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Hello and welcome to episode 559 of the League Rundown. This is your 2025 LEC Spring Split Week 5 review and LTA North Split 2 Week 4 review. This episode is lovingly entitled get in. We're going on a road trip. I'm your host, Kangas and I'm joined by three esteemed co hosts. Up first we got Bickle. Oh.
[00:01:29] Speaker B: Oh God. I hadn't, I hadn't planned this far ahead.
[00:01:35] Speaker A: What do you want to like here? Let's try that again. Okay, you know, I'll give you a count in three, two, one. We got Bickle.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Hi everybody. I'm back after like a week off. I don't know a consistent schedule anymore.
[00:01:47] Speaker A: It's okay. Well, that's why we have. We've bolstered the strength of our, you know, roster of hosts here because it's been difficult to get everyone together. But happy to have you on as always. We also have joining us after a swift 2:0 with his team that he's playing on Badger.
[00:02:05] Speaker C: I, you know, I did not read the title of the episode. So when you said I did not realize that's where we were. I mean get a We're going shopping is just still an iconic line. So. Yeah, I feel that it is.
[00:02:18] Speaker A: Although I should change it. I don't think we should have bitch in the search algorithm for the podcast title. So I'm going to change it to be Loser. It should just be Loser. Should we do it?
[00:02:27] Speaker D: Should we do.
[00:02:29] Speaker C: Well, I mean it's get in loser, we're going shopping is the actual line.
[00:02:33] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:02:33] Speaker A: Oh, is it?
[00:02:34] Speaker C: I thought it's getting loser.
[00:02:36] Speaker D: We're going shopping. My sister is 10 years older than me. I would know.
[00:02:42] Speaker A: Well, you know what? I'm keeping it as is because I don't want to. I've gotten in trouble for trying to change the episode title after the fact too many times at this point. You've also heard his voice already. We're joined as well by Yanni. Welcome back, Yanni.
[00:02:54] Speaker D: Oh, thank you for having me. You know, two weeks in a row is kind of crazy.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: I know, I know. You also cover a lot of casting of different leagues. So happy to have you on yet again here.
But we also are recording a day later than usual. I was a little busy on our Tuesday evening also. Sorry to everybody who's wondering where last week's episode was. There's just some issues of getting it uploaded. So it was uploaded after games happened. If you want to go check that out, feel free. But at that point, I mean games had already happened. So you can, you know, judge us in the moment for our bad predictions because we got some, some pretty bad predictions last week. Yeah. But let's bring things to this past week and what happened. Global news going around here, Yanni. We don't have Mr. Mazelpl but you do also cover LPL English. So can you give me kind of high level spark notes? What's happening in the LPL right now, bro.
[00:03:51] Speaker D: It is crazy. All right, so webo gaming with this, with this star studded roster of Breathe Tien, Xiaohu, Light and Hung replaced Hung for a for a mid laner swapped to support Erha. They were 1 3. They are now 6 4. They have turned their fortunes around. Meanwhile BLG is a 4 and 5 in split 2. BLG lost 6 series all of last year and they've lost 5 in this split. It's the same BLG roster that was in the world finals. Been way night elk and on. It is absolutely mind boggling that this team is is hovering near the bottom. And meanwhile at the top Top Esports is the most inconsistent eight in one team we've ever seen. They've played some of the most games. They've played 25 individual games out of nine series which is actually crazy.
And yet they're 8 and 1 and anyone's legend is just kind of humming along at 7 and 2, you know, like. But like I think the big story is just BLG is just dropping games to teams like fpx. Right.
[00:05:01] Speaker A: Damn.
[00:05:02] Speaker D: To just touch on group nirvana real quick because this is, this is the cool group where the bottom two teams are eliminated for split three and they will not be playing any more games this year after the end of format. Yeah, after the end of split two it's confirmed that OMG and RNG Royal never give up will be the two teams that will not be coming back for split three. So they will play some of their last games.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: I think first week of May it it's Already confirmed.
[00:05:29] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah, it's already confirmed.
[00:05:30] Speaker A: Yeah. The way it falls, that's two, like, crazy legacy orgs.
[00:05:35] Speaker D: Absolutely. It's wild, man.
[00:05:37] Speaker A: Damn. And it looks like another top esports representing LPL at an international. If. If they are able to maintain.
[00:05:44] Speaker D: God, we hope not.
[00:05:45] Speaker A: But yeah, I. So I've been talking a little bit with Emily and Raz about that too, because those two also still follow LPL closely, and they are like, please don't be toppies.
[00:05:53] Speaker D: Yeah, for real. Give me ale. Give them.
I would love to see them at an international.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: Well, they will get two teams at msi, so we'll see what happens there. Thank you for the LPL update, though. We also have LCK going on, and since we have Pickle and Badger here, we can actually catch up on what's going on in the lck. Do either of you are super opinionated? Who wants to take it?
[00:06:15] Speaker C: Have you ever heard of this team called Nongshim Red Force? You know, the Noodle Boys? The Noodle Boys. What if I told you they are third place in the LCK right now and they just two one Dom one last night.
[00:06:27] Speaker A: I would not believe you.
[00:06:28] Speaker C: Well, unfortunately, that's the case at this point.
The. The. The lineup of King and Gideon Fisher, Jiwoo and Lehends is third place in the LCK right now over Damwon, with pretty much the same roster as last year, except Cywoo in the top lane, and of course, you know, the reigning world champions. T1 like, brother, what is going on?
[00:06:58] Speaker A: What can I tell you? Lehends never die.
[00:07:00] Speaker C: Lehends never die.
[00:07:01] Speaker A: Right? Yeah.
[00:07:03] Speaker C: In other news, Hanwha and Genji are still really good. So, like, one of those teams is gonna. Wait, is it one. It's one team per reason. Is it two teams per region at msi?
[00:07:14] Speaker A: Two teams. MSI is two teams. Okay.
[00:07:16] Speaker C: All right, never mind. Genji and Hanwha are gonna represent LCK at MSI this year.
[00:07:21] Speaker A: There we go. The only regions that will only have a singular representative is lta north and south, because technically, we're two.
[00:07:28] Speaker C: That's right. That's right.
[00:07:29] Speaker A: Both of our top seeds will go to represent the lta.
All right, cool. Bickle, any other fun stories in LCK that you want to highlight or else do you want to cover this next thing? Because we do have some sad news globally as well.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Yep. As for wrapping up the LCK, we've covered a lot of that. T1 after the whole chaos of the Gumayushi smash situation is back to using Guma USI ad Carry and as Badger said currently sit at the the middle of the table. It is very much Gen G and Hanma Life are just running this region right now.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: Damn. But and it's tough because like again that's such a rough situation for Guma to be in.
Do not envy that player for the optics right now on the team.
[00:08:10] Speaker B: But moving on to as you mentioned some sad news. We talked about T1 the current world champions. We have to talk about the Original World Champions Season 1 Fnatic this past week League of Legends did lose a legend as world champion. Shushe has passed away.
[00:08:30] Speaker A: Very young as well. Was he 36 I believe.
[00:08:33] Speaker C: Dude, cancer.
