🔴 LIVE | KNOCKOUT STAGE DAY 1 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

🔴 LIVE | KNOCKOUT STAGE DAY 1 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

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[Music] If I had that you What a shame. What a shame. [Music] What you do the way I live? What you do the way I live? The way I live. What you doing? [Music] I do it. The way I live. The way I live. You do it. Way you do it. The way I live. The way you do it. The way I live life. The way I live. You do it. [Music] What a shame. What a shame. [Music] What a shame. What a shame. [Music] If I heard that you If I heard that you [Music] Lately I feel I can’t find my feet pushing closer. My heart skips a beat and now I’m falling falling. Keep it on the fire. I can’t control this fire so black and white. It’s like I told him things that I can’t fight. I just keep going. I just keep going in my p my dreaming of a space to really feel my place. I wish you seen what I had dreamed when I had dream before these darker days. I thought I found my way quickly face losing the race closing the page and then I move myself again. [Music] Time moves fast. I feel my heart beating me. [Music] Oh, [Music] [Music] and now I’m falling. Even a rough way I can’t control and control. Dark against the sky is not so black and white. It’s like I told him the things that I just keep going. I just keep going. I just keep It’s better than the Onyx teams of the past from Indonesia that just dominated. This time they were tested. They struggled. They rose above that. And I think that just makes better teams. set up then yeah. [Music] Hello, I’m Kumba from team spirit. I play XP lane. Feels great to be back in Riad. Our journey was pretty simple cuz this time in playoffs, we didn’t lo 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 want 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 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 and maybe even win the tournament. [Music] [Music] 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. Foreign speech. Foreign foreign foreign speech. [Music] 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. There is a blaze in disguise, but it’s too late. The cavalry reclaim the throne. Our toughest run in MPL PH 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 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 why not always tells us that no matter what never 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 [Music] [Applause] Hi Ken I play for Mythic Seal and I play in the jungle room. The toughest moment was in the grand finals because uh the first game we lost and everyone’s mental was maybe a little bit down and we were all tired because we had to play uh lower bracket finals in early in the morning. So, everyone was tired and we lost the first game. So, it was kind of like a setback but we overcame it as a team. Uh, I told them I told my team just just don’t care if we lose. Just play one game at a time. And that’s what we did. And finally, after being so loyal to Mythic for so long, going over that hurdle, there was a moment where people thought, “Oh, it’ll be Young and Galactic most likely.” But now they were able to ek it out and they made it. Cutie finds the kill. The base is wide open. After three heartbreaking runs, Mythic Seal have broken through the doors of destiny. They finally rise to the international stage at MSC XWC. I just learned not to be afraid of losing anyone. I’ve had to grow a lot over the past year or so. Now, since I’m the leader and I’m the oldest in my team, uh, I have to be an example to my teammates. But I’m really happy to be back and I hope that I can really prove something here. [Music] [Music] This is [Music] [Music] ID. [Applause] And grand finale. [Music] Grand final. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hi guys, I am Oab, the gold dainer of Team Liquid Philippines. Being here in EWC 2025 feels amazing because it’s my first time being here and um I think we have a great chance at getting the trophy for the Philippines. Very excited to have them back on the stage. More importantly, I think it’s great to see that this is one of the few titles that they are looking to conquer, right? I think this is not the strongest form of Team Liquid yet because we haven’t won an EWC title yet. If we win this EW Sunday in 2025, I can confidently say that this is the strongest form of team liquid. My team now makes me feel like I belong to the team and we are so close and connected to each other that even if we don’t talk to each other in coms in game, we just know what what we’re going to do. This a new age in MLB. Rusco goes down. There is a blaze in disguise, but it’s too late. The cavalry reclaims the throne. stamp meeting through Stallion. I think this is the year that we have we might have a shot at winning the MSE title. My expectations for Team Liquid. [Music] Who take the longest to prepare in the morning? Who always late for practice? Who like to eat during practice? [Music] Who is the harder carry in the game? Who is the most toxic? [Music] Different camera and Who has the most skin in the game? because they top up 1 million. Who is always play social media? Who is the best singer? Who is the best dancer? That’s got [Music] heat. [Music] Hold [Music] it forward. Forward. [Music] All right, guys. We’re here at the layer of the world’s deadliest gamers. Okay. Shh. Tone down a bit. You don’t want to disturb them. They might get annoyed. Let’s go. Let’s go. [Music] Guys, come look. That right there is one of the world’s Well, actually, the deadliest marksman. Hey, shh. Be careful. Very careful. He actually sleeps like that, though. Yeah. I can’t believe he actually sleeps like that. That’s completely normal. Completely normal. Oh, look at that. What the heck is the best XP in the world doing? Oh, I think that’s their exercise. That’s a weird form of meditation, bro. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It’s physical warm-up, I guess. I don’t know how it works, but it seems to be working, so, you know, might as well not question it. Anyway, you know what? This is Knockouts day number one. [Music] Oh my god. [Music] The journey to encounter the unknown continues today where the best teams in the world, they have risen to the occasion for fame, glory, and that $1 million prize pool. All of the best are here and now they’re competing at a knockout stage. Welcome to the English broadcast here at MSC Esports World Cup in beautiful Riad. My name is Ael. Alongside with me is Destroyer as well as Leo. How are y’all feeling? I am happy to be back. A lot of people were saying, “Lo, where are you? Knock us about to start.” I am here and I am for it. Destroyer, welcome. Thank you, guys. It’s an honor to be here with such legends, Leo Lafel. Guys, I really appreciate to be here in Riad. Guys, it would be amazing. Honestly, the honor is ours. But now, Leo, I got to talk to you about this because this has been a journey for about a month. It all starts with the wild card. Talk us about it. 23 teams started and now we’re down to eight. Right. It started with the eight teams who were hopeful to make it to the groups and as mentioned, I was lucky enough to be there, honored to call that match and your boys came through. Verus Pro, short to say, ran through the competition. the Bears, you know, the Bears, they made it real for the region. And actually, it’s the first time when we see the wild card team from I mean from EIA region, they going through it and they taking over it. They going further and to the group stage. That was really amazing performance. For the first time in history, EC had two slots. You’re saying first time first time ever. Honestly, I got to say MSE this year has been absolutely amazing. And talk about MWI as well. North America actually went all the way to the grand finals. So that was that was an amazing run. We got to see here at MSE, can any other team really replicate it because so far a lot of the Southeast Asia region really being at the top? I want to see if Aurora, maybe even Team Spirit goes all the way to the grand finals. Oh, bump it out. You know, it would be hard. It would be hard definitely because their priority for most expectation and I guess for the audience is Filipino and Indonesia. Yeah. But here’s the thing. We got to recap about what has happened this entire month ahead. Let’s look back into the group stage with the Kadilla top plays to really see all that has happened. I got to say there were a lot of surprises happening during the group stages. That’s right. Uh this here not one of them. Liquid dominating but Aurora though. Aurora from Turkey coming through and taking down the M6 world champions. I remember the very moment I was watching this. I’m like, I didn’t sleep that night. What’s going on? What’s going on, guys? It was really unpredictable. And you know, the drafts, the drafts of Aurora, it’s making something unexpected, something unreal. And you see, no, no, it it can work, but it works. Honestly, I still remember the Atlas pick. Oh my goodness. I’m I’m still waiting for the time that can be an actual meta. But yeah, a lot of upsets, a lot of amazing picks, a lot of emotions. And now we’re looking at the reactions presented by Crunchyroll where we see the the the victors enjoying, but at the end of it, we also see the losing team having a lot of heavy emotions as well. And to see the teams that are actually in control, the teams that have come through again, the two O’s and the teams that had to say goodbye. You’re talking about the Bears. Oh yeah. I It’s emotion. This is this is esports. This is competition. That’s why we are here. And that’s why the audience like it, you know, when I see the u price of the teams, I’m like super glad. And when I see uh unpredict unpredictable moments like the Aurora or even my seal if you’re going to speak about them, it’s also kind of interesting. Spoken like a true local. That’s what they call him back in Myanmar. Yep. Sounding like a Burmese already. But now we got to look at the playoff bracket. All thanks to our 20 winners selecting the 21 winners as their opponents. We’re looking at the left side as well, the right side of the bracket. We see Team Liquid Philippines choosing Aurora as their opponents. Mythic Seal didn’t have much of a choice getting paired up with Any Indonesia. RQ chose SRG as their opponents. And last but not least, Team Spirit having to choose between two Onyx. They chose the one from the Philippines. Kid Bomba was super confident. He just said, “King Kong, come here, bro. We want this. Let’s make a show.” But Kid Bomba made himself endeared. He is now the sweetheart of not just the Philippines but also Indonesia. What he did, his decision allowed for both a Filipino versus Filipino and Indonesian versus Indonesian grand finals possible. The hero for Indonesia and Philippines. He is He’s an honorary Southeast Asian. With one move, he made two different countries very happy. Well, possibly because right now we got to look at the prize move to see what they’re really fighting for. Because when you’re choosing your opponents, you got to have the idea that you can win that because look at the prize pool here. Just focusing on first place, $1 million. Now, that is life-changing. That’s just for the winner. All right. Everybody else gets a share, a cut of the $3 million prize pool all the way. Even the teams that have gone home, even the teams who played in the wild card, the top 16, the group six teams, they’ve already gotten a cut of the three gigantoonies that have been dished out here at EWC. That’s kind of a lot of money. Actually, even if you leave now, you still you’re going to be rich. Oh yeah. You’re going to have everything you want. At least a lot of meals, a lot of drinks, and you will be happy. It’s kind of like, hey, you know what? Good news, bad news, bad news, you lost. Good news, still got a whole lot of money. But now we got to look at the other reason why they’re fighting. It’s not just for money, but it’s also for the honor of their clubs. We’re going to be looking a bit of an update here for the uh Club Championship presented by STC where we’re looking at Team Liquid as well as Team Spirit. Currently tied at seventh place with 1,200 points. Now, here’s the thing, folks. Team Spirit, they already have a championship under their banner, but Team Liquid, despite having that many points, they have not won yet. So unless Team Liquid wins here at MSE, technically they’re not qualified to even go for the club championship concurrently alongside the mid-season cup here. Chess is running and Liquid has a solid chess roster. But also just to acknowledge the elephant in the room name, the kingdom in the room. What if it’s not Liquid or Spirit who wins this whole thing? What if it’s RQ? RQ’s on the board, by the way. Yes. Not that much different, you know. 300 points, even less. 250 points and that’s all. They’re going to top one. Honestly, like the club championship is something that we really have to look out for because heck, it could change at any moment. Thank you very much, SDC. But now we got to look at the Ramco power rankings to really see out of all the eight teams, where do everyone stand? Looking here, S tier, we got TLPH as well as Onyx ID. Can you help explain us? Uh, Leo, those are tournament favorites. Again, everybody knows that Liquid is on a rampage. On Indonesia, Sky Kings, new heights. But here’s the question. Why is the defending champions and the M6 world champions in a tier? Because I think they underperformance. You know, this makes it true. Yes, that’s true. Let’s be real. It’s uh because of that because Liquid pretty confident. Uh Oni Indonesia pretty confident. But on Philippines lost siology. They lost. And uh you know I also want to mention about team spirit. They’re going higher and higher. Mhm. You know what folks here in the English broadcast the language that we speak is English but destroyer decide to speak the truth cuz that is our hot take presented by Alhabib Medical Group. This is the doctor’s note where we got defending MSE champions SRG OG as well as the world champions on Philippines and they’re only a tier. They’re not the favorites to become the champion of the whole thing. You could have put four teams in S, right? You could have put these teams in S. But I don’t know, man. Uh the doctor’s notes, this is where we discuss it. The Dr. Sullean Alhabib Medical Group, they wouldn’t lie. They they speak the same language as Destroyer. So now the question is, what about B teams? Is it fair for us to put the teams there too? Cuz my seal they were 2. Aurora they also upset they also beat Onik. Why do they why do they belong there? You know there are some reasons. First of all uh the Turkish region they didn’t perform super uh well for the I would like to say for one year something like that. And yeah even if they beat sometimes the uh Philippine teams still they need time. Yeah but again they look absolutely amazing. Right now, we’re going to look at the schedule for today because we’re going to have two best of fives. And even though it is an opportunity for them to move forward, this does mean that two teams will be eliminated today. We’re starting off with team Luca Philippines going up against Aurora. And then it’s going to be Mythic Seal going up against Onyx Indonesia. Literally, go big or go home. There’s no two ways about it. You step through the brackets or you get sent home packing. You take home your so many thousand US dollars, but that’s it. And you know the most challenging here because of the single elimination because you don’t have an opportunity to step back. You you can’t bounce back. You don’t have the second chance to move further. You need to do it right here right now. So here destroyer I really want to ask you a question because Team Liquid definitely one of the favorites here but we all saw the reaction of Rosa when they were chosen as their opponents. Do you think this could potentially be a mistake coming in from Team Liquid Philippines for choosing Aurora over the other teams? I just saw the expression of Ros and he was like, “What? Are you sure you want this? Are you sure you want this? We are the only region that can beat you.” I think it’s more that I think it’s more that than oh no, we have to face the defending Filipino champions, ML Philippines season 15. They took down M6 champions Onyx all the way in seven and now we have to fight him. Look at that. Look at the aura that emanates from Aurora Gaming. They’re they’re taking the trophy and I don’t think they’re going to let it go so easily. Not in the best of five. Not like this. I’m pretty sure that this will be five games, five maps because yes, I’m confident as they are, you know. And you know what? I’m feeling comfortably in my chair. I don’t mind staying here the entire day because hey, this is the knockout stage. Once you’re done, you’re done. No second chances. And if it means we get to see the best of the best in the realm of MOBBE sports duke it out, I’ll go all the way. If they can go seven, if only. But no, I mean, it’s fine. I mean I mean like here’s the thing, right? Uh we’re going to talk about this a little bit later, but this MSE is probably one of the most balanced MSE by having a lot of heroes uh all across from Wildcaugh all the way here. But now we’re looking at Team Liquid, Sanford, Carl, Tey, Sanji, JP, as well as OH. Which of all the five players that we really have to look out for? I think it’s the chef is the team captain. It’s Sanji. He was very very vocal throughout the group stage. You saw that whenever they won, he was the first to stand up. Whenever they won, he was the first to congratulate everybody and scream at their opponents across with with love with sportsmanship. So I’m thinking like this is Sanji’s era. Like there was there’s an MVP season for all of them. This is Sanji’s. So, you think that it will be an easy trip for him versus Rosa? I don’t think it’s going to be easy. I think it’s going to be fun. Oh, definitely. Yep. And now we have Aurora Gaming, Lunar, TNZ, Rosa, Apex 47, as well as Sigum. Let’s talk about this. What do you think Rosa’s chances are going up against Sanji? Uh, I’m thinking that he’s pretty confident about his picss. Also he you remember his expressions when uh he was interviewed and there was information like you got a fat champion pool. He said what what I’ll prove you I’ll make it real for the Turkish region and we’ll show you that I got a lot of picks and you will be surprised. I mean here’s the thing. We’re only minutes away from starting the first best of five of the baby and then we’re going to see. Hey, is it true? Can you only win with Selena? Looking at the stats, it does look favored for Aurora once they get the Selena. But I’m pretty sure they had a few days. They had a few days worth of break to really study Team Liquid. So, I’m pretty sure they prepared something else. Heck, maybe they have their own chef just to make sure they got something new, something fresh. And right now, you analysts, you guys already see the stage already set up. We’re only moments away. We’re at eight teams. The best that the world has to offer is fighting here for $1 million US. Let’s encounter the unknown. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Applause] Heat [Music] up here. Over [Music] the past five days in the group stages, we have witnessed 16 teams from different regions battle it out for their victory. However, today only eight remains. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the knockout stages of MSSE at EWC 2025. My name is Rose and it is an honor to share the stage with Milos. The honor is all mine, Rose. What a wonderful week of competition that has happened to lead up to what it is today. The motto of MSE is encounter the unknown. And if you’ve made it here, you’ve had to go through the gauntlet of your own region and the unknown once you face opposing regions here in Riad to get to this spot. A 3 million prize pool in USD that is that is hanging above everybody competing. A million dollars if you win the tournament and a,000 club championship points for everybody competing here in the EWC club championship. That is lifechanging. That is definitely lifechanging money and hey the pressure that that comes with ooh I don’t think that is something to play with. Now after the group stages we have actually witnessed a group draw that played out in which the two O teams managed to draw from the 21 pool. We ended up with eight teams and I think it is time to show the world the eight teams in the knockout stages for our first team. This team took the world by surprise after they have dropped the defending champions to the lower bracket, making them the first team to qualify for the knockout stages. It is none other than Mythic Seal Boy Ken Zippy Niko The MSL champions are finally back on the international stage after 2 years of absence. Welcome. It’s good to have you on here. Their win record, however, in 2025 qualified them and gave them the spot here at MSC25. Their roster is known though for rapid adaptation, but their strategic depth is pretty darn incredible. That is our first squad, Mythic Seal. However, next up, it’s none other than Onyx Indonesia. Luty, Kyrie, Sans, Savo, and Key Boy. The Sky Kings return to the NSC and knockout stages in hope to reclaim their former glory. With a journey filled with ups and downs, a team with a combination of veterans and rising stars, it is time to see what the Indonesian champions has for us. And of course, up next, hailing from the same region, the King of Kings is an attempt to get their own taste at an MSC championship. It is the kingdom. It is RRQ, [Music] Rinse, Sutsuin, Edok, Dyron, Toy. The Rex Ragnum, the Kings of Kings, one of the most legendary teams in MPL Indonesia, from which they hail. And finally, they graced us here on the MSC stage. Their legacy stretched back eons all the way back to season 1. And here they are once again on the international stage in Riad. And they look finer than ever for that gold though. Next up on stage, it’s Team Spirit. [Music] Kid Bama, One Shot, Sunset Lover, Pico, and Sao. After an amazing run in the M5 and the M6 in which they finished top four, the EECA team started the group stages with utter dominance, finishing two O’s without dropping a single game. And now they are ready for their long overdue championship. That is team spirit. And of course up next, the reigning world champions are here to try and attempt to get their shot at the MSC championship. It is none other than the super family from the Philippines, Ank Philippines. Kirk, Kelra, King Kong, Brusco, Super Friends. Oh, this is the Filipino super family and they are back with a vengeance for scaring the title of M6 world champions into MSC 25. That obviously comes with a lot of glory and reverence. But remember that crown puts a target on your back and they’re definitely going to be playing through the gauntlet to get to the final and hold their MSC trophy should that happen. Next up though on stage is Salango Rink Giants OG Esports Creme Sakai Stormmy Innocent and Yums. And there you have it, the defending champions of MSC hoping to break history in attempt to get the first backto back championship. Of course, to defend the crown for themselves and for their nation. Although they did have quite a shaky start in the group stages, will they be able to maintain it? There is only one way to find out. Are you telling me at this point or that not only do we have the tippity top of every region, but we also have the reigning M6 world champion, the reigning MSC 24 champions, and they’re all competing in the same bracket for one crown trophy. Yes, that is what I’m saying. But earlier on we said that there were eight teams. However, we have only introduced six and that is because the last two teams will be kickstarting our knockout stages. And of course, hailing from the Philippines, the Filipino champions, the Cavalry. It is Team Liquid. Oh, Carl Sezy, Sanji, Sanford, JB. Entering MSC as one of the fan favorites. They have lived up to the hype by finishing the group stages without losing a single game. Fastest total game win time in the group stages and a team backing Carl Tezy to compete his trophy cabinet. It is the Calvary. It’s Team Liquid. My god, this is incredible. A an incredible hello from the players that are even here cheering on their Filipino brethren though. Next up on stage is the ones and only from Turkey. It’s Aurora Gaming, Lunar, Kenzi, Rosa, Siggy Boom, and Apex 47. The Sultanss of MTC have entered the MSC stage, forming the region’s allstarstudded roster. Their goal is clear. Redemption from M6. And for that, you’ll have to keep a keen eye on their drafts and their early game aggression and pressure. It’s good to have so many people cheering on our teams, even on a day where they’re not even supposed to be cheering through it. It’s a lot of fun. Gentlemen, please. Our game now gets serious. Aurora Team Liquid, you may place your tablets, take your seats because the heat is turned up to 110. Oh, definitely. I feel the heat and I feel the energy from the players at the Amazon Arena. Now, I just like to remind everybody that the knockout stages is a single elimination format. For the first four matches of the knockout stages, we will be witnessing a best of five. And obviously the winner heads onto the semi-finals. And the losers, well, their journey here ends. Yeah. Their hopes and dreams and including their keys will all be crushed right here on stage. But maybe glory awaits. Oh, the unknown is what we’re looking to dive on through. Let’s start off with our game. That’s us from the stage done. Let’s get it started. Thank you very much, Rose, as well as mesh. Thank you very much for in inviting the teams onto the stage. Nothing is granted. Everything is earned. And you heard them right folks. That’s a five. Winner semi-finals. Loser. The journey ends here. And the keys get crushed. Shout outs to the drummers as well. Amazing performance. Inviting all the teams. Now we’re seeing both teams here on stage. Team Liquid as well as Aurora. How you feel, Neo? Looking at them. You think they look prepared? Liquid is never prepared. If anything, even in the face of failure, Liquid goes in 150 mph. Aurora is the enigma I’m not sure about. That’s why when you’re talking about keys to victory, I think this is straightforward for Liquid. You got to draw the line between cheese picks and power picks. Both work for you. Prove that there are more tricks up the Thorn Queen’s sleeves. Uh check what they’ve got going. See what MTB and Dex are cooking and secure a fast killing hero for Sig Boom and own uh the uh lane that you’re in. I think that’s for both sides. Yeah, I I got to say kind of looks like for Team Liquid, they just got to make sure that they set the tempo. Don’t play in Aurora speed. I kind of feel like that’s a pretty good way to approach the match going up against Aurora. And if he’s speaking about the Aurora, you know, I like the Apex 47 expression when he comes, he’s smiling, you don’t know, he’s happy. You have no idea if he’s upset, maybe. And so the kids draw the line between cheese pigs and power pigs. Yep. So, these keys of victory are indeed for both teams. Liquid, Aurora, and both. And honestly, it’s really about what are the surprising picks that could come up here. And I kind of feel like it’s especially for Aurora, what else does Rosa have up his sleeve? Because honestly, looking at at all the things like he’s been using the Lilia, he can use the Farsa. He can use a lot. And for you guys at home, make sure you guys keep logging into the game because you guys don’t have much time left for the Allstar event. It’s all the way up until the 5th of August. So, make sure you guys slay the lord as many times as you guys can because the thing is complete the quest and you guys can grab yourself a free Popball and Koopa skin. So, good luck to you guys. There’s not much time left. And now, let’s go back into the match here. I’m waiting for the draft because I really feel like for Team Liquid, I think it’s all solved. But for Aurora, they might have to be creative here going up against Team Liquid. First of all, I got a popular Koko skin. The second thing I want to mention, congratulations, by the way. Congratulations. Yes. Yes. Thank you. And the second thing I want to mention, if you mentioned that Rosa can actually pick not only the Selena, but also Lilia. It’s a signature pick of the Rosa and uh he knows how to use it. But oh, actually we are going to the draft phase. Let’s go guys. Yep. Team Liquid will be first pick. Aurora will be second pick here. Now Team Liquid, they ban out the Fanny as well as the Selena and Aurora betting out the Yun Shin as well as the one. So even with the bands here, Leo, it does look like they want to make sure that the tempo doesn’t go so fast for Aurora. Two midlane bands here. What do you think about this? I think they’re really just attacking Rosa. They understand and they know that it is in the hands of the torn queen how well Aurora plays. Now check this out. This opens up so many power picks for Liquid, right? You have a first pick Lancelot, a first pick Kimmy, a first pick Arlot, and yes, Kalia, they usually ban it, but here they let it open. I wonder if that’s the direction they’re going here. Yeah, now we’re looking at a headto-head here for Sanji as well as Rosa. Looking at the average KDA, very different. 7.75 for Sanji. 