AST vs. G2 | 2021 LEC Spring Week 5 Day 1

welcome back to the catchiness for game three astralis versus g2 the bears are ready the casters are ready are you ready at home uh i'm dracos joined by vedius he's one of the casters who is ready and we're about to get into picks and bans for astralis versus g2 um we heard maybe this is the chance for astralis to knock g2 down a peg but i do think that this matchup might be a little bit g2 favorite yeah somewhat um were you uh watching record stream today yes yeah this is weird where is this going so i was gonna say so listening to his stream today it's a very wholesome great stream would recommend it if you have time um but the forefront of his mind you said today and i quote the thing i'm looking forward to most today is getting my new red jacket so i see so maybe his priorities are a little bit different than astralis who would imagine are fully and completely focused on the game ahead of them of course the stars had like they had a bit of a resurgence last week we had a great game from zanzar on the skarner really setting them up for success against schalke kind of knocking chalka down a peg but um as much as it was a great debut for magic felix the next day was still very difficult so i think it's hard to know what to expect from astralis but i don't think it's beating g2 today i mean i think the reality is that astrologers is in a situation that many teams have been in in the past where you enter the second half of the split with very little prospects looking towards playoffs uh split is very competitive especially with already some big wins for both madd and sk earlier on in the day making that battle for like just qualifying for playoffs very competitive which just inherently makes it harder for astralis to get in there so they need every win they are if they can get an upset win against g2 is obviously going to be very valuable but g2 want to cement themselves at the top of the league and are looking to dominate everyone standing in their way so as right they said it's going to be a tough one but either way they're still going to do their best so let's jump in the champ intellect and see what they have prepared [Music] be whoa okay i was like that's not is this new music are we swapping the musics okay sena immediately gonna be banned away makes sense when you saw rekkles in center last week it was disgusting and probably is making the balance team wonder if they should adjust that soul drop right but the uder will be the response for g2 esports looks like nothing too crazy coming out from either side early on the jungle bands are always what i'm very interested to see because last week we still saw quite a high priority on a long or a lot of junglers being taken off the board but now that teams have had a little bit more time to play on 11.3 i imagine that their priorities are going to shift and we can see with only uder taken off the board it does mean that lilia currently probably the strongest uh jungler i believe in the current meta we do still see a lot of nidalee um one of the big debates right now is what are what are the good aed junglers we did get to see kane we've been seeing the rise of skana specifically for zanzara a bit of a comfort pick for him um and we'll see what jankos matches into it because last week we did see him with the uh nidalee into rogue with a very interesting composition split push style uh which they were able to pull off to i think good success even if they did have a lot of mistakes in the mid to late and a big part of that was wonder on the quinn we'll see if he was looking to get a counter pick this time around as g2 esports are on the red side but i do like the the skarner coming for zanzara even if it's not as high up maybe on the jungle tier list as some people would expect it has looked so good in his hands and it gives astralis a very simple win condition to play to at least in the early game but it will be the gin now locked in for reckless and g2e sports they've got some options here there's a lot of very powerful champions open azir has been hotly contested in our first two games uh could get picked up here we know that caps does have answers to azir though so perhaps they're fine leaving that up and available the response is going to be jarvan i believe that we have still seen a bit of jarvan even after the nurse the gore drinker i think that against the champion like scanner you don't have to be too worried about the fact that german doesn't have one of the fastest clear speeds in the game to suggest they could be thinking about an ap top side as well we'll have to wait and see what does get drafted out for g2 but you would imagine that they're going to save counterpick for either caps or uh wonder later on into the draft so you're going to come out and offer a little bit of safety of course the feathers won't protect her necessarily from the cataclysm but can't keep her safe from that initial burst of damage as the renekton will now also be locked in we'll track the itemization on that one as we get into the game as the prowlers claw has been the build of choice for both of our renektons in the previous two matchups question is will we see the quinn once again from wonder i do believe that he is two for two now on the champion hit in the lec spring split he knows that he's confident on the match-up the question is does it fit into the game plan that they have in mind it could be a little bit safer go for something like an one or a gragas and it looks like that he is going to go for more of the team fight style it seems that wonder has kind of been avoiding the renekton pick he has still played it a little bit this split but gragas and quinn have been his two main answers and it will be picking the tank in the top side and vedius i think you're probably right on the money but i will call it out because it's g2 esports mickey flex there's the jarvan that can go bot lane there's the gragas that can go bot lane jungle or top lane so all i'm saying is there's there's a room if you're at home and you're skeptical there is room for doubt and it's fair to have doubt even if gragas is absolutely the fair prediction for that top side of the map but with recon banned away maybe g2 esports are trying to sculpt themselves some sort of priority bot lane matchup yeah we'll have to wait and see oh yeah because it kind of suggests that if they banned away something like the alistar now they're thinking about the lock-in of the leona and then they save the final pick for caps which would give them very powerful team fighting very strong 2v2 lane but then it depends do they really want to play the leona into desire obviously with her feather storm it can be difficult to lock that champion down perhaps they want to go for something more like an alistar for that quick punch engage interesting they're actually going to take the azir off the board even though we've seen caps answer it a few times with things like the zoe like the echo he's saying you know what i've had enough of this scaling champion i want a fun interactive lane we'll have to see what direction maggie felix does going he's been playing a lot of corki obviously exclusively corki and his two for two in his two games magic felix of course solo q legend has one 1-1 so far on the big stage we'll see what he can do this time around but what's going to be the final pick for g2 this pick here gonna tell us a lot alistair now locked in confirming the support selection i believe you called out the alistar as well well done betty and looking like the gragas in the jarvan will be headed towards the top side of the map does suggest that the straws will round things out with something like the leona um and then of course their blind pick mid lane the silas band you did mention earlier i want to quickly