🔴 LIVE | KNOCKOUT STAGE DAY 3 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

🔴 LIVE | KNOCKOUT STAGE DAY 3 | MLBB MSC at EWC 2025 | (ENG)

[Music] Where [Music] my life? Oh yeah. [Music] My my [Music] Hold on my [Music] love. [Music] My my love. [Music] [Laughter] [Music] Data deep. [Music] Hey guys, Rose here. So today is the media day right before we head on over to the knockout stages. But you know what? I think it’s time to meet some of the players that will be in the knockout stages. And over there we actually have Team Liquid Philippines. So come. Let’s go see what they’re up about. Hey guys, why are you guys so awkward? No, we’re just talking about game. Oh, about game. Coach, how are you? It’s been a while since I’ve seen you. No, last time was in M6. Yeah. Um, last time in M6. How are you? Um, now I’m good and very confident. He’s good and very confident, but you don’t look confident right now. You look shy. What’s wrong? Why are you guys shy? No, we we’re just talking about the game. Okay, JP, the last time I saw you, I think it was like in MPLI. It’s been a while. So long. Now, how are you doing? Uh, I’m good. Yeah. He said everything is good so far in Riyad. He’s having a blast. He likes the food. He likes everything. Experience wise it’s also very good. Just the heat. No, it’s really hot. Kind of drying on the skin. Now, let’s talk about MSE in knockout stages. What are you guys looking forward to? M SRG. Wow, you’re confident you get to meet SRG. You guys are like on the opposite side of the brackets because the defending champion. Yeah. Then I want to play against them. Oh, so are you saying that you kind of want to meet SRG in the grand finals? Maybe. Wow. Coach JP said SRG grand finals. Do you agree with that? No, because I want on PH in the grand finals. So, coach wants a PHP grand finals and JP wants an SRG my obviously TLPH grand finals. If there’s any message you guys could give to anybody, any message? Um, good luck to us and give uh I mean give the fans uh all of your best because we will do our best to to get the championship. Coach looks a bit shy. JP Nang JP, good luck and good luck to our enemy in the playoffs. They look a bit tame, but it’s okay. I’ll see you guys in the knockout stages. Okay, take care. Now, I think we should head on over there because I see Onik Philippines, and like I said, it’s also been a hot minute since I’ve seen them. Hi, Coach. Hi, coach. How are you? I’m doing good. Thank you for asking. How about you? I’m doing good. Oh, we also have Kyrie here. Hi Kyrie. Hello. How are you guys? How are you Kyrie? Good. I’m doing good also. Okay. I’ll be asking you guys a few question. Is that fine? How is the experience so far in Riad? Now I know Kyrie was here before, but coach, why not? It’s your first time. No, it’s actually nice especially, you know, in this hotel and uh whenever we go to the venue, uh I just look at, you know, the place. It’s it’s quite nice. It’s quite clean. Uh the traffic is actually good. Um, I kind of like it here. It’s just that, you know, it it’s kind of hotter uh for for my Yeah. Yeah, it is. Kyrie, do you prefer this kind of heat where it’s like dry or do you prefer like the humid heat in like Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines? I think I prefer the Indonesian and Philippine more because the heat here makes my lips so dry. Yes, moisturizer is key. Moisturizer is key. Now, coach, just now I was talking to TLPH and JP said he wants uh TLPH SRG grand finals. Are you going to allow that? Of course not. Who do you want to meet in the grand finals? Definitely Onikindo. Oh, Kai, what do you think? How do you think the grand finals is going to play out? I think it’s going to be Onikindo versus Onik. The Onik wants an Onic Finals. Thank you very much. I’ll see you guys at the knockout stages. Let’s go continue our exploration. Who do we have? Okay, we have a bit of the Onyx ID, guys. They’re currently playing right now, but it is the player lounge. Okay, Sans, how is the experience in Riad so far? Uh, so far so good. He said he’s having a blast here. Everything is good from the food to the experience to even the hotel, right? Yeah, of course. Of course. You’re having Why are you laughing? Come here. Come here. Luty, come here. Why are you laughing? Li Ly, how’s your experience? Uh experience. Uh uh yeah. [Music] So hot. So hot. He said everything is good. I think the players especially love the player lounge that we have over here at the hotel. However, they all have something in common that they kind of dislike, which is the heat. And I honestly agree. Did you guys bring lotion? Lotion. What about you? Oh, wow. Skin care. Oh, that’s something interesting. Can I see your skin? Yeah. Loopy skin. So nice. It looks like a baby skin. What skin care do you use? Moisturizer. Yeah. Moist. Uh, facial loss. [Music] Toner. Yeah. Serum. Serum. Wow. Serum. You know what? You should use sunscreen. Sunscreen. Okay, you know what? This kid has a full skincare routine. He uses moisturizer, toner, serum, facial wash. Although, I do wish that he would start using sunscreen because it’s very, very important. Thank you guys. I’ll see you guys in the knockout stages. Oh, before I go, one last question. Who do you want to meet in the grand finals? Uh, Onik PH, of course, Onik P. Luty. Same. Same. On PH, the Onyx boys won an Onyx Onyx grand finals. This is going to be fun. Will this be a repeat of what happened in the Snapdragon Pro series over at JB? We’ll find out soon enough, eventually. And right now, we are with Mythic Seals, Zippy. Hi, Zippy. How are you? Uh, I’m fine. Hello. Okay, now Zippy, how is Riyad treating you so far? How’s the experience like? Uh, I think is good. Uh, for us is uh very hot, but still good. Yeah. Yes, it is rather hot here because it’s very different from the heat we have in Asia. Right now, Azipi, I have a question. Do you like Riyad hot where it’s like dry or do you like Asia hot like humid? Uh, I think Asia hot because it is very very very very hot. You’re okay with sweating? Uh, no. No, not but in in Asia we sweat a lot. Yeah. But still, you prefer that heat. I think so. Okay. Okay, now we can see you’re playing Mobile Legends, but I won’t talk about your game right now. I want to ask you for the grand finals, you know, the knockout stages grand finals is happening in a few more days. Who do you want to meet in the grand finals? Uh, I will say TBH. Yeah. Why? Uh, because my friend Ohab is there. You want to meet OAB? Is there anything Zippy wants to say to Oh, no. Just good luck. Just good luck, have fun, and you know, maybe it’s going to be a fun day at the gold lane, right? Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much, Zippy. I’ll leave you because he’s currently playing ranked game and he just got into his game. He’s playing a harin. Let’s not disturb him. Maybe we could go find a few more players to disturb around the player launch. Guys, look who I found. It’s the one and only Rins of RQ. How are you? I’m fine. Okay. Now Rins, how has in uh how has Riyad been for you? Uh Riyad for me? Best guy. Yeah, you like hot. You like the heat? Yes. We finally have a player that actually enjoys the heat. So you prefer um the Riyad heat compared to Indonesia heat because in Indo you will sweat, right? Here not so much. So Yes, he likes the heat here in Riyad more. Now, aside from the heat, do you enjoy the food? Do you enjoy, you know, the player lounge? Do you enjoy the boulevard? Uh, the venue [Music] I like he likes the food, the beverages here in Riyad and he also likes the venue. What do you like about the venue? The Boulevard happening PlayStation. He likes the PlayStations here. Do you play a lot at the player lounge? The PlayStations? Yes. Oh, he plays with a lot of the RQ players. Now, Ren, what are your expectations for the grand finals? Uh, TLP Oni. So, TPH or Oni. Onik ID or PH? Onic ID. Sonic PH. Either one. and he doesn’t mind. Uh do okay. Yeah. Onic ID Onic PH and TLPH. Is there anything you want to say to them? Message. Yeah. Good luck. Good luck. Have fun. All right. Thank you so much, Rins. I’ll see you at the venue. And of course, I managed to spot out Aurora at the player lounge. So, hey guys. How are you guys doing? Hello. Good to you? I’m good. I’m good. How are you? Thank you. Thank you. Good. I’m good. So, the boys are all good. But guys, I actually have like just a few questions. I want to know how has your experience in Riyad been so far. Is Riyad fun? Uh, Riyad is fun, but the weather is so hot actually. So hot. Is it very different from the weather back home? Uh, you mean Turkey? Yes. Yeah. Like in Turkey, you live every weather actually. Cold, hot, middle, every but in here hot all the time. Hot all the time. What about you? How has your experience in Riyad been? Yeah. Uh, this is his third time been here and he said we got used to it too hot. Yeah, I guess third time is the charm. Yeah, third time. Third time is the charm. And of course, how’s your experience in Riyad? He said, he said, uh, the hot is not a problem. I got used to it already. He said, I’m having fun. Oh, you’re having fun. But he said the problem is he’s not going outside. Not never. You know what? That’s smart. The heat is not a problem if you’re not in the heat. If you’re inside, it’s not really a problem. Inside is so cold. The AC is so cold all the time. Well, you have to pick. You want hot or cold? I mean, I’m out middle. There’s no middle. No middle. Oh, no. I I prefer cold. Hot or cold? Cold. Yeah, cold. See, everybody wants to stay inside. Okay. Now that we’ve talked about your experiences in Riyad, what about the venue? How do you guys like the venue? Uh the venue I think I it’s so good because every game play play getting played at the same time. Everyone is playing at the same time the games it’s so good. Yes, I agree with Lunar actually. It’s actually so fun because there’s so many games happening at the same time which makes it so much fun. Okay, now I’m going to ask each and every one of you guys your prediction for grand finals or more like if you go to the grand finals who do you want to meet? Let’s start with Lunar. Who do you want to meet in the grand finals? RQ. Of course, I want RQ. Why? We have a We had a things to show them and we have a revenge to get it. He has a revenge to get. Okay. Apex, who do you want to meet in the grand finals? On Philippine. Why on? Because they’re the world champions. Is that Oh my goodness. Turkish. I’m Oh my god, I’m so good. I can be a translator next year. What about you, Sigu? RRQ need revenge. RRQ need revenge. Now, if you were to meet RRQ, score prediction since it’s a best of seven. Is it a 43, 42, 4? 4-1. 41. Yeah. 4. 4. Oh, it is getting hot in here. Okay. Now, what about Apex? Score prediction. If you meet Onik Philippines, I think 4-3, 42. Close game kind of thing. So close. Lunar, when I got here, I heard you talking about one thing and one thing only that you really really like. What’s your favorite thing about the entire place? Hospitality. The player lounge so far. Massage. Massage. So good here. The massage guy has magical hands. He has magical hands. So good. It’s really good. Do you do a massage every day? I mean, if I have a time, I would go every day. It’s so good. Why would why no? What about you, Apex? Do you like the massage? Yeah, like it’s good. This guy is so good. Yeah. How would you rate it? 1 to 10? Nine. Nine out of 10. Wow. 50 out of 10 from Lunar. Now, what about you? Do you do the massage? Yes. But my favorite snacks. Oh, your favorite is the snacks. What do you like to eat? Kissan. Kasan. Very fancy, Aurora. They they’re the only ones who actually told me they like getting massaged here. They like eating the croissant. You know what? Thank you, boys. And I will be seeing you in the knockout stages. Thank you. And that is it from me over at the player lounge today. It seems like the players are definitely having a blast before we kickstart our knockout stages. And with that, this is Ro signing off. See you guys. Go for it. quite the knock up onto King Kong. Somehow gets to immute himself though, but then Muti, he gets stunned by Kurt on Philippines are really good, but it does feel like this meta doesn’t really suits well as M6. At the M6 world championship, they were amazing here with King Kong forced to use other assassins, not those snowballing types, utility junglers, too. He has really dropped a bit. compared 15 MP but in the group stage for me it’s good that they got a reality check very early in now in the knockouts they should be prepared they should have already found out their weaknesses and it should be mostly King Kong and assassins two base turrets will fall again and want to end The damage from King Kong doesn’t even allow the feathered air strike to be casted. face. Yes, I believe that this is the team that could win the championship again. 100% confident. [Applause] going for the maniac. He has to get space. He gets that. He gets the savage. SRG uh group stage they were shaky. Everyone falling. Only Innocent here goes into the base. Oh my lord. Innocent walks it over. Gets a kill. Catam minion in a he’s trying everything to save this game. They’re going to go for the base to allow the Red Giants OG Esports fall to the dark horse. Just like M6 Winter crowd in the base. The Red Giants have fallen. But just like M6, they managed to get through. As SRG will tell him, it wasn’t look at all. Okay, so first things off, I feel like Storm is going to be a standout. that goes beyond how he’s able to manage and control the mid lane. Literally is the guy who just wants to set things up for his team. It’s happening here. Some Stormy gets an eye ped over to two as it does down the combo in the back. It’s a raging sandtorm and an ag that’s a double. I think whatever we achieve uh during our journey or last year, we just want more dream and dream again to being best of the best like the goods. Oh, they’re going to fight for this one too. Innocent grabs Wu looks for another gets the double. Nope. He falls. Innocent gets the triple. Going for the maniac. He has to get space. He gets that. He gets the savage. For me, I’m really proud of Sakai because he improved a lot from last year. His game play and his skills on talking. S Jin with a chase. So got him. Oh, he comes through. He dashes through. He’s buying so much time for the red giant. Outstanding match for me is against British Pro because enemy just kind of aggressive to us. The feeling is uh so intense. After losing M6, people look down on us and we want to prove that we are still the strong team like last year and that’s our biggest motivation for this year. Bro, you bro, can you hear me? Bro, bro, bro, bro. Um, hello guys. It’s King Kong and Kelra and we’re here. We are about to play. Can you hear me, bro? Don’t those don’t don’t touch don’t touch my my Don’t touch my blue don’t touch my blue don’t touch you don’t touch my blue don’t touch my me my my my my my my my Don’t touch my blue don’t touch my blue don’t touch my blue. Nice. We we we will we will we will will we we will we will will with will we will we will be we will be the the champion. Champion. Can Can Can you hear here? Me. Huh? Me. Can you hear me, bro? Bro, bro. B R O. Can you hear me, bro? Chew chew chew chew. Kick karina chew. Knock knock. Oh, kick kick karina kick karina into into khalid karina. [Music] Hero Natano charge for the letter. Nathan Nathan Nathan Natalia Natalia Natalia and and Nana Mage Nana Nana Nathan Natalyia and Nana are are in in the in the bush. Nathan, Natalia, and Nana are in the bush. Stop. Stop feeding. Feeding. Are you Are you crazy? Are you crazy? Crazy. Crazy. Stop feeding. Are you crazy? That’s it. It was too easy for us. Sorry. Goodbye. Bye-bye. Don got D don’t go don no Don. Hello guys. Uh I’m Key Boy from Onyx Esport. And now me and Kyrie want to play some games. Let’s go. We will we will ah be we will play we will we will be P be be ah we will be the champion the champion. Ah oh okay nice. Don’t go don’t don’t touch my blue. Don’t don’t don’t don’t touch don’t touch don’t touch don’t touch my my head blue brain blue my hair blue blue ah don’t touch my blue don’t touch my blue ah ah stop stop feeding free feed feeling ah Ah, little stop feeding. Feeding stop feeding. Stop feeding. Are you crazy? Are you crazy? Ah, stop feeding. Are you crazy? Oh, Natan. Natan. Ah, Natan. Natalia. Natalia. Ah. N. Nana. N. Nana. Yeah. Nana. Natan. Natalia. N. Nana. Natan. Natalia. N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N A N Nana Nana R R in here in inh in Yeah, the bush are in the bush. Ah Natan Natan Natalia and Nana are in the booth. Ah, guys. Nice. Cho kick karina kaja karina karina ah to karina into into ah khalid khalid ah karina into khalid can chicken can you hear me can Do you hear me? Bro, bro, yeah. Can you hear me, bro? We just finished playing. Can you hear me, bro? So, thank you guys for watching and don’t forget to support us at EWC. Thank you guys. Bye-bye. [Music] [Applause] [Applause] dude. I can’t believe it. Kyrie versus Carl Teasy. Yeah, this doesn’t even feel like a match. It’s like history in the making. The OG versus the Prodigy. Two mechanical monsters, both with international titles, might I add. But one’s cool like ice. The other one will dash under your turn the first 3 minutes. Make it personal. Carl Tezy farms so fast. He before the mid laner even rotates, he’s just a gold economist. Yeah. And Kyrie, when he moves in that I booa, he’s like a shadow. You see see that match against Mythic Seal. Two goats from the greatest teams. No second chances, no second life. Only one walks into that grand final. I hope y’all are ready cuz Knockouts Day Three is built different. [Music] High for you. The knockout stage is proof you should always be careful what you wish for. Even though you’re strong, everyone leads. Cuz right now you guys are about to witness the semifinals of MSE here at the Esports World Cup where we’re just one day away from crowning the champions. Again, welcome to the English broadcast here at MSE Esports World Cup. My name is Afel. Alongside with me is Destroyer as well as Leo. I kind of feel like we just started the knockout stage, but now it’s almost done. Time flies by so fast. When we opened up the knockouts, we were counting from 23 to 8. Now we’re from eight to four and by the end of the day there’ll just be three teams. Well, yeah, but you know, like just two going for the grand finals. Yeah, absolutely. It’s so fast and no time to enjoy it. I wish we could um have a you know double elimination, but the only best team can reach their goal and to enjoy the trophy. Yeah, honestly there’s a lot that happened all throughout the knockout stage. So, we’re going to be looking at the Kadilla top, please. Because you know what? Yesterday, highlight makers. No matter which series you were watching, they were all amazing. If you’re a fan of Michael Bay summer blockbuster action films, get to the chopper. You watch the first series. You watch SRG versus RRQ. If you’re looking for a Tarantino Nolan, you’re looking for just really deep MOBB, the second one’s got you. Even if it just went 3-1. Yes. But still, it was absolute cinema. They probably Yes, it was super amazing and uh sadly for me personally, Team Spirit lost, but it was really, really good to see and uh I really enjoyed that games. Yeah, honestly, it was amazing games. I really feel like for the second series, Team Spirit going up against Honik Philippines, that one is emotionally charged because doesn’t matter who you’re rooting for, you never really know, especially the second one, actually going for the uh highest or the longest game we’ve had all MSSE. Yeah. U one could only wonder what the reactions were of the community, holding on to all hopes cuz ECA like there was so many people watching in the studio and I would assume millions back home. How are they taking Spirits loss? Oh, it was super hard because you know there are two maps they could win but still yes the better on Philippines definitely a lot of uh community like the part of the community supporting spirits still they trust in them and they believe next time they will come back stronger. Yeah, we would like to say thank you to the crunchy roll reactions looking at everyone’s expression when they win when they lose the disappointment and the excitement. But right now folks, you guys are looking at the knockout stage bracket. Again, just to remind everyone, the left side is all three zeros. But now the S tier teams, Team Liquid Philippines going up against Anik Indonesia. One of them has to bleed. And looking at the right side, SRG going up against RQ. It was a full match series, but SRG makes it to the semifinals going up against Anik Philippines, which was able to beat Team Spirit 3 to1. We got to look at what they’re fighting for. We’re looking at a prize pool and again we’re looking at a $1 million grand finals championship prize pool. But we also got to look at the third and fourth place slot as well. $150,000 for fourth place. I’m sure you don’t want to be there, but that’s still a lot of money. 100 G’s between that and a third place. So tomorrow’s best of five will mean the difference between 150 and 250. Not to even mention again a third of the whole damn pot. That also happens tomorrow via 7. You know also the gap between the first and the fourth place is the same like the teams receive for the five to eight place. It’s nearly equal. Not nearly, it’s equal. Yeah. And so this is the price pool. But again, we got to go back and we actually saw the brackets. You really got to be careful what you wish for because only Team Liquid was the one that chose their opponent and actually won against them. Mythic Steel lost, but to be fair, they didn’t get to make a choice, right? RQ lost their matchup. Team Spirit lost their matchup. So, right now, the 2-1 teams are looking just a little bit stronger compared to 2, except for Team Liquid, which is the only team technically that had the best logical choice. They had first dibs. They played the fastest games and won them in the group. So they made their choice and they swept their choice and now they’re the only two team left standing. I think you know for the only problem was for RQ because they chose the second one and uh technically it was not the best choice for them but there are two onyx left. So yeah but now we got to look at the EWC fantasy team because we’re able to choose our own fantasy team. So, this is mine and I got to say for day four, it’s so hard to pick. I went for Key Boy. Honestly, one of the more iconic RORs in my eyes. Uh, Innocent and Cara. It’s very hard to choose between both. But hey, Malaysian got to go with SRG for this one. The mage, the monster mage, Super Friends. I don’t know, man. That’s my like I have five, but that’s the guy I’m looking forward for today. That’s kind of interesting. But we also got to choose. Yeah. Now we got to look at yours. Actually, we’re going to be looking at your team. So tell us about your team. Oh, you know, I’m quite similar with the KB boy and Kyrie with you. And if we are speaking about the mid laner is definitely Sanji for me. You know, he just took my heart after the yesterday games. And I decided no, he has to be here. He will lead my team in front. What was that? 21 KDA. 21K on CC. 21.0. Yes, he he was just dominating and crushing. You know what? I think uh if they do meet, maybe Sanford has something to say about it. But check out my fantasy lineup. There’s a uh glaring absence of SRG. This is not because I hate SRG. It’s just last year I underestimated them. I was surprised when they went all the way. But here, let’s see if if if two times a charm, you know, or if fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice. No, I think I got that wrong. But I think my draft is right. Yeah. Either way, it’s for you guys. If you guys want to play along, go to fantasy.esportsworldcup.com or just download the app to play along. And trust me when I say it’s very hard to choose. And heck, we only have two days left. Today’s the semi-final. So, let’s look at the schedule for today. We have two best of fives for you guys here. We’re going to start off with SRG Esports going up against Anuk Philippines as the first semi-final match and we’re going to close it out with our S tier teams. Team Liquid Philippines going up against Anik Indonesia. Ah, and for the first game, you know, I will be watching for the Kirk and Crown versus like the best explainers that I can imagine for me. Of course, yeah, we got Sanford, but they will go play after this. So it will be interesting especially after the previous games. Yeah. But now we got to focus on SRG going up against Philippines. Historically these teams have met up for I don’t know almost every international since the since they came true. Yep. Uh in the past 6 months alone. No wait that’s August now. Oh my god. For the past 9 months now they’ve met about half a dozen times give or take. And OnPH always has their number. Yeah. And now looking at on PH, we got Kurt, King Kong, Kra, Super Prince, as well as Brusco. And again, these are the world champions. Not going to be easy opponents for SRG. This is the super fam walking into the arena. They are cold and in the best way possible. They don’t care. Yesterday came from a hot series and I don’t think the aura of the defending champions will change that. And the thing is yesterday was difficult for both teams and it doesn’t get easier because again both these teams know each other very well again from international tournament scrims and just overall fighting against each other every single time they meet and I got to say SRG they need their agame for today. Look at Malaysia’s favorite sons Arcadia Cram and Innocent. Arcade was kind of nervous. If I could see right, he was a little bit shaky. He understands that there is a lot of on the line and if they lose, there is no second chance. As you mentioned, there’s only single elimination. If they win, there is this opportunity to have the second time to be the champions of MSC. Very first back to back in history. Never happened before. But now, before we start the match, turn to talk to my boy Stormy to see how he’s feeling about this matchup. Now we’re backstage in with Stormmy right before the match. Stormmy, what you said on stage is finally coming true. You are going head-to-head against Onik PH. Can we get a confidence level check? How are you feeling right now? I mean, we’ve been waiting for this day and really happy that we face Onik Oni Page and really like 200% confident. 200% confident. Why did you want to meet Onik PH so bad? because it’s quite a good story also because we want to get a revenge from the last time M series and we would happy like to fight them also. Yeah. Okay. So, you’re 200% confident right now. What is the difference maker? I mean considering M6 you weren’t able to win it on a different tournament. You were also not able to win it against BH. What is different about SRG and why are you so confident today? I think what’s the differences is maybe this meta is quite different from the last season and we kind of understand the meta now. So, I think we have the heads up on this tournament. Okay. So, if we had to ask you what version of SRG we’re going to be seeing, what would you answer? Right. Because technically on PH has only met the M6 version, not the MSE last year version of SRG. Yeah, maybe the last year MSE SRG. Who knows? Oh, so closer to that. Very interesting. I got to ask though, was there any point of doubt here in MSE? maybe in the group stages because considering your journey has been very up and down. Go ahead again. Uh considering your journey for SRG has been very up and down. Was there a point of doubt that you’re like maybe we were not going to be able to defend our title? Um I mean no actually no. Yeah. No. Okay. 100% confident in coming from Stormmy. What will this win mean to you personally before we end this interview? I mean personally I think we will like show them that we actually not like the last time series that actually will like take a revenge on the last year not the same as last year basically. So yeah that’s it. Okay so it’s a different SRG today and it’s an SRG that will give their best in the next upcoming match. We’re going to throw it over back to the studio. Thank you very much on my boy Stormmy. And looks like for them the difference is they have a good understanding of the meta now. And yeah, I got to say the biggest difference between every team for this tournament is really just the meta shakeup. The question is how does a team like SRG change the outcome of the past two or three times they’ve met with Onyx PH? Because Onyx PH, we know that they’d gone through a different boot camp process leading up to MSE 2025. They spent a lot of time in Indonesia. But what did SRG OG do to come here now? Besides understanding the meta, what changed in these five? Because they’re the same five dudes that won last year’s midseason cup. The same guys. And they are pretty confident. They said that they will try to repeat the results of MSE 2024. And I’m pretty sure that Arad going to help them with this procedure. And uh I really believe when I saw the group stage, you know, I was skeptical. And uh when I saw the performance yesterday, I was like, “Okay, that can be real. They can potentially beat their opponents and they’re ready to meet on Philippines.” Yeah, knowing SRG, they do require a bit of a startup time. They require their warm up because every single time they start in a tournament, the first few games is like, “Okay, they look good, but not that good.” But then give them some time and all of a sudden they become amazing. But now we got to talk about their opponents again. The world champions On Any Philippines, Kirk, King Kong, Spins, Brusco, as well as Cara. What’s your take on Any Philippines in this current metal? Leo, I’ll tell you now, I brought up their time boot camping in Indonesia. I still can’t say for 100% that that benefited them the way I think they wanted it to. Cuz yesterday against Spirit, there were moments where in even Exactly. which which again maybe my expectations of Any are just way too high but you’re also looking at their run in the group stage. They ended up being a 2-1 team. They lost in their opener. So that alone makes you wonder and sure you can look at SRG OG and say they’re a late game team micro macro. Onyx is not. Onyx just comes out of the gate guns ablazing. Like they usually take control, they usually dominate. Here not so much. I’m not comfortable with the way they’re evolving. I want to mention one thing. Well, you say about like uh they prefer also the early game and to take control, right? But yesterday actually uh especially because of Kelra, they played from behind and they made it twice in a row and I don’t like that. That’s old Onyx. That is old Kelra. That’s his mo guys. You just play the game for 15 minutes. I’ll take care of it. But when Onyx, remember when they won M6, they didn’t lose a single series. Yeah, everybody was fired off on all cylinders. Cinders. Yeah, I I kind of feel like for them if they have the Selena that they can start snowballing. But all this while looks like Eterna is able to grab King Kong for a quick interview. So, let’s see what he has to say before the match starts action. Right before the match, we’re going to get a little bit of a discussion here going on with King Kong. So, King Kong, before this match, did coach Why not mention anything to help motivate you guys in this next upcoming match against SRG? Um, he said that move on from the bad gad games yesterday. Move on from the bad games yesterday. What was bad about yesterday’s games? Um, I think um we didn’t we um me, Brusco, and Kirk didn’t play very well yesterday, especially in the game three and game four. So, we got to move on and make a comeback today. Okay. So, to motivate you guys here at SR uh with the matchup against SRG. Now, you’ve never lost against SRG. So, how confident are you going into this? It should be okay, right? Yeah. 10%. 10%. That’s 100, right? That’s what you mean. 100. Okay. So, M series check. MPH check. MSC still on the line here. if you are able to get to the grand finals because you’re one step away, what would this mean to you guys and what would it mean to you personally? Um, going in the grand finals um going into the grand finals actually it doesn’t mean anything to me cuz it’s still not a win. Um, we only consider champion as a win. Okay. And do you how much do you want to win MSE King Kong? So so so so bad. So so so so bad. All right. We’re getting the vibe here. And obviously, do you have a message coming into this for SRG? Um, for SRG, um, good luck and let’s give the fans a very wonderful match. Okay. Anything else? Maybe something cheeky, something spicy you want to say. Good luck. That’s not spicy. Um, good luck. Okay. Okay. Just good luck. Okay. But King Gong, I I know you did it for us, you know, the the other day, but like, you know, coming to this next match, could we maybe see you flex again? Flex, I have a jacket on. Do you want Do you want to Oh, you can still do it, I think. Oh, there it is. Flexing right before this next match against SRG. A Yav, we’re going to throw it over back to the studio. Thank you, King Kong. Good luck. only slightly painful. 10 is 100%. I think he meant 80 plus 20. Yeah, quick maths. Quick maths, but uh speaking of quick maps, this matchup, right, I kind of feel like there’s a lot to talk about. Uh lanes by lanes, but Cara and Innocent, I would say both these gold laners are the reason why both teams have been very successful. So, this is going to be very interesting to see between Cara and Innocent, which one is better. And speaking of history, Kara has won and it out every single time. Innocence’s got nothing on Keller, but not to derail or hijack your dream lane matchup. I think mid is going to be where it’s at. Stormy versus Super Friend. My brother, his mom is my mom, too. Uh, so you remember yesterday, Superfence was one of the main reasons why Keller got to the ultra late game, ultra instinct mode here. How’s that going to work out? Like when Stormy gets to that point, how does he stop? So, we technically kind of married both ideas, you know? It’s like super different for everyone. I mean, in our studio because for me it’s uh the main versus is Kirk and Crumb. So, they go different different roles here. But yeah, go ahead. Exp. What’s about that? Yeah, I actually yesterday I was so surprised about Crumb. Uh, as we mentioned, they needed to warm up. They need some time. And yesterday 21 KD on CeCe and his lapu lapu his glue. That was something unpredictable and unexpected. He was carrying solo on his shoulders and he was like, “Hey team guys, let’s let’s move on. We can win. Okay, let’s do it.” Speaking of Lap Lapua, I got to say yesterday was amazing Lap Lapu games from every single player. Uh even Kim Boba, even though he eventually lost, but dude, Lapu looks so much better in the knockout stage compared to the group stage. And this is scary because for the first time in a while there are multiple heroes that are must pick and that skews the draft. CC sudden breakout here on the knockouts. Lapu Lapu. Now we’re just talking about it. Yan Shin is a seems to be a must ban in the first three whether you’re red or blue. I’m thinking one more hero. Lancelot. Certain teams just want Lancelot against on PH. You got to ban the Selena. So what? That’s five already. You just leave leave one. We don’t have enough bands. one free ban from like what do you think about like Uranus and you know uh by the way Uranus he disappeared he just disappeared and uh if you’re speaking about the heroes that I would like never to see again it’s Erlot you know he got 18% win rate during the group stage and during the knock out stage he won zero times zero if I remember right five times teams took him and zero he’s literally useless I don’t know why But literally you Yes. You know what? This is why you guys are the analysts. I trust you guys and honestly I agree. But right now folks, you guys are looking to the stage. Right now we have the top four teams of the world all gunning for that grand final slot. All for $1 million. And now we’re about to start the semifinals. We’ll see who will make it to the grand finals. And get ready because we are about to encounter the unknown. [Applause] [Music] We started with 16 teams from around the world went to four and today we will finally narrow it down to the final two tickets to the grand finals. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the third day of the knockout stages of MSC at EWC 2025. It is still Rose and Milos with you guys. And honestly, we look very themed with our stage today. Very well done. We’ve really clocked it out. But honestly looking at the matches first day of course the quarterfinals quarterfinals in general are now behind us right we had our first two quarterfinals on day one kind of made it right wash out threeos yesterday you asked for absolute cinema you absolutely got it we got nine out of 10 potential games and at the end of it or well they’re out spirit well they’re out but the challenge continues in the semis from now on yes you know what yesterday almost full series Guys, nine out of 10. Just like what Milos has said. However, today the heat intensifies because we will be entering the semifinals. It is still going to be a festive five and is still going to be a single eliminations. You can’t make any mistakes from the moment you made it to the knockouts of the playoffs here. You cannot make a singular mistake and pretend like you’re going to be able to claw it back. Not everybody can handle the pressure, especially now that our beautiful MSC trophy is out on stage for everybody to see. That’s an extra layer for our players to keep in mind. You know what, Milos? That is definitely added pressure, but it’s not us that will feel the pressure. It is the last four teams. And to begin our first semifinal match of the day, and these two teams will compete for the first grand finals ticket. Let us introduce our first team. It is the Giants from Malaysia, the defending champions, Amazon Arena. Give it up for Salang or Red Giants, OG Esports. The reigning MSC champions are a couple of steps away from making history and the first team to win MSC backto back. Having fallen to the hands of Onyx Philippines twice since M6, SRG has retoled their approach and looks sharper than ever entering this match. All eyes are on the halfman half beast who holds a 05 record up against the gold standard. However, will today be the day innocent rises on top? Okay, you got MSC champs. That’s pretty good, right? really impressive over there. I’m going to have to one up you, Rose. I’m so sorry. Ladies and gentlemen of the Amazon Arena, please welcome your reigning world champions, Onic. [Applause] After conquering M6, they’re only two steps away from the trifecta of MPL, Meries, and MSC trophies. And whilst their MSC 25 run has not been the cleanest, Onyx PH always show up when it matters most. The Super Family sticks together through thick and thin, and together they look to fly hand in hand into the grand final. My god. My god. Gentlemen, please. SRG, you may place your keys. Take your seats. Rose, I’m really sorry to say this, but I think your heart’s going to be broken no matter what happens today. You know what, Milos? I know the entire world knows, the entire MLBB ecosystem knows that I honestly have so much love for these two teams right before us in the semifinals match. But I am a firm believer that the best one who comes out on top today will be getting that grand finals ticket. We love a meritocratic queen. That’s what we got. Thank you very much, Rose. And we are ready for our games. Our teams are ready. It’s Onyx. It’s SRG. Let’s get our match started. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the second day of the knockout stages. I love the audience today. The energy is there. [Applause] [Music] Yes. from Philippines. We fly here to watch. Today I’m not working. So took my time to come here to watch the SRG match in person. Honestly, amazing experience. Shout out to all fans all around the world. Keep supporting us. your spirit will come to us and to only catch an ideology. Hopefully you guys enter and make it happen. Good game and keep it until the grand finals is a strong team for other team and we going to see you in final. Yeah, we see you SRG on the GH for you guys. Let’s go. SRG SRG SR to all Sonics fans there and to all Sonic u Sonic fans in Philippines that travel to Riyad. Um thank you so much for supporting us. uh very happy and uh appreciate it and also sorry to other fans that couldn’t take picture to us. I love you all guys. We’ll do our best always. Shout outs to all the fans out there because even during the team’s introduction, we can hear the crowd all the way on stage. But now we got to move on forward and talk about the keys to victory for SRG. Polish your play style with a controlled late game aggression. Don’t give onic Philippines heroes that maximizes map presence and cover all bases. Make sure innocent wins the lane. Actually a good case especially when we speak about the jungle and about the innocent. I would like to say that’s the option for them to win but also they need to prioritize for themselves the heroes. And now we got to look at on Philippines here. Their keys to victory go for compositions with multiple win conditions. Respect SRG’s capability to punish front liners and just Kellra. Just Kra. Onic PH is best when there’s just more than Kellra, right? We’re looking for the KK connection. We’re looking for Kirk, the hard carry, own half of the map and respect SRG’s capability to punish front liners. We’re talking range here. So, we don’t want B to just go allin front liners. You want to be able to play almost a breath of engagement ranges. And now we got to look at Clash of Crowns here again. Defending MSG champions going up against defending world champions. These aren’t run-of-the-mill teams. These are teams that have been tested and they’ve won in large tournaments here. So this is going to be intense match. The clash of the crown. Best of the best. the leaders of the previous tournaments, the MSC champions versus the world champions. So hard, so much nominated. Yeah. And now for you guys at home, I want to take the time to remind you about the MSE 2025 chess. The sport chess is still available. And here’s the thing. It’s only 20 diamonds. You can draw the luxury reward returning MSE skin, Atlas, Rune, Sentinel, and the first three openings guarantee you crystal of Aurora. So, make sure you guys grab the support chest while it’s still available. What makes this Clash of Crowns all the more interesting? And I know there’s millions out there watching that can relate. Just about 18 months ago, none of us could have swore that these two teams would be standing at the point at the peak of MLBB that they are at now. We all saw how they were built, these two teams, from the ground up for greatness. And now, look at this. They are one match away from getting to the grand finals, from making history, from completing trifecta or for being the first in history to get a back-to back MSC. I’m sure this is not one of the things that the teams are thinking about. But yes, both teams have a chance to make history here. If SRG goes all the way to grand finals and win it all, first team back-to-back MS champions and for Philippines, winning this one means getting the world champion, winning MPL and winning MSE. Hasn’t been done before. So both teams a lot is on the line and now we start the draft here. SRG OG will be first pick on Philippine second pick instantly banning out that Selena. It’s the best ban you can make especially versus the super prince. Yesterday he showed us why you should ban this hero and never ever miss and I’m pretty sure they will follow this rule. I mean SRG OG will follow this rule for the whole series. Big ticket bands for SRG as well, especially against Any here, would be the 1-1, maybe as a slightly lower uh order, is the Shin, the Lancelot attacking King Kong, and possibly the Phobia to open up easier XP lane drafts for Cra. The only thing about the phobia is I kind of feel like for both teams, they always got to be careful of that CC possibility because I really feel like for CRA as well as Kirk, if at all possible, they would want to win that lane because first rotations going to the turtle, the first two, it’s going to be very crucial for both teams because they really like to play with momentum. Oddly enough, between the two, Cra and Kirk, Kirk is the one who’s more willing to say, you know what, I’m going to go 0 and N. I’m going to go 0 and 8 as long as the other half of the map is okay, cuz that’s what Kellra wants. I don’t know if SRG is ready to make that kind of sacrifice. You know, if you’re speaking about the Keller, I would like to mention that the uh SRG OG should think about the Granger because he picked it several times around five if I remember right and he or four wait four or five four four times and 100 percentage win rate. Yeah. Yes. That’s the thing. That’s the option. And yesterday he carried so hard with this hero and you should respect it. Five overall 100%. Yeah. Uh, and I kind of feel like that’s the dangerous part about both Innocent as well as Cara. They have proven time and time again that when there no more options, they always have that one hero to be like, “How did we miss this one?” Because we’ve seen time and time again, both gold laners are willing to go for it at Batrix and they perform amazingly with it. So, I agree with you that Granger is nasty, but at the same time, everyone from Onyx Philippines, they all have their signatures. Like Leo said before we started the draft, three bands for each team, the opening bands simply not enough in this climate. The fact that for Onyx there’s only one more ban, I’m guessing it’s something along the lines of maybe a Farsa to try and open up the one one for Keller. Cuz here’s the thing, if you do that, you open up the first pick for SRG. And there’s so many things you have to consider. If you don’t pick the one-1 there, then best believe Keller’s going to get the one-1 over here. And then Bob’s your uncle. And what do you think about funny yesterday? It don’t like it. Don’t like it. Yeah, I like it. I don’t like it. That’s actually my point for the current meta. I don’t like it for for the five games. It won only one time and yesterday even King Kong got problems with it. Yeah, the only time won was when King Kong used it against homeboys back in the group stage and it wasn’t the cleanest of games. Now the draft has resumed. So both teams having two bands each and this is going to be interesting. We’re going to look at Innocent as well as Cara. Looking at the KDA, Keller definitely is on top. 9.82 again, 6.82 of Innocent. Looking at the damage per minute, yes, Kra won, but honestly, not by that much. 3,400 for Innocent, 3,500 for Kelra. It’s not a matter of how much damage you can deal. It’s how you can use it. And these two gold laners know that the game rests on their backs. Past the 15-minute mark, it’s all them. There goes the Fanny. Interestingly enough, we hate the Fanny. I don’t think it’s as good in the meta anymore or as uh destroyer. So, Elcon put it much like Arlot is totally useless. There’s the one. That’s true. That’s true. That’s what I see. That’s wise. You’re not wrong. So, what is open for SRG? Yeah. The Kalia which Onyx also very much prioritizes. Uh but you have the Farce open, you have the Granger open, Mosov open too, but the CC Lapu Lapu there’s so many things open. Box is open too. There are a lot of things that you can pick but no opens you the uh way for the initiation and it’s one of the most safest pick and here it is. So now the question is what is going to be the early pick here? Because this is against MSE champions and world champions. No matter what Onyx Philippines picks up, it’s counterable by SRG. But all the more this makes Super Frince’s pick trivial. You you say so do we prioritize it here? We know that he’s a big lynch pin of Onyx BH’s success, especially setting it up for Keller, but no, I think you you save it. I think you keep him for four and five. Let’s go Cece and Bak. I think that’s the best option. Okay, Baka. Here it is. Here the best heroes you can take. So, first of all, if the SRG want to prioritize Kim for themsel, you counter with Baksha instantly. The Kim the CC I mean got one of the highest win rate, one of the most stable heroes for the explain. So, where does this put SRG? There’s kind of a foil to the Kalia already with the Bakshia cuz again, I think a 50/50 on saying the Baka is going where. I don’t know if it’s the Rome or the jungle. I think I’m more likely seeing it in the Rome. Either ways, this is an amazing opening by Ionic Philippines taking that CC away. One of the strengths of the CC now is that besides the Pikito, she kind of wins all matchups, especially because all the exp laners, they’ve gotten used to actually uh just tanking the lane. Looks like they chose the Granger as well as joy against Philippines. Honestly, feels like a bit of a takeaway from King Kong. Make sure he doesn’t get that joy. and the takeaway from the Kalra also because we mentioned right before the game that he got 100% with the Granger and he carried yesterday and the last pick for the on Philippines actually it should be Harif I think Harif because it’s strong against the joy and honestly has an okay match up against the Granger in ling or just easy Irital and what do you think if they go with Kimmy right now? Looks like they go for the Iritel there. Yep. Just the easy counter in the lane against the Granger again. Superf four and five. You save Superf’s pick. He is same for SRG. Yeah. No, they are the these these the these S mid laners. They’re they’re their messiahas for their games regardless of if they win early. So now what else can they choke out? Sonic BH can crack down on XP laners even more. Deny your boy your no your boy Cra destroyer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Deny him. So, Lapo Lapo, they should remove Oh, they’re playing on the mid laners. And this is Fara for the first B on Philippines. Honestly, looking back uh all the way from Wild Car’s MWI to here, honestly, a lot of teams are respecting those midlaners, especially like you said, Leo, these are S tier midlaners where they can really turn the tide with a very, very solid mid lane pick. So now you’re wondering what could be left for Stormy here because Super Frisk got picked red four. I mean like took him out completely. This is where we see the the unique heroes skyrocket. We’ve seen the Kaguri. We’ve seen the Kadita. We saw Eve yesterday. We saw Eve. Interesting B. Angela by the way. So they removed the combination with Angela Bakshia and Angela CC. Also the last ban I think SRG should think about the Loi ban actually. Mhm. Honestly, very good shot here because again the the presence and the uh keys to victory. Watch out for Oni Philippines when they have a composition that plays the map well. Angela does that so deceptively. And so honestly too, you don’t even have to show yourself in the late game. You just clear waves and then jump in with the hearth guard. One more here. Do they attack super friends? Is that even worth doing? That’s always the question, man. Because you’re always like, “Haha, got you with this ban.” And it’s like, “Haha, back to you. I got a big ass hero pull, but now they they ban out the Lapu Lapu.” Good. You don’t want that Lapu. So, you don’t want that God as well as CC combination. That’s that’s that’s too much. It wasn’t worth it. They thought about it like, “No, let’s not let’s not even touch Frince.” that that’s a good combination but still if you let super friends to play with Loi you open too much resources for onic Philippines you can play macro games if we are speaking about the hedgehog if you’re going to pick the Loi though I don’t think it comes out red four yeah it should be I think there’s there’s there’s still too much out there that SRG can do already there’s a lot of threats to the Loi here just in the first three picks so this might actually be the King Kong hero here the jungler this will reveal at least where the box goes red four trooper reporting for duty. Your team is picking and here comes Kium. So that was my suggestion before the second phase of the drafts. But uh I expected Loy still there is a good composition with two marksman with a good front lane and they still have a flexibility. They still can move Baka same to the jungle or for the Rome. So an option here is something like the Eve but I don’t think it’s a good combination overall of the Kalia. Again, the Kalia could just be used defensively and actually grab anyone that overextends. Uh, so SRG the mid as well as the exp. I wonder where Cra is going to pick up to go up against the CC. The Lapu is still open. If you want to win the matchup, Pakito, but we haven’t seen we only see one successful Pikito pick. Yeah, by RQ. Yep. So, here’s the thing. On BH already now, I’m just looking at this without even their last pick. It’s very expensive. It’s very expensive. SRG, they pick up the Ruby. I’m thinking this is Cram’s ruby. We’ve seen Cramp Play Championship Rubies in this very same stadium last year 12 months ago. Can I just say it almost looks like SRG OG is just using PH draft here with a hint of crab, right? The Joy, the Lui, the Granger, the Kalia. This feels very odd. It feels just like we know you so much. We’re going to use your draft. Cra put his foot down. Crab said, “No, no me.” It looks like they outsmarted their opponent and guys. Oh, and the baton had the last pick. So, this is pretty interesting. A lot of crowd control from the right side on Philippines got a lot of damage also according to uh Rokimi and to the So, it’s a jungle box. This kind of calms my spirits down. It’s not as expensive as I thought it would be. I think on can work with something here. Very good range, very good engagement tools. Right now, we’re looking at top four teams when it comes to the draft. I believe all the coaches have a good understanding of the meta. So, either or, thank you very much for our analysts, but now we got to throw it over to our casters to start game one of the semi-finals. Thank you so much to our panelists. It is indeed the last four teams here at MSC 2025 that we are about to witness today. This has been a draft as mentioned by our panelists that very much resembles on PH but Onic PH as mentioned by King Kong are looking to perform much better today compared to yesterday. Welcome to game number one and we’re heading into the land of dawn. You’ve had a lot of thoughts regarding the exchange in the draft. But which among these two teams are you leaning into for now? I’ve always been kind of biased to damage. Oh, we got to say SRG. And it just starts out like that. Damage has really been the ultimate win condition in this meta. You have more of it, usually you win games. And SRG, yeah, as Leel said, as you said, this looks like a very onic Philippines draft. And hey, they’re utilizing it well. They’re already punish punishing super Frince with a Loy on the hands of Stormy. That’s a kill and a purify that was already forced out of the mid laner, but they’re going to try and trade it in here too. Flicker should be killed back. Super Prince able to get the damage done. King Kong takes the kill. Yums will flicker out and it will just be an early trade of kills for the mid lane. One down. Yep. That has been such a quick response from Onic PH. Typically, you would be taking a bit more time, especially in terms of the jungle rotations given the current meta, but now that King Kong has his hands on the back shot, it seems like it’s something you could be expecting a bit more to come in for Onyx PH. Taking a quick look at the emblems as well. At the very least, Super Prince still went with that pull yourself together. So, he will have his fight again. So, oh my goodness. Hey, they took that first blood personal. Skies now pops the electron beats over to Bruce. Still has enough peel from King Kong too. But King Kong is a level down. This is something that we actually spoke about at least backstage, me uh in a group with Midnight talking about the early rotations of King Kong that really has been not as effective in the last few matches, but here on the box just feels like it fits in. Innocent unable to get the shot on that cannon minion. Innocent is very very low. Maybe this is why they prioritize the irrituality. He will be able to get away. Kirk is right there. Pops in curtain call. It’s only onto CRA as he goes in for IM. Not just yet actually. Vengeance and Kirk backs away. Interesting. Onic BH were the ones who have been putting the much faster rotations out there. King Kong and the other members were the first to be in that turtle pit. But wait, hold on. Pin down. I’m offended. And the door run. Wolf King locks him down. Creme with the specialty here in game one. That’s a double. and a diversion that they won’t take. It’s just to probably keep on PH on their toes right now. SRG OG are clearly in the lead and they’ve been playing the early game relatively well. We’ll be checking that instant replay right now. It was right after they took that turtle. You did mention that Cra didn’t go for the pendant just yet, but it seems like they were after more. So, they didn’t just settle with the objective. They literally wanted to establish this 1k lead that they currently have by getting more kills after on PH. This Ruby is what got them that final game of obviously it’s also with the Roger uh last year in the grand finals up against Falcon’s AP Bren. So you can definitely see that I mean he’s so comfortable on this pick. He knows exactly the limits of this hero when to go in holding on to that. I’m offended just peeling for the team until the right moment comes in to get that massive one to turn things around. And even with the utility jungle, King Kong’s HP bar, you know, hasn’t really been helping on Philippines. They haven’t been able to utilize that sustain cuz I guess SRG just have too much damage. That’s where the entire damage conversation goes in. And again, you pair it up with the Lui who Stormy even just now we saw decided to use the diversion that wasn’t really after anything. It’s just a diversion that was used to threaten Onic PH and SRG OG with this kind of lineup and the lead that they already have can just keep going for all those surprise plays with the diversions with the I am offended. And that’s not to mention Yumes because Yumes, he’s been a bit more conservative so far. He’s been there just to protect the title strikes come in at the right timings and the knockups, those are going to be very crucial as well because a single welltimed knockup even up to two members of Onik PH could definitely change the flow and tide of the game. And that’s what we might be seeing right now because Yumes is holding the brush. Oh, but gets spotted by King Kong. Yeah, the shield going to be able to open up the bush there. The current call already bait it out as well as Cram just kites away. Traction pulse lands on Yums. King Kong still on it. Craven again, but Bruce goes Fist cry able to disengage as well. King Kong wins a retry battle as Kirk zones him in the back line. That’s going to be in the flicker combo bringing him back into skies to get the kill. Electrifying beats. King Kong holding his own in the front. Kra jumps in the heavy crossbow to play again. That’s going to be Graham pinned down able to dash out to safety and it is Onyx Philippines with the wave but Stormy goes in all alone. What? Skies again jumping in but has to respect Onyx Philippines. An interesting call, but Crab still going for the I am offended if Purify will be forced out of Super Prince as well. But I wonder what the idea was from SRG OG because the moment that they were spotted out by Onyx PH, it did feel like they were just too confident to go in, they set the tempo for that particular team fight, but there wasn’t anyone from Ony who was that low for Stormmy to risk going in and surprising them from the back line. No, but Kirk, he won’t survive that. Nope. Tsunami slam under turret. Bruce caught in a bad spot. And Stormmy gets back to even score. Every time Stormmy dies, he’s able to, you know, balance it out with the assist, too. Three deaths, three kills, three assists. It has just been SRG who’ve been capitalizing more off of the mistakes of Onyx Philippines. Yep. But right now, they’re the first to actually take a turret away from Onyx PH2. So, the lead is just growing for SRG OG. Great reactions from Keller as well, not uh putting himself in such a dangerous spot, but this is an immediate response from King Kong, too. That’s a lot of damage coming in from Innocent, however, even despite the early game, which we’ve seen him go through up against the where it felt like Keller was just doing a great job. He’s actually leading by even if we say it’s just a bit, that’s actually massive for a Granger up against anal. But Cra, absolutely. Like you said, this small lead can build up to a massive one. And here’s the thing about the Ruby, right? Yes, he can poke him down, but he has ridiculous amounts of sustain. So, he’ll be back up with another mini wave. That’s just how quick he can find his way back into the team fight if other have to reset, look for certain creeps just to find some of their HP. Oh, what? King Kong actually goes back. Yeah, we thought it was going to be the disengage, but he actually walks back up. Cram again full HP with the brave smite with the Ruby. Innocent with poke over to Super Prince. King Kong holding on to the turtle right now. Super prince gets caught to half HP. He has the traction pulls now though. He might go for it. Oh, there you go. That’s going to be crowd targeted but in the back skies winning out the red battle now. Boo’s going with the fist crab, but it’s defensive. They go in with an army stam over to King Kong but he’s still going to be tanking up so much as jumps back in with a vengeance able to tank off. King Kong spread it down very low. Innocent gets a double and it’s two on the sky piercer. And we just mentioned the entire small leads build up into bigger leads and bigger problems now for Onyx PH. The amount of damage that came in from Innocent dealt with both the tankiest frontliners here of Onyx PH. Kirk did a great job. Again, the vengeance 2 was a huge part in how that team fight was sort of a bit more prolonged for Onik, but Innocent literally didn’t care. He went for the ones who were blocking the damage dealers. And so it made things a bit more difficult for Super Friends, for Kelra just to find the right position to land all those heavy crossbows and all those basic attacks. And just like MSE 2024, SRG are playing their style of MLBB where it’s aggression is or offense is the best defense. This is how they play front to back for Innocent. It’s an unorthodox way to play front to back because usually you just have tanks in front, but they have damage in front. That way, Onic Philippines are kind of messed up like they can’t really dive in because they can’t ignore the front line. And Innocent in the end gets all those free shots. Yeah, that’s Innocent with already three core items. And Sakai just now already picked up the holy crystal as well. So, in 8 minutes, SRG OG can already be considered to definitely be online. Stormy does feel like serving a bit more of utility in this current situation, but do they have an idea? Or does Brusco actually want to go for this? Y is there protecting, but it won’t be enough. JCC with the shield unity. What a pick from Brusco holds onto his position in the bush and gets all the value. But there was no shutdown. This is the thing about SRG right now. Their lead has mostly come through object. I mean, there has been a few kills, but there’s no actual bounty to turn the turn turn the game around yet. Yeah, it’s too evenly distributed across the members of SRG OG. They’ve just been that much well coordinated in terms of the team fights and how it’s been going so far. But there’s a potential diversion we might be seeing from Stormy. Where is it going to go? Oh, Kirk has an idea. Call as well. Crazy yield jumping to the back line and purify comes in for Kra. Traction pulse lost shield. Disguise goes in, but it’s going to be peeled down by Bruce Go. He fights the fist cracks, guys. Electron beats in his head, gets the shot with the rapsidity. All of those connecting and finding the man Kelra. And it’s not usual for us to see the opposing team find a way to land their skills or to basically gain access towards Keller. It’s always Keller who usually is the last man standing, usually turns the tides for his team. But this is a completely different situation now. Innocent with the range and with the way that SRG OG have been just constantly breaking the formation of Onic PH, they’ve made it a bit more easier to target one of the most crucial heroes in Onyx PH’s lineup now. And now it gets even more difficult for Onyx Philippines to get to Innocent. Sure, he was caught off guard earlier, but now he has a Wind of Nature. So, it really comes down to Prince to be the one to get the execute kills to dish out damage in the team fights. And you can see that massive lead for Innocent in the gold lane. As we were talking about this matchup, everybody had their eyes in the gold lane. And man, Innocence making it looking rough for Kelra. We’ve been putting so much highlight on Keller after multiple highlight plays that he’s done yesterday. And if he’s able to find another one here, then I don’t know what to say anymore. But all the more do they have to work on the defense first. There are waves coming in from SRG OG’s side and a lord that’s still full HP marching down bottom. At least they have two marksmen who could potentially deal with this. Oh, but speaking of, now we reduce that just to one marksman now. Holy shield down below taken down but also Kelra getting assassinated by the prince up top. Skies. Hey, a lot of questions onto Sky. Utility meta. How is he going to do? He gets on a signature joy and he pops off. Cram opening up again. Super going to be caught by the reaction. A few shots by Innocent forcing him all the way back to base. That hurts. Okay, they find the I’m offended on King Call. That’s a lot of damage already coming in from SRG OG. And mind you, this is already a Kimmy who does have the talisman first item, but also the blood wing. So, there should be a bit more of the shield. There should be a bit more ways for him to take all that damage. But it does seem like SRG just has too much. A single combo from the duality from Stormmy is already able to bring him down to half HP. And if you even look at the damage dealt ranking, Innocent, Stormy, they’re just up there on BH have a lot of catching up to do in terms of that. And how long will it still take for them before they hit their power spikes or spikes as you mentioned it? Hey, we’ll have to see how long they need. I mean, through the item builds right now, like that power spike seems pretty far off. And the great dragon spear gets built up, but he still needs the male gun here to go through that front line, which has been like really tanky. Yeah, in a way you won’t really expect them to be tanky cuz it’s a Kala and Ruby. These two heroes aren’t really the best of tanks, but they’ve just been able to brawl things out, dish out so much damage that it’s more of SRG doing more than taking on Philippines on the other side. They’ve just their tanks aren’t built up yet. You can see Bruce really struggling in the gold department almost again 500 gold down, 600 gold down. The jungle is the biggest one. You can see that massive gap between the joy and the box where yeah, King Kao’s really struggling on a utility pick right now. Radiant armor, anti curus, he’s building towards a sky guardian helmet, I believe he just needs a bit more HP. That’s what the team needs, but SRG are not giving any space over right as the objective spawns in. They’re going to go straight for it. King Kong not able to get there in time. free for skies and cram just standing there already does so much for SRG OG because there’s a threat that if King Kong goes in and bumps into the right the wrong target it will be almost zero chances of him getting out of that because of the continuous layers of crowd control that can come in from SRG OG and so clearly there was an attempt from King Kong there but they did not decide to risk it anymore and so that’s going to be another problem like King Kong has such a huge responsibility on his shoulders right now to tank majority of the damage. Even Kirk has the war axe priority here on the CC and is yet to build the other defense items that will be necessary for them to buy a bit more time for their team. So now here comes the Lord once again marching down the bottom lane. What does Onyx PH try to do? Will they actually go for a setup there or does SRG just take this through the discipline route and just focus on the turrets instead of anything else? And it seems like that’s what they’re planning or that’s what they intend to do. I’d say there’s no risk. I mean, there’s no necess they don’t need to do anything right now. They can just play very slow and wait. They probably did watch the match up against Spirit yesterday for Onic Philippines and they saw how Onyx Philippines were able to orchestrate such a massive comeback in the later stage of the game and it was through going a bit greedy overextending. So SRG, they’re going to play the disciplined game. They’ve taken risks all this time to get an 8,000 gold lead, but now with the 8,000 gold. Yeah, never mind. Y concealed already. That’s going to be a dive in the back, guys. Getting the assassination on Kra again, but it’s going to be traded back. No, it is a turn in the back. I’m offended by Crab. Brush walks up. Can be caught by the shield. Unity under the turret, but it’s still somehow able to escape. Crab surviving again. A few of the raps shots over to King Kong. Stormy surviving with the regen. Just barely off of that turret. And they get a base turret up top. I know we just mentioned patience and being a bit more disciplined, not overextending, but that could have been way different if SRG was not this much ahead on PH with just call King Kong and Kirk tried to look for another trade, but Grai just keeps getting his HP back. Tsunami snip over to King Kong. Yung’s going back in again, but King Kong gets away with the shield. Unity just in time. On Philippines defend, but look at their base. Okay. Overall, it was just Sakaiis who they lost in exchange of all base turrets from Onyx PH and a few kills here and there. So, that is clearly a win for SRG OG. The lead hasn’t been that much affected by that single pickoff they got onto Sikai. It’s still at a 7k gold lead and they can just resume playing their game, playing a bit more disciplined and careful from this point onwards because they definitely got what they wanted, what they needed from that level two lord and they’re just 9 seconds away from potentially getting theirs next and maybe last lord if on PH doesn’t find a way to deal with this. But does King Kong really want to go in first? SRG OG, they’ve already positioned themselves well enough and weren’t necessarily revealed by the magic sentry. They got everything and more. Three basers to their name. They can play the slow game again. It doesn’t really favor Onic Philippines at all here. They’re they have to just make a decisive play up forward. But it’s so difficult when SRG have so many ways to sustain to disengage. They got like a billion dashes on Creme. Innocence always safe far back in the composition and Sky always comes in. Last storm. You don’t even know where he is. The moment he pops up, it’s behind you. and Kellra they have to deal with the waves up top. This is going to be a disadvantage for them leaving King Co to the death for the referee and the wins it out. King brought back but tsunami slime still able to walk away with the help of the poison son. Sky skies going to be caught has to win a crown. Will he find immortality? He will just in time. Cra back jumping in again. It’s going to be purified over Keller. She’s out damage with the heavy cross bow but Bruce with immortality down. Yinyang reaction from Stormy. Innocent gets a double and he’ll find another. That’s a triple for Innocent. Make it a maniac as Salamore Red Giants OG Esports tear Onyx Philippines down in game one. That flicker from Sikai. No, from Cra on the Ruby clutch in an attempt to save Sikai. And that wasn’t that wasn’t as successful as it seemed. But it was all that mattered. Even after they lost their jungler, they were able to hold down all the members of Onyx Philippines who were trying to run away. And that minion wave down bottom. It just helped him so much, too. All his HP just kept going back. And you know what? Even Stormmy seeing that opportunity, he was like, “Yeah, we could just diversion our way to the base and put an end to this right here and there.” Well, hey, you saw what SRG were able to do. Riad is just hope turf. It feels for Salango Red Giants. They always somehow find a way to just get buffed up. This is this is something that the Malaysian fans are definitely celebrating, but it’s still game number one. Now, let’s head on to our panelists to hear what they have to say and how they’re going to break down what happened in this game. Thank you very much, Brigita, as well as Mero. Uh, looks like the OG Onic Philippines draft is so good. SRG OG had to try it out themselves and the execution was amazing. I like that this matchup even for the first few seconds we already see a lot of action uh going on and it’s nice to see that both side laners because we were setting it up uh both Creme as well as Innocent had an amazing game. Heck, Innocent got a maniac. Innocent got a maniac and you know I’m uh it’s hard for me to say who is better here because created an opportunity for his team. He was going to the back line and just destroying the opponents and instit got just vanished. I hate it, but I love it when our K2V reads out into the game. There was nothing that Onyx did to try and follow the three things we talked about. Sure, you can maybe use a third one in Kelra and say, “Yeah, if we got to the ultra late game, Kellra would have gotten it done.” But look at this. And you’ll also see it more when we go back to the highlights. Range wise, SRG OG have everything going for them. They have a way to re-engage. They have a way to reposition. And they win just sheer free hits from afar. And when they get diving in, on BH don’t have any don’t have any good options to protect Keller. More super friends. And that’s very unic of them. And I really like this Ruby pick because I kind of feel like moving into MSE all the way from the wild cards, Ruby is always that axe factor. Honestly, Ruby is the wild card because we know how strong the Ruby is, but it doesn’t really work in every single draft. Coming into this draft going up against Sonic Philippines where they have three front liners. It does make it so that it’s very punishing for an extended team fight where like you said, uh, Stormy as well as Innocent is able to free hit because you’re not able to dodge if you’re always stunned. And you know what’s interesting? Arcadia always create for his team interesting compositions. Yesterday we saw Xorg. Today we see Ruby and uh I would like to say that Crown made 100% of his job. He did everything perfect. I’m offended that all team just joining and cleaning the fight. And you look at Onyx, it’s like everyone has this extra sideline that they don’t get to do. or even worse, it’s their main job that they don’t get to do because of what SRG OG are bringing to the table. It’s literally Onyx getting outranged, come into a fight with a saw off shotgun, going up against a Kraken. That is that what that is what SRG OG looked like. They they they had so many ways to engage, so many to wrap around you, and then they wrapped around you and then that’s all that game one wrote. There wasn’t very much Onyx did. I kind of feel like that’s the perfect way to sum up this uh analysis that the range needs to be solved and we’re going to give time for both teams to really rethink the drive going to game number two cuz we’re going for a short break but after this we’re going to be resuming the semifinals for game number two SRG going up against Philippines. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Yeah. Yeah. Heat. Heat. 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Here’s the thing. the semifinals belong to the super supreme mages and it really does feel like in this current patch the mid lane is very difficult to play around but the fact that they’re all still able to create huge impact plays really says a lot about their teams especially SRG going up against Philippines the match that we’re looking at right now for both coaches understanding the versatility of their supreme mages that they allowed them to go to the later stage of the draft to potentially pick up something that could counteract brag what the opponents can do. And if I’m allowed to speak a little bit of truth, in game one of this very series, the mid laner for PH felt like he was just friends. He wasn’t very super. There wasn’t much that Kimmy was bringing to the table that made SRG OG think twice about their engagements. They just run rough shot through the map and the Kimmy was just throwing blind traction pulses. And you know that the reason not of the prince, this is actually about Kimmy. We already discussed it a lot of times that you need a good trio to let Kimi a good start. But on the opposite side, you got Loy E. They instantly first blood and then they was just stomping and making more and more power to the mid laner and Kim was playing from the back. And that’s what’s so miserable about that draft in game one for Ani Philippines. The one hero that had range for them was the one hero that was the most vulnerable. The one hero that could maybe reach the Granger quickly and safely was the one that was struggling all throughout. And this is why I kind of feel like for this matchup, heck, all four teams, assassin junglers or those exp laners that can dive to the backline has high value because we’re looking at amazing carries here. Doesn’t matter coming from mid, from the gold lane. And in game number one, that joy that Joy was able to create so much chaos. Sure, you kill Kara, but by killing Kelra, all the damage is from Super Prince the Kimmy. So without that, hey, it’s going to be very difficult. But now we got a quote here coming in from Brusco. He said, “I don’t think we’re in our top form yet. There are still lapses in our communication because we sometimes get a little complacent and those small mistakes tend to snowball. Hopefully we can show our best performance tomorrow, which is today, especially since SRG has improved since M6. You know what? Let coach play a little bit of hard ball. Communications were a very small part of what happened in game one. I think the draft alone was what they needed to fix. So, if game two on PH can show that, hey, this wasn’t working for us at all, we can get a better draft and maybe show that your communications are better. Don’t get complacent. Then we have a series. Before we get into the draft, I would like to remind everyone the MSE 20235 pass is still available. While it’s still available, make sure you guys grab it quick. That’s 20% off for the entire period. Purchase now to get the new Nolan Arkon of Knowledge skin and make sure you guys complete the uh the task to get all the coins. But now we’re going to jump back into the draft. What are your thoughts here, Destroyer? I got a lot of thoughts about it. First of all, when we saw the first uh phase of the draft and I expected Kimmy on the right side for the on Philippines, I see okay, they skip it. Then I noticed that they just don’t want to pick Loy and I was why tell me any reason why do you skip and after that on the the last phase they take Kima and that was my second question. Why do you do it? Now you could uh make you could cook something before the second draft phase. This is the beauty of a best of five. No matter how many mistakes you make for the first or second game, there’s time for you to recuperate. There’s time for you to get back. There’s time for you to get stronger. And yes, I believe this is something that we discussed during the draft in the previous game where Super Fans could have waited to red five to make a choice. But like I said, they chose early as four. And because of that, SRG has a rough idea how to deal with that composition. What are your thoughts, Leo? SRG, they know they understand the assignment like they read into game one draft so well. And now in red, this is a good gut check. This is a good way to see what they learned about on PH game one after that four game series against Team Spirit. And against RQ, they went back and forth. Red, blue, red, blue, red, blue. team is banning. Yep. I want to see how Onic PH adjust. It’s really on them now. Yep. Welcome back, folks. This is the second draft of the series. On Philippines will be first pick. SRG second pick. Right now, Onyx Philippines are already looking at two mid laners. Betting out the Jin as well as the Kimmy. SRG betting out that Yun Shin as well as the 1-1. And the last bomb, they should make Selena definitely. I’m pretty sure that they will or SRG could take it. Oh, potentially. But uh only in Philippines then you know can install lock and there won’t be any other opportunity for the SRG or G to pick it and uh from the left side uh I think that Kala is one of the options. Yeah honestly SRG Kalasina is one of their power picks as well. So it’s definitely something that Philippines has to consider. They’re batting up this FAS. Somebody setting up for Arlet. Yeah. And we know how destroyer feels about the Arlet. I can see I can hear it. The gears are grinding. It’s like coach Arlin and then destroy like no please don’t do it bro. So the last band for SRG OG and uh that’s the question. What do they want? They want to exchange or they want to let okay weelina and we let the opponents to pick something like Granger because the Granger for now uh between two teams they 100%age win rate during the knockout stage. when you page. Nope, not going to happen. I would have I would have rather on this because what if SRG ban the Kalia, give Onyx PH the Selena? It’s easier to read now on PH can go. All right, do we go Kalia now and give the boxer to the other side? Oh, looks like they first picked that land a lot. Rather not. So, do you go box Kalia? Hey, maybe this is on Philippines saying we cannot lose tempo. You know what, King Kong, get off that utility. We need you on assassins. And uh what do you think if they take the Kalia and Granger the other side? So let back. Okay, they already took Lancelot in jungle. Looks like they’re going for a CC as well as a Kalia. Even has to think twice about the box now. Yeah, cuz it honestly I’m not liking the box. Yeah. No, it’s not a spray. So they do get the Granger. That’s the thing that I don’t like actually. Why? Why you let them Granger? It’s again Keller Granger 100% win rate. He got a lot of G here. Uh you know and it helps them to save the limits because Keller can work from the backside and at the same time Lancelot with the Badang will engage on the back line of the opponents and there is uh the cross line that you can’t gentlemen. I think SRG has just came to the come to the point of yeah Kel’s gonna pick a hero either way. He’s gonna play like Kelra anyways. Just give him something. We’ll work around it. So now SR GG 15 seconds left. Did they pick a jungler here or a gold laner? The Joy is still up. If it don’t if it’s not pick up, it probably will get banned soon. Looks like they’re going to pick up the Mosov here. So making sure that they are able to win at least macro wise. So this is going to be a Moskov against Granger match up. of SRG still has not picked a jungler. Highly likely he will get banned out later. And then likely as well, Coach Veggie and Arcade are going to ban out mid laners to try and choke down a super fra while on should take out junglers. At least the joy. Yeah, at least the joy and maybe even the high. You know the funny fact that in got four games with the Moscow and 0% win rate. At the same time, we see the raid boss, the boss of the gym, Kra with the Granger. And I got a lot of questions for SRG OG with this drop, but maybe maybe they’re going to surprise us. So, uh, and this is Faria instant buff. Yep. Again, attack Frince. I don’t blame Onic for not picking friends in the first phase, but they they got to have something up their sleeve because SRG are going to pick the stormy hero in red four. Like that’s got to be it. Yep. So now Onyx Philippines, we are thinking that they’re going for a jungle ban, but what if they just like, you know what, let’s see how big of a hero pool both our mid laners have. Imagine if they go Loco and just ban mid laners as well. Four mid laner bands and then even give the red four band to SRG just to see. Yo yo Stormy Super like how deep can you go? Yep. Pop quiz. Pop quiz. Will we see the Nana coming in from Stormmy? Uh this is the fra ban and if we are speaking about the mid laner bands only Philippines potentially can remove Loi that’s the option because there is too much opportunity for macro games for SRG. You got Moscow for split pushing. You got Loi for instant moving from one side to another side. And I think they should think about it. Heroes like Chip are coming to consideration now. If Onyx really is so desperate for map control and macro rotations, one more ban for SRG here. Close it up. Maybe you’re right. Maybe it is a Lui or if they do open it up, Stormy might pull doubles. Yep, they ban out the Novaria. And this is good because the similarities between the far side Novaria, they move very fast at the side lanes, but one is more utility, the other is more burst. And this is the same Navari that failed Team Spirit last night. So SRG did their homework here. And one more point. Navar. Yes. Yes. I wanted to say that Navaria counters Loy. Actually also with Astral Echo, you can check the bushes. It also open you the resources to engage the jungle. So now, how deep do they go? It’s not four mages, man, but it’s still three. And SRG, what is going to be their mage pick here? So there’s very little reason to Valentina. Maybe Eve. Hey, Zatyan. Who knows? Zyan. Wow. Zetan has dropped in priority recently. And what do you think if we take I mean from the SRG OG side right now. Let’s go jungle. And last pick mid lane. Oh, they pick up the Kura. This has been for forecasted a way a way to open up the map able to cleanse yourself in case anything bad happens and alluded to multiple times on broadcast and off. Interesting pick here by Stormy. What does Fringe pick? What’s left for uh the monster mage Valentina? What do you What do you What do you get with the Valentina? Uh get the tsunami slam. Yeah, probably got his slam. But now they picked it up. They pick up the Valentina and now for their exp laner. Oh, you know, kept on call and you got actually get out of catcher this combination. You just steal the combination from the opponent. Mhm. Yep. Interesting play. Valin can even take the current call and it use the same combination. So, this should be a joy unless you want to get frisky and pick up a highabusa here. Gentlemen, I like I like the optimism, right? But I’m not a big fan of the one two step. I’m not a fan of Oh, yeah. We have the combo at home and it’s very combable together. Uh SRG now. What does Sikai pick here? The sky prince. Can he? Yes, but also I think there’s room for him to play utility. The only question is the only utility here is Akai and Boxia. And Boxia. Yes, we have that one too. 5 seconds left. And it does look like they’re going for utility here. They’re going for the Boxia. Personally, for me, I still prefer assassins. But what do you think, Destroyer? I got to say that Onyx Philippines should win. I like their composition. What about you, Leo? I’m skittish about the whole we have the combo at home. So, I’m going to play it conservative and say that SRG there was room for them to pick that utility jungle. Yep. And now we’re going to throw it over to our casters, Brigita and MO. Hope you guys are ready because we’re throwing over to you guys the second game of this match. Thank you so much to our panelists and I hope all the viewers are ready for game number two as well. They’ve had plenty of time to reset and regroup about what happened in the last game. And so I feel even in the draft we’re seeing the changes come in early on. Welcome to game number two. And this time around, I feel like my biggest question would be again regarding damage because where do we see a lot more damage coming in in terms of the early game from B2? Oh, wait. That’s some crazy patience, man. They just sit there while you’re getting Yeah, you got to be careful. They have regen, too. But yeah, question. Hold up. They’re just brawling it out in the mid lane. Yep. It seems like um they’re trying to show us who does have the better damage in terms of the mid 2v2s so far, but I feel like the exchange is just going well for both sides. Like they have decent amount of regen ways to just get the shields coming in, especially from Stormy and Super Friends as well, Brusco. So, there probably won’t be that much kills coming in just yet, not unless the junglers go in for the fast rotations, and that’s going to be primarily through King Kong first. But SRG are going to respect that well enough and going to keep themselves safe. Moving on to the side lanes as well. I think we’ve seen these matchups come in multiple times. I guess the most surprising one would be that the Bang does come in a bit more often in the XP lane. Again, I think even Kid Bomba yesterday did use it in the XP lane. Yep. Even though we thought that it was a pick that is more prioritized in the Rome position right now. I’d say it’s a pretty good matchup against the CC. Again, you want to counter CC, you do it with crowd control. the other form of CC and it has been working out I’d say uh in the group stage especially not too much in the knockout stage. Yeah, Bomba wasn’t able to get a win on the Badang against the CC and when he was up against Kirk but let’s take a look at the emblems here. Tenacity, firmness, a whole lot of tankiness for Bruce Skull. It’s actually the bargain hunter and inspire for Prince. So trying to get online ASAP. It really looks like Aniker now with King Kong and assassin leaning towards that snowball. guys. Shield Unity able to go onto Super Fritz. Now he’s getting the full CC over to him. Forcing the purify out, but he has a dash and the purify again. Pryo to SRG for turtle one. This is somewhat similar to the entire super fence on the Kimmy situation earlier wherein SRG doesn’t feel as hesitant to just go in and pour in all of their resources because there’s like literally just Bruce who could potentially stop them and that’s going to be primarily just through the unbreakable. And if there are other members of Onik who don’t get to provide the followup, then SRG OG just can’t keep going at it. But what is going to be the plan right now? King Kong there holding the objective. J CC on the CC. Gra taken down there. The final base attack by Super Friend is going to be back again for SRG as they get a pickoff onto Kirk who stayed there a bit too long. Got caught the shield unity and stormy was able to dish out damage. Sky now. Oh, in the back line. Super able to go for the dash now trying to kite away but gets caught by Skies. Still turtle battle. King Kong gets it now. Punctures away, but Brusco will get tsunami slam back. Phantom execution by King Kong. Now going to the Stormy. And there’s no mana on Stormy. King Kong with one. Jumping again with the puncture. Now Yum’s