FNC vs. SK - Week 1 Day 1 | LEC Spring Split | Fnatic vs. SK Gaming (2019)

same and more in 2019 and that is exactly why I don't think we can call this as classical yet fanatic they're waiting at the top and it will be up to this new SK to show us if they can live up to their enormous legacy it is time for the moment we've all been waiting for as we start the very first LEC season with fnatic vs SK gaming thank you so much Shox ladies and gentlemen in Berlin welcome to the 2019 Lisi spring split I'm quick shot his various were about to jump into game number one of the European 2019 season I love everything about already check and the set and the stage and various you know I am the EDM grandpa Europe of course seeing fnatic in SK it just warms the cockles of my heart as one of the oldest members of the team peers it even predates you yeah I remember watching this at home I remember watching the back door live I remember always seeing fnatic and SK going at it but now we get to see some brand new rosters we get to see the kind of storied fnatic now going up against the the rebirth of SK gaming and we're guaranteed to have an exciting Game one as we kick off the League of Legends European champion I sincerely hope there's a bunch of viewers out there that don't know the fnatic SK stories because I plan to tell you they're engaged on his book ready I do indeed before we get there though we do need to talk about the draft so Vettius Santos at patch 9.1 we're seeing these teams setting up we've seen a couple of leaks playing already both LPL and lck have a number of games under their belt already so we've had a taste but what should we expect from European teams and pros so Dalio lisandro gonna be very high priority picks for many of the mid lane champions but largely that's one of the few that you won't see flexed very much and that's why I start with them because the matter right now is entirely revolved around flex picks champions that can be played in literally every single role will championship many of you saw the Flex between mid and top lane champions it has expanded beyond that mid top jungle bot support all of it is being flexed by literally everything alright so let's see who's gonna have the advantage then of course in terms of side selection blue red fanatic will be on the blue side sk-gaming will be on the red side and you have to feel that with only one change to fanatics world finals roster I'll be at a huge change they are the favorites in this matchup and it's up to SK to upset the apple cart now SK gaming out there five members three of the five players played alongside one another any LVP on the mad lions roster so there will be some synergy there will be some teamwork amongst these players and I'm excited to see well if the man back in your screen or what he will play as we load up in to drop and here we go ladies and gentlemen the first draft of the 2019 l ec spring split again we want to draw your attention to things like the Flex picks champions that can move between multiple different roles what is going to be the main priority for each team things like irelia a collie Cassiopeia Lucien are all really big picks that should likely be taken off the band tape or put into the band table Robert very early on of course we've seen that Casio has to played bottom Lane a fair amount so we'll see what whether it's a what direction it goes to returning coaches to the stage of course young buck on your screen right now he's taking on sheepy young buck called the six star general for the fact that he has 6 uu LCS titles now he's looking for his first LEC title and we load into the 2019 LEC drop irelia Israel aatrox Cassio so things like the kamil are still up and available Gallio and lissandra is still up for grabs as well ooh got has been another huge pick that many teams across the world love to prioritize but interestingly we are seeing a Morgana ban usually across the world rock on has been one of the most prioritize champions things to provide engage in terms of the support pool so taking the Morgana away is either a target man towards dreams or is something that fanatics just don't want to deal with is rock on first worthy all not yet there is too much left available right now around that the Akali is still up the Gallio is still up boo got will be taken away though and I feel like with things like Camille still up and available but the gal you still up with Lucian still available it's gonna be a very immediate lock if it's so exciting to be in a matter where there is such a diversity of Champions available to play and fnatic will be locking in Lucian it is reckless --is fnatic especially with SOLAS and cats gone the were lip jacks hopper that is a history and a call back to when he was a one-trick pony oh yes he was back in 2016 when I first joined the league a broadcast team he was always playing that Jax always having a fantastic performance Oliver he's expanded his pool he's grown since then and now they're gonna shift their focus towards that ball and we already talked about the Recon and kind of being one of the priority picks I do feel that you kind of want to pair this up with something like the Gallio all the kamil right now because it facilitates that engage very smoothly but instead they're gonna go for one of the other st jungle picks ends in jamming all right what do you make of this it's still a similar vein that can go in together there's some synergies between these two but what is fnatic have to do to respond knowing they've already got this hard gauge Gallio still up if they want to give nemesis a safe Lane safe stop again if I was fanatic I would look at the Kamil Gallio combo right now I think it offers really strong early rotations kind of setting up the lanes on both bots on top it also sees a very strong 2vs2 mid jungle duo and if you've already got your salt solution you're effectively grabbing yourselves 3s tier picks right from the get-go alright let's see what happens next Harvick coming in sooner than later of course nemesis as well played for mad lines former teammate of three members on the opposite side and of course one of those counters to record Leona now this does surprise me I thought that they would look to try and grab themselves the jungle pink get that good synergy set up but fnatic are focusing on getting themselves a strong two versus two and what's stronger than Lucian Leona this has so much kill pressure even just from the level to mark and fnatic are here to make a statement that even though we've lost caps we still have reckless we still have one of the best bot lanes in the world all right so love this duo crown shot and dreams Ziya recon taking on lucia leona foe reckless and hell is saying you've talked about Camille so much various it is not bad taken away so Broxton will have to take a little bit deeper lissandra is the response as well over on the site of fnatic targeting period and we'll need to see how these trough rounds out what direction you want to see the teams go knowing of course SK will have that first pick in phase two what SK still needs their mid and top lane and remember you can't flex those boats that's one of the advantages that they have of being on the red side right now fnatic are looking for their top laner and jungle is what you'd initially expect and I feel like that if you are sk you kinda want to prioritize saving your mid counter pick for as long as possible get paired on something comfortable make sure that the gal you is going into the mid lane things like anna Xia and Corki have been shown to be strong counter picks into the Galu in the past and across the world alternatively they could just pick something C's or as I say obviously immediately gets taken off the board as well so the number of counter pick options are kind of limited if they're feeling adventurous they could go for something like a Jace oh that would be interesting so you a little bit of that flirted with around the world of course the Carly's still open but less likely you know you to be picked considering what's on the table one of those other options that could still flex the Scion click on top or mid pending the rest of phonetic straw so this is exactly a very safe blind pick as you identified creature you can put it in the mid lane it's perfectly fine against the galio it's not gonna die and you can move it up to the top lane as well so SK just waiting to see what fnatic rammed out with alright so for SK gaming's first game back on the LEC stage at the top tier of League of Legends nearly three years they've nearly got their team composition around out and finish you'll be happy to see Brock sir playing a Nocturne the last time you played Nocturne was at all-stars under your advisement and it didn't go very well but this is a very different piece it was in the mid lane yes and interestingly you know I wrote Swain in my preparation I thought the only team that's likely to pick is fnatic but I feel like that it's it's fallen so far out of meta that probably won't be as prevalent but something that with Poe has showed pretty much throughout the entirety of 2018 is that he loves this champion he finds success with this champion consistently and it does really well in to champions like Sion so it kind of forces that town into the mid lane so now XK will be looking for