🔴 LIVE | MPL PH S15 | ENGLISH – Playoffs Day 3

🔴 LIVE | MPL PH S15 | ENGLISH – Playoffs Day 3

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Welcome back to the Champions Arena. Once again, my name is Hans Galleria and this is your very own Odin. And Odin, we are just one step away. One of our teams is just a step away from representing the Philippines, the strongest region in all of MLBB, the MSC at EWC 2025. Is it Onyx Philippines or Team Liquid Philippines? A trailblazer of a new era or a titan of MLBB? You know, I’m wondering if we’re going to be seeing another set of game fives because that’s been the rhythm. That’s been the tempo that we have for the playoffs. Lower bracket semifinals between Aurora Gaming and Team Falcons. There’s going to be a lot of drama. a do or die match to end day number three. But of course, that is not only going to be the main concern because we still have the Alamat Awards to give recognition. And I’m really sure that we all can’t wait to witness that super fans. Welcome to MPL Philippines season 15, the playoffs. Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you’re ready to brace yourselves because we’re heading into day number three, the final day where we’ll be having two best of five series in one day. My name is Brigita and together with Lao, we will be your panelists for today. Leo, how are you feeling after um casting yesterday’s match? Oddly enough, not tired at all. Uh online I’ve been reading that this has been the most electrifying, competitive, and worth it mustwatch opening to an MPL Philippines playoffs season yet. And I cannot disagree. What was that? 20 games over the span of 48 hours. We are what actually on the road to 30 if ever. One would feel fatigue, but I don’t. I don’t too. Honestly, we’ve been here since the first day. We’ve been watching all the series and I hope you guys too, you feel nothing but excitement all the more for the matches that we are about to witness today. But before anything else, of course, we’re here to inform you all that equipped with all the 120 FPS system, the next generation Infinix GT30 Pro is the new official tournament phone powering the next seasons of MPL Philippines. So from this point onwards, you know, we get to see our players. I believe we see their hand cams a couple of times and one time even on the Fanny when there was a player using it and this is probably one of the biggest reasons why you know they’re very comfortable in terms of playing their games and I hope they’re well rested enough you know like especially for Team Liquid they just finished their series late night last night so they got to recharge heading into their first match of the day because a lot is at stake but of course hey ML fans and X fans get ready to witness the best student teams battle for glory at the Infinix Campus Cup Philippines local group stage. It will be live streamed from June 14th to 15th and the national finals on June 28th only on Infinix Philippines Facebook page. This is XCCPH # where legends rise. Let me just tell you, I hope you guys if ever you are part of a collegiate team, if ever you are still studying and playing MLBB, I hope you did sign up for this because there’s almost a 2 million prize pool on the line for all our collegiate players. I love that Infinex is investing in the future in sports, right? They’re covering the strongest league in the world and then they’re also, you know, watching these upand cominging athletes come through to collegiate. And who knows, like there might be one of these collegiate players someday playing on the MPL stage. So, that’s something we also have to watch out for. But of course, we have to take a look at our updated playoffs bracket. Leo, what are the matches we’ll be seeing for today? Today it’s going to be the upper bracket finals and the lower bracket semis. Brigida, you know what’s scary, but just the same makes me feel all warm inside. The fact that this bracket looks very similar to the forecast right now going into day three. All of the winners, some scores were on point, but all of the winners so far. The results were very similar to what I said in my video a week ago. And for the regular season, it wasn’t the same, right? You’ve been going through a lot of 50/50. It was rough. This is rough for a different reason. and we’re all good for it. Yeah, I believe um the top four at least were predictions that many have probably agreed on like but they they brought us all to game five in as early as day one and that was probably something a lot of us didn’t expect too but again for today’s schedule and for our upper bracket finals that’s team Liquid Philippines going up against Any Team Liquid Philippines chance to once again return to Riyad but Any definitely want to get the hands to fly out there, too. They’ve never been. Their brothers in Indonesia have, but this, the Superfam, they have yet to step foot in the land of EWC. But later on tonight, it’s going to be Aurora versus Falcons. Uh, that one uh you were telling me before the broadcast started, you were worried about I am. I am. I mean, aside the fact that it is going to be an elimination match, whoever loses that series will have to say goodbye and uh hold that top four spot here in the uh season or or here in season 15. It feels like whoever comes out of that will just have insane momentum to whoever they’re going up against. Yeah, the the lower bracket is a comfortable place for Filipino teams and I’m hoping that whoever does come out of that lower bracket finals is ready for whoever drops from this one. This is the golden rivalry, the road to immortality and MSE at EWC 25. Yep. I absolutely agree with the entire headline we’re seeing right now because if there’s one matchup I am definitely looking forward to see and I believe a lot of us too are excited to see it’s that matchup we’re seeing in the gold lane. It’s these two gold laners who’ve made such a big name for themselves wherever they go to whichever team they become part of. Yeah, this is OH versus Kel Raquela versus Obver want to say. Blacklist versus Execration, Blacklist versus Omega, Blacklist versus Onyx. like they’ve had many different matchups through the years. And we’ll run you through that golden rivalry right now with a quick throwback to the season past. They are one and one. Bring it. One in one. Uh-huh. It’s equal. So, this is going to be the deciding match at least for this season. For now. For now. like whoever is going to be the one winning the overall matchup between Team Liquid Philippines and Onyx Philippines because again they’re 1-1. In terms of games, I guess there is a slight advantage in terms of Team Liquid Philippines because they’re 32, but we cannot deny the fact that this is or this has been a very close fight. I know Keller has had a lot of titles under his name. Yeah. But overall, if we were to look at it, OB, his alltime stats, they’re still up there. Oh, yeah. No, especially in season 15. OH as well as Team Liquid Philippines have been topping charts. GPM, DPM, uh, Lord Control, OHB and Team Liquid Philippines are running it. And I think you could say for a majority of the past four years, the the time that has elapsed since the golden rivalry was started in season 7, that’s been true. Uh OB have scored more world champ uh well, he scored his first world championship, his first big ticket MVP and then more championships compared to Kelra. But Kelra, you have to understand, is a triple crown champion. Almost every single tournament he plays, whether in home soil or internationally, he bags the MVP. Yep. You gota you got to list all of that. Be it the MPL Philippines title, the MPL Philippines finals MVP title, the MSC title, the MC Finals MVPs, the M series, and all that. Era has it all. So, he’s definitely left that legacy in the scene. And even if you ask King even if you ask him, interestingly enough, it feels like he doesn’t want to acknowledge yet that he is the god in the goal. you know, like he stays that humble even to this point despite everything that he’s achieved. But just to look at the playoffs matchup for these two players so far. Yes, the these are way back. If you look at their hairstyles even, you’re going to recognize that this is this has been way back. But clearly, he’s been winning the alltime matchup. But in terms of who’s been a bit more flexible, I think we’ll have to give it to Keller. Huge, huge hero pull on the gold standard. He all right. Looking back, I think you could give Obatrix as well, but recently it’s been Kelra who’s been rocking uh the multi-armed timetraveling uh gunner. So even our list of achievements, maybe it looks lean for OH, but that’s because he’s won MPL Philippines multiple times. Yep. And I feel like they’ve been trying to master this kind of approach, right? But Oni Philippines, they’re just introducing these new styles and even if it gets a little bumpy at first, they make it work in the long run. So, let’s also take a look at some MPL Philippines fun facts out here because this match we’re about to see is actually between first and third seed. And by the way, the defending champions are the ones in the third seed, right? But the statistics say that it’s a lot more likely that the first seed will be winning this one. That’s right. 10 out of 14 times it was team uh the team that was the first seed that won. And the first time that the first and third team uh were in uh the upper brackets is this very matchup right here. So Onyx versus Liquid is a first time occurrence in placements in the history of MPL Philippines. And only three third seated teams have reached the grand finals. So for Onyx to do this now to add another notch to this already record-breaking matchup, they would have to make like season 5 on V8. They would have to make like execration where Kelra came from and they would also have to make like blacklist in season 11 and 12. Oh knows all about that. And uh just to add to that, no third season team yet has ever won the MPL championship. It’s always been one or two. It’s always been one or two. One or two. Look at all these banners. Those are all first or second seed teams. So imagine if Any completes this, right? And I know we’ve had uh we’ve had this ongoing conversation about Ony and their timeline, but I feel like they’re just working or they’re just focusing in the present. Like they’re really getting whatever they can, whatever is within reach. And that’s what’s so beautiful about the Super Family like how they just keep on building on this chemistry and they may have fell down a couple of times, but they just keep getting back stronger and stronger. And I believe we’re seeing this form, especially in the way they just keep adapting in the playoffs. Talking about falling down and growing back up. Throwback to last night’s match between Liquid Philippines and Falcons. How do you bounce back from an O2? How? How? Liquid can do that, too. I That’s a ruse. Oh, these are two teams who’ve been through a lot even in their first matches, first few matches. But I think we got to call on the caster’s desk for now because we’ve had our fair share of ideas. But hey, how are you guys doing out there? Nuan and Renar. How do you feel today? We’re feeling uh cold. Refreshed. You’re cold. Renar, how are you feeling, Renar? I’m always hot. He is. I agree. I I cannot argue with that. Why is it when every time I try to comment some self- loveve comes in, it’s like, I think we got to get Rayar in check. I got to humble him down a bit. I No, I I cannot argue with that. Both of us, Leo and I, we completely agree. You are giving yourself a hole right now. We completely agree. We completely agree. Yeah. Yeah. I get you. I get you. Leo doesn’t look convinced. Silence means yes. Silence means yes. And that is what he’s saying right now. But this is time for us to check out the community poll as well. And ask our viewers right now who they think will be securing the first grand finals and the MSE slots. Is it A, let’s go Liquid, or is it B? It’s Sonic time. And it’s not just the viewers we’re asking for this one. Of course, you’re asking us. Of course, we’re asking you. You go first, Naisu. Wait, are you already showing yours? I’m already showing mine right here. I just I know there’s like a bright light, so I’m trying to if I angle it that way. He is super fam. He is super fam. I’m I’m going with the super fam right here. Don’t forget this. Okay. I mean, he does have the jacket. So, Egan, what about you? What is your prediction for this? This ain’t a unanimous desk because I’m going for TLPH. Wait, yesterday they had or we had to make the sound of a horse. Could you also do it just for the sake of everyone doing it? Family feud. Okay. What do you How do you rate that, Leo? That sounded like a balloon getting deflated. All of that. That’s That is a horse I’m going to keep in the wild. Very far away from my farm. I didn’t even rate it. So, that’s not rated anymore. Red top. What about you? What is your I am uh this this was tough, but I mean they beat my Falcons. They be they beat my father. They broke my heart last night. It was an emphatic reverse sweep. Yes. And right now, honestly, I’m just a coach RC stand. Yeah. Honestly, when I saw him already jumping here in the panel and then the reverse sweep just suddenly happened, you know, it was just so surprising to see. But of course, the battle emotes, don’t forget, they’re available until August 9 for 109 diamonds only. You can get new emotes from Aurora, Team Liquid Philippines, Twisted Minds. And if you haven’t yet, grab them now for Onyx Philippines, Omega, and TNC. those emotes return. Show your support for your favorite ML team and buy them now at the in-game shop. Of course, we aren’t exempted from this as well, Leo. So, what about you? What are your predictions for this match? I put my money on my mouth and uh put out there my reputation as a prolific predictionist. And I said, Liquid, I said Liquid would punch their ticket to the grand finals first. So, let’s go Liquid. Oh my goodness. So, I’m about to share mine and let us know, break. So, it is an it is an uh not a unanimous desk, but it’s only nice to who will be different. No, I’ll change mine to Onyx then. What? Any guy? That’s my son. What? Okay, bring it out. What’s your prediction? Go. Mine’s Team Liquid. The father and son. They are in agreement that they’re both Onic. So, it’s three of us for Liquid. Thank you so much, casters. We’ll see you later. What was that about? Why did he change last minute? What was that? Like he was so convinced he even did the sound of a horse. No, it it it sounded like it’s not a sound of a horse again. It sounded more like Oh, wait. That that even that sounds better. You you step it up, bro. He can work on it. Like he probably makes some calls during his playbyplay. I will listen closely. I will listen closely. So, you got to watch out. We will be waiting for that perfected the horse sound later on. But you know what? This is a very This has been a very funny intro so far. Yeah. No, for such a high-profile match for the golden rivalry for us to laugh it off. You know what? This is just nerves. This is just us expecting what what’s already coming. Come on. You you know what it is, right? We’ll be we’ll be so locked in later. This is probably the last time we’re able to laugh it off. But this is definitely a very high stakes match. We did mention it earlier. There’s not just whoever’s going to come out on top for this season at least that at stake for both of these teams. It’s that slot to MS and it’s also the slot, the ticket to the grand finals and a lot of records being broken. Again, this whole first and third, third and first situation. If Any wins, then already they changed the game. They changed the course of history. But if Liquid wins, then that makes Any have to climb out from the lower bracket. It’s been a while since Any had to do that. Yep. them having to go through the entire playins, them having to go through two game fives already throughout. I mean, that’s that’s one too like like stamina, endurance, that’ll be tested definitely for on Philippines. And given that they’ve been through a lot in the first two days, they definitely don’t want to go down there. You know how crazy this is? They’ve had a tougher time in the past 48 hours than they had winning the M6 World Championship. That is actually true. They’ve had such an easy time back then. I think even in SPS. But you know what? This is time to find out what’s going to happen in this series. So, let’s all see the player walk. Champions Arena to oversee and uphold the tournament’s integrity. Please welcome our marshals Joshua, Chico, Juven, and David. Only one is destined to be the first team in the grand final stage. competitors. Team Liquid Philippines, Onyx Philippines. In the EXP lane, it’s Kirk and Sanford in the jungle. Carl Teasy and King Car, the midlaners, Sanji and Super Friends. The Rors JP and Bruce Skull and the eternal battle between Oab and Kra. Ra and their respective coaches for Team Liquid Philippines, Coach RC for All Philippines. Coach Why not? This is the golden rivalry for immortality for MSC Champions Arena. It’s game time. I honestly cannot hide my excitement from the way these players just decided to walk in and not even make fun of each other. Not like the past two days. Leo, take us through what we should be expecting for Team Liquid Philippines. Team Liquid Philippines number one across the board. Turtles, KDA, kills, GPM, DPM, number two in game duration average. But here’s the thing. In the playoffs, they decided to get a little experimental. You now have a Terisla in the hands of Sanford. The JH Jawhead previously 100% from Danny JP. He doesn’t rely on that as much anymore despite it being his top heroes. So something to watch out for is how Mr. 2K Carl Teasy might pop off today. Yesterday he was more of a role player. Yesterday he was more like, “Yeah, watch out. Whatever you need me to do, man. I’m going to play the Frederick if I need to again.” But against the super fan, I think he himself will have to understand that my team needs me more than I need to show off. Yeah, I agree so much. much. Especially with JP, he went beyond what people expect of him. He went beyond the hero pools that we kind of limit him to use. But this is Onyx Philippines. Similar to what you did mention, they’re actually leading in least deaths, but they’re quite low in terms of kill participation. And they are actually first in terms of first blood raid. You know, that’s just their aggressive and individualistic play style that you constantly see from them. but they’re still able to balance it out with the right amount of chemistry, with that synergy that we always see in terms of how the super family is able to play. And these are overall stats too that we should be watching out. Man, look at that hero pool. Yep. They are either tied or have already uh gone above Aurora, their rivals as trailblazers in the new era. So that is the one thing that they have that is higher than Liquid. So, under the leadership of Coach RC, Liquid has just streamlined their approach to the game and decided to make like the defending champions. Again, this is very onic of them to say, “Hey, rely on your solo mechanics, play as a team, and then go from there.” That’s their key to actually making it back in that series against Falcons last night. So, this matchup here, you can look at the numbers and say, “All right, Liquid is up. Yeah, you know, they’re their better KDA. They have the number one highest GPM in team DPM, but understand that Onyx have deep pockets. They have they have we just mentioned it earlier too in terms of our gold laners. Obly either on the Harth, on the Granger, on the Kimmy occasionally on the Mosov, but other than that, it doesn’t feel like he’s been bringing out too much unlike Keller. You know, like even way back, right? Killer has been the guy to even pull off all these ruby gold lane picks, all those interesting kinds of gold laners, the Clint that um maybe it didn’t work. It just Yeah, but who knows? I mean, this happened too with all the entire Wan Jin scenario and they didn’t give up. They didn’t give up on it. Like, they still decided to keep trying and eventually we saw the idea behind it. But before we head into this match again, I believe we should be listening on what’s going in that smart ping test here right now. Grab it. They will show it on the camera later. Let’s go. Let’s go. Jacket diff, bro. It’s already a jacket diff. Yeah, they already lost. Why are you close ranging me, bro? Nobody gets me like Michael. All right. So, that’s our smart ping test, bringing you low latency gaming with smart sullet promos. Subscribe to Only 5G with non-stop data for non-stop gaming in your favorite loading platform or at the smart booth right outside the MPL venue. Yeah, my favorite line out of that entire blink test was the uh they already lost line by OH. I don’t disagree. Imagine basing it on their new jackets. But here’s the infinite excuse to victory. Leo, what should we be expecting from this? In addition to getting really awesome jackets, Liquid has to prepare to face a four protective war in composition. Who’s the one? Kelra. Who else? Onyx can do just that. They can lose the early game, lose the mid game. As long as Kelro’s even sitting on 04 and X like they can come back, they can win. And all this while all has to do is exercise early game caution. If they can avoid Kelra slumping down and dropping down his stats like that, then all the more easier. Maybe they can activate King Kong, even activate Super Friends. And the last but not least, both teams should go for the long game. Expect five games. I can’t believe they actually put it there. So, are we seriously on the road to 34 today? Like, does everyone believe so? Like, actually, if you ask me, I think so, too. It’s 30 tonight, 37 tomorrow, and then 44 all in. Oh, wait. So, so one day at a time. One day at a time. We’re maxing out the entire playoffs. That’s such a That’s such a feat, you know, like if we get to achieve that. It’s insane how we’re able to maybe statistically already call this the most competitive season yet. It already is. It’s concerted effort between the teams, between the fans, and of course the talents who have some juju that make this series go long. All right. You know who you are. Uhhuh. We don’t believe in curses here by the way, but we are about to witness the first draft of this best of five and we’re calling in some reinforcements once again. Renmar, how do you want me to introduce you for today? I’ll introduce myself. Hello and good afternoon, Lao Brigad. And to the Remarians all across the world. Hail Renarians. Hail Hail Rearians. So that’s how you do it. I’ll be taking notes. I’ll be taking notes. But for now, Coach RC, they’re batting out the Fanny and the Ob. And Onyx Philippines, they took the OB. You’re not wrong. You’re not wrong. It is the OV. He’s sitting on an amazing record right now. Do you get me? Do you get me? He understood. It looks like the OV just read. So Kimmy and Chip are the options for Oning Philippines. And it seems like the only first picks that are still out there so far along the lines of the Joy. Yeah, Joy Juicin. Uh, Baka’s also been a rising first pick in this playoffs. So, the Baka is available. That’s been a flex, a major flex for a lot of teams. Falcons did use it too just last night when they unfortunately got their reverse sweep. But now, what could be the last ban for Onyx Philippines? The trend so far is opening so much in terms of the jungler picks for both Carl TZ and King Kong. You think there’s a chance we might be seeing a race for the Loi for the first uh picks here? I mean, it is Sanji and Super Friends. That’s the thing with Chip out of the equation. You’re going to want to watch out for that early Loi. Loi snuck into drafts twice yesterday in the last phase. So, with the Choy being banned here, maybe these two teams get the incentive to, you know, lock in that Loi here first or to close off their first phase. Yeah. And by the way, that uh Lui last night was crazy. Oh, yeah. like it’s been using the diversions non-stop whenever it was available. Pairing it up also with some crowd control. It’s definitely going to work wonders here for both of these teams. Whoever decides to pick it up, but Team Liquid Philippines, they seem like they would rather pick the Jin this time. Yeah, not going to knock it. Uh I think there’s still a wide hero pool available for Super Fit, so they don’t need to race for it too hard. But Dangable, I believe, is uh might be the mindset here for Onyx or maybe looking towards uh getting one of the priority picks for Kellrath. Um I I don’t know if they want to rush either the Moscow or the Granger though. Yeah, I I mean we did mention in the keys to victory the entire four protect one thingy, but when it’s the Moskov, I think you can expect something else from Pelon. This time around, they’re sticking with the Granger though and the Bakshia that was just previously mentioned. Yeah, what’s so amazing about this Baksha is it provides rotational speed, reach, and anti-heal. Uh all of these things are good in multiple kinds of combat. So by locking it in early, coach Watt’s not, you know, closing the draft. But Liquid, oh man, they secure the Hayabusa, key to their comeback last night. And of course, the Fobious, who is currently still even post patch, sitting high up in the pryo bands and picks. Yep. And there’s going to be a Suyo from King Kong to round out the first half of the drafting phase so far. So, I’d say there’s still plenty of flex that you can expect from Onyx heading into the second phase, right? Yeah. Uh, you can still flex the boxer into the Rome in the EXP and lately that changes a lot of the dynamics considering that it’s up against the Fobias. However, it might still default into the classic Hilda versus Phobia in lane. Considering that you see a Hayabus on the other side, uh, makes sense for Kirk wanting to say to coach Y, not to coach H, hey, can I get a Hilda so that I can try to apply pressure in their jungle? The Hilda for Kirk has been, you know, like one of the heroes you just constantly attached to his name because he plays it that way. You know, that entire solo rack warrior feeling whenever he gets the hands on the Hilda. But now they’re respecting some of JP’s potential hero picks taking out the Jaw Head as well. You can’t deny the astronomical win rate that JP has on the JH. Uh but look at this. Liquid blocking out Super’s favorite, the Farsa. They should ban the rather the Selena then ban the fara cuz that’s all three main heroes that he has. But that still leaves the Lui open. Oh yeah, that’s right. So what do you do? You pick your poison, right? Is it Selena? Is it Farsa or is it Lui? Oh. Oh. Uh on Philippines banning out the Gat Kaja. They may be eyeing on a Farsa priority or they’re trying to bait the LP into banning it out. So they’re not going to buy the bait. They’d rather ban the Loi. I feel like that’s the better ban here. Yeah, they have the Hayabusa either way. So, they’ll have ways to answer a potential Farsa pick up here for Super Friends, but we’re not counting out the uh possibility too of another Oh, never mind. They’re just going with the fara. No, they they they’ll keep that uh box flex and they’re not afraid of the fara. Why? Again, they have the hayabusa for reach and then they can still pick cho or the high loss shore like just cut right through. So, this isn’t going to be any setup type. It’s just probably Team Liquid Philippines playing the team fights confidently and aggressively with the amount of tank heroes that they already have right now. Yeah, with Onyx wanting to play a tight formation around the far side. Team Liquid Philippines has a perfect lineup actually to break through that. Of course, with Leo mentioning that you could just bring down the glorious pathway, just run through them. Well, so far there’s not a lot of pitch on the side of Oning Philippines that will give this TLPH lineup a lot of difficulty. If they decide to go Hilda here, it’s uh not going to do much. They might have to settle for either an Edith or a CC if they want to be able to have stoppers. Edith or a CC. There’s also the No, the glue. Oh, yeah. Right. Right. Oh, why would I always forget about the glue? Glue is new. All right. It’s Yeah, glue is new. And there was a time in the past month that we could have touched him, but here he is looking to latch on to what two major targets. He wants to either get on the ov or get on Sanji, one or the other, and just like provide more targets overall whenever Carl TZ wants to play aggressively on this Hayabusa, possibly wasting the resources every now and then. But this is the lineup that they decide to go for in the first game. The lineup rating favors Oni Philippines quite a bit, right, Leo? Yeah, there’s a lot of things that Liquid’s draft doesn’t show in the index. And that comes down to map control. That comes down to just team fight pacing and of course the capability to say when you don’t want to fight. Like those are numbers that just don’t reflect. I agree. This is looking like another aggressive and action-packed game number one. So, we’ll head it over. We’ll head on over to our casters. This is Champions Arena is erupting right now. It’s one series that stands in between a ticket to the grand final and another ticket off to Riion later this year. Is it going to be Team Liquid Philippines or Philippines in our first match of the day? And will we get an epic conclusion to this golden rivalry? It’s me, Naisu, Agon, and Renmar on the desk all throughout the day. Gentlemen, how are we feeling? We’re getting a glimpse at the emblems here. Oh, all right. Uh, all standard in terms of the emblem picks. Of course, Superf going for his fast rotating heavy map pressa. And yeah, I too am erupting with excitement. Yeah, even though it’s only game number one. I feel the drums. Uh, my body is shaking right now, but hopefully that’s connected. Yeah, if you’re if you’re going to look at actually the Suyo so far this playoff, it seems like it doesn’t have a good track record. Oh, yeah. So King Kong is going to look to change that. At the same time, OB and Kirk second time only to use the Moskov and the Gloom for these respectively. So far, no wins coming into the playoffs. So, let’s see how things will change cuz so far it has been a slow start for both of these teams. We used to seeing the mid laners and the rors really poke it out in the mid lane. Yeah, this one’s quite different though, too, just because of what we’ve seen the past couple of days, a lot of these long series, and we’ve seen adjustments obviously throughout these longer series happen, but this time around with both compositions here, I feel like, yeah, we haven’t seen the Suyo perform what we’re used to seeing, and that’s fine. He kind of needed that adjustment to happen. Um, and at the same time, you just have to be able to support him. Now, you have a glue here that could help. But, Bruce go finds Carl TZ with a shield. Unity forced out the shadow early on but in exchange for the revitalize. So a crucial battle spell for Onyx expended for this turtle. Yeah, very early in the game. Team Liquid Philippines are not going to be able to contest objectives as much. I mean, you’ve got glue, you’ve got Basha that you have to deal with. Zuyo, of course, one of the relatively tankier assassins. Oh, super prince for air strike. Let’s grab grab coming in for the side of as they take down Sanford as well. Let’s see how TP will respond as Kirk flickers in once again with Super Friends. King Kong also on the chase goes in for the kill and an aggressive start for the Sonics as they take down one more. The daddy goes down. He goes down and hey, King Kong might have just put Suyo back on the board a little bit here. Oh yeah. Uh King Kong has not won this playoffs yet if I’m not mistaken. He’s 0 and5 with everything that has happened with all the lineups he’s had to go against. But so far uh in this one, this is not a terrible hero match up against Yo, Sanji gets picked in the mid by Prince and Bruso. In the blink of an eye, Brusco and Super Prince really putting control at the center of the map once again. A 40 start for the Sonics with a 2.3k gold lead. Yeah, very fast start here for Onic Philippines. And you know who has done really well so far through the playoffs is this Farsa pick. Yeah, right. It’s been it’s been so good for a lot of the teams that bring it because it’s got such good early damage uh potential throughout the early game, but even in the late game, we’ve seen usually topping sometimes the carry uh in the big four stats for the far here. So, we’re going to have to see how Sanji adjust that because as he’s sitting at 0 and two, still trying to build up into his first item. Doesn’t have the flicker right now. We know even the juin pairs up really well with a lot of compositions, but right now they’re just kind of getting outmaneuvered. Yeah, cuz you can see the dive center composition of Onyx. Brusco has been the thorn in the neck of TP. As soon as the lantern player is just beaming up, Brusco just dives in with a shield unity. Disrupts whatever TPH has in store for Onic Philippines. All right, so Onic Philippines. Oh, they might find another one. JP, no, no, no, no, no. You don’t need to dive under the tower this early on. Second turtle is going to be up and it’s still going to be looking good for Any as Carl’s already getting pressured by Kurt. Yeah, Kurt just replicating what a Hilda does right now. Sticking on to Carl Tezy, even sustaining damage coming in from two JP. goes in with glorious pathway so is going to connect here as Sanford goes in with infernal forum might be able to bring down super prince that’s one member down for on both team there could be a flicker Sanford working on King Kong with the zone as JP might be able to get taken down JP will fall super prince as well Kong escapes just in a snap on Philippines lost the formation yes he was doing the right job Kong might be up next at the docket but Bruce go there to help him out unless no see King Kong was there and now Carl he’s there’s no Kirk goes under that. It’s a Hayabusa versus a glue. He’s going to be fine. Gets away, but Kirk takes a couple shots. Might just be trying. I thought he was going to try to delay for uh for King Kong to make it there. But yeah, ultimately OnX Philippines still holding on to that lead they had there. What an interesting fight for the objective, but at least Carl got the turtle. Now the play here on the bottom side for this turret. Instant rotation from Onyx after dominating the turtle fight. instantly goes down and helps Kellra gives him enough space to take down a turret down bottom. And now so far we’re seeing uh Onyx Philippines really the sustain is just there for them cuz it’s going to come down to a point where Terrier have they have to use a lot of resources just to get by Brusco and Kirk. Yeah. Uh they are so tanky and again they don’t have the damage profile uh to deal with them this early on. Although yes they were able to break the formation of Philippines. the strength of their lineup. But if Vonic Philippines keeps a tighter formation, they’re a little bit more disciplined and they’re a little bit more careful with their timing, then they will not they should not be as susceptible to what TPH did to them earlier. In terms of the items, still very close. See Care still trying to catch up to King Kong though around uh getting close to 1,000 gold difference between the Hayabusa and the Suyo. They’re not getting too like lane in and some of the important lanes. They’re not getting too far behind and it’s going to be kind of work here even for Kyle Tezy just trying to clear this lane. But look at the shots from Kellra bringing him under half health. Objective is going to be up shortly. So you got OnX Philippi is trying to get in position and TLPH looking to see what angle they can take. And part of that is just let as uh Brigal earlier, let the OB farm up, you know, let him get to where he needs to be on this Moscow. He can put pressure across the map if he wants to and hopefully join these fights or the objectives later on when he’s got some more items. Uh-oh. Let’s go JP. Oh no, JP used the glorious pathway defensively there. Major resource expended for the side of TLP and on the right time because the turtle spawns. All right, so Team Liquid Philippines are most likely going to be giving this objective up as they have their eyes set on the tower in the bottom lane. But the minion waves are a bit too far. So that could call for a defense on Zavonic. No, they’re going to be willing to give it up. Oh goes in as a wiggy shadow kill to evade a potential death, but