DK vs. EDG | Worlds Finals | DWG KIA vs. Edward Gaming | Game 1 (2021)

welcome ladies and gentlemen to the caster desk for the 2021 world finals i'm atlas i'm proud to be joined by kobe and vedius gentlemen it all comes down to this finally two first seeds in the final and that shining summoners cup in the middle of it all atlas drawing everyone's attention let's jump right in to the picks and bands yumi and twisted fate from red side no surprise here expect these to remain but lee sin is a big question i feel like every team that was given canyon lee sin has regretted it and what is their final band going to be are they going to cover jungle and already how interesting is this the lissandra band comes out from darwin to say hey wanna ban lee we'll take leblanc oh you want to remove the block we'll take lee this is a trap car they set up the trap they have a free band they may as well throw it out there the lease in as you said going to be banned away obviously leblanc the follow up but now what do we do on the other side jin's been such high priority jarvan's still available as well i love the gin point because it rose to astronomical levels of priority in the t1dk series and ghost showing that he does have other options though because now gin taken away he has gone to the ziggs which also gives you long range safe wave clear or even the draven which i expect a much less chance of because jin's already decent pick into draven so this puts more priority more crunch time on that uh ziggs possibility and that kind of loads you up with ap so the bottom lane there it is they don't hesitate with that ap all right question answered immediately thank you very much i really like it but the whole top lane champion pool is wide open both of these top laners love their js love their graves and if you've got a ziggs in the bottom lane you need tons of ad damage the lethality becomes all that more valuable and so now that graves or jace looking real juicy for dumpling they certainly do and khan khan jace would be uh would be so big for him in his last professional series oh yeah iconic champion for him but they're gonna go with support down on bottom side grab that recon up very quickly this has been a super high priority champion as far as the engaged supports go yes there have been more and more enchanters creeping in but rakan puts a lot of threat on those and you can combine with ziggs for some very surprising kill opportunities as well well i am a little surprised to see the rise of course if you've looked at scout's match history you probably wouldn't it is top of the list but he's played 11 unique champions videos right but his most played is definitely the rise so it's a big comfort pick for him and when you kind of look at the mid jungle duel yes it can certainly be strong but picking it into leblanc showmaker loves this match if it was one that he was more than happy to play into faker himself and was able to get the better of him in especially when paired up with the kiana and this is something i'd love to see edg ban away i like the talon band but they also need to take canon off that kiana because of how well it enables the leblanc but then of course xin zhao still up and available so you know that canyon's options are still very very wide yeah big thing for dom is that they have been so flexible especially canyon and showmaker and the champion pools so they have a lot of confidence to be able to get through the second round of the fans here but i i just love that we're still seeing similar trends continue for both of these teams and edg have focused very heavily on team fighting and still went uh you know with that set up for jarvan you mentioned the the rise and the possibilities for affecting those side lanes i want to see the question of flandre they already banned out the cannon here from topside by dk but if they also leave the graves up that feels like a no-brainer with it being picked over and over and over for them i really like the leona removal as well here from dom one it is something that mako did bring out even though throughout this tournament he has been playing a lot of range supports showcasing the leona was a big answer last week in their semi-finals that helped them pull through but with the cannon gone with the gwen still open it could be an option for darwin but when you already have an ap bot side of the map perhaps edg is sitting there saying well we expect you to do an ad top jungle right now and that means the grave should be a pretty solid blind yeah and so far this draft looks like the meta combined with edg it's pretty quintessential right now but if you look over the other side darwin are doing a similar thing to what we saw t1 try to do against edg in their first matchup which is probably going to be the jace ziggs sort of pseudo poke composition for late game thread around objectives and things like this as that's the so never mind yes never mind and that's khan playing yasuo as well yes we were looking for the spicy picks in game one exactly we get it in game number one here definitely will create a volatile top side of the map and that's one of the two things pulling these two teams in different directions in a lot of cases where edg is so much focused on viper on the bottom side and yet dom one expected to put a lot of pressure on the top triangle of the map that mid jungle top lane picks now they've got zinn leblanc and yasuo at top side that is as spicy as you get those are very volatile lanes with lots of kill pressure and now mako's looking at one of these engage supports you guys have already mentioned that we haven't seen him so far okay never mind we're putting a clock in the bottom lane instead all right the spice wasn't reserved just for damn one it is of course also for edg as the zillion is locked in lost zillion is so good versus teams that have large amounts of burst damage and and dom one definitely do have uh have that in spades they've invested in it it's gonna come down to some very quick timings and quick fingers zillion can be a big flop if you don't get it off uh before the recon engage it's all about bursting people down before you get that cool down out or having good positioning and utilizing the speed to keep your spacing between your carry oh i'm just so excited about this matchup first game already we've got very unique drafts and gentlemen this is khan's first ever professional yasuo game and it's in the world finals potentially his final series what a time to pull it out perhaps fishing for a world's good maybe we were having a chat about this weren't we kobe we were wondering whether there was going to be a sneaky riven game thrown in or something but instead he's gone with the yasuo and i'm very much looking forward to seeing what he's been cooking up in solo queue and behind the scenes for us because when khan debuted he was all aggression he was basically a rhythm one trick when he made his debut which was many years ago now to come back to his roots here in game one of the final is uh yep that takes some stones i love how both teams are making adjustments here uh on the other side edg taking one of the