C9 vs TL - Game 1 | Grand Finals LCS 2021 Mid-Season Showdown | Cloud 9 vs Team Liquid G1 full game

wondering will team liquid grab the renekton alongside a strong pairing like maybe the heck rim or the udyr of course the hecarim and the rel just going to come through yup the horsing around duo picked up here for the side of team liquid with the horse and the logo they know where the synergy is but man what a fast response from c9 their first half of the draft looking like seraphine and two champions that dive in which is exactly what she likes to see on her team my immediate inclination is to think this is a mid lane seraphine of course it could be bought for sven it could be support for vulcan this is actually legit three-way flex here and cloud9 does have the champion pools they have the depth to be able to play it scion coming through here as the answer to renekton is a very strong answer it is a champion that really can withstand the onslaught we actually saw alfari playing this against huni's renekton huni did multiple different builds here to try to withstand that matchup and wasn't really able to create an edge for himself team liquid deciding to target a marksman here getting lucian out of the picture he is a champion of course it can flex between a couple of different roles neither side here has drafted their 80 carry so far unless of course we do see the seraphine flex down into the bottom lane orianna will be a band pretty staple champion there to go ahead and remove we know pretty much everybody has some experience on that one i wonder if team liquid is also going to ban out tristana or if they want to take it for themselves they do have a pick in the draft here and i think that is the debate do we want to ban it or do we want tactical to play it the answer is to ban it with the lucian band to me that's that's team liquid saying all right our read is seraphine is going bot what would pair well with the seraphine bot would be a marksman in the mid lane for perks to be able to bring that consistent damage so now will cloud9 be flexible will they adjust even if the seraphine was intended to go bought are they willing to put it mid are they willing to mix it up to really make their composition shine and that goes back to what you were talking about earlier when we were back during the during the countdown about perkz's flexibility as a player we've seen him hard carry and we've also seen him go zero zero and 14 as a seraphine and play that supportive role so the fact that he can do both of them does still continue to do a lot of work for them here team liquid decide that they want to go with sort of a traditional control mage wave clear type of approach to the mid lane lock in the victor yep the orianna is taken away the victor is grabbed up there is the availability of course of the azir but it is kalista plus alistar this is early game this is aggression coming out from cloud9 if you're gonna go with this composition especially if we do see a late game marksman locked in for for team liquid you've gotta run over your opponents you're staring down a control mage in the mid lane scion hecarim rel alongside a scaling marksman like the zaya or even the jinx coming through i tend to think xayah fits here to help withstand some of the dive that will be coming across here from cloud9 so throwing down the gauntlet game one team liquid your job is withstand the storm cloud nine you must snowball this game you must create advantages use the kalista and the alistar as well as the early power of this udyr to get down to the dragon pit stack those dragons early and often and build up dragon soul as a win condition create a big enough gold lead so that when team liquid looks to challenge you to stop that snowball you are so far ahead that they don't stand a chance and on the other side of team liquid can keep it close can slow that down maybe seek away a dragon early enough or get themselves to a close enough gold lead that if third dragon they can contest they're gonna really be set up for success and i like the switch over to the zaya here we saw a couple of different champions hovered a jinx of varus yeah lots of damage potential there just seed everything they've gotta put a flag in the sand and be willing to fight over something well here we go ladies and gentlemen welcome to summoner's rift as poor alistar's dead kalista had to sacrifice him with the black and beer or whatever it's called okay alistar's not actually dead nobody's dead we're out onto the rift and it is time for the grand finals man this is i love being back in this studio azalea makes it feel like a whole big event again i'm so excited to be back here yep flower's the real person standing beside me he's got we both have pants and shoes this is unparalleled for the first time in a year [Laughter] all right we're in the game strapping i'm thinking we're going to get ourselves a really fun series here spell book for perks uh is pretty interesting a little bit of additional utility there worth noting that vulcan is going towards aftershock in lieu of the phase rush which is very very popular this again is is indexing towards the early game having that aftershock allows you to go for these early trades these combos in lane where you would otherwise be punished much more heavily by the return fire coming through from the xayah from the rail both supports taking ignite so you can expect there to be a lot of action down there hail of blades for the kalista another early game rune they're indexing towards their strengths and they are really going to be trying to run over their competition in these early levels all right both junglers starting on the top half of the map here so we'll see if they end up contesting one another for that bottom side crab there in the river udyr of course very very strong in those 1v1s nice and early on and we'll see if the bot lane turns exciting here with this calista alistar combo that you're talking about with how aggro we they know they want to be stacking up those dragon souls as the game moves forward and whatnot but our mid lane's gonna be a lot of wave clearing at least for the early stages of the game victor plus seraphine both of them just have incredible capabilities for that and we'll also have to keep an eye on this top lane matchup man fudge versus alfari fudge on the more aggressive choice means he has to be able to flex those skills that we were talking about him improving you can't pick renekton sit in lane and farm it'll never happen successfully so i want to see what fudge can bring to the table here nice interrupt there on the slash how far he knocks him up into the air in time and to be honest if there is a time to get an advantage on the renekton it is so early because once scion gets towards bramble vest and tabbies your fun in that lane is kind of over yeah oh damn thank you and he has all of this aoe wave there to really be able to deny your ability to punish through taking tower plates also so you have to get ahead early you have to create these windows and even if it's not about the 1v1 it's about getting that pressure so sign is locked under his tower and udyr can then maybe invade or so he's locked under his turret and he's chipped down so he can't tp to answer a play elsewhere because renekton wants to be dictating the pace of the game wants