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

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

Getting high. We’re in your house. Dark times we fell down. Is this really what it’s all about? You decide how it turns out. I’m feeling much better now. I’m not here. You’re on my mind. I can think clear. I’m feeling much better now. I’m not here. Does this really matter now? I’m thinking clear. You got to try to ride it out. Hold on. Do we really fall back while standing all around? Oh god, I won’t even make it up. I’m feeling much better now. You’re all on my mind now. I can think clear. I’m feeling much better now. I’m back. Does this really matter now? I’m thinking clear. I’m feeling better. I’m feeling better. We’re shining the light or diamonds. It’s just who we are. No stopping us. Supernovas don’t burn out. Just listen. If you feel like there’s something missing, we live only once. So live it up. Time won’t come back around. We don’t need four leaf clovers luckily to be living in the time of our lives. This could go a little too high like a thousand stars like a river through feeling you can’t describe time to waste. So try not to wait too long. Yeah. You make a wish, you get it. Closest thing to heaven’s right in your heads like it’s magic. Imagine that happiness can happen. All this time just so around us. Everything is right. We don’t need four leaf clovers luckily to be living in the time of our lives. This could go a little too like a thousand stars running like a river through feeling you can’t describe time to waste. So try not to wait too long. Don’t always take it. Take it. Take it. Try to take it. Take it. Try not to wait too long. How are you doing? Heat. Heat. N. Heat. Heat. N. Yeah. Heat. Are you are you Are you I am you. I feel you. Heat. Heat. N. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, hey, hey. feel. Heat. Heat. Hey. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh my Oh, oh. Burn. Oh, burn. Oh, burn. Hey guys, Rose here. So, today is the media day right before we head on over to the knockout stages. But you know what? I think it’s time to meet some of the players that will be in the knockout stages. And over there, we actually have Team Liquid Philippines. So, come let’s go see what they’re up about. Hey guys. Okay, JP. The last time I saw you, I think it was like in MPLI. It’s been a while. So long now. How are you doing? I’m good. skin gan. He said everything is good so far in Riyad. He’s having a blast. He likes the food. He likes everything. Experience- wise is also very good. Just the heat. No, it’s really hot. Okay, we have a bit of the Onik ID, guys. They’re currently playing right now, but it is the player lounge. Okay, Sans, how is the experience in Riyad so far? Uh, so far so good. He said he’s having a blast here. Everything is good from the food to the experience to even the hotel, right? Of course. Of course. You’re having Why are you laughing? Come here. Come here. Liy, come here. Why are you laughing? Li Lut, how’s your experience? Uh, experience experience. Uh, yeah. Uh yeah. So hot. So hot. He said everything is good. I think the players especially love the player lounge that we have over here at the hotel. However, they all have something in common that they kind of dislike, which is the heat. And I honestly agree. Did you guys bring lotion? about lotion. What about you? Oh, wow. Skin care. Oh, that’s something interesting. Can I see your skin? Yeah. Loopy skin. So nice. It looks like a baby skin. What skin care do you use? Moisturizer. Yeah. Moist. Uh facial loss. Toner. Yeah, toner. Serum. Serum. Wow. Serum. You know what? You should use sunscreen. Okay, you know what? This kid has a full skincare routine. He uses moisturizer, toner, serum, facial wash. Although, I do wish that he would start using sunscreen because it’s very, very important. Thank you guys. I’ll see you guys in the knockout stages. Guys, look who I found. It’s the one and only Rins of RQ. How are you? I’m fine. Okay. Now, Rins, how has uh how has Riyad been for you? Uh for measure, you like hot. You like the heat. Yes. We finally have a player that actually enjoys the heat. So you prefer um the Riyad heat compared to Indonesia heat because in Indo you will sweat, right? Here not so much. So Yes, he likes the heat here in Riyad more. Now, aside from the heat, do you enjoy the food? Do you enjoy, you know, the player lounge? Do you enjoy the boulevard? Uh, the venue I like he likes the food, the beverages here in Riyad and he also likes the venue. What do you like about the venue? Best game happening. He likes the PlayStations here. Do you play a lot at the player lounge? the PlayStations. Yes, he plays with a lot of the RRQ players. All right, thank you so much, Rins. I’ll see you at the venue. And of course, I managed to spot out Aurora at the player lounge. So, hey guys. How are you guys doing? Hello. Good to you. I’m good. I’m good. How are you? Thank you. Thank you. Good. I’m good. Lunar, when I got here, I heard you talking about one thing and one thing only that you really, really like. What’s your favorite thing about the entire place? Hospitality, the player lounge so far. Massage. Massage. So good here. The massage guy has magical hands. He has magical hands. So good. It’s really good. Do you do a massage every day? I mean, if I have a time, I would go every day. It’s so good. Why would Why no? What about you, Apex? Do you like the massage? Yeah. Nice. It’s good. This guy is so good. Yeah. How would you rate it? 1 to 10. Nine. Nine out of 10. Wow. 15. 15 out of 10 from Lunar. Now, what about you? Do you do the massage? Yes, but my favorite snacks. Oh, your favorite is the snacks. What do you like to eat? Very fancy, Aurora. They They’re the only ones who actually told me they like getting massaged here. Did they like eating the croissant? You know what? Thank you, boys. And I will be seeing you in the knockout stages. Thank you. And that is it from me over at the player lounge today. It seems like the players are definitely having a blast before we kickstart our knockout stages. And with that, this is Ro signing off. See you guys. States the MSJ toy the main carrier for the team again we’ve seen him especially when he gets his comfort picks the Granger The Wan the Harth amazing is able to pop off really well. 30 seconds away gets a fist crack over now as well. Lancer flare not there but finally gets it down. Another sky piercer for rims and now the heavy spin. here. Everybody shines and it’s the same for especially in this tournament carrying the team when he needs to. When he gets his assassins and when again Dy and Edok don’t get playmakers, he’s able to walk up and set up instead of being the ones that the team sets up for. Up and down. Triple going for the maniac. He has to get space. He gets that. He gets the savage. SRG. Uh group stage. They were shaky. Everyone falling. Only Innocent here goes into the base. Oh my lord. Innocent. Oh, walks it over. Gets a kill. Can a minion in a He’s trying everything to save this game. They’re going to go for the base to allow the Red Giants. OG Esports fall to the dark horse. Just like M6. Winter crowd in the base. The Red Giants have fallen. But just like M6, they managed to get through. As SRG will tell him, it wasn’t luck at all. Okay, so first things off, I feel like Storm is going to be a standout. that goes beyond how he’s able to manage and control the mid lane. Literally is the guy who just wants to set things up for his team. What’s happening here? Some Stormy gets an over to down the combo in the back. It’s a raging stats storm and an AOG. That’s a double. I think whatever we achieve uh during our journey or last year, we just want more dream and dream again to be best of the best like the goods. Oh, they’re going to fight for this one, too. Innocent grabs Wu. Looks for another. Gets the double. Nope. He falls. Innocent gets the triple. Going for the maniac. He has to get space. He gets out. He gets the savage. For me, I’m really proud of Sakayas because he improved a lot from last year. His game play and his skills on talking. Got him. Oh, he comes through. He dashes through. He’s buying so much time for the Red Giant. Outstanding match for me is against Petus Pro because enemy just kind of aggressive to us. The feeling is uh so intense. After losing M6, people look down on us and we want to prove that we are still the strong team like last year and that’s our biggest motivation for this year. Team Spirit group stage run. Not to try not to disrespect them, but they had an easy road. Um, I think no match has been really intense in my opinion. It’s just not so surprising anymore that they’re able to perform this way because people know that they can. Gets taken down even before he gets to use the fast execution of the crossbow. Damn, he’s actually finding the targets right now. Every team that is in the knockouts, we have beaten those scrims. For us, it’s just about how good we are going to be mentally prepared. We know we have the synergy to beat them. We know we have the brains to beat them. So, it’s just about how confident we’re going to come into the game. with their new coach. I feel like the team has synced a bit better. We became more coordinated, but I don’t think that’s because of him. I think that’s cuz we came we became a better team. I think he’s been doing pretty well. Nothing really changed. The team just evolved with him. You know, I feel like these two are the make or break when it comes to team spirit. It’s all in the knockout stage now for them. Like to see their capabilities, how strong they can really be. If that top four finish in M6 was a fluke or not, it’s up to them right now in the knockout stage. As long as we’re confident, as long as we believe in ourselves, then I am 100% sure that we will be able to win this tournament. Go for it. This isn’t quite the knock up onto King Kong. Somehow gets to immune himself though. But then cutie, he gets stunned by K. Honey Philippines are really good, but it does feel like this meta doesn’t really suits well as M6. At the M6 world championship, they were amazing here with King Kong forced to use other assassins, not those snowballing types. Utility junglers too. He has really dropped a bit. M6 compared but in the group stage for me it’s good that they got a reality check very early in now in the knockouts they should be prepared they should have already found out their weaknesses and it should be mostly King Kong and assassins Two base turrets will fall. On a again, the damage from King Kong doesn’t even allow the feathered air strike to be casted. experience. Yes, I believe that this is the team that could win the championship again. 100% confident. Heat. Heat. Dude, I want to complain about a long day, but it’s been stomps. Dude, what are we doing here? You want to complain? You want to complain? And teams have gone home. The dreams have been crushed for Mythic Seal and Aurora. That’s very insensitive. Hey. Hey, you’re right. But dude, Team Liquid, dog, they look strong as hell, bro. I predicted it. I told you. I told you. I told you, Liquid. But big surprise, Philip is pretty strong. I also predicted Onyx. Oh, surprise. Onic is really strong. But hey, talk about Onyx, though. Kyrie, half man, half beast. Kyrie, the queen. The queen. Kyrie. Hitman. Hitman. Kyrie. That’s You can’t use that. You can’t use that. That’s my nickname. I All right, bro. That’s good. But I got a better one. I got a better one. Okay, hear me out. Hear me out. Is that a camera? Bro, is that a camera? How long has that thing been rolling? They heard our whole cover. Dude, that thing is Bro, why are we here? It’s day two. Our shift ended like 18 hours ago. No. Uh, okay. You know what? Uh, hello everyone. Welcome to day two knockout stage here at MSC in the esports world cup where the games are amazing. Heck, we’re going to open up with SRG going up against RQ. That’s going to be simple. I think I think the winner is going to be No, no, no, no. You’re not allowed to do this. You know what happens. You can’t predict. You know what happens. No, you can’t, bro. I know. I know. The champions of Indonesia and the champions of Philippines have secured their slots in the semifinals of the knockout stage here at MSE 2025 of the Esports World Cup. Now, we we are waiting for two more teams. Once again, Lel already did the intro, but I would gladly, happily welcome you back to the Embassy Stage. My name is Red. I’m going to be your panel host for today, joined by TX and Gideon for the two best of five series. So, we have gentlemen. How are we feeling? Honestly, I’m feeling pretty good right now. I mean, a little nervous, of course. Naturally, going to be a little bit nervous because these matches are going to be really important. If yesterday were going to be sweeps, I’m expecting today to really go the full distance. I’m hoping that today it goes the full distance because I kind of agree with Lavel. Yesterday, we had three zero sweeps. It went real fast. At least we got to go home early. But today, I want to see some games go the distance all the way to five. Yeah, yesterday was a fast day. in case you miss it, if you missed out on all the news, it was a stompy day. Power spakes were hit very, very quickly. And now we find ourselves here instantly, which I feel like might actually be the heavier side of the knockouts bracket, but we’ll be able to discuss about the matches more later on as we go. But we have to go back and witness some of the top plays from yesterday brought to us by Kadia. Uh, no savages. Was there a maniac? Can’t really that recall, but there were some pretty stompy moments and great plays by Liquid. There was actually a Maniac right here. Almost got the savage from Team Liquid. They were chasing down Rose. Uh, but the Lord finished the game for him. It was definitely an epic finish for Team Liquid. I think for the most part of it, we’ve seen what these teams are capable of. We’ve seen what the meta has finally developed into and now it’s the refinement of styles, right? Teams who don’t adapt have already been eliminated. But in the best of five series, we’ve seen that if teams don’t adapt on the very first game loss, it’s pretty much over. It’s a sweep. Yeah, it seems like game one really just sets the tempo now with how we find ourselves in the metal with the options available. And of course, it’s still great to see smiles across the board, the intense moments with the reactions brought to us by Crunchyroll. A lot of smiles coming out from the side of Team Liquid, who I feel like there were a lot of people even then heading into that match thinking, “Oh no, I’m kind of scared for Liquid. Aurora looked good in the group stage. Nothing to worry about.” Same goes for Onyx just crushing Mythic Seal, even though in that game number one, Mythic Seal sort of like, you know, made them play their game for a bit. Speaking of storylines, I think that million-dollar idea, I’ve already mentioned this before. I will say it again for our Crunchyroll World reactions. When are we going to get the MLBB esports anime here? Because again, we’ve got amazing storylines on this format. After TLPH and as well as Onyx find their own wins, we go to the opposite side. defending champions of MSC as well as Team Spirit looking to make a run of their own. Yeah, dude. It’s RQ, SRG, Team Spirit, Onyx PH. Trex, is there like one match today that you’re really like your little bias that you’re most excited for? Um, I think the match I’m most excited for is definitely the second one today. Team Spirit versus Onik PH. We get the rematch. We get the possibility of Onik PH showing that group stage was a fluke. Or we get Team Spirit showing that they are possibly grand final finishers. Oh, yeah. I I think a lot of the community are echoing those statements. Even Filipinos are going like for some reason a lot of them are saying Kid Bomba’s from the Philippines somewhere in Manila. He grew up there, but no, he’s from Germany. What about you, Gideon? Are you more nervous or excited for RQSRG? I’m definitely going to be a little bit nervous here. RQ have been just such a staple team every single time they hit the International. Sometimes they do really, really well and go all the way up to second place, or sometimes they just get grouped. It’s really tough to say with some of these Indonesian teams, but RQ seems to be the household brand that shows up every time in comparison to like Malaysia. We’ve had TOD for a longest time, a couple of inbetweeners, and now SRG kind of look to take that space. Yeah. And let us allow us, excuse me, to remind you of what they are going to be fighting for. You make it into the top four, you are secured at least $150,000. Don’t forget we have our third place match that will happen right before the grand finals on the fourth and last day of MSE. And as I’ve always said, second and first place finish ain’t that bad. That’s a whole lot of cheese right there. Nothing bad to take home. And it’s the second year in a row now. This has become, you know, this is a regular. This is something I think all of us are looking for. Every year all the teams are getting ready for MSC is no longer an event just to like slouch on or teams aren’t changing up their rosters too much beforehand. They’re really honing down for this event at this point. If youngsters coming into esports are like, “Mom, dad, I’m an esports pro.” This is the cheese they bring back. They’re like, “Yes, you are an esports pro.” Whether they get it or not. Yeah. They’re going to be asking you, “Yeah, are you an esports pro? When are you going to uh play for MSE?” Huh? When? Let us know. Instead of throwing footballs, they’re doing thumb exercises at home. Yeah. That’s how I’ll be with my kids. Oh, so you’re going to get your kids into into the esports side possibly. Okay. We’re waiting for that. We’re waiting for that. the day that uh you wanted them to compete or to cast compete. I feel I feel like you’re going to need like three more slots here. First two is covered. You give me three more. You can be next. You can fill out the rest of the roster. Hey, no. I was supposed to fill up another five and then we’ve got two scrimmage teams. Think about it. All right. So, as we make our own fantasy teams uh involving our potential future children, we actually made uh fantasy teams of our own uh via the esports world cup. And this is I believe mine going to be showing up first with Sawa as my uh fantasy ror for today. Innocent in the gold, super friends, King Kong, and Kid Bomba. Like, okay, I think the others are pretty clear for everyone, but I just want to put Sawa in here because I feel like the man needs a little bit more praise. I mean, there’s a reason why Team Spirit is undefeated so far. Usually, that’s through the stability in the center of the map, and Sawa’s been very stable. I’m with you, Rema. I feel like majority of our picks are kind of similar here. I think the jungler’s kind of like a give or take depending on the styles, but really the ror makes a huge difference in a meta like right now cuz we’re seeing people not, oh, I don’t want to just play an enchanter. You still need to be a playmaker, an active playmaker within the game. Yeah, I think it’s time for us to bring out the next fantasy lineup. Oh, serious Gideon. Okay, exactly. Speaking of active playmaker, I think Edok is really suited for the meta right now. I think he’s got a really good grasp on how to kind of pull teams apart and more so understanding how to get underneath the skins and into the heads of a majority of members. You’ve seen him just mess around with exp laners for fun. Yeah, he’s definitely have. I think um Innocent Kid Bomba, I like the list. I like the SL, you know, Edo, I’m wondering how he’s going to fare up against SRG. I like the fact too that you got a little bit of a mix of the two teams that are going to be facing off. But the list we got to look at, it’s the tracks list. Now listen, I can defend myself. I just couldn’t bear taking my TLPH members off from yesterday, so we had to leave him on. Kelra as well, the guy’s going to be a monster. But Sunset Lover, you mentioned Sabo needing some love. For me, it’s Sunset Lover. The dude always shows up. I feel like he is one of the players that always kind of gets looked over when we look at Team Spirit. You have the big personality from Kid Bomba. You have Sabo, this veteran. You have Hiko, the new kid on the block. But Sunset Lover just seems to be such a stable mid laner and has been able to get kills and lane up against some of the best. Yeah, the man’s veteran. He’s been here since M1. So, I’m glad that you gave Sunset Lover some love here. And if you want to make your own fantasy lineups, you can go to fantasy.esportsworldcup.com. Uh so you can make your fantasy lineups uh similar to how we do it here on Barcast. We’ll be doing that every day actually. So, you’ll get to see it updated whether it’s the TX version where it involves teams that or players that uh played the day before or where it’s we want to focus a little bit more on the teams and players that are playing today, then go ahead and join that. Now, uh we’re getting a little bit closer now to the meat of things with the very first series. So, everyone right now at the Amazon Arena, thank you so much for joining us. Our matches RRQ and SRG, Team Spirit and Onyx PH. first match. I am seeing a lot of polarizing opinions online about who’s expecting to win and what. Uh, real quick, maybe we can tease him a little bit, Gideon. What can we expect from the first one? Honestly, even I don’t know really know what to expect, especially since the RQ have been like, you look at them in the regular season, super stable. Then they come over into the playoffs, they’re looking pretty good until the very end where we see the miracle turnover of the YB effect coming in for Onyx ID. And then SRG extremely good during the regular season, not really changing up their compositions. They come to the playoffs, they make it look easy. They go to the internationals, then the struggles start to show, which is the worst possible time for the struggles to show. It looks like they’ve come back from it, but it’s really hard to tell. Yeah. And that’s why I think that is our SNB match of the day. RRQ versus SRG. Gideon has had to say his piece. Uh what’s your take on this trick? I think one thing to look at here is RRQ didn’t play as many games in the group stage. You could maybe even argue they didn’t have it too hard in the group stage. One of NA’s teams themselves getting completely demolished by them. And then SRG on the other hand got some time to kind of maybe play against more meta, get an idea of what’s more comfortable for them, have some time to really warm up in the group stage, whether it meant losses, wins, whatever it took for them to get here. I do think it gave them a bit more experience in the MSC meta. Yeah, but that’s off of the mistakes. Technically, if you look at both of their routes, they should have had the easiest routes to get to the other side in group A. But if you think about it like this, they’ve already made all their mistakes. There’s no more mistakes for them to make at this point. RQ, on the other hand, could still have some more to check on the list. Okay, all right, that’s the last mistake. Okay, that’s the last mistake for the day for SRG, for Coach Arcade. you can’t drop the the key that that represents your journey here. And of course, as a defending champions, I I saw a lot of RRQ fans actually on ground in the arena right now. SRG fans, I know they’re there, but similar to how the Filipinos felt in last year’s MSE where it’s like, wait, why are there a lot of Filipinos here in Riion in the Boulevard? Why is it suddenly like a a Philippine home ground game, now it feels that way, seeing all the RQ fans at the stadium. So, I am excited for that and I’m excited to hear what our players think heading into this match. We actually got an interview with Eterna with Dyron. Eterna here backstage with Dyron from RRQ. Now, Dyron, back at M6. In this upcoming match, you’re going head-to-head against SRG once again. Flashbacks to M6. You were actually knocked out by SRG. So, is this a little bit of a revenge match for you personally? Okay. SRG M6 RQ. So Dyron said it is a revenge match because he does remember what happened at M6. So hopefully in this next upcoming match they can be the ones to take them down and hopefully the match runs smoothly. Now in social media we saw that there was a S tier midlane post that was posted and went really viral because the funny thing is Rin was not on that list. S+ mid laner. He said it’s okay because that’s everyone’s personal opinion, but he personally thinks that Rins belongs in the S plus tier. Okay. So, in this upcoming match, how are you feeling? Are you nervous? Do you think you you’re confident? Yeah, I confident. Confident. How confident out of 0 to 10? 11. That’s how confident he is. Maybe with that level of confidence. Uh, good luck, have fun. Just good luck and have fun. Other than good luck, have fun and hope the match will be entertaining. Yeah. Yeah. Good luck, have fun. match entertaining. Uh okay, he says see up which means what does it mean? How do you translate that? Like get ready. Yeah, I think it’s it’s get ready. So there it is. Thank you so much, Dy. Good luck for your next upcoming match. I’m going to throw it over back to the hosts. Ptern everyone knows yep a means we will beat you. No, I’m kidding. Uh I don’t think that’s an accurate translation. Uh don’t believe me. I’m actually Filipino. Okay, so the RQ lineup, uh, Dyron, Susin, Rin, Edok, and Toy. And I want to call back to what they mentioned about Rin after what happened to them in the M6 World Championship. It was actually him that got the short end of the stick on social media. A lot of flack for his performance. To be fair, a lot of midlaners during M6 got a lot of flack when you compared him to the current world champion, Super Fence, right, who was playing a perfect game throughout on every hero he did. And I think Reins has been looking for that redemption arc. I know they’ve even been critical of him during the regular season itself. He is one of the few players who is actively good on Ye even when it’s off meta. So therefore, I feel like RQ are personally for me in a really good spot. I think RQ in general has just come a very long way. But enough about RQ. What about SRG? Yeah, for SRG, he’s going to be going up against Stormmy. I don’t think they keep calling him a prodigy. I don’t think he’s a prodigy at this point. He’s pretty darn good at what he does in the mid lane tracks. Yeah, I feel like all of SRG last year was the hype, the buildup of this team that, you know, unbeatable, weren’t dropping any games. Then they finally proved themselves and now we’re at a point where we really know these players. We have grown to love some of them, and we’ve seen them already prove themselves. And against RQ, a team that has kind of taken a while to get their themselves back in a roster that really works for them, get back onto the international, I think it’s a really good matchup between the two. It’s it’s a good matchup, but I am a little concerned. Right. The games that we’ve seen SRG actually lose really boil down to two out of the three members not performing as well as we were hoping for. Stormy actually, surprisingly enough, being one of them being usually one of the pillars of the squad alongside with CRA. Both of them were crumbling the times that they were playing against Mythic Seal. So therefore, when we see them kind of come back into form, it’s when they are feeling the most confident, when they are making the least amount of mistakes. Yeah. So maybe we can contextualize what the SRG is feeling heading into this matchup against RQ because we actually had another interview with Innocent, the only man to get a Savage during the group stages. He talked with Eterna. We’re backstage now with Innocent from SRG. Now Innocent, we got the chance to talk to Dyron earlier on and he did mention that this is going to be a revenge match. For you in particular, what are you going to have coming into this match? Do you think also that you want to keep a one up over RQ? Um, for us, we’re just focusing every match and we just need to win all of our matches so we can get hopefully get backtoback champion. Okay. So, they’re eyeing for a backto-back champions. Everything else does not matter. Now, coming into this, did you guys have breakfast together? Yeah. Yeah. 9 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. breakfast together. That’s a good sign. That’s a good sign. What did you have for breakfast? me banana them they I think bread or something. Okay, that’s important, right? Because the last time we talked, you said that breakfast together is important. So, does that mean you’re feeling 100% confident coming into this match against RQ? Yeah. Yes. Dyron said 11 out of 10. How are you feeling? 10. 10 out of 10. Okay. Okay. It’s still 10 out of 10. It’s absolutely confident. Do you have maybe a message for RQ for your next upcoming match? Uh, good luck, guys, and let’s give our fans a good match. Okay. Okay, good luck and hope to give the fans the best match possible. Anything any message for someone personally? Uh, and for my girlfriend, uh, just enjoy the match and don’t overthink too much and I’ll call you later. I’ll call you later. Okay. Thank you so much once again, Innocent. Good luck for your next match because we’re going to throw it over now back to the studio. Innocent, the only man with the Savage so far, uh, coming from the group stage. Also, most shout outs to his girlfriend. And that’s the stat line he’s leading as well. R for redemption for RRQ. Trex, you think it’s doable for RRQ? Are you impressed with what you’ve seen from them so far? Definitely impressed with what I’ve seen from them so far. I think this is a match that for me is very down the middle. Everyone keeps asking me who I think is going to come out on top, and I think it could switch every hour. So, I got a feeling this could really go the distance, but RQ, the redemption is there. Can they take it? I think that it’s going to boil down to who’s willing to show the entire playbook here. Most teams are going to be into this thinking like, “Oh, we got to save strats.” But when you’re pushed into that corner, you don’t have a choice. And I think you always have to bring something new with each and every game rather than saying, “Hey, just because I win, therefore, I don’t need to do anything.” Yeah. Again, we have to remember this is going to be a crazy draft battle between the two coaching staffs. looking at coach Arcadia and coach KZQ. Coach Arcadia of course if you know your MLBB history used to coach for RQ at some point uh during M4 when they took them to if I’m not mistaken a top four top three finish around that and then when Kescute came over he sort of like became the beginning of this new era for RQ who’s just been so sharp for the drafts. So I I want to do a little crazy advanced prediction here at the end of game one. Who do you think will come out with a better draft? Coach Arcadia or Coach Kezcute. Do we do we at least get to assume blue or red side? Oh yeah, you you can you can preface it. I’m going to go with uh KZ Q as the cleaner draft. RQ, I’m going to go with KZQ as the cleaner draft for for game one. For game one. All right. For game one. For game one. For game one. What about you, Gideon? I’m going to have to agree, but I will preface it that at least for Coach Arcadia, game two onwards, I think we’re going to see something a little interesting if game one is a flop. Okay. All right. Very quickly, another hot question. We want to start things off hot here. Again, we look like we’re on the heavier side of the bracket. Innocent, another Savage, yes or no? If it goes to game five, yes. Oh, okay. Very specific conditions there, Gideon. It’ll take some time. You know, it’s not going to happen in game one. I’m going to say only if he has a hero that utilizes sky piercer. Ah, all right. I mean, yeah, he did get his savage with the Granger. He was 1702. All right, Edok. Will he get his Franco or not? Defin For sure. For sure. I’m I’m feeling very confident about that. At least Franco for sure. What about you, Tex? Yeah, once again, I think maybe not game one. Um, but we saw the Franco yesterday against the Lancelot. It almost did very very well. I think as the games go on, we’ll definitely see some picks like that pop up. All right, the mo the final hot question real quick. No context. Just drop your prediction of the match winner. SRG RQ. Looks like we’re split here. And we are seeing the arena right now. Once again, the champions of the Philippines and the champions of Indonesia are waiting in the semifinals. While four teams, champions in their own right, teams looking for redemption and validation, fight out for two more semifinal slots. You have RRQ, SRG, Team Spirit, and Onyx Philippines. Let’s go to the arena and welcome our teams. This is the second day of the knockouts. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the second day of the knockout stages of MSE at EWC 2025. Yesterday was insanely exciting, but today is another day and maybe we’ll see some upsets. Anyways, my name is Rose and once again it is an honor to share the stage with my co-host Milos. The honor is all mine, Rose. No two ways around it. Yesterday it was a roll out, right? We had Team Liquid Philippines Onyx ID smashing through their opponents 3-0. We had an early day whether we wanted it or not. And they’re going to be playing tomorrow. That’s a match to really look forward to in the semis, but another semifinal potentially. We’ll have to decide that today with the last four teams remaining in our quarterfinals. Yes, indeed. For our second days of the knockout stages, we will be witnessing two more quarterfinal matches. Once again, this is a best of five. The winner will head on to the semifinals tomorrow and the loser ends their journey at MSC. It is a single elimination bracket. This is what it entails as Rose was explaining. So, how about we stop dillydallying and get ready for our matchup. Introducing our teams, the restnom, the kings of kings, RRQ. With a legacy that stretches back to season 1, their goal at MSC 25 is clear. Reclaim your glory and dominate your opponents. Vengeance though guides their hand today versus the defending MSC champions for ending their M6 run prematurely. The road to break the forever second curse starts right here, right now. And of course, since RRQ was in the 200 pool during the group draw, they picked out the defending champions of MSC, their first rival, and it is the perfect way to get their well craved revenge since M6. It is none other than Salo Red Giants OG Sport. Kicking off the group stages with a hardfought victory and falling to the hands of Mythic Seal. Their journey hasn’t been the smoothest. After bouncing back against CFU and qualifying for the knockout stages, can SRG, the team, get their dominance that they need to be a one step away in defending the crown and defending it for their nation. Rose, once again, we’re getting an equivalent grand final match in the quarterfinals, and that is an absolute honor to be part of. So, please, RQ, please, SRG, you may place your tablets, your keys, take your seats. Our game is about to begin. Rose, I love the audience today. Yes, the energy is there, but you want to know what? The battle in the Land of Dawn is about to be hotter. The games hasn’t started and I’m already sweating. Well, I can’t even imagine what it’s like to be players in this case. Let’s send it over and get our match started. It’s time to go to the land of dawn. I’m feeling really excited to meet RQ because they want to get revenge on us. So, we are really excited to face them again. And that is one left. And that’s a wipe out. Another unofficial savage for the beast. I think RQ chose us because they won the revenge from last year and I’m not mad about it. I’m happy. So, it’s my team. So, we can prove them wrong. Also, lock that in. That is the term you use for a gold lane performance like that. The biggest deciding factor against RQ will be the best decent team wins and the less mistakes going to win. So to RQ, I’m excited that you guys picked this and let’s have a good match. I like how the beats that we hit on the panel for this match all came true. Rex, you mentioned you cannot make a mistake. It was Stormmy himself who acknowledged, yeah, the least mistakes lead to the biggest wins for the teams. And then we talked about the hero pool, the draft. So, good to see that RQ is acknowledging that that when you’re going up against SRG, you really need a deep hero pool ready. It’s not only that. I I think they’re they’re hitting the major pain points for SRG’s side, the draft, the read on the meta, what is priority and what is not. Because if we’re talking about raw execution, both of these teams are good at what they do. it will stall out to the late game. Yeah, I think we could argue that almost all the teams are solid. But yeah, uh don’t forget uh you have the MSE 2025 chest available from August 18th to excuse me, July 18th to August 7th for only 20 diamonds. You can draw the luxury reward returning MSE skin Atlas Rune Sentinel. Plus, your first three openings guarantee you Crystal of Aurora and Banner of Moral. That’s not all. Up to 1,000 MSE coins could be yours, too. Buy the MSE support chest now and cheer for MSC. Sorry, you checked you were in the middle of a point there. What did you want to say? Like I said, I think um I think draft has been crucial yesterday. Even whether you argue the skill level was different between the teams, I really think draft was huge. And I think this is one of my worries for SRG coming into this. They have been extremely diverse in their draft. They’ve picked a lot of different things from gold lane all around the map. They have a much more they have a much deeper unique hero pool than RQ. And I think what’s going to keep a lot of teams together in this knockout stage is maybe just sticking by the book, honestly. Which is kind of interesting because last year during MSE 24, we saw a lot of the meta already figured out. It was pretty set in stone in how teams wanted to play. The question was skill expression and how to kind of attack specific players rather than a whole style of compos uh composition, which is very different to now where I think there’s a lot more fluidity with the ways that you can kind of pivot on blue as well as red. Yeah, currently the draft is paused. We will be coming back into that once it’s ready yet again. But we already saw a blue side Fanny rush ban actually by RRQ. Yeah, the funny thing about Fanny is like she’s still an option, but yeah, she’s she’s gone right now in the meta, but if she does come up, it’s more on the red side if I’m not mistaken. So, it just really goes to show how the priorities change. Now, this is a good respect man by RQ. Taking away the Kimmy for Stormmy, who was actually great for SRG OG. All that matters. That’s not the only thing, right? Getting rid of the Kimmy is just one part of the puzzle. Red side, we’ve seen a consistent amount of bands going over to Y, Shin, Shin, sometimes even Lanclot, but most of the time it’s always that WWA, which kind of opens up the utility pool for junglers. I also like the fact that SRG is focusing on the YSS taking out some of these assassin jungler picks. Even though we haven’t seen RQ use any assassin jungler picks yet. There was still a possibility there. RQ, even though they’ve had a smaller hero pool, we got to know that there’s a lot of possibilities. But I I saw your face, Gideon. The Granger ban, is that a direct target onto Innocent? It’s definitely a direct target, but also isn’t necessary, right? It’s not one of those heroes that are like, oh, it’s the ultimate scaling hero that we should be worried about. But first picks are already through and it looks like they’ve already locked in for themselves the Zushin who’s been heavily contested within the meta so far. It seems like she’s become the go-to mid laner once it’s available. Zetan has dipped out. Kimmy is the next best option. So you see how RQ are putting a lot of focus on the center of the map. And you got to appreciate SRG for these next two draft picks. They picked up the Klaya to sort of match that presence and aggression in the center. And most importantly, they can just have Innocent go off to the side and split push. Yeah, I think it’s solid. But I think they they want to make sure they lock in something for Innocent quickly because you could see the target bands coming in. And if RQ pick up the Moscow here, SRG wait till maybe second phase. Innocent has nothing left at this point. The Clay as well. We’ve seen how well it does. I think it’s just a solid upfront pick. They don’t need to pick a mage right now because Zucian’s already been picked. So if they still want something like the Farza to outrange the Zucian, they can do that as their third. I’m not going to waste the efforts of our script writers here. But did you know that SRG 100% win rate on Kalia, 0% win rate on the Moscow. So they’re trying to balance it on of both sides, but RRQ very smartly give them the Badang into the Fren. They didn’t go for the Arlock straight away. They might consider it later down the road, but they’re keeping their options huge, which is why this is the genius of Kescute. Okay, so here’s the question. Do they pick up mage here? Do they go for something like the Farza here? Even though the Badong’s on the field, I still like it against the Zucian. I like the range. I like the wings by wings. The problem is is with jungler already picked on the side RQ. You know, some bands are going to be heading in towards SRG in second phase if they don’t lock that in. Yeah. Uh I think we’re all in agreement that the far should be coming out here now for SRG or their mage, but something that deals damage, not utility mage. You need that raw damage output to help bridge for the Moscow to come in. They went for damage, but not in the mid lane. They picked up the Lancelot. Okay, I think it’s still fine here. Knowing Stormy’s hero pool, I want to see whether RQ have done their homework to kind of make force him to dig deep, right? Because there’s still the possibilities of, hey, as long as we have Kalia, we force our opponents to take a majority of their spells to be purify over the flicker. The only exception being the bad, but he can build, you know, things like thunderbell to kind of scale and protect himself later down the line. I think that SRG have already taken that into consideration. Now it’s about finding a winning matchup for Creme for red four. Uh I think you still have heroes such as the CC available. You know those heroes like uh we’ve come to agreement for Cram. He needs a hero that can stand in front spam stickers. Glue is also a possibility. Something that can deal with the Fredin here. Something that can cause a little bit of crowd control to kind of counteract that. Masha banan on the side of SRG. It’s very nice. It’s good. It’s really good because how many games have you seen RRQ just be like, “Hey, we’re about to lose. What’s going on?” Masha shows up. Double kill, triple kill. Okay, good uh predicted ban there by SRG and RQ are now, as you mentioned, TX focusing down on the mid lane. Uh they’re going to take out the Eve. And I wonder if RQ is within the line of thinking of, you know what, if they pick up the faro, we might just be able to deal with it. Is that safe to go down that route? I mean, I think I think there’s all Farza’s like m there’s so many counters to fara, but also any good fara player can always wings by wings away either picks up the purup pie, picks up the flicker, something of that nature. But I like the Eban. It’s something that could kind of give the Fredin a little bit of trouble, kind of lock it inside of the box. So, I think it’s definitely a well done pick. CC ban on the side of SRG. Gideon, I’m telling you, R4 is for CRA right now. They’re making sure they’re getting rid of the awkward picks, right? you’re getting rid of the CC. So, even if he does have to play fobvious into glue, it’s not the worst, but there’s just no reason to do it right now. It’s better for him to actually go into the glue at this point of time because RQ have already locked in their mage. So, there’s no immediate counterpick to it. Yeah. Uh I think next in line, we’re all in agreement. Glue should be coming in for CRA and SRG later on, which leaves Dyron with maybe just wanting to match that. Farsa is going to get banned. Oh, so Stormy, what’s he going to go into? I think so far down. Let’s see. They go for the phobia here. Now I I think what he can go for are things like Nana for an example. Any form of strong disengage. There’s an argument for Veil as well, but this really depends on how much backline access RQ has in the first place. I want to see something with range. I was thinking maybe the Novaria, something of that nature. Something that doesn’t have to get too close and personal. The ZTN is kind of falling off I feel like a little bit in terms of meta. So, I don’t think it’s going to pop up here and it’s not something that has a flicker and an assassin as your front line. You need to make sure your mage is going to be safe when this goes behind. Yeah, I I think whoever they end up in the mid lane for SRG does need good amount of distance. He can mess it up. RQ go for the claw and I think that’s also them considering the potential Novaria or long range mage option or Kadita. We could maybe see a Kadita mage here in the mid could work. You get the petrify, you get the stun with this big heavy front line RQ could work as well. Yeah. No, this is really smart from Kes. I was talking about backline access, right? This really limits down on the type of uh mid lane heroes that you’re going to get access to because let’s say you go for Kadita. Yes, you have eyeframes, but as soon as you come out of it, you’re going to get jumped on by two to three people. Now that you don’t have to worry about artillery mages, I think at this point, uh, I want to say Nana, but it’s so easy for her passive to break in the first like turtle fight. So, we’ll see. Depending on what midpick, it really tells us where SRG wants to fight for. Yeah, and they end up picking the Zetian a little bit more utility based with all the dive that they have. Um, again, Zeten has struggled, but at least it’s paired up with a landslot in the jungle, so it’s not an overload on utility. I think across the board, we’re all vibing a little bit more towards RQ’s drafts. Yeah, I’m I’m definitely vibing a little bit more towards RQ’s draft. I think a lot of things is going to come down to how this Lancelock gets played, how good it’s able to perform in the pit. Can they secure first turtle, etc., etc. Yeah. So, it feels like the SRG lineup is a little bit more complicated to pull off while RQ is just has a very solid foundation. Play around the Badang, Lapu, Juicin, and Fred. Let’s go Bridget and NaSu to call game number one. Thanks so much to the panel here. Yes, it’s me Nu and Bria to bring you the action. It’s our first quarterfinal match of today, day number two here, of course, in the knockout stage. And it’s an epic match we have ahead of us as we jump into the land of Dawn. Will it be RRQ to move on forward with Redemption or will it be SRG Esports? Brigetta, they’ve shared their thoughts over on the panel. I got to say, I got to lean towards the same uh sentiments here. I’m thinking RQ’s draft. I like it. What do you think? I have to agree with them as well. There are just too much things that um RRQ have already secured even prior to that game in terms of picks and in terms of battle spells which will make things a lot more easier and it does feel like Stormy was left with very little options in terms of the mid lane pick and we put a lot of focus in terms of the mid laners in the current meta. So, we’ll see how SRG gets to actually pull off this entire idea because again, even just in terms of purify like Renz and Toy already have that and they might have to bank on other ways to force it out of RQ if they want to make the Klay a bit more useful. Yeah. And looking at the uh emblems here, nothing too crazy. A whole lot of tenacities of course for RQ. They want to be able to go ahead and survive. a lot of brave smites. You know, they’re going to rely on Dyron’s taken some damage, but that’s kind of expected too with a Phobia match up there. Um he might need some help against CRA later on, but yeah, it’s interesting because we’ve paid a lot of attention to the mid laners for example um leading into MSE in general. And it’s been in an interesting position. And I mean, even the Zion alone from Stormy, it’s like we haven’t seen this hero be as maybe as useful as some people thought, but she still gets picked up quite a bit, especially when you’re thinking about the vision that it provides. Utility as well. And once these level fours start to come online, creme is going to get pulled back. Wo, that’s four members of RRQ actually trying to go for Creme. They force out the flicker though. So, there seems to be an intention to somehow shut him down, but I goes in. Oh, even using the phantom execution towards Ren, but he still does not decide to use the purify. Yeah, he doesn’t have it. This turtle’s up and this is a battle for space right now. A lot of poking going on here. There’s a jump in from Edo, but they just want to fight for it. Okay, the ultimate’s already committed as well. They somehow have a bit of control here, but that’s the dark wave knocking up two members from RQ. Dire go to the back lines though, and it’s still who gets to secure everything. Ra doesn’t land onto anyone, but Toy, he gets first blood. Sakai trades out S to Jin, but on the top lane, Yumes will be the next to fall. Whoa, there’s a fight everywhere. Sakai’s in trouble, too. Enoch, he’ll clean up