tools that t1 used against dom 1 successfully early on to counter some of the the first options that they had in the zillion now it's about executing though and actually piloting that well they've also invested in stealing away the gin from ghost and we have seen some very big pick opportunities off of this champion so we'll see if they can make it happen so excited getting into the world finals here yeah here we are under the rift for game number one of the 2021 world championship already i think the teams have delivered these drafts feeling very edgy feeling very dumb on kia especially the top lane feeling very calm at the moment so the first thing i would like to draw our attention to as we wave the camera is beryl is running predator on rakan he is all about the roans it seems like that each dharma member is taking it in turns as to who will run predator perhaps we'll see a car in front of the top lane later on in the series but what is crucial here and what is something that we need to focus on is when we saw showmaker drafting this leblanc into the rise in the semi-finals it was constantly attacking that mid lane looking to shut scout down and when you have the rakan xinjiao leblanc combo i expect darwin to be looking to do the same thing again and this is them learning off of their series versus t1 one of the ways that you want to try and punish the zillion pick is either try and go super hard at the zillion in lane very weak early laning phase and is much more for scaling or you just roam heavy and the predator is really signaling that yes he definitely wants to go rome heavy here barrel i feel like has really been an underappreciated part of this don juan lineup since the msi under performances from him but especially this year at worlds he has been a integral part of the entire amount of success that they have had here in this big run yeah and of course beryl took that under performance at msi and brought it to the summer season as well it was not a great time for beryl all the way up until the world championship but ladies and gentlemen we want to hear from you use that hashtag verizon5g all chat and let us know how you feel about the world final are these compositions exactly what you wanted to see is some bifo on the bottom side here viper throwing out some bullets not quite the fourth one just yet but edg with control of the wave now we can see that both junglers are doing opposite paths to one another with the xin zhao starting on the bop side passing towards top looking to potentially cover khan in the event of any early ganks or perhaps to look for a potential gank themselves or meanwhile jj starting up on the top side pathing towards what where he expects to have prio with the jin and the zillion you should have pushed in the early two of us too especially against the ziggs who doesn't have the strongest weight for early on so he should be able to secure himself that first skeletal crab of the game yeah and exactly and the reason that edg went for the d board on blue buff and gromp that you can see right now for flandre is because you want to get the most out of the early pushing there with graves you know you're going to shove lane early so they've got the early vision here on the blue up that will expire knowing that canyon started bottom side and should be able um to play accordingly flandre he's already been able to bounce his wave off of the tower and and should be playing around as vedia said the opposite side starts for these junglers yeah and it looked like that ward didn't quite spot canyon but did give them enough information right they knew that he hadn't headed towards that blue buff area just yet yeah it's the process of elimination yeah jungle camps early cannot be anywhere else they're very easy uh to actually track and coordinate with just one single deep ward so it will be traded scuttle crabs and as you can see after bouncing the wave andre playing it much more safe even stayed up here let's khan push back thank you observers so much he's uh you know playing around jungle presence very big for mid laners to also do this it's it's a much less obvious way where they just kind of hover up to the side where their jungler is but is uh equally as important and showmaker should be able to catch this one and as we get close to those first backs because you can already start to see them come out from a few members it will be this level four from beryl where you need to keep track of what he is looking for elsewhere on the map because we do know that he loves to row we do know that he loves to try and make plays pretty much everywhere that he can on the map and you only have to look at some of the stats to identify some of those early game plays yeah i love it and you can see here displayed in the graphic how high of a dual proximity mako has on the other side guess what with zillion that's going to remain very very high giving over experience there with the passive and barrels is going to be extremely low we expected a back first purchase of boots so that he can use that predator to go make that support jungle play early on and i really love that mako is just showing his versatility right he basically designed engaged support play over in the lpl and has this world's demonstrated that he has a whole nother string to that bow of course and he's been just playing for so long it's really cool to see so many enchanters he fully embraced the yumi meta he certainly did a bunch of yumi there as well and it does go into this team being so constructed around viper and viper's success having a look at falandre just shoving that wave in once again yasuo i'm not exactly having the greatest of times in the early laning phase but which yasuo does you know the enemy teams yeah and in the early stages especially up on top side is just looking to use the wind wall to avoid damage while still picking up cs and then you can get some kill threats since you have a xin zhao uh once you get post level six you've got knock ups from barrel you've got knockouts from zin even later ziggs can throw satchel charges and set you up so they've they've shown here uh that they can definitely coordinate towards the later stages and there's barrels first rome he has his predator boots and he just comes over to support showmaker as scout uh and mako already showing here and shoving the wave in to get first move yeah feels like a bit of a chess match at the moment moving the pieces around but not actually going for any takes i mean i always love it the first game of a best of five especially finals there's just so much pressure mounting even as we have calm trades of cs and uh and the draft kind of plays out as expected but really for all of these players and we see barrel slowly returning to the bottom side their entire years worth of work all of those scrims all of those solo queue games all of that practice all those reviews are distilled down to this one series and everything rides on this so just a little bit of pressure but you're quite right and you know that in that first game the person that makes the first play often is not always the one that's best set up for success