[00:08:35] Speaker A: Honestly that is very rough. Very sad to see. You know, like you said, historic player. This is well before my time. I I've actually never even watched the Season 1 World Championships. @ some point I'll need to go back and watch that but technically was the one of the first ones ever.
So go play some AP Alistair Midway.
Yeah.
Back when you was that also when you're playing Alistair Jungle or was that season two and three?
[00:09:04] Speaker C: That was the two and three.
[00:09:06] Speaker A: Okay. All right. Either way, it's so funny to think that Alistair was not always a support but tough to see a legend go. Thoughts go out to Shu Sui's family and loved ones. So yeah, bit of a bummer way to close out that. But we do have one other thing. Maybe good news could be more bummer news depending on your thoughts as a team. Liquid fan it is now reported by Sheep Esports that TL confirmed Yuji on the roster. They're gonna be running a six man roster with Umpty and Yuji both in the jungle. Badger, you are the resident TL fan. Are you excited about this or are you concerned about this? Where you landing?
[00:09:46] Speaker C: I I'm in the camp that I think unfortunately we're at the point that I I'm past Umpty. I I I'm really he's a player that I thought could thrive and he came over and I was so excited. I thought it was going to be great. He's going to be, he's going to be a great player in the region and then it's just he hasn't had the performances that we expected for him when he ever since like he came over. I mean yeah, they, they, they mean they did make it to worlds last year. They had one of the best performance. Right. Am I mixing years up? I the years blend together at this point they they've technically made it the furthest of all the NA teams. Right.
[00:10:36] Speaker A: Not at this past year. This past year. That was fly.
[00:10:39] Speaker C: Oh, that's right. That was fly. Okay. Yeah. No, the year before it was TL. Okay.
[00:10:42] Speaker D: And they did. And they did at the one tournament.
[00:10:48] Speaker A: The EWC. Yeah. Almost. Almost made finals.
[00:10:54] Speaker D: They played T1 to a 3:2 or a 2:1. I can't remember what the 2:1 were.
[00:11:01] Speaker A: Close to winning it. Yeah.
[00:11:02] Speaker D: Yeah. Yes. This was like good T1. This was like, yeah, not bad T1.
[00:11:06] Speaker A: Right now, this is a T1 that went on to win that tournament.
So, yeah, I think that UG should be an upgrade over Umpty. My concern, though, is that that's not the only pain point for TL right now.
Later to in the episode when we cover how the weekend went. But I, I got my eyes on Impact as well. Impact is really struggling right now, and that's just.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: What do you mean the guy that started playing in season two is struggling in season 15?
[00:11:41] Speaker A: Yeah, 15. Oh, my God. I didn't remember what season we were in. That's crazy.
[00:11:45] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:11:46] Speaker A: Yeah. Surprisingly. Maybe not surprisingly, but either way, it does look like he's past his prime. Various, you know.
Yeah, I, I, we'll talk about that later. For now, let's just wrap up the global news, though, because there's one other thing to cover here, and that is Fantasy Point updates. Shout out to everybody who is in the community fantasy group. I am still running the league right now at first place with 446 points. But behind me we have Pacific still in second place at 434 and a new member hopping into the top three. Shout out to Dave's or Dave saves 0707 with 428 points. I will say it right now though. No one's gonna catch me. I have too many points to spend and from this point on, I can just draft like all C9 members for the rest of for the rest of time. So good luck everybody.
But if you want to let us know how your fantasy is going, make sure to join our community Discord. A link is in the description wherever you are listening to the podcast. If you want to help support the pod, we also have a Patreon as well as a merch shop. You can find the links for that in the description as well. With that said, though, let's hop into LTA North. Week four review. We had the beginning of best of threes. Thank God. God, we actually have fearless back. No more best of ones. The positioning phase is over and we have two different groups of games or Groups of teams for games to happen each weekend, we got to see group A and B take to the Rift and group A standings at C9 and Team Liquid with one series wins a piece. Disguised and lion both lost theirs, whereas group B, we have Fly Quest and Dignitas and Shopify rebellion and 100 Thieves lost theirs. Yeah, my shop, or rather my 100 Thieves faith. It's not been paid enough. Oh God.
[00:13:35] Speaker D: It's tough. It's tough.
[00:13:37] Speaker A: Yeah, it is tough. It's. But I'm. I'm still hedging my bets where on this podcast I'm predicting against them and then on broadcast for them.
Pretty good. Yeah. Unfortunately I think that more eyes see the broadcast than ears hear this one, so. Losing some street cred, but that's beside the point. Talk about the games that happened. Kicking things off. Cloud 9 still looking like the dominant team in the league. Bickle, I want to hear from you. How did Cloud 9's weekend look with their.
Their two zero over disguise?
[00:14:17] Speaker B: Well, I.
I don't know what anybody expected.
[00:14:24] Speaker A: I think they kind of expected what we saw.
[00:14:27] Speaker C: Yeah, that's. That's about exactly what we expected.
[00:14:30] Speaker B: Ye.
[00:14:32] Speaker D: Hang on.
[00:14:33] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:14:34] Speaker D: Disguised in game two.
[00:14:38] Speaker C: Make the case.
[00:14:38] Speaker A: They were fighting back.
[00:14:40] Speaker D: So disguising game two wasn't terrible because Abadaga got absolutely massive on this rise. Right. And until 20 minutes, this game was like very competitive and you were in a position where if Disguised was a better team, they'd have a gold lead. But instead it was even. And then they threw it otacon, you know, so C9 took over the game, but then C9 counter threw and lost the fight for Soul Point. But then Disguised, they took that and they said let's go to Baron. And then they threw a baron.
And then C9 said, okay, we're slamming the door shut. Yeah. And Thanatos was insane. But like, you know, I. I have to like give Disguise their flowers. In a matchup that we expected to be a non competitive, they were at least pretty competitive for a large majority of game two.
[00:15:27] Speaker A: I gotta echo that as well. I think that they showed more than.
More than we expected and pushed Cloud nine way further than we thought they could. And I think that they're riding still some of that momentum from last weekend where they were able to beat TL and a reminder that this is a disguise that doesn't have a coach. They. They let go of mash. I guess we. We forgot to cover that in global news, but before the weekend, so.
[00:15:51] Speaker D: Oh my God. Wait, they're coachless.
[00:15:54] Speaker A: They let go of mash, and I'm hearing that they're also going to be replacing Abadaga in the mid lane at some point. That's the rumor going around. At least. That would also open up an import slot if they wanted to look at either AD Carry or Jungle, because there's been. There's a lot of people on this roster that are underperforming right now, man.
But scary.
[00:16:14] Speaker D: Jerry can't win with these cats.
[00:16:16] Speaker A: Yeah, the sad thing about Abadaka, like replacing him is that he just had like two pretty good games. His Yoda game versus Team Liquid was great and his Rise game here was like, okay, now keep in mind, he also did, you know, have the Rise game versus Shopify Rebellion last weekend. That was atrocious. Yeah. Or I guess two weekends ago at this point.
But yeah, expect changes to disguise. They had no coach. It was just the players drafting and they had their team manager standing in the coach position on. On stage.
But by this coming weekend, they should have some. Some changes confirmed and announced.