the kill before going down himself. So, at least amongst it all, SRG gets a double for Stormy. They also get the turtle. I mean, we did say that the idea for SRG is somewhat utility overall, but it’s nice to see them play it very aggressively despite that. I mean, even in terms of the ones who positioned themselves first in the turtle, it was just such great timing overall for RRQ because even Toy was in that fight. So, who would have expected that RQ already had that much damage, that much sources for damage? It just fell into place for them. But either way, you see how SRG is trying to attack this game, is trying to approach this game up against RQ. This is kind of what I expected though. You know, I expected this matchup between these two teams to be pretty hectic in the early game, and we’ve already got that. And I think really when you look at both lineups, both um just teams fighting out, like that’s what they want to do. I I almost feel like for the most part, majority of the teams, this is how they like to play these games, especially you take in consideration this is a best of five. We’ve had plenty of best of threes, you know, so team strategy and the way they play it might differ from game to game, but right now it’s mo mostly objective fighting fighting around that. We heard that from the interviews coming into this too that you know for RQ a lot of times it’s like yeah let’s just go ahead focus on our objectives secure those early turtles if we can and that’s why we saw them fight for it but of course they’ve got to win that retribution battle when it comes down to it and so what it’s been a lot of is just these kind of skirmishes these fighting I mean even earlier the the fact that toy went all the way from the gold lane up to that turtle to provide that blazing duet damage was great because I mean with innocent he could have just joined the fight ren Yep, he was the first one to rotate out of his lane, but SRG are actually doing a really great job at holding this river aside. Oh, Cra decides to burst or go in first. However, there’s the tsunami slam already committed. Edo gets taken out. Sunsu Jin this time secures the turtle as they will land on Riz will be coming on from behind, but the back execution will be enough. Two man knock up coming in from the tsunami or the title strike, but Yumes, he will not be able to sustain all that, but it might just be all worth it for SRG. Yeah, I mean they’ll get a couple kills off it. Of course, the turtle with RQ, but because of the extended fight and then innocent joining in. I mean, crazy to see how this played out. We’re going to get a look at it again with instant replay here brought to us by STC. But I mean, look at this. This was a fight that you think RQ is going to win. Susin gets the turtle, but then because of the spear, I mean, this is a very slowm moving monk, too, because this is very early on in the game, but you know, they end up having more of that firepower in their favor, especially when you have a landslot to consider in the hands of Skies here. So, it’s still I mean, either way, it’s an objective trade for both of them now. One for one in the turtles, but SRG gets themselves a nice lead. A 1k lead at this point isn’t anything too crazy that RQ has to deal with, but it’s starting to build up here. I think the main thing when you really break down those fights is fighting around those windows of crowd control that RQ lineup has, but the same thing over here from SRG uh es og esports like they can do the same thing, but it’s just playing around. for example, getting out the uh the tsunami slams if it’s going to be used or Edo setting things up with the the break and fist crack fist break combo that we are so used to seeing especially when the flicker is available cuz I think even the panelists did point out that RRQ just have so many resources that will be very beneficial for them when it comes to a team fight or a situation where SRG has to group up especially considering that majority of the heroes of SRG well fortunately for their last pick They did decide to go for the Zyan. So that gives them a little bit more of range. They literally have to coordinate and be together in order for them to maximize their potential, their capabilities. But Edo goes in with a flicker. Gets to catch only Craig Storm. He still has the flicker, but the fury of the phoenix will be used to counter against RQ. Yums from behind trying to hold out some of the other members. Bring the spider already committed by Dy as well. Fifth break catching three but to might get the target and with the blazing do it sai this time gets the turtle operator’s wrath lands onto yujin holding everyone down all by himself but SRG they might want to go for it fortunately RRQ are able to run away though cra just took so much damage and bought so much time for them in that fight and then Yumes holding on to the tsunami slam for the right moment is what really allowed them to gain control around that last turtle of the game and win that fight. It just didn’t seem like RQ was able to go ahead and get the the advantage they were looking for. You know, there was a great amount of damage from the Appraisers Wrath from Susen, but still they weren’t able to win and out. Sakai is going to be out just fine in that exchange, but what a good fight for SRG there. All of the good initiations, you see them come in from RRQ. Yeah, but eventually SRG OG, they’re just so consistent in finding ways to bounce back to counterage up against this team of RQ up against all those potential fist break fist crack setups we see that come in, but there’s a conceal play coming in from RRQ. They don’t fully commit just yet, though. Yeah, good comms there. Uh, you know, they they want to go for Innocent. Like I said, you know, leading into this, a lot of people are like, man, you know, SRG OG Esports has this kind of tendency to just rely on Innocent to kind of lock in, pop off later on. Again, he’s the only one right now with a savage for MSC. And so, if you can put some pressure there, try to delay him out a little bit, then that might be one of the game plans for RQ. But he’s protected really well. You can see he just goes down to the bottom lane now. Um, Yumes providing so much information, he might be in trouble. Oh, beautiful counter with the tsunami slab onto. Now he gets immediately taken down before he gets to do anything. He was right close under the turret as well, but Toy now with that energy eruption, they find a way to deal with Sikai. That was a bit too dangerous up against three members of RRQ. Yeah, I don’t know. Like Sakai was like, I got this. And Toy said, no, it’s all right. So this this is actually probably going to get them the lord here. There is a trade on the tier 2 turret in the bottom side, but RQ now going for this. Oh, spear. Okay. Yeah. Oh, we’ve seen too much. We’ve seen it too much. Bring it up. You know, you kind of hold your breath a little bit. We’ve seen too many lords, too many turtles taken with the spear destruction from Amaz. But RRQ gets themselves a lord, which is going to be um not too devastating, I feel like, again, but they did whittle down some of the gold that was building up here in comparison to SRG. It might help them get to the tier 2 turrets because you got to see it. They don’t have any tier ones down at all, you know. So, they need to go ahead and start opening up the map to utilize this lineup that they have here. Yeah, cuz I I know for a fact that RRQ might be wanting to consistently push SRG to force them to a fight. But then SRG the way they’re dealing with it right now was just really banking on the idea that Innocent needs to take his time. But the lantern flare stack will catch on to Kite once again. Fortunately, gets to adapt away with the puncture. There’s a beautiful knock up coming in from Yums as well. They commit the tsunami slam into Sutsu Jin, but on the other side of the Maxi Kai is doing a great job as well. Zoning out or actually dealing the damage towards the tank members, but he gets traded down too. Toys coming to the fight. He’s trying to send the blazing duet, but he gets hit into the wall. He finally gets it off. He’ll take down one. Forces the flicker from Stormy. What a fight. The mid lane. Lord finally goes down. So after it all, they get all tier one turrets that they need except the mid one. So it does seem like SRG, despite the presence of the Lord, really wanted to force that fight, be the ones to set things up this time around, but then that caused them a turret that caused them a bit of casualties here and there. So fortunately, Innocent was there to actually deal with it. But this is where you see that SRG sometimes they tend to make these very bold decisions too. Hey, we love these slow motion. Oh, Edo, that wasn’t slow motion. Edo’s taken out. Okay, another tsunami slam will be committed onto Sujin. It seems like he’s always the target. Now he gets cap caught. Innocent with a double kill once again, but Gra gets traded out. Cubes doesn’t get to jump away. And now he is too deep with he might get the kill on Toy. He’s actually able to get the kill. Oh my goodness, what a turn around. And it was the same thing. Innocent comes in with a spear destruction. Dy might get sandwiched into here. He’s trying to get back to the mid lane, but Innocent’s just like, I’m taking this turret. They win that fight. And I mean, look at all the bodies right there. And that choke point is not what you want to be. good close up to it too because that was a fight that’s looking one way and then it quickly turns the other and I guess that’s the way it works when you have a Lancelot and then a Monkov that can work in conjunction with each other here. So you’re getting to that point now where a lot of the teams once they get this you know 12 minute plus innocence got most of the items that he needs he’s starting to be a big threat. Not only that though, but if you throw so much at a Lancelot trying to catch him, you know, you can buy like these windows of opportunity with a Thorn Rose with a Phantom Execution. Oh, there it is. Another surprise engage here. The Phoenix as well committed just to follow up with the damage coming in from IRQ. It just seems too much to doing a great job at dealing damage. It is an unknown up against four and he won’t be able to handle it anymore. Oh, that was such a good kind of fight back from RQ. Saka is still up. He might still try to delay them. It’s only Innocent and Cram that are down. So, as the three are still alive from SRG Esports, they can actually delay this and stop them from taking the lord here. Oh my goodness. That’s what they’re going to do. They might just get a tier one in the mid lane for RQ. They could start this up, but by that time, Innocent could join this fight with a Spirit of Destruction. Cran’s already back up, so they’ll do everything they can to stop this out. And this has been such a pendulum swinging game of back and forth that you can’t clearly say RQ’s got this Lord. SRG will fight it out, too. So, now with everybody back up, they’re ready to fight for the Lord here. Yeah, they got to be cautious. They got to manage the waves down bottom first and also be wary of the threat of a potential steal away from the last burst down the Lord. No steals whatsoever are going to happen. There’s the blazing joint once again coming in, however, and it deals enough damage against SRG. They’re trying to chase after them. Lantern flares coming in from RZ, but will he be able to catch up? Innocents and Stormy, they’re just able to walk away. As I said, Bria, it’s a pendulum for game number one. Swinging back and forth. Yeah, the lord went to SRG, but they lost two bodies off of that, so this could be cleared out. But this is also the power of Moskov. Innocent rolls right up top, takes the tier 2 as well cuz he knows RQ’s got to deal with this. Well, he throws the spear down, but he knows Suzin’s there as well. So, this is Oh, and he’s actually going to transfer on down. Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah. That is a very bad move. And now with the blazing duo and incented down, Rin gets the final blow as well. But will he be able to keep himself safe? He will. It’s a double for insult the juin. Hey, I guess they decided let’s just go for it. I’m surprised he followed through, but he did have some information that at least Yumes was there. But man, both Wind of Nature’s coming in clutch. Toy picks up a maleific gun now. This is still an even pretty much game across the board. Both teams really close in terms of turrets that they have, but RQ is going to want to start to go ahead and have these better fights. I mean, a lot of the fights are started up from Yumes. anytime he has a flicker any even if he doesn’t he can kind of just jump on in tsunami slam someone and force RQ to fight and there has been some close calls where it’s like you know okay okay not even the orange buff comes for free eyes he should get out he should and find a way to try and get out but that four members that will try to pin him down they definitely do not want to allow him to escape and That’s how many seconds at least. He will make it in time though. But yeah, I feel like those are things you should not be doing anymore if you want to like just hold on to whatever lead you had. And I said had because it it’s gone. It’s gone. They had one, but Oh, they don’t jumps on in. There’s a passive though, but it still doesn’t keep Stormy safe. Y might get bursted down next. Another double from Rin. literally trying to work on that redemption that we’ve been talking about. At least Innocent is still there, though. So, they have waves and ways to clear the waves, but RQ, they’ll just go in and take this turret away from SRG. Do they still want to fight this? They’re going to jump on in in the mid lane anyway. Oh, Energy Eruption used, but they go after Grab instead trying to deal with the other members, but it seems like they do not care about the damage. This has been a compounding consequence for SRG OG Esports. It started earlier on with that spear destruction choosing to fight, then Sakai being in that side of the jungle around the orange buff and now getting punished here. They lose the base turret. RQ’s swung three and a halfk in their favor and the lord is up. They’re feeling confident about this. They’ll start it up. SRG is going to get in position here. They will force this again probably with you, but they’re going to get caught here. They find a target and it’s going to be Yumes Sikai’s trying to find a kill onto Rin. Fury of the Phoenix will not land though. Zu jet energy eruption will be used towards Sikkai. Edo is there as well to put some pressure but that does not completely stop Sikai from trying to contest. There’s two once again trying to block the way though. But will Sakaiis find another route? Oh, the fist crab actually lands onto him so changes target. What the setup right there, but this is pushing the base anyway. He’s going he’s going for rins. He’s going to be stop 1 v one. He throws a spear destruction and he’ll get rid anyway. Pops the wind of nature going against Enoch. He has the damage. He picks up two. That was a close call. Wind of nature sod all means just to escape even the purify but then he gets taken down now more than ever when he’s needed the most by his team. They can buy themselves 25 seconds here. Innocent will be back up for this. SRG has to delay this Lord push as much as possible. It was such a good juggle from RQ. They dealt with Sakai so much zoning him out from the lord. Innocent pushes. He gives the call. He’s up in 10 and they’ll have to stall this out. Some of the base turrets might fall here depending on how RQ plays this out, but right now SRG is okay. They’ll deal with the Lord. They’ll deal with some of the pressure, but they bought themselves enough time to stay in the game. The pendulum is becoming too real for this game. And mind you, we’re already how many kills? Like, if you do the math, 26 + 19, that’s like quick maths. That’s I don’t know. That’s 35. Wait, no. No. Okay. See, this is how it affects our brain. That’s 45. 45. That’s how unlimited clashes actually affect our brain. BMI out from toy. Okay. Just escape the phantom execution. So, you have to respect the wave clear and the damage coming in from SRG. Is your brain okay, Brena? I hope so. I hope everybody watching this one, their brain is okay because if it’s five games of this, that’s going to be intense. Conceal’s going to be used. Edo can lead him charge here. We’ll get stopped the dark wave in his tracks. So, right now, this composition is paying dividends here for SRG OG Essports. Like, they’re able to stay in this. They’re able to go ahead and clear things out relatively well and quickly. And it’s actually pretty difficult for RQ to start up a fight. If they have to do anything, it’s on, you know, he has to use that conceal like we just saw him or, you know, flicker on in and set things up. But that’s why the majority of this game has all been a decision from SRG. They’ve been the ones starting the fights. they’ve been ones choosing that uh that route and clearly that can work for them. But I feel like even for RQ, you got to start to transition to be like, “All right, how do we make sure we don’t get just like pushed off the map be from Innocent because with that base turret down now?” That’s something they can play into. Good thing the Lord is on that side and not the opposite side. So So that alleviates some of the pressure. Oh, Eno, but even in just the orange buff, they decide to pick a fight. Enoch gets bursted down. immortality already popped and sick eyes will be able to find the kill on the dead but toy might just save the game for RQ deals enough damage with blazing do it once again there’s the stun coming in from Dy they go for crab this time around but Innocent is just chasing after every single member of RQ but still they find a way another bravest fighter in and they go in they get the slam on down as well innocent immortality still going to be popped finally go down from RZ and RQ pushes and pulse their way to win this team fight. They’ll get the wipe out. Edo trusted his ability to sustain and get a shield. And now it’s RRQ who prevails in game number one. The whole story here was the back and forth, the back and forth of pendulum for both teams. And this time around, RQ gets game number one. What a phenomenal match one in this best of five. Again, if we get five games of this, I think we’ll all go home happy. But this is a close one, Bria. I mean, both teams look so good there. That was too close. I mean, you would think that RRQ would be the ones who were in a little more riskier position since they forced it. They forced the fight close to SRG OG’s base in a situation where they could have possibly had an easier way out or to regroup or re-engage. But the way RQ was just able to sustain all that, find the right timings to go in, especially for Toy, I must say, the timings Toy had using the blazing do it saved the team fights for RRQ multiple times. Not only that, but Dy, like Dyron, even in that last fight, I mean, he was doing this all game, but this was a Lapu Lapu game of of crazy proportions. Even that last fight, he had to be the guy a lot of the times tanking up a lot of damage, getting stuns off, even doing a decent amount of damage here. So, between him, and Susan, they were really able to go ahead and allow the team fights to be the way that they were. It was a great thing. you know, you see from the the highlights over here overall in game one and it was just a I I mean a lot of the mic I I mean a lot of the micro decisions that were made on both sides I feel like were good, but I would say the SRG Esports made more mistakes here and that seems to be of course the case of the game, right? The more the team that makes more of those mistakes is usually going to lose the game. And it’s weird because I feel like all those mistakes were magnified whenever they were clearly in the lead. Yeah. So that’s like for majority of the first few minutes. No, not even like the mid portions of the game where it feels like individually SRG kept doing things away from the other members of their team from away from their teammates. So I feel like those are questions we might get answered later on. Yeah. Well, maybe the panel can answer that for us. We’re going to throw it back over to Redmar and our boys on the panel. Thank you so much, Bria and Nu. Well, as expected, uh, RQ much better draft, easier to pull off, but SRG fought back until they realized the biggest problem that we acknowledged by the end of the draft, the damage output coming out of RQ is just way too much. Yeah, I think uh, not just the damage output, Toy was able to come online, but for me, top five players of the match, Dyron, Dyron, Dyron, Dyron, Dyron, the guy was a monster. And even though SRG throughout the beginning of the match was able to kind of check RQ, there was one player they weren’t able to check the whole game. Yeah. If Diamond doesn’t get the MVP, I don’t know what to say, right? Like he he came out swinging from the gates. He had the he was the only person who was walking out of the mid game with any sort of lead whatsoever. Second to only Toy. And even then, it was very by a very small margin. The only other person in terms of raw execution that was doing well was Edok. So it’s wild how crazy and how close the margins were. Yeah. If you remember Lapu Lapu, if he gets to snowball very quickly, he’s the hero that shines in longer engages. As the ser as the game went on, you saw that SRG were able to drag things out in terms of team fights because Innocent was also staying alive. But then Dyron’s happy. At one point behind the scenes, TX exclaimed, “What the heck is that cool down?” He just kept getting his bravest fighter so quickly. Yeah, I mean, in the matter of a fight two times, and he saved the second one for a bit farther into the fight. So, I mean, it’s definitely insane and without Dyron, I don’t think RQ would have been able to pull through on that series. I agree. I think that, you know, overall Toy was playing a strong game. His first item power spike honestly felt when he got the Trinity and as soon as he got the wand where we saw his initial win over some pretty uh I want to say overextensions from the side of Innocent, but he’s doing it at a time where technically there’s nothing to fight over in the map and the Lord was kind of walking down on bottom side. Overall, this match was a lot closer than what most people would imagine, right? It was about how close can you execute and really how much value can the mid laners get out of their spells. It was 51 kills in 20 minutes and 36 seconds. It was definitely a close game because you also got to see SRG recalibrate a bit and at some point they were just like, “Okay, these team fights are a struggle for us. Let’s just see if we can get Sakai to get the lord, get innocent to split push, which was unfortunately just checked really well by RQ. Real quick though, I I want to look into Sakai here. Do you think this was more of a he had way more mistakes than he had good moments for Sakai or was EOG and even Susin just checking him way too good? I wouldn’t even say that I I don’t know. I don’t think Sakai made too many mistakes in the beginning of the game. I was literally honoring him with how well he was sticking close to his team even though he was assassin playing around Innocent. SRG played their composition very well. Better than what I thought their draft was going to do. Honestly, agreed. Yeah, I think this is one of the few examples of an MLBB game that is by far the most exciting because both sides understood what their compositions wanted to do and trading is a top priority. You never kind of want to walk away saying, “Oh, I lost three for two.” Right? You always want to be one for one, 50/50 every single time you engage your opponent. Well, these two teams have set the bar, not only for the series, but I feel like for the day with that monster 51 kill game in game number one. RQ or SRG, let’s see what adjustments will be made when we come back from the break for game number two. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Yeah. Ah! Ah, when the world of business is constantly changing, you need to stay ahead. So, what about AI to generate new possibilities? Machine learning to predict what customers will like? Or expand your business by forecasting delivery routes with realtime data. With the power of the cloud, imagine how AWS can transform your business. Heat. Heat. Welcome back to the panel here at the Mid-Season Cup 2025 of the Esports World Cup. Still here with Brenmar, Gideon, and TX. And before we head on over and continue this series, we kind of need a bit more info and context as to how RRQ and SRG ended up together. Let’s watch this. Innocent. Innocent. So, against RQ, what do you think? Just like with other teams, it’s normal. We just need to prepare for them. Our strategy maybe it’s for SRG. For strategy, I think you need to ask my coach. Let’s go. The interview SRG requested. No, no, it’s liing now. Oh, now we are doing device setup. No, I cannot. We’re doing the rear soul, guys, because so we know what we going to do in the max day. Can you bring me around? Yes, let’s go. And this one is innocent. Your manager say hi. And our manager, guys. Yes. And this one is a Skype twins the last season MVP. I think that’s all guys something. Wow. This is our key. And we have different colors because we are the defending champion, right? So we have the crown in the middle, right? him perfect for do your best and let’s give a good match. The beast at the gate is innocent. And in that game number one though he did have a fantastic game. He was somewhat tamed by RRQ or can I say a little bit more control. They weren’t able to completely re Innocent in. Yeah. No, at least coming into this game, I’m a little more excited for it because it looks like Toy is up for the challenge. He’s ready to go toe-to-toe in lane against Innocent and even during team fights. Yeah. And what’s interesting about Toy is it seems like a much more controlled aggression. And not saying that Innocent’s um out of control aggression is bad. It’s where we get to see those saves that we saw in that Lord right before that Lord push. Something that completely put SRG, you know, kept them in the game for a bit longer there. But I think Toy is definitely ready for this. It’s a stat check. You know, it’s to keep RQ in uh in play. Yeah. And if you want to be a beast in game, too, similar to our players, you can go ahead and grab the MSE 2025 pass. Again, it’s only available up until August 7th. It’s 20% off for the entire period. Don’t forget to get Nathan’s new Archon of knowledge skin. One of my favorite MSE skins that we’ve ever released. And you can also get MSE coins, the battle mode, the returning skin of Atlas, the Jawhead Space Explorer skin, and many more rewards. You do not want to miss out on that. All right, so drafts for game number two. We were unanimous that RRQ drafted a much easier lineup to push uh to pull off. SRG kept up with them mechanically, but I think now the focus shifts away from the center of the map. You’re really going to have to look now at what Dyron ends up with and how well Cra with his pick can stop Dyron from doing what Dyron does. I want to agree with you, but at the same time, what it really boils down to is uh whether or not the mid is going to get effective because of Dy on the other side. Like I mean, look at this quote from Reyn. Yeah, he did mention that during M6 that he wasn’t like completely in the zone. There were a few things that was sort of like bothering him, but now in that game number one, it really didn’t look like it. He was very confident on that juicer. Cut to Innocent taking him out right of the paint. Fair enough. But that’s Innocent Things, man. Innocent could do no wrong right now. But I want to touch on what you said, Renar. You know, in terms of draft, honestly, SRG’s draft won me over halfway through that game. I don’t really think I don’t think their draft was any worse than RQ’s, but I will agree that I think RQ’s draft was a bit harder to pull off. There was a bit more things that they had to do in sense of hit certain skill shots. The timing of that Fury of the Phoenix had to always be perfect, whereas RQ’s draft was just a bit more straightforward for me. Everyone had a very easy objective. I agree they had a very easy objective, but then it’s really you’re coin flipping every single time for SRG, right? It’s like I have to mechanically outplay you and Sutsu Jun’s only worry is am I going to get tsunami slammed and can I lock down Sakai as we head into the draft for game number two. Surprise, surprise. What I have been telling everyone should be the pick of MSC 2025. The Akai is banned in the first phase by SRG. So, do we see a Fredin ban as the last one from SRG? Pure target onto Sutrogen because it’s true. All we’ve seen from RQ so far is utility jungle. Oh, they’re trying to get Susin into the assassin mindset. Let’s go toe for toe. Ninjas in the jungle, baby. I think they actually won’t ban out the Frederick here for the side of SRG. I think they actually want Sutin to be on the Fred because then it is more straightforward as to what they want at at least for the side of SRG OG Esports, right? I think even if they get the Fred at this point, it’s also not too bad. Ooh, the ruby bam for the side of RRQ. Ah, it’s because YSS could have been open and essentially you take out the Ruby, YSS is now sort of softly taken away as an option. I think YSS is going to get first picked by SRG’s side. Yeah, it’s something they’ve picked up before. It’s something we’ve barely ever seen. I think they have to pick it up. But against How does it fair against the Fredin? You get hit by that taunt when you come in. Is it I feel like it could be something similar to the Joy where if you come in too close, you’re in a kind of a bad spot. Well, I mean, it’s the same it’s the same problem that you have with Lancelot, right? You’re basically trying to use your eye frames, the trace list in this case to kind of stay ahead of the game, but honestly, let’s see, right? Because Shin has been picked up whenever it is open, especially when redside doesn’t band it for majority of teams. Yeah. And if they go as she means SRG could end up with a double carry at most. The double marksman strategy that we’ve been seeing all throughout MSE. So RQ are going to lean in into the juice here. And now Kala combo at the center of the map with strong control. I think SRG they need to take a page from RQ’s book and they might want to consider picking up the Badong now. Badong could definitely be clean. Maybe lock in their mage a little earlier this time. Oh yeah. Um I think that could definitely be a possibility as well. But now that they have something like the YSS, I’m excited to see exactly how it plays out. Uh uh I think right now what it’s riding on is whether or not you can get like a winning matchup for the side of EXP. I’m trying to think of synergies right now because that’s what blue side especially within this first phase really set up for. Can we set up for second phase strong synergies or strong laners? And in this case it’s going to be strong laners for the side of SRG. The CC I’m okay with. The Farsa I’m a little worried for considering that you know Gat hasn’t been picked up as a counter engagement. Yeah, really great pick here by RQ considering that you don’t have to worry about the fulvis on the other side and you needed someone to reach that far. Arl lot’s a great pick up for Dyron. Yeah, but at least I will say with them picking it up this early, there’s not as many counters as RQ had last time against some of those long range mages. So, I think this could be comfortable. The CC though sometimes we see the exp lane get pushed back into second phase. CC’s just solid overall, right? She can’t really do any wrong. You do kind of lack your crowd control here a little bit, but they can make up for that in second phase. Huh. They take away the Granger. So, they’re taking away the reach as much as possible from Innocent, but then RG doesn’t have enough pieces right now to actually make if ever hypothetically they decide to go Har in the gold lane. I mean, they don’t have to go Har, right? There’s still Moskov available. They can still play Claude if they wanted to as well. All of which do pretty decent into the Farsa. At the end of the day, we’ve seen that Toy is actually pretty capable of taking on like Innocence Moscow in a 1v one scenario. And even then, I’m still a little worried about a couple of things. Number one, whether or not Goth is a consideration for RQ4 banning or whether or not SRG is going to completely take out the Fren at this point. There we go. Now we’re forcing them to go into an assassin section which then again let’s say if RQ get access to Lancelot then there’s a big question of is there enough burst with the Kalia I think at this point maybe I think you still maybe ban out the Lancelot maybe you ban out the Hayabusa something of that nature you’re right though lack of burst they have the Zushin they don’t really have that on the side of RQ um it’s mostly chip damage right now so and then they ban the Granger against themselves as well which could have been a really decent, you know, right away pick up for them being first pick in second phase. Where does RQ go from here? Honestly, I feel like they’re in the the bad spot of this draft right now. Yeah, they excuse me, they ban the Phobus. There’s a possib RQ is the only other team that puts CC in the gold. Yeah. Ah, so they’re thinking that the CC might go into the gold lane and they did it last time they had the YSS. They went uh Ruby Dyroth against CFU, which yes, it’s very different. Well, the point is is with the burst damage of a Farza and a YSS, it is very doable. And they could even pick something that’s a bit more aggressive that still output damage. Something like the Diroth. I’m not crazy about it, but you get my point, right? Yeah. Mhm. So, for SRG’s last ban, yeah, I think I’m on the same boat as you guys. Just ban out an assassin. It is the Hayabusa. One of the things you want to go for if you have a Farsa in your lineup and considering where the YSS will be compared to the rest of the team, it’s a safe band. Then they do end up picking the Harth away from the side of SRG. If ever SRG was looking for a more traditional carry in the gold lane. So are they going to lean into the double fighter setup to supplement this YSS is the big question now for SRG. I think it’s going to be really difficult to actually go for this like double fighter setup at this point because yes, they’ve got the damage, but at the same time getting picked off from the side of RQ is also highly likely, right? They’ve got good ways of disengage. They’ve got a great pickoff hero in the Kalia. So sustaining through the damage is always a possibility. And I think the only one that we should be worried about was the Ruby, but it’s already banned out. So it forces SRG unless they’ve got some really deep pockets in that gold lane to say, “Hey, Innocent, what other fighters can you play?” They definitely decided they go for the Claw, though. Still need a ROR and I think they need some crowd control. They do take theat solid, something that can still hold down the front line on the side of RQ. They need some physical damage at this point. Um, I think the Lance Lance slots’s probably their best option here. They can go Lance, they can go Ling. Uh, it’s there. I don’t think there’s anything else. That’s pretty crazy. But I think that SRG are banking. That’s like, sure, you could play Ling, but then you’re late game. If you play Lance slot, the first two items are the most important, and we don’t believe in your mechanics enough to get away with it. Yeah, you need the raw damage. Uh, the Arlot and Ka with what SRG is looking like right now, might not be able to last that long. So, they do go for the landslot. They get that burst. How are we feeling about these drafts? Which team are you siding with? I really like the SRG draft right now. I think it’s it’s very straightforward. I think it’s clean. I think it’s a bit simpler than what they tried to do last time. I think that it’s still going to be a 50/50 between the two teams. We’re going to see something very similar to the last game. A bit of a switch in roles, but I think SRG’s lineup will scale much better. I’m on the same boat of strengths here, leaning a little bit more towards the SRG draft, but let’s see. Maybe Dyron might pop off again for RQ completely throwing her predictions uh out of the way. So bringing in nice. What about you two? What do you guys think about the draft for this game number two? Thank you so much panel. I’ll tell you what we think. I I’m going to go with RQ here. I think they had a great game last time. Bria uh Dyron Dyron was locked in and he’s got the Arlon in his hand. That is a little more risky though because we’ve seen some final slashes change the course of games either for better or for worse. So you guys can let us know in the comments as well what you guys think. Who has the better draft for game two? Welcome to the land of dawn here. It’s this best of five to move on forward. Bria, who do you think? Are you Are you going with the boys on the panel? Okay. I think we’re going to be split in terms of what we think when it comes to the draft for game number two because as much as I wanted to side with RQ as well, granted what they were able to accomplish in game number one and given that they had the Jian Arlot combination that could be paired up well with their other heroes, the AoE that SRG has right now and the type of lineup that they have looks too good in terms of team fights. And if well they must be played to coordinate well enough to be able to make things work, right? And if that’s going to be the case for SRG OG heading into this game, then things may be one a lot more simpler and a lot more better for them. I feel I feel like the early game if especially when these level fours are available, RQ could really punish in the early objective takes with the turtles. A lot of that again comes with the fact that that is just the power of a Kala. That’s why a lot of teams like to go ahead and pick that up. um you know, you also throw in the Art uh that kit to go ahead and help you out. There’s a whole lot that they can do in these early fights that gives them a advantage when it comes to early team fights. Now, where does SRG OG Esports come into that? They have just quite a bit of damage early on, which they can go ahead and do. Taking a look at the first blood rates here. This is how much these teams like to fight. As you can already see here, Yumes, he should be fine. He’s pretty tanky. Yeah, literally fighting in as early as now, less than 2 minutes into this game. But um we’ve seen some early first blood 30 seconds or so. 26 26. There has been one which was at 26 seconds. That’s true. That happened in the group stage. So we’re yet to see that happen in the knockouts because teams tend to play a little more cautiously and that’s for sure. But that does not seem cautious at all. What a surprise setup coming in from Dy. They get to burst down Rids first. However, Stormy trying to hold on be alive, but he won’t be able to survive that as well. Sujen freely gets hold of the objective for his team, but it’s a beautiful curtain called Yo-Yo Blitz coming in from Cra finds a way to respond to RRQ, but Dy, he buys some time for Sutuin to steal away the orange or the purple buff. Okay, a whole lot happened there. Suzuin should be fine. He’s going to throw. Oh, he’s so close to dying again. Earlier, even Sakai is getting that charge up. uh the shot in there, but man, so turtle goes to RQ. Yeah, that was a fight started from the final slash like we’ve expected uh to happen there. But even when you get that down, if you are in a position where you’re kind of outgunned, outdamaged, and that’s what I was saying with SRG’s lineup, they have a lot of good early damage. And so when you jump into that fight, and mind you, two of those kills went to Cra. So this might be one of the games where it’s like Creme now has this lead against Dy. He’s got two early kills on a CC which is going to allow him to go ahead and duke it out but already up top and three members are going to actually punish him right there. So as you mentioned they are looking to secure that early advantage for Creme once again and I believe this happened earlier too. They just have to really keep it close but the salmon force already committed by Toy doesn’t get to actually fully answer back though. The BMI for the Claude has been such a crucial part as well in the way he’s able to keep himself safe. Has to be extra careful though because the other members of SRG OG are also down bottom as well. But going back I Okay, we can’t even say anything about what happens in terms of the lineup because for now RQ will try to burst down YS. Is it the right decision? However, Sakai actually pretty low as well. They’re doing a great job at just sustaining and holding on despite all that early game damage you mentioned. Briget, it’s still the same thing. Both teams going back and forth already in game two just like they did. They’re looking to make a play up here on Cra. Oh, nice final slash. That’s a beautiful lantern flare. Final slash, but now they get tied with the curtain call. Both and Dy get taken out right before the turtle. See, that’s crazy because like RQ just ends up, you know, surviving that whole interaction in the mid lane. They could have just started probably the turtle. They go for a play up top and now they’re going to lose this objective over SRG. Cra will go ahead and zone out as much as possible. Susin and they might get some more. I mean, they have to respect this. They flicker forward. Look, such an aggressive decision coming in from RRQ. And that cost R his life. Dy still decides to go in though. Does use the final slash. Get the kill onto it, guys. He actually does. A nice follow up as well coming in from Edo. But the blazing do it from that might force them to get away. Zam force already committed by Toy. But will he be able to find the trade? Edo will fall next. Crab battling up against Toy, but finds a way to escape. But no. Hey, if they want those kills, they’re going to go for it. So many aggressive flickers being used. Finally, Cra goes down because he was 5 and0 for a second there. And RQ had to get something. They had to get a shut down going. We’re going to look at the instant replay here from STC. This was all started. Look at this. Wind goes forward. They get caught in a bad position, but still it also brings it to a fight here where then Dy can join. He uses the final slash. But this whole time both gold laners also rotating towards this fight. I mean, if we had 51 kills earlier, yeah, I don’t know how many we’re going to have this time in game two. We might be exceeding that even if the pace keeps going like this. But even despite the early lead that CRA was able to establish or SRG, OG was able to establish for their XP lane, Rakur are actually the ones who get to convert into a turret first. There’s not too much of a significant lead in terms of the other laning matchups. It’s just mostly really on the exp lane. And so RRQ, I feel like that’s one thing you’d really have to look at because they tend to overextend in a way. I I mean we’re still in the uh 6 minute mark of the game. Yes. But these are these are decisions that can immediately be punished by a single curtain call and that applies to whoever decides to go in. Be it Rin with the flicker on the Jin and whatnot. So like those are things you have to calculate a bit more if you were RRQ. This is good though from RQ because again, you know, based off the rematch that we we remember seeing or the match we remember seeing from MS6, RQ definitely comes into this series a lot more aggressive. You know, they are a team that likes to be a little more foundational, a little more stick to the book here um a lot with these objectives and they’re going to have to fight for the second turtle. They are dealing with the pressure from SRG’s lineup. There’s a jump on in. Oh, AoG curtain call. Beautiful call coming in from RQ, but Sutsu Jin still gets the turtle for his team. Edo though will be punished here. Double kill for CRA. RZ just trying to scare away the other members from chasing them, but that was clearly somehow a bit more favorable for SRG. Yeah, they they get a couple kills off of it. They get some pressure. Um they dealt with Toy was starting to scale up pretty well in this Har. Oh, there it is. Okay, those are very aggressive combinations coming in from SRG. And then somehow Dy gets to cancel that feathered air strike, but that was a close call for Ren. Okay, so going back. I know we did mention that RQ hold on Zutu Jin. Will he get to escape this? Cra doing a great job at pressuring him as he tries to defend that tier one down bottom. If last game we saw, oh my goodness, RQ’s XP later Diren have a great game. Now this time it’s Cra for game two. 71 and two. Now this CC is starting to be a really big problem. actually has been a problem for the majority of the game. But wo, hold on. That’s a lot of damage coming in from Stormmy. The other members didn’t even have to do much. They just stood right in front of them. Block their way to trying to cancel Stormy out or answer back. And now that’s a Zaman force coming from Troy tries to burst down Cra, but he gets to bounce away. So, not even like SRG can afford to do those kinds of plays because they have the mobility to keep themselves safe. That’s one of the things that the the panel is really trying to to paint the picture here too. You know, there’s in terms of damage potential from RQ, it’s a little bit more difficult because yes, you need the scaling from a Har. But again, if Susan hasn’t been able to utilize much because of this zone potential that a farce gives. I know I know Gideon mentioned that he was a little worried about it, but so far it’s working really well in terms of damage. That’s that’s all the farer really does. Like you are a big artillery setup for your team to play around that feathered air strike and they’ve done so well at catching targets. I mean, you lay that down, you have an avatar, the guardian, you get to jump on in it. It’s such a damage zone of of that RQ wants to stay away from because that innocent can just come through with the blazing duet. So, we’re seeing a lot of these ultimates from SRG, OG Essports work really well in conjunction with each other. And it’s RQ that’s trying to scramble and be like, how do we approach these fights? What do we do? Because a lot of that is this final slash. Oh, Phantom Execution doesn’t connect, but they still get the kill on Stormy. However, one man down for SRG OG. And that is one way you could also use your resources in conjunction with another for RQ. Like just take them by surprise like that. They want to take down one of the biggest damage dealers. They’re going to be fine. There’s the initiation though. Two or three man knockup double right there. But with the blazing duet, SRG OG are actually able to hold out. It’s a triple for could possibly be a maniac and he finds it on the CC 11 and three. And he’s going to get the Lord. Just Cra is right now the team. He is doing everything. Yeah, look at this. The initiation comes through, but Creme is fine with a vengeance with as stacked as he is. He just does so much damage to RQ around here. And you know, you’re sitting here, he gets a maniac, and then they get the lord. Like, how do you stop this? And this is such an interesting thing because CC takes a very specific lineup for it to really work the way it has, but so far it’s been phenomenal in the hands of CRA for game two. And this is giving a huge swing in favor for them. RQ doesn’t really have an answer to to to deal with this. We usually see CC’s do well in damage, but look, he’s sitting at number one pretty far ahead of a far. That is insane that he’s actually able to do that. And also, a lot of this has to do when he jumps on into this. He pops the vengeance and he’s fine. He’s also tanky and does so much damage. That’ll be a lot of bounty if ever they do get to find a kill onto Cra, but that might be something that will be a bit tricky to pull off if you’re RRQ because you have to pay attention to a lot of other stuff because the other members can decide to go in whenever they like. There’s the AoG, there’s the blazing duet, and right now you’re seeing the feathered air strike. They’ll have to work on clearing and taking down the lord first before they proceed with anything else. And looking at it right now, Dy does have the flicker if they’d want to decide to go for something. But you’d also have to consider, would it be best to actually use it as a means to cancel out the other members of SRG? OG instead, but he decides to use it as a setup gets the follow up from the other members. And Sai is the first to get targeted down, but the AOG denies the escape. And now it isn’t goes in with the blazing D and will find the kill onto R as well. And the better air strike will nearly catch up to EO. But that was clearly a decision by RRQ. They wanted to force a fight right there. That was a risk if anything, Brian. I mean, they chose to fight. They thought, you know, we clear the lord. We can handle this. We’re going to go for it. Now, they’re going to lose this base turret. And even so, it’s been time and time again where we’ve seen this final slash used to start some of the fights and RQ ends up just losing it. And that’s really tough because you got to think, who do you final slash? How how do you win that fight? Because even if you slash cram into the equation again, he’s going to pop the vengeance. He’s going to be able to go ahead and just kind of bounce around the team from RQ. And that