so it's about who will strike first who will be the first to try and mount that lead because right now the gold is dead even it has just been a large part of trading the cs is even across the board no early drakes have been prioritized but it is this herald that we have seen be a big part of the first contention as we are getting closer to that point we're going to keep track of who looks to move first and these crucial items fights yeah jj on the bottom side of the map at the moment but as is canyon we're one minute away from that herald spawn like you were talking about and it's very dark in the bottom side river for don juan kia ooh so they weren't seen walking in but the moment that control war drops darwin gets information as to where edg is now they're looking to contest this red buff and because scout has to push in the mid lane he will be able to assist so he should be able to secure themselves the first enemy red and this is very basic timer control here's the realm warp though yeah let's see whether ghost can survive this one he might be able to as barrels also battling dancing his way out but it doesn't work first blood goes to scout an edg so well executed by edg and it was about to go over the timings that are expected when you know because you put the ward as edg up onto the blue buff so there is a guaranteed red buff start for dom juan you know that around 6 50 6 45 second buff spawn comes up from the one that they started on and so they go for the invade on that second round but what they weren't really accounting for was the realm warp in the bottom lane vedius gets a little bit lackadaisical they do not respect the all-in potential of edg and the lpl first on the board but look at the answer here from don juan because showmaker tp's back into mid to guarantee that he can get the push barrel after his death immediately roamed mid and he gets level six as highlighted by cadre earlier utilizing that midway being able to get that extra bit of experience he's going to have that level lock and edg i think they're going to want to contest yeah already getting into the pit here the teleport does come out grand entrance onto the job and they hold him up the ulti is too good from khan great stun comes through but it's too late for mako and now domon kia moved back to the herald ghost now getting them out of there and the hextech minefield is just too strong and that is a comfortable take for don juan kia plus a kill darwin were first on position and they punished jj perfectly with the numbers advantage darwin can easily secure the objective and just like that we're back to one to one on the kill board yeah you can say that again the coordination from edg is not there on the top side play trying to come punish the the early start on rift trail but they're so distinct that is you know going right over the back of the wall there good focus fire from dk to punish but that is that has given one back you know uses the blast cone then you see barrel immediately move in to try and push him out once he lands that knock up as we talked about there's so many setups for this yasuo and this is where you get the combination you get hit with one knock-up instantly dead full combo from don juan well played by them to punish and this was something that we see from edg during their semi-finals as well where a lot of their engage comes off the back of jeju so if he's gone there is no more follow-up you are very reliant on him to start the fights for you and to be able to close the gap against this dom one composition so really good target focus there from dom one uh but the gold still in the favor for now in favor of edg yeah edg simply have to be much more precise with their timings here you can't can't leave anyone out to straggle there and if you do you have to respect the all-in uh you know no flash blown or anything like that we're in the world though now uh living with this rift held in the hands of canyon and when you have ziggs on your team it also has that extra level of threat that you can move the zigs around to the same lane and oftentimes especially if you've done some early work on that tower you can just rip trail into satchel charge and blow up a first objective so that's the predator game could be very explosive now if i be able to sidestep the grand entrance so not quite able to predator his way forward enough there was beryl but still gets viper out of the way not able to get any summon spells just yet though as in goes show maker as i say that svg parabellum says oh my god khan is going out with a statement someone kia for the win let's go boys well yeah followed up on the recon knock up quite well with the yanto ultimate there that r button is working i'd like to just like raise a point that you brought up though the level six that was gained by beryl and not mako was so important there if mako has the ultimate all of that chain cc and that lock down on a single target isn't quite as powerful because the jarvan just hops back up again so this could be very important moving further forward in the game it certainly could be and i think that right now the only reason why edg have that gold lead is because they were able to secure a place made they secured a plate and bought but dom won't have this herald in their back pocket the question is where they want to invest it you could go to the ziggs lane in theory because of course you do have the satchel charge to be able to secure towers early but it depends on where you want to invest your money perhaps it makes more sense to try and funnel more gold into khan when you know he's going to be one of your big late game threats in a side lane and in team fights as well or perhaps you just want to break that mid tower because you know cj against scout with his wave clear could be difficult with this composition from darwin in the early game at least close but not quite a cigar there yeah mid lane tower would definitely be the ideal situation to get down early it's just such a big objective when you do have the setup here that don juan do with possibilities of showmakers leblanc one of the most feared combinations that we have in the tournament getting fed early with the early kill actually going to him he's the one to get the last hit onto jj which is very important for them but if you then take the mid tower and let him roam around with this assassin pick you lose control of your brush and that makes your rotations between objectives so much longer because you have to respect all this extra positioning and your lack of vision and i've had a few requests gentlemen um since we announced that we were going to be doing the final a lot of requests for no cloud souls and thankfully our first drake is in fact a cloud drake so no cloud souls for game number one i'm sad that uh most of you guys at home probably gonna be a bit happy i mean i think also this is one of those games when you have gin plus zillion the clown stall would have been great it came up too early i was very upset as harold is going to charge into the mid lane grab some plates here as barrel sidesteps the stun from viper and edg have to just lose a few plates