the differencemaker here for Area 77. What’s going on behind the scenes? Like, what are you guys seeing? I’m seeing that Kes currently has taken the the position. He’s he is the mid laner right now. He’s like, “Rince, you’re young. Get Come on. Just stand up for a second.” Yeah. All right. So, if you if you want us to understand RQ a little bit more, well, we have a story on their journey here heading into MSE at EWC. [Music] This is blast. [Music] ID grand finale. [Music] [Music] Well, whatever the mentality is right now of Aroshi, it’s going really good for them. Uh they played a very clean game. They didn’t uh give any mistakes, a lot of openings for Area 77 to capitalize on. And yeah, I think it’s gotten to this point now. It’s just we’re waiting for the draft. Uh we discussed what A77 needs to do. We’ve discussed what Rio Hoshi needs to continue doing. At the end of the day, the only question is if Are77’s going to change it. It’s all on the balls on their court at this point. It really is. But I think, you know, tinfoil hats back on, boys and girls, because I think that RQ, if we’re going to cons, you know, conspiracy theory, they’d like to play a little bit slower. But every time they have lost in the most important games, they have to deal with hedgehogs otherwise known as you get the idea. But generally going fast is doesn’t seem to be the RQ sort of way. So that’s why I think that area 77 at this point in time if they are going to go, you know, balls to the walls trying to throw everything at them, they got to go quick. They need something that snowballs really, really quick, too. Yeah. And uh really quickly before we continue our discussion here about the draft and everything, don’t forget about the All-Star event happening right now in game, the All-Star 2025 Dino Planet. Do not forget uh to play that little miniame. I keep forgetting and I am missing out on some really good prizes. I don’t think I’m going to be getting the Koopa skin that comes with it at the end of uh this event. That makes me very sad. Uh so don’t be like me. Uh, don’t forget to play our mini games and of course, uh, enjoy everything that the Dino Planet has to offer for everyone playing MLBB right now. That event goes all the way up until August 5th. Uh, yes, draft starting in just a bit. Let’s look at Area 77. Let’s get specific. What picks do you think they could go for that would Jawhead? Yeah, I think that’s I like that. I was setting you up. I was like, okay, Joe head right away. We all We all know what we want to see from the side of Area 77. want them to go back into their play style that they are not only comfortable with, but something that they can really show the world what they are all about. We need to see NA’s play style right now as we see them actually on the blue side up against RQ on the red. They banned the Kimmy. So, does that mean I feel like they might be trying to So, they don’t want they don’t want Boxa first pick is basically what it means, right? But RQ still decided to ban out the box. Yeah, I I definitely think that Kimmy was one of the few picks that would have made a lot of sense for area 77 because it’s just one of those heroes. It’s like how do you contest with that type of damage that early on? Mhm. And they buy the Uranus. So, they’re not going for the Uranus. I think it just might end up getting Kao first pick. If it’s not the Jawhead, I mean, if they want to play around pick off Map Resence going around fast, Ka is a good sub substitute for that. Yeah, but I really am not a fan of giving Darrenophobia. Dude, that guy is a monster. In Indonesia, we call him the half purple man. The purple man. Purple man. Ah, purple man. It sounds way better than boss Indonesia. It sounds kind of weird here. Half purple man. Half purple man. I think that especially if we’re talking about Dyron. Another thing that they need to be worried about is like the Indonesian style of Hilda. We’ve seed so many exp laners. You give him that Hilda, you’re on an assassin. It’s like it feels like you can’t breathe half the time. He’s right up in your face like, “What are you doing?” Oh, you taking your purple buff, sir? Is that your purple? Oh, it’s it’s mine now. It’s mine, not yours. It’s your purple buff. He’s a typical bully in a high school like TV show. You know, just like, “Hey, give me your lunch money.” Aka your purple buff, nerd. Lock him in the locker. Your purple buff just That’s literally what happened in game one. They were locked in their base, locked in their lockers, and they try to get out, but then the bullies just stronger. They ride away in their convertibles. They laugh at you. They make you cry. You go home, you tell your parents. I’m not talking about personal experience here. Talking about drafts. Yeah, totally. The oddly specific with the convertible. You still remember their number plates? Look, Zush gets picked up. 100%, bro. Tinfoil hats. Tinfoil hats. 100% right. Jusen. 100%. Hey, hey, hey, it could be a conspiracy, but I think at this point, Zushin kind of makes sense, right? If you’re not going to get the Kimmy, the other lane bully that we are expecting is that Zusin. And now they need a mid duo that actually looks to play in their favor. Now, Zushian is interesting because it’s not only about mid pryo. It’s if they get pushed in, we tax your HP whenever you walk up. Especially if there if the opposing duo has a melee range style hero that uses concussive blast. Oh, you getting the Harth right away. It’s been months since Har has been a top two priority on the red side. And even high loss to go to boot. Yeah, this is uh this is a little bit more of a ego aggro RQ first two pick rush. Yeah, they’re one away from going Triple H here. Harlos and Moralda. Oh, hey, look, it’s not it’s not the game. It’s not the game just yet, boys. Just give it give it give it some time because the Lancelot is going to get locked in on top of the Ka. All right, a decent amount of burst damage, but not enough to really convince me about this a potential pickoff composition just yet. Carlos Hed really forcing it in here. Oh, RQ at this point against the Lancelot. Oh, they go for the Zatan 0% versus the 100% that juice in. Now, this feels a bit more like RQ saying, “Let’s change those numbers.” All right. A little bit more uh little bit more shoulder checks coming in from RQ right now. Come on, boy. Come on. For sure. For sure. I The Zatan is interesting, right? Because does that mean they’re going to omit picking up the Gatau into the Kala this time around now that they have the Fury of the Phoenix to work uh to kind of work with? Oh, you tsunami slam. Guess what? I press one button and then we’ll see whether or not we actually have to commit to the fight or whether or not we can just be like, “Oh, this one button is enough to get us out of here.” Yeah. Okay. Oh, Batrix. Good ban. Yeah, with Ka could be it. Usually what RQ does, why I mean I’ll explain the Hyos a bit more for them. They go Har, right? Harth usually gets countered by like the Phobia who gets uh the dashes and Hyos is usually already a win against the Phobia. So the Hyos is a way to deny the Phobia. That’s what they like to do. And it’s also really good flex. So it’s like a KQ template uh to deal with something like a phobia if they don’t ban it. Very traditional. Very traditional. I would honestly I would have liked to seen cuz you kind of go out of the template and be like here here you go. Here’s an Arlet diary. Well, I mean considering the tendencies of the draft so far here at MLBB at EWC. This is sort of out of the template, but it’s still within his personal template. So I guess we’re going to only get like one thing. Okay, Frederick gets taken out. Considering that they are just It looks like RQ has already told Area 77, okay, we’re literally telling you Harri is our main dude. It’s up to you to try and answer it, guys. We’re giving you a little bit of give here. This still could be a phobia for RQ, dude. Like the Hyos many times again goes to Rome when Phobius is up for grabs and it’s a Lancelot that just was, oh, RQ, they can set up for the Fobious now. They don’t really need to flex it all the way to the end anymore. Mhm. They really don’t. And they can pick it up for themselves. Worst comes the worst, right? as much as they’re going for Arlet. No, that’s like last pick Arlet. No. Yeah, that’s what I’m seeing. That’s what I’m thinking of. They’re like, “Okay, you can go either way. Guess which one it’s going to be. Let’s see.” Cuz they’re giving the onus to Area 77 and picking the Akai on R4. It’s just so safe. Yeah, cuz like now for RQ, they are waiting for A77. If they don’t go Phobius, that’s an easy arlet XP. If they do go Phobius, the Hyos will be placed into the XP to beat the Phobias and they’ll just pick another roam. Yeah. At this point though, Various 77 even goes fobvious. There’s an Aai on the other side. Like, what are we going to do now? It’s Hyos and Akai. In chess terms, this is what we call a fork. It’s really, it’s honestly, it’s pretty difficult to deal with. Ooh, they go for the CC instead. All right. Either in both of those matchups doesn’t really matter to the CC, but it does compromise their overall 5v5. You know what? Another one. Another new way. Wait, no. two debuts in two games. The Varia and now Pikito. Oh, that’s kind of that’s kind of hot. Yeah, I like it. I think this is this is RQ really just going with a little bit more the template’s there, but the ego’s there, too. I like it a little bit more uh showing area 77. Now, we got you. This is checkmate. What is this? Blue lock or something. I can see Dyron’s ego juice just oozing out of him. I’m just a fan, dude. Like I’ve been talking about how Dyron needs the carries in ML and now that he’s getting it, I’m just here for the show because back when he was in Rebellion, this was his pryopic. This was him, his favorite with Benadetta. Yeah, with Benedetta, of course. Let’s see if Darren Ken pop off with the Pakito in the EXP lane if and if Ri Hoshi will close out this series as expected with a two victory or will 77 surprise us all. Thanks, Remar. All right, we’re getting right into this straight away. match point currently for RRQ Hoshi. MSC 2025 can be just this, especially with North American representatives on the blue side looking to pull this back against the kingdom. Now, let’s jump right into it, right? is I think we need to figure out ways and maybe potential holes in RQ’s defenses or maybe area 77 to kind of push back because again they go for that uh initial leash which is again we don’t see very often but so far Diamond is very comfortable to take on Ushi in this 1 v one. Yeah, it’s because of the wave clear. You can’t like if you angle your skill too properly, you get the damage and the clear. So there you have it. Bargain hunter here with the inspire. I think are pretty normal. So, I’ll try to answer your question. What are the weaknesses? I think for A77, they have an easy way to pick one or two members off straight off the team fight. Like, I mean, Edo is very vulnerable. Dyron and Ren’s also no purify. Yeah, both don’t have purify here. Although the mid the mid duo is actually kind of struggling here because as you can see, Joy Barge, he needs to be able to kind of walk up and punch something to get the initial heals, right? But it’s so far it’s clear that Edo and as well as Rins are timing their abilities to make sure that he’s not getting the maximum amount of heal while still making sure that Hunter has to walk up in a very awkward manner. Focus on clearing those waves. Focus on getting an early recall or at least force away Joy Joy Bos in a more compromising position. Interesting. Both sides positioning himself for the very first objective. Okay, he’s playing around it now. Yeah, they’re really trying to put or set Dyron for success here in game number two. They want Dyron to snowball because once you do, you get a heavy spin say on anyone, it’s an easy oneot for Dyron on the We’ll see whether Dyron actually goes for the full damage, right? It would be fun if he did, but Whoa, hold on. Hold on. Knockout strike not landing. Goes back to the safety of Sutsu Jin who’s walking on the turtle. really taking their time here. But here comes as Glorious Pathway comes through. Oh, okay. That’s an attempt now. Shirro. Okay, lock down. Knock out strike into retribution. Suchin picks up first blood. Very nice. Very nicely done. They even call Toy just in case. Usually they live toy on an island. They’re like, “No, no, no, no, no, no. Toy just in case. This is Dy we’re talking about. He hasn’t touched this Pikito in quite some time. So, let’s uh let’s get the insurance policy over.” And also, folks, we got to, you know, remind you this is a 0% win rate hero. The Tian up against 100% win rate hero at MSSE Jin. Mhm. This could turn everything around like win rate wise. They’re looking to fix the numbers at the very least. Kes was not happy with it. It’s like, hey, I love the Zutan. We got to make sure these numbers are good. Rins, my boy, do God’s work for us. We’re going to get this back. We’re going to we’re going to pull it back for her. So far as we can see like area 77 I’m trying to think of a potential play that they could do but the main issue is that susen is just such a good way to kind of nullify the effect right oh you’re about to get a pick on somebody heavy spin comes into play disengages the entire team’s in trouble that damage now he’s going to be caught curtain call and the lantern fl with the crimson beacon too he has the flicker but he will die a bit too aggressive did not know where the juice in was at least rins gets A bit of punish there, I guess. At this point, Suzuin is thinking, “All right, thank god we got Toy involved in last turn.” I was like, “Thank God he got an assist.” Dy Al could you was like, “Oh, sorry guys. Sorry, guys. I’ll try one more time. Don’t worry. Don’t worry. If I die again, then you can lose faith in me. But until then, I will pull this back for us cuz it looks like they’re trying to set something up, right?” It was thinking about it. He was thinking about dropping that Glorious Pathway, but there is no reason to fight as of right now. Most objectives are still up. The clear has been very good for Sutsu Jin. He does spot out Shir and he does have a full level ahead. So if he steals this away or at least forces the retribution out of Shiro then same thing as last time. It’s it’s just a free turtle. Yep. A battle. Who wins it? Was that Shitzu Jin? Shirro. I think that was Jin on that one. Okay, there you go. And now turtle number two spawns in the game. Another 1-1 at turtle 2. Uh I don’t even know if 77 should contest this. Uh, is this contestable? Joybot does have his alult. Who does he want to pick up? Uh, can he pick up Ren? I think he can, but the flicker is available, but the two tanks, that’s the problem. It’s that heavy spin that they can’t seem to bait out naturally. Glorious pathway into the back now. Oh my lord. Rei almost pinned down to the wall. There’s Joy. Bodge is forced to flicker out defensively. Gets a tsunami sny knockout strike into the back now. Rey battle. Sutin winning it out. Ty walking back and RQ again get the objective and dip. Wait, what? I There was definitely a punish there for Area 77. They did not want to initiate the trade and I think they would have been able to trade up on towards No, it would have been one for one. It was hard to get on top of Res. But even so, even so, they don’t mind. One to one low kill count. So far, RQ developed their 1.3k lead and now it’s just squeezing out the value from such a small lead. It’s backto-back games with the same play style for RQ. A77 again, Joy Bodgege. Without the flicker, you’re passive on the Kala. You have to understand now after the changes on Ka in the previous patch. That range on skill two is so short. You need flicker to be able to get like a crazy pick off, especially on a mobile pick like Dyron. Unless Diamond walks up, then I guess that’s free knockout strike over wins right there too with the turret up top for free. Toy gets a trade and it’s just a punish off of Area 77’s rotation and commitment down below. Skin diff. Terry Bogard on Diren, King of Fighters. Love it. That’s why you got to make sure you got your skin game good. Get those extra stats and you’re like, man, I’m a beast. I’m so good at video game. So far, I think it’s been working out well for RQ, right? Like, oh, conceal. They know the purple buff is available, but did they know that area 77 all rotated down to that bot side? What a read. Yeah. Wow. Incredible read. And they just have to give it. Akai being a level ahead of a landslot is something again that we just don’t see too often. But it’s happening here. Sutsu Jin a whole level ahead of a landslot that should by all means be farming way faster. Mhm. They’re just mirroring the jungle path at this point and I think it makes a lot of sense for Sutsu Jin. Wa take kind of take a lot of damage here. But here comes Toys Jin. Mhm. They’re going to go for the trade out. Hunter has flicker and crimson beacon but how many times can you blink out? Toy walks up. The man force over unl dashes and it’s Ren who picks up the kill. Joy Bodgege walking up unable to get into range. You see that range pretty short. Very very short. I’m surprised Hunter didn’t use lantern flare straight away or like flicker out of it straight away knowing there’s a potential because again toy doesn’t have flicker of his own. He’s running purified. So if he’s on top of you with the zammon force there’s no escaping it at that point. So they have to make these calls a little bit earlier. Oh, a dive on ISO has the flicker. Will use it. Edo tanking it up just enough for Toy to get those shots in. That’s another over to RQ. I’m not going to lie, with the Zen, with the Harth, especially with the MR shred coming out from Zen, it makes Harth feel like he’s his old self. You know, he’s doing some like actual relevant damage now. Especially since it’s so early on into the game. I’d love to see the take. Well, Shira gets the orange buff. the take on items for Toy because we saw Innocent go for the book Enchanted Talisman yesterday. I wonder if Toy is doing the same here or if he’s sticking to the same old Starleium scythe. We’ll see. We’ll see. Uh oh, he is. There you go. Yeah, there we go. There we go. Making sure that he uh completes. He’s already got two items already complete. Fury the Phoenix comes on out. Oh, okay. Good flicker from Meshi. Yep. Manages to get out and ah man this play style. Oh, tsunami slammer is only onto the high elo. That means soy free to go for damage and he does bodgege versus high and lows. That was a sustained battle at that point. Ka definitely not as tanky as the horse. Oh god. It’s uh it’s this is getting this is getting kind of brutal because like the RQ play style just sucks the soul out of you. It feels like every move you make, even though it’s correct sometimes, doesn’t feel great. Feels like like you’re making a mistake when you’re actually not. It was a good attempt from the side of area 77, but right now they have to again keep in mind about the target prioritization. Ideally, they want to get reins. Look at that. Boom. Terry Bogard does it again. Oh man, yet another game where a 30,000 gold lead looks more like a 67k gold lead. Like A77, they’re falling so far behind. How did Okay, how do they do this? At this point, I feel like Toy is just a little too far ahead for to try to go for the What the hell is that damage? Bodgege. Oh, free shots for Dy and a stun over from Edo. Boom. Bang. Bada bing rin showing that the Zen can work. God, they’re playing this well. Like RQ, what’s great about them is their formations during their fights, right? The anchor being rinsed this time around. They’re playing around him extremely well. They they are forcefully giving him space. And honestly, Rin to a certain degree probably doesn’t even want the space. He’s like, “No, guys, please get them closer to us. I need to I need to apply a lot more damage here.” Oh, man. That’s going to be a free lord over to RQ. Rins takes it. So, two games he’s actually gotten two lards. Shout out to Rins. Maybe that could be a fun stat later on. How many lords the mid laners have gotten cuz uh Ren is definitely leading that charge. He is the lord slayer as of right now. Dude, RQ is just sucking the soul out of me right now. Oh god, they’re taking their sweet time doing everything that they want to do and and it’s just so successful, right? It’s so clean, man. We’re seeing the same Lancelot build coming out from Shirou this time around. War axe into the brute force breastplate. It looks like he wants to go for the bruiser optimization knowing that these fights might take a little bit longer, especially with the multitudes of tanks on the side of RRQ. Turret has destroyed, man. Do they get the holy shield out of this one? I think they do. No. Okay, they hold it A77, but they will get it off of the next wave for sure. Yeah, then they’re even building this wave to like double hit just so that they can get the holy shield and then get another wave to get it down. There you go. That’s the first charge over there’s going to be another one in the mid lane. Well, that’s already cleared out. Conceal. That’s it. That’s a turret. Yeah, great wave manipulation. R just playing like the standard fundamental game. Joybot just cannot reach them. Yeah, this is the RQ. Oh my god, so close. But at least they’re able to disengage with the help of the death. Are RQ just welcoming this new challenger from NA with the international quote unquote play style of like any little lead is a death sentence. Tsunami slam over to Edok again. The glorious pathway locks him down. Suchin with the heavy spin. It forces out all the resources over Hunter. No, he’s all alone. Has crimson beacon gets stunned up now as Ren constantly pushing up damage. EO runs away with a sliver of Tyron with the knockout strike. Toy with an execute in the back with that Zaman force. That’s another base turret. Three members up against four. RQ are playing this perfectly. So good. And Shiro, he’s trying his best here. Oh. Oh, Dy. He’s getting some good damage. Is this enough? There he go. Another knockoff strikes him on forge from Toy. And one last hit is all they need. Ren burns him down with what I believe is the glowing wand. Cannon minion ready. Rishi, no. Not over. Toy does not have the Zammon force. He just got it back up. Did he have the Zammon force? I think they might have gone for the end there. He also had no mana earlier. So now RQ, they’re just going to take their time with this. This is the same position. Oh no, he’s just standing there, dude. E doing more damage. Ty with a knockout strike. ISO there. Dy will fall. At least there’s a punish, but my lord was that just soul crushing. The RQ play style. They know what they’re doing here. They know what they’re doing. They’re an absolute brick wall. That’s why they are considered a pillar in these international tournaments. They are. If you can’t beat RRQ, man, it’s going to be really, really tough if you want to get into the upper echelons of the Internationals. But hey, keep in mind Area 77, they’re very new to this. Every single one of them. This is their first time at an international, so this could be a learning experience of their own. How macro leads to these devastating feeling fights depending on how they adjust for the next match. That’s so fant execution. Gets the steal, but will fall to the heavy spin. I think it’s a worth it trade at this point. They need to get anything they can. But can they defend now is the big question. Oh, it it looks like it’s going to spawn in a couple of seconds. I I think the RQ they’re going to back things off right without uh their whole team together. More importantly, the reins had to go for the initial recall cuz he got chunked out pretty hard by Shiro’s side as you can tell. I mean, Sutin probably not going to show much on his face, but Oh. Oh, another knock lantern flare. Should be a free kill. Eat up. No. Okay. Okay. Sky piercer. Thank god. Sky piercer. There you go. A77. another like breath of fresh air for them as they can prolong the game at least to a point where hopefully ISO and Shiro does enough damage. I can I can just imagine Kes in the background just putting on the rings. That heavy left hand is coming real soon. Well, the RQ boys might be shaking off that thought, man. Is that eye shadow? Is that a bruise? Let’s find out after the news. Look, as we see the items, they’re building up and and you can see that even even Suzun is getting a little greedy with it. He’s like, “And take your ass, are we going to get any MR?” No, I’m going to immediately go for the guardian helm. I’m going to sustain forever, boys. Look at the damage rankings, right? Toy and Rins are doing phenomenally. ISO is catching up. And same goes for Hunter, but Jurro making that initial steal definitely covers him this game. Yeah, and that’s the reason you see Hunter at number three, guys. There’s just no magic defense. Like Ri have so many ways to deal with the Granger, the CC, and even the landslot, but not much itemization for the juice in. And that’s why the Juicin has been doing more than the others. And that’s a concern cuz Juin’s not really a damage hero. He’s a utility. It really is. And again, Hunter doesn’t have a sky piercer as well. They want all those sky piercer stacks to fall into the hands of Iso. Oh, over to Adolf, but the stuno fourman rins with the damage now as toy pops in the chrono dash. Has the man force will be able to pop it in now. Shirro walks away. Bodgege will fall. No flicker already used earlier. ISO no flicker too. RQ might just be looking for the end here. Why are we always picking off every single time? They can’t seem to find a window to kind of break through this defense. And now inhibitors are going to fall. Suchin tries to make a play of his own. Another flicker time 1 v one over knockout strike doesn’t get the last shot and oh toy with the mod force now on ISO jumping again. Base wide open. A few waves coming down as well. This will be it. RRQ takes a clean sweep against Area 77. A crushing defeat here as RRQ welcome Area 77 to the Internationals. Their first best of three. Oh, what a victory for RRQ Indonesia. Remar, come on. Come on. And what do you think about that match? Cuz to us, it was pretty soul sucking, but that’s the RQ play style. Yeah, textbook and ruthless. It’s unfortunate that again, this is the first match up that Area 77 is going to have for the group stages cuz against a team like RRQ, they don’t give you a lot of opportunities to shine if they really know just how much better they are compared to your team. And that’s exactly what we saw. We needed to see resistance from Area 77. Force RQ to kind of play your game. force RQ to kind of break out of that standard mold because that’s how we see RQ lose their games when they start to walk out of the template and uh pick KZQ a little angry. Angry Kz never really uh sight that you want to see if you’re RQ players again. But I think they played it clean enough to avoid an angry KZ. I don’t know. Dyron’s couple of deaths there and maybe Yeah, maybe Dy maybe Sujin is like, “Oh no, please. I’m sorry I lost the Lord.” But Dy died like twice. I’m guessing maybe because you give them a chance already. How many deaths can I expect from you? At least two at most. At least two at most. And well, I mean, they only ended up giving up three total kills as a team. So, yeah, I think we can consider this as a very clean performance from Arca for Area 77. I do like that we still saw the effort again as hero. Yeah, I’m not calling him hero. He’s He was a hero for getting that Lord Steel for Area 77, but at that point, it was just delaying the inevitable. You can see just how much better RQ are in terms of executing. The fact that an Akai really does mess up teams of this caliber because one heavy spin ruins how you want a team fight. And they tried, but it’s RQ. And again, fun fact for you guys back at home, this means that there is no longer 100% win rate for Juin anymore. Let’s go. And no 0% for the Zen. Let’s go. uh all the Zetian mates and juicing mates very happy right now with this resulting outcome exactly what they sound like right now all over the world but yeah there’s I feel like this is one of those series one of those games that there’s not much a lot to say because again we didn’t see enough of area 77 here uh we can say they tried we saw the moments but again it’s RQ they’re just so smothering in their game play they really are and I think at this point it’s clear that they want to do what they have to But it looks like Sister Jen seems to be ready. Yeah. All right. Uh yeah, it’s time for the interview with Eterna. Thank you casters. It’s Eterna now with Le Mercenaria. We have Sutsu Jin from RRQ. Once again, congratulations Sutu Jin. Thank you. All right. So coming into this, most of you are coming in with absolutely no MSE experience. Is that correct? Yeah. Yeah. So how does it feel to finally come here for EWC to represent RQ? Uh well it’s great but I think because we already in many international tournaments so I think it’s yeah it’s okay. It’s okay. Just another day work. It’s fun. It’s fun. Okay. How does Toyi feel? Cuz considering your last official international appearance you were with Skyler. Is he okay with everything? Any nerves? Oh he he’s okay. He never nerves. Yeah. Never nervous. Okay. confident toy. So, coming into this, is there any pressure considering you guys are representing RQ and RQ has a very big fan base? For pressure, I think I think no pressure because it’s uh we’ve been through many tournaments, right? So, I think there’s no pressure anymore. Okay. So, you’re just doing what you got to do right here. Impressive, right? Two zero already. Now, this is kind of a tricky question. You can say no. You don’t have to answer. Okay. But a lot of people are awaiting your performance here at MSE. And on the way to MSE, there are talks that people have coined you the term local kings. Do you have a response towards that? I think it’s okay. They say local kings because it’s a fact, right? So, we just need to try our best to prove in this MSE. Okay. So, just try your best to I don’t think that’s true. Well, I mean, you know, you we’ve come to a lot of grand finals on the international stage. Now, I feel bad for asking. Do you have a message to KB? Because that’s what KB said. Uh, yeah, it’s it’s the fact. It’s a fact. Okay. So, considering next up you are going to be either facing Onik PH or Aurora from Turkey, who do you think you’re going to be facing up? I think Onik PH. Can I know why? Yeah, because they’re I think they’re stronger than Turkey team. So, yeah, I think it’s going to be Onyx PH. Okay. If you think it’s going to be Onik BH, let’s close with a message for Onik BH. For Oni, uh if you win later, just give a good match for our match. Do you think you’re going to win? Absolutely. Absolutely. You heard it from Le Mercenaria from RRQ. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters. Good luck, Sugin. The perfect man to represent the aura of Argue. Stoic. Yeah, truly. Truly. I think he accepts it, dude. He really does. He’s so down to earth. You know, if I close my eyes and I listen, he, you know, Kescu Sutsu Jin, one in the same soul. He’s too real. He’s too real for MLBB Esports, man. Someone save him. No, but yeah, I mean, it’s a great mentality to have, right? Like you you just need to prove the haters wrong. like whatever the haters say, if it’s true, it’s true, whatever. But, you know, here this is the time for us to prove it wrong. They’re encountering the unknown. Yeah. They’re really just looking at what they can do to make sure that, you know, we can change facts. You know, you can Well, I mean, not all the time, but I think you guys are trying. They have a chance. They have a chance to change the narrative here around our RQ. And again, with a performance like that, they needed to set that standard with this very first one, cuz man, if they lost the game to Area 77, if Area 77 won this series, if this game or this entire series was significantly closer than it was, they would not hear the end of it. And that’s going to be a long talk at the drawing board with coach Kazoot about as to how this series was close. But that is not what we got. We got a dominating RQ performance. I mean, I no surprises here honestly throughout the board. I just wish that RRQ were able to kind of, you know, try and push and extend their leads because a lot of it just comes down to a matter of inches. They’re just, you know, a bit of maximizing val maximizing values, maximizing a couple of gold leads, but nothing really flashy. And I think the only person who got to have fun was Dyron. And I think, you know, that’s where the two deaths came in where it’s just like, okay, I guess fun has a price. Yeah. All right. Now, it’s time to find out who the Sony MVP of the match is, I believe, is going to be from RQ. And it is none other than Toyath. Well, yeah, he played a perfect game. Yeah, I actually would have given it to Rins, especially game one. But yeah, 64. Not to take anything away from Toy. He was playing incredibly here, too. This is the normal take, I would say, on the Harth itemization. It’s not the enchanted talisman that we did see from Innocent just yesterday. It’s still works. Hey, especially if you’re winning in lane level one to three against the Granger. Like, we need to see that like if if possible on in replay or something. It’s like how How did it work out in their favor? I I’m not even 100% sure. At the end of it, it’s just standard all the way through a majority of the laners. Even like the 2v2s we were seeing uh in the mid lane was in favor of RQ as well. Dire was doing a very good job until he overcommitted and got out rotated and then died. But other than that, it was pretty good. Pretty good. And uh that was a terrific win by RQ. Hopefully, we get to see more of a brilliant Area 77 performance in their next matches. That is it for the first half of the second day of the MSC group stage here at the esports world cup. But coming up next, we have our SNB match of the day between Onik PH and Aurora Turka on behalf of Gideon and Mero. We’re going to be signing out. You’re going to be joined by Lafel, Brigida, and Nisu. Coming up, we’ll see you in just a bit. See you guys. [Music] Hey hey hey [Music] Hey, [Music] hey, hey, [Music] hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Baby. [Music] All right. [Applause] Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] I’mma get it. I’m going keep that [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] This land is calling. [Music] [Music] Come on. Yeah. Yeah. Heat. Do it. You guys know what day it is? It’s happy Thursday. That’s right. Where the sun is shining, everything is going well, and everyone is all smiles. Oh, and it’s the second day of the group stage here at MSC. My name is Ael. Alongside with me is Brigittita and as well as Nice. So, you having a good time, bud? I am, man. I’m happy to be here, of course. And this time around, I get to go ahead and cast this with Brigitta. I know we’ve got two amazing matches ahead of us. I’m so happy today I’m wearing pink. That’s pink. That is We’re both kind of color blind. Oh. Oh, yeah. But I am. And uh this is pink. Well, speaking of which, after this, it is going to be an going up against Aurora, and that’s going to be a huge matchup. In fact, this going to be the match of the day, the Saudi national match of the day. And here’s the thing, they got a lot of story coming in. Looking at them coming in, arriving here, they’re looking hot. It’s a hot one out there, man. You know, um, but this matchup, of course, is heated. It’s also a it kind of a little bit weird I guess and some adjustment for me and Bridget both to see Master the Basics with Dexar there leading um Aurora. I mean it’s the same jersey. It is. That’s true. It’s not the same players. So it’s kind of like same but different but kind of same. It’s kind of same. So I think for me um this is also one of the um most exciting matchups overall since we we’ve done the entire draws and like it’s a very similar matchup. I think a lot of us have been seeing Onyx Aurora time and time again but again same same but not same same same but different but still same. Now we got to look at the legacy here. I mean like we got to talk about Any PH. They’ve been they’ve been looking pretty strong. I mean like the only time it’s like not okay was the grand finals, but they they brought it all the way. They just did one against TL. That was uh I would say I I was very vocal about this when we were doing that is that was one of my favorite, if not the favorite grand finals that I got to be a part of. But Onyx Philippines, you know, after getting the World Championship under their belt, a lot of people um was having high expectations for them when they went into the mo Philippines season, they struggled a bit, you know, very similar to what Onikia went through and then they ended up locking in towards the later half and then of course we had that amazing run for them in the playoffs. Yeah. And I think for Onyx PH what I’m looking forward to the most is the fact that during that grand finals I think they were the ones or one of the teams who have quickly adapted to some of the changes which took place. I remember how much we wanted to see the lands a lot on Carl but it kept coming out from King Kong instead. So what more now that they’ve had a lot more time. Now we got to talk about Aurora Gaming Lunar TNZ Rosa Apex 47 as well as Siggy Bum. These are familiar faces coming in from from Turkey, but this time a little bit different, right? Coming in, they got two new coaches, MTB, Master the Basics, as well as Dexar. So, with a Filipino coach, we got to see if their play style changes because honestly, like even for us talking behind the scenes, apparently some players are not comfortable with getting coaches cuz they’re worried if their play style changes a bit too much. We got to see what what what will happen with Aurora Gaming. I would say that Aurora Gaming and maybe this is I mean even before them when we got to see these uh these players play from Turkey they had a kind of a similar play style that strat and so maybe uh for them here especially when we have MTB come in and then Dexar it doesn’t change too much maybe it’s just going to highlight their play style a little bit more and I I mean this is the perfect meta for them I mean like here’s the thing we got to look at the legacy versus the reinvention and that’s a good touch is that they do play this u play style and coming from uh Master Basa as well as Dexar, they know about it maybe a little bit more than them. But here’s the thing, Legacy versus Reinvention. Can the new northern light shine brighter than the super family? Cuz all throughout we we got to talk about the organizations. It’s been very Oniced. Yeah, they’ve been or they’ve been part of the competitive scene long enough and I feel like they there’s barely some actually there haven’t been any changes at all for but I feel like the reason also why I’m looking forward to how uh Aurora are really planning to adopt and adjust with all this is because some teams might have wanted to change a bit here and there or they might have acknowledged that yeah communication barriers might be a things might not be working for them. But Aurora, even with the changes in their light in their lineup, it does feel like somewhat of an all-star, they right now feel like they’re willing to take so many risks because it might benefit them. Hey, that’s good cuz we got to talk about that. We got to talk about all star cuz this year’s all star. Hey, it’s wild for you guys at home. When you guys are home, like here’s the thing talking about both these matchups like in my head. Mhm. It’s it’s onic. But I don’t know, man. Maybe maybe Aurora could do something. Anytime you mention in your head, I just always wonder. I always look at you and I’m like, “What is going on there?” My head there’s a lot of voices, man. Like it’s it’s insane. I So you’re saying in your head it’s Onyx for this one? Are you talking about this specific matchup or I think I think it’s Onyx, but whenever I have an opinion, uh, something else happens. Oh, that’s actually true. That makes me kind of nervous now because I want to think it’s Ony, too. The other day I was saying something else and then the opposite happened as well. So maybe just maybe well if you know what I we’ve been here in since yesterday. Group A has brought in enough surprises. I just I’m just keeping myself open to the numerous possibilities that might take place again for today. I think regardless so far our run from you know wild cards even MWI now here for MSE. I know we’re only on day two, but there’s already been a lot of fun things going on. Maybe some surprises here, but this is the group to make it happen, I feel like, especially for group B, of course. Um, so we’ll see if it happens. Yeah. And for you guys at home, the MSE pass is available now and it’s 20% off, so it’s even cheaper than before. So, make sure you guys grab it because there’s a whole lot of goodies there, including the skin. So, make sure you guys grab the MSE Pass right now. It’s only up until like what, the 7th? Yeah, the 7th of 8, which is August. Yes, that’s the one. Quick maths. Yep. It would be August. August. And by that time, MS, which is before September. That’s true. Hey, you know what? This is what I was saying. What’s go like you ever think about the lfell’s head? Oh, dude. I wish you guys can see what’s in my head. No, cuz like yesterday he mentioned his neighbor, his father. I know. I heard. I heard. So, what do we get to today? Hey, you’re running out of family, man. Sister. Well, that works, too. Hey, if I if I run out of family, I can’t I can just add more. Uh we’re going to see later on the draft coming up for both teams. I do want to see if Aurora they stick with this ube play style because the thing is healers did get buff, but we don’t see a lot of teams actually utilize that. I It’s interesting because I feel like this is again a meta that can favor what we’ve seen in the past. Again, it it’s their first match that we’re going to see from Aurora, so we got to see if they still stick with that. The Ez for example, the Florence, all that stuff could pop up here. Yeah. And here’s the thing, like just just to hype up the matchup, let’s actually check out a video of Aurora going up against PH. On PH will fight Aurora Turkey in an aggressive play style because I think Aurora Turkey is not that aggressive. But the last time we fought in a scream I think they adjusted a little bit. So we’ll make more adjustments too. On Philippines if they are playing good that day, most teams don’t stand a chance. And I think as much as I love Aurora as a staple strong team, this is really tough for them. I think the biggest challenger player for Aurora Turkey must be Tenzi, their jungler. I think he has insane mechanics and I think he’s very good at making decisions inside the game. Raw mechanics is really going to define who comes out on top. [Music] Good luck and let’s give the fans a very wonderful match. [Music] We saw a jungler giving another jungler that much respect and we heard as well perfect aggression. The team that can actually execute the level of perfect aggression will have the edge in this fight. Speaking of which, for you guys at home, the all-star event is while it’s still ongoing. So, make sure you guys go into the game and slay a lot of lords because you guys have a chance to actually get a lot of goodies for yourself, including the exclusive Popo and Koopa skin as well as the new border. Now, here’s the thing. In this matchup, they talk about perfect aggression. I kind of feel like when it comes to perfect aggression, I kind of feel like on PH, they got it unlocked. So, it kind of looks like their favorite in this matchup. Yeah, especially if you look at the rors because like whenever you think of aggressive rors, I feel like Brusco and his hero pool immediately comes to mind cuz I know we touched a bit on these healer utility types of rors and I feel like that’s something you could associate a bit more to Apex 47, especially since the first time we saw him. But I don’t think that in any way should limit Onic PH2 cuz even towards the latter parts of MPL, there was an Angela by Brusco even like they’ve had these certain changes here and there. So I I’m wondering what they have up their sleeve for this match. Yeah, now we’re starting to draft here. On Philippines going up against Aurora. Looks like Onic Philippines will be having the first pick and they’re instantly batting out the Kimmy and Aurora looks like they’re actually taking their time even in the bands here. probably also trying to predict predict like what’s going to happen and how they’re probably going to be using their draft. Yeah, I like that. Um, so again, Any Philippines, I’m not sure on the specific stat right now so far through the two days. I’ll have to double check later, but the winning side being blue side or if it’s the red side, but Onyx Philippines, um, they’ll get that first priority here. They are going to be taking out the Kimmy, of course. We see the YSS. Teams drafts for the most part though have been pretty interesting. I mean, even the first two matches we saw today were some very unique picks that we got to see come through. Yeah, the um even earlier on we saw the Leo. I think everyone was shocked by that, if you will, for maybe that becomes a new thing in in everybody’s rankings now. You’re going to see a Leo gold. Will they be brave enough to try though? Like after that kind of unsuccessful campaign? I know it’s just been a single series, but you know, it’s been almost a win for Team Flash, but it still wasn’t. But now that we’re looking at two teams who are led by Filipino coaches, I’m thinking we’re more likely to see picks that don’t veer too far away from the current meta that we have. So, we’re definitely be looking at all those oppressive mages, the ones that deal a lot of damage. Unless you can actually get an assassin jungler, then we might see the utility because I think something that we can bring up is that so far the first two days are really liking that Jin, which if we look back previously, teams really don’t favor them or if they use them, they just don’t get the wins. Uh for for super friends though, I think it’s one of his favorites. like the Jin has had a very high win rate whenever he got his hands on it, which actually now that you mention it, the Super Frince Rosa matchup might look pretty interesting, you know, like I feel like the Farsa, if ever does come through, could it be highly contested between these two teams? I think it’s first pick priority because if it’s not banned out um we could see the Farsa go through uh honestly first pick if that seems to be the play here especially for someone like Super Friends but still we also have seen them kind of opt to wait uh as the draft goes on because Super Friends as well has been one of those players that brings out for example the Selena and he is just able to play the Selena very different than anybody else like for some reason and the has been banned so there is a chance that the far side could get picked up and if we’re talking about the mid laners here. Rosa, if you look back in his history, he’s not known as a one trick. He has a lot of tricks in his pocket. Like, we’ve seen the Valentina, we’ve seen the Lilia, and I believe he even had a time where he used the Lunox. So, I kind of feel like in terms of the matchup, you really don’t mind letting Rosa just wait a little bit and then maybe even counter draft or maybe he can make Zion look really good. Yeah. I don’t even know if like wasn’t Rosa one of those who was brave enough to bring out like those fighters in the middle in the mid lanes, too. So, um, maybe, okay, there I was supposed to say maybe the Arlot for now if Nisu did mention earlier that Onyx tends to save the Super Friends heroes for later since he does have such a wide hero pool, but that might lead Rosa to picking it up here. I think he can pick up the far side. Far is a bit difficult against Arlet. Yeah, that’s true. I think uh, man, against the Arlet though, and this is still technically we find the Arlet still in a basically a flex position for the most part. So, um I feel like that’s something that on a Philippines likes to do and especially with coach Why not kind of pick up one of the heroes that you can still flex in later on depending on how this first phase plays out. So, Fobious will come up for Aurora and then they get the Kala which was obviously open still. We see that banned out quite a bit. But this time, I would say Aurora, you know, this is uh covering the grounds, the grounds work of initiation, pickoff potential, but then that frontline tankiness too and some of the sustainability that helps out the team here. I like that they pick up the Kalia because it really opens up their draft in case if they want to play more burst instead of giving it over to Onic Philippines where we know for them aggression is a big thing. So if you give over a very aggressive ROR, it could cause problems. Yeah. And you have to be cautious about who you’ll be putting in the front lines if you’re on Philippines cuz the Ka can just constantly try to go for these front lines, but they still pick up the Arlot and Fredin combo nonetheless. So, just as I was thinking, we might be seeing some of the damage dealers for Onyx for now. They just went for the Moskov. They literally saved the mages for the second phase. And now we got a fun fact here. Kelra currently holds the record for most skills, 258 among all players throughout the history of MSE. That’s a lot. That is a lot. That is a lot. I think the second place behind him uh and I’m I’m sure we’ll get this a glimpse of this later probably today so I don’t want to spoil anybody but I think it’s like a 100 difference between the two. It’s a quite big difference. Yeah. So that’s just again Kell has had uh quite a bit of experience in MSE throughout his career so far and obviously this is something that Onic Philippines wants to go ahead and achieve in you know hopefully getting this championship for them under their belt after being the M6 world championship uh champions. So this Lancelot gets picked up. This is an interesting match up in the jungle. Lancel a lot against Frederick. I like that both teams they’re just delaying their mid lane pick. This was something King Kong mentioned about Yenzi. Uh the fact that they respect and acknowledge how good his mechanics actually are and now we’ll be seeing it in as early as game number one because he’ll be picking up the Lancelot up against this lineup of Onyx PH which so far I feel is a very confident pickup since they also have the Fobius and the KA. So they already have the other members of the team out there to set things up for them. Not that the Lancelot can’t do things entirely on his own, but with the CC taken out as well, this is looking somehow I think Rora might feel comfortable so far with the first few picks that they have. It does look like they’re banning out the CC cuz they’re really thinking that the Arlet there’s a high possibility of actually going in Rome. So now I’m thinking for for Onyx Philippines, they need some kind of continuous damage here in mid if if this Arlet does end up going into Rome cuz I kind of feel like they do want to get the ball rolling at least by Turtle 2. So I wonder what kind of mid they’re going to get cuz neither team looks like they want to counter it. They don’t want to ban anything. They just want to counter it. Yeah, it looks like, you know, even when we get for this last ban, the Farsa is still going to be open. But I don’t know, man. If it’s going to be the Farsa, I wouldn’t even be surprised if still in the lines of if they’re focusing on objectives because this lineup is that. So they take out they’re the one on is the one to take out the Farsa. You know, do they go for something else now that we don’t have those two mages that pop up? Zion still available Zion, but then you also have an Eve, for example. I wouldn’t be surprised if maybe even an Eve comes through for Super Friends, but they have a lot of options. Again, I think that’s why it’s so crucial that you really consider the the hero pool of Monic Philippines. But this is also great because this is also showing once again the familiarity between uh the two teams here. And of course the coaching staff like we’re going to take the Selena just in case Super France was planning to go ahead and get that like we mentioned earlier on. Yeah, Dexter and MTV are so used to going up against Philippines as feels like in the Philippines again, right? We’re just in a different place. Yeah, it’s just a bit hotter. Oh, it’s such a deny pick as well because if you think of the other mages that are left, there are like the Zitan, the Lui. I know it’s one of Super Friends’s most used picks, but so far we haven’t been seeing much of the Lui. Did you expect this? So now, I mean, it was in my script. It was Oh, yeah. Actually, it was here. So, yeah, because here’s the thing. It was in the script actually for Rosa picking up this Valier. My only worry is damage. That’s it. That’s it. I mean, you said continuous damage, but technically, you know what? You guys, you guys need to take my nuggets of knowledge cuz even I don’t know. I was saying the right thing here. So, you guys, so you guys have to be fast about it. Oh, IA. All right. This is interesting because there’s no one really able to go to the back line unless it’s Arlet or Moskov. But hey, at that point, you just got to be very confident in your own positioning. I actually both drafts are very interesting. This is a good match of the day to actually see how both teams really perceive the meta. I’m I’m interested to see the Valier. I’m interested to see the Ixia. I was right, but not in a way that I like it. Anyways, I’m going to give it over to you guys. Thank you so much, Hol. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome here to the English broadcast for NS 2025 at EWC. It’s our third match of the day and as you’re witnessing our drafts here are phenomenal for game number one. It is a best of three once again for both these teams here. Onik Philippines, the current world champions going against Aurora from Turkey will be going against each other. And who gets the first blood here? We’re going to find out in this series. Welcome to it. It’s me and Bria to bring you the action. I cannot believe we’re seeing the Valier Selena matchup for game number one. Lafel did mention continuous damage, but whether or not they’re able to maximize that, we’ll see it now because they’re playing it very aggressively in the first few minutes. But Super Friends because of that aggression is forced to flick around will receive the Lord Rose first blood immediately for Aurora Gaming. I I don’t know what our fastest first blood. I know it was around like the 30 26 26. We beat it yesterday. Okay. Okay. It was beaten yesterday. They want to they want to beat the record. Yeah. Still under the minute. First blood going in the hands, especially for Tienzi. Yeah, that’s great for a Lancelot to get a start here. And you can see this. This is what I was worried about for King Kong though, too, because if you get a lead, you then have to rely on the team to help you. Even this, this is such an aggressive start for Aurora Gaming. And the Abyssal Arrow lands onto King Kong. Second casualty of the game. But the pun the punish they’ll be able to take down Apex 47. Okay, things are looking good for Aurora Gaming right now. That’s a great start for them already. Two kills for TNZ. Uh, you know, an assassin that has popped up multiple times already throughout our tournaments here. And you get two early kills. That’s going to be great for you. You can already see the emblems, too. Nothing too crazy, but you got a whole lot of tank emblems. And of course, uh, you’re still going to see that temporal rain here for the Valier. Yes, Apex. Okay, he’s not going to get stunned. So, it seems like whenever um Super Friends does want to go for the Vengeance Flame again, that has some sort of purify to it. You’ll be able to spam your skills a lot more. The uh team fights will be a lot more difficult for Aurora Gaming if ever they get to be the recipient of the burst fireball then and now every now and then. But still like this this I mean the the mere fact that there’s a Selena and you’re a Freder, right? It’s not going to be fun. It it doesn’t look too good. So let’s see how this pans out. Aurora Gaming are the first to position themselves in the turtle. All right, they’ll get positioned. You can see the rotating happening here, too. Super making his way down for this turtle. So they want to go full force for this fight. They want to secure the objective. They’ve already had a good lead. Oh, it’s going to break out. Brusco forced off of this. He doesn’t have level four, so no final slash. That’s an easy turtle. I think they just disengage. Oh, but Onik might want to go for it though. Brusco, the snap time will be used onto him. And then now Lunar will be isolated on the back line, but so will be Bruce Go. He is the first to fall and Lunar will be next. But does Aurora still want to fight this now? It’s Rosash. He won’t be able to escape. So somehow Onyx might have equalized it in a way. I mean, at least they get two kills off of that. You know, it’s still a small lead for Aurora Gaming right now, but this is I guess that was a preview of what the lineup is capable of for Onic Philippines. Obviously, they’re going to need some more time. Also, when that fight before it broke out, the spear destruction from Kra came through, but it didn’t land, so he couldn’t join this fight. So, you know, essentially, you find yourself in this um but still relatively even because it’s a 4v4 and they just go for it. And it’s, you know, it it’s one of those lineups from On Philippines that needs time to literally cook here. But Rosa gets taken out, of course, from King Kong. And he’s got some a little bit of catching up to do. I’m not sure if he’s too far behind in terms of gold, but at least, you know, he’s about half a level or a level or so behind Tenzi right now. And Tenz is 3 and0 on this Lancot already. That’s huge for a Lancelot to get an early 30, which is why Onic PH, they might be respecting this right now. They’re playing somehow a little more careful, but now that they see Rosa isolated in the mid lane, they find a way to deal with him now. Going for Apex 47 next. These are three members of Onyx PH. But that’s the tsunami slab already committed onto Brusco. Tenzi also here, but