[00:16:51] Speaker C: Yeah, excellent.
[00:16:53] Speaker A: That's Cloud 9. It was a pretty easy start for them. Also in Group A, though, Team Liquid had their match against lion and now Badger. While I did say that impact looked rough, Team Liquid, we're still pretty swiftly able to take down the Lions.
[00:17:09] Speaker C: I mean, yeah, it's just. It's just there's the clear difference. There's the. There's the top four teams and then there's the bottom four teams in the league. It was just kind of exactly what you expect from Liquid vs Lion at this point. I mean, all credit to Lion. Like, this team is fun. Like, it's just a fun group to watch. They, they, they I I. Nocturne Zerith is a combo I did not expect to see in an LTA game.
[00:17:41] Speaker D: It was good.
[00:17:42] Speaker A: That was insane. Yan got like, just decimated every.
He.
[00:17:47] Speaker C: He just couldn't play the game. Like, I mean, the rest of his team was doing all right at that point, but it. Hey, we're just gonna send like a cruise missile at this one specific person every single fight. And if we kill Yan over and over again, that's our moral victory. Guys, let's do it. Maybe we tilt them for game two and then game two that happened and they looked to be doing all right, but yeah, that was such a fun. It was such a fun thing to watch. I mean, what, what, what else do you have to lose at this point? If you're one of those bottom four teams, like, you just kind of go for fun like that's yeah, you go for the upset sometimes.
[00:18:28] Speaker A: We've heard about the Xerath into Azir in the past. It has not actually had a lot of translated success to professional stage games, but apparently in scrims and also in solo queue, it's a big counter. But the bigger thing was like, yes, they killed Jan over and over again, but they never got onto apa. They never got onto Impact. Post laning phase. Impact had a really bad landing phase though. His two deaths this game were atrocious. He has empty go top side, they get Flash out of Licorice, Impact goes back in solo out of Licorice, dies solo. It's just like up his combo and Licorice being a level up. Then later he's bot lane and he's like trying to bait Licorice to stick around because he's got people coming to back him up. But he's at like 20% health and slice and dices in onto Licorice who again, just like one shots him as atrock. Both of those deaths were some of the stupidest deaths I've ever seen in a pro game. And I was like, if that was Fudge, I wouldn't be surprised. It's Impact though. Like you do not expect those mistakes. Luckily he gets a triple kill later in a fight and then is able to get back into the game and like it has a good game after that. But that landing phase was tough to watch.
[00:19:38] Speaker D: And like, no offense to Licorice but like, you know, like this isn't a bad player by any means, but against like a, a top tier, top laner, like you do not Finish the game 8, 2 and 2 impact, you get put in the dirt for your repeated.
[00:19:52] Speaker A: If that was, if that was Thanatos lion just wins that game because of House Fed Licorice got.
[00:19:57] Speaker D: Yeah, without a doubt. And that, that's what worries me about Team Liquid the most right now is that, you know, this is a team that we, we kind of put them and FlyQuest in the same group as like these are international hopes because of how well TL is coached and how good FlyQuest individual players are. And just like this is not the Team Liquid that we can like confidently send to any international. They will absolutely get rolled.
Like they will have competitive games against teams they should not have competitive games against. Yeah, and that's, that's my worry heading toward, you know, looking toward like MSI and stuff like that. I. I'd rather see like Flag west and Cloud 9 at this point in Cloud 9, who, you know, we just talked about. They've. They're hot right now. They are smoking right now.
[00:20:42] Speaker A: Yeah, Cloud 9's looking fantastic. I do want to shout out lion though for bringing out a lot of new picks. We saw multiple first time picks from them. They went Lucian bot lane with Melio in game two, which was pretty cool. Game one, they also played the Zeri Bot lane with the, the, the Zerith in the mid lane. So like they were pulling out unique picks and trying something new against Team Liquid. I'll credit them there. Team Liquid were just the better team and team fights, which is something that they, they have been, you know, better than the bottom four teams consistently with. Also I thought it was very funny their draft game too. Team Liquid drafted Galio and Pantheon.
Apa just like always pushes side lanes like one wave too far.
But this time it worked because they could just Pantheon galley Walt on top of him. Yeah.
[00:21:28] Speaker D: And he'll just. And he'll just never die. Like it's fantastic. And yeah, you know, I want to credit Line as well because you know lion in both games we're like, we're in there, right? Game one, not so much because they had, they had a lead right. And they just overplayed the sequence and Team Link would just punish them and the game ended like there was. We stuck around too long in the river. Then we had Audi land just like go into TL's jungle and get picked in the blink of an ITL got like four, four kills and. And that was it. But like if they don't further that play because they don't need to, could be a very different game. But. And then like game two, they had a strong mid game with their double 80 carries, but Apa on his signature Cassiopeia just refused to lose the game.
[00:22:19] Speaker A: Yeah, he had a hard carry team fight at the very end because like Hannah Lyons kind of up the Level 2 or Level 1 and Level 2 for Lucian Melio it was Electrocute Lucian and then Core like outplayed them level one and I got chunked and just could never stabilize the laning phase again. So that was tough because like if you mess up that early, it's going to be much harder for you to come back. But Licorice really stepped up and was actually doing a lot of damage that this was also the game that like Omti goes for the invade on Audi and like just barely kills him in the 1v1 in the jungle. That was like a really fun moment to go check out.
Busia was actually on the cast with Us and mentioned in game one at a point that like the the biscuits is basically Mundo Alt and Umti had biscuits in the jungle. I'd like use that to stay alive. Is very funny.
But yeah, that's a lot of time spent on Team Liquid Lion. A tldr. Well, I guess it's not TLDR because you already heard all of our breakdown, but we're at least good enough to to take the win.
[00:23:23] Speaker C: So they won the game. That's all that matters.
[00:23:25] Speaker A: They won the game of League of Legends. Now in group B we have Fly Quest and Dignitas sitting at top of the table. How long do you think that's gonna last for? Let's start with Fly Quest.
Yanni, talk to me about Fly Quest and how their series looked like against 100 Thieves.
[00:23:42] Speaker D: You know, it's really interesting because in game one it was not looking so hot for them. Right. You know, you'll take a look at the score lines afterward and be like, oh, you know this was, this was one sided. Not really. River was really, really strong. 100 Thieves had a really nice play. 10 minutes into the game they took six grubs. They took the first two dragons. They took the rift trail. They were absolutely beating Fly Quest like it was nobody's business. BTA Eagles versus Chiefs. Right. But then the third dragon came along and Quads.
Quad.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:24:18] Speaker D: The better Q mid Laner bro just shows up, gets that biggest zero and FlyQuest never looked back. And then in game two they absolutely shut down. Sniper dude was a non factor in the Gnar vs. Renekton matchup. Like that. That's how, that's how you do it. That's how you reverse a quote unquote counter matchup. Right. You know, because the just went crazy that game.
[00:24:45] Speaker A: Yeah, I absolutely agree.
Also shout out to Masu who only died one time in the entire series. He went 12, 1 and 15.
[00:24:56] Speaker C: I think it's a pretty good scoreline.
[00:24:57] Speaker D: That sounds right.