3.20 for Rosa. Looking at the damage as well, like it’s amazing coming in from Sanji almost 3,300. But Rosa is not far behind, especially considering the heroes like the Jushin. But now jumping back in TLPH, they first pick this landslot against Aurora who now has the Phobias as well as the Kalia. It’s a perfect pick for the Carlizia and I really expect he will perform well especially you know I checked the statistics and for the Lancelot it’s nearly 50% but if you are speaking about the Fios it’s around 60%age and the Kalia if I remember right around 70 so Aurora is just trying to focus on the power heroes I love how Aurora jumped on the fauus it essentially blocks one of not just Liquid’s power picks but even in the meta itself Arlet by picking the Phobias you kind of stop the Arlet from coming through even in Rome. So Liquid answers back with a resurging hero in Gatot and of course the Zushin one of the only midlaners left. What does this leave for Rosa? A Lilia, a Valentina. I don’t see anything worth stealing yet. I kind of feel like you need either burst or survivability cuz going up against the landslot is not easy. So you’re saying Zetyan? Hey, maybe that’s the only one left. Hey, if it’s Zatan, they probably will wait all the way through because right now we got to look at the picks here. It looks like Aurora, they are countering uh what TPH has shown. Oh, you pick up the landslot. We need a way. We need crowd control. So, we got the Kalia as well as the phobias. But now TPH having the kat as well as the juin. It does look like they want to be able to fight at any moment of the game and that’s why we see the response here with Kimmy. If they want to fight, hey, Kimmy can fight back. I would have liked the Zetian better, but hey, Kimmy does well. Kimmy is still very much in demand although her win rate has dipped. Uh she is sitting at about 56%. That’s not so bad. Actually 48% win rate. Yeah. Just the group stage. Oh no no this is all of MSE. Yeah. Yeah. But what we talking about the group stage is 38%. And actually I think the Kim is a little bit overrated hero. Uh same as Zetan. I think these two heroes maybe will disappear in some time but here is a good pick because they banned Baka and it’s also a decision making. So right now I got to ask you here uh destroyer this aon ban what what do you think about that? I think it’s a target bond definitely because they already showed Aurora knows how to play. Tinsi actually performed well with this hero. But I think it’s also an opportunity for the uh team Liquid to remove the additional damage dealers because Aurora right now they need damage. Then the kind of damage that they need exactly is physical. Uh but luckily they still don’t have a jungler and they still don’t have a sure gold laner. Uh is still out in the wild. Granger is also still out in the wild. So there’s many choices left for Aurora. I think Liquid are just kind of cordoning off the heroes that they’re afraid of. There’s the Hayabusa. Yeah, honestly, Hayabusa getting banned. Good band. We haven’t seen a lot, but we know it’s still very strong. Other assassins were still looking at something like the Joy, which is still getting picked up here and there. Um, my my real question right now is coming in from TLPH, I wonder what what OH will pick up because I look at the very good early to mid, but just to be safe, I kind of feel like you want to make sure some kind of late game scaling is still there. I think uh first priority for Team Liquid to ban enemy assassins is super good and there are not much heroes left. Actually uh if we speak about more utility, I don’t think that they going to pick Fredan. I still think that they need the damage. So Aurora is saving TNT’s pick an assassin here. Uh what could that be? Liquid picks up the CC. Very solid performance so far. They’re used to banning it. So they understand the power of this pick. Now what does OH play? You have Granger, Iritel, Harth. He does well with Harth. Oddly enough, he’s one of the few people in all of the post 1.90 hotfix meta to do well with the Harth. Actually, Har got pretty high win rate, but not that much picks. But I think that would be much better if they took the Granger. Yeah, I know. Har sucks right now cuz of the fauvious and you’re overloaded with your purify because of the uh Kalia. So, yep. They they’d rather do this infinite scaling. Now, what does TNZ play? Honestly, at this point, I might even consider that utility. Even though, yes, I agree, they do need damage, but when you have a Kimmy, you kind of want someone to just stay in the front line. And Kalia is not really a front line hero. Yes, but you got Fio. You got Fus. You got an amazing front lane, a lot of dashes from the left side, and you understand that you can sustain in the fight. Uh, also, you need to burst damage right now, right here. You want to take the Lancelot for example at the first target and just remove him and then fight five versus four. Mind you, Tenzi has already played the likes of a Guushian jungle, a gyne jungle. By the way, right here, I think it chain control. It’s got to be utility gwy though. It’s not damage Gwyn. Uh Liquid kind of locked out that Fredin because of the CC. Instead, it’s a joy. So, still damage, still assassin. I mean like they need a way to deal with the Jian as well as the Granger. So really understand the picks here. Destroyer, what are your thoughts on this both picks? If I don’t look at the nicknames and just decide about the picks, uh I still would stay with the Team Liquid because of the combination with CC and Gat. The curtain call makes it. If that joy was only a Freder, I think it would have been a better double marksman lineup. But no, they couldn’t Fredin anymore because of the affformentioned CC. So, I’m all in liquid, too. All right. Thank you very much, gentlemen. Thank you very much to our analyst, Destroyer, as well as Leo. This is going to be the first game of the day. And with that, I’m going to be throwing it over to our casters. Thank you for the throw and thank you for the opportunity. joined here on the desk. This is TX and Mirao and we’re jumping in to not only the first game of the Knockout Series, but the 500th game of MSC. This is Aurora going up against Team Liquid. How you feeling, Mira? Hey, feeling great here. Trex again getting to cast with you. It’s been a while since she’s capping together. It’s great that we get a chance to again cast the 500th game at MSC all the way from the start of 2017. Early aggression going to be a shot down. First blood to Rosa already 30 seconds in, 40 seconds in. And we were already talking about the mid lane clash. JP taking a bit of damage. Should be okay. But the mid lane clash is already there right now. Really comes down to the mid prio, dude. Like when you have Kimmy, when you pick up Kimmy, it’s already kind of guaranteed mid pryo. You add in the KA that KK combo is a bit too much to handle, especially considering Liquid don’t really have the best of clears and trades early on with the Juicin and Gate. They kind of have to just play for the Turtles, neutral objectives, play with that utility later on to set up with the carries in XP and Carl in the jungle. Yeah, I mean, taking a look at the mid from Aurora Gaming with these emblems. We’ve got Wilderness Blessing, we’ve got speed, I mean, quantum charges around the map. They want to move fast and we’re already seeing the aggression come off early. And against a team like Team Liquid that likes to get aggressive as well, this is something personally I didn’t really expect. You can really see the uh respect though given over to Aurora. They know Team Liquid that they’re going to be in a tough spot here without Mid Pryo. Firmness, tenacity over the double tenacity, the brave smite too just all around sustain. And for Aurora, they really want to lean into that power. Sigu in the bottom lane to be caught. Has a flicker gets away but gets taken out by Carl Tezy. Very well done by Carl Tezy. securing a kill early on on the land slots’s going to be huge. Aurora though still trying to I mean it seems like Aurora on the other hand sticking together looking for this turtle play. They have to go for a trade on the other side of the map. You know they just lost their gold lane. Luckily for them it is weak side. Tenzi might have to use the retribution here. JT’s walking up. It’ll be the retribution straight into the engage. No electrifying beats. Full stack. Carl Tezy on the other side picking up the purple buff as he runs back. But Tenzi stayed a bit too long. Gets caught by Sanji. That’s huge. that I mean that Team Liquid still up on gold. They lose the turtle, but they gain so much more earlier. They get the kill into the gold lane, now a kill on the jungler. Two heroes that you don’t want to lose this early on for Aurora Gaming. Team Liquid taking a more divided approach to these fights, not wanting the big grouped up fights because it seems like Aurora kind of wins out in that a bit. But as long as they can single people out, they’re winning. And you can see the instant punish, the capitalization right off the kill over to Tenzi. A green camp taken the purple buff earlier traded for the turtle. It’s immense value for the Lancelot in the jungle. Carl hasn’t even taken his own orange. He might just be two levels ahead despite losing out on turtle. I mean, he gets the kill. Doesn’t need turtle. Who needs it when you’re when you’re farming elsewhere on the map right now or gaming though, I think after losing to all right, maybe we do need to slow it down a bit, but still Rosa. I mean, just so aggressive and this is what you get with the Kimmy. You get the ability to kite. get the ability to constantly just stiff arm your enemies away. But watch out for Sanji. Should be okay. Things back to a stalemate. Where do we go from here? Do we think it kind of hits hits the brakes a little bit? Yeah, definitely. Aurora were really trying to push in the pace early on with their mid pryo, but unfortunately they just don’t have the winning lanes, right? Maybe up top for Turtle One. Turtle 2 onwards though, it’s going to be tough as the CC continues to scale up. The Moscow is more of like a dead lane. At least that’s what you want as Moscow. You don’t want to trade in for the most part. But what you want is just to farm up to wait for those three item power spikes and to just play safe weak side. Good taunt over Rosa gets away. I mean that comes in for a bit of Aurora Gaming here, right? Even even the Joy who has a an okay early game still once you get Holy Crystal and you’re really outputting once you have Kimmy a couple items in you’re really outputting. And I mean overall Aurora Gaming a high damage team on their side. I’m not trying to say that Team Liquid isn’t the same. Lunar though in a little bit of trouble. Gets the dark wave on too. Hasn’t been pursuit. Will be able to go for it now with the sustain as well. 47 rotates over Tenzi fully sacked up with the lef beast. Now AOG Lunar flicking out of safety. JP looking for the taunt. Unable to get it. Tenzi still able to escape as Apex 47 goes with the passive in back and forth still saving the tsunami slam. The damage from Rosa is already chunking away at some of the squishies but coming up on the turtle. Mhm. Lunar with a jump now. Oh, he’s going to be caught. Great phantom execution and a liftoff from Sanji to get the kill. No Lunar. Apex hovering around Rosa to the bad spot has the flicker but Sanji walks up the crimson beacon forcing the flicker out and it will be free for TL. All right, so turtle for turtle 3 to one in terms of kill. Team Liquid definitely starting to hit their spike, hit their groove. It took a second for them to warm up, but at this point Aurora Gaming having a little bit of trouble. Lunar taking that kill exp lane. We’re going to see uh Sanford start to pop off a bit more, rotate around this map, and this is where Team Liquid wants to be overall. Yeah, Tsunami slam going to be locked in there. Sanji still able to survive. Apex 47 caught has the flicker back as Tinzy utilizes the electrifying beats defensively. TL the one capitalizing off of a proactive play from Aurora. Yeah, I mean Apex 47 is the one that goes for that pick, but I just don’t think this is the time for them to maybe do that, especially when Team Liquid is as grouped up as they are down in the bot there. Aurora Gaming needs a bit more time. You mentioned it earlier, the Moscow needs to get a couple more items in, but Team Liquid, I think, smells that. They They know the blood’s in the water, and now they’re going to start pushing the envelope a bit. Just the whole team in general, I feel right. The Joy, Kimmy, and Moscow, all of them want to wait for the power spikes. Apex lifted up to the air into the shots there. Sanford just holding him down. Oh, gets a kill. Now JP Con. Rosa able to escape. Sanford will get taken down. A trade in the end, but Sanji is on a killing spree. Yeah, a beautiful trade, especially the fact that the kill goes into Sanji’s hands. Sanji’s just looking clean. The tower falls as well at this point. Team Liquid just steamrolling right now. It’s 3.3k gold lead. It’s raising about a,000 every second. Carl Tezy versus Tenzi. Carl won’t go for it. He already used the pantom execution earlier and Aurora will have to start leashing for Tenzi. He’s fallen quite behind now. Two levels down. Great reaction from Sanji. Crimson Beacon to evade from a possible tsunami slam pickoff. Not only that, but taking a look at the deaths on the side of Aurora Gaming. Everybody’s got one, which is good for Team Liquid. Everybody’s taken a small piece. They’ve lost a chunk of gold, even on the side of Sigy Boom, who sometimes you don’t want your gold laner to die too early. A little bit of damage on Panzi. Should be able to get away from there. Here comes Apex, though. Yeah, it’s just going to be tough here to really look for any initiation. Should they even be looking for initiation though right now? I feel like I mean like yes, kind of play the stiff arm game. Kite away, but let Team Liquid come to you at this point and look for counter play. Yeah, purple bump stolen AOG. Apex the flick out, but actually still gets to AOG. Tsunami bring in JP turret range, but he still has revitalized and Lunar will fall. Carl on the back with the puncture dives all the way. Rosa kiting out gets out, but Oh, walks in, forces the flicker, shoots the death Sonata. Moscow on the other side though. At least Sigy Boom gets a T. Not even. He could have. He could have. He could have got that. Maybe not. I don’t know. We’ll leave that up to him. OAB though right now. 30 and two. I don’t think has missed a single shot. Rose shredded down. Team Liquid. The stampede is here. It truly is a stampede for game two. Total of two stacks for Ohe on the sky piercer with a meic roar. Third item. Brother man has a leather jurin just for respect too, you know. It’s kind of like, yo, I’m ahead, but I know what y’all can do in the late game. Yeah, I mean, definitely a little bit of respect, but I mean, as long as they keep up this pace, we’re only at 8 minutes right now. We’re down to inhibitors. First Lord hasn’t even popped up at this point. Team Liquid is relentless. We’re talking this this could easily be a 10 11k gold lead by minute 10 here. Taking a look at the items. Let’s look at this gold lane. OH versus Sigy Boom. The deficit is incredible. But we’re going we’re looking at about 2,000 gold lead into the hands of OB. The stacks are coming in. He hasn’t missed any shots at all. The Filipino sniper is on fire. You know when the gold difference is this massive, it’s just really tough. Current call with the AOG combo trying to go for a cheeky pick off. Holy shield in the mid lane taken down already. So they are properly set up for a lord take into a siege. And it does feel like I got to agree with you. You know, the question that you asked earlier, do Aurora even need to be fighting right now. I think the answer is no. They’re they’ve put themselves in an even tougher position. Yeah. And I feel like Apex 47 kind of the cause of that a few times like coming in looking for those pickoffs. I’m sure I mean Danzy as well. I mean the the team just there’s a point where Yeah. in the very beginning you got that early kill on to onto Sanji, right? Good applaud. That’s well done. You had a great start. But from there on, once Team Liquid starts to group up, you got to start to back off a bit once cuz OAB hits the power spike far before Siggy Boom, he’s going to be able to land some of that damage. Sanji as well. JP gets one big pick off. Carl Tezy started getting kills onto Siggy Boom within the first few minutes. Aurora Gaming, I think if they took this a bit slower in the beginning, it’d be a much different game. And now they’re at a point where it’s we’re hanging on a thread. They try to play the pace of TL and they ended up getting stampeded by the boys. Sanji is lighting up a light there on top of Lunar. No punish available. Has the purify and actually gets caught distraction pull. Sanji way too aggressive beats the base. Seni gets shot in it. Now it’s a tsunami snog follows through. Look at Thorn Rose over. Now with a chase from Lunar jumping on a call, but he’s still able to escape as Lunar flickers the wrong way. Trying to go for the chase. Tried to read into the ghost movement but gets punished by Ohem. 10k gold lead by 10 minutes. Lord coming down. Only no holy shields left standing. Phantom execution forward. Sanford just play with the yo-yo. Forcing out the blank and gets shot down by the Filipino sniper. Oh picks up a kill from downtown. Now the mid lane. They’re going to go for it again. Tenzi stacking it up. Sanford able to dodge away from the traction pulse. And in doing so, Rosa gun got down again by Obidstep shot. Ob fire. Sanji on fire. Carl Tezy dancing in the base right now. My goodness gracious. This has been a stompy stomp. Another wave to play with the mid lane. That’s not landing. Apex gets to base in time, but it really just feels like it’s inevitable at this point. Another base turret falls and Aurora are just being suffocated in their own base. Carl just picked up the maleific roar just to rub some more salt into the wound right now. Picks it up before the side of Aurora can even really get any defensive items in. Taking a look at some of those items. I mean, look, barely any physical defense. All we have is the uh the dreadnot armors. Not even full antique carass on the side of Aurora Gaming. It is a problem for Aurora. It’s a big problem because now we see the dreadnot armor. Oh, sorry. Now we see the antiurus built up by Lunar, but it’s too late. There’s already endless battles on the other side. Melffic roars, hunter strikes. Ob’s practically dealing true damage at this point. He’s been dealing true damage the whole time. The guy’s a monster. I mean, and this is this is one of the things you have to worry about with the Granger. Even though a lot of people, I think, felt like it fell off in the meta a bit, I still think it’s very good. And in the right hands, it scales exponentially. Oh, able to escape now, but Sanford pops in the curtain call. That’s going to be traction with AOG locks Rosa down. Oh, he is legendary. Throwing Ros back. That’s going to be a two man with this beard misery. But, Ax47 flickers out of Sanji. Still going to get taken down by the GOAT. Culty with a double. Tenzi falling to Ohe. Four members down. Only Lunar left to defend. Game one seems like it’s over. A dive into the base. A double again for Ohe. And it’s GG for game one. 12 minutes and 35 seconds. 15k gold lead into the hands of Team Liquid Philippines. That wasn’t a stomp. That was a stomped. That was a stampede. We’re going to need uh Oxford to put in another word in the vocabulary in their dictionary because truly we saw a stomp. We’ve seen stomps in the group stage. We’ve seen stampedes. That was a stomp beat. 15,000 15,000 in 12 minutes and 35 seconds. What a way to end that series. Aurora definitely going to need to look back at the drawing board after that one. Yikes. Again, I guess we get to see it a bit for a bit longer here. It was just Yeah. early start for Aurora, but that was it. Yeah. I mean, definitely an early start. I mean, they I mean, no, it was it was a one kill start. First, first first 30 second, it looked okay. It looked very nice, but then maybe just bit off a bit more than they can chew. And once it gets to this point, this is this is Team Liquid’s prime, their hunting grounds. You don’t want to let Team Liquid get a lead on you like that. It’s one of those teams that they do. They’re not going to play it patient. I mean, even though the very last play when they when they find Rosa, I’m sure we’ll see it in a second here. They’re not even like let like at that point it wasn’t even Aurora doesn’t even have to mess up. We’re just going to we’re biting down for real, dude. I mean, there was just no counterplay for Aurora. I feel once we get into the 11th 12minute mark of the game, it was just TLP doing whatever they want to do under the turret. It did not matter. Team Liquid played with zero turrets this game. Like these turrets were all irrelevant. Well, it was quite the stomped for sure. This is TX and Mirao. Let’s throw it over to the analyst desk. Thank you very much, Trex as well as Miracle. Yeah, that was kind of a stompy because 15,000 goal difference. Now, that’s huge. And uh we got to dive in deep for for this one because unfortunately that’s that’s just how we’re going to start off the day. It’s going to be a stomp. Was it about the draft or was it really about the gameplay here, Leo? I’d say 60% of this whole thing was the draft. Uh, a lot of weaknesses came through in these heroes that we looked at and we deemed bulletproof in the metag game. Kimmy, uh, I see the big smile on Destroyer’s face here, is a hero that needs a lot of support. Like, she’s very good in mid, but I think we both saw it. She needed someone to protect her. And weirdly enough, she can’t do it alone. It’s often from the jungle. You’re right. Yeah. No, it’s often from the jungle. We’ve seen Fredins, Boxas come through, even Akai. Akai Yun Shin. weirdly enough does well to protect a Kimmy with the mountain shocker cuz there’s vision so she knows where she can and can’t go but this time it’s a joy last big joy what’s that going to do actually uh about first of all about 40% what the heck was wrong with Tiny when he died nearly the turtle pit I have no idea what happened there no reason uh and about the 60% of the draft yeah I totally agree that they need something utility to protect the mid lane to work as a trio uh like mid roam and jungle but no. Yeah, looking at the stats here 19 kills to two. Aurora looks like okay the start of the game they might have something but then TPH they just stamped it over. So looking looking at how the movements are going what do you think Aurora really needs to change to make sure that game number two does not look like this number one draft uh again arrange your priorities. I think they try to get away with a double marksman lineup halfcocked and you don’t do that against a team like Liquid. Sure, maybe you can get away with it some with some teams uh in other leagues or maybe in lesser stages, but not in the knockouts. Not like this. And looking at the item builds, I’d say we’re like three or four different things off before we can even talk about items. Like if there’s anything Aurora could have done to change items, we’re far off from considering even that. I think they need to adjust. I mean, if we speaking about the Aurora, they need to adjust for their drafts. And uh look at the stats, guys. Gold per minute. He’s a rich guy. He’s a rich guy for sure. 4,433 damage per minute. The carry Luna took a lot of damage, but hey, I kind of feel like he needed a little bit of help. You can ask coach, Ash’s mom, ask his teammates. He’s got money in the bank. He was the richest guy on the map. And uh if you’re returning back about the drafts yeah if you’re speaking about it I want we expected something like Gwin you suggested really a good hero and it would help to Aurora but they see they take the Kala they understand there will be the purifiers still they work only with one Kala. Well gentlemen thank you very much. Right now I kind of feel like after that game one we’re going to give a bit more time for both teams to really restrategize. So, we’re going for a quick break, but after this, when we come back, it’s going to be game number two. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Yeah. Yeah. Really? No. When the world of business is constantly changing, you need to stay ahead. So, what about AI to generate new possibilities? 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So, they need to adapt for this and to adjust the draft. Yeah. And for you folks, before I even get to you uh Leo, I got to remind you guys at home, make sure you guys grab your MSE pass really, really quickly. there’s 20% off. So, make sure you guys grab it while it’s still available for you guys to get the MSE coins to be able to actually get all those skins. And right now, you guys can see it uh on the screen. So, make sure you guys grab the MSE pass as quickly as possible. Now, going back to you, Leo, Team Liquid, they look pretty good. So, what do they have to maintain? What What do they have to make sure that they replicate into game number two? Lel, you’re rarely wrong on broadcast. They didn’t look good. They looked great. They stomp they they they pulled a stomped on smashed on Aurora. Yes. Uh some regions would say they smashed them. Uh and Carl Dzy, he’s got a code here. Yeah. Looking at Carl TZ saying, “Amount of Kings of the Jungle, I rank King Kong first, Kyrie second, and myself at zero.” Hey, being a bit humble here. I want to explain what zero means. You can figure it out yourself. this world. TNZ. He has the potential, but he still needs more experience. So Zero can be really good, really bad. But hey, Carl TZ is zero. I’m guessing it means he’s unmatched. The GOAT has spoken. And I think their actions have also spoken much louder than any postgame stats could ever show. And if you watched it again, there is one principle that they have pulled through that made Aurora just crumble. Yeah. Yeah, and we saw the quote TNZ. What the coach said is that he still needs some experience. What do you think about that? I think it’s not about the experience. I think it’s more about the composition, about the confident from the team liquid. Actually, they were stomping. They just going further and further. They could not stop that. And uh the snowball was to pick. I’ll tell you what that is after game two cuz I think Liquid’s going to win game two. And if they don’t do what I’m talking about now, I’ll drop it later. Timing’s missed out. I don’t want to drop the joke when it’s off, when it’s rotten, when it’s expired. You’ll see exactly what I’m talking about. Game two’s begin. And you know what? If I stopped you, my bad, man. My bad. But now we’re jumping into draft here. Aurora first pick. Team Liquid second pick here. And now they’re banning out the earllet. So they’re changing it up a little bit for Aurora. You know, I got a lot of questions for this band because Arlot, yes, it’s one of the prior picks, but still it got one of the worst win rate I ever saw during MSC. It’s like 18% win rate. It’s terrible. Yeah. Now looking at the uh trend looks like continuing here. Team Liquid, they’re not changing. They’re still bing out the Fanny and batting out that Selena, but this time Aurora, they saw what Carl Teezy is able to do with a landslot and they say, “Hey, no more.” What’s left out in the open is the Baksha and the Yen Shin. Though you can only do so many jungle bands to try and take down the goat, but end up with one or the other. Oh no, he takes out the shin. This is a Liquid signature though. Liquid always bans the Shin. So in the lock go box right now it’s one of the priest pick and they should respect it. Aurora need to take it right now. Right. And don’t waste time. So they got another opportunity to take Kala. Okay, it’s also available and it’s also a good opportunity, but I think that Boxia is the best choice here and here. So now Boxia first pick for Aurora. So for TL, do you feel like there’s still a lot of good picks here, Leo, for for Team Liquid? Yeah. Uh Sanji’s Farsa is open. Uh although that is kind of a nombo and there’s a box that can hunt you down. I think that’s safe. I would rather that than Kimmy cuz again Kimmy again we learned from game one is jungle dependent. It’s mid trio dependent. So I’d say lock the fara in now or maybe I don’t know play play the play the uh by play the proactive garden wait for your no wait zushin first and CC as well. Yeah yeah actually I wanted to say how about CC and gatkas combination but okay they decided to it’s also one of the best heroes for the mid lane. It has con constant damage and also an opportunity for the good trio. So right now, Leo, this is almost replicating what they’re doing game number one. Having a draft that if they want to fight, they don’t even have to discuss it. Just go. All the more my statements on game one might stand true. Like I had about 4,000 words left to talk about game one despite it lasting 12 and a half minutes. Liquid might get away with it. Liquid might even be able to draft like three out of five of the same heroes. Still open. Granger still open. Aurora here locking in the Kimmy again. Wo wo wo wo wo wo. Isn’t this a bit too early though? Cuz I don’t I don’t see it getting taken away or banned. This is 100% win rate on a Pakito picked once played by Dyron none other in the group stage again in the exp by RQ. You’re right there. There’s there’s it’s an odd pick. Experience the youth. Why against a CC? Maybe I pretty agree with Lafel. Why do you pick Pakito so early? You got plenty of time. There is 1,000% nobody going to B it. And still they want this combination. They want an aggressive movement. And uh I think by the way, it’s still flexible. Yep. Still pretty flexible. But looking at the bands here coming in from Team Liquid banning out the Aemon, it looks like they’re thinking this Pakito is going to the EXP and Box is going over to Rome. So they’re really looking at Tenzi as probably going to be one of the main carries for the team. Tenzi still has a couple left again. The Guyineir as mentioned still possible to pick. I don’t think they’re going to let him pick the Hayabusa. So it’s going to be Amon Hayabusa again. Maybe it’s Pakito Jungle. What do you think about it? It’s been years since we last s jungle. Yes, but it’s been years since we saw Atlas Gushin. You know, you know what? You know what? You You got us there. You got us there. Pretty good point. Pretty good point here. So, now Team Liquid find a ban. The previous game they banned out the Hayabusa. Will they do the same? Because they’re going to be the ones picking after this. So, hey, maybe open up for yourself so that you can take it away. Right now, we’re only seconds away. And looks like the final ban. Is it going