they won’t be committing the fight just yet. Okay, King Kong wants to take this because as you can see, he’s two levels behind. So, go ahead and grabs that. Turtle’s going to be up in 10. So, Onyx, what they’re really looking for is just some of these pickoff potentials. They found him. They’ve pretty much dissipated the gold lead that Aurora had. Mid lane’s going to be put some pressure here. But this is what we’re going to see. Aurora Gaming goes back into position for the objective. This time around though, you still got both gold laners up on their own. This is going to be started up. Super Fence picking up that glowing wand. So now Rosa firing off from the back angle, but will be forced back. King Kong, even despite it all, will just jump on in. And this is the hard part for Tenzi. He’s got to find the right window. They start things off. Use the final slash, but then the turtle, it’ll still go into the hands of Aurora. Rosa also takes the kill on Rusco. King Kong somehow trades Apex 47, but Rosa with a double kill. Takes down Super Friends. And Kirk makes it just in time to find the kill. Big trade though. Aurora is going to get more. They’re going to get this mid turret off of that. Good thing for Kirk. At least he gets a kill. There’s a trade and an objective as well as Cow was able to push in that tier one up top. We’ll take a look at the instant replay again. This was a fight that was in favor of Aurora. TNZ goes in, especially with a full barrage laid down right there. It was a great fight position for them and they kind of separated on Philippines. literally got separated in this fight and they had to kind of be in that position of let’s go get something if we can though they’re trying to get something here in mid. Super friends seems like he’s having such a hard time. Rosa might actually go for it. Zig bomb nice placement but still it’s literally so difficult for Onyx Philippines to find an angle here. The biggest worry for Onyx Page at this point is it feels like they need a bit more time to set up for them to be able to use their skills. Similar to the appraiser’s wrath when they wanted to go for that objective. I mean, it was Brusco who started things off, but Aurora Gaming, they have much faster ways to respond to fight back and do it explosively, not the way Onyx PH kind of needs a bit more of like buffer or loading time. We’re going to They need a lot more buffering time. Also, they need to deal with Denz. He’s 6 and0 at this point. He’s been pretty much untouched and then he just picked up the brute force as well. You can see the lead, man, that he has on King Kong. You know, this is what I was worried about in the draft when you saw that Fred come through and then you see the Lancelot which has been picked up time and time again in our matches so far. And you get this kind of lead which all started from that early first blood. You get a lot of opportunities to go ahead and play the way you want in your jungle alongside the team here. Plus the fact that you have a Selena to help provide some division is, you know, phenomenal for them to work around with. So I expect this just to be their free turtle three for three. I think Onyx Philippines are just going to have to adjust and be like, “All right, how do we approach this first lord coming up?” Yeah, at least they have Keller, they have the Moscop so they can somehow deal with the macro gaming, they’re still going to go for it. That’s the flicker tunami slaming title strike already committed by Apex 47 immediately taking out kickoff. Rhino slash connects onto but still the damage coming in from Royal Gaming seems like it’s going to be enough. It’s a triple for gets taken out. Kra might be the saving grace but will he be able to do it? He’s up against two members and he won’t. What a play with such a good final slash but unfortunately for they weren’t able to win that fight. Great placements here from Aurora Gaming again. It was initiated by them. Look at the final slash that comes through even onto that full barrage. Great placement, but again, they were behind and Kra really wasn’t there that for that majority of that fight until the end here. And he really can’t go against a TNC. Look at him. He’s he’s 10 and1 on this Lancot. What is this KDA? How did it come? How did Has he found the right balance between aggression? Okay. So, out of the 14 kills, he hasn’t been part of two. No, three. Yeah, just three. The math is not mass, but you know, it’s it’s just how surprising the game is. Imagine this much of a lead between Tenzi and King call. That’s 3k around 3k between the Fredin and the Lancelot. And you know that if it is a Fredin jungle, then you basically are going to beat the utility. You just want to set things up for your teammates. But Keller, oh no. ABS 47 there to protect his teammate, there to protect Sigib. They have to reposition unless on PH still want to take on this fight. There is somehow still a lead between them and Aurora, but it feels like they desperately want to at least get something. Yeah, they it seems like Onic Philippines right now is kind of scrapping for whatever they can get. Uh that is a massive differential between the junglers right now. Tenzi, this is how confident he can be too that he just takes things from King Kong. So, you know, that’s tough to see if you especially if you’re in that position for King Kong right now and you’re down a couple levels. Wa! Super. Okay, at least the flicker was there, but that was a very close call. I mean, Super Prince was confident enough to not use the vengeance flame. Not like it could do much anyway, but still at least they still have or he still No, he actually used it. No, the vengeance flame, not the flicker. So now, how does Onyx PH deal with this? Kurt, will he try to look for a set of King Kong up front? Oh, they seem to be bursting Lunar down. Gets to switch targets though. Looks for super prince and the full barrage immediately canceled out. King Kong, however, he won’t be able to tank enough damage. Kirk also next on the chopping block. Double kill for TNZ. That’s enough members taken out from Onik PH. It’s only the KK connection left alone. Oh, Rosa. Rosa. Okay. Throws down an arrow, but not going to connect. They get everything that they wanted here. They’re also going to get this Lord. Time and time again in fight after fight on Phil just can’t get one in favor for them. Even if they take someone down, it’s just Lunar cuz Lunar is just jumping in front of five dudes. He survived. He’s jumping for the super fam. Yeah. And he’s like he’s Look at how long he he survived. He went in back again. Got a kill. He’s like, “Oh, hold on. I’ll come back.” And like that that ends up working out for them. And this is once again this lineup that Aurora Gaming has is just it’s working in synergy really really well. Yeah. So as they lead into this, this lord going to be pushing with them. This is going to be a tough one to defend I think even this early on. And imagine during that fight the full barrage was cancelled right away. So, they didn’t even get to feel the full duration of the full barrage just yet, but that was already the amount of damage and pressure that Aurora Gaming already showed them. There goes the full barrage again though. Toom is like, “Let me at least just go and use it on this wave so I can at least get a full.” And he even ended it. So, he’s like, “Nah.” Picks up the malefific gun. Soom in a great position this whole time. It’s so funny because this is one of those instances and maybe you know Ixia is just one of those heroes where it’s like yeah you’re kind of just the covering fire uh hero or or person on the team very similar to what we see with like Farses in terms of you know the magic damage burst but here is he’s 01 and 11 has massive assist because of the fact that yeah all he has to do is pretty much post up pop the full barrage and he’s okay he’s able to pump out damage he’s even got that sea halbert himself he did pick up a sky piercer so it’s Like if he is going to get a kill, it’s going to be just, you know, a oneoff because everybody’s low. What if he decides to use it late into the fight? Then that’s going to be a problem, too. Cuz either way, the sky piercer, if if it does get some stacks later on, though, it’s going to be a problem for Onyx PH. Even if they try to run away, the the lack of range is honestly getting to them. Yeah, they have no ways to deal with again Siggy Bomb. Even during the times where Brusco does find the final slash, does find the stun, who could you rely on to supply the follow-up damage to burst down these damage dealers from Aurora Gaming? Literally none. You got to rely on your fam. That’s why they’re the super fam. But right now, it’s not it’s not working out for them. And there’s been some good final slashes from Bers, but like you said and you know earlier on, we need plenty of time before anything to happen for Philippines if you really want to see them turn this fight around. I they have a massive gold deficit to worry about and work against. Maybe something can happen around the Lord, but most likely not because you’re a Fredan for King Kong. You know, it’s not like you’re going to be able to just kind of surprise them. Like Fredan literally walks up with his hand in his pocket. You’re not surprising anybody. So, there’s been some instances where it’s like, all right, well, what do they do? It’s either that final slash or Kirk. Kirk is the other option whenever that flicker is available to actually go in and, you know, flicker in earth shatter onward somebody. Okay, it looked like they wanted to make a play on. It’s an immediate counter engage from Aurora. It’s not that Onyx was even able to find the right engage. King Kong the first pick off. They look for Super Prince next and Rosa catches up to him. Now that you take out the jungler, what else is there to worry about? But nonetheless, Yenzi might still try to go for the fight. Abyssal Trap does not connect to Kellra, but they might actually try to go for it here. These arrows are crazy. They’ve been on point from Rosa. It almost seems like on Philippines just walking into them. And they hold they try to hold on the best they can. They’ll lose the top turret, mid turret, and Aurora will just make their way to this lord here. Kirk’s going to try to give them some vision. You still got a couple seconds for the rest of the team to be up, but they might be a little bit too late. If they try to actually make this happen, it would be an absolute miracle. Almost 10,000 gold behind if they actually contest this. But it looks like that’s not going to happen. But they fight anyway. Aurora still decide to fight this. The abyssal arrow doesn’t connect onto anyone. Kick though does the primal wrath. But this might be the opening for Onyx. PH so already committed. Lunar will be the target, but Sigbone gets to use the full barrage and takes down two members. Rosa Rosa also finds the kill onto Keller. And this is looking bad for Onyx PH. It’s a maniac for Sigboom. They finally find a way to deal with the super fam. And Aurora Gaming will take game one in this best of three, a dominant one against the super fan. Oh my god. Is that what we expected? That was a brilliant draft. You see just how familiar they are. Yep. I cannot believe the surprises. I knew it. They just keep coming. It’s one thing to have one maniac. is another to have two and against on Philippines. But here’s the thing, there is a lot to talk about and we have to talk about number one, what is with the tempo here at MSC? It almost feels like the moment you get into games, someone’s going to die. And in this one, it was it was an Philippines. They received the first blood and then after that, I would say the good thing about Aurora Gaming is that with the draft and with their their play style, they can fight at any time. But it looks like onic Philippines. They’re waiting for their time. And this is something that I I I told my sister. Waiting sucks. Waiting sucks. Waiting sucks. Waiting. Yeah, waiting. Waiting. But like Okay. But like from behind, right? How else are they supposed to deal with it though? Just wait faster. Just wait. Just wait more. Yeah. Ju just wait faster, you know? Like do that but faster. You know when you can you know when you can like skip the waiting? Yeah. I wish that applied in real life. Oh yeah. You know, speed it up. Oh yeah. Just just just get here and just start do do your own thing. Now here’s the thing. Honestly, looking at that game, there is a lot that we can talk about because even you guys during the draft were surprised because you thought there would be more damage coming in from an Philippines. Considering the players that they had, it just looked like a bit of a mismatch between the play style Mhm. and the heroes. I think it really started under minute one, right? And that’s I don’t want to say the case when you are a hyperal if you go down early on you know like Aurora is going to be that team that punishes that and doesn’t let up at all and that’s exactly what they did here. So, you know, they had that from the get- go. They were able to go ahead and just find moment after moment in all these windows. And I really feel like, you know, you mentioned it ll on Philippines just didn’t have that damage profile available for them because even when we saw some great final slashes, that was clearly apparent. It’s a 1306 for TNZ. That’s crazy. And the I felt like the killing spree was just unlimited in that. He could have gotten a savage, by the way. Yeah. Imagine that. And it it felt so hard for Onik PH because even the ways they could do to start a fight rely on Kirk or Bruce Co. They’re not the kind of front liners who can just stand in front and tank the damage. They have to do something. And when they can’t do that something, what now? Like what’s next? Nicely. You know how we’ve been casting for a while and every single time we go into game there’s like graphics show, oh they’re here. I feel like for MSE we should stop that cuz it looks like the 10second mark something happened cuz in my head why was on that far ahead? Well, it was super friends. Yeah. Like what what what happened? Like were they baited? Was the super low so they you know had to move forward. Like what happened? There’s so many questions and everything’s just covered for like we legit just don’t know. I Yeah. You know, it’s always good to get a little closeup and stuff, but sometimes I I guess the way the teams are playing right now, they’re like, “This is our moment. This is our moment.” When they can’t see us, make something happen. This is where we shine. Cuz you’re a Valer, so you would assume you could just like keep throwing out those. You don’t have to be that far ahead. But yeah, that’s it’s hard to do when you don’t know what happened. But here’s the thing, looking at TNZ, rich guy as well as the carry, Lunar took a lot of damage and Apex 47, I got to say, like I feel like Kalia is not a hot commodity. Like everyone wants the Kalia now. Yeah, the the Kala has been great, man. I mean, it’s still serving the purpose of, you know, initiations, pick off potential. Um, you get that little bit of sustainability, too. And I feel like she’s just also a pretty good like uh brawler. Like, she can go ahead and hold her own. Yeah. And plus the concussive blast, usually it’s it’s it’s great there. But yeah, um Tenz, what a what a performance on the landslap. I think that was what I was most afraid of when I saw the um Ka picked up and Onyx still deciding to reveal the Arlot Fredin. I mean, it’s you still can find a way to work around those two heroes. Those are still two very um um difficult front liner setup heroes to deal with. But the KA in that case paired up with other pickoff ccentric mid laners and heroes like the Lancelot. It just felt like they were free enough to do their thing. They just had to focus on one player at a time and they didn’t have to worry about much unlike Onik Philippines in that game. Now here’s the thing. After that game, I have just a bit of a hot take which is presented by Alhabib Medical Group Doctor’s Note. And the hot take for this one damage is kind of good. If only if only your draft has damage because look at this. What a perfect final slash. Look at this setup. Everyone is there. If only they had damage. If only if only they had damage. Cuz here’s the thing. I would say every single meta the number changes, the equation changes. Personally for me, I feel like this time having three damage profiles is great. One is super bad. Yeah. Because the moment that one person is gone, no one else can do anything. Yeah. Two is also already questionable because three is better than two. So one chase here, one chase there, the other one just do whatever he wants. Good math, right? So thank you very much. Uh I don’t know. That’s that’s my hot take. Damage is kind of good. So maybe when you draft, get damage. Get damage. So although to be fair, Super Prince did damage. I know. I know. But it’s just not it’s not cool. It’s it’s hot. It’s actually hot. It’s hot damage. So people might be okay with more triple marksman lineups now. Yeah. I mean it works. That’s true. Does it not work? I feel like it has a positive win rate. So just more damage. And the other hot take is that have a draft that you can fight at any time, right? Cuz waiting sucks. So don’t wait. Don’t wait for it. Just just go for it. Just go for it. I think I don’t know if this was also just cuz I feel like we’ve seen this even yesterday. Yeah, we saw some game ones for a lot of the teams, especially the teams that you think are automatic to maybe have the upper hand or so to kind of just get the feel for things and like test themselves maybe even to the sense of their draft as a test because I feel like Philippines wanted to go with something here, but then that last like that second phase, they kind of really responded to what Aurora Gaming did and that’s why I said the the especially the last or the second to last pick, the taking the Selena was also a great choice because it just felt like a lot of those arrows were just a nuisance. Plus the traps, you know, to deal with. Uh was a nuisance for Onyx Philippines. And you know, they just put themselves in a in a position where it’s like, “All right, well, we’re just going to go for this. Hopefully, it works. Hopefully, we have enough damage.” But like you said, Lal, they didn’t. Yeah. And looking at this game, I kind of feel like everywhere, no matter where you are all around the world, you’re like, “Yo, now this now this is a game.” That’s why this is our match of the day. But here’s the thing. Aurora Gaming, they’ve been in MLBB history for quite a long time. The players, they’ve been here all this while. But in case you guys don’t know, let’s actually check out the road to EWC for Aurora Gaming. My expectations for Aurora isn’t for placement, but it’s simple. Really crazy picks, surprising drafts that might just make the teams reconsider how they understand the meta. [Music] I like that balance because they say sometimes they do get over high but Lunar is the one that actually pulls them back is like guys calm down we can’t make a mistake at this point and they said you know be a little bit afraid of Kenzie I think I think I think we’re afraid just just a bit I I think I think he goes with the he goes with the hot take damage was good he had the damage Yeah, Tenzi was after that performance of the Lance Ham just automatically expect Philippines to go with the uh jungle assassins. Assassins, right? Um I think um maybe if we do pull up the comments, people would be wanting to see that too. This is just me assuming knowing like how the comments usually go. But yeah, because it felt like a less aggressive Oni PH when in fact we know them to be that kind. of course led by Brusco and Super Friends, which I feel like might be why they were that far in the early stages of the game. But they have to probably like be a little more um aware. They have to take a bit more consideration of what heroes they have and what heroes the opposing team has because in that scenario, the Lancelot was someone who could quickly catch up to the mid lane fights. And the thing is, I don’t think they will, you know, use that kind of drive again. But again, just to remind you guys back at home, make sure you guys slay a lot of lords because there’s a lot for you guys to get in this Allstar Dino patch where the lord change, the the buff change, heck, even the little wander. So, make sure you guys actually kill a lot of lords cuz hey, that’s part of the quest to make sure that you guys can get the new pop and koopa skin. Now, again, back to my point, I don’t think they’ll be going that kind of route again. Like I feel like if they still want uh utility in the jungle, I kind of feel like super fans hero will change. That is probably the best case scenario because I think even then like uh if we talked about the gold lane like Kra on the Masov would have been fine. I think he just didn’t have enough time to catch up from the massive gold lead that was built up. You know, that was kind of the main thing here. So yeah, I think mid lane really needs to change, you know, and we’ll see if we end up seeing that from Super Friends. Again, his hero pool is quite extensive. So maybe dig deeper than wherever Valier stands like where on the list that is cuz earlier like majority of the picks or the mid lane go to picks were already gone but like there could have been probably something else to complement the Arlot even if it weren’t like burst burst damage but like yeah there’s like a Valentino a different form of you know I’ll take an Aurora. Hey, speaking of which, we jump into the draft. On the Philippines are still going to be first pick. Aurora will be the second pick. Looks like they’re still batting out the uh Boxy as well as Uranus and Master the Basics here. Batting out the Ye and Shin as well as the one teams just really like the blue side. Like which one is blue again? The left side. Which one’s left? All right. On the first pick. First pick. Can’t say that, man. First pick. Yeah. No, I always I always forget with colors, man. Yeah, it’s it’s it’s difficult being honest. But yeah, honestly looking looking at how they play, I really feel like just just make sure that they’re able to carry because looking at the damage profile just now, Super Fins did a lot of damage. Like he really did a lot of damage. It’s just that there’s no finisher. I kind of feel like that’s the best way to describe that previous match. They’re hoping for Kelra to be the finisher, but like you said, he just didn’t have enough time. He just didn’t wait fast enough. or even if he did get to land the SODS, I guess, or decide to go in the fight, that might not be the best decision considering the amount of pressure that’s inside of Aurora. So now again, the first pick, Kalea, returns and I feel like is a better option indeed for PH this time around. This is like a Brusco special. Mhm. Well, I mean, even even when KA was kind of a little bit too strong. She was a little overpowered, you know, like Brisco still does a really good job with the Klaya. You can see the response though right away. Gaming. This is interesting. Yeah, the Fius and Selena. I’m just worried if Philippines get that fara. That’s kind of good having Kia and Farsa in the same side, but only if you know what are the chances they pick up a far. I it can. I think if it’s super friends, it might. Yeah, I mean like crazy hot take. Fa is kind of strong. Hot take. The damage is kind of good. Hot take. Farsa. Farsa comes through. If if that’s the case, um you can do that or maybe they play uh far landlap. Yeah, that’s a lot of damage. So if that is the case, but that they go grand. That’s still Yeah, it’s still burst. That’s burst and they go landslap. So this is uh King Kong basically say saying, “Hey, Yanzi, let me show you.” Hey, and then be like, “Hey, no, let me use the bridge.” I don’t know. Maybe the Haya, what do they do? What do they trade that out? Or if they don’t want to reveal much, double down on their other damage source. I mean, the is still there, too. So, I feel like it could be a great answer considering the matchup, the mobility that it can have, although it still doesn’t change the fact that the Lancelot is a Lancelot or just go back to Exy. I don’t know. Oh, like I feel like this third pick coming in from Aurora is going to be very important. And they pick up that. All right. I just want to remind everyone, you want Holy shield. Holy shield. You should be afraid of WWO. Yeah, you should be afraid of him. This guy This guy is a bit different. Oh, the mechanics from game one and game um I didn’t expect the first Fanny that we saw. Yeah. To be from TZ. Here’s the thing. This is what I heard. Like, yes, the energy is a big problem. Yep. But if you have a strategy where you just want to focus on one lane, doesn’t matter gold or exp, the Fanny knows immediately where to go to, the damage is still pretty good. Still very bursty. What’s the strategy here for Fanny from in your mind? Uh if if Kirk has a very very killable hero, keep getting uh keep ganking the exp. Seems like a solid plan. Hey, you just need my nuggets of information. It will work out. It will work out. Just just keep ganking the exp. There should literally be a thing within uh myug my nugget of knowledge. Yeah, ll’s nuggets of knowledge. Sponsor me, please. Every now and then, every now and then I need nuggets. Betting on the badang. This is a pretty good good band because again, I kind of feel like Badang is an amazing playmaker where even if the game looks bad, he will always find ways to turn things around and it uh deals with the Fanny really well. So, I feel like they could be taking out heroes could which could deal with the Fanny. I mean, the Arlot, the Akai, they’re still there. Not entirely sure if they’ve been practicing these heroes, though. But they instead let go of the CC. I was thinking they’d be okay with these kinds of heroes in the exp lane. Maybe there’s just too many cables, you know, panning with the cables and then the yo-yos. They’ll get confused. Get wrapped. Did you get wrapped? Wait. Like, logically, this doesn’t work. So, take it out. Oh, and again, it kind of is a good match up against the Phobia. So, maybe that’s why maybe that’s the real reason, but I prefer my previous reason. Yeah, they just don’t want to get confused. Either uh either works, you know, but they so the last band from Onic Philippines is going to be the Cho. They take that out, this is going to be the response from Nora. I think even for Onic Philippines, if they decide to I don’t know, maybe go with the Akai in the XP lane. I mean, we’ve seen that quite a bit even back for for example for MWI. Um maybe they could go ahead and bring that out for this game number two to also kind of help with dealing with some of that pressure from the Fanny. But really uh there’s a couple options they can still go with here for Aurora on the other hand. Are we going to see them pick up their gold laner right now? Yeah, I all of the gold laners are actually open to this point. So depends on whichever they want. And they go for the Moscow. Uh, I mean, again, probably just thinking that I’m going to get ganked if I’m able to peel for myself and have the option to actually pick up the purify might be good because I think that’s that’s one of the things where we don’t see too many different gold laners is that not every gold laner can survive with the purify. What if Kirk likes the Hilda, right? Oh, that’s pretty good. And there’s a Fanny on the uh opposing side. If you want to just keep rotating out of your lane, maybe that can be an option. But if they want a bit more of crowd control. [Music] Oh, all right. Kad as well as Edith. I mean, like this is one of his signature. So, probably just going based off comfort. And he felt like I wasn’t the reason we lost. So, you know. Hey, that’s a lot more damage that you were looking for. You You beat me to it. Hey, big damn. I know you. I know you so well. Now, Aurora, the last pick here for their ROR cuz they I feel like the Selena will be able to deal with the Kadita just by knowing where the Kadita is going to come from. But you need someone to kind of like help heal for your backline or just catch. So, they pick up the Hilda. Okay. Do does she technically catch? No, but we might see the same thing where while we’re looking at graphics, someone dies, dude. Hilda and Selena and the Fanny can just cable in and then get a kill. Like, we might see a repeat of what happened in game number one. But with that being said, I like that this time there’s a lot of damage. And when we’re talk about damage, we got to talk about Niso. So now, it’s your turn. Thank you so much, Lel once again, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the English broadcast here. It’s game number two in this best of three where Aurora Gaming already took game one pretty decisively against Onik Philippines. Bria, who you who you signing here real quick with the draft. I I there’s something about No, I know there’s something about Kadita. Kadita and I love it when I see a Kadita. Like I miss seeing Kadita. I know before it used to be in the Rome even like every now and then you see the Karas but now that we’re seeing it in Super Friend’s hands. I’m sensing a much aggressive start supposedly hopefully for Onyx PH going up against Aurora but just