something else to pop it instead they go for the quarter they were talking about earlier so you like the korky in to Galia what I see from fnatic is a press R type class situation and they go cookies aya you should not be here anymore and if they can pull up that combination those squishy duo carries could get blown up very very quickly so in terms of broad teamfight damage just kind of look at fnatic and you say okay they've got a very strong mid game composition they have a lot of engaged tools they have a lot of follow-up and they have a lot of mid game damage especially around the to item marks but they also had strong lanes across the board Swain should be able to pressure the sound pretty effectively in the top lane the bot lane should create relentless pressure all the time so fnatic have themselves to winning lanes it's about how well they can utilize that pressure in the early game okay so expectation should be high though because this is a team that has shown they can do that four out of five players still playing together and nemesis on that slightly more supportive mid lane pick for fnatic will also be able to jump in and try counter some of that play they're talking about various ladies and gentlemen is the first game of the 2019 l ec season throw those flares up and let's see if fnatic your European world finalists will be able to pick up their first win of the spring split I am excited to see how this goes about I've been waiting so long for European League of Legends to come back quick shot second best league in the world world finalists on your stage going up against the rebuilding SK what better way to kick things off we have exciting games we're gonna have a lot of bloodshed are you ready quick shot I'm not yet but I will be once we load onto the rift of course the prediction there from a little animation whether or not it'll work out will remain to be seen ladies and gentlemen it's fnatic taking on SK normally normally this is where I'll be jumping up the hive we do have a small pause reminder that it is new players to the stage new stage to the stage and that is SK gaming and have temporarily thrown down the pause and of course various as I mentioned it's been a long time since SK played were relegated late in 2015 and an actual fact the last game that SK gaming played in the EU LCS was against elements Jo who happened to be calling that game was it you it was got a very special place in my heart because SK gaming and fnatic are two organizations that go back a very very very long time they've been around for decades now they've competed in multiple games that's what Schatz was talking about and that's also why when the two front men was Spanish and the initial El Clasico came about but it's guys to live up to that legacy again after they belong and that's the the big thing right like that rivalry doesn't exist right now this is a new team it is a very different fnatic but this is their opportunity to reignite that battle to recreate what the rivalry was so long ago and fortunately the pause has quickly been resolved quick shot Hyper's into the game ladies and gentlemen your hands together as phonetic take on SK LEC 2019 gonna put my projection goggles on a various turn to you and say it's up to you to tell me where will the action be happening give me a lame give me a reason so the thing about eske's comp is it's definitely a little bit more on the scaling side to three items is really when this composition will kick into its own things like the Corky will be able to pressure out against the Galu it has a range advantage he can quite easily bully him out of lane he has a pretty effective waveclear and also because of his package he can offer a little bit of more mat pressure and his ability to roam so we can kind of keep up with Gallio much better than many other champions can and it kind of how it scales him a little bit better and later on to the game is where you will notice he's running the klepto man c-cut da Mansi did have a small change recently aware once you hit an enemy with an ability then you can proc the klepto Mansi and get a couple of bonuses for two of your next basic auto attacks which is very easy to get against a marriage ampion like Galya helps especially in the early levels where nemesis is Gallio is not gonna have the same level of waveclear take a quick look at nemesis player huge expectations for this man replacing caps is a nineteen year old man from slovenia and this is a kid who is now stepping into a world finalist mid laners position and expectations couldn't be higher especially for an organization like Fernando for sure but we have heard multiple times from fnatic players and nemesis himself is that he is not here to be the next caps he is here to create his own legacy to kind of be his own player and how he fits into fnatic is yet to be seen that's what we're here watching what we're waiting to see but what we do know for sure is that he is not trying to just be gaps - yeah of course it's gonna be a difficult situation you know what Europe is a pretty storied history of successful rookie meddling yes stepping up to be very good one so expectations and possibilities are endless he is going up against Tyrion who he did actually have a lot of respect for and Warren didn't have the best competitive year in 2018 still being on SKT has to mean something and the fact that he is in a winning match up and has been able to create pressure in the early laning phase is working out quite favorably for him so far well what bo is being pretty favorable to top lane also sitting on that klepto Swain using the full rotation of available spells to bully whirl it back ever so slightly and you kind of expect that in these early levels with swanky just push sign around yeah he typically will and we talked about it in the draft trial fnatic has the top and bought a kind of pushing in their favor you can already see that on your mini-map but we talked a little bit about what SK will be looking to do in this game and how they have that pressure around the mid lane what SK will likely be looking to do is around the level six mark o for the bottom line is when selfmade could look for a gank if they could bring Parian down to the bots ID of the map as well that is the kind of Avenue of attack and if they can get reckless behind and start getting Crouch on those items faster earlier into the game then SK is in a good position to challenge in the mid game and then can rely on their scaling later on betis it feels the killer saying sort of knows that because he's gone into the river and back at least two or three times since the laning phase began keeps sniffing out trying to see where selfmade is you can see self ant already cleared out that scuttle crab and it's trying to push through his jungle and wall turquoise push this wave in you just deny world as much CS as possible and get those klepto Stax's as quickly as you can and I also want to bring attention to a couple of the ruin changes that have happened as well because you can see selfmade running hail of blades he actually has its eyes on the top lane right now let's see first blood is available decimating smash gets the knock upon to flip over 1200 first blood secured by SK gaming fantastic start for SK they punished the overextending whip oh he doesn't have any vision towards the top side of the map and he ends up getting punished for it very clean kill SK off to an early gold lead they are very nicely done and of course South mate is one of the more hyped up rookies coming to the league polish jungler played a lot has been playing for several years in the ER the National League seen also played with Matt Lyons one of the very very successful players in 2018 and once again just trying to show his dominance on on a stage this time the LEC stage and as we mentioned hilly he's sniffing he's trying to make sure that reckless can push and farm safely now it is roxxor who is the for an opportunity these players are not giving me a chance to talk about some of the cool love it so we have on our screen that is kind of what the matter is revolved around right now a lot of lane pressure a little more jungle involvement and kind of Lane dominance how teams utilize that pressure is a really good indication of a strength of a team and while selfmade found a good punish on top whip oh it hasn't translated into a significant lead just yet but the lanes are kind of going as we expected quick shot top lane and bot lane in favor of fnatic mid lane in favor of SK but that kill to selfmade means that he's still keeping things pretty even across the board and it's actually very exciting for a scare when you think that sin is gonna be one of the primary tools jumping on the front line and selfmade they find an opportunity in yet behind reckless and he'll is saying now he did remember we talked about him looking for an opportunity the bot Lane dreams goes in alright Dreamz manages to - in - out the saira cons you are doing work some anneal already blown 400hp escapes with his life reckless and he'll Assange survived again great use of the eve from him Assange to close the gap against self-made briefly stun him and then also escape from crown shot and dreams that provided enough time for both to escape but it did cost them a lot of summoner spells so good gank coming