a dash in forward, but Kurt comes into safety to help King Kong as he dashes to safety. Yep. The moment both of the XP laners were already down for these two teams, it was really who could pull off the betterment trio that mattered the most. But Graham, okay, was able to dodge that fist break fist crack combo and going back. That was one of the most, I’d say, crucial plays that came in from King Kong so far. Like he he wasn’t able to do that much earlier on with the Bakshot, but now he literally felt confident enough to battle up against three or four members even when he was all by himself and when all his other teammates had to recall. That’s true. It’s just very different when you’re on a hero that’s kind of like just there. Tsunami slams stolen into the thorn rose fant execution dodge away from the puncture from King Kong but AoG will lock Yungs down and King Kong should get the kill. Yep in the air Yungs falls. Thing is though we’ve seen the Kagura in the group stage. It was Super Prince who picked it up. I didn’t really like it but here with the Boxia and with the Ka too it’s honestly pretty solid. Purify used off SOD ling and going for the final shot. Skies gets the killing spree and again it’s a win for SRG and to go back to my point Brig I really think oh wait they just don’t want me okay you know what you know what all right there’s another kill over Yinyang overturn Prince able to sustain now Stormy looking to find the umbrella push over gets it down Stormy with the help of Yums just brawling across the map and you know what that’s your point that’s my point Kane CC into the overturn oh my god K wants to go makes executive. Oh, Stormy broke King Kong’s ankles. And this is why we no longer need to explain because everything just works so well. The Kagura doesn’t need to be the one starting things up or doesn’t need to be risking the yin-yang overturns and then potentially just allowing the other members of Monic GH to escape because the tanky heroes, the setup here for SRG OG just make things a lot more easier. Oh, but hold on. Crab JCC again. Cra has no way to move yet. overturn now on the down slam too, but the AOG comes in and King still able to survive, but Skies finally gets the poance to shut him down. Very unfortunate. King Kong and the rest of PH Prince still trades another kill onto Stormy, who I feel like has been such a huge problem for Onik BH all this time. But at least even then it doesn’t necessarily guarantee that SRG OG are the ones who are still able to take this objective. It might or on VH might just buy enough time for King Kong to make it and still secure this objective for them nonetheless. He’s going to skip taking the purple buff as well. So it does seem like the turtle is indeed the priority right now with the knockup. Yeah, luckily has a fist crack. King still on with a puncture now. Stormy dives into Kirk. It’ll be a kill over as a flicker out to safety again. Brusco caught in the umbrella. King Kong with the puncture again. They get the turtle, but they lose Kirk in the process. And I think this is one of the questions raised by our panel, too. Super Friends right now, he’s holding the tortoise pans. And it can be useful to some extent, but for the Valentina, you’re looking for those more explosive kinds of ultimates to steal away from the team. And I feel like even Stormy, there was a time when he was on the Valentina, stole the IM offended multiple times, and just did multiple setups for his team. throw no can all alone. That’s an execution. Dodges away from the slam. Brusco comes in now doing his own slam over. It’ll be a kill over Brusco. Fin walks up the poet. He stole with the purify. Innocent lands the SOD. Takes it. Pins Brusco to the wall. Damage coming down slowly but surely. Brusco taken out by the umbrella of Stormy. Stormy just held on to that Yinyang overturn and it was well worth it for SRG as they take the turret and yet another kill. Keller’s just focusing on trades for now. Taking down tier one down bottom. Oh, King Kong still wants to go for cram again. At least he doesn’t get bumped by the Back to Shield. Unity could have been different under the turret. Oh, finds it and punctures away. The Kirk Fist crack saves him again from a possible Yum’s tsunami slam. And they’re just clean with it. We were saying this about SRG OG too. And now it’s Sonic PH who’s doing this exact approach in terms of playing a game or the game. That’s an almost or a 700 gold lead already in the hands of King Kong. And I for some reason like this entire assassin utility matchup between Onyx PH and SRG OG. It’s it’s seemingly always in favor of the team with the assassin matchup with the more aggressive matchup. And yes, to a certain extent it has been working for SRG OG because again we’ve been highlighting the entire concept behind the Kagura and all those tanky front liners, the combinations, but once Sonic PH just gets to find the right footing, then it’s a completely different story. Now, will SRG OG have a way to contest this final turtle of the game? Oh my god, what a time by Brusco. Found some nice in the back line again. King Kong just diving in. Stormy has a overturn goes in. Tsunami slam locks him down with AOG walks up and it is going to be Kelra to clean things around now. A double for Kra on the Granger as Innocent just goes and clears out top lane. Stormy, he kept that Yinyang overturn right beside him. So regardless of whatever King Kong tried to do, he would find a way to keep himself safe. Oh, but they’re now going after Sikai. Oh, the damage from Kra. Oh, he’s going to go for more. So what super Fritz takes the SOD to center for K and he gets the double. Fritz gets the kill on Innocent. When have you seen that of Valentina to take an SOD and now he purifies out of the tsunami slam. Okay, we I Yes, take it back. Like Super Friend has a very interesting take on the entire Valentina IMU situation. It does seem like even though he’s been a bit more careful in terms of the ultimates that he’s been getting when they’re actually ahead and this much aggressive, he has a lot more other options. We have to put a huge emphasis on this play by Super Prince there. Even when we thought PH could no longer reach and finish off the kills, Super Prince was there to do the job. So now it’s SRG OG who will have to play this a bit more defensively. Might I say though, both teams they’ve done and they’ve had a lot of great micro plays like the micros in terms of Stormy, in terms of the Yin-Yang overturns, the positionings, they’re very very much commendable, but Onyx PH now, they have the Lord and they’re definitely going to find a way to capitalize on this. But also, I think just go for more damage, dude. the team with jungle hasn’t really been able to fully control the game with five. It hasn’t unfortunately it is utility jungle. So again with the kills on him it doesn’t really change anything. Bruce look for a taunt there. Y going to go for the tsunami slam onto Br gets a massive fist back in the back of the AOG will come through. Y going to take low as Kong jumps in as Stormy is forced to just play it safe. S O clears out the minion wave, but there is another in the mid lane and the bottom lane for Audi Philippines to go and capitalize on. Cram no vengeance. K with the damage again. Yinyang overturn popped down, but Kra throwing out those bullets over to Skies who’s tanking it up really well. And they have another wave to play with. That was a that was such a play from Kirk even when we thought that SRG OG could have potentially punished Bruce Skull because he did attempt to go for the unbreakable, right? He went, he walked under that turret, tried to go for the unbreakable, didn’t land or didn’t connect onto anyone. And so SRG found an opening. That was a clear response through the tsunami slam coming in from Yumes. But since Kirk was able to land that flicker, fist break, fist crack onto the other members. Then SRG OG just couldn’t complete the job. And now there are un there’s another set of waves coming in. And it’s a completely different situation when King Kong doesn’t get caught in by any form of crowd control by SRG OG and just freely lands those punctures. Okay, so in the end it is still just a non-stop siege. Keller walks up again, has a purify, gets out of tsunami slam, almost a perfect overturn to counter it as well. Good down. Oh my lord, Kel just walking through, gets pierced down, but still able to cut away even from the last shot there. Spacing perfectly. It’s a kill over again as Brusco gets the AOG out of there. Crown falls to King Kong. And after all that, you’d expect more body. King with a dive on Skies. It’s a double for King Kong. The side steps from Kra. The timings from King Kong. The KK connection. They’re just making it happen. And oh, it is so low. And so again by Super Friends. Y chunked down. One last shot to find the kill. Friends gets it. It’s a kill for him as King Kong dives in with the puncture. Three base turrets down and Kala has dealt with waves. Prince again they’re going to be caught by the sun. Super still able to go for the terrify walks up and gets the kill but gets traded back by Kong in the back. Gets the kill before ultimately ending the game to get us to an equalizer one to one. That was another Spear of Misery IMU done right there by Super Friends creating so much space here for Onyx PH. And we just mentioned this entire thing about the KK connection. Kelra and King Kong now being online, finally online, the side steps and just making it very difficult overall for SRG OG to land all their skills despite the presence or despite the multiple ways that they could actually make use of their AoE. There were the title strikes that could come in from Yumes. There were the yin-yang overturns and we couldn’t even see cra land a curtain call that was efficient enough to punish on PH and those members who decided or just wanted to keep going in because even though you wanted to use the curtain call onto these targets, they just have King Kong has eye frames. Bruce Co can just find a way to AOG himself out of it. And he doesn’t necessarily have to be beside Kirk all the time because we’ve seen it multiple times. They tend to go for individual plays as well. So, there were just so many things that came or fell into place for that game. Let’s hear what our panelists have to say as they break down game number two. Thank you very much, Murko and Brigita. And I don’t know, maybe it’s the inner Malaysian in me and the inner Indonesian in Murka, but uh I don’t like utility junglers, man. Like h Voxia is strong, sure, but give me those assassins. I kind of feel like these are such impressive junglers in King Kong and Skies that even though the box got like five kills and two assists, it doesn’t really translate into uh a lot of pressure on the map. It’s hard to have this conversation without bringing in the prime example of a player that doesn’t care about junglers that are either assassin or utility, Carl Tezy. He excels on both. So that’s why when SRG here picked that last pick Bakshia even I I saw coming but why right why this is a total polar opposite of what happened in game one and this just brings up a new win condition for there’s something that we did not put in those original keys to victory and that is enable King Kong King Kong needed this lance a lot definitely and uh that’s why you should bun versus on Philippines the Lancelot. But I also want to mention again like the fifth time for today guys. Granger again the Granger and here we go. So the innocent still 0%age win rate for Moscow. They need time but only Philippines won’t give you the time and to just burst the opponent you need like the composition. Yeah, you got Ka but with whom? Only with the uh umbrella. That’s all. It’s so easy to blame the Granger and say Innocent kind of sucks right now in the Moscow, but this only happened because of the sheer creativity. And again, I I hate to say it. This is my fault. I forgot that Super Frince is a maestro on the Valentina. In 2024, the M6 World Championships, in the grand finals, nonetheless, he played a Valentina and stole away guess what? An energy eruption. is that weird third skill on the Frederin and taunted three dudes from Team Liquid ID. Now, if folks didn’t see it, go ahead, scrub back after this bit. He soded. He sed. He stole the Moscow’s old. I’ve never seen that. So, Leo Destroyer, I kind of feel like we need to add one more key to victory for both teams, and that’s actually getting the first pick because right now being on second pick, you only have one ban, right? You got to ban the Ye and Shin and then you got to ban out the one one, right? For SRG, they got to think about banning out the Selena. So, it’s almost like you have no bands when you’re on second pick. It’s as if the decisions were made for you already. Exactly. Cuz I I agree with this story like ban out lens lines, etc., but you can only do that if you’re first pick. Yes, you’re absolutely right. Uh that’s that’s the thing that I didn’t thought about. It’s a good point. It’s a good point actually. It’s difficult for Onyx because Onyx likes being in red. They’re one of the few teams that actually helped push the 52% going into the knockout win rate for redside. So if that’s the case, but this game they was on the first pick and Lancelot install after that the SRG led them Granger and here is the composition already. Also the Valentina was a perfect picture. I don’t Yeah, you just remembered that it was okay for um for the mid lane ch uh priority, but still I I think that the composition overall for the only Philippines was much better here. Yeah, I kind of feel like let’s look back at some patterns here in terms of uh losing the matchup because both teams that chose their exp laner early looks like they get punished just a little bit. And this and early meaning a CC. Exactly. Now, now here’s the thing. I think even if you change up the CC and pick something else, it might even yield the same results because this is one of the uh I would say rules of of drafting for a few years now, a lane that could get punished will get punished if it picked up early. And one of those lanes right now is the uh exp. So, not only do we have the first ban set, we also have the order of drafts already set. You’re saying ban one, two, three in blue to allow for something to be open and keep your XP laner in mid laner for the second phase. Like that is that seems to be law here. That is the mandate in the battle of gods and giants. Now, of course, you’ve got a lot of options, but as we can see, it doesn’t work at all. So, the priority should be for gold lane, mid lane, and uh for the roam. Oh, okay. Jungle, jungle. Never forget about jungle, but not XP lane, mid lane. Okay, you can postpone it just a bit later if if it’s not Selena. If it’s not Selena, one of the rules. I feel like this is the thing when we’re jumping into our top four semi-finals because every team here are essentially friends. They know each other so well to the point where I kind of feel like for both of them, it’s almost expected the kind of draft that they’ll be uh having. So, this is a different layer for the coaches that how do you deceive your opponents? Because here’s the thing, even if you have a pocket pick, most likely your opponents know about it. And this Kagura was no secret. Uh no secret among scrims. I think some teams have already employed the Kagura. So the victory doesn’t come from cheese. You can’t win via cheese. I think that’s the the the the understanding here. So you just have to win via good fundamental drafting. You you know if we speak about the pocket picks it’s something like Aurora showed us the Atlas just who could predict way out of left field. Yeah. Yeah. So Gushian and Belleric maybe like we discussed a lot team Spirit potentially could u show us but they didn’t still like something like that something super unpredictable like that can be a pocket pick Kagura. No. Yeah. But now we’re going to look at the reactions from the crowd because that was an amazing game cuz right now from a best of five, we basically defaulted into now becoming a best of three. And I love that we’re here in Riad and there’s so many people cheering for both SRG OG Onic Philippines. Again, a big shout out to the fans here because you guys give the energy for the players on stage to give their very best. And yeah, I kind of feel like when we’re talking about the best teams in the world, we we have to talk about what happens even before the match even starts. That’s how intense this game is. Even in the draft, you make one mistake, it in it changes everything. It’s a game of margins and whoever makes the most punishable mistake, best believe your opponent will jump on that and drill you into the ground for that because that’s what we saw in game one. Game one, Onik PH looked like nothing. Game two, SRG committed the same mistake. And if anything, they lasted just maybe 2 minutes less, 3 minutes less. It was a much faster game. Oh, you know what? It reminds me yesterday games of uh Ornik Philippines. Actually, the first game they lost like easily. The second game exchanged. Okay, we’re going to win you the team Spirit. I’m speaking about the match on Philippines versus Team Spirit. And right now happening the same. So the crucial moment now for uh SRG OG if they can win or not. So it’s kind of like win condition on a Philippines lose game one and then proceeds to win everything else later on. Um again like you said this is a battle of margins and I feel like for both teams this is weighing very heavily here because let’s just set the stakes here. winning winning this one going to the grand finals is not just an opportunity to become champions but winning this basically seals you for at least half a million US so there’s a lot on the line here minimum minimum if you’re second place that’s the minimum you’re going to get you can double down actually if you win of course and and by the way if we speak about SRG again or about on Philippines they will be the champions if SRG wins the twice champions of MSC and we speak about only Philippines, they will be the champions of the M series and MSC series. Either way, it looks like for all of you guys here watching at home or in the stadium, we’re here going to we’re going to be here for a very long day because yesterday we got nine out of 10 games. Today we might see 10 out of 10 games. We’re about to jump into the draft very very soon. And I got to say for for the players performing on stage, a lot is on their shoulders. And I only ask for one thing. Assassins, man. I I actually can argue for Frederick. I kind of feel like Frederick works very very well. But other than that, Freder is the outlier because dude, his kid is amazing. Buff nerf the guy. No matter what what you do, he’s he always has a role in the meta. Just takes control of those turtle pits, Lord Pits. Can even have odd bursts of damage from out of nowhere. So yeah, I agree. Which makes you again question. Game one, Hayabusa was open. Game two, Hayabusa was open, too. So there’s there there’s definitely some conversations that we’re not privy to. There’s some things in the draft that we don’t see that the coaches and the players can that led us to this point. You know, the interesting thing that Bakshia appeared right after the Kima started to dominate mid lane and uh it’s like the counter peak. Everybody start pushing this to the meta and uh right now what I see the baksha n you know the teams know how to counter it the kimmy you need some time so maybe let’s just skip that and prioritize something like an assassins. Yeah. No. Uh I think fundamentally uh these teams have so much to talk about. I’d like to elaborate in just a bit. Yeah. And for you guys at home the allstar is still here all the way to the 5th of August. Join the limited time dino patch in MLBB and secure yourself a free koopa for the hunter skin. Leo, you were saying damage profile in addition to range and these roles being high priorities in the early phases and in the bands. Game one, Onyx had no burst. Game two, guess who didn’t have burst, fam? At least reliable burst. SRG. Kagura sure has some level of burst, especially if she gets a pyro spike in the early game. But that’s a skill shot and Onyx are super mobile. And look at this. We’re already starting to draft here. SRG OG is going to be first pick allowing them more free bands. Betting out the Selena Fanny as well as the Lanclaw Onic Philippines. This is the bad thing about second pick. You don’t have a lot of flexibility in the bands. You got to ban out that 1-1 as well as the Ye Shin. And now the final ban is actually going to be that Haya Busa. We were talking about it and game three. We’re not going to be seeing it. Frederick and Joy are now suddenly high demand commodities. It’s almost like we’re back six months ago. And I was I was just about to fall in love with this meta. I was loving it. We were we were going well. Like we were having conversations every night and you know if we speak about the bands. Yeah. And Kabusa disappears from this game. But I got a question. Why not Kala? I mean like the first pick for SRG, they definitely going to pick it right now. And we didn’t see Kibusa for two games in a row. What changed? Honestly, I kind of feel like they’re asking SRG OG that question. If you don’t pick up the Kalia, we will definitely pick it up. And you were talking about the Granger. This is a good chance to let SRG pick up the Kala so that on Philippines they can get the Granger and there you go and the joy. So they instantly pick up their win conditions. Not thinking long and hard. These are two amazing picks right now. Pick it up quick. And now in terms of assassins, what’s left? KK Connection is back. Uh, assassin wise, are you going to force sick eyes on the ling? That’s That’s really late. That’s the only thing that’s really late. I feel like the only way they can pick that up is that if Philippines, they pick up something like a Kimmy like maybe, but then I don’t know. Very difficult. Finan Ferdinand still playable. That’s not an assassin, man. Yes, you want assassins. I know. But uh Fred here, additional crowd control, additional damage. you can follow and uh I think you should prioritize for yourself gold and uh freed I don’t know who Okay. Okay. It’s also a good choice. Yeah. But the thing is this Farsa is not super free now, is it? Going up against the Joy. Yeah. This is this is the natural predator for the Hottie Birdie, right? Like the Joy just smokes the Farsa. Not to mention CC and Lapu Lapu are still at large. Sonic BH could pick one of them and then ban the other come the second phase and then what is cramp picking then but then you got no crowd control actually for on Philippines if you take lapo if you take uh okay you got one stun that’s all they don’t care they don’t care okay okay they’ll just go on par shot all in I mean like a good crowd control is denying your opponent off the alt so yeah it’s kind of amazing or just putting them to sleep just take him out of the map. Uh Onyx BH, a good direction for them in my opinion would be to just take out Arlet and Fious. Yeah, that’s it. For Arland CC deny the Arlet Frederick combo. Either ways right now for Onyx Philippines, I think it’s not a hot take to say that they got a lot in this drive and you were talking about this Leo where Onic Philippines, they like being on red side, they like being on second pick. It looks like they’re manipulating it well by understanding the Kawia is a hot pick for SRG and they punish that. I think actually the last pick for on Philippines should be CC. That’s from my perspective because otherwise it can be a good uh comp. But they already have the the lapu. Did you mean SRG? I mean on Philippines should ban. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that that’s the option. If we’re speaking about SRG, let’s go for the mid lane. That’s the option. Valentina, what uh can we also Valentina Loi? Valentino Loi. Yes. Yes. Good B. stars. It looks like they’re going for the uh Lui first band here. Are they going for Innocent again? Um cuz I kind of feel like with this Kalia, we should be thinking about a possible Brix. Betrix or Iritel. Yeah, those are still uh solid picks left out there. I don’t know if you want to beat Batrix better, I think. Yeah, you don’t want to har that’s way too much magic damage. You’re going all in a single Athena shield and poof. Also, Batrix, you can combine it with the Frain down. You can combine it with the uh Kala. So, engage and then the nuke damage instantly from your mage and from your Okay, it’s the Harif B even. Yeah, still respecting the Hierof because the Hieriff has a favorable matchup going up against the Joy. So, again, probably they’re readjusting their priorities, making sure that King Kong has a good game. So, they’ll allow the Ithl. Maybe maybe K is just saying like do you really think he can counter me? Sometimes be champions you need that kind of mindset. You know, if you’re speaking about the gold lane, you actually counter the hero, but you don’t counter the player. So, you can still play from the backline. You can still be safe. Yeah, you’re losing some gold XP, but you’re coming back. And uh Iritel needs some time. Yes, Farcia gives you that time. Frederick can give you that time. But still, we remember what happened with Kelra versus Joy. Honestly, a good ban here. Bing out of Guushian, making it so that Onik Philippines, they can get that tempo cuz I kind of feel like this is on Philippine style by controlling the game the first 3 minutes and then expand. Don’t stop. Yeah. And again, that Zucin definitely answers the lack of CC. We were saying on PH does not have the reliable crowd control. The CC provides that in spades. You spend two seconds too long underneath her beacons and suddenly you’re knee deep in Onyx PH’s lineup. What are they picking red for again? Still no mid laner and still no jungler. Uh still no ROR for the super fam. Let’s go Bang. What do they think about it? Bad is good. Yeah. Or Gat’s good too, especially against there you go. You pick up the gat here. So on Philippines, it does look like they already have a lot of answers for the problems that SRG has. and to pick for SRG OG. So the priority for the gold lane, that’s the most thing that interesting me. Um I would prefer to see the batrix actually. I like the composition. I like it with Faria. I like it with Kala. I like it with Freder. And uh for for the explain for the explain, I would like to prefer CC still. I like this pick. Yep. Still a lot available. Even the glue is available if SRG OG wants to go that route because that does seem like one of Crame’s comfort as well. Uh still a lot of picks for SRG especially on the exp. Scary if you glue though cuz the Pharamus is still open. That’s true. So they pick up the CC instead. So will this be the Beatrix or the Iritel? It looks like they go for a Bruno. Not in my bingo books for this one. Yeah. No, cuz the Beatrix was way too spelled out. So was the Iritel cuz again SRG knows that the Iritel just suddenly dies to the Granger and the Joy. So they go Bruno as a almost forgotten hero. It’s most you know it’s more safe pick but I don’t like it. I understand that on lane it’s harder for you to play as Batrix. Yes, but overall if you go to the mid lane it’s much more profitable. I like that both teams they’re kind of like saying each other let’s play tempo. Let’s see who has their foot on the gas first and who can accelerate without the brakes. So now on Philippines final pick here for their mid laner. A lot of still open and looks like they’re going to pick up the uh Eve instead. So a lot of zoning here by both mid laners. So far 100% win rate on the Eve for the black and yellow. On has also found success in this by putting it in the hands of Son. So, you know what? Onik BH, they got momentum. I like it. They they got a killbox going for them. I would like to say that I also like the OniPH draft more than SRG OG. Sorry, Bruno. I don’t like you. Thank you very much for our analyst for the breakdown of the draft. And right now for game number three, we’re going to throw it over to Brigita and Mirao. Thank you so much. a bit of opinions here and there in terms of which they prefer and not, but now only these two teams can get to decide which works best. They’ve equalized the series and we’re heading into a best of three to finally find out who’s coming out of this. Welcome to game number three between Onic and SRG Esports. That was a very fun draft to watch. It was really fun just, you know, predicting the drafts as well because it really just came down to what you know of these players, right? Like what are their comfort picks? Onic Philippines responded to the heavy assassin ban by banning out their own assassin, setting up for the joy. It was amazing to watch the drafts and now we get to see a battle for match point. Whoever wins here, ladies and gentlemen, will be able to secure match point. A bit of safety in the single elimination bracket. Yep. And they also bring back the Bruno who again in terms of like history and what we know of SRG was also there during that time. And the Bruno was just popping off especially back in M6. But you could say the same for Onyx PH and they were even the first ones to bring out one of the most unorthodox ways to answer back against the Bruno which was if you guys would recall the Leila even back in M6. But now they’re playing up against it again in this kind of situation where SRG OG are forced to bring out the utility junglers again. But this time around with a farce in the mid lane, we could potentially be expecting them to play this a bit more better. There could be a lot more space created since they have a bit more of burst damage coming in for the early stages of the game. But looking at the emblems, yep, it seems pretty standard for majority of the heroes here. But wait, that’s good info. Kong going to be able to go for the dive here. Stormmy still saving the flicker and Kong doesn’t get the electrifying beat. Sky skies walking up now over to Prince will get the poke down and yeah uh nothing too crazy in the emblems. It does seem like for onic Philippines they went they got what they wanted for right like they they what they went for sorry Hayabusa ban they really wanted the joy but even though we’ve been saying no utility the fren is a great counter to the joy. Yeah just a welltimed energy eruption it’s going to make a huge difference for the team fights. Oh, but there’s the unbreakable and the brave spider. Well, the brave spider still skes the red battle out. Oh, Razor’s wrath getting the big pop over the curtain call locking him down. Y still staying alive somehow as Kurt tries his best to deal damage. Now the feathered air strike with a flick or two doesn’t actually land that additional movement speed for the purify helping Prince to get out. Oh my goodness, that timings. Bruce go. surprised he survived for that long in that entire fight where he was just up front in the faces of the members of SRG OG and just that constant enhanced basic attack kept him alive even though he should have died way back and even that bravest fighter from Kirk and Super Friends in that positioning with the real world manipulation just making sure everyone was right at the edge. So, it’s probably also why it took a bit more time from SRG OG to reach super friends to make things a bit more difficult for him. And mind you, that purify might come in a lot more sooner cuz he is once again on the pull yourself together. So, that’s how Super Prince potentially is planning to keep himself safe again and again. He can just rely on the purify either to get out to keep the stuns out from Stormy, from Yols. And that’s one of the biggest answers again to the entire idea that SRG OG has in terms of their lineup. Yeah, it’s again uh they have a ton of damage despite the utility jungle. We’ve gone through this already. They already have a CC. They have a Farsa and the Bruno too here. I think it would have been a bit too risky for them to go for the Brix. Even though yeah, we were talking about the Brix possibility too. The instant burst down that we saw up against RQ by SRG yesterday when the Kala went for any tsunami slam really on anyone right now. On Philippines really need to get space for King Kong. That’s what they need to do in the neutral objective battles, right? Cuz we saw earlier when King Kong had to just brute force his way into the fight, he gets chain CCD way too easily by the Fredin CC, Kala, even the Varsa. And that’s probably the idea too why Onyx decided to go for this draft because in terms of team fights, that’s a lot of space you can create with the AOG, with the real world manipulation, and of course, just the bravest fighter being casted every now and then by Kirk. Oh, but Super Prince, they find a way to access him. Yeah, great damage now onto Brusco, too. I’m going to revitalize already and it’s not actually going to help Super Fence to get back to full. No. Yeah, they had to concede this one. That’s free for Salango. Red Giants, OG Esports. And hey, with that setup, there was absolutely no way on Philippines could brute force the turtle without losing members. So, that could be the best way to go for SRG OG. That was a perfect call prior and objective to heavily poke a member who is a crucial part in how the team fights are going to unfold. and they went for super friends. So they had to rely on a potential team fight without the real world manipulation if it went down to it. And so now Onyx PH clearly the back foot there. Lewan’s reacting to how SRG OG is being more decisive in terms of the rotation than Keller can’t even do much. They will have to let go of that turret. Beautifully done by SRG. Oh, King Kong gets away. Luckily for King, there was no one there to really stop him from dashing with the current call. But yeah, Salongo Red Giants, especially with a Bruno, you really want to play the strong side over for Bruno. So, the fact that they got two turtles, plus they were able to rotate down below, ending the laning phase ASAP, means that Kelro really can’t abuse the Granger laning phase anymore. Yeah, puts Bruno Innocent in a very good spot. We’ve been talking about space, but on PH hopefully that space doesn’t get limited to the team fights because when they get shut down, then things are not looking too good for them anymore. SRG OG clearly with the utility jungler are making it work unlike the first two games we’ve seen so far in this series. This is how you literally capitalize on the idea of a utility jungler because you have a strong lane in the gold lane. you have a mid laner who could definitely help you in terms of creating that space and better yet even supplying the damage which is why on PH feel a bit more hesitant in terms of going in because Stormy and Yum their combo is just too good and now they’re going to go after King Kong. Ooh, and the eruption the timing on the try being picked over King Kong can take a little but it was lect gets him down a big bonk over to the minion wave actually that was just one minion rest in peace minion. That was I think two or maybe Yeah, that they could leave the lane alone already. But now old purify already used by Super Prince still gets caught though. Yeah, an early purify from Prince gives Yamos easy access to gets tsunami slam. And that was uncharacteristic for sure. Salongo Red Giants, they’re capitalizing on every small mistake that Onic Philippines make on the map. And now it’s a free turret in the mid lane. This doesn’t feel too calm and collected. Wait, Kurt goes in alone. Yeah, chase it again. Curt call. Oh my lord, so much damage. Even with the revitalize, they go through it all and Innocent is just balling his way to two kills for free for SRG. You get it, right? There’s there’s Brusco who was also coming in. So that’s probably why he was a bit encouraged. Oh no. But wait, close call. Close call for King Kong, but he still gets to escape. And yeah, you would have thought that Kirk went in alone, but it wasn’t entirely the case. There was Bruce Go, too, but was it still the right decision to go in knowing that it was just the two of them because there wasn’t any damage and SRG had plenty of damage. I mean, look at this 2k gold lead already in the hands of Innocent on the Bruno. So whoever Humes decides to go for and that setup earlier on to Super Fence was just a bit too free, you know. But whoever he decides to go for from this point onwards, you could expect the damage to come through from Innocent to come through from Stormy. It’s just too tough right now for Onyx Philippines like Salo Red Giants. Three kills on Stormmy. That’s the only possible bounty that they can get. Again, he can just play far back. He has a flick or two. And mainly I think what makes them the backline so safe is the amazing front line that they didn’t actually have in game number two, right? Like game number two, yes, they had Skies on Abaka, but Onic Philippines just got online so early now that SRG got three turtles. Even just with that, without the gold lead, they should be in a proper spot to actually hold down Onyx Philippines damage. But with the 6,000 gold lead, Onic Philippines might have to just wait for what 15 16 minutes of game time before they can actually shred down skies. There’s no threat of burst damage just yet from Onyx BH. They’re, as you said, literally waiting. And now you see SRG, OG, they just bounced back in this series. They’re showing us a performance that’s not too far from what we’ve seen in the previous year when they took the championship in MSC 2024 for themselves. Now they’re doing this to the reigning world champions. And if they’re able to actually get match point, that puts them one step closer to getting a shot at defending that title. Now Onyx BH clearly have to find a way to work around this. That’s a 4k gold lead and Super Friends fortunate enough to work on that sideep but now he doesn’t have the purify. No he does not. Holy shield in the mid lane to be popped open again. And there’s just no damage not even to Cra who isn’t the main front liner. Man’s able to sustain. France is a level down on Stormy. The only advantage, if you can even call it that, that that they got was all right, Stormmy used Flake, so a bit more vulnerable, but even then, he doesn’t really need Flick. He’s been able to utilize it to go and dive. That’s a free turret down below. Innocent picking it up now. RBM with the Raven Spider Fighter as well. Curtains it down. Coming back on AG as well. Won’t land is only on to Innocent who’s still able to dish out damage for free. Brutes go fallen. Innocent gets a double kill. One off from a hattick. The closest and probably the best target for King Kong in that situation was Stormmy because he said it there. What? There’s a hat-tick and they’re going to go for the end. 10 minutes in. On Philippines have no way to react. They will be forced back in their base. Hey, MSE 2024. They did it. MSE 2025. At this point, Riyad looks a whole lot like Salamore. They gave no time to us to Onyx to regroup, to reset and they just went after it after that one miscalculated play coming in from Onic PH. And as we’ve mentioned, they could have gotten the kill. They could have punished the lack of flickers that Stormy clearly did not have in that moment. But he just flew on top of that that stone, that stone that was right there. And no one was able to get access to Stormy and no one died. Nope. From SRG OG. So it was just so easy for them especially considering that Innocent was untouched. Y he was clearly untouched in this game and in that particular team fight. So whenever you look back at what happened in that game, this is the definition of how you make a utility jungler work, of how you make the entire idea of this lineup work. And this was the final clash. Now, I feel like the panel has a lot more to say in terms of what happened in this fight. So, let’s head back over to our panel. And this is why in my eyes, I don’t like utility junglers unless they’re Frederick. All right. He’s the face of utility junglers. He’s the daddy in the jungle, man. Like, Frederick makes it work. And I gotta say, very good performance. And uh maybe this is this is how you just got to win out that that battle if you have utility in your mind. Only Freden Fred was so good. But I also want to mention about the Stormy, you know, he made so much pressure all over the map and he just won me. He just won me and the triple of SRG. They they could do everything they want. Let’s go bottom. Let’s go top side. Okay, let’s go take Turtle. No problems. Nobody going to disturb us. And uh that’s the thing. That’s the thing when you play the second tempo. And um okay, I was worried about Bruna, but actually I would like to say that gold lane mean nothing. I mean they did nothing in that game. Not like I’m trying to underestimate the efforts, but overall if we speak about the game, the trio won. The trio won the game. It’s not that it didn’t do nothing. gold was just there to make that advantage that SRG got very early on all the more uncsurmountable for PH. I hate how I talked about these fundamentals, these principles, these mustd dos for both teams and then at the end of the draft for game three say, “Yeah, I like on PH now when they were clearly lacking in burst.” Uh yes, there is burst when the Joy does find soft targets or the Granger if he’s able to set up shot after shot after shot on targets that sit still, but SRG did not allow for that. SRG had the better initi initiative initiation tools. Even you mentioned the mid trio, the Kalia, the Fred, and the Farsa. Those three things can just run around after the second turtle and call shots. This is this is SRG just fundamentally understanding the assignment while Onyx kind of strayed away again like game one and two never happened. So right now like again we just got to go back to the law of the draft at least for this series. Number one, first pick seems to look pretty good and number two early picking your exper looks like has an advantage in this series. Monuke damage. You know, the more I see the mid laners that need time, if you’re speaking about if yes, constant damage, but still it’s not like in the early game. Oh my god, what a numbers, dude. Creme having the highest damage in that one. I thought it would be either the uh the Bruno or the far is like, nah man, my CC does a lot of damage. I actually predicted that instance should be, but Crown again again he showing us how to play CC. We already mentioned today about 21 KDA when we uh when he played versus Eric on CC and again he is doing the same. This is uh half CRAM’s effort again amazing athlete team captain for SRG but also the hero itself CC is just so capable of dishing out this much damage and again this is a byproduct of the lineup that Onyx PH drafted. They’re a line that likes to fight for a while under their killbox, under the real world manipulation. If that is what Onyx PH wanted to do, sg all they wanted to say was, “Okay, I guess that means you get to sit under my yo-yos a little longer and we end up with a 10 and a half minute game.” Here you go, folks. MLBB logic, bring yo-yos to a sword fight. You’ll win for some reason. But right now, we’re going to give time for both teams to really think about their draft coming into game number four because again, looks like the draft is everything. We’re going for a short break. After this, we will resume the semifinals. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Applause] I’mma get Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] The way I do it like She said that she said I’m [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Oh, [Music] heat n [Music] [Music] Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. Right now, SRG is at match point against Anik Philippines. Onik Philippines has to win this one to push us all the way to game five. Welcome back to the English broadcast. My name is Aeler. Me is Destroyer as well as Leo right now. Breaking down for this game. Looks like first pick does have the superior draft. Uh Leo, what are your thoughts on this series so far? The fundamentals, the laws, the mandates stand true. This is the nature of the beast. And if you do not check those two or three things first, the side selection be damned, you’re bound to lose a game. And on PH only have but one game, one life to rely on. They have to get everything right. I would like to add one thing. I’m pretty surprised and I’m glad that I’m surprised about the performance of SRG OG. I don’t know if it’s or the team itself, but they’re performing so well. It’s Riad, man. Every time SRG comes to Saudi Arabia, Riad, they they just they just get a buff. That’s the thing. I’m not even surprised anymore. I know that SRG are this strong, but it’s the decisions that these teams make along the line uh down the road of the series that change the way it goes. cuz it could end here. It could be a 3-1 SRG OG victory. And for you guys at home, the Metro Zero Train is arriving at MLBB Battlefield with a stunning new series of skins. Make sure you guys stay tuned because the upcoming Metro Zero Cinematic trailer. You guys will find out who will be in that skin line. And now I kind of feel like for us the main thing is the damage profile here because I believe Leo you were talking a lot about burst. And I I think going up against very strong fast reacting teams. If you burst them before they can react, that’s probably the only way you can beat very high mechanical players. Yeah, bursting down on BH is a good plan and a half cuz you’re already making them doubt their entry. You’re already denying the peel from Brusco and Kirk. And if you do that, you can’t even expect KK to do anything. That’s what happened in game three. Her game was an example how to make it fast, how to make it real. But uh not all the time it works. if uh we’re going back to a previous games, if we go yesterday. So, and just remember team spirit games sometimes on Philippines if you make one mistake even if they are playing uh with absolute lead of the opponents. They still can come back. They still can make it real. We’ll see if the theory being first pick is going to help you out in the draft. We’re about to see because Ani Philippines is first pick here. Batting out that Jin and now SRG OG kind of feel like we can predict this. It’s going to be the Yen Shin the 1 one and plus one. Maybe it’s even the Selena most likely. But maybe maybe they’re going to change everything and you know they’ll just leave. Okay, go play one because yesterday on Philippines played one twice, right? And one time they lost. Yeah. So right now the Kimmy as well the Jian ban out on Philippines going up against SRG the players that usually get overshined by someone else. The mid laners looks like they’re very key here in this matchup. I don’t think that was a secret. I think we all knew that uh the S mages had something to do with their team success. Had everything to do with their team success. So if you shut them down if you put them in a weird position then all the more their team struggles. That’s what’s happening to Onyx Philippines right now. The Eve was a good pick, but not the best pick. Not what they needed at the time because the pars on the other side and was taking names, making heads roll. And there’s the Kala still left open the Lancelot. That is what on PH did to win game two to get us the deadlock. But SRG, they got one more. What else needs to be taken out here? Like the same scenario. I already saw it. And actually it just repeated. Uh that’s the question. What’s better, Selena or Lancelot? I feel like the abandoned Selena on Philippines will pick up the Lanclot and then SRG. They’ll pick up the Godquat and Granger. That’s a good option. That’s a good option. Just change not the beginning of the draft, but the draft for yourself. So don’t let to play Kra with Grer and Lancelot. Interesting. They’ll open up the Lancelot, allow Onyx to pick the Selena, then SRG just picks a mid laner with Purify. Or maybe just go back to game number one and early pick the Frederickin and then force Onic Philippines to go Boxia or Joy. I mean, again, we’ll see because with the LLA bann could pick up the Selena for themselves. So, I got to say, give number four, it could go either way. I got a question. If only Philippines going to take Selena for them, why do you need to change something? And let’s go Fara plus Freder again. Just repeat. If it works, why not? I’m going for a early CC pick here. So, I mean, like to be fair, it hides a lot. You just know the exp. But this is like one of the laws we’re talking about. Don’t pick your exp early. They said no to the best pick that they’ve been looking forward to. I think they’re I don’t know if you’re down to one. I don’t know if gut checking your opponent and saying do you have a Selena right now is the best thing to do. So right now we’re looking at without the Kia what is going to be the priority here for SRG. There’s a lot of priorities. Uh Frederick and Joy stand out as amazing junglers at this point. Boxia X tier hero sure but not really looking good for the knockout stage. Granger the Selena and right now looks like they have made the decision. They’re going for the gut taught as well as the Selena. That’s the gut check the fara cuz I think that’s one of the few things left for on Philippines or Lui on early Lui. I’m I’m not saying early cuz I really feel like they should late pick Super Friends but pick four and five but you know it’s not going to come through. There’s no way it comes through if it doesn’t get picked in two three. If you don’t pick it right now I think it’s going to get banned. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. So there is the position when SRG first of all they prevent only Philippines to take the composition like CC plus Gaskatcha they uh remove Selena from super and right now they are in a pretty good spot when they can pick everything they want. So only Philippines they got options. Granger one of the good pickov and Moscow. Okay, interesting here. Picking up the Moscow as well as the Fredin. The Joy doesn’t look too hot now against the Mosov, against the CC, against the Fredin. So, the real option here is the Boxia. Already want to get frisky with it and pick up an Xorg cuz I kind of feel like Xorg still works well against Philippines. Yep. Uh you’re you’re fine against the CC, you’re great against the Fred Rin, but it’s going to be on Sakai. Can you make peace with that? I mean, he did it yesterday and he made it work. So again, options, anyone with the utility today already. Yep. Or I don’t know, pick up the Granger and feel comfortable. But I kind of feel like Innocent, you have the ability of picking any hero and he’ll make it work. So Granger is the best pick, I think. So, but uh yeah, the Granger Granger appears here. So it’s just safe pick. Let’s call it like this because you understand if you don’t pick it right now, it will be banned. Yeah. And so I kind of feel like Luigi should be banned out by SRG and Onyx Philippines. They should ban out the Xorg and then after that see what else is comfortable. So ban Xborg, ban maybe box. Yeah, I don’t know cuz Boxai is already countered here by the CC. So you allow the Ha Joy. Oh yeah, maybe ban out Haya. Yeah, maybe ban out Xorga. Xorg Haya or Xborg Boxia. Mhm. I think from the right side if we speak about uh the bands. Yeah, we need to concentrate on the mid lane and Loy Loy. Yeah, you mentioned it actually. Yeah. Do you also ban the Novaria? I would. Yeah, Arcadia would. Oh, they ban out the Ruby the the pick that counter the CC in game number one, which honestly looking at this composition could uh counter them as well. But the next one should be an export cuz it’s not. It’s going over for SRG and they have no picks yet to shut it down. Uh, is this the Farsa here for SRG or the Navaria? Navaria. No, I don’t see Navaria. Farsa looks okay. I would like to say even good and then they pick the Hayaba. The only the only problem is actually sorry. Uh, I said like for the left side Far is okay, but the only problem is get catcher. So, or maybe if you get the Marco of the Selena. Oh, a glue. Looks like they’re asking on Philippines. You want to ban the glue or do you want to ban the export? They’re telegraphing the glue. Yep. I mean, if it is a glue, you change the way you play completely. But it is one of Cra’s signature. Uh, even in MPL my picking that up, he just has a has a smile on his face, you know. So, not going to confirm be the pick, but it’s definitely one of the options on the table, man. Iram has grown so much in the past year stepping up to be team captain having such a lethal hero pool are taking their time with this I was think about it yeah despell mentioned there are two options you burn or you remove glow and yeah they understand that they need to remove the glow so they wouldn’t risk it against ikram but they will gut check sik ice yep I mean like we’ll see because this is going to be a very big gamble because I feel like we agree that King Kong needs to have an amazing game for Onyx Philippines to have an amazing game. Um, SRG, they have the opportunity. Maybe they’re just going to pick up a very bursty mid lane to make sure that the export doesn’t get online. Making sure that the Faraga armor is always get get taken down. And that’s where heroes like Fara come in. Maybe even the Valentina. I can’t even see that one happening. Valentina. Yeah, actually you can you can steal at least two ultimates if they pick Xorg I mean SRG. So, uh that’s a good option. But do we need to pick right now Xorg? No, not really. Um looks like they pick up the FAUS here. Not a good matchup against the CC, but looks like they just want a heavy front line here. I mean to be fair, Povius wins against the CC early game, but once the CC gets the war axe, then you start struggling. And maybe they want to prevent like potential Arlot Rome for Onyx Philippines. Yes, it’s still a good answer. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. So, so they hit two birds with one stone here. Didn’t even cross my mind. Good cast destroyer. I think uh the Arlet I forgot Arlet exists. Yeah, because again because I didn’t like it. One zero times. So Onyx Philippines. Uh so these are the options, right? Farsa definitely I think you need a fara. Any burst, sir? Farson purify. Oh, they pick up the box. Yeah, box here roam here. There it is. Oh no, it’s Valentina. Yep, they pick up the Valentina. I think they’re seeing this export pick up and really want to get that last Insanity, which honestly kind of works against SRG OG’s draft. I mean, like, hey, we doubted the Valentina before, right? So, if not burst, sheer initiative. You just you just outtempo your your trio mid very macro and just Okay. Interesting decision from on Philippines. So they’re like literally biting SRG OG. Okay. Go go go for it. You pick Xorg last for us also. And there’s a question for whom it’s better. Imagine we’re setting up and they don’t even pick up the Xorg. Like just imagine, right? They Well, there’s a chance they don’t because it’s too obvious now. Yeah. Right. Because of the Valentina. Now they got to think about it and they pick up the joy instead. Not an amazing matchup here. Not a great draft for the joy. Confirmed two things to steal, right? Easy pickings. AoG or unfree unlocked electrifying beats. Oh, it’s so hard to say which draft I like more. Um, I would like to say only Philippines. If we see I maybe would say like uh SRG but for now OIC Philippines. Well either way is right now is match point for SRG. Can Onic Philippines extend the series. Thank you very much gentlemen. Leo as well as Destroyer and right now for game number four Brigita and MCO. Thank you so much. And we are at match point for SRG OG. one win away before they get a chance to head into the grand finals once more. We’ll see how it goes as they decide to lock in the joy for their last pick even up against this kind of lineup. But the question lies too in could Onyx PH pull off a successful Frederick utility draft as well in this kind of situation. Do you feel like it could still be a comfortable game for King Kong despite the presence of the Selena, despite the presence of the Kata and all that? That’s a great question, Bri, and really comes down to the players to answer it because at this point, the thought of glory once again reliving the glory from the past of MSE 2024 lingers over SRG as Onyx Philippines are the one placed in a tough spot. Yes, the blue side has had 100% win rate. So by statistics awning Philippines they’ve gotten themselves a pretty good chance but it’s SRG in Riyad that’s like home turf. They just look like they’re so much in shape right now. Even in terms of the way they’re able to outpace OnPH overall, even though we’ve known PH to be one of the teams who have been always that consistent team when it comes to the patterns, when it comes to the rotations, and they, yes, forced out a flicker out of Innocent, but that’s all that matters right now. Literally keeping him safe and in the game up against Keller, who’s been managing the lane pretty well. But looking at the emblems real quick. Okay, that’s uh Stormmy does seem like he does want to keep the pace going for Zakai and they just want to be the ones first to rotate out and that’s what they plan to do as they get control over the river for majority of the part of this game. And that’s something that does sound very achievable for them considering that they’re on the go with Selena. Oh, but wait. Yeah, Kellerov, he looks mad. Yeah, after what SRG did to them last game after the Bruno strongside pick. Yep, definitely is mad. Is able to win out the lane. No flicker as well on Innocent. So, that’s going to be a big problem later on. Storming with the flicker out already. Doesn’t land the Abyssal Arrow and King Kong’s able to get the damage done. Turtle definitely pryo for Any. Yep, they’re paying so much attention to Fobius. Um, which I feel is another question we have to look at later on. How are they going to make use of this hero? But here comes the fight. Cra with dark ra in the back line with flicker as well. Now positive vengeance. It’s King Kong with the win in the retreat battle. First blood to Onyx Philippines and it’s a big bomb to Cram. Kirk gets the kill. Two to zero to start the game. An invade and the turtle. They’ve gotten everything and Stormy. Oh, not even given the chance to recall. That’s probably the first answer we’re getting in this game. There might be some bit of struggle for CRA. He did flicker in, decide to go for the dark wave, surprise Onyx PH, but they were ready. Even Heler made it to the fight, interestingly, even without the SOD landing. So, it was literally Onyx PH just deciding to brute force their way through that fight. And I feel like that in essence is what they could be capable of considering the kind of lineup they have. This is a this is a Frederick and the Baksha. So you have enough tankiness to deal with everything in that mobility in terms of the Valentina tool. Oh, kill. What a read by Yungs just holding that bush. And it’s another kill in the bottom lane to SRG. That’s what you get when you don’t go for purify up against a comp with the Selena, right? Like once you get chain CC, there’s absolutely no way you get out of the Abyssal Arrow. Bruce is doing a pretty good job at stopping the wave from crashing into the turret, but it will end up hitting. I think it should still be Kelra making it in time. Now he has to go and use that. So the All right. So he gets it. Does a little bit of damage to Innocent, but he loses a lot of gold. And Innocent is now in the lead. That’s not to mention that he’s already 101. Mhm. He has a kill, he has an assist, and he did get a decent amount of energy shields down bottom. So, if SRG get to allow Innos to snowball again, then that’s like one out of the many things that they get to take off their list in terms of how they’re able to activate their entire lineup in this game. And so far, so much pressure has been placed on the gold lane. They’re literally making things so much more difficult for Kelra to dominate the way he usually dominates his lane. And now he has to rely on the SOD in order for him to catch up and get a bit of an assists here and there. But SRG OG are the ones holding the turtle right now. What is going to be the plan? Oh, there goes the AOG. Oh, but King is still able to get the retribution down now as Bruce and K does a lot of damage with the call. SD lands the line as well. Super steals my base. That’s going to be count. Oh, what jumps in Frinkers back misery pitting cra down to get a kill. And again, it’s Onyx Philippines who take the lead away from SRG. You died from France. This could be a solo assassination. One more basic attack. Oh, Skye’s able to escape the outplay as Kirk falls trying to zone SRG away. Kelra, can he get this turret? That is going to be the turret falling, but Innocent is walking up with Rapsidity. Prince looking for the play as well. Good spear of misery. Kelra dodge it away and will be able to pick up the kill on Innocent although it will be traded back. Brusco shield unity over to Stormy who’s able to dash but super prince has stolen away the ult of the Selena dodges though gets hit by it. Stormy gets out even when on PH were forced to split up or I feel like they weren’t even forced to split up. They decided themselves that they were going to split up and go after certain members of SRG OG all by themselves. And it’s interesting to see that it still worked in the end for them. Super Prince did such a great job managing the members of the back lights, managing Sakaiis even all by himself on this joy. Fortunately just lacked a single more basic attack to take him down. But even other than that in the previous fight which happened in the turtle pit on PH with the amount of crowd control sustain that they have were effective enough to isolate away a single member. And so even during that moment where we felt that Keller might have just used the SOD in a not so good spot was actually able to still survive reposition and also help in taking down that one isolated member that Onyx BH had. So they just have to keep this pace. They have to keep this sequence going so they’re able to make use and maximize their lineup more because like Onyx PH essentially maybe that’s one of the strengths of their lineup. like they don’t necessarily rely on each other too much and they can do plenty of things even by themselves even when no one’s no one really paying attention to where the other members are again. Yeah. So individual plays. Kirk has gotten hit by two of those missile arrows. Shield Unity with a taunt now. Locking crammed down. He’s going to be the dark blade not landing. Kickoff still wins the retry battle despite his own way. Y spot now. Kell with the sod landing it and finding a way to enter the fight. That’s a spear of misery to pin cra down yet again. And on Philippines are keeping the lives of game five up and running. Yep. They’re still staying in this game. They do not want to hide over the wind. Just like that, they’ve done it twice. They’ve won against SRG OG twice, even way back in M6. And they do not want to get or allow that revenge to come in anytime soon. So, we did mention the entire idea about individual plays and on PH being good at that. But even when or especially when you let them play like this together and set up the tempo for themselves, it’s also going to work well. Oh, Sikayu so close. For an angle. King Kong to the corner to there by the Abyssal Arrow as well, but he’s still able to survive somehow. Yungs though won’t be able to. Prince steals away. Selena all dashes towards the arrow and doesn’t get hit. I mean, that’s one of his signature heroes. So, in a way, he still gets to use it. I think that was a surprise in the draft two earlier like he didn’t or they didn’t necessarily prioritize the Selena. They saw the Selena and Prince was like, “Coach, I want to play Selena in any way I can in any way.” And why not? It’s like, “Sure, here’s the Valentina. can now play Selena. I mean, even now he got the Granger. This was something he did way back too. He got the Granger ult with the Valentina and used the Death Sonata. He got the Moscow ult in the previous game on the Valentina and just to surprise everyone. So, he’s just capable of doing all these surprises on the Valentina. But awakening Kong over to the back on the retribution as well. Dodd from the dark wave. Getting another taunt of the shield and he locks him down. And Kel finds a killing spree. Holy shield propped in up top. Prince again steals away the death sonata. One, two, and we’re going to get a third shot. There he is. Yes, the answer is yes. Super prince just doesn’t fail to surprise and entertain us whenever he gets his hands on the Valentina. And so he has what, how many options now? Cuz he doesn’t even he hasn’t even been getting the AOG. It’s been mostly the death sonata. Mhm. Or that Selena from Stormy. Like maybe Sikai could even be one of the best options if you would propose. But Super Friend, the way he’s playing this Valentine is just so interesting. Now it’s going to be a free objective going to the hands of Oni PH. And this all happened in 9 minutes in the game. So once again, it’s another case of being very efficient in using the Fredin as mentioned by our panelists earlier, the the face of utility junglers. Fredin is him right now. Like the box is kind of like I think he’s fallen off quite a bit. I think maybe because of the hot fix that changed his defenses. He’s now much more squishy. So even with the poance, even with the damage reduction, you kind of have to rely on snowballing early to be the tank that you are. Fred on the other side, he relies on him. You know, he’s a Chad. He’s a just like King Kong. He’s a Sigma male, you know, he just does his own thing. Sustains over and Onyx, they’ve done a good job at managing the waves up top as well. Kirk holding his own against Skies. This actually might be an electrify beats used by Skies. He’s going to continue to chase Kirk and Skies. Yeah, has to go all the way back to recall. King Kong used his retribution earlier though, but it seems like they still have other ways. Potentially set things up. Oh, wait. Nice arrow. Yeah, it’s going to an amazing disengage. K going to taken down there by King Kong. locked up way too aggressively. FR steals the dead sonatana again and now he became gone. Locking stormy down. Kra with a mega kill. Look misery able to get it on skies and it’s FR with his block. What the piercing damage Kra got the kill on Edison through the crystal and now it’s yours and Ao stolen. Not even landed. Kra with a triple. And ladies and gentlemen in the Amazon arena we’re getting a game five. [Applause] We are going all the way for our first semifinals today, man. It’s your fault. It’s it’s it’s it’s their fault. It’s everyone’s fault at this point. You know what? If if Onic seemed like they lacked range, maybe the constant IMU Death Sonata was the way for Super. I don’t know anymore. I’m just trying to make up theories for why he gets all these unique ultimates. But coach, I want to play Granger. I want to play ranger. I want to play like and it’s working. And he played god thought earlier too last play. So I’m not entirely sure if you still want to ban the Selena or the Valentina for Super Prince in this case cuz like there are just so many potential pickups that could really change the flow of the game and we’ve literally changed the flow of the entire series. So let’s hear what our panelists have to say about game number four. Thank you very much Brigita as well as Maro. It couldn’t happen any other way. It had to go all five games. But this one with SRG OG losing, the real question is SRG saw the counter matchup. So why you pick up the phobia into the CC, you pick up the uh joy against the Frederick. These are things that they themselves has utilized. So the question is why? I don’t think it’s as simple as the lane to lane. Again, these two teams are the best of the best. MSE champions, M6 world champions, they understand that the draft individually is not as big as some of their parts. So, I think it really comes down to the fundamentals cuz again, look at Onik now. They did not check the box for full burst, right? But they got trio mid priority. That’s the story of Super’s Valentina. I am convinced that this man is a savant. He is a maestro when it comes to playing this hero. He plays it in his sleep, I reckon. But for SRG OG though, look at this lineup. It’s the opposite. It’s the complete opposite. It plays individually. It plays all right. We just make sure that this happens. Even that joy pick at the last moment like that was something we were even questioning. Joy last pick. a lot of questions because yeah, I understand from one side you don’t want the last insanity to your opponents but you see like two big front laners like the utility jungler you see the boxer and you understand like CeCe will be on the front line and yes it’s like the perfect pick for uh Xorg. Yeah. And from the opposite side Valentina. Yes. But you overload her anyway. You got Selena, you got get catcha, even the sonata with grandeur. So, a lot of opportunity to steal, but it’s more priority for you and you don’t use it. The Valentina here doing over 5,000 damage per minute. Super Friends really doing a lot with this Valentina. So, I kind of feel like whatever he picks up uh as of now can no longer be questioned cuz he’s the monster mage. His use of the Valentina defies all preconceptions about the hero about how oh there’s got to be one or two big ticket ults. Oh, you have to still apply, you know, the the the principles of drafting like there has to be some level of burst elsewhere. Uh this is a lane bully so your sidel no no no you don’t understand. This is super Franc Valentina. It’s built diff and that’s one of the things now we have to consider. Maybe even SRG OG. This might have put the fear of God into them because now you only not see blue side win a lot. Not only must you ban the Yen Shin, the Lancelot, the Selena, like these things are still true. You just have to add that you have to respect Super Princess Valentina. You can’t make that kind of bad. I mean, yes, you have to respect, but you can’t ban it. You need to make the priority for the other heroes. Maybe potentially uh the options when Valentina can’t steal the buttons from you. But also if you make this priority, you like shooting in your leg because you’re making yourself less resources that you can use. This is how high stakes competition gives you questions and you got to give the answer because we started with the best of five. Now, essentially, this is a 500,000 USD best of one. Every pick, every ban, there’s money in stake for that one. So, honestly, if I was SRG, I would consider that Valentina ban because you don’t want to go into a situation where when you lose and then afterwards, you’re like, we should have banned it. You’re right. Uh, now going into the next draft, one must consider what are the mid lane priorities for SRG. Oh, number one, ban the Selena. Number two, put a Farsa or something onto Stormy. Uh, come the turnar around because we now know that on PH like to put Super Fin in four and five regardless of Lu Red. Ban the Loi cuz that’s something that you got to respect too. And then also just ban the Valentine because usually what do we see alongside that Loi ban, right? We last saw a Novaria ban. But yeah, you you saw that match, right? You saw that match with the game with Team Spirit. It took on almost 20 minutes to try and get that matchup that team comp online. So it’s very risky to play the Novari. I don’t think it’s as good as it is. You know, you’re mentioning like bansel and then I just uh van one. Uh-huh. You So you don’t have that amount of BS. That’s the problem. You need to understand what’s the priority for you. And uh that’s the thing that I asked to make SRG the previous time when you see the first pick. Okay. I just asked do the same. If it worked, go again Fara and go again Kala. It’s okay. It’s a priority pick for you. So maybe that’s the reason why they lost. The Kalia finally got banned out. So now the Kala now they’re like, “Okay, we got so Frederick and Para.” Yeah. Yeah. Either way, yeah, this is going to be the final time they draft against each other. And we all expected this. saying this is going go all five games was not a hot take. But now I feel like the fans in the audience I feel like even they’re feeling it for this one. They’re like this could go either way. No matter what happens we just got to accept the result. I think by game three they already felt whatever this is. Whatever that hot feeling on the bottom of your stomach was they’ve been feeling it since game three even game two. Cuz I’ll tell you now, folks, being in that very same arena as a fan yesterday as they watched Onyx Philippines versus Team Spirit, it is unmatched. It is there there’s nothing quite like it. So when they put people on camera, when you see those reactions, you see but the tip of it. And you know, now I understand when you said it’s more hard to stay at the venue or Yes. exhausting, draining. Right. Now I understand because it’s like a roller coaster. My team won lost one lost. It’s like a match point for everyone. These folks right here. Look at that. I mean, like for me, my blood pressure gets high. I my my my throat is out of it. I I have no more voice after all that screaming. Heck, one time I wanted to puke. That’s how intense the emotions was. You need to live of the momentum right now. Right here. It maybe it’s the last time when you’re cheering for your team. I speak with the audience definitely. By the way, just saying this is just the first semi-final match. We got another one after this. So, for all the Anik folks, there’s one more Onyx you’re going to be watching right after this. This is insane. Like, this feels like such a long series and it’s just the first one. But luckily, unlike the RRQ SRG match yesterday, these go quick. Like, if you lose Oh, yeah. It’s like a chess match. Like, all right, I made a mistake right here. Let’s just wipe it. Okay, let’s do it again. Game two. All right, let’s do it again. Game three. Let’s do it again. Game four. Might this be the outlier? Might game five be the one that went as long as the team spirit matches go to 18, 19, 20. Could it be this? I hope so. I hope so. Because you know the last game should be the most emotional. You need to express the feel. You need to feel it like all the emotions that was charging, charging, charging, and just blowing up. Destroy. It sounds like it sounds like a these are the mans. We’re expecting too much of the game. I think we just need to make sure that the teams draft well enough so it’s not a stomp. Yeah, it’s really like the team’s just edging the folks here. But yeah, going into the draft, I kind of feel like this is one of those those points where as a fan for me, I’m not going to be questioning it. It’s like you know yourselves very well, you know the opponents very well. You went five games against them. Well, four games against them. So, whatever happens happens, which is a good and a bad feeling because at one point you’re trusting the team, but at the same time, you kind of feel powerless because no matter what happens, Yeah. hearts break. No matter what happens, hearts break. Uh we’re just like about a minute away from the draft starting here. Uh it’s I don’t know. I I I I have nothing to ask at this point. SRG is going to going to go blue, right? It’s got to be. They should. SRG OG going to go blue. On going to go red. And I I’d like for at least this universal truth to remain a truth going into game five. Onyuk is comfortable in red. What’s been going on? Like they’ve been making funky choices in the series so far. So hopefully they they come back to their senses, time travel, restore settings to how they were in the peak of MPL Philippine season 14, season 15, and do good in red. I just want to wait and to see the draft, you know? I’m so excited. I feel like it’s the moment of truth because the two champions, they’re facing each other and it’s true to the decisive map. That’s all. All on the line. Well, folks, I got to say for the people who were anticipating this match, I feel like they got their money’s worth because he shows the best out of both teams. We’ve seen the best of SRG. We’ve seen the best of Onyx Philippines. And now to end out the show here. What’s the final match going to be? What’s the final game going to be? I could not think of a better way to spend your Saudi weekend. It’s a Friday afternoon here in lovely Riyad in the boulevard and in the cool halls of our arena is the place to be right here right now. These two teams are going to compete in a contest for that very trophy for the for the livelihood for the sake of their that their key their key gets crushed after this. Oh yeah, there’s no turning back. Starting from the knock knockout stage, we saw a lot of keys crashed. so much pain when you understand that this is your key or the your favorite team. Their game, their decision making has to be flawless like Super Frince’s face here. This young man, he’s handsome. He’s more handsome when he plays the Valentina. Are we going to see? That’s the question. Are we going to even see his heroes? The precision has to be there. And like you said, absolute perfection is needed by all 10 players of this game. Slim, you know, not absolute perfection. Yeah. I want to see absolute cinema like you call it guys not you okay like it’s called by kid bomba and now SRG is going over for blue side first pick here on Philippines betting out the 1-1 SRG still respecting super fins on that Selena instantly batting it out will they ban out the lance a lot here making sure that King Kong doesn’t get his hands on that hero one one from the right side. I expect also Euson Shin from the left side. Selena instant bun and I think they want to prioritize Ka for themsel again. Mhm. Zushin also expect Zushin to get banned out real quick. There’s a lot here. The Lancelot, the Jin, uh even the Fanny gets banned out by SRG. It looks like they’re going to ban out the landslot. So, the first two bands are relatively the same and the Yen Shin is still a permanent ban here coming in from second pick. So the last two bands here is going to be crucial. This is going to be the $500,000 US band or divided just 100,000 band. Yeah, it’s either 500k or 150k. So there is the difference and funny the last ban I still don’t like it but okay it’s the priority from the car and SRG and the last ban is K actually that’s what they did in game number four and it proved successful so what does that leave SRG with now Jushin was the opener take away the CC again fobvious uh less on the fobvious I feel likein is there if they want to pick a Fred Maybe, but again, could be countered. Feel like the safest one is is or CC or CC. That’s the option, but maybe just lock in Granger. No, it’s CC if I hear right. Yes, it’s Cim. So, the other side can go. They could go Fred if they want. Granger, Fredin. Yeah. Farsa. part of part of Freder. So we see like uh the compositions should be built around Fredan, right? Or maybe you got any other options. I mean like considering the junglers that are open now, Fred, Joy, as well as Hayabusa. Unless either junglers has a Hayabusa in their pocket for game five, we’re going to be seeing early Fred. Yeah, they do. I’m pretty sure Sikis and King Kong aren’t shy to play the Hayabusa. It’s just these are better right now. There’s a Zushin showing face for what seems to be forever and the Fred. We were talking about Mitrio Pryo. Fred and Jushin. It doesn’t get more pryo than that. Like you can fight at any moment. This is a dangerous opening coming in from an Philippines. You fight at level two. You fight at level two. Exactly. Constant damage, a lot of sustain, and uh yes, it’s a good pick. It’s a really good pick. But from SRG right now, what should they pick? I think about Fara. Okay. If you don’t pick FA right now or Lui, yes, it’s a good pick. Also, your team picking up the Farsa and the Akai here. So, for the final game, looks like a possibility, not confirmed. Possibility utility going up against utility here. Haven’t seen a lot of Akai for Skies. Got to see how it performs in this game. also again could be a coin flip into the Rome. Yep. Yep. Uh Humes could uh step on a clutch and suddenly depends on how Onyx draft goes so far here. We’ve already changed a few of the priorities again for the first time in a while. Super Frince gets his pick in the first phase. Yep. So, do you go Granger now? They should. But actually, should they? because they got first bun and then they will pick right after the second phase. So I think the priority should be for the expo lane and it’s super duper fry just punish so hard and very flex because I believe in the previous matchup it was the Badang going up against the CC which Badang won. Yep. So Kirk does have a Badang in him so we don’t know that’s that’s a scary fear for SRG. So what can happen is on can hold this out. They can take this to the grave, meaning pick five. They’ll never know where the bad goes up until the end. I like Badang Pink for from the side that only Philippines put SRG in the position when they should think like, okay, is Padang explain or is it Badang going Rome and there is the variety of the bands. But from the other perspective, you know, they got a kite s I mean, and potentially you can help the opponents to lock down. I got to say this opening trio coming in from Onic Philippines. If this Badang is going to the Rome, they could really fight at any moment because the Badang can initiate very well. And despite his role, you know, either EXP or Rome, despite building tank, he does a lot of damage, especially since SRG’s picks, a good majority of them, if if if we’re already seeing the jungle here, are going to be softies. Yeah, is definitely not the tankiest when it comes to uh the picks in the jungle. Now the Arlet gets banned out. Any Philippines is pretty convinced that this Akai is going over to the jungle, banning out the Gat. Wonder what else will they ban out cuz so far I’d say Yumes only used the Kala and the Gat. Let’s think about the Cho, but what do you think about it? One of his signatures we haven’t seen in a while. Yes. Yep. And I don’t know who you kick at this point. No good kicks right now. You don’t want to kick the Bang. You don’t want to kick the Frederick and I don’t think you can kick the Jin, especially since we know she’s going to be rocking the purify most likely. There’s the Matilda Ban. Two Rors taken out. Y for Anik Philippines in the last phase of the draft. They’re digging deep like they’re really just choking out Humes here in the last decision. Sergio G. So I think Granger they should they should ban it because then after that they can exchange of the gold like okay you take the Moscow we take Bruno we take I’m smelling harif harif because it’s okay against the fara far right and you open up the zan force and then she’s she’s scared out of it you know you know they ban on the ruby making sure that kind of forcing this banan to go exp if they want to match up against the CC they want to understand the clear in initiation like Badang. Okay. But if only Philippines got for example Ruby or Arlot plus Badang, you know, there is double opportunity for different kind of initiation. I’m impressed that neither team actually banned anything in the gold lane. They’re really just opening it up for half man half beast of the gold standard. Here’s the Granger. We saw it coming. Like it was definitely even one of those first pickables in red. Now what does Innocent get here? Go Bruno again. Is that an option? Just went out super early and then translates to a win. Yeah. No, you you want something that has a early power spike or something that doesn’t care. So even the I just got got one thing. Don’t pick Moscow, please. It’s just the stats. That’s will tell you. Yes. Uh but also I was going to say Har’s fine. Har is fine. It’s kind of good. I like what here. There’s the old pick for Yumes. Where have you been? one of the signatures, but again, not a lot of options. Like he really has to show the mastery here to make it work. PH are locking and loading their purifies. It’s going to matter at the last pick. Bruno Bruno, they actually want to win early game. They want to push them their opponent super hard. And uh the chew is a good decision. Yep. That is uh Midame initiative for SRG’s rotating kill squad on PH. They got one more. The jig is up. We know where this Badang is going and it’s in Rome. The phobius reveals itself. We saw in the previous matchup not good against the CC but destroy your final thoughts. Just because of the ch last pick and the good composition that I see from Sergio, I’ll I want to make a prediction that they going to win, but I also like the on Philippines draft. I’m all in for Onyx, man. They’re the reason why they picked that Fis last. All right. Thank you very much, gentlemen. We’re going to the final game of this semi-final series. Brigita and Mro, good luck for this one. Thank you so much. We definitely needed that. This has been such an interesting take in the draft. Smart moves, mind games everywhere as they draft for the most crucial game that’ll either make them stay or will be the cause of their end of their journeys end here in MSE EWC 2025. Welcome to the final game in this series between SRG OG and Onyx PH. Will SRG finally get their revenge? Or will Onyx prove once again why they’re the reigning champions of the world? What are your thoughts on the final draft, MCO? Oh, that’s a tough question. You really put me on the spot. The Fred’s great. I liked it. And I thought there was going to be a setup for the Arlet red three, but they instead picked up the baton. And then we got to see why they really shot Yoms down, forced him to play on the Cho hero that we haven’t seen him on for a while. Yes, we kind of know him for Cho. He’s played Cho before as well. MS24 was crazy run SPS2, but this tournament I don’t remember seeing any crazy plays for Yums on Cho. So I think that could be, you know, again an angle that Onic Philippines took with the bomb pick instead of the Arlet. Then they proceeded to ban Matilda and Gat again taking away his picks and it worked for SRG. So it really is about putting Y into his uncomfortable spot and also Skies. Yeah, Akai. Cuz even the panelists mentioned it. If ever the Cho does come out, who do you even want to go for? Exactly. In Onyx PH’s lineup, you’d have to be very picky about who you decide to use the way of the dragon on. And even if you do get to land a kick, you definitely have to have Stormy by your side because that’s where majority of the damage is going to come from. Innocent will have to take a bit more time before he gets to deliver in terms of damage. And that’s another thing you don’t see how well coordinated or the idea of the combos between the lineups or the M or the pairings in SRG OG’s draft so far is going to work. But that’s a mini skirmish before the turtle fight. So let’s see who gets the advantage in this first objective of the game. Yeah, good poke earlier to cram. Now super to be caught in the mid lane. Still able to get level four in time. Pops in the lancer flare on Yums. Skies has the heavy spin. Kirk has the vengeance actually. Dark wave already used up now. Going to go for the pick and it will be on Skies. That’s going to be the infernal pursuit coming down. Still a retry win for Skies, but their air strike and the current go locking him down as Kirk doesn’t survive this battle. Stormy picks up the first blood. Bruce go spot. Yums walks back up. It’s a double away to dragon as he flickers forward. Kro walking into the fight again. A beautiful taunt as well. Cran thrown back into turret range. PR the crimson beacon now trying to turn things around but it will end at a two for two. So many things didn’t land. Miscoordination from Onic PH and you see the knockups and the interruptions coming in too well for SRG OG. that heavy spin which just prevented everyone else from coming in and that twoman knock up coming in from Yum. So essentially maybe it doesn’t necessarily have to be all on the way of the dragon. It’s in the way Yumes could just literally destroy and break the tempo for Onyx PH here because that’s what we saw in that particular fight. And even that missed flicker combo from Brusco that meant a lot because Stormmy Stormmy was just too free. Swarm is two zero on this fora and that’s not going to be too good if you’re on PH and you can really see I would Kirk struggle a bit in that team fight. Yes, he has the vengeance. He knows he’s going to be pinned down a lot of times but I think we would expect the phobias to do a bit more in turtle one. He was just completely nailed down to the ground and SRG didn’t really feel the pressure of the phobius. Ah, it it did seem like Kirk and Cra have a had a battle of their own cuz the the way that Brusco actually put the wall down in that turtle fight was kind of like some sort of way to isolate these two guys, but Cra had easier ways to work around these kinds of uh these kinds of obstacles. Like Cra just bounce here and there. You could just say the same for Kirk. But so long as no one gets to really proc or he doesn’t as long as he doesn’t get to proc his passive then it’s going to be a bit more difficult for him to do that. So on have to be mindful of this upcoming fight because SRG they just have so many tools to ensure that they’ll get the objective freely for themselves and both of them want to fight for this. They both want to go for it. Y with the Gun don’t cancelled out. No way the dragon follow up. There’s a current call will lock in. Come down. Still Skies baited in. Kirk going in for infernal pursuit again as Skies popped in the heavy spin early. Super prince popping in a crimson beacon. Cur getting the dark wave in the back. And now it’s going to random dream battle. What by sky somehow it’s a time for yum. Kelra gets the kill. Stormy with the killing streak back again as Bruce goes for the pin down on skies but it’s cra to get the kill. Stormy with flicker forward trying to go for the stun. Kelra cutting away and it is a ruthless battle back and forth. There wasn’t even much damage from the appraisers wrath just yet. SRG OG just stood right in front of it. But it’s a good thing for Onyx PH that even Keller was able to join in that fight. He’s currently 201 on the Granger. But you could say the same for Innocent. Innocent has been providing so much more damage than we expected him to even when he needs to take a bit more time on the Bruno. And that’s going to be a problem for on PH because I feel like even Innocent just through the Worldie could save himself a lot of time. And now Oh, that’s so aggressive. Look at SRG OG. They’re just working around their key members. So so well the key member this game has been Stormy the mid lane for Salango Red Giants OG Esports from the first fight that feathered air strike landing on crucial targets getting the damage done even when it’s canceled by Brusco he’s already gotten most of the damage outs great position Bruce going to pin down now as super fins popped in lantern flare king Kong tries to go to chain CC him and Stormy is right there with the taking for their air strike canceled out instantly by super fins going in for the beacon disguise pops and heavy spin to go and defend putting everyone away from Stormy. That was a lot of damage from this 401 Farsa. You have to admit it. You saw just how Onyx BH literally scrambled after that. It was already surprising enough to see Super Friends go in with a Crimson Beacon blindly in that bush where there were several members of SRG OG waiting for him and that could have been something potentially for them. But at least he was able to walk away not even using the flicker. But I think that’s another conversation too. At least for super prince, for Brusco, for Kellra, they