the same Apex 47. Even if we we’re not seeing the whole picture just yet. Look at where he is right now. Look at where he decides to show himself up. But Tinzy, he has something in mind. He actually tries to go for Brusco. Forces out the flicker in less than a minute. Early aggression is really what we’re seeing from Aurora Gaming now even in game two. So they got a battle battle spell out. They get that flicker out from Bruce. So that’s something. You know, Kirk little stutter step in there, but I don’t think he’s going to be able to do much mid lane though. This is the thing. Can they actually go ahead and get an early start themselves for Philippines? Um especially like you mentioned with a Kadita. That’s going to be great. He already had to burn the petrify though it looked like. So they weren’t able to actually convert um a kill here. You can see a whole lot of killing springs of course a whole lot of assassin emblems um for them. Pull yourselves together as well. And a little bit of the festival of bloods for Onyx Philippines trying to extend some of those fights. And meanwhile on the other side you see Aurora Gaming, they just want to go for these kills. Lethal ignitions here. Lunar is going to do the same exact thing that he did in game one. like he is the guy, the sandbag to go ahead and tank up as much damage as possible. Well, Apex 47 just uh does what Hilda does best and she’s an annoyance to pretty much everybody. Yeah, you’re seeing how Rosa and Apex 47 really want to, you know, rotate faster along the map, which is pretty surprising for the uh Hilda and Selena in the mid lane. So, that’s pretty much how they’re planning to play things out. I mean, I’m still not over the fact that Tenzi decided to wait there and try to get Brusco as first blood, but Onyx PH they might secure the first objective of the game. Tenz is nowhere near to contest for that objective. Although they had some information though, so they might be trading it out for other things instead. But that other thing, could it be a kill onto King Kong? Tries to steal away the purple buff, but doesn’t succeed in doing so. Okay, that was a good attempt, you know, from TNZ. He had the information like you mentioned earlier, Bria, but um couldn’t take the buff away. So, Tenzi at at this point, especially as he gets his orange, is probably going to start to look for that first kill, that first co pressure if they can. Counter gets the information here and you can see Onyx Philippines rotating down to keep him. Okay, spear’s going to be used. Just go ahead and spot them out, but not going to follow through. You can look at top lane, too. Tanzi’s been up there for a while, but it’s not your ideal character to go to go for. You don’t want to go for the the Edith because of once again you can just kind of pop that crumb wrath and be okay. I mean Lapel did say that though. You did like if you want if you want you can try to go for the Eith but again since there’s a lot of crowd control in Onyx PH. They’re rotating relatively fast too. That might not be the best option. They disrupt TNZ in his attempt to secure the orange buff. Rosa’s Abyssal Arrow connects onto Super Friends but they’re not able to fight just yet. This is a much more careful approach we’re seeing from Aurora Gaming so far now that they probably see Onyx is literally starting to fight back. This is interesting because I feel like this is Oh, never mind. A Rosa is gone. Rough waves. Not even a petrify needed from Super Friend. So, I was I was just about to say it it was a killless game so far, you know, 3 and 1/2 minutes in, but on Philippines made it happen finally. They they have to be really calculated I feel like with this lineup too on the pick off potential that they’re going to go for. So this might be the play from Aurora. Oh, they catch Keller down bottom. Is there a way to get out of this? There’s the flicker. Somehow finds a kill onto AP47 still. I was surprised he was. But again, this is the guy in lane. That was Hey, that was about the best you could hope for in that situation. A 1v3. So it is going to convert also to a turret for Aurora Gaming. But uh again you have to you have to find something and for Aurora that’s the decision they made. It did go in the right hands too. TNZ picked up the kill. So now this might be where we see some of the pendulum try to swing in favor of Aurora Gaming. Now I feel like the decision is to always go for the gold lane. But look at the title strike. Tsunami slam denying TNZ of the pickoff. Sig bomb will be trying to escape and successfully will do so. Great attempt however from Aurora Gaming, but you see just how alert Busco is. He has to protect his gold laner this time. Brusco is so good at just protecting pretty much everybody, but especially there for Kel. Rosa getting pretty close here. Oh, there wasn’t a there wasn’t a flicker for Rosa though. And there was a petrify from Super Friend. Probably wanted to save it for later, but that could have been a pickoff. Yeah, and that’s okay. Uh, again, you know, their Aurora Gaming seems to be going and just focusing on the macro for now. Uh, really focusing on down and if if they can get some of these objectives because you sort of have to be, like I said, very decisive on the fights you choose here. You can see this might be a moment for Arctilines to start putting some pressure on their side of the jungle, but still they want to do it with caution. Um, as Aurora has been doing pretty good at just farming up, you know, they’re not they’re not too far behind or anything like that at all. What is Apex47 trying to do too? He is the vision. He is the visionaire right here. He’s literally not letting go of wherever King Kong is trying to go full fully aware of whatever patterns they’re trying to do. But does Aurora Gaming know that the plan is to actually attempt and go for the mid lane? Oh, the title strike was somehow denied by the dark wave from Lunar there, but Apex 47, he’s still holding this spot. Yeah, he’s not letting go of that area of the map. So, he cut that wave. They dealt with that and they might get a little bit of pressure. Oh, won’t be even able to use the SOD. Tenzi tries to catch up, but I don’t think there will be a fight breaking out anytime soon here in the top lane. There is an upcoming objective, so that’s probably what they have to pay attention to. But uh speaking of paying attention, Apex 47, this is why I was saying earlier like Hilda is just a nuisance to everybody because this is what this is what Oh. Oh, now he he gets to deal with him. All right, we see King Kong actually find the kill onto Apex 47. This time though, Tenzi also finds the kill onto Kurt. Bruce barely making it out alive. The Abyssal Arrow also won’t make it. Rough waves already committed there by Super Fris, but Keller with the sky piercer stacks will be the one getting the kill onto Lunar. King Kong. Okay, disengage for Aurora Gaming. All right, they’re going to disengage. The turtles up here on Philippines might decide to go ahead and start it up. They did lose Kirk earlier on. So, he’s back up as well as Brusco making his way to this fight. So, they might secure themselves this objective, but Aurora and Gaming, they’ll go ahead and focus on getting TNZ his buffs that he needs and maybe just give this up. Apex will give them information. What? What? Okay. What a steal. So, the the the turtle still goes to Aurora Gaming nonetheless. And uh PH will just attempt to take the mid lane, but it’s a successful defense for Aurora Gaming. Oh, Apex 47 tries to Kelra. Tenzi makes it cut out already, but he gets denied with that title strike. Once again, Kelra is protected by none other than Brusco. Brusco is the man right now. Just he’s got to be mentally high-fiving Kelro or Kelro’s got to be doing that because time and time again he’s there to go ahead and save him and that’s the way I guess you deal with a Fanny. Hey, if they’re going to go for a gold lane, you know what? We’ll just go ahead and tsunami slam him down. Oh, that’s a lot of crowd control. Will Lunar still be able to make it out of it? It is going to be a miracle if he does and he won’t. Rosa could be the next target, but they’re going to play it safe. Super Prince has the petrify after all. Will still decide to go for it. Keller now trying to take down Apex 47. He’s been such a nuisance and now he’s finding it hard to deal with everyone all at once. Onic Philippines will get them the turret. Meanwhile, Aurora Gaming still working on the rest of uh the map here. They’re not falling too far behind with everything that’s happened in the last minute or so. You know, they still keep it relatively even. They’re about a,000 gold behind at this point. And I would say even when this Lord does come up, we could potentially see them actually try to contest it. Now the biggest part is once again avoiding super Frince, avoiding that initial burst of damage, making sure that you don’t get picked off from Bruce cuz he’s been online and then the male is picked off now for Kel as they go and put pressure on this purple buff and you know Tanzi is going to be fine from that. Fortunately, he’s still able to get it, especially as there there is an upcoming objective down bottom. But I feel like this is going to be the problem now for Aurora Gaming. This is why we see Sigm and TNZ majority of the time just on the opposite sides of the map. They’re trying to deal with things right now through macro since on PH, it seems like they’re grouping up most of the time. So, they might be struggling to actually pull off whatever they intend to do. Now Apex 47 seems like the target for King Kong Phantom Execution. Everything is used onto Apex 47. A pickoff Bionic right before the objective. It might be time for Apex Luna to be a little more careful. And could that be applicable to Lunar as well? Oh, somehow dodges the combo from Super and sustains everything with the infernal pursuit. Will Rosa catch up and deal enough damage? Also, will Sigo decide to join as well? It’s a no for now. Aurora Gaming have already lost two members. They lost the two. And yeah, maybe for Lunar, he’s got to be a little more careful now because this Lord is for the taking. Take note of the positioning here though for Aurora Gaming as they go ahead and go for it. TNT’s not going to be that getting there in time. A little bit too late towards that. So Lord security here for Onicines. Great position for them to march march towards the base of Aurora. We’ll see how they kind of respond to this. Again, we really haven’t seen Sig Boom even be part of this a major fight just yet to utilize this Moscow here. So, um that could change. Kra is going to be uh be able to pick up a little bit more defensiveness. He gets a wind of nature now. So, an extra layer of uh protection and instead of just relying on Brusco here. As we take a look at the items, you can see uh as well, Sigum is in fighting uh form. Yeah, they actually want to try to go ahead and keep this together at the tier two. I don’t think they want to do that. Lunar jumps in though. Oh, he still decides to go in. Even 47 also from behind. And the infernal pursuits, they just keep coming. Sigimon also decides to join the fight. And it seems like they already have enough damage. Thoroy somehow denies of his attempt. So, he decides to dash away, but they still get three members from Onik PH. Hey, great fight. They actually made it happen. Defending under the tier two in the mid lane. They’ll go deal with the Lord that’s up in the bottom side. And they got three off of that. So it does slow down on a Philippines on that push. The lord is cleared and they hold on to the base shields. Yeah, they hold on to the holy shields. The holy shields. So somehow Aurora Gaming, despite everything that’s happened in the past few minutes, seem like they’re still brave enough to risk a fight, especially if they have the right resources to do so. I I think now if they have Sigum able to join them as well because we see how things were a little different now that Aurora Gaming they’ve already completed the Trinity build for Sigibum. He already has the enough amount of damage the uh Wii wind of nature as well is already picked up. So things could be a little different. Oh, but there’s the onward. Earth Shadow wasn’t committed though. Lunar gets isolated. However, might be the pickoff for Onyx PH now. Dark wave already committed, but Super Prince ah once again nearly dodges the combo. Won’t have enough sur won’t have enough time to survive though. The sky piercer stacks on Kellra. They’re starting to balloon. Yeah, they are. Tenz is going to go ahead and just try to get this as quickly as possible. Gets a couple hits away. Not sure if that Okay, the canon does get that tier 2 turret. Might go for a kill. And Kirk will There’s no primal wrath, but would that still be the right decision? He will no longer decide to engage. Oh, I thought Cal was going to say he does that. It was a little bit late, but I was like, man, one shot in that bush. Could have been very, very close for TNZ here. Clearly not the uh best situation for a Fanny though. I mean, there was a clear attempt from the very beginning that they wanted to play this very aggressively, but I think a lot of this uh would be because of Bruce Skull. Like the way the uh pickoffs are just constantly denied. I feel like even for Rosa, it’s not the exact same Selena game where he just keeps going in and trying to look for the pickoffs. So, it’s just the macro they’re trying to deal with clearly for now. But hold on on the bottom lane. Apex 47 and Sigong trying to take down King Kong. That was close. The SOD doesn’t land, but they brought him below half HP. There is a whole lot that could happen there if it was converted to a kill, but ultimately Onic Philippines will go ahead and start up this lord as they center around it. Tenz is going to go grab his purple buff. And this is just going to be the objective going in the hands of Onic Philippines. Still, you got to go ahead and say Aurora Gaming is trying, they have been doing this the entire game to push these off lanes and try to get what they can. They’ve gotten turrets through that. Tenz, that’s his job right now. Even got a little bit of hits there on the top turret of Onic Philippines in the base. But now they’ll have to prep up for this Lord push. TZ is still going to go ahead and put pressure on those lanes. Apex 47 is just around the corner for this, but I think ultimately you all want to go back to the base to get ready to defend against that Lord because we can most likely see that this is going to be a forced fight here. Apex 47 might just walk up from the back all the way from the bottom lane. It looks like they’re going to do just that. And TZ, okay, I guess they just rely on, hey, we can actually defend this ourselves. Yeah, they put enough trust in Sig Boom and the rest of the members. Oh, are they going to punish King Kong? Tenzi is going to push it. Darkly doesn’t connect. And Tenz clearly has a different plan in mind. And Apex 47 might be the one stopping everyone else from just being able to return back to their base. But the damage coming in from King Kong is too much to handle. Now at least Kirk gets to recall and defend that bottom lane turret. Again, you got to put respect here for Aurora Gaming on the fact that they are playing this at just the macro level because of the lineup that they have. This team composition allows them to do this. But how long will it continue to work? Mid lane might see some action here. Brush too being spotted out. But King Kong will try to keep them at bay right now. taking some of these buffs. Buff’s going to be taken next here. And you know, you you got to take a look too. There’s some immortalities that come into play now for Our Gaming. So, we’ve already seen that preview of earlier on when Sig Sigoom was actually able to get in position to fight. The damage is there. And you see his last item, he did pick up the maleific gun. He’s got a little bit extra range now to work with. Kro goes a little bit more defensively. Picks up the rose gold. So, he’s got that now. And this is going to be interesting because even though on Philippines is ahead by, you know, 4,000 gold, it could still be a really even fight out. Yeah. I think the toughest part though for Aurora Gaming is the way Tenzee can’t get his hands on his purple buff anymore. Mhm. And we know how important that is for a Fanny, which is why now it’s probably there’s no other choice than to just literally manage the sides for TNZ because it’ll be very risky if they decide to go on and engage a fight against Onyx Philippines with the limited resources that they have. Although, yes, there is a significant gold lead. I think we’re nearing the point where it might not just matter anymore because majority of the uh heroes, majority of the players have already secured all of their items already. I think we’ve seen a couple already complete their item builds and those are mostly in terms of the damage dealers. Both gold and jungle heroes have already completed their builds already at this point. Yeah, mid lane if they get there will help a little bit, but this lord is up on Philippines go ahead and start it up. I’m not sure if Aurora Gaming is actually going to be able to get in fast enough for this as King Kong secures it. Destruction going to be thrown out, but no follow through. So, Aurora Gaming will find themselves once again in a position here, Brigetta, to just defend. And you know, they’ve held out for quite some time, I would say. But on Philippines, I think on this one might want to go ahead and at least get all the base turrets down potentially ending the game if they can. Little extra damage here. The Starium now picked up for Kirk, too. So, they’re going to be trying to make a play here. Yeah, they have to close out this game as soon as possible if they really wanted to. Oh, Genz goes back. Might not be able to look for a lane that they can really manage, however, because Onyx PH, they’ve learned their lesson. They’re dealing with all the waves all at once. Let’s see how they handle this. The lord is in the base and they’ve done enough cutting of the waves too to kind of handle it. Brusco’s going to jump in. Mid turret’s going to go down. Gaming hold it out. Nice flicker. The abyssal arrow lands onto as well. Could this potentially be the turn around? Apex 47 still has the immortality and now Aurora Gaming are taking down the members of Philippines one by one. Rosa, will he be able to catch up to Kelra? Kra just dancing in front of three members of Aurora Gaming. This will jump and so will the dark wave. How is he able to dance around everyone like this? But he’s finally taken down by TNZ. And that’s three members from Onyx deleted in an instant. And they waited more in Aurora Gaming. I’ll have a defense even though they lost all their base turrets. What an arrow. Ah, King Kong will try his best to get out of this, but Tenzi just needs one hit. He won’t fire that one hit. He didn’t have enough energy to go a little bit further, but Aurora gaming off of that will go ahead and get a turret down in the mid. So close. Could have been quite devastating for Onic Philippines if that happened. But what they’ve done is they’ve waited a little bit longer and even more. and Aurora Gaming has might have gotten themselves in position to actually contest the next objective that comes up. This lord, this was a great defense. Apex 47 staying continuously in the jungle on the back side is what also allowed there to be that pressure to force some of this positioning that we see from Monic Philippines. I mean, again, there’s not there’s only so much Kro can do here on this Granger. Yeah, he was he was basically dancing on the Granger. He can only shoot one way. Oh, but now they find Apex 47. Do they have enough damage? And they get to burst him down. Lunar next as well. Two front liners for Aurora in danger. Still goes in with the infernal pursuits, but that just converts into additional sky piercer stacks. All right, Lunar, you got to remind yourself and them to just calm down. Oh, the thorn catches the thorn queen. And now that’s three members of Aurora Gaming down. They might not even look for the lore. Tenzi doing his best to try and manage the wave and potentially even look for a pickoff. But the wind of nature was already forced out of Sigum. Keller might just take down Sigibu right now. He still has immortality. But look at that. It was just a single phantom execution. And after 20 minutes in this game, Onyx equalized the series. Took him a little bit longer, but Onyx Philippines will make it happen in game two. Once again, phenomenal game there from Brusco to be able to catch Tenzi half the time and keep Kelra alive the other half of the time. So great game two and now we got a game three ahead of us. That was a banger of a game because here’s the thing, man. It’s beautiful to watch when okay, plan A doesn’t work. You got plan B is is both Tenzi as well as Sigum making sure the side lanes are looking good. And there were there were times where even Apex 47, he was the one that actually cut the ways to make sure that a push could not happen. I got to say this is very impressive coming in from Aurora Gaming cuz even though they lost, they made a lot of amazing plays that could really transfer into a win. Like I feel like when you guys were were were camping like if only this happened, if only more energy, if only this hit, if only that hit. A lot of things there. There’s so many whatifs in this game. Yeah. But majority of the whatifs, they were really on TNZ, on the Fanny. I feel like from the uh very beginning of the game, there was that attempt to go for the first blood, right? He he stood there. It wasn’t an immediate transition to the next buff whatsoever in terms of his farming power. He literally wanted to look for a kill. And it looked okay. It looked like it was going good. Not until PH kept denying him of the purple buff as well. So it it seemed like he was just left with no choice when we entered the latter portions of the game. I think that was a major point too. You know, Apex 47 a lot of times was providing the information that he had to. That’s what Hilda does great at, but also the decision for Onyx Philippines at some points to just go ahead and take the uh the purple buffs or what have you from Aurora Gaming really played its part in the bigger picture of the game. Yeah, it took him a little bit longer, but ultimately everything compounded for them to get the win. Let me just say watching a Lanclot the previous two games reminds me of the debut of Lanclot the moment that he got released he was oneshotting people with the TROS and that’s what we saw in the late game only before this it was worse because he did it with no items. Lancelot when he was first released was too much. I mean like now he looks good but at least you know full items. It’s fair. It’s much more fair. I really feel like Kalia and Lanclaw are the hero that you really got to watch out for because you guys were were talking about it. This was the previous one, but don’t forget about that. Yeah, that’s a game one right there. Imagine Kalia, right? If the Kalia was not there, how much could Tienz actually got in that game? Is Kalia the best way to handle a Fanny now? I think I’ve seen that ever ever since she was first released cuz even in my head I forgot about this but like dude the opponent has a Kalia. Why are you picking out Fanny? Yeah, that’s actually true. It’s so easy to catch a Fanny with a Kala. Mhm. Cuz like even during times where Kala was first played in professional play and the Fanny 2 was a go-to ban, teams would just let go of the Fanny because they will be picking the Kalya either way. So I feel like uh that was something I wasn’t able to completely realize as well. But then again, um, it denied a lot of the attempts. It made Rosa, it made Tenz think twice about going in a lot of the times just because even those clutch title strikes literally saved their damage dealers a lot of times. So, Kala Kam, there’s something about this hero for today. Kind of strong. Kind of strong. Kind of strong. So, it’s definitely something that you got to watch out for because we definitely see the uh the pattern here in MSC where the the the the spotlight is really on those junglers because the junglers in this patch really does a lot of damage especially on those landslots and Kalia is one of the best counters for those kind of heroes and maybe that’s why we also starting to see all this Hildas because Hilda is also a way to deal with the assassins. The only thing is the times change, people change in the early game. man-to-man defense. Wherever the Lanclaw goes, follow. If he needs water, give him water. Right. And this changed, too, because there was no early kill. There was no early kill. Yeah. Maybe they just needed that. Maybe they should have just been more aggressive in the early game. I feel like they tried. Yeah, they tried. They tried. This couldn’t happen. Couldn’t happen. They heard what we were talking about. But, you know, I think I’m wondering if we get to a a phase through MSE here where the Lanclot is starting to be banned out. like from a lot of teams cuz they’re just like or is it always just going to be one of those open options and the team that decides to take him gets that kind of I feel like he is an advantage in a way. Uh this is from the previous game as well. Yeah, I kind of feel like Lancelot is just in a sense he does a lot what the meta needs right now. He’s good for turtle, especially turtle 2 as well as turtle 3 because of that dawn rose unless an sod comes in and you’re just like there’s no there’s no way there’s no way a mosaic can steal this turtle. But other than that other than that the lanclot can do work and and also we have a lot of good gold laners gold leaders in in MSE right now. So any kind of assassin that’s able to go to the backlines then that’s the kind of hero that you want. And I kind of feel like everyone wants something like a ling and etc etc. But they take too long. Lancelot he doesn’t. Yeah. At any point he can just go for it. And when we saw the Lancelot get his full build like the B O the full damage. You saw how he was able to deal with even the Hilda even Apex 47 like it came to a point where he couldn’t do the manto man defense anymore because King Kong could really deal with Apex 47 already all by himself. And like what you mentioned as well, I feel like there were multiple times where in Sigibum clearly attempted or did a lot to somehow save the game, especially this moment. I think this moment we’re seeing here, I mean, look at that flush sod and then him just surprising King Kong and everyone else from behind. But because King Kong was there. Yeah, if this was anyone other than Kelra should have died and maybe they could have used that opportunity to end the game, right? cuz he survived so long. A little bit too long. He took their attention. I feel like even they’re like, “Guys, how is he not dead yet?” Yeah, I think that’s I think that was the case too cuz even earlier on we saw him play 1 v3 under the gold lane uh for tier one turret. So, you know, that those are things you can always expect from Kra. Um but it’s it’s the changing I’d say of the meta that we’ve seen so far cuz even back in M6, right, it was I feel like that was very gold laneentric gold and now we have what? Jungle jungle. Yeah, I kind of feel like the other one is like the the third one that we really have to look out for is really that mid, but mid at least for this matchup is very subjective. Really depends on the heroes that they use, right? Because we’ve seen Rosa on the Selena twice. In game number one, we saw the Valer still in terms of the numbers, it looks good, but it was just not enough for the team. And now the Kadita, so I kind of feel like it’s easy for us to talk about the jungle and the gold. The mid is that axe factor. It’s very subjective here because we don’t see too much Kadas. We don’t see too much Selenas. We know they’re strong, but we we just don’t see a lot of it. Yeah, maybe maybe Super France’s idea is to go with the elements here. He went with fire. He went with water. So, after this is Veil. Veil. Veil. Oh, hey. We got to see if they actually mentioned that in their road to EWC for Onyx Philippines. My IGN is King Kong. I’m from Onik Philippines and I’m the jungler. Being in MSE is another achievement for me, a personal goal. Then I feel very exciting. Brusco goes down to a place in disguise, but it’s too late. The cavalry reclaim the throne. Our toughest run in MPH season 15 was in the regular season. around the first half we are struggling a lot and the way we handle it coach why not always reminds us to put a little more effort every single day and we should make sure that each day we are progressing I want to win MSE very very very very bad heading into MSE on a Philippines has had time to adapt to grow and to really develop their understanding of the meta that I I just see them like as Batman with prep time. Coach Watt always tells us that no matter what never think that we are in our peak because it is very important that every single day we improve because once you think that you’re in the peak, I think you would never learn more and improve more. And we saw that journey, right? The early start of MPL Philippines doesn’t look all that great. But hey, it’s not about how you start. It’s about how you end. And even though they didn’t become champions, but they’re still here in MSE. And King Kong did say he wants to win this one very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very badly. Now, here’s the thing. If you guys support Onic Philippines, make sure you guys support it with your diamonds because right now the MSE support chest is here for 20 diamonds. You guys can start supporting your teams and uh get some goodies for yourself as well as soon. Yeah, there you go. Purchase the MSE support chest. 