up from self-made and I love his early game pressure we talked about how he is a hyped up jungler he's someone that we wanted to keep our eyes on coming into the new LED season and so far he's having a fantastic debut let's talk about since out versus Nocturne kind of expected I feel prefer the since our early ganks but Brock's is getting close to six getting close to paranoia and try to turn that back around yes and the thing about Nocturne is is much more about getting that first item way and having the paranoia where you'll see much more of his jungle involvement but for Zin especially with the hail of blades he has so much damage in the early game hail of blades due to how it was changed gives you a hundred percent attack speed the moment that you're in combat with another champion and it's it's so much burst damage it is so effective especially early on and it also doesn't proc on your auto attack reset so he can auto into his auto attack reset into auto auto and then they people just melt he's so strong and he's early level it becomes a machine gun of auto attacks one might say well you're a brief moment rest by tiers all the leaners have gone to pick up some of their first-year items bf sword for crown shards we've already got the Cutlass sitting for reckless Sheen for period box is gonna find self papers there were five to level six and you can see immediately Perry on was leaving the Lane now one of things I wanted to mention various that if some fans haven't been watching since last year all-stars at turret plating is now a thing of course as you start to pitch those waves additional defensive stats and addition of gold to be gained for each turret plate that you knock down and this is why laning is so much more important right now is if you have a strong Lane it means it's easier to get gold into your strongly knows and then you can translate that into even bigger leads and so far in the bot Lane things have got heavily in favor of reckless and healer saying but after that game from self-made the pressure has come off so now that turret playing is in a much healthier state and it is crouched right on drinking to the cool look to start shipping away at this tower especially once they get level six I want to see s King make another gang towards that bot side of the map well seems like every gang self made has already put in place has been effective and secured themselves they 500 gold lead i one thing to note though that with Roxas invade and some support from with boat he was able actually steal that red buff so self means not gonna gain access to that one for now and well if he's just trying to hold on his level seven he's got himself catalyst but he's down ten CS and South Wayne is just coming up to try to protect him as blippo is just doing put both things really but it's also a matchup that is somewhat favored yes the Swain is using his range advantage bullying the Scion around who talked a little bit about in draft how it can be difficult but now let's now look at options off for now because we taught a lot about how SK will be looking for these couple of opportunities self-made has made a lot of great things happen in the early game but now the level sixes are coming through for fnatic Hillier saying when he hits that level six mark should be able to work with the Nocturne to set up an effective gank potentially diving up pours the top lane galio nocte and Swain really effective trio being able to find these really good dive setups and making these plays happen so now the examples are coming through this is what we should see fnatic start being more proactive on the map alright unstoppable onslaught was thrown down as keep them eyes and south played like he was gonna be there on this proactive wasn't the case and of course for fnatic they are a little bit behind correction they're in fact a little bit ahead thanks to those kleptos and the CSS we picked up in the top lane we're poised to a lot of good way so kudos to him there but on a scale of calm to panic where would you rank fnatic and their fans if SK gaming were to win this match I would be packed at all I think many fanatic fans know that early on in the split for that just lose games it is a thing that happens to them and I also think that with the introduction nemesis it will take them time to figure out how to find the most effective strategy to enable this team the thing you've got to remember though is that with this composition the pressure kind of falls on fnatic to be the more proactive team remember how we said the SK have much more of a scaling comp once they get to three items Corky and Ziya will be very obnoxious to do it they have a lot of escapes they have a lot of safety tools so this dive comp becomes a lot harder to execute especially when you have this big front line of the Scion as well I'm so happy that SK gaming are stepping up and showing us a competitive debut LEC because I have a quick step for you do you know how many days it's been since we've seen SK gaming on this stage one thousand zero and eighty four not bad one thousand two hundred and seventy four days I have someone stand prepared for you but an initiation is on the card reckless and he'll he decide to dive in he'll ease in a little bit of trouble as he takes some autos from crown shot and he's able to escape only the Summoner ignite thrown down well once again 1274 days since SK gaming's last match on this stage they were relegated at the end of 2015 they played a hundred and seventy nine games and this is their first one back and they are going toe-to-toe the World Championship finals I really loved the play from dreams right there he ultd on too reckless not hella saying the follow-up was denied from fnatic which meant that crown shot could reposition he didn't even have to burn any of his summoner spells he still has his ultimate available and they completely destroyed it the two versus two now the problem phase K is the reckless was able to pick himself up to tower plates so he's gonna get a bit of extra gold in his back pocket and the bot lane for fnatic is still gonna feel very happy but what I would have liked to see him from fnatic is more coordination with either Brock sir or nemesis work with the semi Global's to be able to set up this plane more effectively rather than just trying to win the lane 2v2 by yourself you have to think by nearly 12 minutes in game we haven't seen a single paranoia or a single Gallio ultimate I start to get nervous cuz SK still hold on to a very strong position this time where he's gonna be pushing into Poe he's got that silent passive to work with but a look at the damage and selfmade put four tries to turn this one around he's got the demonic attention has the ability to burst already used the ignite and will just push that wave back ever so slightly while that's going on hilly and Brock sir they're pushing myths now hello sang used to do this a lot in the summer split of 2018 where he would group up with Brock sir and look for opportunities around the map that looks like that he actually went towards the mid lane and now the flash is down he's looking for another sharp Aryans in trouble the flash engage dodged away from really easily by period kind of fella give us on edge kind of foggy anticipated ready and he responded so I wasn't entirely sure how both nemesis and period burnt their flash prior to that gank but we do know is that parent showed a lot of respect he was very aware that his jungler is topside he has no vision in the river the enemy's support is missing and that is a lot of restrain being shared by Parian to not give away that kill another failed setup from the side of fnatic results in escape walking away with their lives alright twelve and a half minutes in first big items are now completed rod of Ages with whip abyssal mask in the top lane hextech proto belt for nemesises Gallio trinity force the list goes on a new reckless looking to complete that blade of the ruined King and not too much time it will take just a few seconds while that's going on we've got a small initiation around this blue Sentinel and Brock's is gonna be able to steal away that scuttle crab and I like the you mention the proto belt this is something that we're seeing a lot more from Gallio mid now he did receive a bunch of changes his ap scaling 20 does a lot of damage and one of the other cool things that a middling Gallio brings is that with a bunch of the room changes it means that you now have a lot more stat lines that you get to choose from so you can fill it more with AP or armor or magic resist and what most galleries do is they run after show and then they just stack it full of APs you still do loads of damage you're still really tanky you're really obnoxious and it kind of means that you could just continue to build more AP while still retaining a lot of that tankiness and that's of course allowing them assess the options but I want to see him use his ultimate he's down 25 CS in Lane this Corki is just pulled ahead despite being flash let's also anticipated or was ready for a potential gank and unfortunately for both of these teams with a cloud Drake being the first spawn it's not the highest priority to risk big engagements around so neither team has made any real investment or commitment to try to pick that objective up we've