gets stunned out by Brusco. feeds the kill off to Kelra and a huge kill onto the young goat. What was the idea there? Yeah, it looks like he really just wanted the purple buff, but Sanford could be up next. A little bit too greedy. Carl Tezy and a great bump by Brusco. Maybe he just wanted to force a situation where the the retro is going to be used or even steal that purple buff and then he thought he could get away, but all the you know the super fan was basically there at that point. So this leads to now another objective taken and maybe his purple buff taken. on a kill now attempting to steal away the purple buff of Carl Teasy. That’s a fiveman rotation. Kirk just soaking up the damage that TP can give him. And now on Philippines holding on to a 5k gold lead. Spread spread already committed by Kirk. Here comes a glorious pathway. Will they be able to make a play here as Sanji just continuing to dish out the lantern flare, but it has no effect whatsoever to the members of the Sonics. still not there in terms of the damage department as Philippines’s gold lead is ballooning closer and closer to 5,000. OB is just going to be left in split push duty to try and get resources for himself and take towers down for the team. I think Liquid are just going to have to turtle this out and try to play for the counter punch if they can cuz even if they initiate Yeah. they don’t have the damage. It’s only a glowing one on that Zin. Yeah. And Carl’s about 2,000 a little little less than 2,000 gold behind at this point. So, he’s definitely playing catch-up. And that’s why we see him maybe taking some of these chances. You know, trying to get what he can or even slow down King Kong a little bit in whatever capacity that’s going to be. That’s conceal going to be used. Might just be enough to push them off of this tier 2 turret. Uh-oh. Sanji forced out the crimson beacon as Kellra on the chase. Here comes JP though to the rescue. Still no casualties for both of these teams. Oh, already up to a malefific roar. three core items for King Kong Suyo. At the same time, Kirk and Bruce are getting closer and closer to building up the dominance Isis, which means that once they have those items, and OH wants to, you know, smack a little bit of those big beefy dudes, it’s going to be like, wait, why why am I getting slower? It’s not as effective as I want it to be. Yeah, that’s going to be a big part of what could help them. Again, you got to remember what we saw yesterday, TLPH, they reverse swept, right? So, even in this situation where they’re down what 6,000 gold, you’re not going to be able to just count them out and uh you wouldn’t want to do that because they are able to find plays even when you think their backs are completely against the wall. The fight for the purple buff. It looks like Carl TZ is not going to get it though. So, does not have his purple buff for now. The lord is up. This could be a big decision for them. Do they actually want to contest into this or does Philippines just get this? It looks like they’ll keep Ohe down on that bottom side, possibly get the tier one, but JP takes a little bit of hits. Here comes the spread. Spreads force out the glorious pathway, but Kirk works on JP as they bring him down. King Kong focuses his eyes on the lord. Kirk and Brusko just zoning out. Carl Ty. The spear is going to connect. Sanford has to flicker out again. Kirk latches on Carl Ty here. Super FR with the air to zone out, but Kro I think he wants to go for the kill. Sanford goes in with infernal pursuit and he’s going to take him down as King gets the lord. Call TC here might be the next target. Sachi forces on the beacon and Kra got taken down. Sachi was still able to find Kelra there, but Onic Philippines are going to be walking away with the lord. Obar of destruction, but he was able to take the tower down bottom, but at the end the long sequence on Philippines are still going to be in control. Okay, they’re still in control right now. The most they maybe get out of this is the all the shields are going to be down. Uh maybe they get a base turret with this, but Oh, and Carl are still up. Oh, again with a flicker in the super fra with a feather air strike as they work on the mid lane turret. Lord sieging in onto the top. They still have their holy shield. I think every single shield will be popped here. Fourman rotation for Onyx. Kelra still not in the picture. And TPH will work on this lord. Yeah, you don’t have to force that. So much pressure. Kirk is literally the glue holding not Onyx together, Team Liquid Philippines together. And they don’t want to be together. They want a little bit more of separation between them so that they can do things individually, but Kirk is just keeping them at bay. Sanford doing everything he can to do something here, but he’s going to be in trouble. Kirk latches on to Sanford here. Glorious path cast it down. They’re working on Kra might be able to bring him down. That’s one member down exchange for Sanford. Coffee goes in with a leaky shadow kill. It might be a turn around here for Team Liquid Flippies. Bruce already low, but the members of Team Liquid Flippies are falling as Sonic are holding on. Saji might be able to take that one. A double for Sagi. But Kirk answers back. A mega kill. Kirk and King Kong working on the top lane alongside Super Friends. And they’re going to bring down an inhibitor turret. Kirk, Kirk, Kirk. He is such a nuisance on this glue. It’s working so well for them. It was a perfect pick. Again, if I feel like there’s a reason as to why I always forget about glue in drafts. Now Kirk is reminding us why you shouldn’t. Don’t forget the name. Don’t forget there’s a UK in town. It’s Kirk and King Kong. It’s Kirk and King Kong, man. Yeah, because that’s as far as we go. We only go to two, right? Yeah. We keep it there. And now Onyx Philippines is ready to go ahead and get ready for the next fight. You’re still 50 seconds away from this objective coming up. And so at this point, TLPH, it looked like in some of those team fights, they they might have been able to turn some of that around, right? But the biggest factor here is they’re just lacking some of the damage, some of the durability because they are behind by this much gold. So if they’re somehow able to, like you mentioned earlier, Renar to turtle up and and be on the defensive, but by time then maybe the catch up here on fight once again. Dark Wade from Sanford to try and stop Onyx Onslaught there as they try and take away the purple buff of Carl Tezy. But again, it’s going to be a waiting game for TLPH cuz in 15 seconds the Lord will be spawning. Kirk feels like a cowboy with a K right now. He’s just rounding up all the horses together and they just want to run free. They just want to run wild. But again, they’re just all kept up. And of course, that means that Super Friends is happy. Kela’s happy. King Kong is happy cuz when he goes in with the soul sever, he’ll be able to deal so much damage. Yeah, that’s why Superfrince isn’t afraid to early cast the feathered air track cuz there he knows there’s a cleanup that can that can come from King Kong with the spread spread there. King Kong as King Kong jumps in once again. Rusco with the shield. Unity looking for the proper target and he latches on to JP. That’s going to be another one. Counter is going to take JB down on Philippines look like they found the main target and that’s two down for the side of team Philippines. The next target might be oh heir. King jumps in but want to fight back and cause wants that trade but Sanji is the only one left. Super friends win a double. That might have been enough though. Sanji on the run. Forget the lord. Brusco wants to hunt him down. Kra there too. We’ll see if they can push this in into the mid lane. They still have some time. They try to keep it together, but Sanji, he’s all alone. Can he actually clear this out and defend it? Call for Onic Philippines is to get an inhibitor turret in the middle lane. Let’s see if TP can still come back from this game. They don’t decide to go for the Lord cuz King Kong is not in the picture. So, there was still time bought for TP. All right, they have another shot at this. 3,500 is the gold lead. It’s not massive. They have the resources, should have enough to get small wins here and there, but again, it seems to be them needing to initiate something, but it it’s tough. It’s so tough when you have to think about the grab grab of the glue. Yeah, he hasn’t died, man. Yeah, he hasn’t. He’s 30 and8. Kirk has been unstoppable here. He’s been the catalyst for Onyx Philippines and the bane for Team Liquid. Yep. He’s providing so much space for Cow to basically move around. Even King Kong to an extent. And that’s what I was saying, you know, the Suyo, you really need to rely on that composition again. Kirk with bread paired up with super princess feather and air strike, but CBH was able to back off. JB already cast a glorious pathway. Bruce go quite low, but he has to revive the lines and Sanford goes down and without he’s grabbed by the looks like he’s going to go in. It’s a turn around for Team Liquid, but just in the lap on Nick has shattered that dream to keep this game alive. A triple for King Kong. It’s Kirk and King Kong in game one. They made it work and now they’ll march into the base. And in a blink of an eye, the Sonics rages forward as they take game one. Woo! What a game. Yee-ha says Kurt the cowboy with a K. Rounding up the horses, man. If that if Glue was an actual cowboy, I would be devastated and scared. Yeah. Oh, they’re not called cowboys, right? They’re called Wranglers. Wranglers. Wranglers. Yeah, he’s wrangling right now. And he’s he’s wrangling them with glue leaks. Let’s go ahead and throw this one over to the panel to see what Brigada and Leo have to say about this fast game one. Thank you so much to our casters. My oh my, that that last sequence, Leo, it looked like something could have happened for Team Liquid Philippines. No, there was just too much on OB’s shoulders. And that’s literally Kirk. Uh he got the right target, forced Team Liquid Philippines out of formation. And just to clear things out, gentlemen, yes, they’re not called Wranglers specifically. They’re still called cowboys because cowboys are not the gunslingers. They’re just actually dudes who work in farms. My goodness. Kirk has had probably one of the best glue games so far in the entire season. Clutch last pick. Deathless. How could you deal with this guy with the amount of damage that they had at that point? Right. Team Liquid Philippines had too many problems and this was probably the biggest one. Yeah. No, I think it was the uh what they say the straw that broke the horse’s back. Given that yes, in the index it showed that stats-wise Onyx wins, right? Because they had better damage profile, they had better reach, better range, fights came out easier for them. And Kirk, I think Kirk single-handedly undid one of the main strengths of Liquid’s game. The fact that Liquid can say, “No, I don’t want to fight just yet. I want to get out of here and then farm up till OB is ready.” But Kirk said, “Nuh-uh, fam. Nuh-uh. I’m going to use this newly reworked glue and make sure that your softies or even your not soft your kind your kind of your kind of softies in fobvious early on can’t walk away and that’s exactly what he did here. You’re seeing him. He’s doing it every single time. That’s right. They couldn’t say no. Like they’re always forced to fight. And this is probably one of the games wherein we barely saw the chemistry, the uh coordination within Team Liquid Philippines. Not even the Sans duo could operate at the same time. It’s completely shut down for the XP later of Team Liquid. And this is something we saw in their series against Falcons last night. Um it’s odd that in the early games of a long series like this, it seems like Liquid has to warm up. They have to, you know, rev the engines and say, “All right, guys. We’re a little too aggressive where we’re going for things that maybe we shouldn’t have. Timing is in our side. Let’s do better.” Game two, three, four. Here it was clear. There was this one moment, I don’t know if you saw it in the highlights, where Carl Ty got caught out while he was trying to get go for a buffer or some some random thing that he shouldn’t have. Yeah. And is that not the worst scenario for a Hayabusa when you’re the one who’s constantly forced to use the quad shadows just to get away, just to reposition and not even find key targets. This was the entire idea why we mentioned in the draft that the Farsa could have been okay for Team Liquid Philippines, right? No, it was super fence flying right into their faces and they could barely do anything with the amount of burst damage that he already had. So, it was a pretty hard and rough game for Team Liquid Philippines right there in this game number one. Yeah, for such a difficult uh match here. They had a close farm. Again, Renmar mentioned how Onyx never really went past the 5k gold lead. And and I think that’s uh understood to be, at least for the past year or so, the threshold for competitive MLBB. If you can keep it close like that, even when you’re down, a game is combable. And I think that’s what Onyx respected in Team Liquid Philippines. They still planted Kirk in the right spots, kept Super Fin scarce. He died just once in this game. And they told King Kong, “Hey, you get shut down once, best believe that gold lead will diminish.” And it did. The smallest it was was like 2,000 3,000. But that was just once. Yeah. I mean, look at this right now. Even as we wrapped up the game, 15 minutes and 35 seconds, there’s only just a 3k gold lead that’s existing in the hands of Onyx Philippines despite the 722 kill score despite all the objectives that were taken away from them. Eight turrets in contrast to three. It’s so weird how Team Liquid Philippines are able to keep this together. The furthest that Liquid ever came close to Onyx base was through bottom lane that OH worked on. Who, by the way, Om spent a good what, five or 6 minutes just clamming up, keeping himself scarce, defending his part of the map, farming up, and he built a solid six, right? Uh, but he did not cross the threshold of actually selling his boots and being an even bigger nuisance. He he had to play it close to the chest. He had to be frugal about his economy and looking at the damage. I think this is something that we’ll visit later on. King Kong alone, the carry 81k, the rich guy, of course. When did King Kong never farm out of his mind? Yeah. And also, when was the last time we saw a Suyo be this successful in the game? Like from the early first few minutes of the game up until the moment where they ended it, he was ahead. He was so well farmed. So this is a surprising outcome for King Kong. I’ll tell you when whenever the opponents only pick one solid magic damage dealer and it’s not even a burst damage he dealer. It’s a Zushin who killed Kelra like two or three times. Oh yeah, that took like so much for him to do that. He was literally just hovering uh his skill two over Kelra in the span of like a 10 15 second fight. But yeah know that’s the reason why Kong was so successful. That’s one of the geniuses of coach WA and coach Hayes’s draft here saying Ging Kong co is clear. Go play Suyo. Yeah, I I mean I think you will be looking at it later on too, but there were there was an early malefic roar. There was just so many core items already in King Kong’s hands by what the how many minute mark. So take us through what happened through that game, Leo. Let’s look at the more specific details in uh that game. It would be my pleasure. Let’s go ahead and check out game number one and go into the details as we dive deep into what made Liquid’s game so difficult and how Onyx barreled forward in value. And here’s the thing, it wasn’t even that big of a gap, right? Again, under 5K, the difference between Liquid and Onyx, who by the way, I don’t think Onyx has ever played blue side. I need to double check on that stat, but Onyx has played 11 games now in redside. And check it out. This right here is where it shrank closest. Uh the shutdown on King Kong, right? King Kong died somewhere around Yay. And that led to this gap closing to what close to 2,000. And that is the closest Liquid looked like to actually coming back to actually maybe making a difference and making Onyx respect once again what the cavalry brings to the table. But that aside, look at this. Half of the major objectives gained. One turtle snuck in. That’s turtle number two. Three turrets. That’s all bottom. Uh, wait, no. One up top and then two in the bottom. Didn’t even penetrate into the base. And then, of course, Onyx just everything but the kitchen sink. Yep. There you go. This is the last. This is the base right here. So, it comes down to fundamentals, right? No matter how much fight control you have, no matter how much spacing you can get with a Zushin or a Hyos, when it comes down to it, if your lineup can’t fight when it wants to, best believe a team like Onyx will punish you. And that’s what they got here. They got the box, they got the glue, that’s what we like to call reach. Uh we’ll talk about that when the draft shows up here. Uh, and when you’re playing against a hero or players uh, like King Kong and Kelra who are so good at taking advantage of the exp and the gold that they get, these fundamental uh, voids uh, in your approach to the game will be super punished. All right, so again a closer look at that change in the gold at about 13 minutes approaching 14. That is where King Kong died. He came back said it’s go time. We can’t let this happen again. It was a faster game uh in u you know the larger picture of the playoffs. Let’s check out the item progression. This is where I would like to geek out. Look at Kelra’s full build here on the Sky Piercer. Yes, it shows up at six, but if you watch the game closely, he built both the Hunter Strike and the Sky Piercer uh and the random jerkin that would lead then to the warrior boots. And if I’m not mistaken, he did this at 50:06, 507. He was ready to go at 5 minutes. That’s how difficult the gold lane was for OH. Uh and then look at King Kong here, who uh Brigadea mentioned was rocking an early malefic roar. There it is. So, this is a uh this is a Suyo that knows that they’re in for the kill. Hunter strike check. War axe check. Like these two, you never let go. And then bam. Malefic Roar. You’re going to shred through Sanford’s armor. You’re going to shred through JP’s armor. The healing, forget about it. You got the Brusco Baksha here running around building that uh Antichas early nullifying Sanford, nullifying Carl Tezi. A little bit of OH already cuz again, very weird damage profile here. Only one main magic source in Sanji’s Zushin. Check out as well, Kirk. This was mentioned by our casters, the dominance ice. I believe this one single item here was enough to make sure Ob had a difficult early mid to early late. U he did eventually build six items and felt a little bit of a power spike. But no, this right here, the way Kirk said, “Yeah, if ever were to get me, if ever JP decides to touch me, say goodbye to the healing.” Even Sanford found it hard to ride out those early engagements. The front line did not exist for Team Liquid Philippines because of what Kirk did here. The early dominance ice super friends of course you you build the usual defensive suite in the Queen’s Wings and the Winter Trunch. And then Brusco folks I suggest you guys pay attention to how boxes are built. Again, throwing back to the Chopsua, he built a uh black ice armor here. So just in case these fights happened without Kirk and his fully built dominance ice, Brusco was there. Brusco could slow down the healing, cut the shields and stack on top of those Baksha marks. That’s the reason why Baksha is so big in the current metag game. Now let’s talk about the draft. All right, number one major problem damage profile. Uh I noted this in the uh desk whenever I would be on and a team would be defending. I give the wave clear score for Team Liquid Philippines here with this draft a six out of 10. I don’t like it. It takes a while. There was a moment wherein it was Carl TZ and Sanji trying to clear a wave in mid and bottom. It took him what a solid 10 seconds just like this is one wave gentlemen. And again that’s a decision they made. This is a team fighting lineup. This is a lineup that wants to at least be at neutral, win uh the fights that they choose and then retreat from the fights that they don’t choose. That was one of the main strengths that I noted in this draft. But they didn’t get to those positions. They they they never got to a point wherein they could say I don’t want to fight. On the other hand, Ony again, kings of range and reach range powier reach. That’s a new concept we want to introduce. How perfect that it is Brusco who is the king of reach in this game. Reach is different from range. Range is how you can effectively attack your opponents while being far away. Reach is what you get in assassins like Hayabusa and in heroes like Baksha and Kufra wherein you jump in, close the gap and then be right in your opponent’s face. That is reach. That is what ruins heroes like Farsa, ruins heroes like Eve and even Zushin. If you can close the gap and make her fight wherein you’re not comfortable, then forget about it. Like the shield negation that Baksha provides against Isushin almost makes Crimson Beacon an auto click and that compromised Sanji that compromised all of Liquid and that’s what led to this quick win by the super fam. those midame stats by this guy. The reach Brusco that was like 10k gold ahead of the unusual average stats of the current season. So that’s on the back sha roam which again has been a major threat too for majority of the drafts for the past two days and they break out pick in the playoffs. Yeah, they’ve been able to pull it off really well. I mean that that that tends to happen, right? That there’s a certain meta that gets established in the first day, especially after a very long break. And right now, we’re seeing how the meta in the playoffs is starting to shape up to look like. And it does feel like Onyx Philippines is the team to actually perfect that meta so far and the way they’re able to execute it overall. But yeah, I completely agree. It’s been a very tough game. I barely felt the sustain in Team Liquid Philippines lineup. I initially thought there was so much that was a fobious that was a high loss, but we barely felt it. But right now, let’s take a look at the smart power pose of the day. So, for everyone watching, it’s time to put your game face on and make your smart power pose because you will be getting a redeemable in-game code if you get chosen here in this segment. So, uh, folks, note the tongue. Note Kirk’s tongue. They got to pay attention to the tongue. Yeah. Yeah. Show us the right Oh, this kid homie went too far. Wait, he didn’t hold it. Metal mouth went a little too far. That’s too high. That’s too high. Yeah, there’s too much tongue. Just a little. Just Hey, that’s not that’s not correct. Here we go. Oh, I think this one I think this works. All right. This this this spectacled lady knows. She did it right the first time. I think we need a bit more. Homie’s got a nice smile, but uh how do I say this? Uh the young lady’s tongue is a little too playful. This guy’s not having any of it. No. No. We we you just show a bit of your teeth. Yeah, I’d say like the the upper half of your teeth and some and there you go. Like gentleman in the back with the tattoos almost got it. Okay. Did he Did he? No, that’s a bit too much. Yeah. Okay. So, Okay. So, this guy is going to be our winner for the Smart Power Post. Congratulations to you. I hope you enjoy your redeemable in-game code. He won with charm. Yeah, he he he didn’t get the the tongue right, but like that’s fine. You see, he got heart. He held it all the way. So, he deserved to get that redeemable in-game coach. Dedication. Congratulations. We have a lot more in store for you guys if ever you do decide to come here at Greenson Mccari if you decide to join us and watch the last two, three days of our playoffs. So, we hope to see you. We hope that you were able to secure tickets because I believe they went by really fast. So, by the way, Ollie Philippines will be going red side. Of course, uh this time around, this is their 12th game all playoffs long long to be in the red side. They’ve they’ve mastered the trades so much. Like, they just know this is where they want to be. We saw it earlier, too. Like, their win rates when they’re on the red side, it’s just way too up there. They’re just so confident in terms of them playing the red side and them letting go of certain picks. Like even the juin first pick earlier that was done by team liquid Philippines. You see how they were able to play around it. Even the Phobius is a common ban that we see in the first phase. But they knew exactly how to respond to that. But again, oh my god, Leo did mention earlier. We do observe that Team Liquid Philippines tends to take a little bit more time. I believe this was a trend for other teams in international tournaments too or like way back. It was something we saw in Aurora as well, but now it’s happening to Team Liquid Philippines. That’s why we love the lower bracket. But here’s the thing, you don’t have to go to the lower bracket. Like, winning this series punches your ticket to the grand finals and to MSC. So, it doesn’t have to come to that. All right. So, I have hope that a lot of lessons were learned in game one to give us a more competitive game number two. Uh, it’s just also watched last night. Honic also knows what the cavalry is capable of. So they would, you know, that was probably their their form of rest, right? Like watching the series together after they played their own series in the first match of yesterday. But we’re calling Renmar in once more to join us in the draft. Renar, how are you feeling? Did you like what you saw in that game? Uh yeah, I mean I did. uh how Onyx was able to come back into that. Hello again, Leo. Bring it up. It was a It was a very dominant game for Onyx Philippines. Completely denying the sustained heroes for Team Liquid. So now they changed things up. No Jinsions whatsoever. It’s a more common first pick so far for Team Liquid Philippines. Hey man, all the Renarians are asking, should the Baka show up here again? I mean, there’s there’s a chance that it will and probably be in the E. No, I think he’s still going to be in the Rome. Considering that there’s a Har on the other side, team Philippines might consider picking up the Baksha. That’s one of the heroes that’s been proven to not counter it, but just give it difficulty, of course. You know, you’re reducing a little bit of the shields that he could get. It’s still crazy amount of shields, but you know, every little thing helps when trying to deal with Harris. That and the phobia. So, this is already a clear signal, but it might be a trap by coach Why not? Yeah, I I agree with that. That uh they might be trying to bait out a boxer pick early on. What if they have answers to this? You know, like we’ve seen it in the previous days. Like for lineups that had the faction, it feels like you have to a lot a ban for a certain pick that will make your time very difficult. But Team Liquid Philippines Knight might not fall into that trap. They’re picking up the gap first and if they pick the Bapt here, that’ll pretty much reveal a lot since you already have your jungler. So you don’t get the flex benefit of the Baka if they pick it up here. So they will proceed with the Farsa instead. Oo, okay. I like this far. Uh, it Sanji applied, excuse me, Super Face applied so much pressure for the lineup of Team Liquid Philippines earlier. So, uh, I a good response right away picking up the Hayabusa and seems to be the go-to slot now for Haya. Red three. Mhm. If it wasn’t such a magic damage filled first half for Liquid, then that would have been the Suyo, right? But Haya it is again. Quick access, quick reach to the Farsa in the back. Now closing off these picks. Uh, do we attack the gold lane? Do we attack the XP lane for Liquid? Yeah, I mean the the matchup that just can kind of manage things with uh a Harth in the lane is probably the Granger. Like that’s the closest, but that’s already banned out. So the next possible probably will be the Moscow if they do want to offer that. But this is looking pretty interesting since does Onyx want to let go of the Baksha in this kind of scenario since it feels like the Baksha earlier played by Ony was up against Team Liquid Philippines with this exact same lineup and it worked. So would they want to like encounter that same problem? Uh they do need a little bit more thickness in their lineup though. Maybe this time around the Philippines might consider picking up the glue for themselves. uh just a little thing to deal with uh the Harth and whoever’s going to be left alone in the backline. Most likely the pick of Super Friends considering that team Philippines had a really great ban here in the Selena. So then does that mean they’re going to be considering taking out something like the Loi? Maybe uh if they want to take out another Super Friends Comfort to put him in something that might be a bit of a matchup uh mishap for him. Oh, and by the way, I think the carry might also be an option for Oh, but that’s too much magic damage if you’re team liquid Philippines already. Yeah, you need you need either physical or true at this point. Like that is way uh too much magic. That radiant armors early on is just going to snuff their development in the game. Yep, I agree. So, what does Team Liquid Philippines go for as their last band? Is it going to be the Lui? Mind you, OB still has a Bruno. Oh, a pocket Bruno. Oh, yeah. That he for a majority of the regular season alone played a lot. Like that was his go-to if everything else failed. Yeah, that makes sense. Considering that uh it’s going to be paired up with a fara got that Kacha enjoyed diving forward. There should be enough room for the batrix. However, that means that team liquid Philippines will have to have a another front liner in the back line to peel uh cuz the Hayabusa will just be able to dive onto them easy. that too. So, it’s Bea or Bruno left for uh the Filipino sniper. Yeah. Yep. And the Louie potential pickup if Super Prince wants to go that route or do they just really be cautious of the presence of the Joy cuz you know, but I mean it’s like you can just play it as aggressively as we saw it yesterday. If ever they do pick it up, it works well with the Haya too in terms of managing the split or the opposite ways if they do want to go for the macro. So for the world’s longest quad shadow, it can happen if ever they do pick it up here. I mean, but they they have no rush for it cuz again, you already know where the mid laner is over there. All right, just catch it up. Ooh, it is. All right. Oh, ho. And there’s no draw anymore. So, what does JP go for? There’s not there’s no chip too. Or is he going to go for the gate? That might as well be the case cuz again we know Liquid has deep pockets but no they learned their lesson yesterday. We’re not going to play the meta anymore. We’ll play what we know. They’re sticking with it. It’s something we saw from Monies 2 and um eventually they did find a way to make it work. But now it’s the mage for super prince. Even even the carry still even the Kimmy is still out there as we mentioned. Unless they’re going to go banned. So we go for what we expected anyways. Yep, there we go. Yeah, it was this or the Eve. It was It was considering that there’s a Joy though. So, this probably would have been the safer option. More mobile on Philippines. It feels like they’re just so confident with the way they’re drafting so far in the past two games. It’s like they they’re able to foresee every single thing that might come out and it’s Team Liquid Philippines who since yesterday have been feeling a bit off even as the game has already started. I think Liquid’s learning a lot. So look at this. This is a what adjustment from their draft in game one and the numbers are looking better already. Yep. They have to show us and they have to execute it as well in such a way that they’re able to maximize this lineup’s potential because it has a lot. You can expect a lot of combinations, a lot of hero synergies. That’s the farthest. But let’s see how everything unfolds as we throw it over to our casters. Thanks so much, panel. Again, Bria and Leo and Renarian. And Renarian’s back on the desk with us once again. It’s me and Inggon jumping into game two here. We’ll see if TLPH can go ahead and even out the series or maybe they I don’t know, maybe they just want another reverse sweep under their hands here. Uh we’re going to find out. The lineup looks better though, I would say, for the composition this time around for TLPH. You guys mentioned it a little bit in the draft. Let’s take a quick look at the emblems. Anything standing out? No. Uh all pretty standard. Of course, he prefers going with his tenacity and inspire 5% cool down reduction along with the brave smite for uh brave smite, excuse me, for his low yi. And one of the key interactions here for team nuke and Philippines are their double revitaliz. should not hesitate to take those early to mid game trades because when you have that with you that means even though Onyx Philippines uh their damage might trump you in the early to mid you have the regen to get through it and to potentially turn things around. So if ever they find themselves in a skirmish and as long as Sanford and JP are together go ahead fight. Yeah but seems like Onyx actually is on the driver’s seat now forcing 7 and0 on the joy. Yeah, undefeated. Wow, I didn’t realize that actually. Yeah, I was that. Sorry, I didn’t mean to cut you off there, but because that’s an amazing stat. And let’s see if Carl TC will suffer his first defeat with the Joy, especially with the adjustments that they have. I do agree with what Renmar said in terms of, you know, forcing things out. They can force a revitalize one or two even before the turtle spots. That’s the crazy thing. When was the last time we saw double revitalize in the past couple I mean, even the end of regular season? We haven’t seen that too often. It was a strategy that teams like to go with, you know, more so in the beginning of the regular season, but this is a whole lot of sustain that’s going to help TPH and, you know, maybe even help uh the fact that Carl Te can play a little more aggressive even. Uh, and, you know, for those that missed it yesterday, Carl Tezy just achieved a pretty big milestone for the MPL Philippines where he had 2,000 kills. Uh, first one in the MPL Philippines. Fight for the turtle. Mark wave there for Kirk. They all jump in but glorious pathways of destruction missed. So this might be an opening here for Onyx but Carl Sey will secure the turtle but super caught in the middle as JP picks up a kill. Exactly what we were talking about. Kirk might be up in the docket but he’ll be able to get away. The double revitalize early on. Don’t hesitate to fight and DPH they stuck through to that main condition. That’s exactly what it was and that’ll be the case of the majority of the early game. Now, at some point, obviously, you know, on Philippines will get the items that they need and uh they’ll be able to go ahead and counter play into that a little bit. Uh but it’s going to be a rough early to mid game even if they start to if TLP continues to go ahead and focus on objectives and then scale up, it’s going to be troublesome. Brusco purify popped down there by Sanji. So, Brusco getting caught there by JP as King Kong tries to go for the chase. Even use up the retribution to bring down Sanji. Brusco escapes. Oh, kills across the map. All right, so a kill on to Kirk. Cartis was able to get one and then a trade out for Sanji who eventually after getting kicked out of the sky did fall down. Okay. Yeah. Hey, you know that purify will help a little bit, but also the thing to take note of is Brusco has done pretty well on the Cho when it gets picked up. I think, you know, sitting at a positive win rate on it, six and three right now is still the main thing. He’s usually able to go ahead and find those exact targets that they need to, especially in some of the more crucial team fights later on. Ouch. Takes a lot of poke here though, too. And that’s one thing, like I said, man, the Farsa has risen up once again in a lot of these compositions that we’re seeing just because of that early burst, the jump, ag picks up another kill, and both teams will disperse. All right. Uh, good trade there. Good sense by King Kong to just