20 diamonds. It’s kind of good deal. It’s kind of a good deal with 20 diamonds. You guys you guys can get a lot. You can get way more than That’s Atlas, by the way. That is. Yeah. Yeah. You can get the Atlas previous MS skin. Yeah, I played that last night. You did? Yep. I hope we get to see that though. Like we saw the Kadita already. I hope we see a lot more coming soon. Like the like the number of unique heroes we have this MSE. I feel like we’ve seen how many how many? Two days in. I mean, it’s only two days. No, so far. Yeah. But um I the Leo more than etc. I kind of feel like we we’re stretching it out just just a little bit. The Lunox. I mean like here’s the thing. If if Superf actually goes for that veil now, hey, maybe he is playing with that element. Unless he wants to go lightning and just pick up Yodora. Oh, lightning is an element. I mean, depends on the enemy. Technically, it is. Depends on the enemy. Yeah, cuz some light and dark and some are like light and dark is not an element. Like it’s it’s it’s a weird thing. It really depends on the author. It can go into a whole debate here. Okay. Yeah. Some say gravity is an element. Who? Marvel. Everybody in his head. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Anyways, this time Aurora is first pick and they’re banning out that Arlet. And now Any Philippines is second pick. Wow. This So this is different. Yeah, we actually have Onyx Philippines on the second pick. I’m I’m doing that for you, Lefel. They’re going to be second pick over here on the red side on the right side. And I’m just reinforcing. Thank you very much. That’s how you learn. I I prefer when you’re the one seeing it cuz your voice is nicer. Yeah. You know, um throwing it back to the old teacher days here. Now for Aurora, they’re going to go for these bands. You go for the Aran one box Uranus still banned out. I don’t know what we uh what we expect Aurora to take first pick. What do you think here, Brig? What if they go for the KA too? No, like legit Kala so good. It denies so many things. Honestly, we haven’t seen the Farsa at all. Even though I thought it would be like one of the hot commodities between these two teams, knowing their mid laners and their play style, but maybe they’re just that aggressive that too that heroes that are too reliant on positioning aren’t the go-to option anymore. They ban out the phobia, though. So, yeah, I feel like personally for me, if I’m going up against TNG, even I’m like, “Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I’m I’m a little bit scared. Just a little bit. Just a little bit.” So maybe the juin here again. What? Shout out to Mr. Fear. Shout outs to Mr. Fear if he’s watching right now. He probably is, right? Probably is. Yeah. So yeah, maybe the Jin here unless they just want to double down on all these tanky heroes that they’re taking out. I wouldn’t mind like it’s still open. They ban the Kimi instead. So they just want to open it up, right? If you take Shin, we take Kalia. If you take Kalia, we take Shin. Ooh, plus one. I think this is still KA first pick. I would prefer the Kala actually. Yeah, it covers your bases so well. Never mind. And never mind all of us. So like what? Kalia and then pick a priority exp. Unless if they want to eat it, then just pick Kalia and then pri pryo mid. Maybe Farsa Ka Farsa. It’s so good. But but then again, you don’t really need to take the Farsa just yet unless they’re really worried. Yeah. No, it’s banned. Yeah, because I kind of feel like they want the landlot again, but you know, since there’s already use in Shin, you can just wait for red three. Yeah, this is this is literally confidence in mechanics, you know, like trust in the trace list to not get caught in whatever on might just get. I called it. I’m an analyst today. Oh my Oh my goodness. How did you see that coming? Gideon, did you see that? Oh my goodness. I’m so impressed. I’m so impressed. I’m locked in, dude. I’ll tell you that much. Game three, I’m I’ve waited a while. Yeah. And now I’m here. Hey, you you’ve done your warm-up. Yep. And now you’re all good. Now you’re pushing the way. So now Aurora, how do they respond here? Seeing the Farsa, seeing the Kalia, we saw them prioritizing the Selena. Will they will they do it again in game number three? Rosa, three for three on the Selena. Oh, that Hey, we were just talking about unique heroes. Hey, we’re we’re adding more. And there’s the Selena. Now, here’s the thing. Ruby is good, but is it this early good? Right. Mhm. Wait. The only reason why they will pick a ruby here Yeah. is if there’s a surprise later. But the thing is the ruby is already a surprise. Oh, and they pick up the last one. Could Ruby be flexed? Yeah. I That’s the thing. I don’t even know where this could go cuz I’ve seen a couple of rubies. Gold Ruby Gold Rubies. XP Ruby. Wait, Rome Ruby. Rome ruby. Yeah, maybe that’s the curveball. Maybe she can’t go to the title house. Who knows? Probably. Probably. Probably. Hey, you know what? She’s about to play, so probably she can go anywhere, man. Rome exp gold. Oh, that’s such a surprise. Okay. Uh I mean, who do they actually who are they stopping at this point? The Ka. Cool. Ruby. The Ruby. Yeah, Kalia. Lancelot. Farsa. Farsa. Pretty much everybody. everyone. I mean I mean if it’s about protecting again then maybe it’s about No, I mean like I mean like they’re so close to each other they could just taunt and then be like are you offended? Yes. Yeah, that’s usually the way that it works. They can the if if you guys don’t get the joke her skill is called I’m offended. I know. I I see the chat too sometimes. Why are they saying they’re offended? It’s the name of the It’s the name of the ultimate from Ruby. She is She gets offended. It’s the hook. Yes, it’s the hook. Anyways, Granger Ben. That’s a good Ben. Uh, but here’s the thing. Like I think, wait, they banned the Gringanger. Is Granger good against the Ruby? Cuz I’m really entertaining that this Ruby could go gold, but at the same time, in my head, Sig Bomb is so good, right? You want that carry. That’s just in my head. Like, is it worth it to give him the the Ruby when he has so much carry potential like what we saw from the Moscow earlier? I don’t know, man. Like, I’m just really Good question, huh? Yeah. I’m I think it’s more so of like this Ruby being uh debut pick, but then also like the flexibility of the hero as well, especially since you have a YSS in the jungle. And I guess, you know, once these next two picks are locked in from Aurora, we’ll get a better picture of that because also, you know, for uh if it is if you are going to still pick up an XP lane, like what do you pick up durability wise? You already have the Phobias band out that we’ve seen Lunar play twice now. Um glue is picked up over on the other side. Ooh. Oh, it is gold. Gold lane ruby. So, regardless of whatever Keller decides to go for, I mean, if it’s not the marks, man, it’s the Harry. Roger. Roger. The perfect lore match up. Yeah, the lore. I’m talking about the lore cuz you know, no, now you get See, nice picked it up. It’s a lore. I It takes time for me. But either ways, I kind of feel like for an Philippines, they already have a very solid, very standard uh kind of draft. They pick up the Brix, which is one of the favorites. All right, cuz at this point, it’s like, hey, I don’t know what you’re up to. I don’t like it. I’m just going to pick up something that I know I can carry with. Now, looking at this here, the Ruby I kind of feel like is going to get a lot of value in this game, especially if there’s a glue around because she can actually get a lot of spell vamp over everything that happens throughout the team fight. So, this is going to be the final match in this series. Who would have thought that game number one on Philippines lost and now both teams are at match point. It’s going to be interesting to see who will win this one. I’m going to give it over to Nu and Brigita. Thank you once again, Lel, for joining us through the draft here. And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. If you’re just joining us, we’re about to jump into game number three in our third match of today here at day number two for MSC. Will it be Onyx Philippines to take the win or will it be Aurora Gaming from Turkey to go ahead and solidify their win in day number one for group B here for them? Once again, I’m Nu and this is Bria to bring you the action. Bria, which uh which draft here are you really liking? I mean, you’re jumping up and down here. Who’s it for? Is it Aurora? I mean, it’s been a while since we’ve seen the YSS, so I’m kind of excited to see how Onyx PH are going to deal with it. Also, of course, the uh Ruby, which makes a sudden appearance as well. But Brusco, this reminds me of the game number one start, but at least now they’re not really punished. But this is what you like to see about Onic Philippines, the way they’re keeping the aggression going. But you can say the same for Aurora Gaming. I feel like that’s what you do, especially if you’re a Ka. Um, you know, you you’re you’re easily able to go ahead and heal back up if you do take a couple shots. So, wa I’m like this. 47. Yeah, he’s going to have to go ahead and get back here. But still, um, for the most part, even looking at the compositions here, yeah, I think this is going to be the interesting one is you take a glimpse of the gold lane is how will this play for Sigon because we’ve seen his mechanics and his positioning is usually really good. Now, it changes when you throw a hero like the Ruby in his hands. It’s going to be a little bit different. You can see he’s going with a whole lot of this, though. He is going to be running that, you know, the Festival of Blood. He’s got the brave smite so he can go ahead and heal up a lot like Lefel mentioned earlier on especially when Kirk is utilizing that glue. Yeah, also with the thrill. So this is the kind of Ruby which has a bit or maybe not even a bit of damage to it whenever it goes for those I’m offended plays or those brief stuns you latch onto the opponents to make things a bit more difficult. Okay, cool steal from TNZ denying King Kong of that, but they will be getting their level fours nonetheless. So, this is going to be interesting the way they’re able to manage and deal with the first objective of the game. There’s a lot of action going in all parts of the map. But who’s going to get to set things first? All right, they get in position. Brusco again not level four. Neither is Apex 47. So, both junglers will just get the buff. It is Tenzi going to go for a I thought he was going to go for a cheeky steal there, too. So, buff secured for King Kong. There’s the fight. Flicker from Kirk followed by Brusco. They’re really going after TNZ, but Super Friends, he gets caught. However, King Kong secures the turtle and just decides to walk away. So far, Onic, they’ve been very decisive in wanting to take down Tenz, but it seems like they lacked the damage or they weren’t able to accomplish it just yet. Wow. Okay, so a couple things happened there. They were able to get the turtle as King Kong did the work. Um, they traded, of course, for a kill. So, Aurora gets that kill. Sigaboom to catch him out for Super France. Oh, Brusco uh could still walk away. Okay, Brusco is going to be fine, but also meanwhile all that as Kelro is going to be the next focus here. He Okay, nice mountain shocker. I think K is going to be fine. He did go ahead and rush into the Sea Halbert. So, he grabbed that. He’s going to clear out this wave here. And he also got a whole bunch of gold in his pockets. Rosa, goodbye. Super Frince. It’s been a minute since we’ve seen the fara. He literally just landed and um used the feathered air strike. Doesn’t want to have or allow Rosa to have the best possible game for the Selena once more. But I’m really liking how Keller’s managing the gold lane. I mean, it has been a surprise to see the Ruby go up against this hero, but even when they already decided to rotate, even when Tenzi decided to rotate, he knew that it was just important to keep the waves out of the turret. There’s the O AG already committed by Apex 47, but they’re being very particular about it. They don’t want to engage in a fight that Aurora decides to set up for themselves. Yeah, Aurora’s got a couple options to go ahead and start fights up if they want to. And information uh advantage as well, especially with the mountain shocker once it’s used. So, they can play to that advantage if they want to. The turtles about 10 seconds away here as Philippines tries to get in positioning. We’ll see if they go for it. Apex 47. Won’t land that unbreakable. Not going to get the tunno. He decides to flicker. He actually tries to go for TNZ. But on the other hand, Lunar as well surprises everyone. So the primal rad won’t last long. Gets bursted down by Keller and the rest of the members of Onyx. So it’s a one for one trade so far. It’s the expor that gets traded. It’s going to be tough one if they want to contest this. Super Frince doesn’t have a feathered air strike just yet and he’s quite low. They might force it, but right now Aurora will go ahead and secure themselves the turtle. So, a good decision from them and good timing, too. So, now they go and get back into position. Kelra might have to be careful here. What we’re seeing a lot is this Ruby being kind of a nuisance to deal with, especially with the landlot, for example. King Kong Apex is here though. Okay, they have to protect their gold lane, but the Abyssal Arrow and the AoG nearly lands, but it misses by just a bit. They’ll have to let go of their tier one turret down bottom. And we’re starting to see the idea that Aurora Gaming actually has. It’s pressure, constant pressure on the gold lane. It forces reactions out of Onyx Philippines. They’ll try to get a kill, however, onto Lunar and they have enough damage to do that. Good decision. I didn’t think they’d go for it, but anyway, Apex 47 is going to get dragged back. Yeah, there’s the grab. Grab just one more hit. Will they be able to do it? Kirk delivers the final blow. And now Onyx PH, they’re somehow ahead. They secure the lead against Aurora Gaming. Although it’s somehow just a,000 gold for now. A whole lot of uh just trading going on at least, you know, even in terms of around the map those objectives. But Pelro’s been having a pretty good time on this Bayrix, you know, sitting on two kills now. He’s got a very minor lead against Sigy Boom. and uh they can go ahead and play around the fact that Brusco has been doing the same thing. You know, every single time the tsunami slam is available, especially when the flicker is there, he’s going and being decisive enough to make those plays happen. And Kel, all he has to do is, you know, set up. Yeah, you can see the burst potential from this composition is something that Aurora Gaming is going to have to watch out for. This kind of reminds you of the Bayatrix and the Novaria except that it’s not a star shutter. It’s the feathered air strike that can be used to actually complement or vice versa, whichever they want to use first. So Aurora Gaming, if that was something Onyx wasn’t able to get their hands on previously, now they have so much range. They have so much access. King Kong being one of them too. They can literally play with the angles when there ever or whenever there’s a team fight. And there you go. Immediately taking down Rosa. There’s the counter. I’m offended. Nearly catching two, but still they survive and walk away from all the threats. Kirk 2 doing a lot just to zone out the other members of Aurora Gaming. The bettered air strike. Cool down’s over. So now they somehow gain control in the turtle pit. But Lunar Lunar Lunar pops up Primal’s Wrath. Now he’s going to be in trouble. Kurt’s going to go ahead and bring him on back. King Kong just around the corner though. Is he going to commit to this? Goes in with Thorn Rose. They have enough damage to bump off Kellra too. Boom. Another shot. A double for Kra. Imagine that. He just he just had to wait for a bit to join back the fight again. That’s King Kong looking for the targets and he still doesn’t want to stop. Phantom execution doesn’t land on Rosa. But there’s the Fed air strike. Still though, he somehow makes it out alive. A clean flicker or a clean dodge coming in from Rosa to get out of that. But Onyx Philippines clearly in the lead right now. If it was just 1k earlier, now it’s already 5k. It’s crazy how fast that ballooned up, you know, just in a matter of a minute or so. You get yourself a nice lead at this point. You can see some of the items here now falling into place, especially and on Philippines. Very interesting. Now you’ve got that ultimate accessible to you even more uh for Brusco. And that’s going to be great cuz this is what we’ve seen all day from him is that tsunami slam. And Keller, look at the first item. He actually went for the sea halbird going up against Sigiboom on the Ruby in the gold lane. So they’re really looking for ways to answer and deal with Aurora Gaming even from the very beginning of this game. So now they have to keep the pressure going. They have to limit the ways that Aurora are able to move around the map. And I feel like that responsibility is mostly going to fall on Kirk’s shoulders right now. He’s the one who has to be the threat, who has to be the disruptor for Aurora Gaming. Look at the damage coming in from Keller as well. Brave enough to stand in front of both Sig Boom and Rosa in the bottom lane. Yeah, Kra relying specifically on just how, you know, mechanically gifted as a player as he is, he can go ahead and be confident enough to just rely on a flicker even if he has to against someone like a Ruby who could do the exact same thing. you know, flicker forward. I’m offended, pull you on in. But it’s it’s funny because every time every time we see a Beatatrix pop up, it’s kind of like you remember that time when Bayatrix was just so dominant. You know, she even had her own figurine back for the World Championship. And it’s like, man, you you kind of remember just how good it is to have multiple options in terms of, you know, all the guns she has available to go ahead and for the right situation. But even so, it’s just the uh counter hasn’t been able to be caught because of the fact that you just have such good zoning. Yep. From this lineup here. There’s already Oh, Brusco. Brusco. He decides to go for Sig Boom, but there’s a winter crown. Could potentially save him from this pickoff and he has a lot of sustain to deal with it. But Kelra decides to go for Apex 47 first. There’s the Revitalize, which buys him a lot more time. but on the other sides of the map. King Kong was able to work on other members too. But at the expense of his very own life, that doesn’t look too good for Onyx PH. I got to say though, Sigoom bought a a ton of time. So, even without King Kong, Onyx Philippines is going to just go for this lord here. I’m not sure if Aurora Gaming is going to do anything. Rosa might give them the information, but they just make the decision. It’s better off that we just give it up. We don’t deal with it. The Lord is secured here for on Philippines. So that fight that broke out, you know, it was just really kind of split up even and yeah, it was King Kong that went down. But nonetheless, again, Kar well protected here with Brusco buys some time. You can see King Kong was going for Lunar, but Tenzi was there to go ahead and help him out. So, um, a great again a great play from both sides, but ultimately objective going in the hands of Philippines will now allow them to march towards the base here and we’ll see if Aurora Gaming has enough to go ahead and defend. That’s an I’m offended. Thrown on out. Not going to find a mark here. The Lord is going up top side. So, expect on Philippines to at least get to these base turrets. Yep. They’re trying to sink the waves as well. Making the most out of this objective that they were already able to take for themselves. Federate air strike already committed and so will be that split. Split early. Oh, no. It’s okay. They don’t really mind that. So now they get to expose all the inhibitor turrets for now from Aurora Gaming. That’s a lot of damage coming in from King Kong, but at least a successful defense for now. And they deal with that lord. The waves are still going to be pushing in. I don’t think you can roll. Oh, never mind. Brusco. Another flicker into the Bennett’s rage, but the primal wrath will be able to keep him safe. And it might not be looking too good for Onyx PH. Super prince and Brusco get punished for that attempt. As I was about to say, Brian, I don’t think you can really get more of that. Bruce goes like, “Nope, hold my drink. I got this.” And then two go down for Onyx Philippines. So, this is actually going to buy uh buy some time here and some space now for Aurora Gaming off of that. They’ll get the tier one in mid now. Making their way towards this tier two. And this is a good chance for them to get some space back in their favor here. The wave is going to be cleared out though in the mid lane. So, on Philippines against it all will still hold on to the majority of the tournaments. Got to Got to keep track of that King Kong damage. Is King Kong going to go for it? That’s five members of Aurora Gaming, though. He’s going to try. I thought they were going to delay them a little bit further, but uh yeah, nonetheless, they don’t lose too much, so they only lose that mid turret tier one. I think Brusco just has to pick his targets really well. He went for Lunar earlier and although yes, Lunar does just have the flicker or maybe doesn’t have the flicker earlier. This is an Edith who could primal wrath his way to at least um stay a little longer in the fights and throw out a bit more damage as well. So, it’s still going to be a threat if if you’re not able to burst him down right before he’s able to do or use the primal wrath. But then even in even then during that moment, I feel like he was the most accessible target for Brusco. if then or if so maybe you know be a little more careful with the timings if you’re not so sure of whoever you want to target after all. So now everyone or both teams they seem to be looking for an angle to do something right before this objective. Brusco has the flicker. So that’s one thing Aurora Gaming has to be mindful of. So this is where we see Onyx Philippines get in position. Lord is up to go ahead and try to start this up. maybe not fully commit to it just yet to see if Aurora Gaming will actually force a fight. You see they do back off. So now Aurora is going to juggle this in between. Sigim has the flicker available. They might force it anyway. Oh already forced to use the feed air strike. There’s a conceal as well from Onyx too. Bruce seems to be waiting for the target but he gets caught by a Royal Gaming. The layers the chain crowd control. Keller is the only one who will try to make this happen. And he actually does. It’s a double kill for him. And he actually gets the lord away from Aurora. Oh my goodness. They might have just saved that from being being way more devastating. Kelra somehow makes it through, but Rosa will pick up another kill. A big team fight for Aurora. It’s a 343 trade so far, but I feel like we we have to see that once again. Even not now. maybe later. But the way Keller was just able to play around and deny that Lord. So it was it was looking bad for Onyx when they got the jump onto King Kong. But even when Kellra was low, he flickered in right there. He just decided to risk it all. Got the kill onto Chenzi and the kill on the Lord. Unbelievable decision making from Keller. Great arrow to start that fight, but also even uh greater decision from Kra. A huge risk, but like you mentioned, Brietta, it gets you the objective and ultimately that’s what they wanted here. And so Tenzi picking up a little defensiveness gets the win in nature. They got to deal with this lord on Philippines in full force. Will go ahead and get ready to march towards this base. They’re going to hold it as long as they can. Oh, they try to take down Kirk, but he is too tanky for this. Already forced out the better air strike though, but it’ll be enough to take down that inhibitor turret up top. So, they can or potentially will work on the remaining base turrets one by one. On PH have to be careful with this. You see the late game already starting to come in despite what happened for Aurora Gaming and their lineup. Okay, they should hold on to this mid turret. I don’t think they push any further. There is considerable damage though on the bottom base turret, but Aurora Gaming holds on to two. So, they’re going to find themselves again in a position to go ahead and face off against Onic Philippines even for the next objective here. So, despite it all, I feel like they’re really confident in the fact that, hey, we can actually go toe-to-toe. We can win some of these fights, even if it means just playing around these arrows from Rosa. Rosa has been so good now. Three games in a row on the Selena. It’s like he has a target lock on Super Prince. He’s making things so hard for Super Prince honestly. But that’s the thing like Aurora Gaming, they’ve been making a lot of decisions which really extend the game and allow us to reach this point like for how many times have we been seeing games which exceed the 15-minute mark? I think this has been if not the longest like series actually one of the longest series we’ve been seeing so far here in the group stage of MSE. So, it’s been a very close fight between Aurora Gaming and Onyx Philippines, but both have to be careful in setting up for this next and possibly last objective depending on how things will go because it’s going to be very crucial. We’re approaching the 18minute mark. And I know the thing about this whole Oh. Oh, wa. Okay, Apex. Okay. Okay. I guess he want he he went for it. He’s like, “Hey, that’s Kra. That could have been a combo cuz like there was an abyssal arrow. There was an AoG. But yeah, there was a flicker from Kellra there. They already lost major resources though, but they’re still able to set up for this upcoming Lord fight. Okay, now Kel’s got to be even more careful with this. And that’s why Rosa, keep an eye on Rosa. Rosa is going to stay in that position again. That off angle. Super friend will chase him down. So Super Frince is like, “Hey, no more of that. get out of this uh this back line because Kell’s got to deal with that and not having the flicker. They might be just the plan like let’s just delay this as much as possible as the lord has evolved now too post the 18 minute mark. You can see the positioning here from Rosa Rosa’s on point has all the information that he needs to go ahead and keep on Philippines in check. So, it’s quite astonishing how Aurora Gaming has found themselves in this position where they were down quite a bit of thousands of gold minutes ago, 5 plus minutes ago or so. And yes, they have one base turret down, but they’re actually the ones with considerable control right now. Yeah. And around this Lord, and they’re going to be the ones to go ahead and start things up. Maybe that was what Aurora Gaming wanted. just take away the flicker from Kro so we might have a better chance at being able to take him out whenever the fight breaks out and not allow him to save the game once again for Philippines but it’s going to be up again soon 30 seconds and and like I said they just enough time just wait longer right or wait faster like said and they they did exactly that so buff secured for King Kong 2 once again will have it about 15 seconds. Aurora Gaming might know this too and they might want to just force a situation here. So, Bruso conceal was used. They’re going to force the fight anyway and picks 47 takes some damage, but still no one wants to commit to this lord. It is going to be more difficult to take too because it’s evolved. So, Brusco even picks up an immortality for himself and we’ll have just this face off for now. I guess this is what they call the um Lord Dons. The Lord dons. It’s uh been such a long dance between both of these teams. Lord currently at half HP. This is the new DOS. This is the 2025 version. And all the while things were happening, a turret in the bottom lane was taken down by the minions. They’ve been getting pretty impatient as well with how things have been going. But will this finally be the start of the fight? They tried to go for the onward or shadow combo onto Kirk, but it won’t land. There’s the better air strike. Oh, TNT’s very low on HP. Fortunately, there’s not the runner’s apathy from Keller to finish off the kill just yet. But will they still try to regroup? Oh, they go for Keller, but Kingo still secures the Lord. Nonetheless, as an I am offended connects onto two members of Onic Philippines, though, and it’s Bruce and Super trying to run away, but Aurora, they’re going to chase