touch on it when i saw the buffs to silence the first person i thought of was caps he has been very well known for many years now as a prevalent stylist player and i was kind of expecting and excited to see him play it but it looks like we're not going to get to see that today hopefully we will still get to see it because on these high play making champions is always a joy to watch but him getting the counter pick the question is what will he be countering what will this blindfold [Laughter] wow easiest prediction of my life who would have thought the three for three the hat trick of corki games coming in for magic felix uh doesn't need to pick anything else because no one's made him pick anything else we'll see how it works out for him in the caps mid lane matchup obviously i think a right of passage to lane against caps right of passage to play mid game against caps we'll see how hard cavs is going to go today if it's going to be a more risky counterpick matchup or if it's just something safe maybe something like an orianna could synergize very well with the alistar and the j4 but it's going to be the rise it's going to be an explosive lane okay so i think the astralis is calm and g2's com are actually very similar but g2s is basically just a better version of astralis comp um largely because i think that while they do have some scaling on their side who can stop the rise but pushing in a side lane i think you you could argue someone like a corki can match we already got to see maggie felix's corki in the late game uh earlier on but then i think that you're also going to have some of that early power which you're not going to be able to have the same roaming potential that the the rise can have potentially with the package if you're able to time it well um but in the top lane i don't think it's going to be very easy to snowball this renekton into aggregate we've seen multiple times people trying to dive the gragas and failing miserably uh so i think it's gonna be difficult for astralis to get an early lead um and i think that they need it if they want to stand a chance against g2 esports so it's definitely an uphill battle in my opinion from the side of astralis but we'll have to wait and see how things pan out as we jump into this matchup and here we are 30 seconds until union there's a different graphic i was anticipating but that's secret labs lec edition and it's it's beautiful but it's important to note that we missed a very important event everyone at home yeah if we could uh if we could take a look at the the guy whose special day it is today marcus if you could if you could do the thing that's right folks mickey's 300th game but that was rogue versus g2 that was last week that was in fact last week we have a new monument and it's the 300 first game yeah congrats congratulations mickey yay old now you are old now mickey you've been in the league for quite a while fun fact mickey joined the european league same time i did 2016 summer split no he he had that uh he had that spring i think where they kind of ran it you were just you just came out i swear he joined oh no you're right because he replaced that other i forgot that oh my god yeah it was just mickey excellent because it was spliced with the orig the full danish roster and then he came in and ruined the whole danish roster do you remember um and he was a bit of a bad one trick pointer back then and then when he brought it out on stage everyone was really excited and then when he joined grabs grabs never let him play it again so um tom catch duty forever but today today on his 300 first game grabs gives him a crumb of fun and he'll get to play the alistar as so far botlane uh you know all things considered going a little bit in favor of jessica and promise views their level one is just a little bit stronger outside of the fourth shot from reckless but uh you know we do like to poke fun and obviously we've known mickey for a very long time uh but it's quite interesting when you kind of look at a lot of the names on the rift right now there are a lot of veteran players uh for astralis many of these players actually returning to the league trying to prove that they can actually compete on this stage wanted to show that the work that they put in into the regional leagues could translate onto the leds lec stage and unfortunately i don't think they've really been able to show that as much except what we've seen from the split so far but i will say that zanzara has kind of stood out to me as one of those players that has been able to showcase some of that young blood potential i think that he's been a big part of trying to get early leads for astralis i think that he's been very smart with a lot of his pathing and i think that when he gets comfort picks like the scanner and when he's able to play a lot of tanks i think that he's able to have an impact and as the meta slowly starts to shift more and more towards what i think he is more comfortable at i think we'll get to see him shine more and more and i hope to see a good game from him again today uh up against cheat i think you're completely correct in 11-3 it feels like a lot of the ops have been taken away but 11-4 is going to be a reckoning for so many teams that it is expected to be such a drastic meta shift that said still gets the skarner today has looked very comfortable on it this patch so far so we'll keep an eye on that early game impact as he does pass back to the top side but jankos already heading into the bottom lane already potentially setting up for this lane gank here there's good vision for astralis in the river but if they're not ready for this lane gank they could be in trouble as mickey maybe we see the flash head but pole but jankos oh wow he's just outside of vision that was i mean he's obviously going to be spotted now but as our observers highlighted it looked like i thought the yankos could be seen from that perspective but he actually played that perfectly and was primed and ready for the laying gank i think astralis just hit level three a little earlier than what the g2 bot lane wanted which means that they were able to avoid that very narrow gank but now both junglers doing their clears into securing those scuttle crabs this is a good opportunity though for zanzara to steal away those krugs on the top side while jankos looks to reset so small jungle jungle advantage rather gain for astralis in the year of the game and jankos opting not to take the blue buff here means he can pick it up on the way back maybe even donate it over to caps depends on how uh charitable he's feeling in this matchup even who would put him behind a little bit but he's gonna quickly discover that those krugs are not waiting for him on the top side the raptor responds to the top lane nope he's not going to okay all right uh wonder was of course a little overextended in that lane with the wave pushing towards the tower so there could have been an opportunity there to try and punish him at the very least burn his flash but either been a call from white knight or perhaps zanzara was saying gankus is on his way top so let's not run the risk uh either way it seems that astralis won't avoid any early aggression but yankos all about aggression in this early game wants to try and steal away some counts of his own feeling pretty confident but sansa of course has the red buff but if he walks back to the river he will be on the shrine a little frisky here for someone who does not have a rise in the immediate area but caps in the meantime is taking away the raptors it looks like this is just gonna be a game where yankos's life is for caps as capps is the one who's gonna get the cap camp advantage off this play he's looking to steal those wolves he knows that sorry it doesn't have smite magic felix getting locked up vicky with the head but cole