but otherwise not too much more from edgy's perspective this is really best case scenario for there you know it's dropped it's not really used optimally you only get a couple plates and darn one realized that there's not that much time left for us to get that much gold but that mid lane tower still stays healthy so with edg holding this small gold lead i think they're still feeling pretty comfortable for the time being they also threatened moving ziggs towards mid though so here we go there's the predator again quickness tied in with it as well and scout has nowhere to go beryl tanks up the turret for a long time but he can they're going to be fine and that's just the pick from the 2v2 in the mid lane and we talked about this coming out of the draft would damn one look to attack mid lane and this is the first successful gank that we're able to see from barrel chains he's seeing up scout perfectly he doesn't have the cleanse to get away from the charm ends up falling to the setup from the leblanc as well and now dom one for the first time in the game hold themselves at the gold league and you need to look back at how they set that up in the rift trailed play rotating the entire bottom lane over with ziggs coming through they clear out this vision if you see in the in the top side river there and then barrel coming back for the repeat on that rakan making good on his catch here on to scout again this is another pick by the rakan no flash blown by the target and kill successful is given over as far as the dragon though first one picked up for edg and let's remember that they do have some good scaling options on their side namely with that zillion to counter some of the burst damage options as well as some side lane opportunities for ryze i wanted to talk a little bit about this because oftentimes we talk about scaling when it comes to uh comps like this but let's have a look at this replay first yeah great great thing about this good vision toggle by the observers that fog of war you just saw was previously cleared out by them so barrel lies in weight they get the full lock up on to scout and by the time he's done with the charm with the cc he knows he's dead uh so well executed here by dom juan kind of surgical in some of these early moves it was just the one mistake not respecting the early realm warp on bottom side that led to that first blood going to edgy yeah it's been a pretty interesting back and forth in this early game but really it's the mid game where i think we get to see some of the best league of legends from both of these teams edg typically yeah they'll throw a couple ganks out in the early game but it is that transition from the early to mid where they leverage their early goal lead to strong team fighting and it's the same for darwin where this is where you start to unlock them on the map this is where they'll really start to look for those picks and start to unlock with their composition well they're looking for a bit of a pick here as mako's burning down for now in goes jj though into the back side it's flash out immediately from ghost has the jargon out of position but still able to grab the kill and look at all of that healing as well he's going to get resurrected from the chrono shift and now it's done on kia that are on the run canyon is not rooted just yet but khan is just dead down goes canyon as well and there is the rift herald and they get it with the viper shot here rip tailed plus the extra kills the zillion effect is already on the line boys mako's there to save his life revival they get the extra kills and they're going to take retake control of this game now a second herald yes you don't get turret plate money but you get a lot of control of choosing which side lane you want to push in first and breaking down turrets are so important as well as we check this one out one more time mako goes down low but crucially doesn't die exactly some of the big threats to zillion are first damage trying to bait out the ultimate but mako stays strong he keeps it up here jj even buys time by smiting the rip tail gaining health to walk back over to the safety of mako's waiting arms and in the early game especially those revives gives you so much more time uh and it's hard to to work through some extra cooldown so that there's no more dps left for dom one so well done by edg to actually fend them off plus securing the objective i think what we saw there as well was what i think a lot of future team fights are going to look like and why ghosts in particular is super important because there's a lot of single target damage that comes out from this darwin squad and zillion loves that because you throw your burst onto a single target he then revives them and it's only ziggs that can do a lot of aoe as edg now looking to attack yeah khan doesn't have a lot of options right now as he's trying to dash his way around and it looks like edg might have been thwarted for the moment they will put down the rift herald though and so khan will still need to vacate the area but he does so with his life exactly edg choose the bottom side for the rip tail bottom side down immediately first turret bonus actually 17 minutes into the game for them so they get paid extremely well for this and remember they're focusing pretty heavily on these team fights displaying why they keep picking jj jarvan over and over and over this is his seventh jarvan game in a row they simply walk over to second rift tail start the fight out with the cataclysm force it down knowing that they have the zillion to come back them up and now pushing their winnings ahead on these objectives and gentlemen coming into this series we knew that early game would be important and i just want to highlight some of these early game stats that we see from edg because in their wins and this is at 15 they have huge early game gold advantages it was 1530 where they got this gold advantage but edg looks best when they're even 15 minutes were they it was 15 30. well that they got ahead yes all right so they weren't ahead of 15. they were not actually it's a contentious one it's very dangerous but the the point is that you can see that when they get ahead usually they're actually very good at closing things out their average game time is very short both wins and losses this team does not like to waste time so let's see if eg can translate this into a big win against darwin in the fight yeah we'll be absolutely huge scout clearing out some waves on the top side of the map is don wonky looking to try and get some vision parody around this mid lane viper dashing on forward and of course that extra movement speed that you get from the zillion is so important for a champion like jim it can run so damn fast yeah it's very good at short trades whenever you you know have limited uh attack speed here from the from the four bullet setup from gin you want as short trades as possible so the extra speed is really well paired with him we also need to look at just the overall objectives of these two teams and how they are different with the teleport coming in from scout edg want to focus on that team fight grouping up with resilient