[00:24:59] Speaker A: Pretty good. Pretty good. We did give Player of the Series to Bwipo though for his, you know, impact in team fights. At least I'm pretty sure he's the one that won that. But I think there was a strong argument that Masu just kind of went under the radar and how well he was playing those team fights. So I, I know some people are like ah, it should have been Masu. It went to Bwipo. I think both of them had really strong arguments for why it could be.
But yeah, overall Fly Quests are looking like the clear favorites of Group B. Group A surprisingly, even though Cloud9 worst first seed going into it, it's like they didn't handle Disguised quite as well as FlyQuest handled 100 Thieves. Yes, game one was like 100 Thieves decimating early. But the fact that Fly Quests were just so like able to win that fight so easily I think against like a a stronger opponent than Disguised is is what makes me think the Fly Quest are like maybe still the the team to. To be afraid of in this region as well as especially in their group.
[00:26:00] Speaker C: Mm.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: So yeah, my 100 thief stocks are losing me a lot of money. I. I blame the tariffs.
[00:26:10] Speaker C: I still think they'll be second place in that group. That's. That's my. That's my clearly scorching hot take of. Of the evening is that.
[00:26:18] Speaker D: I think you pulled that one right off the stove.
[00:26:20] Speaker C: I just. I know I burned my hand while I was doing that. You know I just need to get some ice on it. But I think 100 thieves will be all right against Dignitas and Shopify Rebellion. Let me tell you.
[00:26:32] Speaker A: You know what? I. I believe you. I think. I think I actually believe you on that one. Well let's series that happened surprisingly maybe not actually looking at just like the favorites. If it Wasn't fly quest 100, this was the one that was expected to be closest and oh my God was it close. Dignitas versus Shopify Rebellion happened.
That was a series this past weekend I got to cast it which was a lot of fun.
[00:27:02] Speaker D: You're lucky though.
[00:27:03] Speaker A: Fun fact. After this best of three series, Shopify Rebellion and Dignitas like their matchup is all three of the longest games of the year and that includes technically an LTA history because we are a new league now.
God, this was a mess. Game one clinic from Shopify Rebellion and Contracts in particular. Contracts had one of the best Nafiri games we've probably ever seen in professional League of Legends. It seems like Nafiri really is turning into a Z Contracts pick and he just Shaden couldn't do anything in this game. It was just like a shop Fire Belly kind of controlling the game from the or. Yeah. Controlling the pace of the game from the beginning and not having a lot of mess up moments other than losing first blood to Dig. But then for the rest of the series. Oh my God it got very sloppy.
Game two should have been a win like that. It should. The series should have been over right there. But freaking Shaden Kaney just refusing to lose mid to late game team fights. And I think Isles in Particular on the Alistair having like some of the most clutch team fight engages that we've seen in a while. There's one fight around the bear and he gets like three multi champ pulverizes in a row. Like he starts it, he gets another one, then like flashes and gets another one. It's like, oh, my God. He's just on course Cooldown just like controlling the pace of this fight. So even though Shopify got the earlier lead, they still lost that one long bar and burner of a game. This one was like 43 minutes.
[00:28:44] Speaker D: 43.
[00:28:44] Speaker A: And then the. The last game was 44. It went even longer and this one was like nothing happening for a really long freaking time.
Until eventually kind of Dignitas's composition just overtook shop Fire rebellions. And also. Oh, wait, no, no, this. This wasn't the one. It was game two. Game two was the one. I should have been able to close it out, but God damn, Fudge this. Give this man a breathalyzer. Get this guy a goddamn drug test.
[00:29:14] Speaker D: He had.
[00:29:15] Speaker A: He had the Seekers arm guard. They're pushing mid. He just hit Seekers arm guard in mid lane. And it's like, oh, what the hell? Why did he go into stasis? And then it's like, okay, it's fine. He resets, gets the Zhonyas. Maybe it was just for fun. Maybe it was for the memes because, like, yo, I'm gonna waste it. And it doesn't matter because I get the Zonies right after. Then they're setting up Baron and he hits Zhonyas like, what are you doing, dude?
This guy gets paid to play professionally.
[00:29:45] Speaker D: Jensen wish he had those skills.
[00:29:48] Speaker A: Oh, my God. The first one didn't matter. The second one absolutely did that. He didn't have the Zonias for then, like controlling the setup and they weren't able to fight. They kind of had to wait a while.
That broke me, that. That one. That broke me.
[00:30:02] Speaker C: Yeah, just fun to watch, honestly. Just a reminder that pro players are human as well.
[00:30:10] Speaker D: Just I suppose maybe not that guy.
[00:30:14] Speaker A: And maybe Fudge had bets against his own team during this one, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah. Hey, you can't prove he didn't. So I definitely think that that is the other than impact solo deaths that he had and then was able to turn it around. That was the most egregious, like, individual player play that we saw this past weekend. So. Fudge, you gotta clean it up, man. His game three on the Scion did not look particularly inspiring either.
He had a couple of fights where his target selection was just like, really odd. He's just like trying to lock down a blitz crank and do other stuff like that. That just felt weird. So Dignitas gotta win. Let's go, baby.
[00:30:56] Speaker D: Can we talk about that third game and how Serdy finally made his mark on an individual game?
[00:31:07] Speaker A: Let's talk about it. Serdy went five one and five on the Aatrox. It was incredible. Like, what he was able to do in Lane and then also in team fights. I'm happy they bring it up.
[00:31:16] Speaker D: His team fights were crazy, man. That flank TP at the Baron just absolutely put them in front. They're up 8k after that. It's just such a good long TP flank. They have no vision and he just shows up.
But, you know, credit to Shopify, right? They stall out the game and there's a second Baron coming up and Serdy gets it done again. He goes through that wall that's like right in front of the Baron pit, right near the blue buff. He just goes right through that wall and splits up the fight completely. Gets on the back line. He doesn't immediately get any kills, but he just forces Shopify into full retreat mode because he chunks out some carries. And then Dignitas get a clean ace off of that. Like, that was the best that I have seen Serdy play all year. And I'm really happy that this guy's starting to, you know, maybe not starting to. He's got to do it again. But he finally had a signature game for himself in the lti and it's.
[00:32:14] Speaker A: Somebody that we've been hyping up for a while. So it's tough to see how much he struggled. It feels really good to see him have a great performance. Also reminder that this game started. Game three started with B Voice Sayos getting two kills. Bot Lane, because they outplay. B Boy, is able to hit the wave and hit level 2 despite sales getting like rocket grabbed by Isles on the blitzcrank. And they don't get another kill for the rest of the game like B Voice. That's just an odd factor for the rest of it. So, yeah, that's crazy. So Dignitas on the board. Shopify Rebellion, unfortunately still struggling heavily right now. We'll see if they can and turn their fortunes around. My series to watch from the weekend is absolutely digging Toss versus Shopify Rebellion. I think it's just from an entertainment standpoint, great gameplay. There's a lot of moments you'll go, what the. Which I always find fun. But do we have Any other series that you recommend people check out if they have the time.
I feel like it was kind of a one sided weekend.
[00:33:14] Speaker C: It was very.
[00:33:16] Speaker B: It was extremely one sided.