boys and there's no room he cancels the valk gets clean from mickey and that's first blood for g2 very clean as you really identify drakos that was a good interrupt on maggie felix's escape and he could not flash in time the ignite came through as well and cap secures first blood beautiful roam for mickey and knowing of course that there's no room for zanzar to respond because jankos is just hovering between the t1 t2 just denying any potential engage there from the skarner or any potential counter well executed by the side of g2 definitely seems like a play for cap's game either way so small early game advantage rather gained for g2 we'll see how astralis can turn things around remember that their big scaling option is magi felix if anything the one person that you want to make sure gets to late game is this man in the mid lane and g2 have said no we're not going to allow that to happen and already he's sitting at an early deficit in both cs uh and kills of course so uh hopefully he can slow the game down astraz can keep a steady pace but of course they still want to try and find advantages in the bottom top side of the map so that's why i was talking about the draft it kind of astraz's comp counter wants to do a lot of different things all across the board which does mean that there are a lot of options for zanzaro once he hits that level six we'll see which lane he wants to play through where he can find the scanner ultimate obviously tinks yesterday the game ended good or earlier today the game ended well for tanks but the start was very rough we'll see if sanzara can find some more early game success on this pick is g2 looks set up to take the ocean drake here if they want it bottling prior in their favor so no real opportunities for astralis to contest but zanzar in the meantime will sneak away a red buff for herself this is also what i'm talking about right i think that zanzara even if he is on a team that is struggling seems to have great awareness of what's going on in the map and responds accordingly okay i cannot get a drake but i will put yankus a little bit behind i will steal away those camps this is the second time he's done that now you know he's aware of where jankus is on the map he knows that he's not going to be able to get here in time and he's trying to punish it but of course jankos no slouch either fully aware that zanzar is likely to be on the top side of the map and is going to steal away some jungle camps of his own so both junglers trying to go to blow for blow rather keep up with each other and make sure that no one is falling too far behind and it's important note that yanko's job this game has been a little bit easier because he's constantly getting these invades into the mid lane from mickey really good use of that bot lane pressure to just consistently roam up cap's also using his lane priority to make sure that jankos can stay even even after sacrificing a little bit earlier to give caps that advantage in the mid lane i completely agree uh you did mention earlier that yankos was leaving that blew up i still think this is that level one blue bow uh i don't think that he actually cleared it uh throughout his first early clear unless i did miss it taking especially that looks very squishy to me that blue buff so uh i do believe that that was in fact the level one buff so it's yeah i'm gonna say you're right and if we're dying we're dying together someone wants to roast us we've earned it yeah but i'm actually quite surprised i the main reason why i think he wanted to do that was because he wanted to kill his gromp so that he could get enough experience to then move into i can't remember if he was level four but he then wanted to make that bot lane gank happen so in terms of speed and making sure that he was in the right place at the right time he just full went his blue buff said he doesn't need it and instead just skipped it entirely and said hey on the second spawning which would be about when he gave it away i'll just give it over to captain he can get what he ultimately wants which is the blue so fair enough it's not going to connect on the jankos last cone is going to get used but good heads up play for promise queue and jessica they're backing away for now all right they are just going to be able to back off here they're going to be able to walk out scot-free but good that promiscuous jessica do not let that red buff get taken away remember in the meantime zanzaro was taking the herald and with the corki package available as well they are set up to crack this tier one if they're willing to burn everything to do it the flashback from reckless already used the tower dive that much easier now if they want to push for it but it doesn't look like astralis for feeling confident in this play i think that they still get the flash out from rekkles though which is ultimately a net gain for them they can then look to potentially stack up a wave later on try to threaten a dive onto reckless always going to be difficult of course with caps still gaining advantages in the mid lane going to secure himself two plates has a huge advantage and is that trade-off right sure astralis they look to try and get an advantage somewhere on the map they know they have a leona they know that mickey has no flash maybe if they can burn a flash from reckless they can look for something there again or maybe they can punish g2 but the cost of that was giving caps a lot of farm and a lot of gold and if we have a look to our left you can see that right now he's sitting a thousand gold above the next highest person which is of course white knight and very brutal and of course from agi felix and for astralis they have five minutes and if they can capitalize on that flash they can get gold out of this that they can kill reckless if they can break bot lane tier one tower they're gonna feel good about that exchange it's not gonna feel bad but for right now until that happens caps is sitting pretty he's feeling good about this 112 cs at 10 minutes he has taken raptor camps left and right the entire jungle i think probably belongs to him at this point yanko's probably begging begging to finish his gore drinker before his raptors are gone too but cap's a farming machine well yeah 119 cs at 10 minutes that is pretty incredible um props to mickey there as well the observers did highlight it he did freeze the wave for rekkles so that he could have a nice reset and the wave was then not put in an awkward spot you can see that it's still kind of frozen in this area which will force the astralis bot lane to overextend if they want to clear that out but it will slowly start to push back uh towards australia's bot lane as reckless is forced to clear these minions out game five uh i normally don't talk about these graphics hold that thought though reckless in trouble there's no flash the follow-up is going to be there they get it they get the chain cc and instantly rekkles goes down good move from astralis yeah very well played there and this is ultimately the uh knock-on effect of burning the flash from earlier so while maggie felix's rome didn't get an initial advantage now with the flash this reckless solo in that bot lane they're able to find that pick they're going to drop the rift out as well and they can start funneling gold into this astralis bot lane and they've now successfully closed the gold gap check on mid lane his caps is going to grab a third plate there from that mid lane tower but betty is so often when we look at the stalls we see zanzara has these solid early games and we ask who's going to be the beneficiary who's going to step up on this astralis lineup and carry the game and it seems like astralis have decided that in this game it will be just click because that is a lot of gold going into desire's pocket but white knight might