was also the window for Innocent to go ahead and come in with that blazing duet. So, you’re just in a really tough situation if you’re RQ to make this lineup work. And it’s really showing that the draft difference here. I mean, from start to finish so far, SRG OG Esports has just been able to go ahead and capitalize on a lot of the decisions they made, but also just the way that this lineup works. Now, it gets even more difficult to deal with CRM cuz he’s got an immortality, and he’s still on that 111 KDA. Now, we put a bit more highlight on him. Also, nearly or actually completed his build already on this CC. So that just adds up to the uh reasons that RQ might find it a bit more difficult to deal with him. Even if you want to potentially take him out first as probably one of the members who gets to extend a little bit further deep into the fight, but even when they decide to go for him for the tsunami slab, it does not seem to be the best possible decision. Toy gets blasted as well. So tries to go for Stormy but just three posing with the wings spy wings and Innocent decides to go in as well with the blazing do what they might actually try to go for this base turret. They’re going to jump into the base. They don’t have any waves pushing in in the mid lane just yet, but they can go ahead and wait for that one in the bottom to come up. They will just ignore the Lord. It seems there’s still 10 seconds on Edo to come up. So we’ll see if SRG decides to end the game on this push. There’s a concealed play. They definitely want to look for something here. Final stack already committed. but innocent he will just be targeting the turrets right here. Gyron buying a lot of time but the curtain call is already committed onto him gets bursted down as well. There’s a snami slap but he won’t be able to sustain and now SRG OG they equalize the series. No sweeps for this one. We didn’t think it’d be that case anyway. One to one into the series now. What a dominant game uh game two was. I mean, there was some moments where it was a back and forth, you know, but ultimately, hey, it was Cra’s game here for game two. Definitely saw what Dyron did in game one. He’s like, “Hey, I can do that, too.” You could forget everything that happened in game number one with that performance from Cra in game number two. Yeah. I mean, he again a maniac. He got a maniac on the CC. Top of the damage meters. Like, this doesn’t like this is what we wish our XP laners in our own games would be like, you know? I mean like he was able to just go ahead and do so well with this. And again, I want to say as we look at the highlights, a lot of it had to do with that early damage profile that comes with this kind of lineup with the fact that the timings on a lot of this were also on point. They they had to utilize the Avatar, the Guardian, and that fee air strike really well with each other, but it also worked well with the YSS. I mean, this was the first pick in the draft because of the reason that you get some of that additional map presence. you know, you’re able to go ahead and and spot things out. So, amazing game here for SRG Esports. We’re going to be throwing it back to the panel to go ahead and see what their thoughts are about game number two. Uh, nice. Are you throwing a bit of shade towards me? I’m usually the exp laner that you are paired up with when you’re playing your Cho. Uh, I can play CC like this too, but yeah, definitely Cra was the guy for SRG setting it up with Yumes, and you two have some very strong opinions about this game number two. Yeah, I mean it’s like we came into this series focusing on gold laners, focusing on junglers, but right now I think the focus has to be on the exp laners after an amazing game from Dyron on game one. Cra comes in and just completely flips the script. I mean, just look at that endgame score. He’s 121 and 18 as we get into that final sequence and then turns it into 13-1 and 8, which is crazy. But I have to talk about the big differences of game one and game number two because when we saw game number one, right, we saw that the biggest difference was the fact that Dy was having a good time on this Lapu and could carry that lead. So adjusting into game two, that’s where we see the big change. The question became, can we get Cra in a better position in the laning phase to start affecting the mid game and more importantly so, how much can we squeeze the value out of Stormy? cuz he was playing genius one first item on a Farsa and and that’s where we looked at the draft. The big difference was instead of slotting those two at the end of the phase, they brought him in right away. They made sure they locked in Stormy immediately in the mage, they made sure they locked in Cra immediately on a CC, which doesn’t have a whole lot of counterplay. We mentioned that no matter what it’s going to do pretty well, especially in the hands of Cra. Yeah, let’s not also forget the fact that this Gat I like the way that SRG kind of ordered, as Tex mentioned, ordered the draft, right? The final scores are listed there. Ridiculous coming in from Cramp. But just notice that everybody has some form of synergy with this Gatot, right? If GTO lands a CC, it’s basically over for whoever is taunted. But that AOG alongside with the curtain call. A really powerful combination. Let’s not forget about the turtle bolt with a mountain shocker to not only get the information, but force opponents in a particular direction to guarantee the stun. Yeah. And the really smart thing about Stormmy rushing that genius wand is that it goes well with Yumes. Yeah, the genius wand helps reduce the magic defense that Yumes would be more than happy because he deals magic damage too. What makes this draft even better is they weren’t even at late game claw yet. Like they even had a cherry on top. They had a just in case depending on how far this game went. And I love that you guys brought because this is a snowballing effect one after the other. Farsa goes to genius one and then Clot needs to get his items. The reason why we see Farsa picking up this genius one because she knows, hey, I need a costefficient item because I’m going to be rotating across the map. A majority of these 24 kills wouldn’t have even happened if not for the fact that Stormy still provided good damage, allowing Innocent to pick up that midwave, too. You know, and I just got to say, I miss seeing EXP laners in the carry doing the most damage per minute. We all grew bored of just having these bulky exp laners, these sustain exp laners, and even though even though the uh the CC was able to pick up tank items, still outputting an insane amount of damage. Yeah, and I think that goes to show just where the mindset of SRG and RQ was in terms of their exp lane picks. SRG, they went ahead and rushed the CZ. That’s them already looking at they’re probably going to pick up the Arlot cuz that’s what RQ needed in the big picture of it all. While for RQ now, it’s like, okay, we have the Arlot. good for a big picture but terrible in lane up against a CC. It’s always just such a good time for CC and the rest of the team that has a CC on their side when they’re going up against an expl. I think what Arcadia and Kescute posed to each other. They looked at each other and said this, “Hey, I believe that Sutsujin is not going to get as much value out of the Lancelot and Kescute said I don’t think you’re going to get as much value out of the CC.” If not, the bands would have been a little different, right? We saw the Phobias get banned out. understandable because Kalon as well as Arla were already shown in first phase. I think another good thing about the bands was SRG banning out that Bosa and that Akai early on rushing the CC to kind of throw a warning out. Do are you sure you want to pick the Fredin? Are are you sure you want to pick the Fredin? And then by then we’re forcing RQ into this Lance a lot. So I think the next question on my mind is, you know, are they going to be stuck in utility jungle? Is Assassin Jungle something that we’re really going to see from RQ in the future or is it going to flop like what we just saw in the last series? Well, here’s the thing. Between both of these teams who are already playing at such a high level, I can’t even blame Sutsu Jin, right? The early game actually worked out really well for him. It’s not like he mis mechanicked. It really boiled down to, oh, I just didn’t have one extra stack of war axe before I went into the fight. Which is why we’re seeing like uh for an example, where where is he? the guys walking away with one HP after the thorn rose. And a little bit of a conspiracy theory here. I feel like for multiple points of the draft, it was RRQ falling into some trap set by SRG. The fact that you already saw the CC and the Arlot. I mean, again, I’m still leaning towards the idea that RQ shouldn’t have leaned in on banning the Phobus in that second phase. At that point, I think SRG already had it settled in their heads that no, we’re going to be playing Claude here. But I think that’s that’s kind of goes to the ode of SRG and maybe even the advantage of them playing so many games in the group stage and showing some different possibilities that they could bring to the draft. Showing that Ruby Gold lane’s a possibility. You know, double fighters are a possibility. Maybe RQ just a little too much in their head there. I think it all rounds back to the fact that we’re we saw what happened in game number one. We put our focus in both Sakai alongside with Innocent and that just wasn’t a good draft pattern against RQ. They seem very prepared for Sakai in particular on top of Innocent. So, let’s now start leaning into everybody else. I think KZQ’s next plan here is to make sure that he disrupts a couple of the synergies alongside most importantly Yumes, who kind of is getting away with a lot more than he probably should in these past two games. Yeah, and I just have to commend Yums. I was quite vocal about how Yumes, it felt like he underperformed in that series during the group stage at one point before they faced off against CFU. I believe it was Were they up against again? can’t remember, but when SRG went up against that, it seemed like Hume was underperforming. But then now he’s making the most out of the unbreakable taunts. He’s making the most out of the AOG. So, he’s really playing a fantastic game. And I think that’s one of the picks now that Ry has to look into. Hey, if you have a gotcha on the side of on the hands of Yumes, we really have to be careful. And that’s the great thing about the meta right now where so many teams and players have talked about how open it is, how balanced it is right now is it’s almost impossible to cover all of your bases in the bands. There’s always something left that could fit into the comp and as long as the player can use it correctly, they can pull it off. And that’s that’s something that really has been so enjoyable I think in general about these drafts. Yeah, I I mean I personally think the only adjustment they could have made is get rid of the Gata in phase two, force them onto a show. Maybe that could have been an option. Yeah, a lot of possibilities could happen here. Again, hello to everyone in the arena right now on site here at Riion Saudi Arabia at the boulevard. Thank you so much for joining us. We are about to head into the draft for game number three. And I feel like a lot of the trades we’re going to be seeing are going to be around the EXP in Rome now. But if anyone should bring out something surprising here, as we mentioned at the top of the show, wherein these two teams cannot hide anything anymore, they just have to show their hands, show their best cards. I think RQ needs to do that for this game number three. Yeah, I think well, what we saw from SRG in game number two is they completely changed the way they approach the draft. And I think we definitely see the way that RQ approaches this draft. And that’s when we know we’re in some good MLBB. both teams every game. Whoever loses, okay, let’s not try to do the same thing over and over again. Let’s switch up who we slot first, what we ban, etc., etc. Yeah, things are going to get wild in the draft. As wild as they are in game right now with the Dino Planet Allstar event happening all the way until August 5th. Remember, you can uh face off against Roar, the Terasaur Lord. That’s why they called him Roar. Okay. Beat him and win exclusive rewards like a limited Avatar border and join themed events to unlock a free skin. and the Popo and Koopa Proto Hunter. And if you’re a creator, submit your clips to grab special battle emotes. Are you ready to roar? Roar. I’m so ready for Popo and Koopa to be back in the meta. I’m not. I am not. I love that hero. Stormmy staring us down. Stormy. Oh, okay. Storm is like, I heard that. Don’t be Popo and Koopa back. I play Farsa. Like, please don’t. Actually, that’s that’s the hero I’m looking for. Uh, this MSE, this whole MSE, I’ve been looking for someone brave enough to pick up a Pop and Koopa. Rome or gold? Anywhere? Anywhere. Even mid. Even mid. I love it. The fact that you’re suggesting it as Rome. God, I remember the days. Yeah, I used to play it. I used to play it, man. Y’all the worst. Y’all are the worst. It was a sure what, 5second stun and lock down. And then you try to get out. Nope. You can’t walk out cuz there’s a trap under your feet. I still play gold occasionally here and there just cuz it’s a I don’t know. It’s a fun hero to play. It’s just like it’s if I’m not trying to try hard, yeah, I’ll throw in some Pop Koopa. I respect it. I respect it a lot. But I I think the funny thing that we’ve seen from these internationals, every time an international quote unquote skin comes out, it barely gets used. Like come on, it’s Natan this time around and they’re like, “Nah, ain’t going to touch it.” Yeah. Even during the time where Farsa was a skin, she wasn’t even that ma during that time. Yeah. People preferred Valentina. Wait, was last year Valentina? Last year was Valentina, right? Yes. Last year was Valentina. We saw a little bit of Valentina play at least, right? Yeah, we did. We got to see a little Valentina. Not as much as I would. What you would think? You think they just like pump up that hero, buff it as much as possible so that everyone’s playing it, right? Uh well, should be should be should be the case. I mean, I wish they did, but there’s a large m there’s too many case studies where they didn’t do that. Like Zong for an example. Like come on. Where was all that? Yeah, but no, Nathan did get buffed. And there were people saying that Nathan should come in for MSE, but we haven’t seen him yet. Yeah, that’s what they said about like I don’t know, Raphael. Uh yeah. Yeah. What happened to that enchant supports cuz she doesn’t have a skin? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So hopefully we get to see some more unique picks in the draft here. And if ever RQ might need to pull that out to win this game number three against SRG, who I feel like they’ve uh I felt like game one was a lowkey kind of a draft download. Game two, their adjustments in the draft were perfect. and also a little bit coming from the fact that RQ may have overthought some certain aspects of their draft with uh some bands that maybe weren’t necessary. So, I think something really important to point out here with RQ on first pick on blue side SRG approaches the bands differently already. And I’m kind of questioning that or I’m wondering at least if after this YSS we’ll still see the Bossha Kai. We’ll still see that possibility of whittling down on our Q and forcing them into one pick. Ooh, that’s tough cuz what that relies on is the priority list in terms of uh SRG’s head. Like yes, I know that you are capable of playing both the Akai alongside with the Fredin as well as the Boxia, but arguably SRG need to be able to play those heroes, too. I haven’t seen the Akaya come out. I I think that the Boxia and definitely the Fredin probably is pretty high up in SRG’s priority list, but I feel like Sakai isn’t that type of person where it’s like, I want to be able to carry these games. I want to be able to kind of like be the driving force rather than putting some of my secondary engagers in the line of fire. Yeah. So now another question for RQ is are they going to rush or juice in again? Similar to what they did before. They respect ban the CC taking it out on the first phase. That’s a great call. But now SRG needs to start thinking the back of their heads, okay, what’s Dy going to end up with? Cuz if they’re not careful, we might end up with another just another exp lane trade that favors RQ this time. It’s definitely tough. I honestly with RQ on blue side, I don’t think that’s a horrible rush pick. The drafts are almost I think they are a mimic of what we saw in game one. We do see the CC banned out this time from the side of RQ. So far rushes and SRG doesn’t lock in a mage and cram right away. Then it’s looking like a replay overall. They do bring in the Zouch. So I think this time maybe do they steal the Woo and not let RQ take it up front? No. Kalia Farsa, Kalia Farsa right off the rim. I think the biggest problem was that they didn’t have that initial burst and they put a lot of the eggs into the sky basket, which is not entirely wrong, right? But they kind of need to alleviate the pressure and that’s what Stormmy is really good at doing. He really squeezes out a lot of value for mages. Even though it’s supposed to be like late game scaling again, game number two, Genius want early rotate, give the rest of the farm to Cra. Yeah, I’m also on both that when the Zucian gets picked, you take the fara immediately. And there it is, Klaya Farza. Good call. Doesn’t this mean RQ can rush all their crowd control chainers right now? They can go Gate, they can go Badang. Uh they’re definitely going to have to pick up their gold laner now. Or maybe they don’t even have to cuz we know that uh the gold lane for RQ does have a deep pool. Toy has a lot of options that he can go for. If he doesn’t get his claw, he can get an ethl to be even more of a menace for SRG. I think you go got Lapu at this point, right? I I think you know for a fact that Dyron is confident, but more more importantly, you need somebody to cancel out this feathered air strike. And if you’re going to lean into Dyron, you might be able to kind of pivot the idea for SRG to say, “Hey, you want a super safe R4?” Well, guess what? You’re going to have to commit a little bit more. But Akai instead, I think it’s solid because the worry is if they don’t pick up jungle now, SRG picks whatever they want. They ban out uh Akai, Fred, take the Lancelot and leave nothing. or they ban out, you know, they they just really leave literally nothing with RQ and I think RQ might be showing some cards right now that we need to get our jungle in early. This is something that I mean, I’m starting to guess is the pool small there. I think it’s not small. I think this is a costefficient way of not having to lock in the Gat instead and still keeping Edok’s hero pool open while allowing him to maybe get Franco later down the road to punish Sakai if he tries to go for Lance. Okay, let’s see what the possibilities we’re going to be seeing. We pose a lot. SRG do rush the clawude right away up against an Akai Moscow. That is a difficult pick to make work, especially with what’s available for RQ later on. But I feel like that screams confidence. There’s something that how Innocent played into how RQ were team fighting in game number two that made SRG go, you know what, we’re feeling good about the Clad. I mean, the Claude’s never like that bad, you Oh, I mean even No, I feel like it’s always kind of a skill matchup because of that BMI. You always have some ability to dance. You always have a way to come in. The Akai is not too much of a threat to it. I mean, I don’t know. At least in my opinion. I feel like the Claude’s always had that’s why he’s been in the meta for so long. Even if he’s not the meta, he’s always pickable. I feel like you’re totally right about this TX because imagine if they wanted to lean into Harth for an example. And that just sucks against Yakai. You get knocked out of the zammon force and then you kind of don’t have any damage anymore. Yeah. As we’re looking at the most used heroes for these two teams, should RQ or even SRG consider that a Masha might show up in the hands of Diren cuz you just need that one quick burst on that claw to put him down. Yeah, that now that is something they could worry about because the Masha at least you’re not jumping in with the bravest fighter. You’re not it’s not as it’s not as hard. You just get close, hit the skill, and boom, cloud’s gone. I mean, there’s that, but also I do agree with people’s opinions on Dyron on Badang. He’s a different beast, right? Especially when you have flicker in his hands. I think it is actually a pretty good way to have a secondary means of engage rather than putting all the weight on Akai and then starting to peel for Toy on this Moscow. I think they I think they got to ban the Lapu here. Personally, I think the Farza it’s the one thing that can maybe catch the Farza off guard. Um Badong also it could be a problem as well. Either one. They’re going to go for the Matilda instead though which with the utility jungle I get it. Yeah, interesting. That would have been an overload on utility for the side of RQ, but that would have messed up the rotational speed for SRG. I think they’re putting a lot of focus onto the Sakai and what it can do to disrupt the flow of the rotations for the side of Silon or Red Giants or for RQ. Yeah, I don’t think they need to worry about exp lane picks because a lot of the exp lane picks that you can pick up for SRG right now are look is are looking at that Akai and going, “Oh, this is going to be a tough game for me.” I think no matter what SRG is going to have a winning exp matchup and that’s the most important thing for them on that red side right the Lancelot ban finally goes through RQ have a couple of options right now and the issue is that they won’t have access to sandbags no matter what sandbag they have there is a very clear response from SRG’s side so what does SRG take here do they save the XP for the possible counterplay or do they pick something up front um again Lapu could be a could be a pick to make sure that they’re not getting picked against them they could just go into thing. Lance is already gone. Hayabusa for jungle. Maybe just lock in jungle first. Yeah, might be tough. Although that would be a really good option. They go for the lapu. Okay, they rough the lapu right away, I think. Yeah, at this point RQ goes for the badang on Dy. They go for Badang on the Dyron most likely. Um cuz they’re also worried about a potential Hilda from the side of Dyron, too. I think that SRG are thinking whether Util or Yeah, whether Util or Assassins, right? I think Hayabusa is not bad, but they want to see the full lineup from RQ side cuz they’re forcing him into the Hayabusa. RQ though also kind of lacking in burst damage overall. What do they lock in here? Esmeralda and Cho. So Cho for Rome, Esmeralda exping in damage. It is all shred on the side of RQ. We’re talking I mean yes you have the pickoff potential to make up for that but definitely for me a little dangerous. God damn it. Kescute’s too smart. He’s both locked out the options for Fredan as well. Hayabusa. No matter what these neutral objectives are going to be so hard to take. We’ve seen the classic match up of Fred into Akai. You get pushed into a wall. What’s worse you go into you go into Hayabobusa. You’re going to get kicked by the Cho. Yeah, it seems like with everything Argu brought to the table, whatever Zakis ends up with is going to have difficulty. If Sakaiis has an easy game, that’s an MVP game for him. At this point, it’s pick your poison for SRG. Will it be the Hayabusa? Azer jungle. What was that? That was Xorg. Yeah, baby. This is interesting because now tempo can be wrestled with with the Xorg. You can kind of poke out your opponents. Any full commitment to break the Faraga armor is going to initiate all the alts from SRG. And the fact that there’s no big burst damage from RQ means it’s going to be very hard to get that Frogga armored down. Normally, it’s the Farza. It’s heroes like that that you want to use against the Xorg. And all of that is on the side of SRG right now. How do you break down a frontto back formation? You don’t break it, you burn it down. Let’s see if this Xorg pick will help SRG take this game number three or will RRQ take it. Bring it. Nice. You guys take it. Take it away. We shall. Thank you so much to the panel for breaking down game 3’s draft. Once again, ladies and gentlemen, welcome. It’s me, Nu, joined with Brigida to bring you this third game in this best of five to move on forward to the semis. Will it be RRQ to get the upper hand sitting at match point if they get it? Or will it be SRG? We’ve seen two very different games bring it up from game one to game two now and it’s been all about the XP laners. What do we think about this one? Well, I mean the matchup in terms of the Esmeralda versus Aapo is kind of given. You just have to manage it a little bit more to even or to get even in terms of that matchup. But I feel like my eyes are glued to this last pick Xorg that was brought out by SRG OG because like this literally changes everything. It resembles that idea we saw earlier where in there just so many zoners or so many playmakers, but it’s not just that. the amount of burst damage from RRQ might not be that sufficient to constantly be able to deal with the Fiaga armor, especially if Sakai is being protected really well by let’s say the Fed air strike by let’s say just even Numes on the Ka. So if RQ doesn’t find a way to play around this lineup of SRG, it’s going to be looking pretty good for the Red Giants. Yeah, and looking at the emblems too, you know, this is what we kind of expect here. You got a couple impure rages of course uh for the suten on the Akai and then over on the Esmeralda for Dyron. There the the difference for the XP laner I would say for RQ in this sense is how does Dyron utilize Esmeralda. So far throughout MSE, we’ve seen it struggle a bit, you know, for the most part. But of course, you want to go ahead and utilize the fact that you can also put some pressure to a backline if you need to or finding Stormy, for example, getting that wings by wings or the purify out from there, but also it’s just a sense that both lineups have a pickoff potential. We might see some action up here up top or at least trying to get some battle spells out. This is a level four Kaiis 2. might force an initiation before this turtle. They’re going to force him back. Edok not level four yet, so doesn’t have the kick. So, they got to respect that. They’ll be zoned out for now from RQ. But SRG, we’ll see if they actually want to just give this one away. Okay, they finally decide to go for the commit this time around. Last Insanity already burned as well. Literally burning Dy down, but they gain the control in the turtle. But that’s a beautiful stun coming in from Cra doesn’t allow them to secure it for themselves. However, there’s the heavy spin as well coming in from Sutsu Jin. So, SRG OG might just try to fight this. There’s no heavy spin anymore for Jin, but the way of the dragon is still there. They might actually find the kill on Sika and they will. SOD landing as well. Toy gets to participate in that fight. Wow. I I mean like so this has been the story so far in the series. It’s like these team fights always break out but then they’re extended. We’re going to look at the instant replay here brought to us by STC. This was a good option for Susin to be like, “Guys, I’m going to bring him here. Come on, rotate. We got we got the kick soon.” They go for that and then they continue this fight in. You know, it’s very interesting because then even Toy joins on in. So, it was one of those cases where RQ ends up getting a lot more than they should have because of that constant pressure from SRG. Cra in trouble here. Oh, the damage coming in from Sutsu Jin on the Akai in the early game. You also have to respect it, but Edok in the middle lane gets picked up as well. Sikisa has been very aggressive in his use of the Xorg, not hesitating to use the uh last insanity whenever he sees a potential kill. Yeah. And I feel that so far it kind of has been working for SRG because even for Zutin, he’s been playing the Akai very aggressively. In a way, the Akai does have a decent amount of damage that he gets to bring out in the early stages of the game, which allows him to kind of keep up in terms of the farming as well, mind you. But now it’s Yumes who might just get picked off pinned by the heavy spin. But another insanity coming in from Jin and Ys is actually alive. So everyone’s just working hand in hand to keep each other alive. I felt like so much was thrown at Yumes and Yumes is still able to survive that. Yeah, he burned the flicker. So that’s something that’s a battle spell down and RQ has continued to put pressure where they can. But still, even up in this top side, CRA’s going to be bullied out a little bit as uh that work’s being done, but the turtle’s up. So that’s the focus now as both teams rotate for this turtle. Already at half health here. Another last insanity committed. Better air strike to save control over the lord and somehow gets to secure it for themselves. Dyron doing a great job zoning out multiple members of SRG, but will be forced to use the purify just to get away because he nearly gets caught in that situation. So despite how things have been going for the past two games, I feel like there’s just that much action, but it doesn’t necessarily convert into that much kills for this time around for now. Like this just one of those like I mean with both lineups, they’re maybe a little bit slower to cook than the previous games. That’s so far what we’ve seen. Edo, I don’t think he’s going to reach that. Not going to be able to set up the kick even with a flicker available. Doesn’t want to take the chance. But that’s the thing. These these lineups need some time to go ahead and scale up to build up to get to, you know, that uh initial burst of the the power spake as they like to go ahead and say it uh from our boys yesterday. But eventually they’ll get there. But what it does is it puts you in the situation where the game is pretty much even and the objectives are for the taking. Now, both lineups, especially when it comes to the gold laners, will be a little bit different where you can put pressure with that Moscow still across the map. Um, building up there for Toy, but the gold laners are keeping it even. And that’s the main thing. The big part is once we get to maybe that first lord. Oh, hold on. No BMIs left, but there’s a purify. Quickly casts that blazing do it. So, that was a good call. I mean, it was for RQ because it forced out the purify, but now there are multiple members of SRG who are rotating down bottom. Will Edo get to actually recall his way out of this? Doesn’t have the way of the dragon anymore, but still decides to show himself just to add a bit more pressure there for SRG to not commit. So, at least they get to defend their structures. And that’s another thing like we’re already 6 minutes into the game, but both teams are holding on pretty well to their turrets. I feel like this one has been more of a you know a respect in terms of each other’s lineups even with just knowing that Iok is on this cho him showing up like just a little bit delayed them or stopped actually SRG from being like let’s make a play on this tier one going for it but Yumes will hold on to that tsunami slam they’re going to fight for the third turtle though oh they get to force out the crimson beacon at least but Edox still doesn’t go for the way of the dragon on Stormy in a scent gets the last hit on the turtle and it was a heavy spin committed just to out for RRQ. So, this is where you start seeing some of their skills that are meant for setups be used defensively instead. And that’s when you know that SRG are getting hold of the better game so far. We’ll just decide to trade things out, however, so at least they get two turrets down in the bottom lane. RQ is getting map. That’s what they’re getting. Even if they lose that turtle, doesn’t seem like they’re too worried about it. Again, this is a team with a Mosov. They’ll go for map pressure instead. And yeah, you said it. Part of the game plan for both of them as we take a look at the items is again burning battle spells. We’re looking at three purifies for RQ. You’ve got two for SRG. So part of it needs to be how do we get these purifies down. Rin, you know, take us a couple shots here. Storm’s been doing work. He’s got the glowing wand now. Cra’s a little more defensive. Warax and Dominance Ice locked in. So, you know, big part of this is when that Lord does come up, both teams are pretty much on even ground. It comes down to that execution of the lineups that they have and you know they’re kind of contrasting in a way because other than the setup potential on both sides with either the Cho or the uh Ka for Yumes, you have these windows of burst damage with a far for example that go ahead and set things up. And so RQ, if they want to get an advantage, they’re going to keep going for these turrets. They might go for a kick. They kick Sakai. Oh, now they decide to burst him down, but he has the last insanity to escape and will actually try to get back to at least deal a bit more damage. But that’s where you see how SRG OG are just able to use their skills together in Chun Junction so well, either to protect one another or keep one another safe. So even when RRQ decides to go for those kinds of engages, commits on the way of the dragon, even the heavy spin, they don’t necessarily get much value out of it. And that’s major resources that are burned on their side. So things will get to be a lot better for SRG if this they decide to pick up the pace this time around. I’m actually really It’s surprising that that was even an attempt, you know, cuz Edo doesn’t have the flicker now. That’s actually a pretty big battle spell that the Cho needs to possibly set things up. That turret’s going to be pushed down by RQ up top. They’re going to go ahead and start up this Lord. SRG takes control of it. It’s a half pel and let’s see if RQ can go ahead and contest it. They’re showing face here already in the jungle. No better air strike for Stormy but still decides to join the fight here. Last insanity taking down Edok Dying out the other members. Toy also works on Stormy from behind. Y will be the next to fall. It’s a double kill for Sakai and he also gets that turtle now. Dy is still alive up against two members but Toy is actually making things happen. Finds a triple up against SRG. Okay, they they got the lord for SRG, but hey, RQ wins the fight. They get a triple for toy. He’s going to go 1 v one actually against Cra. He’ll have to clear this out. Dyron is there, too. But they’ll hold it down in the mid lane. And Cra just going to go ahead and jump on into the air and just wait for the rest of the team to come back. So, this Lord basically doesn’t get much at all for SRG, if anything. Yeah, they’ll be able to take it down immediately before it gets any further into the map. They’ve equalized the score. It’s both seven kills, but the lead, the map, the way that Toy is just able to pressure it has been doing wonders for RRQ. And now they decide to work on Dy in the bottom lane. Edo will be surprising them from behind. However, decides to commit the kit onto Innocent, but there will be no follow up. And now it is a response with the blazing do it. Forces out the flicker as well. Look at Toy. Look at how these teams just keep forcing things out of each other. But again, as you mentioned, Toy, he just gets the better trades. Tori is doing work. Cra’s going to spawn him out. Jumps on in with great fighter. He’s going to go hand in hand. A gun versus a sword. Gets the stun down, but Toy still has some space to work with. Last Insanity comes through as the Kai will finally shut down Toy. There’s no way you could get out of that. Multiple members of SRG and the way that Cra just decided to go for that skill which could deal a lot more damage rather than enhancing your sustain because that’s all he really needed to work on. It was just toy all alone that he needed to take down. And now somehow they’ve literally minimized the lead that earlier was at around 1k for RRQ. Oh, and now they might just be able to work on this tier one in mids. Tsunami slap already put it onto Edo gets bursted down once again as OG will be landing. Will Toy actually decide or it did not actually land. But fortunately, they get to defend that tier one in myth. They put work in to defend the tier one. They’ll do it. I’m not sure if they still want to fight. Creme takes a little bit of damage. We’ll go for the stun. He’s got to get out of here, though. RQ still staying around this mid lane. They might look to go for another play. They’re going to be in trouble. Dy on the run, still holds on to the purify, but still close as ever between the both both teams here. So, you’re seeing a lot of these fights, a lot of the initiations that are happening. And this is what I was talking about with playing into the windows of the lineup. You can see between both gold laners, they are imperative for both the teams here. You’ve got already that try setup there with the items for Innocent. He is going to be doing a lot of damage with the blazing do it. But even so for Toy, he’s got the Trinity, but he’s also got the Wind of Nature and that’s going to be big in terms of these fights. There’s been some instances where we see them going and and just getting battle spells down from SRG OG Esports and this might be one of them. You know, goes for the kick. Oh, they get to isolate the jungler, but the last insanity will be committed still. Fet air strike as well. somehow keeping him safe but crab all alone finds a stun onto but up against three might not be able to survive this on the other side of the map gets traded down as well and Jin gets bursted down as the Akai is blazing to it and now to definitely in trouble as he gets taken down flicker still available for Yumes keeping him safe as well but Ty barely surviving this fight innocent will not allow Rins to close in anymore and they will freely get their hands on this lord Oh, you can see the smiles here from Stormmy. That was a fight that they needed. They got control of it and it was started from Edo. This was all with a kick cramp by time. There’s two separate fights going on here, but they were able to go ahead and separate the right members to win the advantage for SRG Esports. Again, they get themselves the Lord. They’ll go ahead and go ahead and play into this. And that’s always the thing, you know, it’s always a risk with the setup rors that we see, especially the cho if you go in with a kick and there isn’t the followup that you’re looking for, it puts yourself in a tough position to be in where you just end up getting punished. And now for SRG, they’ll walk into this. They need the base turrets. They have to go ahead and even out the playing field in terms of map space, but they’ve got the gold advantage now. They’re not going to let up here. That was just a title strike into the tsunami slam. Forces out the heavy spin from Zutsujin already. Yo, look at these two guys just going at it. And again, going back to what you said, I feel like for RRQ really is Sakai still the best target to go for in terms of those setups if you’re Edo because it’s more than just the followup that they could provide. It’s also whether or not that target can actually make it out alive. But now RRQ with a clap back for me first won’t be able to find a way out of it anymore. They know that they’ve already taken out some resources away from SRG OG. So now they get themselves back. I’m not sure if that was all on the same mindset there on what they wanted to do in round the lord because they got sandwich in. There’s the tsunami sample. They get the purify out. They’re still going to fight it down the mid. Toy is there trying to clear that wave out to get this tier one. Endoch might still jump in on this. He’s got to be careful as CRA locks him in. Oh, gets to stun multiple members. And that’s going to be a beautiful opportunity for Zika to go in with the double. Innocent gets to shred down such time and time again. Whenever the team fights break out, it’s only Rin left. Another Rous fighter from Graves blocking their path and the tsunami slab to finish things off as SRG OG in the blink of an eye seal the deal and take match point. Game three in the bag here. Match point now for Slangar Red Giants. OG Esports. It looked like that Lord push might have been might not have been the thing they wanted to happen, but they chose to fight. They chose to win the fight and that’s all they needed. Man, that Xorg too at the end there. Sakai’s able to get the double. You can’t win in nature the flamethrower there. You know, it’s a little bit too much. You’re getting you’re getting cooked at that point. So, it was a interesting game to say the least here. The the decisions that were made, it was still probably the most even game I would say for the majority of this early to mid game transition. But, you know, it’s just it’s just tough to see because there was clearly some initiations that didn’t go the way of RQ. And I know our panel has a lot to say about game number three. So, let’s go ahead and throw it over to them. So, the Xorg did burn down the formation of RQ. It felt like watching a city under fire dealing double damage just for showing up triple damage at that point. You know, I am not always a believer of the Xorg. I’ve always thought it looks good on paper, but it never seems to perform, at least for a lot of the games I see, but SEI made that thing look sexy. It looked really good. And I think a lot of it just boiled down to like, can you break the Fura armor? Yeah, I think we saw multiple times that RQ made some pretty good attempts, but as soon as the war axe after the BRB got purchased, it became really hard, right? Because Dyron already took two deaths prior to that fight and then Sudsin, as much as that heavy spin is such a powerful tool, they’re kind of waiting on SRG to make that first initial move, which again, they held until the very end to make it happen. And even when they did burst the Frogga armor, all of their kits were used up at that point. You still got a feathered air strike coming soon. you still have so many things that you have to worry about. And I think just that guy’s timing, even when he didn’t use it for a lord or a turtle, he always made sure he got a kill. Overall on the map, just played an amazing job. The biggest worry that I had in this game, it was mainly because every single time we saw a fight actually break out, towers, tier one and as well as tier 2 collapsing off of the second turtle in the game. you usually only see one tower go down cuz tier 2s still have its like quoteunquote armor and magic resist still in play. In that sense, we saw that Toy was walking away with a full item ahead of Innocent. That winds of nature was supposed to be the big game changer during that first and second lore, but it just didn’t matter because he ended up dying over to the raw true damage from SRG side on a fully stacked up Warax. Yeah, and this is where we revisit one of the key ideas for drafts, especially here in MSE. your damage profile. Yes, utility wise, everything looks great for RQ. You’re playing around the Moscow, but at the end of the day, SRG just had like raw brute force damage across the board. Yeah, just about every type of damage you could think of from burst with the fara to true damage with the export to shred with the claw. They checked every single box in the book. And that was something that we saw from RQ in the beginning is how are they going to deal with some of these heroes? They were just lacking in certain departments. I think a lot of it was just on Toy, right? Toy was the only person realistically who can kind of not only break the formation, but like hard carry these fights, especially if it’s a tra traditional front to back. Yep. True magic, physical damage. Uh true magic, true damage, physical damage, magic damage. All now leading to emotional damage for RQ as SRG are now at match point, one game win away from securing their slot in the semi-finals and eliminating RQ Hoshi, the team that selected them for this matchup. So, we’re going to go on a quick break and let’s see what will happen in game number four. I do it like that. Thank you. Heat. Heat. Heat. You are Hey everyone, it’s Eterna here at the key wall and this is where all the teams’ keys will be stored before and after their match. Now, you can see here all the keys are here for everyone to see whether you’re still a contender or if your keys have already been crushed. Before every match, each captain from each team will be able to pick up their keys to bring it over to the stage. As you can see here, RRQ’s and SRG’s keys are not available because that’s the upcoming match that we’re going to be seeing in just a bit. Now, after we figure out who the winner is, the winners get to come back here and place their keys back onto the wall. However, the losers, their keys will be crushed for everyone to see. So, the big question now is whose keys will be able to be stored back onto the wall, whose keys will be crushed by the end of the day, and finally, whose key will be finally placed into the final totem to be crowned at the MSC 2025 champion. Just a bit. We’re going to be heading into game number four where Selenor Red Giants OG Esports, the defending champions of MSC could potentially just end the series and secure their slot in the semi-finals against a team that has been hungry for redemption against them are argued the team that selected them. Selections is the name of the game. It was acknowledged earlier by these two teams that it’s all going to be about the draft. So, what now do we expect for RQS to clap back? Where do they focus on? Is it the mid? Is it the jungle? Where? I’m personally scared cuz I don’t know which side it’s going to be on, right? Because blue side, it seems like SRG has a much better read on the situation, but then red side, you’re able to get those big power picks like we saw in game number two for RQ, right? It really is hard to say because I feel like if if I’m in RQ’s position, I think we might have to take redside one more time just to kind of see what we are allowing SRG to do and respond with our own sweet synergies. Yeah, I think as RQ there’s nothing wrong with having first pick there. I’m no longer I don’t think I was ever really on board with the Zucin up front first pick. I think as long unless they ban out the Farza first. I’m still a strong believer that the Fara outranges it. I think it just kind of outplays it overall. It also gives you burst damage, something that the Zhusian doesn’t, and it just makes your drafting phase a little bit easier. So, I think that RQ can take whatever side they want. They just need to maybe not be too stuck in one direction because we’ve seen OSRG be very willing to flex around and uh find answers. I I I personally think that that could change, right? Because so far, we’ve seen other teams get away with this in these 2v2s. And how do they do it? They punish their opponents by letting them push first and then using a Zushin to really tax their HP as they are leaving the lane. But were those top eight teams? They were. They were top eight teams. TLPH did that. Okay. Against who? Against another top eight team. I mean at this point in the knockout stage are all top eight. Exactly. And that’s but my point is you can no longer slide through the cracks just first picking Jin. You know, that’s my point is you can’t just do this. You’re not you’re not in group stages against, you know, for lack of a better term, but slightly weaker teams. You know, you you have to really be ready for what SRG is going to bring to you. And I’m all for that, honestly. Just uh consider changing your priorities on the juice in while we prioritize getting sweet new skins in the game as the Metro Zero skin line is coming soon. It’s arriving at the MLBB battlefield with a stunning new series of skins. What visual wonders await as Cyberpunk meets traditional culture? Stay tuned for the upcoming Metro Zero cinematic trailer if you haven’t seen it yet. Wake up, samurai. We got a spirit to ignite. contribution, man. But it’s all right. You already knocked down like the best contribution that we’ve had heading into this game. Number four. Take that juicing out of the picture for RQ. It’s like, yeah, I got to agree with you. They were focused a little bit too much into one direction. It’s like they’re insecure. And I don’t know what for about their damage profile. They’re leaning a little bit towards like utility, slow chip. We need to see RQ bring out bursts. And when they did that with their Lapu Lapu, that’s when it worked out very well for them. Yeah. What do they have? What do they have in jungle in game number one? They had Claude. They had RQ. It was Oh, RQ was playing RQ was playing Fred in game one. Fredin. I mean, what did they have in their gold lane? What was their gold lane? Claude. Claude, Fredin, and they had the Lapu for some burst damage. Something there. I mean, they did make it work in game one. They are going to swap over to redside this time. But I will say SRG didn’t have the fara in game one. And SRG quickly found some answers. I feel like RQ though on red side on second pick. SRG doing the same exact draft they did in game two except this time their third ban is a little different. Ooh, now it’s on RQ’s hands if whether or not that Farsa Kimmy trade will be committed because if it’s open for SRG, they can lock the Kimmy first pick. Then RQ will have