just crossed 14 minutes we talked about the turf plating earlier they have now officially expired so that bonus gold and there's bonus defensive stats are no longer available and if towers start to for that can accelerate the tempo of this game and that's an important point they're quick shot because remember what we said for fnatic they have two strong winning lanes Swain and the Lucian you know they wanted to be taking as much of that turret planning and creating as much pressure as possible in the early game to transition into a strong mid game now they're not weak in the mid game the gold is even but when you have this scaling SK cough if they can keep the game going this way they're in a perfect position look at the mini-map Helium Brock's are coming to support Hill he's gonna find Southlake did you baited sk-gaming and while the stopwatch was used by self-made kill secured on his feet celebrating Barack circuit's take it out periods under the double kill he's not done yet never says fought user just as punch to run away a smash knocks Pupo into the air and it's kicking me they get the reply kills after losing the first this is what we talked about Whizzer Corki the package enables you to follow the callo you can keep up with him and with the arrival of period and dreams SK tuned what was an advantage for fnatic into a bigger advantage for SK the tension in Berlin is growing as SK gaming has a lead against fnatic this is not what many fans expected but boy oh boy am i loving this for the start of the season look at the mid lane all right let's see Zenit plate needs to find its target crown shots got flash available gonna be able to use the feather stumps to jump up and fly away concha does a good job of escaping the game let's go the wrong way round but you know he gets away with his life so he's gonna be pretty happy with that meanwhile reckless is left unchallenged on this bot Lane tower but as word arrives it should be enough to keep this one alive but look at the potential dive situation roxy is making his way bot leone is hanging around as well but nothing will likely come off the back of it so SK looking pretty good that top lane play remember that it all started off with were lip and selfie trying to make a play happen politically read it well they knew that selfmade was investing all of his resources into trying to get wood like back into the game keep him alive kind of shut down this Swain but they read it they punished and now we have the drake kicking off alright hello sank steps forward he threatens and engage with the solar flare but SK read the situation well they've littered the mini-map with wards look at all of the pings on Brock sir and whoop Oh near the top wad ruins of the map SK gaming are working with a lot of information they've got the first blood they got the first dragon they got a few turret platings in the mid laner while a tower has not yet fallen sk-gaming are not buckling under any pressure and they are playing exceptionally well of course its period that mid-laner that you talked about who was a substitute for sk-gaming and has a number of teams under his belt but this kc i sketchy thank you yes pizza now playing for sk right the testament to the ability this is the replay that we were talking about a little bit earlier on fnatic that you read the play they saw the something was going to come towards the topside about they punish it this is really good from the side off fnatic but then while this is all happening Dreamz has already rotated elsewhere on the map to set a period to come in deal the damage and find true quick kills I don't believe they translate this into anything more to the tanky nature of whip oh and nemesis but the fact that SK were able to react so quickly and cleanly shows that this is this team is no pushover yeah absolutely not and I really feel like selfmade has been the the one of the players that has been a huge impact this game we just caught that picture-in-picture selfmade helps Peary and knock over the mid tower well happen the top lane well it was able to see the top search to tower advantage a 2000 gold lead for SK gaming and selfmade is this new hungry Polish jungler to the scene when his debut match in the LA sea is really impressing me with the decision-making with his parting and just he's everywhere his team needs him but the big challenge for him will now come into the next set stages of play because the one thing about fnatic and the one thing that has kind of been true for them for a very long time is that late-game team fighting is their baby it's something they've owned in Europe yeah for many many years a lot of it comes off the back of the wonderboy reckless he is on lucian not the strongest they can carry but it's still enough for him to potentially turn this around us Brooks our losses his life he does indeed nemesis comes down with the hero's entrance but that's gonna have to be a heroic defeat in Assange may need the solar flare justify some time crown shot comes in as well Lily goes down to quick kills to sk-gaming and you know I really I didn't believe it for the longest time but SK Aachen Ewing to pull ahead let's go continuing to sway my opinion they may just be able to build up a lead with a good scaling comp detect up and a lot of it just feels like fnatic are not showing the same coordination that they showed at world that they showed in summer of 2018 members are being caught out of position people are trying to save people that cannot be saved and let's just look at the whole map right now you can see the Brock's is trying to clear vision when he doesn't have control over mid selfmade and peering able to quickly collapse but hey he thinks if I've got the Galle ulti I'm fine no that just baits nemesis and halo sang in but again they're outnumbered Swain is still topside Lucian is in the mid lane fnatic they just don't seem to be on the same page where is SK they're leveraging that mad line synergy that they have they're leveraging the fact that three of these members have played together for a long time and they are punishing these small mistakes from for now and of course we keep saying this mad line synergy in it it just means that plain lateen but this was a team that won LVP that one EU masters that has plenty of tournaments in their trophy case and it's doing exceptionally well now let's take a look at available ultimate as we've gone past the 20-minute mark nemesis has got the heroes entrance on cooldown Baron will be spawning and SK gaming you've got a very good set to items house buy completed for pretty much all their carries and then going into this bit game well how much of a gold lead does there need to be fresh game for you to feel extremely comfortable that their composition and that gold leaf is enough to take that for now the moment that third item comes through is when I think the SK are primed and ready to win the game but until that happens fan still have opportunities it's just about finding those picks right now there are a lot of pick power on the fnatic side with the Leona with the Nocturne but SK of doing a great job is just whooping up take a look at that dream stepping all the way for here listen the fleet does nothing goes golden with a stopwatch now all of a sudden sk-gaming are on the retreat well it was being in trouble not enough to kill dream summoner heal keeps him alive fanatic turned that around but it was the usage of stopwatch in the item / a pool for hilly it's now broken he won't have that again so you can see that fnatic are not completely out of this yet good Gallio ulti from nemesis to provide a little bit more defense therefore hello saying pushed SK back but then the moment a lot of the engage tools from SK were gone they didn't have a frontline to play around anymore were Lib was not in a position to just keep her I mean he wasn't even involved in the fight you didn't choose to TV in which man the fanatic can look for the reengage with the knocked in and I don't think that the alt was the best decision it costs proxy his flash which is a very valuable skill when you are playing this Nocturne champion and he isn't able to find a kill off the back of it either so it was a very high-risk and probably not the greatest of rewards especially just before mounts and Drake as well so this will be an easy objective secured by a SK gaming they've already got themselves their 3000 gold v3 towers to 0 they've got their second Drake of the game the mountains gonna help them out there is one small factor because phonetic you've got this like pick composition if they can take down period or crown shot that's an 800 gold than 450 gold bounty that is relatively easy to secure if they can pull off the dive combination correctly well they do have a lot of picked up they also have a lot of teamfight power the problem is when you kind of compare the two teamfight comps look how much disengage is available on SK you have dreams who could dive in use his charm ulti everyone up and the rest of SK can disengage you have the zyre Ultimates you have period and his W with the package as well you also have the knock back from self-made ultimate so what fnatic have a lot of strong engaged tools and skate can just stop them from finding that perfect engage all right reptiles ones used in the mid late hours sir cute hello