be giving some gold away here as the dive comes in captain trouble though is gonna be a one for one trade and now magic field with the follow-up trying to get a little bit more damage down zanzara on the way in wonder wants to go over the wall but they're gonna pull them back there's no flag there's no drag yank is not gonna be trouble he's trying to leap out of safety does he have the flash he's just barely making it out magic feels the flash over the body block yeah it goes oh he goes down there wonder gonna be able to walk it off but magic feels grabbing two back in response and now australis are getting advantages all across the map they get the kill in bot lane they're gonna get two in the top lane and crucially they get the kill onto caps and they're funneling a little bit more gold back into maggie felix so astralis now sitting with the gold lead feeling very pretty after what looked like a very terrifying caps who now seems to want revenge valkyrie should be up and available magic felix waiting to use it actually might not even have it the body slam comes out imagine felix just gets taken down 300 more gold back to captain right when we praise him right when things are looking good g2 just take things right back in there can't blame maggie felix that either he's trying to fix the way for his top laner he's trying to push it underneath the tower but caps catches him off guard with the tp with the home guards we're going to have a look back at this play so this is just the ultimate coming out from caps underneath the tower let's see how he gets aggro here i do not think the plan was for him to get it but notice here really good stuff from white knight because he immediately recognizes it's caps who has the aggro if i keep him under tower i can at least trade one for one which is already a great trade for astralis but then the tp comes through from angie felix and a great ultimate from zanzara before jankos can get to safety i think he should have just flashed a little bit earlier not entirely sure why he didn't but then of course the flash comes later i love this body block here from angie felix good awareness from wonder then he realizes okay nope there's nothing i can do for you i've got a bale so really good punish there so the goal now dead even here in the early game which if magic felix can continue to keep scaling up i think there is a window for australis to still come out strong in this game but i am still concerned because i think as the game progresses g2's comp is just going to be much more effective at doing what astralis wants to do yeah again and in caps despite the gold uh looking even overall on the scoreboard is still doing pretty good and of course the experience very much in his favor magic felix just ticking over to level 10 meanwhile caps has been level 11 for a while now so um quite comfortable quite confident in the advantage that he's been building up still a 40 cs lead for him things will get a little bit easier when the immortal shield finally comes in for magic felix and can still wait on that tier to stack up but for now with the package available he can feel confident enough to make plays like this but leaping face versus the cab just not a winning proposition when mickey's in the area that said it's gonna cost the life of jankos jessica now looking for the fallout mickey could be in trouble wonder on the way in and the straws immediately back out they know when to not extend the fight ends up being a one for one jankos traded for the magic felix but the reengage knocked back clean combo comes in from wonder white knight on the front line is still going to be in trouble mickey's so very squishy but the follow-up just isn't quite there as the fourth shot just gonna be a bit more poke and captain one are still pushing in caps is about the raptor camps these games they belong to caps i'm curious as to how many he has actually taken i believe almost all of them this game for zanzara now reckless gonna face check good combo good follow-up immediately there's no room for him to maneuver flawless chain cc from the astralis bot lane second death now for reckless he definitely wasn't expecting that one i don't think he even had an opportunity to flash but even if he did downed it would have been worth it on the bright side the astralis bot lane seems to be in the head of reckless this game let's see if it will work out more in their favor as the game progresses this fight earlier good hex flash over the wall from zanza i just think it was a bit of an over commit from maggie felix nice hex flash over the war from mickey to be able to support his mid laner and while jankos does fall he's just buying time for the rest of his team to join the freight three versus four but g2 says you know what we're confident enough to go for this re-engage rekkles has his ultimate he also has the w this should be more than enough to be able to set up for the engage they actually get the root on to jesper so he can't follow up for any potential turnaround from astralis and g2 end up getting another kill but then we see rekkles here he's just trying to join his team he doesn't think that astralis are gonna be in this bush he tries to ward but it is a ward of death as australis of baltimore and get themselves another kill blows it down just in time to realize that he is absolutely done so and again credits to jessica and promiscu they've been so on top of punishing reckless any time he has misstep making good on that early uh package uses in the bot lane from magic felix and overall the straw staying very competitive here in the early game i don't know what everyone at home was expecting but there was potential for this to be a g2 blowout that said astralis responding with some very solid plays their own and while caps is still certainly a very big problem jessica's building himself up a nice advantage in the 1v1 definitely and like props to magi feelings even though he felt very far behind in the early game i mean he still is very far behind the difference between mid laners is made up for in the difference between bot laners and it's all thanks to his role he used his package bot which got the flash out from reckless which then led to that kill which has now gotten that bot lane uh a 2k gold advantage so yes his sacrifice ends up being the benefit for the rest of his team and like that's what you need to do you know great solo queue advice um if you are falling behind the best thing you can do is just not int and just help your team where you can and i think that magic felix does just that every time we cast together you say something about solo queue that just sounds so specific to a single game did i just want you to write down the person's in-game no so that when you come up here you can be like listen xxx lane blaster next time we're in game maybe just in less than we'll take this no but i really think that often yeah you've been in that situation right where you're in a game your mid lane is zero three and they're like game's over let's ff right yeah and i'm saying that like in a situation like you've got a fed bot lane you know play for your bot lane they can carry you you've got it's the art of being carried and the thing is magic felix he knows he's gonna scale he's gonna offer value late game so even on two three items he's gonna be able to contribute so that's why we were saying even after those early deficits astralis didn't just suddenly lose the game they still have windows and i'm very happy to see that they were able to get their bot lane ahead so we'll see how they progress moving forward the drake's gonna spawn in two minutes baron's not gonna be a major objective so for the time being a lot of what we're going to be seeing is contesting for these early tier 1 towers um trying to secure as much farm and jungle camps