meanwhile dk need to get a surgical pick here and make use of their surprise burst damage as well as locking someone up with that cc or else the zillion is just gonna take over yeah full information for both teams right now eyes on this infernal drake the scout getting poked but eeg's help us still pretty high well in control of the river river for the moment darwin have a lot of options for getting over this wall if they want to the blast cone also there they want to contest for this straight for the positioning still better for edg as show maker dives into the pit and snorts his way out and that is just a pick off and edg burst down the drake and now there's nothing to fight for for dom q and look edg also have control over the mid wave so they should be able to push this one out as darwin is looking for picks the route comes down yeah scout goes down relatively low but it's the burst damage onto showmaker he has to get out he's got a bomb but it doesn't do very much damage there's now cannon with the ulti will keep himself alive scout burning down but he's going to survive for the moment we don't have an ulti out of the ziggs so scout is going to be okay mako has ice in his veins he is not wasting this cooldown he's like scout walk it off okay you're gonna be fine i'm not using my ultimate and saving that in these critical moments really does mean the difference between life and death it does mean the difference between don juan still pushing down an objective afterwards the huge chunk in health is enough to still earn them that objective wow but very tense moment there because you could see that edg was making it very difficult for darwin to get a pick they they were positioning themselves in a very traditional front to back manner where the jarvan was constantly on the front line forcing darwin to come into him and saying if you're going to engage i'm the target that you're going to force meanwhile scout was hovering just behind him waiting for those potential pick opportunities and darwin really struggled to gain access into the river that means that they couldn't really contest the drake and it wasn't until after when edg spread out a little bit more that then they could look for that pick unfortunately for dom one they couldn't really convert it into a kill but as you already said kobe they do get themselves a town exactly though i love the the positioning because it's so important for edg and it's it's gonna be a lot on watching the support because for mako he has to remain close enough to viper to be able to obviously give him the speed boost and be around for the ultimate for whoever's getting focused but also separate himself so that you don't get caught in the recon combo you know barrel with the predator is constantly looking for pockets of fog of war to find those engages and if you can lock up both targets that's where you get your win i very much agree with you kobe because i think that barrel finding a flank is gonna be the most important thing for darwin because the combination with yasuo immediately gives you access onto the back line and the moment that that chaos begins that is where dom ones better set up for success with their highly mobile composition yeah that's why in the mid game we're gonna be hyper focused on this vision game uh vision is definitely not one of the easiest metrics for people to track uh for team successes because it's not on scoreboard you know like the gold uh in breaking lights yeah very easy for you but it is critical to the success of their operations here let's see showmaker is leblanc plus he has flash so a lot of tools to try and get away from this one jarvan it's not the best at setting up any sort of ganks on the block yeah you should be all right this is pretty good i'm gonna move on in let's see whether the room prison comes out and the answer is not as we have a uh distortion available of course the mimic also having to be used but it's on basically no cooldown so never mind that one baron has spawned a couple of minutes ago could be something potentially worth fighting over but i love that you bring up vision i wanted to talk about this because both of these teams want to do different things edg phenomenal 5v5 style of composition but darwin they want to split you up around their map they want to play those shadow games and like you were talking about you need vision control if you're going to do that you certainly do and i think that right now when we kind of have a quick look at the map you can see that there's a lot of control in favor of darwin when it comes to the river they have good access into the top side they have a couple wards littered around the bot side as well and ultimately darwin's investment is they're using mid very well when we talk about that mid tower going down initially it doesn't look like that much of an advantage but you can see how darwin converted into a lot of vision control and the moment that you control the river it means that you have access to move towards these side lanes and they just use that to be able to protect their top lane tier one another tactic dom one can utilize because they are enabled by the ziggs plus two possible split pushers here with high amounts of burst damage is if you just put ghost and barrel mid lane as we see the chase through the river you keep them mid lane they have insane wave clear and they're extremely safe and you try and force the zillion to show mid then you can force a play out of fog of war on what on either the yaso or the leblanc's lane and have ghosts just travel halfway and throw the ultimate that amount of extra damage and the burst damage can come through to get you that actual kill for your split pusher while still knowing that the zillion is kind of forced mid to keep the gin safe and you you try and utilize your extra couple steps there in the long range to get those surprise kills so that kind of builds off your spreading the map point show maker diving forward looking for jj but he's so fast mako is really enabling this jungler right now is canyon becomes lightning but unable to find a target quite yet it's flandre trying to rotate up jj down quite low the chains will connect but not able to follow up just 50 of the health bar of the jarvan as the reward here still 2 000 gold the lead for edg and they're controlling this river 15 seconds on the drake which is what they have their eyes on that's going to be soul point for edg if they can lock it down as jj once again actually copying a bit of damage here from showmaker it is going to be fine they get vision of the jarvan and that's who they want to take down dumb one they have to remember they're going to have to do it twice if they want it to stick dom one just leveraging that poke right now a lot of damage here we go yeah scout now going to take a lot of damage there is the chrono shift and edg not able to follow up too much the curtain call comes out but not able to do relevant damage ghosts getting taken down so low with that last bullet and darmon now going to be backing away edg still lying in weight with control of that brush scout is getting out of range so he can revive