sir throw down the flag sitting on the back end is gonna be the engagement with Bo he completes a telephone but dreams goes down that's so fun one for one support for support the damage dealers need to be killed Oh Rox has taken out by self Vedas he's on the retreat for post looking for another kill it's a one for two in favor of sk-gaming and ladies and gentlemen we have a dramatic pause as SK maintain control here in Europe but when we get that replay back I really want to bring attention to how well blippo played that fight the flank think he found the amount of damage that he was dishing with the Swain just goes to show how strong this teamfight can be from the side of fnatic if they find the perfect opportunity to set it up but with all these disengaged tools it was incredibly difficult to lock everyone down and while I praised blippo world was doing the same thing Whipple was diving onto the back line and then would've just goes no no no no reckless you will stay here we will play together and then once my team is safe then then you are allowed to play League of Legends again but he did such a great job of just stopping him from getting involved in the fight which means that a lot of the damage will all the follow up just disappeared for fnatic there's a beautiful start to the season and while we continue to investigate the reason for the pause we do actually have a replay of that final team fights if I can ask production to bring that up we'll take a look at exactly those plays that help define what you described various and you know draw the viewers attention to specifically or blippo and we'll update that you really lost so the engage starts from here saying but look at how early the TP is coming in from limbo fnatic know they want to start this fight but keep your eyes what Woollett is doing on the frontline he is just trying to zone the members are wait you wants to keep reckless out of the fight if people had just had that extra bit of damage this could have been a huge teamfight win for fnatic we're poor and reckless would have been more than enough to just melt through that back line but would have did a great job of just zoning reckless away preventing nemesis from getting that extra bit of CC in and it was just the true top laners just trying to do exactly what they can to try and win their team to fight unfortunately it was not for fnatic SK gaming continued to pull ahead just a quick reminder for you guys obviously we have formal games after this one today but tomorrow is the L EC's match of the week it will be fnatic taking on origin this is a legacy match of organizations that predates League of Legends and fnatic vs origen is a matchup that back in the day was the best u LCS final that ever existed let's see if Origen can live up to the pressure when they set up on stage but let's turn our attention back to this game what does s kagome have to do to extend this leap further we know that fnatic have to find a pic slow this tempo down how do SK prevent it though is it Baron the thing about this case comp is I'm gonna keep reinforcing this they have the scaling scaling scaling sound is only gonna get tanked yeah he is only gonna get more obnoxious for Swain to try and kill later into the game as three items which the Corki is very close to reaching he just yes too much damage just just too much and then desires in a very similar boat and you like in that point in the game he's gonna be dealing more damage in the galley or more damage than the Lucian as well so SK they just kind of need to keep pressure but they don't need to overextend or force anything the onus kind of falls on fnatic and the situation that you just saw is what they want to be doing then either want to be finding these fights around baron maybe gonna find a fight around an objective that sk is heating up pause something like a dragon and they want to try an out teamfight sk and again that teamfight was very close a couple of small differences in the execution for fnatic could have been the swing that they needed to come back into this game alright so that's a big benefit for fnatic just a few small tweaks in these upcoming teamfights they can bring it back but when I look at these player camps there are some concerned faces here on the side of fnatic I had some big praise for Brock sir because I loved his performance the World Championships and Young Buck backstage sitting with a support crew this is your six-star general 6eu LCS titles consecutively picked up under the leadership of Young Buck and he's looking to pick up the first l ec now it's a long season is nine weeks of games this is the very first opportunity for fnatic they play Origen tomorrow but what a headline it would be for SK and Origen to potentially beat fnatic alright so a week one is that right but you look at SK and they play misfits tomorrow and you know how I don't know for those that may have listened to the euphoria podcast early on in the split something that Frost was very adamant about was that maybe misfits won't be that strong she actually put them down in eight below SK and then you kind of look at how air skater playing right now and you're like you know and you're kind of like oh that could also be a really exciting matchup so LEC is already proving that we have a lot of new teams a lot of competitive teams and some new names that are looking to make a statement it is and of course you know we are praising SK law because they are doing a lot of good things we do need quite the fact that fnatic have not pulled the trigger there's Ultimates frequently enough in my opinion I felt they could have been a little more proactive I agree and while we continue to wait actually give you guys an update ladies and gentleman in the last teamfight fnatic did report some latency issues so League officials are reviewing the footage we use a software called shadow play that'll allow them to watch from the players perspectives while League officials are investigating we will continue to buy some time and then get ourselves pushing forward through for the remainder of the game for fnatic it's all eyes on them for them it's everything to lose so to speak you know they come back as the second best team on the planet to Europe it's very true I mean this we have to give the benefit of that that they are missing some of those components they are indeed they are indeed still doesn't make a less traumatic yeah high expectations for fnatic on the podcast there were people I mean we had frost kinda Fischer both saying that fnatic should be at a very high tier like coming into the split you should have high expectations of fnatic they still kept four of the six members blippo was the guy that primarily played at the World Championship he introduced things like the victor top where he quite frankly obliterated liquorice with he had a fantastic tournament overall and kind of expectations were very high even with the new rookie nemesis people weren't necessarily expecting him to just come in and obliterate everyone but expectations were still high for this team and across the board a lot of people didn't really know what to think of SK people were familiar with some of their players people saw okay I recognize some of the mad lines players okay they've got period I remember Dreams from his stint on the mysterious monkeys he showed some cool stuff he showed some and he played a little bit as the sub for vitality last split as well and so like you kind of look at this roster and you think okay I can kind of see some cool stuff I don't I don't think they can really contest against the top teams I don't know but early on in the split when they're utilizing the synergy that they already have against the fnatic that is still kind of figuring out how best to play the game they take the advantage of that and they are playing extremely well what makes me very excited when I think back to 2018 spring split we came in with very set expectations our team stepped up in surprises we had the most competitive split ever down to the point that on day two of week nine playoff spots were still up for grabs and being secured so to see you know a new team under an old returning organization already stepping up it gives me a lot of hope and excitement we're gonna see rogue in Excel later in the day the new look origin as well and it's just there's a lot to be excited about for the league this year and I just kind of I'm going in to announce this mode a little bit don't mind quick shot please do something that I've spoken to a couple of analysts in Europe about is how pressure is important and you'll hear a lot of analysts kind of across the world talk about which Lane is winning in which Lane has pressure but the difference between what makes a good team and a great team in the current meta is how you utilize that pressure and it's all well and good having a winning Lane but if you don't take advantage of it by the translating that lead to other lanes maybe snowballing for early turret planing if you don't try and take advantage of that then you're kind of missing on opportunities and it gives the other team windows are to take advantage and what we've seen in this game is Vanek haven't had an opportunity or they haven't really shown a willingness to try and use the strength of their lanes it said they just kind