to be having that pressure being able to save his teleport to potentially make plays elsewhere okay we've got level four junglers each with six camps worth of farm and they will find one another here at the bottom side scuttle crab our mayo knows that he doesn't really want anything to do with that one blabber will win out in the 1v1 armeo just makes his way into the mid lane instead devastating charge on a minion to clear a little bit of extra distance this is looking like a double scuttle angle here for black oh yeah you can see armel is actually trying to help jensen push and i think the reason is he wants jensen to be able to return the favor and come over and help him here but renekton has shoved top laver's not gonna start this he's just gonna wait face check me and you will know you will lose that 1v1 but jensen does have the move first renekton is coming down as well so i think this should be cloud nines and team liquid is going to have to back it up tl has to give that one away fudge with the renekton control with that priority that you're talking about early on pretty easy for him to acquire that and that means two crab lead here for blabber in the jungle on the udir you love seeing players being able to take advantage of that early on they will just get a glimpse of him there and blabber makes his way into the top lane which forces out an early flash from al farin very nice and they have no vision in the river plus the wave is actually pushing away from elfari and as a top laner that is such an uncomfortable position you want to reset this but you're like well did he wait did he stay here the whole time is he going to punish me for this move i do believe that riverward though now should have spotted blabber as he moved into the raptors pit yes good highlight there by the observers so alfari now needs to take this window to try to push in our mail's moving up there to try to help him do it but blabber is heading straight back up to top lane and this could be really good for cloud9 remember no flash in el fari here comes blabber this will turn very violent very quickly our mayo is stunned up and fudge is going in for the first blood in the 1v2 blabber was not even required and cloud9 is about to get a buy one get one free two kills to kick it off in the grand final damn fun she doesn't even need the juggler 1v2 let's go throwing down the gauntlet right off the bat here not waiting for the eu deer he sees the angle kills off our mayo and grabbing himself a kill grabbing the kill for blabber who also stole raptors who also double scuttled look at these 28 exactly like they're able to get this done while doing everything else fudge straight on in lands the sun there onto our mayo knocking him down very very quickly blabber coming in helping to clean up alfari they'd already forced the flash returning to the scene of the crime this is what i'm talking about when i say cloud9 knows how to push the pace of the game it's not taking the flash and saying all right that's pretty good it's taking the flash and then ramming that advantage home killing off the top laner punishing our mail for staying around on a jungler who wants to scale who wants to get ahead blabber taking both scuttles blabber taking away the raptors having more camps to farm on his side of the map means this guy is going to be out to a very big lead and our mayo is just going to be trying to keep his top laner alive he does have an angle here potentially on fudge but that is a level six croc and that is a dangerous prospect to try when you are just sitting on lucidity boots you are pre level six on the heck rim you will get shredded so he's got to be really really careful and doesn't like his odds there yeah he chooses to err on the side of caution here goes back to farming instead knows his top half camps are coming back alive but here's what you wanted to see isaac control over the drake pit from cloud9 perks loses a little bit of hp here as jensen unleashes the full combo on him but that won't matter the bot lane is there they have the priority they have the advantage and cloud nine gets their first drake before seven minutes i mean they're checking every box that you could ask for three out of three scuttles you've done some counter jungling you forced a flash you got two kills you took the first dragon pre-seven minutes this is this is what you want if you're a coach watching this game you go into the game with these sort of objectives well that's on the other side needs to step up that's what i'm saying jeff where's the plan yeah so i mean the plan is withstand the onslaught slow down cloud9 do not allow this to extend but c9 says no let's keep it up let's look for a dive here they're pushing in and four members bought they have the seraphine ultimate can they find it 4v2 dive here it goes maybe tactical with a flash away core jj is left all on his loan some of the damage will just pour on in seraphine ulti will not find tactical core jj stays alive c9 switches it over tactical's the first to die and core jj will try to escape at best he can hope for an execution vulcan wants to shut that down right now he has his flash ready to go if necessary won't even need it head butts them into the turret 4-0 cloud nine wow what a star here for cloud nine getting mid prior moving it down towards bot finding the angle not only did it get the two kills look at the summoner spent four summoners on the side of tl what did they use on cloud9 side just the flash from blabber they barely spent anything to make these plays happen this is some remarkable fast-paced league of legends cloud9 coming out the gates looking dominant cloud nine man this squad showing why they are so fearsome showing why they got to have that buy into this part didn't have to go through the game yesterday in the lower bracket this squad is scary indeed nearly 2 000 gold ahead eight and a half minutes into the game and we'll see those second blue buffs start to spawn here they'll get handed off to the mid laners checking back into the top side renekton down some farm here early on more minions alive for him so it'll just about even out but alfari's doing okay surviving up here after that initial two for zero that i mean scion's on his power spike he's got the bramble vest this is full build at this point so it's gonna be hard to keep that damage going he becomes very very tanky uh the wave is freezing against him and so that is kind of that awkward spot because he hasn't actually seen udyr for a while so he's going to be bleeding farm right now and you can see fudge is posturing forward trying to zone him off experience as well blabber will be spotted and seeing that utier up on the top side just kind of confirmed some of those worries you can tell he wants to help push out mid potentially he wants to be there for that top side scuttle blabber has been right place right time this whole game long team liquid looking like they want to get aggressive for the first time they've cleared out some vision in that bottom side river and we're threatening a roam towards mid but not seeing the angle as perks is aware bot lane missing i'm gonna play towards top side super easy decision to make right go towards where everybody is blabber loves playing around these top couple of lanes here so far in this game making the plays happen going after the