[00:33:18] Speaker D: I think the other one. So like here's the problem, right? I actually would say Team Liquid versus Lion for the second one because even though like Fly Quest Hundred Thieves game one was like went one way and then went the other, I mean game two, like fly quest just beat the tar out of 100 thieves. Like they weren't even close. At least in Team Liquid vs Lion. Like both games were competitive to a point.
[00:33:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:33:41] Speaker D: Like back and forth. So if I had to choose the second one, it would be that one. If you want to watch, watch some of the best players in the LTA pick fly quest hundred thieves. It's okay.
[00:33:51] Speaker A: Yeah. Game one, flight quest 100 thieves is fun. Game two of C9DSG also we talked about it's kind of fun. So that one is pretty fun too check out too.
[00:33:59] Speaker D: Game one is bad. It's. It's. You know, I. Yeah, because that one was right. Xu had a really, really rough game against. Against Blabber who was on Sejuani.
[00:34:07] Speaker A: I mean clearly out jungled. But that brings us to this coming weekend and predictions. LTA north is going pretty fast here because we only have four series a weekend events to cover. So predictions are we have the matchups starting off in group B. Fly Quest vs Shopify Rebellions. FlyQuest to show their dominance over under these. Shopify Rebellion really struggled against Dignitas. We all have fly quest 2o. I think that kind of speaks for itself. But then going back to group A, we have Team Liquid disguised now you all have Team Liquid 2. 0. I have Team Liquid 2. 1. I actually think that disguised are good for a game based on what they showed versus C9 and also how bad specifically Impact has looked. I actually think Castle can crush Impact in lane. Castles had a couple of rough lane phases, but I think that he'll get one really good one if. Especially if it's a good matchup versus Impact. And that can just snowball into a disguised one.
[00:35:03] Speaker D: So that's valid.
[00:35:04] Speaker C: Yeah, that's fair.
[00:35:08] Speaker A: Also weirdly enough, yawn. I still think he's a really good AD carry hit his stats this year and I know like I never want to put too much like weight on stats. They have not been great for an AD carry. Like his damage percentage and damage per minute some of the lowest in the league right now. I think he actually is last place in damage per minute right now. Which is like how did that happen? Like what, what's going on? They're still winning games but like Yan just isn't doing as much in those wins.
So I, I feel like usually I would say oh yeah, just blows out Scary Jerry, no contest. But because he hasn't been doing as much in games, I think that like DSG can win through top lane at least a game. T Liquid should still take the series.
[00:35:52] Speaker D: Forgive me if I'm wrong, he's not skirmishing a whole lot early on in the games. Right? Like as far as I've seen.
[00:35:57] Speaker A: No. Yeah.
[00:35:58] Speaker D: So I think that's gonna drag his numbers down a little bit. I mean at least when it comes to DPM and like maybe your damage percentage because like you take a look at a guy like APA and like even impact is like always fighting. Those guys are always fighting. Or APA is always on like a poke oriented champion where he'll get like a lot of lane damage out whereas like Yawn won't. So like maybe that's skewing it. I'd have to actually go like take a hard look. And to be honest, I'm a play by play caster. I'm not. I'm not taking a hard look at that. That's the color casters.
[00:36:26] Speaker A: I think it's a little bit of twofold. Team Liquid up the fastest game time average. So the longer a game goes, the higher damage permitted an ad carry typically because late game you're doing more damage. No, I know, right? It's crazy. Think about it. If you're five items you're gonna really ramp up that damage per minute.
[00:36:42] Speaker D: I'll take my Thorns blade.
[00:36:44] Speaker A: Also there's games like the the lion game one where Yan was just hard targeted. So he's just gray screen half the game.
So you know it can be a lot of factors that contribute to that. But in general we just haven't seen that same. Yawn is solo carrying Team Liquid to wins that we did in split one one. So I suppose.
But day two on Sunday we have C9 versus Lion kicking things off from group A. We all have C9 with a two zero. Despite lion improving week over week, C9 are still C9 and then closing things out. 100 Thieves versus Dignitas. We all have 100 Thieves two zero. God, we just really have some lopsided matchups.
[00:37:23] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:37:23] Speaker A: This weekend. That's gonna be tough.
[00:37:26] Speaker B: Four versus bottom four.
[00:37:28] Speaker A: Yeah. Into across the board which a reminder we're still keeping track of from the broadcast side and only one Bottom four team has picked up a single game win against the top four team that was still disguised versus team Liquid. Another reason why I have them taken a game in their series because we already saw them beat TL once and again. It was through their top TL stop lane really struggling.
[00:37:51] Speaker D: So TL revenge game.
[00:37:53] Speaker A: TL revenge game deal revenge tour for sure. But there we have it. That's LTA North. That was pretty fast. Wow. Now it's time to hop across the the pond and take a look at a region that had thankfully, because LTA north had a couple of stinkers, a region had some bangers, we had lec. If you did not check out LEC games this weekend, highly recommend that you fix that because first off, it was the first road trip. There's gonna be two road trips also two weeks from now. The the last week of regular season will be in France hosted by Casey. This last one was hosted by Koi.
And that live crowd of 10,000 fans was incredible.
The tech delays were not. Those sucked.
The crowd still brought the energy and was awesome. And oh my God, we had a lot of upsets. We're not gonna talk about KC because they didn't even play this weekend. They still technically, technically holding first place. But we will talk about Fnatic. Yanni, kick us off. How did Fnatic's weekend look playing live in front of the crowd?
[00:39:00] Speaker D: Oh man. Dude, this was. This was awesome. Really. So they played against Koi and you know, the craziness started right away from Game 1, right when Oscar and picked Warwick top and El Yoya got really, really big at the start of the game.
And you know, it's crazy because he got so big and then at 20 minutes this game is dead even. And then Fnatic just wins a fight upset just like goes crazy. And then like on the other side, Supa hits a blast plant and kills his teammates.
[00:39:39] Speaker A: He hits the blast pant and then everyone bounces into the Talia Seismic or the. The unraveled Earth is like, oh no.
[00:39:47] Speaker D: Yup. And then the fanatics in the driver's seat from there. But you asked me how the weekend was. They end up losing this series even though they won that first game. Right. Eliol got another early lead. This time it was on Sejuani. You know, Mirror wins, winning his 1v1s up top. You know, Koi have a nice little lead at 60 minutes and then like Jojo starts a really, really good fight. They have a nice sequence where that you get two kills. They take top tier two with Herald then they get otacon and get a little. And then a kill and take bots here too. And Fnatic was too far behind Oscar and just goes for a flank tp, the timing was so bad. Coy get some kills, take the Baron, take two mid turrets, game's over.
And then in game three, Fnatic came out swinging. Razork got two kills, Oscar Renan got a kill. And then the game was just kind of boring for a while. Humanoid picked up a kill here and there. Mirwen on Gwen gotta kill here and there. And then at 28 minutes, when fanatics on Soul Point, they lose the mid fight. Eliol and Meerwyn went insane to just like keep this one salvaged. So like, big credit to them because yeah, that fight would have like this, this game would have been over at that point.