of reacted a lot to what SK has done and I think it's so important that you highlight that because on this side of sk-gaming period is three zero three on this Corki yes he has a favorable matchup into the Gallio but to put some things into perspective at 23 minutes in game period has a plus 38 CSD over nemesis he is also plus 3,600 gold over nemesis now the reason those numbers are important is fnatic as a team are behind 2800 goal so reckless and WIPO are picking up some of the slack nests but this matchup this pressure point has been utilized effectively and this is credit to s case play by doing the right things by making the right decisions when they have the advantage and again just further impressing upon viewers and ourselves that phonetically hesitancy has kind of put them in this hole now it's not game over no it's not it is absolutely not as far from but we still need a few more close a game right that's another big thing and you know it's one thing to get a lead it's another thing to then turn that into an actual victory and taking down the Nexus and we saw in that last fight what blippo can do this guy has a lot of damage on the Swayne he's very proficient at the champion and I loved the way in which fnatic actually set up the teamfight the early teleport into the engage from hello sang the coordination in terms of actually fighting is still there for fnatic the core essence that got them to the World Finals still exists I think this is going to be a replay we have resume we are back in game various our computers have been disconnected that's why we're both good right now and of course we are back into game ladies and gentleman thank you very much for bearing with us through that review as we have continued to jump into the game and we'll take stock of the situation SK gaming seven kills two to two dragons to zero and they are up 3,000 gold importantly they are four towers to one so now we'll see fine Anik investing a lot more vision around the barren area not that they're expecting sk to suddenly rush it down but this is gonna be the big point of contention over the next few minutes baron while the current patch makes it very easy for teams to just end the game around it is at the 25 minute mark cannon minion start spawning on every single wave and so if you pair that up with a baron at 25 minutes you can just imagine how strong that siege becomes especially with things like a Corki and like as I and one of the big things that you said for me to look for earlier various was the three items spike period has got himself the storm raises rapid firecannon election ad forts already complete crown shots working towards that infinity edge so very very high amounts of damage to be put out also summoner spells there's no flashes yet so you have to feel sk-gaming will probably wait for period and and crown shots you get their flashes back before standing up for big plays but they're fine for that they're they're comfortable obviously we have resumed just before we continue look at the game after reviewing the shadow play League officials have not been able to confirm report of any latency and have made the call decided that we will continue to play through hence the resolution of the game and hence the fact that fnatic are still trying to find their way back in so again for them right now it's about maintaining vision control looking for a pic waiting for SK to make that mistake remember closing the game is still very different from holding on to a 100 points to speak up and SK gaming get 2 kills from selfmade being caught what started off as a big pick for fnatic ended up in a huge teamfight win for SK they turned that around beautifully and so much prop has to go to south made you remain calm in the situation use this ultimate to split apart blippo and Hillier Tseng and then he just relied on the rest of his team to get that collapsing and Dreamz with the initiative to go for that engage dive on to the backline use the ulti because he knows that the rest of his team is gonna follow up was exactly what they needed to find those kills and get another big advantage over for now I am so impressed by SK they stared down the barrel of the beast and they did not flinch exceptional play from the squad and I'm starting to get very very anxious for fnatic cuz that's another teamfight in a row with these little nuances these little details where nemesis is ultimate is not in combo with connecting with the paranoia had nemesis and brock's have been able to land on period potentially the CC could have been able to pick up that kill and turn that around but you know hindsight is always 20/20 the first thing we'll do is we'll look at the position of the mini-map when we go into the replay because it's really important that when committing to a fight you're aware of where all the pieces are on the chessboard and what it feels like is that many of the times when fern Anika tried to go for these plays their pieces have not been in the right place whereas SKS just conveniently happened to be in a position where they can answer it and this to me feels like another situation where fnatic in an attempt to try and come back and get something back they're going to try and we used to say sort of chasing the loss when you are behind and you feel the pressure to avoid it to to to come back when you're in that deficit you make decisions we try to force place where you can get advantage now various unfortunately we do have another ports fnatic have once again reported issues of latency our league officials will be investigating while they do so we're gonna head over to the Ellis desk thank you very much guys let's hope we won't be out of the game for too long but luckily for us there is a decent amount to break down because SK definitely coming prepared in their very first game back in the LEC and at this point quite massively I had a fanatic how did that happen I mean for me it has to start with self-made now you heard trevor and Andrew talking about self-made on the cast you saw a couple of his early ganks I just have to reinforce this this is my jungler to watch this guy is so good and I think one of the reasons why Nemesis has so much hype around him and why the mad lines were kind of you know the baby step into the LEC if you will at this point was because of self-made and he's not just a mechanically strong jungler he's a very intelligent jungler I think you can even have seen it when he was in the European masters right history a play that was impeccable when he was in the LVP playing format lines he did an incredible job and it's the reason a lot of people see the LVP is like one league below the LEC they have so many good players and people Forge they're gonna be great in the LEC and we had a lot of questions you know SK effectively gutted three-fourths of the mad line took that roster put it on on the spot so we knew that there was gonna be some inbuilt synergy between self-made between were live and between crown shot the three former members of the Matt Lyons but they didn't bring their shot-caller Falco the support and so when you looked at the sk line I feel like can this team be able to keep up on a macro level with some of the gods like fnatic and the answer so far has been yes lovely dragon rotations they managed to get the rift held the fact that they got both the dragon and the rift held because fnatic we're a bit late to the call just again goes to the fact that I feel like self-made we're stepping up and they're helping lead the charge absolutely and that together with Parian in the mid lane as well they just seem to be incredibly prepared and on the money in their very first game so we have to put it on the side of fnatic now and ask are they then not exactly there yet it kind of feels like it you talk about that Matt Lions lineup and everything that's good about it nemesis is the one that we are looking at can we say anything towards his performance so far I think the big thing for me with nemesis is that he never he never wanted to be new caps he never wanted to be the 0-200 mid laner who would want v1 his opponent he always said he was going to be this guy that would play a little bit safer that would never lose his name but never really win his lane as well and you saw that in this game 38 CS behind on the Corky Gallio matchup he just wasn't able to make an impact so frost do you think that this is a stylistic change that it's just gonna take time for the whole of fnatic to deal with of course no Man Overboard they have not lost this game yet but as K is very well in the game yeah let's be clear that was fanatics composition it's just a single teamfight before things are right back around and when you do have that veteran experience their ability to eat up so much on the map on any victory they get I mean that fnatic aren't out by any stretch the imagination as far as nemesis is concerned when I watched him in the Spanish league I noticed that he was very good at playing around his jungler now of course his jungler was self-made who he's now playing across from so he should feel very familiar with that but with Brock saw I kind of expected the dynamic to be for Broxson to be that hard carry which on a pick like Nocturne he can but he doesn't have the same early game pressure as we saw worlds with Lisa and so for this