back or he'll back up at the tower and then teleport out it's going to get dangerous for domwan showmaker flirting with a flank around the outside there's the teleport and scout has returned yeah showmaker gonna dive into the pit tries to take the drake but he's not gonna be able to get there and that is going to be sole point for edg a big advantage now in map control for the chinese squad and we're seeing once again how valuable the zillion pick is because the obnoxious thing about donald's comp is they start off the barrel i'll have to hold off my point because they are forcing edg to come and answer an answer they shall teleport use from graves they're going into the river head strong atlas can they stop them it looks like they're going to make them second guess it i think we've got some technical problems over there are you good yeah yep i'm absolutely fine we've sorted it out we're looking for a baron here and don juan kia taking it down to about 4k flandre looking for the back side diamond here have been split and the three in the pit are gonna have to get out of there great satchel charge try and divide them and now jj maybe they're the ones getting rounded the pincer maneuver here from darwin here the realm wolf gets scout in there but he's got the chrono shift he's gonna be absolutely fine it's a one for one for the moment as they get rid of the zillion but six is also dead some low health bars but so far edg in a good position there it is as it is evened out by don juan kia down goes viper and now edg looking to try and get out three versus three for now but it's domino here with control of the river and with the scattered fight they actually chase them down barrows ultimate coming back up and they just make the all-in convert onto viper regaining control around that bear and that was a close one video well it certainly was the fact that don juan immediately went to the baron after the dragon suggested that as you rightly identified kobe they were trying to force that tp out from flandre but also the positioning from showmaker and barrel on the flank set themselves up perfectly to create this collapse the edg attacked one of the weak sides but darwin do a great job of just stalling buying time using their mobility and then the moment edg commits this is when darwin gets to leverage their mobility a huge ultimate from ghost does so much damage to allow showmakers to pick up a couple of back picks but edg no slouches either getting kills it overall resulting in a two for two yeah one of the biggest things to track too in the next iteration of this team fight is how domwan are using these immunity spells the zen ultimate of course to create space and give you a pseudo front line but also the wind wall from khan is a pretty big window whereas edg they're looking for that all in and you see it with jj forcing on jarvan and then being followed up by the realm warps here coming from scout and long range from viper trying to hit those w snares to force them into these fights whereas don juan are remaining very slippery and again spreading out the map committing this yaso to the bottom side khan continues to scale up and still has his teleport available if there's a hard push on the other side yeah i was going to talk about the teleport advantage edg not with too many options on that front realm warp is available for scout though so he can do a bit of sideline you can see he's catching that bottom wave right now it's going to be double tps or down one key though giving them a lot of flexibility in order to get around and get things done and already you can see canyon clearing out vision in this barren pit baron definitely on the minds of darmon kira and i feel like this whole game it's been a 2000 gold league from the minute one yeah it is it has been very close there was a brief window where donald were able to get slightly ahead but immediately taken back by edg and i'm just so happy that we're getting to see two teams deliver when it comes to the team fighting because coming into this tournament expectations were that edg was one of the favorites to the tournament and while there has been some skepticism around their performance at this world championship the reality is that they have always been known as an excellent team fighting team and right now they're going toe-to-toe with donald and their focus on committing to this style when when they walked up to rift held number two and forced it through and had the confidence playing off the off of that revive and forcing it through that's where they really retook control of this game because yeah rift held number one was terrible for them and domwan had a very good early start trying to open up the map and yet edg remain true to themselves a lot of people most people giving overwhelming support to domwan as far as this series goes so it's very heartening to see the lpl representative with all of the hopes of the entire region on their shoulders well yeah dangerous turn around flandre dived on in thought that it was going to be for him as oh can he get out of the way yes he definitely can and so the lockdown not quite enough there from khan's ultimate graves is going to survive that was crazy from here andre he just goes in one versus two and is able to get away with his life as well wow didn't have to burn the flash he didn't have it does get the ignite out from barrel can go back to base tp comes through from khan tv is up from flandre not going to use it yet there's another knock up under jj but he's going to be absolutely fine gets over that wall no magic mantle helping him out just there and notice dominar just trying to poke around here while they have you also push on top side that huge minion wave crashes into the low health turret and then they force on baron going to be on vision as soon as he comes out of that brush but edg they can go for an answer here control ward in the pit they know exactly the health bar and damon kia are they looking for a turn do they actually have the coordinated damage to lock anyone down before mako can bring them back to life in goes jj they just explode show maker he is so important for their team fight and he goes golden as well he's got the sterics he's got the chrono ship it's an immortal jarvan trying to win the team fight and edg have lost no one in goes barrel once again but it's going to be a sacrifice and don juan kia a left with corpses on the rift and edt have done it atlas brute force right into the face of dom one they are squished like bugs on the windshield that is a clean ace that is a baron fettius this game is wide open edg i've just smashed it edg are delivering into the fights and they execute it perfectly it was viper that sunk his teeth into the heart of darm one he found showmaker the pick that was needed to tear apart dom one it tore the fight wide open edg get themselves an ace they get the baron they get the soul and they are looking to get game one in this best of five this is so big for jj too you know all the focus on jarvan him being the front line look at this viper beautiful hit into the root immediate follow-up from jj to set up for the fight exactly