rift herald let's see if there's any sort of a response to this from team liquid blabber still commands a very impressive lead in the jungle 83-65 cs he is level eight against the level seven of our mayo and he's oodier in a 1v1 situation there are not a lot of champions that feel comfortable approaching him like that and hecarim with just an ionian boot and a bomby cinder is not among those few it is definitely not and he has mid lane prio he has top lane prio he is safe to do this and they are going to continue to show up two objectives on spawn and try to snowball the game you already know next thing on the checklist ocean dragon 120 till that spawns they want to grab the second dragon they want to cash out with the plates here so we'll see where he looks to go as our mayor's trying to make a move up to top side double ultimates are available but fudge has pushed in this wave yeah there's no reason to stay around yeah i mean alfaro may try to hold it somewhat but they don't know where udir is so it's still a risky play and the fact the fudge just backed it up immediately knowing that hizu dear was down towards the bottom side of the map is just really smart stuff man that gold on the left side of your screen right about now's looking awfully good if you're a cloud nine fan vulcan's the only guy that's not in the cool kids club but i mean unless you're playing like a fasting center it won't work anyway vulcan eats a little bit of damage here jensen finding some follow-up but team liquid is not able to grab a kill off of that one vulcan just letting them know it's all good with the rammus emote and c9 is able to disengage with 30 seconds before that ocean drake's ball and one thing you got to take note of is even if team liquid says all right let's challenge early let's let's force at this second dragon moonstone's already done oh i mean perks has farmed incredibly well when you look at these supportive style champions you often expect him to be down a little bit as far as the laning goes he also made a roam down to the bottom side right if he's closing in on 10 cs per minute has a kill as well as an assist he's got the stopwatch so he's very difficult to dive so they're prepared for any potential fight that tl would want to force on let's see down here if tl wants to try to contest that but yeah you can see perks inventory he's got the level one boost he's got the tier he's got the ring it's not like he held off on any sort of laning items but when your myth it costs about a buck 25 it don't matter too much perks can get that thing online sooner than anybody can test it and that means cloud nine goes up two drakes to nothing two and a half thousand gold 12 minutes into the game azalea you said they had to turn it on early and i would say they have sufficiently dominated the early game oh yeah they have been crushing it armeo just grabbed his first scuttle of the game and it's 12 minutes and the only reason he got it is because blabber's taking the dragon on the other side it's not a fair trade here flowers no sir you might not get the uh as much gold for the dragon as you do for the crowd but somehow it's still a pretty good deal we'll see if blabber wants to get involved in any more of these plays any more of these ganks because remember even though they are ahead two and a half thousand gold the compositions will still favor team liquid later on in the game so we can't just see cloud9 get content with where they are and on that note i want to ask you and pose this question where do you want to see cloud9 focus next they still have the rift herald here in blabbers inventory for about a minute and a half i honestly think that you want to take away the bastion of safety that is this mid lane tower for jensen the victor wants the freeform taking away the tier 1 opens up more opportunities for vulcan to flank to be able to pressure him and that's exactly what they're going to look to do here get some plates down in the mid lane if this is heavily contested vulcan is here to try to turn that around so they get a little bit of plate gold there two plates knocked down nearly a third as well they maybe will look like that i will say cloud9 probably not the happiest about the cloud soul here it will be very effective for udir uh the activation is also fantastic for fudge but they might have wanted a little bit more combat power you know given that they are really indexing towards the early game will still be powerful they will still try to stack towards it uh but with their composition i think they really would have hoped for something more along the lines of the mountain or the infernal soul all right armeo continues to farm up in the jungle here on the hecarim staying within striking distance of blabber but still behind the turbo kim tank ready to go which means blabbers play making has just spiked we want to see him try to make another move maybe go from a dive some sort of another fair skirmish somewhere in the map but team liquid will push out the bottom lane tactical doing a good job staying very close to zven yeah about one waves worth of cs next to this calista alistar yeah that's what i really want to point out is when you're looking for positives here for team liquid jensen farming very well alfari no longer being bullied in the top lane whatsoever he is holding his own he's got his mythic completed and the bot lane has farmed even yes they got dove and they died but they have been keeping up they are not really falling behind here so while cloud9 is doing a fantastic job pushing the game forward keeping the pace fast and looking to snowball through these neutral objectives if the gold can stay stagnant team liquid will at least be in with a chance right well we're scaling forward we'll see how it looks here in about two minutes because usually it is that third drake of the game where you start to have to make a real decision on whether or not you want to contest and this is where team liquid is gonna have to make a hard choice they could say all right it's just cloud we're willing to risk giving it up because if you contest at this third dragon and you get blasted the gold is the gold is gonna it's pretty done right they're gonna take the dragon they're gonna take your tower mid that's already low plates are down and then maybe it gets out of reach so because it is a cloud sole team liquid may be willing to give up a third dragon to buy themselves some more time to farm here you know we'll have to see exactly where the itemization does land but often these scaling teams are hoping to get towards two items before they are forced to fight but because cloud9 got that first dragon pre-seven minutes that's a pipe dream yeah seven minutes remember it's about five minutes for every respawn on the dragon so seven plus fifteen you're looking at a 22 minute soul if c9 continues to get all of those drakes on spawn which again cloud soul as you already pointed out not the most game impacting one but still just having the movement speed alone you can really make a difference in some of these fights i mean it's so frustrating when you're dealing with a new deer who does have cloud soul ridiculously fast in addition to the chem tank the phase rush can be procked you also have to remember there are these cloud circles on the map that give you these kind of zones of move