to be Hayabusa? They’re going to open it up. They’re banning out the Hayabusa. That does mean that they have some other options in the jungle here. The question is what? Call easy can almost damn near anything in the jungle, right? But what is left in the metag game that deserves to be picked here? Freder’s still out there. Assassin is the joy. The joy is still out there. Fred looks better actually for me. I think the utility jungler should help them. You know, you want additional crowd control. You want additional sustain for Liquid for their composition. You want long fights. Mhm. Right now for Aurora, the final bands here, they ban out a ROR. They ban out the Kalia, making sure that there’s no way that they can start the fight instantly. And now looks like they’re banning out the Badang as well, making sure that their front liners doesn’t get punished. TL has an option of picking up the ROR or the jungler here. kind of feel like picking up the jungle will deny and actually force out maybe this box here to eventually go to the jungle which you know it’s a good pick but is it a pick that Aurora is comfortable with on TNZ for now Aurora got free flexible picks actually free heroes and all of them can go anywhere okay not anywhere but several multiple lanes yes multiple lanes absolutely team liquid should understand it and they should understand that Aurora making surprise they trick Thank you guys. Coach RC, coach tic tac forced to wonder. That’s the rumor right there. Team liquid Philippines lock in the Matilda put into the hands of uh JP. So we don’t know what Callis is going to play. Uh here’s the thing. I would feel weird if it was a Frederick. Frederick Matilda combo, but I don’t think that’s enough damage for them. Aurora pick up the Angela often banned here in the metag game alongside an Iritel. So we now know where everyone’s going. actually still questions. Baksha can go to XP lane and Pakita can go jungle. I think it’s Baka jungle. Yes, safer that way. It’s safer, but still it’s Aurora, you know, they can do everything and they making surprises and uh maybe they’re trying to off guard the Team Liquid. See value in me. Oh, you see the value in him? You should. The Frederick gets picked up here. So again, I kind of feel like it’s still okay because CC can still deal damage same as the uh Granger and hey, deceptively even the Jin. What are your thoughts, Leo? It’s all in on OHIP. He’s the only real reliable source of damage, but you’re right. There is some damage in the CC, some finishing power in the Zushin Destroyer, I see your face. You’re still confused. What is Aurora doing? Yes. Yes. But I like it. I like it. And you know, I’ll tell my predictions. I’ll Okay. I like the combination with Matilda and Freden, but still I got to say it’s Aurora. Hey, you know what? I like it. Speaking of things that I like, I like a track MCO. So, I want to hear their voice to cast this one. [Music] Five TLPH up one game. Now, Mira TPH’s draft. We both kind of decided it’s by the book. It’s textbook. They’re coming in this series very very clean. But what about Aurora? Hey, uh this is technically also a very like meta draft. It really depends on how you see the meta, right? Boxia, Angela, Aithal, this has been a thing for the longest time terrorizing our rank games. For you guys back at home play rank games, you know how terrifying this composition is. But TLP just have so much disengage, so many ways to kite away. Like just look at their movement abilities. This this could just be the downfall, too. If they are able to bait some big resources over, it could change everything. But here’s the real question. What about the Makito? That’s the That’s the spice in all of this, right? That’s the question on our minds. We saw picked before by uh by Dyron on ID. It It did well against my home team. It did very very well. I remember it. It’s in my memory. But uh you know, how do we feel about this, man? I agree with Lel. I feel like it was too early, but I guess they wanted to really just hide the Angela for the later stage. So, it really comes down to that. I’m a pretty I’m a big fan of the Pito now from Apex. Sign up Sanford up top with the vengeance already used up call walks up to Lunar trying to go for the kill with the guiding wind gets Sanford to safety and it will be I guess a win for TL. They bait it out on flicker from Apex. Yeah, for the kid gets away with just a sliver of health there. Um, I think the big thing about this Pikito is if it can go deathless for a little bit, get to that level force power spike, get to a little bit farther even, he can find the angles, it works as a possible type of assassin, it can close the distance onto the Zushin without uh having to deal with what they dealt with last game, just getting tossed around. So, there are possibilities there, but where Aurora, where we’ve seen them mess up is the execution. So, can they execute this composition correctly? It really depends on how the Pakito gets to be played here. I agree with you. Um now into the mid prio TL actually just having the pryo over. Oh goes in that’s traction pulse openers the kill over Sanford locked down has to run away. Carl still winning out the retry battles go as he goes in for the taunt. It’s a twoman lantern flip with the knockup TL just get the turtle and back away. Even in the midst of chaos the young goat able to always secure the tree. This is something that team liquid I think prides themselves on the ability to get those first turtles. Their raid is through the roof. Rosa in a little bit of trouble. Oh, no flicker used. Rosa just took it. That accepted it. Accepted fate. Yeah, JP. Luckily for Aurora, they don’t really lose too much cuz it’s JP who got the kill. It would have been real bad if OB got the death. Look at that damage. Pikito. Yeah, on the note of Pikito. It’s a very high level hero, right? Like it really comes down to how you execute it. So if he gets an angle to somehow dive on OB, get Sanji low in the fights, it’ll be massive. But if he just goes pure front to back, I’m not really a big fan of that. Tenzi shield unity up just the battle of mid. Yeah, I mean you could even say that picking up the more damage dealing exp laner makes up for the lack of burst in your maids mage or in your uh I guess no they went for I mean you just kind of make up a bit for picking up the Angela. Angela I feel like yes you get the sustainability but you always kind of give up either a high a high set ror something of that nature. So, at least you have something here. I think it could also pair well with the Angela, but still, yeah, definitely a risky pick. And it’s all going to be about the angle that we see uh Lunar come from. And speaking of angles, Team Liquid looking for one on the Sigy Boom here. Uh-oh. Two man gank down below. A guiding win for OH. Tenzi with a box shield. Unity for traction pull for OH to use the flicker. But again, so much movement. Like I said, they just have too much. It’s so hard for Aurora to really force out these fights cuz hey, you got a guiding win. You got two blinks on Sanji. Oh, always has the good old flicker. Now it’s down. So that could be a way to punish with the Pikito later on. Good trade by Sigiboom. Once again though, do they need to look for those big fights here? Right. Could they just kind of play this patient? I think anytime you have the mid lane Kimmy, you always have time. You know, if you can push a bit far back, you have an advant advantage. Not to mention Aerithal as well. You’re looking for those big burst items. You’re looking for that crit damage. Moving on Turtle, though. Yep. Shield going to need to cancel that out. Carl still walking up now. Turtle can be reset now as that’s going to be Sanford in the front zoning. Everyone away with it. Car wins a retry battle. Tenzy with retry a bit too early. Attraction pulse to disengage and it is yet another win for TL. They’re going for the purple buff straight. Yeah, this is the thing about Carl T’s. Not only in the Freder as well, right? It just it makes it look easy to be able to walk into a turtle pit, get the stun real fast, hit the retry and take it. A purple buff also now going over to the side of Team Liquid. We’re 5 minutes in, almost a 1.5k gold lead. Aurora Gaming, I think they are at least playing it slower here, but they got to staunch the bleeding maybe a little bit more. The thing is, do they want to play slower in game two? That was a game one stretch. Sanji lantern play round two forcing flick around. Carl Ta now over to Rosa. It’ll be Tenzi going for the shield unity in the bottom lane. Tenzi walking up, zoning them from the turret to save tier one down below. Still though, I think they kind of want the lead early this game unlike game one. Game one, they had a composition where they get a big power spake spike mid to late. Here they do have heroes that get the power spike mid to late still like the Kimmy. But oh, Liquid could very easily just match that. You know, Sanji caught again. That’s going to be the shield unity again, but the guiding wind is right there. Sanji still has a flicker. It’ll be a few more shots over. There’s really just no risk. JP still has guiding wind. Gets away. OM shoots him down. Too much disengage strikes. Yeah, there’s just no way to catch them right now. And that this is something where I think the burst damage of the Keito could help, but Lunar is stuck in EXP lane right now. He cannot leave at this moment. And we have seen Sanford at least able to rotate down a bit. But I don’t think we’ve seen enough from Lunar. So, we’re coming into third turtle, and I think this is where it’s really going to be crunch time, especially once we get to minute 8, first lord time. If Aurora Gaming doesn’t make something happen, then it could really spell trouble for them. It’s tough for Aurora. They’re looking for anything they can find and they can’t really find much right now. Not even a power spake as Leo has just reminded me in the chat. Uh TL 2,000 gold lead again. Just going for the turtle. And this is so difficult for Tenzi, dude. He tried predicting the goat’s retry earlier by retrying early, thinking Carl would go for the stab into retry, but then when you think when you try to read him, he just goes for the classic. Now, I’ll just wait for you to retry. So calm, so composed. And now Tenzi won’t even get an angle to go for the steal. He goes for the shield. Unity and it gets canceled out. Now two man stun. That’s going to be attraction ped back and another player over to Lunar locking them down. Sano the vengeance just zoning them in the back. Heart guard used up. Aurora are not dealing any notable damage to TL. They’re just holding their ground with the healing of Matilda. Yeah, the healing of Matilda. I mean, it’s overall Team Liquid when they get grouped up like that when it’s all five of them in a circle. Aurora game gaming unable to do anything. Lunar, we wanted to see the Spikito find angles. Instead, he came for a much more direct just kind of walked in immediately caught by the lantern flare. It’s It’s a problem. Aurora Gaming has to approach these fights a lot different. Dude, if we were talking M3 Pakito, then yeah, you’re great at chases, right? You have that reset constantly. I just remember Edward chasing Moa Zane down for a long time on a Pikito. But here, it’s different. Like in this patch, it’s different. Pikito is kind of like what you said, a burst hero. If you use your second skill twice, one time to get range, you’re really not outputting the maximum amount of damage you would want. Carl forcing the retry from Tenzi even though he doesn’t have his own retry. Just zoning them in the back again. Two level lead on a Frederick against Abaka. Trex Aboxia should always be ahead of a Fred like usually in normal conditions. The fact that the Fred is two levels ahead and TNZ can’t even get in his own purple, it just gets tough. No, retribution on the Carl on the back. Forcing a flicker out from Rosa. Kenzi already has a hard guard and TLP are just looking at him. Carl Teas is just walking up in the jungle taking whatever he wants. That’s two purple buffs now. Stolen away. We’re wondering where that level gap is coming from. There it is. And then I mean Carizzy, he does he is able to match up with the speed of TNZ a bit because of the Matilda the rotations. They’ve gotten every single turtle. They’re taking towers. It’s not as bad as last game, but it’s still very, very bad. I think it’s actually worse in a way TX cuz at least game one they were able to get you know first blood early they were a they had some win conditions here their plan A is completely gone and I don’t know what plan B is last game they had a plan a plan B at least they had a Moskoff Kimmy and a Joy that could scale up there’s that cult always to just say hey we’re scaling man just wait for 20 minutes but this game you wait 20 minutes it’ll end up being Team Liquid with the range with the damage with the disengage again. Like it’s just really tough. Even if Aurora force a fight, TP can just say, “Nah, fam. Nah, fam. I I feel it. I feel it, fam.” Yeah. But I mean, yeah, it’s tough. Aurora Gaming, cuz here’s the thing, too, is they have no big uh no big crowd control. No big way to make like a big set. They don’t have like that big comeback opportunity play to lock everyone down and make us all go wa t are the ones making us go wo right now. That’s a flicker burn just with a light on you man. Sanji really lighting up the way for the team at the he has three flickers brother. Sanji he has crimson beacon flicker the real one and then a guy win. How are you going to catch the zusenretest? This is why there’s zero kills on the side of Team Liquid. Zero deaths on the side of Team Liquid right now. They are all untouchable at this point. And as they they escape more and more with this gold lead, it’s just going to become even harder. Three man taunt over Sanji walking up as well. Getting the lancer flare pulling Apex back for the Filipino sniper to get the shot down. Ara’s wrath. Another kill over to Ohe. It’s a double. Sigu with the heavy crossbow will just fall again. Oh, he with the triple looking for a Biac. Rosa with the flicker out to base. Now it’s a full taunt over. Oh, a maniac. They’re going for it. Will deny the savage, but TL never were never looking for it. They just wanted to end the game. They’re ready to go home already. They’re I mean, they’re ready to go back to the hotel already at this point. They’re ready to chill at the player lounge. They’re ready to chill at the player lounge. This is 200. This game faster than the last. Honestly, at this point, Aurora, from draft to game play, where is the answer? I don’t know. Let’s throw it over, I guess. Power Spake, Leo, Luff, Destroyer. Yeah. Hello. And here’s the thing. I I get it, right? Even our casters at this point, they have no idea what’s next because Team Liquid, they’re not S tier for nothing. This is where we see the gaps of the favorites coming in and Aurora, they look good during the group stages, but now match point for Team Liquid. And now here like that was such a game that we have to ask assistance from Ben things. So first of all, Benth, how are you? Thank you very much for joining us. Hello. Hello. Thank you for inviting me here. Okay, so here’s the thing. You can say whatever you want. If you want to speak in English, go ahead. If you want to speak Tagalog, it’s okay. Go ahead. Because we have a young man from the Philippines here ready to be at service to talk about it. So now I just want to ask you, why is Aurora having such difficulties going up against Team Liquid? Uh, credits for coach RC for winning the droppers before the end game. they uh they targeting Rosa then I think uh Aurora need to adjust in the drafting. Uh they need to pick Jenzi in that first three pick because uh so they’re attacking Jenzi very specifically and he cannot play his game. That’s why always in the second phase Amon and Hayabusa. Yeah, we can definitely see. Um, like you said, target on Rosa, target on TNZ. Two players in the Mid. We know how important that mid lane duo is. What are your thoughts, Destroyer, after watching game number two where it’s a lot of action going on, but at the same time, not a lot of kills until the very end? Actually, I got a question to you also. So, what do you think about the Pakita pick and uh what was the reason for this? uh to counter Gigi, but it’s not necessary because uh if they pick Takito on the Xplane, uh they can they can choose a chi like assassin hero because already uh over damage uh no one tank the team. So still with the same like make another prioritize. Yeah, let’s go with the jungle. I totally agree with it because uh for if we speak about the first game, there was question about the last pick. Why do they decide uh skip the green for example this game also? Why they lock in Pakito? So it seems like there is a disconnect in priorities. Benings, you were once uh part of Aurora and you’ve worked with these coaches, coach Dexter and coach master the basics. Just run us through what do you think is going on? What’s the discussion like? That’s why they drafted this way two games in. I think uh they trust the practice and I think uh they’re pick they pick hero that work on his screen but we need to adjust for example in game number two they have the opportunity to pick first pick lancot but uh they ban and pick box maybe if if liquid ban if if liquid targeting Rosa don’t let targeting also yeah so I kind of feel like at this point it really is about prioritizing it’s not that the drive itself is like super bad. It’s just that you got to give your main carries the opportunity to secure their uh heroes first. So now looking at Team Liquid as well as Aurora, do you feel like there’s a chance that Aurora could get at least one win or is this looking like a sweep? Uh I think uh Aurora can win because um master the basic and Dexter also known as the fast adapt in the series but they need to adapt uh as up because it’s already two zero literally Ben one just now one game away from dropping and going home. They have to adapt now. Do you think can they do it? Yeah, they can. They have to. Okay, here’s the thing. Like if we if we’re talking about can they I think the perfect question is does Liquid have any weaknesses right now that Aurora could exploit? Like is there any weakness in in Liquid’s play? Uh it’s hard but I think uh they need to win jungle. Win jungle. Yeah. Win jungle. Win jungle. Yeah. Against the go. It’s not going to be easy. Actually I see the key. I see the key from the words and uh uh work in jungle. Prioritize jungle and this is the key for the Aurora to win this game versus the Team Liquid. It comes out of one word just the jungle. Can Aurora do that? Will Liquid allow it? And luckily we are now at a precipice wherein Liquid is at two and watching that game three out of five of the draft was similar, right? They played the same CC, Zushin, Granger, and even if they rocked the Matilda, Frederick combo, it made their strat and their rotations in game one even more evident. And Aurora, you’re not, you’re going to, you can, you can tell me, Ben thinks if I’m seeing this wrong, but Aurora has this in their DNA, especially with coach Master the Base and Dexter in there. They play kind of ube. They want to ube, right? Liquid has something very similar, but different. It’s called homicide with the homicide. They’re always playing at least 95% of the game with someone next to them. They’re never alone. 95% they’re always rotating with two or three men. Yeah. And now honestly, we talk about the jungle, but I want to move the conversation actually talk about mid because this is one of the talking points that we even started for today. Rosa going up against Sanji and we even say that Rosa does so well when he is able to get the Selena. But now since Selena keeps getting banned, what are the other options that that Rosa has? So at this point even I’m drawing a blank. Sir Ben, what do you think? Rosa, maybe he should pick up the Zion. Why Zion not getting played? Uh because Team Liquid always want team fight, but uh Sean is a little bit short for damage. They can choose Farsa for but it’s bunt. It’s banned all the time. Yeah, I kind of feel like Forsa in this tournament is like everyone knows he’s amazing, but then you’re like, “Yeah, but then Carl gets the Lancelot and then I’m just going to die.” I think I think that’s the biggest problem with mid laners. There’s so many good heroes, but then you’ll just get ganked by the exp get get ganked by the jungle. And that’s why we see a lot of juins now because even Merco said, “Hey, at least without the Matilda, you have two ways to survive, right? The Crimson Beacon as well as the as well as the flicker.” So, in terms of the heroes here, I’m just going to ask uh Destroyer, what are the possibilities for TNZ to pick up in the jungle? Because the Ammon keeps getting banned. Maybe the last Hurrah, will they pick up a Hayabusa Amon early just to make sure he doesn’t get banned anymore? I want to say one thing. They trying to surprise us and the opponents to be tricky, but uh it doesn’t work. Maybe stop trying to work with Kimi. It’s not it’s more not about the jungle but also about the mid lane because they need to work as trio and Kimmy doesn’t work for them. Yeah, it it’s the opportunity cost of focusing on the Kimmy. I get it. Zetan doesn’t have as much damage that’s costing TNZ the struggle in the later phase. So yeah, I think Tenz can end up with a Lancelot, an Aman, a Hayabusa. What else does he want? uh anything because they can f focus him on the third, on the second, on the first, anywhere in the first phase. So yeah, I think that’s where we see the change now. Yeah. And now honestly, like I want to ask Ben things like we see a lot of Kimmy, but is there reason why Kimmy hasn’t been super dominant? Why hasn’t Kimmy won every single game? uh because on the strong laning phase, but if you don’t have uh composition for Kimmy, you need to give Kimmy the space for lane. But if if you’re side lane uh get crash and Kimmy also crash because uh Xeline going to mid then they gang. Yeah. Uh Ben thinks you talked to Wolf about this in a recent episode in a recent discussion of the AG podcast. Peel. Kimmy needs peel. And in game one and two when they force Kimmy, there’s no peel. She can’t protect herself. Maybe that’s why. So, there’s two things now going against the Kimmy in the draft for Aurora that they have to address now. Yeah. And now for you folks at home, make sure you guys grab the MSE chest real quick because again, we’re almost done. This Saturday is going to be the grand finals and it’s only 20 diamonds. Support the teams that are still here. Wow, they’re still here. Today we’re going to see two teams get eliminated. So again, your chance is about to run out. So grab them quick. Make it fast. Make it real. Make it fast. Make it real. Returning back to our discussion about uh the conversation that we got about mid lane. So what do you think guys would be better for Rose? Because he said he got a really huge pull, but we see only Kim Kim Kim and before Selena, Selen, Selena. So what do you think? like uh Valen Valentina or Ross no as a valen user right and then I think uh they need to give up Kimmy or or else uh they play Kimmy as a carry of the team and again when you pick Kimmy you you’re forced to make TNZ play something else or the rest of the map again you talked about how XP attacks the Kimmy and then it changes everything so yeah maybe lay off the Kimmy first any anything but is that the reason why they early picked the Pakito to make sure that they have a winning lane. Like it kind of feels like like uh Bent has been saying like yes, you pick the Kimmy. He’s a strong hero, but everyone else has to work. You have to win your lane. The the jungle has to peel for you. So, you know, I I I think I agree. Maybe stop the Kimmy because you’re forcing the other lanes into uncomfortable situations. First of all, I think they uh made another task for Lunar. They just said, “Go proxy. Go skip the lanes. bro, do everything you can just to so we can win this trio. And uh it was actually not the best decision. So maybe they need to adjust and start thinking about not making Tinzy to adapt for the mid lane, but Rosa to adapt for the Tinsy picks. Yep. And now we’re jumping straight into draft here. Aurora first pick, Team Liquid second pick. They already done with the bands here, folks. Aurora ban out the one-1 was the landlot. Team Liquid still stopping that Selena from going through the Fanny as well as the Yen Shin. The Boxia is open still. Will they go for that again or they go for something else? Looks like they still want to pick up that Boxia and we don’t know where it’s going. We don’t know. And always a question mark. That’s a pro and a con, but I think in Aurora’s case, it’s good that from blue they’re controlling Team Liquid. Sir Ben, do you think uh they just go ahead and play the same like CC Granger? H Yeah, same. same but because it’s already working. I think they pick far here in two picks to deny damage. So about the far I think team liquid can lock it right now. Right here. Don’t let Rosa to feel free. Yeah, that’s what’s happening right now. And that’s why that’s why he’s here. Yeah, that’s why that’s the reason. Yep. And now picking the Gatkatcha the counter towards the far side as well. Good job ending. It’s almost like he’s good at a game or something. Yeah. It’s like he was a It’s like he he could play pro. Yeah. Maybe maybe you could try if you want, you know? Maybe even coach. Yeah. So now looking at at Aurora, I feel like we’ve gone to the consensus that we don’t want the Kimi here. Like what other options? Heck, honestly, even for me, I don’t want the the the mid now. Just wait later. Yeah. Or Sir Ben, is it worth it to Zeta to counter the Farsa? Yeah. Maybe Valencia, the game hasn’t even started and he knows. He’s so good. He’s so good, guys. Perfect predictions. And then the Lapu Lapu, which is a stable XP laner. So, it doesn’t matter what Liquid plays. Like, he just hunker down. So, this is the opposite of what Lunar was doing in game two. So, now Team Liquid, they already have a pretty solid opening here. The real question is, do they want to prioritize the jungler or the gold laner? And looks like they’re going to be looking at the uh sorry the exp picking up the CC which again is pretty good going up against the box. Yes. And again the composition got plus CC and a good laning versus Lapal Lapo. Super amazing picks from Team Liquid and Aman Ban again. Again what’s happening again again we are working to uh make Tinzi uncomfortable. It’s impossible for Tenzi to play the game he wants. Again, we were saying how in the first phase he should do it, but it looks like he’ll end up with a Baksha again and then I kind of don’t like that experience the youth. We addressed half of the problem. We addressed the Farsa situation, the Valentina in Rose’s hands. But where does Tenzi go from here? Does he just pick the Baksha? Does he does he live with it? I just hope he doesn’t pick up the Guushian. Uh yeah, maybe. But they he also have uh like a lay if they want to pick something damaged from Genie or Awin. Awin. Yeah. For a real team is banned. Okay. This time they ban out the Kalia though. So the Hayabusa is open. But hey, maybe they could pick it up. Higher red for Yeah, possible. It’s a good possibility. But also I liked uh the things about the green again. You got a lot of CC, but uh and also you got damage. You also got uh already got the Valentina. You already got the Lapal Lapo. And you can engage in the backline. Yeah, you can chain uh CC from out of nowhere. Serb, you think you like the Guushian? All right. You like the Guinea? You don’t like the Guian? What about the Guyir? Gene or Leo. But they need to marit for your team. They didn’t. They ran into the red for Haya. Yeah, I like this H highab band because now it’s basically asking both junglers like okay now what’s up like I don’t know I really want to see Aurora with something damage oriented for TNZ because the best game that Aurora has is that yes they have the Selena but it’s really about making it so that the jungler moves faster right get your buffs very fast go towards the enemy’s jungle and then get something out of that so I don’t know I feel like the knockoff stage Aurora is not playing their own speed it’s like they’re slowing ing things down for themselves. I got a crazy idea. What do you think if they take I mean Aurora can take the Badang and uh then they going to lock Har. A lot of a lot of crowd control. I’ll explain. A lot of crowd control. You can go on the back lane. Easier uh jumps for the Har and a lot of protection. That’s what Ben thinks was talking about stealing away the Harifth. Yeah, containing his but they red. Maybe they pick Mosco from side of Aurora to Yeah, one of Sigib Bomb’s best hero as well. Like no matter how bad the game looks, he will be able to do something. But now it looks like they’re picking up the Matilda and the Exxia. Yeah, we saw this in the group stage. We saw this in the group stage. It looked pretty good. Can it can it work here though? Overall, it’s a good composition, but not versus the CC and Gatkasha. I think they can go to the backline. Yes, you got Matilda that can save Isha. But still, um, a lot of questions, but overall the comp I like it. Serb, what does O play? Harit or you want to see a new hero, Claude? Harit or Clad like at this point just pick something new. Hey, we haven’t seen I don’t know Carrie for a while, whatever. Right. And looks like they’re going to be picking up the Iritel. So, looks like same old same old. So before we throw it to the caster Ben things, what do you think about the draft for Aurora as well as Team Liquid? I think uh Aurora getting a good draft for because uh no one uh only Iritel go for the backline but they have Matilda to sustain the damage of Iritel. I think it’s a good match. It’s a good Yeah, thank you very much, Ben. Thanks. Thank you very much to our analysts. This is Aurora’s last chance to extend the series and the final chance for Team Liquid just to end it out here. Thank you very much, analyst. Now, we’re going to throw it over to TX and Mirao. We are back for possibly the final