you have to see no hesitation there complete trust in their teammates viper lands the snare this this gin seal away followed up so well by the team and they get every last one so not only is it a clean egg it's just huge map control since they're the ones with the extra effort towards their team fight they're the ones with the zillion scaling so well here towards the later stages you just get to destroy the entire map with this baron as well look at this baron power play start to explode two minutes left on it and they're already at 2.7k and they had the the dragon soul waiting for them as well so ocean soul now encircling edg at the same time another five minutes and it's going to be that elder drake time but the rebel baron power play is only getting larger this series is edg's chance to shock the world dom once the defending world champions already going so heavily down in game number one here is just such a huge step by edg let's see if they can finish it the attempts at split push here from dom one are going to get outpaced very quickly by a full bearing up team yes this is a lot of minions and a lot of champions here showmaker looking for a bit of a flank but there is no real option khan's gonna be backing look to try and get back and assist the rest of his team but his house has been blown up gentlemen it's not a great time a showmaker able to get himself out of the cataclysm but edg they can do this all day forced to flash and oh look the realm warp is coming through immediately they're going to rotate off the top they've circumvented the wave that they don't have by leveraging the realm warp and they're now looking to break onto the final inhibitor not that many minions so darwin should be able to hold and look at this maker also clearing out the flank for any potential tp wars that could come in from behind they recognize that they've taken everything that they should right now they're gonna disengage they're gonna back off but the base of dom one is in tatters yeah edg with just methodical movement making sure there was absolutely no way any flank was going to happen they had vision exactly where they needed it to be and now 8 000 gold is their lead two inhibitors are down this is poised to be edg taking game one this is just so big for them atlas the the poise that they have had on stage the composure here uh und unperturbed by a lot of this pick potential from domwan and for them to execute here in finals after just this year finally breaking their quarterfinal curse is so big for them so big for the region they've been to worlds five times previously and never gotten past quarterfinals and now already getting a leg up in the finals the remnants of this baron power play will time out but 4.1 k is definitely gonna be something you take to the bank it definitely is not bad as edg is a bit of a demonstration of their domestic prowess i think a lot of people might remember some worlds where things didn't go quite so well for edg three of those times by the way of their five worlds appearances they were the number one seed of lpl and highly disappointed the region by not getting past quarter finals but this is why it's such a big triumph for them to be here and to get the lead well let's see whether they can close it out that lady's certainly started warming up her voice she hasn't quite you can hear her in the distance yeah there's some yodeling happening i can hear it in the far reaches but it hasn't started just yet for real don monkey are looking to try to defend their last bastions of hope three turrets remain but edg are just so strong the real struggle right now for edg is just this six wave clear that is kind of holding the line against edg siege but look they're gonna commit again the wave player continues to come through but perhaps it will not be enough the five man of edg looking it to go in flash cataclysm comes forward and jj just trying to put them in position but it's canyon he's got the ultimate and now the dive forward from barrel it does not work out the grand entrance only hits one and then he just pops like a balloon the wind wall looks comically ineffective as now the nexus turrets are falling and for a series that so many predicted was a 3-0 yes it might be but it's not gonna be for tom one gear edward gaming absolutely wiping the floor with our former world champions they make sure they finish the job before they finish off the nexus edg with a very strong performance in game one and they stuck to their style they got exactly what they wanted they got flandre on a comfort pick with his graves his most played champion at worlds and he was extremely reliable as the carrying the top side of the map they didn't really invest a huge amount into scout but where they could they got leads in their bot lane and they just out team don juan at every opportunity in the opening of the day we were looking at wow this team is so easy to predict all these graves yeah all these dropping picks all these rise picks yes exactly they stick with those vedias and yet they also take one page out of the t1 book bazillion that they showed to further complement what was already a strength of the team and that's what i love when you can take pieces and you can you can add on you can augment what is already your strength yeah exactly right and it's just another string to add to their bow that they that darwin has to think about in the next draft but remember to check out don juan kia's song that represents their play style go or stop based on me along with the songs for the rest of the teams participating at worlds 2021 on the official lol playlist on spotify in the meantime we're taking a short break but we'll be right back for another look at game one of the world's final [Music] the magical power of the realm is a mystery like a guardian it is with you always defending you charging you watching over you like actually it's not magic it's this cisco network the power behind every gank every combo every mind-blowing moment at league of legends world championships [Music] oh red bull gives you wings [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] legends never die when the world is calling you can you hear them screaming [Music] legends never die they become a part of you every time you play [Music] they never lose hope when everything is [Music] when the fire is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] the scars [Music] before it all starts [Music] [Applause] [Music] every time is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] welcome back to the state farm analyst desk where edg take game one in incredible fashion over the defending world champions uh cajole we're gonna dive straight into it because we only got so much time before those teams head back onto stage to do battle yet again but it starts in the draft where edg pulling out that zillion in response to khan's yasuo as well so a couple interesting things but uh doing uh doing our best carrier impression over there for mako huh so many cool things in this draft remnants from the t1 versus down one series where you've got yasso into graves in the top lane like almost like a