after them. They’re not letting him go. They pop the immortality. And it’s only Super Fritz who’s able to return to the base. Oh no, it’s a disaster for the Super Fam. Super Fritz tries. But Aurora Gaming made it happen. And Siguboom did it too on the Ruby. What a game three for Aurora Gaming. In a split second, that single decision that mattered the most. They’re able to switch things up and turn things around. This could potentially be the first successful upset we’ve seen here in MSE. It is. And at this point, I think it’s safe to say this MSE is kind of scary. It’s scary. Scary. You got to be a little bit afraid cuz here’s the thing right now. You know what? Power Rankings tier list, throw them out the window, man. Everyone’s here to show up because we have not even seen we’ve not even seen like a stomp yet. I mean, like, sure, you’ve seen games like, okay, I think this team is going to win, but it’s never that convincing. It’s never that one-sided. Like throughout this game, Aurora, they showed a lot mechanics, macro, patience, timing, and what I heard was communication because they’re the loudest in that final lord dance. And I don’t speak their language, but I know what they were saying. Yeah, we’re not going for the lord. We got to go for those kills because the entire time, yeah, it was Kell, right? They were prepping that bottom lane to push in. Mhm. They were just buying the time for the minions to do work and then just reminded each other, we’re not going for lord, we’re going for kills. You know what they did? What they did? They mastered the basics. They mastered the basics. There you go. What they did. I can’t believe it. Like they they they they seemed like they were just after Keller at that point. That one play which happened in the bottom lane. Okay, it wasn’t successful. So, we wait a bit more. And we thought it was Onyx buying some time, but no. Before they actually decided to commit to the allort fight, it was the AoG. It was the flicker from Lunar. They just wanted to get rid of Kelra. Yeah. And now, like, I got to say, this is too insane. This is too crazy, too scary. I’m actually going to be throwing over to Eterna to start the interview. One of our biggest upsets here at the MSE group stages with a 2-1 victory. Congratulations APEC 47 from Aurora, Turkey. How do you feel right now? I’m feeling really well. We prepared really good and we got a good win here. Amazing. Amazing. Everyone is shocked right now. I’m still shaking from that match result because it’s been a while since we’ve seen your region do well on the international stage, right? I mean, flashbacks to M6 under S2G and Ulfetnar, you guys didn’t do as well. Now, was that one of the reasons why we’re looking at a little bit of a merge here now for Aurora? Um yeah I would say so that was one of the reasons for the merger. Um we have been playing for many years together but we didn’t get this kind of success and that’s now we are feeling really good as this team. So what were the challenges adapting together because technically uh you were from a different team as well and then you know Siggy Boom came in too as your brother. What was like the biggest challenge you would say before we headed over to MSE group stages? for um I would say it wasn’t really difficult for us uh because I already know Luna for a long while and one of them is my brother so it was fairly easy for us and we didn’t face many challenges so on the topic of your brother you were the one to bring Sigibum over right How has his growth been over the years? uh to be honest I wasn’t even expecting this kind of growth and I didn’t see it before but when he joined our team then that was when I saw the growth in him and uh I was also really surprised and yeah that was that’s really sweet that’s really sweet uh what about master the basic so he came on as your coaching staff what was his impact on the team picking master the basic coach kendo Okay. So, he lives up to his name. He really is mastering the basics and he taught us a lot of basic things uh in a short amount of time in 25 days um after Malaysia and yeah, this is where we stand now. Okay, we’re clearly seeing, you know, the impact of it. Amazing stuff. Now, to close things out real quickly, Sutsu Jin earlier on said they’re going to be facing BH, not your team. They said that they were the stronger team compared to Aurora. Now, what you have to say to from RQ, okay, it’s going to be a big surprise for him and we wish him good luck. Okay. Okay. That’s making me a little nervous there, but once again, thank you so much, Apex 47. Congratulations. Rest well because we’re going to throw it over back to our casters. Maybe Malaysia is a good place to boot camp. GG did it there. Made it all the way to the grand finals. And now looking at Aurora. Hey. Hey. Hey. 25 days. The next match up, too. Didn’t they boot camp in Malaysia? Yes. Yes, they did. All right. All right. You know what? You know, maybe that’s the place to be. Maybe that’s the place to be. I love Malaysia. Something about the food. Something about the food. Anyways, talking about about this game, let’s talk about this Ruby cuz hey, it worked out very well. And even we were still questioning like he’s such a mechanical player. Why do you want him on a on a fighter? But it worked out cuz he know him as the Turkish trigger man, right? And then he holds a ruby now. He’s the scythe man. He’s the scythe man. It’s It’s a It’s a different kind of sticky boom. I just realized what you don’t bring a scythe to a gunfight that only has all the guns and you win with a scythe. Hey, that’s Aura. Hey, you know what? That was an amazing match. If you guys can’t tell, we’re pretty excited with that because dude, right now, MS, this is day two, guys. This is like what else could happen, man? What else could happen? Especially with the next matchup. Yaguay going up against Team Spirit. You mean Monster on the Peak? Yeah, that one. Yeah, that one. DFY. DFY is right. Yeah. Now, looking at the matchup coming up next as well. Oh, now I don’t know. Now I don’t know because I think I’m not going to say anything cuz I did say Onyx Philippines was the favorites for that one. Yeah, let’s not say anything. I was on the same boat. Let’s look at the MVP of the match for this one. The MVP, it could go to anyone. And it goes over to Sigibum using that Ruby. The KDA doesn’t speak about what he did in the game, but my god, he did a lot in that game. That’s a picture. Hey, you know what? I I’m so surprised because it took a while like to see the value of the Ruby. I feel like but especially in that last team fight and like Brio was mentioning it was so great to see how it actually played a part. And then even when they try to disengage because they have a Ruby, you can’t you can’t run away. And that was amazing. But after this, I wonder what kind of surprises we’re going to see after this. It’s going to be Team Spirit going up against Denfung Ya. We’re going for a break, but after this it’s going to be the final series of the day. 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Alongside with me is Brigita as well as Nisu where I’m going to be careful with my words to say who’s the favorites for this matchup. But hey, I know which team Mero likes. So, I’m tempted. You want to You don’t want to curse them. Uh, I mean, I don’t want to curse stronger than the Miracle. Mirror curse. Well, we’re about to see because this is going to be Tenfung Yaguay going up against Team Spirit. So, the question is, Bria, who do you think is going to be the favorites? I actually don’t want to say anything to him, but I know who had their boot camp in Malaysia. Isn’t she the Brigetta Bless? Oh, yeah. No, no, no. Cuz I was on the same boat as him when he said, “Oh, yeah. I feel like on are the more favorite teams and then we came here by boat by the way. All right. I I didn’t you know our trip was a bit different you know like like shooting for for MC and then we just had to go back by boat. It was the boat. Yeah. He was there. He was like hey yo guys you like my boat. Yeah. And I’m like hey I didn’t know turtles have boats. But but here’s the thing. This is going to be an intense match up. Yes, one of them did have a boot camp in Malaysia. I wonder what if Team Spirit secretly had a boot camp there as well. Just maybe like for a week. I don’t know. Wait. Well, I I watched one of their videos about their boot camp experience. Mhm. It seemed like they had a great time and they were actually mentioning that uh they had uh not only enjoy the food but also just the experience boot camping. Yeah. And now for you guys at home, just a reminder because right now the MSE pass is still live. There’s 20% discount right now. So, make sure you guys grab it while it’s still live because here’s the thing. I understand enjoying the game. It’s all amazing, but you guys are playing the game and you guys want to get that skin. Heck, you guys might even get that Atlas skin. Now, jumping back into this one. Uh, they had fun with their own boot camp. So, Team Spirit is in good spirits. I see. Yeah. Yeah. Right now we’re looking at a team arriving onto the stage and uh well actually I mean like I was going to say I mean like you know anyway we we got to make it dramatic and nice to come on like yeah see they are we got to manage this a bit better maybe just not not show the camera you know but like oh okay this is them coming here like just a few minutes ago it was um what time it’s Not that hot anymore to myself. So I guess I guess there’s not much to talk about here. Huh. It’s not that as they’re covered, by the way. As they have the hoods on and they’re shielding themselves from the the sun. It’s on the house. It’s not half. No, I mean it’s already like what time is it? 5:00 in. According to mine, it’s like 10 something. That’s in Malaysia. Malaysia and the Philippines. That’s true. Yeah. We share we share a time zone. We share a time zone here. But this matchup uh I’m looking back. Let’s talk about Team Spirit first, you know, because I’m I’m looking at them. They’re all setting up. Looking actually look pretty. Okay. Look, they look they look fine. Let’s look Let’s Let’s talk about Team Spirit. I I’ll say this about Team Spirit. They are back with a vengeance. Um let’s take a look at the this because the lineup that they have here is familiar faces, familiar names for all of us. I think the maj the most significant change I guess for team spirit heading into MSE would be that they are no longer with the same coach they had back in M6. So that probably helped them overcome some of the uh challenges they probably think could have been dealt with better back then because I feel like M6 was a great way to identify the things that have to be addressed or somehow fixed, you know. And so now all those language barriers, they’re probably not much of a concern anymore for them. So that probably has something to do with how they’re going to perform today. I know I know Bomba is a favorite here at Kid Bomba of course, but also I’m going to have my eyes on Ho, man, because the Heo Mania and the Heo hype all started um or we I think he was wasn’t he the first one to get the Savage um back in M6. Yeah. Yep. And he was all he’s also the I think he’s still the youngest. He’s he’s one of the youngest. One of the I think it was 17 or is he still 17? Probably 18. I don’t I don’t keep track on their ages. Same. Kind of weird. Yeah. You know, true. But he’s pretty young. He’s pretty young. He’s pretty young. He definitely has that mechanics and he has that confidence because even during uh interviews, they they speak their mind, right? They just they just let people know how they really feel. And I got to say, Kiko, we’re talking about the new guy, but there’s a lot of veterans coming in from uh from Team Spirit as well. And one of the things that they are known is that in terms of the ROR position, quite a lot of crazy picks. Uh even using the Diggy when the Diggy wasn’t really meta, but hey, they made it look good. Yeah, I could not forget that um that Diggy I think it was it was in the Philippines even when we like five when we when we first saw them actually use those um heroes. So Saul and the way he’s constantly just able to introduce new play styles, new heroes too is something of course that we definitely look forward to. But hey, what if he sticks with that since we are yet to see rumors who actually go for utility picks, you know? I mean, right now we got to look at Tanfung Yaguay, their opponents coming in, coming in all the way from China. But again, they’re they have some vetery here. We saw Kale VJ early on. Super Ken, I I’m not so sure who he is. I I think he’s favorite. I think he’s kind of okay, but who knows? I mean, if Murker wants, I can definitely say that TF Yaguay are the favorites. Super Ken one of the best players I’ve ever seen. He’s doing it. I mean, he has his very own Merkers, right? Hey, Super in his name. That’s true. All the other Ken doesn’t. That’s true. And we actually got to see the other Ken play earlier today. But for the FY, I think one of the main things is we always keep our eyes on, you know, the teams that uh compete here because the improvements that they’ve made over the course of the the past international experience and maybe this is going to be a crucial one because of the fact that yeah, you have Super Ken here now, of course, Kill VJ uh once again competing and even for Long and Zed, like these guys have all gained a lot of experience over the past year. Yeah, we got our eyes on Long. I think for a couple of times he’s been performing. He’s been a standout too in his own way, his Moscow in the previous games that they played. But yeah, I agree. I think a lot of us will be looking on or at Super Ken. Um he is probably one of the players you could consider to be one of the longest uh the players who’ve been here the longest time. I mean, in the competitive scene, but internationally, I think there are a lot of people excited to see him and his debut because I think it’s his first time that we’ll actually be seeing Super Ken in the international stage. So, I’m sure he’s excited about this as well. I mean, personally for me, I’m also looking at Zed going from a jungler now being a ROR. That’s that’s going to be quite a change, especially in mindset. Speaking of which, we would like to say thank you guys because right now we are nominated for three different awards at the esports awards. Make sure you guys go to esportsawwards.com/vote because we are publisher of the decade game of the decade as well as live event of the decade which is what which was the M5 world championship. So we’ve been nominated for three different things. Thank you very much guys. You guys have been amazing. Make sure you guys vote for all three. So, let’s vote who’s going to win this one. Wait, the for the teams. Oh, yeah. The Aqua. Monster on the Peak. Yeah, Monster on the Peak. I’m going to have to go with Team Spirit for this. I mean, I I hope DFY has, you know, maybe they’ll prove me wrong. Maybe I don’t have any curse, so like that’s fine. I mean, I can just throw it out there. Just to let you guys know, this is not about being smart. This is about to see like what’s up with us. So, now you got to be tiebreaker. M. Okay. Cuz like even before we got into MSE, I think during our podcast one time I I I did say that Yeah, I won’t put DFY too high up there. So, I’ll be going with Team Spirit. Okay. Okay. So, uh if Dun Yaguay wins, I’m not in trouble. No one’s in trouble. I mean, it’s only it’s only day two, man. It’s the only group. Not from the team. just from That’s the thing. Which one is Merkco really going for? Because yeah, he’s got his boy Super Cen, but but he always cheers for Team Spirit. Exactly. Right. I mean, he’s always the one being like, “Yeah, Super Ken’s my boy.” But he though, but yeah, Hiko, he has a lot of voice. Yes, he has a lot of goats, too. So, yeah, he has too many of everything. So, now speaking of too many of everything, Lung, you guys were touching on L just a little bit. The thing that we we remember back at M6 was that hero because it was just the Bruno and Moscow, right? Not much of anything else. To be fair, in this current meta, there’s not too many goal picks. I mean, I say that as we saw like Ruby and etc., but we do have to see in ter Lo uh in terms of the picks for Tong Yaguay, how how expansive really is it when it comes to the drafts? because I’m just worried that their hero pool is much limited compared to other teams, especially Team Spirit. Yep, it it has been very limited. Their hero pool, the heroes they’ve decided to show, especially even in the recent qualifiers have been very very limited. So, if they’re able to prepare for newer picks for other picks, then that’s something Team Spirit probably wouldn’t be able to fully account for because in the previous qualifiers, I think at most it’s actually Long who’s had the most number of heroes used. He’s used the total of six because the rest of the members of Jan Fong Yao have only used like less than five. So, this is going to be an interesting approach to the draft, especially today where we’ve seen a lot of unique picks come into play. Yeah, you always got to remember too uh for I would say both the teams. Wait, do we have information on the DFY? Where did they boot camp? They boot camp at all. I don’t think we have the information. I’m not sure if uh they went specifically anywhere to boot camp, but nonetheless, like I said, they’ve got a ton of experience between, you know, these five guys, especially at this point. Um, Team Spirit as well, I think, you know, hearing some of their interviews earlier on and especially the one about their boot camp time in Malaysia, they spent a lot of time in preparation for this and obviously they had what backto back fourth place finishes, I think it was in the previous internationals. So, definitely want to come out here starting on the right foot in this first series for them. They do pick up the Ducian though, first pick. So, this has been a hero that has typically been either banned down or picked up by quite a few teams so far. I like I like the adjustment that Kalia gets banned cuz I feel like as the tournament moves on, Lancla will be that question mark. Should we ban the Lancard or not? Cuz again, it’s been looking pretty good. Jin though, like like we’ve been seeing for the past two days, everyone’s opinion about Jin like previous tournaments, not so great. And now a a resurgence. And now Zatan comes in with the Padang. That’s that’s China and Malaysia. Together as one. Together as one. These are these are especially for the uh Zitan, I believe, for Ewan. It’s a It’s a new introduction for Yanfong Yao, but we were talking about the lands a lot, and I feel like Team Spirit, they’re definitely catching up. It has to be prioritized at this point. Even despite the passive, I feel right if you just get to at least hit the zitan with or put her within range of the thorn rose, that’s going to be a lot. So, at least they have the badang to somehow deny them still of the other potential dive heroes that they might be picking up because so far it’s only the last on the fauus, but okay. Wow. Super Ken. Okay. Hey, what what about today? More fannies coming up. I would say that people are excited to see this, right? I generally because now you have the Fanny versus the landlot matchup. You get to go ahead and see that. And you know, we’ve been kind of building this up into the fact that yeah, we’re going to get for a lot of people that are watching this is going to be the first time they get to see actually Super Ken play here internationally um for DFYG. And I haven’t been a huge fan of the Zion pick. Like honestly, I know it does provide some of that vision. She’s got a great kind of push back passive that she has too. So you got that, you know, a little bit of defensiveness to it. But I feel like I don’t know what her win rate is uh exactly, but I just feel like she struggles in some sense. And maybe this is just one of those things where it’s like, okay, this is just one of the better options we have against the Jian pick that we see from Team Spirit. So, um I’d love to see how they build up this lineup even more because they’ve already got quite a bit of damage of course now that you have the Fanny, but you also have to protect it. Maybe the maybe the uh what if there’s a gold lane option here for DFY? Maybe it’s the Mosov once again. Yeah, can be can be the Moscow unless team spirit decide to ban out one of the gold laners that are still up there. But if not the Mosov though, I think Long has adjusted pretty well to the meta. He’s been playing a couple of Granger games as well. Still, of course, the Bruno is still one of his most known picks, so that might be an option, but um I’m still leaning towards the idea that yeah, it might be the Moscow picking up. So, there you go. Let’s go. It still has to be the safe option. Team Spirit though. I mean, I kind of feel like a Granger would still be okay here, you know? Yeah, right. Just just have a lot of burst damage and then try to control the map because the Fanny isn’t going to be the greatest around the turtle. So I kind of feel like, you know, get a draft that’s good around turtle around Lord and then just play for your for your win condition, you know. So I feel like, you know, burst is good, Ranger, Bruno, etc. Yeah, maybe let’s see the cuz the one’s banned out so they instead. It’s a whole lot of uh magic damage of course that they’re going to go with, but also they’re they’re covered really from the front. They have great initiation too here for Team Spirit. And the last pick for DFYG is going to be that Esmeralda I mean, how could I how could we forget? I think this is this was Kel VJ’s most used pick, especially in the qualifiers, and it does so well against the lineup of Team Spirit right now. Yeah, but right now, if we’re looking at the draft here, and we’re hearing the cheers coming in from especially Team Spirit, it looks like they’re very happy with that draft. And I got to say, it’s a very easy to execute draft compared to TFong Yaguay. So, I want to see how they’re able to pilot it. So now I’m going to throw it over to you guys for the first game of the final series of the day. Thank you so much Lfell for breaking it down with us through the draft. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the English stream here for MSC 2025 at EWC. This is the final match for group B today. Once again, I’m an Isu joined here with Brigade to bring you the game number one in this best of three. We take a look once again at the junglers here. It’s going to be an assassin match up for OneShot and Super Ken. We see this landslot a whole lot. Brigitta, how do you think this will fare against a Fanny from Super Ken? I mean, the uh most recent Fanny we’ve seen hasn’t been that successful earlier today. Not unless a lot of the conditions are met. I mean, even at the jungling speed, apparently you could already see how OneShot is clearly up ahead of Super Ken in terms of speed. But it seems like they’ll be able to look for a way to force a skirmish against each other here in the middle lane. None of them will be committing too much, however, and that Lithuander, it looked like a heavily contested objective. Yeah, this might be one of the more action-packed matches I feel like we’ve seen in a bit. the the way this, you know, first minute’s even going. Sunset lover takes some damage. Good trading up top too between the two gold laners. So, you’ll see some rotating happening here. And Zed might be a little, you know, proactive on this Bedang to be able to go ahead and set things up even early on. Yeah, even with a flicker alone, like you can still be a threat at this point in the game. You don’t need to be that level four exactly just yet. Oh, kill BJ on the Esmerald. will actually be the first blood in this game. Even though we were expecting a slightly more comfortable game from him, that early rotation coming in from one shot seemed like a great punish against this Esmeralda. And Kill VJ even use the purify there. Still going down early in the game. So, the turtle’s going to be up here shortly as both teams try to get a possession uh for this. So, one shot already starts it up. Saw standing up at the front alongside Kib Bomba and they’re just going to go ahead and go one v2. They’re standing right in front of Super Cannon. There’s not much he can do. What? Kid Ba actually tries to chase after him, but then the damage won’t be enough. One shot using the Phantom Execution, takes down Zed, and they transition into the purple buff. This is going to be massive if they deny it immediately for Super Ken. But at least E1 was there. They’re going to calm down for now. Yeah, that’s it was so close. If kid Bomba, I feel like would have got that. We he probably already started the dance moves here. But, you know, going on the aggression from them at this point in the game gets them a pretty good start. Nothing too crazy. The FY is going to be okay. They just have to go ahead and adjust from this. And that’s always the case with a Fanny in tow. He even flickers forward for that. But it’s just unfortunate, you know? You can’t hit him too far. I don’t even know what Phobius holds. Is it like a piece of an obsculous or something like Yeah, you could see it right there, too. He He thought he could get it. It was so close, but Ho um needs a few more shots just to take down Zed. And I feel like I also wanted to mention Zed in that moment because um it doesn’t feel like Team Spirit acknowledges the Badang that much. It’s like they bypass the entire presence of the Badang and just go straight after Super Ken, which I feel like for Team Spirit is clearly one of the more important things to deal with at this point in time because if they deny the Fanny in as early as the first 5 minutes, then it’s going to be a lot more easier for them to pull off their lineup. And that’s not to mention the fact that they’ve been sort of winning the side lanes even with very minimal rotations coming in. Yeah, you can see this too. Taking a look at the emblems, nothing too crazy. A little bit of common emblem though for sunset lover on this duchin uh to go ahead and work around with some hybrids too being built over here for DFYG. And I think that’s the main thing for Super Ken really is is he going to be able to actually utilize the Fanny because if you’re just kind of pressured enough, you almost find yourself in this position where it’s like all right, I’m just going to be getting my buffs and yeah, he’s got to deal with Kid Bomba all day. All day and hope that you can find something on the map. Oh, Kib Bomba gets out of that fist break fist crack combo. Fury of the Phoenix already committed, but Kin Bomba again finding Super. Ken literally does not want him to be able to land those cables as efficiently. Team Spirit are just doing such a great job sustaining everyone. But then it changes when L goes in. But Team Spirit, they respect that too. They just disengage. Okay, Super Ken has the information. This turtle’s just going to be taken by one shot. So, another objective for Team Spirit. So, all of that, you know, no one goes down, but ultimately Team Spirit’s like, “Okay, we stalled them enough to go ahead and secure ourselves the turtle.” And that’s, you know, job well enough done at this point in the game. So, they hold on to a very minor lead. DFYG still not too far behind. Nothing uh too crazy. And as long as we’ve seen this before, I mean, the last time we got to see even Lung play this Moskov last uh MSC 2024, he actually had some pretty impressive plays. He has good positioning. So, I’m just wondering, you know, as he still brings the Monzot forward for this game one, like how much has his mechanics and the micro um positioning for him improved in a year’s time? Yeah, they probably are waiting for long once again to be able to join. Typical uh situation you see whenever there’s a Moskov and you’re kind of behind in terms of the early to mid portions of the game. But I feel like even when Lon gets to join, there are just so many ways that Team Spirit are going to be able to deal with him. Like you know how AoE is a huge or is going to like be such a huge problem for these kinds of compositions who really want to be able to find that right positioning. There’s the threat of the AoGs. Unset lover who’s just going to look for the stacks on the lantern flare and is kind of one of the tankier mid lanes who can just go in whenever he wants to. But speaking of one shot, he’ll be the target this time around for Super Cannon. Zed lacks the damage though, but this might be Oh, this is a response fight. This might be something Team Spirit will try to go for. That first casualty is actually going to be long. And Ho still doesn’t use the zammon. Oh, there you go. finally takes down Zed as well and Team Spirit might be able to convert it this time around. Yeah, looks like they might even get themselves the the third turtle. One shot’s going to go grab the buff. Super Ken has no option but to just push one of the side lanes here for now. But you saw how Team Spirit, they just literally walk down towards the bottom lane because DFYG was not able to convert anything with the amount of time they spent down there and they just collapsed down under the tier one turret to capitalize on it. So interesting takes there. I I think still for team spirit. You