as you can and basically work towards those uh second items and so far in the game astros have been pretty clean and cross mapping and responding to the plays that g2 have made on the map whether it's been punishing or making plays of their own but now as the tier one towers start to fall especially now that mid has been opened up by g2 esports the game does get a bit harder for astralis now they're laying down vision to support this push in the mid lane but they have to be clean in their play g2 notorious for blowing games open in the mid game especially catching opponents out on these missteps and even now you see wonder waddling his way into the mid lane ready to throw that cask at jessica if he does miss position definitely true g2 always looking for those small opportunities a single pick they can convert into a lot they seem to have a little bit more control over the map you can see that for the time being they focused on setting up vision throughout the river uh they're gonna have a lot of access into the entrance around this part of the map but that's mainly just insight a bit of information to kind of they don't want to commit any wards too deep and the same can be said for us trials because there's no major objectives to play for now what we expect is the resets to come through you're going to be seeing the replenishment of a lot of wards and control wards you can see mickey in his inventory doing that right now leona coming back onto the map to do the same and this is we're gonna see the dance that we often see which is that battle for mid lane priority into fighting over for river and trying to contest vision around those choke points and it's important to know with this potential dragon fight coming up as it is going to be the next big objective to be contested by both sides here g2 looking for their third drag in the game there are two qss on the side of g2 both caps and reckless have now picked that up so the amount of viable targets come out of viable engage opportunities for astralis has shrinked slightly the good news for them is that some of the gold lead the caps has been building up has not been put into combat stats so maybe he won't uh tear through the front line quite as quickly as our observers are highlighting right now we can see that g2 have control over the river but astralis first to the wave but this is that mid lane dance that we were talking about the problem for us is they don't have a tower so g2 can be a little bit more aggressive and how they push up and contesting for this wave they're trying to gain a little bit more control for the time being but now manchester felix has arrived with the package everyone has teleports but they've all gathered for the fight actually white knight now moving away no vision guys just gonna completely concede that okay i think they weren't ready for how low that was g2 strutting through that one very quickly but now they're going for the pick on the sport promise q being able to walk away so far straw is debating if they want the re-engage but they will just back away knowing the objective is gone not really any reason for them to risk something on a fight wonders uh ultimate went a little bit wide there not quite the direction they wanted even though the reckless that they first did oh zanzara instantly gone and suddenly there's a lot more options for g2 now we can see where they're going to pressure next matchfield's gonna be in trouble that's the real morph coming out magical has to run blast come there to fire them out safety but mickey still wants to keep the fight going ankles on the back side here comes the cataclysm magic fields now trouble magic whoa immortal shield bow not doing anything to that burst damage and astralis caught sleeping for one moment and g2 just take over the map so that's two quick picks the question is will g2 converted into a baron this is a very early baron secure and it has a lot of risks associated with it especially with magi felix having the tp up let's see what they do will they turn or will they will they commit canceling the hex flash mickey going to be in trouble here but still just backing off remember it's the zai who has all the gold in right now she's uncontested that's the gale force forward jessica popping off caps in the back side white knight acting is a good frontliner he might be in trouble now they're gonna try to turn it wonder getting some good damage down jessica trying to use the essential trying to get some damage that's the triple for the xayah there will be no baron for g2 we talked about that baron being risky and astralis immediately took advantage of it but we'll get to that in a second let's focus up here that vision that g2 had set up earlier immediately comes to their advantage as they catch sanzara walking to an area of the map that does not belong to him then they realize that they can continue the chase they could have just chosen to go for the baron here but instead they wanted to secure themselves a couple more kills they know that manche felix has tp at the very least they want to try and take him down they get that kill but a lot was used they burned a lot of ultimates they invested a lot of summoner spells so at this point you kind of have to commit to the baron because you don't really have the resources you need to turn and fight that astralis window to engage as you rightly said drake's look at jess though on the back line completely untouched here while white knight is just tanking up all the damage and jessica's free to just hit onto anyone that is nearby white knight to be fair also does his fair share of damage onto the back line forcing both caps and reckless back and if it wasn't for caps that fight could have ended in disaster for g2 that's 7k damage from the zaya remember if you're going to fight front to back the xayah cut through damage on the feathers the clean cuts pass it just does so much work now g2 certainly have the tools to get to the back side but as we saw in that fight as you brought up videos if they burn them all and jessica's still standing he's gonna have a pretty easy time shred through the g2 lineup if we could quickly have a look at the gold i mean 10.3 k 10.7 k yeah you can see this is a game between jessica and caps just like it was in that last game these are the two carries and these are the two that are going to be the most important to track so in the team fights we'll make sure to follow along see how they survive of course caps does have his flash jessica does have his flash and his ultimate too so i'm gonna say on paper cap should be a little easier to kill but he in his own right has a lot of damage two major items completed looks like he's working towards the death cap along with hamming the qss as you highlighted earlier so uh yeah we're in for some pretty intense fights as g2 and astralis move towards the mid and late game we absolutely are and again looking back on that fight i think when we look at this game particularly we're singing the praises of magi feel like setting up jessica to build this big advantage but i also got to say white knight in that fight as is renekted he is doing his job you know suffered a little bit early on didn't necessarily get to have the flashiest moments but in the team fights to come if he just creates space for jessica to work some magic and that is doing the job and i think you got to respect that yeah he is running the stride broker in the top lane i know you did ask in the draft whether we would see more of the prowess floor i'm personally more of the fan of the stride breaker i like that additional bit of utility it's access onto the back line especially in this game if astralis is sitting there thinking okay if we kill caps we win the fight i think a stride breaker can help the renekton get on top of this champion