counter match up pairing it with rakan ziggs right very clear combo rakang goes in yasuo old onto his exhaust the problem is this last pixillion saved the draft so that three-man combo that full full commits onto one target is negated completely from the start of the game and then the second setup you have the thing that damon found success with in two of their wins against t1 they played three games leblanc one of them they had draven they lost the other two they had gin the reason was leblanc dashes forwards throws out a queue gin w that's a pig this has no follow-up leblanc can dash forwards and do as much burst as she wants you can't make a pick off of it you can't really burst anyone either so it felt like the only worry i had for eg's comp is you're playing ryze into leblanc's zinzo which is you know damon's bread and butter against t1 but they just keep ganking mid scout was able to negate a lot of that not much came through mid only one kill when barrel went there and then from team fights onwards it was just edg favorite from the beginning also important to note no lee sin available for canyon but as you talk about team fighting in the in the success rather that edg found with it i think it's important for us to dive into how exactly it's happened we've seen some great team fighting from the lpl champions and desales over here to break it down for us in neighborhood tactics presented by state farm thank you very much i just wanted to talk about one of my favorite things about edg it is their team fight positioning it is incredible after you watch this i'll break down what they do and you'll be able to watch them do it over and over again now how they start out these fights is what i will lovingly refer to as the line almost always you will see them in this type of a positioning they don't like to play their team fights split they don't like to fight you know on two on one side three on another or one four with someone flanking they like to be in this long spread line now this makes it very difficult for their opponents to actually find engages on multiple members and what it also does is it allows the sides to actually collapse you know if fbx moves forward towards scout the other sides are actually going to be able to come in and collapse and all be in range and kind of have this firing line on the core squad here of fpx now this is actually from the finals and we can see it in action as fbx is moving forward you can see them maintaining this line trying to stay in this type of positioning as much as is possible fpx is actually very bottled up here so as they move forward they actually face check scout and you'll see the sides are collapsing in they're able to actually move forward everyone is hitting here from edg where you look at the carries here from fbx they're in the back they're not able to do anything this positioning is allowing edg to have more surface area to actually attack and it's something that is incredibly effective that they use almost every single time you will see them fight they do it all throughout worlds all throughout lpl and we can see another example of it actually in the game that we just watched now they won't start in this positioning and i'm not gonna say that it's a perfect line every single time but you'll see them move into this because this is really their bread and butter as they move over towards the herald fight they know that they're gonna have to face check in towards dom one so again they're trying to set up this kind of spread out line here along the top and even as the fight breaks out you'll again see yes jj is going to be moving forward but as they start to actually kite back as the fight extends they'll again try to move back into this kind of like neutral setup that they really do enjoy hear once more the line makes its appearance and this is just something that they use really really consistently and the fact that they're able to set it up in basically every single team fight really does speak to their coordination to their communication and to how aware they are of their positioning and how they want to play out every single team fight uh thank you so much for that breakdown azalea again it was the team fighting that came up huge for edg in this victory here in game one of the best of five and uh we're gonna watch a few more of those team fights i'm sure but we're also gonna do it with the context of our oppo player of the game it's jj because we talked about how canon possibly the best player in the world right now possibly the best jungler the game has ever seen especially if he takes this series and so jj was gonna have his work cut out for him but in game one cagel he delivered oh yeah he definitely did some of these engages are so clean this one right here knowing beryl doesn't have e because he used it a couple seconds ago eq'ing and making sure the engage happens and having a zillion right behind him so he has absolutely no fear target selection from edg was fantastic from start to finish and jj i mean he's played seven games of jarvan in a row and he's played nine games at the world championship it is their highest prio and this fight's right here i think he played it phenomenally knowing he has a zealand behind him flash ulting eq'ing making sure to get multiple knock-ups stop watching after getting a four-man goal drinker and then having a zillion right behind it i mean the root as well from viper to actually set that up you know they don't have the best consistent cc to actually lock down on leblanc that's a gin route to actually set that up then zero hesitation again jj knowing exactly his role in these team fights edg communicates and executes incredibly well and that is why they are such a terrifying 5v5 team now so i'll be honest uh much like the two of you expected dom juan to come out with the victory here today in the series and honestly never expected to say the words i'm about to say which is that they are behind they are on the back foot in this series now down one to zero they're going back to blue side cadrell what do you want to see i think change it up a little bit maybe prioritize the jarvan yourself more and take that away from jj seven games in a row i think a stronger jungle matchup would be good i think the last time that um damon played up against jarvan against t1 i believe kenyon was playing things like kiana where he can have some kind of self-independence to play the game based on picks and i think they need to make sure they don't drop gin priority maybe banning out gin or first picking it or banning out jarvan or first picking it well the lpl squad is out to an early lead today's world finals though marks the end of an amazing year for league of legends and we want to take a moment to celebrate the fans cheering from across the globe thank you for a great year and we look forward to seeing you again in 2022. we miss you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome [Music] hey [Applause] [Applause] [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] bye [Music] down [Music] down [Music]

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Published: Sat Nov 06 2021