to pick up their Farsa in the first phase of their draft. No, I’m also worried about YSS like mentioned here. That’s what SRG picked first up last time. That’s why they banned out the Bosa Kai’s like listen, we’re going to make you do it. RQ does ban out the YSS this time. Little bit of a fun fact though. Yumi now holds the most total assists in MSSE history. Is that 418? Yeah. Is that your new nickname for Yum? You call him Yumi now? I just said Yumes. It’s my American accent. I’m sorry. That’s pretty impressive because think of it this way. JPL has been playing way he has been a staple, but he has also been playing for a significantly longer time compared to Yubs. But hey, first picks in the draft already through. Yeah. and RQ do end up getting the FRSA. It’s SRG telling RQ to you know what, you guys commit the trade. Whether it’s the Kimmy, whether it’s the Farsa, I think SRG needs to lock down the Kimmy now. It worked very well for them during the group stages, especially paired up with a Kala. Yes and no. But somebody needs to make a sacrifice here, right? It’s either exp or jungle who has to make the sacrifice in. At the end of the day, Kibby unfortunately needs a front liner to be good at what she does. The 2v2 is great, but it looks like they have locked in for themselves. Glue early on. Yeah, that’s what you mentioned about the about the front line and you now with the glue on the board, the Kimmy gets an excellent front line paired up with it and the KA as well. So, it ticks your condition. Gideon RQ takes the Lancelot out of front. Suzuen now going to be forced to prove himself on match point, letting us know, listen, I got this. I can run the assassins. I know I like to play utility, but I still have something up my sleeve. And I do like this against the Kimmy. Kimmy, yes, as a mid laner doesn’t have the largest range. You do have some dash. You do have some kite, but Lanclot is one of the few assassins who can quickly close that distance. Yeah, but doesn’t this mean that RQ now will have to commit a Fredin ban or they’re just willing to give the Fredin to the hands of SRG? But it’s a tried and tested combo. Freder and Kimmy together paired up with a Kala just does so much for the Kimmy that as RQ might not that puts too much pressure onto the Farsa and the Lancelot to make sure they get Stormy down. I think that right now with what RQ is trying to do is trying to kind of set the tone for the draft, right? Especially within this first phase and with SRG, we have like sub synergies. Nothing really solid like we saw in game number two. But immediately we are making sure that RQ are saying, “Hey, number one, we need to get rid of burst damage style heroes, right? That’s why they’re getting rid of the the likelihood of joy. I think they’re also going to get rid of another assassin, I would assume Hayabusa in this particular case to not only protect the Farsa so that it doesn’t combo alongside the Kalia.” Yeah, I mean that’s possible. I do like the idea of the Fred and ban as well. Um either could work out especially with the fact that so much utility jungle’s already gone. But yeah, SRG also needing some burst damage for themselves like you said, maybe something like the Hayabusa or do they just go for the double marksman tank front line, you know, wait it out, take it slow. It’s match point. They do have opportunity for that overall. And I think this is the tough part now for RQ cuz it’s literally their choice whether it’s the Frederickin ban, which it is, or whether it was going to be a highabusa ban, which it could have been. Now is potentially looking good for SRG. Uh, as we mentioned, a lot of the uh tanky fighter style junglers are gone, so they don’t necessarily need to lean into the double marksman, but I think they will. Uh, Granger still looks really good for SRG. Uh, unless RQ decides to take it away. I think Granger is definitely a possibility. RQ could easily scoop that up though up front unless RSRG says, “No, we’re going to ban that out too.” And that gets rid of more burst damage potential. They get rid of the Cho. Solid ban. really really good foreshadowing coming in from sorry not foreshadowing but foresight coming in from Arcadia because now cuz we’ve seen this two times already where Kesq is trying to corner the jungle options unless they want to play something like Xorg again right now there’s a lot more burst coming out from RRQ’s side to maximize that value yeah and speaking of burst if RQ lock in something like a Hilda here potentially thinking about a Granger pick up of SRG I think SRG wins because if that’s a Hilda good thing it wasn’t because this pick for Eida only shows up when RRQ are on. All right, boys. Game phase mode, game time mode. We can’t lose this Edox signature pick in the Rome. This is so good. I was thinking whether or not they wanted to get the gate for themselves. At least then they have some form of counter engage against the Kala, but unfortunately in this case, Tigril works the exact same way. If not, a little bit more precise with a scalpel rather than going for the big heavy left hand. I wonder if we see something spicy here from SRG OG. something a little out of the norm. They’ve been able to surprise us with a few picks so far and I think yeah, we could keep it simple, go for like Hayabusa, Granger, Moscow locked in. I am a little worried about I’m kind of a little worried about Assassin up front, but also now with the Tigreel. Assassin isn’t looking too bad. Something that’s not just going to get bullied around. There goes the Hayabusa. Last pick for RRQ though, do they just go for the Granger? Yeah, I think that might be their best bet. They need to even out the range. Yeah, they do lock in the Granger. Oh, Hari brought out their big guns as Edok Stigriel, but SRG’s lineup could be very good as well. It’s It’s a 50/50 for me. Yeah, it’s a really big 50/50. I think there are a lot of counterplay for each of the individual lanes, especially for the mid duo. I think the problem is when it comes down to like first interactions, right? How is Lethal Wanderer going to go? How is the first turtle going to happen? because we need to see Eido hit level four. All right, will this be game number five or will it end here? RRQ and SRG, the fans in the arena, you need to show your love and make some noise for the teams you’re supporting. Bring it on Nu, take us in. Thank you so much once again to the panel for breaking it down here in game number four. Ladies and gentlemen, you heard it there. It’s match point right now for SRG OG Esports as they move on forward. Or can we get to a game number five here, a maxed out series for this one? A trip of course to the semi-finals ahead of them. RQ’s got to pull something up their sleeves. They brought out the TIG reel for Edo. Brigetta, do you think this is right? I mean, we heard the sentiments from the panel. You know, it could come down to some big plays coming out here from RQ. I mean, when it does come to these do or die situations, those clutch moments wherein you have to bring in these picks, your familiarity, your comforts, undeniably, we’ve seen it multiple times. But whether or not these will be the right calls because I’m worried from the way we’ve been seeing the past few games that RRQ, you know, may have been a bit too decisive on these calls, but it has to be all of them being decisive and coming together to follow up. So maybe that’s my biggest worry. But in terms of playmaking setups, okay, for sure is going to be delivering on this Tigrio. He has to. I think, you know, that’s one of the main things like anytime we see one of these series, it’s always the case. You know, it’s the team that’s able to go ahead and overlap the ultimates better or have the better execution like we like to say or make the less mistakes. But in this case, you know, as we take a look at the emblems, too, I think a big part of this once again comes in the hands of Edo. He’s got to be able to set things up. Now you sprinkle in some of that responsibility with Dy like the XP laners are to be expected so far in our current meta but the I guess one of the biggest differences here in specifics to Edo is the Tigriel it’s a little bit more I would say assured to get a setup instead of the Cho. You can see already the pressure though. Oh, fortunately Ren gets to reposition, so won’t get taken out just yet. But the Phantom Execution gets delayed by a bit through that knockup. Still, everyone gets to survive though. Maybe not Stormy if the last hit still connects. But they just get to force out the recalls and I feel like that’s already something massive for RQ. Dy literally going at it. Y’s forced to flicker. Better air strike also committed by Ren. So they’ve done a really good job even without getting these kills here. Diamond is coming back. He’s like I have a flicker and got to the dark wave. He he goes in and I knew he was going to do it. He had the flicker available and they get the call to come back. So RQ goes in, gets a double for Diren and the turtle. Okay, so not settle with just the recalls with just the battle spells. They had to get the kills because I feel like that’s where RRQ literally gets activated when they’re able to just set the tempo and keep the pace. But now they seem to go after Toy. He has no way out of that. Storm or Innocent gets very low, however, but now they’re going to play it safe. They’re already happy with what they got there. That’s that’s the trade. It’s a bit delayed, but that’s the trade for SRG for now. Yeah, it’s still still the case here, you know, in like we’ve seen. Oh, hold on. Mid lane is going to be in trouble. Wings by wings. Flaps on around and will still be alive. Susan sees storm. He’s so low. But I don’t think he’s going to be able to cover the ground. So, this is the thing. You know, you have this trading going on. The big part of this is now Cra has to go against a 2 and 0 FUS. And like we’ve seen, Fobius, even without kills, will usually be able to just kind of tank up three dudes, you know, 1 v3 if he has to. This gives him a little bit of the advantage, but Cra on the glue is still relatively going to be fine, at least in the lane. But once these next objective uh fights break out, that’s where, you know, it’s going to be kind of important that Cra is able to go ahead and utilize the glue against Dyron’s fauvious here. But also, it’s just the case. Look at the damage already. I mean, listen, canceled by the knockup from the title strike, though. But the Phantom just in time. Sutsu Jin gets to land it on Innocent now. Looking after Stormy doesn’t land the that thorn rose though. But still that’s a lot. They got the kill on Innocent and Yumes. And this is this is the time where Edo gets a lot more online because he’s hit his level four. So there are a lot more angles that RRQ can decide to play with. All aside from what you mentioned about Dyron being on an early 200. We don’t even know what item he’s going for first. We don’t. But look at this. The fight for the turtle. Souen proven that he can play the assassins as well. Of course. Turtle secured. Second one in the hands of RQ. SRG might have a kill on the board. But other than that play they made on Toy earlier on, they haven’t been able to really do anything. RQ is playing into the composition that they have. This is always the case with a Farsa. Faro’s damage is just pretty uh tough to deal with when you’re getting set up in the mid lane, especially around this. They’re going to go with the implosion in the setup. Tyrron goes in, but has the flicker to keep himself alive. Actually went for the blade armor first item, but ooh the damage from Rein already too much. You know, actually finds a setup onto Humes in the top lane and Toy gets last hit. What a better way. What better way to establish this early game for RRQ. Toy gets involved, gets some kills, and they’ve been very clean in terms of whoever they decide to go for in terms of setup so far. He just got the sky piercer as well. So, you know, unfortunately, he didn’t have earlier before he gets skills, but now he’s got it. And things for RQ are going to go ahead and set things up. This is why the positioning for the RORs are imperative. You can see Edido right now playing the patient game. He’s going to go ahead gives the information. Implosion track pulse is already going to be used and is waiting for that ultimate to be available. It should be up soon. He’s going to conceal anyway. Sacred hammer finds crab forces out the flicker and they still get to hand over that purple buff to Sutsu Jin regardless. So now he’s one level ahead of Sekis. Not looking too good because it seems like RRQ, they’re just so in sync right now. They’re covering the map so well and they know where they just want to transition next. I mean, look at where Edo positions himself. One bush after another. He’s like, I Okay, I didn’t have the implosion earlier on. I have it now, you know. So, he went in with Sacred Hammer. That was fine. Didn’t get anything. But ultimately, they’re playing around this last turtle of the game. The turret in the bottom does go down. Traction pulse going to be used again, but tanky enough to deal with this. They might try to go ahead and just set up for the turtle. Just focus on that. Everybody from RQ is here. Sakai, I don’t think he makes it in time. So that’s three for three objectives now for RQ at least for SRG. They go and put a push on that tier one turret. That’s about the best that Innocent can do, at least for now. But the eyes are set here for the tier one in the mid. Yep. Yums can potentially go in if he finds an angle, but he will be respecting RQ for now. Now Inoset goes in with the SOD just to join his other teammates as Dy kind of is kind of forced to respond as well to the pressure that is being applied by Innocent here. I mean that’s the most they can do for now. Not until they feel like they have sufficient resources in their arsenal. They’re working on a double marksman lineup nonetheless. So I feel like the late game won’t be that big of a problem if ever SRG OG are able to extend the fight. But does Innocent know that Rinse is there? I don’t. He Well, they’re going to know he’s there anyway. Oh, now they find out. Air strike lands on to Innocent. That was so unfortunate. The question was, was did Rins know? You know, like I’m I’m pretty sure because he calls Suzan either to come clear that wave and then just spots him out. So, Innocent going down there is really unfortunate for SRG. This is a probably the biggest lead that we’ve seen so far in the series. Now RQ holding on to almost a 6k gold lead. You can see the difference here in terms of itemization. Toy has no problem taking down this tier 2 the top side. So the map is pretty open for RQ. Conceal’s going to be used. Okay, I don’t think they are able to catch anyone. But if they get a shield this early on, wow, that’s great for RQ. Oh my goodness, that was a purify already forced out of Stormy when all other members of RQ weren’t even nearby. But the Oi Shadow kill gets split up against four members. Somehow crab also gets to mount on Edok, but they won’t be going with the fight just yet. Title strike to deny Sujin. Spear of Misery to push him back a bit, but look at the damage and the sustain coming in from RQ. Now Innocent next on the chopping block. That’s three members of SRG just deleted even when we thought they could actually find a way to fight back. Such a clean game right now from RQ. Sakai’s in trouble. Forced off with the feathered air strike. And this is an early base turret being knocked down from RRQ. SRG can’t do anything but watch as the base turret falls. And meanwhile, the Lord has been worked on and secured by Sutagen. And this is going to be a big play now for RQ to march into a base that is vulnerable for SRG. When you said they secured the lord, I had to check if Innocent had an SOD because of like the amount of times it happened. But yeah, I mean there have been so many resources burned out here by SRG just to push back the members of RRQ just to force them to walk away. And I mean they did successfully do so, especially in terms of trying to at least push Edok away, but that didn’t stop Dy that didn’t stop the other members, but that’s a tsunami slam already committed onto Edok. Won’t be able to cast a setup just yet. But look at how Rin positions himself with a better air strike. to Jin goes in with execution finds the kill onto Stormy. There’s enough as coming in from Yumes. But look at the rapsidity from Toy now isolating Skis and gets a double on the Granger. A great initiation, a great sandwich play under the tier 2. RHQ balloons himself to an 11,000 gold lead. Can they end the game here? It seems like the kingdom is only after one thing. Satsujin gets the kill on Innocent Re. Great positioning just to clear the waves and they will deliver indeed. We are heading into a game number five. RRQ felt the presence of the Red Giants at the walls and they came out just swinging in this game four. Absolute perfection of a game for them. A massive lead, the cleanest we’ve seen so far in the series. And it brings it down to now. Yeah. Really, what are we going to expect for game five? There was no answer here for the pressure that was put on from RQ in general. And we got to see a very great performance as well from Susen and just the squad to be able to make this landlot work, to make this composition work. Again, the Farsa proving how much of a threat it can be for a lot of this. But again, it comes down to, you know, that early start. These XP laners, I’m telling you, if they get an early lead, if they are built up, they are allowed to put so much pressure on early team fights and then the team follows through from that. So again, amazing game for very one-sided for RQ. Let’s throw it over to the panel to see what they have to say. Pretty much went as much as we expected, though. 50/50 were our vibes after the draft. At the end of the day, RQ with one great rotation botside to start things off with two kills on the board for them. Completely broke the rotation and map presence that SRG needed from their glue and we are going to a game number five. Gentlemen, how are you feeling about that? I’m feeling excited about it. I think it’s amazing. I was a little worried after SRG got to match point. I thought for sure we were only going to see game four, but RQ puts on their big boy pants. They strap up and they come in and take another win. Oh yeah, Suzin played a phenomenal early game. I think because of him, they’ve basically won by the third minute, right? We saw that double kill that happened down by botside. The the the fact that we didn’t see Stormy hit level four on time. The fact that we also saw the punishment of Cra losing out on two waves because of that dragged out death. Really good read coming in from Rins. They took the risk of taking damage uh for the side of Ren as well as Sutsu Jin and I think they won that coin flip. Yeah, and I think with that SRG taking some of those losses early on, they I think was one of the first highlights we saw in the mid lane. Yums went for that tsunami slam and I think maybe they overestimated their strength a little too early on there. They were unable to get the kill on Idok. They were unable to do certain things and that’s what you kind of pay the price for. Yes, the Kimmy is amazing mid laner, but early game the damage isn’t always there, and I think SRG maybe should have waited it out a little bit longer. Yeah, and it would be a big struggle, too, considering that your exp laner is losing lane. Uh, Glue has a better map as compared to or excuse me, the Fus has a better map compared to the Glue. Seek’s jungle keeps getting invaded. The raw damage early on, much better for RQ. They just played this to their draft strengths. That’s the thing. I feel like honestly I think that SRG had a chance if everything went even up until mid game, but because of that double kill down by the bottom side prele four, it spiraled so far out of control for the side of SRG allowing RRQ to basically do whatever they want, right? It’s the base rule of capitalism of the rich get richer, the poor get poorer. I got to point something else out. Last year Ren game number four, Anna Farza came up short. Yeah, game number four MSSE 2025. He is the carry most damage dealt on the way to redeem himself. That That’s poetry right there. Yeah, he couldn’t have rewritten it uh any better way. The fact that that happened for him. So he I feel like he’s already gotten his redemption, but for him, redemption doesn’t come until they get that win over SRG. And now I think moving forward, SRG are going to be looking at Ren and what he ends up with in the mid lane and most importantly what CRAM ends up with. As good as the glue was on paper, it just didn’t give the presence that they needed. Again, you also have to credit RQ for what we mentioned, what you mentioned to be that really great rotation early on. I mean, the brass tax was already paid and it costed them everything. They could not break out of that poverty line for so long in the match. And you could tell because of the items that they had, they could basically kind of walk around and do whatever they want, right? I will stat check you each and every time unless I make a significant mistake. But it’s really hard because we saw the snowball of Dyron. I get a lead and therefore I will protect Rins. Rins gets his lead. Now both of us will go down to Toy. Now Toyy’s protected by two people. Now everybody’s having a good time. So I got a question. Do we think uh like the two most important lanes right now, the two most important positions right now to focus on in draft are mid lane and exp? Yeah. Is that Are we on board with that? I’m on that. I’m on that. I think red side best side right now. Red side best side because the two it’s tied though. It it’s tied to to two. But keep in mind about what the opening picks were, right? The Kalia gets shown on that blue uh on that blue side or even uh the Zhu Shin gets showed up. Both of which has a very clean line for the both drafters, Arcadian as well as Kescu to count on their opponents. Yeah. I So I was wondering cuz that was going through my mind. Do we think SRG will pick red side? They were able to win that one blue side game with kind of the cheeky draft that they pulled off those two bands kind of really catching RQ off guard. Is that plan spent now? And are they forced back to, you know, because normally it’s not so even? Normally it’s not a 50/50 on red or blue side and that makes this last game even harder in terms of draft. Yeah, I think this is where we can marry your two opinions here where yes, for me it’s XP lane, mid lane trade as your pryo, but definitely SRG needs to pick redside here. uh heading into this game number five, they do have that choice. Hopefully, they do pick up that choice because if they go for the same priorities again, similar to game number four, there’s not a lot of wiggle room in what you could adjust. Even let’s say hypothetically, you put the Freder phase instead of the glue. So, it’s paired up with a Kim Ka. Yeah, you have a solid uh connection already at the center of the map, but then what does Cram end up with? and RQ haven’t been shy with making sure that CRAM ends up with a hero that does that does much better things for RQ than it does for SRG. I have to agree with that which is why the pocket picks need to start coming out, right? I think that Turisa needs to be a serious consideration now that both again we’ve seen the phobias happen a couple of times but more importantly the CC has been banned out consistently in the first phase. I would say also for SRG one of their so far we’ve seen some of their greatest pocket picks is in their jungle. Um, we saw that export come out and I think yeah, I think if they slot up I’m wondering if maybe the pocket pick should be elsewhere other than exp and maybe make sure they get a decent exp and magin early on and then let your flexibility be around marksman, be around jungle, be elsewhere on the map cuz after that export game it feels like uh it feels like Sakai can literally pretty much pick about whatever they want and be able to win a game. Yeah, I think outside of the usual Faras, Juicins, and Kimisa we’ve been seeing really have a great time uh ever since the group stage here at MSC, these two teams are going to have to consider heroes such as like the Valentina and Phamis coming back as options, especially the Phamis. We’ve seen a couple of games uh even in wild cards where Phamis comes in big for a team that their opponents didn’t expect it to come out. Suddenly, they’re so aggressive in the early because they know they can play around the Nether Realm and then the opposing team gets rattled. Maybe that’s something these two teams might want to consider and lean into heading into game number five. Are there any picks that you’re looking for? You said you’re looking for the Terisla. Is there a specific pick that you’re looking for here, Trixs? Let me see that. Lu Yay. Oh, I I I mean, it’s definitely it’s always it’s always a possibility, right? Like just because of the utility you get from it. But I think in current meta um stationary mages are hard to pull off. ZTN gets the pass mainly because of the passive, because of the ability to kite with their skills a little bit, but overall a lot of mages that don’t have flickers, don’t have big movement are a danger to their team. You know, I mean, let’s look back at the picks that we know notably for both of these sides have proven to work. Lancelot still a huge problem for either side, no matter who picks it up. I mean, we’ve seen that the high boost is kind of met, but Yishin Shin also a very large problem. We’ve seen that in within the first phase of both sides. Wong consistently gets banned out. We’ve seen ar I would say arguably the Farsa should be considered a part of that ban as well. If not at least the Khalia one or the other. Okay. A lot of potential trades can come out here. We’ve mentioned some of the surprise picks to come out. Now it’s all momentum is on the side of RQ that SRG really needs to dig deep and pull something out here. Do they go for assassins? I I know we consider the lands a lot, but should they try to find a way to force RQ to play back into just playing utility, playing a slower game that there are times where we’ve seen SRG do play well around that as well because Sakai can afford to be aggressive while at the same time not dying as much. Well, let’s start making the comparisons, right? What are the strong points of both of these teams? And I think the one thing that SRG knows that they are slightly better at compared to RRQ is when it comes to 5v5 team fights in terms of raw macro. I think that RQ is very good at kind of well, not really simulating, but forcing SRG into forks, right? No matter what decision, you’re going to lose something. For me, I I don’t know. I think both teams bring it into the land into the land of dawn. I think a lot of it’s going to come down to draft. I think it’s it comes it’s going to happen before the game. I think SRG, one of their strand points is their versatility. Uh, their ability to kind of play a little outside of the box, be willing to draft things that other teams might not risk and make it work. To whereas RQ, one of their strengths still is we can keep it simple and we know how to hammer that simplicity in very, very well. You give us a straightforward draft with strong picks and we are going to win the game with it. Seems like the more we discuss this, if anyone’s going to be showing up any surprise picks, this might be on the side of SRG as we see the RRQ fans in the arena just dancing on and cheering on their team. What’s your command? All right. Okay. For a moment there, I was trying to process it. Wait a minute. Did we just go back in time or No, we are finally in the draft. All right. Game number five. SRG takes red side. That’s what I’m hoping for. That’s what I was always looking for. Coach Arcadia knows what he’s doing and I think now that we they’ve kind of played that mental chess game between Arcadia and as well as KZ. They understand the power picks. I don’t think RQ is going to change from their pattern in terms of bands, especially for the first two. Fann is definitely going to go. So, here’s the question for RQ. Do you ban out the fara and look for the up front? If they still want to hunker down into that first pick blue side, I think they definitely ban out the fara. We’ve seen them ban out the CC as well on blue side, not wanting to let CRAM get it on the swing back. I think it’s something we could see pop up. YSS though getting banned out from SRG. Yeah, I think SRG needs to reconsider. Oh, they take away the CC. Good respect there. I think I want to see Yumes end up not with a Klaya, but something along the lines of a badang gotaka. Something that can break the tempo of RQ to force out dashes to put them in awkward spots where maybe they dash in the wrong position. Cuz if RQ can fight comfortably, as we saw in game number four, they’re just unstoppable. See, but that’s the thing, right? Every single time we see Kalia let through, SRG is more than happy to either build their synergy around the Kalia pick, if not lean into something else. And I feel like the onus is on RQ to get rid of it in the first place. I don’t think they will. I think this is a key pattern that they want to take advantage of. We have seen though that RQ can deal with the Kala a little bit. They were able to deal with it last game. I don’t know if that’s on the forefront of their mind right now, at least in terms of risk. There’s ways to play around it if they put something aggressive. They go for the Xian ban first. So, no, we want the FZA now. SRG now on the spot of do we ban the fara? Because if you don’t, I got a feeling it’s coming up front for RQ as a first side blue for sure. Yeah, I I I’m not going to deny that, dude. I’m feeling the same way right now. Juicing ban right away just signals as if Ru is trying to say no, we want the Farsa right here. the first pick. Even more so now though, Ryu will have to think about, okay, my suggestion, what if SRG decides to put up a Gacha and Badang at the hands of Yumes or even for Crab, one of those two heroes, that makes the far first side uh first pick all the more questionable. You just get purified, man. You just get purified. I mean, we did see the last game, but the heroes that counter her just seem to not do that much. I think the laning phase you get from her first pick far. You got to I think right now she’s I I’ve been saying this for the past month or two. She is the mage right now for me in the mid lane. Um she belongs in the ban pool or something like this. Now redside Ka I think they let go of Ka. I think you go straight into Gat here and then you’re looking for immediate answer down by the goal lane which I’m thinking is probably going to be Granger. Oh Granger rush. I was thinking maybe a Moskov rush. Well, either a Granger rush or we immediately lean into Lanclot, right? Because again, you want to afflict what is going to be coming out from the side of RQ side. The problem is is that if you show Lanclot, it’s almost guaranteed to be fobvious from RQ. Good call. I I once you said Lance, I’m like that’s actually genius cuz that’s what RQ wants. I think at this point they do still have opportunity though. They can still because of what we know with utility, they can still pick up Fred Rin here if they want. They have the burst damage behind it. Maybe they go for Granger Fred here and just kind of sol it up. They have their damage and then they can fill out the rest after. Yeah, Granger Fred looks like two very powerful picks right now for RQ. Do they lean into that? Sounded like a Granger. It’s not a Fredin. They go for the Fobious first which might come back to bite them because SRG, if I’m SRG, I will be committing bans right away to Akai Fredin. Take Susin out of his comfort. Put him in an assassin yet again. Does SRG pick up exp though here before we see what happened last game where they get the glue or something against uh against the Phobias? They need something that’s going to do okay in lane against the Phobius. And with CC gone, it’s like what else do you have in the arsenal to really deal with that? So, let’s see if SRG has it. They can go Akai XP for Cra. It becomes quite even in trade. Sometimes you could slightly beat it, but then you have the heavy spin to mess up the phobia in the first place. I don’t I don’t disagree. I think that Kai is okay, but glue is always the go-to in this matchup. I think Creme has played like thousands of games of Glue into the Phobias every single time. And that’s the risk that SRG is willing to take here, right? But this opens up a couple of possibilities now that we see what toy is going to be playing. SRG, I think at this point are trying to figure out what is the mid pick that’s going to be able to counter everything on the side of RRQ. And I think that’s where we’re going to see the flex pick. It might just be the Zen all over again as a as a means, but uh it we saw how game one went. It’s a little risky. You mentioned the Valentina earlier. At least you get the feathered air strike with that pick. Um much earlier in this day, I mentioned something like the Novaria, something to at least have big range and at least poke and at least not ever be in range of the Farza. It’s not going to clear. It’s not going to maybe rotate as fast, but at least you have range and you have that backline arsenal. Oh, they banned the Selena. Selena would have been another long range gray pick. Yeah, really good prediction there by RQ. That’s really smart. That’s really smart. That means he has to go even further down the list of potential things to pick. You need burst. That’s the problem. You need a lot of burst to make sure this Kalia pick is not wasted. And you need divers to jump in the backline. So, they’ve already figured out their divers, right? They have a pseudo burst coming in from that land slot, assuming he gets his first two items. But now the big issue is whether or not you have somebody that can either clean up the fight, which potentially either the flex picks coming up from the side, but specifically Innocent is Roger, or is he just going to double down and be like, “All right, I’m going to play Claude again. That way I can kind of like cut down on the tanks and more importantly so kind of bypass the feathered air strike.” I think they could save gold for last pick. Um, Aerol’s a maybe a possibility, but they’re they they they’re I think RQ is on the same track with me of like they need a long range mage right now. Something that can pop up. Kadita also still open. Another pick that we’ve seen depending, but it’s like which who do they pick first here? That’s the hard thing for me for SRG. It’s who do we want to try to get the last counter play as I think Ar is just going to end up with an Akai again and then that will force SRG to go Valentina just so that they have the heavy spin on their side as well. So, in a way, it’s them getting an Akai without having to pick an Akai, but then you don’t have the range. You are going to be getting uncomfortably close to the members of RQ. I think the call is on Innocent. Yep, there we go. Innocent will have to make the final call here because at the end of the day, Stormmy understands that his role is to try to maximize his value. But with this Beatatrix pick, it now comes to I must fight and I must execute well. Instant response. Joy and as well as the gate to immediately look to punish this Beatatrix. That is tough. RQ this time for my eyes does seem a little ahead in terms of just predicting how SRG is going to approach this. SRG last pick. Still need a mage. Yeah, I think it has to be Valentina at this point. Not only can you get the feathered air strike, you also get the ultimate of the joy as we’ve seen as one of the old uh responses to a joy is you pick up the electrifying beats as well as a Valentina as your escape tool. sometimes as your engage duel, but then you give up pressure over mid lane immediately. The 2v2 is not good in the earlier stages of the game and it’s like oh sure you survive but goth makes it obsolete so they always get first move. I wonder if they go something like Valer or Veil something weird. I’m thinking like Veil Nana. Uh I mean Zan’s like okay. But there we go. They go for the Kimmy this time around at least to try and punish put a brass tax on them. It’s still hard. All right, real quick. Your vibe. Is it SRG or RQ Gideon? I’m thinking that RQ have a much better lineup this time around. I like RQ’s draft overall. Not saying that SRGs isn’t possible to pull off, but once again, they’re in a spot where there’s a lot of pieces and it kind of has to work out perfect for them. Our analysts have spoken and we are split. What does the arena feel like? Amazon Arena. Is it going to be SRG or is it going to be RRQ as we head into the decider? Will the kingdom get redemption or will SRG continue their push forward to their title? Brigetta Nisu, let’s go. Thank you so much once again to the panel here, ladies and gentlemen. It’s me, Na, and Brigetta to bring you our final match for this series. It all comes down to this one game. It’s been one heck of a series already. A back and forth and some one-sided games, but that can all go behind us as both teams focus on this last and final one. Brigetta, it seems like they’re all for RQ. What do you think here? Who’s got the better lineup for this game? I mean, beyond the better lineup, I’m also considering momentum because it does seem like RQ are still riding off what happened in the previous game. And that reflects as early as 30 seconds into this deciding game. Yun was already forced to recall and use the flicker. And if this happens time and time again, we might see another scenario of hesitation, which literally will be the biggest hindrance towards SRG playing their game because it was already mentioned by our panelists as well. So many pieces have to come together for them to be able to pull off a better game. That’s been the uh case. so far throughout the series really and a lot of that pressure still you know of course like we said the XP laners doing their part and even down to the roaming potential but it’s going to be a little bit different because you know even in the gold lane like the fact that this is a batrix in the hands of innocent this is going to be a different game than what a lot of people are used to seeing in in the sense of usually Moskov is his hands so now the game plan changes a bit for them this whole series has been about team fighting and This is one of the lineups that I feel like for SRG OG Esports to make it work, they have to be able to find the right timing for things. I mean, that has been the case anytime a Ka is there, but then as well it might be an early final ready. Went in with the unbreakable. Phantom of Execution already committed by Saka as well, but he doesn’t get to find a kill onto Edo. Only the revitalize was forced out of RRQ in that scenario. That’s all they got. They might still go for more. They put some pressure here on Ren. Oh, Thorn Rose damages Rins a lot. But Zutto Jin electrifying bees also deals back enough damage to SRG OG. Such a good back and forth for both of these teams so far. No clear advantage just yet. It might happen here. And a lot of this brings it to the first objective. The turtle a charge up from me. Oh, a flicker to go in and the better strike. Things look so good for RRQ, but the objective falls into the hands of SRG. OG AOG Al committed by Edok as well, but they might not get anything more out of that. It’s crazy how the fight up at the top side of the map turned into eventually that turtle. Nice little take there from Innocent. But again, it’s nothing too crazy. Yes, SRG got the turtle. That’s fine. Ru gets the first blood though, and that goes in the hands of Dy. Again, a lot of the trending here for the XP laners is once they get that advantage, they play into it. But still, we’re seeing how both these lineups. So, Ritz, oh, the wings by wings got cancelled, but still he’s alive. Like, Yumes won’t risk going in and potentially getting punished by RQ because right now they’re the ones who need to do a bit of the catching up. RQ are clearly in the lead right now. Fortunately, they’re still able to somehow control majority of their lane. Not too big of an advantage. just hand it over to any of the members of RQ just yet. But the way things are going, it does seem like RQ have less things to worry and think about. Whenever they decide to go in, they have ways to just constantly reposition themselves and get out. But now they decide to go in and commit onto the kill. Maybe on maybe on Crab, but he still has the puncture to get out. Now there is the mount coming in from Crow. They will find the kill on Dy instead. Great job there from Creme to go ahead and bring Dyron back. That’s exactly why you pick up the glue in some of these instances where you can reposition for the team to take favor of that. So, good play up there. He’s going to get a little bit of extra damage on that turret, that extra gold that he needs to go ahead and build in on this glue. So, turtle will be up here shortly. But, you know, going back to it, it’s it’s again, it’s you got a couple fur purifies to go ahead and utilize if you’re RRQ. And over on the other side, a lot of the work that they’ve been doing is getting those flickers down from SRG. And we could see the same thing happen from time to time before either team actually commits to the turtle. So, right now, RQ’s got positioning. They’ve got that favorable option, but Sakai’s on the Lancelot can just kind of join into this fight, and that’s why they make their way here. Cra’s going to zone out. grins for now and RQ will pull off and it’ll go for the reset. It could have been a 3v3 but now SRG it seems like they’re all complete execution already committed just a slight reset but still gets the last hit. There’s the penetration from as well and they get to burst down Zy. They have to walk away. They already lost a member. Now SRG, this is where it works for them. And Innocent getting that kill. Massive already granting him the early blade of despair. Yep, good for him. He rotated on up and I thought both gold laners would actually join that, but totally decided to do some extra damage to that mid turret. And the fact that the kill and the objective go over help. Oh no, Stormy. Such a wellcoordinated attack from Sutsu Jin and Rins. The first hit from the Federate air strike didn’t land so it wasn’t an immediate stun, but Sutsu Jin was there either way to supply a bit more of damage. And now what toy has been really trying to work on is finally handed over to RQ, that’s the first turret that’s taken down in this game. And if RQ are able to keep this up, this is way too similar to how they were able to establish that dominating lead in the previous game. Oh, here we go. Concealed from Yumes. He’s going for it. That’s a flicker title strike into the medic rage for Dyron gets bursted down once again. The Klaya Beatatrix combo has been working too well for SRG so far in terms of getting the pickoffs even in the tankiest heroes. But now Yumes still trying to go for it. Toy will just try to damage that tier 2 turret a bit, but they might have to walk away now. These are four members of SRG OG who might try to go for the chase. Now they try to lock down onto Ed. Does it have a way out? No, actually has the AOG. Doesn’t need a flicker or anything to just reposition out of there. Well, they want this turret. Yeah, but they might have to hand over this. Not unless they really want to fight for it. Now he up pays with his life. A great shot from Innocent. I’m not sure if they’ll get more, but they’ve been down on this bottom side of the map quite a bit. Good clearing up there on top, too. Cra in trouble. That’s a decent amount of damage, but another Mediterrane always the victim of the Mediterraney beast from Zutsu Jindo. Nearly taking it down in the set, but he has a flicker. Phantom execution doesn’t lag as well. And they just get a bit of information, but will have to let go of this turtle for now. They fought really hard for all of this in the last minute. They spent so much time on this side of the map. Hit the objective. They’ll take a little bit more. Sakai’s holding here. And SRG, they they’re in a good position now. You’re seeing where that power spike for them is starting to come online. Innocent is starting to be a problem. He’s got the three kills now as well. Yep. It’s these two guys up top. It’s Yums and Innocent. It’s the boys. It’s the boys. The way they’re just so coordinated so far in this game. It’s doing wonders for SRG OG. I feel like this is the most coordinated we’ve seen them so far. Jin barely surviving that. Sikai, will he decide to dash? Once again, there’s the electrifying lead just barely touches the lord grow. Hold on for a little longer because Jen getting really close there. Endless battle now picked up for Sakai. There’s going to be a fight. Oh, tsunami slab coming to again but has the flicker doesn’t get to receive rage this time but again brought back but has the AOG to also get away. So SRG aren’t able to convert that into a kill yet again. But Toy Oh, decent amount of damage already coming in. RZ wings by wings dodges the renderers apathy. Such a such a close fight between these two so far. I think they want more. They’re going to they’re going to be focusing on Creme now. They want control of this tier one up top, but it should be cleared out. Saka is here. He’s going to go for it. Oh, doesn’t land amount of execution, but has enough damage to deal with Reins. Okay, who would have thought? SRG, even despite the situation, they have other members to rely on to go for the surprise attacks. And so, RQ, they might have to consider that and not be too complacent in terms of grouping up together in as much as that’s how they really utilize the strength of their lineup. Big item pick up here too for Creme. Radiant armor now available. Some of that magic resist going to play into the part. They’re going to go for the slam. Oh, Edo is the target once more here. Receives the Bennett’s rage once again and gets blasted by SRG OG. That’s a successful pickoff for their team right as the Lord has spawned in the bottom lane. But if you look at majority of the other members or the teams, it’s just pretty equal. It’s mostly really on the exp lane which I feel SRG OG was really keen on trying to shut down fast execution towards R and but Dy gets bursted down once again goes in but might just have to disengage innocent he flickers in he knew he had the damage he knew he had it but now they don’t have a jungler and right now RQ even without Dy they could go ahead set things up for their favor unless SRG does something about it in the mid lane Damn AG to the face. You know, doing a great job at surviving and sustaining, but Sutin might come from the side. Try to force down a couple members here from SRG OG. But now, Innocent with the Rener could only do so much. I feel like he just switched it moment ago, so he couldn’t dish out that much damage if he doesn’t target it well enough. Oh, but he wasn’t in the range of the Bennis rage that saved Edo. Oh, Susan looking for more. Going to go under the turret with the beats under the tier one, but stopped in his tracks and it has been a back and forth all of this between both the teams. But the positioning now for this lord here is RQ. Yeah, I have to say the knockups coming in from Numes have been very very crucial though, either in looking for the targets to set up with the tsunami slam or just to literally deny RRQ from chasing down the other members of SRG OG. Similar to what happened with Sutsu Jin earlier right now, but there’s the veteran air strike. Another twoman knock up coming in from the title strike. Toy unfortunately is the first to fall for RRQ. You do not want that. Suzin, he can still come in from that backside, but he’s going to be stopped in his tracks. Cra will zone them out. It might come down to a retri retribution battle if they decide to go for it. Oh, Ren, will he cast his ultimate right now? Gets threatened here by Sikai as he goes in. AoG out for Edo, but they find the kill on Dy. Now, Zutin might not find the right angle to go in anymore. He’s only left alone here as SRG take the lord. A great team fight, a great juggle around that lord for SRG. They did lose the holy shield up top to the minions pushing in, but nonetheless, they won that fight. They get the objective. We’ll take a look at the instant replay again from STC. This was really good. They zoned out the right members of this fight. Susen didn’t have an angle to go for it. I mean, he sees CRA and he’s like, I I can’t go for this. And then they held that Lord from going into a complete reset to be able to secure it. And now they’re at the base of SRQ of RRQ. Yep. That that pull yourself together for news is becoming such a problem. Like he almost always has his flicker to threaten RQ to keep them on their toes and for Ren to just not be able to dish out the bettered air strike as often as he wanted to. Even in that moment where he had the vision on the objective, he just couldn’t because too many members of SRG OG could decide to dive in at any given moment. And I feel that that’s what makes up majority of the idea of their lineup too. It’s literally formation breaking formation breakers for SRG OG. Man, if we look at this the items too, you know, Dyron, what a roller coaster of a series. Like this game, he’s been pretty much just stopped. He is a punching bag for SRG Esports to go ahead and utilize because he has been constantly picked off. He doesn’t have much defense at all. You know, he’s got the blade armor, but that’s about it and a little extra defense. Now, that might be somewhat okay in consideration he’s playing a phobia, but if you’re picked off with the tsunami slam