lock him down because if he procs that phase rush he is one speedy wizard and he is very difficult to kill definitely will help and of course just tracking in general how they want to execute the last fight we didn't really get to see much from zanzara he had a okay early game now looking to take over to level 11 but he's fallen behind a lot looks like maybe donating some of his cs over to his respective laners sorry i just had this really random thought of rise rioting rollerblades you know because he gets that's what he looks like so when he writes that's what i'm saying so like roller disco rise you know what he's just got that hit here rolling around you make a lot of requests observers because my only request if we get a replay where caps zooms give us a slow-mo of the zoom once the phase rushes proc and he's got you know he's got the nike's on he's going a million miles an hour just give us the slow-mo we just need to analyze it is he just rollerblading that's what to find out we know a fight is about to happen the fourth drake of the game will be spawning in 10 seconds time and astralis cannot afford to give this one up if they do this game suddenly becomes a lot harder than it already is they are not in a great position right now g2 have control over the river the package is there white knight tp flank from behind that could potentially be in trouble the stride breaker is gonna be here he's gonna try to immediately proc but the stairs flawlessly tied over no now he's just going to get one shot but still the jars fizz comes out there's a bit of healing but not nearly enough now magic felix needs to back out cap's looking maybe for the potential 1v1 but jessica remains untouched for now feather storms still up and available they're pulling back zanzara leaping forward though he wants to take down one or they're shredding through the gragas the gragas still lives that's the package the package is knocked wonder aside and wonder can now escape but still the damage burning shredding so much going up against caps he's already burned the qss mickey so incredibly low the rocket going but it's not the big one the aoe won't come through mickey clean sidesteps but he's gonna get taken down astralis they've taken access to the pit but jankos can he steal it yanko's coming over the wall the snare going in 1300. they have no vision in the pit that looks like zanzar is gonna be able to drag it but now jankos doesn't know me double tp's coming in jessica potentially gonna be in trouble here oh no he's trapped in the pit and here comes wonder all that gold but the flash out the feather storm goes the wrong way but it might not matter jessica now on their treat sanzara needs to body block jessica trying to back off but it just feels like there's too much there's absolutely no way he can get out of this one one two he's looking for one more but the third shot for rekkles will find the shutdown and now magic felix has to hightail it out of there the body slam flash now cap's on the way and he's trying to move out the immortal shield but it's ticking away and there's no hope left for imagine felix wonder is going to finish the job at the very least astralis will deny the infernal soul from g2 but that it's going to cost them their lives g2 continue to chase for kills i don't think rekkles is going to be able to chase down this sneaky scorpion will get a bit of damage down we'll delay that potential execute the towers will finish the job for him but because g2 were chasing all those kills they will not go for baron so overall i'd say net win for astralis they'll have another shot at being able to turn this game around and this tp flank looked good on paper and execution did not go the way that astralis wanted to great ultimate from wonder to deny the follow-up from astralis and they're thinking okay we have numbers advantage we can commit to this but this is when zanzara comes up clutch he realizes that wonder on the front line a little overextended immediately shut him down and then maggie felix just buys time he says come chase me g2 keep focus me instead of my team and he's able to split them up that means that astralis can attack from the south what magi felix pokes from the north beautiful execution from him to be able to again just buy time for his team to allow them to secure the draken yankos he tries to go in for the steal but unfortunately for him does not get it and then of course the double tp re-engage means the g2 is able to clean this fight up and get themselves a bunch of kills but as i said astralis i feel with the overall winners here by getting themselves a little bit more time and jessica does the best here to try to go for the output of course in the meantime we did see baron taken down oh it did end up going down did it not end up i was just oh i didn't i didn't even see a pic it was in the corner oh i completely missed the quarter it's fine the net win the g2 one of us will learn to watch the other part of the screen clearly we're not responsible enough to watch two different sections yeah i was i was just looking at the the team by there yeah so as i was saying net win for g2 yeah re-engage now for promiscuous all right promise q now knock back gonna find the stun immediately under reckless a little bit more tankiness uses to lock it but he is now just going to get taken down manages almost to make it out with a xenoplate but white knight now dashing in is gonna get punted back to the back line jessica uncontested now why not gonna try to flash out to safety and that's wonder taken down white knight immediately gonna get picked off by rekkles ultimate and jessica on the retreat here is mickey may be looking to just take out some anger on that minion i think he was trying to close the gap in isolation definitely entertaining g2 will come off the back of another fight victorious and now they're looking to push in these waves they're not going to be able to control top so instead they'll play through mid and bot they want to try and sync them up i imagine they'll leave rise mickey now a little overextended reckless able to walk it out of that one now the potential re-engaged jenkins could come over the wall he's waiting that's the immediate cataclysm but corki does so much damage they actually have the tools to fall back up it looks like they do his couch is on the side oh no it's the one shot police time to go imagine felix he is going to be able to make it out of that one and just barely barely waddling his way here if caps gets too aggressive maybe there's the potential for a turn but astralis are it's just blood in the water g2 are relentless now they've gotten the baron we went from just about dead even game to almost a 10k gold lead for g2 8k the baron buff triple dragon and now they're gonna break open the inhibitor line caps was a speedy wizard before but now he's a scary one that he's completed his wizards hat that is a lot of damage coming off the back of that level 17 rise nine one and four they played for him in the early game and he definitely returned the favor carrying a lot of these team fights in favor of g2 and really good use of the teleports in later game fights astralis though i feel like that they have put up a great fight but because g2 were able to get that down after the drake because they've had so much drake control uh they haven't really been able to hold on to any major advantage let's see caps in this 1v2 now he already used his qss but no he's just so fast yes observers yes he's like lightning he is rollerblader that's not fair he used the qss that was zanzara's time to shine he finally could all someone with the qss ah but he's just so fast he's just too fast caps like grease lightning speeding off into the distance that's what that movie's about right um yeah it's not it's not called grease landing