speed that's really powerful for someone like renekton if you're thinking about a dragon fight he would want to be flanking from that blue buff the enemy blue buff and coming through this area if you are able to get towards cloud soul those flanks become that much more threatening because you pop the r you get the move speed and all of a sudden it's really difficult to stay away from this guy as jensen or even as tactical well azer i think we're seeing a rerun right about now because i swear i already saw this episode of this show a few minutes ago where cloud9 goes after the rift carol team liquid's not in any sort of a spot to contest and that's going to mean continued objective domination for c9 here in this game two for two on dragons two for two on rift heralds the first rift herald was only able to get the two plates the minimum value out of the charge we'll see if they just want to drop the second one i think you you drop it mid dragon spawning in five drop it immediately run towards that dragon tl is posturing to fight so they want to scrap at this dragon we'll see i mean fudge is still basing he's got to get here fast blabber is fearless running in there and core jj is already dead before he can do a damn thing team liquid have lost their support and cloud nine have lost none of their bravery they will continue moving forward towards the drake pit taking control over the river tl decides they cannot fight any longer and bad goes horse because alfari tried to tp and fudge was there he stopped it he didn't even have to use the teleport no fudge started the base and then realized all right my team's going to scrap i've got to stay around i need to be able to respond to either the teleport coming through or interrupting my opponents tax will here alt may be forced we'll see a lot of damage but tactical holds on to summoners holds on to the lt three and a half thousand gold lead five to zero on sole point at 18 minutes that's pretty good that's pretty good flowers they are doing everything that they need to do and now we can watch this one more time in they go of course aj just locked down the whole time alfari i believe he thought fudge had recalled it looked silly in that replay but fudge did back up start a recall then alfari backed up and started their tp and fudge is like ah just kidding i know what you're gonna do he moved forward he stopped it it's a heads up play there from fudge another scuttle going the way this is literally one scuttle has gone to tl in in 18 and a half minutes right that is jungle domination look at the farm he's well over 40 ahead he's gotten both dragons three dragons excuse me both heralds they took the mid lane tower and potentially setting up here but because it is core jj i don't think you go if that was tactical or a juicier target they're going over the wall well this time around they decide to not just go the completely aggro path there are three minutes and 45 seconds remaining on the clock before team liquid has to decide whether or not they just want to give that cloud soul away i don't think you can because i mean how do you fight them though this is tough man that's a tough decision to have to make for tl in this point in the game cloud9 has done such a great job accelerating things we'll see if team liquid can get those two item power spikes online like you were talking about scaling teams often like to hit that spot before they really want to engage but three minutes left does not give them a lot of time to make it happen staff of flowing water now done for perks as well so the moon staff combo this thing that has permeated the conversation about itemization for the entire split it's here it's reared its head again and it's ready to go yep move speed move speed move speed that's going to be the name of the game here baron spawning as well in 20 seconds and they're looking to go in vulcan already tanking up everybody here between two turrets a team liquid blabbers coming in to back him up our mayo with the ulti c9 just decides all right no more reason to fight back up take the turret core jj and jensen both moving forward looking to apply a little bit of wave clear but not enough and cloud9 will take their second turret of the game i mean vulcan it looks a little bit silly but he traded flash and now they're going in here on our mail who has no ulti laver went for the flash play but now he's going to be taking too much damage tackle grabbing a kill there and here comes the scion train they'll find even more damage on the plane hanging up now on the front line the shutdown goes over the tactical here and that was a big moment for team lick they're gonna go to baron blabber is dead team liquid may have just turned this game on its head c9 one fight goes bad can they even contest it i'm not sure fudge is still around but they've got no alti here on zven or on sarafi there's no seraphine ulti at all the team fight capability so limited jensen looking to zone him away nearly grabbing the kill on to the enemy 80 carry fudge jumps into the middle looking to stop everybody looking to hold him down slow it down fudge running away a little bit more damage is required to finish him off but it will not happen fudge the hero of the day diving in 1v5 to stop the baron yeah by a hare's breath he survives there pushing tl off of that baron so it just means tl get a couple kills that's good for them give them a small foothold in the game here in the flip the switch rock at replay let's see it one more time they find blabber they get the engage the seraphine peel the ultimate coming across not being that effective and fudge was still pretty far out it's a heads up play from core jj someone you can always rely on in these really tough positions but cloud9 in the 3v5 they're strong enough they played it well enough to be able to withstand and they are now one minute away from seoul you can see second items coming through here for a number of cloud9 members we'll see if then finishes his but sterics in for the top lane dead man's in for the jungle you already touched on the moon staff and there's the second item as well for zven so cloud nine is power spiking at the perfect time here and i do want to point out a pretty big power spike item for alfari as well upgrading bramble into thornmail remember this now allows him to proactively apply grievous wounds by landing hard cc on opponents it's pretty hard to put grievous wounds onto someone like a seraphine when you only have a bramble since why on earth would she be auto attacking you but now alfar is the one who gets to make the decision that should work out pretty well for them for having a little bit more team fight control but tl must now take the fight or surrender the cloud soul they need jensen to walk all the way down here or he might have to tp if it's forced too early i like this positioning from budge this is really smart he knows that tl has bot lane prio so they would enter the dragon pit through this area he has a good angle here we have to track summoners no flash jensen no flash on tactical but missing flashes as well on everyone on the cloud9 side so this could be a very explosive fight if anyone missed positions they could be punished perks also has barrier keep that in mind seraphine is ready to go tank up a little bit more this van is applying lots of spears to the dragon