and then immediately deleted, then the value of you being in the XP laner being that kind of front front body other than Edo puts Edo in that situation where a lot of times he’s the one trying to get away, disengage with the Avatar, the Guardian instead of engaging with it. So, it’s been a really good just decision-m from SRG to play around the fact that, you know, they have this Ka and even down to the traction pulse, but also the fact that Cra is just so damn tanky that you can’t really deal too much with him. And he’s built this up this glue up really well. He’s also now got an immortality. I mean, look how much damage this guy has taken. He can basically go 1v5 on the glue and be okay for the most part until RQ gets to the point itemization wise where they catch up. Now, how long is that? Probably another 5 minutes or so. Like they need to get there. At least for Toy. He is in on par with Innocent. And imagine Innocent’s got five kills. That’s really good for Toy, but if he’s taken out early, you lose a lot of that. Cyclone eye into his death. Dy did not anticipate that, but Sikai, they find the kill on to Toy to Toy to Toy as well. So, Sigin gets to trade out Sikkai, but that’s an exchange of three. It’s a three to one trade right now. SRG, they know the shield is down. They’re going to push into the base turret. Oh, purify already used there by Ren. He had to dodge the tracks concealed coming in from SRG OG. They only want one thing and they’re going to go for the end. The defending champions, the giants will remain and they shall prevail over the kingdom. Redemption denied. The M6 rematch carved in RQ’s ruins as the Red Giants stormed through the walls ahead to the semis. We can all let a breath out here, whichever team you’re rooting for, because we had one hell of a series. And of course, the sportsmanship here between these two powerhouse teams. Unfortunately, only one can move on forward. So many back and forths, so many times where we we were just so uncertain as to who could get the better trades or to whom it would be a lot more favorable. But SRG OG, their composure, it was very commendable of them to stay that composed and coordinated. Like I I I I have to bring it up once again because the way that the game played out from the early to the mid-stages of the game, it was literally Yum’s innocent always setting things up, starting things up. And you wouldn’t usually consider the XP laner to be the first to one, but it just worked so well for SRG OG. That’s what I said, Brio. I mean, think about this series overall for both our XP laners. you know, because even this like you look at these highlights and CRA had such a good game here and it’s been a back and forth between their experiences throughout each game, you know, where we got to see Dyron do or Dyron do crazy things in game one, then we saw CRAM do it, and then they really solidified as a team as the as the series went on. And this time SRG just looked so clean with it. This was one of those games where they just locked in. Let’s go ahead and throw it over on stage though with Rose to hear for our winning interview. Thank you very much to our casters. And there you guys have it. The defending champions will be heading on to the semifinals tomorrow. And right now from Salango Redid OG Esports, I am with the mage prodigy of Malaysia. It is none other than Stormmy. Stormmy, how are you right now? I’m really proud with myself, my team, and really happy that we won today. After this win, you guys are practically one step closer to defending the crown. Do you feel pressure? Do you feel nervous? Or are you actually really confident? Uh, not really. We’re just in the middle right now and we’re just happy that we go to the next stage. Yeah, I think everybody here is happy as well as the fans back at home. Now, let’s talk about the matchup with RRQ because we know that the reason RQ chose you guys in the group draw was because they said that they were kind of looking for a revenge up against you guys. Now, for the second time that you guys have met RQ, SRG came out on top. Is there any message that you want to give RQ? Um, to RQ, nice try, I guess. See you guys next time. I hope so. Yeah, I do believe that RQ can come back stronger in the future tournaments and who knows, maybe then they can meet SRG once again. Okay, let’s talk about the match a little bit. We know it’s a full best of five, the full series that we’ve had, first full series that we’ve had since the knockout stage began. Now, Stormy, in the first game, we could see that it was a very 50/50 matchup against RRQ. What was actually happening on the first game? I can’t remember that much in first game but I think we did one mistake and it turned everything around. So I just think that it’s just a mistake from us. It was a complete brawl actually in the game one. Then you guys managed to regain momentum and came back stronger in game two and three. However, for your match point game four, what was that? What happened there? Uh we did another mistake on the first turtle before the turtle. So it happens. Yeah. Was it the case of overconfidence or miscommunication? Uh not really. I think we just like wrong mechanics. I guess that’s it. Okay. Now, after this win, do you guys think that SRG OG Esports it’s back to its perfect form? What do you guys think you’re back to your perfect form or not yet? Uh, inshallah. Yeah, hopefully. Okay. Now, the next match, the match after this, right, Stormmy, it will decide who you guys will meet in the Sam finals tomorrow between Onyx Philippines and Team Spirit. Who do you want to meet? Um, I don’t mind any actually, but I’m hoping that Onyx PH because it might be a good story for us also. Good story. And hey, we could be looking at another revenge matchup against Onik Philippines because in case you guys didn’t know, Onik Philippines dropped SRG OG Esports to the lower bracket over at M6. Before I wrap up this interview, is there anything you want to say to Onik Philippines in case you guys will be able to meet tomorrow? Um, just good luck, have fun, and do you do do the best. Yeah. Thank you very much, Stormmy. Congratulations. And there you guys have it. SRG OG will be moving on to the next round tomorrow. With that, let us join back to the panel to break down what happened in this crazy full series. Back to you guys. It’s not redemption, but it’s devastation as the giants just trample over the kingdom of RRQ, lording over them to advance into the semifinals in game five that I felt like at one point it was just a game of inches. Man, the first one who would mess up or miss position will get punished. And that’s what we saw in the very final fight. Dude, my heart my heart could not take it. Can this Can this be like the new Lassico? You know, we don’t we don’t need Evos anymore. Get them out of here. SRG, OG Esports versus RRQ that these matches are insanely not only fun to watch, but on a technical aspect, I think every MLBB lover can really appreciate it. But here we go. This is the most painful part. 2 million viewers are having their key crushed right now. It definitely hurts. The fans of RQ are watching this happen. And I mean, SRG deserved it though. That’s the best part. The snap. Yeah. Man, you could read that. At first, Stormmy was looking at it kind of longingly like, uh, that was a good match between us. Oh, wait, wait a minute. That’s a bit violent. Oh, and then you see his reaction. Of course, again, uh, the key crushes, people were looking for them at the end of group stages, but now we are seeing them here during the knockouts. We saw twice the first one today. Again, thank you to AR Ru Hoshi, the fans, and of course the team for all your efforts you brought out here. There were a lot of people who are actually looking at this as saying, “Hey, I think RQ will get their redemption. I think they redeemed themselves in some way, but ultimately it was just SRG just proving why they became champions last year, why they’re still considered one of the top five, top, even top four teams in the world. I think out of all the fact is it’s now it’s currently year two, year two of a team picking SRG in this particular format and dropping the ball. I think hey if they are the last kids gets picked on the basketball court like this I mean next year hopefully teams really consider like oh man should we roll the dice again I you know I think it’s also another good point last time what we saw from SRG they win five games up against Aurora actually got the win and then move forward and were able to make it to grand finals you know what does this say for SRG because I think we came into top eight kind of questioning them a little bit this MSC wondering how they were going to perform they had a rough groups And they just took out RQ, which a lot of people were putting very high on the pedestal this year. And someone we have to put on a pedestal now is our Sony series MVP. In a game decided by so many trades for key heroes, it was in the EXP lane of SRG where they found their anchor where they found Graham to help lead the team to victory. Yeah, I think even in that very last major team fight, Cra was the one that got the double stun on to Toy and that was the moment where it was like, you know, it was kind of back up in the air, but Cra smashes the dream once again. And throughout this whole series, Cra has been so important to every single match. Yeah, he’s been absolutely disgusting. Right. Every time we see SRG really start to falter is when he’s not doing too well. And honestly, I can make the same comparison with Dyron from RRQ. I think RQ put an amazing fight here, but the primer of SRG OG esports with Graham to get those battle spells out. Then let the super play happen. He he kind of tenderizes his opponents. So when you see the the the showmaker himself just end up with Yums coming in with a tsunami slam. It’s just perfect. Yeah. 13-1 and 8 in that game two really helped set the tone for SRG heading into game number three which yet again even though Cra played a little bit more of a quiet role in this game three it was the over respect by Arc and over focus on him that allowed the Xorg and then eventually the I believe it was the Claude that they were with or was it the the Claude that they were with to be able to operate freely because Cra was CRA demanded so much attention from RQ. Yeah, I mean just overall if CRA has a good game and I think it was not this last game but game number four Gideon’s going why are you guys ganking the exp lane? That’s why they’re ganking the exp lane cuz you give CRA a good game, you give all five team members a good game. And I think both teams started to understand that as those uh games move forward, but SRG were just able to deliver with it. Yeah, I I literally couldn’t believe that 2v3 somehow Dy dies there. That’s like what? Why? How? That should not have happened. Yeah. And I think as a series went on, especially that game number five, it’s like we just got to see the constant reccalibration by SRG. Even Stormmy acknowledged it in the interview. What happened in that game number four, it was it wasn’t miscom or anything. It was just pure mechanics. They messed up on some key abilities. They ended up uh giving the double kill. So it it uh it validated our theory which that game five draft that SRG used was more of them just going it was more of the first three minutes. We could have handled the leadup to the first hurdle better and they did and then they were able to shine in that game. They were like run it back run it back one more time coach. I think so much of it comes back to what Gideon was saying where, you know, I was on more on board in the draft, but I think it did prove that in game that’s what really came down who could mechanically achieve these things better in some of the games that we saw. Our Q loss, we saw Ren’s missing a few skills here and there. I think in that last one, a few feathered air strikes were not connecting. Um, so I think in the end, Rarg just played the better game, I would say. and even some of the games they won that like you said recalibrated whether it was in draft, whether it was in game, but overall I think SRG definitely deserved that uh game five win. Yeah. And what I like about the series is not just because of the action of what happened in game. Uh heading into this, we were already touting this to be a crazy chess match in terms of the drafts happening. I know I know we have chess happening in another venue here in the boulevard right now, but we were getting our own chess experience with the drafts and with SRG showing things like Batrix getting picked up in game number five as the fourth pick on the red side, the Xborg coming out of the last pick as their jungler for game number three. SRG being able to pull that off, I feel like that’s that’s a heat check to the rest of the teams, especially to Team Spirit or Onyx, whoever they’re going to be going up against, because they’re not afraid to show cards. Yeah, they’re really not afraid to show cards and I think that coming into this particular form, I’m hoping that, you know, the RQ fans are not going to be too harsh on their team because we know how they are like every single international because again, it was a beautiful game of MLBB and I think that this needs to be the standard everyone is looking to hit. If we’re fighting, we’re fighting for a reason. Top tier mechanics, top tier drafts. Only these two teams when they fight each other do we see the best of both worlds. Yeah. Earlier we got to hear from Stormmy, but now we have to hear from Toy from RQ with a turnout. We’re backstage here after that match loss against SRG. We have Toy here in the building. Toy, talk us through what’s going on in your brain right now. What’s happening? Okay. So, he’s not really thinking about anything right now. He’s just focusing on MPL. So coming into this, it was supposed to be a revenge match. Do you think that SRG knows something about RQ that we don’t? Okay. JD. So Toy mentioned that he feels that Rar G played as well as they could, but it was the mistakes that were made by RQ that eventually made this loss happen. So, do you have any regrets picking SRG here? first knockout. Okay. So, no regrets. He still thinks that it’s okay. Do you have any message now to the Indonesian fans in the building and at home watching RQ? Message on the fans. Huh? Message on the fans. The kingdom. Thank you so much. You may uh go back to your manager. Thank you, Toy. It’s an emotional day right now and obviously the key crushings will still be happening. So, we’re going to cut to that very, very soon and hopefully they can come back stronger on their next international. We’re throwing it back to the studio. Thank you so much, Eterna. And you could see they’re like, uh, I feel like Toy is like compartmentalizing a bit. Like Emy’s done instantly. He’s already thinking about the next league. The Indonesian Pro League starts in two or 3 weeks and his head’s already there. I hope that he gets into the right headsp space and I think it’s up to you fans out there to help him out. I mean, we need to set better examples for why the Kingdom has some of the best fan bases in the world. They are loyal. They truly withstand the test of time. And I think RQ fans out there, it’s time to turn that hate into support. Make sure that these boys are ready the next time they meet at an international. Yeah, I I couldn’t agree more. I think that’s what’s I think so many teams that make it to this top eight spot are still amazing teams. So many fans just want to see gold, but just to get here right now, it is number eight in the world. It is, you know, it is a statement in itself, but SRG does take the win. And I think uh that has to also be a statement in itself because I’m really excited to see uh how they do up against the next teams that they’ll be facing. Yeah. With the defending champions of MS moving forward, we now look at the brackets to remind us who joins them. You have Team Liquid, the champions of the Philippines. You have Onik Indonesia, the champions of Indonesia. Well, now it’s between the champions of EECA and the runner-ups of of the Philippines, but the defending world champions Onyx Philippines to see who SRG will face. It seems like as we get closer and closer to the grand finals, the bracket is looking more like what a lot of people expected, the champions of their respective regions. But now it’s going to be up to the defending world champs to stop a potential plot twist in the making as Team Spirit have been on an absolute tear. Will they be able to stop the rise of the dragons of EECA or will they falter and will the plot twist of the century happen? I’m so excited for the next series which will be happening when we come back. Welcome aboard Metro Zero. All souls must remain inside the train at all times. The terminal station is Ever Garden station. Zero is pulling in. Look alive. Car clear. Car five clear. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I’m sorry. Special delivery. Next stop, Ever Garden Station. Heat. Heat. N. Between Onik Indonesia as well as Anik Philippines, which is going to be your opponent, I’m over. You want Any Philippines? All right. Let’s go, King Kong. King Kong, do you expect Team Spirit to pick you? Not really. Um, I thought RQ or maybe Team Liquid PH is going to pick us. We chose only Philippines cuz in our opinion, they’re not as strong as Indonesia from what we have seen and we are more confident to go up against them. It’s not like huge difference, you know, they both so strong teams, but we just don’t have normal choices. So, we just choose a little bit different teams. That’s it. How do you think of this match up? Um, very fun match and exciting. Bomba. Uh, let’s eat again in desert. In one of the most surprising twists, the reigning world champs will now face off the rising dragons in an elimination match for their first knockouts match. The throne shakes, can OniP silence the doubts, or will team spirit ignite a new era. That is the questions on everyone’s heads. I’m seeing a lot of Filipinos in online comment sections suddenly proclaiming that Kid Bomb was Filipino for what he did for allowing a PHP grand finals to happen but also respecting Team Spirit for just picking Onic right away. I mean Kid Bomb is about as Filipino as I am and I am pretty Filipino. So just saying I think I think that it’s it’s interesting that he wanted to go in this particular manner but we all heard that interview right we all heard him just go like hey uh you know on looking a little weaker compared to Indonesia which was Philippines is looking a little weaker compared to Indonesia remar I think he said on Philippines I don’t like I I miss out I didn’t want to laser focus in too much on Philippines he definitely said not as good as Indonesia that’s all I know I if I was you if I was a a three time world championship region four four exactly I don’t know I wouldn’t take that remar I’d be fuming I’d be fuming I’d be fuming I don’t know how it feels to be a fourtime champion but so I think you right now you’re just confirming how much more Filipino you are than me seems like you’re more offended by the statement than I am chill man I’m just here it’s like all right cool we’ll see it in game we’ll see in the result you know it’ll be all good yeah every single time I I I don’t know I think that it’s interesting interesting that Team Spirit has like I feel like if they had faster games, they could be a change in the order. Things would have shaken up a little bit more differently, right? Yeah. At least for Team Spirit, I feel like they’re they’re truly f they found themselves and not only their play style, but the way that they kind of have the overlook in the game. Yeah, we have to acknowledge Team Spirit are are still undefeated heading into this uh they went 2, they were in the 2 bracket. They’ve performed incredibly well in MSE while APH has been shaky. So maybe since Eterna and Rose got to catch up with Kela, we’ll be able to understand their mindset a little bit more heading into the series. Hey everyone, we’re backstage now with Kela as well as Rose to aid in the translation, right? Why are you guys laughing? I wanted to just go to the restroom and I was cornered by Kelra. Okay, we’ll get this quick though. Okay, first and foremost, we weren’t able to get your response to how things went up. How did you feel about team spirit choosing you before onic ID okay so he said that he actually didn’t expect team spirit to choose them and amongst the internal discussion that on Philippines had. They all thought it was RQ that would be picking them because they could see the eagerness that RQ wanted to get their revenge on PH. Oh, interesting. So, why did you think that it would be you guys? Because of the RQ, but I mean, there were only two teams left, right? It was Onic ID and you guys. So, why why did you think that you wouldn’t be picked there? What did you say? Oh, he’s okay. So, he said he was actually teasing kid Bomba and he was saying like, “Don’t ever drop to the lower bracket because if you do, I will beat you.” So, I think he thinks that is the reason why that team spirit actually picked on. All right. With that, do you have a message for Kid Bomba right now? Kida, that’s a very humble one. He said to Kid Bomba, “Good luck. Have fun. Let’s give the audience an amazing um game later. Absolute cinema. Absolute cinema. We’re going to close it there. Heading over back to the studio. It started out with a tease. How did it end up like this? Here comes Team Spirit now entering the arena. And yeah, Kid Bomba after getting teased by Keller said, “You know what? He took that personally. He took that a little too personally.” I mean, we heard it from the group stages alone, right? Why he made the initial selection. Kibomba quoting like I Kellra was teasing me in the back so we got to take him on. I think there is some important though here for Team Spirit. They are yet to get a win a series win off of a Filipino team thus far in MSC or M series. So if they can do that here, it’s a huge step in the right direction for ECA. Yeah, it’ll be a massive shift in the story of ECA who has struggled against Filipino teams in multiple international tournaments and of course a massive shift in expectations for this team who are entering MSC as the defending world champs after their M6 campaign. They are not the defending Philippines champions as they did drop in the grand finals in the Philippines heading into this to Team Liquid. But people are still going, yo, Onyx are still a damn good team. They’re still really strong, but I cannot fault people also for having those doubts creep creep in because of their performance in the group stages. That’s why I I think that it’s a similar scenario to SRG in this case, right? Where when we’re looking at on PH because of the regular season run and dropping a TLPH that people are like a little, oh, I don’t know whether this team is going to make it through. And then it’s further enforced when they drop their games against Aurora. But it doesn’t change the fact that this team is so mechanically talented and why they’re so together is what makes them dangerous in the first place. Yeah. Not and not not only are they mechanically talented, but they are the super fan. They are in sync non-stop. Great drafts. They are also one of the Filipino teams that’s willing to bend the draft a little bit, pick outside the box here and there. And because they’re so mechanically talented, it works. Yeah. One of the reasons why we’re seeing bands on Kagura is because Super Friends brought it up. So, let’s say Vonic PH will continue to lynch uh onto their captain, onto their mid laner to bring out draft surprises. Well, for Team Spirit, they are as textbook as you can get in the scariest way possible. If RQ are textbook, these guys are that two plus more cuz Heo Mania and even OneShot have definitely stepped up even more since their M6 campaign in Malaysia last year. Absolutely. I think you know Hiko when he got his got got the moniker Hiko mania definitely he has shown that he can play up on that stage. One shot was still kind of trying to find himself converting from that like I’m that monster pub player and I’ll just beat you mechanically to now I have to really think tactically and there must be purpose in my movement if I want to be at the top level of professional play. Yeah, my eyes have been on Hiko since before MSC of last year. I think when he first joined the roster just a young kid. I think he came in at like 16 or something. It’s been a bit now. And since the Heoo Mania event, he has, you know, grown into a even stronger player. You know, reminds me of these young prodigies like Kelra who come in very, very young. The thing about Hiko though, he seems much more levelheaded than what we see. And I almost want to see the savage come out of him a little bit. I need to see that energy come from him because that’s what we need to see, I think, if he’s going to push past his boundaries. Yeah, don’t forget Hiko. One of the reasons why he got that name, he got a savage in the M6 World Championship. Unfortunately, it was a lost game, but then they eventually went on to win that series. Now though, another young man who made a name for himself in his international debut is the man who was interviewed by Turnup. It was Kid Bomba. We’re now here backstage with Kid Bomba. All smiles. You feeling good? Very good. Very good. Can we ask why you’re feeling very good? I’m very excited for today. Very excited for today. Okay. Now, funny thing is you asked Oni Page not to drop to the lower bracket because you will beat them. Is that true? No. Oh, what did you say? Said it car just said it as a joke, you know, when I was walking by and then he said, “Don’t go lower bracket or we will send you home.” Okay. I was like, “Hey, you sure?” So, yeah, that’s the story. Friendly banter. But what do you actually feel coming into this match? Cuz you guys technically were the ones to pick them. Um, I feel super confident. And I’m 100% sure that we can win today as long as the confidence level of uh my team is the same as mine. But is it is it are they feeling as confident as you? I’ll make sure that they feel he’ll make sure that they will feel confident. A message perhaps to Onik BH before your match. Um good luck, have fun. Let’s have a great game. And like Elra said, Absolute Cinema. Absolute cinema again. Heading over back to the studio. Kid Bomba with the posture, the confidence as always. One of the most entertaining figures we have in global MLBB esports. And I I like how he pushed on that point. He makes sure his his team is as confident as he is that they can beat the reigning world champs. I don’t think people have seen Saul in the back rooms just talking to his team because he is he is serious. Some he’s a true EECan. some may say really giving that you know energy not only to the team but to kind of put everybody in the right mindset. That’s why I think this is this really is going to be absolute cinema as they like to call it. I definitely think every player on the side of team spirit in terms of uh in terms of what they bring to the table for their mentality is important. All of them bring something. You have the seriousness of Sawo. You have you know the young mentality of Hiko. You have Kid Bomba who kind of brings that light-heartedness to the table. You know, I think all of them supply something and it’s been a team that we’ve all gotten to really know over the past few years. Yeah. I mean this the best way possible. It seems like as he gets more experience, Kid Bomba just starts to exude like dad energy. Like confident dad or uncle energy. He’s going from kid Bomba to like dad Bomba or Uncle Bomba. Uncle Bomba. Uncle Bomba. I like that. Couple more years. Couple more years. Just a couple more years. Uncle Bomba. Oh, no. Oh, no. He’s Filipino. So, he’s Tito Bomba. Kuya Bomba. Kuya Bomba. All right. I’ll go for I’ll go for Kuya Bomba. It’s good. But I do agree that this team has really grown up together, which is crazy, right? Because I think they’re one of the few teams that have showed up consistently to internationals and we’ve seen them not only change in roster, change with back management, change with organization, but legitimately grow up from a young age to where they are now. Sunset Lover is a really good example of that. truly turning aging like fine wine into his 20s. Yeah, as we look from the XP lane to the mid lane, we go to the other side of the map to the gold lane as Kelra, the gold standard, will have to see how he will fare against Heo Mania, a young man who took the world by storm in last year’s M6 World Championship and who has so far have had a statistic statistically, excuse me, better performance than the gold standard this MSE. Definitely a better standard this MSC. Though we could argue that the stats might be a little skewed. We know that Keller got dropped, had a couple more games, which means a couple more deaths, couple more kills, however you want to call it. But either way, this is a matchup I’m very excited for because Kelra has proved himself time and time again. And Ho for me is still kind of on that road. and getting a win here against Kelra kind of finally does put Hico in that position. Like yes, the hype is building around him, but for me, he’s still not yet at that, you know, that that gold standard point and beating Kelra here puts him there. Yeah, I I got to talk about it with um a bunch of other people before the day started where it feels like what we’re seeing is a slightly different color. We aren’t seeing so far the M6 gold standard color. I feel like this is my hot take of the day that what happened in the grand finals of MPL Philippines season 15 that dash out of the base where he got picked off by Sanji on the Loi that eventually led to on PH’s loss in the seventh game of the grand finals has gotten to Kelra a bit cuz we’re not seeing the savage side of Kelra as much as we used to. We’re seeing a very calculated Kelra but it feels like at times we’re seeing more of that savage coming out of Ob from Team Liquid Philippines. Well, let well let’s look at the other opposite side of this, right? I think it’s important that not only is it maybe it could be getting to them or maybe the rest of the world has to keep up with Kelra at some point that as the gold standard competitive levels need to reach his level if we want to stand a chance cuz I don’t think anybody wants to replay M6 all over again where on PH basically kind of washed the entire world. Well, real quick, TX, you have a I’ll give you a few seconds here. What do you think about Kellra man? I think there’s still possibilities there. I like what you said. Every time he hits a dash, is he wincing? Is he like is there some PTSD still there? I don’t know, but the gold price does continue to go up. And if Keller wants to be that standard, he’s going to need to keep up himself. Inflation PH versus Team Spirit. The champions of the Philippines, the reigning world champions against the champions of EECA who have been flying high and rising faster than ever before. Is it a plot twist or will it go as expected? Let’s throw you on over to the stage to welcome our teams. Thank you very much, gentlemen. And boy, boy, we still have one more quarterfinal, but our kickoff for today, Rose, was incredible. What was that at game five? Oh my my, that was one heck of a series. We have witnessed three quarterfinals games since we started the knockout stages yesterday. And oh my goodness, that was the first full series. And I just got to say I am super excited for this last one. Yeah, absolutely. It it really changes the pace cuz yesterday we got two best of best of fives that were three 0 wash outs, right? Today we got already match one game five, you know, everything great. Game five kind of mid, but the rest real good, right? Excited through the whole thing. So I’m really hoping we get more of that same action here at MSC for our final quarter final. Speaking of which, our players are ready. Let’s bring out our teams. Joining us on stage, it’s Team Spirit. The MCC champions remain undefeated at MSC25, not dropping a single game to cruise into knockouts. Baros regions do not even flinch the ECA representatives looking to carve their names in MLBB history. With Wonderkin Heeko at the helm, can Team Spirit show their wisdom in picking the reigning world champions to face off against? And of course, Team Spirit is coming in from the upper bracket. The reigning world champions were their chosen opponents. It is now time to call on the super family hailing from the Philippines. It’s Onyx time. It is Onyx Philippines. The world has doubted Onyx Philippines ability after facing defeat to the now eliminated Aurora Gaming. However, after sweeping Area 77 and Homeboys, the Super Family showing that their bond is now tighter than ever. And now they look to prove that Team Spirit has picked their poison. They are ready to hammer the nail to the coffin. I’m really looking forward to this. So please, team Spirit Onik, you may place your keys. Gentlemen on both sides. Spirit Onik, go ahead. All yours. Place your keys. Take your seats. And I have one more question for you, my wonderful co-host, Rose. Is this game going to give us absolute cinema? To know if this match will give us an absolute cinema, there is only one way to find out, and that is showing it to the land of dawn. I really wish we had a one exploitative clause in our contract just to show you how fish stickick and excited I am for this series for Spirit and Onyx. You can hear the fans. Everyone’s rowdy. Everyone’s loud. There are a lot of Spirit fans on board as well alongside Super Fam fans. I I can’t wait. I can’t wait. It’s going to be yucking great, my friend. It’s so It’s so insane how these teams have kind of molded into this position. The fact that Team Spirit were the one who says, “Yes, bring on the challenge already sets the tone for this game.” Yeah, I think that’s something that ECA has embraced nonstop. They’re not a region. Team Spirit is not a team to be scared of the challenge who always wants to pick the weaker team or is praying for the weaker group or anything like that. They’re a region that is ready to roll with the big dogs. All right, here’s some keys to victory for Onik PH. Full mid pryo and snowball early. They’ve been struggling to hit that. Invest in the Kirkitech to make the place. We saw CRAM go series MVP in the last one. And don’t show all your cards just yet. I disagree. I disagree with the last one. They got to show something if they’re especially if they’re on the back foot. It happens time and time again. I think their playbook is a lot deeper than coach Why not lets on. I think Yeah, I agree. I think this is the time to show those cards. Well, let’s take a look at the keys to victory for Team Spirit. Force King Kong out of his comfort zone. exploit Onyx PH’s outdated draft pattern and utilize OneShot’s versatility and pave the way for Heo. Who wrote that second one? Yeah, I agree with first and third. The second one, dang. What’s going on here, Remar? Wait, I feel like the Filipinos are actually on that boat because a lot of the Filipinos online and on site are mentioning that the drafting order of Onyx PH could be just a little bit sharper, a little bit more to terms with the current metag game that we have. We can discuss this a little bit further, but I have some breaking news for y’all and we want to thank you all for this. We have met hit 3 million peak concurrent users and watching. Thank you so much. Redeem the code right now. Scan the QR code and type in if you’re not going to be scanning the QR code, redeem the case sensitive. So, you have to follow it as it is into your in-game clients. Let’s see if we can go past even 3.1, 3.2, 3.5 million, maybe somehow hit four for this second knockouts match that we will have quarterfinals heading into the semi-finals of the knockout stage. On versus Team Spirit. I think we have to start talking about the draft now. And I will want to focus on the exp lane first cuz we saw the impact that it had for the first series because as we’ve known for a while now, EXP laners sort of like share that burden of being a ROR alongside the actual ROR of the team. And I feel like if they want to alleviate a little bit of the pressure that’s been on Brusco, who’s been somewhat struggling in the early game, they need Kirk to help him out. I want to agree with you, but based on what we’ve seen from the group stages from both TS as well as Onyx PH, I feel like they have pretty standard EXP lenders. Like we’ve seen, unfortunately for Kid Bomba, it’s not like he’s gotten heroes that allow him to make crazy crazy plays. I think for the most part, he’s very he’s very fundamentally solid. And the same can be said for Kirk. They always have to play weak side a majority of the time and even in winning lane matchups, we don’t see them completely take over the map in comparison to like Dyron and Cran. Yeah, I mean in terms of Kid Bomba, this is another team that um we only got to see four games play. We saw a Phobius, a Phobius, a CC, and a Badong from the side of the Kid Bomba. And then even for Solo as well, we see a lot of pickoff picks. He played Cho his last two games against Homeboy and then it was um it was Gat and Ka. So three of those four picks pick off plays. So far I feel like Team Spirit we’ve seen a very similar draft overall from all of their games. Yeah. So let’s see if maybe alternatively what if that’s something on PH is going to use in this knowing that you have a very clear set of hero and hero choices for the exp lane roam and a clear philosophy. It seems like what team spirit is walking into this this MSE is what PH has utilized before M6 during M6 and the run of championships especially in SPS earlier this year is that they like having th that strong control that strong tempo breaking control for XP and Rome that I can get behind because the way that we’ve seen these teams want to play the game is if there is an specific expressive style in their composition they will fall on their swords to play that particular ular snipe. We’re playing for late game and we need to kind of slow down. That’s what DS and OnH look to do. If we need to kind of tempo break and force the advantage when we do have it, both teams are notorious at doing it at a high level. Now, looking at the band so far, it’s kind of strange because I feel like a lot of teams have kind of strayed away from this Uranus, but not Onyx PH. They seem to consistently ban it out for majority of their games. And now that TS has that first pick already locked in, the Yan Chin slips through the draft. Now something for Onic PH in terms of exp lane. Four of their games in the group stage were one with the phobius. I think it could definitely be something we see up front from them. Definitely a possibility. YSS as well could help against that. So I think it’s something we want to keep our eyes open. We saw how much mid lane was prior last game. Um do we think we see maybe you know farsa fob here. Mhm. Far fus potential combo but they go for the one which is left open. They do get the phobia. But now my question for team spirit, how well is sunset lover versed in the Selena? A pick that we’ve seen before. Supplements the YSS very well. I totally agree and I do think that it does supplement the YSS like a decent amount, especially in the earlier stages of the game where you kind of want him to like ramp fast. He kind of, you know, Selena works like a jawhead, right? Speed up that farm, get him to those higher levels as quick as possible, double his gold as fast as possible. But the power picks and priority in terms of the draft is kind of strange, right? Boxia gets led through. Wan Wan gets led through. Ehan Shin gets led through. Right. And I’m still big question mark for me whether Boxia is still going to get considered get picked up here from either TS or Onyx PH. Team Spirit though leans towards the Moskov and Jux. I think something that I just on a side note, what’s so great about the meta right now is it feels like every two teams we see go against each other. There’s a slightly different ban order, a slightly different pick order, and there’s no cemented meta just yet. at least like for 10 heroes, you know, there’s it’s always a little change up. And the fact that both these teams let the YSS through, let the Wan through two picks that we’re barely seeing ever get picked at all is insane to me. Um, but is exciting to me, right? So on PH now, do they lock in their mid laner right now? Um, do they play safe? The Kimmy’s gone, Farza still up, or do they go for their jungle? Because with the differences, uh, no matter what, they’re going to get banned against one of those two options. Yeah, I think that Hayabusa is pretty good option overall this time, but they could look to play for some of the other lanes. Fanny still wide open, which I think even better than the Hayabusa, especially when you’re up against the Yishin. Yeah, now on Philippines though really needs to draft a strong Roman mid that can help the Fanny defend her side of the jungle. When you have a juice in and a YSS on the side of Team Spirit, you already know you’re expecting EXP laners and rors that are not afraid to invade early to really bother the rotation here of King Kong. So, I think Team Spirit might want to look into banning out either a Badang or Gat Katcha away from Brusco. Two RORs who in this scenario supplement the Fanny very well. Ooh. Ooh. But they also have to consider anything that kind of falls between the lines, right? Cho number one, decently good. I think that Badang is also a pretty good call since we’re not 100% on what exactly the Phobia has to play into, right? The CC is still up for grabs and then we’ve got a lot of problems to kind of fulfill, right? Do we care more about Kirk in his lane or is he going to play weak side? Right? And I think this final ban from On PH will predetermine that. TS on the other hand, mid laners, you got to get rid of the mid laners right now. You got to make sure that mid lane does not have priority so that we can protect ourselves from the pressure that Fanny may apply to either side lane. So, what do we take out in mid lane on Team Spear? What do we ban? Um, I mean, obviously, Farza, Eve, ZTN are all options. They’re those are the hot picks right now. I’m still I’m still flabbergasted with this draft right now. The fact that so many picks have been let through or at least that these teams seem okay to be let through. And we’re about to watch a completely different game than what we saw in the past series. Yeah, I I feel like this Eve ban by Team Spirit is very telling though. They’re looking to take control early to mid through skirmishes. That’s one of the main reasons why you want to take away an Eve, cuz you are putting priorities on turtles and invades into the purple buff of King Kong, but Dong gets banned by Onyx Philippines instead of picking it up themselves. Yep. So, they’re willing to say, “Kirk, you’re going to play weak side here, right? don’t want to have TS be able to hold on to such strong picks. And finally, the Selena is going to be the inevitable ban for the side of TS as well, trying to make sure that hey, at least for this family, she’s not going to be able to kind of keep up with how fast uh the raw jungling speed coming out from Yishin is going to come through. Now, we do see the gut come through as well, which now makes the mid lane kind of obsolete. I think they’re also trying to whittle down the comforts of Sao. I think we might end up seeing Sao play a different hero than we’re used to here. How does he answer the Fanny right now? The the Cho’s gone. Um they could go for something like Kaja Franco, something of that nature. Uh Ruby could always be slotted into EXP or something like that for Team Spirit. Um could be an answer. Even Ruby Rome, I know it’s not popular, but it’s a possibility. I wonder if Oh, wait. That’s a Kufra. Oh, classics. Yeah, they go for classic responses to the Fanny Wan and some of the focus. I’m trying to remember, but okay. They go for the glue as their solid front line presses. This team spirit draft is very well built for their main backline for their YSS, their Moscow, and their Juice in. And a little bit of underestimation of the Fanny, right? They have a couple of like couple of ways to deal with it, but not guaranteed. in that. Oh, Onyx, they’re ready to rumble. Literally, I swear I swear I was about to guess it. This could work. Yeah, and it’s undefeated so far in MSE. Yeah, and it’s I mean it’s it’s come in clutch so many times. A very strong pick, especially in terms of what they want to bring. Um, a little bit maybe weaker in the laning phase just like in the first few minutes, but as the game gets moving on PH to be in a great position. We could see a lot of skirmishes early on. When you pick up the Phamiss, that’s a sign to the other team that you are willing to fight. Once that Phamis is level four, Briggina and Nu, please take us into game number one for second series of the day. We are amped up and ready. Thank you so much to the panel there for breaking it down. We’re ready for another five games, I’ll tell you that much. Welcome to the English desk here. I’m Nu and this is Bria to bring it the action between Team Spirit and Onyx Philippines. Who will it be? I’m just going to throw it out there. I called the Kufra. All right. I Brigitta is my uh witness is my backup. She’s my witness here. What do you think? Is this enough to deal with King Kong’s Fanny? I mean, it does feel like they’ve just decided to directly respond to whatever was brought out here by Onyx PH, but I feel like it ultimately lies in how well they’re able to play around this Yun Shin because it’s going to be a very crucial part in this entire piece that Team Spirit does want to play in this game because majority of the damage is going to rely on him, especially for those early skirmishes as pointed out by our panelists because we’re expecting a lot of those to come in in the first few minutes of the game. Yeah, I think this is a very, you know, uh Trek said it best there. It’s like this is a very different flavor that we’re already seeing in game one uh with the drafts here, which is great. Again, our and we also have a, you know, another debut hero to MSE and we’ve had so many picks. I’m not sure exactly the number we’re at. I know it’s like 87 or something like that. Here’s a play though on Kirk. Tyron’s Revenge towards the XP laner, but Brusco’s also there to provide some sort of assistance. And for Kid Bomba, you generally have to play it carefully for the glue in this game because the Phamus came in at the perfect time, you know. Yeah, the Pheramus is great. A lot of teams kind of sleep on this pick still. Um, but nonetheless, it’s very valuable. You know, the Nether Realm’s great. It’s got a 100% win rate right now in the couple times that we’ve seen it pop up, but you can see a whole lot of common emblem over here for Team Spirit to go ahead and play around this. Uh again, you’re going to have to maybe just set things up with Kufra if you can if you’re solo. Um but also you can rely on the fact that Kid Bomba is on this glue and like we saw from the previous series, Glue or really any of our XP laners right now, the main heroes that are picked up could be so valuable to a lot of these games in and out. So this first objective is going to be the focus here. They’re going to already poke back and forth pulling So back, but they fight for space around the turtle. Yeah, they’ve zoned out one shot really well, but the fight is still going on. King Kong trying to look for Sao, but the clutch shield coming in from the turtle might save him just for a bit. Nether Realm also committed as well, but they’re still going for the fight. Kirk jumping in with the infernal pursuits, but this might be the time to disengage. The SOD is going to land and it might be time for Ho to go in if he does decide to join the fight. But Team Spirit will have full confidence that they’re able to take it on even without Ho. Great calms there. You know, Team Spirit, I I feel like Ho probably was like, “Should I should I follow through?” But, you know, it was the call from Team Spirit and Kid Ball is like, “No, we at least got another kill or we got one of the kills here that we needed plus the objective.” So, that gives them that little bit of advantage now. And again, it’s just one of those things that kind of can have the factor. It builds up on uh compound interest here throughout the game. But, nonetheless, you just want to farm up. If if Ho has this opportunity to just farm up on the Moskov, that’s where we’ve seen uh the capabilities of turning games around later on. He doesn’t have to just join these fights. Even if he lands a Spear of Destruction, that’s completely fine. But even then, King Kong getting the kill himself, giving him a little bit of a amp up time here on the Fanny. So far though, it’s interesting because everybody still gets super excited for a Fanny. Yeah. And you know, he’s going to I mean, this is Kid Bomba. He should be fine. He should be gets on Kirk brings him under the turret as well and that possibly save him for this particular instance. King Kong and Kirk might play it a bit more safer now because the SOD is also there. Crimson Peak in coming in from Sunset Lover gets to find the knockup and the kill onto Kirk. Man, oh man. I didn’t know if if he would follow up again, but again, that’s threat enough. I landed the spear. You don’t know if he’s going to follow through or not, but still the glue pulls through. It’s It’s such a suspense factor here for the spear or the glue. Spear. The spear. Spear. Like I was going to say glue is also suspenseful. That’s true. Both. I mean somehow. Yeah. But the the the KZOD landed twice. Never went in. He does. Again, it’s it’s like a there’s this passive effect to it. It’s like, okay, everybody’s like paying attention to