do have their flickers. But when Kirk does put himself in a spot where he just decides to pull commit and SRG OG is just everywhere. He can’t find a way to get out because he doesn’t have the flicker. Walking up in the heavy spin out. That’s going to be Sky winning the battle. Oh, massive dark wave in front of pursuit to the back line now. Bruce goes for the fist crack as Super Fist continues to chase on. Innocent still cutting free hitting K taken down. Super P with the crimson beacon able to cut away. Car gets one but Innocent dishes out so much damage. It’s Skies who picks up the kills. It’s a double and that third turtle to Salango Red Giants OG Esports. Three consecutive turtles, three objectives that SRG OG are just able to easily get their hands on. Emphasis on easily just because of how useful this heavy spin is. And that’s just one of the many things that makes all the objective takes a lot easier for SRG OG. You have Humes also with a potential threat on the setups. And look at how this is, I feel, the second failed attempt from Brusco to find a setup, a counter setup on the Badang. And that’s also all aside the fact that Innocent is once again untouched for majority of the team fights that we see happen in this game. So now that we look into that, where is the range going to come from from Onyx BH? Who is going to deal with Innocent when they need to find a way to deal with him? Kirk is 04 and two. He cannot be the guy to walk up, but he is going to walk up. Pass the vengeance as well. Innocent just treading through with the help of Dorby too. Kirk no movement going to be taken down by Cra. And now it’s Onyx Philippines on the back foot. Bruce Scope, can he make the play? He actually walks up. gets kicked back all the way to the back over to Stormy. Skye’s on a killing spree and Onyx Philippines in shambles. He wanted to go for something, but how unfortunate is it that you walk straight in front of Yumes now? That’s might be another setup. Humes gets to find the knock up on Kra. Oh, heavy spin bringing Kelra back all the way and he does not have flicker. Stormy finds the shutdown. His fifth kill this game. That might send Salano Red Giants over to a big win. Kirk forced to back away. That was a retry by King Kong. That means this Lord is free. SRG can get it and they can snowball their way to the base of Onic Philippines. We We can’t see the value of the vengeance just yet. Kirk is having such a hard time performing in the expon despite the presence of Bruno. Even despite all that, it just feels that Onik PH can’t find the right way to make their lineup work together. So many conditions have to be met. And this is this is seemingly the complete opposite of what we saw from them in the previous game where they were just able to make so many things happen all at once. Now it’s SRG OG with a 5k gold lead. Keller at least is very close in terms of gold. actually even a bit ahead against Innocent. But that’s only Kelra. That’s only if you look at Kelra. Only Kelra. The rest of them are all far behind. And I think most of the lead is on Creme. You can see the CC match up against Aobius. Again, we already got to see it in the previous game. For Kirk, it was on the CC winning it out. And now Onic Philippines fall to the strat that got them the win. Again, the CC against Fobius. It It’s a different approach to be fair, right? It’s a phobius with vengeance, but that makes it a bit weird. You’re an all-in hero now. You walk up and if you don’t get a kill, you’re dead. Kill right in the back. Forced to flicker out. The Lord charges in to the base and it’ll be skies brought back by the lantern flare. Curtain now at half HP. K walks back again. It’s going to conceal already. Onyx Philippines holding the base. The base turrets are all intact. But now the question is for how long can they hold? That’s all OnPH has to do right now. Hold on to their base, defend their base turrets as much as possible because SRG OG, they’re just so close to once again returning to the grand final stage if they make it happen in this upcoming siege. Another Federon air strike already committed by Stormmy. That’s already a lot of damage onto Prince and Kirk. Skies walks up a bit too aggressively and will get poked down. They have to play it slow. We’ve seen these kind of moments from Onyx Philippines when it looks like it’s impossible to turn the game around. They suddenly click. Yeah, it’s that one capitalize on those little mistakes. We saw it from the spirit match yesterday and so Red Giants OG Esports, they have studied it. They know how to play discipline. This isn’t their first rodeo. Going back again, resetting. We get a look at the damage dealt ranking that is just led by Stormy on this far. Such a monster. two times he’s been able to zone Kelra, take him out of the fight before Onic Philippines can even do anything about it. Yeah, and we had this entire conversation about Fredin being the face of utility junglers, but you know what? The way SRJ OG are pulling this off, the Akai jungler consistently securing the objective, securing the turtles and Stormmy just feeling feeling like that guy who just enables everyone or maybe is even the guy everyone tries to play around in the early stages of the game. It just allowed SRG OG to arrive at this point in the game and they can focus their attention to other members now. Definitely on Innocent a bit more because Innocent 2 is looking to be online. I don’t think he’s had to use the purify at all yet in this game. Oh, CI goes for the Pin. Good. Heavy spin already over King Kong. He’s still going to be able to take some shots, but Stormy gets the last one in. Lord not taken yet. Gra still has vengeance. Just a few shots over to him, but with no King Kong. That means Onyx Philippines will have to give this one away. And SRG again are getting closer and closer to making it back to where they were just a year ago. King Kong, that was the first time he died in this game, but that was such bad timing. If you’re Onic PH SRG OG, as you’ve mentioned, they’ve been wanting to get revenge on Onyx PH after so long. They get to win against this team every single time they meet. Oh, but another heavy spin again. Skies walked up with a heavy spin. There’s no lure. They baited out some big resources on it. Philippines, and it might be a case of SRG being too quick with it. Those are some really crucial resources to go for the siege. could have gotten more than one base turret, but now they have to be happy with just one. Yep. On the PH have a lot of time to work on this lord, on this objective. Oh, but there was an attempt better strike. Yums could have also looked for a setup, but at least got revealed just in time as they used the conceal. So, as you’ve mentioned, Onik PH clearly still holding on. We’re 14 minutes into this game. There’s a lot of catching up to do when you look at the other matchups, when you look at the other heroes and players here for on PH, but everything looks good if you look at Kelra. King Kong just a bit more behind in time in terms or if you look at him in comparison to Sakai. At this point, we’re transitioning into that part of the game where it’s just really going to matter on how you’re able to serve as the front, how you’re able to use those crucial energy eruptions, set things up for your team. Everything is it’s going to have to rely on Kelra. It’s all on Kelra. We’ve seen him pull off masterful comebacks, clutch moments to turn things around against Spirit, against many other teams in the past against RQ and SPS2. But now against the Red Giants, he’s going to need more than just a miracle because you’re right, Brig. It’s just on Kel on Philippines. Usually in a comeback, they have much more damage dealers here. Yeah, they have one. They have one dude. That’s why I took my time. I’ve been trying to think of where else could the damage come from. Who else could they potentially rely on? Because you could expect super friends to be another layer of crowd control, another way to set up to find the knockups and certain members of SRG OG, but not unless he does have the sky piercer, too. We’ll have to double check that later on. But it does feel like it’s a bit more of a utility that Super Fin is serving right now in terms of Onik PH’s lineup. So, how well could they protect Keller? How well could they play around Keller? Lightning Trunchin for Stormy. That’s going to help him. And uh again, those Father Air strikes, if he just finds one on Kra, it’s going to hurt him a lot. There’s no respect from Kela as of this moment towards magic defense. He knows, not even Win of Nature, he knows he’s the only guy here to deal damage. He needs to go glass cannon. That means he puts himself in a tough spot. But you’ve got to play with those little margins if you want to win a game like this. 8,000 gold behind against a composition that by all means outscale them. Salamo, Red Giants, OG Esports are literally on route to making it backto back to an MSE grand final at the Esports World Cup. You have to manage your waves on PH. They have so much to think about at this point in time. There’s a wave up top on the bottom. And how do they enter this area? How do they make themselves seen in the Lord pit? That’s a curtain call already committed by Cram though. So wave up top. That’s the thing. Conceal too. They’ve already baited out now. SRG should be able to go and force this out. Super fans gone in the tough spot. Yum. Oh kundo. And now Keller makes his way back. Let’s see if they can save this game as they head the spin stor away. Sky skies in the back line. Still king come going to be kicked by Yums with away the dragon that gives him all the space necessary. Kra the back doing damage. It is very low. Kra still going for it again. Immortality down. Kra against Europe. Another immortality down. And now it is just Kra left to defend against five members of the Salamo Red Giants OG’s porch crew. Kra the flicker forward. It is to dodge it away. The latter red giant OG Esports against all odds stopped their way to making it back to back to the MSC and Esports World Cup Grand Finals. [Applause] SRG OG. They get their revenge against Onik Philippines. And now they return to the grand final stage with that shot of being the first ever back-to- back MSC champions in all our history in MSC. What a moment for them. What a performance. Even all the adjustments that came in at just the perfect time. Last year they turned from mortals to giants. This year we get a chance to see the giants become immortal. And it comes through beating one of the scariest teams we’ve ever seen in MLBB. Onik Philippines who’ve just been reigning dominating throughout the year finally look vulnerable in the hands of Salango Red Giants OG Esports. They have indeed improved. People have indeed adjusted. Things are way different than they were back in M6 back when on PH were with their winning ways. And my oh my did they bring us all the way. This was this was a game five that they delivered to us for the semifinals and I feel like we were all in for a treat. But unfortunately Onyx PH despite everyone with their expectations will now have to bow out of this tournament and SRG OG will be the only remaining team from the left side of our knockouts bracket. We’re just awaiting whoever they will be going up against between the winners of our upcoming match. But this is what whoever will be winning from that side will have to prepare for. Now, I know we’re all looking forward to hear what our winners have to say. So, let’s throw it over to the stage with our hosts to hear the winners interview. And there you guys have it, ladies and gentlemen. This is officially your first grand finalist for MSC 2025. It is none other than Salango Red Giants OG Esports. And beside me right now, we have Sakis. First of all, Adid that was an incredible fivegame full series. How are you feeling right now? I’m feeling so happy and feel like so amazed with our performance because here’s the thing. The people keep uh saying that I’m like uh not like last MSE like I’m dropping my performance is not good. But here’s the proof. I’m the grand finalist. There you go. This is his proof. This is his statement match. He is in the grand finals. And that is your statement to all the haters out there. Now s guys, we know that based on the track record, SRG OG has never won a match against Onik Philippines and this dates back all the way to M6. Right now today, you guys actually eliminated the reigning world champions. What are your thoughts on this? And how did this even happen today? I think we just are really hungry to get revenge against them because uh we lost against them two time in international and we are really won this uh win and we got our the best revenge ever. Best revenge ever indeed from the side of SRG OG. Now, Adi, I usually realize that you’re wearing glasses back at home in MPLMY and in tournaments, but over the past few days at MSSE, I realized you’re not even wearing glasses. What’s that all about? Actually, I still wearing, but outside of uh I’m playing cuz uh when I’m training, I didn’t use the sunglass because I feel I cannot use to it and it just I think I feel better play without sunglasses. Yeah. Okay, now Adi, tomorrow you guys will face either Kyrie or Carl TZ. Now in the MLBB ecosystem, everybody has been saying that these two are the king of the jungle. And I’m pretty sure the audience here all agree. But now that you’re in the grand finals two times back to back in technically just one year, do you think you’re in the leaderboard now for the king of the jungle? Uh like I said, I don’t want to admit, but let’s people say if they think so. Yeah, it is. I let the people say it. What do you think it will take for you to be considered the king of the jungle? If champion maybe. Yeah, if champion maybe. Okay, final question. Between Onik Indonesia and Tea Liquid Philippines, who do you think you will be meeting in the grand finals tomorrow? Um it’s kind of hard to guess because both of them is really good and my opinion I think uh Liquid PH will make it because they have the good there and I really want to face them once again and trying to get my second revenge. Ooh. In potentially another revenge matchup tomorrow at the grand finals, will Sakaiis be able to meet the GOAT Carl Tezy? There’s only one way to find out. However, before we find out the second grand final as it is time to throw it back to the panel to break down what happened in this insane series. Throwing it back to you guys. Thank you very much, Rose as well as Skies. Despite all the hate, all the criticism, everyone doubting skies over and over and over again, this young man once again proved that he can go all the way to the grand final. So, congratulations to SRG OG Esports being the first grand finalist. And with that win, they just eliminated two possibilities. The first is all Philippine Philippine grand finals and also all on grand finals. and they said, “Hey, there’s a chance that Liquid could make it through, but after this matchup, I don’t I don’t even know how to predict this one.” Leo, SRG OG undid kid Bomba’s timeline shenanigans, you know, the main thing that I want to mention. Uh, still first of all, Onic not eliminated, they will go to for the third place match. There could still be an Onic. Is that what you’re saying? Is that what you’re saying? Yes. Yes. Yes. That’s exactly what I was forced to say. But uh so actually I want to mention how confident SRG and what a good performance they showed us and they want another revenge. You heard guys right? I mean like I kind of feel like for SRG there’s a lot of ways for them to uh really get on their top condition. Number one being Riyad. So that’s that’s numera uno. Something about it man. Something about Ria just makes the Langor Giants feel very good. Uh the other one, it has to have emotions in that one. I kind of feel like they’re going up against someone that they don’t have any history with. They’re like, eh, you know? Yep. Doesn’t unlock the best in them. And I think all the doubts, all the haters, all the animosity, it fuels them. It motivates them. Is that not what you want in not just your favorite team, your favorite players, but in an esport, you want some adversity. You want stories to be told wherein the protagonists whether you look at it one way or the other overcome what challenges them. I think Riad challenges them you know because you mentioned like every time in Riyad there is something around here in Saudi Arabia and uh the most interesting thing that even their home like when they perform during M6 in Koala Lumpur it doesn’t support them that much like the audience here actually I kind of feel like more support kind of hurt but either ways right now we got to look at the heat map here for Sakai to really see the movements of this young man the guy in the jungle to see how he rotates around the map. The sky prince coming through and reviving the Akai uh one of the few heroes that actually stepped up to Fredin in his prime. The way he played it reminds us exactly why in the late 2022 the that season going into 2023, it’s this duo in the utility jungle matchup that ran the show. He did, yes, get a lot of kills on Brusco and a couple of kills on Kellra and Kirk, but really what he was doing was something you cannot see here in these numbers, in these stats, is he was single-handedly forcing Onyx to respond. And here’s the thing, not only are we looking at his heat map, he is also our Sony match MVP really pulling SRG into this game with with the perfect game on the Sakai 40 and 12 winning those objectives as well. I got to say Sakai is like, yeah, if if people motivate him by saying he’s not good enough, I guess that’s the thing about esports. Everyone keeps telling you you’re not good enough. a lot of efforts and yeah, you know, also we see the highlights and the moments when the Sikai play Joy that was also amazing that was such a good performance and the last game I totally agree with you Leo he just revived Akai he’s you know Akai uh and Sikai it’s the kind of equal words right now which is weird because uh Freder’s like a cool sexy dude and then You got defeated by the cute little panda. But this panda is deadly. But he’s also pretty good on the joy. So what can this kid not do? I’ll tell you now. What he can’t do is be in the bottom of the top earners in all of Mov Sports. Because of this win alone, plus consider his MVP earnings from last year’s MSC. I think Destroyer, you did the math. Yeah. Yeah. SRG OG is up there now. They they are like over everyone. And actually second time there’s a question you win MSC 2024 if they win MSE 2024 just imagine about that amount of money about that prize pool at this point you don’t even have to imagine at at minimum through MSE alone they already won 15 million cuz now being in the grand finals even if you lose that one that’s already 500,000 of course knowing all the players no one wants second place cuz second place hurts more than last place. That means you’re the first loser. You’re the first loser. That’s right. That that is very very painful. But again, just to remind everyone, just like the story said, Onik Philippines, they are not eliminated just yet. They’re going to be playing for third and fourth place for tomorrow. So, I believe even though this this is the this is the bad thing. Yes, you lost, but you don’t have time to relax. You have to watch TLPH against Anik ID. You got to study that one cuz you still have to fight tomorrow. And isn’t that bittersweet? Number one, you’re forced to work and still maintain a modicum of professionalism and esports competence because you’re still playing tomorrow. And your two potential opponents are number one, your heated rival from the previous season, season 15, that you went all the way with that you swore you could have beaten. And the other is your brother in arms. The dudes who wear literally the same damn jersey. That’s even sounds painful. You know this the story. It is painful. It is painful. That’s kind of painful. Not a lot of love in eports. Nobody wants to be the super fam right now. And that’s why they need all your support. That’s why they need your love. Definitely guys support them in chat everywhere. Write down in social media. They need it. They still have to compete. They still can reach the top three. But let’s just say while we have time here, how insane is our top four, man. Like these are legit the best of the best that the world has to offer. And these are the kind of games that made us feel lucky to be working in this environment, man. Yep. Yesterday we went nine games out of a total 10. Today we’re on the way to beating that again because folks watching at home, come on. You think Liquid versus Onyx will go less than four, less than five? Nah, man. N man. No way. What if if it does something went very wrong? I just said full series and maybe I cursed. Maybe that’s the reason. But potentially it should be 10 games. I mean 10 maps for today. And I’m pretty excited to see it. Speaking of which, let’s actually move on over to that kind of topic here. Team Liquid Philippines going up against Anik Indonesia. Both teams are S tier, but only one team can go to grand finals, meaning SRG OG. So now Team Liquid as well as Onyx ID, let’s not put predictions, let’s just talk about the strength here. So uh Leo, tell us the strength of Team Liquid Philippines that we could look out for in the next matchup. Team Liquid Philippines are top of class across every lane. You look at mid jungle, that trio, deadly, they team fight whenever. Talk about initiative, you talk about tempo, they got it regardless of the kind of draft that they end up with. side laners. You got you got the apex predator Sanford and then you have the Filipino sniper OB. OB is the hungriest he’s ever been in his whole career. This is the hungest I’ve ever been. It’s first time in Riyad. You can’t count that out. What about you, destroyer? If we speak about Oni, right? First, first and the most important coach here. First of all, let’s begin with this. And if we speak about the composition, I like really really much about the comparation with the key boy and Kyrie. And I think the most priority thing that we should look for is the uh versus Kyrie and the Carlizi here. The thing that it’s the battle of the jungler. Now that you brought that up, let’s just take back into consideration the last series. Lancelot, Yen, Shin, forget about it. For some reason, so easy to kind of force joy into certain situations. Hayabusa, they need to see his shadow. Fam, what does that mean for Kyrie? Cuz we know that Care is very capable of playing Akai, Boxes, Frederins. That’s how he won his second world championship. I mean, like we’re talking about jungle picks. The Hayabusa for Kyrie made a lot of highlight plays back in M4, one of his best heroes. And he has that amon. We don’t know if there’s any other secret picks. I mean, like here’s the thing. People get criticized by saying, “Why you pick up Aman? That’s not a good hero.” But here’s the thing. That’s Kyrie. That’s Kyrie. And he played Hayabusa, by the way, not not long ago. Yesterday. Yeah. Yeah. It’s just the way that the draft is going. That’s why Hayabusa is kind of a question mark now. But no. Uh gentlemen, I think it was during the group stage. I think that I uh tuned in. Was it not you or Gideon who talked about it wherein the reason why Aman is a hot pick right now is because of the double triple marksman. Yep. You just put a beat on someone, pop, you press the button. There’s no way you’re dodging this. You’re dying. In a way, that was their answer towards the Yun Shin lose early game, but then once you get items, you one-shot everyone. And now, folks, while you guys are still here, we’re actually going to be going over to an interview with Anik Philippines in regards to how they feel after the matchup against SRG. Here we are now backstage with Keller after that loss against SRG. Now, Keller, that was your first loss in history against SRG. How is the super family taking it? Uh we uh we need to improve our I think chemistry and also our decision making because SRG is better than to us to in terms of decision making and also his chemistry because they already three season I think build a lineup. So, they were just stronger in terms of chemistry and decision-m. But how are you guys doing like emotionally? Are you okay? I mean, you seem to be all smiles, but what’s going on behind the scenes? Uh, actually, I’m I’m not sad. Uh, I’m just thinking about um some my mistakes and also I look moving forward for our match tomorrow. Okay. Looking for your match tomorrow. The third place match, right? Yes. We need to focus on that. Okay. So, this is also the first time that you lost to Innocent. Is there something that you want to say to Innocent? Maybe. Uh to Innocent, uh you’re very strong and keep keep improving. Keep keep strong and good luck to your match. Very wholesome coming in from Kalera. Is there a certain hurdle that maybe Onyx PH is going through? Maybe coming to the group stages as well. We saw very ups and downs journey for Onyx PH. Is this recurring up until this point that hasn’t been fixed? Uh for me I think uh we we fix our our a we fix our mistake in fast in group stage and I think because uh we lost because RC is SRG is better than us today. Okay just for today. So what diff difference was there from SRG back when you met them at MS M6 because technically you swept them to SRG now what was the difference maker what changed from SRG uh in M6 uh it’s big it’s a big difference because in M6 uh ONIC is very dominating and our play style is very different to other teams that’s why we dominate the M6 and win streak uh undefeated in M6 okay so it’s just a different meta maybe that was happen and also assassin meta that time. All right, so that’s the main difference ladies and gentlemen. Maybe finally a message to the Sonics you may talk. All right, once again thank you so much Keller. Good luck for your third place match tomorrow cuz we’re going to head over back to the studio. Thank you very much Eterna as well as Cara. And that’s the championship mentality. Even when is saying like how do you feel? I’m not sad. And that’s the thing. He doesn’t have a choice. He cannot be sad. He has to think of tomorrow. Ah, she didn’t have to do that, but she still did. An interview with the losing team. Eterna, you’re a champion, too. But also the teams that are going to be competing tomorrow on a PH plus whoever loses the next series are also in for like who who has it harder? The team that lost now or the team that’s going to lose later. Your mentality is going to get tested. You guys are looking at a knockout stage bracket has been confirmed. SRG will be the first finalist here and Onic Philippines will be knocked down to third place match after this. Team Liquid Philippines going up against Anik Indonesia. And now I know both of you have a lot to say, but right now we’re going for a short break as after this it’s going to be intense match. Team Liquid Philippines going up against Anik Indonesia who will go to the finals. [Music] Standard. 4 3 1 0. Heat. Heat. [Applause] [Music] Wonder how 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. [Music] Heat. [Music] That’s going to be one. Papa shuts him down, but Kiz makes the others pay anyways. Immediately trade it out. Make that a four. Give it to him. Very immortality. She goes for the final execution. The goal free. Who’s better at landlock? Kyrie. I’m going to say Kyrie. I’m just going to say Kai. Kyrie of MSC from No Landslaugh. No way. Why? No way. No way. Cuz that’s what they said. Here comes like no way. Oh yeah. Kyrie. That whole line of go of me going Ky every international. But you know you know how it goes. But yeah, Kyrie’s landslide has a special place in my heart. I think that moment where he escaped with the landslide is still seared very traumatically into a lot of people’s brains. Oh, it’s easy. Easy. Easy for me because I’ve already promised myself after M2 that I would never doubt him again. That makes sense. Which again, I have to admit he’s still he showed the level of mechanics that a player can achieve during M2 and then Kyrie took it and kind of ran with it even further. Yeah, only one had a skin made out because of how they played the land a lot. You know who that is. Now, if you are only talking about this MSF Carl TV, uh Carl Tzy, I have to go Carl my gold just because like people have been really waiting to see his Lancelot again and he gave it to us in as early as number one and yeah, maybe that consistency in terms of using the Lancelot. So, I’m going to go for but so far Kyrie that yesterday on the Lancelot, he was insane. So, I mean, so far Kyrie’s impressed me more. I’m was going to go say Kai again. That’s my bias, dude. But like, but when it comes to Lance, I’m going to say Kai. Yo, BH, I’m coming for you. I got to say the rival between Kyrie and Carl Teezy has been years now. It it it’s like Batman versus Superman. Superman versus Goku. Like this this is a legendary match. Legacy on the line. An epic duel to decide who is the best. And Kyrie said if he beats Carl Tezy, maybe he can be number one. Leaf, you know how those two comic book or anime based rivalries go, right? Yes. Yes. I know. Carl Tezy is Superman. Yep. Carl Tezy is Carl L. Oh, you know what? That That was good. That was good. I found that one. I found that one. Yep. That was good. Like that. Really good. That was good. That was good. So, yeah. Speaking about these two junglers, actually, it’s really hard to say who is better. Uh, you know, there are a lot of discussions. Which lands a lot you do you prefer? Like Kizy or Kyrie? They both are legends. Let’s be clear. They are legends and they are one of the best junglers all over the world. So, I’m expecting that this will be a hard battle between them. All right, don’t get me wrong. I love Kyrie. Kyrie is my baby brother, right? But this isn’t a game of Lancelot. This is MLBV. This is esports. It’s a 5v5. So, there’s so much more things to consider when you’re talking about this rivalry. And folks, we haven’t even begun and we already have a debate here between Kyrie and Carl Teasy. That’s why this matchup deserves the Saudi National Bank match of the day, the SMB match of the day between the goats between both teams. I mean, like the real goat is Carl Tezy. But hey, Kyrie, he wants to make a name for himself. And even in previous interviews, like if I beat Carl Tezy, then I’m a little bit more confident of saying I’m numero uno. Yeah, he becomes number one. But again, don’t forget Carl Tezy said I’m not even on this scale, man. I’m I’m number zero. I’m number zero. I am Kosong. I’m over it. And here is a lot of questions. And the biggest question mark, are we going to see the full series or do you predict something else? I kind of feel like knowing both coaches. Uh game one and two is really about learning each other, right? Because kind of what what we saw in uh Philippines going up against SRG where the coaches are basically friends, right? So, I feel like it will go full series. Like Leo said, if it doesn’t go full series, then something really wrong happened. Or at least less than four. At four, I think I’ll be fine. At least one. Okay, he’s already for four. No, at the beginning of the day, he was like, full at least four. I’m just managing my expectations. And to add to the dynamics uh of the drafting of these coaches, right, just to talk about this whole uh Adi, Yeb versus Tic Tac, and RC. If there’s something we know about these two based on their performances so far in the group stage and the knockouts on Indonesia, they are very dynamic. They like to go their opponents. They like to trade. Liquid have a solid plan. Did you see the way they attacked Aurora in the opening rounds of the knockouts? Yeah, I kind of feel like we have to see what the players themselves feel. It’s a good thing Eterna was able to catch Carl Tezy. So, let’s see what he has to think about this matchup. Right now we’re with the myth, the legend, the man Carl Tezy, the young goatier right before their match up against Anik ID. Now back at MSE 2023, you under the banner of Ekko were swept by Onik, but you were able to claim your revenge in the group stages, but it was very close. So what do you think that you guys need to be able to claim this victory again over Anik ID? Um, I think we just need to be disciplined and we don’t need to force any unnecessary team fights and just play better than them. Okay. Play better than them. Be discipline. Is there anything in particular that was a little bit difficult in that match against Onik ID? Um, I think we lost because of ourselves. Not not uh about the game because we’re too aggressive and too greedy that time. Okay. But that’s been fixed. Everything is okay now. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So MLBH check, M series two times checked, but MSE still seems to elude you guys. So coming into this, what do you think is your advantage over on ID? I think our advantage right now is we’re very adjusted to the meta very well and I think my teammates are better than them. Oh, you think your teammates are better than them like every role? Yeah. What about coach? Yeah. Better than coach? H I don’t know yet. Maybe if coach win. Okay. Maybe. Maybe. We’ll see. We’ll see. So Kyrie mentioned up on stage yesterday that if he’s able to win against you guys, he will be the new king of the jungle and the face of MLBB. That’s such a bold statement. Carl Tezy, do you have anything to say to Kyrie? M maybe if you win against me, I still think that other junglers like Kyle Tzy and Weiss deserve to also be like on the debate and uh good for him if if he acknowledged me like that and but for me I think uh other junglers deserve some recognition too. A so humble Carl what there it is the young goat very humble as ever. Is there anything else you want to say maybe to before your match? M just good luck to them and have fun. Good luck and have fun. We’re going to throw it over back to the studio. Good luck, Carl. That was a lot said, but I like that pause on Y. It’s like, you know what? We just play better. My teammates are better. My coach is better. And then it turns like coach is better. Sorry, your coach is better than Y’s like, you know, you got you got to p you got to pause on the real goat YB. That was kind of funny. Yeah. So, they really understand that the opponent is not easy, but the confidence I would like to mention like so we’re better in every option one. Yeah, there he is. Look at that. He’s all Aura. That’s Yeah. And this is Onic. On have a chip on their shoulder. I’ll tell you now. Their fallen brothers are waiting in the battle for third. And you know what? Maybe their situation is worse. They have all the pressure now. Well, we got to see the YB effect. Taking a team that’s pretty much last all the way to become champions. We got to see how that really affects for this one. So, we’re going to talk about Anik ID first. We got Ly, Kyrie, Sans, Key Boy, as well as Averro. And now, we heard Carl Tezy saying every single lane TL has won this one. But this is a pretty stack roster coming in from Monic ID. This is one of the best times that we can try to argue against Carl because we’re not showing any accolades. Cuz if you’re talking about accolades, Carl is right. Literally on paper, his team is so much better than Onyx. But Onyx has potential. Onyx has the Indo play style behind them. They can out mechanic and outfight Liquid if the situation is right. And that starts in the draft. That starts with again Raja. That starts with coach Adi. That’s one thing also I want to mention. Carl Tis said we adjusted to the current meta and you know he marked that down. So seems like he uh expects the more casual the more orthodoxial picks from Oni ID than from themsel. Something to note as well that’s exactly what Stormmy said in his own interview saying like we understand the meta and we saw how that resulted in a match. So, hey, maybe that’s a sign of Carl Tezy saying the same thing as Stormy. Something to note, walking into uh this best of five, the semifinals and elimination match, I don’t think, well, I haven’t gotten any updates, but Liquid are not at 100%. This young man right here, the Filipino sniper Oh, kills Oriano has been under the weather. He’s been sick for the past 48 hours, and despite that, they still did well against their matchup against Aurora. Now against a colossus, a a a behemoth such as Onyx ID, the Sky Kings, I’m hoping that Kale is at 100%. And this is the thing. This is what you sign up for. This is the unfortunate reality of being an athlete. No matter what happens, you just got to win. But now looks like it turn able to catch Key Boy. So Key Boy, what do you think about going up against Team Liquid Philippines? We’re here with Key Boy backstage here before their match up against TLPH. Now, Kyrie mentioned that they wanted a rematch from what happened in the group stages and now you’re going to be able to finally have it. So, could you talk to us about the challenges maybe against TPH in the group stages? Yeah, for me now I want to revenge back them because before Sanji say they want to revenge and they get it and now we are ready to get the revenge again. Okay. Okay. So, you want to take it back for you guys. What was the main obstacle? What happened challenge maybe in the group stages against TPH? How did you lose 2-1? Uh, I think we just make some mistake and then the TLP so good to like uh use the mistake and then they are so good to find the solution something like that. Yeah. So, have those mistakes been fixed today? Oh, for sure. Yes. For sure. Yes. It’s very confident because in that match we saw tidbits of the signature TLPH uh stampede. Now do you think that that will be a problem for you guys today? No, I think no problem. All good. Cuz back in MSE 2023, you were the finals MVP. So if we had to rate your performance from key boy then to Key Boy now, how do you think your performance is right now? uh on the way to my prime and then more better later better later. Yeah. Slow slowly going back to prime. Slowly getting better because we’re waiting for the key boy moments. Where is it? Is it going to come today? Let’s see. Let’s see. Let’s see. I want to know. This will be the first time in history that we will see a team finally pick up three MSE titles. What would that win mean for you? Uh for me I think I just get if I win just get two but yeah for on yeah we are so happy if we get three M 3 MSE and then later we need to take the M7. Yeah. Okay. So you want it right? All okay. So Key Boy wants it. He’s feeling it. He’s looking very confident as well. So we’ll see exactly how this all unravels as we throw it over back to the studio. Thank you very much, Eterna, as well as Key Boy. And now with that interview out of the way for both teams, this is the battle to see who will meet SRG on the grand finals. So now we’re going to start the SNB match of the day between Team Liquid Philippines as well as Anik Indonesia by setting the stage over to Rose and Milos. Thank you very much, friends. And yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are back at MSC25 at the Esports World Cup. And what a game one we’ve had today. What a semifinal going the distance, confirming SRG in the Grand Final. That is a big big day for them. Maybe backto back MSC winners. Hey, Milos, that first match, I’m pretty sure both Malaysians and the Filipinos were at the edge of their seat. It was such a backto back full best of five series and I’m pretty sure that is the perfect way to start our semifinals for today. Absolutely was. Even backstage were all on the edge. Some people were screaming out loud the whole time because they couldn’t believe how close that match was. And if anything, it just means that the stakes are ever higher because you get eliminated here. It’s the esports World Cup. It’s MSSE and your key that represents your hopes, your dreams, and your team’s ability to participate at MSC 25 get crushed right on stage. And now we’ve gotten one team in that grand final and we still have one more to figure out. It’s a big story, right? Certz, what happens? Who’s the best in the jungle? What happens through that in our second semi- rose? It has always been a continuous debate. Who is the king of the jungle? Is it Kyrie from Anik Indonesia? Is it Carl Tezy from Team Liquid? And of course, there’s only one way to settle this once and for all, and it is going to be in our semifinals match. I’m hearing a bit of uh a little bit of chance, a little bit of cheer. So, before we introduce our teams to you for second and final semi-final, I just have to ask you, are you ready? I think they can do better. Are you ready? There we go. I’m hearing a lot of cheers from both the Sonics and the Calvaries. You know what? It is going to be amazing. So, Milos, who is the first team up on stage? Oh, you know who it is. Let’s bring them up. It’s the one, the only, the cavalry, Team Liquid. [Applause] They galloped into MSC 25 as one of the favorites and trotted over their group stage opponents and Aurora Gaming two days ago. The MPL champions have gathered many accolades over the years. But Carl TZ is still missing the one, the only, the MSC trophy to fill his cabinet. That glass ceiling of MSC top four is just begging to be broken. That’s Team Liquid. And of course, going up against them, the Sky Kings, it is none other than Indonesia’s finest. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Ank Indonesia. Anuk Indonesia is hunting for their third MSE title after winning it all in 2019 and 2023. While Kyrie places Carl Sezy as his king of the jungle, he hopes to claim that title as his home. This is a clash between the tournament’s top two favorites. One of them continues their MSE fairy tale, and one of them gets their dreams and hopes crushed. It’s brutal, but that’s just the nature of competition. So, please Onik, please. Team Liquid, you may place your keys and take your seats cuz I have a feeling that this game is going to be one for the history books. There’s already so much history between these two teams and players over the years. Yes, indeed. And obviously, the winner will be heading on to the grand finals tomorrow. And the losing team will be meeting Onyx Philippines in our third placer match tomorrow. So, who will be meeting Onyx Philippines? And who will be meeting SRG OG Esports? Because of that, there’s only one way to find out. It’s time to encounter the unknown. [Music] I’m feeling really good because we played like clean games and I really do hope that we can also improve in our experience. Pickers up. Still going to get taken down by the goat. Carey with a double. Kinsey falling to Ohhead. When we fought mythical seal, yeah, our mood was just like usual. Whenever we face against any team, we just focus on our ourselves and yeah, just do our best in the game. Now blood ball. Kai with the shadow kill. It’s a double for Kai. Oh my god. Kyrie Hayabusa. Well, I think Onic ID’s play style is similar with Onic PH because their Jumid is really flashy. So, we need to watch out for them. I think uh TLPH play style is aggressive and they also don’t like to make mistakes. But for Onic, I think our strength is also our aggressiveness. So, going to be thrown in the back and the combo. Look, he gets the dark wave. They collapse off of a key boy engage. And even with the bra fighter, Onyx take a big team fight with down a wrath. Another kill over to Om. It’s a double sigy boo and the crossbow will just fall again. Oh, with the triple looking for a maniac rose up the flicker out to base. Now it’s a full ton over. Deny the savage. Well, for me personally, I really do think that we need to out them. The deciding factor is going to be about all about mental. Whoever is mental stronger that they will win. Well, for me to Onic Indonesia, my only message is give this MS to us. But I have one message for Kyrie. be ready to lose. My message to Team Liquid is there’s only going to be one team that goes to the finals and it’s going to be Onik Indonesia. What is up with today? Today is full of story. Today is full of emotions. Today is full of revenge. We just had the SRG against Anik Philippines Revenge. And then this is going back to the group stages when that was an amazing match up between TL going up against Anik Indonesia where eventually TL won. Now we got to see can Any get their revenge. But now we got the quote coming in from the goat Carl Tezy. I hope he can reach that flawless form. Clean games, constant domination like what we showed in game one and two against Aurora. That stampede form is who we are. It also a mental tactic. We want them, we want teams to feel the pressure to get them nervous the moment we start diving them. And even in the pre-match interview, Kyrie and Sanford, them just fighting words. I like how both teams understand that this is not a match. This is not a game. This is a fight and they’re here to win. This is the skirmish that will end. and we will understand who will be the final guy who goes to the grand finals. I like for for both teams they’re just going to throw down and I like that they understand how important is to get in your opponent’s head. The the conversation they shared is just basically saying like I’m not afraid of you, you should be afraid of me. Yeah. So Kyrie was right. This is going to be a battle of mental. Yeah. Former generations of professional MOB esports players would say, “Good luck. Have fun. Let’s show the fans a good fight.” No, that’s a given. These guys know that they have to put words into actions. And that’s what we’re about to see here in this contest. And again, for you folks, this is how you show your support to the teams. Grab the support chest. It’s only 20 diamonds, but it gives you a chance to draw the luxury reward of returning MSE skin, Atlas, Rune, Sentinel. again show your team’s support by purchasing the support chest. But now going into this matchup, Destroyer, this is going to be an amazing match up. What is your thoughts before we go in? First of all, I want also to mention like during the interview there was uh like guys, let us win when I’m speaking about the liquid. Definitely. And uh also the thing that I would like to keep an eye is the battle between the Lut and Sanford. But now this is interesting here because we’re jumping straight into the draft. Team Liquid will have a blue side first pick. Any will be on red side second pick. This is a bit of a change because yes, Penny gets banned, but also the Yun Shin now Yunin usually is redside banned because they wanted for the first pick. So now becomes a question, what is TL going to prioritize with this uh using Shin ban? Now they even ban the fobvious. Yeah. No, even in blue side against Aurora, I could have sworn it was just a attack TNZ kind of maneuver, but no, they’ve always also banned Fanny and Yen Shin regardless of the side, red or blue. So now with this phobia ban, they’re setting up for opening uh CC. Uh Kalia is also left open though that’s not one of their main uh favorites to pick. Farsa is also open. Lancelot though gets banned by Onyx. So there goes that. Can I just say this is one of the reasons why people should still watch MWI cuz people were saying like what are they doing? Why are they first picking CC? But lo and behold semi-final semi like CC is becoming hot. And now the first pick is uh I mean I mean yes but no please Leo give us a brief history on Sanford on this Arlet in case this is Sanford on the Arlet. No it likely is because uh he comes from a long lineage of explosive Filipino XP laners. I’m talking about twotime world champion Flap teasy the Filipino cannon. He is of the same thread. He is cut from the same cloth and this is likely going to be that. I’m just cur know they set it up. They banned the fauxios. We should have seen this coming. Destroyer Sanford doesn’t care about how you feel. He doesn’t care about the stats. I know. I know. I know that Sanford I know that he’s super good that he’s super confident. I know how like the amount of power he got in his hands when he’s playing. But I don’t like a lot. I mean during MSC, you know, also understand my feelings please. Liquid lock in for the first phase when Nazushin on Sanji and getting a gapa on JPC. I told y’all it was going to go on uh Sanford. Now Onyx, they put the uh of course CC as as as we all know. It’s a broken hero XP right now and the Freder in the jungle. There goes the whole assassin Kyrie situation. I don’t know how Miracle is going to shout Kai on this. It’s literally a utility jungler. I think they should prioritize Sans right now. No, I think actually Kayabus should Okay, never mind. It’s Kim. It’s Kim and my Gila. Yep. Yep. So, here comes the trio from the one and the second side. We al already understand the XP lane and we see the mid lane priority. Well, even in the uh conversation that both teams have, even Sanford agrees that for an Indonesia, the bright light coming in from Anuka is coming from that mid trio. And they’re already setting up something very strong here because Kimmy and Frederren, this is just Fredin giving Kimmy so much free space to do whatever she wants. And you know, in a way, yes, it denies the Fredin and or the combo, but at the same time, hey, that’s a good opening draft coming in from Onic Indonesia. You can just slap anything in Rome there to support this uh Kimmy Fred duo. So now what else is open? Uh gold laner. We still don’t have any gold laners. What’s left for uh the young Savo and of course the Filipino sniper sniper Brix. Bri’s open. You can also still Iritel. Ranger didn’t get banned. So Ranger most of them. Yeah, most of them except for one one. Yeah, only one is banned. So uh I don’t think the the priority will be for the gold lane. Maybe okay maybe Granger just because it’s a safe pick. You can use it everywhere and uh adapt for every draft. I think they should maybe expect the bands or at least try to focus on the role. I do want to see if what happens right now translates to what happened previously because if we’re going back about understanding the meta where Storm said they understood the meta and looks like the meta was is that scale up so fast the opposing gold laner doesn’t have time to get their power speed right so maybe maybe we’re just going to see that trend start here as well like move the game so fast that meter gold laners can be that impactful so should since No, wait. No, it’s already Kimmy. Yeah. So, is that enough? I was hoping they were going to go far if that’s the case. If that’s the direction we’re going. I mean, like Kimmy as well as Ducian are very good at setting the tempo. It’s just about execution at this point. They’re both DOT. Yeah, cuz again, if you just want the straightest line from A to B, the shortest way possible, it’s just far. We’ve seen Stormmy do it two games and the best of five. But maybe it’s M games and Kimmy potentially is a flex pick. Yeah, I I mean, still you can go gold. Yes, most likely we see Kim mid lane, but maybe uh here it can be an option and potentially they can pick partial for them. But um this part did good versus like Arlot and Gatka plus the potential Hayabusa. Carl Dy could still pick the Hayabusa since they’re attacking his uh utility jungle uh picks here. Noaksha, no Akai. I like how Onyx is just really thrown back to about 30 minutes ago when they banned Yakai against their Frederick. Honestly, at this point, it feels like a best of 10 cuz it does feel like we’re just going back from the previous matchup. It doesn’t even feel like a new series. Just add on. This is energy is the same energy. Same energy, man. And now the Kai gets banned out. And you know, like you said, the thing about the goat is that it almost doesn’t matter what he picks up. fighter, assassin, uh, tank. Heck, maybe with a mage, he can make it work. Maybe a Leo was cheering for Aean for so long. Oh, no. Aean only works against the double triple marksman. Not happening in this deck. Yeah, but maybe maybe potentially. So, uh, it’s Moscow ban and Team Liquid last ban. I predict Granger. So, he’s going to crack down on possible good picks. So that’ll be either Iris or Granger then between these two or the pocket matrix for kill one. Honestly, I’m looking at the uh finals MVP for 2023 MNC key boy because even eternal is like when are we going to get that key boy moment, right? But you need you need a certain kind of hero to really do that. What the chore tick chore tick. Those are the things that make him do that. Those are key boy moments right there. And honestly the bad could have done that as well. So honestly good ban banning on the Kalia as well as the Vadang really making sure that key boy’s hero pool is shrunken down a bit. So it’s either just show or TIG. Now I think that still Granger by the way Granger is still available for Oni. Uh and uh I think Team Liquid can uh what can I answer matrix plus experience to use? It’s Granger. Yes, it’s Granger. And uh what do you think about AAN from uh I mean if the team Liquid Oh yeah, you’re right. Because there’s at least two junglers, right? Doesn’t mean two marksmen. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know. I don’t know about a man. I don’t like it. I’m not a fan. Uh something to say though, Anuk can just last pick Matilda. That’s clean. Yep. Uh honestly making it so that that uh Frederick is not indestructible. Honestly, very good pick. If it’s if it’s not, honestly, there’s still a lot of good ones here. And looks like they’re going to pick up the Hayabusa as well as the Harif here. So, it does feel very tempo coming in from TBH. A lot of damage. A lot of damage. A lot of crowd control from Tim Filipino and Oni. So, is it Matilda or what can what? Cho is weird. I feel like Cho is so weird. No, no, no. Cho, no. I don’t think that’s the option. And that’s Hey. Hey. I mean, like I I I understand I understand the consensus coming from you guys, but you know what? Cuz again, consider he kicks, right? Who does the damage from there? Like you have to aim that. You have to aim the Kimmy, the Granger or the the CC. I guess CC is like a third core. I mean at this point you got to trust the coach. You got to trust the player. Thank you very much to both our gentlemen. But now we’re going to be throwing it over to Reg as well as Miracle to cast the SNB match of the day. [Applause] Match of the day heading your way and it is going to be between Team Liquid Philippines and Onyx Indonesia. The classic Philippines versus Indonesia matchup. But in the end, only one will remain to go up against the defending champions SRG. We’re heading into the Land of Dawn. This is game number one. And right off the bat, we’re seeing a Hayabusa come in from Carl Tzy going up against the Freder, the face of utility junglers, but now in the hands of Kyrie. Hey, if you showed me this draft and you asked me which one is onic, which one is TL, I would have definitely said Kyrie’s on high Carl’s on the fresh. But hey, that’s how it’s going to start here. Welcome to the land of Don, ladies and gentlemen, for the first game of the series, the best of five. We we’re expecting uh guns blazing from the start, but with the drafts, it may not be guns blazing from the start. It might just be all right, we’ll farm, wait for Turtle, and Team Liquid will be like, “All right, I will also do the same and trade instead of contesting for Turtle.” I agree. I feel like there is definitely going to be pressure coming in from both sides. They’ll try to keep it going for the majority of the game, but I don’t think it will be easy for either of these two to convert them into kills immediately because of the damage and I feel like damage has been another conversation we always talk about. But in the bottom lane, there’s a bit of action too. But yeah, I don’t think the Zushin could be enough to burst anyone down just yet. even when JP gets the taunt and the Kimmy will get to shred people to a certain extent, but maybe not guarantee a kill just yet if KBO does find a setup. And that’s going to come in later because Kibboy does still have to wait before his level four comes in. But speaking of level four though, Carl Tezy, is he waiting for something here? Yeah, he’s waiting for Sans to walk up. Maybe getting a little cheeky pick off early on. But that’s why you see Sans bring the tenacity. He’s respecting the goat. He’s respecting how much damage Team Liqu would have as well in the team fights and he knows with the flicker he is vulnerable. Saro though winning in lane against Ohe up top. Okay, maybe it doesn’t need to be a coordinated attack after all for us to see the first blood come in. That was close. So the gold leaders are definitely going at it. Sanport still not able to get his level four just yet. So Oni ID might be a bit ahead in terms of positioning and gaining control over the turtle. But then TPH they will make it though. Great comes a beacon to escape from traction. Pulls in the praises wrap landing. Kyrie still able to survive. Gets a two-man taunt. First blood over Sanford as that’s loop still dealing damage. Key boy out of the fight already as Sanford gets choked low. Sanji lantern flare over to key boy and will actually be TL to win turtle one. Key boy caught in a tough spot. Sanford flickers out respecting the Gundo possibility. Yeah. So even though we did say that the damage in the early game might be oh wait hold on Liby he won’t be able to get out of that. So again Team Liquid it wasn’t necessarily that they definitely wanted to go for kills after kills but I feel like they literally out sustained on ID in that fight. They were able to tank enough of the damage even from Sans and JP was okay with it. like he still walked away not I mean at most just using the revitalize and this is something we constantly see whenever there’s a gat katcha too in the early game that’s really the power of the gat katcha right that revitalize the added sustain as well and considering the fact that really don’t have a lot of early game magic damage just makes it very easy for JP to stand in front and I got to say Sanji kind of won them that skirmish he was the one that baited out the dash forward from Kai from again utilizing crimson beacon last second. Yeah, he used lit like pixel perfect before the traction pulse actually landed and now oh that’s going to be a free kill. Sero taken down as Ob puts him in a clinch position for Carl to just deal damage. Yeah, there weren’t any shurikens needed anymore. Nor stacks even. Carl just had to use the OG shadow kill and there was no way Sea could potentially get out of that. now handing over the advantage to OHB. Probably will be getting his hands on a bit of energy shields here and there, but so far both sides of Team Liquid have been winning with very minimal rotations coming in from Team Liquid. Oh, but speaking of rotations, Sanji Oh, actually pops Crimson Beacon, but should be taken down here. Yeah, even with the purify, he won’t use it. He’ll just save it. The Crimson Beacon, I think, was uh misapped a bit from Sanji there. Now a 1 v one at the bottom lane as Sanford is actually winning in this matchup. But San should be actually back up right as the turtle spawns. I don’t think on can blitz this right. Sanford with a jump. Final slashero doing a whole lot of damage but now gets caught in a tough spot. Has the way the dragon flicker combo. Sanford take it very low and he gets away. Dang. That’s one of the best if not the best XP in the business right now. But look is able to get something on the map for they’ll have to say goodbye to JP for now. But either way, he doesn’t have the AOG anymore, so they won’t have ways to set up using the gap with Katchcha even if he did stay in the game. And so they just decided to save Sam Ford, keep that advantage intact for Team Liquid, and they will just still hold on to the lead either way. They’re up ahead by gold, 1,000 gold. And even despite all that chaos that happened in the mid lane, OB was just quietly getting all those energy shields up top. I mean, you could look at how the tier one up top is already at half HP. And so, OH could definitely be a little more active in terms of joining Team Liquid in the fights because it’s not the middle lane duo that’s doing majority of the work because their sides are okay. They could just leave them be. You can see the SNB gold difference here. Only Kimmy Zans really holding an advantage here. We don’t really count, right? Cuz he’s on Rome. Zanford so quick with the vengeance, man. And I’m not talking about the battle spell. This is going to be quite confusing, guys. All right. Um, LY has vengeance, the battle spell. Sanford’s second skill is vengeance. Liby gets a turret down below on the CC. Oh, up top. It’s just a trade. I think this is what we expected early on from turtle one, but we’re seeing it turtle 2 onwards. Oh, wait. Boyo holding the brush. Might not actually go for a setup, but it’s a great mirror done by Onyx ID so far, despite the lead that was already in the hands of Team Liquid. The next objective is going to spawn up top though. And how does Onyx ID find a way around this? Kyrie has been two levels behind just now. Got his level 9. And the pressure is still on for Team Liquid. They’re the ones who just are capable of coming in at the most unexpected timings. Sonic ID, they have a much more systematic approach to pulling off this lineup because you have to expect that the fight will start with either the way of the dragon or with Kyrie showing himself up or with Luke trying to do a bit of zoning, but it starts now with the way of the dragon though. It’s going to be JP that’s targeted. Uh-oh, in the back line. Sero able to flick around in time. Silence is right there. Kai brought back by the lancer flare, but is looking for more. Sanford caught the curtain call. Final slash doesn’t land. And Onyx go back to the mid turret. L P. has a vengeance proc and a vengeance battle spell used up by LP. Both having to back away, but TL with a lot more pryo overed for turtle 3. Yeah, and that’s a lot of vengeance says really. So, we have to not get confused with all that, but Team Liquid clearly in control of his upcoming turtle ID holding it together. They’re all five members complete here though, so they still might attempt to actually look for something. Goes for no force catching him. Good stun. Oh, wing up the kill. Final slash combo with the flicker. Kai caught in the bad spot. Still able to escape with the help with the traction pulse from Sans. And Carl securing the neutral objective for free. Now looking to catch Shadow, but Sans respects it. Flickers back. TL with a solid Leah. Sanji puts a lantern flare down and zones Sans away effectively getting this turret to mid lane for free. It’s so hard to catch Sanford on this Arlot. So maybe some are still wondering why the first pick and now it seems to be the answer as to why. He’s just too comfortable with it. Even that last minute traction pulls that came in from Sans but oh they target him now. Yeah but it’s not enough damage to take him down just yet. Vengeance vital stage over to poor bringing up a lot of damage still sustaining Sanford staying alive but play finally gets him down as Carl jumps into the back line gets the quad the shadow kill over that son’s down. SO kiting away, but OB finds a triple on the Har and it’s just SO left. Sanji wasn’t afraid to stand in front of the faces of Onic ID. Oh, Carl TZ nearly got a shadow onto Sabo. But Carl TZ and Sanji, they were the ones who did majority of the zoning and the threatening towards the backlines of Oni ID. I mean, you have to look at this. Right after the duration of the curtain call was already over, they just went around Kyrie, closed in onto the backline heroes that involves Kib Boy, that involves Sans. And now it forced Savo just to run away because he could do nothing without his other teammates. Not at this point in time, not at this part of the game wherein they definitely need to do a bit more catching up, a bit of more of farming before they could actually engage in a fight. My lord, team liquid are looking scary. JP zoning Severo in the back. Ob denying as many minions as he can, but in the end will have to take the turret. Yes, Savo gets that cannon minion. It’s all right though. Liquid have already gotten a 1,500 gold lead for OH. That’s a Starlium build. So, not the talisman that we have been seeing from Innocent Purple buff almost stolen by OH. But again, Carl’s already three levels ahead. Yeah, I don’t think Oh, wait. Sanji. Okay, still alive. But yeah, I don’t think they have to rely on OB too much in terms of dishing out the damage because the other members are doing a great job at providing that at this point like Carl Tezy, even just Sanji. So, he just has to perform exactly the way he’s been doing. Oh, wait. JP though. AG. And it’s going to be Sanji in the back picking up the kill now. Keyway with the way to dragon, but Sanford is right there too. Carl gets kicked, has the quad shadow, but brings Mr. Key Boy into a bad spot for the rest of TL to pile on him. Despite how desperately Kboy does want to set the tempo or does want to look for all of the way of the dragon. Okay, that was a zoning alt. It’s a zoning old. Not necessarily one to set. He had the flicker, but he still didn’t want to go for it either way. Yeah. Yeah. Don’t question. Don’t doubt the best XP. Yes, we are. We don’t. We don’t. He can use it later if he wanted to. Now is not the time. But oh my goodness. How does this is a This is a 8k gold lead in 10 minutes. And they have a lord marching in the bottom lane. They still have the final flash flicker combo. Oh my goodness. Sanford finding a massive one in the back and that will zone all of them away from the turret. base turret taken down with the first lord taken in the game as that’s Carl jumping with the shadow kill over to Liby translates over to the mini waves that gets cleared out and TL will move back now it’s too clean from team Liquid there are no holes in their game the final slash was right on Q just mentioned it and that’s exactly what Sanford tried to go for another attempt forced by OB are they actually going to go for this though they’re actually trying to target the turret oh but damage might have been enough to take a kill on KBO if he didn’t have the flicker. Carl Oh, finds an angle. Sanji gets the kill, I believe, with a sky piercer. I’m not even sure if he has a sky piercer. Would love to see the items right now. It is. Okay, so that makes a whole lot of sense. So, the damage from Ohev and Sani. The damage from O’H and Sanji, that’s what you need to avoid if you’re on ID. AoG to the back. The L dragon brings JP back into the base now as the crystal does a lot of damage. Looks a vengeance, but the shadow kill is doing a lot of damage there. Mini wave not ready. It’s cleared out by a wave in the bottom lane, but the base turret up top will still fall to the minions of Liquid. In 12 minutes, they have stripped Anic ID of all their base turrets. They didn’t need to help the minions up top. And with very minimal effort from Team Liquid, they get to establish this much control and lead in this game against Onyx ID. Damage dealt ranking. Clearly OH is leading the pack. Sever dealing a decent amount of damage too. But if you were to take a look at that instant replay, that still felt in a way like a punish towards that AoG. that felt I guess a bit miscalculated from JP. The other members of Team Liquid weren’t necessarily nearby to provide the necessary followup and it was probably the most uncoordinated we’ve seen so far in this game. But that still doesn’t take away the fact that it has been a clean performance from Team Liquid and that especially will hold true if they get to secure this upcoming Lord once again. A 10,000 gold lead to Team Liquid ID Philippines. My bad. Hey, that happens a lot with MPL ID on ID though. Oh, JP is looking for an angle. Finds Kyrie in the bush and zones him away. Oh, on the lord already. Keyboard with a conceal now. Walking forward. Sanford able to get the final stash into the back now. Destroying that front to back, but attraction pulls lands on Sanford. Oh, jumping in forcing away to dragon from Kboy with a lantern flare gets him back for Ohe to claim the godlike. Sanford utilizing the minions to dash like he’s a Lancelot. He let Koi through. He didn’t care because they knew that Kboy could only do so much without the other members. Another final slash still there. Kyrie in the midst of it all. Falling down. That’s a free sky piercer stack. Li with a vengeance now against everyone gets one but it’s done. Cali walks up again. Sanji lights up the base of ID and it is a stop. That’s the Liquid Stampede that we’ve been talking about for game number one. Another clean game. [Music] The priorities were too clear. Poor Team Liquid Philippines. You just knew what they wanted to go after. You just knew who they wanted to go after, who they wanted to shut down, and how they did all that together in this game. individually holding their lanes, getting past the laning phase without or with little to no struggles at all up against their counterparts. And especially when it comes to the mid trio, they were just so efficient in terms of doing what was needed of them to keep the lead growing, to keep the lead in their hands. And Onyx ID barely had opportunities to shrink this lead. It grew to more than a 10k gold lead in Team Liquid’s hands right before they ended that game. What a performance from the cavalry. Let’s hear what our panelists have to say after that game. Thank you very much, Murko and Brigita. So, I kind of feel like one of the first things that we got to talk about is that Sanford is the savior for Arlet’s win rate cuz that look that looked clean and dirty at the same time. I can hear destroyers tune already changing. Yep. Yep. Uh actually even before the game I said yes it’s s. That’s why it might work. And you know when I see the seed final slash for people I just like okay no more questions. No more questions guys. Even if he hits nobody and bring it. It’s zoning. It’s denial of the defense. And that is what makes this performance by Team Liquid all the more terrifying. It’s not necessarily a stomp the way we expect a stomp because at least they got six kills in on him. Uh it’s not a stampede in a way that it’s like a 12minut 10-minute game. It’s more of a unstoppable object that you see coming at you at about 2 m hour, but you know you can’t stop it. You know it’s coming your way like oh no, what do I do? So now gentlemen, honestly I think this is a very important question to ask. Looking back at wild cards, MWI group stages and now to the knockout stage. We saw both Stormmy as well as Carl saying like they understand the meta. So right now I just want to ask the both of you your thoughts. What do you think is the meta now? And I’m not even talking about heroes. I’m talking about how do you approach the game now? Rotations and uh triple mid, that’s the main key. That’s the main opportunity. Win early game, that’s the main focus you should make. And here are the stats. So, uh, oh, by the way, the carry, you see the damage. You see that damage and there is the hero returns. Yep. Uh, the way Oh, he built it. Uh, if we will have time to show the items, he built it the oldfashioned way. You build a Starleium scythe, you build a feather of heaven, and then Bob’s your uncle. Uh, to build on, uh, there it is. You’ll see folks the item run through that we’re talking about. There you go. 707 on the young Kale, OBiano, Mid Trio. Yes, destroyer. We mentioned that and what it leads to are better laning for your side laners, better rotations with the exp joining turtles scoring three out of three, better rotations from your gold laners joining fights earlier again unlocking OHB so that he gets this kind of a kill score and better team fights in general. If your trio mid are able to engage sooner and call fights better, then everything else just falls for your opponent. like they’re forced to split the map and then find just crumbs and then you end up with 10k gold lead and that’s was the question before the game when we saw Cho. So the question was for what whom you going to one shot like okay you want chain uh control take something else but like the show you need the burst damage you need to nuke out your opponent. Yeah, honestly like looking all this entire month, it really is about this early game, this mid game feels much more volatile compared to all the previous metas where it it almost looks like it doesn’t matter if you lose the early as long as you have an okay mid transition into late, then you’re good. You’re golden. But in this meta doesn’t seem like that’s really the case where like you said, team fights seem a little bit more important now compared to before. and that early to mid that’s like the key spot where all the teams they really got to draft their way to make sure that they have a good spot in that in that time zone and it’s very rare now that a team can just give up turtle one and two and then go from there has to be some way during even turtle 2 let’s say you just gave up one whatever bad things happen you give up turtle one and then two by two you should be planning it used to be that by turtle 3 that’s when you start to bounce back but now you have to consider again the very early early mid and even how you find your power spike. Even if you are planning to give up for turtle 2, please adjust to the rotations and take something for it. I mean like exchange for the turret, exchange for the enemy jungle, but exchange, don’t just give up it. I kind of feel like that’s the biggest point is that now like you really got to focus on those turtles because even in the previous meta when you have an assassin in the jungle you almost like I’m just going to sacrifice sort of one and two I’m just going to go for their buff let them take the the the turtle but even now when we see the lances come in the hayabooas coming the joy come they have to construct a draft so that they can still contest that turtle which honestly is a very good adjustment to the meta but also maybe teams that try to go for a little bit too late of a draft is going to get heavily punished in this current meta which makes all the more SRG OG’s win in series 1 of today so impressive they are a late game team they understand the dynamics of pushing it past 15 minutes but they beat a team like which again now looking back on PH it seems like they’ve they’ve lost themselves in the current metag game they don’t know how to trade as effectively now in this current atmosphere now the question stands does Onyx ID get it cuz Now they have to answer that question. They have to answer the liquid. Also one important thing we see like for example Zatan at the beginning it appeared pretty often but for now we even don’t see it. What does she add to this formula as a question? Yes. So nothing actually changed but we see that okay we adopted we understand that is it doesn’t work. the same thing. I actually I’m expecting I hope that uh teams will understand it. Kimmy is she needs too much time. Yes, you got Fredin but still we see that’s not enough when the higher tier you go the further you go like for the tournament the higher tier opponent you got they understand let’s go in face let’s push first let’s take let’s make a pressure to that goal. Yeah. right now. Like while we’re talking, let’s look at the reaction coming in from the audience because again, that was quite an opening game to this entire match, this entire series. And yeah, I really feel like for both teams cuz TPH, they really have this stampede going on. And even though you said it wasn’t really a stop, I kind of feel like it was enough, right? Because I think this is the big difference between professional players and everyone else. For us, 10 seconds feels like a short time. For them, 10 seconds feels like an entire week. They got to achieve so many things in that small time frame. So, I really feel like we’re moving towards a meta where you don’t farm that much. You just got to get that going on quickly. And that’s the magic of Liquid. They understood that. Now, it’s not just talk cuz again, Stormy said earlier they get it and it shows. Now, Liquid Sanford, they get it. And we saw what’s Onyx to do. What’s Onyx to show and to say cuz besides besides OB aura farming aura farming legit when he just drops diamond force it’s over. You know what’s you know what’s up. How does Onyx answer to that? How do they make this historic encounter worthy and the crazy thing is if I check the stats correct between Kyrie and going up against Carl is actually more Kyrie favor where I believe he won six times and Carl wins five times. So if Carl wins this one, then they basically equalize. But also just to show how close of a match up between Kyrie and Carl really is. That’s the match of the day. But no, it’s not the match of the day because previously we also saw I mean uh when we checked uh SRG, OG and Oni, right? It was also a tough uh match a really interesting game. And here is like uh they they got to fight for honor and uh who going to win? I have no idea. But for now, I see that team liquid, you know, they are more confident about the current meta. Well, again, because this is the Saudi National Bank match of the day, we’re we’re going to watch this extend forward. And so far, it does look like blue side is heavily favored, right? cuz as of right now, crazy to think we’re already on a second series, still 100% win rate. We’ll see if it changes or not. But this does mean that Onik ID should be picking up that first pick slot and we can see if they have what it takes to take down Team Liquid with that first pick advantage. And this is definitely another check for Liquid. Sure, you win flawlessly, amazingly, spectacularly in game one from blue, but we know blue is strong. How do you do it from red? What is the approach to the draft? How do you switch it up so that Kyrie doesn’t end up with a hero that he’s comfortable with, aka an assassin, and how do you shut down the natural strengths of the rest of their lineup? Because I’m watching game one. Yeah, I don’t see Sans. I don’t see I don’t even see Savo. None of them performed the way we expected them to. Sure, Key Boy found possible kicks, but the CH was a big question mark to begin with. Yes. So, a lot of questions. Uh, but the thing that I know going to happen 1,000%. Team Liquid going to ban Yun Shin. So, the thing that Lapel mentioned right before the game one, they remove it all the time and they just don’t want they understand that they not going to play with this hero. Oh, better remove it and make your opponent think, “Okay, this is mind game. What’s happening? They are tricky with us.” And just let your opponent of guard. Yep. Actually, speaking of that, I still remember during the group stages, it was actually Anik that let go of the Euchin and then fight back the AMA. I don’t think they will do it here, but we’ll see. And for you guys at home, make sure you guys grab the MSE pass quickly because again, it’s gonna expire soon enough. As of right now, the MSE pass is still 20% off. So, this is a good time for you guys to grab that for yourself because there’s an opportunity for you guys to purchase the previous skins like Natan Arken of Knowledge. So, again, complete those tasks to get those MSC coins. Now, back to the back to the fight here for the draft. We heard from Destroyer. We’re not going to be seeing any kind of Y and Shin. My my my thought process here is that we saw that Frederick is strong. But it looks like it’s not just that Kai the Hayabusa especially in the hands of Carl is looking pretty good. Will we see Kyrie on those assassins just to just to get that tempo back uh for for Onyx ID? I think Hayabusa should be a bigger priority for coach Jeb and coach Adi given that in all of first series today in all of Onic PH versus SRG we didn’t see a shadow of Hayabusa and I think that there was something fishy about that but now assuming that Onyx does go oh lord what onyx change okay uh well I mean TL is blue and I guess they’re sticking there so the same game plan you see the Same. Nothing has a change. Nothing changed. Nothing changed. And uh there’s the question mark if they got a B. Okay. No Arlo bun. So there you go. So we follow Logic. Where does Onyx take a turn? Where do they change their draft? I feel pick up your rumor quickly. So cuz maybe even Yums in the previous match there was not many options. So they pick up the Cho. So maybe just Yep. Changing that one now. Picking up the Gatwatcha as well as the Frederick. So there’s the change. There’s a major revision. Liquid, they lose JP’s hero. What do they put on dad? They adjusted to the draft. They absolutely understood that. Okay, show didn’t work. So, let’s take catcher. And here comes the adjustment also from the team liquid. So, they’re taking Granger and instantly instantly juicing. Yeah, the problem is here. I kind of want something like a farough. You just got to be careful of the arrowlet. But again, something with more damage. Selena, Fara, Valentina, something of that nature. But that also exposes Sans and that lets Liquid attack him all the more despite all the bands that can still come going into second phase. The CC is put onto Loot P. So this I get again, you want to protect Sans, but maybe second to Kyrie and maybe your team captain KB boy. Sans is the guy. He’s Gilok for a reason. So they’re protecting him now. How do you go by the second phase? Onic can crack down on more junglers again. Take out the Ha. Take out the Haya. Take out the Akai. What are you going to do, Carl? It’s a good question. And also I’m thinking, you know, and what’s about Kadita for the on? So actually if you want to protect, maybe the best protection is by yourself. So it’s also an opportunity and you got the combination with CC and G catcher and also Fred and there are a lot of CC and you can combine it honestly. Yeah, that is a lot of control. Fred got dot CC. That’s a very you don’t get to move kind of draft. You just need the kind of damage to follow through to finish what you started. Loi gets banned here by Liquid. So they know that that’s one of the ways they can get blindsided again. very directionally oriented their lineup is currently there’s a lot of initiative but if you don’t know where your opponents are coming from say goodbye to successful engagements on do they take out more rors looks like they’re banning out the Akai I mean like to be fair they have a lot of ways to make sure that opponent doesn’t get a move and the Akai can kind of protect it the only request that I have you know I would say preference is that pick up a mid laner with AoE damage because I kind of feel like single target would just kind of wasted a little bit for they took out the two reliable AoE mid laners, the Farsa and the Loi. Do you Selena now? Because it’s a little too spelt out. Valentina is more spread out. I guess in a way you can make Kadita spread out as well. Um Selena is a good pick. It’s just that I’m worried it’s just two one pick offish. What if Kimmy? Kimmy. No, no, no, no, no, no. Please, please, please, please, please. Okay. I’m I’m okay with her a lot right now if Sanford playing her lot, but uh I don’t like the Kimmy. You don’t like JP? Um, what if JP What if JP Arlet? I’m okay also. And last pick. Last pick. It’s It’s kind of smart. It’s kind of smart. And I like it because there are several options. Alpha, welcome back. Alpha in the jungle. First time in MSE 2025. The goat takes it into his own hands. And an old favorite, too. The high loss. Regardless, I don’t care about your defenses. I got true damage. I’m the stampede, baby. What a what a game. Wow. And the last pick and it’s if I’m not I’m not sure about if you know I like the composition from the both sides actually especially my heart team took my heart. I mean like I requested for AoE. Eve has a lot of AOE but the thing is once the stampede starts coming through Eve has no dashes to protect herself. This is very stampede coded for Liquid to dig that deep. I’m excited. Well, thank you very much, Leo, as well as Destroyer. But now we got to throw it back to Brigittita and Miracle. Stampedes, dives, the Spear of Alpha, and a Glorious Pathway making its comeback in game number two of the semi-finals between Team Liquid Philippines up against Onyx Indonesia. Could it be a potentially better scenario this time around for Onyx ID or will the surprise picks literally take them by surprise again here in this series? Welcome to game number two. I’m going ask you first, how did you feel about this um entire alpha hyos? Yeah, I mean I see the angle for kill. They really want to go for the stampede. Hey, they don’t even want to just go for stampede. We saw stampede in game one. This is what we call a possible stompy. They want to stop Onyx ID right here. They know after winning game one in that fashion. If they dominate game two, they might have Onic ID tilted, they might be able to get a game three where they could do something else, you know, maybe show up another crazy experimental pick. And it’s great to see this kind of unorthodox, right? I mean, this is it’s weird to say unorthodox with Alpha Hyos, which has been in the meta for so long, but it is in this meta. We haven’t seen Hyos in a while, especially not Rome. Uh, Alpha, did we even see it in the stage? No, he was in the yet to be used heroes. So, there you go. One more hero to add to the list. It just goes to show how flexible this meta is, how open it is. Sanford on the Arlet though is what I’m scared about. Like, we see all these new picks, but I’m like, man, Sanford on Arlet. Yeah, it’s it’s showing how flexible the meta is, but also how comfortable Team Liquid is in terms of the current meta because they’re just they’re just so confident in terms of bringing out all these picks because they they’re just so familiar with how you’re supposed to use these kinds of heroes in the first place. I mean, this is something not necessarily what we know of Daddy JP when it comes to the setups. It’s not the jaw heads, it’s not all that, but in essence, it still suits the way JP does play a Rome role really, really well. And especially with how aggressive Sanji and Sanport have been. I think I think if any Carl’s the one who’s a little more on the calmer side, if you compare it to the Sansan duo right now for Team Liquid, they’re literally making things happen. But Onyx ID right now, they’ll be the ones to first position themselves in the turtle. Oh man, they won the bottom lane fight as well. Lip forced back is low has been regen. Sanji going to be caught by these void blasts but Carl’s been doing a good job there. RBM coming down over to Carl T is going to be taught over as well and that will be the first kill over S first blood. Kyrie picks up the turtle and it is a two kill start in the second minute of the game for Onyx ID. Yep. That brief moment where Sanford just had his attention onto Luti and didn’t necessarily land the stun was something on ID did capitalize on. Ooh, Crimson Beacon kept him safe there for a bit. has the flicker two. Sanford joining in the fight. Lancer player almost getting the last reset for Sanford to jump in again, but see this is the gamble you take when you go for a draft like this. Yes, you can stall. You can stomped. You can get your power spake a bit early, but if you lose another time for key boy Kyrie goes in and the damage should be enough. Suns putting it down. A Fraser’s flat big bonk away. Not in the sweet spot, but it is still enough to take the horse down. He got his level four. He nearly had the glorious pathway and walked out of that wall. So, he could have potentially walked away, but Onic ID denied that from him. Carl TC still got his purple buff. But yes, I feel like in as much as Team Liquid has such a great comp in terms of its ability to dive, it can be heavily punished by Onyx ID 2 if they don’t get to use it the right way. the real world manipulation, the AOG, and I feel like even our panelists have been very vocal about wanting a bit more AoE. And Onyx ID has so much of that, like they could literally set the tempo for a team fight, set the box, and win that fight if all things go according to plan. And this is the underrated game of Seo on the Moskov, too. You would expect usually for the Moscow to really just ignore first few turtles, but Seo’s always been that active gold laner. That’s why he’s been preferred over CW in this season. He’s more aggressive from the start of the game. He’s just more aggressive in general. And yeah, we saw him participate in the first neutral objective battle earlier with the SOD. And this is a signature pick. We’ve seen him play this since MDL since Liga National in Indonesia. Yep. And it was such a perfect sod too because Carl at that time was just right at the corner of the real world manipulation. So it was so easy to land because again there was a brief stun. before you actually get to walk out of it. But there’s a charge. KBO doesn’t go in with the unbreakable. JP holding the turtle, but is already a bit gked down. Oh, Key Boy landed the taunt into Sanford there. Harry carries to the taunt as well over to Sanji. Just a bit of poke over back and forth. Ko popping revitalized now. Stats get the AOG used defensively. The RBM zones in the backline as gets popped up. Liby pops in vengeance gets away. Sod lands besides the flicker combo there, but it’s a threeax from Koy. So joins in. Pure misery actually puts KZ away from the page of crash and it’s going to be Kyrie brought back again. Sanford jumping in will fall to Sans in the bush. So Barrow doing damage now lifted up and will be able to flicker out to safety. Sans with a clean up again finding the double. Oh, he and Carl on the turtle. Kai looking for an angle here. There is no retribution for both Carl and Kai. It will be Oh, he with a dead sonata. Oh my goodness. A great fight done by both teams. And although Team Liquid were the ones who were able to stay a bit longer in the turtle, nonetheless, Onic ID, they still had their chances there. Sabo went in at just the right time. Yes, did probably put Carl TZ in a much safer position. But either way, still pose a threat. So, Team Liquid couldn’t fully proceed with the fight. And I could say the same for Team Liquid, too. The way JP just decided to make use of the glorious pathway to dive right into where Sans decided to put down that real world manipulation made them really uncomfortable. But now once again in the mid lane there seems to be another fight. Uh-oh. Key boy caught in a tough spot. Has the AOG doesn’t get it cancelled. It was so close. You could see the lantern flare almost pick him up. But the gold difference here mainly it’s up for Sans 4 and one on the Eve. And we’ve seen how it can carry games. It’s just now how do they deal with the clinch? JP pops in the conceal on the hyos. Yeah, Kyrie right there to back Seo up in case anything crazy happens and he won’t walk in the bush. You know, no Kumar moments. Not here. No, no, no. They for sure know that they’re there, right? Like they’re not going to try and check. Yeah, they know. So, Ver knows he’s going to back away, but they still want to force an eye out. Sanji walks up. Key boy with a taunt, but it’s only JP and it will be a trade. Turret down below for a turret up top. Okay, Luke B’s has been working on the turrets for now. That’s just all that he’s been doing so far. But yeah, interesting how the idea that Team Liquid does want to do with this lineup is somehow answered back by Onyx ID for multiple times in a row now whenever they do try to engage in a team fight because I feel like even just the energy eruption, it gives that delay that buys enough time for Onyx ID to already set things up, especially when Team Liquid PH does decide to dive in. We haven’t even seen a successful Spear of Alpha just yet. Coming in from Carl TZ2. Might have been an option for him to use it a bit more defensively for the past few minutes of the game. But now will they try to actually go for another engage with the taunt again? JP