here this will be incredibly difficult to try to contest vulcan takes a little bit of damage here alfari on the front line losing about one third hp down to half now dragging at 3k more damage being applied armeo and blab are both right next to it you know they want to contest these dragons gonna be focused now it's able to be slain by team liquid and the fight breaks out with the onslaught of shadows into the back line everybody on cloud9 gonna be taking very low tech will stay in alive here with a nice use of the ulti c9 health bars dropping and they will not be able to find victory in this team fight they will not be able to find this dragon soul and team liquid brings it to life it's the engage from core jj it's the steal from our mayo massive the sub for santorin coming up huge they deny the soul they are back towards the baron will they commit to the play here we go tl second time in the baron pit here this game but remember the difference between this and the first one blabber is alive we could still contest jensen is keeping him away the power of the victor the zone control of this champion will mean that blabber has no entryway into the baron pit and after 20 minutes of cloud9 domination it's team liquid coming back into the game it's that scaling power that composition here's my non-sarcastic shout out to jack this is how you scale into the late game baby all right back to the dragon here armeo it is the 50 50. he gets it and then core jj in catching the carries armeo following up with the fear when tactical gets that kill over onto zven and survives himself that fight was over jensen had already forced out renekton's ulti early when he pressured him off the flank so renekton is down on ulti much less of a damage threat you've got seraphine mid and your kalista just died so you got nothing look at those damage comparisons of zale the damage of 4780. everybody else on cloud9 only adds up to a grand total of like a thousand more than jensen that's just incredible victor scaling good team fighting from him the aoe power that champion cannot be understated and now i'd say the tables have turned but we threw the damn table out the window onto the front lawn team liquid they're 400 gold behind i am sorry they're about 300 gold in the lead and they're the ones in the driver's seat it's two turrets to two turrets they will continue having to defend the dragon soul for the rest of the game that's always going to be a pressure that looms over their heads but for now they get to try to shore up some more of this gold and get themselves into a strong stance for the rest of the game absolutely and they know they pulled it off there they're going to be in an even better spot next time because they are stacking up all of this gold taking down towers you can already see the baron buff granting them an additional 3 000 gold in their favor they're gonna be pretty well set up for this next fight i love the fact that they're also making sure to get down all this vision between these turrets even though they've been behind up until now they recognize their lead they want to see if maybe cloud9 is just a little bit too comfortable might walk into a blind spot and set them up for a pick in the meantime they'll just continue applying pressure onto the tier 2 turret here in the mid lane tier 2 bottom already fell this will give them complete control over the bottom side cloud 9 jungle but the baron is only live for another 45 seconds so cloud9 have been doing a good job of enduring this so far they haven't given away any extra kills and that's kind of just the name of the game try to protect this inhibitor line don't let tl have the base and tl will take that tier two and walk it right back into the jungle jail definitely not able to end here but damn that's a that's a good baron buff that they were able to get there you know with all of these additional jungle camps they're gonna be taken away you know they're really expanding the gold lead here for themselves they were very far behind they are now a couple thousand gold ahead with a superior scaling composition so the game is in their hands now cloud9 has fully lost control you know they were able to utilize a lot of the what they drafted for for early game pressure for the dragon stacking but they didn't get a lot of additional gold onto the calista this goes to alistar mostly was just used for pressure around that bottom side team lick was able to farm evenly mid lane was able to keep that farm coming in alfari wasn't punished after the early minutes so after that early rush of kills that blabber was able to enable they just started stacking objectives and they couldn't continue pushing that gold lead forward so really when tl gets that one big fight and steals away your soul you're kind of left holding not a lot of anything as far as your advantages go that something sounded pretty heavy metal man team liquid just stealing away their souls stealing away their hopes and their dreams and honestly that's the story of how it's going right about now but c9 not ever a team to just quietly lose the game we'll see them have another shot at the dragon soul here in about 20 seconds on the flank armeo swooping around here potentially from behind here we go how far he's the one taking the damage armor goes after sven but now he's into the front line looking for everybody else tackle up into the air bringing it back getting away here with the flash flapper looking to chase him down fudge doing the same our mayo with the onslaught of shadows says get the hell off of my carry team liquid are able to find yet another kill for themselves fudge looks to continue the fight here taking the health bars very low it's a one for one trade make it a one for two perks running away here armeo again the shutdown on the tactical is going to come through but it's still a triple kill over the jensen team liquid get themselves a four for two fight and they're going down middle this could potentially be an inhibitor here fudges got a tp back it will be another dragon going the way of tl and damn they are team fighting so well protecting their carries keeping fudge off of him and despite the fact that zven was able to dodge the early engage and free hit throughout that fight he's got a peashooter he's doing nothing to scion armeo if you watch this vodback later man i am so proud of the way that he is playing these team fights right now he engages he saves the ulti he doesn't waste anything yeah absolutely you can see sven getting forward here he flashed the initial engage hitting on core jj can't take him on now he's on elfari you see the team peeling back taking blabber and fudge off of tactical who utilized everything in his kit to be able to create that distance utilizing the items the summoners the alt to be able to stay alive and then after blabber is knocked out after the front line is knocked out they stepped forward alfari still alive having tanks then throughout this entire fight and really they just cannot threaten this ion at all you don't have a serious ap threat and because you are not enough ahead of the curve that's three completed armor items for alfari plus how do you kill him you can't i mean zven auto attacked the man like 30 or 40 times and you break his shield if you're lucky he had a good day maybe he detonates it a little bit early