jump straight into the backline, take Sanji down as the other members of Team Rug Philippines were focused on Kirk. This should go a little bit better for Onyx Philippines in contesting this this turtle. But Sanji will be back in time and it looks like it’s going to be a full-on 5v5 considering the two gold laners are nearby. Let’s see though where and Kelro will go. It seems like they are focused more on just getting the farm. Yeah, Ob’s got to do that though. So he he went cleared mid. He’s going to go back down bottom. The fight for the turtle though. We’ll see if Oh, throws the spear. There’s the sod and the glorious pathway there from Sanford. Kurt jumps in with the infernal pursuit as King Kong gets the turtle though. But the cloud still going on. JP might fall down here. But the first man down is Bruce. Next one is JP. And both teams again will disperse, but there’s going to be a diversion though. Where’s that going to go? Okay. Oh no, they’re they’re going to be sending them back. Kirk still holding on trying to do everything he can. He’ll be able to clear up the minion wave and he avoids getting taken down. Oh, good call to not commit the spirit of destruction to go into the fight. Seems like team Philippine just told him, “Go ahead, focus on the farm, get the tower instead.” That’s more important now. Yeah. And ultimately leading to pretty much even, you know, across the board for the most part. Both teams still looking to find that momentum in this game, but TLP responds with focusing on an objective, and that’s space is what they want to go cuz they bring OAB now up the top side. He’s going to be working on that tier one there too alongside the help with Sanford as they force off Kirk. So this is the play for TLP. Oh, hold on. JP trying to collapse onto JP, but he’s quite happy. SOD is going to connect. Good dark wave there from Kirk, but they cannot sustain the damage though. JP picks up another kill as he jumps in. But O is going to fall down. Another shadow coming in from King Kong. And now Super Friends is left there. Oh, good counter there by Onyx. They all lined up and it looked perfect for Ohead, but he eventually got taken down, but that tight fighting path meant that the damage of an O would be great. King Kong finds Carl, but Carl still trying to get away. Sanford here to help him out. Close call. That was close. That was calculated. That was either close, that was calculated. That was all of it. Right. That’s what you see when it’s a Joy and a Hayabusa, of course, trying to fake out each other. So, ultimately, we’re still at the same precipice of this. You know, it’s it’s it’s basically even. You have this next turtle coming up. Both of the teams have won themselves. We’ll see who gets this last and final turtle of the game. On Philippines going to get in position. They’ll continue to put pressure for TLP over on the other side with OH. We’ll see if he joins this fight as Kawa takes down the tier one top side. Now, the response from TLPH for this is also going to be crucial. They’ve only got the one revitalized. Sanji is going to be okay, too. Has his purify. Brusco goes in with a conceal. Oh, target might be Sanji, but instead went with Carl. TZ AOG again to glory. The spear of destruction is not going to connect. That’s why Kong was able to pick off one. Next target might be Sanji. There it got caught up by Kirk. JP fall down. A double and three will fall down for TPH. Bruce Go does it again. Smooth on the conceal and the kick. A slick kick by Bruce Go. Yeah, I was commenting about that earlier, man. He’s got one of the better records on the Cho and he’s able to find the right targets at the right moment. Again, just the pressure of him, you know, uh just being on the Cho is enough to keep a lot of teams kind of secondguing on exactly how they want to approach these fights. This turtle’s now up. TLP is going to get a position. They drop down the pathway. Yeah, Carl TZY doesn’t have retribution, so they’re going for the kills instead. Beautiful kick once again from Brusco to catch Carl Tezy. Sachi jumps in picture. So sod again will miss and this time Kra in the picture. Salmon force drop down. And it looks like TLB needs to run away as Onyx Philippines know that the gold laner of TL missed the S O and they only lose Sanford. That could have been an absolute disaster. Yeah, way worse for Team Liquid. Could have been way worse there. And it’s I don’t know, man. every single time. I don’t know what it is about these spears being thrown right now by OH, but sometimes it takes just that one at the crucial moment. Now, some of these team fights again, yes, they’re going in favor of Monic Philippines are starting to build some of that lead, but ultimately knowing TPH, they’ll still go ahead and get ready to fight for that first lord. They still got a minute plus to go ahead and get what they need. They’re not too far behind. But the problem is again if OH decides to just plan himself up. Let’s say he does miss the next uh Spear of Destruction then. Yeah, that’s that’s not going to be good. But a conceal is going to be used. Woah woah woah. There’s a diversion though. Spear of destruction again will miss as Kirk working on Sanji. There’s the revitalize though. Kirk though jumps in with the infernal pursuit. One more hit onto Sanji but gets gagged off and collapsed on by TPH. Kirk is going to fall down. All right. Good positional adjustment there by Team Liquid Philippines to make sure that Sanji will be able to get away and they end up winning the trade with Kirk going down. It means though that Onyx Philippines has stopped a major sequence for Team Liquid in the mid and now they’ll be able to clear up top and go back to the mid lane tower again to continue trying to defend it. 28 seconds before the Lord spawns. Still a very very close game. No clear advantage in terms of the gold, in terms of the items. Right now it’s just who can press buttons better. Yeah, that’s what it’s coming down to. The execution here for both the teams. TLPH will find another pick off if they can, but that’s what you got to watch out for on the other side. Bus having the flicker available on the Trill could choose to do it even before they decide to take the lord. Real quick, how’s items looking? All right, in terms of the two gold laners, neck and neck already getting closer to Holy Crystal is Kelra. Two core items for the Mosov. Little diversion going to the mid. Are they going to get Sanford? Okay. No, they won’t. Yeah, they’ll they’ll they’ll back off of it, but they’re going to go ahead and get control of this Lord and perhaps even just take this one. Carl TZ’s got the information, but they’re blitzing this. Oh, they’re blitzing it. Carl T in the picture, but got auto there by King Kong. Now they want to go for the punish. So finally connects, but Bruce go with beautiful kick onto Carl TZ, but still gets taken down. Now they’re going to steal away the purple buff. So Bruce go for a luren. Hell of a punish there by Team Liquid. And yeah, the SOD that finally landed led to something good for TL, but Onyx did get the Lord and they will lose their tower in mid. So, it’s a massive trade. It’s the Lord, which Onyx will be able to push out with, but Team Liquid Philippines finally got the tower in the mid lane that they’ve been eyeing for the past few minutes now. Look at the items of the junglers very close. Holy crystal, magic lantern already completed by Carl Teasy. The core items for Ausa locked in all the way up to a maleific roar and Warax as well. They are both very online for the engage. Kirk has to use the infernal pursuit because the glorious spers in trying to chase right now. Kra still alive. King Kong is unstoppable. Kirk’s fault diversion. Where is this going? It’s just going to be to advance their push even further. Three down on the side of Liquid. I can’t believe even got away. Kelra used the flicker to try to catch him but didn’t. So, they might be able to still defend this even with just the two of them. Shield’s going to pop. Floors taken care of. Midway still pushing in. Here’s Philippines in the base. G could do. It might be endable there. Purify there for Sagi to be able to clear out the minions, but they burst him down. Kelra, King Kong, and Super Prince has to back off because the minions spawn for TPH. This might be an opening. JP with the A. OG to take down the monster mage. Team Liquid have defended. On have overstepped. Oh, Onyx Philippines. They saw the finish line, but TLPH said, “No, not yet.” It felt like I watched this last night. Game five, Team Falcons versus TLP. Hey, man. At this point, it feels like we’ve been here already for a week, right? But let’s take a look at the replay here. This is what we’re talking about. They go in, they make a play on Sanji, but it’s good for Ohe. Like I said, think how important it was that he didn’t die from when Kro went because if he did get him, that’d be game over. Yeah. And Sanji was able to maximize the feathered air strike cuz he pressed purify just in time to cancel the cancel of Brusco onto the far. So that meant that Ob was still able to lock down onto the final siege minion so that they can push out. It still is a dire situation for the cavalry though cuz we cannot deny Onic Philippines are most definitely still in control. The big difference in gold is actually in the mid lane only have 12 blood wings is the fara but the low yi has three core items already locked in the enchanted talisman glowing one and his own blood wings as well. And that’s what’s crazy about it cuz Sanji even despite being down uh in terms of gold against super frince. You’re still seeing how much damage a feathered air strike can do. And yeah, the right timing or key timing on that purify is going to be crucial for him in avoiding Brusco even. So Lord is up once again. There’s been a whole lot of action already just near that 13 and a half minute mark for this one. We’ll see if TLPH has an answer. You know, a lot of the team fights that have broken out have all been from Onyx Philippines deciding to go and make something happen. With one base turret down in the mid lane, TLP will go and try to make an adjustment. They can manage the waves pretty easily though because that is that midwave turret down. But you can already see where Onic Philippines is deciding to plant themselves here. They might go for some sneaky maneuvers. Split push potential potential there from Bruce and Kellra. But I think uh yeah, they got to join the fight. Yeah, they have to join the fight cuz again Brus has been the main initiator for the side of Onyx Philippines. But the best part is for TP, they can punish whatever execution Brusco does right now because of the double revitalized setup and the glorious pathway and AOG that they have. All right, look at the items. Dominance Ice, Athena shield for the high loss. still on the way to the domise but already has radiant armor and Athena’s shield actually for the fobvious of Kirk. They see stalwart is going to be important. They’re sending a diversion up top. So that’s a massive shrub held there by Onyx. Oh TP bursting down. Glorious pathway to delay but King Call steals away the lord and TLP are just going to try to get constellation prizes but they get Bruce and only Philippines are still running but Team Liquid cannot continue the chase. They lose Brusco. That’s fine. They got the lord. He’s not going to be up for this push here. So, it might be an opportunity for TLPH to clear out the lord. Stop the push from doing too much damage here. Are they What are they going to do? Are they going to try to hold here in the center of the map? That’s difficult. They get a low Y. A little risky. They’re trying to do a high clear here. Turk goes in with a dark wave. Kellra Z popped down already. O able to free hit. Sag already use up the feather air strike. No, but they burst down Sanford now. Super fans looking to execute OB there. Kirk though got taken down. Diversion. Where they going to go? They might go back kick with shadow kill there and two will fall down for TP’s back on the map. He’s going to try and get kill and he pressed him down. Baby cakes with a shut down onto the har and one crucial spear of destruction changed everything. Super friends almost got there but Sanji with the save. Oh man. Earlier last game, we saw the KK connection, even if it was a different variation. And now we’re seeing the Baby Cakes duo make work here, staying in the game. We said this minutes ago. TLPH needed to buy time. Ren Marian, they have bought time. Bro, what’s going on in the Philippines, man? There’s something in the water and it sure as hell isn’t fluoride. the decision to go and high clear that lure despite Onyx having a Lousie and again they have trouble locking down Kellra. So assuming that the Zammon forces dropped down he’s just going to dance away but still Ob was able to back off and then right on time as soon as Carl TZ jumps in the S O connects. Oh man again they find themselves here at this point. Lord still a ways away a minute on the clock for that to come up. Soonic Philippines, you know, you’re starting to see them being like, “All right, we’re going to have to kind of adjust our game plan here with this.” And this is where some of those important diversions can come into play. That’s always something that they can pull out of the sleeves here with Super Frince. You’re seeing how much damage there is in difference here between the two teams as well. And that’s all been the story because TP has had to play catch-up in terms of itemization, but now I feel like they’re actually in that capability to fight. you know, the way that it’s been playing here. Now, that’s something that Onyx Philippines has to consider even before this next lord does come up right now too, you got tanky tanky front line for TPH to deal with. Plus, still the two run vitaliz are going to be crucial in that next take. So, right now, just kind of a face off while the junglers go and get their buffs. They got to make sure they go ahead and play this right. They might also use OB um unless he decides to stick with the team here. Okay. Oh, it’s just going to throw the spear conceal hit. Sod connects onto Keller. Oh, jumps in once again, but Bruce go with a beautiful can on the back with a shadow kill. They’re going to break down and are falling apart. On Philippines have done it yet again. Wiped out are the cavalry in exchange for Kirk. Sonic Philippines again, just like what we witnessed in game number one. A dominant win for the Sonics. Bruce Goat. Bruce Goat. Just when Team Liquid Philippines pulled the trigger, another slick kick and knockup by Brusco. Day number one, it was all about Badangs and now it’s all about chose for Bruceu. Oh, this is going to be a good one to break down here for Brigade and Leo. Guys, what do you have to say about game two? It feels exactly how game number one ended. A team fight that broke out which nearly looked like Team Liquid could have taken advantage of, but it was on all along who knew how to win it in the long run. It went from worse to bad if we’re talking about game one to game two progression. But yeah, no, I think Liquid felt it in them that maybe if we can catch Any off guard, we could end this. But just before that, Brian will attest to this. I was watching and I literally this is what this is a this is I told you so like don’t be impatient. Wait for the right moment and fight when you feel it. But another key to Liquid actually coming back is to take down King Kong. King Kong did not let that happen. Yep. And that’s where the impatience came in the entire Oh, we could go for it. They saw this. They the salmon force. It was already burned, but they didn’t take into account King Kong. They didn’t take into account that there was a wall, that there was a kick, and that there was the vacuum that could come in from Super Friends, everything. They weren’t able to take account of that. And this guy, he didn’t die. As you mentioned, they weren’t able to find him. Instead of serving up a point to Liquid, King Kong was giving out 808s and heartbreaks. Not a single death, eight assists, eight kills. He was on it. Uh again, a lot of people will say King Kong has his ups and downs. Yep. But this is just the metag game affecting how King Kong plays. And now after 3 weeks of a break and what, a month and a half of the patch dropping, he understands now. Uh he knows where he can play. He knows uh the the the the space in the metag game that he can move around and operate in. And the Hayabusa gives him such a great toolkit. Yep. To do just that. We saw how much he was able to maximize all of that, especially considering as it wasn’t as perfect of an early game for TLPH2. We we did mention a couple of times how why isn’t the SOD connecting? And I feel like that affected their early game so much cuz it could have been way better. OB was doing a great job managing the waves, but there was always a team fight happening on the other side, which if he could have just joined, things could have been different for Team Liquid Philippines. But one might argue that if Ohem joined these fights, it’s not a guaranteed win, especially when there is a Hayabusa always out on the hunt for you. And what happened was King Kong went for the next best thing. He went for Sanji. did not want to go for Kyle Tezy because there was a moment in this game where Kyle uh where Carl Tezy was walking around top lane bumped into a random Shinobi hiding in a bush like King Kong said major flinch right so OB did what was best for business at the time. Yep. And it was very difficult to see that even towards the late game where Team Liquid Philippines just decided to say oh let’s not go for the SM anymore. We did talk about this too, right? Like they were just doing that entire for protect one. They they knew how badly they needed to protect OH, but even that didn’t work anymore. Sanji had too much of a hard time. This is something we’d mentioned too earlier that we didn’t see in game number one. You know, Sanji died maybe three or four times too much and he did what he could. Again, he was a threat magnet. uh he was doing everything in the early to mid that Liquid could not afford to do with Carl and Oheim. But again, we have to give our flowers to Liquid as well. Despite losing this game here and one more away, one more loss from losing the series. Baby Cape came online very late though. Very late. Kyle Tezy, he was doing what he could with a joy. But look at this lineup from Onyx, right? You have a cho that could all right on ask me are they a front line or a backline lineup? Are they a front line or are they back? They’re a front line backline lineup. That’s the that’s what’s so difficult is Sanji couldn’t hide. Calli couldn’t cut through. Sanford was dying like half the time that he didn’t have a revitalize and and OB you know what maybe it was a blessing in disguise that he was missing SODS because if he did come through he would have to think twice of is this even worth it cuz I might die when I jump in. Yeah, those are probably some of the little things which allowed Team Liquid Philippines to extend this game honestly. And unknowingly, it really could have been something, you know. Now I’m starting to think, does Team Liquid Philippines actually get away with this? How do they like recreate that entire reverse sweep if they’re up against Oni who doesn’t let go of the red side and are just this good at pressing buttons? All right. Uh to answer your question, I’m going to go back to the root of it. Brigida, they can’t get away with anything. It’s not a matter of finessing a victory out of Onyx. You have to go through the belly of the beast. You have to understand that fundamentally Liquid cannot slip up. There has to be some way you stop King Kong from farming. You have to stop him from being be the BPI rich guy. you have to compromise Superf’s hero pool without giving something else in return elsewhere on the map. Yeah, we might need to see a little bit more of their mid or tree uh trio d trio rotations and how they’re able to actually focus down on certain things in the early game because it does feel like there are two different things that they want to do, especially if you look at Sanji and JP. Yeah. Uh maybe three or four or five. Like I I had a grocery list of things to check off for them to even think of getting back into the series. But yeah, no, you’re right. Uh if for Onyx, it was so easy for them to say, “All right, KK, King Kong, Kirk, sure, game one.” And then for game two, it was more Kelra King Kong again, the old school KK. Uh which by the way Kirk played a game very similar to uh his performance in the grand finals of Mobile Masters where he was sitting with a CC at 08 and whatever here. He was like 06 07 uh with a fob is still doing his job. That is one of the main strengths of Any here in this series so far and in the run of the playoffs like they are such role players from lane to lane to role to roll. Now let’s look at the gold difference timeline again. This time it’s a little closer compared to game number one where in game one it was like on the red. Yeah. It was just it was this thick here. Close close close. Closing the gap. Uh I would reckon at about 10 9 minutes. This is where the gold lead was like 900 or a,000 just barely. And then slowly Onyx builds that lead once again. It closes. And I think it’s at this point right here about 16 minutes. This is where Liquid goes. Yeah. Why don’t we force something in mid right there? We go for the concealed play, jump into the AOG and regret it almost instantly because of what Brusco did, because of how Onyx draft was a front line, backline kind of lineup. Uh for those fans of K and Pel, you know what I’m talking about. Here you’ll see Onyx ended really quickly. Again, mid was penetrated for Liquid. So, you know that that was irreversible damage. Not to even mention how the game almost ended about 5 minutes ago, right? With that defense of a lifetime with Sanji pressing the purify at the very perfect moment. Brusco just taking all the turret hits. That was a close call, but this right here could have looked very different. Uh turret turret. I would reckon these two turrets went down in trade for this turtle right here. This was that bottom rush by OH. And then again, you can’t trade short-term goals and wins for Ony against Onik with the way that they’re going. I know what Liquid was trying to go for this, right? They were trying to trade that lord for a turn, but Onyx was just so good at cutting their losses and getting out of there. That’s what this was. And then we had another one here, which they were able to defend. I think this one was the negative gains lord. And then from there again, Liquid tried to go for a short-term win. Let me introduce a concept called who’s the beatdown. All right. Uh last time I talked about this was maybe an M series or an MSE wherein the winner of any given matchup, any given contest is the one who understands their role in that bout best. So here you ask who was the beatdown at any given time, early mid to late. For the most part, the beatdown was Onik. And in that last moment where Liquid said, “Yeah, why don’t we pull the trigger here?” They misunderstood that the front line backline lineup was still very much online and they missed the queue. They got wiped out. Game ended. Who was the beat down? Onyx knew better. Now looking at the item progression again, you’ll see that Ohe is slightly behind Kelra. He did build his boots first, but the Trinity will take a little longer to build up. He did get it comfortably uh under 10 minutes, but the fact is Kelra never really died. Kelra was sitting at two 0 and X for a majority of the game. And I think Kel is one of the reasons why the front line backline lineup works so well. What does this mean? Again, let’s run through front line, backline, backline killers. That’s your Hayabusa. That’s your fobius. They’re the ones who cross over and use their reach to close the gap between them and Liquid’s range. Again, talking about that Farsa and that Moscow. But what is the backline breaker uh from Onyx? The ones that mess up with the front line cuz again you already have the targets for the Farsa and the O the OB, the Farsa and the Moscow. You have the Har, you have the Loi. These are the ones that punish whoever King Kong and uh Brusco don’t find with the kicks, right? So, you have people who threaten the backline and you have people who threaten the front line. And that’s what makes it so hard for the AOG and the Glorious Pathway to make a difference. So, even if you try to catch him off guard, even if you thought that, all right, timing is better for us here in mid, let’s go, let’s get him. You forgot that Kelra can just as quickly. I think there was a defensive response from Kelra and from Super Fin to actually just tank it a little bit, move back and then fire off. And again, amazing damage profile spread here from Onyx, magic, physical, physical, magic, crowd control. See, so it’s so hard to itemize against this clean. Uh I I saw a point in the game where in Super Fins, if I’m not mistaken, after picking up the winner crown, at some point juggled a glowing wand. He understood that I can deal enough damage. I can burst you, but what if fights go long? He felt the wrath of the double revitalize. And that’s why he had to buy it back. Same goes for Kelra here. Kelra had to be very specific about how he built this concentrated energy. He knew that underneath these double revitalizes, he had to fight for a little longer, sustain that front line, backline team fight that might go maybe 10 seconds, 15 seconds once they’ve confirmed that OH missed the SOD. That’s why this came in early for him. Holy crystal here. I believe there is a feather of heaven somewhere in this build. This is a juggle right here. Cool down boots. So, itemization came into play. And I think that’s one of the reasons why Anik is also so ahead of the game here in the series because despite the gold lead being very close again, not more than 2,000 up until, you know, someone started to drop the ball, you’re making this game of inches turn into a game of opportunity. And that is what leads us to match point for Anik. Let’s go back at the draft recap. This was a clutch pick here uh right here. uh the Loi uh being again something that you expect to come from super friends and even when you plan to face off against it, Coach RC understands the rest of Liquid knows that they banned the Selena, they banned Zushin, they left this out and they think this was enough to answer for it. Maybe in scrims they were right. Maybe in their simulations they were right, but not in playoffs, not now, not at match point. So Onik looking to break Liquid’s record-breaking performance in the regular season. Zero deaths for King Kong, one death for Aelra. The KK duo wants to go bulletproof. It’s only been 3 weeks, but imagine that, right? They they’ve evened out their score in the regular season, the last time they met. And Onyx are now one win away from taking that win against Team Liquid Philippines overall in the season and even punching their ticket to MSC. So, how satisfying would that feel that you deny Team Liquid Philippines, one of our representatives last year, of an easy way to reclaiming their spot to MSC and you just keep breaking records because again, you’re you’re you’re third seed. Yeah, you’re up against first seed. Yeah. No, breaking records individually, breaking records as a team, breaking records within the league. Uh this is again a new strength, a new power spike in the history of the super fam is not just are they individually gifted athletes in MLBB, but they also know how to change, how to evolve on the go, on the fly. Yeah, we do have to commend even their staff, everyone involved in the way we’re seeing the super fam right now. But I believe we have something going on in the Champions Arena. So, let’s throw it over to our all access segment panelists. I am just right in front of SuperFam. Super Famboy Philippines to make it into that grand finals. But of course for another time this season welcome back. Hello poy. It’s so nice while you still have time. This season 15 actually deserve champion. It’s It’s Onyx. It’s Onyx Philippines since last year. Yeah. And I think that’s what we’ve seen all throughout the two matches only this time title. Yes, MSA. Sorry MSE. You know what? You’re right. You’re right. I mean, understandable. But again, I want to know from your perspective cuz the past two days all game fives, it was pretty intense. What separates Filipino players from the rest of the world that lang 100 stars lang star 100 280 na 280 280 Okay. You know what? I think we still have one more for you. Correct. Yes, guys. Mphenue. playground and also streams different platforms klial official page. Yeah, I agree. I agree later on moving forward. Will it be Onyx Philippines as our first grand finalist or will Team Liquid Philippines say something else about it? Panel, thank you so much to Hansen Odin Fuego. Wherever you hear his voice, be it online or live, it sounds exactly the same. 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Again, Fuego did mention it himself. If you didn’t get to secure tickets, there’s a playground downstairs where you can still visit us and watch alongside the other members or the other fans in a watch party. And that’s a that’s a huge area where there are bean bags, where there are booths. So, you can definitely check that out for yourselves. Now, going back into this game or this series, it’s um a switch up. I feel it’s now Team Liquid Philippines on the red side. For the first time in the playoffs of MPL Philippine season 15, Onik PH will have to play blue. How surprising is this if they adjust from that and still get away with a sweep? I hate to be a pessimist here. I did predict Liquid, but this is one of two things. Coach RC dig it deep and say, you know what, it’s time for that plan for us to play the draft and go from there. If we can do it from there, then we can maybe come back in the series or this is just them trying everything that they can just one more game just to stay in the series. That’s so true. And we’re calling in Renmar once again. How about you, Renar? What are your thoughts? We’re finally seeing Onyx play blue side for the first time in a while. I am no longer Renmar. I am now Slick Think. Anyways, um it’s interesting. I I I got to agree with Lao here that maybe it’s something about coach RC. Wait, did Onyx pick to go blue or it was TL that decided to go red and it now it forces Sonic to draft in a different side than they did after 12 games playing at the red side. So, Slick Thick, you’re feeling that too? Yeah. You feel that it might there might be an air of desperation here? Yeah. Wait, is it Slick Thick? Slick Thick. Yes, like with four. It’s all replica. You don’t need to call me that. It’s fine. That’s fine. Oh, okay. So, so Leo, it’s a necessity. I’m kidding. There are so many things changing in this game, you know, like it’s their sides and it’s the names. But right now, so far, I feel like the bands too, they’re changing significantly. We’re seeing the Lucas suddenly banned here for Onyx since they’re in the blue side. The Kala’s taken out as well. That leaves the Fanny, the Joy, the Fanny is not expanded out too, but that leaves the Joy as well as the other options still available for Onyx Philippines if they ever want to consider that in their first pick. Yeah, the Zushin is a pick that uh TPH constantly attacked in the first phase, but now they instead go for the Joy. Uh this does open all of Super’s picks. What if it’s another two one, you know, like Yeah. Uh, I mean could just be a juice in rush already. Get rid of the juice in or the surprise loi chip was the one taken out there by Yeah, it’s juicing. Yep. So, does this mean badang? Nope, it’s not. It’s straight into the Granger focus. They really just want to get the different pick here for OH who spent the two games as a Moscow. They’re changing things up, but what a fast response. I know this is somehow expected, you know, in terms of just the matchups if we’re talking about that, but they reveal the Iril right away alongside the Vaksha who we’re yet to actually find out where it’s going. It’s the ultimate flex again when it comes down to it. You don’t know if it’s a ROR or an XP later or god forbid a jungler. Yeah. So, we’ve been talking about Haya constantly being a red three, right? But does it feel like the right option in this kind of lineup? And there is still a juicing of the other side that you could just toss the haya into. But then at the same time, maybe Kizi would be happy to play something else. Nope. He’s happy to play the Hayabuza. Yeah, this is still a uh gamble, if you will, if you want a Suyo cuz Yeah, sure the uh Zushin is there, but when you’re deep in fights, you don’t want the box in your face. You don’t want the Iritel in your face. Yeah, this guy’s a a hero which has a way around all these uh kinds of situations. It’s just that hopefully for team liquid Philippines, you know, it doesn’t it doesn’t happen again the entire Oh, we just keep forcing the quad shadow defensively away from Carl Tezy and all that and he doesn’t get to find the target. He doesn’t get to find Super Prince. Very possible. It seems like the dynamic has shifted here. Remember yesterday, coach RC mentioned that his team trusted him, told him, “All right, you know what? You you just go ahead and uh draft everything.” But this time around, it seems like it’s the players who are considerably more vocal in the drafting in this very crucial game number three. Oh, hey. We just caught up. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that was a sudden blitz. All right. Okay. No, Eve taken away by Onyx. So, some of the best options for Superface gone. Although the Varsa is still there in the wings. Although they might want to pick the superface pick last because you don’t see enough on the side of Onyx to say it’s safe to pick the Bara. Yeah, go. There’s the Gthot. And is this a clear go signal? Can Cano go land a lot? Same thing for picking the Farsa in red four. You don’t see enough on the side of Bonnie to go and pick it. But you know what? If they decide to go for it, I’m not going to knock it. The lands a lot damage is going to actually be accept uh magnified by the Ir if everybody decide to go for that combo. Yeah, Renoir I mean rather slick thick. This is now or never again. It’s a four and five blue four and five. They have to close up their trap now unless it’s a boxing jungle. Dear god. Wait. Wait. With an Angela ro for Brusco and then a exp Hilda. What a massive shift. The first time we’ve seen Onyx draft blue side and they do this. Hello. This is them in blue. That’s why they didn’t want to show it. That’s why we never saw this. And that’s that explains why it’s it looks like this. Yeah. Sanji, what do you do now? There’s a there’s a Sicilion. There’s a Selena, but you’re up against an Angela Zushin in mid. That’s like so much pressure. There’s a Valier, but like wait, what’s your move going to be? Sanji, Sanji. It has to be something they can fight long. It can’t just be like pure burst. Oh my good. Wait, they go utility. They go the route of utility and everything on the Granger basket. Yeah, it’s burst, but then of course with what it the Astral Echo brings to the table, it’s better than if they decided to go for something like a feathered air strike. I I like this Novaria pick. It’s a good recovery for the swerve. That was the last phase for Onyx Philippines. But here’s the thing. I don’t know if Liquid was ready for this. I don’t know if Liquid was ready in the face off against the Del because we have seen some rates in the past for two days of the playoffs, but none as all sane as Onyx draft now. If anything, I’m just looking at how TLPH might be holding on to their familiarity with these kinds of heroes with the draft because I think this brings us back way back season 13 maybe where Sanji was just such a huge threat on the Novaria. But I know things are different right now. So, let’s see how this goes for this match point of let’s give it over to our casters. Jumping in the land of Don once again. It’s game three. It’s match point right now with a very interesting draft for Onyx Philippines. Well, TLPH trying to bring out the Magic like they did yesterday to get a possible reverse sweep on the way. We’re going to find out. It’s be nice to Ingan and I don’t know if I’m going to call you that, man. I don’t know if I’m going with the what is it? Slick thick. Slick thick. I don’t It’s not a It’s not a requirement. You guys don’t need to force it. I just wanted to get it out there. All right. I I’ll say it to you later. Now, let’s look at the emblems. All right. I want to see what the Novaras on. Of course, he had to get rupture on that. Now, one of the difficult things about picking the Novaria for TPH, though it was a good response to the Swerve, is that they will be susceptible to invades up against the Guushi and Hilda Baka Rome empowered by an Baka jungle empowered by the Angela. This is a high invade comp. So JP really needs to make the most of this unbreakable so that he’ll have a counter engage with the taunt and Sanji can only do so much to stop invades and aggressive plays by Onyx once they start going into the jungle of Team Liquid. You know, after seeing Brusco use the Badangs, the chos, the Kleasas, goes with an Angela this time. And the last time we saw this kind of composition wherein there was a batch jungler and the RORM Angela was between Alter Ego and BTR week 9 of ML and they actually won against BTR. Yeah, it’s something that can work. I mean, I I commented to this in the panel yesterday. I was like, you know, I’m glad we’re in this uh part part of the meta where you can bring the utility junglers back again. And I know we don’t see boxer too much in the jungle, but King Kong brings it forward. We’ve seen a whole lot of Frederan lately, so it’s a it’s like a throwback, but it’s like we don’t want to stay there. Like we just want to take a glimpse at it because we were there for so long before. But the way that’s going to work with the angel is going to be great. Oh, they can make a play here. Already burning the flicker though from Sanford. Yeah. So this could be a good sign to just go ahead and grab that turtle. It looks like um even for TP, look at Kirk. The lantern flare and the puppet on the string intense ground control. No way. Kirk almost got a hold of Carl Tezy there. So it looks like TP won’t be able to contest for this first turtle. Yeah, Onyx Philippines can just continue to do this or specifically Kirk. They have free access to the jungle of Team Liquid right now. Carl Tez is going to be able to get his orange buff, but it’s tough. uh they could not get close to the turtle. And this might be the story for the first 7 minutes of the game where it’s just Any constantly going to the jungle of Team Liquid in the key objective team fights. Okay, that’s uh well played for Any. You know, the the whole sequence of that leading into that first turtle, not going to be anything massive, of course, but at least getting that first objective. And it looks like they’re able to go ahead and actually poke down quite a few members of TLPH. Kirk especially. I mean, we’ve seen this Hilda in action. quite often echo dropped down. Lander flare as well forced out. Sanji’s flicker there to evade a potential death. Yeah, good thing he actually used that flicker. If he didn’t, he most likely would have been taken down by Super Fence and King Kong. King Kong could have just tower dived and Super Finn would be the one to finish off Sanji. So, looking at the gold difference already a lead for the juice in small one. uh as well. Kra having a fun time in lane, of course, back in the day, which was December, so it wasn’t that far away. Back in the day. Yeah, back in the day. December 2024. I remember those times. Uh was always just uh instant answer to the Granger in the gold lane. uh it uh teetered out and balanced out eventually where it was a little bit more of a skill matchup. But lately with the resurgence of Irl with all of the Granger picks coming into the playoffs, we’re starting to be reminded as to why dominated that matchup for quite a few weeks. Yeah, you know, Kirk’s treating this game like a like a marathon literally from the top lane starting to stay here in the bottom lane to go for a gank onto JP and to OH. So now they’re trying to sandwich uh the two members of TP as Sanji already cast the actual Echo, but Kirk with a power of wilderness drops down Sanji. Kirk’s a broly man. Yeah, measured and calculated for the Kirk attack. He can just keep doing that over and over again. This is going to be a very fun game for a Hilda exp who’s just now chasing Karthy after taking down Sanji. He’s going after the Ungoat. He’s going to zone him out pretty well. Sanford’s trying to help here. JP around the corner. What do they do? Picked up by the lantern flare. Sanford desperately trying to go with Infernal Pursuit and zone out the members of Onyx. As CP just want just wants to gets his orange buff as Onyx secures the turtle. Uh, very close. It looked like Sanji was going to get the last hit into that turtle, but just in time. King Kong was able to retribution it away. Again, Keller having a great time in lane. already one whole EX uh experience bar gap between him and Ob 3,000 plus in the gold and oh has yet to break the 3,000 threshold. Let’s look at where they are at right now. Excuse me. He did break it, but it’s closer to 4,000 for for Kelra. H purple buff looking like a big objective cuz Onyx here on the roll right now. Good lair there. King Kong soaking up the damage. JP used the AOG defensively. You see it, man. Like TLPH, yeah, they’re if you’re really just looking at the gold, there’s not much of a difference. But the way that they’re losing in all parts of the map is because they’re just they can’t fight. They’re getting zoned out everywhere. And a lot of that has to do with just this lineup that Honor Philippines brought. Mind you, we haven’t even seen the huge value that the hard guard from Brusco can actually play. whether he goes for King Kong, Kirk or Kellra, like he can choose any of those targets and it’s going to be uh such such value on that ultimate with any of those heroes. So much value for the entire lineup of Onyx Philippines. Seems like a pick your poison type of deal. Not really poison. It’s like what are you feeling like today? Oh, a pull back to King Kong. Oh, shield im got disrupted by the dark wave. Ash good cast a solo kill. Kra got down alone in lane. And he didn’t need any help then. Well, he didn’t even need the hard guard. He just goes 1 v one. Look at this pressure still. Like I said, Kirk is just bullying right now. TPH. Oh, Kirk inhibits of everything. Forcing without the flicker plus the hard guard. Brusco is there. Sanport contining to jump in as Onic applying a lot of pressure into the middle lane. Dark wave. Infernal pursuit. They’re chasing after Kirk and Brus. JP goes in with AoG. Now Kirk getting chased. Team Liquid will not commit that though. Way too risky. Still very close in terms of the goal. They were able to find resources elsewhere, but this is a do or die objective for Team Liquid. If they lose this massively, you might count the game already for Onyx Kirk. Oh, again. The KK connection brings down OB as Carl Tezy steals away the turtle. Super Fris goes in with a crimson beacon and lair. Two members down on the side of Liquid is Carl Tezy and JP. And yeah, I’m going to stick by what I said. If Team Liquid lost that in a big fashion, which they did, count this as done. On just needs to hold on and not slip up. Yeah, even just getting the objective. It doesn’t mean anything if you lose all that. Plus, OAB dying again. Very unfortunate for him. He’s going to have a lot of room to go ahead and try to catch back up here. Taking a look at just how uh he needs to go. I mean, look at this. He’s only at four point. He’s got two items. He’s about 2,000 gold behind Kelra. Oh, hold on. Again, being jumped on, but there’s the clutch. Hard guard from Kirk. Will he be able to sustain it? Oh, it finally gets a kill and a stack on his piercer. Brusco might be the next target. So, Astral Recall is not going to connect, but still getting chased down by the Filipino sniper. Absolutely got dodged out, but not enough to take down the bruiser. the moves and grooves. The Angela survived the chase by Liquid. I uh Well, that was not on my FPL Philippines season 15 playoffs bingo card. Just imagine the reality of that. Granger firing off at an Andrew and she’s just tiptoeing, tiptoeing, dancing around and healing. It’s good that he has the flask of the Oasis, by the way, because that provides a lot of that heal. So, that’s got to be frustrating. But if OH was able to get that kill, that would have been great. but it does get him a little bit closer because we were just I was just pointing out the 2,000 gold difference between him and Kelra. And so he’s he needs moments like that. So again, this could be in that similar fashion like we talked about earlier where TPH has to buy a lot of time. And how do they do that with this kind of lineup? Well, it’s moments like that and maybe even punishing on Philippines if they get a little more, you know, confident and and overstep a little bit. Yeah, 100%. Onyx game to lose right now. OP still desperately catching up in terms of the gold. Purple B uh purple buff invade by Onyx Philippines. Is it going to be a big one? K just zoning out every single member from the back trying to work on though. So there’s no CC to control Keller and he takes down a turret with him. Oh, jump in. Oh. Oh, clutch hard guard there from Brusco. Sing the chase. He was too fast. Carl Cy jumps in. Pops the wiggy shadow kill. But Kirk shares the damage as well and they save Keller. Good routing by the run of Keller as now he’s getting chased down. Want to see if team liquor Philippines will be able to take down the Kurt now going to get dark waved. He’s getting jumped on. Kong gets a lord without a problem, but Kurt falls down to team liquor Philippines, but that’s all they will get. Yeah, all throughout that King Kong was just working on the lord. And now the clap back. Super prince goes in with the crimson beacon plus lantern flash. Just look at the damage of Keller alone to all the members of TP. And this whole time King Kong gets the lord. He’s managing one of the waves at bottom too. Cutting it off. But that’s the thing, that was all pretty much a distraction and you saw how long they were able to survive just that whole exchange because of the speed of mobility that Anerill brings. But then also you throw in Angela on top of that. So great distraction from Monic Philippines. Now it’s TPH that has to deal with this Lord push. Lord sieging in onto the top lane. Still Onyx Philippines taking the discipline route. Good pass of the Astral Echo to try and prevent Onyx from snowballing now and they will be able to take the Lord down. If Team Liquid Philippines manages to pull it off, pull this off, it’s going to be one of the greatest comebacks of all time. PHMLBB, but Onyx look absolutely hellbent to just sweeping up the cavalry here to being the first team to make it to MSE to try and defend their legacy for immortality. They are just mere moments away, but can Team Liquid hold on and extend this to a point that they’ll be close enough to turn the whole narrative around? Yeah. And for Onic, if they manage to sweep TP, this would be the first sweep of our playoffs. And at the same time, the first time a third seed will win over a first seed in the regular season. Man, I said it yesterday. I was like, there’s no way this is going to be a sweep when TLP was in that position. They’re in it now. And it’s looking a little it’s looking a little dicey. you know, 4K behind. You got a lot of ground to cover still across the lanes here for the majority of it. And it’s they haven’t had an answer really just yet to deal with this sustainability that the Angela brings to this. But even then, when you have a lineup that’s meant to go ahead and catch people, especially with an Avatar the Guardian, for example, from JP, but there’s just on the other side, there’s so much mobility, you really have to be able to land those Avatar of the Guardians, the unbreakable taunts, and what have you. But it it’s just difficult. How do you catch Kelra, you know, and how do you get to the right targets here when everybody’s running? I mean, think about it. Hilda, Boxa, uh, the Iril and Yeah. I mean, so your only target is Super Frince. But do you even want to get close to Super France because then he’s just going to throw you around? Yeah. One of the main targets could be Kinghome, but what can you do up against a Baksha that has an angel in at the same time? It’s hard enough to drop the AOG. Want more. The astral recall from Sanji Sanford forced the flicker because super friend is there with the crimson beacon lander. Astral echo dropped down. JB goes in for the AOG. Is this it for Onyx Philippines? Will they continue? But they force out the revitalize and CP retreats. All right, good thing Onic Philippines have backed off there as the Lord already spawned if they decided to dive that tower. That would have been way too much. Big resources gone though. Good thing Sanford committed that flicker because if he didn’t, he would have gotten caught out. JP went in with the AOG, but he got out as well with the Revitalize and Onyx were disciplined. This does not look good for Liquid. This is going to be an extremely difficult lord take. Even if Carl Tezy can somehow steal it, what will be the price? Will they play Will they pay the iron price in blood, get the Lord, but then lose all their bodies and lose the series? Or will they somehow steal this away and get away with just enough to make something out of nothing with a second lord of the game? Good. Dragged in. JP’s been dragged everywhere. Oh, Astra already cast it down. Kellra from the back. AoG used defensively. Here comes Keller with a hard guard. Proco as well. Sanford got caught up by forward. A killing spree for Keller and TLPH have already lost one and they no longer will be able to contest this lord. A free one for Onyx Philippines. Free one and there was really no option for TLPH to deal with that. Again, like I was saying, Super Fritz doing an amazing job of just zoning everybody out and even Kelra leaving them guessing when trying to go for an off angle and everything. So TLPH, they find themselves in a predicament here. They’re going to have to deal with this lord push. They are down quite a bit. Do they have a chance here, Renar? Looking at the items. All right, let’s look at where he has had already up to four core items. You know, that should be enough damage from his department. But then look at everything else that Onyx has. He already have two anti-arases. Twilight armor even on King Kong. The front line is extremely well built. Bruce goes there to supplement it with everything you need. Carl TC got caught up there, but was able to quad shadowed out JP again. defensive AOG resources expended for TP. He does however still have the revitalize. He’s got the revitalize. Doesn’t have the ultimate though. Maybe if they stall out, they’ll have it for a big defense. But even then, you can just see how much struggle there is right now for TPH. Liquid running out of time. This might just be it as Onyx Philippines just a few steps away from getting close to defending their championship at home. Lord down. On it goes in base now exposed. Sanford has to flicker out. Good cast of the dark wave, but the first man down is Sanford. King Kong soaked up the damage of the Oiki shadow kill. Lord still stood up, but TP their base has now been exposed. Minion waves are going to be coming in from the top in the mid. No big ultimate here for Onic. Let’s see if they’ll get a hard guard back up in time. Cy trying. Oh, they’re going to be able to clear out the minions onto the middle lane and the top lane. So on and off. Wind of nature pop calls easy. Om quite low. JP defensive AOG again. And time after time Kelra just makes plays like that. That isn’t the god in the gold lane. That is simply Kra. Now they’re sieging in onto the middle lane. Four are left to defend the young goat. Not in the picture, but Onyx Philippines will disengage. Super friends goes over the crimson beacon paired up with Kirk. They’re going to bring down one more. They have minions. Sounds desperately trying to defend, but Kel goes again and an unstoppable kill for Kelra. And it looks like this is it. Only going in. On it. Philippines now a step closer to immortality as they get to defend their crown at the grand finals. But wait, they lost their minions. Two are left to defend. Is this it? And that is it. On Philippines back in the grand finals. Some of the biggest names in global esports remain in our playoffs. Aurora, Falcons, Liquid, but the biggest name in global MLBB esports have a shot at immortality. And they are the first in the Philippines to go to MSC. They are excited, man. Again, you remember what happened here in the regular season? Some of the downers saying, “What happened first half of the regular season?” They struggled a little bit. They then went on a win streak through the second half and now they’re the first team to make their way to the grand finals here in a dominating fashion. A sweep against a top seed team TLPH who has proved so much themselves up to this point as they take their bow here again. TPH will go ahead and get another chance. Man, Onyx Philippines is something else in this series. A sweep, first sweep, and at the same time able to do that with a Brusco Angela. Wow, we’re just in day number three. And this solidifies it. A warning shot to the rest of the world. The gods will be back in the world stage. The yellow porcupines are going to be zooming across the sands of Riad, Saudi Arabia. Oh, can’t wait to see it. Can’t wait to hear what Ana Philippines has to say as well. We’re going to have to go ahead and throw it over on stage to see what they have to say for the win. Ladies and gentlemen, from playins to the grand finals, your winners, Onik Philippines. Boys, congratulations. Not only are you making it to the grand finals for a second straight season, but you are also the representatives of the Philippines MSC and EWC 2025. Kendra, talk to us about this feeling. before you know personally to make it to this point but now you were able to sweep TPH the number one in the regular season that you’re getting achievement after achievement of course that’s never out of the conversation Keller you went up against your rival, longtime rival. Talk to us evolution. You’re familiar with this story already. We’re looking forward to that hand. That’s a change that we don’t usually see every day. King Kong from the super fam. Everybody else came here to support you today. Difference title. You’re part of the grand finals now. Grand finals finals last season and that was a dominant statement. Their team is definitely so strong right now and I think so. Super friends. Super friends. Can you talk to us right now being able to lead your team to the grand finals? season back then. Back then, but now you’ve developed your confidenceship or is it more on you maturing as a player? confidence. I want to know more about coach namo si Bruce si Bruce. Coach, why not? S Bruce anal golden goat. Bruce, golden goat. I like it. Coach, why not? You’re going to be going back to another finals appearance. How do you keep your boys grounded? Because again, this is an ultimate cloud9 moment because you know you’re representing the Philippines and you’re going back to back potentially. How do you keep your boys grounded heading forward into the finals match ups Sunday? So I think we talk about trophy. I like that. and Wolf approves of that. Okay, so super family. Thank you support and grand finals. Once again everyone, your grand finalist and the first representative of the Philippines, Barasa MSC EWC 2025, it’s Onic Philippines. Gentlemen, you may now take your walk of victory. Sonics, I want to know what time is it. It’s time. And you may now take your bow. Our first representatives is Onyx Philippines. The Sonics are planning to go back to back. That’s right. Hands with a 300 sweep after the two days of all the series that they had. They definitely prove that they are deserving for the grand final spot. Congratulations to our first MSSE at EWC25 representatives. Let’s talk more about the match and the game. As we go back to our panel and it is now official, we know one out of two representatives for the upcoming MSE at EWC 2025. That’s going to be Any. They’re back at the international stage once more. Again, we mentioned how if Any won, they would break so many records in league and in the whole world as we know it. I’m pretty sure the rest of the MoB was watching in. Come on. Come on. What could be their reaction? You know, like what could the entire world be thinking right now, especially after that performance from our game MVP? As much as we all loed and love how the golden goat, the gold standard, the Filipino savage, Kellra performs every single game, I’ll tell you now, Bri, they won as soon as they picked blue side. Oh, as soon as they landed in blue side, we’ll throw it back later to the draft. I think they they automatically knew they won. Yeah, I mean the draft went by so quickly if you would recall earlier and it was both Onyx and Team Liquid Philippines looking like they were very decisive in the picks that they wanted to go for. But imagine like this pick hasn’t been performing as much in the past few games, but this time solo kills here and there twice twice and jumping inside the base and still surviving. Y Kra made it work. uh we will see in the highlights and once we look at the uh economical graph uh more you know details into how they did this. But folks again in case you haven’t been tracking the stats and you’ve just been watching and looking at how Onyx continues to dominate the brackets in the playoffs. This is their first time in blue and that means it’s a new drafting pattern that coach RC thought he could catch coach W and coach Hayes off guard but instead Onik unleashed onto us a weapon the world wasn’t ready for again teams in the first days of the playoffs were banning out the Angela they were looking out for this kind of draft and little did we know it wasn’t Twisted Minds that was going to bring it out in the playoffs it was going to be the super fan it was them and imagine how difficult it was for Team Liquid Philippines to catch this alongside the Angela, alongside the quantum charge, alongside I I think the sprint even that was in his hands. So, he was just so free to do everything he wanted and it felt so hard for Team Liquid and their lineup which had little to no way to lock down this hero of Onyx. That’s right. Uh again, one could say just build halbirds, just build glowing wands, but it’s not so simple. Again, as soon as the box show was picked going into the draft dynamics, you could say, “Oh, this is an XP. This is a ROR.” But again, I hate to say it, I told you. So, there is a small small possibility that Onik brings back the jungle box. And they did. And not only that, they did so while arming it with such a great cast of characters. Number one, Kirk already winning that lane against the Phobias. He leaves the lane as soon as possible. Bothers Carli. Check. You have Zushin, Super Prince. This hero single-handedly turned series around in the playoffs for Onyx. And then I didn’t know Bruce Angela was the breakout hit we weren’t we weren’t expecting to see. I was never expecting to see especially in the series where he’s been on the chos where he’s been on those very aggressive types of rumors, the Bakshia even. But now you see him play the Angela and it’s equally as terrifying the way they both Brusco and Kirk. I feel like just the two of them, they were enough to become a nuisance to TPH. I think the first blood even was in Kirk’s hands. That was towards Sanji who for some reason found himself being invaded in the purple buff. Yeah, see again uh I mentioned how lane to lane Kirk wins against the FUS. Uh Kirk wins against Sanford because he just leaves. He can also go hunting again, bother Carl Tezy, find Sanji through first blood as you mentioned, and then even go up against OB cuz again, a Granger can only do so much when there is a big Amazon woman right in front of him wailing at him. So, the game wasn’t easy for OB either. Yeah, that was one. And the laning matchup when it broke out to team fights every now and then, he could barely target his rapsies. He could barely get his his death sonatas onto the members of Ani Philippines. And that’s already taking into consideration that they had the Astral Echo and they did try to layer their skills multiple times. We saw that the Astral Echo into the AoG, but given the mo the speed, the mobility that Onyx had, they could at most probably landed to one or two members and then that’s it because they could just regroup and then fight back. They know the TLP already used a lot. Yeah, it’s not like Liquid couldn’t play. It’s that Onyx did not allow them to play fundamentally again as soon as the draft began. Blue side Onyx had a plan. Yeah. Liquid their their days were numbered going undefeated going lossless series wise in the playoffs and that allowed for Kellra to score the BPI rich guy 848 GPM. Really it’s it’s just between him or King Kong. King Kong or him. Maybe here in this game you could say that maybe Super Friends could farm out too, but no, no, no, no, no. Like this was a four protect one kind of situation again and this was in their keys to victory. Yep. The KK connection winning over the baby case connection this time, but I feel like we have a lot more to discuss. Leo, for sure. I’d love to dig deep into the gold uh and the story that the game told through that uh the painful lack of objectives for Liquid here in this game and then eventually the builds that these two teams went on for because that was one of the few ways Liquid could have clapped back. All right, check this out. Something I noted and noticed in this sweep in this 3 0 series is game three is the shortest and the smallest lead on held over Liquid before they went ahead to the largest gap they had. So check this out. Close close. as early as eight or nine minutes, I knew and you guys knew watching, our casters knew watching and even the players, they had such great difficulty dealing with Onyx lineup that even eight to nine minutes in, we might not win. This might be it. And that was just a what 900 gold lead, 1,000 gold lead. And then eventually it grew to a point wherein what was the final number? 10K, 9K between each other. And that’s because no one was dying from Onyx PH. Liquid could not do anything. And this shows just exactly why. Look at all those objectives. Not a single thing touched on Onyx side of the map. Liquid. Sure, Carl TC stole one turtle in the midst of it all. The last turtle, but that’s because Onyx was playing the map, too. So, that’s how difficult it was. They were an immovable object and an unstoppable force allin-one just running through. That’s what you get when you have an Angela. That’s what you get when you have a jungle Baksha. And talking about the jungle box, all right, the economy will tell us alongside uh the item builds later why a,000 or 2,000 gold lead is more scary when you’re playing against a utility jungler as compared to an assassin jungler. All right, right now I want you to open your MOB. All right, whether you’re watching on your phone, on your TV, your computer, open your MLB. Consider the price of defense items, tank items, and the price of attack items, mage items, the ones that give your physical or magical damage pumps instead of defense. You’ll know what I’m talking about. The fact that the Baksha started building and farming slowly with such a low economy makes it all the more scary that you can’t kill them because it’s unstoppable. We’re going back to a concept from about three or four years ago called the funnel. They were literally funneling all of their economy towards Kelra. And that allowed for him to just again, as Bria mentioned, as our casters called, as you saw, just walking into Liquid’s base and just saying, “All right, I’ll wait for my jump again. I’ll wait for King I’ll wait for Kirk to be able uh I’ll wait for Bruce to be able to jump into me and then we can walk the long way around.” They were funneling all of their economy in to Kelra. He was the only one who needed any significant amount of gold. Everyone else were happy with change. That’s why that small gap in the gold mattered. All right, let’s check what Onyx did here. Again, that final number was yeah, closer to 10k. That was 10k. And the items that Kellra was able to get away with full build here. Has claws uh check. Uh Berserker’s Fury check. He was able to go for a GDS. There you go. And let’s look at Ohiba, right? Ob suffered two solo kills. That’s what I remember. Two or three solo kills. One of them was off cam for sure. He was able to farm up and he was struggling, fam. He was struggling. Uh what is this? Eight or nine minutes. Seven, I’d reckon 650 is is what I recall wherein he was able to build the boots plus hunter strike plus sky piercer. That’s acceptable, but it’s average. Uh again going up against a lineup that Onyx drafted that goes so fast that controls the map that can go all right we’re a twoman we’re a threeman and then suddenly we’re four or five because of how fast a Hilda and an Angela can respond this was not going to fly. This was not going to do. And eventually, yeah, towards the end of the game, he was able to build a sea halbird, but you’re also thinking, how much more can we do when we already have a glowing wand and a dominance ice and we still can’t kill them? Where’s your damage going to come from? Honestly, it gets to a point where it is frustrating. And that’s what I felt for Liquid in this game. 16 minutes of sheer frustration. Why is this Hilda in my face? Why can’t I kill whoever Brusco chooses to go into? Why couldn’t have we killed Brusco? Go back to that game where Brusco went ahead and stopped his tracks, dodged the sonata and walked away. There has to be some sort of mental salvo, an attack, an assault on the game of Liquid wherein Onyx just got away with everything. Onyx Philippines has changed the game once more. We knew that Frederickin was back in the meta. We knew that Baksha was bubbling. He was a first phase pryo pick already when the playoffs started. But here showed us that if you let them and you’re not ready for it, they can draft into a nice one baby game that ends real quick and just chokes you out of all the possible outs. Luckily, Liquid’s not out just yet. Liquid has about 24 hours to figure out what went wrong and how they can survive another run through the lower bracket. For now, let’s go ahead and listen to the mic check and see what it was like calling that match. Mid clear message. Yep. That was probably one of the few m checks which were very hyped and you know exactly why they had to be screaming towards the end of them actually getting to break down that base of Team Liquid Philippines. I mean confirmed MSE confirmed grand finals. We get to defend our title. And for a second there, especially in the regular season, the world forgot that MSC is just another step towards completing the golden road. Onyx Philippines, they have a chip on their shoulder. They want to prove to them that, you know, what happened in the latter part of 2024, in the earlier parts of this year, it’s not a fluke. So, they want to go all the way and this is just another step for them to go away. And that’s what was fueling their Yeah. And when you talk to these players, whenever you go into interviews with them, they’re very honest, too, you know, like they they don’t deny the fact like wink wink, either be it King Kong or Kelra, you just know what you’re about to win. You just know the prize pool, the the huge amount that will be right in front of you once you get into MSE. And that’s just one of the many things that these teams or these players are fighting for. The last time we saw them in an international stage, they got a coach who was newly engaged and that was a different kind of motivation. This time around, they’re on that road constantly breaking records, beating expectations, and just showing everyone out there that despite the bumpy start they had in the start of season 15, they’re about to get out there once again and show what they’re able to learn. And that that’s scary though, the super family that just keeps on learning together. Yeah, they’re always hungry. I think it’s that constant uh strive for something greater and for more. Again, they’ve damn near done everything you could in the world of MLB esports. Win in the hardest region to play in, win the World Championships, go to China, go to Indonesia, go to Jakarta, go to JB in Malaysia, and just do everything you could. Now they get to visit the Middle East. Now they get to go to Riyad, Saudi Arabia to play at the East World Cup. And again, there’s only one slot left. Like, who’s going to take that? That’s going to be tough. We still have another series awaiting us for this day. And I’m pretty sure Team Liquid Philippines will pay full attention to that series because it will be depending on that series. And they’ll find out after that who they’re going up against tomorrow in the first best of seven. we’ll be having in the playoffs because since last season we’ve been doing this already. We just you you know know how competitive it is. You you have to give the best of seven to the lower bracket finals. They have to fight for it all the way. And that is one thing we will all be looking out for tomorrow while Onyx Philippines are just going to chill and watch and prepare for the grand finals that’s to come on Sunday. Yep. Suddenly after playing two best of fives all the way back to back, Any wins 3 and 0 and can take a day off. Finally, I feel like they’re saying finally we get a break because if they did not win this series, just to remind you all they’ve been through day one, they’ve been through day two and they’ll be fighting for all days. You know, I’m wondering who’s responsible for the box Angela draft. That’s true. Like who is the mastermind? Who is the mad scientist behind such a game three winning draft that single-handedly got them the ticket to MSSE, ticket to the grand finals and that day off? Yeah. Who go who gave Bruce Goat the Angelo? Yeah. Where do you learn how to do that? Since when have you been keeping this this strategy? Like now you you tell the world you tell the entire Philippines that it’s not just my my it’s not just my Joe you should fear. It’s not just my Hyos you should fear. I have an Angela. He can actually pull off the Angela, right? So that that just makes maybe like the 53rd hero for Onyx. For Onyx, like we’ll have to double check on that, but in season 15. Yeah. Yeah. That just adds to the list of heroes they’ve already decided to use at least in this season. Yeah. uh that and the jungle baksha like these are these are multiple different weapons that suddenly the league has to be aware of and of course definitely the teams who will be going up against them have to be aware of but for now we have two teams who are fighting for survival they need to win the series to stay in the league and that’s going to be Aurora versus team Falcons coming your way in just a few moments what what are your like surface level thoughts about this, Leo. That was last season’s lower bracket finals. All right, that went to six games. And we’re not in a best of seven setting. We’re in a best of five still, but it’s for tournament life. It’s for survival. It’s, you know, what’s at stake. So, I wouldn’t be surprised if like they bring back the entire game five thing. We we weren’t able to see it. We We lost the road to 30. We will be meeting it probably tomorrow or on Sunday, but for now we won’t be seeing that just yet. So, we’ll see their preparations in a few moments. But now, we have to celebrate something towards the end of the season, and that’s going to be the Alamat Awards. So, let’s all witness this beautiful moment as we award these players. The mark that brings our players from great to legendary. Welcome to MPL Philippines season 15 Alamat Awards. For the first set of awards, we proudly present to you the season 15 Infinenix Allstar Team One. These players showed their greatness in the lane throughout the season. They will each receive a pack and an Infinix GT20 Pro. I’d like to call on our presenter on stage, the Infinix marketing manager, Miss Jelly Ban, an Infinix Allstar XPer, Team Liquid Philippines, Sanford Our next award goes to the Infinix allstar jungler. He is none other than the young gold himself, Team Liquid Philippines, Carl Tezy. Our next award goes to the Infinix Allstar Mid Later. Congratulations from Onyx, Philippines. Super friends. Up next is our Infinix Allstar ROR. Congratulations to the hitman Aurora Gaming Strategy. And last but not the least for team one, we have our Infinix allstar gold player. Congratulations to the Filipino sniper, Team Liquid Philippines. Oh, congratulations once again to our Infinix Allstar team one. And now for the BPI Allstar team 2. Each player will receive a plaque and 20,000 BPI reward points. To present our team to the award, we would like to call on from BPI from agency backing, Johnson Chia. First off at the EXP lane from Aurora Gaming, it’s Mr. Consistent Edward. Next up is our BPI allstar jungler from Onyx, Philippines, the Beast King Kong. Next up is the VPI Allstar Mid Laner. from Aurora Gaming. You win. Now it is time for the BPI allstar ror from Onyx, Philippines. It’s the bruiser Bruce score. To complete the BPI allstars, there needs to be a gold laner. From Onyx, Philippines, the gold standard, Kalra Congratulations once more to our BBI Allstar team 2. Moving on to our next set of awards, we have our smarts fans choice all stars. Each player called will receive a plaque and a smart 5G turbo Wi-Fi. To present this award, we would like to call on Samar prepaid brand assistant, Miss Francesca Paraf Palifox. And now for the smart fans choice allstar XP lane. Congratulations from Onik Philippines. Kirk Now it’s time for the smarts fans choice allstar jungler. Let’s welcome back on stage on Philippines King Kong. Our next award goes to the smarts fans choice allstar mid later. Again, let’s welcome back on stage the captain of Onyx Philippines, Super Friends. Our next award goes to the smarts fans choice allstar Ror. Once more, it’s on Philippines Brusco. And to complete the squad, congratulations to the Smarts Fans Choice Allstar Gold Later Ker. Congratulations once more to our allstar teams. Next up, we award the media tirelessly telling the stories of our league and its players throughout the season. To present the award, we welcome to the stage the MLBB Philippines esports PR manager, Mr. Ron Muy for our first award, the legendary feature award. Congratulations to Allstar magazine. The legendary feature award honors the journalist who has crafted the most outstanding feature, article or video about an MPH player or coach for the season. This award recognizes in that storytelling, compelling narratives, and exceptional coverage that highlight the journey, struggles, and triumphs of the league’s finest talents. Next up is our Savage Storyteller Award. Congratulations to One Sports. The Savage Storyteller Award is presented to the media entity that has created the most impactful content, igniting discussions and engagement within the MPL Philippines community. And last but not the least, the Mythic Media Award. Congratulations to Fulcrum Esports. The Mythic Media Award is the highest honor given to the journalist who has demonstrated overall excellence throughout the MOP season. This award recognizes consistency, quality, and impact across all of media outputs, whether through insightful articles, compelling feature stories, or engaging a multimedia content. Next, one of the most awaited awards of the season. We have the most improved player of season 15. To present the award, I’d like to welcome Infinitex PR Supervisor, Miss Irish Del Rosario. From underdog to unstoppable, this player has shown a tremendous growth. Grit and game of winning plays all season long. Our most improved player didn’t just level up, they powered up. And to honor that evolution, we’re awarding them with something truly next level. The Infinex Concept gaming phone. Not sold and not for everyone. This is reserved for the pros. Fueled by cuttingedge electronic integrated light effect system technology. It’s a symbol of elite performance just like this player. Congratulations to our MPL most improved player. from TNC Pro Team, their mid laner, Lansancy. Congratulations once again, Lansancy. Your path as a legend begins today. For our next award, we have the coaching team of the season. It was their back and forth that allowed the team to shine, create unbelievable place, and rise from legends to immortality. Congratulations to team Eli Liquid Philippines, Coach RC. And finally, the award that everybody else is waiting for. The award for the regular season MVP. The player that stood above all. S Champions Arena. Champions Arena. Do we have some answers? Cino MVP. The regular season MVP of season 15 from Team Liquid Philippines. The Filipino sniper Oh. And that concludes our Alamat Awards. Once again, congratulations to the players, the coaches, and the media. Thank you for making MPL Philippines season 15 legendary. But there’s more that we need to recognize. Last but not the least, we will also be awarding the Infinix Super Fan Rap Rumble Award. The best rap playoffs. I would like to call on stage all of our participants from all of the six remaining teams. They brought the bars, the hype, and the heart. And tonight, one rap rumble champion stands above the rest. As the grand winner representing our amazing MPL super fans, we’re giving them a something no ordinary fan can buy. The Infinix concept gaming phone. Not sold in stores, reserved for the best. And now for a super fan who pro who provided that they’ve got prolevel passion. Powered by electrochromic integrated light effect system technology, this phone is the ultimate flex. Congratulations to one of the strongest fandoms, the Sonics Onic Philippines. To the representatives of the Sonics, go ahead, claim your prize and take your photo. Of course, the others won’t be leaving emptyhanded. Congratulations still as you will be receiving a GT bud. 