match of Aurora Gaming. Mira, what are the odds here? Hey, the odds are looking pretty good for TLPH to end it right here, right now, because Aurora have gone for a desperate draft. I would say this this is in there when it comes to pocket strats. I mean definitely some pocket strats. The Ixia, the Matilda. It’s definitely a throwback and Team Liquid stands at match point to get out of the quarterfinals and move on to the semis. Aurora so many times in MSC just unable to break this top eight curse. Man, can they do something here? It’s definitely going to be tough. They’re putting it all on the lines. The Ixia did work out well for them previously. Is it going to work out against a team like Team Liquid, though? It’s going to be tough. Aurora already taking an aggressive stance like what we saw last time, or at least in game one. Yeah, it was against a similar composition. Uh-oh, Sanji with a cheeky steal. He’s waiting in the bush now. Wins out the trade against Rosa, too. All right. Now, the big question for me isn’t really if Aurora can pull it off. It’s are they tilted? Game one, game two was such a big stop from Team Liquid that morale might just be at an all-time low for them. I I I feel like Aurora Gaming is a team that can maybe, you know, put that aside, come into this game strong. It’s And it’s not only if they’re tilted, is is Team Liquid going to let it happen? Cuz right now, Team Liquid isn’t making any mistakes, right? They are just playing clean. They are playing their game and Aurora is going to have to just straight up beat them. It’s going to be tough overall on the map. A little bit of action in the mid trades. Yep. Back and forth. Oh, a lot of damage over to Apex 47 pops in skill one. Sanji gets the kill with lethal ignition up top. It’s 1 v one. Oh, winning it out. Sustained battle. Sigy boom coming in as well. Oh, popping the sprint in. This isn’t really what you want, right? Like the you want to be winning in lane. You want Oh, that’s going to be the dive from Rosa over. So, at least there you go. That’s what we’re talking about. Good gank over from Aurora. very well done onto the gold lane as well. This is something that Aurora G hasn’t had an advantage on in the gold lane in the past two games. If they can get Sigy Boom to a nice spot, it’ll be good for them. TNT walking up. This going to be Carl again winning a directory battle. TNZ a bit too early, but has the anti-regen place on JP. Revitalize won’t help him too much. Aurora finally in the lead. Take a look at Sandu still waiting in the bush up top. I think he used the feather air strike earlier to get Sigy Boom that low. I mean, I will say this time Aurora Gaming is coming in strong, taking a lead in the gold lane. They do lose Turtle taking out JP, though. This is the best we’ve seen them so far. This could be a solo kill. Sandi’s going for it. Sigy Boom will get away. Pops in the full barrage getting a bit more sustain, but this time it’s still TL. It’s a two-1 lead to Aurora. The turtle, the individual laning bottom lane might just be a solo here. Time for popping in the vengeance. Praiser used by Lunar. It’s going to be a close one here. Sanford just kinding around. Won’t be a kill in the end. And Tenzi just goes back on JP. Shield Unity chain CC and AoG to respect it all. I got to say though, Aurora Gaming, there’s a couple plays here even with that last one with the barrage up top. I think a game or two ago, Aurora Gaming would have fully committed, taken the guiding winds and tried to get the kill, but they’re playing a bit more patience. They know what is on the line here. here. They know the only way to move forward is winning three games in a row. And that has to start right here. They got to start winning turtles cuz TL are just going to balloon up. The snowball is going to get scary for them. And yes, Team Liquid technically don’t have any dive aside from the Iran like Ben things mentioned, but they do have an artillery nuke in the Farsa. Sanji’s gotten quite a big lead from the start of the game. Again, first blood over. They got the lethal wanderer. And if it continues with Turtles, I’m expecting Sanji to get rid of Sigy Boom before he can even pop in full barrage. I mean, I I don’t know. I think we also need to see one of the things we’ve lacked to see a few times. Lunar on this Lapu, he is the he’s one of the answers to this Barza, right? And he needs to be involved in these fights, I think, earlier on. And Sanford knows that, listen, my four guys can handle your four guys. As long as I keep you down here, we are winning. And Lunar might just have to give up lane just to get involved. But even here, he’s unable to look at the bot lane. It’s a problem. Sanford has him in check non-stop. Yeah, can’t go away. Carl TZ holding on to the turtle. That air going to be popped in. Rosa going for the cancel here. It will be the cancel over to Sani now as TP gets the AOG locks him down. Rosa still in the back stealing the heavy crossbow. Sanji’s flicker forward. Sigy Boom getting the kill back. Rosa still running away. Oh, with the chase down. Rosa gets out in the end. Sigy Boom waiting in the bush putting out the damage down but Carl T. He’s right there. Good flicker out from the taunt and it will be just yet another trade. A kill on JP for Team Liquid Turtle. I don’t think Carl Te has missed a single turtle in the past two games. He’s he’s 8 and0 right now in terms of turtles. This guy is a monster especially on the Fred. A little bit of action up top and in the mid side with the circling eagle to mid lane. A solo kill. Sanji getting the pick off onto Rosa. Tenzi looking for the pick. won’t be able to land that second skill. Sigy boom hit him with the skirt. He hit him with the drive by. He hit him with the hit and run. Pulled up shooting. Very well done. But the thing is is kills just aren’t going to win the game. It’s a great start. They are staying in this. But as you said before, Team Liquid still getting all the neutral objectives. And you have to take a look at the mid lane again cuz Sanji on the far might just be the main windcon in this game with Sanford in the XP. We haven’t seen him active around the map just because like TX mentioned earlier, it does value the team more for Sanford to stay in XP holding Lunar down. That’s one of the big angles that Aurora could utilize uh to actually win turtle fights to have that AoE, someone who can dive into Sanji with no one being able to peel for him cuz it’s anti-CCC with the Bravest Fighter. Speaking of, we finally see Lunar come up a little bit. He does going to go back to lane up the top side. at Apex 47 keeping tabs on Team Liquid here, but this is the best we’ve seen Aurora Gaming in all three games so far. Yes, Team Liquid still has a lead in gold. Their lane is clean. Their neutral objective taking is clean, but Aurora Gaming I I this is a stalemate game right here. And the moment that Lunar can get involved, it could maybe tilt into the hands of Aurora. A whole lot of damage there. Was that really just combo that got Apex that low? Hey, that’s a lot of damage. That’s big dam as Nu likes to say. Yeah, half HP off of Lunar too from Sanji now with the poke as well. Tenzi popping in the shield. Sanford pops in the curtain call. It’s going to be all in over to Sanford has a vengeance. Pops it into the backline. Lunar pops in the bra spider doesn’t get the sun. Sanji just cutting away now. Able to escape for a bit, but the brave spider with a few of those blooms from Apex gets the job done. Rosa still cuting away against JP canceling out the AOG, but he still gets it down and Lunar was isolated. Full barrage. They cut away against it. a guiding win to save Sigy Boom, but it’s a two for one trade in favor of Team Liquid. Looking like they might even try Aurora Gaming though, still hanging out here. Might be able to defend this tower. They’re in a bad spot. Energy eruption onto two of the curtain call. Oh, it’s the full cut away. Carl with the rat. Rose has stolen away the heavy cra, but Carl stays alive and Sanford gets a triple kill. 40 the kid the young goat as well hanging on by a sliver non-stop Aurora Gaming try to push Team Liquid to their limits but right now they are limitless and even in that fight taking a look at the replay Lunar finally does his job he’s involved in the fight he’s able to zone away Sanji even get the kill which is huge but once Aurora Gaming gets split up like that they focus down on the JP and he’s like listen I got the AOG at any time necessary. Man, the fact that they tried to clear bot instead of just giving it shows you just I think the experience gap here. Liquid knew that they were going to do that too well. I think Liquid, they just wanted to get a turret, but they saw two extra bonuses down below became a buy one get two free special for them. Buy one get it. You know what I’m saying? They got they got the whole package. Exactly. It’s a happy meal. Happy meal for sure. Team Liquid is happy. And what was looking like a very close game is now tilted into 3.5k gold lead. Ixia was ahead in gold for a minute there now has fallen behind. Taking a look at the junglers as well. Carl Tezy starting to escape with a lead. Anti-carassin. Radiant armor in. That’s a tanky beefy boy already at 8 to 9 minutes. That’s a lot of words, man. Tanky beefy boy. TBB stout. And Sanford is just taking turrets for free in the side lanes, dude. Oh, Apex right out. But there is more like a nuke on the hands of Sanji. Yet again, a stolen one, but AOG cancels it out. And OB should be able to go for the steal. Oh no, TZ actually used the retreat. Caught again. Has the W by Wings and he gets away. Flies out from the sword of Lunar. A chain CC over to Lunar now with full barrage coming in. But TPH can just run around. Sanford and just tanking everything. Lunar barely able to survive that bonk from Carl Tezy. It was a long battle for tier one and ultimately TL gets it done. Carl Tezy fearless in the face of a full barrage. He just took it. He did just take it to the face unfazed. And then Sanji, I mean Lunar pulled out every trick in the book, everything. Used the flicker and all missed. We’re talking by a frame or two. This is why Team Liquid is I mean and we we saw before they were almost impossible to touch even when they had the Matilda and even here without that the wings by wings everything they do every small movement has just been on point. Aurora Gaming once again not as bad as the last two games but they still got to find an answer. Man TL are putting Aurora in the spot. They’re forced to make the desperate plays here but the air strike coming down. Apex getting low. Lunar too. Dude, isn’t Lunar like a tanky person now? Like what? One feathered air strike. He’s already taken so low. Yeah, at first I thought maybe that feathered air strike was too early, but with the amount of damage it’s already doing, it works very well. Look at the zone as well from Sanford. JP looking for the taunt won’t be able to go for it, but should be a free one here. Tenzi popping into Poison already. Wait, I’m not sure about Circle Eagles. Sanji walks away or sorry, flies away with the wings by wings and again Aurora are just left with nothing. They couldn’t trade. They couldn’t even get a tier one down below. Mhm. And that’s where I think some of those small mistakes are coming in. Like maybe they shouldn’t have even tried to go for the steal there. Maybe look for some map control elsewhere. Look to slow down the push that no matter what is going to come at you here. They are still yet to take a single tower. Team Liquid with the choke hold ready to make Aurora game and go night night. Uh-oh. Shouldn’t be a possible kill angle here. Lunar shows up. Carl Tezy again two levels ahead steadily across the board ladies and gentlemen. Carl has just been dominating this jungle matchup. Takes it away too. Doesn’t even give TNT an opportunity to go for the retribution. The curtain call from Sanford doing a whole lot of damage over to TNT. Another eruption to lock him down. Lunar forced to dash away to safety and it will be a free tier 2 as they set up for it. But the air strike battle. Rosa dodging away. But that’s a big resource spent now for Aurora. They’re going to have to deal with the Lord without the feather air strike steel. Tenzi, I don’t know if you want to go on Sanford, man. Yeah, he’s not the one at this point. They do melt down the lord, though, which is huge. I mean, they don’t lose any inhibitors at the 12minute mark. Team Liquid not done yet, though. They’re going to try to keep pushing in here. JP looking for an angle again. The circle eagle will cancel out. Oh, full dive on Apex. Almost a kill. Sanji wings by wings. Concealed play already for their air strike now. Come down with full barrage locks him down. Sigyoo getting an amazing angle now. Lunar trying to lock him down, but TL get away. I mean, get a free turret with minions. I mean, Aurora Gaming does at least get Sanji. It’s something in the midst of it all. They’re they’re passing the minute mark of how their past two games went. So, we are in uncharted territory. Rosa, though, that’s an unfortunate Kumar moment right there. Oh, was just waiting. Nuked him down now. Go for Sigy. Boom. Has a spin tool. It’s done over, but he’s just too fast. Tenzi goes for the shield unity. A good taunt over for Carl Tezy. Cancels out the shield unity. Cirly eagle in the back line. Now it’s going to be stun as well. Lunar picks up a kill. Carl TZY next to the chopping block with San again. Appraisers spring Sigy Boom down forcing him away. And it will not be a full capitalization by Aurora. You know, I will say that this as the saying goes sometimes when you’re this far behind a trade is a good trade. Aurora Gaming does at least any trade is a good trade at this point. Aurora Gaming not only gets any trade, they’re able to take out OH and they’re able to take out Sanji, the two major damage dealers. And this puts them in a decent position. Yes, they lose two inhibitors. It’s going to make this very tough, especially since they like to play the style of being grouped up. They need to send someone down to control this long lane cuz if they don’t, this Lord’s going to be even harder if they even want to try to contest it. There’s still a lot of boxes to check for Aurora, but they’re not dead yet. They’re not usually. Well, I mean, I still agree with you, but usually when you get these carries, you get bounties. They Sanji didn’t have a bounty. Obser was one and four. The bounty is on Sanford. So, 7,000 gold lead was kind of built around objectives. The comeback, the way you can come back usually is through bounties because enemy teams stomp at you through team fights. But TL have played such a good game in both team fighting and objective control to a point where they can afford to lose their carry sometimes and be like, “All right, we got a base. That’s actually value for us. You don’t get gold. We get a permanent structure taken down, a permanent wave pushing into you.” And Carl can just do this. He’s already won all the battles in 50/50s now, especially with this JP with the AoG locks three down. The feather strike comes in and Om just cleaning up. Now it’s a full lock over. Sanji with flicker out. Full barrage gets one at least. What a set from Agatatcha. Oh, feed air strike does come down. Team Liquid backs off. Two for one. Lord coming soon. Aurora Gaming. It’s like we just want vision on the Lord. We just wanted vision. We weren’t going to take it. Yeah. You you you asked for vision. You get shot, bro. Oh. Hey JP, calm down. Calm down, bro. Just relax. All right, relax, guy. At this point, Team Liquid might be able to end this here. Oh, man. Aurora holding it down again. TZ with the healing cancelled out by Carl. Tezy. It’ll be the curtain call as well. Sanford caught. Oh, full barrage again with a flicker forward. Doesn’t get a kill. Carl goes in for the appraisers. I thought that could have been massive. could have maybe taken down some of the carries, but Aurora hold again, but still there are no shutdowns. I got to give I mean, even with no shutdowns, I got to give it up to Siggy Boom right now, man. The full barrage has is starting to output. It is starting to put up the damage. Watch it pop up here in a second. All it takes is one of those hits. Down goes I mean, everyone has to run. If if any of them would have been in that range just a second longer, we’re talking full team white potential at this point. Look at that. So yeah, Team Liquid does have to be careful. I think that’s why we’re seeing them play this a bit more patient. Oh, the famous Chantel. Hey, you know, when she’s in the building, you usually see full five games, even when she’s not casting. Hey, so that might TLP fans, if this is ultimately a comeback from Aurora, you blame that woman late right there. It is definitely her fault. It’s her fault. It’s not JP’s fault. It’s her fault. Chantel’s fault. Unless they win. Oh, then it’s JP’s fault. All right, coming back into here. Aurora Gaming. They’re they they want to hang out up in this purple buff. They want to try to keep vision, try to maybe find some control, but once again, if they stay grouped up like this, they’re going to constantly have that bottom lane pushing in. They’re going to have to give up this orange buff. What is the answer? Who do they send down to control? Or do they keep on playing the passive? We let you come to us and try to get that big counter play, right? Seems like that’s what they do. Like that’s all come to the full barrage and hopefully we get a team wipe next time the lord’s coming. Thing is, even if they try to go for the contest onto the lord, team liquid have so many more angles to win. Like they can attack from different angles. Just attack that IA. Obviously way easier said than done. But even if TPH don’t go for the team fight, they could just be like, “All right, we’ll just wait. We have a wave down below. You want to contest the lord? We’ll hold it. We’ll reset it. You have to go back to base. One of these times we’ll just get a lord for free.” And that’s the forced error of Team Liquid. Like they’re they take risks up to a point where they don’t need to anymore and then they just take you down. Sigy Boom did just lock in Rose Gold. He’s got Rose Gold. Um I think at this point that should be last item. Um so there is some opportunity here. We’re closing in on that end game status of everyone getting maxed out on items. Gaming starting to finally output some damage. Look at on Carl TZ. Wow. I thought they would have actually just gone into Carl, but I guess they had to respect the possible AOG coming down as a re-engage tool. So decid they decided not to. Hey, but Aurora Gaming got Nope. They don’t think they got that purple actually. Did they get the purple? Did O steal it? Could have been OH tree down for Carl 12 seconds. I mean, does Aurora Gaming I All right, let’s take a look at that. I want to see who’s maxed out or they defend like they just fight for Lord or they defend. I think they can fight. I mean, I think the problem is is that long lane, right? I think they could fight for it if they didn’t have zero inhibitors, but at this point, the map control is just too much from Team Liquid. Oh, seems like they want to go for the fight. Tenzy already in first. Going to be chasing. Lunar goes in for the stun. Won’t be able to do so. Rosa with the AOG, too. They really committed on that engage. And Carl just going for the back line now with the help. Oh, the feather air strike. Apprais dodged away from the AOG again from JP locks. Siggy Boom down. Carl gets the shutdown and Tenzi is left rolling all alone. Aurora, their last legs in this tournament taken down slowly but surely. Liquid have their sights on semifinals and they want to get it. Winter crown desperate from Apex 47. It is the end of the road for Aurora. The cavalry move on to the semifinals. Grab your brooms as Team Liquid, I mean, the Stampede is real at this point. Three games in a row. And let’s be real, Aurora Gaming are no slouches. They put up a good fight, but Team Liquid, I mean, this is a team that just shows that anyone that wants to go against them has to be ready. Hey, they’ve been regarded as the best team in the tournament, even by me. And it just seems like they’re they’re too dominant. They’re too good at video games. Too good. They practice their minds off. Hey, that’s a nice suit term right there. Does seem like we are going to be getting ready to interview the man, the myth, the legend, whatever you want to call him. What? Chef, young stallion, the lone stallion. The Sandman. The Sandman sleep. I like that one. The Sandman makes teams go night night. Taking a look at some of these replays. I mean, Team Liquid for three games in a row just dominated everything. There was even the last game when Aurora, it felt like there was a chance. It was tough all around the map. I love the reactions. Carl Te just always got a smile on his face. Yeah. I mean, it’s that What the heck? That set, dude. J He played that J got the like a Tigriel. He found four with a taunt. That’s something you don’t usually get, bro. It was an amazing series. Team Liquid showing their dominance. And as we said, we got an interview down on the stage. Let’s toss it over to Rose and the Sandman. Thank you so much to all our casters. And of course, Team Liquid continues their journey heading on to the semifinals. And with me, we have Sanji. Sanji, how are you? Um, it’s good. It’s all good. You’re good. Now, it is an early day, but Sanji, after such a complete stampede uh game, how are you feeling after that win? Do you feel more confident? Um, he said he feels much more confident this time around and they have prepared better. Now, Sanji, let’s go back in time a bit. Just a tiny bit. Okay. The last time you were in MSE, you finished in the third or fourth place somewhere there. Now this time around, what is different with Sanji and how are you going to make sure that the outcome will be different and [Music] grand finals? He said that they’ve actually worked on their mistakes previously. They’ve done a lot of practices to ensure that whatever they put on the table this time around will push them to the very best. And you know what? Maybe get them a chance at the grand finals. Now, Sanji, for this matchup, I heard that before you mentioned in the mid lane, Rosa is better than you. After this matchup, where do you place yourself? humble. Humble. He said he will still place himself at the last. Now Sanji, since you’re already in the semifinals, the next match will decide who you guys will meet in the semi-finals. Right. Between Onik Indonesia and Mythic Seal, who do you think will head on over? He said that he thinks Anik Indonesia will head on to the semi-finals because when they met up in the group stages, he feels like they are quite good, intense, and overall a very good match, but you said just now you’re still at the last in terms of mid laner, but I heard that you said you’re better than Sans. Um, Ob said that. Oh, said that. Oh, we’re coming for you soon. But is there anything you want to say to Onik Indo before you guys potentially meet in the semi-finals? Uh, good luck and um I think mythic seal. Thank you very much, Sanji. Congratulations on heading on to the semifinals. And with that, let us show it back to the panel to break down what happened in the Stampede game. Throwing it back. Thank you very much, Rose, as well as Sanji. Again, that was an amazing game and congratulations being the first semi-finalist for Team Liquid. But also, we do have to say unfortunately this is the end of the run for Aurora. It was a good run, but it does look like history repeats itself. They got to the knockout stage, but that’s as far as they went. Gi played to uh the lone representative from Turkey. Uh could have sworn they were going to go further, but Liquid picked them. This is the reason why Liquid picked them. It got kind of personal and now it’s about to get really personal because they’re about to crush their key. No, please. No, don’t do it. We haven’t seen this in the group stage, but now on the knockout stage, we’re going to see it. This is officially the end of run with their keys getting crushed. Dreams, hopes, everything. Oh, just see how they smashed it. Sanji running through Aurora the Stampede. Three games in a row did not flinch. Now with that singular crush, you see him wse. Yeah, he he cringe me. right away that is loud. Like I I I saw it on person. I was like, “Okay, that’s like that’s cute.” And it’s suddenly like, “Oh, wo.” Like like it it’s legit pretty loud when uh when it’s done. But we got to break down what happened in game number three cuz out of all the series, this is definitely the closest because the Ixia really does uh work well. But at that point, I don’t know. I kind of feel like Aurora has already lost team. That’s what’s difficult. about 80 to 90% of the potential comeback for Aurora was on the back of the Turkish trigger man and that’s not fair. It’s very weird. Again, we were talking to Ben things earlier. He believes that they should allow Rosa and TNZ to play a little better. You know what? Scratch that. Not the prior again. Adjust maybe for Rosa and let Tenzi play, but no, they still put TZ on the box. And you see how the rest of the team kind of struggled to do that. Actually, I would like to say this game they changed their minds and they adjusted because they are playing uh they try to play uh as the first point of Sigiboom as the main role because they tried to protect him. They tried to make everything him to survive and just because of him they could make it so long. Uh the most interesting thing the early game was okay for Aurora but after that I have no idea what happened. Rosa stole all the like half of the game he just trying to take uh the ultimate for what? Yeah, for what reason? You got cotton call, you got of g and you can make it uh real, but you still continue with the retail. I have no idea why. Yeah, but honestly, destroyer after watching this game, Team Liquid did not give any breathing room to Aurora. Does this solidify them as S tier as one of the favorite teams to go all the way to the grand finals? I just want to say that Liquid are super confident. They literally made around zero mistakes through all three games. All three maps. They were just stomping, pushing their opponents, making them uncomfortable, and all the time playing macro. And the most important together, I’ll do you one better, gentlemen. I predicted that Team Liquid Philippines will go all the way. I I foresee them actually winning this whole thing. So that’s how clean and that’s how powerful they are now in this phase of their career. And sure, they took what 18 minutes to win game three, but they played about the similar strategy all three games. What else do they have in their back pocket? So right now, they are the clear standard. Like if you have any hopes of becoming the champion of MSC here, you have to look as impressive or even more impressive in your best of five. Looking at the looking at the stats here in terms in terms of the uh the picks, I kind of feel like it’s okay. It’s really about the execution because the story even you you talked about there’s a lot of alts that the Valentina can take, but more than half taking away the irrit glorified dash. Um again, I I I feel you right. We make those kind of mistakes in rank games. But the thing is this is a $3 million US competition. You those kind of mistakes cost you hundreds of thousands. Absolutely right. And you know, okay, if you uh we spoke also uh behind the scenes, we discussed, okay, take the air strike. Yes, it’s a problem to reach Sanji, but still you got two front laners that uh can help you. Okay, curtain call. It’s the most prioritized. If you can’t reach Sanji, go for it. And help to deal damage. And that’s just positioning wise, that’s execution. Item wise, you’ve come to the point where you’re approaching 20 minutes, you can juggle to find solutions. And Liquid found solutions cuz again, for the first time in this whole series, they got checked. They were like, “Oh, Sega Boom is a real threat now. Let’s buy blade armors. Let’s actually build defenses against this lineup. Let’s build halbirds to stop the shielding of the Matilda. And they still caught him. They still found them. And now for formalities, we’re going to be looking at the brackets here just to confirm the movement of the tournament. On the left side, Team Liquid has won against Aurora. We have a clean 300. And now in the semifinals, they’re looking at Mythic Seal going up against Anik Indonesia. The winner of that one is going to fight against Team Liquid. And again, even that one is an elimination match. winner goes to the grand finals and even in the interview looks like uh Oni ID are the favorites for this one. Definitely you know Onica ID uh according to power rankings we already saw the team liquid and on ID Ony Indonesia. So there is the situation when the um team liquid they approved they made it real that yes we are Sier. Yeah, and thank you very much, destroyer. But now we’re going to see if the prediction is correct because we’re going for a short break, but after this, we’re going straight into the second match of the day is going to be Onic ID going up against Mythic Seal. Welcome aboard Metro Zero. All souls must remain inside the train at all times. The terminal station is Ever Garden station. Zero is pulling in. Look alive. Gar 4. Clear. Car five. Clear. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. What? [Music] Fire. [Music] [Music] Hey, hey, hey. [Music] Explore special delivery. Next stop, Ever Garden Station. [Applause] Level up your gaming experience with over 8 billion playlists only on Spotify, the official audio streaming partner for the 2025 Esports World Cup. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Hey. Hey. Hey. [Music] This land is calling. [Music] [Music] You say to me to me out there in the field. [Music] The opening of the knockout stage is where the favorites, Team Liquid Philippines, showed dominance against their opponents, Aurora, winning a clean 300 and now makes it to the semi-finals. Welcome back to the MSE here at the Esports World Cup. Welcome to the English broadcast. My name is Fel. Alongside with me is Destroyer as well as Leo. Before we jump into the next match, some thoughts on the previous one. Do you think that this is going to be the the style that we’re going to having just stomps all the way through at the quarterfinals? You know, I predicted full series. So that’s what you wanted. Maybe I I cursed them. Maybe maybe I I don’t know. But actually, I expected the full series and uh I’m a little bit upset. If anything, the curse now falls on the Burmese on Mythic Seal given that Aurora, you know, kind of knelt. they they bow down. Now, as the underdogs left in the bracket on that side of uh the knockout stage, they have to at least get one or two, right? Well, we’re talking about Mythic Seal. We’re going to be talking about the SNB match of the day. The Saudi National Bank match of the day. It’s going to be Mythic Seal going up against Anik Indonesia. This is the match to watch out for because Anik Indonesia has been rumored in interviews that they are the strongest team here at MSC. thinking about Kip Bomba as well, saying that Onik ID is pretty strong, but Mythic Seal, having talked to them, they’re like, “Yes, we know they’re strong, but Ken wants to fight against his idol, Kyrie.” Lafell, I hate to put you on the spot, but do you believe that? Honestly, are they indeed? Honestly, after that performance from Team Liquid, I have doubts. I have doubts. And that is something that Mythic Seal is looking to prove. They walked in to the stadium today, grabbed their key. We’re going to put on the line against Onyx to show that even sky kings can fall. Oh, you think they are that confident? Okay. They have to be. They have to be. They have to be definitely. And especially when last Ken standing, you know, there is the last guy, last Ken that left on the tournament. We started with so many Ken’s supers, supers, and now we only left with one. And now looking at Anik and Ania as well. already looking much better than the previous run last year and I kind of feel like for this year they have a lot of uh redemption that they want going up against mythic seal is not going to be easy because again mythic seal is in the 20 bracket actually ending out better than Indonesia we’re going to look at here Kun Ken Niko Boy as well as Zippy and I don’t know man I really love midlaners I got to say my seal they win and lose off of Nico will have to help control the map so that Zippy can take care of the late game. Once he founds uh once he finds his power spike, then they can go from there. That that’s the one way I think Mythic Seal can kind of faint Onyx because Onyx that’s that’s that’s one part of their play that I mean they proved it in the S15 finals, right? But SO mentioned about Nico. Yeah. I think that there is too much on his shoulders. He need to prove that he can beat the mid lane and uh it won’t be easy. You know, Sun’s not an easy opponent. Oh yeah, Suns is definitely not an easy opponent. With that, we’re going to look at Anik ID. We got Ly, Kyrie, Suns, Key Boy, and Sero. Honestly, I believe if you’re a fan of MLBB, you know this roster. There’s a lot of faces here. This is not on the ID, but you know, it’s it’s it’s on it, you know, but legends. Yeah, they’re related. Yeah. Yeah. You know, it’s same same orc, same orc, but let’s talk about this one because honestly, like we have a lot of legends, but I actually want to talk about Savo. Very impressive because I like that even though as a rookie, he doesn’t play scare. He moves forward. He wants those kills. Lafel, you were at ground zero when Savo introduced himself to all of us. And that’s right. If I remember correctly, he experienced in the span of two weeks what CW had to do in a year. And he stepped up to that young man you just saw on screen. Uh not related to Onic ID at all, Keller. He stepped up to Keller and said, “I can take you gold standard. I’m here to introduce myself.” He He didn’t win, mind you, but he put up a great fight. You know, I like the play style of Sava. He’s super aggressive. He doesn’t care versus whom to play. He’s just super confident. That’s the guy that we needed. Yeah. And and here’s the thing. We actually have the privilege of talking to both teams because even they have thoughts on what it feels like to go up against each other. And hey, we got the video here. So, let’s check it out. Indonesia, please come in. As well as Mythic Seal, please come on in because Mythic Seal is the final team for the draw and there are no other options. We’ll be going up against Anig Indonesia. Thank you. So M feel okay. Do you think do you like this matchup? Not really. Who you want to face? Action. I hope for TP for sure. The second one maybe uh team spirit or meticil. The last one because I want duo Indonesian country go to final. Ken. Ken. So you didn’t really have much of a choice and you got on ID. Are you happy with that? Yeah, I’m happy with that cuz I wanted to face them eventually. So yeah, better now than later. Let’s go. 1 2 3. Can I get a photo with you? Sure, bro. Nice game, guys. See you in next tournament. See you. Normally, we just uh wake up, we eat breakfast together, and we play some warm-ups. After that, we get ready for our scrims and we do discussions. Goes on until like maybe 10:00 p.m. And then after that, we all go to bed. We just play maybe it’s like brawl mode brawl together with coaches or something. And then another just rest. [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] Oh yeah. Yes. I do think we have what it takes to bring our country to the next level. I don’t care. That’s just go. In case you guys didn’t understand Bahasa, that’s a good thing that I’m here. Honestly, looking at the video, we can see two different styles here where Mythic Seal, they really utilize their time, making sure that they’re doing a lot of scrims daily to make sure that they’re ready going up against Sonic Indonesia. And then and then Key Boy even said like, “Hey, we had some brawl games.” It’s not that they don’t practice, but it looks like they have that experience to know you got to cool down as well. You can’t overheat. Yeah, they have been a team much longer than Mythic Seal. Mythic Seal is a squad that is taken from the likes of Falcon Sports, Burmese Ghouls, the former Mythic Seal, and you know, Ken is holding this squad together. You even saw that former Falcons esports coach, Coach RC now with Team Liquid, was talking to them. It’s that Burmese in him. So, that’s what we saw. the mythic seal, you know, it’s a cooked delicious so meal that was prepared and uh it’s uh it really depends on their performance but still they already are legends for me because they went to top eight and Leo was one of the people who predicted it actually. I saw I saw my hey shout outs. But now we got to talk about the jungle match up here because again even Ken said he’s honored to fight against Kyrie and we’re going to be looking at the kings of the jungle. King Kong, Kyrie, Carl Tezy. I believe it’s not a hot take to say they’re the kings of the jungle. This is going to be a trial by fire for Ken. If he wants to get to that level, he has to defeat Kyrie first. Ken stepped onto the world stage before even King Kong could think that he could do this. So Ken has time on his side. Ken has experience. You know, I see one similar thing for every nickname. K at the beginning. Maybe. Maybe. It’s just mental win. Yeah. You know what? I hope they make it to four keys cuz three feels like a odd number. You You got to two two four seems seems pretty good, you know. Yeah. Better than three. Better than three. Better than three for sure. Um, but definitely looking at the the lineup here, looking at the play style of Ken, I’m sure he can play those utilities, but he really loves the damage dealers. Like even in their own grand finals, he basically used Joy all the time bidding SRG. He used the Lance a lot. So, I hope that he’s going to be an assassin going up assassin assassin battle. Yeah. I first met Ken about 3 years ago, and he did debut with a Lancelot. Very specific kind of Lancelot, mind you. Much similar to the Lancelot we see now. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But this time it’s a bruiser Lancelot. So yeah, the meta is cooked up and served very well to the candy man. Shifted. Yeah, shifted. It shifted well for the Burmese python. These are all old nicknames that I pitched to him 3 years ago. He approved none of them. Yeah, I I actually remember that. So we we talked a lot about mythic seals. What are your takes on on ID? Do you feel like they should be confident taking up against Mythic Seal? Oh, definitely. you know uh okay they lost in the group stage to one versus the on sorry on versus the team liquid yes but still we saw the uh power spike of the team liquid you saw their performance and uh I don’t know what can stop them and still they are pretty good at it and uh we saw the tier list the um power of the guys is s tier and we all understand it h it will be really a hard and tough uh match for the mythic seal. And here’s the thing, it’s it’s crazy to think both S tiers are in one bracket. So, even if ID makes it through, only one of them can actually go to the grand finals. And uh Any ID is pretty interesting as well. I kind of feel like it’s going to be pretty difficult to draft against them because Kyrie even has the AON and then Son’s like, “Oh, well, not not a lot of good picks. I’m going to pick up the Kadita.” I put my more than just guess coins on the line. My credibility. I predicted already that the internet knows that I think Onyx is going to win this. But imagine a world where Mythic Seal wins. That’s an interesting world to live in for sure. Actually, they already won Sergio. Okay. Yeah. The previous champions of uh like from Malaysia, the winners of MSE 2024 and now they facing versus the guys who is also one of the leaders here. I kind of feel like one of the reasons why a lot of teams are able to pull off this upset is because the versatility of MSE at EWC because this is one of the metas that there’s a lot of heroes that can be used uh compared to before in the previous MSE. 94 games played but only 82 unique heroes picked this time. 84 games played and already 86 and we still have more games to be played. I reckon that puts it at about 22 to 25% more open a metag game. Yeah. And you know what? At this point, we have a lot to talk about, but right now looking over at the stage, looks like both teams are ready. So, let’s introduce both of them onto the stage. Thank you very much, Jensen. Yes, we are back again on the MSE stage here at the Amazon Arena, and we have to continue with our matches. Our first game though, let’s be honest, Rose, Team Liquid wiped the floor with Aurora. It was not pretty. It was not I don’t know how to say this, but you know, if anything, Filipino Pride is definitely working today on TL. Oh, wow. Milos. Damn. Filipino Pride from Milos. Now, over at the backstage just now, I was going through some stuff with him and I was like, “Looks like TL will actually win this cleanly.” And he’s like, “Yeah, let’s go TL.” Pretty much. I mean, look, if if you’ve been a longtime esports supporter, esports viewer, Team Liquid says a lot to you, right, as a viewer. Coming into here, it’s always good to anchor myself as an outsider, not just with organizations that I know of, but of course having Rose by my side, explaining things to my weak mind and soul as we go through our day. Okay, now we want to have fun, right? Yeah. I’m pretty sure Milos has been having fun. I’ve been having fun, but there’s no better way to make our last match of the day fun other than having both of our teams up on stage. I certainly hope so because otherwise we wouldn’t have a game, right, Rose? Well, we do have one. Let’s bring our teams up on stage. Starting off with Mythic Seal. The MSL champions are eager for their international mainstage appearance. They came on first during our Olympic walk out and here they’re ready to play. From dark horses to contenders, from underdogs to giant slayers, they’ve mastered the art of flipping the script regardless of who is up against them. Zippy and Ken though still feel a bit of the sting of that M4 loss. And today they look to settle the score against the opponents on the MSE stage. Speaking about their opponents, we have the Sky Kings from Indonesia. Let us call on up Ank Indonesia. Thrown into the lower bracket of the group stages bit by bit, Any is building their momentum with their eyes set on the grand finals, ready to assert dominance on whoever comes their way. But can Onik keep their championship dream alive and win the team’s third MSC championship? This is going to be a great one no matter how you cut it heroes. So please, gentlemen, mythic Onik, you may head to your seats, place your keys, and get ready for your matchup. Okay, Milos, after watching such a one-sided, clean sweep first match, what are your expectations leading on to the second match? I hope we at least get four out of the five. More entertainment. Okay, you think it’s going to be a 3-1? Hell yeah. Okay, there’s only one way to find out, and that is showing it to the land of dawn. Let’s go start our second match of the day. Thank you very much, Rose and Milage. And yeah, honestly, if there’s at least four games, that’ll be interesting. Yo, is it just me or did Milo not say who he was rooting for? Who did he say was going to win in four? Hey, maybe he has a curse as well. Not going to say. I’m I’m afraid to ask Destroyer. He said full games and it was a sweep. Yeah, let’s not. Yeah, that’s why I said maybe I cursed that. Yeah, you know, sometimes it’s good to keep your opinions to yourself, right? Yeah, let’s not. Yeah. Thank you, boys. Thank you guys for the support. How’s your day? You’re having a good day. Yeah, actually. Yeah, I’m here with you. All right. All right. We’ll see how that goes. Um but yeah, looking at the match up here, on ID going up against Mythic Seal and I kind of feel like there’s still a good chance just because Mythic Seal was able to take down SRG OG. Uh I don’t think Onid will disrespect it because again, this is a single elimination match, right? If you if you lose, you go home. The real question is I kind of feel like between both teams maybe Anik ID has a more dynamic draft uh compared to uh mythic seal because if possible they want a damage dealer on Nico as well as uh uh as well as Ken. That exactly is the right word. I don’t know. Did you just look at my notes? Because on ID they have a dynamic draft. They like to interact with their opponents. Coach Yev, Coach Addi, they like to steal picks and go their opponents into the rope a doe. All right, we’re going to leave this open for red four for blue four five. Are you going to take it? If not, we’re going to steal it. We’re going to ban it. That’s exactly what they’re going to do. And I’m looking at their priority bands. And I’m looking at Mythic Seal’s priority picks. There’s a lot of overlap there. Not in the parallel, but in the diagonal, in the contradicting sides of the draft. I think that Mythic Seal, they won’t make the decisions like the Aurora made. So, we saw in the previous game, in the previous series when they were trying to let jungler to pick last. No, I think they should pri make the priority for the mid lane and uh for the jungle. So maybe maybe instantly just pick for Ken. Go for it. Yeah, honestly the jungle is definitely something that I really want to look out for because we even saw the previous uh content piece. The kings of the jungle. Kyrie has been here for years. Uh there a lot of discussion for him being the face of MLBB. So, this is going to be very difficult for Ken where again, he’s an amazing jungler, but it’s gotten to the point where some people might see him as um predictable because they know his jungle path. They know how to uh how to stop him in his rotations. But now, talking about Kyrie, we got a quote coming in from him. He said, “For now, I don’t think Ken can be called a king of the jungle just yet. He hasn’t proven himself on the international stage and in this matchup I think it will be a sweep for us just like in M4. Kyrie is alluding to the last time he and Ken faced off. Kyrie was then playing for ID and Ken was still under the banner of Falcon Sports and those are cold words from Kyrie man like he but here’s the thing the story he was he was like you he was speaking the truth. Yeah. We chose the same language actually for us. Pretty universal. Yeah. Uh, and I totally agree with the Akari. You need to prove yourself before you go to the Kings, you need to show that yes, I’m ready. Yeah. Coming back to Aurora and Team League. Sorry, I I need to do it. We saw the stomping. If Ken shows, okay, guys, I’m confident with playing versus Kyrie and we can beat them. We can beat the Oni Indonesia. Yes. Then here’s the king. The scary thing about Anic ID though, it’s not just Kyrie, right? It’s not just Kyrie, it’s his sons, it’s Safarero, even Luffy has his moments. Key boy with the set. So, this is really going to be a test for every single member of uh Mythic Seal. I’m really looking at Nico. Nico used to be a jungler, now becoming a mid laner, and people do compare him to Sans in a way that high mechanics and likes those recalls, likes those emotes, likes to get into the face of the opponent. So, this is going to be interesting to see how both very confident mid laners interact with each other. And this is the exact opposite for the gold lane. You’re looking at Zippy, formerly known as Zip X. He’s the boisterous one. He’s the loud one. While Savo is just, I’ll quietly work on my lane. I’ll let my actions speak louder than words. Yeah. But now we’re starting to draft here. Mythic Seal is going to be first pick. Onic ID on the second pick. Looks like the Fanny, the Jin as well. CC has been banned out by mythic seal. Anukica banning out the yeenshin the landslot as well as the one one really respecting Ken’s favorite pick that landslot. And you know one thing I want to mention uh meta shift happens during the MSC. Uh we didn’t see you know just they skip previous games. And what do you think will appear or not? Well looks like box is going to be first pick here. Urinus is pretty strong in winning on his own name, but unfortunately just like all strong heroes, they have the counters. Midil early picking this box. Yeah, I just hope it doesn’t go into the hands of Ken because you’re already good at assassins. I don’t think you should change that going up against Sonic ID. But here’s the thing. What assassins are going to be left after the second phase of banning? Will the Hayabusa make it through? Down by the chain, Joy. Yeah, Joy. Those are the only ones left. Let’s see if uh Onik will let it through. They pick up the Moscow, put in the hands of Seo, and then they have the Fobius. I think this draft is going very well for Onyx to start. And I kind of feel this is also taking away from Zippy because honestly, Zippy in my eyes has improved the most uh from Mythic Seal where he’s reliably carrying the team. So, I kind of feel like this Moscow is taking it away from him. Now, with the Phobies, that does cause a lot of problems. A lot of assassins really don’t like this hero, but you can take to Granger every time. Okay, you got still H but still you can take another priority picks for the gold lane and Granger one of them good win rate yes one month like 99% but still you can go for it and here Granger picked up as well the laplu now fun fact this is what we’ve been saying with Ken and Super Ken out Ken is now the last Ken standing that’s 100% correct but I do hope he does not allow for this to be his moniker he shut me down for I gave him so many options and now he’s going to take the last can standing. I agree that that that that shouldn’t be it. That shouldn’t be it. We we’ll workshop it. Ken, we’ll get to it. It’s been years. It’s been years. On they have one more pick here. Still no choice for Kyrie nor this young man here, the MVP of MSE 2023, Key Boy. They lock it in. Oh, there Kyrie gets the high. So, they go banan the they ban the joy. They they ban the Amon like so what? forcing Ken on something like a ling. Maybe they just forcing him to play or even Yeah. Yeah. For or force him to play the box. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Angela. Okay. So, there’s the B. They decided to remove the addition of healing at and sustainability. Yeah. A ling has been only played once in MST in the hands of influence rage and that’s it. It was a nice one baby too. It had the Angela with it. So, I don’t know. Is is is Mythic really that desperate to put an assassin on Ken? Cuz I think they can make this box work. Yeah, I mean like I don’t doubt his abilities, but for me it’s just changing a little bit too much. Uh as well as Nico. I wonder what his pick is going to be because one of his favorite picks is definitely the Jin, but if the Jin is not available, I’m looking at Valentina. Other than that, maybe the Kadita and looking at the drop. Actually, it’s not a bad game for the Kadita for for you to pick up. Just making sure that you can deal with the focus. Yeah, mythic has been successful with the Kadira. They can make that work. Find the Moskov, blow it up. Onyx is going to expose definitely some of their cores here even in red four. So Mythic can close up with with a Kadira. I don’t I don’t mind that. Also, you can take Parson still available and there’s options also in the jungle. Still, it’s a flexible pick for the mythic seal. Yes, if we speak about Baksha, you can go the assassin, you can still go with joy because on Indonesia decided not to ban this hero. So Kimmy is taken out here. Mythic seal, they got one more ban. Might this be another ROR? This is dangerous grounds they’re going into because they might choke themselves out. We don’t know if this Boxa is a ROR, too. Been itching for a real This is a Kal. I can’t believe the Cleo went this far. So now looking at a draft here, if we’re just assuming, it does look like they’re both having the same roles. We got the exp, we got the golds, and if the box goes jungle, we have both sides same as jungle. So both don’t have a ror as well as the mid. The mid is for sure. We still don’t have any. So they have priority here. But the thing is, as strong as the fara is, it’s not without counters, right? Because mythic seal, they could pick up three to four different heroes. They can do with the farsa. What do you think about Garatcha for Onik? I feel like it’s fair. I feel like it’s fair, but looks like they’re picking up the Badang instead, making it so that any kind of front lines, the Lapu as well as the Boxia can potentially be countered. Yeah, because Mythic Seal have exposed their hand. This is a frontal back lineup and the Badang is one of the best at answering such. Doesn’t even matter what you put in mid, the Moskov alone can kind of stomp through and make that spear of misery work with the walls that the Badam puts up. So, it’s a little wombo combo Anukica’s worked out into this draft. Mythic seal. Now, we have to see what Nico picks and we have to see what Ken eventually ends up with. It’s here. It ends now. The mystery and uh I think they should make Okay, it’s Selena and Joy. So, they decided like this. But I don’t like the Joy versus uh Badang. Yeah, but the thing is this is like one of his signatures because I feel like Ken is one of those players that you can pick five counters and I’ll still pick this hero up. Uh but again, very interesting here because I would say Granger, Lapu, Selena as well as the Joy is very microcentric going up against ID that is going to be very interesting. But now we’re talking about a Kadita. It looks like Sans is the one that’s going to take up the Kadita. And if I’m the Boxia, I’ll be slightly afraid. Yep. There’s nothing you can do to protect your softies from that Kadira. Three solid targets. The Granger, the Selena, the Joy, like they go poof if Sans finds them. But from the other side, from the other perspective, Mythic Seal got a lot of power spike. I mean, uh, they got a lot of opportunity even to poke their opponents and they begin the fight with the much more. Thank you very much, Destroyer, as well as Leo. Now, I got to throw it over to our castles tracks as well as Miracle. It’s your time to shine. still here, ready to shine. This is the second series of the quarterfinals. On going up against Mythic Seals game number one in a best of five, Miracle, how we feeling? Hey, feeling great as usual. We’re going to get straight into the land of Dawn for this one. Kadina, last pick for Suns. Another signature pick coming through. And I got to say, I really like the fact that Onyx really just denied that joy without really denying it. They they picked three counters for it before we got to see it. It’s It’s almost like they knew it was coming. I mean, so far can only play two heroes in a group stage. Exactly. Oh man, I think he did actually. We saw him pick this hero three times in a row in their first series and after that it was nothing but Lanclot and this is something that’s been on a lot of our minds coming into this series. Are we we going to see Ken play something else? They did pick up the Bosch up front. I was kind of on board for that running the Bosa jungle, but Mythic Seal tried to kind of pull a cheeky play. Don’t know if it’s going to work out though. I mean, last series we thought we we saw 300. I’m hoping we don’t see that again, but Mythic Seal definitely has to come into this game um ready for what I has to bring. Yes, they took a loss in group stage, but it was two TLPH. That’s true. Let’s take a look at the emblem builds right now. Does seem like everything is pretty normal. Season Hunter for this week. two key boy looking for a play there to try to take the uh XP crab but yeah nothing too crazy I guess pull yourself together for sons for the petrify festival blood and thrill so bit more sustain to play with for Luty and I guess concussive blast so it’s not the the normal like brace mine I think you would go for for Phobias this is more of like I want pryo in lane I want to just clear it and help my team ASAP and taking a look at both gold laners as well nobody takes any uh no tenacities nothing like that sometimes we do see that pop up in the gold lane if you want to be super aggressive But these guys are going to take full damage ready to go. Now, so far today, we have seen the Granger winning out against the Moscow, but Onyx ID, they know their pace. They know what they want to do. They want to take the slow. Let some of those items lock in. Make sure you get the hunter strike on Kyrie. Um, but turtle is coming up. Yeah. Oh, steal from Kai in and out. Super clean quad shadow and a tree would be seems like he wants to go for more. Does have those infinite pursuit stacks. will jump in again as Ko gets a punch. It cancels out of shield unity. Revitalize coming down but Sans will go to breath the ocean and the rough wave to pick up first blood. Now the bravest fighter from Kun a full dive to the back as Ko pops in fist crack but he won’t be able to get him to safety. Shadow kill to the back taken down to as Ken walks in and wa solo up top. Sero getting taken out by Zippy. Okay, this is a good start. This I mean we know we’re in for some action here. 2 and 1/2 minutes in and there’s already five kills on the board. Let’s take a look at the replay real quick. Kyrie, I mean, this is a millisecond of timing and being able to time it well, right when you need to to steal that turtle is huge. Up in the top side though, Zippy in a little bit of trouble will be able to get away, but Mythic Seal first 3 minutes in, they have the gold lead. It’s not huge. It’s negable, but still it is something. Wait, Kiwi wants to go for the solo kill here. Has the flicker crack and he gets the kill on Zippy. will be traded back here and it will be Ken who gets the kill. So, in the end, I’d say it’s worth it for Mythic Seal. They get a kill on Ken on a signature pick of his. Yeah, I mean, definitely I think uh just doesn’t stop right now. They don’t want to talk, bro. They don’t want anyone to talk. There it is going in. It’s 44, I think. Yeah, Mythic Seal kind of gets the win on that. They get a kill for Ken. It’s gold laner for gold laner, but they get the trade with key boy in the end as well. Yes, Onik ID getting the kill into the gold lane does at least even things out between Seo and Zippy, which is huge, especially since Searo is going to take a bit longer to come online. Um, so I mean, still we’re sitting at a standstill. Second turtle coming up. Did you think we’d be at eight kills this early? No. I expected both teams to play a bit more clinical here in game one, but so far does seem like well just want to brawl it out and mythic seal oblige as well. Up top it’s going to be the Moscow is holding it in. Boy looking for an angle. Ko boy in the bush goes in on with a fist crack. That’s going to be the arrow landing in the back with the breath. The ocean and the rough waves lands. It’ll be a first kill over to Onyx. Kai with a jump now with a kill as well. Over to Zippy. It’s going to be another jump with the dark wave, but look misses it out now to die with a petrify. Subarrow go for free hits. Boy getting the double. Ah man. I mean at this point mythic seal able to land some of those stuns. And even when the rough waves comes in, even when the petrifies come in, still not enough. Kyrie maybe getting a two too aggressive in that instead of doing the I’m going to just wait for turtle. I’m going to just be patient. They kind of fully committed there and Mythic Seal seems to want that this early on in the game. Bravest Spider, the abyssal arrow landing tool. Free neutral objective. Zippy gets it. Don’t know if that was planned, but it is still a neutral objective to Mythic Seal as will try to go for the trade and I think should be able to get it. So, Vero in the bottom lane free. He has to be careful though. He doesn’t know where anyone is on the map. So, he decides to just play it safe. All right. So at this point, Mythic Seal with the lead they have and the pace they have, I think they could really, this might be a time for them to push the gas a little bit. They have Kun 02 and three, but he is at least rotating, able to get involved in these fights. Zippy as well starting to do more