So, you know, Fnatica. Then on the ensuing, once teams reset, get a pick, start the Baron, take it, lose two members. Koi gets the next three Drakes. They even it up. Like this game starts getting really, really wild at this point where it's like, oh, we have one pick here, one pick there. We're gonna reset, we're gonna take the Baron. Oh, we're gonna defend against the Baron. And oh, you know, we're gonna take infernal souls. Koi. Right? And then like, but then, but no, I'm sorry. Fanatic infernal soul. I'm sorry.
[00:41:40] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:41:41] Speaker D: And like the game seems impossible. Like a Merewin just goes in dry on Gwen, right? And gets it. Gets a kill by just dashing forward with like no cc, manages to pick off Mickey X, right? And it's like, okay, like, it's all right.
[00:41:55] Speaker A: They're.
[00:41:55] Speaker D: They're starting to gain some control. You get the map control, you get Baron. Then Elder comes up. Jojo's dead for this Baron fight or this Elder fight. A super super steals the elder, he secures the Elder.
[00:42:07] Speaker A: That's just one random auto, just gets it.
[00:42:10] Speaker D: It's so crazy. And like, this is so crazy. Coyote is getting two inhibitors off of it, by the way. This is a 53 minute banger. And then Koi mispositioned themselves to fanatics all in their base and they can't end. And then, dude.
[00:42:25] Speaker A: And then that Nexus was literally one auto away from humanoid flashes towards the the fountain and then gets rooted up and then is like closer to Meerwyn who then takes him out. It's like if a humanoid flashes up instead of down, they win the game. And that is the reason that like this with the way Of Koi Insane.
[00:42:47] Speaker D: One auto attack away from killing the Nexus with.
[00:42:49] Speaker A: Yeah, I even saw people on Twitter being like, because he teleported in. It's like if he had just sold boots and picked up up Lich Bane, he wins. Like, like that's one of those moments where he had the gold in the inventory. Because it was such a long game that like humanoid literally just kind of into the very end. It's like, oh no.
[00:43:08] Speaker D: Couldn't get it across the finish line. Fumbled the bag at the one yard line.
[00:43:11] Speaker B: The fact that this is a stadium game, you hear the crowd erupt as soon as they don't kill the Nexus because Koi is the home team, in a sense, the place goes wild.
[00:43:26] Speaker D: So as far as before, before we really get into like other series, as far as regular season series go, this has to be like one of the greatest ones ever, right?
[00:43:37] Speaker A: I think the crowd made it so. But also that end of game three made it so like, what a crazy way to close out the best of three that's hosted for the first time ever on one of these road shows. But yeah, I would definitely rank it up there. I think it's incredible.
You hear crowds pop like that for playoff finals.
[00:43:58] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:44:00] Speaker A: Like, but for a regular season game, that was crazy. So. Yeah. And then a Fnatic did at least have a good end of their weekend. They played G2, the El Classico, and that one did go their way.
[00:44:12] Speaker D: Yeah, it did, right? I mean, it's crazy because in game one, like, it was bad. Like fanatics bad. Bad dive. Broken blade 5v1 and go one for one like that.
[00:44:26] Speaker A: Dude, Broken Blade had a.
[00:44:27] Speaker D: That's awesome.
[00:44:28] Speaker A: Crazy good game one.
[00:44:29] Speaker D: Oh yeah, he played so good. I mean, pre 10 minutes. This is an absolute route. Like 10 and a half minutes in G2, take the first turret. They're up three and a half thousand gold at 10 minutes and 30 seconds into the game. If you're in flux queue, this is an immediate ff. One of your friends is probably disconnecting from the game because they're like, get me the out of here. But it was. It was that bad. Like, I'm so. I'm so surprised that Fnatic cleansed that out of their system because I mean, in game two, like, it's kind of crazy how this ended up happening, but like Han, Solomon Labrov win a 2v2 against Oscar and Mickey X. So your Kaiser gets a lead and. And then all of a sudden Fnatic just start winning. Like they win a fight top and bottom at the same time they win another fight top side. And then like less than 20 minutes in, they're up like 5k gold and they're just winning these fights. Mickey X is going crazy on Nico. They take a really quick baron at like 26 minutes and then immediately win a fight and just end this game. And then in game three, Mickey X sets the tone.
[00:45:43] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I even think in game two he did like Mickey. That was some of the best Nico engages I've ever seen in game two.
[00:45:51] Speaker D: So Mickey, I think the top. The top lane one where they go three for nothing and he gets two people with his pot blossom. But then the tangle Barbs gets all three of them.
[00:46:00] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:46:00] Speaker D: Afterward is just like oh so crazy. But game three, the tone setter by flashing on top of this misfortune, forcing the Flash out of Han sama and then predicting that Flash with the hook. It was just. That's how you knew. It's like, oh, Fnatic is like not losing this game. Razor immediately gets a kill and just starts making a ton of plays. Upset gets huge. And. And pretty much Fnatic is winning every fight. Two for one. They're just two for wanting every single fight. Every single fight. Credit to G2 for keeping themselves in it. But when it comes to sole point, finally G2 get their fight layering Zyra Ultimate, Miss Fortune Ultimate. They're just a little too far behind. They don't actually get any kills. They get them down like 200hp. Fnatic win the fight, take the soul, take the Baron, take the inhib, get a pick mid take the game. It was real domination from from start to finish. And they just, just were able to outlast G2 in that third game. And you know, we'll talk about it a little bit, but G2 not looking freaking two, dude.
[00:47:03] Speaker C: Two.
[00:47:06] Speaker A: That's a good one. It's going I. Caps was trying a lot of stuff mid lane. They. They worked with the Jace. But then that Gragas in game three just wasn't enough. Like they just didn't have damage with Han, Saba and Skumon falling so far behind and Broken Blade also falling so far behind. It's like. Like Caps is playing all right. But it was just kind of over at that point. Especially with Humanoid on the A soul. That was a really fun counter pick that he pulled out yet again. So Fnatic stepped up and yet again proved they can they can be G2 in a regular season game when it doesn't matter.
Can they. Can they take them down in playoffs. Now it's gonna be the question that is yet to be answered. But overall, middling weekend for Fnatic. One win, one loss, but they still are at the top of the table at 5 and 2 series score.
We talked a little bit about Koi's weekend with Fnatic, but they also had a series against GX Bickle. Talk to me about the M. Koi roster that was hosting as well this past weekend that was able to at least close it out with a win. Yeah, two wins. Yeah, yeah. They, they. They had a really good weekend.
[00:48:15] Speaker B: Yokoi was really feeling themselves this weekend being the home team and they were able to bring both series home. Both competitive two ones, but they were able to clean it out. We've talked about the chaos that was that Fnatic series with the absolutely historic game ender there. But then they played against Giant X, which coming in we thought was going to be rather one sided. And watching game one, it was rather one sided.
Game two though was a different story as it was also kind of one sided. Just the other way.
[00:48:50] Speaker D: It was bad. It was bad.
[00:48:53] Speaker A: Dude. Isma's odd. Goddamn Nidalee. Like, how is Nidalee winning games in 2025? I don't understand because Nidalee is definitely Jackie's Noah, but still like, because Nidalee's.