iteration of fnatic to be successful I'm going to expect nemesis to be that more backing up his jungler Brock so to be a carry and then playing around the top side of the map before they go down and pick up reckless and hilly form or that big fnatic team fighting I think problem was playing around the top side of map for the moment his whipper was overextending like a madman in that Lane go gank myself made twice because he was just well out of position gave up first but as well you can tell they lack a little bit of the experience that so eyes would have had where he knew when to step back he knew when to give up a little bit of CS whip oh just pushing too far forward gave selfmade and SK the lead they need it we just thought caught it there that he's definitely he's talking to the team he seems to be pumping them up and seems to be just amped up and I mean maybe it's getting in his head as well because now he is that soul top laner for fnatic this is not a situation he's been in before and the whole team is seemingly having to we just I mean but Bo he said that he wants to play in the games that matter he went to the World Championship he got to play - it doesn't matter right now but that said I know a lot of fans you see a name like fnatic you're like this organization can just print Championships it just carves out Superstars and buh-buh will be a superstar his rookie year was undoubtedly incredible but there's gonna be some teething pains they lost so eyes and caps that's a huge loss even when you do have young talents like Popo and nemesis behind them yeah and the thing about superstars is that there's always one waiting in the wings and some of those may be on this sk gaming lineup and you guys already talked about self-made but Frasca break it down for me how did he step into this game in the early and the mid game he really stamped his authority on this one now to be fair he was always gonna have the edge in the matchup especially for the early gank because it was his enzyme versus Nocturne now it was I believe 2 or 3 early ganks that selfmade got up this was an issue with whip Oh being overexcited maybe some calm break sound I don't want to just put that one on blip oh brock's it could have been on the other side of the map but then it just doubled down it self-made continue to lead and you continue to see fanatic kind of make a few mistakes in their team fighting as well you have this ability to dive onto the back line you're not teaming up with the Galea world those should be combined for you to be able to win out of these teams you'll be fair to fnatic though at this point you have a three item Corki you're in a tiny choke point and what is reckless supposed to do on such a short range champion like Lucien yeah his ability to skate around teamfights but he's only got one choke point to try to skate forward into and you're looking at a Corki at a recon it's just so hard to dive into that backline and that it puts so much impetus on that first pick Lucien though like they gave up the ability to first pick something like the Gallio the lissandra was available as well they could have gone for a jungler yes he's a power but yes he's very strong but I haven't seen enough from reckless awesome fanatic around that bottom lane to justify it which is why I actually think the crux of kind of how this champions like broke down was in the second band phase when lissandra and his ear were banned by fnatic as opposed to the Corki now Corky's in old school I'm gonna call a direct counter in a Gallio but usually an answer to Gallio he can match a lot of that side ROM pressure he's going to hyper scale into the late game he can bully the Gallio out a little bit match him maybe for some of the waveclear I think that's kind of where these issues are coming into play because nemesis is just unable to get away from Corki and start using that ultimate cuz it's what passed 15 minutes in the game and we really have only seen one Gally ultimate with the Nocturne yeah I do think that in the replay we saw their fnatic is trying to push still they are trying to put it back in their favor they're trying to keep fighting is that what they should do do they have to chill for just a minute until it's their time I honestly think they fall behind as the game goes on and on you've got sire who I think is stronger than Lucian in the late game you've got the Corki that we talked about three four times that cookies gonna do a huge amount of work with a Leona with Ellucian with a Nocturne you need to be getting these early fights and these already kills otherwise you're just gonna fall too far behind I think it's about picking and curating your fights and with fanatics composition they have so many tools to do that with the paranoia with the solar eclipse with the cannonball comp from Gallio it's very easy for them that once they see one member out of position they can immediately blow up the fight but I think the vision changes to the game really impact them here you're not allowed to carry as many pink wards once you lose vision it's very hard to get that back I think that is kind of bleeding in a little bit into their ability to have an open map and find these crucial picks that they need but so far fnatic Bupa did a really good job the first team fight with the rift hell giving that massive flank but the second team fight was just a bad fight to take yeah so a couple of things I'll have to clean up if we go back into this game for those of you just joining us we are right in the middle of game 1 fnatic vs. SK gaming but there's a pause from fnatic fnatic have reported latency issues to League officials and they are currently investigating so hopefully we can get the game back on their way in just a little bit so I said if you haven't seen the game up until now SK is quite frankly smashing fnatic and surprising many people you've got like two or three kills in the game they lost double dragon early on they lost rift as well you're coming into El Clasico you have to you're the first game of the LEC fnatic you're getting smashed right now okay I totally understand where you're coming from but I'm just looking at like a huge bounty on quirky because he's been sitting there picking up the kills on the farm we haven't seen the bounty system you know I don't think it's necessarily good enough that when this game gets no longer controlled it like the bounty systems gonna be what evens the tides you know but again it's a single teamfight and fnatic on a teamfight oriented composition in a play style that really suits them so right now it looks really disastrous but because it's fnatic you're just sitting there like trying to keep control we've been talking for a while sometimes one of those burns just just leaps out no but the point that I'm getting is they did get to the final of that world championship with four out of the five people that are still on that stage right now so in some way this you know this time hopefully has helped them so when they get back in the game they can redirect their goals but I don't think that means that it's the same fnatic and that's a fairly obvious thing to say when you're missing so isn't caps but I think fans are still under estimating how important Capps was to the success of fnatic a lot of things started with him started especially at that world champion it was Brock's ax and it was caps really that were just stepping up reckless had a couple of is good plays but usually it's you know wait for the 55 we know our ADC is a great team fighter but it's about these two superstars in the mid jungle that are going to take off for us and now that that dynamics been changed again you kind of have to reinvent the wheel yeah absolutely so uh it is so easy to say well they were the champions they will be it again surely that is big difference but it is a huge difference when you put that rookie in the mid lane now in that experienced lineup who has given a bit of a different styling caps and all of a sudden you have to change the communication you have to change the way you do that first gank you have to change everything and well change it to win this game which apparently isn't working out too well for now it's interesting as well because I got the chance to talk to nemesis a little bit about his expectations for the league and he was saying yeah well get first in spring will get first in summer will win MSI will win worlds and he was like he's very confident and Young Buck saying that we have to be very confident we made finals of worlds last year we have to say we're gonna win every time but there was still that level of anticipation for the first few games because he knew he wasn't captain he knew that he would have to find a way to work in the meta and the team has to find a way to work around him I'd like to see fnatic put a bit more impetus on boxer maybe take him back to something like the lease and put some more pressure ups or was that hot yes I apologized to me it feels like fnatic lost this game and SK gonna take well if that is the case then let's talk about how huge it would be for this sk gaming roster to not only come back to the LEC but beat out that team with which they had such a big rivalry for years and years years ago and just make a win happen on the first day against fnatic would be huge for SK gaming a