damage. And then having Nico who can just kind of keep on ID at bay, keep them guessing with these abyssal arrows. That’s what you get out of the Selena. you get this constant poke, this constant kind of keeping you on your toes, keeping you constantly having to move in these team fights. It just adds a layer of uh forcing the other team to be a bit more micro mechanic based and kind of gets in their head overall. And this is what we see from the Selena so much. So, Mythic Seal feeling good about themselves. Really good stuff from Mythic Seal. And again, it really does seem like for Mythic Seal, their only win con of the group stage has been through winning out in the mid to late. can taken down the bottom lane. And with that being said, it is what we’ve been expecting. Mythic Seal want to just try to survive this early game, but so far they’ve actually won out the early game. It’ll be good for them. A few of those brawls coming in to help them get that lead, but Onyx really when it comes to those pickoffs have been quite clean. They’ve gotten two kills on Ken now. Yeah, one of the problems that Ken’s going to have here is when you’re the Joy, you kind of want to go solo. You want to try to farm the XP lane here and there. you want to hit those off lanes, but when you have a Hayabusa on the opposing team, you have a major threat and it’s very easy for you to get caught off and taken out. So, it kind of forces you to play a little bit different. Was that the steal? It is a steal from Sans. Pops in the rough waves. Perfect timing. Gets the breath of the ocean. A turret down below with minions and a turret up top. All of a sudden, the game has just been turned around. In the words of Leo, that’s what you call Grand Theft. Oh yeah, just stealing it right from under their nose. Nice stun though onto Luffy. Ly still has an arc wave. Actually already used it to C. So he has it for a pursuit to decides to go in as a miscarri to Boy. Nico dismantles key boy. That was a bit too easy for Mythic Seal to get a pick. It’ll be traded with a turret up top. And it seems it’s Onyx who’s playing the mid to late game. They’re just trading for a better tomorrow. I mean, they they know their time span here. I think they’re very okay with that. and taking that tower up top knowing uh a whole lot of damage. Kh goes down. Kyrie able to put pick up another kill right in time for Sans to pick up the lightning tranchion as well. Onik ID is getting closer to when they can really push the gas. But when they do get to that point, I think mythic seal will be at a similar point, too. And it also kind of matches to Mythic Seal’s windcon. It comes down to a 50/50 battle. Uh right now it’s Zippy who’s holding the gold lead over Savo, but that will change with Savo constantly getting the side lanes alone. Abyssal Arrow won’t land a big B with a hunter strike there. We’re very close to Ken getting the holy crystal, too. And that’s the uh power spike that we’re waiting for. Suns just continues to put in pressure into the jungle. Yeah, I mean at this point, back to Ken talking about the holy crystal. Even when he gets it, it’s still there’s it’s still hard to find targets. I feel like it’s mainly Seo. It’s going to be hard to get Sans at any point. He can just dip down into the water, get away, be able to escape or get the petrified. Do you really want to jump onto Sans when it’s a possible threat? So Ken majorly coming into these fights, it’s going to be about how he approaches them, how he approaches these objectives. Maybe be patient with them with them and let the rest of your team take the brunt of these fights. It’s a slow game right now. We got to see the pace of these two teams in the early game, but it does seem like both teams have slowed it way down. Onik know they have multiple angles to attack from the side. Mythic Seal have been dealing with that instead of looking for those big fights that they have been in the early game. And so far it does mean that Onyx have the advantage. They were able to get a tier two up top in terms of structures, but Mythic Seal, they do seem to still have that strong hold on to big neutral objective fights. just with Kun. He’s 03 and four. He’s 03. The KD doesn’t really do it justice, but his impacted fights has been phenomenal. Just opening up so much space for everyone. Nico, Ken, and Zippy to get those free shots in. Yeah, not only that, Nico also opening the map with these traps, keeping vision as everyone else went up to top lane. We you can see Nico on the mini on the mini map down by the Lord, placing some traps, trying to keep tabs on whether ID wants to rush this, how they’re going to get position over the Lord. And this gives Mythic Seal free roam of coming down the river. They don’t have to take long routes because of this vision. They can kind of objectively move around the map in a much easier fashion. And Onik ID though, they know it. Even their position on the map. You can see that they’re not trying to push too far. They’re still taking things slow. They want to get Seo where he needs to get. And at this point, those spikes have kind of come in. Those second third items are locking in third items around the map. There you go. Trinity almost fully there for Seo. Just a little bit more to go. Hunter Strike B into Endless Battle soon for the side of Kyrie as well. Taking a look at the other side, we do finally have Holy Crystal. And look at Ken to Kyrie. A pretty decent gold deficit. Ken taking a bit longer. Could be one of the reasons why we haven’t seen him really pop off yet. Good cancel on the shielding able to the ocean. Abyssal Arrow lands. No followup just yet. So going to be thrown in. Key boy jumps out of a combo. Li gets the dark wave. They collapse off of a key boy engage and even with the previous fighter could can immune CC but he cannot immune damage on take a big team fight win. The timing of all of that along with the sodic ID just showed that yes you’ve got good micro but ours might just be better. Everyone knowing exactly when they needed to do it. Look at the SOD come down. I mean connects and just perfect timing with the fist crack with everything TX with everything the dark wave the sod landing Kai zoning them in the back too and now oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh never mind I thought it was be it will be a shield unity over to him but yeah that dude that was just that was perfect chef’s kiss for the engage beautifully done on ID now on the aggression with a lord coming down the top side mythic seal I think they definitely can defend this shouldn’t be a unless they make some sort of huge mistake. Gold still not completely out of range to even win a team fight I feel like for them. Zippy has done well this game. Ken, like we saw has gotten the holy crystal. Let’s see how it plays out. Load up top. Going to be charging down. That’s a base turret. Targeted down. Uh-oh. Ken caught in the top spot. Petrify lands, but he’s able to evade from it. Abyssal arrow now dealing a whole lot of damage. Zero taken out by Kon as Boyen looks to engage into the back line. Now all alone, isolated from the team. can with electrifying beat. Sans teared or torn down by Boyo. Sky walks and stays in the bush. Puts on some damage and will decide to back away. They lose two members, but they got a big structure. Boy did such a good job at keeping tabs on the rest of the team as they were backing off, which let mythics know, listen, Kyrie’s not coming back. We can fully engage onto Luffy. We can fully push out. And now they’re going to take this mid tier three, gain some more pressure. A lot of damage. What a bait by Boyer into an Abyssal Arrow from Nico. Oh, they read Kai like a book. I mean, at this point, it’s the gold deficit is completely closed. Mythic Seal very much back in this game. Ken feels confident. He’s back in the bot lane clearing things up. He can kind of move by himself. And Onyx ID now is the team who is grouping up together as Mythic Seal approaches the map widescale. the gold lead back to nothing irrelevant in this game right now. It was a hold on before they got outplayed. I think that’s the term, right? Mythic Seal just straight up outplayed them in the base getting hit in the Abyssal Arrow. Another one with a bait from Boy into Kai. This makes the game a whole lot more even. And I got to say, TX, even though, you know, I’m Indonesian, I know what the Onyx boys can do. This is Mythic Seals realm. Like this is how they’ve able how they’ve been able to get wins under their belt in the group stage. It’s just waiting for this moment making it very messy and then utilizing or living in the chaos. They they thrive in the chaos in the late game like I mean mid mid to late we’re creeping into late. This is exactly where they want to be. Even taking a look at the gold laners. Zippy’s now taking advantage. Missile arrow goes a little wide. Rough waves as well. Ly jumping in. Could with a brave spider into the back line. Liby still going in. Good re by Sabo. Is it going to be kind of away from Ken now? Was actually the quad shadow landing and Kai jumps in the back line. Cy has a win of nature but gets this plays. It will be Kai in the back. Rein isolated from the rest of the team. The SD doesn’t land. It was close. Alo blinks forward to dodge the abyssal arrow and want to end this game. They see it in their eyes. Abyssal arrow only landing onto keyboard. Rough wave is going to be used up as Poet get shredded down. splashed by water and Onyx ID will claim game number one. All it takes is one moment, one mistake. Ken maybe going just a little bit too far or Onik ID just getting the outplay back again. Either way you see it, ID takes game number one. Wow. Mythic Seal though. I mean, still an amazing fight and I got a feeling we’re in for an amazing series here with Any ID kicking it off with a win. I agree with you TX, but in a way I feel like the joy pick was just too greedy. Yes, it’s a comfort pick by for Ken, but when you’re up against a composition, a team who really knows how to deny it from the bands, it’s just too much to handle, dude. Fobious, Padang, and Haya. Well, let’s see what the panel has to say about this. How are we doing over there, Lafell? This look like um both teams, they have the eye for opportunity because the moment you see an opening, they go in. Even even in the final stages of ID, like, okay, we won this fight. We’re not going to be doing anything else. We’re going to be ending the game. And it already looks like a good start to this series where Yeah, I understand what Murko was saying. like the draft they kind of denied Ken already because again Ken has only used like what landslot joy that’s it but even with that mythic seal were able to push to the limit Onyx ID like even if they blocked out so many they were able to finagle through a draft and get it to a point where had to sweat and what was it five or 6 minutes in where we were looking at two kills per minute. These two teams like to fight a lot of kills and the most important that solo kills they made a lot of efforts. Mythic seal actually uh you know Zippy killed one versus one Savo. Yes. It’s it’s like wow guys he can do it. And Mythic Seal got a lot of opportunities to win the uh objectives. Yeah. Nico played well on the Selena. It’s just an effort opportunity. Maybe they had too many. Maybe there they were just too I don’t want to say greedy, but there there definitely was an overeagerness in a lot of these moments. Honestly, looking at the matchup here, they’re more similar than we think where both teams they have the best mechanics that we’ve ever seen all all over the world. And I kind of feel like they really want to use that to their advantage. This is why we see mythic seal when it comes to their draft. They don’t mind picking all the skill shot heroes, all high mechanics because they can execute it. They can execute it. and Ani ID. They’re from Indonesia. This is this is familiar territory for them. Yep. They are both team fighting teams. And if you go up against a team that has better macro but equal team fighting prowess, you lose 99% of the time. And this is what happened here. Onyx found that window. On was actually honestly, even at the seven minute mark, working on the map better than Mythic. This was always bound to happen unless Mythic tightened up. That’s I think my word for them here. That’s my best advice, my my my best practices for game two. If they want to take us the distance, tighten up your macro. You you can’t do this against Onik. If you’re speaking about about the macro, Mythic Hill actually lost the advantage when they went to the turtle to the first turtle and they let the opening sight to the enemies. So, actually, they lost the holy shield at 7:30. Exactly. Too early. Let let me just say I didn’t see this coming of having the highest damage in the game. Uh 2,755. It’s rare for an exp to be dealing this much. I mean to be fair, Lapu is is uh AoE, so but he’s also a skill shot hero. Yeah, none of his skills like lock in. So this speaks to again the mechanical prowess of mythic. They they have to just aim this. It’s it’s it’s amazing energy. It’s amazing effort. They just have to aim it. Honestly, at this point, this seems like a very fun best of five that we could have here where again team fighting teams like yeah, macro is great, etc., but you know, I going 12 minutes and having like four kills in total, it’s not like the best series to watch. So, honestly, I’m very excited to see this one and I agree with you. Just tighten it up, right? Cuz you got the skills to pay the bills. You just got to make sure that your opponent doesn’t hold the majority of the map. Yeah. You don’t want to be left living from paycheck to paycheck. You don’t want to keep the bills keeping you down. Like you want to have a future. You want to invest in the 10-minute mark, the 11 minute mark. That’s why even if they were like, what what was the gold difference? 500 gold, 400 gold. The map was so easy for take over. I like all this uh financial lingo in uh the Saudi National Bank match of the day. By the way, shout outs. But yeah, what are your thoughts on on this matchup? First of all, continue yours. And uh I really like uh the skirmishes. I really like when the teams constantly brawling versus each other. And uh it’s funny for us to watch when you see the macro game with two kills for 20 uh minutes like thank you uh with zero objectives. No, it’s not interesting to watch. But when we see like the constant fights and uh all this the skirmishes all over the map, the one versus one kills because right here we saw the mid laner killing mid laner, the gold laner killing gold laner and it’s interesting to watch. Yeah. And over here even on the screen you guys can see the 2025 knockout stage. All these amazing teams are here. But again, we just have to focus on mythic seal going up against Sonic ID because Leo, I just I just want to ask, did you expect it to be this close or were you expecting more dominance coming in from Onyx ID or Mythic Seal? No, I think despite me predicting and writing the narrative of Onyx taking down Mythic Seal, I’m one of the few proudly who respect Burmese MLBB who put them on a pedestal. So yeah, even if I did say Onyx was going to win, I’m expecting Mythic to make him work for it. I’m expecting Mythic to take them to at least four. Did I just curse him? No, I didn’t. I’m I’m going to make again four, but we don’t know who wins. Like we lost like Milo said, it’s four, but he didn’t say who. You definitely never know. And if we are speaking about Fixil and Onic Indonesia, we see the difference like we saw the previous games, right? We see that Aurora can’t adapt, can’t adjust their decisions, and uh they just lost. It was stomping. But here, I don’t see any stomp. I hear the equal game, the equal teams. They’re both stomping. Yes, they both making us um to watch it and to check what happened here, what happened there, and who going to win? Unpredictable. You know what? uh in the next MLBB event, we should really get a boot to sponsor us cuz hey, a lot of stomps are are going on. Maybe even broom companies, you know, sweeps. But either ways, in this one, I’m really, you know, I’m I’m not even going to say it. Not not going to not going to take the chance. Uh Mythic Seal, I really feel like this is this is something that we’ve been asking for during the group stages. They didn’t do it. And and still, they look pretty strong, which is simplify their their strategy, right? is I kind of feel like, okay, in the draft you pick high mechanical mechanical heroes. Perfect. That’s you. That’s your style. Go for it. But sometimes you can feel that they’re overthinking. Uh whenever you’re taking the turtle or going for the sidelines, I kind of feel like they need some kind of simple game plan that even without thinking, they could execute it. Even Key Boy said, “Yo, slow your roll, son. Slow your roll.” Maybe keep the mechanically demanding heroes to a three or four piece and then have one that just holds it down. and have a hero that just says, “No matter what happens, I can seal the deal. I can close things up.” I think what they need is a what they need is a finisher. What they need is a cleaner. So that’s why I was so adamant with Ken picking up the box cuz everyone else can, you know, run around, play around, but if Ken can say, “We’re playing for macro, gentlemen. Hold it down, then they can recover.” And now for you guys at home, the Metro Zero Train is arriving at the MLBB battlefield with a stunning new series of skins. But visual wonders await as a cyber punk meets traditional culture. Make sure you guys grab the Metro Zero skins when they’re available. Those kind of trains are going to choose. I want one big old. Can you give me one Metro Zero skin? I mean, we got to ask the bosses. And look at here. At least when we’re looking at Onyx ID, they’re still playful, you know? They’re not like they understand. You don’t have to be super stressed in this best of five series cuz it’s a long stretch. I mean, if you’re a game ahead, then you can play around like this. I don’t know if the same with coach Lim Daddy for Mythic Seal. You never should relax. Actually, you said you can be relaxed because you got one game ahead. Okay. But still, never forget about the re sweep. Never forget about that. The Mythic Seal made a tough match for you. Yep. Even if the chances are low, it’s never zero. Mythic Seal first pick Any ID second pick still roughly same bands betting out the Fanny batting out the CC and now Anik bing out the Houston Shin as well as the one if it’s the same as the previous game we’re about to see a Lanclot ban as well. Yep. And then a Zushin and then we go from there. But if the Lancelot does find its way open, Mythic should first pick it. Just clean. Just take it. Just take it. Install lock. But then you see boxer in your face honestly. Honestly, at this point, I don’t mind dealing with the box yet, man. Like, yes, he’s annoying. Yes, as a front line, he’s super strong, but I don’t know. I’m really liking the assassins for the junglers. Maybe change this Mythic change this one ban so that Ken can open up because yes, he has great win rates uh on the joy. But like, yeah, that’s a funny story. Yeah. Yeah. Look at this. Literally only two heroes. Yeah. That can used. You got to make like Kyrie, you got to you got to open your horizons, man. Pick up a Amon. Okay, maybe not that, but something else as well, you know. Hayabu Hayaboo. Yeah. And Onic Indonesia decided to Lancelot. That’s the obvious decision. So, how about Jin? The first pick. Yes. Yep. Yep. 100%. 100%. Jin, amazing pick. Nico, you like it? Not mechanically demanding. opens up your brain power to think about other things. Or what if they go first pick FUS so that they open up the Arlet and then they can go Arlet X on blue three and four. Uh blue two and three. I like X. Yeah, because Fus closes off Arlet. So if you lock down Fus then you can also kind of get instead go for Kalia. Interesting decision. But uh with Kalia, I like some something that you can continue for example like the chain CC. What what is more preferable? And here you let the mid lane priority to the onic Indonesia. Yeah, fius is in the future here. And looks like they do pick up the fobius. There it is. Is that Moskov again? Yep. All right. Very similar to game one. Farsa or Jusian is going to work here because you know at least when you have the Kalia the Farsa can really force things out. I don’t know though maybe they want the Selena again and they can keep the Selena for four and five like they don’t like I don’t think on will be banning it that they’re wasting a ban if they do that. So I I think you’re right, Farsa. Farsa Lapu, like just do what you did. Game game one. Game one was pretty close. Actually like your decision about the Selena. Selena, you even if they got the purify. Okay, you can use Selena as a first point to let your opponent uh give up resources. And it’s Arlo and Ranger. I only don’t like Arlet for one thing and it’s that you kind of build a composition around him where there’s a lot of CC so that he can keeps vengeing over and over but I kind of don’t like those drafts and you lose the laning phase you you hunker down it’s what is the plan here does Kun just say all right guys give me 6 minutes hey maybe fiveman final slash maybe that’s the idea at what at 19 can you even confirm 18 19 it. Okay. If they took instead of Granger um Faria, I understand there are a lot big. So you get uh composition, tsunami slam, final slash, air strike, everything like you’re burning out your opponents, but um with the grander it’s more focus. I’m seeing a pattern here coming in from Team Liquid as all Sonic where if it broke, why fix it? Fobious Moscow Ha open just pick it up again. And now even more Onyx are cracking down on Ken’s hero pool. They take out the Frederin. So now they’re saying, “All right, just go Joy again. Let’s see what happens.” Cuz that Joy, I’ll tell you now, it wasn’t it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good. I’m just interested in if they b joy. We’re going to see the third pick finally from Ken. It’s going to happen. And at that point, the question is, what is going to be the third pick? And this is what I was saying earlier. the pre-match. I said, “Coach Adi, coach Y.” They like to goat their opponents. They like to bait him. Say, “Oh, we’re going to leave the joy open. You want to take it?” All right. I guess you’re not picking a third hero all MSC long. That’s what Onik is doing right now. I like this Jian ban, though, because giving the Jian over to Onyx ID makes it so that they can fight anytime they want. And like you said, perhaps Mythic Seal, they want to buy some time, right? They can’t give tempo over to Onic ID because they preferably want to wait until at least 16 minutes for B. Okay, so they, as you mentioned, Leo, they decided to let them pick Joy. Wait, what? Okay, we’re going to test you. Are they worried about a Uranus jungle? Yes. Right. Okay. Cuz again, by time if that’s the case, but I don’t know. On have cornered mythic seal into this drafting corner. Coach Lindy, what could be going on in his mind? It’s unfortunate. It’s one of those situation where you’re like, “Yay, we got Joy.” But at the same time, you kind of have to feel like maybe that’s what your opponent wants. Maybe that maybe your opponent just like, “Oh yeah, you got your draft. Oh no, we made a mistake.” Wink wink. Anyways, I don’t think they expect like that tricky and that’s kind of obvious that um Onyx forcing to pick Joy. Go guys. We are ready for it. We are confident with that. And the last B. Yeah, previous game they uh look at this rep. Rep. Repick only one ban. They pick up the uh Gatka this time. So not picking up the Badang. So okay, at least the last two picks is going to be a change. Yep. So confirmed. This is a Rome Gatot in the hands of Kboy and then a Fobious for Luti. Mythic Seal again. What do they put in mid? They they they on purpose leave out the Farsa. So they can still end up with the Farsel Arla combo. Selena that too. Selena Farsa. I I think that’s the option. Selena, if you go with the Kala, so the combination when you just exchange your skills to purify and okay, it’s a debut pick. We’ve seen this in MW was it? But yeah, Alice in the jungle. Talk about a third pick in the jungle for Ken. How long has he been hiding this? Yep. We’ll skip the Freder. We’ll skip the Hayabusa. Let’s go to jump to Alice. Just another pocket pick. Okay, guys. And Kim, you know, in this situation, I’m okay with Kim. I mean, when you also got additional damage dealer in jungle and also the sustainability of the, you know, I trust. My only problem is it’s a very greedy lineup. Like you you’re you’re hungry for time, gold, and exp. You need time definitely. Yeah. Maybe that’s what you need to go up against the best of the best. You got to hope it works. And now the Eve locked in. Any looks very traditional in the draft. So destroyer, before we head on over to the casters, what do you think? Uh, I want to trust in Alice. Okay, let’s go. Let me fix it. You trust Alice? What about you? I think Onyx was very decisive with that Eve pick. They might go to match point. Yeah, we’re going to see today. Will we actually go back home early? Thank you very much, Destroyer, as well as Leo. But now for the second game of this matchup, I’m going to give it over to MKO and TX. What a draft. What a series. Things never seem to surprise us here on the desk. That’s an Alice that we’re looking at. First time pick here in MSC 2025. Are you excited about it, Mira? Hell yeah, I am, dude. That’s an Alice in the jungle for my boy Ken. Hey, I like it. The Burmese have always shown us different picks, crazy picks in the past, and even now in MSE 2025 where we thought, all right, we’ve seen enough of crazy picks, they bring out another. I mean, it’s picks like this that we re I always want to see succeed, right? No matter how much we look at the draft, we think, h, is this going to work? I think the hope is is that new picks are going to succeed. Can Mythic Seals pull this off, though? Last game, even when Any was kind of behind, they still seemed very much in control with their hands on the wheel. I like the Eve pick, especially paired up with the Gat with the Phobia. You have this box that you want to play inside and you’re trying to keep them inside of it as long as possible. So, let’s see if they can pull it out. Taking a look at the emblems also. Nothing too out of control, nothing too crazy, nothing too different. Yeah, everything quite standard really from this time. Uh except the Alice pick. That’s the only thing that is uh out of the ordinary here. We actually got to see this at MWI 2025. I believe it was Ramisi who picked up the Alice in the jungle without the help of Angela. So, we got a glimpse of what this pick could be. And in that game, she was a monster. And this is also kind of a way to get resets on vengeance. I mean, we also saw it a little bit in MLPH. Coach Bonchan was drafting it for for Aurora for a while and was drafting it ended up doing so well that it ended up getting banned. So, this isn’t something completely out of the realm. It’s definitely a surprise pick though. And I I mean, yes, if it comes online, Kyrie’s not going to be able to do too much against it. You have some dive into the back line. You have escapability and Mythic Seal. Yeah, just play it slow at this point. I think the real draft pick here that we’re a little worried about is the Arot. They got to split up. That’s how they win for Any, right? They clump up. They give a bit too much AOE damage. Final slash get the point blood coming down as well. Key boy able to go for the taunt and the instant engage with RWM. Even with the final slash going to be first blood over it and Ken has just put himself in position where he’s so vulnerable. What? Nico decided to stay. Shadow kill over a full chase. It’ll be Kai to get the kill. And early on it’s a disaster for Mythic Seal. They lose four and Eternal. Bing bop boom bop bing bop bam. Four members down the stuff that Onyx on. You wouldn’t understand at this point. That’s four kills. Nico stayed way too long. And I get it. They were all sitting at about 10% health. He just thought if I could just get a couple more hits, I could turn this this loss around. But sometimes that is not the way to go. And he pays the price for it. 3 minutes in, 2,000 gold lead. Mira, this is already heading south for uh Mythic Seal. I I don’t know what to say, TX. I mean, that couldn’t have gone worse. Could have gone better for ID. Obviously, that’s a 2,000 gold lead. Everything’s within their grasp now. And guess what? They took away the purple buff, too. And you really need it. You can already see how it’s impacting Ken now. Dude, I think they were better off not contesting Turtle One. Or I mean if they I don’t know if they were going to contest it. It definitely couldn’t have gotten much worse. Yeah, they I mean yeah, there shouldn’t have been an abort button at some point and Nico did not hear the call or did not click the button. It went from being bad to really really really bad and it’s continuing to scale more in Onik ID’s favor. Ken taking a death that early on to hurts so bad. Losing a purple buff, losing any gold at this point is a problem. Ly going to be able to bully this exp lane. We already knew that was going to kind of happen. So, it just puts Mythic Seal at even more of a disadvantage. Uh-oh. Final flash used up by Kun, but Luffy has done the job. Done the day. He’s already cleared up the wave. Now, they’re looking to go for this purple buff. And I think Yeah. Oh, he’s gets it without the retribution. For me, I think it’s scarier for uh Alice to lose purple buff early than to die. So, the fact that he got both a death and purple buff stolen was tough again. standing over the top and they just get locked down. They shouldn’t be engaging on K just tanking it out. The final S comes down. Ko with AOG. L P. Infernal pursuit to everyone. Oh, this this is a dream come true for Li. This is what you call walking into a wall over and over again expecting some different results. Sans and we’re seeing why the Eve pick was so crucial. The moment that Ken comes in, Sans drops the RWM. It pretty much