but yeah you know what yeah that's what that movie's about betty speeding there are rollerblades in that one i'm sure there are i'm just saying you better shape up kazan zara needs a carry and right now his heart is set on jessica that's a reference to the movie grease lightning i got it okay good just the package is available for magic felix jessica does a lot of damage but it's all gonna be about execution and cap still has flash somehow i don't know if that just came up if you had it through that entire play but that's going to be infernal soul just gone just in an interview just gone uh i think astralis don't feel confident enough to fight right now but they're kind of running out of windows two fights perhaps they're relying on g2 making a mistake but um well to be fair that's not the craziest of expectations g2 do often make mistakes um jessica though wow i mean mickey's very squishy right but still yeah good damage it will force the ultimate out as well so that one of the engaged tools of g2 will now disappear hex flash splash ulti oh sliding glide there for a wonder to make it out oh that's all there is only level 12. i mean look at the level difference between astralis and g2 right now i can't really blame them for being hesitant to fight they're also going up against the infernal soul but zantara anyone that he helps zantara has a good chance of just getting melted himself remember he's primarily itemized magic resistance but uh even though rekkles had a rough early game still does a lot of damage actually very close in terms of itemization from that of jessica a couple of fun emotes and ghosts and caps just chilling in the bush i i i feel like yankis has to be here for moral support because i don't think that there's anyone who's who's not just dead if caps is hiding in that bush you know this is just like the pat on the back thumbs up now he's gone oh stridebreaker's gonna try to find the stun i don't think he needed to leave i mean i know why he did because i think he got vision on jessica and promiscu but um yeah it's really interesting because ryze is one of those champions that often when you're split pushing you want your team to have either vision control for you or to kind of be in a position where they can cover for you but because of ryze's ultimate he doesn't actually need that covering kind of cheated in some situations and that's why he was able to get out of that situation but yeah i think that yankus was primarily there just to cover caps so that he could push the lane as deep as he did you can now see that he's sitting isolated his ultimate not available so this is kind of where he's most at risk if astralis was to look for a pick that could be it hands are now pulling him back to follow up the stun manages to hit him on the way through well played and now wonder's just been infinitely cc the execution there for straws is so consistently clean on those cc combos and that's that small window that astralis were looking for they get that pick the problem is even though baron is spawning soon and that that's kind of the play they want to go for they want to try and force the numbers advantage in trouble jessica on the hunt feathers fly just wants to pull them back but it's the curtain call and it's curtains for jessica as mickey manages to grab the kill and in the meantime it's caps on the bottom side and now everything has collapsed in that instance for astralis just dead for 50 seconds capped relentlessly pushing in the bottom lane but maybe they can turn it maybe just maybe jankos now in trouble do not forget magic felix magic felix does so much damage reckless two shots left hoping to find that fourth shot finish but now as jankos getting taken down there's no creep wave left for cavs yes he finds the kill into white knight but he cannot end the game yet creep wave coming in teleport being used reckless alone in the mid lane promise q backing off the caps must retreat caps has to back away and zanzara as much as he wants to step forward this is so risky the potential for captain turning the flash forward he's gonna one shot him and now he's just phase rushing his way out of there he has to dodge everything he has to sidestep he's moving the tp now coming in caps the qss but it's not enough magic field still does so much damage and wonders realizing it maybe though with reckless collapsing maybe it is enough but still it's just a bloodbath nobody really gaining any greater advantage whoo that was a very long skirmish i think is the word i would use kills going across the ball look jessica's back alive again remember how this place started jessica tried to get a pick onto rekkles in the mid lane uh unfortunately for him reckless support was there to cover for him with the help of mickey they were able to push jessica back get his summoners out but that's kind of where the chaos in snoop it's dude that's not the word ensued um it's welsh just tell people yeah it's like five people g2 were able to get the bot lane inhibitor and they were able to open up the mid lane one as well but let's have a look back here of course they already took the mid lane herbert forgive me on that one um but this is where jessica tried to get that pick on reckless i respect this aggression he just i don't think he had vision on mickey and he saw a window and i think it was a good play but because mickey was there like he almost even was able to get the kill on to mickey i really like how jessica has been playing this game but unfortunately the play did not pan out and then while this was happening like astralis saw a good opportunity to turn this fight in their favor in the mid lane they get a kill onto both yankos and mickey but caps just does so much damage in the side lane he gets himself an inhibitor he gets himself the solo kill and then this is where the chase down starts from astralis and of course after all of this because astralis kind of had to put their base back together g2 is able to get themselves okay just take us live just take his life take us live thank you that was a long replay it was a long fight i liked walking through every moment of it but in the meantime g2 of course got the beard and that replay and zanzar is now gonna be in trouble if jessica steps forward to body block he'll be slowed and potentially vulnerable to wander's follow-up that said reckless assault now down no greater advantages but it's about survival now for astralis they need to hold on for the assault coming in from g2 i'd like to see someone from g2 just pushing that top wave but they don't have any teleport which is probably the main reason why they want to stay together just secure this inhibitor if they want to they can rotate back to top and then have all three taken down here comes the fight tp again from white knight this is bold they're betting it all on this play or they'll both just walk away they're all they're they're both just gonna walk the angle wasn't good for white knight he wanted to try it but it didn't pan out comes down oh ambitious i mean it's it's so tense it feels it feels like g2 are so set to win and it's just one more thing that they need to do but it's also been fighting back so successfully in these skirmishes and in these fights that the dream in me is still alive i can see the potential for the comeback magic felix and jessica are both just so strong you're looking at those numbers on your screen yeah okay i see that i'm not telling you it's easy i'm saying the dream is alive the dream is you know in the icu the beeps are infrequent but the dream is alive videos that's all that's my only point can someone on astralis resuscitate them can they bring them back from the brink the elder dragon could be that opportunity maybe just maybe for now though g2 getting the start up they're going to be uncontested they do so