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And I didn’t think it would be coming from the upper bracket finals of all places that we see. I thought it might be coming to the lower bracket. Of course, teams would be a little bit more uh you know uh discouraged, not getting the results they wanted after all those five games. For now, we find ourselves here heading into the lower bracket after Onyx swept Team Liquid Philippines, the team that ended the regular season, top one in the in the standings. Yeah. Uh interesting because uh we have the statistic there. What was it? 70% was around the 70% win rate for the top seed usually winning. So, they defied the statistics as well. And of course, as you guys can see, they advanced to the grand final for Onyx Philippines, as well as booking the ticket over to MSC at EWC. So, they are going to be flying for a while here. But, of course, they want to go ahead and lock in and focus on the grand finals, which is happening in a couple of days. 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We had the Battle of Skies back from day one but ultimately I think I don’t know who I’m going to I I know we’re not at predictions yet but I don’t know who I would book for this one man. like because Roar and Falcons both, if you’re looking at the playoff bracket from what they went through, you know, because they went the distance in their uh matches, they could have learned a lot from those matches. Uh Falcons and TNC both or Falcons and Aurora both. And if you’re going to recall their uh previous two meetings in the regular season, both uh are one by Aurora, a sweep, and a game number three. So, let’s see if things will change right now cuz even coming into the playoffs, Falcon, it looks like they’re they’re like a different breed. Yeah, just like Aurora. Yeah, 100% Falcons I I still feel like are much better than their regular season form. However, I I feel like these two are coming from very different stories. Uh up against on a Philippines, Aurora showed a lot of resilience. They just weren’t able to climb over that hill of being able to secure game number five. Um honestly, it was a surprising ending to that. a little bit more back and forth, but then suddenly it just was all gone in a snap. Meanwhile, Falcons, it was three games straight where it felt like they were trying just facing the consequences of some of the draft decisions they made while at the same time the consequences of team look at Philippines pulling off three games in a row of them winning with the last pick or last two picks of the drafts. Uh so very different storylines for both. That’s why I thought like when we were in the last match, I was like, man, imagine if TLPH can can hone in on whatever they did yesterday uh to get themselves that reverse sweep because, you know, like you mentioned, we were on the panel yesterday talking about this like something was just not working in those those last couple games for for Falcons and, you know, we don’t know if hopefully they they’ve had enough time. I mean, it’s not that long, right? You you just had that happen yesterday and it was a long day for them. So, hopefully you can go ahead and recalibrate. It’s always the test about playoffs though because you have those consecutive days, you have these long days. Can the players and the coaches reset and lock in before that? So to break down the match further, we’re going to throw it over to our panel with Leo and bring it up. Thank you so much to our casters Nisu, Inan, and Renar. They’ve had their fair share of ideas and we will be sharing ours too in a bit. My name is Brigita together with Lao once again and we will be here for the very last best of five. We will be witnessing this playoffs again. They already laid out the entire pride redemption and immortality idea and Renoir did mention that there is some difference despite them fighting for all these three. Yeah. Uh the fact that all these three means if you fail that’s the last time we’re seeing you in season 15. All the more I think the urgency and the fact that it’s been a while since we’ve seen either of these teams succeed on a international scale and again for Aurora not once seen them win an MPL Philippines championship I think that’s what’s fueling this matchup coming up. Yeah. Yeah, but if you were to think of it, right, if it’s just in terms of, let’s say, first things first, pride, Aurora, despite them being yet to prove themselves internationally, them having to really break all those uh all those comments that people have been throwing at them since the beginning of their appearance in international events, I’d say they’ve had a very quick development. Like really last season, in case everyone forgot, it was just their debut season, but they were already able to achieve the this much, stay consistent in terms of the top rankings, be it in their second consecutive season. And that’s something you’d really want to hold on to, right? If you’re Aurora, you’ve already made it this far. And for their opponents in Falcon, you have been a team for the longest time. I think the most consistent lineup in the past 3 years of MPL Philippines. That’s almost all of franchise history. And it’s been the same five dudes with the same leader ever since in coach Ducky. So again, for Pride, both teams have that redemption. It’s the same story. They both want to show the world that they’re more than their failures. Yep. At first, I’d say I thought Aurora had a larger scale of a redemption scheme, you know, like the way I feel like they’re up against the international scene in terms of them wanting to redeem themselves. And it starts locally, of course, but we always forget that it’s kind of the same for team Falcons, but I feel like the focus is more on getting back in the rankings locally first. Of course, uh, locally, these two have met in the last big matchup. They had a best of seven in the lower bracket finals of last season’s playoffs. It was Aurora who took him down 4-2. And then in the regular season, not a single match did Falcons win against Aurora. First, a sweep and then a threeame slobber knocker. I have a question to ask you. What hurts more, the fact that you never got to hold something or the fact that you had something and then lost it? I feel like losing something hurts a bit more because like you were there once and then suddenly you find yourself struggling to get back while all other teams feel like they’re just suddenly stepping up and you’re getting left behind. And that’s the feeling, right? Getting left behind. That is literally what Falcons felt. Not just the grand finals of MSE 2024 in Riyad Saudi Arabia where they lost game seven against the wouldbe MSE champion Silangora Giants but also just last night they were but one game away from locking in to play earlier today to be in the upper bracket finals they got reverse swept. So Falcons knows that pain. Yeah, I think before we entered this day, we had that same day edit showing how excited every single member of team Falcon’s back in team was knowing that they were already holding match point, but then suddenly it just slips out of their hands and that hurts. It it happens again and again. So, I feel like they’re heading into this match with a renewed mindset. But, we’re looking at the gold laners once more. This isn’t the same rivalry as OH and Kelra, but it has its own way of being interesting. You know, these are silent workers. They let their actions speak louder for themselves. Look at Domingite here. Third uh amongst a majority of stats you would look at as a gold laner than first in average turret damage. Man knows how to take down objectives. Super Marco though, second in a majority of those stats. Fourth in damage dealt in average turret damage. But there’s a stat you’re not looking at here. Stat that doesn’t show. When the regular season ended and well into the playoffs, I’d say midway through yesterday, Marco was still number one least deaths average per game. So, Super Marco is still bulletproof. He is. He is. Although prior this season and in other international tournaments, we did observe that Super Marco has been kind of a little more on the aggressive end. I feel like there has been no Yeah, there was one interview we had with Super Marco back in SPS where we were asking him, “What happened Super Marco?” It feels like you’re playing a little more aggressively. You’re taking a lot more risk than usual. And yeah, you get to die a little more often, you know. Do you do you actually notice that it’s happening to you? And he says, “Well, I’m kind of surprised that it’s happening, too.” Like, I I just suddenly go so aggressive, you know, and I just try to fight a lot more. And this is something we might see here, but that’ll depend. First thing first, we have to find out what all of us think here in the English broadcast. So, we’re calling back our casters once again. Hello again, Nau Enan and Renar. Hello there. Slick. Still going with it. Why did I not say that? No, it’s fine. Again, it’s not a crime. You can you can Oh, break. You get a chance in every single draft. Oh, he demands I do it. You can just I’m fine with whatever. You can let Leo do it if you want. Yeah, I think it it suits better if he does it. So, let’s throw out the uh community poll once again for this time around. So, this is the question. Which team will continue their journey from legends to immortals? Is it A, Lights Within, C’s the win, or is it B, Falcons are here? So that’s for you guys who are watching the live stream right now. Comment down below whatever your thoughts are for this match. And while you think of your answers, we’ll be asking our casters first what they think or who they think will be wins this match. Let’s go opposite here. Remar, why don’t you start? Slick pick. Oh, roar. Whoa. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, Falcon Sky. He is the Falcon Sky till the end. But I am very terrified of Aurora in this series right now. Not going to lie. Not going to lie. That got me so surprised. I thought he suddenly has had a change of heart. Okay, Egan, you’re up next. What is your prediction for this? I’m going with Wait, we can’t see. Aurora. He turned it around. I turned it around. He turned it around. As much as I love Flap TC, I think the Northern Lights got this in the back. Oh, here. Hand me that one cuz I don’t have one over here. Okay. No, the not that the one. Am I going to be the only Falcons guy here? Here’s me. We’re going with Rora. It’s my time to cheer. I love the Falcons boys, but I got today I’m cheering for Demon Kite. You know, I I had a feeling this will be the outcome of the predictions. You know, like Nisu being a former raider and the Demon Kite guy and then Renar being a Falcons guy. Hopefully this time around you don’t change your vote. What’s yours, Leo? Oh, yeah. No, I uh don’t need the uh little thing cuz I have my battle emotes, right? Uh they’re only 109 diamonds. They’re up there till August. You can get your emotes for Aurora, Team Liquid Philippines, Twisted. Uh if you haven’t yet, grab ones for Ony, Omega, and TNC. Uh those return, too. Uh you can show your support for your favorite MPL teams and buy them now at the in-game shop. Forecast says Aurora. All right. I for saw this lower bracket semi. So I’d say Aurora. Okay, you’re going for Aurora. I will be going for Aurora as well. England will give you one more. Okay, I’m a change man. I don’t No, no, no, no, no. I don’t accept it. I don’t accept that. Falcons prediction. I don’t accept that. He wants to be the Falcons guy. I’m a Falcons guy now. No, your prediction switches bad luck. Wait, actually, now that you think about it, he did switch it up last minute earlier. He did today. Yeah. To Onyx, Philippines, baby. You did. Oh, it was the On. Okay. Okay. You know what? So, that is so So, this is good for the So, this is good for the Falcons. Falcons. I I don’t know how to feel. Maybe you should be happy, Renar. Maybe a little bit happy. But, thank you so much tonight, Zuan and Renar. We’ll be keeping that in mind and we’ll see you later. Why is he going to do that? He He has to, you know, like he has to. He He He’s done it the first time and I feel like he’ll be sticking with it. Hopefully not until tomorrow. Hopefully not until the grand finals. All right. You’ll see him here on the panel soon enough and um he’ll be the one leading the entire conversation. So, let’s see. But yeah, that’s everything at stake laid out here for both of these teams that are about to battle it out today. And we are reminding you all that this is a serious elimination best of five. Do or die. Last chance. You lose, you’re out. And um they have a lot to prove. They have prepared so much for this moment. I think we saw it in the way they always forced a game five even in moments wherein they were very behind even when we thought that it could have been the end for them. Be it in-game, midame or midseries, they always find a way around it. So this is the time for them to put it all out there awaiting them in the lower bracket tomorrow. Whoever wins this, the very angry Liquid is the very angry Liquid. The Liquid Stampede, they look downtrodden. They look shocked, of course, crushed. But I believe that tomorrow is going to be a new day. But you know, that’s that’s that’s for them. That’s that’s for whoever loses uh whoever wins here. Whoever loses, you have a different problem coming your way. That’s true because honestly I couldn’t think of what to expect considering what we saw from Team Liquid earlier, but they have a lot of time to prepare. He did say it earlier, that’s a little bit more than 24 hours, but for now, let’s get to know the teams that are playing today. Let’s head in over to the player intros. Champions Arena, please welcome our esteemed marshals to oversee up the tournament’s integrity, Joshua, JJ, Patrick, and David. The pressure is on for the first lower bracket match. Aurora versus Team Falcons in the EXP lane. Edward and Flop Te. The junglers, Demon Kite and Kyle Teasy in the Mid. You were and few and the Rors Rene and Oaken. And in the gold lane, the Mankite and Super Marco and their coaches for Aurora is coach Master the basics and for team Falcons, coach Trevor. Will the Aurora lights shine brighter or will the Falcon’s wings fly higher? Champions Arena, it’s game time. It’s game time indeed and let’s dive into Aurora MLBB4 for their lineup. Nothing will be changing so far and what we could definitely expect from this lineup is to all for them to show all that they’ve been preparing for. Yes, we do have the bulletproof on the other side that Super Marco and team Falcon side, but we also have to take note that Aurora is currently leading in terms of least deaths per game. They barely allow anyone to get eliminated in the first few minutes and they are also very consistent in terms of converting that into turret damage per minute. It takes some time for Aurora to actually contest even the earliest objectives, major objectives, be it the turtle, but you can expect them to really step up when it comes to the latter portions of the game and that includes the Lord. And that’s what team Falcons has to watch out for. Yep. Aurora actually trumps Falcons uh by being number one in lord control about 60.40%. 40%. But Falcons, guess what? They are super versatile in the playoffs. Last night, they debuted an XP lane Juin. That’s right. I am not stuttering. I I I wish I was making this up, but no, they played XP lane Jin, didn’t win, but this does help them hold on to their number one unique heroes pick. Best believe they’re also a very team fighting ccentric team all throughout season 15. They have number one total kills, number one in assists, and when it comes down to I don’t know the way that they’re connected, whether that be for good or for bad, you know what this means? They are together. They are a family. They are sticking with each other. Whether they are winning, whether they are losing, they’re not leaving anyone behind. And again, I think that comes with its own set of liabilities. Yeah, it’s also probably something we can attribute to their captain, right? Probably making all these calls, him making or going for those bigger decisions that we definitely have to look out for as we head into the game in a few moments. But this is a matchup that we could definitely expect to be very objective, a matchup that’ll probably fight for all those bigger objectives when we head into the game. The only question is who will be the more successful team in doing that and who can balance it out with the right amount of still winning the team fights because if if there’s anything we saw from the past few game number five’s the past few series which reached game number five it’s also that they can go the distance they can really fight and start a brawl if they wanted to. Yeah, I think to expect that this will go all the way. I know we mentioned this for Liquid versus Onyx here. More so Aurora and the Falcons are fighting for tournament life. They should expect that doubly so. It’s going to be a tough road for both of these teams. But before we dive into the game, let’s check out the smart pink test. bit. Oh, you got the day dream look in your eyes. Cinderella Cinderella. What? Four blades. Four blades promiseing you loads were what happened? Why you crying again? Vampire will fade to me. Hello darkness, my old friend. Oh, versus Pandora is here guys. One v one with a great one. All in or pulled? That’s our smart ping test. Bringing you low latency gaming with smarts aulit promos. Subscribe to Only 5G with non-stop data for non-stop gaming on your favorite loading platform or at the smart booth right outside our MPL venue. As if I was not confused enough by the additional lines to Christopher Deata’s well-known monologue, I don’t know what PMA is. What is Pelima? What is that? It’s uh I think it roughly translates to problemma. Oh, I know R seven, but I knew R seven. Oh my goodness. I know they have so many inventions right nowadays. But here are the Infin keys to victory for both of our teams. All right, this I understand. Aurora has to shut down Falcon’s attempts at diversity. Whenever the Falcons try to showcase versatility, just shut it down with good fundamentals. Falcons don’t need to prepare heroes that can deal or take damage. Again, be prepared to team fight. Get in Aurora’s faces, make them uncomfortable, and run him over. Make like the big 300 lb birds that you are. And of course, both teams, strength and mental fortitude. Again, it’s one thing to go long, but it’s another to have a strong mind to be proactive. Play your game. Don’t let your opponents dictate what you’re going to do, especially when you get deep into the series. Game four, game five. Yep. Strength and mental fortitude indeed it is for both of these teams. And I don’t know where I but I recall that a bird’s feathers usually take up majority of their weight, right? I hope like I don’t know that’s science or something. But I hope that like in this scenario it doesn’t slow them down. We are we are esports professionals but uh professional bird experts we are not. I will look it up. I will I too. I too I will look it up while we get some time. Bring it. I don’t even know if falcons are endemic to the Philippines. Wait, but what kind of falcons? Yeah, eagleist. Yeah. We we’ll find out later on. We’ll search. We have enough time to search for that. But first things first, the blue side will be going to Aurora for this game. They have a pretty decent win rate. That’s 61.9%. And this is to be expected. The only real outlier in the playoffs of season 15 is Onyx. They always want to play red, but a majority of teams, they want to go blue. So Aurora, being the upper seat, chooses the blue side, the pick first to play in this draft. And I wonder if we’re sticking with that all throughout the series. But let’s call in a Renmar for this draft in game number one. Or should I say flick thick. You should say it yourself. Yeah. Thank you very much. And yes, we actually do have falcons in the Philippines endemic to the country. However, they are just falconets. They are the much smaller versions of falcons, but still equally deadly. He’s the bird expert. I They are within the same family of falcons. They’re both within the falcon family. I found falcon today family. Apples and oranges. We know someone who’s a bird expert after all. So, we got our answer even before we got to search it. But looking at the fans right now. Okay, there’s the Lui Joy taken out for Aurora. I heard that Kaka. Yeah, I told you it was him all along. No, it was Owen. It was clearly Owen. We saw it in his uh in the pink test. He was the sound effects guy. There was someone challenging the sound effects guy we know. He did all sorts of sounds, but so this is alarming. Falcon’s respect for the box. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was so flex and they’re both respecting two very flexible options for roam exp. And I mean, I wouldn’t take it away from Aurora to if ever want to play a boxer in the jungle option. So, Kyle Ty played in the peak of boxer jungle. Yeah. So, you know, I know he could do that. Yeah. And I mean, like Flap TZ, he made a name for himself with the Baksha, too. Oh, yeah. When the heroes knew, but Fann’s open. Dear God, Coach Coach Treb, you got to ban the Fanny now. Yeah. If they’re not going to ban the Fanny, that means they’re they’re willingly playing into it. Oh, they’re willingly playing into it. Falcons want to play Fredin or something. What’s going on? Wait, there’s still a Ka though. That too. Ah, amazing trade. So it might be okay for them to let go of the Fanny if they can get the Kaa for themselves. Yeah, that’s most likely going to be the case of Rora. Go Fanny, then it goes KA even rush. No, you don’t need to rush your Frederick for Falcon. So most likely Ka Moskov if ever it’s a Fanny first split for Aurora. What’s your There it is. Wait, wait, wait, wait. So if it’s going to be the Ka Mosov, then there’s also the Jin that’s still open. Mhm. Oh, there are a lot of options actually you can consider at this point. What round are they going to go to? Uh we go for the Fanny here. They really need the the clay paired up with it. That mean the Moscow will come in later which means Aurora has an option to actually take it away. Although it’s rare we see the Monov and Fanny together would take it away from them to do that. There we go. Okay. Okay. Kala Moskov it is exactly as predicted. Now I think they are they would be willing to pick up the juicer. Uh and then maybe the Joe just to match it up with the Kool-Aid or the Gatkatcha. One of those two. Yeah, that is still an option here for Aurora. Makes you wonder if red five will be avoid. Whoa. Whoa. All right. Aurora looking to fold the map in half. Oh no, never mind the douch. Nope. Oh, Chip, Farsa, Fanny, that is all macro. Yeah. So, this is a this is a this is a test. Do you go haya or do you go Fred? Lucas. Lucas is good against Chip. Yeah. Uh, great response. But Falcon is really looking team fight heavy while Rora can honestly just, you know, rope a dope bait and switch and like, oh, we’re going for a team fight. No, we’re not. We’re just going to split open the map. However, though, if they do find a target, then it looks like an easy way to pick off someone. Like so far, the early combos from the chip and the burst damage from far, not to mention the late follow up that could come in from Deankai. There’s so many ways. Yeah, it’s funny cuz if ever they they can switch it up. Fanny can join can join the rest of the team in the objective team fights while Chip is handling the split push of the Moscow because if ever he can just drop down a portal on top of the Moskov or the other way around while Fann is trying to stop the split push of Super Marco he can quickly just go back to the objective through the portal of Chip. Falcon’s attacking to Kite Herobu was about to say one one still left out there. Uh what else do you ban out here? Bayatrix. Yeah. Yeah. Uh they allow the Granger through. I think Granger would be half decent in this matchup. There’s probably the the pants that they’re going to be thinking of of here, but since the Farsa is already on the side of Aurora, it seems like whatever Dominankite ends up with, is it a bad choice? There are better choices amongst all of the marksman pool available, but it seems like with what Falcons have showed so far, there’s not really a bad choice. Yeah, you can just expect the necessary space to be immediately created for him regardless of whatever gold lane he opts to pick up in this scenario. They battle the Selena too, so there’s also some considerations to fuse potential pickups. Although I believe some of the some of the great responses to the chip 2 are still available if ever wants to consider them. The likes of the parameters are still out there. They have to ban the Valentina too if they don’t want to go up against this considering they have the Lucas. What will the Valentina do? Go into the hands of Edward. Might be too risky. Might be closer to Aushian XP than Yeah, they already have a bar. So a good pick again. Still a bad taste left in her mouth. That is hard XP. So we banned the glue instead. And now Aurora are looking for their last ban against team Falcon. So it’s it’s probably either a mid lane or I mean the the jaw hit they’re all available. I they have a Kala so yeah rarely do we see Kala flex the XP. Again I can count in one hand the times it was used there in season 15. Yeah. So they’re probably going to stick with this in the Rome, especially that it’s Oakwen. Lapesi has revealed some interesting XP lanes recently though. Like that’s excluding the Jian already. Yeah, it’s interesting. Not necessarily good, you know. Well, yeah, you could like look back at the regular season and see all the thamoses and all that. He he did pick up those kinds of XP lanes, but they banned the Hilda. There you go. The reason for the main fact that we were wondering what flappies he will play is the reason why Aurora bans the hill. It’s like just make it easier for us. And there you go. The affforementioned Valentina. Okay. Uh so Falcons will also have their own wings by wings if that will be the ultimate will be t taking excuse me. Uh h oh I wonder if flap ta would and would consider an arot cuz it’s really great against the chip as well if they want to continue answering that. Uh-huh. That was so good. Lapisio on the Arlet again. That’s his MPL of Philippine season 12 grand finals MVP winning hero. I think a lot of us miss seeing that. But the Kimmy will be picked up by Aurora instead. Yeah, a lot of space provided. So, whatever Edward is going to be taking is someone who can hold the front line really well. And yeah. Oh, there you go. That does the job. They got the Katcha. All right, one more. We need a hero for Flap. I really hope it’s not something super passive like a high loss. I mean they he might actually just go for that just so that they have the access to the revitalize which most likely Edward will be packing as well just so they can balance it out in that regard. Man, if they didn’t buy the back shot back would be good right here but Oh yeah, again that’s what the meta demands. Uh does the Arlet still look good? I I don’t mind. Yeah, same. I’m just Arllot are high loss right now. H seems like a really offensive option wouldn’t be the best bet. Yeah, cuz you have to consider the Kimmy. Yeah, like it’s going to be easy for Aurora to just kite the heroes of Team Falcon. It ever comes to that. Just plays a Fanny, too. And Oh, there you go. Hey, this was in the keys to victory, right? Deal damage. Yeah. And if you don’t want to take it slow, if you don’t want to find or have a difficult time up against the Kimmy, then why not take on XP laner who can just hunt the Kimmy down? who can just pose a huge threat to what Aurora plans to do in the game later on. So, it is going to be a damage XP laner will be seeing after some time. Finally, back in the hands of Clap Te, by the way. But overall, it’s interesting how the lineup rating really favors Aurora. Yeah, Aurora picked up bangers in every lane. Kimmy in demand across the seas in Malaysia, in Indonesia. They’re they love their kimies here. We’re only starting to build up to it. And if they can protect her, if they can protect U, then Rora should be looking at a fast game. That’s a petrify too by the way. So we can expect all out aggression. Casters, take it away. The Champions Arena, we’re about to load on in the land of dawn. A crucial match here for both the teams, Aurora and Falcons, looking to move forward and not get knocked out of the playoffs. That’s what we have for us. It’s been nice to and Renmar to bring you the action. You guys saw the index there. I don’t know how much weight we want to put on it, but what do you think of the compositions for both teams? You know, so far again, Kyle TZ one of the best uh uh Lucas junglers, especially considering the fact that he’s 2-1 in the playoffs right now with this specific hero. But Flap Dy from using the boxes to now using a damage hero like the Benadeta up against Edward, who is known to use this hero. It’s going to be interesting how Falcons pull this off considering the fact that Demon Kite has his van. Yeah, and looking back at it now, the Benadetta pickup solves the macro problem for Falcons in the sense that it was mainly just the Moscow as their main option for that. While Aurora had again the switch up between the Fanny, the chip, and how much macro and ground you can cover with those two heroes, now that they have the Benadetta there with them, they can be flexible in terms of how they want to approach the objective team fights. And again, I I I put a lot of weight on the objective team fights cuz that’s what Brigade and Leo mentioned that this will all be about. A lot of these major sequences are going to be happening 20 seconds on and from the turtles. Oh, early engage here as Kyle TZ already used the unleash the piece. One more hit almost and was able to take down Demon Kite. A turnaround for Team Falcons. Wow. Although they might not be out of this just yet. Oh, Renery sets his eyes on Kyle Te, but he was able to dash away as Flap Tezy can’t recall safely. man of the spell vamp the regen that the Lucas gets saving Kyle Tasy might be up next to the docket and he’ll be able to get away but you and Edward are still here. Oh up against you and Edward so Edward soaking up the damage to not give any more deaths to Aurora but now feathered air strike from UA and both teams will disperse. That looks so dicey on both sides for so long and now the turtle’s up here. Falcons is going to go ahead and start it up. Demon Kite working on his purple buff. So, he’ll grab that. They’ll go ahead and rotate in now. Kyle Tezy has his orange. Yeah, we’ll see if they actually can commit to this. It looks like they’re just going to go grab the buff for now. 20 seconds before and or after the turtles and the lords. It’s going to be the timers we’re going to be looking at here. No clear advantage because the sequence up top got extended. Kyle Tzy just got his purple buff. Demon Kite will be coming from the orange. Let’s see if Our is going to contest this as Falcons has already started things off for Kyle Tezy in the bottom lane. Oh, Fast shortcut down bottom. Almost got Demon Kite there as Benj answers back. Here comes Demon Kite also and be able to take down Kyle Teasy. One member down for team Falcons. Forget the turtle. Let’s go fight bot. That’s what they said. Oh, they st away. Flap te almost got demon kite. They’re now ganked up by three. Got stunned out but able to escape. Faby hunting down you and almost even got plus one on there. He was able to walk away with a kill. Falcons eventually end up winning the trade, but they have to be very careful cuz Aurora have very good timing right now around that chip. They hella did not expect that. Renj is going to show up with his own shortcut. Oh, tidal strike onto Renj. Feather air strike from UA. One more hit on the Pew and he gets him as Owen counters out with the Edward kill. Use the tsunami slam onto the middle lane to take him down. Man, this is a this is just a brutal match so far, you know, like where there’s so much action. Feel like you’re watching an action movie. Now for the fight for the turtle. Even Kai tried to steal the lord, but still Kyle sees will secure that turtle rather. And these two teams are known to be very systematic, but now it’s all about clashes. Now, it feels like I’m watching systematic violence right now. Both of them have just subscribed to MMA, and I’m all all in for it, but it’s the old days of MMA when I pokes were still allowed. ear bites, eyeballs, ear bites, all of that. No gloves, just everything else, you know, MMA for the streets. Yeah, at that point. Um, for Falcons though, getting that first objective, that’s going to be fine. And this is the thing when you’re when you’re looking at this for Aurora specifically, you’re playing around the chip like you mentioned earlier on. Um, so Falcons, what do they have to do to kind of go against that? Do they just need to keep an eye on Renj and then how do they counter the shortcuts that kind of keep them on their their toes here? Yeah, that’s mostly going to be it. Because if really once you’ve started the sequence without knowing where the chip is and the chip has the edge over you, there’s very little you can do. At the end of the day, it’ll just be see if you can do your best to end up winning the engagement and counter it. Uh but if they are going to be more systematic about it and really just wait for Reny to show up on the map and then they pull the trigger in a sequence, then that could be one way. Flap, demon kite. Forget flap teas. The ultimate there for Demon Kite already used up, but Flap Te survives. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay. Ooh, Demon Kite was willing to take hits from the turret there. Meanwhile, the bottom lane now jumps in. Dominic Kite was able to walk away and he catch Oak instead. Fathered air strike and again both teams will disperse but J from the back. AOG paired up and Edward and they take down F. Wow, F. I don’t know if he was expecting that or what, but quick response from Rora. Yeah, why walk by Renj? And as we were talking about, if the chip catches you with your pants down, there’s very little you can do. You’ll just be a deer in the middle of headlights. Now, the last time we saw Renee with the chip, wait a minute. They’re going to go instead and go for the purple buff. Take that away from Demon K, but still got it. That was smooth. Yeah, very smooth moves by Demon Kite. Edward and UF close here, but Falcons will not push the issue. Seems like Aurora are going to be getting to the turtle first as Super Mario is going to be opening up the map for Falcons. Let’s see how heavily Falcons will contest if they will this second turtle of the game. Yeah, Aurora having the lead that they have. They’ll go ahead and plant themselves in position. Few holding on to the Avatar, the Guardian himself. Both gold laners still up top, but uh that’s fine. Super Marco can just join the fight if he wants to. They’ll try to go ahead and alleviate some of the pressure if they can but oh hold on even in the bottom side. All right you with a feather but got interrupted by Kyle with unleashed a beast though. Demon Kai jumps in but gets caught out by few. KZY also falls down but do was able to free hit now. He sets his eyes on Flapy. Might be able to escape though. Dashing in. Dashing out for Rene. Catches him as a double kill from Doming Kite one again. And Renj kills off Lapzy. Gratu. It’s just violence. Aurora clapping back. They don’t get the turtle, but Falcons have lost way too much in that engagement. Aurora now focus on the tower in mid. And of course, Super Marco is stuck in farming mode right now because he is desperately behind Dom and Kite in the farm. He Domagite is a 6,000 super. Marco is just about to hit 5k. And with everything that Falcons did there, they were all just too clumped up that the chip would be more than happy to drop down damage and stuns for everyone. And that is all that Aurora needed. Meanwhile, up top, action packed again. They’re ganking up on Rhino JS Ky picks up the kill. Flap trying to escape there up against Edward Domingite and Ugan jumps in as well. One casualty so far for Aurora. Okay, so they they ended up fighting up there, but uh yeah, Renj goes down. Let’s take a quick look. You were just talking about the items here. How’s it looking, Renoir? All right, for the two gold laners, only up to a golden staff is the Moskov. Meanwhile, already on the way to the holy crystal for Doming Kite, I believe he has uh if I’m not mistaken, that should already be three stacks on the Kimmy Sky Piercer. If not, it’s only two. But still, that’s a development that Falus really need to watch out for because everything that’s happened so far has been them finding two, finding three, but then not being ready for the clapback. Again, this is one of the benefits of having a revitalize on the lineup against a lineup that has no revitalize. Those little seconds buys so much space and opportunities for your team. Yeah. Yeah. That does a lot of healing and uh even if you decides to take the avatar of the guardian, you know, he he doesn’t have the revitalize, so that’s how they have to play around it. Yeah. And with all with all the healing on the board, there’s just a lack of dominance and anti-healing actually that has to be rectified by these two teams. There are glowing wands on the mages, but you need more anti-heal coming from both. And you also have to worry about Dominic already picked up a holy crystal. Interesting. Went with the concentrated energy paired up with a sky piercer. So now at the 301, not quite sure when he got those stacks in. It’s going to be harder to kill Doming Kite. Harder to reach him, but expect a lot of damage from Dominite. It’s going to be big here for that Lord. once it’s up and if they decide to commit to it once again this is going to be a little difficult for Falcons on on these team fights when they’re fighting around the choke points of the objectives that seems to be where they struggle because it is so important on their positioning and most likely at that few depending on what ultimate he decides to take tends to change a course of a lot of these team fights that do break out. So again we’ll see if it’s going to work out. Super Marco picking up the DHS now. He’s got the three items that he needs. He’s done relatively well catching up at least to get into a fighting form I’d say here on the Moscow. H okay. Uh radiant armor already built up there for Edward. So that should help with the damage output. Uh that few could bring to the table. Plus at the same time that lowers the need for Edward to go back to base if ever he gets brought down too low. Good HP regen base on it. So now Falcons are going to have to contest this. But it seems like it’s going to be difficult for them to find an opening because Roa slow blitz already no ultimate for this Lucas and they passed the traction pulls also flap teasy caught in the middle unleashed a piece there but Flap teasy got bursted down. Rene from the back as demon kite having the time of his life trying to slice and dice every single Falcon he sees and two members are down. Not a good fight for Falcons there. They get caught out and now they’re going to lose this lord here. a big objective for Aurora to march towards the base of Falcons. Off timing for Flap Teas and it looks like a little bit of miscommunication on the side of Falcons. Aurora again, what we mentioned about them yesterday, one of the best teams in the league this season when it comes to punishing the smallest of errors. They can just find massive openings in the game with that. And Rej sniffed out sniffed them out and saw even more. Oh, look at that. Q just so low off of a couple want feathered air strikes from UA and again that’s why the fara is so good right now is are they are they ready for this defense yeah I think they are able to clear out the lord and not lose any inhibitor turrets unless something happens like a reneg flickers from the back or the traction pulls paired up with the AOG uh can catch someone from team Falcons it could spell disaster for them but still the clear wave of team Falcons can mitigate what uh Aurora’s pushing right now. Okay, bases uh held on to the shields are all going to be popped though, so that they are at least Falcon still gets some breathing room before the next objective about 2 minutes buys them time here. Yeah, honestly right now the hard part for Team Falcons is that apart from the gold lead that Aurora has established, Aurora has endless of possibilities to execute initiations and at the same time punish. There’s the traction pulse AOG combo, not to mention Rene consistently going from the back and casting that ultimate and of course a demon kite, the late entries that could clean up the initial damage that can come from Domin Kite and UA. Yeah, Doming Kite has dealt the most damage of this game so far shared with UA. They’re both hovering around 30,000 damage dealt and climbing. While Super Marco, because he has been stuck with just trying to open up the map for Falcons, has dealt a measly 6,700. Still just hovering around that in terms of total damage dealt to heroes. So Falcons now the next few sequences they’re just going to be forced to having Super Marco with them since he’s already built up with his Trinity of the Scythe Golden Staff and the DHS. But again, there’s only so much that they could do in this scenario. KZY already up to a queen’s wings, but that’s only three core items. While Demon Cat is already going hybrid as he has his main three items, the heptices, the maleific roar, war axe, and now he even has antiuras. though he has good survivability in case he gets caught by the main physical damage dealers in the side of Falcons. Yeah, that’s uh something we’re going to have to pay attention to too is because Falcons and trying to catch up to this gold deficit that they have to work against. They might choose not to fight, you know, at least around the Lord and rather in the base unless they somehow get a big advantage from it because of the fact that they are behind. They have some like they have decent damage but still there’s another big item power spike for Domikite now. He’s been pretty much chilling in the back lane just able to and that’s always the case with Kimmy man. How do you catch the Kimmy when you have it protected so well especially with a Ganaka and the chip? It’s it’s too tough to get and then you know you’re forced into those team fights sometimes because of the Kimmy across from you. So they’re going to go ahead and start up the lord here. Falcons will see if they really want to go ahead and contest this. You still have Owen up on the top side making sure that Super Marco is going to be fine while Doom Domen Kite starts this up. He’ll hold it at half. Meanwhile, Demon Kite still at the bottom. But again, do they pull the trigger on this with this kind of lead? See Howard picked up too. They’re going to go for it. UA Domingite still has their purifies as Demon Kite picks up the Lord without a sweat there. Edward Mel will even go for flap. Tas feathered air strike from you and bursts down flap teas. Oh, but down the bottom lane though. Team Falcon want to make quick work of view but few is going to fall down the counter attack though. Owen jumps in. Cali joins the picture. Has the unleash the beast. Edward working on Super Marco but Owen is going to fall down. Ky up against three. There’s the unleash the beast again and he brings down Doming kite but Edward U. Rene still in the picture. Cali is alone. He has used the winter crown. Can he buy time by space? Still takes down UA eventually to be shut down by Edward. Super Mario is here. Super Mario jumps in dishing out the damage onto Edward. He might be able to clear out the lord, but that was enough time. Trip Kyle Ty re from the back. He has the shortcut. Demon Kite enters the picture. Wind of nature. Edward has the stun. A beautiful taunt and bursts down Super Marco. Lorilla for Aurora. Team Falcons desperately trying to defend. They still have all their inhibitor turrets and now Rener just waiting for the perfect moment again to cast that shortcut. Oh man, they’re just going to clear this out. But talk about a response from both teams. First the play from Kyle Tezy. Then you have the shortcut from Rene to put Rora back into it. But ultimately, what did it lead to? Falcon still holds on to the base turrets. I’m not sure if Aurora can continue on and we’re back to where we were before. Renj an allstar ror this season in case you missed our Alamat awards. And Edward, they call him Mr. Consistent cuz when you need someone to make a big move with big consequences, you got to count on him to find that moment. These 21 and 11 of this gata and those taunts that he is dishing out all throughout this game have stopped Falcons from making some major sequences that could have changed the story of this game number one. So good right now between both teams honestly for a game one as they work for it. But I would say at this point Oh no, another collapse for Aurora. brings down El Capitan Fuin used the ultimate though, but they’re not being able to take down any members of Aurora. Super Mario can dish out the damage. AoG coming in from Envi pop working on dominite dominite pops his wind of nature and purify and breaks down Rene one for one speed of destruction from Super Marco. He catches Dominite Domy pop has to walk away. Purify casted by Dom Kai left teasy soaking up the damage as Edward has to back and Dolman Kai got eliminated. The bulletproof has found the mark and there goes the tsunami slam by the master. Falcons have found a victory but in the middle of the map it’s Demon Kite. Demon Kite pushing in onto the middle lane. Even U takes down Owen. Three members have to call here but F was able to go back and clear out the mid lane. Game one and it’s already cinematic. What is going on between these two teams? What a start to this series. Just when you thought Aurora would continue dominating this game. Falcons have found moments. Falcons have found ways. And now they have their eyes set on getting their lord. But Rene the Allstar is here. Here comes the ultimate. And still few will get the lord. Demon kite quite low. Brought down by super Marco. Rene as well. Super Marco again with a crucial play. Is that a bird? Is that a blade? It’s Super Marco. And now the push for team Falcons. They have a cart in the middle lane. It’s just two way Edward to defend feathered air strike to clear out the minions. But again, the problem remains for Aurora. Team Falcons has the lord up top. Oh, and man, you’ve got a couple members of Aurora facing down. Falcons. Can they stop it? Oaken jumps in once again. Edward soaking up the damage. He has his revitalized though. But until when can he stand it? AOG used defensively. Has his immortality, but team Falcons lost their eyes on the base and a comeback win for the Falcons. The team that faced a reverse sweep last night have delivered an emphatic turnaround victory in this game number one against an incredibly sharp and determined looking Aurora squad. That’s one for the Falcons. Oh man, if we have a series down to this, you know, elimination, this is exactly how you want to start it. The panel, Leo, Bria, I know you guys have a lot to say about this. Let us know what you think about game one. It was such a great game to start the series. It took 18 minutes before Falcons before they were able to end it. And Kyle Ty, my goodness, he had so many highlights on that. Lucas, he was raided. He was looking for someone to receive all this pent up frustration from that reverse sweep last night and Rora was in the way. That’s exactly what this was. Uh it was a contest of again as my Renmar violence. It was just a match wherein if you weren’t ready to fight for what you wanted to get that first point on the board then don’t even try. That’s what Falcons did here. And that’s exactly why you see him as your game MVP. Kyle Tezy on this Lucas waiting for the perfect time. Always using the unleash the beast. even during one moment where we felt it was a bit a little too early, but you know that’s just how aggressive he wants to play into this lineup of Aurora. That’s just how much he wants to answer back to all the shortcuts to all the team fights they tried starting and it was it was the downfall of this entire game for Aurora when he was just always able to gain access to Doming Kai. Yeah, there was uh how do you say no room for half measures in Falcon’s lineup. you see the draft that they had uh we’ll have an in detail dynamic of that draft but off of Ky alone let’s just take him for example this hero Lucas if you think twice about using unleash the beast if you think twice about catching up on your resolve throwing out your shockwave blast you will get punished hard and even in those early moments you saw how Lucas how Ky was like yeah I’m just going to throw out this shockwave blast why not I’m retreating anyways pow still drew first blood yeah and you feel how much he wanted to maximize that killing spree too. Like he was just in for the fights. And we mentioned before heading into this entire series that both of these teams are very objective. They even avoid fights if needed to, especially in the early stages. But this is the complete opposite of what we expected from them. They literally had to change something so they could take the advantage. Yeah. No, Falcons were building up to this very moment. Falcons all throughout season 15 have been racking up kills, racking up assists, and they were ready to play this way. Uh that sequence right there, I don’t know exactly whose shortcut it was, whether it was through a Y walk by ReneJ and then jumped in um that everyone else followed through or if it was F who stole a shortcut uh one or the other. But that led to a moment wherein if you weren’t ready for it and you jumped in and you fought, you get punished hard. This was the turning point, I’d say. Yeah. I I don’t even know if Falcons were just really ready for that moment or they forced themselves to be ready because they just wanted to fight back so bad. And in the long run, it was so rewarding since they they they were able to get some trades. They were able to get so many more from Aurora that from that very point onwards, even though yes, there were moments where even Demon Kite felt like he could have done something. he could have gotten the game for Aurora. It didn’t matter for team Falcons. Like they were able to read into so much of Aurora’s strategies with this lineup with the chip and now they’re able to secure the first game of the series. First on the board, Falcons in the best of five. 15 to 15. See, eventually it equaled out. There was a good chunk of time where it was Aurora who had more kills. Why was that? Number one is because they had more range. Look at that. You have the Kimmy, you have the Farsa, and then you have the Fanny who can, you know, go in and go out as much. And then stoppers in the Gatot and the Chip who can also help retreat or set up other ganks elsewhere. All this while Falcons, look at that lineup. It’s all in. Yeah. Mid-range at best, their mage few on the Valentina, and then you have Super Marco who is the payoff to shocking your opponents into a fight that they cannot finish, that they cannot go through. Uh that’s the reason why I think towards that late game, what 2 minutes left into the game. So around 15 16 minutes on the clock, Super Marco said, “Guys, I’m ready.” Yeah, it was too all in that it was probably a little too overwhelming for Aurora. How could they position themselves from a safe distance so they could throw out the right skills, so they could deal out the right damage? But Team Falcons, they made it work so well. like every single one you mentioned. Even Flap teasy, I feel like we should also be um highlighting in this game because I thought it was a damage benad. I did too. It was a petrify, but it felt like oh, he knew what had to be done. So, it’s more of a utility kind of way in terms of making use of the Benedetta just to close in a lot more faster on your targets just to deal that petrify, I guess. So, it it just was another way of making things a lot easier for that mid-range lineup of Team Falcons. Yep. Force out ults, eat ults with the eye for an eye and then compromise those ranged fighters uh from Aurora. RBBI rich guy is none other than the bulletproof super Marco. He’s also the carrier done a lot of damage on that Moskov. You’ll see here that he ran through minions, he ran through kills, and that’s where a majority of his economy came from. Very little gold. uh gained from uh turtles or lords cuz again if you’ll remember a majority of the game it was actually in control. Yeah. And during that one moment by the way wherein they still decided to go for the fight when the sod connected. I thought he was going down at that moment but he still survived. Like that just goes to show he already got the necessary items. But I know we have a lot more to talk about in terms of how the game progressed. So Leo take this away. Yep. Let’s go dive into deeper details here. Uh as we look through this 16minute game, 18minute game. Uh there it is. 1841. But in my book, it ended at about 16 1/2 minutes cuz that’s when I saw Oh no. Aurora’s picking fights. They have no business getting into. Looking at the gold graph here. Aurora on blue. They chose this side by the way. Falcons on red. Aurora in the lead. Lead lead. And then oops. See what I tell you about the 16 and 1/2 minute mark. That’s where it all went wrong. Falcons started fighting. Aurora started fighting when they had no business doing so. Yes, they had a chip. Yes, they had the superior range. But at about 1630, 1640, Falcons knew they had Auroras because Aurora was finally falling for the trap. See, look, starting at about the 10-minute mark, Falcon’s progress kind of halted. Look at Aurora. their spikes. 5 minutes, 7, 8, 8, 10, 10, 11, 14, 17. This is all good. This is all fine. But Falcons stopped for like a good eight minutes and then they said, “There’s nothing to gain from the map. What do we do?” And then at that last moment, Aurora, they played a Hail Mary. They sent Demon Kite, “All right, we’ll go fight here. You will hold him down. We will let you push mid.” That’s the one last play Aurora was able to do on the map. That was a sign of desperation. About a minute later, 1841, 1714 here, game’s done. I don’t know exactly what kind of coms went down with Aurora then, but going into the series if they want to tie this or even stop Falcons from getting to match point. They have to be clear. They have to understand again a concept introduced prior in Onyx versus Liquid. Who is the beat down? Understand who’s the aggressor. understand who should be putting their foot down and saying, “We want to fight. Do you want to?” And understanding when to say no. If you’ll remember that last team fight looked very similar to what happened last between Onik and TP game two where Liquid pulled the trigger, they shouldn’t have understanding that if you watch the highlights, rewatch the game, go back, Rora started picking fights that was a little too close for comfort. Let’s put it into terms. All you fight fans, MMAs, boxing, BJJ, Falcons, Falcons are BJJ guys. They want to take you down. They want the fight to happen. Grappling, they want to put you in a submission hold. Rora, they’re boxers. Rora needs to fight from range. P, big wingspan, literally with the Farsa. But what they started to do was, “All right, maybe we can fight on the ground. We feel like Falcons are already gassed out. They’re already showing signs of desperation. No, that’s just Falcons wanting to fight even more and then you caught you got caught in an arm bar. You tapped out. That’s what happened here. Game number one. So, let’s look at what the items were so far. Aurora. Look at Demon Kite. Demon Kite had it good. Demon Kite built a play apes malefic roar war axe. And then look, a thing of beauty. Antias. What does that block out? Blocks a Kyle TZ blocks a flap tezy. Blocks out some skills from Super Marco. You get hit by a spear of misery. You’re a little more survivable. You can run away. And then on the other side, look at Flapzy. Full tank build. You can go back, scrub, back away. Understand why he took the most damage. Now, let’s see what the draft recap was like. Again, I love the dynamics of this draft by Falcons. At best, mid-range engagements. At best, you can steal some keys to make up for the lack of range that Valentina pick in the Fourth pick, R4 is where this came in. And then that clutch benadetta. Uh the Benadetta, it’s an acquired taste. The only reason why we really see it often is because Flappy his pockets go deep. He was playing this back in 2021. So it’s been about four or five years that he’s been a Benedeta main. On the other hand, Aurora, they’re playing 2025 meta. This is a rework Kimmy. This is Fanny who’s still pretty broken. And this is one of US’s most reliable heroes. So Aurora, they had it good. They were winning for what 60 70% of the game. It’s just maybe somewhere somehow the all the fights got to them and all the fights kind of muddied their vision and said maybe we can take this. Okay, we we couldn’t. Yeah, that was already considering that they were sort of baited into the plans of team Falcons in the draft. Like they were able to play it relatively well. they were able to get the lead for a huge majority of the game even when Falcons were already up ahead knowing that they will be picking up the Fanny knowing that this will be the trend in the draft letting go of the Jian even. So this is everything probably telegraphed by team Falcons and they struggled to get it early on but were able to find a way around it either way. So there just needs a little bit more polishing I guess some revisiting for Aurora because they really had it. Like I felt like there were just some decisions which led them to this point, but that’s really what it is. Like there even the smallest decisions sometimes just drastically changed the outcome of the game. Silver lining for this. If you’re coach Dexar, coach, master the basics, look back at that draft, there was nothing fundamentally wrong with it. They were doing well for a good 10, 12 minutes of that game. So going into game two, don’t let your fundamentals slip. I think it’s more in-game executions. Take the time to remind your players, all right, watch out for this, watch out for that. Don’t fall for your opponent’s traps. Know what the strength of your lineup is and I guess manage those hailmary plays. Yeah, cuz cuz we saw it like the way they were even able to like maintain it all the way to the first turtle even when Falcons were just aggressive looking for fights, but still they were the ones to win the first objective and it just went downhill from that point. So, there’s a lot to address, but before we head into the next game, let’s throw it over to our horse for a smart access segment. Panelists, we are still here at the Champions Arena. Odin 10 Falcons after that victory in game number one. And your right hands full full attendance. Hello then playgrounds for everybody’s information. You want to join in on the fun things again first series grand finalists and MSE representatives prediction. What do you think to meet up? Aurora fans playground. What do you think of the game so far? Best of right now. What do you think? Yeah, I mean solid observation coming in from Ben things. do think and I think tips rightiscover my bendings. I’m sure perfect attendance because you’re going to be here all throughout. Hopefully, we’ll see you once again interviews. Bye-bye. ML playgrounds. All right. Enjoy guys. Benings and all of the other MPL fans MPL playgrounds, but now it’s time to throw it back to our panel. Thank you so much, Hans and Odin. I was waiting for the Ben tips, too, you know, but he probably needed some time to think. I mean, a lot of us have been so surprised with how the playoffs meta has established itself in the past few days. Yeah, it is free, though. If you want more Ben tips, just follow him on social media. Just scroll and see what else you don’t know. I actually learned a few things from Ben things myself. That’s true. That’s true. Especially when there are newly released heroes, especially when there are some changes in terms of like the battlefield adjustments and all that. He’s the guy who just teaches you the smallest things that are very useful in game. But by the way, we’re looking at the clear head super fan of the day. I wonder if Oh, okay. Okay. I wonder if he’s the one who’s going to be uh winning. It looks like it’s him. Look at that. Look at that thick head of hair. Not a shred of dandruff on him. Not a shred. It’s too shiny. It looks so soft. And he’s been wearing the team Falcons cap. That baseball cap I’ve been seeing on a lot of fans, too. But it still looks like this. I have one of those. You have? Oh, you’re talking about the cap? I thought you were talking about bottles of clear men. I have both. Oh man. But did you guys know that men tend to get five times more dandruff versus women’s scalp? Use clear men with times three tripled anti-dandruff power for 100% protection. Hey, supercharger scalp with clear. I started growing my hair again. Yeah. This year. And I made sure that I had the perfect companion to make sure that this doesn’t get all messy. Yeah, it’s it’s perfect timing. Times five. Uh, more likely. No. How about times zero? Look at this. Nothing. Nothing. Thanks, Clear. You guys should check it out. And if you do want to have uh your hands on one of those, you might want to join us here because all you have to do is show your shiny and your well or your healthy hair. And then you might be the clear super head super fan clear head of the day because it’s like quite lengthy. But there are those are just some of the giveaways that we actually give out to all of our viewers here. Earlier we had the smart power pose. Now it’s the clear head super fan of the day. So there are many more in store for you. We still have two days in the playoffs. Update on the draft. Team Falcons choose a blue. Uh again, that is still the more reliable side to be on when you’re drafting. And yeah, uh looking at their draft from game one, there had to be some shenan there had to be tricks. But this time from blue, I think they should stick to what works and then just bait out certain responses from go around. There’ll be time for them to be a little more creative in the latter parts of the draft. But now that they’re in blue side, yes, we might be expecting that. And we are calling in Renmar once again to join us for the draft in game number two. I didn’t say the slick thing. No, it’s fine again. It’s totally fine. Hello uh Leo and bring it down. All right. So, let’s check where we are at the draft of Fanny Loey getting taken away. Respect. And they go ahead and take away the Moskov and Chip. Now, if they are going to be taking away the Moscow, that means they’re going to give Rora the option of picking either the Granger or the Harth early on in the draft. So, that Falcons would get one of the other. I feel like that’s what that ban is committed for. All right. Uh the fact that the last draft was very bluesided again. We all gasped when Fanny came through and then the chip in the blue two and three came out as well. Game two now shows us that Falcons is testing Rora. Do you get that vibe too, Slick Dick? That maybe it’s coach Trev’s turn to say, “Hey, what else you got in the tank? Master the basics.” Yeah, it feels like it considering that look Moscow Har commitment onto Domikai’s best heroes, but then at the same time Domikite’s best hero can still come in the first two picks on the red side. The Granger are still wide open. Unless that means Falcon’s telling Aurora, “Hey, we’re going to Unless that means Falcon’s telling Aurora, hey, we’re going to first pick Joy.” Oh, that can be true. But like, will Dom dominite be likely to reveal some of the more unique gold laners we’ve been seeing? Though, I I don’t know if I want that. But what I also do not want to see is a sudden shift and gold laners becoming the first picks like Granger opener in blue cuz that seems like a pre-play, a pre- patch kind of thing. Yeah, I mean, he did use the Kimmy earlier. Box is open. Yeah. It’s not going to be It’s not going to be like a blue opener, but I was thinking we’re going the red one, two later, like a like a fus Granger. Yeah. All right. Now, there’s Ka. It’s like everything. The way it’s looking right now is like Aurora looks encouraged to pick their gold laner in the very first phase. Get that Granger as soon as possible that Marco doesn’t end up with it. But it seems like Faulk’s willing are willing to give that up. Juice in for us. Very strong. Always has been for Aurora. And I wouldn’t be surprised if they decide to commit it here. Would you box in? Would you box a Zushin? No. Or or they have to consider the Granger as mentioned too. Granger. Yeah, they shoe box. They’ll have to let go of whatever they decide to go with. They’re letting go of one of those three. It’s got to be right cuz if not, like what else would you be prioritizing? It is. The shoe box. The shoe box. There it is. the box. Hey, just just so we’re clear. You get the funny name. I got the prediction right. Yeah. Yeah. You got the prediction 100%. But you got the funny name. I’m just here for the branding. So, they let go of the Granger. That might go into Super Mario again this time if they decide to pick it up here. And that’s been a very strong hero for Super Mario. You know, like he’s got endless BPI rich guys because of getting the Granger. Yeah, Granger is the last of the S tier gold laners now since uh Moskov and Har are out. Does that make Rora play one one? You know, Falcons can even swerve and go one- one if they want to. I mean, I’m still leaning towards that they’re going to be Granger. That sounds kind of fivehead. But the but the twoin one, we saw it recently too, right? So, it might not be too far of a fetch for team for Aurora if ever they wanted to go that route. They they will consider the Hayabusa definitely since it did appear there’s the Hayabusa in Team Falcon’s lineup. It looks like Aurora could set up for a very tanky front line then just pick something like the carry for Doming Kite later on. Yeah. Uh that’s like one of his go-to pickups uh once the S tier gold laners are gone. I mean that and the Bayatrix, but it’s been so long since we’ve seen the Batrix this season. Been a while. He’s just not cutting it anymore. Yeah, just not cutting it. Um, Kimmy is still open if they want to, considering that the juice in might not be enough magic damage. Uhhuh. But then up against the Hayabusa, the Ka or the Oh my goodness, there it is. Especially against the Kala, this is such a great pick. Mhm. Yeah, you don’t need to put a purify in that one. It’s already built in. And then you put the purify onto U. Now, uh, Oaken’s going to be thinking about just committing the ultimate on the jungler, the ROR, the exp laner. And if Aurora decides to build like super tanky in those in those slots, then a tsunami slam isn’t that going to be big ticket anymore. And it’s not as if Owen is already struggling. There’s a Baksha. Basically, half of your kit is useless. Yeah. And we don’t know where the Baksha is going to. Oh, no. Like it it can be either the jungler right now for demon kite. It can’t be either the the roam or the XP. Angela’s open. I’m just saying folks, Angela’s open. Wait, what if we see the entire Baksha CC Angela kind of thing, too? Yeah. And in red. Oh my god. I don’t I don’t think coach Trev would he would he wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight if that came through to him here in game two. Yeah. If that’s going to be the case, then F might either end up with a Selena or even a Phamus in his hands. Uh considering you don’t have to worry about the Valentina anymore. There’s already a ju on the other side. Aurora took away the Farsa. So Falcons might just be forced to lean into the close to mid-range play style, which a would be very suited for. And I think the Phamas would do a good impersonation of an Angela lineup. It’s like we have extra life. Exactly. You know, like especially if you hardguard in will pull whoever gets the buffs. It’s doable, but they’re they’re not respecting it just yet. I don’t think Coach Treb sees it. Honestly, even fears it. Even like the Florines, right? They’ve been rampant on like rank in rank games. We don’t see it here. Of course, definitely this is a different level of playing field, but the that’s a that’s the idea we’re looking at right now for like Aurora. They can they can go for a very sustain lineup out sustaining the enemies just doing that and buying enough time for the 1-1 to fly against the members of Aurora. But they see themselves. Ah, there it is. Coach Trev, you know, he knows he’s he he’s respecting it as if it was an absolute like there’s even a 1% chance. He wants to sleep tonight. And there goes the Okay. Okay. One of your best oneliners, Freedom. I’m so proud of you. Oh. Oh. Oh. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I mean, I do too, but you’re not wrong. I’d like to sleep, too. Okay. So, we still do not have a pick before uh the XP lane uh the Rome in the That’s red four and we still don’t know what the hell’s going on with the Ron’s draft. What where is this? That’s that’s red for and we still don’t know what the hell’s going going. I think we’re seeing uh improv. One of the onic tendencies of we don’t know where the box is going and I think that’s what they’re playing into more of like all right this could either draft look super team Falcons like where is it going to come from this time. What else is left an Eve? Uh down. There’s a Sicilian. Selena. Selena. Yeah, they might just lean on the close to mid-range. Although I would prefer long range because again the one you need the safer answer for that. Oh, you need just burst one on burst playing the Eve doesn’t feel as bad as when he did back in Saudi. Yeah, I think uh we’ve we’ve grown. We’ve changed from times like we’re past that. Time flies. So, we will finally find the answer here. No, I’m I’m not I’m not I’m not bothered by this. This is a decent Falcon strap. That’s a hell of a last pick by Aurora. Okay, confirm that this is going to be an XP lane. Baksha. Wa. Well, we don’t know. Maybe maybe they they they pull us off for a swerve, but no, we know now what’s in the jungle. It’s a ling. I love how low to the ground Aurora’s draft is. Economically speaking, you know where the money is. It’s a Ling. Demon Kite on the Ling once again. This is an old flame, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah. Yes. And he knows exactly what he’s getting himself into. Joseph, hold it in. This is a great job by both sides, especially with the trip that Aurora have taken us on down memory lane all throughout today’s metag game. And yes, confirmed it is an XP lane box and a Rome Khaled. Uh asking me who I favor. I think I like Falcon. Okay, there you get your answer. And we heard him giggling. I know sounds so excited for this. So go on, take it away. I don’t know if I’d call that a giggle. Bring it up. That was pure excitement to see exactly what’s going to happen here in the jungle. Demon Kai on the ling. And I know we’re ready to see if they can even out the series. Is it going to be Aurora or Falcons already after game one? Cinema. Oh my goodness. Early poke there. Oh, one more hit. D was able to cast the lantern flare. Owen had to flicker out. So that’s too close for the two rors. You know, after a really great first movie, then they announced the second movie that the second movie just starts with action right away. That’s what that felt like. You like jump right in the movie and just you’re in the middle of the plot. You’re like, what’s going on? the and has the lock down the lock in basic attack from Pico. Of course, followed Rej all the way there and of course with Yua dragging Oen at the same time. That was wild. Yeah. Then they go 5 years ago. Clutch quick sandar there from Ren and J to take the damage from Kyle. Owen jumps in onto Doming Kite. One more hit. Two more hits away and Doming Kite gets away. I this is I’m so in I’m so surprised what we’re seeing like this matchup specifically I think is the most action-packed. Yeah, it has to be so far through the playoffs. Yeah, considering the fact that they’re considered to be textbook systematic. I think both teams came in thinking that the other team is textbook. So, we have to be aggressive. We have to think outside the box. And that’s what both of these teams are doing now. Yeah, they both thought the same way. They were just like, are we going to go fundamental? Nah, let’s just go all action. Yeah, this is where we find ourselves now. I mean, there’s no kills yet, but there have been substantial trades, especially with the rotations of the RORs and the mid laners being read by the other. So, the F has been doing the slightly better reading as Rene and UA haven’t really been able to make the most out of their tandem together yet. Has to ask help from Owen there cuz Edward already popped his revitalizes. Renj pops in also to help Edward defend. And now if you’re going to look at the lineup so far in in the mid lane and the gold lane. So it looks like team Falcon has an easier time. But the X factor for Aurora remains to be the most consistent person. Edward cuz so far Baksha has been quite tanky and now he jumps in even with being able to deliver the lantern flare and the first blood drawn onto Flapy. They’re still going on. Owen has his eyes on Ren. Kyle Ty goes in with a wiggy shadow kill. Owen drops Demon Kite with the ultimate as UI just popping the lantern flare to delay the charge of Team Falcon. But Owen drops in again and gives the kill in a few. And Falcons will get some more on top of the objective. And it really looked like Falcons being able to gank Edward meant that the revitalize was already spent. If they had that revitalize, then Rora would have won that sequence because they played it so well. But they just needed that extra bit of healing, extra bit of time to go through. but they just did not have it. They didn’t uh I mean at that point for Aurora specifically, you know, you’re going to have to give some time to demon kite to get online here and you’re going to be utilizing the time to also get Domen Kite. This is a big game for the Kite brothers. I feel like specifically just because of how important both the heroes that they’re playing are going to be. At some point, if they fall too far behind, which has already kind of started, then you’re forced to put Demon Kite somewhere across the map, maybe trying to fight for his own buffs even and protecting him and hoping Oh, hold on. Shadow kill. Okay, good force out the crimson beacon early on from UA. But a couple more hits away is gone from the from Ky. Oh, look at this pressure. This is what’s going to happen though if that that lead continues to build. you put pressure on Demon Kite, but the Wan specifically, this has been popping up quite often throughout the playoffs even. And you know, it’s performed, I would say, so so depending on the teams that did draft it. But as long as Domen Kite can go ahead and just focus on farming up and then get the space that he needs to eventually get the crossbow of Tangs off later for the fights, that’s going to be crucial here. But I feel like too at the same time, you have to watch out, man. Super Marco has been locked in, especially from last game. Yeah, for sure. Team Falcons is aware of the fact that Doming Kite can turn things around with one crossbow of Tang. That’s why Team Falcons is rushing uh and holding on to the lead that they have, especially after the third turtle. They need to be able to break the mid lane turret and put a lot of pressure in Demon Kite’s jungle. Edward shield Unity there. Demon Kite jumps in also as Flap TC continuing with the infernal pursuit. Pop the revitalized Red J with a beautiful cast of the ultimate. Doming Kite joining the picture now. Now army cast it down by few. Tempest of blades coming in from team and kite but flap teasing the first man down. No casualties for the northern lights. Oh see with the revitalize on the side of Aurora. It looks good for them in the team fight but at the end of the day Falcons is still going to hold on long enough to get the turtle for themselves. Few holding on to that real rogue manipulation. So well KZ will shadow out aftering a move. Yeah, he did not have a shadow kill. Yeah, he didn’t have it. But uh going to go ahead and just apply the pressure the way you would on Hayabusa, especially when you had that kind of early kill uh in your favor. You can see too they’re building up on the gold, especially Super Marco farming. Well, Dom’s doing a good job though, and that’s why I said most of the time he’s going to continue. Edward could be in trouble. He is tanky on the jump. Brothers have opened and flapped. Ta going after Edward. A weaky shadow kill casted down shield. Unity is there. They almost stunned out Kyle Teasy, but still no casualties for both. Okay. All right. H seems like there’s a lot of trades happening, but Falcons are slipping with their macro. Domicard able to get that tower down without a problem. I think Falcons are getting baited into some fights that mean they’re sacrificing some map control. I think they need to balance that out first before they start being aggressive again. Yeah, it’s kind of like they are thinking, okay, we can get this kill. We can make this play, but then eventually they don’t just because Aurora is doing a good job at just disengaging uh if they have to. So they do lose that turret and Roru will go ahead and focus on the next one. At the same time so far, like I said for Domite, the the big thing is continue to farm up, stay alive. He doesn’t need to go down. Super Marco’s been doing the same thing, but Kyle will continue to put pressure on. The big problem I see with Aurora is fighting against this Eve. We’ve seen the Eve perform so well the past couple days especially, and it’s always uh tough to deal with once you get towards these objectives. and later on for the Lord here. So, it’s going to take a little finesse, I would say, for Roar to really fight against the lineup that Falcons has. Yeah, demon and though based on the previous engagements what we got to see, have been holding on to their ultimates incredibly well. The Crimson Beacon for the juice in the Tempest of Blaze almost at Storm of Swords, but that’s the third book in the ice and fire series. Oh, wait. Ice and Fire in the bottom lane. Oh, the collapse of Aurora. Edward jumps in as well. Tempest of Blaze for Demon Kai to be able to escape. Brand new J with the ultimate sh with RWM. Here comes K from teamite from the back. Will they able to clash out the ultimate though as Kite can walk away and they brought down Kyle Tazy with the help of UA two members down immediately for team Falcons. I thought more bodies would be dropped but it was just the exp and Ror but the jungler down as well. Kyle Tazy got taken out there. Dark wave coming in big time for a flap. Renjay being able to escape though and Aurora played that incredibly well. See, Falcons really need to start shaping up here in terms of their decision making when they’re going to be fighting out. I know that those them taking a more defensive position there, but the map is looking blue. Aurora have been playing for better macro. Fight for the turtle though. Third one of the game might go in the hands of Falcons. It just doesn’t seem really cares that much. uh they want to go ahead and continue just evening out the gold deficit which they’ve essentially done. That little bit of a lead that Falcons held on to is now gone. So Aurora might make a decision here. But that’s the thing knowing what you have for a lineup. You want to just let Falcon start these up. Even later on for the objectives for the most part, you keep playing to that macro advantage the lineup gives you. Who’s going to come down for this third turtle? Rene J with his zone and Kyle TZ secures the turtle. Rene J from the back with the raging sandstorm. Dominic Kai was able to cast the ultimate. Clap Daisy now some blades coming in from Demon Kite as they bring down Owen as well. The clap back from Aurora. Two members down in exchange for Renj. But Kyle Tezy working on Demon Kite. One more hit away. Will he be able to save? And Demon Kite escapes with a slither of health left. Great reaction by Edward to help Demon Kite out. And as we said earlier, just as the starfield of the Eve went up, Aurora’s demon guide went in with the Tempest of Blades to the back to force F to break his formation. And Falcons could have gotten more, but again, Aurora are waiting time and time again for the ultimate of F. Let’s check out the item. The two midlaners, Glowing Wand and the Enchanted Talisman for a few while, of course, still waiting for the second main item. As with every juice in always needs to go through the elegant gem for the two gold laners. Meanwhile, 7.1k for super Marco and we are at 7.2. So neck and neck are the Granger and one one. The fact when Demon Kai got away with a sliver of health has been I feel like the story of the last team fights throughout this game for Falcons. It’s like they get so close but they’re not able to capitalize on these these kills every single time. So that’s actually doing a lot here for Aurora in the grand scheme of things again as they go ahead and continue to build up. They might be in a good position to go and contest or even take the Lord now because three of the turtles obviously going over the hands of Falcons as they controlled a lot of that space to work with. And we’ll see if roller decides to go on the offensive. Edward and Rene Jace bought out Owen had to cast the ultimate there and flicker away. So that’s major resource two major resources down for team Falcons. Yeah. Oh, that was a really good pick. It wasn’t a pick off, but now Owens’s going to be stumped for the next major sequence in 10 seconds. It’s going to be the first lord of the game. Falcons, let’s see how they readapt the situation. They’re probably going to shift things up with Flap teasy in the Rome position while Open’s going to be following in from behind. Flaps items, radiant armor still on the way to the Dominance Ice. Has he also built up gloves for himself? It seems like he’s sort of half pathing already two major items. Might be a key moment when they can pick that up through this game again with this only being the first lord. They can still keep things together here under the 11 minute mark. But Aurora, they’ve been leaning towards aggressiveness and it even seems like they want to do it now. A weak shadow kill, but the wind of nature was just clutch for Doming Kite. Plus from Edward Fren goes in with the raging sandtorm. Sean casted down by Demon Kite working on cast and open. RWM is the signal for both teams to disengage. Yeah, defensive really just had to cover there. But Aurora have won that because they forced out so many major abilities from the side of Falcons have put them out of position in this lord. Aurora will be in position for lord number one first. Dominic kite though might get caught. No wind of danger for Doming Kite, so he has to back off. Fortunately, he wasn’t taken down there by Super Marco in the most crucial time cuz the lord is up for both teams. Yeah, utilizing that uh get away there that he can. He has to disengage and just make sure Domite doesn’t die. He’s He’s doing well. That’s what I said was the main part that he needed to do for this game was stay alive, obviously farm up. He’s done that, but he’s also got to be protected. And you can only do so much if you’re this one-on-one. This is going to be started up though for that first lord. Oh, they’re going to burst it down cuz they know where Demon Kite is and Kyle TZ secures it. Now Aurora has to go for the kill. Demon Kite now in the picture as works on few but Jade the first man down the next kite and it’s double kill for Super Marco. They want to make it three. Edward quite low here. Triple for Marco. Will it be four? He has the death sonatas but will he be able to reach UA? UA stays alive. Going after him. He wants him, but he has to give up the hunt as Falcons now have the lord and are marching down. Aurora shock and a again by Falcons. 5 seconds before the hitman responds. What can UA do as Kyle Tazy jumps in and team Falcons looking at a two zero lead? The birds of prey are flying high yet again. But the shadow of yesterday’s defeat still looms over them. They have the lead. But can they finish off the lights? Oh, the lights are going to have to do something here, man. They’re going to have to start shining bright to blind these Falcons because now sitting at match point ahead of them. It’s going to be a crucial one here. But first, we got to go ahead and break down exactly what happened here for game two. We’re going to throw back to the panel for Leo and Bria to take it away. Thank you so much, Tower Casters. I’m looking at the Falcons guy right now, you know, like and the entire audience on the side of team Falcons. I love how they’re celebrating, but we saw this yesterday, too. I feel like that should be a reminder. They are happy and enjoying the moment with caution. With caution. Emphasis on with caution. We have to remember it’s not over yet for team Falcons. But that was still a spectacular performance we’ve seen, especially from the bulletproof Super Marco Brigilla. You mentioned how throughout season 15, he has suddenly unleashed this new part of his persona where he just wants to kill anything that moves. This is just that. But if you watch closely, we’ll see in the highlights. It’s a very it’s a very controlled, very systematic, very methodical way of doing so. 6 and0 not once dying. There were close calls, but especially that last team fight. I hope we have a spotlight on that last team fight. That’s where the switch just got flicked. And that’s where I knew this is what was talking about. Yeah. And that feeling where he still gets to step on the brakes whenever it’s needed and get away from danger even when Aurora seems like the one to always go all in especially in the first few minutes of the game. I honestly felt like well Demon Kite felt a little too free in this game like he was coming in from behind and all that but what we failed to notice was that Super Marco was just waiting for the right time. Both kites there was a moment where indomin kite came from the back. Yeah, this one uh Brigida’s jaw uh went a jar and I said, “Bria, you’re drooling.” How did Tom do that? I guess he walked there. Uh so yeah, no, you’re right. Uh a switch up from game one. It’s Aurora’s turn to play a mid to short range kind of lineup. This is very dive of them. All this while it was Falcons who had to play with that range again. They have a Eve, they have a Granger and yeah, between those two, Super Mario understood the assignment. He said, “I can’t die. If if I go down here, my team cannot recover.” Or actually, for all of them, it just felt like they were willing to burn whatever they had, use whatever resources they had just to save one another. And we’ve seen it multiple times, like at one point, few even if he had to use the real world manipulation of timing right before an objective just to save someone, he’ll do it. And you highlighted that one instance, too, where Owen just made sure that he could save Kyle Tezy from the four blades. That’s right. I don’t know if you caught it in the highlights, folks, but there was a moment wherein Kyle Tzy went in, shadow kill, Demon Kite orchestrated a solo kill, went up into the air, Tempest of Blades, came in, threatened a tsunami slam, and that just made Demon Kai go away. Like it’s these little things that make you really appreciate the past 2 years that this lineup of Falcons have been together two and a half maybe approaching three. They just love each other so much inside and outside of the game that they can read those kinds of plays and say, “I got you, bro. I got you.” Yeah. Remember that one time in day number one of the playoffs where it just felt like Flap had so much emotions and in the interview he did say that, “Oh, I just felt too emotional because I thought we were going to lose it. I thought we were going to like not get into top four and he showed us that moment how badly he wanted to for his team. How badly they wanted to together again get back into MSE get that grand final spot. But now we’re seeing the patience. It’s all coming into place and they are one game away from redeeming themselves from last night’s reverse sweep. Looking at the stats here, I love that Kyle and Marco are actually almost at par. Like literally, Marco is the carry here at 49.9K. Kyle was 49.5. So even if this was a heavy dive comp, which again means Roar will be clumped up. A lot of members of Roar will be together. Kyle TZ’s Hayabusa was still able to deal a lot of damage despite that. He made the most of the situation. BPA rich guy. All the money in the pockets of the bulletproof Super Marco 833. Lot of kills on his a lot of gold via kills and assists. Hey, we said it in the draft. Every single time he gets the BP, no, every single time he gets the Granger, it’s almost always assured that he gets the BPI rich guy. And that applies to whether or not they win or lose the game. And we’ve seen it a couple of times already. But again, this is your time to dive deep into the other details that took place in that game. I love it. Allow me to geek out and break down exactly what happened here in game number two. Run through the gold graph. run through the dynamics of the draft and talk about the nitty-gritty. Here you’ll see, oh my god, as if the past few games, not just in this series, but even in game number three of Any and Liquid, as if the graph couldn’t get closer. Check this out. What is that? Barely 500, 1,000 in between all throughout the early game going into mid and then the economy c the economy crosses right here at about 6 and 1/2 7 minutes. Aurora and Falcons meet. This is a stalemate. This is a stalemate. And this is impressive despite the fact that Aurora scored not a single turtle. They scored a couple of early turrets, but not a single turtle. And they were fighting. Mind you, there was a time in this game wherein it was Falcons who were actually keeping themselves scarce. So, I think I I assume it was around here. And then they traded bodies once more. Trading bodies once more. Blood is shed. And then boop. At about the 10 and a half minute mark, Marco says it’s go time. Brothers, listen to me. Falcons to me. We must rally and go to match point. That is what happened at about the 10 and 1/2 minute mark. What does that mean in terms of items? Where did this get Marco in this very short game? Where did this get the rest of the Falcons? And how did Aurora try to stop the bleeding, stem the issue? 12 and 1/2 minutes. Let’s start with the early game here. Of course, this what you can expect. Again, Hunter Strike is so in demand right now. Hunter Strike and check this out. An interesting approach to uh the Hayabusa on Kyle Tezy. No War Axe, fam. Where is it? It’s late. First Hunter Strike, Maleficar, and then War Axe. Why is that? Number one, a lot of penetration you’re going to need when you’re dealing with Rene here, who I assumed would be building an early antiiras. Uh-oh, there goes the uh there goes that that that that void in the strat. Maybe they needed to build an anticoras early on Rene. No, as a ror, but instead it went on Edward first. So yeah, Rene did go through a lot of the early to mid without uh uh even a dreadnot armor. And I think that’s why he was dying more often there being less peel for Aurora compared to how Falcons would do it wherein yes they are slowed down by Edwards Baksha marks from healing but again all they need is to control range. All they need to do is deal the right amount of damage from Super Marco hold you guys down via FW and then get the job done from Kyle. And again, more often than not, fuse real world manipulations were not starters. They were enders to fights. So, how do we end up with this situation? How do we end up with a dive comp for Aurora and then Falcons playing with range this time and still wanting to fight? Okay, check it out. Score is 9 to6 again. Rora fell held a lot of the six kills over Falcons like six to three, six to four, and then eventually it flipped. We started with Falcons being blue. All right. Always prioritize Kalia. Kalia is still one of the biggest heroes post patch. One of the biggest heroes uh that really still defines how games are played now. She has solid heal, solid fights. Uh sorry, solid CC’s in fights. And of course, Granger and then closing strong with Hayabusa. All this while Aurora, this is this is not Alpha. This is one. Sorry. All right. They they they they swerved us with a ling because they opened up with a Baksha, a Zushin, and a one-1. Brian, I don’t know if you agree with me, but maybe the one wasn’t the answer. Not in that spot, especially since there were still these fringe gold laners in the fringe gold laners in the Beatric still available. I think the Moskov even, right? Maybe. Or no, he was banned. Oh, it was banned. Yeah. or no, he was banned. Oh, it was banned. Yeah. Yeah. Again, we we did float the one one, but like now looking back, was that the I don’t know. Maybe I’m just looking for ways to qualify what happened. No. Yeah. Cuz honestly, even when Any first used this entire combo of the one-1 it didn’t work out for them. But if you would like to follow that train of thought for Aurora, it’s a very risky time to try doing that. So there could have been other answers, other more comfortable options cuz we did mention it too. Like we we probably aren’t expecting those kinds of pickups from Dom and Kai. Not this early. Not this early. But it did happen in the first phase of the draft. So maybe those are the adjustments they’re currently trying to address and talk about cuz you see them. They’re very serious right now trying to huddle it out because this is just literally one last game that half of the room is very serious. Yes, it’s very serious. So now let’s get some uh fresh air out there. Let’s throw it over to our hosts for this all access segment. Welcome back here at MPL Playgrounds. This is your very own Odin together with the beautiful Miss Cha Cha Pega, the brand ambassador of Infinenix. 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This time we have stats for second seed and fourth seed as well. And it’s not looking that high. Yeah. No, it’s it’s 50/50 close to it wherein the second seed team actually wins more often. And uh this is the first time that a second seed and a fourth seed team will meet in the lower bracket semis. All right. Only two four seed teams have reached the grand finals. It was Aurora last season and then way way back Signal Ultra wherein they eventually won. That’s F. F was part of that squad. Oh my goodness. Wait, he’s been through this, but it’s happening all over again. Yeah. Again, sometimes you do things so long that things repeat themselves, but in slightly different ways. Yeah. And I bet he like barely remembers that even or like the exact same scenario that he’s been through, the exact statistics of them being in the lower bracket semis and all that. This is our job and I don’t remember. Yeah, this was seven years ago. Bring it out. the signal ultra like I would I probably wasn’t even the scene just yet but here we go. Oh, was I? Aurora and blue they choose this side by the way and they have a close to 60% win rate. So they want to play it safe again. They were in red game two. Yep. This time it’s um similar to what we saw in game number one only that they failed to win. But now or never. It’s literally now or never for Aurora. Let’s see how this goes as we call in Slick Thick. Yeah, I waited for that moment. You actually did it. Oh, thank you. I appreciate that very much. And you you said it with such conviction, too. I know. I I I prepared myself for this moment. It’s always been Leo saying Redmar Slick Vic Santa Cruz. That’s what they call me somewhere. I don’t know where, but uh today. today. All right, first pick. Uh huh. It’s juicinable considering that the Hayabusa Fanny are both gone. It’s like Falcons are telling Rora, “Go ahead, pick the juice in. It’s out there for the open. Don’t think about the actually no Aurora even banned out the Ka.” Oh yeah, it’s it’s so open for Aurora right now. But I don’t know like part of me is missing part of me is missing the Sicilians of you and like all those it’s just too dangerous now. There’s way too much reach in the metag game that playing a stationary mid laner that needs farm is just not going to fly. There you go. Open up with a Baksha. Har, are you Har here? There’s Madang, too. Let’s see if Maros okay with that. I mean, it’s not usual in the Philippines if you see Eve picked up early on because if Falcons goes Har here, which okay, they do. And then the you mentioned the Badang Leo. I agree with you that looks very good for Falcons as well. Roora can easily just go bam Eve. Even though again that’s not a trend here. So Falcons will serve away from the Madang. They pick up the juice in instead. So if ever the Eve does come into play here, they already have a formation breaker. They’re not going to be going down that route. It’s the Kimmy and the Cho. All right. Good change ups here by Aurora. And I’m already liking the flow of drafts here by Rora. The gloves are off. We’re going back down memory lane. Rene a chain dong kite one of the you know players in the Philippines who actually likes the Kimian gold and then remember season 8 as far back as season 8 before the age of utility junglers where demon kite would have played Baksha. Yeah that’s such a throwback for all of the fans who have been part long enough to know. Assuming it’s a jungle Ba. Yeah. That should be a jungle basher though because right now like if you are Falcons there are no almost no assassins left if you’re looking for the backline access really the ling appeared earlier that could be an option but are you willing to show it up in this point of the draft because you already see the Joe you already see the back as well so they won’t be revealing their jungler just yet and instead will be securing the madame for themselves either way so both we don’t know we don’t know who the junglers yet are yet for both of these teams That’s right. Mid trio still shrouded in mystery. Uh we will get some clues based on the attacks, right? Based on the bands here. Falcon’s first stop. They Huh. So are they they’re not they’re not denying the fact that this still could be a mid Kimmy, huh? Yeah. I mean, we we did see this too in one of the uh more recent games. The the combos. I think it was just yesterday, right? The Kimmy and the Cho the chain CC it could provide. Yeah. But this is a read. Yeah, I’m assuming Rora is saying, “Yeah, I know. This is 80% box.” All right, that’s going to be the case. Maka needs to be careful here. So, they need to consider banning out the glue or picking it up for themselves. Uh, if they ban it out and they end up with an exp laner and Ror who both play from the shields, Aurora can put an Esmeralda in the exp lane and just wreck the draft of Falcons. So, if it’s a glue ban, they have to be very careful about their exp roam picks. You’re right, Renar. They they better ban the Esme now or pick it because there’s still room in their lineup for it. I I just don’t know if that’s a good idea. There’s a box on the other side. You’re right. No, Esme ruins the first three heroes of Falcons. Yeah. And wasn’t it Edward too who first debuted the Esmeralda in the regular season and it was in this exact same kind of scenario where he just destroyed the plans of their opposing team. Falcons bans the Zask. Is this a read? Falcons might go for Ling. Yeah, that might be the possibility here. Uh, if ever the jungle pick, I think she needs to come last. Oh, they banned the CC. Oh, Falas have to be so careful about their pick now. The Esmeralda. The chances of us seeing it are just increasingly high. Yeah, I I think to be safe, they have to pick up something like a Lucas cuz if they go fobvious here, that’ll still be another really easy esma pick for Aurora. Right now, Rora is dictating the draft. It’s up to Falcons to find the right move. They’re they’re dangling the Esmeralda like a labu in front of Falcon. Look at this. Figuratively speaking, you definitely do not want to put this Badang in the exp. So, do they like reveal their jungler here already to reserve that possible swerve or they have to have to show it? I’m like 60 70% ling here. Oh, okay. They got a very very good pick and now they don’t have to worry about the whole Emerald trade thing. Unless that’s what Aurora are still they still want to go to that cuz Lucas is available for Kyle Teesy as the last pick. Aurora can block it with a Valentina. Oh, I want to zoom into their phones so badly. Yeah. No, these last two picks, red and blue, are are like so 300 IQ because again, there’s so many current paths, you know, like so many obvious choices that both teams know are possible but aren’t falling for. We don’t know where the Kim is going. We don’t know where the Pakshai is going. That too. Like there are so many unanswered questions and the Maya tricks shows itself. All right, jig is up. It’s not a jungle box apparently. Yeah, unless unless again again again. XP Lucas in the jungle box. Is this finally the ling? I I think a ling is so tough to play in this scenario. Are they willing to play that? Yeah, because you don’t know the ling can still be caught midair. Okay. Okay. What else is there? What else is there? Do you just double down? Go fighter. pick Fred in this scenario and just put all your eggs in the Harth basket, but then that all of you are going to be fighting so close range. It’s going to be such a hard team fight for Fam to pull off. It’s free hits for the Kim and Maya. I want something. Oh my god. Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Enough jumping. Enough jumping. I told y’all it’s not a fluke. Lancelot is a legit answer in the metag game. When the ling is too expensive to deal with, you pick up another hero that has easy access and reach to the back line. lower on the ground but but still just as effective. Hold on. This is this is Kyle Tezy on the ling. He is a teaser on the Kyle Tezy on the Lanc. Yes. So I’m pretty sure there’s someone out there like Nisu who’s giggling right now. No, he didn’t say it was a giggler. Who has the same relationship NSU has with Demon with Kyle? Yeah. So that’s scary. That That sounded different. I’m not sure if I want to hear it again. No, it’s not. I’m liking it again. Some left field balls coming in from Aurora and some hooks from Falcons. But could this really be a sweep? Let’s find out alongside our casters. I am not giggling, Brietta. And I think a lot of fans right now are sitting on the edge of their seat to see if they can extend the series. Right now, the lights have to shine bright for this one. It’s match point right now and Rora needs to get back to the series. Is this the draft to do it as we jump into game three in this best of five elimination match? We’ll see. Oh, quick look at the emblems here. Yeah, they actually go box jungle. They put the Edward Lucas in the EXP lane. Isn’t that kind of like not such a good thing? Well, I think it’s because once they saw the Lancelot on the other side, that’s when they decided to pull the trigger on the switch. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Flickers out for Team Falcons is few. It’s the first blood drawn there by the Hu. And the Kimmy mid so far looking good for Aurora. Well, damn good aggressive start. Fantastic first rotation by Aurora. Reading Falcon’s tendencies of wanting to go to the river after clearing the mid and they go ahead and chase down F. This is a great start for the lights. H interesting too that they’re applying this much pressure this early on with the stakes. That could be a really good thing here. Kyle Tezy playing the land slots going to rely on this. He’s not level four just yet. Should get it really shortly, too. But also, we got to talk about Domenite debuting the Bayatrix for him here. He’s played this hero many times and it’s going to be a big part of I would say what gets Rora into another game here against the Falcons. Imagine the story if Rene J sets up a kick for Doming Kite and he lands the snipe to keep the series going. The redemption. The redemption for Domingite. How many times have we talked about redemption for players playing heroes who in the past did not work out well for them but then in the playoffs have made some magic happen. It takes guts again these players they always uh you know hang on sorry flicker burned by Domic in the bottom lane cuz he saw Kyle T or at least he felt Kyle T’s presence there but with that information gets this turtle. Okay, now Aurora clean turtle take there as team Falcons struggle to find the trade and now they continue their aggression down to the orange buff. Not going to steal it away, but enough pressure is applied for team Falcons to be out of their normal rotation. Yeah, and this is a lineup from Falcons that really needed those level fours anyway to go ahead and actually make something happen, especially with Oen playing the Rome uh bedang here. He needs that level four. Needs to be able to go ahead and utilize the flicker for those setups, too. And even with a Jen. So, you know, they slow things down a little bit now that they have the ultimates available and up. Oh, hold on. Fuse is in trouble. F again forced to use the Crimson Beacon because the continuous damage from Yu and the pokes for the side of Aurora. It’s giving Fu such a hard time in positioning even to to his own lane. Yeah, I think F has to accept that he’s really going to be the target in Rora’s eyes now considering that the juice in plays such an integral utility role to the lineup that Falcons brings to the table. Similar to how Amatilda can empower a very mobile, very tanky lineup. The juicy and empowers a lineup that’s kind of scrappy in terms of how they fight with the Harath and Lancelot that needs some extra bit more of control and that’s what FW brings to the table here. Good rotations by Roa so far, Falcons are just trying to catch up to them. Yeah, they haven’t let up at all. So, they’re just going in full force right now trying to get what they can and they’re allowed to because anytime I feel like the box is on the map whether he’s in the jungle, whether we’ve seen him in the XP lane, that’s what allows the team composition to do is just, you know, be mobile, look for picks if they can find him. But then we have to also consider the fact that it’s a Kimmy in the mid lane and we know that the setup potential is going to hurt a lot more later and that gives space to do Kite. Rene being the one to go for the pickoffs too is great. But overall your frontto back coverage with Roar’s lineup is so good. So as you know much I want to see Falcons uh possibly end up in a sweep here. Uh I think it’s going to be difficult to get this one under their belt. Yeah, incredibly difficult. Again, Aurora have drafted terrifically here. They’re playing to the strengths of their lineup so well. Now that Calte just stuck to similar to his game yesterday, just opening up the map and Aurora are getting the objectives left and right while Kyle Tezy will try to balance it out with split push while the rest of Falcons will just look into supplementing Super Marco’s farm. Yeah. Oh, and now they want to extend the lead by trying to go for the bottom lane turret. Rene got stopped in his tracks by a beautiful initiation there from Owen. First man down is the hitman as Plasy working on demon kite but he’s quite tanky as U is serving up the damage over it again with a beautiful wall and they might be able to demon kite but the clap back from a UA again brings down three alongside Doming hit the next to fall. It has gone all so terribly wrong for the Falcons. Um Kai just providing enough space. Demon Kite miraculously holding on long enough so that the Kimmy and the Bayatrix can finish off the ever soy Fus Rene with a kick. A bit of an off angle kick there, but they might be able to do the job. Thorn Rose is there. Plus the puncture to be able to walk away and the shock wave blast from Edward won’t do the job to bring down Kyle TZ. A good attempt there from Rene. You know, he was trying to get the angle differently there, but they went in anyway. Expended a lot, but that is a lance a lot for you, especially with multiple enemies around you. you can actually withstand quite a bit of punishment. So, Kis won’t go down, but still it’s Falcon’s falling behind. It was a great combination what we saw earlier on in the bottom lane and Roaru will continue to do that. We’ll see how they play this apart in the jungle here. Cast the traction pulse there as Demon Kite being worked on by Flap TZ again with the grab grab, but he’s quite tanky. They’re trying to delay the farming pattern again of Kyle TZ. Ren J with a Jundo, but five members of Team Falcons are there to assist Kyle TZ. everything that’s happening in the map. Falcons are forced to react. Similar to what happened in the tail end of game number one in the mid to the late game when Falcons were just catching Aurora off guard and dictating the tempo, not allowing them to set up in the early minutes of this game number three. Crucial game number three. Aurora are the ones setting the tempo, not allowing Falcons to set up. It’s been all reactive and all defensive for Falcon so far. Let’s see what they want to do this time around. They’re going to get in position for this. They want to fight it out. Oh, and Doming Kite is the one to get the turtle. Now Aurora wants to extend their lead by going for more. There’s the shock wave blast, but they’re disciplined enough to disengage. And if you’re going to notice, actually Kyle is head when it comes to the level up against Demon Kite cuz Demon Kite’s not playing this Baksha as a as a jungler. He’s sort of acting like a Roman. And Edward’s the one um um going away from the usual rotations of Aurora to split push and farm up. Yeah, and you can see that in the gold. Edward actually has a bit more gold compared to Demon Kite. Roar just playing this pure aggro and they’ve made Edward sort of like a carry Lucas in a way. Hey, that’s what you want to do with the box, right? You can just change your game plan if you want. Um, but overall they’re they they haven’t stopped. If you notice from Rory, it just feels like when they came into this game three, they’re like, “We’re going to go full force. We have to take that risk and make it happen.” And so far in game three, it’s gone their way while Falcons continues to try to catch up here. But they’re falling behind. You know, 3.5k behind at this point. They got none, no actually no objectives at all. Not even a turret just yet to move around the map with. So they’re in a pretty bad position coming into that first lord here coming up. Roar with the advantage. The fact that Domen Kai and UA have not been caught and it’s really Falcons playing to the tune of wherever Renej and Demon Kai decide to go and crash in is a big problem for Falcons right now. Blade armor forced pick up by Flapis because of the damage that’s coming from uh Domingite and a resurgence for Doming already has to see Halbird and Malefic gun. Yeah, no wonder fuse damage feels like it’s like where is it? It’s because there’s three radiant armors on the side of Aurora on the Bossha, on the Lucas, on the Cho. It’s going to take some time until Aurora are going to start feeling pain from any of the magic damage dealers of Falcons. And at this point, the uh dreadnot armors are enough to nerf the damage of the Lancelot Oku and gets caught and blasted. Conceal Aurora keeps going forward, but they’re not going to force the issue here as they know they have advantage on Lord. Yeah, that’s how much damage Aurora has. He didn’t even have to finish the animation of the the way of the dragon for them to burst down Owen. And now one member down for team Falcons as Aurora sets their eyes on this lord. Very strong take right now. Falcons even with KZY around here. This is going to be so risky if they even try to contest it or he tries to, you know, do some fancy moves which we’ve seen before with the land slot players around the world. But Renj still holding on to the way of the dragon. And even with all that, Aurora won’t just take this lord. They’re still going to go ahead and wait for these buffs to come up for Demon Kite and then go when they have the full advantage that they’re looking for. Yeah, KTZ though still ahead by one level. So, Aurora is not going to rush in taking down the Lord. Ideally, they’d have to pick off one or uh for a for Falcons to just trade instead for going for a clean lord take. And now Rene from the back sets his eyes onto Flap. TZY. There’s the ultimate from doai plus traction pulls a lot of damage from the northern lights to burst down once again. Flap teasy forced to use that grab grab onto but he might be next on the chopping block feeds the kill off to the domin kite. Aurora have awoken. It looked like Ogen was going to get a massive set there but he got blasted instead the moment he decided to help out flapy. And Falcons can only stand and watch. Try as they will. This might be risky for Migra Thompson but gets caught out by the bullets of Doming. The target is an unstoppable kill from UA. A two, a three kill swing again for Aurora. Where is this damage coming from? And how do you deal with it if you’re Falcons? Kyle Ty jumps in with a puncture. Future is going to connect. Edward was able to fl out. Still no casualties for Aurora. Mr. Consistent escape. But here comes no again. With a knock up to bring down doming and UA. You ask where the damage is coming from. Now they are gone as Kyle Tezy secures the Lord and all that and Falcons will get the Lord. Kyle reminding the world what it means to bear the name of Teezy. What it means to bear the hero that inspired a generation of junglers from M2. Oh my goodness. And all that they just got rid of the gold lead that Roro’s been holding on to all game long at that point. That was just sheer freaking will by Falcons cuz Aurora did everything right. Did everything good, but it took a teasy with a Lancelot and Owen with his fists to turn the game around. Thought you were going to say and a dream. And a dream. That’s basically what it was with the given the situation that Falcon’s found themselves in. So they’ll play around this. They’ve got an advantage now mid lane. Traction pulls already casted down but this time Q was able to escape Rene J with a good kick onto Flap Ty Oh Win Cathers out with his combo though. Rene one more hit and Super Marco delivers the final blow to bring down the hitman. One member down there was almost Phil almost got knocked down by UA. Super Marco blocked it for F. If that landed into F, he’d be dead. He still took damage but not the full brunt of it. That’s a definite moment there. Super Marco protecting F. They’re going to get this tier one turret, possibly another one. Renjay still a couple seconds away. Coming up, they’re going to force it with the Zomb force down under the turret. We’ll see if they still get it. Half health on that tier 2 turret. So, Aurora, given how they were in the lead majority of the game, they’re still able to go in and hold on. But let’s look how the items have evened out a little bit here for Falcons. Yeah, Falcons have the lead now. Already the core items for the Harth locked in. And now Aurora are feeling the damage. It’s so neck and neck. Aurora are still very close. Yes, they can still turn this around with better execution, but this was not the situation they wanted to find themselves when Owen saving it and setting it up for Kyle Tezy to finish. 2.6k gold lead now from Team Falcons after conquering a huge deficit. And now they want to extend the lead by trying to get hold of the purple buff here. But still Aurora, they have all their inhibitor turrets intact. They have still have a second tier turret in the middle lane. So in terms of contesting for this lord, they can apply again their signature lord dance that they can do against team falcons. That’s what I was saying yesterday, man. You know, Falcons, they’re known for their prowess around objective takes, the decision making that comes before they even decide to start up a lord. And that’s something that Aurora really has to be careful of. The majority of this game, they have been the aggressor. They have been on the offensive and if they continue to do that, it could work in their favor. But we also know as great as Cho is as a hero, it could also be one of those moments where you don’t get the kick and the angle that you’re looking for even by burning the flicker and then you’re just left there. So this is where it gets really crucial for especially Rene on how they decide to approach this. It might not even be the answer of oh just send Rene. Maybe they have to go with something a little more creative. Yeah, actually the good thing about the Aurora lineup uh lineup is and let’s give a little bit more hope also as well to the Northern Lights watching is that even if Rene doesn’t get the kick to set things up, Aurora’s lineup has so many fail saves, mainly two, the Bakshia and the Lucas, that if a kick misses or it doesn’t land exactly the right way. You have Edward and Demon Kite to help cover so that Domingikite and UA can deal the damage. It’s still quite a hairy situation for the Falcons here if they’re not careful. Yeah. Not to mention the traction pulls that can come from the Kimmy just like right now. We’re not going to connect on to F. Still Falcon 3K gold lead. They’re holding on to their mid lane turret at any given moment. Oaken again can find the proper angle to be the ending set for team Falcons. Okay, Lord is the take here. Kyle Tezy not even around. Just going to go ahead and deal with this wave up top while the team just stares down each other fighting for this. Wicked seal is going to be used as Rene go. Rem with a flicker kick in but again with a beautiful counter on the other hand. Edward on the back with the unleash the beast trying to work on Super Marco. Super Marco just dancing around but now force Owen still alive alongside Super Marco and he takes down Edward but here comes Kyle CZ as well in the picture. Owen now gone but Flap trying to work on Tommy Kai brings down F. Next target is Flap CZ but Kyle TZ answers back. Kyle and Marco versus Doming and Demon Kai Rose and An opportunity for Marco to deliver the final single vision to the heart of Domingite. That was timed so well between the two of them. If you follow the DNA of this squad and the team that came before them, it was the heroics of a Lancelot in a Harth in another country not so far away that took a squad named Bren Sports to the promised land. And it keeps Falcon’s hopes alive again. We saw it. Aurora, they have so many fail saves. Demon Kite and Edward did their absolute job of forcing Super Mario in the back line of Falcons to nearly crumble, but they held on. Aurora did everything right as much as they could, but Falcon just got the counter. Open again. Zoing out Demon Kite. Who’s going to get going to fall in Kyle? See as he bounces out and Super Marco, but more going to bring down Edward. Next target is Demon Kite. A double for Super Marco. Oh, and more do they get for the Falcons. The whole time Kyle Tezy knew, guys, you can handle it. I’ll get my buff. We got the Lord. Let’s go ahead and get ready to march towards the base of Aurora. The lights are slowly flickering out. Shadowed by the wings of the Falcons in the air. But as long as there is light, there is hope. But where will hope come from? From Aurora. Can they hold on? Three left to defend for the Northern Lights. Traction pulse is there. Marco jumps in. Oakland as well. Revenge, redemption, and resurgence for Team Falcons. The light of hope has flickered out. Overshadowed by the wings of the falcons who are hellbent to reclaim their throne. A teasy with the also legendary blade. A Marco who wanted to redeem himself from yesterday. take the win against a valiant squad who just wanted to seize the win. Oh man, in a flight or fight situation, Team Falcons chose both soaring high into the skies to fight another day as they will advance. Oh, once again, this is the nature of the competition, the nature of playoffs. Eventually, someone has to go home and we got to give a hats off to Aurora here. A phenomenal season for them, but unfortunately not the ending that they were looking for. We got to go ahead and head over to stage with our hosts and Aurora to hear what they have to say here. Gentlemen, this may have been your last match for the season, but always take note of the Roaras that have continued to support you all the way. Managed to keep your head high. Rene, being the captain of this team, I’m sure there’s a lot of learnings from this season right from the start. next season next season. A valiant effort once again. Please give it up for Aurora Gaming. Aurora has given us a valiant fight, but the victors in the end are team Falcons. Gentlemen, come. Yes, Kyle. Kyle, you know what? Odin, go ahead. Kyle Daisy coming off from a loose zero sweep cuz being in the lower lower bracket change the way you approach the game lower bracket. Did that motivate you even more? Yes. % prediction. You know what? You know what? Odin, they were talking about the 2% prediction flap. I saw you. The these are part of the 2% right from the start. You even shared that. What do you think of the 2% and to the 98% of the people who don’t think you’re going to win? Thus proving it fans Falcons. They don’t seem like 2% to me at all. Andap after this matchapo match against Aurora. I know we’re not talking about you know the past because that was yesterday but few more from the captain himself few we’re talking about not only the grand finals but also the MSC insights you’re going up against a team s MSC EWC last year talk to us about you know this rivalry that you’ve had together with Carl Ezy and the rest of DLPH Is this some sort of familiarity? What’s going to be the difference from this point on compared few start. How can you ensure and I’m really sure And just like what Flapey said, once again, your winners, team Falcons, you may now take your walk of victory. victory. And with that sweep of a match, you may now take your bow. Odin, it doesn’t matter to them whether it’s 2%. They have acknowledged that they’re the underdogs of the season. That was a very decisive match. lower bracket. You know, you know, there’s a lot of things to talk about about this game number three. So, why don’t we throw it back to our panel to discuss everything that has happened? I feel like today has been the day wherein we just kept breaking records. Onyx third seed winning the first series and now a fourth seed team winning this too. Uh more than just breaking records. I think we are putting it on record that some picks and the metag game have changed and we have to accept the fact that Lancelot is back in the metag game in the hands of Kyle Tea. One of the funniest things about the Lancelot games that have happened so far is that it always comes out at such crucial moments, you know, red four, red five, it it feels like it’s such a high risk to pull off such a pick that doesn’t normally come out, but they always make it work. Be it King Kong, be it Kyle. It is the scalpel, the tool you need when you need to get yourself out of a rut. And we’ll watch the highlights. We’re going to mention one word I want to focus on. Risk. The risk of playing the Lancelot and running it into a lineup that Aurora drafted, which by the way, up until the very last minute, we did not know exactly what it was all about, what it looked like, what it meant. Edward on the Lucas on the Lucas XP, Dimakite on the Baksha. You watch the first 3 minutes, four minutes of this game, even five. This is where you went to the bathroom. Uh-huh. What happened? That’s exactly what happened. It’s a double kill for both Doming Kite and U. And uh I think I did see before I went to the bathroom a two or three minute sky piercer already in for us. Yeah, nothing. Just just just a just a just a piercer. Yeah, it could have been so smooth for Aurora considering that near perfect execution of an early game, but this was the gamechanging set. That was where Kyotezi reminded us that his name has three letters in it towards the end that defined a generation of junglers that inspired a generation of MLBB fans. I mean, there was still some clapback. There was still a little bit of fight from Aurora, but it was a slow but sure regain of control from Falcons that made me go several times in the last five minutes of the game. That’s it. It’s over. I know. And you you have to appreciate the bond we see in game for team Falcons. Like for the entire past three games, they’re always willing to sacrifice something. So the people that matter get to survive and do their thing. And if we thought that we’ve seen enough of that in game number two, we’ve seen a lot more in game number three. Yep. many times. Flap teasy. Owen had to put their bodies on the line. Their KDA to keep Fu alive, to keep Marco alive. Kyote, he knew to keep himself scarce. He knew to hide amongst the bushes, farm up where he can chip off some gold shields while he can to stay within threat range. Again, we mentioned in the draft that this Lancelot is good because mainly number one, it’s low to the ground. It doesn’t need as much farm as a Ling. uh even as a Hayabusa like you can get away with a lot as a Lancelot. And then number two is it’s capable of plays like that. If that was a Hayabusa in the hands of Kyle, I don’t think he could have done that gamechanging play. Yeah. And they just waited for that moment where Super Marco could fight back too because earlier it just really felt like Aurora were able to capitalize so much on the Lucas exp, which we don’t really get to see often nowadays because it’s almost always in the jungle. We also did highlight how they’re going for exact same builds like him and Rene. They may have let the ghosts of the past haunt them too much. They built maybe two defensively. You know, you’re talking about the dread armor and radiant armor and tough boots all together. Edward, Democrression later, but we already thought F could have struggled, but F was there to do something else. Yeah, he was he was utility. He was utility. He just allowed everyone to do their thing. And um the only member of team Falcons on our top four of the um postgame titles, Kyle Tezy, the MVP, even though he struggled even he knew it. He saw it from King Kong. We just need to farm first on the Lancelot. I’m pretty sure he saw it from way back further than even King Kong. Kyle Tezy naming himself after the Lancelot. Carl Tezy, I’m sure his idol uh the guy who reverse swept him last night who was watching and saying, “Well played, Kyle. Well played.” And Kyle, well played. And again, looking at the source of his gold kills and assists, 1,500 from that alone. And he pushed quite a bit. Look at that. 3,600 from minions. Yeah, I think this is what we were trying to look for him too until they waited for the right time and now’s the perfect time to talk about how it all progressed in that game. So, Leo, take us through this last game of the series. I would love to. Let’s take a look at the economy and the story, the timeline that we went through in this game three. A sweep by team Falcon. So, Aurora in blue, once again, remember they chose this side. This was their Hail Mary. They chose to go, “All right, we’re going to dominate the draft. We’ll control it from here.” They got a pretty mean draft. It was very flexible. Started in control. It was at about two or three minutes. This is where Brigad mentioned that Kimmy building a sky piercer. Just a sky piercer in mid. That’s it. Yui just wanted to start making heads roll. And then suddenly, at about 6 minutes, they converge. Six minutes is I assume where that play by Kyote started to you know get set up. If not here maybe slightly past and then again slowly Falcons was approaching a point of inevitability. If you kept going this way, those three front liners from Aurora would slowly wayne in efficiency and then they could not protect Doming Kite and they could not protect you well enough anymore to make for a comeback and the rest is history. Looking at the objectives gained again a lot of these came in the early game 2 minutes 4 5 6 7 comes to a halt stops the map suddenly stays red and then that’s where Falcon clap back. Literally I I can list you down from here to here. That’s the early game. And then mid to late all Falcons. Look at that. 953 to 1645 to the end in 1652. Under 17 minutes. That is the narrative that Falcons needed to write and they started to play at about 8 minutes. Now looking at the item progression. Check it out. This is the affforementioned triple frontlininer combo item build. Uh, tough boots, tough boots, tough boots, radiant armor, radiant armor, radiant armor, and the upgrade of the dreadnot armor. These three, the front liners, they built the same first three items. And then you have good damage split between the magic on the Kimmy and the physical on doming kite. Uh, we have to give Aurora their flowers again. They played very well in the early game. Uh, they did more than redeem themselves from that moment in M6. You know what I’m talking about. Mang you know what I’m talking about. They did a play like that to take down was it Flappy or Owen? One or the other. Uh it’s what they needed to do to keep the velocity up, to keep the speed up, the tempo so that they would regaining control. Uh but remain in control. But again, this is Aurora playing for the short term so that they can end quick. But Falcons found a way out. Falcons found a way through and they did that off of the back of Kyle Tezy’s Lancelot. Hunter Strike, Malefic Roar. The Malefic Roar into the endless battle, I think, is key to them snowballing out of control after that double shutdown. Folks, consider building maleficar early, especially if you’re a jungler. I know I will. Whenever I end up with a random Lancelot, Hayabusa, or Suyo, like I would just like consider, hm, are these softies? Do I need to pierce through malefific roar? I think we’ve seen it a number of times today where like the hunter strike came first, the malefic roar came first, and that’s just how well these players know that they really need to adjust, especially given the rise of all these tanky front liners, the rise of all these bactions, these flex heroes, the badangs. So given that yes, there are an increasing number of utility junglers and rors, exp laners, the assassins, they won’t let themselves get left behind. Yeah, quick tip. This is one way to know if I should build maleficar first or warax first. If there’s a lot of dreadnot armor out there, build maleic roar first. If you don’t have time to fight, build maleficar first before warax. So this is exactly why you see the players always pressing the uh summary of the item so far. you got to check what’s going on on the item builds of your opposing team so you could also adjust accordingly. And that is something our professional players just keep teaching us and keep doing, you know, like they’ve mastered all these four fingers and these uh claw these claw type of gamings on their individual phones. And we’re just about to see a lot more of that because we’ve finished all best of fives happening for the playoffs. We are slowly transitioning to that portion of the playoffs where it’s all best of sevens that’s about to happen from this point onwards and that starts tomorrow. So there is a lot of preparation that needs to come into play. Fortunately for Falcons, they ended this in a sweep so they have plenty of time to rest. But I know a lot of us are curious as to what went on during that final game. So, let’s check the Infinix mic check. Ready? Okay. alert. Alert. I had goosebumps, you know, like it felt like the even the silence connected them. Like even the moments where they were saying nothing, they still knew what was going on in the other person’s mind. I think that clearly was the sign of their connectedness, their synergies because I don’t have to say anything. There has to be no sound like you know what I’m thinking and how magical. We heard the moment of that game-changing play. Owen, it was Owen was speaking. He’s like, “Here, I got to I got to go.” That was all he said. He didn’t even repeat it. I think he just said it once and that was enough to call Kyle Tez’s attention to go for the thorned rose. This is an unbelievable mic check we got from team Falcons. The most insightful the most. It was too quiet. I feel I feel blessed to have seen behind the scenes of that play. I am. I am too. I love how they stayed composed despite everything. They’ve been through a lot. They’ve been through a reverse sweep. They don’t want it to happen again. By the way, we’re going to quickly introduce Cambodia’s representative for MSC at EWC25. So, it’s CFU Gaming. I know you guys have heard of them already. They are one of the first two to lock in to punch their ticket to MSC this year and they are the recently crowned MPL Cambodia champions. They won season 8. And some of these names might be familiar to you, but we last saw them in guess where M6. That was them. This is the team that almost dropped SRG wasn’t in Swiss. Wasn’t this the team too that surprisingly beat Team Liquid Philippines in a different tournament? I think that was SPS right at the peak of their performance. Like were they one of the teams to first surprise the Filipino audience? Cuz they were like, “Oh, we can actually go toe-to-toe.” Kami do that. They’re very aggressive and this is defined by their hero pool. Look at that. They still play a lot of uh Zushin, a lot of Suyo. Uh that one is a specific pick. Uh and then Wadu, of course, Wadu. How how can we forget Wadu? Uh plays a lot of Moscow. Goes uh lane to lane, coast to coast. Picked up a lot from Innocent, if you know what I’m saying. These are some of the teams you definitely have to watch out for. But by the way, we have something prepared for you guys before we wrap up the show. So, let’s head on and watch this one. Gamusta MPH. My name is Lee Ching. I am the caster for MPLKH. Today I wanted to tell you guys what’s happened in MPLK season 8 playoff. In MPLK season 8 playoff, we saw some Mobile Legian spang bang action which cumulating in CFU Gaming being the ground champion. Not only they are the crown champion, but they are the back-to back champion as well. CFU Gaming ultimately defeat team Mac in the grand final with a 4 to1 victory to claim the championship and also a spot in MSC 2025 at esport world cup as well. Some of you guys might have seen the potential of CFU gaming back at M6 World Championship. They almost beat Salango or Red Giant but they were unlucky because innocent happened. But I think this time they will prove they’re right. And also last time they were lacking of experience. But this time they will prove themsel. For me personally, I think that CFU Gaming is the dominant back-to back champion entering this MSC as Cambodia strongest and most confident representative. I think that they are a really welldeserved champion for the MPLK season 8 despite having some hiccup in the regular season losing to Galaxy Legend to the one but but in the playoff it is a different story because they almost completely sweep everyone in the playoff bracket. For me, the standout player would be the team itself because I cannot determine the standout player because CFU gaming, they always play as a team and also if one member fails to deliver, another will always deliver. But it one, two, three. But I wanted to shout out for Opie and also Boxy as well because some of you might have known them. They’re really strong. If I were to choose which team for Mplai is likened to CFU Gaming, I would say um it could be Onyx PH or Team Liquid PH because they both are one of my favorite team and also they are really strong, they are really capable, always consistent and also always humble as well. So yeah, that’s it. And to MPH fan and also Mobile Legend fan across the world, don’t ever forget to catch up MLPH playoff happening right now. You can go to MPH Facebook page, YouTube or any other social media to catch up MLPH right now for more MSSE 2025 at Esport World Cups content and also right now I really want to know that which two team will be representing the Philippine for MSE 2025 at Esport World Cup. So, I think that’s it for me for today and also thank MPH for having me. Thanks to MPH fan as well. I hope we meet again real soon and also bye-bye right now. See you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. And thank you so much, Leeching. That was a very informative segment. 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We are spoiled for good MLBB action in a best of seven and then of course waiting in the grand finals the super fam the new gods of mobb on Philippines. Yeah, honestly I can’t get it out of my head the way few told us earlier that they honestly wanted to go back to MSE together with Team Liquid Philippines but now it’s one or the other like they have no choice. they need to send out at least or just one of them. Whereas on the other hand, Onyx did mention earlier that if there’s one team they want to go to MSC with, that’s Team Liquid Philippines. Imagine the pressure on the Cavalry. Like you guys both want us to go, but we have to beat both of you in the next couple of days. I know. It’s just so much that they have to think about. Hopefully they are doing everything they can to prepare for tomorrow within the next few hours, the remaining hours that they have. But also, we have some updates with the Fancy Clavan cuz they too are actually going through their playoff stage. What an interesting outcome for the Fancy Lab. That’s right. From the other bracket, you have the Phoenix Army making it to the grand finals already. And I would assume tomorrow it’s the cavalry versus the Kabarang guys going up into a best of three matchup and the contest winner will then go into a best of five against the Phoenix army. So this is exciting again it’s the fans uh it’s the community’s way of competing against each other in support of their own teams. Yeah and you see them right outside whenever the games are about to happen. They just play their hearts out. It’s another way to or a form of supporting their team, I guess. But it’s nice to see them very active in the community. And what a day it has been, Allejo. How are you feeling today after wrapping up that three, no, two series just filled of sweet? I I hate to say it, but I’m more tired today than I was yesterday. Like, this is emotionally talling. Yeah, it’s Thanks for asking. It’s been a way different day than what we’ve had been through for the first two days, but now we’re officially closing out day number three. Let’s throw it on over to our hosts. After three days of the playoffs, we now have our first grand finalist. It’s the super fam of Onyx Philippines. Representatives Filipinas MSE at EWC 2025. This is the most awaited return of Kelra to the embassy stage. You know, the question that remains is whether or not they will be able to achieve back-to back championships or will someone else from the lower bracket swipe it away from them, especially after team Falcon’s decisive win, rising from their setback and now on their way to the lower bracket finals to face Team Liquid Philippines. This is going to be another edition of the Clash of the Titans of MLBB. You know, and in spite of the defeat that was encountered by Aurora Gaming, they have mustered their courage and gave us an immense amount of growth for this season. And hopefully they will come back even stronger. It is going to be a story of praises and goodbyes in the next few days. MPL Philippines season 15, the playoffs. And this is your very own. We’ll see you guys tomorrow. Stop us. Hey man, we become the monsters. Face the building for the three stars. Cut us through the top floor. No winning any game. I become a legend. that you winners built with pressure. The diamonds are made of of your Mother, hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Lacking every time I just imagine what we can achieve lacking every beat surrender no repeat all my we just cannot be defeated we are unstoppable inner equipment I have frozen my crowd control of the southeast every enemy

We are now in the 3rd day of the MPL PH Playoffs & 1 team will be securing their spot in the Grand Finals while 1 team will see say goodbye.

First up, it’s the Golden Rivalry, Onic Philippines vs Team Liquid Philippines. 2 top teams fighting it out, Oheb vs Kelra, Karltzy vs K1NGKONG, SuperFrince vs Sanji. No other words needed.

On the 2nd game of the day, Team Falcons & Aurora Gaming needing to battle for their tournament lives, who will come out on top on this gruelsome battle.

4 Teams, 2 heated match-ups. This is MPL PH.

Match Schedule:
⚔️ 3pm: TLPH vs. ONIC (Bo5)
⚔️ 7pm: RORA vs. FLCN (Bo5)

Catch you at the land of dawn!

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