randuins thornmail frostfire gauntlet plated steel caps why on earth would you need ap seraphine's got a moon staff now let's see how they're ready to stop this here again team liquid the gold lead is still very close remember that 2 000 gold separating the squads the biggest difference we're seeing in these team fights now is the fact that team liquid has drafted for scaling they've drafted for team fighting we're 30 minutes into the game now they're fully online next drake's not alive for three and a half minutes but baron is on the board and it's up to cloud9 that'll have to check into the darkness that is team liquid's map control here so far scryers trinket is going to find that one so they will at least know that team liquid is up to something they'll stop them there they're back on it fudge grabs a little bit of damage onto armeo so c9 knows the enemy jungler is not actually in the pit might just take the blast cone hero mayo is going to take a lot of damage but the blast cone ends up getting him away still with about 60 percent hp vulcan's already activated alistar alti here in the pit taking a lot of damage now vulcan has to be pulled to safety over by sven how far he tanks up everybody it's fudging to the back it's fudge grabbing a kill on a tactical oh so many shutdowns coming out and cloud9 will destroy this fight team liquid only their front line remains alfari is mortal after all and that was a huge four for nothing for c9 that is absolutely massive and they're going towards mid lane here looking like they want to try to go potentially towards an inhibitor and then peel back for the baron maybe i don't think that the spawn timers are long enough to go for an end but they may prove me wrong they are posturing so aggressively the fact that they didn't even stop for the baron for even a second says they maybe think they can end this ten seconds on tactical encore jj 15 are moving forward 20 on alfari it's our mayo versus the world and our mayo is trying to cut the weight going forward right back in looking for some of the minions here core jj has also respawned and rejoined the effort armeo still tanking up everybody he's drawn all the minions away our mayo will die but the nexus stays alive yeah they're gonna be able to stay alive but because they kill the jungler you go back to baron anyway you start to threaten this and cloud9 had a perfect team fight there layering the cc fudge coming from behind vulcan engaging overlapping with the seraphinal everything hitting at the same time and team liquid did not have the established battle lines there that they had in the previous teamfight wins but they are still coming they're still looking to scrap here and stop this bear and fudge though on the flank vulcan posturing for a turn and seraphine has ultimate vulcan just dies immediately and core jj goes in sven's gonna be double killed jetson's able to find the damage c9 just falls over they got erased i mean vulcan i think had his ultimate there look like he just didn't get it off zven goes down immediately the wheels fall off for cloud nine tl finds the engage finds the fight here and they surely will claim the dr the baron here now and there's still about 50 seconds into the dragon spawn so it's not like they're giving away a cloud soul to take this so tl total control over the bear and pit what an incredible back and forth the past two minutes of this game have been a sale no kidding and i mean cloud9 now are going to be kicking themselves for overextending on a potential end right they saw the angle to maybe force an end they could have just tried to get the inhibitor and immediately back but they spent the additional time allowing team liquid to respawn let's watch this one more time he goes in and that was core jj stunning him right on it he stunned him out of his combo and then goes in catches ben of course who else it's core jj champion this guy is too damn clean on the rail and now for cloud nine this is probably your last hope here you're trying to look for another big play a perfect cc combo around this dragon they are still on soul point we'll see if they can get it but tl is here in time they are posturing effectively jensen on the side let's see what they got cloud9 control over the drake team liquid coming in drake's going to be taken down away by our mayo you got to be kidding me vulcan's the target here as team liquid is able to focus him down through the ulti onslaught of shadows into the middle of everyone armeo about to die but the stasis keeps him alive tactical finishes off flabber and fudge just has too much focus on him to do anything in that back line how far he stays alive how on earth are you gonna kill him wren looked like it did about 45 damage ah that's a raid boss survivor song when they might have gotten to phase two but he ain't dead yet no baby the enraged timer has completed and team liquid is marching down mid lane there is 30 seconds on blabber and fudge vulcan will be back alive here in 10. we'll see if team liquid believes they can end or not remember they are only a four-man squad did have to die in the last fight how far he goes in scion ulti won't find a whole lot but we can see the turrets start to fall very rapidly perks at about half hp alfari backing away now doesn't want to continue tanking up the turret saufari very very low sven coming in for the damage here core jj wants to engage perks grabbing the kill on alfari c9 looking to pick up two and there it is for the seraphine mid but zven went down he died in the last tick it looked like of that victor alti could not get out so they do hold on this is a game that is getting so tight down to the wire here team liquid thought they would be able to end but cloud nine holding on but it has been three straight dragons for team liquid off the back of two incredible steals from our mail let's watch this one more time that's about a thousand spears in the back of el faro yeah it looks like he's about to die but the shield comes back up they go in but look at the burst from victor on his vent pushing him back and then he just gets clipped by the edge there he's trying to lifesteal maybe could have just straight up ran away from the fight and avoided that last tick and then survived but perks comboing well with vulcan holding on to the base they're still in with a chance but it's getting more and more favored towards the side of team liquid as they scale more and more into this game you've got to look towards your play-making you've got to look for vulcan or fudge to be able to find a really good angle to get you an early kill on the victor or the xayah i mean at this point it almost feels like it has to be the victor because yeah is running the show he has 100 kill participation and a single death and full build yeah he's got a mega soul stealer because he's just writing everybody's name down in the death note he's ready to go jensen is ready to carry this game and honestly i want to point everybody's attention over towards the inhibitor timers in the bottom left part of your screen right there team liquid just had their mid lane inhibitor respawn the cloud9 inhibitor mid is down for another three minutes but the drake spawns in just a little bit over two so that means there will be extra pressure on this map that should result in very easy drake control for the side