can see brute force uh picked up now for one shot. So he’s got a little more of that defensiveness to help him out with this because so far we haven’t seen this like big team fight by either team break out just yet. And DFY definitely needs time for that. Cuz honestly, I feel like the way Team Spirit is playing right now is they have their eyes set on something and when they get that something, they don’t overstay anymore or like they just get out immediately and um divert their attention to other things. And that’s the difference for DFYG. They try too hard, but P1 is the first to fall. Look at the damage coming in from Hiko and the Zammon for Zed will have to walk away. And even just as Superkin wanted to take his purple pop, there’s trouble once more. Kid Bomba denies that from him. And look atot 5 on the Lancelot right now. And how many times are we going to see the Lancelots just get games like this where they get all the kills, they don’t dive, and he just picked up the brute force like I mentioned. So, you know, very tough position to be in. And you were just mentioning this, Brrig. I think a big part of this is the fact that Team Spirit is just playing very clean. I mean, they’re disciplined. They’re going in for the right uh opportunities. They get what they take and they don’t push for too much more unless maybe for Kid Bomba to an extent, but he’s allowed to be able to do that on the Phobia and that’s okay. So, what you’re seeing is for for DFYG is just, you know, how do we contain this? Because so far we haven’t been able to utilize the fact that we have a Fanny. We also have to start considering the fact that we’re not going to be able to just let Super Ken get the purple buff. I mean the whole game he’s had to deal with Team Spirit in his jungle. So how do you control so many of those things falling apart here around the map? That’s such a problem. Honestly, it’s the FY who’s being contained for majority of this game. Another Zaman force and a massive threat as one shot is just right in front of the other members. AOG committed by Sao. But could this be a counter engage for DFY? KDJ goes in, but he won’t be able to tack the damage. Super trying to fly over the members of Team Spirit, but you don’t see the damage just yet coming in from this Fanny. Yeah, it’s too bad. I mean, they’re going to try to hold on to this tier two, but they’re just cut off. The Z force. He has it again after being able to previously use it. Probably the talis. Oh, super can just as we mentioned the damage. finally finds a pickoff onto Heo and they’ll probably be very happy with that. That’s actually the first kill they’re able to get in this game. Yeah, 9 and 1/2 minutes in, first kill and it goes in the hands of Super Ken. I mean, at least they got something out of that because right now Team Spirit has been in complete control and you know, you were wondering, you know, the damage, where is it going to be from the FY? L needs plenty of time on the Mosov. He has to go ahead and build up and you’re thinking, you know, Super Ken is going to be able to uh be the guy to do that. Well, maybe if he gets a couple more of those uh kills in his pocket, then he can build up from there cuz you can already see right the the disparity between him and one shot is quite apparent. He does have the Warax. He does have the Blade of Hepses here to help him out a little bit more and that’s why that burst is there, but unfortunately I think they just have to watch this objective being taken. Z’s around the corner. They’re just zoned off of it. Sens Lover so brave. He’s the one going right in. Superken gets to the phantom execution, but Zed, he’s being chased and the thorn grows will finally take him out. That’s one member down for DFYG. E1 Super Ken Kelvj are just around the area. They have no idea that Superken is actually there, but Ho finally spots him. Tries to take him down and Super Ken once again for the second time around gets a kill onto Ho, but on the other hand, one shot also finds Yay One. A two for one trade so far and no one secures nor commits to the Lord. I’m actually surprised that DFYG is stalled them out that long. They couldn’t get the Lord. They end up trading a couple kills. Super cannon will get his purple buff, so he’s fine. But that was actually a good way to go and stone them out. It’s just they’re still going to keep Lung there. L still pushing in that lane, but he might have to join this. I don’t know if they’re going to be able to contest, though. That’s a already used by Zed. They tried to go for Sunset Lover, but one shot. He just found KBJ and now they’re going to go after the members of DFYG one by one. Long already makes an appearance as well, but One shot. All the while the other members were zoning them out. He just works on the objective. Okay, objective secured. Team Spirit going to be able to make it happen that time. But DFYG finds a little bit of hope in this game. They need to buy themselves time. That’s the name of the game right now, especially with the way things have gone. Oh, are they actually going to fight this again? Super can. Okay, that was clearly another attempt to take down Ho, but I feel like Saul also learned a thing or two from the previous pickoffs. He’s sticking by Hiko’s side. They definitely need to make use of that unbreakable. They definitely need to protect their gold laner a lot more. And so DFY, let’s see how they defend this incoming siege from Team Spirit for now. Oh, super. And he goes in. He actually gets caught once again by Kid Bomba, but he’s able to survive nonetheless. No more holy shields for DFY. And there goes the AOG from Sawo as well. They’ll be working on the turret for now, but Super Oh, gets caught there by Kid Bomba. They successfully take down that inhibitor turret. Look at the damage coming in from Yi as well, but the mad stun coming in from Zed. Will there be enough damage? However, it seems like no. But it’s a successful defense from now for Janong Yao. Oh, that’s too bad. They didn’t have enough firepower to actually capitalize on that. They lost Zed, but they do stay in the game. They hold on. They lose the midternal. Oh, they stay in the game somehow, but they forced out a flicker from E1. It seems like Team Spirit for the first time in this game actually stay a bit more longer than we expected. I guess they want more base turrets here. Bri, they’re going to push in the bottom. There’s the There’s the Spirit of Destruction. Oh, but the dark wave. It knocks up two members and it somehow forces Team Spirit to finally walk away. Impressive still from Yanfong Yaguay. But now Team Spirit, it seems like they’ve settled with just an single inhibitor turret. Okay, this is still Oh, super. Oh, he finds two right there. Oh my goodness. The fights keep going. Oh, that was I didn’t know if he was going to get uh taken out or if he was actually going to be able to convert a kill there. We’ll take a look at the items here just a bit. You’re still down a bit. Thousand gold or a few thousand gold here for Super Ken, but he’s doing okay. He’s building back up. He got himself a brute force as well. So, he’s fine. I think even for kill VJ still has some ground to cover, but at least he’s a little more tanky. Has an oracle now picked up too talisman. He’s got the antique carass and also for L. Lung’s done a phenomenal job at just farming up. Yeah, he’s actually up ahead by a bit. Crimson being sunset lover. Will Z be able to find the right targets though? knocks them backward just a moment, just briefly before one shot gets the kill. 902 on this Lancidot. Could this be another deathless double digit kill Lancelot game? Well on his way right now. Zed though is just a punching bag right now. He’s he’s trying to find things. He’s trying to find windows where he can set things up, but a lot of times it’s like he gets cut off from the rest of the team and they can’t really follow up the way they want. His armored force is going to be expended already and so they might go ahead and go for their attention. Super Ken’s on the other side of the map. So I think he gives himself the information. Do you want to one v one this one shot? He tried to look for Super Ken but he fails to fight him. He stole away the purple buff actually. I think he got it. One shot got it. Oh but he has Okay, so maybe that was his miracle buff because prior to that I’m not entirely sure if he had his own. But Zo blocking the way. won’t even get to see KBJ uses the AOG on the other side of this area just to ensure the other members of DFYG won’t catch up. Super Ken Sunset Lover gets to spot him though. They’ll try to take him down before they proceed with this objective while Lol just works on the other side of the map. Phon Execution finds Super Kid and Kid Bula once again blocking his path. Will Zet still try to make things happen? It seems like no more as Team Spirit secure the lord. Oh, Zed just on the run. He’s going to have to go back to base. They’re going to make a beline for it after grabbing everything they needed. He’s also going to take the orange buff here. So, one shot will be orange buffed up. And the Lord making its way down the mid. Super Ken still 15 seconds away from being up. So, this is going to be a fourman defense against the full force of Team Spirit. Can they do it? Hulk by going in at the exact same time. Legendary for one shot. And look at Ho just dancing around everyone with the salmon force as Team Spirit finally secure game number one. And there you have it. A strong start for Team Spirit. A dominant win, a dominant lead that they had. Almost 10,000 up to that point. A great showcase here that we saw for this best of three. Yeah, I got to say Team Spirit looks a little bit too strong right now. You know what? I’m with you guys now. Cool. I’m on a team spirit. Now you’re team. Wait, there’s Wait, it’s there’s no way. There’s no The gap is too big. Well, but I got to say I got to say now we need stats on this landlot, man. Cuz I feel like multiple different players have amazing KDA, amazing damage. I mean, like with one skill, you’re able to turn anyone half HP. We even saw in Lancelot full combo destroying a heal up. At at this point, it’s like, guys, something’s wrong. Or is it right? I’d rather let go of the box here and ban out this landslot, man, cuz that’s that’s not fair. Hey, remember when I said this at the beginning of our shift here? I was like, is it going to be time that teams start to ban out the landslot? Maybe they should hear us when we’re not on air. I think they should. But how? Maybe that’s a day. Check out his vlog. I don’t know. Shout outs to N’s vlog. Make sure you guys check it out. But yeah, uh I I I I feel bad for for talking about Super Ken, so I’m going to lay off that for now, but in this game, it really doesn’t look like a good Fanny game, and the changes like the the nerf on the energy really impacted him. I mean, like, yeah, we we see him getting some kills onto the Harif, but it was a little bit too late, you know? Yeah, they probably felt a little more confident to pick it up because they already had the badang or along the lines of that maybe, but it still wasn’t enough because like as we’ve previously talked about, they almost didn’t care about Zed. Can I just say this is also very interesting seeing the uh Zetan with the thrill cuz usually when you look at mid, they usually pick up the rupture, right? Making sure that you have those penetration so that in the early game you get more more damage. Yeah, more damage. So, what would be the point of the thrill? Exactly. So that you the only reason you would pick up something like a Thrill is that if you’re going for a very heavy burst build with a holy crystal so that you have a lot of magic damage to convert for holy crystal more value, right? But I kind of feel like that’s I think Zaten can be played that way, but I kind of feel like as a team maybe it’s just better to make sure that the early game early to mid you’re able to get enough advantage so that Lung feels more comfortable joining the team fight. Yeah, cuz I feel like Brietta pointed that out in the game, too. It’s like, you know, when Super Ken was obviously just dealing with so much pressure in his jungle and then Lung was just trying to like pop off on the side lanes trying to get turrets. It’s like, who is going to be that person to provide that damage in a lot of those team fights when when they actually broke out because that was a big problem that I feel like DFYG just couldn’t solve. Yeah. Uh we did see long majority of the time working on turrets though. So probably even if uh he could have probably dealt with them a number of times. We weren’t able to witness it as much. He did get full build though. I I believe there was a time or when we saw the last item check, he was ahead of Ho in terms of farm, but I feel like for team spirit, it didn’t really matter because their execution relies purely on the team fights. And when they constantly forced these fights against DFY who were either incomplete or were just unprepared, then it was a clear win for them even before the fight started. I mean, these are not so good KDAs for front liners. They were absolutely not able to accomplish or do anything to set up for their team. I got to say I I agree with you there because to break it down very simply, DFY, they couldn’t do their jobs. Yeah. The front line couldn’t do their jobs. the damage dealer couldn’t do their jobs. The Fanny able to take down Hiko like once or twice. That’s that’s his job, but he’s not able to do it constantly. And when we’re looking at a draft, it makes sense, right? The Guushian making sure that the front liners don’t do their jobs. And then when you have the Harif really spamming out that Zaman force just to make sure that there’s a lot of distance, making it so that the FY can’t even start a fight even if they wanted to. So the FY, they just they were choked out out of opportunities. Like before the fight even started, there was a lot of denial coming in from Team Spirit. Yeah, that’s what I was saying. I I think from the very from the very start, it was like they were just struggling to be able to utilize the composition they brought because even when you look at the key players here broken down again, OneShot had all the time in the world to do what he wanted to. Heo too at some point he’s almost felt like he was like jumping in with his Omen Forest very aggressively because he’s like hey I want I want I want in on the action you know like he was hungry for those kills but um again it was just in a situation where DFYG struggled to even get space to work with buffs uh resources and I think a big glaring issue was overall the the team composition that they had. Yep. Even for Kelvj who uh tanked so much of the damage, uh their source of crowd control couldn’t convert all those time or all this time that was bought by Kelvj into something for his team because if he does put himself out there right in front of uh let’s say Team Spirit or a couple of members from Team Spirit, then that’s all he can do because he’ll be forced to run away either way and the other members would be afraid to engage either. their way. So the sequence like how they wanted to do the fights, we didn’t see that as well from DFY because honestly even as Moralda, she’s conditional tankiness, right? If she’s able to stack the shields, then she’s tanky. When you compare to like a phobia, he was born that way. Like mama mama, I’m tanky. He’s he was born with that that weapon too, man. Whatever that it was a rough birth, but hey, they made it work. He came out like that. Yeah, he just came out like that and it’s like I’m ready to play. Infernal Pursuit. Yeah, it took a while for him to get a new skin. Maybe that that that’s one reason, but hey, he’s just by existing the Phobias is already pretty tanky. And this is where we’re seeing in MSC. If you’re ready to fight at any time, then your draft just just uh just is much smoother, much better compared to other teams like I need ABC first and then we’re going to be looking good cuz that’s the FY. They need this to happen and then that to happen and then I need this stack and then I need this item and then we’re good. But by that time it’s too late. I always feel like that’s the the kind of risk when you pick up a Fanny because you’re so worried about securing your your buffs, especially early on because if you get delayed really early, then the rest of the game is actually really difficult. Yeah. And now Team Spirit is looking pretty good. So, we have to see like what is the journey. So, we’re going to see the road to EWC for Team Spirit. Hello, I’m Kumba from Team Spirit. I play XP lane. Feels great to be back in Riad. Our journey was pretty simple because this time in playoffs, we didn’t lose a single series. We would really like to face SRG again just because we felt like we didn’t give our maximum in that series. I don’t take any discredit from the win from them. They won us fair and square, but we would still like to face them again just to get even at least. Team Spirit are incredibly battleh hardened. for two or three seasons now they’ve been tested in their home region and the last time we saw them in the M6 world championship say they were able to make it to the top four spot I think a play style has become more synergized we are connecting our skills way more often and have the same plans in the game already even before splitting them out we’ve been training now in Malaysia for 3 weeks adapting to the Asian meta and I think we’ve been doing a really good job at that so I have high hopes individual player skill every player in the team has what it takes to to be at the top and it just comes down to mental and execution at this point. Watch us in the tournament, support us and we’re hoping that we will get a better result than top four this time, maybe even win the tournament. Nice to know. So, they were boot camping in Malaysia, so they look pretty strong. Anyways, another thing that I really like was that he was saying like, “We want to face up against SRG cuz we feel like we didn’t give it their all.” And he didn’t take any credit from from SRG. they were just playing playing better and then they just want to face back. Like I really like that kind of mentality like we lost that’s it. No real uh what you call it like excuse for why we lost but we want to we want to fight again. I think a lot of the teams here man are are in that mindset. Like we’ve heard I I love the the journey video clips that we get to for all the teams because I know not everybody can keep track of all the different regions competing and qualifying here. So they all come in with I feel like that sentiment that they want to get the trophy. They want to get to the grand final even and so far it’s been a really interesting two days that we’ve had. I know we got to finish up this match, but it’s been great so far. Yeah. And there’s still a chance we see them go up against each other again if they both make it past the group stage. Like if one would actually want to choose them immediately heading into the knockouts if that happens though. But the bigger question is if they’re able to win their first fight here in the group stage against the FY. Basing it from what happened earlier, there is so many things that DFY actually have to address if they want to take away a point from Team Spirit. I feel like let’s start with tempo, you know, have a draft that activates much earlier because going up against the world’s best like they see a mistake coming Mhm. a kilometer away or a mile away, depends on, you know, which metric that you use. Which metric? Yeah. Cuz I kind of feel like once players or coaches see a draft and then they’re like, “Okay, they messed up here. We can start to exploit because ABC are their weaknesses, so we’re just going to go through.” Legit, I feel like day two we’re not going to see Lanclot banned. But looking at the performance today Mhm. either ban it out because even the games that Lancelot lost, it was not the Lancelot’s fault. Yeah. Right. I think again you you you always have to look at group stages especially for international tournaments and and specifically here right now for MSSE is like the testing grounds especially because we’re in that uh we have the teams having the double elimination once eliminated. Yeah. Yeah. So so you can go ahead and look at as a almost a testing grounds for the first couple days. Obviously once we get to tomorrow day number three of the group stages things will I think be even different than what we’ve seen so far. But as we get through this first phase of the bands, it doesn’t look too different, but the Duchian’s actually going to be banned this time. And it’s G. That’s like, you know what, Super Ken, it’s your time to shine. Kalia Farsa, it’s come to a point where they just had to first pick the Lancelot. It’s almost like they’re right next to us. Maybe they hear us. No, hopefully not. Probably not. The headphones are pretty good. Headphones are pretty good. They’re really good. So, is it going to be so? I mean, there’s a Lancelot. Yes. But you got to be brave. They took out the douchin too. Either way. So maybe that could be an option. Not unless or you want to take the fauvious first so that it doesn’t get taken away. Yeah, because it answers the lancelot tool. Yep. There we go. This is already all the tankiness in the world that you need. like these two picks alone that any teams that get the Phobia and the Klaya, you have a bunch of tankiness, a bunch of durability, so you can initiate fights if you want to. And uh whether that’s the Phobia or the Klaya and that’s why it actually works out so well. Um pick off potential too because even if the Ka kind of like whiffs it. Mhm. Uh you also have this like hidden passive. It’s not actually a hidden passive, but you also force the team to take some purifies. I kind of want to see like a a CC Far C Granger here just so that they have some answers for Team Spirit. Yeah. I’m wondering if Long would actually be open to picking the Granger here, though. If he’s if he seems much comfortable with the Moscow, although if they want to play it safe, I feel like we’ve observed it even for yesterday, that might be the way to go, especially with these two front liners that have already revealed themselves in the draft so far for Team Spirit. But I think we’ll have to wait for a bit more. I feel like I feel like it’s fair. It’s fair for you to delay the the gold lane just a little bit. Um the only reason is we just don’t know their their the hero pool. But I kind of feel like when you have a Kalia, you do have to worry about mages that can fight instantly. I’m looking at Lunox. I’m looking at Farell. So at least take one away. If they pick up something like a Zitthan here, I’m just not sure how it synergizes well. uh with the landslot cuz yes, the landslot does a lot of damage, but you kind of want to give him space just to farm up a little bit first. Yeah, it looks like uh we do have a little bit of a break here in the draft. So, you know, once we get this situated for our players, looks like it is on DFY’s side, we’ll get back to it. But, yeah, that’s the thing. I think when you when you have a landslot, there’s actually some good options to complement um the landslot. It’s funny because even having this discussion with some of the other casters out there, it’s just like Lancelot’s so good. Yeah. That like you can almost just rely on yourself to an extent. You know what I mean? Like we you you can be selfish. You can you can be selfish if you want to as a landslot. Uh I’ve never played them cuz I’m I’m not selfish. No, I mean I have but people tell me don’t. Uh that’s awesome. I I I feel like they should give me more chances but at that point they stop playing with me. I wouldn’t. Uh, we we would give you chances. He didn’t hesitate. You did. No, I was thinking if I should say I or we. Hey, you hesitated. I selfish. You’d say I. We. Right now, looking looking at the situation like we we’re here hearing quite a lot coming in from Team Spirit. They’re clapping. They’re loud. I looked over people was doing hand signals. They’re in I would They’re in high spirits. They’re There you go. You said that earlier. Not I’m not taking credit for it. I I already forgot about it. That’s all right. I got a lot of trauma. I got to see a therapist. We can talk about it later. Oh, yeah. Do you have a therapist? I don’t. All right. Well, we’re in trouble. DFY here still. I want All right. Cece. CeCe and Kim. Not going to lie, I already forgot about a Kim. Not Not going to lie. Isn’t it funny? Kim was all over the highlights yesterday. because it’s been banned always for like all of the games we’ve seen today so far. But then then the force is still open if team spirit wants to get it. But still, I kind of feel like it’s a good opener for both because it’s like they’re playing their own game, right? A lot of burst and tankiness coming in from Team Spirit and a DFY picking up that that landslot burst. Uh CC has a lot of CC and and damage towards fours and and Kimmy also have CC. and damage and damage. So, kind of the same. It’s kind of like so many heroes have CC and damage. It’s kind of like most heroes have CC and damage. Crazy. I don’t know what else those abilities would do, but I mean I mean look at Zen. She has CC and damage. Yeah. You know what? Hey, I got nuggets of knowledge, man. That’s that’s definitely a a a valuable one for all our players out there. You should see what’s in my head. Yep. a lot of CC and damage. I’m so curious to see what’s honestly. So maybe uh back to the damage topic, not the CC and damage topic since I feel like we’ll see a lot more difference in terms of that so far. Both I’m liking the damage we’re seeing at least from DFY and Team Spirit in the first few picks. But I’m wondering what what one shot will decide to go for up against the landslot. I mean, if there are other assassins, Hayabusa, they took out the joy, the Hayabusa’s there, but it’s it’s mostly just the Hayabusa and the Lancelot that we see in the assassins in the jungle. What if he plays the Fanny, too? We haven’t seen the Ling. It’s kind of okay going up against the Kimmy, but I mean, I think it’s okay because you have a Farsa, so you’re kind of protected in your own. So, might have to look at the Ling. Is there anything that we’re forgetting? Oh, they took they took the mask off. Oh, no. Now what? Hey, Bru. Not bad. You know, Bru is okay. Bru is okay. Or or if they don’t want all this tankiness nonsense, something like a carry. Yeah. Yeah. At least something to do with this pogus. Even though they already have a CC, so maybe not. Uh, I mean, I’m okay with the carry. I think I’m going to be okay with that. Honestly, I’m okay with Brix as well. Just the moment that Farsawa opens the Father Sri, just drop all of your skills onto her. Oh, the Granger. Yeah, Granger Cho. So, honestly, pretty standard draft coming in from DFY cuz I kind of feel like the win condition is pretty clear, which is CC and damage. Season is about say season damage. I’m worried though because it’s a very squishy lineup. It It’s It’s all about mindset. Yeah, you got to be you got to have the mindset that you’re tankier than you are because I just feel like especially once we see this last pick locked in. It’s going to be the jungle pick for TS and it’s an Akai. Oh, okay. An Akai in the jungle. Hey, you don’t have to be tanky if the enemy doesn’t have damage. That’s one my uncle always says. That’s true. We met his uncle. Yeah. He said you don’t need tankiness if the enemy doesn’t have damage. Very wise man. Yeah. But Akai is tanky. Yes. Akai is tanky. And now I’m going to give it over to you guys where I don’t know. For me, Team Spirit too strong. They might have a sweep here. Once again, thank you Lel for all of the nuggets of knowledge that you’ve blessed us with so far through our drafts today. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome here to the English broadcast. It’s me and Isu and Brianet to bring you the action for game two right now in our last best of three series. And as you heard it, it’s Team Spirit and DFYG going at it. We’ll see if we actually get a one to one in the series. I think this draft is better though, I would say, for DFYG Breida. But it’s a very clear game plan. It’s like we have to end this game early and I don’t know. Do you think they can pull that off? If we see the exact same errors in terms of macro and decision making that we saw in game number one, I feel like that is going to be a struggle for DFYG. But things are pretty different right now. They got their hands on a lot more of the power picks, a lot more of the priority heroes that we see in the draft. So, I mean, that’s probably also why we’re seeing them kind of being a lot more aggressive in the early stages of the game, because this is what they have to capitalize on, and this is probably what they’re trying to do, denying one shot of getting a a smooth experience in the farming, but I feel like he doesn’t mind either way. This is still a again a very tacky jungler. This is the Akai. I was going to say as in the Kai, I don’t think you worry too much if you lose a little bit in the early game, especially against Super 10 here with the landlot. It’s not that big of a deal. You do have uh that tankier options here for Team Spirits they’re going to be playing around with too. We take a look at the emblems. It’s they got the couple of uh concussive blasts still kid Bomba as well. Yeah, you see all those drills over there for DFYG. Um and at the same time, I think this is one of the questions is Will you be able to utilize uh this interaction that should happen from DFYG between the traction pulses? Hopefully kill VJ can go ahead and zone people out on the CC, which we’ve seen happen a lot of times. But this isn’t a vengeance CC either. He’s actually running the purify. There’s three over here for DFY. And that’s exactly what I said about the KA from Solo. So the passive Yeah, it’s a it’s almost a hidden passive that forces that. Oh, Super Ken, he’s able to freely focus on securing the objective. But will he be able to though? He successfully does. One shot tries and try or actually uses the heavy spin to deny that from him but will be unsuccessful. Now Yiwan seems to be the target. Tawo and kid Bomba chasing after him. But that’s where the first fight might just end. Funga have actually gotten a pretty good start. Yeah, they did. They got the objective which is great for them. I mean, I’m actually I’m surprised, too. Uh, no first blood converted off of that. Now, they did get one two of the purifies out in that exchange, and Team Spirit will continue on to go back to the rotation here. One shot once again is is just going to be, you know, part of his option is just to lock down. There’s a kick. Oh, purify already used by Sunset. Lover gets the dodge attraction pulse as well, so he will survive. But I’m liking the pressure from DFYG now. It looks like a completely different version of them if you were to compare it to the way they played game number one. Also probably has something to do with the heroes they have. I mean, I think you have no other choice but to play aggressive if you have the t. Like I said, bring it. They the the the game plan here is to end the game quickly if they can and even if they make it to the late game, like their lineup isn’t going to be completely um out of position against what Team Spirit brought to the table. But that’s where once again you’re going to have to rely on Lung to go ahead and be able to farm up, pop off in the Grangers like we’ve seen before even just yesterday. And uh that’s going to take some work. It’s going to take some time. Tsunami slam committed on to Zed. There will be no other way for him to escape nor look for the counter way of the dragon. That first blood actually went into one shot and I feel like it’s not even his priority to be the one getting the kills. But this helps him catch up or even even out things in the jungle. Yeah, I’m kind of worried for Ya because if they continue to get picked off like that, he’s he’s he’s beefy enough. He’s going to be fine. So, um survives there, but oh, a kick. Perfect kick. All alone under that turret, though. Clearly a great opportunity for DFY to punish him there. But now they know there’s no way of the dragon, but there’s also no way for them to catch up and contest that objective for the second time around. DFYG, this will just help them increase the lead that they have. Yeah, a lot more decisive, I’d say, in this game number two for them. And a great start. They get themselves a little bit of lead. Kim Bula dealing with some pressure. It does feel like they really want to go for Kid Bomba at this point. Purify forced out of E1. Inferno Pursuit still catching up and he gets the last hit to secure the kill. Dark way to knock up Kelvj. Sunset lover. Will he be able to land the curse of the crow, but the purify is there. So Kelvj walks out safe. All right, they they’re able to respond. Uh, also the flickers were burned there. So now Hiko’s dealing the pressure. He knows that Z is around the corner. Um, I’m not sure. Oh no, he probably sensed it, but he tried to defend. So yeah, that’s that’s a trade right there. It’s um a mirrored rotation from both of these teams, but I feel like for Ho that could not have happened, you know. Yeah, and I he had the flicker, too. I I’m actually surprised because I thought he at least knew Edward was saw him there briefly. Attraction pulse could be used, but nothing to follow up through there. So right now it’s Team Spirit, the one trying to kind of get back into this form where it’s like, you know, they let go of the tier one in the bottom lane. And I think they were kind of surprised with that. They did trade it though. So they traded across map which is fine but they’re still you know a bit of ways from this turtles upon oh the purify it almost kept him safe but then sunset lover was there to finish off the job anyway. Super can trying to look for the kill trying to look for the damage but he just stood right in front of the tankiest member I assume of team spirit right now from behind though Z. Oh, misses the knock up on the way of or on the Jeet Kundo to connect the way of the dragon. So, I feel like now Ko’s a lot more locked in. Yeah, well, I just I you know, that was a little bit of a mistake there from Zed, too. I think, you know, the fact that Ho didn’t even have to use the flicker. So, Kin Boom will get kicked. Oh, they try to burst him down, but will they be able to do that? Those are four members, though. They should. And that’s a pickup for DFYG. Will they try to contest the objective this time around though? I feel like they’ve been very unsuccessful in their attempts to do that. Two separate fights happening across the map. One shot already used to feed already forced to use the heavy spin. So yet again and for the last turtle, Team Spirit will have to let go of that. That was just very disconnected I feel like from Team Spirit. I mean there was a whole lot going on everywhere but just not together. There were a lot of different targets but now they have agreed to take down He1 but still he won. All right. They successfully get to eliminate him from the game, but still they’ve been very consistent in terms of the macro for this game. Yeah, doing a great job this game, too. So, they get that uh they get a couple uh things to work with and space to work with. But, you know, three for three on the Turtles is great. It’s going to put them in a good position for the Lord here in a little bit over than a minute. But for Team Spirit, Kico’s been doing work. He’s farming up. We’re taking a look at the items here. He is behind though, so Lung is going to have that advantage. He’s got his sky piercer. Of course, he picked up the maleific. He got the hunter strike earlier on. Working on his next item. Meanwhile, for Ho, he’s going to have a difficult time for this next fight. If they do decide to contest it though, you’re going to have to rely on Sawo, I feel like, to go ahead and get that tsunami slam on the right target. Ah, they actually get to pin Super Can and also use that tsunami slam onto him to ensure the kill. Sunset lover no longer has the better air strike, though. And kid Bomba might be the next to fall, but surprisingly gets to walk away. Saw as well still gets to survive everything. And now Team Spirit will successfully disengage. But it doesn’t change the fact that the control, the map control seems to be leaning to their side. I don’t know why, but for some reason, the Moscows haven’t been that activated so far. Yeah, it’s kind of it’s kind of interesting because I was thinking the same thing. I was like, you know, Monov technically is still a uh constant pick for a lot of the teams, but it just seems like and it’s I don’t know. It’s just like the spirit destructions aren’t where they need to be. There’s a kick from Zed, but not the direction he’s looking for. Wow, even a traction pull. So, the the lord is up. Okay, they go and use those. Uh Superen’s going to start this Lord here. But that’s the thing. You can see even now he goes dealing with the pressure from Kill VJ. We’ll see how they play this out. TS can go ahead and just kind of focus things down. Ho will deal some pressure still. And there’s quite a few members of DFY up here towards the top side. So hopefully Ho doesn’t get caught out. He still has a flicker though, too. There’s four member or three members of DFY. They try or they will try to look for something and they find Sunset Lover. S OD will not connect onto Long, but the other members of Team Spirit have already caught up. They seem to have found a way to look or to deal with long and they finally get to trade out Sunset Lover. But all the while this was happening. Look at Super Ken. But going back to the fight happening here up top. It’s a double kill for Ho. A great chance for them to somehow catch up. Okay, but the the whole time Lord was secured for DFYG. I think they’re happy about that even if they had to lose a couple of bodies here. So for TS, what do they do? I mean off this they can’t get any more turrets. They’re just going to be forced to go ahead and defend. Maybe the whole plan there was to give a couple kills over to Ho so he can you know build up on this Monkov a little bit faster. Yeah. Interesting though. They were able to actually shrink the lead as I was saying from Hoomania. How did it actually Okay, this is literally Heo catching up cuz as I was saying, this was a four or 3k gold lead earlier in favor of DFYG, but after Ho got the double kill, it shrank to 1.5. And with that kill onto Super Ken, it’s now less than 500, even after the Lord. You know, I know we just kind of slammed into Moscow on there, but that’s that never gets old. When you see a spear destruction just even get the killing blow, it’s like, yep. Uh-oh. Conceal. All right, they go for the traction pulls and the way of the dragon, but it’s Sao who gets targeted. Probably not the best option. KBJ tries to threaten the others using the yo-yo blitz and the curtain call, but now without their major resources, will DFYG still want to go for this? Zed seems to be holding this brush. But yeah, as we were saying earlier, Hiko at this point, he is literally catching up. Yeah. To Long. And this might be the time or this might be the point in the game where things kind of change because even despite this current situation in terms of kill score, Team Spirit’s the one actually leading. Yeah, he’s done the work. Saw jumping on with the title strike, but Zed two, he’s going to go for the kick. Oh, one shot. Finds Lone, but he gets to use the purify nonetheless. Boom. A trying to zone out or actually gets to kill Zed. And now on the other side of the map as well, they try to go for Super Ken and they already have enough damage to deal with him. That’s a turret also taken down by the way by Dianong Ya. But still, Team Spirit, this is their chance to equalize things on the map. Oh, they’ve equalized them. Brian Team Spirit has brought that gold lead that DFY had for so long out of here. And Heo again aggressively going forward really relying on the team. We’re going to look at the instant replay. This was great to fight in the feathered air strike. Koma leading that charge. You see them go for it. So him in one shot will deal with this. Meanwhile, he is completely fine as he’s covered with so and sunset lover to be able to get Super Ken. So great decision for Team Spirit to fight that. Now still they’re going to put themselves in a position. This Lord is coming up here in just a couple seconds and they’ll rotate up. They’re in a much better fighting position, but one of the main things is a lot of these flickers are not available. So, they really have to watch out. Oh, they not able to use the way of the dragon traction pulse combo because Sao, he was the one who looked for the initiation now. Trying to regain some of his HP back, but one shot jumping in. Doesn’t use the heavy spin just yet. Zed trying to look for another target, but multiple members are actually knocked up by the Lord. And it’s Z who falls down first. Super Ken nonetheless actually secures the objective. But Ko goes in. He actually takes down the other remaining members of Y from Yao. The better air strike, but it’s a shut down from Super Ken instead. Super Ken staying alive through it all after getting the lore too. That might have just been huge for DFYG. Now Team Spirit back on the retreat. Ho got a little aggressive there thinking that he could get it. that. Oh man, that thorn rose saving the day there for Super Ken. So they’ll clear out this push. Again, they do have a pretty good defense lineup to deal with this Lord, but again, they have to be careful in how they approach those fights, especially around choke points. Yep. Again, the KDA honestly doesn’t matter at this point. The impact Super Ken has or actually has in this game is impressive. That was all the while there was a heavy spin from one shot by the way, but he was still able to secure that objective. And look damage dealing with Heo of all members of Team Spirit who were close and nearby. Yeah, it’s unfortunate. I don’t think Ho Yeah, now he gets the wind in nature. I was going to say if he had the wind in nature for that, that would have been a completely different fight, but he went the maleific gun first before that Wind of Nature. So, um, nonetheless, Team Spirit still in a pretty good fighting position. Same with DFYG. And so, they didn’t convert too much. A conceal can be used. Oh, KBJ. Will he survive this? He unfortunately won’t, but Super Ken might look for the trades. Already using the heavy spin by one shot just to keep them safe. You have to respect the damage that’s coming in from Super Ken at this point. And Team Spirit are probably okay with that single pick off, but Yakim Ya, they actually want more. There’s a beautiful knockoff coming in from Sabo though, and they capture Super. Now Ho finally wants to look for the kills as he was denied of them earlier. Fet spike also committed, but Zed and L are the only ones left alive. Yeah, and that’s not going to be enough to go ahead and defend against this push. They might get in the base, too. He takes a couple raps city shots, but now the base turret. L should be able to clear this out. They might just go ahead and scrap up what they can, the buffs and pushing the rest of the waves here. So, slowly but surely, Team Spirit grabs control of this game, but DF YG still going to be okay. See if they’re go. Kid Bombbo will get kicked again. Not in the angle they wanted. And Kid Bomba just spamming the recalls. Oh, another Tonabi slam onto KBJ. Zo gets to flicker out to safety, but gets punished by Long. So, it’s a one for one trade so far, but Team Spirit just with that attempt got to take down the inhibitor turret in mid. They got the base turret. That’s what they wanted. Lord still a bit away. Not sure if they actually want to uh try to contest for it without Solo. Also, the flicker being burned by Ho is a major battle spell that he needs. So, once again, picks up a little more defensiveness. Has the rose gold now available. So, Lord is up here. What are they going to do? How are they going to play this out? Kill VJ as well. a few seconds away from coming up again. This lord will be started up at this point. The team spirit gains control. Zed though. Oh, they get to poke him. Oh, but sunset lover has to cancel that feted air strike immediately because there was a threat from DFY to actually go for the fight. But still they’re able to position themselves around the objective. Z not full HP though. Towel tried to look for Super Ken, but the reactions were fast enough. There was the Thor grows to actually keep him safe with the dark wave. It landed to kill BJ. He will be the first casualty for this fight. And the tsunami slum gets denied from the purify, but Zed is next. Two front liners once more taken out. Team Spirit again just showing how good they are at the team fighting. So they go and get two. They make their way for this lord. They’re going to be able to go ahead and take it. Will Super Ken try to pull something from a miracle off, but I think it’s going to be too late as Team Spirit will blitz through this Lord take. So now will we see DFY? How do they play this defense? How do they get ready for it? Even down at that mid base turret already, how does how do they deal with this? I mean, the lineup that they have, like I mentioned, for Team Spirit, their defense on the high ground is pretty good, but for DFYG, it’s kind of like they have to play into the ultimates that they have available to them. And how do they use this? you know, how do they use that traction pulse? How do they use um the combination? And and honestly, even down to the fact that the kicks just haven’t been on par, like they haven’t found the right angles that they’re looking for. And that’s the struggle always with the Cho, especially later game, is you kind of are in this position where it’s like, all right, I need to survive enough to get the kick off and most likely I’m going to die. That’s why I have an immortality. And then hopefully that allows me to get in a position where my team has favor. But here’s the lord. It’s out in the base. How are they going to play this defense? Could this be an end angle? There’s the Fed air strike bringing Long down to half HP, but somehow Zed actually finds the kick, but Hiko, he still gets to survive and keep himself alive, but not for E1. He finds the kill onto E1. And there’s the tsunami slam already committed on the super can as well as the heavy spin. They got to lock him down. They got to pin him down. And Zed will try his best to defend, but they won’t be able to anymore as Team Spirit gain access to the base and actually deliver a sweep for this series. And Team Spirit will do it in high spirits getting the sweep here against DFY. Again, a great kind of adjustment that they had to make throughout the game. They were down a little bit. They stayed locked in and they brought it back for the victory. I got to say they got all their bases covered, but the FY there’s a lot that they need to fix cuz I kind of feel like for every single role, there were definitely mistakes that was very apparent in this game and they don’t exactly have too much time to actually readjust all of those. I mean, I don’t know, they only have like what a few hours, maybe a day at most. Um, I hope they fix it because I don’t know. Personally for me, it was quite obvious. Yeah, they they and that could come down again to the, you know, to the draft and but they showed some signs of of hope and brilliance throughout the game. It was just seemed like for DFY, it’s like at some point things just kind of fall apart for them. They don’t get in position where they’re actually able to capitalize on the things that they need to. Yeah. And I especially during the late game because the thing about using a Granger is that you have that sky piercer, right? you need to have that instinct to be able to get those kills and not getting punished. So, the fact that every single time when Lung puts himself in a position that he can get those kills but then almost immediately get get counter back, get punished. I kind of feel like those kind of things are the things that they need to uh really improve on because the mechanics of the hero is not just about pressing buttons, but it’s also about timings, positioning, as well as knowing when you should go in front and when you should hide in the map. Yeah, there were moments where DFYG seemed like they knew what they were doing, but I feel like there were a lot more times wherein they were kind of confused. I mean, I think one of the best examples would be that the traction pulse and way of the dragon combination wasn’t as coordinated for majority of the time. I think Naiso did pointed it out, but yeah, hopefully they get to work on things. Yeah, and now looks like Eterna is ready with Hiko, so we’re going to throw it over to an interview. Hi everyone, it’s Eterna over here with Hiko Mania as he strikes again here at the MSE group stages. Welcome Hiko. Hello everyone. Hello everyone. So cute. So you are one of the youngest here at the MSSE group stages. You’re 17. Is that right? Yeah, you’re right. I’m right. Okay. I think you’re like top two, top three youngest. And who is the youngest? You know, youngest is Boyer. Oh, do you know him? Yeah. It’s Romer from Mythic 2. Yeah. Yeah. So, because you’re so young, I want to know what it’s like back at home. Are they supportive? Are your parents like okay with this? How’s it like back home? Uh, my family very supportive for me. They always text me before and after matches. Uh, and I very grateful for them to support me. What did they say today before your match? Uh, good luck, have fun. Uh, and after game, uh, good game. Uh, uh, and that’s all. Okay. Okay. That’s really cute. So, they are supportive of your journey here as a pro player. That’s amazing to hear. So, back at MSE last year, I think you know what you’re what I’m about to say, right? 9th to 12th place, Hiko. So, considering that now here at MSSE, you’re one game away or one match away of coming to the knockouts, that would be the highest you’ve ever placed at MSSE, do you think your next match will be easy? Uh I think it will be not easy because uh this match uh two was not very easy and we need to uh try hard to win them. So it will be not easy but we I think we we will fight them. Confidence level good. It’s okay. It’s okay. Okay. Hopefully that confidence level you know rises cuz considering from last time we saw you we saw you on the M series stage as well. you have been, you know, changing everyone’s mind about you. Everyone is talking about Hikcomomania and let’s talk about your personal growth a bit. How far and what difference is it now here this time around? Uh right now I’m feeling more like consistent. I’m talking talking more with this team and uh it’s it’s helped me a lot because when you communicate with team you uh play better for me. Okay. So you play better as long as the communication is there. Okay. Cuz back at MCC, we were looking at the past matches and it looks like there was like a global ban system that was in place. Yeah, I was top one Granger in ranking all Granger players in the league. Okay. So, are we going to be expecting a Granger pick soon? Maybe. We will know. Okay. Okay. So, watch out for Hiko’s Granger. Okay. And considering that you know homeboys is next up in your upper bracket match is there a little bit of a revenge match going on because I mean technically you did mention well not you but kid Bomba mentioned that there is a little bit of revenge that they want to take against SRG and I know it’s a different team but they’re from the same country. Is there a story line there that we can you know talk about? You know, every international when I play, I always meet home boys or team vamos like they have same organization and now it’s same organization but different roster. So I always meet homeboy and now my score versus them is one two and I want to make 22 for me. 22 for Hiko. So message to homeboy for your next upcoming match. Uh yes. Yes. What’s Huh? What’s his the message? is the message like what do you want to say to home boys? Uh good luck. Have fun and uh I will beat you. I will beat you. There it is. He mania from team spirit. Once again, congratulations and good luck for your next match. We’re going to throw it over back to our casters. So many so many clip moments. So do you have anything to say to your next opponent? Yes. Hey hey hey. How how comforted are you? It’s okay. It’s okay. And I got to say, uh, hot take saying Vama and Homeboy, same thing. Uh, are you are you offended? No, no, no. It’s just it’s just kind of saying like, uh, Blacklist and Aurora, you know. Same difference. Same difference. Same difference. Let you guys know what I’m talking about. I do. I do. I love that he ended it with I’ll beat you. Good luck. Have fun. I’ll beat you. And the laugh. And the He always has to insert the No. Try it. Try it. I can’t. H. No, it’s just a single syllable. Okay, try it. It’s a single syllable. Oh, that’s how you do it. We can’t even confirm cuz he he he already went away. But that was a very convincing match. It’s nice that he said that, you know, game number two, it wasn’t easy. They had to try for that one. Um, overall, they’re still looking pretty good. And Homeboy, I kind of feel like they do have to worry a bit cuz even though homeboys won, but uh, did they really? Why are you Why are you asking match? Oh, wait. Yeah, I’m the Asian. Sorry. Sorry. My bad. My bad. My bad. My bad. Um, you want me to repeat it? Tomorrow matches. Tomorrow is going to be very interesting matches cuz uh if I’m not mistaken, there there might be some eliminations because now we already have the 10, the 01. And here’s the thing. Here at MC, you win twice, you move forward. You lose twice, you don’t move forward. Just backwards. Backwards. Why do I have a feeling he’ll actually say that? It’s just to keep people on their toes. Mhm. You know. Yeah. I mean like I mean like here’s here’s the thing because the tournament is is ramping up like you said it’s like it’s like testing ground, right? Day one and day two testing ground. We’re seeing the standout heroes cuz even in tournament I was like are you going to be using the green J? Like what do you mean like one of the most used heroes in the in the tournament? I don’t know. Maybe he will. Are you? Yeah, that’s actually what I thought too. And uh you know that’s basically like asking is is Klay gonna be picked? Yeah. Today it’s like I wonder if anyone will have the Lancelot Eternal. That’s fine. She’s It was a good question. No, it was No, you know what? We love We love Eterna and Shouts to And honestly like even the interview that was really good. I like that most of the players, they’re very comfortable uh with the microphone now. And I don’t know, looking at today’s games, we had a big upset in game number three. Game number four, I kind of feel like it went as we thought it would be. Personally for me, I wanted more from Tenfung Yaguay because even Super, he has the experience, but it looks like there were parts of the game where his decision-m could be worked on just a little bit. Yeah. or maybe uh a bit of adjustment too in the draft. I think it’s a it’s a given, you know, but like to be as extreme as picking a Fanny into a lineup that might not be best, you know. Now, we got to look at the match MVP for this one, it should be Ho. And it’s Ho. There you go. I didn’t thought I I I I didn’t realize he had 12 kills. I actually didn’t realize he had 12 either. It No, cuz he had a slow start. He had a definitely He definitely had a slow start. He dealt with a lot of pressure by the way too in the in the gold lane, you know. So, props to Heo. And I think it’s still the same thing. I think a lot of people this MSSE are going to be on that Heo Mania hype. Yeah, it’s because we said the Moscows haven’t been doing that well. As soon as we said that spear destruction, cast or bless or bless. Now, we got to look at the uh groups now. How it be looking like? Because yesterday it was all group A. Today it’s all group B. And now looking at the uh the situation here, this is group A. Nothing has changed because nothing nothing happened yet. You know, team Luca going up against ID, Slango, Red Giants, OG Sport will be going up against Mythic Seal. And of course, we see the matches. Ultra Legends, CFU, Virtus Pro going up against Corinthians. and the bottom one. This is where the elimination can happen because again you you can only afford to lose twice at least a best of three though but it’s going to be very tight for these teams who literally have a single tournament life left and now we get updates for group B as well. So looks like Homeboys will be going up against Team Spirit. Okay, that’s nice to know. Okay, Homeboy, Team Spirit, RQ, Aurora Gaming, Team Flash, and DFYG. Area 77, Area 77, and Onic PH. I can’t I mean, I don’t think they will, but it’s crazy to see Onik PH Yeah. in the bottom. Like, if they I don’t think they will, but if they lose, they will get eliminated. Again, I don’t think they will, but you know, the story line’s there. You That’s almost like you. No, you got to emphasize I don’t think I will. Oh yeah. Yeah. You got to empathize. But come on. What are the chances? You said that how many times do and we just get surprised. Bri is wondering how many more days she has with you on the on the desk. No, I mean just that question. How many more curses am I going to hear? I did not say that, by the way. Why are you looking at me like that? I don’t know, man. You know what? N I’m not I’m not going to do it. But either way, looking at the groups. Looking at the groups, it looks scary for a lot of teams because I feel like especially for group B for today, we can definitely see that there are certain teams, they have the right idea when it comes to how you want to approach the game. It’s just that the execution, you know, it’s it’s one of those things where theory is good. Mhm. But now, how do you do it? Right. You know how to make a sandwich, but can you make a sandwich? That’s a great question. I know I can. I can’t. I can. I’ll do it for you. Oh, you can’t make a sandwich. I can. Did I say? I think I can if I know how. Okay, you know what? Uh, I feel like that’s it. We’re already talking about sandwiches. So, we’re going to be ending the show here. Thank you very much for everyone watching and tomorrow’s going to be more amazing matches. My name is Fel. This is Niso and Brigita. And uh, let’s check out the Kadilla top laser day. Hey. [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. 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