negates any bit of healing that Ken is going to get and they’re just able to have free realm. I mean, Mythic Seal is essentially doing exactly what ID wants them to. Now, it’s two turtles down, almost a 5k gold lead. Mythic Seal’s got to back off. They got to slow down. Do not contest the next turtle. But then what do you do? You don’t contest next turtle. What do you do? Final flash coming down. Vero going to be caught in a tough spot, but he has key boy right there and son co no flicker but they don’t decide to capitalize. So again if they do decide to not contest turtle 3 has gotten enough of a lead to say sure we don’t need fights anymore. We can just siege we can play the macro game. There’s a reason we went Moscow. I guess if he gets a turret and the trade key boy looking for the flank again. Oh he’s holding it down and going to be caught again. to taunt over to guac lands. Nico able breaker out the safety. Keep up with the AOG back again, but Ken has no way. Oh my lord. Sod, I thought that landed on Nico. Ken has no way to contest for this, right? He goes in. He’s dead here. He’s risking it. Okay, he gets it. He actually gets it. Gets his purple. Kyrie did not have retri up, which is huge. It’s something. I mean, we’re at this point, we’re just counting purples. That’s even a win for Mythic heals at this point. And I have to say as well, Zippy hasn’t taken a death, which is important, right? Your gold laner, someone that’s going to deal some big damage, has not gone down yet, has been able to farm at least a little bit. I do think there is possibilities for Mythic Seal, even if they don’t contest this next turtle. But a lot of it comes down to how Ken approaches these fights. He cannot just come in head on and be extremely telegraphed about his entrance because like I said Sans just waiting to drop it on over to Boy Nami Slime locking him down. Key boy will ball Zippy gets a kill. Does he already have a sky piercer? Did he was that a stack or hopefully it was a stack? We’ll see once we see items. Sky piercer is in. So he does get a stack off that which is a good start and like I said zero deaths. He’s not too far behind Seo. Honestly, only 500 gold. Um, mythic seal could definitely find a power spike here. Yeah, this could be where all changes would be back again. Boya jumps in. Soning. That’s going to be Isolation. A free kill over. Quad shadow as well. Kai able to find it, but the RWM is a bit short. Sod won’t be able to steal it. And Mythic Seal somehow find themselves on the right track. So, was that the answer to how they need to approach the fights right here? If he can zone wo blue team all good if he can zone back son’s enough to where the real the real manipulation doesn’t come down on top of Ken then they’re kind of in the clear to take these fights they’re also finding some more pickoffs boy able to get some of these tsunami slams in mythic seal trying to fight a comeback here they have to make it really messy in the team fights right that’s what the Arlet and Alice wants to do as long as they don’t play within the box of the Eve I think it’ll be very good for Yes, Kai and Lud kind of does the same towards a backline of mythic seal, but that’s the gamble you need to take at this point. There’s no safety anymore. Maybe if they didn’t contest turtle to one and two, we would be seeing more of a sure, let’s play the normal route. Let’s play to just get space for Zippy and Nico, but at this point, Sans and Seo, you let them hit for free, it might just sting a bit too much. Yeah, you got to use your shield. Put it off to the side real fast to keep the other swords at bay so that you can fight forward. They do lose that orange buff there. People with pursuit has to be Kai caught as well, but he still is able to escape and the RWM locks Ken down. That’s an AOG. Sun’s picking up the killing spree and Mythic Seal are sent running for the hills. Key boy just doesn’t miss. Game after game, the OG’s have come in so clean. Now they’re going to try to defend this mid, but I don’t think they’re going to be able to do it. Zippy there, but here comes Key Boy. There’s a flicker. will be able to use it. Final slash being key boy back under turret kind of quad shadow gets locked down but he still pops in a shadow kill and he goes for more. Has the quad shadow in the back. A free assassination to Kai and he’s back to safety. Zippy needs about one maybe two more kills. Really get the stacks up and some of Kyrie won’t be able to be that low. You know, we’re seeing some of the members of Onic ID get low but then pull things off. If Zippy can get another couple stacks in, there’s opportunity there. But the problem is is literally the only two kills that mythic seal have gotten have gone to Zippy. Is there a time that the spike finally happens for Ken? I don’t know. Not as long as road manipulation is up. The poke is there for Onyx. They have the side control with Moscow. They have crazy uh 304 Hayabusa as Key Boy would put it. The way I cast Kyrie Hayabusa games would be Oh my god, Ky Hayabusa. That’s a purify for Sans already used up. So that’s some info. They can actually go for him now. Boy definitely has his eyes set on Sans. But Oniker positioning in a way where they know he’s going to be the main target. They walk away. Look be great spacing. Gets in for a pursuit now with over might be an all in over to the back. Now is going to be the boring blood. Ken caught alone. He actually jumps in the back of the vengeance. Fox comes in too. Look shut down for Ken, but Tamaro joins in the fight with SOD and Zippy loses his stacks now. Ken with the blowing blood followed through. Kai with the shadow kill. It’s a double for Kai. Oh my god. Kyrie Hayabusa. There is no escape from Kyrie right now. There is no escape for Monik ID. Taking a look at the replay. Ken, I mean, it looks like they find a moment. He’s able to get to the back line. He’s able to get the stun. In comes Kun as well, but just not enough. And as Ken’s trying to get away, keep our eyes on Kyrie here. He’s locked on. The shadows have been dropped and all the way across the map with the shadow kill. Disgusting. Oh man, Ken ended up actually bringing the kid through the rest of the team. You hate to see it. No wonder. I was like, how did the shadow kill? Oh, so he waited. He waited on the quad shadow, held his ground, knows Ken was going to try to flowing blood. And unfortunately, he flowing blooded into everyone else, giving Kai a free shadow kill to just wipe these squishies. I guess we see a win of nature there. So, Zippy will be able to tank up a few of those shots. But if Sans is online, I don’t know. You know, you pop in with a nature, you’re still going to have to deal with an RWM. Technically key boy, too. He does magic damage. I mean, I don’t know, man. 704 Kyrie is scary right now and that’s not we’re not even adding Seo into the equation. They’re they’re winning some of these fights without Savo. When Seo does get involved, it completely turns things around. Conceal play though from Onyx ID actually forcing out the purify out of Sansa. They still have to respect this like mythic seal despite the 10,000 gold deficit are dealing ridiculous amounts of damage. I think I think a lot of it has to do with a lot of those kills are on to Boy, a lot of those kills are on to Ken are on to the tanky front lines. So whereas Zippy and Nico are still kind of hanging on dive to the back locking them down with AOG as well. Now the final slash too, but Ko is just too darn tanky. They’re going to brute force their way. That was an interesting move by Anik. I thought maybe they would have cracked the base open just brute forcing it, but no. Key boy gets punished. Not a lot lost for Onyx, just a ROR and they have to go back. I’m surprised there wasn’t enough damage there from Kyrie even jumping in and the rest of the team along with Key Boy. Nobody goes down on the side of Mythic Seal in that defense, which in my eyes is a pretty big win being able to take out Key Boy at this point. A trade would be a win, but they’re able to get a kill for nothing and regain map control. Lord up in 60 seconds, but like you said, it’s still a 10,000 gold lead. Taking a look at the gold distribution between both gold laners. Seo definitely leading across the charts. They’re forced to farm up together. Guess we get to see the replay of this. And again, it’s the RWM just being a bit off. Had that hit that had that been like correctly placed, it actually could have been a free base turret. Kyrie also backed off. He decided not to fully commit with the shadow kill. He jumps in for a second, throws out the shuriken, comes back, and it’s like, “No, let’s just back off. Let’s play it safe. Let’s play it easy.” Turret has destroyed. They’ve been on the back of one straight push, you know, against the OP. So, at least we see them learning from that moment. It’s an all in. Oh, wow. The dark wave actually landed on Nico across the wall there. So, yeah, mythic seal just with attraction pulse reading off the map again. Their damage is pretty good. Like for being 10,000 gold behind, they don’t look like they’re 10,000 gold behind. It’s funny how that works, right? I I really attribute that. You know, they have the double marksman, right? You got the you have Nico, you have Zippy both able to chunk down. Granger in general, as we said before, he was never too far behind against Seo. 3-1 and one. Did I want to say he lo he lost the most stacks after the third kill? Maybe he got the death after second kill. Can’t remember exactly, but still Lord up. Does a Mythic Seal even want to try to contest this? They are making a way around the map. when you have a uh when you have the possibilities with Ken, you might be able to flicker in. This is the thing about their composition though, Trikes. They’re kind of forced to group up always, right? Look for team fights and that opens up a lot of space for Seo to continue to push in to sign lanes and that’s what he’s been doing. Waiting, stealing camps, holding on to this wave, and Anuker is going to hold on to Lord. It becomes a game of macro now. And Mythic CR forced to respond. Key boy try to go for a cheeky little engage. Oh my damage. Suns taking half of Nico’s HP bar. Stealing away the green cam too. And there’s too low. It’s an all in the back. Tsunami slime over. The RWM is a bit too far away, but still get the job done. A final size to the back like Kai lands it in the back now. Finds a shadow kill and it will be Ken Fallen. It’s a full team wipe as Ken falls last. It’s Ser with a triple. Onyx with everything. And with about 30 seconds on the clock for each member of Mythic Seal, Onyx ID should be able to wrap this up and take us to match point. It’s GG. Mythic Seal tried their best. They pulled out a pocket pick, but Onyx got answers. They’ve got a whole lot of them. Yeah, I think the Eve pick was so clutch at the end there. A pick that I’ve been wondering if we were going to see it a whole lot. We haven’t seen it a whole lot, but if you have something to pull out of your pocket, we do, too. And it just goes to show the dimension that Onyx ID can bring to the draft and to the game. It’s the peekaboo. The peekaboo. Peekaboo. Buy boy. Boy. I gota I gota But that’s about it. Hey, you know, we we’ve been talking about the ye curse for the longest time. M5 grand finals final game. Sans got Eve. He lost that. AP Bren final game MSE. Lost that on Eve, too. But here in the quarterfinals, seems to be a good pick. Definitely a good pick. Let’s throw it over to the panel now and see what they have to say about that. Lfell Leo Destroyer. How we doing, guys? Well, first of all, thank you very much. And it’s Boy. All right. Put some respect on the name. But yeah, honestly, looking at the game, I appreciate that mythic seal, they took a risk. Didn’t really work out, but instead of doing the same thing over and over again, I like that they take a risk. But now, even I’m drawing a blank. What’s going to happen in game number three? It really looked like they were investing in about the 18 to 19 minute power spike. And again, that’s not guaranteed. Lovely. By the way, you’re you’re you’re expecting that a team like Onyx will just roll over and allow you to get there. Obviously, they didn’t. And now they’re relishing in their consequences. They’re at match point. On ID are one game away from knocking out Mythic Seal, sending them home. Onic ID just punished Mythic Seal for this draft. I expected that mythic seil got some kind of thoughts and idea for this game for the game plus and chose. So I expected something like protection but on idea. Okay. Uh this is your jungle. No, I’m coming home. Sorry. Sorry. This is my buff. Let me take it. Oh, welcome. There’s a world where this works. All right. Uh prior to the game starting, I said, “Oh no, mythic seal. They got two marksman. They have a ultra lateg game core in the Alice. If they had the gold, the exp, the time, and more than just that, the space, then they would have definitely gotten to the 16-minute mark, the 18-minute mark, prancing, just scoffrey, happy. But no, Onyx have have picked a team fighting lineup. They picked the Eve. The Eve literally creates a killbox. That’s literally where you fall. And Onyx, they could have ended much sooner. And that’s what I’m saying. Like there is some give to Mythic here. Yeah. Honestly, like give credit where credit is is due. Like even the caser said despite being 10k behind, they don’t look 10k behind. Maybe like 2k, 3k, because they still are able to deal the damage. Speaking of damage, suns has the highest amount of damage and uh that’s a very damaging face. Savo 874, the rich guy. I got to say on ID, say what you want. They’re very expressive. Animated animated amazing expression. Especially key boy, you know, like this send back. Yes, I am. I’m glad to be here. Looks like he already won. Yeah, dude. Anyway, Onik ID definitely look very very strong. And uh this is again it looks like our Aramco power ranking is spot on cuz we did put TL as well as uh Onic ID in S and both mythic as well as Aurora in B. And in case people are like, “How dare you put them in?” I mean, like the proof is there. Like the difference is, I don’t know, maybe a few weeks too early, maybe a few months too early. This is where the heart of the Burmese come in. Maybe rely on your mechanics cuz that looked better in game one. I don’t know if you gentlemen agree. Game one looked better. At least closer down the middle. So instead of getting a little too cheesy and getting greedy with your exp, your gold, your space on the map, hedgehog mechanics and then force Onic into fights, maybe you can force game four from there. You said one interesting thing. Don’t make the same mistake and they tried something new. But I see the same mistake for Aurora and Mythic Seal. And you know what? Jungle last picks. Maybe we can adjust this thing and go insta pick for jungler. Do it. Just do it. Let Ken play. I mean, honestly, the problem is is that we haven’t seen a lot of jungle picks coming in from Ken. So, this Alice is a third. This Alice is a third. So, at this point, I I don’t know what’s going to be the saving grace here. But, gentlemen, we’re going for a short break. But after this, we’re going to resume this best fight cuz right now it’s match point for Onyx ID. And we will see if they will close it out or Myth Seal will push us to game number four. [Music] [Music] 4 1 0 Yeah. Heat. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I do it like that. [Music] [Music] 4 3 1 0 Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Heat. Reach your impossible. Lenovo Legion. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Right now, it is still match point for Anik Indonesia going up against Mythic Seal. Vicil, they only have one more opportunity to push us to game number four. If not, looks like it’s going to be a sweeping day. Welcome back. My name is Phil. Alongside with me is Destroyer as well as Leo. Looking at the game so far, it does look like Mythic Seal, they have things up their sleeves, but uh I don’t know. Destroyer, it hasn’t been working out. As I mentioned before, they need to adjust. But as you mentioned before, we saw Ken only three picks. And the last one was only because two heroes were already okay. Lancelot was not able and uh they could potentially take joy, but they decided something new. Maybe another thing going to pop up and we’re going to see another variety of the jungler at least. I think they should prioritize their Hayabusa. So don’t let it Kyrie, let it try to play it by yourself. So whether they end up in blue or red in game number three, first phase, Hayabusa, that’s a start. Yeah, my only worry is that again, we’re talking about the king of junglers here, Kyrie, one of the kings. I believe when we’re talking about his hero pool, it’s uh very enviable. So this is definitely a test for Ken now because one of his idols, Kyrie, is looking very good on those assassin picks. So now Ken really has to step up. He used his signature joy. couldn’t make it done, right? Trying something new with the Alice can’t get the job done. And the thing is, I don’t believe he’ll get a Lancelot. And if he plays the Joy, you’ll see Onyx smile because they’re expecting it. They’re they they’ve prepared for this match knowing that Ken only really flies on two hero picks. So maybe what if they have this in their back pocket, suddenly Ken has a utility jungle. What if it’s all in on Zipex, Zippy? What if it’s all in on Nico? Just just let that someway somehow work. Like if you were going to go double marksman, right? Just do truly double marksman. Stick to it. He’s got to put on his big boy pants and say, “Yeah, I’m going to utility now.” Yeah. And for you guys at home, up until the 5th of August, the Dino Planet is still on. So you guys only have a few more days to actually go in slave lore to get yourself the free Popo Koopa Proto Hunter skin. So again, not a lot of time. It’s only like what 3 days after the grand finals of MSE, so make sure you guys lock in quick. Now, I agree the jungle really has to be adjusted, but let me just shift things over and actually talk about the exp cuz I kind of feel like if Kun wins a bit harder, then maybe he could give a lot of space for the jungle to win from falling apart. Agree with you. But I wanted to add one thing. I wanted to say about the draft changing the bun changing and that’s whating making and mythic seal not uh I think that if mythic seal want to prioritize the jungle and to take even joy just change the draft phase change the bun phase and play around it. Yeah, right now looking at Moscow as well as the Fobia’s ban. Uh interesting definitely look like when an ID is on blue side, they want to let a lot of things open which comes to the question, do they want to pick up something like the uh Dian or Lanclot early? This also opens up the Arlet cuz the Fus has been closed off which again serves logically. The Arlet lost. Even CC got banned. Hey, maybe that Arlet is going to come in. Yeah, CC is such a breakout here on the knockouts. She was already picking up steam in the group. So I think Onyx knows what’s up. Mythic Seal though, do they ban the landlord here? Do they dig that grave even deeper? Or just hope they will first pick the artist so that they can pick up the landslide. This is really a big risk here coming in from mythic seal. Do you really think that on going to pick our lot? Okay, according to the statistics, Arlot got one of the worst win rates during MSC 2025 and I’m sure they on. Okay, Lancelot, we are welcome. Let’s go for it. So, your team is No. Okay, never mind. They going to install Lancelot. I fear no Kraken for I am the invincible. All right, they pick up the landslot here. So now mythic seal, what is going to be the answer? Maybe maybe a stopper like a Kalia. Yeah. And then they can save the Hayabusa for red three cuz it’s it’s a known it’s a known element. Like you know that Onyx wants you to pick the joy. So just save the Hayabusa for red three. Keep the jungle safe. Like this is it. Like this is your only move and maybe pick up the Jin here as well, right? Honestly, it is one of Nikico’s most winningest hero. Jian Arlet. And what do you think about Jusin plus Gatkatcha? Either or because I really feel like you cannot lose that mid. The moment you lose that mid, it’s GG. So now looks like they do pick up the Jin and now the Arlet. You were right. Yeah. Yeah. Credits to Kaisan Wolf. Noto. I hung out with him too much the other day. We were together for like 8 hours. That is a bit too much. Yep. More for even me, right? Too much. But he would not stop singing the praise of this combo. So I get it. You know, I like how Mythic Seal perform with the Arlot, but I don’t like the Arlot itself. Uh, according to the statistics, that’s my point. And I feel like Gakatcha with a 50% win rate, it’s more stable. You can rely on it. You can understand. Okay, we can push mid lane. He if needed, he can go to the back lane. He can save my uh back line also and go front lane. So, there are options. That’s a very good joy deny picking up the hariff early. So it’s like do you really want to try us? If you don’t pick up Hayabuza is going to get banned. So this is it. Mythic seal much like all series long. See value in me has put themselves into a corner and this is still a change. This is still a change. This is what we were talking about. You killed it. Putting on big boy pants saying okay I’m going to switch it up. I’m going to play utility so that Nico and Zippy can carry. And it looks like in a way Kun is going to carry as well. This is a lot of crowd control for the Arlet to really dash around looking looking like a Lancelot cosplay. Yeah, you’re going to overload uh that Harro’s purify for sure. Yeah, but right now Mythic Seal needs damage. You see, you got a lot of CC. Okay, I’m pretty perfect with that. But if you are speaking about the damage dealers, what will decide this? They’d be happy to end up with either the Granger or the Ir. But it looks like Hon is going to man it out. I’ve got them lined up in my sight. Maybe just opting for that Moscow again cuz it does look like to be one of his uh Oh, it’s it’s the first ban. It’s so so deep. I even forgot about it. Yeah. So, now it’s a good point. The Granger and the Ir might get banned out. And knowing if it’s not banned out, you know, it’s a trap. So, what’s left, right? Experience the youth. All of these are uh hopefuls. So all of these are good to have, but Oh, maybe maybe they want something like Ky. What do you think about K’s good, but Onyx also has a pocket Lunox. Yeah, but now looking at this Kimmy as well as Kita batting out by Mythic Seal. And now Onyx, they ban out that Granger. So there is a chance that they’re going to ban out that Iral. And if they don’t, it does smell a little bit like a trap. They should ban it. They should ban it actually. I see like and um okay about Lunox and Carrie, we see there are two different options. Maybe there is something else. No, Carrie is pretty good right now into Mythic. So even Onyx is happy, but they don’t need it. He said it’s a claw, so it is a trap. Yeah, Lfell, you smelt it. Yeah, it does feel like a trap. Now the question is mythic seal. Do they want to go for that? Because you don’t even have to pick the Iritel now, right? You can pick up your ROR, but I don’t know. I guess the gap will be fine. It’s not impossible that uh the So, let’s go for additional front or damage. Wait, is that Franco? It is a Franco. Franco. We heard it. We don’t care about your suppression. We don’t care about your purify. We don’t care about the passive on the Har CNO. We We don’t care. We have 1,000 plus one dashes. Nothing. Eventually, we’ll eat you like chicken. We’ll bite down. And the last pick, they save still the opportunity to adapt for the opponent’s pick and take gold. Last one. So, two picks for Oni Indonesia. Although, I do have to say that Franco does feel a little bit desperate though, right? Really hoping for a good catch. We already said rely on mechanics. Yep. Yep. Oh no, there’s the glue and the phamus. The wombo combo, the answer and the counter. This is so dive. This is so in your face. It almost looks like Anie prepared this draft yesterday. They understood what are the options and they prepared for itself. Time and time wait for Oh, looks like they pick up the uh the Beatrix instead cuz they need something to answer the Nether Realm. Yeah, another round contrast nearly everything that Mythics still prepared for them. Oh, it’s such a mind games. It’s so amazing. But if we speaking about the drafts, I still, you know, last two picss decided everything for me. Uh, I like the Onic draft. Do you think Mix still has enough damage here in the early mid? No, it’s too all in. I think Onyx might be going home. Well, with a win. With a win. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Destroy as well as Leo. And now it’s a turn of MKO as well as TX to call this game. Well, if Anik is going home with a win after this, we’re all going home early tonight. Any Indonesia trying to close the distance with match point. I don’t want to go home early. Trex, I want to watch some good MLBB. So far, we’ve seen good MLBB, but unfortunately, it’s been stomps. Well, fortunately for you guys, I mean, Cavalry and Sonics, I guess. Welcome to Mobile. But again, the the draft was just beautifully done. Again, beautifully crafted by YB and AI. The setup was there and Mythic kind of just played into it. Dude, they they were forced to make errors in the draft. I mean, and Mythic Mythic even switch sides this time to try to get some sort of advantage in the draft. They go for second pick. Onyx just seems to always have the answer. Even when mythic seal pulls out something like the Franco, like, “Oh, we have this trap card for you.” Onak ID is two steps ahead. Bringing out the fair mace, bringing out the glue. I mean, just consistently has answers against Mythic Seal. Oh, almost hook there from Boy. Could have been a steal. So, Onic won’t contest the lethal wander. They know that they actually will lose out. I think a bit of pryo here in the mid lane, but I think it really depends on how they play it. Now, level two, they should be able to go back onto it, force a few fights early, but it is a juice. Oh, wow. That looked like it hit. emblem builds. At least they got the Brix. By the way, the Brix is a pretty good lane against the Har. It’s a skill, it’s a skill match up in the end, but it should actually be more Brixided. And in the end, even if you lose out, it becomes a non just clear out waves. And being that it is a skill matchup, Zippy’s been able to hold his own against Seo. He’s been able to do well at least in terms of uh just laning matchup. So, I don’t think we count him out at all here. Boyet with this Franco. I like what Lfell said. It might be a bit desperate, but if Boyet can land some hooks, it is the wild card pick here. Actually save his flicker. Goes back able to slam the shield and he lands as well. No Kai just yet. He’s actually going to be walking up now. Great iron hook bringing him all the way under turret. It’s Nico with first blood. Buyo was so patient with that as well. He was He’s just standing there watching him throw hands for a second, waiting, waiting. Okay, now it’s time. brings out the hook, brings him back. Very well done by Mythic Seal. He’s giving him chance. Razer’s wrath coming down as well. Kai can be stunned up by Kun. Good zoning. Oh, a dodge away from the final snip, but it’s going to be the mount over. Kun shall be the trade. Phantom execution. They don’t even care. They just go for it. One for one. Turtle for kill. Not a bad start for Mythic Seal though. Probably one of the best starts we’ve seen from them so far. Actually holding a gold lead in the first few minutes. But Onyx ID are okay with that. I think they’re okay with taking the beginning of this game slow, giving themselves a little bit of time and waiting for their moment. Taking a look at the jungler. Still level five to level five. Kyrie looking to steal some camps though here. Maybe slow down Ken a bit. Boy doesn’t have flicker, so there’s no risk of a Oh, good dashes there onto Leandre. That’s Iron Hook. No play just yet. Li will just fall to reset vengeance. Now Ken walks up too. Sans’s able to flicker just in time, but it is looking like a very good early game for Mythic Seal. Boy is sitting at like two out of three hooks right now. The hook rates looking good. This is exactly what they need to do. And I like that he’s waiting. He’s not He’s normally not the one to first throw out the attack. He lets he’s letting go in kind of slow them down for just a second. Able to hold them still for literally just a millisecond. And that buys that makes it an easy hook shot for Boyet. Mhm. They have so many ways to just, you know, hold people in place for the Iron Hooks to come through. And again, when Boy gets the Winter Crown, that’s when things are really going to change. Mythic Seal can just walk up, target whoever they want and they have the one shot combo in Zippy. We haven’t seen that yet, obviously, because Zippy has just been, you know, laning for the most part, but Turtle onwards, I do believe we will be seeing Zippy in fights. And that means again, Boya can just flick her in, bloody hunt someone, and it’s an easy oneot for the rest of the team. So, what’s going to be big for Sans here is timing. Yes, that Nether Realm, right? Like timing it perfectly. And I think a lot of this between both teams, skill matchup around the map. Who can hold on to their skills? Who can time them right? Who can bait them out of the other team? It is definitely a mind game in terms of 5v5s. Let’s see. Mythic Seal with the lead here for Turtle number two in the game. Both junglers at the same level. A battle for mid pryo that actually won out by mythic seal here as Kai and LP will just hold out turtle but Mythic Seal grabbed the hold of it. Couldn’t walking up just about it down in the bottom lane. Gold laners going toe for toe. Still just trading minions right now. No big lead. Ken’s going to hold down this front side and there goes the grab. Grab going to have to abort mission but key boy also looking for something. Yeah, shielding onto actually. That’s going to be the all in over as