of tl and one of the things some people out there might be saying you know why do i keep talking about the importance of the soul cloud soul isn't going to change this game one of the biggest things is that when you get soul you spawn elder dragon elder dragon can swing the game if you can get some sort of a kill on the elder dragon as cloud 9 scaling kind of stops mattering in the face of the elder dragon in a lot of situations it's such an incredible amount of additional damage plus the game right exactly it was supposed to be that the end game condition as you say but because deal has gotten three straight dragons two steals elder has never even showed his ugly face and we're nearly 40 minutes into the game i love how afari gets stunned up blabber runs forward to give him an extra stun just to let him poke by the time blabber runs up next to him his shields down to 20 health but you've never actually heard him yet it's just so difficult the gold graph back and forth here this game very blue for a very long time yep and then since then we've had a tug of war the gold is still not even 2 000 apart as we're almost just about one minute until the drake that must be a soul for one side or the other it's been our mayo stealing these away from blabber the mvp here in this first game we'll see if it comes down to that here again for this final drake contest or whether or not one side will just be able to control things through a team fight alfari i i wish i knew how much bonus hp he has stacked up in that w because good lord man it's got to be a thousand it's got to be like 2 000 at this point the man is huge i'd also be remiss to not mention the fact that you know it's not just blabber it's about the combination between zven and blabber right you have the wren plus the smite if you're comboing that perfectly you should be able to secure that they also potentially have the ability to knock the hecarim away with their alistar but of course in a lot of these situations vulcan is having to use his combo earlier in the fight to try to keep carries out you know these fights are complex and so much of it is going to be about positioning and team liquid they are set up first fudge is looking for a wide wrap around but dl's just going now wow holy cow blabbers at 300 hp i think it's safe to say tactical has scaled my friend and this is what you were comparing in the draft a calista and the power of that early game the power of that playmaking versus a traditional scaling crit marksman yep this is what that looks like as tactical is set off to potentially be in trouble here but now he's able to escape with the lt jensen coming right back into the fight lots of wombo lots of combo vulcan's tanking up but blabber is going to be taken low fudge trying to apply the pressure into the back line with core jj being the first to die cloud9 go 1-0 here in this exchange and now they're marching up towards the baron pit they're saying all right you want the drake you can have it but we're going for baron but that's seoul so that's pretty big deal there it's not just that baron for a dragon trade it is for the soul but they didn't feel that they would be able to enter the fight through the victor and that is the key difference here so they are going for more power right now they're saying we've got to end this game it's getting away from us they're out scaling us what is going to give us the boost we need immediately and their call is it's the baron buff and that was a really well played fight there from cloud9 fudge deserves so much credit he really created the space that denied team liquid from following up on what was a beautiful engage from core jj you know they see jensen is down on the dragon now look at corej here on the engage he catches everybody but fudge is coming in flashing forward onto the carry pushing them back saying no you cannot follow up on that damage you could not burst down my carries because if you try to get forward i will kill you off very very good job from him recognizing what his role in the fight had to be being able to disengage as well before he has to sacrifice his own life to provide that disruption so now we got two minutes and 11 seconds in the red bull baron buff this is the amount of time that cloud9 sacrificed the soul for if these next two minutes do not bring cloud9 a very vigorous amount of resources then that trade wasn't worth yeah yeah and it will buy them some time towards this elder where maybe they can try to make something happen you've got to say cloud9 has held on very well you know they have gotten themselves to this difficult position it felt like they were massively ahead early then team liquid had really taken over the ultimate cooldowns by the way are going to be like nothing on the side of teams like minus 40 now or something crazy it gets ridiculous so some of these champions are just going to have such easy access you know victor could use alt almost to poke people out at this point in the game and just probably have it come back up before the fights happen so you really got to be careful about tracking those cooldowns effectively you pretty much just have to expect heel will always have them available fudge pushing in bot lane so the sea mine four man squad has got to be careful they don't get hard engage on okay alfari is going in blabber's the target they won't be able to lock him down enough udyr is very very quick victor but hey it's it's going to be back up very soon i don't have the exact number in front of me but we can watch the little cool down icon there on the side victor's ultimate is now one quarter off cooldown yeah it's it's looking like a 30 40 second cooldown and they do get the mid lane inhibitor so good job blabber blocks the scion ulti fudge takes down the tier 2 bot so they're getting something done here the question is was it worth the trade to be fair maybe they didn't even have an option of going towards the soul and that could be the call they made they have prepped waves in all three lanes that is a good job from them and now they are moving up towards this top lane seeing if they can get more i mean if you could take a third inhibitor or a second inhibitor excuse me that would be a dream for them to really put some pressure on or not blabber excuse me fudge just changed his mythic item from a stride breaker to a pro fudge just said okay stride breaker doesn't matter i don't need to be more of a bruiser the way that we win these fights is his pressure on to carries yeah i mean look at jensen he has the bansheesville in there there is no zonias no so if you actually do get through that if you can get on top of him knock off the banshee's veil you know with an e or something like that prowler's claw empowered stun stack it up burst him down that is a potentially game-winning play and i think that is such a smart read from fudge recognizing win conditions saying all right yeah how do we win this game it's got to be a pick on the jensen it's got to be a pick on a carry okay what is going to let me do that prowler's cough boom done that is heads up playing we'll see if it can pay off okay we've got elder drake spawning in just over two minutes i feel like that's what this comes down to is ale you already said hey it kind of invalidates scaling unless you're just way scaled super far ahead but for a game where