that. Like, does he follow through or not? So, Team Spirit has control right now of this turtle because King Kong’s got to get his own purple buff. Wo. Saul didn’t go in with the tyrants revenge anymore. Didn’t have to. There’s the knock up from the lantern flare and kid Bomba. He finds Kirk this time around the spear won’t land but Ao will knocking up multiple members. Team Spirit, but King Kong coming in from the sides. Will he be able to find a kill? Whoever’s one shot still alive gets to use the traceless to keep himself safe. Kid Bomba mounts onto another member. That’s going to be Super Prince, but he will have to walk away. Oh, he’s jumping in. He goes forward, but he there’s there’s no dice there. You know, you can’t. I thought they would stay a little bit longer, put some pressure there. Um, but hey, Team Spirit gets themselves a 2.5k lead. They’ve got a couple more kills in favor plus that objective. And this has just been a gold lane uh 1 v one for this for this 5 minutes, which is great because again coming into this matchup, we were comparing the two gold laners here with Heo and of course Kelra. And yeah, I think you need more time to see exactly the hype build up for Ho, the Ho Mania we talked about um back when we got to see him get that savage over in M6. But right now, it’s just him and Counter holding down the gold lane. It’s going to take some time, especially for these two gold laners we’re seeing right now. A lot of the focus uh particularly in the past few games that we’ve seen here in MSE definitely lies in the mid trio and in how well they’re able to manage that mid lane. But now King Kong oh gets pounded here by K Bomba but watch out trying to apply the damage and even right under the turret they’ll be successful in that pickoff. And that is just how anno annoying a glue can be. Even sticking to a Fanny making it flying. Yeah, a flying fanny making you just have a hell of a time. And then you you complement that with a Kufra. So they’re going to put the pressure on the purple buff. And this is where it starts to really hurt. If you are playing a Fanny and you fall behind like this, even down to the purple buff not being available for you, it puts you in a really difficult spot. Yeah. And to be fair, I feel like Saul hasn’t been the one to go in first majority of the time. Even when there were moments that it felt like he could go in with a tyrants revenge and find a setup onto at least two members of Onic PH. It felt like the way he’s playing this Kofer right now was just to protect the key members of Team Spirit at least for now because they still acknowledge the fact that Onyx PH they can still go in at any moment in time. King Kong can still go in from any angle he wants to. And so all their priority lies now or falls into keeping one shot safe and handing over the snowball which clearly is working because he’s already 1,500 gold ahead of King Kong. This is one of those situations where Any Philippines has to figure an answer out for you know dealing with that setting potential that we’re seeing from Sao or Kid Bulma’s kind of front tankiness that the glue gives you. But also eventually how do we get to one shot? How do we get to Heo later on once he’s activated for those fights? That’s the biggest question here. Now again, you can play around the utility that you have a fair miss. You can play around that King Kong should have some decent damage on the Fanny throughout the game. But as we’re seeing even for King Kong, he’s having a hard time cabling in and out of these fights. You know, it’s not the the easiest for him to do. And you take a look at the items here. You can see the difference in the gold lane. Mind you, a lot of this has just been 1 v one. So Ko is actually with a lead against Kra here. And even the junglers, both junglers and gold laners of Team Spirit are a thousand gold ahead of their counterparts in Onyx PH. And now they’re trying to disrupt even their attempt to take the purple buff. King Kong successfully secures it with the retribution, but jumps in. And there goes the Nether Realm at least to keep them a bit more safe. But the Tyrants Rage catching everyone from Onic and another Tyrant’s Revenge onto Super Fris handing over a triple to one shot. One shot, three kills, gets a triple and makes it work. And that’s all again putting pressure on the purple buff is all they have to do because they know that now Onyx Philippines is in this position where it’s like we got to go ahead and get a purple buff to King Kong. Yes, he was able to go ahead secure it with Retribution, but again, your team is in this position that they’re going to be forced to fight because of the way this lineup works for Team Spirit. So now they find themselves with a very healthy lead. And you know, I’m surprised with some of the positioning here, some of the decisions from Philippines to go and force this, you know, force these situations where they’re up to what they can, but I think they know it. They have to just give this lord up. They have so much ground to cover here. Now that on PH are playing defensively, a huge responsibility is definitely going to fall into the hands of Super Friends. Right now, he doesn’t have access to his ultimate, but he has to make sure that okay, the spear of misery will definitely land there. See, but um yeah, the way that he doesn’t have the purify too is going to be a big problem if he’s the one that’s targeted first by Team Spirit, especially by Sao here because he’s the one who needs to kind of buy a bit more time for his team. He’s the one he’s the only one capable of doing that because so many things have to be set in place for on PH and their lineup to work. And not even their attempts to manage the macro are working right now because every time King Kong every time King Kong tries to go out with the Fanny, there’s just a there’s just this immediate response. You see it right now from Team Spirit to not allow them to go any further. Yeah, this is great. This Lord is eventually going to go down here. Does get a charge up on the top. Saul’s charging up himself. I don’t think they want to force this fight. They’re going to clear out the waves here. They hold on to these base turrets. So, even with this kind of lead, Team Spirit doesn’t want to overextend into this. Just taking it through this. King Kong takes some damage. He’ll be fine. He’s just trying to clear out these waves, but they will lose that holy defense shield now in the bottom side. So, Team Spirit has pretty much accomplished what they set out to do on this first lord push. The thing is if the Kra if Saul just shows on PH that he’s charging then that’s just basically to threaten them to be very conscious of where they’re going to position themselves because it’s not necessarily a surprise attack that they’re planning to do which just it’s just another form of probably zoning on PH out. And at least for them they’ve been able to defend all their base turrets. still intact, but all their holy shields, they’re gone. And we’re only approaching the 11 minute mark. No one from Onyx PH is actually safe. There are just so many ways for Team Spirit to gather information, to gather vision. Y and to just zone them overall. Okay, Mountain Shocker nearly landed onto King Kong, but at least they’re able to keep themselves safe. you’re just seeing I mean right now this is such a tough game to get back and turn around if you’re on a Philippines and you don’t have any other option if you’re King Kong to just push those you know the cross lanes or you know push those side lanes that spear is going to be thrown but uh King Kong is going to be fine and that’s all he can do he can put pressure hopefully they can get a turret cuz I mean look at this they have nothing on Philippines has no turrets no objectives one kill that’s it the one yeah the one lane so These are the surmountable steps that have to happen here for on Philippines and the only person that can do that is King Kong. Now we have seen through MSC games 10k ahead turn around. Wait, they actually go after Kirk, but there’s a decent amount of the damage is just enough. Even the Nether Realm is immediately taken out. Kelra is the next target. One shot is currently godlike on this Yun Shin. It’s only Super Prince and King Kong who will try to defend and clear the wave. But there’s a knock up from the Spear of Misery. And they have their eyes on nothing else but the base. There’s the SOG, but clearly they’ve been able to deal with the minions. And now they might actually want to go for more. There goes the ghost bursters coming in from Super Friends 2, but now it’s a retreat for Team Spirit. So close to ending the game there for Team Spirit. Nonetheless, they’ll go ahead grab the lord. King Kong might actually get his purple buff here now. Now, will that be enough? They’re facing down a massive gold deficit. This is so far behind for Onyx Philippines that Team Spirit can go ahead and force a fight onto this next push with this lord. Looking at the items here, they are completely where they need to be. You already saw it in that last fight. If they decide, they almost just have free pickings to decide to who they want to go on. It doesn’t matter if it’s Brusco or if it’s Kirk. These supposedly tanky heroes are not tanky enough to deal with this kind of damage that is coming through from Team Spirit. So, they have to play the macro game here. I’m not sure what Any Philippines wants to do here. Cut the waves if they can, but eventually you got to get ready for that base defense. Yep. That’s going to be the next big step here for Onik PH. They have a lot of catching up to do, especially considering the 12k gold lead that’s currently in the hands of Team Spirit. But Team Spirit are going to take this step by step. A surprise setup coming in from SA, but there’s the flicker and the nether realm. Bruce jumps in with the AoG, but barely makes it out alive. King Kong gets bursted down. There’s the crossbow tank coming in as well from Keller, but the damage doesn’t seem to be enough. It’s a legendary for one shot. And that’s game number one for Team Spirit. And Team Spirit, they had smiles on their faces coming into game one, and it’s clear why. What a dominant performance for the first game in the series. I’d have to say, you know, Bomba said he said, “I’m feeling 100% confident.” Hopefully, my team is as well. And it looks like they’re all on the same page here. Yeah, Kid Bomba and OneShot literally feel like the make and break right now for Team Spirit and the way they’re able to establish this much dominant of a performance. And mind you, this is against the super fam, but they were the ones who seem to be a lot more in sync or in a way, it’s just inevitable that you force out these reactions from Onic PH because you kind of already shut down majority of the factors or the conditions that they need to pull off in order for their lineup to work, which is something I feel that the panel has constantly echoed as well. So there’s a lot of bouncing back and reset resetting to do if you’re on PH 100%. I can’t wait to see what the panel has to say about this game one. Let’s throw it over to them. Like this Filipino said here in this panel, Team Spirit are just way too good. It was clear what they wanted to do. Invade, disrupt, control. And I actually like what you told us that Team Spirit just looked so much cleaner and more in sync compared to Onic. Yeah, I think we saw it in the early game. Onik PH looked for a couple exp lane ganks. They wanted to try to slow Kid Bomba down and continuously kind of messed those up or Team Spirit just responded better. Whichever way you want to put it. Either way, there was definitely some mistakes made by Onic PH there. Some mistakes that you don’t normally see and Team Spirits now at a level of gameplay where if you make mistakes, they are going to capitalize. Yeah, it’s kind of disgusting. That’s why I say that Team Spirit really have found themselves in these games. Their execution is top-notch. Their mechanics are looking creme de la creme. And I think that right now a lot of the EECA fans are cheering for them for a very good reason as to honestly moments before becoming champions because if BH is struggling against them in the early game, what will it look like coming down the road? And I think the adjustments for Onik BH, not even in the draft, is we just have to play a little bit better. Yeah, at this point it becomes a whole point of execution. I do have my own specific pain points about the draft, but if this is again the bed that you chose to lie in and you just mess up a lot of the early game executions, that’s a big struggle. And if this trend continues in the early game, we might end up seeing on PH getting swept because Team Spirit don’t look like they are going to slip up. They know their timer so well. Trex, you also told us behind the scenes that One shot has just been fantastic for the first five, six minutes of this game. I mean, for practically the whole game, the guy went, I’m pretty sure, deathless. Um, this is why maybe you don’t give the YSS over. Maybe it’s one shot. Who knows? Maybe is maybe that is one of those picks that needs to stay on the ban list unless you’re going to get it for yourself. Again, maybe it’s true. Maybe PH right there did feel a little outdated in draft. were willing to give some things for the Fanny that maybe weren’t worth it. Um, so yeah, we’ll see exactly how things go. But taking a look at this Heo 944 gold per minute, also most damage, the young monster in himself, I I don’t think it’s out outdated in terms of how they’re drafting. I think there are some very clear ideas from Onyx PH, but it gives them a very narrow win condition, which is what Onic PH is known to do, right? because of their what we knew them from last year winning the world championships just perfect at execution even if your chances are extremely slim with a singular win con. And now that becomes the biggest question for Onyx. What is going to be your next main win condition for King Kong? They picked that Fanny. You pick a Fanny because you wanted to be a win condition, but then it wasn’t allowed to be played. Like King Kong could not play MLBB in that game number one with how aggressive theme spirits were just invading his jungle and freely doing so. Yeah, I mean it it looked like he he could barely do that. Even in the beginning there was the kid Bomba just kept catching him. One shot kept catching him. Even towards the end of the game he would try to get on to Hiko and Hiko was so clean at side stepping spearing him against the wall. You know, it just felt like King Kong couldn’t play a game that game from start to finish. It was a it was a hard it was a a dead start and this is now where the alarm started blaring if you are a fan of PH cuz it was acknowledged in the group stages and we got to see it. One of the reasons why Team Spirit did really well in that draft I feel like was number one they committed the first face ban on the landslot right away. You take out the next best option for King Kong. But then what’s King Kong going to get left with? If he went Hayabusa there it would have been an almost similar result with the lineup that they ended up in. We’ve seen in the past, not just here in MSE, but in the Philippines as well, the uncomfortability of OnPH playing around Fredin and Tanky junglers for King Kong. So now that has to start ringing some alarm bells for Onik PH of like how can they prioritize a draft so that King Kong doesn’t end up with a win condition that’s just going to get wrecked in the early game. That one’s a little tough, right? because again it comes at major sacrifice and I think at the same time team spirit has done really good homework into how to kind of mitigate the problem. A lot of why we didn’t get to see the high boosters come within that first phase was hey Moskoff was already locked in for us for the side of TS. They had the insurance policy paid the premiums for it and now we’re just waiting for the damages to come on through before they can claim and cash out. I think we could also say that the game could have fallen into PH’s hands there. It’s just the early there was like I said there was a couple early game ganks where they got bked where they advantage got taken and when you have something like YSS that’s going to farm up when you have a composition like Team Spirit it’s all about cuz if they did it’s all about who gets those first couple kills right who starts to snowball because if PH snowballed there with the Fanny with their composition the game could have looked very similar just on the opposite side of the gold you know so I think maybe we don’t take a rush approach. Maybe we take a slower approach. Maybe we be a bit more patient. Team Spirit isn’t a team that you’re going to be able to just snowball against. I feel like I think right now for Onyx PH open up multiple avenues for win conditions, right? Have that curve, that bell curve that everyone keeps on raving about. You need an earlier stage of the game to survive. You need a mid-stage where things really start to escalate. The peak of which you’re fighting against your opponents and a guaranteed late stage hero that can actually get you over the line because the comps that we’re seeing no no possible siege composition for the side of Onik PH. You just have to win early to mid and that’s it. Yeah, it looked like the composition that they drafted and went into relied a lot on just winning skirmishes early on. That’s one of the reasons why you picked the Phamas as we acknowledged earlier wherein the Phamus comes out because you’re showing the other team we’re willing to skirmish and we’re confident we’ll be able to outplay you. That wasn’t the case. So, real quick before I go into my uh next big question, just a very quick one. Should the Fires have been something else? Did it lean a little bit too much onto the idea of wanting to fight? Should they have gone for something with a little bit more crowd control? No. I think that the way that Onyx played it, they had an idea of we know that we needed an answer to this glue. We wanted the farmers to do so. We’ve already set up Brusco on the Goth to make make sure that no matter what pick, even if it was a Valier, for all intents and purposes, the laning phase would have been okay. I think the Phamas was okay, but again, I think King Kong bit a bit more than he he could chew on some of those ganks. I think uh maybe they underestimated Team Spirit a little bit. Maybe they underestimated Kid Bomba. Maybe they underestimated Hiko. Maybe they thought they could run in solo queue against two or three people and be able to pull things off, but they weren’t able to. So again, it’s I think it’s more about how they approach the match than exactly how the draft went. Could the draft maybe been a bit better? Yeah. But there go. So if that’s the case, would you like to see Onyx PH still commit to drafting from the red side to see if Okay, similar to what SRG did game four to five against RQ, they acknowledged game four, they messed up early game execution the first three minutes. Game five, they went for a slightly similar approach in the draft in terms of their priorities, just change some things up. Do you think that’s something Onyx Philippines could go for now heading into this game number two? I think. Ooh. Okay. So, there’s two risks, right? There’s two. If they go to over the blue side, there’s a high possibility that like, you know, we do see that Team Spirit doubles down on making sure that the high priority assassins from the side uh of Onyx gets punished, right? Like we’ve seen Kirk is going to play weak side a majority of the time. If they want him to get ahead, sure, Brusco, why her pool, super fence, high hero pool, Kelra can also play weak side, but he needs like a combo. He needs a big setter to make it work. So really, King Kong is the pain point. And I think if they want to double down on getting rid of the Yan Shin, getting rid of the Lancelot, they can still go down that route. Yeah, I think it’s hard to say in draft just yet. It’s hard to say exactly what the right answer is because for me, even though it feels so weird saying this, they just kind of played poor. I feel like that game they were just a little off in the beginning. Um, whatever that means, whatever what happened, I don’t know what exactly happened in their heads, but TS just played better in the early stage and that turned into a 10,000 gold lead. So, it’s too hard for me to a little too early for me to say, “Oh, blue side’s the answer. Oh, red side’s the answer. Oh, this is the answer.” I think right there they just need to play better. All right. And as we saw in our fantasy lineups at the beginning of the day, a couple of us did include some key figures from Team Spirit. Get Bombas there. But now we go back to the center of the map. We look at Sawa. We look at Sunset Lover. Will Oni PH now try to see if they can get a better matchup in the center of the map so that Sawa and Sunset Lover aren’t so freely able to do the things that they did in that game number one. I don’t think that they were. I That’s the thing, right? When you look at that lading phase, the the god thought makes it null and void, right? It’s like how often did they really get to interact with the farm? I would say pretty much none. By the time that they’ve already made the mistakes in the early game, the gold lead was basically in the hands of not only Ho, but alongside uh with Kid Bomba, right, that’s where we saw the majority of that lead. And then obviously the YSS because of the amount of time wasted, but even so, it’s a strong game from him. We have a quote here from Kid Bomba. says, “We picked Onyx PH because Onyx feels like the more complete team.” Referring to Onyx ID, I believe we rather play against Onyx PH. Now that we’re in a single elimination match, we’ll see what happens. Oh, wait. No, I don’t want to say that. He was referring to Onik ID just as Ony. So, a little bit of a question mark there. I’m not going to put words in kid. It’s Onic. Onic is Onic is Onic, isn’t it? Oh, yeah. That’s true. We don’t have Onic. It’s just onic. It’s just onic. Okay. So he could have been talking about the Indonesian company. Were they the first? Yes. Onic ID was the first, right? I mean they had two branches from like a very early stage. Yeah. From an extreme first. Indonesia. The Indonesian branch was first. Yeah. Streamer leaderboard. Okay. Uh by the way there is also prizes for the most hours watch and peak viewers actually goes to Zass Gaming. Where are we right now? Okay. Because of peak hours watch Zass Gaming is currently leading the leaderboard. Oh that’s interesting. Yeah. Especially when you have like CO Wade and as well as like R seven on top of Skylar. Nice job. Well played. Hold on. Where’s our boy M at? He’s over in the other room. We’re streaming right now. Make sure you guys tune in. Shout out to Mira. Shout out to Mr. Wolf Cast as well. Mr. Wolf also recovering right now in the hospital. We send you all our praise and our love. Might be recovering more after this series. Yeah, he needs that Onyx band-aid. Just a little just a little uh porcupine right there on his foot. Considering that his cat has already named me Yao, I think I think I’d be very curious to see what he would name the porcupine. All right, so I I do want to bring it back for a second. Earlier you mentioned like midlane control. I think if there’s anything in draft that Onyx PH can do is don’t let that YSS go into the hands of OneShot again. Um I think if there’s any hero and there it is. It is going to get banned out by Team Spirit cuz they know better. I do think this is one of the few picks in my mind that should not get let onto the map unless you are going to get it for yourself. Teams banned the YSS and the Lancelot and that I think that’s it in terms of like getting some of the best picks possible out in the hands of King Kong. Boxia, they also have to get rid of the Boxia. They need to open up a couple more mid picks here and then we’ll see what the response is because then cuz so far the underperforming heroes that we’ve seen from King Kong also include the Frederick. Yeah, on PH are actually the ones to ban out the box. Could be setting up for a Uranus rush pick, but then Uranus priority has also went completely down ever since the group stages. Yeah, I mean, and I think in the last day since yesterday, we didn’t even see a picked door ban, did we? It’s only these two teams are the one only on PH has been the one to ban it so far in knockout. They don’t ban it this time. Is that another small tale of like what’s going on? Like why do they think so differently than every other team right now? We’re going to see now for Team Spirit’s last van. The Bosch is gone. They decide to ban out the Ka. See smiles there from the head coach of Team Spirit. Sonic PH are now going into the first. Do they put priorities at the center of the map for Super Friends? Nothing to rush in the exp. Nothing to rush. Oh, they can rush the one one, but then it might end up becoming the same. Sorry if you can’t build around it. Well, with the mid lanes is a possibility. I think with the 1-1, if they decide to rush it, there are still some utility junglers out there they could put in the front side, the Fredin, things like that. Um, I almost feel like if they wanted to go the Fermus last game, a Fredin would have been a bit better. They go for the one-1 up front. Team Spear now with the response. Do they just pick up the Fobious again and uh Phobia mid lane? Phobia Zucian just back to back. It’s comfort for them. Yeah, Fis Jen or I feel like Fauus Farsa could be good alternatives as well, but they go for the CC for Kid Bomba. They want that priority for Kid. And of course, CC over Fobius. Dude, that’s crazy. So, they lock in the CC. I like the fact that Kid Bomba has that paper in front of his mouth just to try and so just so that they don’t read the opponents don’t read what he is saying. Maybe it’s loud in there. Maybe it’s loud in there. They’re also to be fair, kid Bomba’s on the side of the table that’s closest to the side of O cuz right with how it’s set up. See, it’s very close to where Kirk is, right? It’s so wild. It’s so wild. But they Wow. Okay. No, wait. Huh? With the focus. Why? Why? Ro Marlot. Why? Yeah. Show both. This is Gideon hates this for the viewers that don’t know. There it is. His skin’s crawling right now. Mainly because the question is why? It’s not like it’s a strong synergy. It also reveals immediately what you’re I mean it reveals exactly what you want to do unless we are seamless CC go into the gold lane which I don’t think is likely at all in this particular case. So I don’t value it as much. And there’s also a low percentage that Arlot’s going to get banned in second phase. Like you could honestly pick that up at any point after you’ve gotten the CC or you could have just picked it up front. But hey, Team Spirit’s up a game right now. So we’ll see what they do. Fredin Selena on the side on the PH. So there’s the Fredin that I was talking about to put in front of the one. I think it’s clean overall. Team Spirit on their last lock. Okay. Yep. So there’s three three tanky boys. I really like Okay. The Arlot. I feel like that’s them trying to avoid that Arlot Fredin combo. Something that has done incredibly well. MSE. Yes. I’m a bit 50/50 on it, but let’s look at where Onicraft is. So they pick up the Fredin still. Okay. They pick up the Selena. Uh still going up against the Aai Arlot CC. Velina might have been a little bit, how do I say this? Premature in being showed. I feel like a different mid laner could have come in. Uh, I suppose this is just so weird to me, right? Okay, so yes, I agree that the Arlin as well as Akai is a pretty decent combo and I think the Akai is a good response to the Freder. The blind pick Selena, the blind pick Arla as well. I feel like these teams are thinking a little too far ahead when I don’t think it’s necessary, right? Yes, you have some nice synergies to actually work with. And I think that TS is reading into this a little bit by getting rid of the Pikito cuz they want to make sure that this CC is going to basically go untouched and has that winning lane almost no matter what we see from the side of Onyx PH. And I think the only other option is just to play either a sandbag heroes or Benardetta just to not interact with their opponent because there’s a severe lack of damage from the side of PH for now. Your team is Madang is the ban for team spear. They take away another Brusco pick. They take away a Pakito also thinking uh I think this also reinforces the both two team both of them are just a bit thinking too far ahead as they are considering the possibility of that ending up in the hands of Kirk. Now the Kimmy is the last man there for so they I don’t think they go for like a far in the mid on team Spirit. There’s way too many answers to it. Um they need some sort of mid lane though. Moscow does get picked up. Back over to Onyx PH. Still needing a Rome and a EXP. Do they go for the glue this time with Badong? Guit also still open. Could be a possibility for them. I think I think the glue might lose in terms of map presence against the CC. Yeah, that’s true. I don’t know. But I I feel like as Team Spirit shows their draft one hand out to say, “Hey, we could be punished.” they already have the answer in the other hand. So, it really is dependent on Any to kind of decide to pick their poison onto where they want to have the weak side to be. And I don’t think it’s going to be from Kelside. I think he’s going to be totally fine. The real question is are we going to get once again a disengage mechanic from Onyx? Edith Rome Lapu exp Valentina in the mid. What a draft. And that Valentina pick that that was so expected already by the team by the side of Team Spirit with how fast they picked it. They knew the Valentino was going to be uh excuse me that Edith was going to be coming out and they’re leaning into it. Gideon a lot of heads scratch moments for me even from TX. I Yeah, both both drafts are interesting. I’ll say that. I think PH kind of lacking in damage overall. Yes, the Selena, but I don’t know. It just seems both both drafts seem unnecessarily hard. I agree. And I think that this time around, whoever their scrim partners are, it it’s kind of whack. I got to give it to TS. I think their cop is significantly better. All right, let’s see what Bria and Nu think about the drafts heading into game number two. Thank you so much to the panel once again. Welcome to the desk here. It’s me, Nu, and Brigetta. Yeah, we were scratching our heads, too. You know, this is a very interesting draft to to say the least, but this is what we wanted. We wanted to see some of these variations going into this, and we have so far today. Now mix it up a little bit more. It was very honest from TS early on in the draft. They had some things picked up. The Valentino, we don’t even see that much. But over on the other side, we have seen Onyx Philippines bring it up play a similar lineup. You know, even in our own region there, but we do know, hey, Super Prince loves this Selena. Maybe they can make this work. But this is not what you see often, a Selena and the Eden paired up together in the mid in the current meta at least. But in the bottom lane very very close to finding a kill towards but going back to what you mentioned I agree this isn’t the first time we’ve seen on PH decide to go for a lineup that may be a bit mechanically demanding okay so to answer our question it does not matter apparently for on PH because even way back you mentioned it they’ve been going for the Selena go ahead combinations and now it’s an Edith Selena that they’re making it work this is So, I know I know some people saw the draft and were like, you know, they might lack a little damage. Well, when you’re landing the skill shots, when you’re throwing people into the air and you’re winning a 1v one, it doesn’t matter. Now, this early on, you got a light a nice lead there for both. But again, a lot of people that have been watching Onyx Philippines for some time know that Super Friends, like look at this. He is going to be hitting these arrows. There is a reason why teams would just ban out the Selena eventually against Onyx Philippines. Now this might be one of the games where we see that happen. It’s just so hard to move around if your team spirit again there’s only one person with a purify and that’s 100% right now. So, so far all of the Abyssal arrows, they’re likely to land, and it’s almost guaranteed that you could just follow up with your other crowd control skills if you’re already able to land the Abyssal Arrow, especially from a distance, because that guarantees a much longer stun duration. And so far, we’ve been seeing on PH take full control of the early stages of the game just by the amount of pressure that Super Pris is able to do. And there you go again, another arrow nearly causing Ho to be taken out. Ho’s dealt with a lot of pressure here and I know Kelra got the advantage earlier on. We’ll take a look here. Who gets the crab? Okay, Kel. Is he going to go one v one now with Ho? Oh, finds the horse. Oh my goodness. I’m surprised he put himself in that position that he, you know, he knows he has level four. He knows he can get the crossbow off, but now they’re in trouble to mid. Now he’s two levels behind. And now OneShot will be the next to fall. Saw and sunset lover will have to do their best to keep themselves alive against three members of Onyx PH. There’s the stun coming in towards Bruce and they find the kill. Keith Bomba doesn’t make it as well, but at least Team Spirit somehow finds some answers. Sunset lover is like, “If you can do it, Brusco, so can I.” Turned in to the Edith himself with IMU. And that might be the case. You know, one of the things is um just picking the right ultimate. Now, for the most part, that’s most likely going to be Brusco on the Edith. Uh he’s going he should be able to utilize that. But I think the most difficult part here for Team Spirit really is just kind of playing the dodge game. Like you have to dodge a lot of these uh shots that are coming out from Monic Philippines. You have to be very aware even when the the flickers are available because not only can Brisco make those plays and then pop that Primal Wrath later on, but also for Kirk. We’ve seen this time and time now that Lapu Lapua has become more of a popular pick throughout MSC. And interestingly enough too, bro, there’s Brusco. Oh, flicker set up, but the flicker final slash as well to answer right back. Super prince will be the first casualty in this team fight for the heavy spin. It seems like they’re trying to pin down and force Busco away from the fight. Kirk still doing a great job onto Lapu Lapu though and will actually pick up a kill towards Sao. Now there goes the energy eruption coming in from King Kong and the shell once again. will try his best to run away. Barely makes it, but King Kong finds a double. King Kong and Kirk a little different on the KK connection making it work this time. I mean, a great juggle for both of them. We’re going to take a look at the instant replay here while the gold laners duke it out. But this is what I was going to say. Brusco rolling on this Edith starts this fight out. You know, I wasn’t sure if Hiko was going to follow that Spirit of Destruction, but this was a great kind of communication from Onyx Philippines where we see them go back and forth for this, clear things up and even win this fight into winning the objective. Great choice here for them to go ahead and secure this and lock that in. I know we might have just pointed out the entire conversation about damage and the lack of not in the panel earlier, but it seems like the sustain actually worked wonders for PH during that team fight because they were able to stay in the fight long enough, especially King Kong and Kirk. And now they go for another target. It’s going to be none other than Sao who won’t be even able to use the vengeance to reposition. granted the amount of chain CC. So they pay a bit more attention to the gold lane which I feel has been very much favored Kellra so far. Heo sitting on a 02 there have been a couple of questionable decisions in terms of his micro. This is what I’m saying. I don’t know what the difference is right now. I’m I’m sure we’ll see that in just a second here. But Helra’s two levels above Ho. He’s been winning the lane since it started. You know, we saw that when we got into the game that he was the one that got Ho really low and then he’s just kind of continued to punish and even if his Super Fer shows up or anyone really Brusco as well, they put enough pressure on Ho that he’s kind of just forced off of the turret and that’s why we see that tier one down. So, Team Spirit might want to just kind of decide like do we need to just let Ho stay to himself and go ahead and farm up and how do we play that? You know, how do we how do we let that go? Yeah, big shout out to the crowd there. They’re super happy about this right now for the game two, especially how one-sided game one was. You know, Team Spirit had that very decisive game one, but it seems like Onyx really in control of this one. Okay, come on. Nope. But hold on. Yeah, he had to use the purify there, but another final slash and the SOD. He might decide to join this time around, but the moment he does, he gets taken out right there. Kirk and King Kong will be traded. However, there’s another arrow landing onto Kid Bomba, but River friends risky flicker in that he decided to go for killer finding the snack the stacks but Sao immediately falls a three for three trade so far super wanted to say he wanted to say calculated but that was a little miscalculated he thought he could get it unfortunate for them not but they will go ahead and get another objective maybe two once that turtle’s locked in here uh again look at this difference for the gold laners Oh, that’s a massive lead in the hands of Keller. Not even the heavy spin could pin him down and he will just continue to be a threat to Team Spirit. This is going to be one of the most difficult parts of the game if you just let the Wan snowball this much. You have a much harder time trying to lock down this hero or better yet even bursting it down because you don’t have enough damage to deal with this hero just yet. And that’s only one out of the many problems you have to think about going up against Onyx PH in a team fight. Yeah, cuz Brietta, you you have to think about it this way, and I know our panel mentioned it. It’s like the damage for Onic Philippines’s lineup would traditionally need to take some time to build up aside from, you know, of course, Super Prince here, but they bought enough time cuz Kelra has scaled up so quickly in this game. Oh, but this could be a fight here. Yeah, the curtain call was used on King Kong and as well as Kirk. But it’s actually the members in the mid lane who get punished heavily by that engage. Kra taking down two and they just need one last hit to take down this tier one in mid. As I was saying, the scaling here for Kra happened so quickly and part of that wasn’t even the team. Again, he did this in the lane from the start against Ho and Ho is continuously playing catch-up. Now sitting at level 9 to Teal is 12. He’s multiple thousands gold behind. And this is what Super Fritz does best on the Selena. He will just continue throwing out arrows, landing them, and being a threat. Doesn’t get to touch the appraisers’s wrath. And they were that desperate that they had to use even the heavy spin just to get away. Hiko will be trading things out for now, but there’s Kirk that’s up top to manage things for his team. Final stash will be committed onto him as well. We’re taking a look at the top lane. L Shaker doesn’t land onto Ho and they’re trying to run away, but Super will he be able to successfully block their path. Abyssal Arrow doesn’t land. But even just Kra standing right there, you know, it’s he’s threat enough. It’s already enough. He’s threat enough. They don’t want to go toe-to-toe with that right now. They’re going to lose a whole lot here. So, this is now a again a massive swing in favor of Onic Philippines. Kell just picks up the Berserker’s Fury. They’re in great position to just take this lord. I don’t want to see Team Spirit contest this. I know they’re around the mid. They saw He go up top, but it’s way too late. He does throw the spear. Super France tanks it to the base. Wait, he followed through with that. So, they might have tried to make a play, but it’s better that they don’t. So, Lord is secured here now for Onic Philippines. We have to see if team spirit down this much gold. 7,000 gold if they have enough in the tank to hold uh the line basically with this push in. Yeah, I feel like they wanted to do something away from the lord so there were potentially less members from PH and less things to risk and at least they get something out of that downtime wherein they were unable to find at least any trade away from PH now that they’ve handed over the lord. I agree. Defending might be a huge struggle for them considering that it’s a 4k lead in the hands of Keller in contrast to Kico. Oh, but that’s a retribution already committed by King Kong. Slow down SA by just a bit, but at least the arrow does not land. So that’s what they’ll have to deal with for now. Defending and holding on to the remaining base turrets. Trying to hold on to these holy shields, but they are going to go down up top. Lord has made its way to the bottom. An arrow’s going to be thrown. Oh no, it’s Ho. He still has the purify though. He will not use it just yet. But the conceal it sounded like Onyx wanted to do something. But they’re going to respect that team spirit. They’re all complete. They’re all full HP. But this might be the opportunity that they’re looking for. Holy shields already popped, however, but they’re still really trying to threaten them. Oh, got a heavy spin out. That was that was a massive ultimate already expended. 14 spirits as Kra finds the crossbow. Dang connects onto one shot as well. Kid Bomba, both of them, they’re very low and they’re doing their very best just to defend their base terrify for Kirk. But that’s all for now. They lose two turrets. So, Team Spirit still in the game, but just like we saw in game one, they’re the ones facing down a 10,000 gold lead for Onyx Philippines. And it’s a massive lead even on the damage scale here. You’re seeing how much Kel has done. Oh, they might look to just end the game if they can get a favorable setup even before this next lord. They still have a minute to go ahead and buy some time. But TS, it just looks like they’re in this position where they’re not sure how this is going to go. You know, King Kong confident enough. Oh, there’s no curtain call anymore, but the heavy spin will actually be able to catch it. Tries to dash away, but it won’t be enough. That’s going to be a kill over to Team Spirit, and they’re going to be very happy with that. They just want those small wins for now. I’m not sure the play there. I’m not sure if they were, you know, just trying to make a a force situation, but it was clearly not part of the plan there. Um, but it is just a kill that goes in the hands of Team Spirit. They do get some extra uh gold in the right hands here, but that’s the thing. On Philippines is so far ahead, especially in terms of map presence, map space to work with. And with a Selena, it’s even more. And that’s why these traps and these arrows are paying, you know, a huge value to Onyx Philippines, but it looks like TS wants to go with a play. They’re going to use a conceal, but I don’t think they catch anyone out. Yeah, and I feel like it was just in time. The stacks for Keller were still there to get some information either way. K goes in with Raven Spider. There’s the flicker attempt as well, but they don’t get to set up for anyone. So, Tame Spirit are able to walk away safely. But now there is the Lord. Okay, Lord is up. They’re going to go ahead and fight for this one. It looks like TS still wants to go. Yep, there’s a stun and they definitely will be closing in. But one shot, he doesn’t get the judge, the dodge, the crossbow of T. And now on PH, they’re looking for more. They’re going to be chasing after the other members of the arrow, the onward, the earth shatter, everything just lands on Sunset Lover. Unfortunate for Team Spirit. I’m surprised they got a position for that lord take, but with one shot being caught out and then just collapsed on. They had no other choice, no other space to work around enough for Onic Philippines. They might already have this one in the bag. The Lord is making his way up top. They have the base turret in the mid to work on, but I don’t even know if they’re going to wait for it right now. They still come up. Sunset lover less than 10 seconds away. Team Spirit should be in a full fighting force to defend this, but they have to play dance here. They have to dodge these arrows and get ready for this lord. The traps are all set up. Super friends. Oh, that didn’t land. Got attempt from SA didn’t land. And now the heavy spin is going to be burned as well. They’re only going to try to go after King Kong, but he is too tanky. And they still have to deal with the lord. And now they will successfully try and attempt to deal with it. But Sao trying to distract the other members won’t be enough because Super Friends will just gain access to the members in the back line. It’s a two for one trade so far. However, but there’s still a wave coming in the mid lane. Kim Bulba will be trying to spend, but he gets to receive the onward and the air shatter. Final flash committed on to Bruce Go. And they pop the immortality for now. Do they have enough damage? They still the waves pushing in. And Kimba tries to do it, but the crossbow tag from Kel is enough to clean it up. And that will be one more for a game going to the hands of Onyx Philippines. Team Spirit held on and they took that risk. They went for the final slash heavy spin combo. Supposedly that would have landed on a single or two members of Onik PH, but the reflexes were too fast. Yeah, on PH reacted to it just in time. So that resulted in wasted multiple wasted important resources for Team Spirit before the final defense. And that was everything that Auto Philippines had to do. They had to get those you know spells out, the ultimates out because there was good it was good juggling honestly from TS to be that far behind but you know sweep things forward stay in the game as long as they did even despite that uh big gold deficit. But again on Philippines came into game two they had some power picks in their hands mean like especially with the Selena was amazing here but uh nonetheless they brought this game plan to life and made it work in game two. So, let’s throw it over back to the panel to break down our game two on Philippines reminding team spirit and the rest of the world who they are. Super friends on his signature Selena. He plays that like a mobile master. He does, but I feel like after watching game one and game two, all the MLBB enthusiasts after watching the previous series look at this one and they’re like, “What am I supposed to learn from this? like what what what is what is happening? I will say this Onyx two games first game they try to bring the aggression in the early game they fail second game they bring the aggression in the early game and it passes. So yes, I still don’t think exactly it’s the draft that we’re looking at but the game play itself and is this going to be the story for the next possibly three games? Can Team Spirit withstand the first two to four minutes? Yeah, again game number one it was Team Spirit dominating that. Game number two is Onyx Philippines winning all over the map. Heo losing straight up losing to Kelra in lane. Two kills early on that Wan bully that Moskov. What’s even crazier about that is the same exact matchup as last game. Moscow versus Wan. So my question is did Hiko maybe get a little too confident after game one? Try to push the limits. Forget who Kelra was? I mean the second death I think was the most evident. the level four into level three. What are you doing there, brother? Man, he has a pure inbuilt purify. You hit him against the wall. Why do you continue the trade? There’s just so many weird things that happened in this game. But what was clear was Onyx the Aegis early game, the laning phase, especially basically allow them to do whatever they want, right? They were in the exact same position that TS was in game number one, pulling it into game number two. Artic draw the line in the sand. It’s like we’re not going to let you walk over us like you did in game number one. We’re going to go toe-to-toe. If you want a mechanic, we’ll out mechanic you just as much. Yeah, I appreciate this Edith pick that was part of the last uh set of picks here for awning Philippines for Brusco. And most importantly, how Bruce executed this Edith. He was checking the rotations of Kid Bomba, Sawo, and Sunset Lover incredibly well. There was a bit of mishap at the center of the map around mid game, but at that point on in Philippines just had a massive lead that even though they lost because Kelro was winning lane so hard, they could afford those little mishaps, they could afford those little slip ups. Yeah, Kell were getting so close to breaking that 1,000 gold per minute mark, but just showing that maybe 1 should stay in the ban phase. Even though you beat it in game number one, it’s still a problem. And outside from that, you know, you mentioned uh you mentioned the other play. I’m mentioning King Kong because I feel like the Fredin was actually a really solid pick from you. You liked the Edith. I really liked the Fredin. I feel like it forced King Kong to stay with the team a bit more whereas game number one, he was getting caught off by himself too much and he allowed the rest of his team to shine with the damage as long as he was able to peel and protect them. Yeah, I feel like this was a little redemption game also from King Kong who for the longest time now since last season uh the community beats have been oh King Kong is not that great in the tanky fighter junglers. This game I feel like they needed this confidence game for him. He needed a performance like this on this Freder team spirit to show himself like yeah I can do this too. I want to I don’t get me wrong, I want to agree with you, but it’s really really hard when you’ve got a lot of contributing factors to why he was already be able to develop a twole lead against one shot in this case. And a lot of it is because oh, Selena was able to get a pretty much a quote unquote free lane after getting that initial solo kill onto Sao, but also supplementing the fact that now King Kong has Selena with the traps to make him feel like an assassin jungler, like he’s clearing obnoxiously fast because of him. Yeah, it looks like we got a series here. We’re not going to be getting any sweeps in this second quarter finals matchup for the knockoffs face as now on Philippines have tied things up against team spirit. Will happen in game number three? We’ll find out after this break. 