to cancel it out now with the Lord back with final slash flicker in the back line. But sounds posited a real world in time keep the wind with the retri battle as that’s the RBM already out. So landing some arrow piercing through CZ cutting back with OB and it’s a back and forth battle with the vengeance popped in again over to Ly and somehow the minions get the turret in the mid lane and it becomes two for one. M team could have managed the wave pretty well or Onyx ID might have stayed a bit too long trying to wait for the right opportunity trying to set up for that fight which happened in the turtle just now and so we see how Team Liquid are actually able to keep up in terms of the sustained team fights. Carl TZ as long as you don’t get to burst him down. The true damage is definitely definitely there. Uh, it does threaten Onic ID to a certain extent, but you could say the same, Liy, that vengeance, it just does so much. But yeah, the gold lead between our gold laners, I did not actually know it was this significant. It didn’t look like it, right? I mean, now OA has three kills. He’s been stacking up kills slowly but surely, but yeah, you wouldn’t expect that big of a lead. I guess the gold crab has really just been given over to every time just because ID have always kind of ignored the gold lane. They wanted to play Seo at weak side and Savo’s been leaving lane a lot. Yeah, that’s true. So, they might have not put that much attention into Ohe and that might be the thing that’ll bite them in the back as this game progresses because they I don’t even think you could say they’ve completely shut down Team Liquid just yet. It’s just that it’s been a bit uncomfortable for them. Y whenever the team fights do break out, but it’s it’s not like they always lose out when you look at the bigger picture. It’s somehow there are just a bit more advantages if you look at on ID and the way they’re able to keep themselves a bit more alive with a bit more with a bit more HP after each fight happens. But I think you also have to look at the macro because it’s it’s beyond how OH is surprisingly in the lead. They unknowingly let go of turrets and I don’t think that should be happening up against a team like Team Liquid. Nope. The Goldie is completely gone for Onyx now. Oh, final slash the flicker combo over to Kyrie and he’s going to be bursted down to the spear of Alpha. Oh, picks up the kill. The AOG defensively as Carl Ty gets chunked out but is still able to survive. That’s going to be Luke jumping with the vengeance and it’s still the retreat from Carl. Oh, gets a double. The SOD lands, but he cannot take it. Oh, the Filipino sniper with a triple. And you wonder how many stacks he already has on this Granger on the Sky Piercer with a 6 standing. It’s been a relatively quiet game for Team Liquid, but now that he’s online, that definitely changes things up. Sun’s alive. Cambu gets a kill on Sanji. A bit too aggressive, but yeah. Oh, son’s got to be careful there. Kai holding in. What? Yeah, Sanji, I guess they just walked up a bit too aggressive. That is the play style we’ve been seeing from Sanji, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he might have done that, but you have to be a bit more careful now for Team Liquid. They finally regain the lead in this game. They’re the ones with the Lord. Onic ID will definitely have to work on that first. They get to reveal Team Liquid through the magic sentry and they have the slows here and there. Oh, final slash once again to Koi. Mhm. But the RBM’s right there and a double taunt comes in from Ko and Kai. The SOD lands as well and the brazes wrath does enough to take him down. K with the spear of Alpha Liy spacing away perfectly. Sanford down. Lord down ID defended without losing a holy shield. Okay. Okay. They still have all their holy shields. They have not not no I mean they they took down the mid. So that’s just one. But maybe not key boy if you’re Team Liquid. Yeah, like maybe not go for Key Boy. That’s true. There are so much other options. I mean, he was definitely the most accessible one, but he has the AoG. So, they’ll have to take note of that moving forward because I don’t think that was the first time they actually tried to go for a setup and Key Boy was the one on the receiving end and they just got out. Oh, wait. Spirit of Alpha from Carl. The gold pathway cutting Kai in the back line. Braz comes down as The AOG locks him down the back. Double taunt over has a lot of piercing damage. S with the real world manipulation. Zone call jumps in with the spear. Alva gets Sans gets a double LP. Zone to the back. Now Sanford walking up. Zan still cutting away now. Pops in the void blast as he kites again and evades from a lot of those shots. But OB continues with the siege in the bottom lane pushing out the dead Sonata. And it will be a base turret for TL as they look to push in mid. Now they might just try to look for another one, but Kyrie will be here to try and defend and clear the minion waves. Everything changes when Kartzi finds the right positioning. Yes, he did go down, but you saw how he just blocked everyone off and just applied the right amount of true damage, much to a point where Kyrie, he just needed one last hit and he finally would have went down. So, aside the fact that Sea was one of the first few ones to actually get taken down in that fight, Onik definitely needed to play it a bit more carefully right after that happened because OH was still alive. And OV right now is 701, level 15, probably already complete in terms of his items or just lacking at most one. So, this is where things can potentially change. Oh, yeah, he has complete items. Even the wind of nature who has the better front to back conceal already. Lip be cancelceled. Key boy still in the front now going to be sunned up by JP as he goes into the back. Carl still wins out the battle of the AOG defensively as even spear alpha landing on two but doing so much damage. Sanji div to the back. Savo get the kill. Wind of nature from still stunned up. Savo able to flick around to safety as Carl still holds his ground. Oh that’s another one landing looking for the chase. Sero gets away and Any again trade out two for one. And it’s worth it for TL. Su could have actually done much more. But the thing is, you’d feel too hesitant if the majority of your teammates are already running away. That’s a purple buff. Still taken by Kyrie, but there’s a Lord. Li is going to make it in time. He still has 5 seconds on the death timers, but I feel like Team Liquid will be paying attention to the other lanes for now. At least respecting Onic ID and their capabilities to defend because despite what’s been happening so far in this game, Savo, you can already feel his damage. He is definitely a threat, especially with a or once there is a failed attempt from Team Liquid. Sandport could definitely get punished later on. Oh, spirit of Alpha over to Kai. RBM locks Carl down. That’s the winner crown to buy some time. AoG lands a double top from Koi. Kyrie in front. The final times away from SO Havoc throughout this fight. SOD from Savo as they get the spear of misery but goes in again. Gets shot down by Ohhead with the raps city and Onyx are looking for the chase. Savo with the blade piercing damage overhead as Li chases again. Ohead gets out. Still somehow has his flicker intact. Sans hovering over zoning OH for protecting this tier 2. Three members down they will try to clear the waves from a distance but it will be enough on ID gain access to one base turret from the cavalry and that’s exactly what we talked about those small errors that could completely be turned around by ID given the nature of their lineup. A single realworld manipulation in response to a failed attempt could mean everything to ID. The damage came through from Sans. That realworld manipulation, but in that skirmish, we got to give props over to Key Boy. Yeah, he was the one keeping everyone there. The AoG landed, the taunt came in as well. That is not Sero. Oh, he had this nice zero and one. He’s still almost fully stacked up again. would love to see the stacks on OH right now cuz despite all of this, despite the front line already getting dismantled, yeah, he stays alive without using flicker. This man’s positioning is immaculate. H he did he go for a item change right there because I feel like he had the wind of nature earlier already, but he bought it again right now. So maybe there was a bit of buy and sell, especially in that last clash which happened. I will get to confirm that later on. But this is looking to be a game that Onyx ID might have gotten themselves back into. They actually have the lead already. Even matter at this point is the question, right? Have all the carries gone to their power spikes. Sans and OB, eyes on them. It comes down to the front to back. And it’s not the gold lane here. Savo is the added bonus because he has the SOD. He has ways to break the front line. The main damage source though in a lot of these team fights is Sans for Onyx ID. Yeah, I mean Team Liquid do have decent range, but it’s through OH Sans. His kind of range is different. It’s just it just affects few. Yeah, it affects so much more than poking heroes down, poking certain members down. Oh, but wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. JP, too. Jane CC there. L doing a lot of damage again. Sanford with the final slash able to find S but it’s going to be flicker out but they dive in the back line with Sani crimson beacon it’s Sans in the back line targeted taken out so barrel able to get the crown away now kiting away JP popped down with fear of misery they’re kinding over to oh l unable to get into frame oh with the flinker gets the kill and gets out of nature now on go final SL landing it’s cuting away again Kyrie in the backline trying to go for something but he cannot with a chase immortality down for oh he pops in with a nature and now gets chain CCD to the ground. Team Liquid have wiped on ID out. Individual highlight plays just to make it out alive. Winter crowns coming in from Carl even though it got so messy. It’s a wipe out ID. They only have Sans to defend this. Oh, they got a minute wave to come in again. That’s going to be the RBM to zone them in the back. But it is enough for Onyx ID to stay in this game and TL because of that move. I don’t think they can blitz the lord. No, they can’t. They can’t. They can’t. Oh, not there too. That was a shut down on by the way. Whoever got the kill on Zero. He definitely got a lot of bounty out of that. And now he’s keeping up. I I I don’t think keeping up even is the right term because in that fight he was the one who served as a massive threat. That last minute window of nature if it weren’t for the knock up on the lantern flare done by Sanji there that could have been a turnaround or a way for ID to keep themselves alive once more or even convert into the lord because if if was there then they could have been the ones to blitz the lord but team liquid Philippines are they looking for a different route? They need to they need to break this front to back. They were able to access Sans, right? It was Sanji and JP getting an angle somehow through the jungles of Anik to get that flank to happen. That that was what made Sanford’s sacrifice worth it. And in the end, he didn’t even need to sacrifice because they were were able to get the shut down. And Any instead of defending Sans, they were like, “All right, Sans is a lost cause at that point, right? Everybody was piling on him. We needed to go for something else.” And that’s why they just dove on OH. But the call is different for Oh, Sabo all alone. Kiwi might be able to help him though, but they’re absolutely going to go for him. Hey, the base is wide open. This could be the signature play. The base going to be targeted down here by Oh, the mid wave going to be cancelceled out. Wo to the PH. A massive gapple. S with the chase down now as Liy pushes in mid lane. Smortality in time. Pops in a void blast as well. JP going to be caught as well. Can they recall? will not be able to cancel as he gets the recall in time and it ends up just being Sanford left to sacrifice. He gets out with a vengeance. Darn you, Sanford. That’s the Arlet. That’s Sanford on the Arlet for you. Still alive and will get to recall. Carl Tzy and JP were taken out in that sequence though. So this means I will be a lot more encouraged to take this objective. But Sanji, he’s walked up front. Do they have enough damage is the question. Ly has the vengeance. Keep boiling for the taunt. Sanford reads it out. Ob shooting them now. Ludy joining in the fight again. Real world of blation with a taunt down. Sanford with the vengeance now. But it’s going to be the vengeance over from Li. Final slash and they go for the chase. Kyrie gets the evolved lord. And now they must back. They will back. 20 minutes in. A turn around for ID. Luckily enough, even without anything to use the vengeance on, Sanji was there helping Sanford, making sure he still got to survive the vengeance. The potential turn that could have been done by Onyx ID. But nonetheless, I feel like there wasn’t any much threat. Kyrie still had the retribution during that moment. So, it was almost sure, it was almost guaranteed that they definitely would be the ones getting the objective. And now, that’s what Team Liquid is trying to work on. But Key Boy, he’s also looking for an angle himself. Conceal gets spotted out by Sanford though. And Team Liquid use the conceal for themselves as well. Wait, wait, wait. Sanji, this could be the angle, but he’s forced to recall. Evolve Lord. They’re playing with a damage reduction now as Sans continuously just pushing forward. RWM locking Carl TZ down, forcing the spear of Alpha defensively. Lord going to be dealt with. Carl TZ very low. Savo kiting away with a piercing damage doing a whole lot to TL. But again, TL have a lot of shred. Carl and Ohe if they continue to push will be able to clear out these lards pretty easily. Yeah, but will they be confident enough to look for a fight? They still have to deal with the incoming waves. You would have thought that maybe because they know that there’s no real world manipulation anymore for Onyx ID, but there’s a lot of housekeeping you need to do. you can’t allow Onyx ID an opening as well because I feel like they’ll be capable enough to go for a split push or a different way to end things especially through Savo similar to how Team Liquid attempted to do that earlier. I mean that play was it was definitely a highlight right the way they took that gamble down bottom and tried to end it there. So now Team Liquid they have to stay composed. I know it does feel like they were the ones in the better position for majority of the game, but things are completely different right now and that’s maybe why you also sense a bit of desperation in terms of the calls. They know they’ve been outscaled. This is a problem now for Liquid. The big one damage from Carl. Just the use of that hero in general at this point. Team Liquid are really just playing for OH. If OH gets the kills, if he’s still able to get those sky piercer stacks up, he’ll win them the game. But Onik ID have a lot more. They have a CC, a Moscow, a ye so much more damage to play with now that we’re in the late game. That’s so much sustained damage. That’ll be very favorable for them. If ever the team fight does get a bit extended, not to mention Savo. Now Sanford might just try to look for an angle though. Hold out. They got to be careful. JP with the flank. He finds Sans in the back now. Able to find the stun, but it’s going to be the zone out from Li pops in the current call. A locking him down as well. Safaro doing so much. Sil for Sans. Key boy still surviving. That’s a revival. But Ko’s too darn tanky. Safar with the SOD falling in again onto C. TZ kill over. O got the kill on Sans. It’s a one for zero and Onyx ID have lost one of their main damage dealers. It happened again. PSG landing on Carl Tezy, but him holding on that winter crown and even having the immortality still on ID could not proceed with this fight. Not with Sans or not without Sans and that results in a lord that’ll finally go into the hands of Team Liquid. They still have ways to defend this though. They still have Seo. It might Yeah, Sans will definitely make it. The Lord is going to spawn a bit later in this game and all their resources are going to be up by then. So, they definitely will have a way to deal with this. But how does Team Liquid try and approach this? Because so far, the team fights that they’ve been winning out on are the team fights wherein they come in from the most unexpected angles across the map where they get to use the glorious pathway to really block away members. Wait, wait. Where’s Right. Yeah. Oh, he sold it. He sold it and bought. Okay. What’s he going to buy? So, he’s selling again. He knows he’s not going to get any value out of that. So, he buys the wind in nature. There he goes. Zero stacks on sky piercer. Okay. Kyona in the front kn right now as Keway gets caught with the final stash and will just be disintegrated has immortality though. The AOG was canceled out. Now is able to go for the clear onto it. AoG getting him out. Kyrie still looking for the taunt. Oh, he still there. Ara dodged away from Oh, he jumps in again. Immortality buys across the board. So, barrel with the rose gold meteor. The Lord already into the crystal. The SOD lighting in the back land as American. One more hit. Throw back again. Liquid Philippines lose all their members, but Anik ID lose their crystal. That could have been a moment. Key Boy already found the taunt. He found the taunt onto Ohe. And you would think that was a very risky play because the marksman, their gold leader wasn’t there anymore. Team Liquid Philippines fought with the only remaining resources and people that they had in that fight. And we saw each and every one of them up until the very end risking it. Just focusing everything on the base. Carl and even Sanji, he still had the Crimson Beacon. He walked up towards the base and the way that the Lord was still up. That was also another way that Team Liquid were able to find the end angle in this game. On ID, they definitely were set on looking for the kill on OH, but that didn’t translate into much. Now, let’s hear what our panelists have to say after that very long game we had for game number two. Thank you very much. Considering how long that game was, I can’t believe I’m saying this this early. We already have match point for Team Liquid. And again, for some reason, blue side first pick still gets that W. And we expected Onyx to switch up. But something else we did not expect is the return of the Alpha and the Hyos. And I’ll tell you now, highlight plays coming from Daddy JP. I never thought he could make a Hyos do that. How could you sneak up around and somehow still find a way to singularly stun Sans, drop a glorious pathway to block the entry and the protection from Onic ID to get to the point where we are when we ended. That’s a nightmare. Harus was super amazing, but I also want to highlight Savo. I really liked his play and Sans, I don’t know if that guys couldn’t survive. Uh, it would be a 10-minut game, but Sans, he was trying to make everything he can just to defend the base. And I really feel like it really is actually punishing those front lines because in the previous keys to victory, make sure you punish those front lines. Something that SRG does. And this is what we see coming in from uh TLBH that Alpha yes has a lot of shred, a lot of true damage, but even the Arlet as well, whoever’s up front, he’s able to take care of it. Like you said, DD JP making sure that the backline, sure, they can still deal damage, but it’s going to take some time cuz he’s going to stun them first. To be fair, there were some moments of brilliance from Onyx as well. If you’ll recall in that very final sequence about 20 seconds, 30 seconds before the base broke, Key Boy had a stroke of genius. That was his easy equals empty squared moment. He concealed and ran through all the chaos and up and taunted Ohe got him killed and that bought them maybe 10 more seconds. But he was hoping for all hope that they would be able to clear and defend. But at the end of the day, Liquid knew what they were doing. That was, I’d say, one of the first times I’ve ever seen that kind of end angle to be able to just cause enough mayhem for the Lord and the rest of the minions to finish the job. But still, you know, my emotions like it was still a roller coaster. You still Okay, on can on can. And even when Team Liquid was trying to finish the pace, you one second, one second. And you feel like And you saw the emotions like Ko was, “Oh my god, he understood one more second and they could win that game.” Yeah. Playing uh playing a high loss like an Natalia going to the backline and then helping that initiation. Heck, now I I I got to look at my own high loss, baby. Like, yo, I got I got stuff to do. I got I got to teach this old dog new tricks. Yep. Big four by the end of that game were both OH and JP. Damage taken, most assists, most damage dealt, most farm. If Baby Cakes is Carl Te and OHB, what is OHB and JP? Cuz that’s a new connection that we’ve seen flourish here in the knockout stage of MSE 2025, I’m here for it. I want to see more of them. Gentlemen, we’re at match point and I kind of feel like Onik ID needs to take their time to restrategize going into this matchup. So, we’re going for a very short break, but after this, we’re going to resume and see if Onik ID can push us further or Team Eli Liquid Philippines will be the second team to go to the grand finals. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [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. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Hey. [Music] Hey. Hey. This land is calling. [Music] [Music] [Music] The semi-final resumes with match point for Team Liquid. Welcome back to the English broadcast here at the panel. And we predict at least four games. And I got to say, game number two, that was very close. That was very close, but still until the crystal is broken, you can’t really say that you won. Welcome back. My name is Ael. Alongside with me is Destroyer as well as Leo Destroyer. Looking at this matchup, is it really ID making the mistake or is it just Team Liquid is just too strong? I would like to say that team liquid is too strong but uh as you mentioned there were like nearly come back and the problem like every inch it depends what’s going to happen and uh exactly in that period of time on they miss that inch they need a little more time like 30 seconds like 2 seconds somewhere they just moved in a wrong pattern but still they can do it I trust in them I believe in them and I think we can see much more. They warmed up. They are ready for it. And I got to say Team Liquid with that kind of win, I believe Liquid fans are feeling really good because just going to take this moment to remind everyone that the club championship, Team Liquid was uh number seven if I’m not mistaken. Now being in top four, I believe their number move up. But if they become champions, then hey, it’s going to be looking pretty good. And in fact, we’re going to look at the EWC Club Championship presented by STC. As of right now, Team Liquid is number four. Y this is a this is a huge movement coming in. Um if they are able to become eventually champions, they could keep up or they could catch up with Falcons as well as Vitality. Huge gains possibly on the horizon for Team Liquid because they are one game away from making it to the grand finals. And if it’s the same form that they bring into tomorrow’s best of seven, I can’t see a universe where they don’t eventually take home the title. Like this is the cleanest, the strongest, the best we’ve ever seen. Liquid. Yeah. But one thing that we got to talk about here is that Falcons for them to be eligible, for them to be able to use this points, they need at least one title win, which they haven’t gotten just yet. So honestly the points are looking good but they need to secure one win and that puts pressure on Team Liquid as well cuz if they win then higher chance for them to win it this year. So actually it depends for the clubs. It’s like a competition, real competition because Falcons need to win, Liquid needs to win and here is the best option for the Team Liquid to go to the better results. And I got to say, Team Liquid looks like they have a very good chance here, Leo. A great chance. Again, we’ve seen them sweat, but isn’t that part of the game to uh to put effort to exert yourself? They haven’t lost just yet. They haven’t dropped the ball. They’ve dribbled it. Sure, they’ve stumbled. They fumbled, but they rolled over, land on their feet, and then kept going at 100 mph. That game two ending. Oh my lord. You could have just clipped the last minute and said, “Guess how we end up here.” No one could tell you what happened there in that game. And that’s what makes how you’re saying, Destroyer, there is hope for Onyx. Number one, where how do they start? Go blue. Go blue. Go blue. and then and then try to stop this madness of this is a a point that is dawned on me and made more uh concrete by a good friend of ours, Ray Ash. He he’s in my ear. He’s like, “Yo, they’re cornering Kyrie, bro. They’re forcing Kyrie on the Fred to deny the Arlet Fred combo from Liquid because that alone could ruin anything.” Something is to tell them. Yellow is too 2024, 2025. Saw blue. Saw blue. Oh, that’s good. That’s good, guys. So for now, the blue side, you know, is chosen by and it’s TL. Yes, it’s TTL. A wise man by the name of Vas Montenegro once said, “Can I tell you the definition of insanity?” Oh, when you do the same and you expect another result. Yes. Well, hey, hey, sometimes you got to be a bit loco to get the W. But now we’re looking at draft here. As you guys know, TBH blue side, Any on red, Fanny, Yen, and Fovia is banned out by Team Liquid. And now Anik banning out the one-1 Batia as well as the Lancelot. Will it be crazy to see Arlet first pick? They tried. They’re splitting pennies. They’re switching it up. Is this also a way to pinch down Kyrie? This is This is They’re forcing one of the two red picks. They’re making Onyx play as if they were in blue with one less power pick in red. Or just be like, “Hey, for me to be the GOAT, I need to beat you on the pick that you couldn’t win with.” I hope it’s not an ego check. Let’s hear from the crowd. No, they shouldn’t be. I think that’s a plan. That’s a plan that Lafl just described. And I’m pretty sure that they will follow it. So CC and the second pick, it’s Granger. So they get away with the Arlet Fred combo. What are they putting up with? Arlet, Fred, Zushin. Oh, that’s nasty. Arushian is already pretty pretty nasty. Not not going to lie. You get the combo combos. What’s going on? I mean TL is just keep on stomping, right? Like they get a draft that they can fight whenever they want. And the question is when? They’re like yes, when fighted. I didn’t get when earlier today. Yesterday we wanted to fight yesterday. It’s like the coach asks like, “How many times do you guys want to fight?” Yep. It’s It’s a meme basically. I understood. I understood this. So So you see like Yes. So right now TPH um we predicted the pick and uh it’s pretty strong pick. Pretty strong uh opening here coming in from Team Liquid. I got no comments actually. You can’t hayabusa here. I might not. Oh my the bar Liquid switched up the formula still ended up with the same result. Get Kyrie on a nonassin hero. I can’t believe we’re having a match up between Kyrie and Carl and it’s just all tanks. They tried to go him. They said go higher, go whatever. It’s not going to work. Whatever you want. Yes, I want barats. HP better than damage. Okay. Give me the peel. Give me give me the peel. Hey, you know what? This is Kyrie’s way of saying I’m hungry. What is this? Welcome to Tona. I’m ready for it. So Har B and Louie also going away. Um what’s about the drafts? Uh from the right side on expecting I expect from them actually to bang gold lane because they also already got Granger. From the left side we see the jungler, we see Xplane. Oh, okay. potentially Rome, but most likely explain Moscow choices. Yes. And Moscow, I guess, the best choice. Yep. Either or. Um, you just got to let one slide. And so far, oh, even though he’s been feeling under the weather, I got to say he’s performing out of his mind. And they ban out the Moscow, giving the option for that Iritel to come through, which I kind of feel like they prefer cuz at least you’re not going to be surprised by the SOD. But now the Farsa gets banned again. So now what’s left for Gilak Sans? Because you just need one more for key boy. You need one more for Sans. Who shows up first in red four? I’m guessing they protect Sans all the way. Man, Sans was the guy in game two. They’re closest at even scoring in the series. Protect Sans. Keep him at red five even again. What do you think about the slow drafts? It’s if only there was someone that can burst the front line so fast. I got a question by the way. Can it be 300? This is not one of those that I was thinking about. Yeah, Navar. I didn’t expect it actually. And then do you do Matilda? Is that even an option? So, I guess the idea is just play with range. Like I feel like you want to play macro, get as many objectives as possible. But for you to be able to execute this draft kind of means you have to win the first two turtles. So the moment the first two turtles goes over to Team Liquid, you already lose a chunk of your win condition. And then you play for the 15-minute mark. Exactly. Yeah. And what do you think about the uh just look for the right side, they got a poke damage, right? They need some kind of safe, maybe sustain maybe. I know it would sound like crazy, but Estus, honestly, I was thinking the same thing. It’s not that crazy. That’s not key boy. You compromise two players and then the Minotaur and the Claude. This honestly, the draft coming in from TPH kind of feels like last year MSE’s draft. We haven’t seen a minotaur in a while. Yep. Got buff pretty strong but very situational. And honestly, looking at this draft, it’s a good situation for the minotaur. Not a lot of ways to punish this uh cow. Actually, a lot of crowd control. His name is what he is. Yeah, Minotaur is Minotaur. Uh and if we are speaking about the Oni, I still think that Estus really it it seems good for me. for me. Okay, it’s for me. Break the code. It is Estis. Yeah, here we go. As much as I am so happy that you saw this coming, I’m not so sure this is a very Onic draft. Honestly, it feels like Any is having a hard plan A and a hard plan B. This feels like a plan H. Hey, you know what? If H works out, then then it’s all good. Thank you very much, Destroyer, as well as Leo. Is this the final game for Any or will they be able to extend this one? MCO and Brigita, we’re seeing Anestas in this match. We’re going to give it over to you guys. Thank you so much to our panelists for breaking down that very surprising draft for this potential last game. The surprises just kept coming in from the moment we saw the Barats or maybe from the moment we saw the Frederin and Arlot locked in together for first pay face. Welcome to game number three between Team Liquid Philippines and Onik Indonesia. I’m going to give you the floor now. This is where you air all your or maybe even just surface level sentiments regarding the draft. Dude, the last time I saw Barats, my team went home. My team got reverse swept. So, oh, this is bringing some real bad memories, man. And I agree with the panel. Keo in the mid lane on the Estes already flickering out here. Here’s the problem. Here’s the big problem. Okay. Yes, maybe they’ve got a draft that can work, but it’s not very This is It’s not This is a Is that Kyrie Kyrie and Key Boy or is that Vise? No, I’m not so sure anymore. How do we How do we wait for the uh key boy setups? How do we anticipate the Kyrie mechanics? This is a completely different game plan that Onyx ID are trying to go by. So, this is a I don’t know, maybe a double-edged sword in a way that Team Liquid ID may not be that like Team Liquid Philippines. See, it happened to me too. Team Liquid Philippines might not be that familiar with how Onyx ID does play this, but generally speaking, you should have an idea of how these kinds of lineups are played out. 60% first blood rate. The comparison you can see here for Any as well, but I don’t think they’re going to get first blood with this composition. Like usually they’re all in trying to go for like the aggressive plays. The Aman in the group stage, Lancelot that we’ve seen. Uh again also Hayabusa’s you when you hear Kyrie you don’t hear it’s like oh my god Ky Hayabusa it’s not oh my god Kyrie Barat is but hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey hey don’t knock it until you try it on trying something new they have pryo on turtle although although the team fight for team liquid looks too good speaking of team fight final slash coming down as well that’s it as well coming the healing from key boy too s going to going to be caugh the curtain calls that’s going to be a lot of damage play suns finds a Star Shadow Pra as Kai is still alive. Carl caught in the bad spot. Red trees both used up already. Sanford taken very low. Liy comes in. It’s a barrow gets the kill. Kai walking up. Sanji with lantern flare as again just walks back into the mid lane and Onyx have gotten turtle one. The turtle. That’s why you don’t knock it until you try it. Until you try it. And that team fight clearly on ID got the advantage. So, this is indeed very different from the usual Onic ID that we know, but the way they’re just playing it out through pure sustain. Okay. Okay. Did you see that? I didn’t. What? Someone in the crowd said, “Onic ID, get ready to for your key to be crushed or something.” Oh my goodness. Don’t knock it. Don’t knock it. Don’t knock it till you try it. Don’t knock it. So far, it’s been working for Onic ID. They have a 1k gold lead right now. And as we’ve mentioned, they’ve just sustained the entirety of the team fight. and Sans could be that reliable guy to fire all those star shatters from a distance and deal decent amount of damage to Team Liquid. And in a way, Team Liquid do have their own ways to sustain. They have the motivational roar, but during that moment, it was just so unfortunate. JP wasn’t level four yet, and he felt like he was the first to be targeted down. And this is this is the weirdest deja vu ever, I think, for dude. He’s like, “Wait, uh-huh. Kyrie and Yeden, aren’t those two the guys I beat with and the bar at M3? Wasn’t I on that side before?” It’s so weird for Oh, probably. But hey, Sanford up top trying to go for the kills again. Key boy able to heal up. Lut putting down the curtain call. Poking Sanford down. Yeah, ID. It just seems like they’re Yev and Kyrie have never been able to beat this ube. They’ve always fallen to this ube and now I guess if you can’t beat it, play it. Yeah, that might just be the way to go. And it’s not like it feels as if Onyx ID is just so unfamiliar with this entire play style. I mean, you’ve said it. They’ve played against this kind of comp long enough to know how to play around it or maybe even better, how to play it themselves. But maybe that’s where it where we try to look for answers in Team Liquid’s lineup as well. How do they burst down this lineup which feels as if it’s so impossible and difficult to burst down? Oh, there’s the Tenonas welcome key boy playing in the back again. Fury going to be used up already. Call season one of the battle and that’s going to be the burst out coming the blazing duet into the back. So Ver still there with the healing and they are all stuck. S’s walking out of the meteor down. Sanford with the stun onto two. Keep with the flicker out. Still healing again. Sanford reset. Oh, have the BMI forward. Savo will be taken down. Lo and chased down by Sanford who gets the vengeance reset but will not be in range and Liquid have turned the game around against this ube. I mean, what better way to answer back against Ube AoE skill similar to the blazing duet that’s able to shred you down. And that was right after we were questioning and asking where the damage where the burst would potentially come from. And it seems like the answer was through this Mino and Fury blazing do it combo that OH and JP have been planning to do all along. Obed right now is serving as the key is serving as the answer to the entirety of the game plan that Onyx ID are trying to pull off. Oh, you can see the audience here. Wow. reaction after getting that team fight win and now it just looks tough again. This has given me a lot of trauma, man. My team did this in MP. Yep. It’s going to take a bit more time to if they want to rely a bit more on Seo to provide a bit more damage. Ooh, there goes the Astral Echo though. Forces out the blazing duo from Ob. Could have been a close call, but that’s the thing. Onic ID right now. They’re literally forced to group together. That’s where their lineup is going to work best. That’s where they have to make use of all the resources that they have. But the gold difference is making it a bit too difficult for them to even look for team fights. So maybe it’s just playing the disciplined and slow game that’s going to work for them at this point. Let’s see if they can make it work. The gold lead for Liquid isn’t that massive. Just like it was for Onic ID. It’s only hovering at 800. So Onik ID definitely have a shot at securing the next neutral objective. Liquid though walking up against Sanji to be poking the mid lane. Carl’s on it. Oh, good reaction by key boy. Flick him out already. Min Fury knocking him up. Dead as welcome coming down as Sanford jumps with vengeance again. Two man knock up a twoman stun. Blazing went into the back of brazer str with a whole lot of damage as Sanji walks up as well. Dushes out damage and it will be Sanford to secure the neutral objective. Key boy already used the flicker earlier. Lancer flare over Sanford to get the free kill on key boy. It will be another reset from Sanford again and again going through this composition of Anik. The Sansan duel. They’re so back. They’re doing it through the final slashes and all the lantern flares. If we were to look a bit back on that team fight and how it panned out, it was a great start. It was a definitely a great start for Team Liquid. That was that was a flicker final slash from Sanford followed up by another flicker and the knockup from JP as well. So Onik ID when you’re forced to group together like this. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. Okay. Okay. Okay. That was uh you know I mean that was that’s Sanford. Yeah. Sanford on the Arot for the third time in a row. Oh my lord. In this series by the way. But but yeah I mean that’s that’s so hard to go up against. Your entire lineup needs to stick together. But Team Liquid Philippines final slash. No. If you’re listening to it. Oh, what did you say? You said I love you on it. I said I love you. Um, yes. I If you can read lips, you know exactly what he said. Yeah, cuz you’re Filipino now. I am. I am. Yes. The words I know are not that um No, they’re very Filipino. They’re very Filipino. Sineigang. Yes. All right, OB in the bottom lane getting a free turret here. And at this point, what do Onyx do? Like, do they just scale? But how do they scale? Because Team Liquid just could split the map up. Even in team fights, they have so much AoE. Remember, they did they picked up this ube against possibly the best composition to go up against ube. Arlet going through everyone. Care on a Frederick Ju. Everybody has AOE CC and the Jian has a sky piercer already by the way. Um, so I mean if you want to look at different ways, oh no, maybe wave management, side management, but who who could even do that? Peronic ID, I don’t think I don’t think anyone is meant to play away from these other teammates if you look at their composition cuz they’re they’re all meant to work together. So they’re being so restricted right now by the way that they decided to approach this game now that especially Team Liquid is in the lead. Kai is supposed to be attack brought back has the purify pops it in and respects the damage of Onyx with the crimson beacon. So at least on do damage but it’s really just like poke and they kind of it’s tough. It really is tough to get through the front line because their damage is so easily blocked. Okay. Um, this is such a hard thing to brainstorm about like how it’s it’s just full of how how how’s how does Onic where when full of questions for Onyx ID right now and the way that they could potentially fight back against Team Liquid in this kind of situation and to be fair team Liquid there’s nothing holding them back anymore. or not in the side lanes. Nothing at all. Oh, final slash on a two. Kai already fury. JP fights a threeman knockup and Sanford just go into town. A star shatter locking in the back in already. Kai still able to heal back up. The blazing du comes in as Sanji picks it up. Oh, Blazing Duet wreaking havoc. Sanji already using a crimson beacon. That could be an angle for Any to continue the chase. Final slash not with the flicker this time. Sanford backing away. KP for Kai is the trade and it will be Onyx somehow holding on to this game. Carl in a weird spot gets the dash away. Assange puts the dash down. Puts a star shadow on two and they get a tier one. Yeah, Onyx ID definitely had to force that chase. They had to run after Team Liquid. They had to prolong the fight a bit longer because they lost Kyrie. So there was no way that they could have contested the objective if ever they did let go of Team Liquid. ever they did just decide to run away and disengage because Team Liquid would have converted that into the objective. But nonetheless, that’s where we end up right now. Team Liquid are holding on the objective. Sanford with the final slash bringing two back now as Kai tries his best. Ke healing up, but Sanford dives in. Oh, gets a triple kill. Gunning all of them down. Four members out. Sans, the sole survivor who was sent up top to clear the waves. Team Liquid now have a 6,700 gold lead. They are knocking at Onik ID’s base. If Onyx ID doesn’t find a way to deal with this, it would be very, very devastating. They’ve barely been able to do anything up against this lineup of Team Liquid. There have been moments wherein it seems like they’re able to sustain it a bit long enough. But the next question is how do they fight back now? Where will the damage come from? Because Team Liquid, they’re the ones who can save up their skills a bit more later. Just decide to go in and that applies the most to the blazing duet. There’s the Astro Echo already committed though. Sanford though. Final slash already, but he’s going to be taken down. Minute Fury over to the back by JP. Look still surviving. Appraisers found with a big bomb. Oh, he look for the range. The curtain call stops them as Any ID once again find a way to stay in the game. Kai for Sanford. Sanji gone a tough spot. Has the healing from JP doing a whole lot of damage. Look be brought back and it is the sky piercer for Sanji. Savo clearing out mid lane. Another wave in the bottom lane for TPH to work with. Sanji with the lantern flare. That’s going to be a lot of damage coming down. Savo finds a shut down. Oh, what? Walks in. BMI into Savo and Onyx ID have yet another chance as Star Shanner landing at Carl Tezy. They’re probably just waiting for that moment. Savo right now definitely has a bit more damage. KBO also picked up that M. Okay. Okay. He did pick up the talisman as well, so he could spam his skills a bit more. he could spam his healing a bit more for his team and that’s what’s been keeping them in the game so far. The Yes, the first item was actually the flask of the Oasis. It wasn’t the um talisman. It just came in recently now. So that’s the entire idea that Onyx ID are definitely trying to go by in this game. But so far if you look at the leads, Savo actually uh slightly ahead in terms of O or against OH. So I think if Onic are still banking on that idea, then they’ve done a pretty good job at just trying to protect Sea overall. Somehow SO is actually ahead now. Sand is doing damage. Onic ID. They might not have expected Well, maybe they did expect to get to this point. Just not in this fashion. Yeah. And Team Liquid, they I don’t know. That was so weird. Did they get overhyped? They just jumped in, dude. Sanford was already low in that most recent team fight we saw. And JP still decided to go in, I feel, with a flicker play. So maybe they could have respected a bit more of Onyx and their sustain. But Oheb has a different plan in mind. I feel does have to force Sans to defend for now as they gradually walk towards the objective. This is going to be struggle number one for Onic. How do they approach and how do they get into this area that’s being heavily controlled and defended by Team Liquid Philippines? They got a turret up top. The wind of nature is completed for OH. So now it’s Sans wa that needs to deal damage to get through. The damage is already visible. You can see the damage over to Sanji there just with the astral meteor. Severo gets the sea halbird. So they have their ways to deal with the motivational roars and all the other sustains that could come in. The fragrance as well and the Arlords tool, but wait a echo lucky with the current call ready. He’s only in the back line. Savo finds it. It’s a massive play for Onyx. They’re going to go look for this disengage. Kai still in the front. Pops into welcome and he will sacrifice Kai for the lord. Savo’s got to be careful here. This could be an engage. JB with a flicker forward. The arrow stayed for too long. He gets punished for it. They have a lord in place. Liby pops a vengeance. Gets the kill on Sanji. Mid lane pushed in by Carl. Sanford looking for an angle to go for the final slash. Now a big astral echo. The star shatter not