[00:49:06] Speaker D: Healing these AD carries and giving them like a billion attack speed.
[00:49:12] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:49:13] Speaker D: And JoJo Pugh went 05. Like tough dude.
[00:49:18] Speaker A: Sometimes JoJo has these games.
[00:49:20] Speaker D: But yo, JoJo went crazy this series.
[00:49:24] Speaker C: JoJo in two different directions. JoJo Pion weekend if I've ever seen one before.
[00:49:28] Speaker D: Oh yeah. Oh yeah, it was.
[00:49:31] Speaker A: And that led into game three, of course, which was the. The a soul. He was like humanoid. Hold my beer. We're gonna compete for this. Who's got the better a soul? And yeah, JoJo looked pretty good, all things considered. I think McCoy are still the least like consistent of the top teams actually. Maybe even KC as well. Like neither of these teams close out series particularly clean.
I don't. Has McCoy even gotten a 2 0? I don't think they have. I think that they've lost a game in every single series that they've played.
[00:50:03] Speaker D: Seven series and they've played 18 games games. So they had to have a couple of. That didn't go. That didn't go all three home.
[00:50:13] Speaker A: Okay, maybe there, but either way it's still looking like I want to see cleaner wins from them, honestly, cleaner games from JoJo Pune in particular. But Supa, outside of that one, you know Quirky mishap that happened in the previous series where he autos the blast cone. I think has been playing very well and, and Merwin got Merced a little bit in that first series, but he's still playing pretty well and is playing more meta than we see Merwin do a lot of times other than like Aurora Top is is played. We've seen that. But like Rumble and Bessa are like two of his most picked champions this weekend.
So he's, he's not pulling out the crazy stuff. He's just playing standard meta. And hey, it's working. Overall for mcoid, they did pick up two wins in front of the home crowd.
So shout out to Koi.
That brings us to.
Let's just close out the teams that played in front of the audience the weekend. We have G2 as well. Badger, we already talked about their first series. Oh God. Talk to me about their second series versus at GX. And just in general where we think G2 stands right now after a rough weekend.
[00:51:21] Speaker C: I, I think the big thing for G2 is, I mean we joked about it during the pre show but I, I think G2 in spring needs to be studied because for some reason leading into msi this team just never is like hitting the ground running. It just feels like they're you know, getting into the kitchen and cooking a little bit too much at times. Because you figure G2 versus GX. GX is kind of a bottom of the barrel team. Like you would think, oh, G2 is going to come in. They're going to play really well. They're going to come in on Spanish soil and beat a Spanish organization. But no, like WAD had a really good game in game one. CAPS was kind of running it. Jackie's the solo lanes of GX were controlling game one. I mean then G2 had the classic. All right, we lost game one. More need to kind of lock in at this point guys and then take care of business from there. And then game three just no Jackie's. Jackie's had a game where it was the potential of Jackies like I guess.
[00:52:36] Speaker A: I guess they roll outside of when he dies solo to Caps under midlife isn't in auto range.
[00:52:45] Speaker C: You know that's the, that's the, it's the D20 effect of having Jackie and Jackie's and Noah as your carries of just like you could just roll ones at times. You never know when that's gonna happen.
[00:52:59] Speaker A: That was very funny. He did have a really good later play where he like gets over the walls, throws on Chaos storm pushes all G2 off and then like Zhonya's caps is old and that was like that. That was all that YouTube could have done. If they pick or Jackie's there, maybe they, they win it. But then like everyone else is able to chase him down and just run them out. I think that silver G2, what we're seeing is if Caps can't hard carry and Broken Blade has a rough game, it's just kind of like a cascading effect. Like I think, I think there's kind of like a, a five step process here where Labrov looks bad when Skumon looks bad. But it doesn't matter if Broken Blade looks good. But if Broken Blade looks bad, then Caps has to hard carry. And if Caps can't hard carry, G2 loses.
Yeah, yeah, it's a, it's an odd little flowchart that I've noticed with G2.
[00:53:52] Speaker C: So the real question is, was the Skewmon Labrov move worth it? At this point I.
I'm still indifferent about if those two are actually upgrades to this team.
[00:54:09] Speaker D: That's a good question. I don't know because like you just chalk this up to having a bad weekend, right? Like, yeah, these weren't competitive series. They did, they did go all three. Obviously losing the Giant X is a bad look, but like you know, G2 coming into this weekend was what, 3 and 1 and 6 and 3 overall in game score. Like this could just end up being a blip. But this game three was.
This game three gives me concern.
[00:54:38] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:54:38] Speaker A: Yeah, they threw a little bit like they had a decent. A little bit. Broken Blade was not able to hang in that side lane.
[00:54:47] Speaker D: In Phase Kangas, Giant X activated their spell card brain control on G2. Yes, brother. Because the. The 18 minutes G2's on Soul Point, CAPS is 40 and Orianna, no way they can lose. Noah manages to secure the dragon. Right. And for some reason G2 after that where they lost the dragon hadn't even fight. They fight over nothing and they lose the fight. And then when Baron comes up, they're like, guys, we could just do Baron. And June's just like, hi, I'm Poppy. Bye Scumond. Yeah, and there was no reason that they had to do that. They still had a lead. I just don't understand why they did that.
[00:55:34] Speaker A: Yeah, they over forced a lot of things. I have heard that G2 were feeling a little under the weather that weekend with the travels too.
[00:55:42] Speaker D: If that should happen to me, who.
[00:55:45] Speaker A: Knows how much of it was that but either way, G2 cause for concern. I'm not hitting alarm bells, but cause for concern. If they can turn things around. Rest of their strength of schedule, they got one weekend here in the LEC in Berlin and then they got. Or, sorry, one more series in Berlin and then two more in France. One of those is against KC with the KC home crowd. So that one's gonna be very interesting.
[00:56:07] Speaker D: Banger alert.
[00:56:08] Speaker A: Banger alert indeed. We already talked about GX through the lens of G2 and Koi, so props to them for at least picking up that win versus G2. It was cool to see them in front of their home crowd. Tag technically as well. But then there were two other series that happened on Monday. We got to see Team Heretics versus sk, and we got to see Vitality versus BDS Pickle. There's not a ton to cover with Team Heretics sk, but Team Heretics was able to pick up the win. It was a Swift 2. 0. So any kind of, like, big thoughts or, like, overarching thoughts on if that gives extra stocks for them? Because technically they're in a top four position right now.
[00:56:47] Speaker B: They're not a top four team, but they're. They're solidly competing for that top six. And unfortunately, I think this tells us what we already knew.
SK is just not that good.
[00:57:03] Speaker A: I hate it, man. I want Pukata and Kadui to do well. Like, after that week one win against.
[00:57:08] Speaker B: Fnatic was so exciting, but I think that was just Fnatic being really bad.
[00:57:15] Speaker A: Yeah. And I personally, I still feel like Carlson should be one of the worst top laners in the league. And the fact that he looked that good against gnx, I was like, oh, no.
Oh.
So, yeah, I mean, Team Heretics at least got the win, but I. I agree that I don't think that they're actually going to be competing for a top spot. It really does feel like it's. It's gonna be like Casey Fanatic Coy G2 competing for the two MSI spots. In my mind, maybe BDS have a chance as well as they lost to Vitalities. Actually, maybe not.