pretty much everyone's full build now for a game that is this close i feel like we're going to get a 45 minute game that comes down to an elder drake team fight man i'm all right i mean if you're tl you're saying all right well we got our mayo who you got he's been landing these smites and it may come down to one of those secures i mean if you have a 50 50 and someone gets the elder that is boom combat power for your squad right off the bat and at 45 minutes a team fight win will be game over if it is decisive both the inhibitors are open in mid lane here so it's a pretty quick march down mid to end a game if someone gets aced team liquid continue just trying to keep the waves as pushed up as possible have as much control over this map as they can drake one minute 15 seconds away you can see a couple of pings on to fudge here they're saying all right we see that he's up there we see that he's backing they will not be able to do anything about that of course he's way too far away so fudge is able to reset let's take a look the thing is here too considering we have so many players at full itemization at full build the amount of wards that you can bring to a situation like this and place down and control around these objectives is reduced if somebody sticks out if you don't have a slot for a control board absolutely and that's why you have to have really good game sets you have got to be aware of where your opponents could be because a flank can absolutely decide the game it becomes incredibly important to mark where they could be flanking from you know if you're the alistar being aware where is our mail where could it be coming from and tl have got to stay aware of wherever fudge could be coming from here also tl walking towards the mid lane here it's cloud9 with control over the bottom side river it's core jj who's rooted it's vulcan over the wall c9 looking for a little bit here how far he's already jumped in vulcan tank of the damage doesn't look like anybody's going to get much of anything considering it was only tanks on either side that got caught out and team liquid are saying okay go after the elder we dare you we'll trade you team liquid with the inside route into the enemy base do they go for the fight i think c9 may just try to collapse on them from both sides and this could be a game-deciding fight this will be an incredible ending one way or the other inhibitor has fallen fudge running away he's isolated from the rest of the team and cloud9 are coming in for the pinstrip assault now vulcan already using the ulti our mayo running away trying to disengage vulcan thrown into the back line here with a lot of damage being placed down over the front lines shut down tactical is gone but so is perks they've still got jensen alive on the side of tl and they're still in the cloud nine base it is a one for one both junglers are still alive if this turns into an elder drake but tl will be repelled for now but dl have the inside track to the dragon now they're gonna go straight to this elder for sure and c9 have got to get over there have got to be in position to stop it blabber there's danger of a face check here he sees them now he is tanky blabber runs in no hard cc can be applied in time is fast enough to run out of the way of the gravity well team liquid disengaging they're going right back into another bush they want so badly for cloud9 to just commit one error walking too close yeah look where fudge is though he's on the flank so if cloud9 can push them back towards the dragon they may not see fudge coming here but elfari is marking him or was at the very least and blabber now trying to get around but this does leave their bot lane separated from the rest of the squad 10 seconds on both dead players perks has a teleport tactical does not that's critical this will quickly turn into a 5v4 if team liquid is not cognizant of those timers our mayo may get jumped on by vulcan no they're going to force b they're forcing the outer drake they're saying you got to answer now we've got kalista and we've got blabber they want this objective fight going down tactical needs to find his way into this but he needs to avoid fudge in the process fudge is coming around from the flank tactical's got him locked down fudge is running away alfari looking to waste some time here on the front line make sure they're not able to burn down the drake vulcan disengages fudge disengages injured health bars on both sides taxable doing a good job trying to whittle these guys away but there's so much healing on seraphine flavor tries to back up get again with so much damage they're going in here for the fight now team liquid tactical's able to take down blabber elder drake's still alive spin get the return kill of the core jj perks gonna be forced to tank up now with our mayo take it out next the dragon tactical the dragon goes over to team liquid the fight goes to team liquid and the ace for team liquid that'll do it it's the game-winning fight tactical gets the elder dragon there it is not the callista it is not the udir you want to talk about his tristana jumps fine but you better not be disrespecting the man's team fight prowess the victory in game one 20-19 48 minutes in tl started off with a win wow what a game there to start us off here the mid-season showdown finals really delivering cloud9 came out hot out of the gates that was like 40 minutes ago so people might forget cloud members the early game there and that was more what people were expecting from the series they were expecting cloud nine to come out to smack them down tl said no and i have really got to credit our mail i mean yesterday against spika that was one thing he stood up there had some smite steals and people were saying yeah but today's blabber you're gonna get crushed the early game did go the way of blabber but he stole away two critical dragons that prevented cloud9 from getting the soul they're the ones that eventually did end up getting it and jensen as well what a monster oh man he was he was knocking people down left and right he was positioning incredibly well against a team that was trying to dive him over and over and over and i want to see the champion damage because i think victor lit it up there's there's no way anybody else was even close right like just the amount that he poured into every single team fight i hope we get five games of this yes what what a game man for 48 minutes back and forth and back and forth and it comes down to the elder dragon fight and both junglers are dead and there's just oh there's no better way to start off legendary this is why we play the game man this is why it's so much fun i'm so glad i didn't have to be sitting down for this game i'm just so happy that we get to be back and be a part of this what an incredible way to start off our grand finals here between c9 and tl obviously it's tl walking away with the lead now one to zero we get to see what sort of changes they're gonna make what sort of adaptations they'll make both on the rift and in the draft but team liquid are riding high after landing the first blow in our best of five series and when we return we're heading over to the state farm analyst desk to break down the win

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Length: 53min 48sec (3228 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 11 2021