landing a mini wave for TLPH in the mid lane. There’s no there’s no Saro. They have to deal with this only with the star shatters. They’re healing lippy up. JP walks back in giving the vengeance resets constantly. Here’s Carl goes in again. has the retry lip piece doing a whole lot of damage. The curtain call taken down. That’s when the crowd already by Kim Boy walks back in. That’s the win we were talking about. But again, Sans gets the shot. Sanford final slash still surviving but will fall to Gila Suns. A wipe out by Sonic ID after holding on for so long in this game. Waiting for that one moment that they could actually make it happen. Now Sanji forced to use the Crimson Beacon and all alone in this defense. Still gets the kill onto Luti though, but Sav is going to go in. That’s a few shots and it’s going to be the death Sonata to take him down. Only Carl left standing. He’s going to respawn, but is it going to be in time? Does he get the retribution though? He gets what? Any ID with a borat with an ube that has been their counter for years. Save themselves in a semifinals. What an unexpected turn of events. I believe everyone is in shock after what we just witnessed. Holy shields. Holy shields. No one ever would have thought that we’d see Onyx ID go with that kind of lineup, but they did here in MSC at EWC 2025 again, the semifinals. And our panelists did mention it felt like a hard plan B. It felt like it was too far from the signature Onyx ID. But apparently now they make it work. I We are all still in a state of shock right now. I’m wondering what our panel has to say about this. Well, you know what? If plan H works, man. Or you know what? This is plan B. Barats. Uh, where do we start? Where do we even start? I thought it was plan Holy shields. Holy shield. You know what? Plan B, plan H, all of them are great. As long as you have a plan. As long as you have a plan, it looks good. They went deep again. Liquid showed us the high loss in the alpha game two. Now Onyx ID have shown us what they were cooking. Man, Kyrie on a barat and an Estus on key boy. I went into this game post draft saying this is not a key boy hero. But apparently his aggression and his attention to detail where his teammates are, what the team fights doing, how Savo is carrying them hard. Oh yeah. And this allowed for Sans to farm up to a point of no return as well for Liquid that they got punished hard. This is it. This is the wipe out angle. Actually, they overextended there. They went too far and uh you know you went too far. Yeah. Yeah. When you are leading and dominating all the game, you just can’t stop. Yeah. You just can’t hold yourself. Stop. Deep breath. Deep uh no time, sir. Yeah. Relax. And liquid. We are on the horse. We are finishing. We are finishing. Okay, we are done. I mean, that’s a that’s a form of overheating, but to be fair, even during um during interviews and such, we hear that this is one of the strats that Team Liquid uses, which is to just overwhelm your opponents. Keep on pressure, pressure, pressure, pressure to the point where they can’t even react. And and we heard, like Kyrie said, the team with the better mentality wins. So, it really is fighting between both of us. This is more of a of a mind game rather than physical games. And the Sky Kings did not crack despite all that Liquid threw at them. Look at the postgame stats again. Riding was on the wall. Liquid was going to win this one if not for Onyx. Clutch Gene and K. You know what? You’re You’re saying that it wasn’t over just yet. You’re saying that maybe that one siege minion would have died if Carl Tezy came in, knocked it up, taunted it, and killed it. But I think otherwise. But luckily, Kyrie does not did not allow for that argument to happen anymore. He came in like an assassin, sir. like an assassin with a Dakota’s welcome stopping Carl in his tracks. Yeah, that was really nice. And actually that come back, you know, I’m surprised. I’m really surprised what’s happened. Uh I was like, “No, no, it’s Liquid 3.” Free zero sadly, but it’s freezing making such turn around, bounce back and right into the face. Can we talk about 6,000 damage per minute by Sans by the way on this Novaria? Yeah, a good chunk of this skewed the stats in the post lateg game phase when we started getting the point of isn’t Liquid throwing themselves a little too hastily at Onyx feet. Aren’t they overwhelming and overheating themselves? And that is what explains it. Look at the build on this Gil Novari. He’s juggling. Look at that. He’s juggling. Uh I think he was on his way to a holy crystal here. Yeah, I kind of feel like having that wishing lantern as well really helped scale up that damage. Yeah. Making it so that no matter what kind of poke, either first kill or second skill that you do, you’re just going to be racking it up. That’s right. Uh, and another bit of mobb math. Check this out, ladies and gentlemen. Sanji has a sky piercer. Yes. There was a sequence towards the later part of the game in the top lane where he was trying to kill Loot Pi. Loot then rocks the vengeance, presses it, and then accidentally I think it somehow procs Sanji’s sky piercer and the vengeance calculates the math, does the damage reduction, and then kill Sanji instead. That’s a big no you moment. Yeah, call an ambulance. No, you. But not for me. But not for me. Yeah, but the Yeah, I know. That’s that’s the meme, but no moment. Okay, let’s resume back, guys. So, this matchup, right, I really feel like, like you said, going in really deep just to make sure that what else do they have? And by the way, first win for red side. I mean, to be fair, still a very good uh track record for for blue. Maybe this is the reason why Anik really want that red side, just to have that very weird last pick. In this case, it was the Estus. Well, Barat as well. So, with this a singular win in a best of five. Yeah. Do they single-handedly say, “We told you so. Red was a power side, too.” I don’t know if that’s the case because Liquid can still bully you draftwise. They can still force Kyrie on a nonassin very easily from blue and still get to this point. Because I’ll tell you now, what if Liquid did not overheat? What if Liquid did what you just said and say, “All right, we’ll breathe in, we’ll breathe out, we’ll take it slow. You know, we know we can win this fight.” What if? What if you know the words uh it’s esport it doesn’t work here. What if here the result on won that game but I agree from the perspective that Onyx should think about the first pick. Yeah, maybe. Yeah, this is shortest point from A to B. It’s it’s the best way to solve a problem. You can open a coconut with a spoon, but why would you? Yeah, I like what if though? amazing series. But either ways, I like the second season. I haven’t watched the second season, but anyways, for this for this matchup, yeah, I I really feel like in a weird way, it is still a battle of the junglers and also like the support system that they have around them. Can we just talk about Suns as well as Seo? Like they are they are the standout for Onyx right now. Yeah, they they they are essentially the icing to the cake. They make what Onyx plans are possible and they made that win so sweet for the Sonics because again you you can say that oh it was the essence it was the Barat at the end of the game. No like what kept Liquid honest was the damage on the Granger and the building impending inevitability of the Novaria. Yep. The meteor to the face kind of hurts. Bomb there. Yeah. Cool. There you go. That’s very easy of you. Too much too much. Actually, if the suns goes down or they they remove him shatter, they only got problems at at at this point, gentlemen. uh kind of want to look at the stats because I kind of feel like we thought coming in to this tournament like a few weeks ago, four to five weeks ago, we thought there’s not going to be a lot of picks in the mid, but now it looks the most versatile. We’ve seen so many different mid picks uh throughout this entire month. Eve, Navaria, Farsa, Kagura, Kadira, Kadira, Zushin, Zetan, don’t forget Zaten Kim. Yeah. Yeah. Right now. Yes. But overall, hey, she she’s there. Selena. Selena. I think we have one Sicilian game. Sicilian. Yeah, I think we have one Sicilian game. Sicilian Lilia. Like I said, heroes, dude. There’s a lot of mids used now. Heck, there was a Valer. Yep. I hate that jungle is the tight lane now. I’m uncomfortable. Oh, no. I I’m comfortable, but I hate that there’s only so many. There’s literally half a dozen junglers. That’s it. I don’t know if I like or don’t like that we don’t see a lot of Suyo cuz as a front line, I hate Suyo. But as a watcher, damn, Suyo is a is a cool hero. He is a highlight machine, a playmaker, you know. He creates the moments. But actually, yes, it’s a good point. Uh, do we ever I mean like during MSSE at least once? No, I would I would know. I think there was. No, no, I remember Area 77 in the groups. In the groups. Yes, in the groups. Area 77 used it, lost. But hey, it is what is it, right? So jumping into this matchup, I I’m almost scared trying to think of what Onyx ID is gonna use because so far, you know, like Yeah, if you win, you just keep on using the same thing. Actually, you know what? Even TL, they keep on changing every single time. No, but Liquid technically in all three games so far have used the same gambit. We’re threatening the Arlet Freder. What you going to do about it? And they’ve always put Zushin on Sanji. That’s it. So now the question, what if we switch it? What if we switch? What if we flip the script? Yes. What if we ask Liquid, “What else do you have?” Because Onyx might be building momentum and they might have your number now. You can’t pull the same thing. I mean, no. Wait, you can one more time. If Ony understand how to beat that, then you need to change. But uh is there any reason to change something that works? Actually, if they didn’t throw out the uh the previous game, they could win and it worked from the beginning. So, no reason to change for something like unex to uh just surprise your opponent. Something that I think we have to discuss as well. Yes, Onyx ID won, but that was too close for comfort, too tight, right? Because their draft really wants to scale up at least a little bit, right? And I don’t know, going up against a very high pressure team like Team Liquid using that strategy again could win you the match, but it’s not without its risk. You know, I liked Oni idea just because even when they played uh like Liquid were leading 6,000 and still Oni could match them and they could beat them during the fights. It was hard, but they could. So, I’m I’m I’m a big fan of staying ahead of the curve. So, I’d like to see Liquid switch it up so they don’t have to rely on again the whatif. They don’t have to rely on the same momentum because slowly the momentum is shifting. On is building up. And here we see Liquid are on the same side with the same bands, but Onyx has had it. But 40, get out of here. Make some finally. No, wait. No. 40. Get back. He has a CC. So, wait. At least on changed something. We see another options for the this team. Yes. Kyrie doesn’t have to play utility anymore. Unlock the Frederick Arlet threat. Heck, if he picks that, it’s going to be trouble because there’s a CC on the opposing side. So maybe, you know, maybe he goes for that assassin. So, right now we can see Onyx, they still pick up the box. I mean, like to be fair, it it could be jungle. It could be anything else. Yep. Maybe Rome. We don’t know. It’s flexible pick for now. And the sec Oh, now we really don’t know cuz technically Pakito can go jungle. Granted, we haven’t seen it. And and granted Pakito is a good match up against the CC, but the theme of this five is what if? So Liquid are still on the Fredin and Zushin train. What’s Onyx to do? What What else can they pull? Because these are already two unique picks halfway through the first phase. Go Fara right now. I think that’s the option. That’s the option. You need burst. You need to nuke. And with Pakita, actually, you can. What do you think about it? Honestly, something that I’m I’m also thinking of. We haven’t seen Kalia in this in this series. Uh could really help out. But they pick up the Har here. Yep. Looks kind of surprised. I hope he was just surprised about something else about him picking up the the Harif. But now looking at the bands, they’re banning out the Granger. So I kind of feel like Any this time they want to move a little bit faster, right? Like make it so that they start to pressure TL more than TL can pressure them. They got a lot of mobility for now. So Oni decided to make it hard for Jin, for CC to keep them in the same position and they will just split and try to make a fast initiation. They ban out gold laners. Key picks that OB could use the Granger and the Moskov. What is going to be left for the Filipino sniper here? Who knows? He might go for the Bruno just to uh make the tempo faster for them. Brunorix. Yep. There’s a lot of options still. You’re okay. Farsa bet here again. Yes. Never getting that fara. I would like to see fara from the onic. But okay. Sounds good. Sounds good. But they decided to take the harit at the first rotation. So does Onyx. I’m I’m I’m I’m I’m going to juggle a few choices here. Eve or Selena? Selena. Selena looks better for me. So you can like you create a ketchup composition. Ketchup. Honestly, if they pick up Kalia here, I’m all for it. Right. Just just speed it up. Just kill Carl over and over again. Yeah. And they just leave the surprise. Oh, they pick up the Kadira though. Nope. They’re going to jump it. Yeah. I I I feel like the idea is just to punish the front line, but yeah, I would prefer just picking up the Kalia because you’re giving a chance for TL to pick it up. Hey, it’s a fish girl. Still a fish girl. [Music] Interesting. But they need I’m allergic to seafood. They need to something else like badunk maybe from for the right side. So you need the initiation. You need like if you want with the OE composition. So go for it. You got Pakita for the crowd control. Yeah, just add Badang. But uh the question is if Team Liquid going to be. So there’s the GDOT for Daddy JP. So again, there’s a smorggas board of gold laners left and it’s still a claw. Let me just say for Anik targeting is going to be very very crucial for them because their damage profile is really all in on one person at a time. So the moment they’re not in sync, the moment their chemistry is not there, the damage is not going to be looking good. It’s very positional, very I I don’t want to say skill shot based, but you have to have good mechanics and good foresight to make this four work. So far, not even the five. While Liquid, my only real issue is damage profile, too. It’s all DOT. There’s no real burst, but they have have constant damage. Yes. So like maybe it’s the plan for the game. Constant damage. Yes. A lot of sustain and the last pick and it’s Ka. Well, I mean Fish Girl got picked last but she got picked still. Uh what are your thoughts, Leo, on the draft? Very fishy. I like Yeah, but just the same. I like how halfway through we saw where it was going. We saw where, you know, Onyx planned to put their pieces. For Liquid though, I’m usually skittish about teams who play this way or have lineups like this, but it’s the cavalry, man. I trust them. I believe that they know what they’re doing with this. I’ll be short. Team Liquid got uh better composition and easily more simple. Well, we’ll see how it turns out because this time it’s for America and Brigita to call the game. Who would have thought that in the current meta there’s a chance we’ll actually see the KA come in as last pick. Yep. This is a chance for Onyx to extend the series once more because if not, Team Liquid, they’re still on that match point. Welcome to game number four between Team Liquid and Onyx ID. This is still do or die for them. And they decide to bring out a Pakito Kadito. What do you think about this? Yeah, the Pakito first pick was honestly weird, right? It was paired with the box. I think we instantly knew where he was going here. We knew the box was going to go to the jungle. Yes, Lapu. I mean, there there was a chance that the Pikito goes to the to the jungle, but knowing Liy, this is just like a comfort for him, especially when he’s up against CC for some reason. Yeah, it’s definitely an early aggression composition. They’re trying to look and trying to do what they failed to do in the group stage. L doing a whole lot already. Baiting them in and Sanford’s caught in the bad spot. Shield Unity vengeance already from Sanford and first blood to Kai. Ooh, that cut was punished right there for Sanford. And it’s been a while since we saw Onyx ID actually get that much of an advantage against the Apex Predator. So things have clearly changed a bit as soon as we step into game number four. And I agree this is something on it where we could potentially expect Onyx ID to be a bit more explosive. there are more ways for them to just keep going with the fights. Again, the cooldowns on the Pakito, it’s one of the biggest adjustments that we saw. And even in terms of how smooth the combos just laid out for the Kadita, too. So, it could be a much com more comfortable game for them. But he’s taking a quick look at the emblems, too. Could this uh like the Pakito nowadays, is it really going to be all damage? Oh, hold on. That might be the answer. or maybe just the raw damage coming in from the Pako 2. But this is a very aggressive start for Onyx ID. It is. They really want to get the ball rolling from the start here. They don’t want to waste any time and key boy is already in one field against Carl TZ petrified rest of the ocean and the rough waves. The revitaliz gets to the safety. The phrases wrapped gets him a bit more HP with the revitalize again. That’s a crimson beacon for Sanji and Sanford walking up. It’ll be called to win out the retreat battle. Li ready for the hills. Zans’s caught the AOG from JB to get the lead early and to take the snowball potential away from Onyx ID. Such a perfectly timed knock up from Sanji, not allowing Kyrie to even find a way to use that retri retribution in time. And I mean, even the way Carl TZ just took a step back, laid that appraiser drag, brought Kyrie down to half HP, even despite that very aggressive start for Onyx ID, Team Liquid found their way around it once again. And that just accumulates. It denied Wow, what an expression. It denied the purple buff, but Sanji got taken down there. Yeah, no purify. Very susceptible to a I think what happened was a tsunami slam into rough waves combo. So far, Team Liquid still in the lead, but this does feel like it’s a much better situation for Onyx ID. It even if you just look at the sides, Savo, well, Savo has been doing a great job so far. Even in the past few games where we thought that OB was way, way ahead, he was actually keeping up. And now with the exp lane, if you look at Luti on the Pakito, which is again a surprise pick that came into the draft, he’s managed Sanford much better compared to the previous games. And although there has been a bit of help from his teammates, I think this Pakito changes a lot in terms of the tempo of how Onic is able to play their game. I mean, look at that. He’s just he’s just not scared of Sanford anymore. Yeah, look at that knockout strike and the shield as well. This might actually be a solo kill. No. All right, Sanford has vengeance. He needs to respect that. Kai pops in shield unity trying to go for a pick there, but he knows I think it’s a bit too ambitious to look for a kill on any of these members. Carl though utilizing that spot and praiser’s breath to take the purple buff away. Setting up for an amazing turtle take here. Still has the red tree a level ahead of Kyrie. Yeah, it was close. Uh at least he still had the energy eruption to get the last hit, but if not, keep would have gone for it. Tsunami slam for down to AOJ lands on gets the kill of Bornat. Three man top from Carl TCP wins it out. Knockout strike over to JP and now he’s going to be caught in Z force. And that’s the kill to key boy as Any push the lead to take it back. It looked like such a good knock up. But wait, Key Boy, will he get out of this? No flicker. He won’t be able to get out of this. Gets a bit more sustain, but gets slammed down to the ground by Sanji. It looked like such a great AOG already. Every single member of Onyx ID in that team fight got knocked up, but Sanji wasn’t anywhere to be found. Carl teasy, he did had to deal with a lot as well after the combo from Sanport does use the curtain call. However, onto Looti, but oh my goodness, the Pakito. Now we see why. Or maybe this is why people or teams have been attempting to use the Pakito all this time. But wait, JP. Oh, on the AOG. Look, he can go for the shield. He goes for the double shield and he gets away again. Yeah, Pakito’s kind of nasty to be escaping with, right? You have a knockoff strike. You have so many ways to just sustain up with the first skill. So that’s what we’ve been seeing. Lup zero or with three assists right now in that g in this game just missing out on one kill and how much emphasis in is put on the exp lane has been an ongoing conversation so far in the current meta and that’s why even for the past few games we’ve put so much emphasis on the Arlot on Sanport on how he’s just able to constantly set the tempo for his team but now it seems much more balanced and even if you look at the gold nut is ahead by around 500. So that’s already something. But oh, he’s doing such a good job too in his lane up against Savo up against or up ahead by 800 almost. They baited out the Crimson Beacon too. Yeah, Om’s doing a good job in lane right now. The BMI a great way to deal with the Har, but later on in the team fights, especially considering this time Seo has the purify, it’ll be hard for TP to deal with him. T on the turtle. Li holding the angle getting Sanford half HP there. Shield Unity over with the rest of the ocean too. The castle out from the AOT but he still gets it in time. Oh gets the kill on key boy K ste dealing a lot or just taking a lot of damage. Sanford doing so much with the curtain call and Kai will fall. Look, he runs away. Suns should be able to escape but again Liquid wins out the turtle battle. Yeah, it was just a bit off timed for key boy. He did go in with a flicker, but didn’t find the stun onto whoever he wanted to go for in that moment. Handed over the objective, and that curtain call definitely made a difference in this fight. He was able to tie down Ludi and one of the heroes who you definitely do not want to escape, but Savo with the Zammon force will be able to escape this attempt from Team Liquid this time around. So, Team Liquid just have to be really cautious of where Sans might just come from, where the combos could be laid onto or who could be the target for Onyx ID because it’s given that Onyx ID have such an easy way to look for a pickoff from Team Liquid. And if earlier they were not as hesitant to even go for the likes of Carl Tezy, maybe they have to consider it a bit more this time. Team Liquid are just playing the fundamental game here. Kai walks up again, gets confident call. That’s going to be the tsunami snip over to Sanford and instantly into son but a cancel from Carl getting the dawn down the pentify locks him down the AOG zone in the back line of the battle. Mirror image gets OB in range to get the blazing duet. Li just defending and again Onyx lose out in the skirmish. Kai barely surviving. TL looking for the capitalization in the mid lane as Li goes in for the knockoff strike two times and he actually evades from a taunt from two taunts. Yeah, that was a different take. Team Liquid walked right into Onyx ID knowing fully well that the combos were still there, that the damage could still come in, but that was a very brave call that Team Liquid did. Probably also confident enough in their abilities to reposition. Oh my goodness, the oneonone by Savo and OB. We got to keep an eye out of or got to keep an eye out for these two gold laners. But going back, Team Liquid, they’re just so close. Onic ID two years ago. They were also able to make things happen. They were also able to get an MSE for themselves and Team Liquids were the ones who failed, but they’re going after JP this time. Hold on. Yeah, this is the only thing they can get, dude. They can’t get anything else. J still surviving for a bit. Ends up being Sabr who gets the kill. TL were just too quick with it. They cancelled the recall. So, in the end, it was either Any get nothing or get JP for the Lord. And they chose JP. Yeah, that’s why they went all in. Just chased after him in the top lane. But oh, the damage from Ov right now. His attack speeds, you could literally see it. And we’re just waiting for the Lord to march up top. Now Onyx ID have to defend this as much as they can. Once again, the grand final slot, the last slot on the line. And Team Liquid after failing last year, they’re just so close to getting there. after failing two years in a row. Once to Any, they lost, the other to Falcon’s AP Bren. Yes, this is redemption for TL with a 7,000 gold lead here in game number four. It’s looking like TL should be able to get it done again. On ID really just banking on late game at this point of the game. Yeah, and even Oh, that damage from Ohe. I was about to say I was about to say key boy key boy was trying to look for something for the entire 10 minutes in this game. He was looking for an angle to set up using the tsunami slam was looking for a target who probably did not have the purify. But even if he did want to go for any of these members of Team Liquid, the responses the clapbacks just come in too fast. Oh, Carli walks right into Sans. Yeah, great breath of the ocean there. Improvisation by Sans. He just wanted to check the bush. Didn’t expect Carl to walk up and dash on him, but he got the breath of the ocean. Cancelled any way that it could be bad. Could be a pick off for TL. And we’re back to just both teams playing it slow. TL have the 7,000 gold lead. There is absolutely no reason for them to push in. They’ve learned from what happened in the previous game. Again, T were the ones in the lead in the previous game, folks. They were the fundamentally better team, but they got overzealous. Walked in, gave a few shutdowns, and turned the game around, giving it to Any here. On will have to wait for quite a while. The Holy Crystal is there, but is it enough? Yeah, literally everywhere you look at right now, every single player of Team Liquid is ahead. They got radiant armors. So there is absolutely no reason for them to make such a big play that could potentially be a risk that could potentially put Onyx ID back in this game. So they’re going to play this very disciplined. They’re just going to manage the waves. Liy as well has been trying to manage the sides a bit whenever he can, but OB is just so quick to respond. Now, what JP maybe it was the was his first skill, right, that got the last hit. It’s always unlucky, but for some reason, it’s always JP to end with a buff. Hey, it’s okay. You get a little bit of value. Maybe not in the mana regen department, but hybrid. Oh, man. They’re just Oh, he Oh, that damage. They can blitz this really quick. Hi, Shield Unity. You’ve seen this before on the box going a bit too far ahead now. Jumps in on Sanji again. Liippy going for the knock out strike and it will be Kai losing out. AoG canceled out and that’s another key boy shredding before he can even do anything. So very for Liby coming in that’s sons with a rough wave but it’s not enough. Sanji with the chase sans will fall as well. Team Liquid now what do they do? Do they go for the lord or do they try to end the game? I just want to say Sanji used his crimson beacon just now. Like the entire time Kyrie went into him using the back to shield Unity. The entire time Onic ID were trying to burst him down after that bub, he did not need to use the Crimson Beacon. And it seems like the call is to go for the lord instead because we put such great emphasis on how Team Liquid need to play this very disciplined. They’re 10k ahead of ID. And what happened just now to a certain extent, you might say it was looking to be or kind of like a mistake from Monic ID or a miscalculation even because it seemed like they wanted to go for a pickoff, but Sanji still had the Crimson Beacon. That’s one of the biggest concerns. Also, the purify. So maybe not the best target to go for and now they’re left to defend. Team Liquid really want to end the game with this push. You can see the way they are managing the waves. Slow push in the bottom lane. Waiting for the next wave up top and in the mid lane. They really want to go for it right here, right now. 10,000 gold lead. Any have been able to fight off a lot of crazy sieges before. Curtain call locks them down though. Kai and Samo tied up together. Ly in the mid lane now goes for strike as Zan jumps in with the rough waves. Not enough damage to take him down, but it’s going to be tsunami snip over JP. AoG canceled out. Look to be brought back to Sanji to pick up the kill. Turret down below. Taken now. Key boy able to escape some air forward but not enough damage to get a mount sky piercer. Sanji gets the kill. And now with a cannon minion in the top lane. On are on their last legs. The curtain call comes in. Sanji gets the triple. Team Liquid shatter the dreams of Onik ID and they make it to the grand finals of MSC 2025 at the Esports World Cup. We are going to stay quiet for some time. The goat has shushed us. The goat has shushed us. And you see right now in front of your screens, the cavalry who’s holding the hopes of the PH region finally after failing twice have made it to the grand finals of MSC. A nearperfect run. Mero only dropping a total of two games and all to Onyx ID at that. And now in the end they are the ones who actually come out on top. Wow. TLPH. Carl Teasy. Before this matchup, we saw an interview. We heard from Kai. He wants to be number one. He wants to beat Carl. And if he does, he’ll be number one. But it seems for quite a while longer, it’ll be one man up top. Carl Tezy who has a chance now to complete his trophy cabinet. Another one to add to the many trophies he’s had, the many achievements that he’s been able to secure in MLBB. And with this team all the way from the start, I think a lot of people kind of expected them to make it to the finals, but they got a tough challenge up ahead. It’s the defending champions that are awaiting them in the grand finals. But man, the versatility this guy showed us from a Hayabusa to an alpha to a Freder and then Frederren to secure it. The hero that got him his second world championship title. Yep. He’s definitely comfortable with this. And now we do want to hear more from the young goat. So, we’re throwing it over to the stage to hear the winner’s interview. Thank you very much, friends. Yes, I am indeed right now with Team Liquid’s own goat. It’s Mr. Colzy. Congratulations on this massive win in the semis and advancing on to the grand finals. Now, I want to ask you a few things here. Look, Kyrie said that you were the number one jungler in the world, the goat himself. What do you have to say now that the dust is cleared? Because he said if he beats you, he’ll be number one, but obviously didn’t happen. Um, I’m just really happy that he acknowledged me as as his number one jungler. And I saw one interview that he said I I be ready to lose Kyle like that. And I have a lot of respect for Kyrie, but I’m very disappointed on what he said to me. Humility still at the end. But look, you sure showed him in game. That’s what matters at the end of it. And look, you avenged yourself against Onik here. MSC23 still holds a piece even though it was 2 years ago. uh in your heart. You’ve been at the top for so long. How do you keep that energy to compete still and be the number one even so many years into your history with MLBB? Uh, of course, number one is the love for the game and having fun. That’s the more important thing to me right now. I’m having fun. I’m playing and that’s what makes me motivated. It’s a very healthy way to look at it actually. Very much I admire you for that take. Uh, very much so. And look, you play SRG in the grand final. They’re the defending champions of MSC. Is there anything that you have to prove to them and the SRG fans out there? Maybe avenge Onyx PH or anything like that. Um, for me, I don’t have anything with SRG, but I want to beat Coach RK Jagen. And that’s the last piece actually because you broke their their streak, their 126 day streak. You know, it’s it’s been a bit, you know, Coach Arcadia has been on there for for a while. Hasn’t been able to beat you since those olden days on Echko. What do you have to say to him now leading up to that game? Um, I don’t have anything to say to coach Arcadia. Just have fun and let’s put up a good fight tomorrow. Very good. Very good. Very good. And Sakai said that he’s also looking for revenge because you broke his streak. Anything to say to him, too? Um, so guys, he’s my best friend. Really, he’s my best friend. And uh, let’s give a good fight tomorrow. Very much looking forward to it one more time for Carl TZ, the go himself and Team Liquid, victorious. And on to the grand finals. Thank you all. Thank you, Carl TZ, and congratulations again. Back to the panel. [Applause] Thank you very much, Milos, as well as the gold Carl Teasy. And that’s the best piece of advice if you’re having fun. It doesn’t feel like work, which makes it so that essentially can grind endlessly. And I kind of feel like for us here on the panel, hey, we agree we’re having fun and feels great to be here. That’s why Carl Tezy is the goat. That’s why he’s the face of MLB because at the end of the day, he’s just a kid who loves the game. It just so happens that he’s made a lot of money and won a lot of tournaments doing that. You know, I also Oh, kick crashing. It’s so fast, by the way. just we’re just speeding through. And yeah, go on. Yeah. And I also want to say some words. I I like the atmosphere uh from Carl Teiy. He said, you know, just having fun. And he als said actually Sika is one of my best friends. And you know, it’s so friendly. It’s so cute. And uh I’m pretty sure that tomorrow they will show us the atmosphere of the friendship and of the competitor. Yeah. And honestly, this really shows how the top four, they’re really close with each other because yeah, uh Call TZ the Goat and I would say Sakai still technically rising jungler coming in from Malaysia. Even having the name Sky Prince, he doesn’t really give off the air that oh, I’m better than like he’s very humble. So, we can see how Carl and Sakai like are on the same wavelengths. Like, we’re good, but honestly, we’re just here to have fun. It’s is really not to gloat or anything. Sakai is following in the footsteps of Carl. I think back then, Carl was in the same spot. He was about to win big tournaments. He was a very mechanically gifted jungler that people were looking at. And I think Sakai has a good best friend and a good mentor in Carl. Yeah, personally for me, the best thing I can say about Sakai is that he won a lot of money and he never change. I didn’t change him. He He’s still the same guy. But now we got to talk about OAB here. We’re going to be looking at the heat map to see how OH is moving around the map cuz I got to say, man, OAB is is very dangerous. And you know I’m very happy that clo I would like to mention that clo is coming back to the meta and we see how dominance and yeah look at this rotations like go all over the map. Double laning triple laning. Uh it takes a lot of macro knowhow to make claude work. And this is exactly why Obat map kill map two. You’ll see that he spent a lot of time going from lane to mid, lane to mid, lane to mid, and that’s what made him the match MVP. Yeah, this is the Sony match MVP. Ohead, and I got to say, all series, it looks very strong. And this is the sign of a very good goer. And the fact that number one, you don’t die, and number two, how do you maximize your farm? And like I said, having good macro sense of when the minion is going to be there makes it so that he farms so effectively. You know the main problem of the cloth and okay the most of the gold liners you need to find the button of the damage until you find it. No, you do nothing. And you actually the uh result of the liquid also when he knows how to make it. He knows how to uh to find the damage and to position himself like a professional guy. He is a professional guy. Yes. Yeah. Definitely. Yeah. Hey, that’s why it’s called the Filipino sniper. And honestly, like in this matchup, it does solidify how strong Team Liquid really is because and and we even said this behind the scenes with Destroyer. Now, Aurora doesn’t look that bad. Honestly, after after this performance, it’s like, okay, you know what? Maybe it’s just them being unlucky going up against Team Liquid. In perspective, right? In perspective. But also historically and factually you can say the only team to ever make liquid bleed is Any Indonesia. Beat him once in the groups in game, beat him once in the knockouts just in game. Yep. Uh Team Liquid only allowed twice. But now to solidify it, we’re going to be looking at the playoff bracket, the knockouts bracket to see the movements coming in. And I kind of feel like all eyes are on these two spots. The grand finals is going to be Team Liquid Philippines going up against SRG OG Esports. And unfortunately that means third place match is Sonic versus Sonic. That you know first it’s Onyx time definitely. Anyway, it’s going to be the tough match and uh who going to win? We don’t know yet. And if we are speaking about the grand finals again, SRG OG, they are back. They’re back to potentially get the reward to win MSC twice. And now let’s check out the Aramco power ranking because we want to see how our early power rankings really reflect now. Cuz here’s the thing, like we put Btier, Mythic Seal, as well as Aurora as well as Aurora. And we can definitely see that. Yeah, they they were unable to get any any any points. Team Liquid Onyx ID being in S tier. I kind of feel like it’s justified, but now it looks like even in S tier, there’s a big difference there. SRG Esports is in A tier. So based on their tier list ranking, TL is definitely favored. And that’s the beauty of the midseason cup. It’s the tournament, the major international tournament every year in our MLBBS calendar where anything is possible. where the biggest upsets happen in the most highstakes times that nobody expects. Again, an Onic battle for third. Yeah. And and here’s the thing. I will let you talk, but right now looks like we do have an exit interview. Well, they’ll be playing again tomorrow, but we’re going to hear some words coming in from Anik Indonesia. action. Hey guys, this is Rose and right now I’m over at the backstage with Kyrie from Onyx Indonesia after the defeat against Team Liquid Philippines. Now Kyrie, I know that Onik Indonesia was attempting to actually get your third championship this MSC, but how are you guys handling the loss as a team right now? um as a team for my teammates I still don’t know because um after after the match I already got interviewed but for myself I think it’s not that it doesn’t hurt much like what happened in M5 it still hurts but yeah I can handle it not as much yeah not as much yeah M5 was definitely tough but you know as the big brother in the team because you guys have two rookies or rising stars Savo and Lut be are you going to like how are you going to you know try to help them handle their emotions and their mentality after this uh loss? Maybe just comfort them with words maybe and maybe treat them treat them outside just a little bit of a motivating factor right to continue pushing on. Now Kyrie, we know that coming into MSC 2025, you know what, ONIC Philippines, Onyx, Indonesia, TLPH, you guys are all a part of the contenders. A lot of people were rooting on for you guys, but unfortunately today TLPH sent you guys home. Now, what would you say made TLPH such a dominant team this season? Um for me the way they communicate their communication and their teamwork and also their macro and their decision making like they’re not scared to risk like the way I see it when they played against us like there’s a lot of moves from them that you have to be brave enough to do it. So they’re like taking um they like to take risk. They like to take risk. They are the risk takers. And you know what? Maybe tomorrow we can actually see more risk coming up from the side of TPH. But what is the one thing that your team would do differently for tomorrow’s state third place or match? [Music] I guess just play like trual. We also learned a lot from TPH today and especially with with their macro and yeah, we’ll just try our best tomorrow. The usual Onik ID play style. Now, since it will be an Onic Onyx showdown for the third placeer match, how do you think this will play out, Kyrie? [Music] I’m not really sure because we scream a lot and we don’t like our score is always like even, you know. Yeah. So, I really can’t tell. But you know what? I think since both of you guys will be going up against each other, I think at the very least it’s going to be a fun match because you guys are technically brothers, right? Okay. Now, is there any message to the Sonics and to the Indonesian fans as well? To who? Sorry. Sonics. Sonics. next tournament. Thank you so much, Kyrie. And I do hope to see you come back stronger the next tournament. And with that, let us show it back to the studio. Thank you very much, Rose, as well as Kyrie. Shout outs to the Filipino that speaks Indonesian to talk to all the Onik uh Indonesia fans. And I kind of feel like I can answer one of those questions like uh how is tomorrow going to be? I kind of feel like no matter what happens, Anik will win. But anyways, right now we have coach RC here. So, first of all, how are you? And again, congratulations on being the second grand finals. How are you feeling? Yeah. Uh I’m very happy and so emotional. Very happy and so emotional with the face is like, eh, it’s okay. So, here’s the thing. going up against Anik Indonesia looking at the Aramco power rankings both S tier team. So can you tell us a little bit about how do you guys feel before going up against them and now that you have fought against them how do you guys feel because we expected the full game series but it just ended in 3-1. Uh maybe we just uh prepare something because um after we face them um in before in knockout stage uh we just review our um draft pattern and also um mechanical skills and skill shots uh that we can improve when we face uh Onyx ID again something like that. I got a question. So if we rewind the time and go back to the game when uh Oni ID took Estas and Barats I got a question first of all did you expect it and the second one what went wrong? Um actually we don’t expect uh Barretts and Estess but as you can see um that game three I think. Yeah you can see the MPL season 13 meta. Yeah. And um on what happened, maybe we overextend and we just want to rush the game or we rush to finish the game. Just exactly what happened. Okay. Thank you. But despite that, coach, very impressive. You found a way to reset the boys and went into game four the cleanest you ever were. But the whole tournament, MSC turn, you guys are so clean. Not a single series loss. What’s the secret? What’ you guys do? What’s the prep? Maybe I can say um the secret is sineigang. Sine sineang. I don’t know what that means. Please it’s it’s a Filipino dish. It’s a Filipino dish. Yeah. After we we won every time in our games, um um Madame Mitch and Coach Tik Tok buy something outside and we cook sinigang in our training room. Is that the pork? No. No. Right. Doesn’t have to be. It doesn’t have to be. It’s just a sour soup. Soup. Sour soup kind of thing. And here’s the thing. Liquid. Even back in the Echo days, you guys are very superstitious, right? Yeah. It carries on today. Yeah, exactly. I mean, like, here’s the thing. Going up against SRG OG coming in for tomorrow. Looking at how Team Luca has been playing, it looks like the idea is to pressure your opponent so much, you don’t even have time to to really think about how to react. Going up against SRG, do you feel like that is going to work out against them? Um for now uh I just can I mean I can say that uh we just need to prepare more and improve more to defeat um SRG OG because SRG OG is the still um the uh how can I say uh one of the strongest team in here in MSE and also they are the um champion last year. So we need to prepare more and make sinigang. Yeah, it’s sinigang after this. Nice. Honestly, talking to a lot of strong teams, everyone has their own superstitions. I know SRG has their own superstitious thing to the point where you know the result before uh the game even started. So, just last one talking to you just tell the camera what is your expectation for tomorrow and maybe something that you want to say to the fans. You know, win or lose tomorrow, something that you want to say to the fans while you’re still here on the panel. You can just look at that camera. Um for those who support our team uh for the cavalry um um we promise you guys uh no matter what happen we will do our very best to bring the MSE title in the Philippines. All right and there you go. That is Coach RC. Thank you very much. Amazing performance. Our grand finalist going up against SRG tomorrow. You know what, Leo, you’ve been amazing. Thank you very much. Thank you very much to Destroyer. And now we’re just going to let you guys know tomorrow is going to be the third place match as well as the grand finals. We’ll see who will become the champion of MSE here at EWC. But for now, let’s catch the Kadilla top place of the day. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Music] [Music] I fall away. I fall away. 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. Car 4. 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