That was a little surprising. I definitely also didn't expect that kind of performance from Knack Naco.
But also I didn't really understand the drafting of bds. Like, when you have a player like Ice, I want to see Ice on Hard. Giga carries game one. They tried a really weird thing where they went like, full front to back team fight, but Ice on Ash with a pantheon, neither of those things scale particularly well. And then like Nukes on Azir but then they have the. The Oran Seraphine. So I'm like, are we trying to like look for picks with Ash Pantheon? Are we trying to like team fight with the or Nazir Seraphine? Like I was quite sure what the game plan was there.
Then they were able to win the next one. Hey, guess what? Ice is on a carry that you can hard carry on with Corki.
And then game three rolls around and despite Ice getting ahead on the Averis and Nuke doing pretty well on the Tristana, they just got overconfident. They got like way too cocky and did not respect Knack Naco on the Aatrex. We've seen a lot of really cool Aatrox flanks this past weekend between LTA north and Lec. And yeah, Team Vitality was able to pull that one out of their ass. So I still think that BDS like should be the better team. They should have won this series. They just got overconfident and did not respect their opponents.
Oh. So yeah, that was. That was Lec. There we go. A lot of fun games this past weekend. Again, shout out to the Spanish crowd. That was incredible. Amazing stuff from them. My series to watch. I think G2 Fanatic was again, it's classic. I. I think that you should check it out. Even though G2 lost, if you're a fanatic fan, hey, good for you. And I also thought Koi Fanatic was pretty fun. Does anybody else have other shouts that they want for series to watch from last weekend?
[00:59:37] Speaker D: I think you hit the nail on the head.
[00:59:39] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:59:40] Speaker A: Sweet. I love it when everyone agrees with me. Let's go.
Let's talk about this coming weekend. Then we got a couple predictions to get through before closing out the pod. Fnatic vs BDS kicks things off and after BDS's loss to Vitality, we all have FNATIC taking it. I still think BDS is good for a game. I still have a lot of faith in Ice and Nuke as carries, but FNATIC should still take him it. Casey versus Rogue. Oh my God. Rogue are getting slaughtered. It's the top team versus the bottom team. Neither of these guys played last weekend, but expectation is still. Casey takes this. Then we have GX versus BDS on Sunday.
Most of us think BDS a 2:1, but Yanni has GX with a 2:1. Yanni, any big reason why you have GX taking it?
[01:00:22] Speaker D: You know what? I think GX are going to be riding a big high.
[01:00:25] Speaker C: Yeah. Last weekend momentum could play A big part of this.
[01:00:29] Speaker D: Oh, yeah. And we expect BDS to lose. And, you know, you have them taking a game, but I have them getting 2 owed by Fnatic. Honestly, pretty soundly. I think Fnatic still looks really, really good.
And because Fnatic was so close to having a 2.0weekend. Right.
So that's why I'm just like. Yeah, I think. I think Giant X can absolutely win the series, especially since you guys all think it'll be 2. One for BDS, which already means the series is close anyway.
[01:00:55] Speaker A: Yeah, I. I definitely think this one could go either way again. I just. Man, when Ice and Nuke are, like, playing at their. At their highest potential, they're so good. So have some faith in them. G2 Vitality afterwards. You all have G2 like sheep Vitality. Stake this one, baby. Let's go. Two one. G2 are washed. Caps is craps again. No, this. There's no way Vitality should win this. But I. I put it mostly for the memes, but if G2 are recovered from their travel sickness, there's no reason they should lose. But they're gonna be pissed. I think it's funny if they have a losing streak, so I'm gonna go Vitality.
[01:01:34] Speaker D: They're gonna be angry this weekend.
[01:01:36] Speaker A: Angie. G2 G O2, G03, maybe two. Then on Monday, we got two more series to close things off. It's Team Heretics versus Fnatic. We all have Fnatic taking a 2. 0, and then SK we all have M. Koi taking it. Badger. I don't see a series score.
[01:01:53] Speaker C: It's 2. 0. Yeah, I. I feel like it's indicative at this point that I don't need to. To. To put, like, a series score on a Koi versus SK game. But, like, yeah, let me just.
[01:02:05] Speaker A: Yeah, SK can get one. But. Yeah, again, JoJo always has a bad game game. So you're right.
[01:02:14] Speaker C: It could be. He's got to have one bad game every weekend. And since that's the only series. Yeah, that's the only series they play.
[01:02:21] Speaker A: It's got to be in that series.
[01:02:23] Speaker C: Yeah, it's got to be one.
[01:02:24] Speaker D: Oh, no.
[01:02:25] Speaker C: Oh, no. We're mathing it out.
[01:02:28] Speaker A: That's our expectations for the weekend. We're not all in agreement, but mostly in agreement on these series, but reminder that we had terrible prediction scores for this past weekend. A lot of that just being G2 underperforming. So let us know your thoughts if you agree or disagree heavily with any of our takes in the community. Discord. Or reminder. You can find a link in the description wherever you are listening. But Bickle, if somebody listening had the time and the interest to leave a review, how many stars do you think they should leave us?
[01:03:02] Speaker B: They should leave us the number of wins that both K Corp and Fnatic currently possess in the lec.
[01:03:10] Speaker A: Oh, and.
[01:03:11] Speaker D: And how. How many is that?
[01:03:12] Speaker A: I actually, I'm really bad at reading.
[01:03:14] Speaker B: Well, you see, Kcorp didn't play this weekend and Fnatic went one and one. And that means they're both currently sitting with five wins.
[01:03:22] Speaker A: A. Okay, so five stars. That's what I'm hearing.
[01:03:26] Speaker B: Absolutely beautiful.
[01:03:28] Speaker A: If you'd leave a five star review, everybody, wherever you are listening, it really helps us get noticed more and continue to bring you more and more League of Legends content. Again, apologies for the last week's episode. Going out a little late, this one. Cross your fingers, everybody. Knock on wood. Should go out on time. I will not be on the LTA this coming weekend because I'm going to be traveling for a Yu Gi OH tournament. But make sure to still support the NA broadcast and also go support LPL Unofficial Yanni. You can catch him on there. Badger. What? What league are you playing in? Can we plug that one? I don't.
[01:04:01] Speaker C: It's Blue Otter League. Plat League.
[01:04:05] Speaker A: Blue Otter League? Plat League? Is that just Blue Otter 2 on Twitch?
[01:04:09] Speaker C: I think it's like Blue Water 1 whenever they. Okay, but my team hasn't been streamed yet all season, so when they are.
[01:04:16] Speaker A: Streamed, throw it in the discord.
[01:04:17] Speaker C: I will go watch you do that, my boosted support ass. Playing the game?
[01:04:25] Speaker A: Hell yeah. Hell yeah. But still happy that you're able to hop on tonight despite having games earlier. Thank you everybody for listening. Listening. If you can walk away with one message after all of this, it's a We love you and we'll see you next time.
[01:04:39] Speaker B: Peace.
[01:04:39] Speaker C: Bye everyone.
[01:05:22] Speaker A: Sa.