much damage to this major objective and they're still caps on the side lane always offering that pressure point match you feel it's going to leap in gonna knock him out of the open magic feel let's get the 1v1 first caps okay 4k now magic felix still live under the side lane astralis they maybe smell blood in the water again g2 can just back off here g2 do not need to overextend this they still have a massive advantage they don't need to risk at all but astralis maybe they feel like this is their last opportunity their last name just buying time waiting for magic felix to arrive he's almost there 5k reckless with the ultimate they need somebody to body block not doing too much damage to the stage magic field trying to find a way to the back side mickey is going to get the knock back just go stolen contested magic feels on the flank but the minions are pushing into the base g2 they're going to tp if they want to come out on top of this one but reckless now legendary that shot's coming through jess goes off to the backside vicky buying as much space as he can the infernal soul not gonna be enough but still astrals are not coming out on top the front line from g2 is just playing this too well still reckless untouched who gets the infernal it's g2 the minions are in the base g2 have gotten the infernal and whatever hope was left for astralis has certainly died now it's a triple for wonder a flawless fight for g2 and a game to their name i don't know how they did it but g2 and a4 versus five were able to stall the elder drake and still come out on top they will look to secure this game it was messy it was bloody but it was back and forth till the very end g2 will look to take down astralis after they do what they always do which is you know get themselves a bunch of kills on the on the yeah oh they're not getting this kill what are they doing like the halftime show you know between the games for the g2 fans uh there it is wow that's a lot damage astralis vs g2 uh have to say one g2 still very good at team fighting two astralis some really great moments the 1v1 solo kill from magic felix on the side lane i feel like every game we see something good from this guy and it's a step in the right direction but that said g2 for now in sole control of first place at 8-2 we'll see if bro can tie things up later in the day but overall a pretty solid win albeit a bit of a messy one yeah i think that uh that's kind of what you come to expect from g2 often they prioritize the kills over the objectives and uh they do get a lot of kills uh there were what's that 45 kills in 39 minutes that game um and we had fights that spanned over what like a minute or two it was uh it was pretty crazy it was insane i always see on twitter is where you're gonna go for kia player of the game caps reckless mickey those are your options i'm just saying the venn diagram of people who had their 300 first game and who should not hear pog is a circle that's letting you know at home i mean yeah man made a lot of space for people to work with yeah i mean mickey roamed mids got caps ahead you know mickey saved his ad carry multiple times mickey did a lot that game you know give some love medics not here on the desk to show for support so that's i guess my job so i'm chilling or you can just give it to the two carries that you always give it to and cap some reckless that is also a choice i mean there's really the options are limitless all right well our next game features a match-up between the two mainstays in the bot lane as kabe and han sama go toe to toe in rogue versus misfits [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] welcome back to the lec after this bloodbath of a game g2 won in the end and high of caps with me to talk about the game kevs you were laughing in the end what was that about i mean it was just like a really crazy game i think there was a lot of laughing throughout the game uh and especially the end because it was like it was kind of hint like i just kind of died right for all the right and it was looking like a bit grim but my team smurfed it in the end and i think someone said something funny i'm not sure but uh it was a fun game that's for sure there was a lot of fighting this one and yeah that's always possibly always nice to have a bit of fun in the end but i'm wondering you guys had a 10k good lead at some point and i know that it was a lot of back and forth with a lot of scaling options for the opponent but why did it take such a long time for you guys to close out the game uh that's a good question i mean i think we we were we were going a bit too deep like all of us wanted to uh like kill them i mean i was like really really strong this game so i really want to invade as many camps possible and i think sometimes they went a bit too far i was trying to do the doing b hack cs but it didn't really work out unfortunately uh and sometimes we just really wanted to go on then we had like a lot of engage with like alistair and jarvan and also like gragas with like the the cam tank so we just wanted to purple fight them and i mean sometimes we maybe we should just have like uh play for baron or play for drake but you know it's it's more fun if you can just like fight them a bit and i think that's kind of we went for this time around um and you know in the end we wanted so it is more fun uh indeed but um i mean as you said you had an outstanding performance on ryze the community agrees here because you're at the player of the game and i see that raj is becoming a trending champion for g2 you played the champion three times now uh can you tell me a bit more about the priority of the big for you ng2 uh yeah i think rice is pretty strong right now um i mean this game specifically they had like uh the corgi right which like rice has always been like at least like a pretty good early game counter to corgi because corey is kind of weak early and then kind of leaves rise with a lot of three lanes so like either roam or like in this game i was just farming a lot of camps so i got really strong um because corgi doesn't really pressure me uh so i i just basically got to farmer bunch and then i also wanted to fight a bunch which happened a bit later in the game maybe maybe sometimes there was a bit in but it worked out it did work out and we didn't get time to talk about you actually since the season started but um with reckless training i feel like your role changed a bit because when you look at stats he is responsible for 40 percent of the damage for the team which is huge if people don't know but um which means that you may have a different role but you still play the same champions as last year which is champions that can impact side lanes mostly so do you think your world changed since reckless joined or is it still the same uh maybe a little bit but realistically i think it's more just like about like what james i play and what champions that everyone on my team plays i guess maybe reckless plays like some different champions than perks but perks also play like different champions throughout different like metas uh and same with reckless so i don't know if the the the change in the side of the dragons joining i fit the change with the meta shifting but definitely um i think i've had kind of like a laid out split so far i feel like my my team has been smurfing a lot so i've kind of just like been making sure that i don't need too much which has not always worked but they still managed to carry so that's nice yeah you'll get your time to shine later you're having fun for now and that's what counts better thank you so much for the show for now and have a good evening thank you for having me you too you're welcome and we're going to take a break and we'll come back in a few minutes from midfield versus road

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