well. Vengeance resetting back and forth of arrow now still holding him on for turtle taken for free isolated. It does seem like mythic silver just confuses to what to do. They go on lip pee they got to trade back sons way too late with the nether realm. So it ends up being a two for one in favor of because they got the turtle plus the kill. Boy though I think mythic seal is waiting for boy right they’re like all right what do we do? What do we do? We And that’s what I was talking about is everyone’s waiting for someone to use the skill first. Boy knows I can’t pop this too early. Waste a flicker when they still have Nether Realm. Sans does finally bring it out, but by then it’s just too late. And I think this is going to be what we possibly see a lot. Everyone kind of secondguessing on how they want to approach the fight. Over coming down as well with his force. Now it’s going to be key boy. Oh, taken real is able to escape. Nah, that should not have happened. On get away with a free kill and there’s nothing to trade. I guess a turret maybe. No, it’s just a clear over. Yeah, LP will get there in time. Yeah, Nico maybe trying to make a play down here on a Seo. Might be a little bit of action. Ler flare does come out. Wo wo s way too aggressive all alone. Lantern flare as flickers in forward just in case the purify was up for Savo. Now the rest of the team is coming in. I mean shouldn’t be able to get that tower, but just that trade up kind of evens out. Actually becomes a win from that fight earlier. So Mythic Seal still playing this game very cleanly. This is a surgical team that we saw in the group stage. This is a team that we wanted to see in the first two games. Is it too little too late though? Should be able to take this tower and that’s huge for them, right? They’re for the first time I think I don’t think we’ve seen them with a 1000k gold lead in all three games. This is the first time they’re actually really pushing forward. Yeah, I think game number one we did get to see. Oh, final slash. Look be brought back again. The lantern flare so close from being able to pick up and that will be it. Oh, nether going in clutch for Suns and it will be the flank in the back line with the P of execution. A bloody hunt locking him down with the winter crown as well already bought in a button rose comes through as Kai just dashes through the long longs. K Boy with a po. It’s a mount down as a Pes lands but now Sabo walks up on fors a good snipe over as Ken gets up the kill. of arrow still jumping back and forth and loot finally dismounting landing on sand. The ghost bursters doing a whole lot but not enough to take anyone down from mythic seal. You wanted some MLBB, right, Mirgo? Yes, sir. We’re getting some MLBB on ID. They approach. Hold on a second. Over the can. Found some execution too. Kai in the tough spot and wins it out. gets the right tree and two members of Onyx Vero and Kai turns the game back to him. Even I’m not going to lie, when he popped the Phantom Execution, I thought he did it too early. I was like, I thought he messed up. I thought he whiffed. But you never count Kyrie out. They take the turtle. They take two members along with it. And just when we’re hyping Mythic Seal up, Any ID grabs the reigns again. And they got a turret up top, too. Mythic Seal are slowly losing their grasp in the game and it’s because of this gold jungle combo. Kyrie Seo Kai is two levels ahead. He’s about to be three levels ahead. Let’s take a look at the items here. Holy moly, he’s 1,600 gold ahead of Ken. Oh my lord. Oh, Thorn Rose as well. And because of that as well, because of that gold lead, it makes the hybrid build of this still work so much cleaner because you’re still outputting great damage against the uh the lesser goldam mounted tanks on the opposing team and you have decent defense. So if Zippy locks on to you, if you do somehow catch a hook to the face, there’s still some survivability on the side of Kyrie. Mhm. Iron Hook and a bloody hunt. That will be a Oh, Nether Realm, but it’s a good lancer flare, I believe, to bring him back outside of the Nether Realm. Rear Apathy not landing. Kundo goes for the vengeance. Oh, a dodge with a Thorn Rose by a flicker from Sans and the Thorn. Wow, that’s just Mythic Seal picking up a kill. I mean, it’s it works. And as long as they can keep doing that, it keeps them at this small lead that they have. And it’s what we’ve been seeing from them finding these little pickoffs. The Franco’s looking good right now, honestly. from the Beats, but they have it work so well. And Boy just being so patient in how he uses the iron hooks. Let’s see. It’s Boying for an iron hook. Oh, just barely out of range. A frame. A frame a pixel away from landing. That could have been a game-winning play because they would have gotten the Lord for free. But now it turns to a 50/50. A wave in the bottom lane set up for mythic seal. Key boy shield unity with revitalized too. Iron hook coming down with the bloody hunt. But that’s going to be the nether realm coming down as well. Ken isolated all alone. Mounted up picks up the kill now with the vengeance into the back line again. It’s going to be Nico with the killing spree. But Kai gets a phantom execution in winter. The bloody hunt. A shut down to Savo and Nico will not be able to run while Li’s on him. I mean literally all of ID’s health bar. Oh boy. goes down as well. Fullman wipe for Onik ID. Send Kyrie over to Lord. Start taking some towers. They’re going to break down Holy Shields here. Let’s take a look at the replay. Look at Onik ID’s health bars for a minute here. All of them drop down so low, but it’s just not enough. The Nether Realm soups everybody back up. And this is why that pick was just so clutch as a final pick for Monik ID. The Phamis pickup is ridiculous. And you know the easy answer would just be yo boy kill phamus yo but it ain’t as easy as that. Like boy can’t even get in range. Sans is always so far back but he always manages to get close. And it’s because of the flicker that you need some crazy level of confidence to go up against a composition like this and go flicker. And Sans is doing it. Ghost flicker and he’s getting all the benefits while really not losing anything. Yeah, he’s he’s his positioning right now in all these fights. His timing on when he comes in is one of the things keeping on ID ahead in a lot of these fights. Able to keep them alive in all of these fights and make it so that ID can push even farther. Here comes the Lord though. Lord comes in the mid lane. Li oh going to the back again. We have a mount down now as Ken gets isolated one more time and he will just fall to Savo as Nico gets mounted on. Has a crimson beacon and the flicker as well. But be able to go back into the bottom wave now with the minion still holding on to the turret. Immortality popped in. Nether realm coming down. Could brought back but the shadow stamped the tor lands again but it’s a good hook to get him out of the the nether realm straight into the crystal and into a kill. But on a you can get the long long blue will get the turrets. Yeah, I mean they’ve been letting you can have Ly as much as you want as long as we continue to win in these trades. With two towers down on ID has cracked the base. Luckily for Mythic Seal, next lord going to pop down on boss side. So there’s no long lane that’s really hurting. Exact. Exactly. It might make the possible dance a little bit easier for Mythic Seal. Taking a look at these items though. Kai Reed just maxed out. Got the last item locked in with the maleific gun, maleific roar. 6 and three. The killing spree as well as the emblems just making him a monster in these fights. Look at that gold lead, bro. 4,000 ahead against the Freder. Dude, this is ridiculous. Let’s take a look at the gold distribution. And again, yeah, it’s the minions. When you’re on the assassins, you know, this is the advantage you play with. You can actually take minions. And usually when you get assassins, you get paired up with an XP laner who doesn’t want the minions. So, giveaway XP minions a minute five over to your jungler. Then you get this. It’s just ridiculous. And you can see Kai already building the fury hammer, too. He knows that he doesn’t need any more uh tanky items. He can just go full damage at this point. And it’s all right. Like there you go. Uh endless battle. Everything done. The last fury hammer. Let’s just make a wild guess. What does he go? Uh 100. Yeah, I guess you you get the hit speed. Maybe a little bit more movement speed if you happen to run out of dashes. Definitely a possibility. Oh, by the way, uh so Saro is actually taking the innocent route of builds. No Starium sight. It’s enchanted talisman plus penetration boots on the har which is clean overall. We’ve seen the star sight after the nerfs sometimes work out well. Look at the damage. Yeah, it should be a meltdown here. But it is going to be a kill over the nether was a bit late. Tboy looking for it back again. Able to find zippy. Kai was buddy hunted but no one was there to follow it up. Key boy against three will hold his own. And now Ken will be dragged back to everyone and the beer’s passion coming down with iron hook as well. Key boy doesn’t care. So barrow a man for Nico able to use a crimson beacon a shield unity over to boy who’s able to flick around but then Kai just does that that’s an execution Kai is godlike he wants to go for more thor rolls over fors with nature that’s a rage but a key boy buys an immortality no minion waves Kyrie taking low buys the immortality too mythic seal get a shut down they are able to stay afloat but what are those immortality buys man the item builds, the timings on the Phantom executions all over the map right now. Endless battle. And he picked up the hunter strike all while doing it. I mean, right now it is uh I don’t know, man. On ID just outclassing in the midst of all of that. Kyrie able to pick up a kill, still not die under towers, under base. When we saw the draft, you were excited to see the lance a lot. by this rage. Zippy was able to steal it away. And this could actually just be an angle where mythic seal turn things around. It is within the timer of mythic seal and TXB. When do they hit their power spike? Spike right now. This is their power spike. They have what it takes to start sieging with a Franco, with a Brix. Prime windcon mythic seal. A lord coming down the top lane and a pocket full of power spikes ready to go. Spikes. Spakes. Yeah, power spikes ready to go in the river. Nice try. Okay. Is this the game changer? I mean, we’ve been holding on to it. They had a gold lead in the beginning. On ID hasn’t escaped too much, but still, man, Kyrie 70 and four. Ken has to be careful about how he approaches. I feel like every time Ken goes in, he jumps in. Yeah, he gets the stun onto or the taunt onto a couple members, but he dies about a half a second later. Kyrie on the bot lane as well looking for the push. Yeah, Arlet will be forced to recall. So doesn’t seem like Mythic Seal will be able to get the most out of this Lord. Well, that’s the most turret tier two, but that’s about it. They have too many waves to deal with the bottom lane as well. And the fact that Mythic Seal have gone for like a team fight comp. They want to group up together means that the side lane control will be kind of meh. Kai abused that, sent himself to the bottom lane, cleared it out, forced someone to recall from Mythic Seal, and there’s no way they would try to 4v5 Any even with the Lloyd. So, where do they go from here? I mean, at this point, we’re at 16 and 1/2 minutes. Gold at a standstill. So, Mythic Seal, I mean, with their composition. Yeah, with the gold at least, they should be able to fight. It’s back to at least, okay, who’s going to pop their skills first? Taking a look, Kyrie. Why is he even building tank, bro? He doesn’t need to. He’s untouchable. The guy is literally untouchable at this point. Wow. Like Zippy. All right. Zippy Savo makes sense. They want to play in the back. Sans as well. He hasn’t really been up front as a Phantom. He’s kind of been like, “All right, I come in last minute. Save someone.” But Kai’s really just been in these team fights. He’s been bloody hunted a couple of times. How is he the guy with the least amount of damage taken, brother, at this point? Go Lethal ignition and go full damage. Kai, it’s a statement to have the most kills on the board and also be the touch damage dank. Yeah, I mean that’s definitely Mel Roar comes back in still ready to flip some items around if he needs to. Mhm. You know, we talked about the match up of Ken verse Kyrie and right now Kyrie is definitely showing why he’s here, why he’s been here, and why he has consistently made statements on this as assassins. Brother, now that’s a 6,000 gold lead between the junglers. Yes, it is up against a Fred. which is kind of normal because once you get to a point where you snowball out of control, you will just constantly get farmed. But 6,000 gold lead in one game from one guy, I haven’t seen that in a while. So the fact that the overall gold lead is only a,000 means again mythic seal have a lot of gold too. They are they are within their power spikes, not spikes. Look at that Zippy DHS. He will try his best to go through these front liners. He’s got rose gold too, dog. He’s got rose gold dog. Just to make things clear, Kyrie is literally sold botten. Sold and boughten battle before Ken has finished all of his items. Hey, that’s just that’s just the sad life of a Frederick. Once you once you play utility, you better win that early game. If you don’t, especially when you’re up against an assassin, you just you’re that that guy that just never finishes his items, man. F trying to hold on keyboard with the shield. Unity son’s actually playing up front now. Onik with a hold onto the lord right now. Ken going to be zoned away completely now with the mind force as well. Couldn’t jump in with the final slash going to be the retreat battle. No, Kai gets it all alone. A mount comes in with a pra as well. So arrow very low. Nether realm comes in just in time. Kai wa storm bro dodging away for the flicker bloody hunt and that’s the immortality now with the stampede brings boy all the way with a crowd and it’s going to be Cippy in the back still free hitting now again the mount as Kai lands the shot. The Pharaoh somehow stays alive. Onyx once again outplayed their way into a winning team fight. Nico running away. Caught again. Kai just never misses on the puncture. And during all of this, Any ID doesn’t lose a single member. It’s GG to Anik. They show how strong they are this MSC. And for Mythic Seal, they have been eliminated. Mythic Seal puts up a fight. They seem to get stronger after each game, but all you get is three. And On An Onic ID cleans it quickly. I mean, from draft to gameplay to macro to micro, Onik ID has checked all of the boxes. That Thorn, he jumped in. Thorn Rose instantly, I guess, predicting or reacting to the flicker from Boyer. Hey, you have a bloody hunt. You have a way to literally hold your opponent down, but when your opponent just never misses on puncture, constantly gets free. The dude, he was dashing and it didn’t even look like they were minions. Like sometimes this guy just H how are you that precise, bro? He is the untouchable, man. This guy. No, that’s Aon Shiki in M6. He’s just Kai, man. The god of the jungle. The god of the jungle for sure. I mean, overall, I don’t know. I don’t think there was It almost feels like there was never an answer for Mythic Seals coming into this series. Like I said, from the draft onward all around the map, Onyx ID just played this classy. Dude, that was so beautiful. I look at this again, right? Not this one. I want to see the final one. This was also pretty beautiful by Kai. You know, he kept on going, dashing forward again. Just to let you guys know, he took the least amount of damage in this game as a as a Lancelot, bro. What? What’s the point of hyper attack when you’re just He should have just gone full should have just gone full damage at that point. What a chat, dude. This is it. This is it. Oh, well, I guess that was on Boy. My bad. It was more on Boya. Flicker. He tried to time it. Oh, man. N then the unly dashes like it’s beautiful. I mean, so many times we see so many members of Onic ID just get so low health even here. It seemed like there was never anything Mythic Seal could do. Definitely excited to see how it goes, but I’m excited to see I think we got a special guest down on the interview stage. Let’s toss it over to Mos and who what sort of question is that? Of course, it’s Kyrie joining us from Onik. a big big victory that we just saw a 300 sweep. Now look on a look into the past. Onyx won MSC 23 last year 24 was not looking too hot. This year you’re in you’re in semi-finals. What’s that mean to you personally? What does it mean to me? Um for us this MSE means a lot because we want to prove oursel that uh we want to prove that we can still fight that we can still aim for the championship and you think yeah even though we lost first round exit last MFC and you want to make it in statements or a 3-0 win here in quarterfinals that’s a statement. Yeah. Very good. Very good. Now look uh you you had your game against Team Liquid before. this you’re going to get them again in the semi-finals, a rematch. Now, Suns was saying that he wanted to have this game and to replay it in the semis. Do you agree with him on that? Yeah, I think all of the player wants to wants to meet Liquid again. Why? Why? Why do you really want to face off against Liquid? Um, first of all, they are like one of the strongest teams in this tournament in this EWC. And the last time we fought, we just I think we were just unlucky. It was still a close game, right? Even game one, they were also very good and we also got unlucky. Fair enough. At least here on the stage, it’ll be a different sort of challenge. And uh, of course, because you’re playing Team Liquid, you’ll be your fellow jungler Cultzi on the other side playing against you. You said he’s number one. Do you think he still is, and what do you have to say to him? Yeah, still is. But after I beat him, I’ll become number one. Fair enough. Fair enough. That’s all you need to hear. Again, thank you very much, Kyrie, for joining us. Congratulations on the win. That’s Onyx off into the semi-finals. We’ll send it back to our desk. Thank you very much, Milos, as well as Kyrie. And heck, that’s how you become the number one jungler by beating the current number one jungler, right, Leo? Yeah. That’s kind of Well, you know what? Thank you very much. Uh good good analysis. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Uh good interview, by the way. But what about today, man? The S tier teams showing why they’re just above the competition. There were moments of brilliance from the underdog teams, right? Uh that last game for Aurora and then this last game for Mythic. Even game one, even game one was very tight. But at the end of the day, you got to win the series. If not, this is what happens to your key. Ah, you’re going to do it right now. It’s crashing. Last seconds. No. Are you the key? Yeah. I think that’s going to be a sound bite. I think people just clip that and be like, “Okay, we’re just going to use this in a lot of situations.” But, uh, look at Kyrie. Like, is you have this kind of satisfaction for destroying someone else’s key. You don’t want to see the owners of the keys reaction. But honestly, I I got to give it to the casters. Kyrie on this Lancelot, it almost looks like he’s sp he’s spawning his own minions for him to puncture. Yep. As if the passive for Kyrie had no limit. It’s it’s as if by resetting it, you don’t get the cool down, but Kyrie knows and finds a way to just keep going. Just keep it. Yeah. Now, Milos asked a very important question. When they face off against Liquid, does Kyrie now become number one? Because let’s remember that quote Carl said he’s zero. How do you be how to become more than zero? You know, if you’re speaking about zero, uh the thing that was not zero definitely the player actually it sounds his saving of the team with nether realm it was something you know here is the S tier and here comes zero you said right? So it was something like that. Yeah, and honestly like Carl Tezy saying his zero, someone else’s one, two, three. I kind of feel like Leo, we need to find a programmer because we need someone else to understand the zero and the ones, but looking at the game here, um, again, I kind of feel like we still have to give credit over to Mythic Seal because they played an amazing game. It’s just that they’ve been doing this for years at this point, right? It’s like your draft is not going to surprise us, your movements is not going to surprise us, your trades are not going to surprise us. You cannot ascend past a certain point once the sky kings have claimed their kingdom and they’re on their way. The the cavalry stands beyond them. I’ll tell you now, despite Mythic Seal’s efforts, I think Onyx just always had the answer. By the way, I see all the time at least for two games for two series that we checked. Uh the same mistake, Mythic Seal and the same mistake was uh Aurora, right? Thank you. So they rely on their gold laner. So they let Zippy to carry on his shoulders the last game and if he dies like it happened in the last fight. Yep. That’s all. It was this fight right here. Yes. Wait. Yes. Yes. It should be the Yeah, the boxer will go around. Zippy’s trying. Zippy’s trying. It’s a little too much. Again, this is the what they drafted with. There was no two ways around it. They understood that we are a glass cannon. We’re fragile and if they find Zippy, they find us out. We’re we’re done. We’re going home. And Ony knew that. Onik knew how to play it and that’s why they forced the Beatrix onto him. That’s why they picked the Pharamus. This is such a great pocket compon. And honestly, like there’s many tournaments where we see the final strat really working out. But I believe from the wild cards to MWI group stages of MSE and now the knockouts, I feel like putting all your eggs in one basket is very very difficult just because the assassins are very strong. like you can target who the damage dealer is. So spreading out your profile is the best way to go about the this this current draft. Yeah, they definitely needed to adjust it. But uh it’s all about past. Yeah, right now we totally understand who will go further. The semifinals on Indonesia definitely. And here is the stats 19-4. The map is what uh Mythic tried to play. They tried to expand it a little more. Again, they scored a decent amount of objectives in in relation to a in a relation to a kill score that went 4 to 19 and it went to 15 minutes. Like there were definitely some moments wherein it looked like uh Zippy was about to do something well, something good, but it it was literally just on one man. It was too much too much too much for them. But uh you know Oni the actually the S tier guys that uh they showing us and they performing so as we expected from them actually now looking back that was game two stats. Yeah. Yeah. I I I just I just kept it to myself. You guys are having fun. No, no, no. It it the numbers don’t have to tell the whole story. Like my opin my my my uh my take stands. I think if there was a way, if there was a world that they shut down Sans, that they took down Kyrie, they touched the untouchable. That’s right. I can take Monica’s. I’m just kidding. No, still Aaron Shiki. No, if if they killed Kyrie, then maybe they could have turned around. They could have run it down mid, but it was too fragile. It was too allin. Mythic should create something to rely not only on ZP, but another person at least. maybe some kind of initiation for explain for the right? And to uh adjust this drop, but they made like full priority for one person. It’s super hard. It’s really hard for everyone. Um I think no one can stand with this and uh even the S tier teams is uh will face the hard times when only one person need to carry. They’ll never do it. They they know too well that this is a 5v5 game. will never do it. And then now folks, like the sad part is the last man, the last Ken standing is going home. There’s no more Kens in this tournament. Shout out to all the cans all over the world. I think there are a few, but yeah, that it’s unfortunate, but like it’s quite early. We’ve seen two teams get eliminated. And it’s almost crazier to think that our S tier teams, both TL as well as Indonesia, they’re going to be facing off in the semi-finals. So at that point, for most people, at least for our Ranco Power Rankings, it will feel like it’s the grand finals. It’s as if we knew how strong these teams were. Yeah, it’s as if the Aramco power rankings made logical sense because look, the S tier teams swept the Btier teams and then now we’re left with just a A and S. And most sadly in the story that is single elimination, you know, I’m kind of upset of this. If we got double elimination, it could be a happy story, but Indonesia or Filipino will lose one team. Yeah. Um, but yeah, still ID grand finals, PHP grand finals still alive for tomorrow is also going to be pretty interesting. Uh I’m my my heart’s going to be like, you know, excited, scared. SRG is blamed. Yeah. Against RQ. So that’s going to be there. There’s going to be quite the battle. But um as we’re talking, Eterna is able to talk to Mythic Seal uh so that they can have their final words here at MSE in EWC. So we’re going to throw it over to Eterna, which I believe she’s talking to Ken. Hey everyone, we’re backstage with Ken from Mythic Seal after that loss against Any ID. Now, I know that was a really tough loss and we got to ask like how are the kids doing? How are you doing? Uh, of course, we’re all a bit uh disappointed, but uh I think maybe we can all reflect on this and come back strong. Okay, that’s that’s what we want to hear. That’s what we want to hear. If you could do anything differently, what do you think you would change? Uh, I think just uh better preparation next time. Yeah, better preparation next time. All right. Uh, okay. It looks like Ken is not feeling it right now, so we’re just going to end this interview. But once again, thank you so much for participating and we’re really excited to see you next time on the international stage. Okay, Ken. Yep. Thank you. We’re sending it back to the studio. Thank you very much, Eterna. And we can see Ken over there. Like, we’ve seen him for years. like we know he’s uh holding back a lot of emotions because they had a shot, right? They had a shot, just wasn’t enough. And that’s the thing, Myanmar always bounces back. The Burmese love MLB so much that a stumble like this will not put them down. They just got the uh MSL. They just got their league, right? So, who’s to say that come the M series, these boys come back stronger? And who knows, maybe this performance by Mythic Seal inspire a new generation of Burmese talents to step up. But now we got to look at his idol because we’re going to be looking at the Sony match MVP. And of course is going to one guy. He’s going to go over to Kyrie, the jungler coming in from Anik Indonesia. And I feel like this is the best way to show respect to your opponent by showing your very best. I want to mention the king of the jungle. Please guys, Kyo. Yeah, definitely he deserves to be MVP of this series. He made a lot of efforts. He uh created the opportunity for his team the openings like the PS of the uh uh enemies. He created a lot of space for his teammates and uh outsmarted even uh his uh enemy. I would I would say like he’s good enough that he can take some other monikers. The untouchable Kyrie, half man, half beast Kyrie. The monster jungler Kyrie. The super fam Kyrie. Super fam Kyrie. The uh You know what? I’ll just jungler sniper. I don’t know, man. I give it and I take it away. The hitman Kyrie. The hitman Kyrie. Machine. Yeah. Hey. Hey. We talked about how MLB is a 5v5 game and the funnel strat doesn’t work anymore in 2025. If there was one player you could do a funnel strat around, I wouldn’t blink if you said Kyrie. I wouldn’t blink if you said, “Hey, Kyrie, play a ling.” And then put a ruby in the gold lane. That might work. Honestly, yes, I can definitely see. Maybe him just at Dangela there. Okay. Yeah, but you’ll be wasting key boy’s talent. So, yeah. I mean, like, we got to see cuz they’re going up against team Liquid. So, they got to pull out all the stops. So maybe that will actually come to fruition because honestly I like Ruby in the Gold cuz I really feel like it’s uh conditional for sure, but when the conditions are met, hey, Ruby looks pretty good. There is an Onyx team that actually does Ruby in the Gold and it’s the other team on the other side, it’s on VH Kellra has done that. And now we got a look at the brackets here, folks. And uh just to confirm everything, Team Liquid Philippines defeated Aurora 3 and now going over to the semi-finals. Antic ID replicated the same success going up against Mythic Seal winning 3-0. And now both S tier teams will meet each other, but we got to look at the other side of the bracket first. It’s going to be RQ going up against SRG and then Team Spirit going up against Anik Philippines. A city, it’s all a tier teams. A city goes to downtown guys. And uh if we are speaking about this uh matches, I would like to say that uh every of them is the match of the day because they’re both interested. Yeah, I I I don’t know which one to choose for match of the day cuz honestly that’s going to be a good conversation. Can SMB do that? Can you say like just both from two matches of the day? Hey, just open two branches. Both both both matches really deserve it. Uh I don’t know. I think I think I think with the amount of eyeballs, okay, should be RQ SRG cuz uh when it comes to RQ, they bring the numbers. Yeah. Anywhere RQ plays, it’s a home court. They take the kingdom with them. You know, from my perspective, Team Spirit and the Oni Philippines, they have the hope of a region. Imagine the millions of viewers. Yeah. But uh I got to say it’s nice working with you both here. I understand it’s a stompy day 30, but you have any thoughts closing off uh our show for today? 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