4 1 0 The wonder you 4 3 2 1 zero heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Reach your impossible. Lenovo Legion. Heat. Heat. So far, this has been a series determined by how well you can execute. executed in the first two to three minutes of the games here. Team Spirit did so excellently in game number one while Onyx PH clapped back hard and reminded them who they are with a near perfect execution in game number two and of course individual performances from Kellra in the gold lane being able to shut down Ho. Now, as we move on to game number three, we fortunately, no, not unfortunately, fortunately, still have to talk about the draft here because that does help contextualize a lot of these early game requirements that we’re looking for both Team Spirit and Onyx. So, who would like to start things off? What are we expecting? It’s hard to say what we’re expecting because so far from game one to game two, there’s been a pretty big change in the way these teams approach it and what they banned and what they pick. So, I think game three, I think we could be in for even more surprises. Honestly, the questions on my mind is, does Team Spirit now ban out Selena? Do they ban out Wan? Do they change the way they approach this as well? I’m going to put it in layman’s terms. Stop sucking in the laning phase. There’s really nothing you can do if that laning phase goes as horrendously as we’ve seen from both of these teams in game one and two. Doesn’t matter how good your draft is, especially if you’re not walking out of there to go headto toe-to-toe against your opponents when you are on equal footing. Most of the time, based on what we’ve seen, the draft plays a to a degree a certain part. But even then, they’re going so far above and beyond that it doesn’t really matter if the early game is asm. Yeah. Going back to the draft in game number one, yes, uh that Kofer pick was a massive counter and did pose a lot of problems for King Kong, but it wasn’t just that. I think we also got to the point where we agreed that if the early game was just a little bit better for Anik in that game number one, it would have been a much more different story. It would have been a little bit more even where now Team Spirit had to really calculate things. So yeah, I think I’ve leaned in now to you two have convinced me that it really is all about how sharp these two teams are in the first two to three minutes and how well they can get their early win conditions. And that’s the thing I I feel like once they get past the all right, we’re going toe-to-toe. Both sides are looking for active advantages through the draft to apply into the early game, then sure. And I think that does it a little bit better in game number two. But coming into game number three, right, it’s not a matter of blue side, red side anymore. It really comes down to the synergies. If they want to say, you know what, let’s just bypass the laning phase in the first place, right? If that’s what’s costing us these games, we might as well, especially with Onyx BH, the one who has the gas. They’ve got momentum as we saw clearly in the same match up between Kelra against Hoomania. I think that Team Spirit need to recognize, all right, let’s make mid lane obsolete. Let’s rotate and save his lane as fast as possible. Yeah, I mean, that’s what they did in the first game pretty much. They played a little reactionary, but they did it well. They waited for Any to come to them and then catch them off guard, respond cleanly, and instead of jumping out trying to win the 1v one, instead of doing things like that, they were able to take the win through uh letting Onyx kind of bite their own head off. Now, as we head into the draft for game number three. All right, we talked a lot about execution, but I feel like if Team Sprint can, it’s warranted to make sure that Keller doesn’t end up with a 1-1 anymore and that Super Face doesn’t end up with Selena. I’m actually okay if he gets the one to be fair game one, right? They did beat it game one. They did beat it game one, but I think this is on condition. If Wan gets let through, please have the CC on your side, right? That Kurt call is such a powerful tool to kind of keep uh Kelra in check during team fights. Team Spirit will be the on the blue side though. So if everyone wants available, they haven’t been shy about rush picking it for heo as now the Selena gets taken away. Good respect ban by team spirit as super was also one of the big reasons alongside Brusco in the center of the map as why they were able to supplement King Kong well and then they were able to control the center giving a lot of difficulty to the Arlot Rome of Sao. Hey, it looks like Kirk is even getting on to the meta of don’t show them our mouth movement even though we’re speaking in a completely different language. Fair. Listen, man. Kibama’s Filipino. Oh, you’re right. I forgot. I’m so sorry. He’s actually speaking. He’s actually speaking to Galog to his own teammates and that’s why he’s covering his mouth. Um, so that Kirk doesn’t understand. All right, we’ve unlocked the code, boys. Team Spirit pass out the Ko from Brusco. Uh, I think what and there could be a possibility that we’ll see Bruce still end up in one of his old comforts in the Cho. Not the favored rush like before, but still does very well against very specific lineups. Okay, something’s throwing me off a little bit with the Lancelot ban. Um, real quick, Basha does come in. Okay, now it makes a little bit of sense, but Onik PH, I feel like if you’re not going to ban the Basha, maybe could have left the one-1 open for yourselves at least. On their side, they get the CC this time. Um, but there’s my answer, right? They ban out the Lancelot. I wanted to see them maybe pick up utility here and get pryo utility, whether that’s Fredin or Bosa. And they do secure that. I think they also need to pick up Kimmy. Kimmy or No, Kimmy can’t be picked up with Boxy on the opposite end. Maybe Farsa, I suppose, unless they also want to No, but they can’t even flex picks now that they already had the CC in the first place. So, I think it’s really down to like, hey, let’s just get winning lanes and just, you know, smash the early game. Orzo could be clean here up front. They go for uh they go for the Granger though. Another long range. You have burst. You have your bases covered. Instead, you leave Super Friends with the ability to flex into, you know, any kind of mage he wants later. Yeah. Uh I appreciate this Granger rush also because now you don’t have to worry about a Granger far to potentially end up with Team Spirit and then if ever you do end up with a far, you have a great combo already locked in for yourself. Yeah, for TS, I don’t know if they’re going to utilize the boxy as a flex pick. doesn’t seem likely cuz there’s no reason to just yet. I think it’s fine if they are thinking about synergies like you know the Angela Boxia but I do think that Kimmy is kind of a must here. Okay, so Kimmy then I think might also do well for team spirit. Both will do well but I think it depends on who actually they can show both. Kimmy is alongside the Yeah, they can go early and then later on surprise if they do want to lean towards that Angela it’s a little bit greedy but Angela Basha Angela you have a lot of avenues there. What do you think, JS? Um, I I’ve been seeing the Granger pop up and the Athl has popped to my mind, too, like for a couple games that we’ve seen, but I don’t know. I’m still It’s It’s such a weird hero. Like, it either performs really well or it just bombs out. And sometimes it even bombs out against the hero it’s supposed to do well against, i.e., uh, the Granger. So, for me, it’s it’s kind of scary, especially against a quick farming team like Onyx that wants to get aggressive early on. there takes a little bit of time. Um, so I I kind of like the Muskov still on possibly still on Ho. Give him something comfortable. Beatatrix maybe. I I think Hiko has plenty of space to to play. I don’t think they have to rush him up front. Beatatrix without the combination. This is assuming that Saw still has access to things like Kaj. That’s why I think they could push him. I think they could push Ho to the end of the draft is what I’m saying. I don’t think they need to rush him. They could pryo Sawo. They could pry other other players before locking in a gold line. I can get I can get behind that, right? Especially if they’re locking in like Kimmy. I mean, if they go Kimmy and then they have to figure something else out, what would be the other flex pick in this case? And I think that Cho, it’s not the greatest, but it does kind of disincentivize Onyx to look to play an assassin. For flex, they could lock in a bedang early on. Oh, look. locking the badang here, maybe their mage, and then they have nice movement. They have nice pivot position for their last two picks. We’re going to be seeing the draft return in just a bit. We’re just sorting out uh some things on the stage right now to ensure that our players have the best and most even playing field. So, thank you for this patience uh for your patience and we will continue discussing the draft here. If you have any pics that you’d want to throw up into the air, don’t forget wherever you’re watching, feel free to comment, join us, and sound off online as the online community have been very vocal. And we do play off a lot with what the community has been feeling with pics. Can we get more shots of Cold Star cuz God, he’s so handsome. He’s They keep getting his side, his perfect side profile, and I’m just like, jeez, dude. He’s got jeans. Jeans. Yeah. Great retort. I love it. Oh, K’s just vibing out into the meantime. I’m thinking whether or not team uh whether or not Any is still going to lead into the Edith pick. And I think more and more now that they’ve already conditioned two times that it has gone into not only the exp lane, sorry, three times at this point that it’s not only gone into the exp lane, but it’s possible for people like Bruce to pick it up later down the line. I think it’s a great flex pick and I think that is something that they might want to even consider throwing into the uh throwing into the rope position again if they’re not looking to just have like that hard disengage. I agree. I think at this point it’s um it’s a I’m still so thrown with the drafts right now. They’re going to be like well even just meta in general right now it’s it’s not easy being anal analysis trying to guess drafts right because there’s just so much room to move. They do finally lock things in Moscow. So they take gold lane. They get comfortable. I mentioned the Moscow earlier. It is a possibility. Do we see the Bong or something like that pop up to still leave themselves open? We do. There it is. Yeah, great prediction there. They do have multiple flex options surprisingly enough as we’ve seen Baksha not only go jungle but also into the Rome. We’ve seen Badang go roam exp usually roam but the possibility is there. So on Philippines will have to take that into consideration. They might want to do they go super friends or King Kong here considering there’s already a chance team Spirit are showing their jungler and it might just be the Boxia. Uh it’s hard. Yeah. Yeah. I think no matter what it’s a bit of a pinch. The Boxia really locks down like a majority of the heroes. You go for Kimmy, you basically have the counter pick. You go for Frederick. Immediate counter pick as well. They’re going to go for Joy. All right. Okay. So, at least Any isn’t afraid to say, “Hey, I’m expecting you to invade me, but once I get two items, maybe I can look for Hiko and play towards Kelra’s side of the map.” I think this makes Bruce GoP all the more important. And hopefully Team Spirit check and actually acknowledge the potential of a Cho on the hands of Brusco cuz that plays into the Oni PH comfort that allows them to read the rotations of where the Padang and the Baksha is if it is going to be going to the jungle. most importantly. So hopefully they do consider ban that out. If not, I think on Philippines might have a very easy time at the center of the map with Bruce going the choke. Yeah, Team Spirit’s also been doing a great job at picking heroes and leaving, you know, something that was a lot of problem in last series, the Varza open, but knowing like it’s it’s okay if you pick it. We have lots of answers for it. Gat taken out. I I mean, right now it’s feeling very similar to game one to where Spirit’s kind of putting Onik Page in this weird spot where what are they going to do with their mid lane here? Um, you’re running out of options. The man does have a wild wide pool. I am not going to take it away from Super Fin to consider locking in the Valier or even a Kagura yet again. Yeah, both of which would actually do pretty decent into TS, right? Cuz it’s about peel. It’s less about damage. There we go. The Angela. See, that’s why the FUS was such a weird band. They could have let it through cuz they already had the counter pick on their side. Yes, it does a bunch of damages, but like sure, you’re not going to win the lane, which is kind of the important thing coming in. Sorry, the important theme. So, pairing it up with also banning the Angela makes a lot more sense. Okay, what’s the last from team spirit? Do they just continue into Rome here? Um, Gat’s gone. Take out Dig Tigriel. The Tigriel might suddenly be a surprise option as well for Team Spirit later on, especially at the hands of Sao. They are going up against a joy. Then that means it’s a dang CC match up in EXP and jungle Baksha. If ever that is the route we’re going to end up with, they take out the Kada. I think the two bands of Spirit are a little bit too obvious that they’re leaning towards Farsa for the center of the map. Yeah, on PH, they can go for Kimmy. They can go for far. Both of which are pretty good. I think the Farsa might just be a lot better this time around cuz they don’t need the in the inevitable engage. They need the big chunks. Could be Bruce Go pick now. even just save a super friend’s pick for five so that you go in with a little bit of element of surprise because so far on PH I feel like they they’re a lot of their drafts or the drafts that they lean into towards MSE has that one element of surprise and I think for this one it could be the super fence pick at five if ever it’s definitely a tough spot and I think both teams really taking their time with this draft I think this game right here is going to kind of be the tilter on how the rest of this goes they go for the Cho solid I mean overall I mean, it’s a decent pick no matter what. It’s nothing like it’s not like, oh, this is the answer, but it’s not um, you know, it’s not out of this realm. Yeah. No, I think that this is better. That way, they can really utilize super for instance, like deep hero pull. It might end up just being like Valer Cho. Uh, really depending on what this pick from the side of TS, whether it’s the fara or it’s the Kimmy, either or pretty decent at this point. You’ve got some pretty clear direction with the comp. Could be far Kimmy and then maybe even a lapu lapu for kid bomba. I feel like they need something a little bit more explosive as well in the exp. Uh they already have the box or the badang. I feel like the glue would be a little bit too overload in terms of thinking about crowd control and utility. The Lapu Lapu could provide them that explosiveness, but they go for the Arlot instead paired up with the Farsa. So, they’re looking to make uh few of the maybe potential mispositionings that could come out from Onyx Philippines a little bit more punchable. I’m for it because you have three enablers and I think Badon is already a pretty strong enabler for the Arleta to kind of go crazy throughout the match. The issue now is that you can play on both sides. You have two two laners that potentially I think that Higo should be okay which means that unfortunately for Kid Bomba he needs to be the one that stays alive assuming that this Arlet goes into the EXP which I don’t think it’s going to be the case. Yeah, we think what an Arlock Arlock Rome Bedang Bedangi XP. I like Team Spirits draft. Last mage pick is the Lui. It’s the pick I wanted to see earlier. Onic Page again just kind of drafting with comfort. I feel like not being binded to anything. Yeah, comfort plus that additional element of the super friend surprise pick. Yeah, I think that TS right now if anything don’t suck at the laning phase, right? if they can survive that phase got a Selena in game number two. Now he gets another signature pick up in the Loi a pick that has somewhat dipped out in terms of priorities but when shown up actually have has served some surprises in previous tournaments and especially here in MSC. Can Onic push the envelope and go 2-1 or will team spirit shock him and take this game number three? Bring it in nice. What do you two think? Well, this is another pick over to Super Friends. One of the few players that I would say would be brave enough even to bring out the Lu Yi right now in the meta that we’re finding ourselves in. We’ll see if it’s all enough to bring it to a match point for Onic Philippines. If they get this one or if we see TS bring it together with this. Again, I have to agree with Gideon here. They got to win the lanes. Bring it up. Yep. getting past the laning phase to at least be on equal footing regardless of the disadvantages of the lineup is going to be very vital for Team Spirits considering that it has been one of the uh most noticeable things in the previous game in the way that they just completely let go of the momentum just allowed on PH to take over the entirety of the game. But I feel like with the lineup that they have right now, they have a lot more tools to be able to keep up. And right now they’re showing us how they just want to keep playing just as aggressively up against S on PH. That was an early flicker forced out of Rusco and that definitely already means something. Yeah, I guess that was, you know, better than nothing. They do get the battle spell out and we’ve seen it before where even uh, you know, ah early on can do enough damage. This is this is the same story right here. We saw this in the previous game where Kelra is just winning the lane and you might need to do something for Ho here if you’re team Spirit to be able to provide him a better laning phase. But you know it really does just come down to these gold laner mechanics here and S taking some damage. Oh, he might actually be the first to fall then. Fortunately has the flicker one shot will try to chase after. Oh, catches Kellra, stops him in his tracks, and now it is clearly a better situation for Ho in the early game. That’s tough. Loses the flicker, too. Kelra being a little aggressive. I I guess also mistiming that flicker because one shot comes through, finds that connection, and as we’ve seen before, concussive blast, especially early on, does considerable amounts of damage, too. Um, that’s usually where we see like mid lane first bloods under the 1 minute mark. So with that happening, uh, nothing too crazy. Still evens across the board, but this turtles for the taking, the first one in the game. TS gets control of it. Bruce goes not level four and King Kong still working on the buff. Yep, they want to fight for this. Oh, fist crack already used to King Kong will try to go for the stun, but it’s still his retribution. That’s going to be able to secure the objective for Onyx PH. And now the curtain call stopping Sunset Lover from walking to wherever they want to go. But Kirk actually gets caught. That will be the way of the dragon denied. But the duality coming in from Super Prince just dealing so much damage to clumped up members of Team Spirit. That could have gone way different if Philippines had a little more firepower and it maybe even if Bruso had the flicker available because he could have gone in and gotten multiple members uh with the Gundo, but it didn’t happen. So that’s better for Team Spirit. But again, the objective went to Onyx Philippines. So they’re able to go ahead and get that. It’s a a small win for them for now. Nothing too crazy. Team Spirit still under control. I think again going back to it, the biggest thing is, you know, taking care of Ho, letting him have a better better laning experience. He did get the kill earlier on, so that is, you know, at least a little bit of a benefit for him to build up. But I don’t know. This is one of the things where it’s like you really have to see how Team Spirit plays around the options that they have here. King Kong just taking that. Gets stunned there briefly by Sunset Lover though. Oh, but Saul off cam kill by Onyx PH as well. It seems like they’re able to somehow deal with whatever intentions that they have. And despite them trying to actually pay a bit more attention to Ho on a GH, they still make all that pressure felt. Like Ho still can’t we can’t say that he still has the best time right now in the laning phase, but Super Prince gets to escape that attempt from one shot. Won’t break out into a fight just yet, though. Great job from Brusco there. King Kong might go to the turret has the damage will pick up the kill and sidstepping the final slash as well. So a good response there from Onic Philippines. I was going to say earlier on Brusco did the right thing. He was able to put pressure where he needed to on Sunset Lover earlier on. So now second turtle’s coming up here and Onyx Philippines is in a good position. This is now a little bit of a spike that they have here. Genius one picked up two for King Kong. that’s going to work really well with Super France on the Lui. That is going to help even do a little more damage that we’re seeing from the reactions or the interactions of of Super Friends. So, the fight though for the space for this turtle is going to be crucial. Gold laner still duking out 1 v one though. Yeah, they’ve been doing a lot since um that kill we saw onto Kra, but that’s a way of dragon committed on to get both buff. This crap will be used as well and one shot gets to steal the objective. Now sunset lover right in the face takes down Kirk and they will start to disengage after that. A surprising turn of events but there’s a diversion. They’re going for heo. They’re going to go on the hunt but I don’t think they spot him out and there’s no kick from Brew. So good job for Team Spirit. I mean at least they’re able to go ahead and secure themselves that. But Sunset lover again and this is what King Kong does and he gets his hands on the joy. He will go and make these plays across the map. Sometimes if he gets the objective or not, it doesn’t really matter in certain situations because he’s able to get the right targets on this joy and put enough pressure where it’s like, “Hey, I’m in your side of the jungle. Either you respond to me or you lose resources or you lose these 1v ones.” And that’s the tricky part of a joy is keeping up with her and then like trying to catch her. Yeah, things have been very uncomfortable for Sunset Lover or more so for Team Spirit in terms of however they wanted to make use of their lineup and coordinate their skills. But they actually find a setup here onto Super Prince. There goes the SOD and Ho will have to take him out on his own, but he will not have enough resources and gets threatened by the burst as well. So you see once Sonic PH gets to split up the entire intention from Team Spirit or just denies them of being as coordinated as they should be, Team Spirit can’t just get the job done. Okay, at this point, Team Spirit has to might uh might have to transition here. They’re going to stay for the most part building up Heo, letting him do his thing. But, you know, this macro level of play is is going to be I feel like the difference in this game. And anytime you have the Lou on in play, that’s one of the main things. We’ve seen it from the diversion, but you’re playing a constant catch-up game because of this. Like I said, oh, hold on. Diversion used. One shot’s tanking up. You don’t want to kick him. So, he’ll go ahead and pop the ultimate, though. But this turtle’s coming up, so he’s going to go grab the purple buff. And then I don’t know, do they contest this? Because it’s one for one for the turtles right now. On has control of this. Brusco will jump in. Ah, maybe not anymore because they find a kill onto Sao. Making it two because they also find Sunset Lover. There’s the setup coming in from Kai. So, he doesn’t land. And there is the potential dwell catching two members of Team Spirit who are just trying to walk away and that’s a clear win for Onyx BH. Really tough fight to take again as we just saw the damage that comes from a join of Lui. What a kick to set things up. And then they force a fight even further in the mid. So they already lose two members for Team Spirit, but then the fight still breaking out. And even if you’re trying to run to your turret, you’re not safe against this lineup here. So uh again, a really decisive play from Brusco. And you know, that’s the thing with a Cho, you always have this option to set things up. Yeah, you you know, you can feel the heat there. Yeah, you can see the heat. It’s getting pretty intense. King Kong also picks up the holy crystal. So that’s going to be a lot more damage that you could expect from him. A lot more tricky for Sunset Lover to position himself, I guess, if there is that much damage already coming in. And like you mentioned, it’s going to be so tough for Team Spirit to pull off whatever the intentions they have because like whenever they try to group up, there’s that duality that’s just going to deal so much damage. But this time around, it might be a better situation for them. They find the kill on Kirk. Brusco gets away of the dragon but not in the angle he wanted but the damage from Kell super prince is just too much. Brusco trying to close in. Kit Bomba tries to protect the other members and that was a diversion that was no longer committed. But Team Spirit, they’re just so low. They might not actually get to defend that mid lane turret and they won’t. They lose the tier one in that last fight. So good from Brusco again. These kicks have been on point. Even if it doesn’t convert to a kill, he kicked Ho. So Ho wasn’t actually able to go ahead and fight in that fight, do the damage he needs to do on this Mazov. So when they lose a lot of that and then they just have, you know, the feathered air strike that they’re relying on in these fights, you lose a bunch of your damage profile to be able to use that is really tough. It’s going to be super tough right now considering that team spirit if you look at the gold majority of their members definitely are behind their XP laners which we’ve put a lot of focus on their XP later is a th000 gold behind as well and now Bruce might get to go for another setup decides to use it on to kick Bomba he could barely do anything to make it out alive and that’s one member down right for the objective. Okay, objective is up. They’ve fought for this at this point. This is going to be an easy lure to take for Philippines. Really no contest. You can see the space on the diversion, too. They’re going to go send it up top. So, there was some pressure up here on the tier one, but Team Spirit still looking for, you know, these turrets to grab. And now we really have to look at this brig in the sense that, you know, what can Team Spirit do on this defense? you know, they I would say they have relatively good firepower to fight a fight. The problem is is a lot of the that damage is being kicked away or it’s being zoned out from the fights and it’s being juggled around that they’re not able to actually utilize it. Rusco has been a menace on this Cho. He’s doing a phenomenal job at finding the right targets, but you can see it. I mean, there is still respectable damage being done from Sunset Lover himself alone. So, I still think they handle this first lord pretty pretty well. like they’re going to keep their base turrets intact unless there’s a forced fight here. Yep. It does feel like majority of the times or whenever Team Spirit does want to go for the counter engage though on AP just have enough damage to either take that one member down and just consecutively look for other targets too and just win the fight overall. That’s the holy shield already popped as well for their base turret up top. So, how Team Spirit decides to approach their counter engages is going to be very crucial. But it seems like now what they’re after isn’t just any counter engage. They use the conceal, try to threaten Onic PH just a bit and work on defending their waves for now. But Bruce’s just seemingly waiting for that flicker to come in and then that’s when he might potentially go and look for an angle. So, Team Spirit shouldn’t be that complacent about whatever situation is happening. But wait, Zo, he actually decides to go in and now he misses the final slash and gets bursted down. The struggle that we’re seeing with the Arts right now and that’s the case. Solo goes down, try to force something, but ultimately you’re so far behind, you just get out, you know, outmaneuvered, outgunned. feathered air strike to be used here to try to clear this out and hold on to this tier 2 turret in the mid lane but or bottom lane but again I think you’re putting a lot of that weight now on he picks up the maleific gun he should be able to fight you know I think the the biggest problem is just again he doesn’t have much space to work with just because there’s such a threat I mean look at Brusco he’s been doing this all game oh and now he finds the kick on to taking down the most important member right now and the kill goes over to Keller. King Kong gets traded out too, however. But Sunsen lover doesn’t land the skills and there’s the vengeance still from Kirk and the side steps. Oh my goodness. The bob, the weave, the skip. You know, it’s they’re they’re really just kind of going with the fact that they have this kind of lead. They can get away with a lot. And that’s what we’re seeing. Even if it doesn’t seem like there’s an angle here for them to push in the base, on Philippines takes it anyway. whether they haven’t concealed or Brusco is available to go for the kick. So they knew that was worth, you know, going for Lord is going to be up now and King Kong’s back up. You’re in a great position. Kelra to just having a great experience on the Granger here. Picks up the BOD. So they’re in again fighting form and for team Spirit, they have to make the decision. Do we actually contest this? Do we show ourselves for this fight? And it seems like they want to do that. And this has been the constant pressure that a lot of the roams in MSC have been feeling especially when they pick up these, you know, these heroes like the Arot. You’re kind of reliant on setting things up like that or the Badang for example for Kid Bone. But there’s the conceal. Oh, Rusco finds Sao. They decide to burst him down first and King call finds the lord. There’s the final lap to the middle of the super fins, but they don’t have enough damage just yet. Sod will land, however. But does he still want to fight? He goes in. He looks for super friends, but there’s the flicker. And now they use the diversion to just bring him back closer to the target. But the duality won’t land. But still they still proceed with the fight. Window nature used by Kelra. And one shot trying to look for another kill, but they just walk away. Kra, what a play. He knew that the feather air strike was going to be set up, so he might as well go for it. Flickers forward, gets the kill. Kelra makes it happen in a 1v2 in the mid. How? That’s Kra. That’s Kell. Okay. Okay. I guess that’s all we can say. I mean, he knew that there was eventually either he was going to go down or get feathered air strike or something. So, you know, having that flicker available gave him that option. Little setup down here on the bottom. Lord’s going to be cleared out. So, this is at least good for TS. Can they withstand this fight though that might be forced down on them? And that’s the tankiest member one shot already using the tortoise pants. That’s your tanky dude and he doesn’t look that tanky. You know, it’s again when you have this kind of buildup in items for Philippines, especially for Kelra, it’s really hard to go through that. Look at the stacks here. Just absolutely stacked up. He’s fully item locked too. Locked in. He had to pop the wind of nature earlier on, but he’s fine. And even though the Lord was taken care of, again, this is something that Team Spirit can play around. They always when you consider yourself down this much it’s like all right what does this team do and it’s literally buying time they clear out the lord that’s great is still in a fighting position we’ve already seen it he was in a good position to go and fight against Kelra like the damage is there but they’ve been having a hard time with Brusco here uh honestly for team spirit I feel like they just really have to be mindful that no one at this point is definitely going to be safe so wherever they decide to position themselves it should be in a way that they could just immediately or easily find a way to regroup if things don’t go too well for them because even targets like Sao orchid Bomba seem like seem like they’re okay targets for Bruce should go for in terms of using the way of the dragon and now Sao might just be able to find an angle will be using the final flash on Kirk though but the followup it won’t be there just yet there’s the better air strike as well as the back shield unity already committed on to super prince but blue scope coming again from the sides will just have to disrupt the formation all over again. And not to mention King Kong wasn’t even part of that fight just yet. Yeah, he wasn’t a part of the fight. But I don’t know. Team Spirit is looking like they’re confident enough to take the fights knowing the fact that they have they have enough damage. That’s not even the question. The damage is not the question anymore. You’ve got a little more defensiveness now though for Heo, which is really important. But you can see this. Oh, Sawa goes in. Wo, but the diversion brings him to safety. Anyway, they casted that even before seeing so. So, it was just really a way to keep the discipline there, make sure that they’ll be all complete before this upcoming lord, which is looking to be one of the most important objectives yet in this game. Kirk will be trying to deal a bit of damage onto one shot, but where does team spirit look for an angle? That’s the curtain call already committed by Kirk, but one shot. Will he decide to go in? Bruce’s just holding this brush. Brusco’s holding on. He’s got immortality. Spear’s going to be thrown out. So, this is the moment for them to strike. Saw looking for his own angle, but he takes a lot of damage here. Oh, there goes the vital, but then again, the team fights kind of split up, but Super Frince will be the first target here for team. He goes making things happen. Gets to look for Kirk, but then Brusco, he blocks one shot. There goes the fist crack already committed as well, but all of them Kirk and Brof will just get to survive. And Kra just finding the sky stacks currently legendary on the Granger still keeping his teammates safe. It’s Kel who actually protected his team. He was there for them and he’s staying together. They’re going to be able to find Brusco, but can Kra do it? Heo finds him and they finally shut Kra down. It’s a turn of events for Team Spirit. And now Kirk on the run, but this is a clear sign for Team Spirit to take the Lord. They probably stayed there a bit too long. And it was Team Spirit who was able to actually keep themselves in the game, but he go gets knocked up by the Lord and bursted down by PH. Sun lover trying to look for another trade, but Kirk is trying to work on and that’s going to be a shut down by PH. Man, the tables have turned. The turn tables, it’s all back and forth. Just when it looks so good for Team Spirit, a diversion comes in clutch for Onyx Philippines. Talk about timing. That was the most clutch diversion. Well, maybe second to that escape diversion we saw down bottom. There are too many diversions happening in this map, you know, like I’m not sure how to rank them anymore, but now it’s another diversion used to pressure the bottom lane and they take down the base turret even before the Lord arrives. We need a diversion tier list at some point for people to throw out there, but right now it’s this Lord making its way down bottom. Team Spirit trying to do their best to hold on. They find Kit Bomba, but Kid Bomba still has the flicker. Now Kirk goes in, uses the vengeance as well, just tries to keep the pressure going for Team Spirit. And now they get to defend to a certain extent the incoming waves that are approaching their base. But now they have to let go of all their base turrets. The work on the lord here. Base turrets all gone. Onik Philippines might just decide that’s all we can take. Again, they’re respecting what this lineup from Team Spirit can do and the amount of damage that it does have. Saw is always going to be a problem at this point because if they do get caught in a bad situation like we saw previously where it was a force fight and Onic Philippines even with this again are in a position where they could make a mistake position wise Kelro gets caught out or something happens you know and that’s the thing both teams are actually doing a relatively good job at protecting the gold laners but Ho has to be a little more aggressive because of the fact that he’s on a Moskov instead of a you know Kro can shoot off a little bit from a distance from a with a Granger. Now that’s the hard part for them. Spear of Destruction going to be thrown. Kirk will go ahead and give him a a high five for that. And look at the positioning here. They want to force it in the mid. Oh, maybe regroup for now because King Kong might come in at any given moment, but they spotted him out. So they decide to play it safe. That could have been a close call for Team Spirit though. Quick look on the in-game equipment, but maybe we’ll talk about that later because the fur was already used by Sunset Lover here. Winter Crowd briefly tries to keep him safe. Might get the burst down. King Call pops the immortality and now it’s his turn to use the winter ground. Oh, with the setup still going. Kra has the space. Saul is one HP away, but he goes unleashing on Kirk. He jumps on over the wall, picks up an immortality and tries to buy a little bit more time, but he has trouble with that. And again, the lord is up. Too fall for Philippines. Okay, I can see I can see how everyone is feeling about this situation right now. People are standing up and you understand why this has been such a close fight. We’re already approaching the 21 minute mark and Team Spirit have have somehow just kept themsel in the game despite how Onyx PH seemed to have dominated so much already. We’re going to they have pretty much handled a seven almost 8,000 gold lead that Onic Philippines has had. And now I feel like Team Spirit, they got the Spirit. They’re going to start up this lord. There’s a diversion used as Onyx Philippines decide to try to take this super prince up front. Oh, duality used onto one shot. Sunset lover gets affected as well. But will Bruce will get to use the way of the dragon? It seems like he just is forced to walk for now very low though. King Kong, will he make it in time? No. And somehow to PH, the call is just to chase after the members of Team Spirit. There’s another duality affecting what go from behind. goes for Heo but somehow gets to reposition and keep himself alive. And Onic Philippines is full force healthy as Team Spirit lost two but they manage to get the objective. King Kong not there in time. Can the three hold out with Onyx Philippines now approaching the base. Can they end it here? They have minions but the Lord is going to spawn in a few moments as well from Team Spirit. So they will have a bit more tools to manage this attempt. No. Quick gets worth it down. There’s the feathered air strike. He gets to dodge it, but he doesn’t dodge. The spear of destruction and the feathered air strikes so good as well though. Dear with the lord here. But now team spirit. Kid bulma up in the front. He’s got an immortality. I don’t think he wants to force it. He does have the flicker available. And they know that Kirk is down for another 40 seconds. What can they convert off of this? That Lord nearly worked on here. But Onyx Philippines for the first time for the majority of this game will find themselves on the back foot. They’re definitely going to lose some space here. And right now, Team Spirit focusing on the top side. Okay, so Team Spirit are able to hold on this lord still and might just get this tier 2 up top. There’s a conceal. So they might try to go for something. Force out the flicker from Keller. That’s going to be massive for Team Sprint here if ever they do want to look for an angle later on. But Onyx PH they get to hold on their base turret. They hold on as much as they can. Nearly down there. But for Team Spirit, they have fought tooth and nail to get back into this game. What a game three it’s been. They’ll find the tier one, possibly the tier two for Sigonic Philippines in their base. And this is where we see this kind of lineup, which is a much better sieging lineup if they can pull it off. Okay, the duality catches up too many members, but Bruce gets caught as well. Curtain call committed on to just SO and he answers right back with a final slash, but Team Spirit, they’re running away. They’re low on HP. They have to escape. Sao barely makes it out alive. And that’s going to be the disengage. What a fight by both of these teams. What a game already. Again, neither team able to capitalize on a kill from there, but Onic Philippines stays in it. So many immortality, so many items being jungled at this point. Almost 25 minutes in. And this lord is so crucial here for either team as both get ready for positioning here. Now, this is where we typically see an advantage with having a Lu Yi. That might be the play. It might not. You can already see the positioning here. But for Team Spirit, they’re fully immortality up. They’ve got everything they need. They’ll start this Lord, but they have to be crucial about it because it does a lot of damage just like Sunset Lover keeps Kelra and Super Friends in check here. Yeah, that diversion was used in a position that revealed where Onyx PH were. So, Team Spirit have full information and have an idea of where all of these members are. I don’t think Seo’s going to go for that. But yeah, they have to manage the waves first though. Team Spirit, given that their base is exposed, clearly are at a disadvantage when it comes to the waves. This is the new Dons that we have right now with the Lord diversion can be used. They won’t follow through with it. This is about as rare it is now in the meta. We don’t see this too often. 25 minutes in the battle for this kind of lord, trying to manage your your base because for Team Spirit, that’s the biggest disadvantage. All base turrets are down and we’ve seen it before. We’re on a Philippines especially Lousie will just run it down on the opposite side of the map. That can’t happen here. So they’ve been keeping this lord around half health. Just waiting for that window of opportunity. This is a crucial point for team spirit to answer. We’ll go for a reset but the feather air strike dropped down too. Solo quite low but do they commit? Oh they will actually commit but go finds eagle fall though but he somehow is still alive and he actually finds King Kong now. Saw blocking the path off the other members, but this is clearly Team Spirit at an advantage. They’re the ones with the That lord hurts. Yeah, that lord hurts. He I don’t think he wants to tank that up. He’s got to go back to the base. Yes, same sentiments. Bring it up for everyone in the audience. He was so close to that lord and we’ve seen it before where a lord at this point can take down some people and be an MVP. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, we’re back to it. On Philippines loses a member, but they still hold it together. Again, that’s the advantage I was talking about. Here’s a concealed play. They’re going to go for Super Friends. They get the flicker and now Kell run. Bruce go on the run. Super F gets to use the diversion out. Oh my gosh, that’s going to be top one on my ranking now. The diversion tier list continues to build as game three has been absolute cinema. already still the fight for the Lord to ensue. Brusco could be in trouble here. He does have an immortality. Can he buy enough time? What’s the play here? They’re going to go and focus on him. Oh, they’re going to work on Brusco. Is he going to buy enough time though? Actually, still survives that. Kid Bomb is not going to fall for it. He was down in the base. So, Kid Bomba, he’s seen it time and time again. And it’s not happening this time for Team Spirit. Yep. Welcome back to the dots. Welcome back. Welcome back. We’re still here. 27 minutes. uh in the game. We’re still here dancing for the lord. Immortality already popped though for Brusco. That’s one thing you could probably take note of if you are team spirit. So Brusco will have to be a little more particular when he decides to go in and look for angles to set up using the way of the dragon. But still, this doesn’t change the fact that Onic PH can still have other ways to work around. There are diversion plays that can still come in even if it doesn’t start with Brusco. You just have to be very careful about it. There’s only so many immortalities, winner crowns, rose gold dogs that you can bring to the table and eventually those will run out. You’ll have to switch things up. Divers not close enough. Just about able to spot out Heo. So now they’re on this bottom side of the map, but still neither team can really commit to this Lord just because of how beefy it is, how much it hurts. You can’t really hold it there, even if you’re one shot, which is crazy to think, you know, back with our utility junglers before, they could just hold it all day. Well, right now, you can’t. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My heart can handle this anymore. The SL is going to land onto K, and they’re actually going to put him down. But there’s a diversion play. There’s a diversion play, and it’s super friends all alone. Will he be able to save the game for his team though? He does deal enough damage. King from behind. Might just look for an angle, but there’s a final slash and King gets blocked by the fist break. King Kong’s in trouble. Buys time with the winter crown, but it’s not going to be enough as they are falling on the defense. On trying to run, but jumps in with a flicker. He has Kra in sight as well as Super France and he can’t escape either. Team Spirit has clawed back into this game. Kro will keep them at bay. Another shot. Will get the shut down. Picks up another. Can he find Ho? Heo versus two. Ko and Brusco on the hunt. Everything’s on Ho. Hiko has to defend this game. Oh, can Ho pull this off? He still has these minions, but Brusco pop the conceal. They’re going to run him down. That’s the kick. But did they buy enough space here? And the base is already going to be worked on. Panotonic Philippines will make it happen in game three. Wow. Wowee. Wow. Wa. What do we see? We This is such a wow. Wowee. Wow. Moment. And you could see the fans rejoicing after that what 28 minute game full of back and forth. Full of moments where you thought Any already lost it, but no. Oh my goodness. It’s such a devastating loss if you were Team Spirit, but Onik, they literally won by holding on. I know everybody can take a deep breath after that one. Thank you. Yes, that was absolute cinema. There’s no other way to put it. I mean, what a game three. Two two teams duking and out. I still got to give it up to Team Spirit, too. To come back from the deficit that they were at to bring it almost to this point, you know, the brink of almost winning is insane. Props to them. But Onyx Philippines showcasing again just how they can turn the side. And I mean, Kelra, people have been looking for that Kelra, the Savage himself. Like look at that last defense that they had to do. Yeah. I mean the the timing on the destinas, the rapidities, the positioning. My god, you could see this, you know, like the the sigh of relief even for the players as they went through this game again. Just in absolutely insane. Like this is one of the I feel like just highlight games so far of MSC. Both teams super locked in here. Super locked in. Yeah, you could see it. You could see it right now. You could look at Kit Bomba and see how locked in he is. Every single one of them. And that’s why it feels so devastating to be in Team Spirit’s position right now because that was such a long game. Yeah, it definitely has been draining for them. And this was when we thought that Team Spirit nearly had it in the bag because they were just becoming so aggressive. They were chasing after Onic, pouring in all of their resources just to clear every single member out. And look at Kelra. They forgot about Kellra. Yes. Look at this again. The fact that he’s able to do that, keep him in the game and make it work. And then he knows, okay, Bruce’s with me. This guy has a conceal. We can get this little speed boost and make it happen. And great time. Bruce knew it as well. Goes in with a kick. Has enough range for Kel to work. So just absolutely amazing. You can you can Everybody was hyped for it. Kim Bulma as well. Very close. Let’s throw it over to the desk. I I can’t wait to see what they have to say. Oh. Oh boy. It is just I I hope you guys are enjoying the time of day. It is crazy how much cinema we are seeing here in this match. I take it back classical turn it into team spirit versus PH. That was too much. It’s only game three. It is only game three. How you doing? Only game three. That was only game three. We going to We can have two more. Maybe. Maybe. Oh god. If you’re lucky. I can’t take it. My heart can’t take it. Bring it. Couldn’t take it. Oh, what are the graphics show? Wow. Me. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wee. Wow. Oh my goodness. What? What a game. Showing time and time again why consistently two EWC’s in a row. We get the highest viewerships. We break records. And never doubt the Savage. Never doubt Kellra to show up when his team needs him the most. Team Spirit. They got me scared. They got me terrified. They they they got they got me they got me bubbling in a whole lot of ways I usually don’t like but Onik I don’t know what I’m saying. You guys are the my analyst here. Please take over. Uh it was an amazing series. It was definitely an amazing series. I don’t think we would have asked for anything less. Down to what was final game count? 30 minutes. Did we break 30 on that one? Oh yeah, we broke 30 minutes. They broke me too. Yeah, they they broke us all and I I think no matter who lost that games, we were all going to be sad at some point, happy, excited. It was a roller coaster of emotions. That was that was insane. Truly an insane game. I would say that there was a lot more weight on TS because again, they were the ones with no inhibitors, the terrible early to mid, the constant lead for the side of Onik PH. And that final sequence alone was crazy for all the moments where we saw Sao not be so good with that final slash. Finally gets an amazing one while still Kid Bomba saving the play against King Kong. Kelra pulls through. Max Stacks Sky Piercer the difference maker. Kelra pulled through. Brusco eventually supplemented him. But yeah, what did you say about Kra? how he was performing. He was like John who John Wick. There was I don’t even remember what minute it was cuz the game was so long. I thought that was last game actually. Um that flicker. Yeah, the big sound lover kickoff sunset lover in flicker sideep into the feathered air strike and then just bing bop boom bop bing bop bam. Oh, and the crowd goes wild. It was honestly it was a great game to watch. That was a beautiful game. Oh, I thought it was 30 minutes. It was 29 37. We were so close to it. 29. We didn’t hit 30 minutes, but I think it took 30 years out of my expected lifespan with the roller coaster of emotions that we saw there. Like some boys like of course I was going crazy for a Philippines here, but then I was also starting to feel for TS like, yo, if you guys get this win, I y’all deserve the love from the Filipino on the panel, but what a crazy back and forth. And then who pointed it out at some point? Uh, Hiko switched to a guardian helmet even. Yeah, he needed cuz there was just nothing to hit. And to be fair, to be fair, it was Brusco who switched to it. He needed to make sure that not only did he have the uh not only that he had the tankiness, but more so to heal up from his lowered state to chase Ho down at the very end just in case. Just in case he tried to turn things around, Bruso was at about like 50% health, 60% health. Like, let me pick this up real fast. It’s going to be a long run from my base to your base. I need a couple more health points in my pocket. You know, Gideon, you said that I I totally I think Te Spirit definitely felt that a little bit harder because you’re right, the game was not in their hands for a while. I mean, they hung tooth and nail and then finally were in control for the past five minutes. I feel like for the last five or so minutes of that game, it was theirs. It felt like they were they were winning all the team fights. They were coming out on top. All I could think in that last one was just go for the Lord for the love of God. Just go for the Lord. And they overstepped their boundaries. They didn’t want to spend another minute longer against this team. And honestly, I respect it. But the one thing that they forgot was the fact that Kra had a majority of his Sky Piercer stacks maxed out throughout the entire game. And I’m pretty sure if it wasn’t maxed out in that last sequence, it definitely was after taking out the majority the core member Sunset Lover. Again, we saw his build earlier, right? He was not looking for anti-heal. He trusted that one anti-heal was going to be enough, which costed them the early to mid, especially when you have a Boxia on your side. I get it. But the real profit is when you get to that late game, maxed out items. One shot against Kelra, he’s put down 50% of his HP. That’s when Team Spirit felt, “Yes, we have a fighting chance in this battle.” I was actually talking about this with Chantel before the day started. Chantel, one of the Filipino casters. you see here in the crowd cams alongside Egan and the others from time to time is that Onyx one of their best qualities as to why they were able to end up become becoming world champions is that their fearlessness because they know they have so much coverage. King Kong falls, you have Kelra. Those two fall, you have Super Friends. And all the while you get Kirk, Brusco being able to do little things that actually have big impacts in the long runs in the games. This time we uh that was a huge highlight reel of that especially there near near the end with the fact that with majority of the team down since Kellra stayed alive and was getting stack after stack and he could not be found by team spirit. He was the differencemaker in that game. I’m I’m sorry. I’m locked into the emotions on all the crowds faces right now. I mean, I don’t even It’s It’s hard to even analyze a game like that when it gets It’s like when a game goes 10 minutes, it’s hard to size what the winning factor was. When a game goes that long, it’s, you know, items. So many things are just kind of out the window and it just goes down to who makes the final mistake there. And I I do feel like Team Spirit made the final mistake there. They did. If we’re talking about potential adjustments for early to mid in terms of the draft, I hope they get Saul off of this Arlet. It is costing them games. And right now with the mechanics and how sharp we see on PHP, they have got the Emperor eye. Everybody’s John Wick. They apparently can see everything that is going on within the battlefield and they pivot so fast on the balls of their feet like actual fighters. So, at this point, if they’re going if if we are going to see Team Spirit try to bring it back like they did here in game number three, they’re going to need something that they are not only comfortable on, but are consistently able to execute. Yeah, I I think that has to be the main lynchman now cuz we’ve seen for all for all across the board for Team Spirit, you don’t need to worry so much about the hero pool. They have heroes locked in. They’re ready. It’s just what will end up with now at the center of the map cuz now we have two games, two crucial games where Bruce go on what used to be way back then a very comfortable Edith pick up for himself so good in game number two. Now in this game number three this Joe for him I feel like was a huge unsung hero but multiple times whether it was for initiating or stopping heo from being able to follow up to what eventually Kid Ba and Sawa got to do that was a big problem that Team Spirit had to deal with. So you need to look at the Bruce Kosowl matchup and make that your focal point now for these drafts. They were in the zone. They really were in the zone which is why we are seeing a lot of the tricks being thrown out of the well not thrown out of the book but really implemented in this game. The fact that we saw Bruce go for the uh horizontal vertical the back flicker G couldn’t do onto Kid Bomba to cuz he knew his exact position with the help of Super Friends process of elimination. The only thing that I have to say, the resilience of Team Spirit, the adjustments from Kid Bomba as well to make sure that they weren’t getting consistently outplayed in the late game. It was all him. I think resilience is is honestly going to be the key in either this maybe last game or one more game. We’ve seen Team Spirit go the distance even with a pick that maybe Saw’s not doing good on. And we heard um we heard Bria say earlier, how do you take you go 30 minutes, you take a loss, can you keep yourselves collected? But honestly, even the winning faces of Onic, they seemed worn out after that game. Super Friends was just sitting in his chair, blank stare at like ahead like holy crap. Like that was a lot. We’re at a point now where we could still have two more games. It’s still very possible after seeing that last one. Unless of course, Team Spirit taps out here. Unless of course on PH is tapped out here. Just like for the first three games, this crucial game number four is really going to be determined by the early game. Which of these two teams are going to pick the more aggressive lineup? And which of these two teams have the sharper execution in the first, I won’t even say 3 minutes, 2 minutes of the game now? It’s all on that because if any of these two take momentum very quickly and get very quick double kills early on, that might spell doom for the one that didn’t. The adjustments are here, boys. The adjustments are here, but it’s actually from Onyx PH banning out the Bosch this time. Team Spirit is going to pick up the one-1 up front blue side. Now, that’s the same pick we saw last game. What I want, they keep banning out this lance a lot. I’m wondering Team Spirit won their first game with damage on one shot. Should they pick up some damage for one shot here? The Bosch is gone. You might as well at this point. Brusco gets his KA and it’s Onic PHA. No, we are going for the throw. Those first two picks from Onyx usually signal that they’re going to be going for a fast tempo, high scaling or quickly scaling lineup that can end the game sub 14 minutes. It’s up to Team Spirit now to adjust and respond to that. Here’s a fun fact about Keller. He’s the first player in MC MSE history to surpass 300 total kills. He now has 312 after scoring 14 kills as Granger last game. Again, to remind you, Kellra is a former MSE champion. Won it in 2021 and he did so at the age of 15 or 16 if I’m not mistaken. And he’s only been to three MSC’s, right? This is his third. Yes, this is his third. That’s he’s averaging a little over 100 kills per MSC just to put that into perspective for everybody. Yeah, that is kind of crazy. However, based on what I’m seeing in the draft here, they’re not taking immediate counter picks against Onyx BH. Again, they’re foreshadowing what Superf Friends is going to do because again, Superf Friends as well as Brusco were huge problems. Not to mention the fact that King Kong was kind of eating up both Sao alongside with Sunset Lover for the first 13 minutes of the game. I like this draft from Team Spirit here so far. Even though I said damage one shot, I think the Freder is solid and it does um preemptively stop the possible joy. But Hayaboose is going to get picked up by King Kong. Remar see your face. Yeah, autops are clearly going for aggro. We end this quick. Team Spirit are taking a more defensive route, but now since it’s a Hayabusa Frederick, you’re actually looking at Team Spirit’s lineup to have that exact same potential as you have the have it also paired up with the Lapu Lapu. So yes, they’re going to play around the one, but there’s a chance if Onyx slip over the execution in the early game. It’s Team Spirit taking the momentum early. Yeah, that too. I think at this point, right, Onyx PH are kind of read into the situation. They see that TS. Hey, if you want to play that Fred and more importantly, the fact that you picked Lapu into uh into the Phobia matchup means that you don’t really care about that laning phase for the side of Kid Bomba, right? We saw him play the Badang into the CC. He did a good job. He was down a couple of levels, but his impact was always felt during the team fights. So now being someone who is not as resourceheavy, kind of alleviates a lot of the pressure from the side lanes. We now have to worry about this Waw Wa with Hayabusa locked in so early for the side on PH. They’re probably going to repeat their strategy for game number three. Consistent pressure on Higo. And if they want to pressure Higo. Oh, they ban out the Arlot. Okay. Still uh don’t want to give that combo even though the Arlot in the previous two games for SA hasn’t been the cleanest. Team Spirit, I think, ban out the Farsa, but they don’t lead. They ban out the Claude. Take out gold laners. Limit down. Why didn’t they ban Farsa? Why didn’t they ban Farsa here? Why are they worried about this Claude? Especially when there’s still a Granger open. Still plenty of options for Kelra here. Yeah. And can honestly also even just go like carry or Batrix. He can do whatever he wants. He’s Kelra. Yeah. Yeah. I guess they want to limit it just enough. They want to see that Granger one more time for the side of Anik and then look to pick up maybe Farsa for themselves. Maybe something that scales in that mid lane. And they’re trying to try to initiate this trade. The question is whether coach Why not is going to allow it because worst comes the worst, right? We get the Beatrix on the side of Onik PH and they can pick fara now. They do not go for the fara, they go for the granger instead. So I I mean I think on team three you pick up the fara but again I think both I think a lot of teams overestimate the counters of fara like the lapu maybe that’s why on page doesn’t pick it up the hayusa things like that. But either way sunset lover did a great job on her last game. They decide not to just yet. They’re still taking their time with that mage pick. Huh. It should just be a quick fara pick, right? Cuz if they pick fara, Hayobusa can definitely punish them. And I think that it’s better not to give it over to Onyx PH more than picking it up for yourself cuz again, your composition still lacks the innate burst other than the Lapu Lapu. And let’s not forget that they don’t scale as well. Huh. I mean, the most obvious pick now is gone. Do they lean towards his more niche picks like the Kagura, the Loi again. Loi actually still would be a good choice. Brought us here. Yep. Oh, is that Novaria? Yep, there she is. No makes a lot more sense, right? Because then it kind of alleviates the pressure from Brusco to try and open up the map. You are playing Kalia. There are some pretty long cool down timers, especially uh for the title waves. I think this is a hero that we all look at as utility just because of the ultimate, but honestly mid to late game, those meteors hit hard and it can outrange the fara. it can poke down. It never has to get involved in the fight and have to worry about getting uh you know getting stunned up by the um by the Freder or anything like that. It’s always safely in the back. This is why I mentioned this last series, I think. But I think this could be a solid pick after an epic game number three. Game four could be the final one here. Or will Team Spirit push the series to five? Bring it and Nizu, how are you two doing? Hey, we’ve gotten our our feet back on the ground here, I’d say, for this one after the amazing game three. But I’ll tell you guys what, if you know any lore here, Brietta is on desk. I’m expecting a game five. I’m expecting Team Spirit to take game four because that’s the Brigablast. That’s the Bria Blast here. Well, I think we should also be mentioning that the mother of all series is in the stadium in the arena. So, you’re both here. Maybe that could be another um way to look at it. But yeah, it has been a very close game number three. And it seems like team spirit this time around could be the one setting up that same tempo. They got the troll for themselves and I’m really looking forward to seeing how this is going to play out because this is the typical troll fara combination. You could expect a very aggressive early game and that’s exactly what they’re doing right now. Pressuring super friends constantly. Brusco even had to recall in as early as less than a minute into this game. Yeah, this is interesting because as you guys saw it from the draft, this Novaria has not been picked much. It’s been picked once other than now from Super Friends. And it’s one of those heroes that, yeah, was pretty strong before. Uh kind of fell off a little bit, but it just seems to be the case for Super Friends. He’s one of those players that likes to bring some of these more non-meta heroes to the table. Now, will it play its part? Will it be able to provide on Philippines with what they need? Maybe. Again, it gives you a lot of vision, extends some of the hit boxes that you can have and they can play around that. Now, that is actually a pretty beneficial thing, especially when you have a Granger on your side here. So, again, I I would like to see Team Spirit take this game even if it was down to the lanes here. As I was just going to say with Ho and Kra, if Ho can get a advantage in the early game just by himself and that’s what all gold laners have to go through. they have to go and have this, you know, point of the game where it’s like it’s 1 v one. They have to do that. And if he can get a, you know, an advantage against Kraut, that would be great for Ho and overall for Team Spirit as the game goes through those early to mid game phases here. So they start up this first turtle. They are in position for Team Spirit. They’re going to fight for it though. They got to poke one shot down, but the first one to go in is actually going to be Kid Bomb does a great job in zoning out the other members. There’s Energy Eruption also committed on to Kirk, but he still has the Infernal Pursuits and that just allows him to reposition and get away. So, it has been a bitter start so far for Team Spirit and you can see it in their fans. They’re really rejoicing right now, but again, it is still somewhat the early game. Yeah, Hiko holding his own. He’s doing all right. He is taking a couple shots of course from Kra, but objective over to Team Spirit. Great for them to go ahead and set up to. Now, at this point, when you have these level fours available, you really have to go ahead and look at how the compositions are going to be utilizing the ultimates that they have. And just like we saw in the previous game, a big part of that is for Sawo, he has to go ahead get these kicks off that he’s looking for on the Cho. And that is always a difficult task. But aside from that, you also are going to be relying on Kid Bomba on this Lapu Lapu to be able to go and, you know, have these fights, these skirmishes in your favor because he’s able to put pressure where it needs to be. That’s what Lapu is so good at. Not only being able to just kind of tank up quite a bit of damage himself, but even dish out respectable damage. So that’s one of the big things. That’s how they got the better of Onik PH in that first team fight, too. But then the tsunami slap is going to be committed onto Sao. Look at the damage in as early as 3 minutes of the game. But the crossbow tank is going to be committed by Hiko as well. But Rusco will just have enough time to get away though. But now Kirk is forced to flicker out after one shot. Even uses the retribution. clearly tried to go for a trade there, but were somehow lacking in the damage to get that. They still go on though use the federed air strike as well for sunset lover. Yeah, this is one of the things, you know, it’s a King Kong because he’s on the Hayabusa against one shot Fredin. He has to in some cases and some points of the game rely on the team to help him secure parts of the jungle. You can see right now he’s actually getting pressured out from his orange buff. And so King Kong, he wa not just pressured out, he died. Wait, that was just Sunset Lover in one shot. Yeah, but I guess he got feathered air strike because Sunset lover doesn’t have it. So, as I was saying, he has to rely on the team a lot of times and secure this because that’s not where you want to be. So, he gets down and now the turtle. That’s pretty interesting. if we could like find a way to revisit how that happened because Brusco was also nearby, but it felt like he didn’t have enough time to catch up and provide the necessary assistance for their jungler. And that’s going to be two turtles that’ll go into the hands of Team Spirit and they barely struggled to get it for two times in a row. Yeah, seems like it was a little too easy for them, you know, and and again, when you are able to put pressure on an assassin type jungler, you can usually continue to play into that advantage that you have. One shot also just picks up the empty car. So, he’s got a little bit of that extra defense now to deal with King Kong and even Kel and Sense. So, in a good position to continue to just kind of let not let up on the gas, continue to put pressure there. You could see this uh pressure from Kid Bomba. I’m not sure if Kirk And the rest of the squad wants to make the play. He sensed that there were other members coming in for him. And now he uses the flicker to get away. Star Shutter lands, but Komba still alive. And he got to clear the wave, too. So on PH, they probably will get to make something out of it. But it’s just going to be mirrored here by Team Spirit. He works on the bottom lane as well. See this just waiting patiently there. It was one auto attack. Yeah, that would have been Kid Bulma going down, but it’s great that he survived. Team Spirit gets that push in. He’s having a much better time this game for He’s got the tier one down. He’s going to get some pressure here, of course, but the rest of the team’s just around the corner here. So, so far, if you think about the majority of the S series, this is the best position that Ho’s been early game. Yep. Even more than that one time in the previous game or in the game before that, I’m not sure anymore where he got the early rotation coming in from Team Spirit. This definitely looks like the much better game, especially as it was mostly just on Kico alone. Like there wasn’t much reactions from Team Spirit because again, even in other parts of the map, they were the ones clearly winning it out. And look at Kid Bomba also being able to take down that tier one up top as well. This has been the most I don’t know, kill the most e the easiest situation for Team Sprint in the early game. It feels like everything is just handed over to them for free. It’s like this Bria, you know, they they know everybody experienced the last game. They’re like, “All right, we’ll we’ll tone it down a little bit for the early game.” I’m not sure if that’s going to be the case when we get to that mid to late game transition either because this is a lineup for Onicopians that really needs time to go ahead and and come online. Part of that, like I said, is the Hayabusa. You just you can’t do too much if you’re King Kong uh against this kind of lineup unless maybe Bruso gets the Tsunami SS like we’ve been seeing. That’s usually been the case, but you’re almost forced in this situation where you just have to farm up. Here it is. And there goes the coming to the side strike. They finally get to find a pick off and that’s going to be onto Sao. So maybe that’s the biggest difference because I feel like for a huge majority of the past few minutes, Team Spirit were aware of the resources that Onyx PH decided to pour into that potential pickoff against um Kid Bula in the top lane. But ever since they failed that, Team Spirit were just being very decisive and trying to look for other things to do across the map. And now they’ve been very efficient. As you can see, 7 minutes into this game, they’ve already cleared out so many turrets away from Onic PH. Wow. Tier Team Spirit gets a tier 2 under the 8 minute mark already. It just seems like there’s not really much that Onicians can do except for play around the tsunami slam. Like that’s their only option right now. The fight for the purple buff though might force them. Ah, Bruce goes isolated because Kipopa he just don’t super prince away and now he will be the first to fall. Star doesn’t lock onto anyone and all tier one turrets are already taken down even the mid lane. So this makes things so much more easier for Team Spirit and so much harder for King Kong. It’s kind of crazy because in essence, Team Spirit isn’t doing anything fancy. Like they’re literally just playing around. if they catch Brusco or Brusco tsunami slams, they follow on through. They have enough damage already, too. Like Sunset Lever picked up the Divine Glaive earlier on. So, a lot of times it’s not even Saul that has to start with a kick. Now, if he decides to, then they’re in a a great position to win these fights. And that’s why we’re really just seeing Onic Philippines watch the turrets go down. There isn’t a whole lot of space to work with. There’s not even enough really firepower just yet. It’s in one of those situations where we got to wait for Keller to farm up. We might even have to give up this first lord. That looks to be the case as Team Spirit is just going to go ahead and start this up and take this. You know, King Kong’s like, I just I want my orange buff. Like, I just I need this. This could be the only time I’m going to get it without any other member from Team Spirit disrupting me. And so, he finally gets his hands on the orange buff. But as you’ve mentioned, just looking at the lineups here for both Team Spirit and Onyx PH, it does feel like Team Spirit, just by having Kid Bulba use the bravest fighter, just by having Sao stand there with the threat of the way of the dragon, it does feel like on PH are getting a taste of their own medicine because this team, this seems too familiar to how they were able to actually present themselves in the previous game through Brusco and the Cho, but now it’s SA applying all that pressure and yes, this is a 020 standing in a KDA for him, but you know that all those instances where on PH were able to get the kill onto Sao were greatly uh I’d say Team Spirit were able to make the most out of it. Like they didn’t allow Sao to go down without trading anything massive and now 10 minutes it’s such a it’s been so fast and now they gain access to the base turrets and take down the holy shields. Lord is still up here. So Any will clear it out, but I don’t know. S might want to force something. I guess conceal is going to be used. They still have the holy defense though that’s going to go and pop now on the top side. The most you know clean game so far that we’ve seen just two two across the board. It’s again Team Spirit doesn’t have to do anything but they are going to jump into this one. Bomba times the bravest fighter alongside the minion wave and they actually find two kills here before anything happens. Clutch crossbow tag as well. Coming in from Heo, keeping him alive. And Kid Bomba, he’s still standing in front of Onik BH. He doesn’t care. Kid Bomba is just flexing right now on the Lapu. Lapu staying in the base. He’ll be fine. They got to wait for those waves to push in. But man, they took out three from Monic Philippines and they have to scramble for the defense. How is he still able to regroup with Inspirit? He was sitting right behind that tier three turret and he got the reset on his bravest fighter too. So that was that was a very long time that was bought here by look at how much damage he’s done. 35,000. Talk about a performance from Lapu Lapu. This is why we’ve been talking about XP laners for so long throughout MSSE because of the impact that they can have. And I know all the XP laners out there can rejoice because XP lane for a while was pretty, you know, it’s pretty stale, but now you get to be in a good position where it’s like you can literally carry games as an XP laner. Now again, Team Spirit, they haven’t done anything fancy and even in the sense because Ho has had a much better game in terms of just winning the lane and putting himself in that position. He even survived Kirk earlier on. So, you know, this is one one of those cases where it’s like Onic Philippines is is really far behind. They’re in this position where they’ve even lost a base turret already. They’re not going to be in a p place to actually get the next lord for a while. So, it’s all just a waiting game. Are they able to do it? Because every single time we’ve seen Brusco try to set something up, who’s he going to tsunami slam? Most of the time, even if he tsunami slams Sunset Lover, Sunset Lover still has to purify. You still have to get through that. So, you know, it’s it’s really just kind of trying to make something happen for Onyx Philippines. And the only place that’s going to happen right now is in their base. That’s the best place for them to possibly turn this almost 9,000 gold deficit around. And I mean TX and the panel did mention it earlier too that uh if you look at on PH lineup, especially the Novaria, they will have a bit more damage to rely on come the mid to late portions of the game. But the thing is, could they defend this part of the game? Oh, there seems to be decent damage already though. already half HP but now it’s another baby fighter he gets to receive the tsunami slap as well it seems like kid Bomba right now but he gets punished he is the first to follow this team fight and the infernal pursuits coming in from Kirk are just too much they find another kill onto Saul as well and that definitely keeps on PH in this game wow that was a great defense and it was actually a shot from super friends that even checked Ho couldn’t go forward because of the fact that he was like all right that actually pretty that that got me pretty No, I shouldn’t put push this any further. Yeah, and that jump from Kid Bomba was something Onyx PH seemed to have calculated already because yes, the Lapu Lapu once he does use the bravest fighter and his enhanced skills when he is actually um in the different form. Yeah, you get to immune crowd control, but there is a brief moment that you can’t and that’s what Onic were able to capitalize on. clearly taking down the front liners first and that’s where things started to fall for team spirit but more importantly was yes the amount of poke that came in from super fringe towards Ho before that fight. Yeah and you can see that like in terms of gold lane Kelra is where he needs to be. He’s he’s farmed up. He has the items that he needs. King Kong should be able to get away. He’s going to get stunned though but qual he goes back. He goes back in and now Sensed Lover gains easier access to him. There’s another tsunami slam committed onto Sawo. But now Ho, he needs to reposition himself. There’s just too much damage coming in from OnPH. But will he find the stack though? Not for now. But that’s still another kill that goes into the hands of Team Spirit. Well, Super Friends, he’s going to keep them at bay for now. Wave is still pushing in bottom. But as long as Kelra is alive, they should be fine to clear these out. Unless Team Spirit decides to force a fight. They might want to get this mid turret down. Sal’s going to go ahead and jump on in. Can they defend? Oh, they want to make things happen now. They set up. They go for Brusco. There’s the winter crown. It’s going to buy him some time, but it won’t save him from the energy eruption and from the kill. That will be handed over to Ho. But the appraisers wrath though, it’s just too much to handle as well. But nonetheless, Onyx BH still another successful defense. That’s what they have to do. More time bought for them, the better. Earlier on, we saw the difference. Gold lane is fine. They are in fighting form, but the big thing is again their front guys, Kirk, even King Kong, Barus for example, need plenty of time to build some of that defense. So, shadow kill. Oh no, it’s Sunset Lover who gets picked off for Team Spirit. And even though Kid Bomba and Sow might just make it to the fight, they don’t have Sunset Lover. And that’s such an important piece of the equation. That’s a lot of damage gone. This is still a risk for Onic Beans to go ahead and start this up and take it. Their base is fully exposed, but they know they have at least one advantage. And that’s Sunset Lever being gone, but look at the pressure from TS. Still keep them at bay. They might force the fight. Oh, they find the stacks. The crossbow tab might just be committed any time now. And there he goes. But the winter crowd is going to keep Kirk safe. But Brusco might escape this. There’s the brave spider as well from both get down. The won’t be even used at all. Eagle the only one left and Kra finds the shut down and a triple. How did they do it again? But now Sunset Lever Glover trying to just clear the wave out. He’s forced down and Karu will pick up the kill and they’ll work on the tier two. Even with a base fully exposed, they’ll win a huge fight dissipating any gold lead that Team Spirit had. It was just so unfortunate there. Hiko found the stacks as well. Also got to land the heavy crossbow. Kid Bomba also got to use the bravest fighter. All the resources were used just in time, but they weren’t enough anymore because no one had their eyes on the damage that came in from Kelra. No one was able to deal with this guy yet again. and he’s the least guy that you want to be left after a team fight after all resources have already been burned. How many times has Keller turned things around for his team already? I don’t know. I I mean, I know we talked about the gold lane here leading into this game, but you know, it doesn’t seem like there’s any hesitation at all for Kellra. He is sitting at 70 and4. He’s very aggressive, but very calculated this time. And this gives them a little bit of an advantage to push towards the base. They still have a lot of grounds to cover. But can TS defend against this pushing. Oh, dark wave one shot already half HP. Heo as well. It’s not just the star shatter. It’s also those death sonaras coming in from Kela that really deals a huge amount of damage towards the gold laner of Team Spirit. So, he definitely has to constantly reset every now and then because of all these skill shots that are coming in from Onyx. And that’s going to be a problem. Like there has to be someone blocking all these damage or Nico has to do his part in dodging it. But these are also members you want to hide because they need to come in from unexpected angle. So they could take on by surprise. But now gets surprised. He just gets blasted like that. And Sunset Lover is next. And this might just be an opening for PH as they get back kill. It’s another maniac for Kra. And a wipe out for the super fam as they gradually make their way towards the base. The reigning world champions prove themselves once again. And after a wellfought fight, they take out the dragons of ECA. What a turnaround. What a victory for Onyx Philippines and a heartbreak for team Spirit when they had the lead. It was so close to getting to a game five. But defense after defense from Monik Philippines kept them in the game. They stayed calm and collected. And again, it’s this guy Kelra. Kelra seems to be just something always in the way of team spirit here. Again, big respect to them for putting on respect one of the best series so far that we’ve had here at MSC 2025 at EWC. Simply amazing. Yeah, that was indeed absolute cinema all series long brought to us by these two teams. And I must say it’s impressive to see the way the first round of the knockouts turned out. Yeah. because it’s only a team liquid as the sole two zero team who picked their opponent who actually got to win against their choice. So time and time again these teams have just been constantly improving proving themselves even despite and against all odds. It was such a good fight by Team Spirit. Yes. Hey, how many times have we seen this, Brito? I mean, if you’ve been watching MSE up to this point, you know that even if you have a 7 8 10,000 gold lead, a game can still turn around. And that’s the way we are in the current meta right now. And you know, like I was saying, XP laners are great. Gold laners are still fantastic because if you don’t control them, if you overstep a little bit, if you get caught out in certain situations, sometimes that’s the game, you know. And Kelra again, it’s his positioning. It’s his it’s a game IQ. The fact that he’s also just protected really well from the Superman. I mean, I was saying, you were saying this earlier, if Hiko gets caught, if he takes a couple shots, you know, by being too forward, that’s that’s the game. It’s going to fall apart. And it ended with a maniac there from Kel. So again, you could see the frustration because it was so close. Like that was Team Spirit’s game. Very calm early game. We didn’t see too much action and they controlled it like nothing crazy. So again, it’s me and I bring it up. We’re going to throw it over to the stage with Minos and of course our winners. Thank you very much friends. And yes, I’m here with Brusco from OnPH who just had an incredible matchup against their opponents at Team Spirit. I’m not going to beat around the bush. That game three was absolutely incredible. I think we can definitely qualify it as the best game of MSC so far. What happened? Because at almost 30 minutes, somehow it was a pingpong back and forth the whole time. Can you walk me through it? Game three, right? Game three. Uh oh. So, um we cannot end the game because um they have a Moscow and their heroes are um poke heroes. So we cannot um um push the turret because there are um badang and arro also. So we cannot um go straight because uh we might uh we might end up um wipe out later. So um we just um patience and um only patience. Yeah, I mean patience paid off. You got the win and the end of it. And uh were you surprised when Spirit picked you to play in the quarterfinals? M no I think I think we already expected it because um the they’re going to uh their choices are onic ID and on page so I think they see us uh the they see on ID as a stronger component than uh us. Fair enough. And next up you play against SRG. You beat them at M6. Do you think you can do it again? Uh we will try I think. What do you have to say to them? Uh, good luck. Uh, because um, they have a Filipino player also. Um, good luck incent. There you go. There you go. This is it. You wanted absolute cinema. We absolutely got it in this matchup. Team Spirit out of the tournament, but it’s Anuk P to take it to the semi-finals. Brisco, thank you very much again. Congratulations. I’ll let you go over to your teammates to crush your opponent’s key. And my god, what a game. Those are our quarterfinals done and dusted. It’s semis for tomorrow. But let’s break down a whole day. Back to the panel. Thank you so much, Milos. And of course, great to hear from Brusco, the ror of the winning team for this matchup, Onyx Philippines. I may have lost 30 years of my expected lifespan because of what happened in that game number three. end with how Audi page had to crawl back to win game number four behind the scenes. We were talking about it when they pick a lineup against what Team Spirit showed. That is the expected win condition for Onic BH. I look there’s a lot I could say about this game. There’s a lot of like potential mistakes that really shape the way that Onik PH were able to come back. But I think if our previous matchup of RQ SRG was the the O L classicalico, I think that Onyx PH versus Team Spirit game number three so far has to be the best game. And I think even for all the team members of Onic PH, they’re going to miss TS. Yeah, I think this is the most painful key crush I’ve had to watch thus far in MSC. Team Spirit put up such a fight in that match. It is tough, man. And it is tough to watch and I know like no matter what it’s the nature of the beast, but man they were so close. Yep. Uh incredibly heartbreaking loss for sure for Team Spirit and I think uh we also we got to see there are moments in this game that Sunset Lover is going to be stuck in his head on replay for I don’t know how long. He’s a veteran. He’s a pro. He’s been at this since the very first World Championship and even before that since then. But that really has to hurt for Team Spirit because Onyx again worked for it and they had to do so through King Kong and Keller yet again. Even some errors for King Kong, but then they showed up when their super fam needed them the most. They played well. I think both teams they they had their moments here. I don’t want to criticize them any further because the defeat is already so it stings. It really stings this time. An emotional bout between both of these great teams. And I mean I think you know EECA we said from a long time ago 2 years in the making that this is a region that already has not only a representative but has developed their next generation and considering the lengths of which Verdice Pro continue to grow during this international EECA just one of those regions that I hope that is going to produce star players. Uh and we have seen some star performances all throughout this day with our Sony MVP of the series. I think you know who it is on the back of two epic performances after an well dare I say disappointing game number one performance. It was Kellra on this Granger backto back that delivered for Onyx Philippines. Yeah, Kellra was a monster. It’s hard to pick an MVP when everybody played so well. But I mean you could rewind through the games. You could watch the highlights even here. Even when he didn’t have the Granger, he was a monster on the Wan Wana as well. I mean, from positioning to spacing with the Granger, making sure um in those final moments, even in that last game that we were watching, able to defend the base from the push of Team Spirit, time after time. I mean, it’s just non-stop for this kid. I think he’s the most consistent, right? That’s why the MVP has to go to him every single time. You can tell by just his stats alone that he is going above and beyond to kind of salvage whatever the team hands him. Whether it be a misengage coming in from Busco, a weak early game coming in from King Kong, or sometimes the fact that you don’t even feel Kirk’s impact until that mid game. You know for a fact that Kelra again as a lone pedestal is worth so much for PH. Yeah, that Granger pick confidently into the first two picks for the red side for Onyx PH. That felt like a Kelra call. That felt like Onyx PH or Kelro just going, you know what, I got this. Uh, we could have benefited potentially maybe from a Beatrix pick that would have meant uh better early to mid, but no, Keller took it on his shoulders and he looked at the crowd to say, “Thank you.” I love what you said there cuz there’s a lot of players that can say, “Hey, I got this.” and you might second guess engaging behind them, but if Kelra tells you, “Let’s do this. I can win this.” They’re going to follow and that’s the super fam for you, right? And I think any one of them could make that call and they will go for it. And that is why I think there’s foricers always those moments like that where even when they’re losing, they can win a fight and put a game into their hands in a matter of seconds. For highlighting one vocal player confident to say, “I got this to his team.” We now have to have a conversation with a similar man is Kid Bomba from Team Spirit with Eterna. We’re backstage now, boys and girls with Kid Bomba. Kid Bomba, talk us through that. Are you okay? Is everything okay? Um, it’s very sad to lose like that, especially in the last game where we have a 10k gold lead and then I mean I don’t know I if I say something it’s like pointing fingers you know and it’s just I would say it’s just the team bad you know so we played bad and that’s it. I mean you said to deliver absolute cinema I think everyone really enjoyed that despite you know the results coming in right? Um, I guess so. Was a nice series, but still said we lost. Are there any key issues that maybe you want to talk about right now? What happened in that match? I’m not sure. The only thing that I noticed is that Ker played almost perfectly and shout out to him. Shout outs to Kalera for playing that match perfectly. You came into this almost every match. every match you came into this choosing on PH saying that they were the team that was less whole. Do you still stand with that statement? Yes, cuz for me Kellra did the difference and if one player is making the difference then that means the team has a problem. Okay. Is there any regrets choosing on VH now? Um, no because our choice was between Ony Philippines and Onik Indonesia and I think that I can freely talk about it now. We were able to beat Philippine Onyx Philippines on scrims often and against Indonesia, we never had like a winning scrim result. So for us, the choice was really simple and I think it was also visible from today’s games that it’s very winnable. So for me it was Kelra that made the difference and then also super friends on Lui his TPS were very annoying especially cuz he didn’t have any tier three towers anymore and also his Sadena completely won the whole early game. If that wouldn’t have happened we maybe would have had some chances and yeah in my opinion it’s just sad. Keep your hopes up kid Bomba. That was still an amazing performance. Do you have a message to all your fans out there because I know they’re waiting. Um, I’m so sorry that it wasn’t a win again. And I don’t know when, but I’m sure one day me and my team will be able to win something. And we’re waiting. We’re waiting. We’re anticipating because you we know that you guys got this and we’re so excited to see you in your next international tournament. Kid Bomba, once again, thank you so much for MSE. Thank you. We’re throwing it back to the studio. Not only is he the most entertaining, I think that interview just goes to show why Kid Bomba is one of the most beloved figures in our esports and why so many people from all over the world, not just in Southeast Asia, but in global MLBB are looking for and rooting for Team Spirit to eventually get that result that they’ve been hungering for since they made their explosive debut as a team when they were still deos vault back in the M5 world championship. ship. Now, let’s look at the Aramco power ranking to see how we’re fairing compared to what how we started with with day number one. I think it’s all looking exactly how we were expecting it to be, right, with the A tiers and S tier still going to be a little tough to kind of differentiate with such a fine line. But I don’t want to talk about the Aramco power rankings here. I want to talk about the fact that players like Kid Bomba, the fact that he’s from EECA, players like Pluto who get hate for being on an interview and saying their minds, and the fact that they are brave enough to keep on doing it even when it sucks. I respect the hell out of that. No more Dog Water fans out there. Only love for these players. Yeah, Kid Bomba. I think this is the reason why us at least as casters love this esports. you know, the the tears, the happiness, the cheers, all of it together. And we want players who speak their mind. That’s what makes this fun, right? That’s what makes this that’s what gives it high stakes, right? And without the the little bit of talk here and there, without the the sad moments, there would be no stakes to this. Um, so yeah, I definitely love it. Power rankings, it’s a vibe. This is the Aramco power of love here at the desk. I I think we might have to rebrand that moving forward here in the panel. But yeah, what a day. Uh fantastic results, fantastic games. The series between SRG and RRQ, the this series between Team Spirit and Oni Philippines absolutely delivered and it has been an honor. If you want to join us with all of these predictions and if you want to make your own power rankings or fantasy teams, fantasy.worldcup.com sportsworldcup.com if you want to join in with your predictions or you could also look for the app and download it through there. Before we say goodbye, I haven’t done this a while. I just want to get a final word from both of you gentlemen. Whether it’s an inspiring message or something funny, it’s up to you. What’s your final word of the day? Final word of the day. Hey, beautiful games today, beautiful series fans out there, please support your favorite players. give them the confidence to show their personality on the camera during these interviews. It’s up to you guys to make the difference. I love esports. I love MLBB. I think we all love this for multiple reasons. And uh it’s days like today where you have these amazing series, amazing players that uh we it’s why we’re here, right? It’s why we are a part of this. It’s not all about the money. It’s not all about anything like that. Of course, that’s a bonus, but it’s days like this where we get to enjoy these shows. uh that really keep us here. I can’t add to that anymore. Beautifully said. Thank you, Gideon Trex. 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