talent I don't know what's in the water in all of these countries but it just seems like you guys just anywhere you reach you can find like superstars to come flying out of the gates out of nowhere like no one knew these names um tyrion obviously has had a bit of a tenured history although with a lot of turmoil a lot of ups and downs but dreams likewise kind of the same story but the eye has been such a soloqueue monster i believe he was like top five in korean soloqueue and no one's talking about him yeah there was so many players on this team that I look at and I think actually I recognize that name like you look at well up in the top lane he was around a lot of years Jack's on giants couldn't play anything else for love nor money now he comes back playing tanks putting a bit more pressure period second place on every team he's on then comes back and makes a statement in Game one dreams on misfits Academy replaced by igner now back in the early sea actually making a statement for himself all of these play have done great things that are waiting for that chance to prove themselves to take that extra step and go the extra mile and they would have a fantastic start if they win this game here today and that's the beauty of long term partnerships the fact that orgs can now invest in a lot of this talent that they want to build up she be obviously a former coach of unicorns of love now the coach of SK has a tenured history of working and kind of discovering new talent of crafting them you know I made a tweet on social media that I feel like you can see sheepies fingerprints a little bit some of these team fights I mean uol were so good at just a ramming midlane you never wanted to fight them in that circle of death and what have we seen we've seen a couple of mid lane fights where even though people got an incredible flank I think the target selection from SK was still really strong I do believe we're going to get an update in just a second please news I don't know let's see so in Game one fnatic paws of the game reporting latency issues to League officials now after reviewing the shadow play and discussing with the teams officials have determined this game will be remade and played on a different useful climatic server we are now in the process of changing the competitive server the game is played on and we will restart the game once players are ready you will apologize medic for that it is not a fun situation to be in if this is your first game to play on stage both for fnatic and for SK gaming of course yeah and I apologize for that statement I shouldn't have said it I think you have to just try and reach that in here mentally right CP has a lot of experience I'm sure he'll talk to SK and say look guys we'd have to reset we played incredibly won and get in there in the first part of the match now we can come in just go into the remade game as well fnatic they need to reevaluate exactly how they played that game and reset come into this one with the fresh makes and bans as well okay I'm gonna push back a little bit I think that it's I mean obviously it sucks you never want to have a remake but I think that both teams can actually stick with the same strategy and just try to run it back I don't think that there was anything really inherently wrong or huge glaring errors and either draft strategy I liked what fnatic we're putting together with their playstyle I liked the emphasis on Lucian you still have the Swedish superstar ADC give him one of the best marksmen that's been pretty much perma banned in lck and LPL and it felt like SK we're just kind of matching toe for toe and trying to find the counter pics were available definitely so we won't beat around the bush this sucks for us but of course for the players on the rift right now or her just gonna remake so hopefully they can get keep their heads in the games cuz this is just part of all of it they have to in a couple of minutes have that new strategy get those same or new picks and bans and make sure that they start off at the same foot for SK gaming then especially because that's where it's gonna it's gonna hurt for them they have to get that same activity on the rift from front minute one it has to be self-made again he was the the castle that he was the spark that lit the fire under SK in this game if he can do that again give him another early jungler give him someone he can be aggressive on it could work out well first and that's what I want to focus the audience's attention to it's kind of now reevaluating where we saw these teams put their priorities for the draft phase so for fnatic it was that priority pick of the Lucian put it in the reckless basket the fact that they got the counter pick up the support blue Leona into the Recon and very well-known counter maneuver there so I think that if they want to stay there maybe Broxton takes a bit more of an early aggressive jungler starts feeding more into that lane or maybe they decide that okay whoop is the guy we want to go for he obviously wants to play very aggressive so let's give him a bit more safety a bit more attention or is he on the other side SK were all about their jungler you know it was a very early rotation of this ends l they had the Recon so obviously looking for those engages and looking for that very early skirmish potential on the map seems to be yeah you still pretty happy they're down to get back on the rift and and hopefully play in as good of a game so that's not looking forward we have to leave it there for a second when it comes to this game but I think to me it immediately proves that all those power rankings and all the expectations you have they might not necessarily ring through when it comes to playing your first game on stage oh definitely I think that you have to remember for a lot of these players it is the first game on the LEC stage especially for someone like nemesis he's really just trying to understand you know how you deal with the lights how you do with the pressure in the moment there's so much pressure put on you to open in El clásico up against the team that's just come up into the league and as far as for us ladies and gentlemen when we are of course feeling a little bit of time because we want to give the team's the necessary time to Reese set so let's take a look at the schedule to know what after this game is also coming up and what we have in store for you like when you see what is possible in in this first game already and how expectations can be turned on their heads are we feeling a bit less clear about our predictions I don't know if you had an upset predicted today I did not have an upset predicted today I was gonna pick axe cut exile / splice but I think that was pretty close either way I ended up I ended up picking splice it's almost kind of like how darest even think that you know we couldn't define what an upset was going to be he came in thinking like we know exactly who's gonna win we know who the clear favorites are and the nest cake I've thrown that entire script out the window in game I'm really excited for game 4 in game 5 now like misfits the super team I know you put them 8 than your power ranking ok winning against fnatic now like maybe misfits Lucent rogue maybe Origen can take down g2 like there's a lot of different opportunities here for these teams to show their stuff on day one yeah absolutely so we have a bit of a talk show going on right here so our next topic is the match of the day and that will be going on later tonight as Origen returns to the league would it match up against the four-time champions g2 eSports I mean weird even want to cut into this one I think whenever you see a lineup like the g2 one everyone wants to be because they have so many big names they have so many star players if you have the luxury to move one of the best mid laners in EU history to ad carry to make room for caps you have too many damn good players I'm gonna imagine that that's gonna be a lot of teams having a lot of excuses why they lost to us but an end a loss to us g2 is definitely the villain that just comes with it DS - or that's gonna be fun to see Origen back the way they left LCS was like really sad so it's gonna be very hard to play against them and see if they can reach their old form a second place right I think people are under estimating us I'm pretty sure like 99% of the audience is gonna be rooting for us we'll have no idea what they're gonna get hit by hunger a lot of teams and players are just scared honestly scared of what this team could be scared of our individual skill of what they can't beat on exercise you might have liked that drive to do that I've made the wrong choice that I left him and when a smash mate is so hard I'm gonna send him back to America he needs to know who was the bus and the clears it life together for Europe g2 is the super team here super teams can go down and they will go down I think once we see ourselves and players on the international stage people are gonna remember those words and they're gonna remember that we're not just like another team in you we had this definitely nice to see that caps hasn't lost any of us flair perks neither I mean this is it they made a huge gamble in the offseason you could call it a gamble you could call it a very you know 4d chess legit move 40 chess but the surgeons are matter is we don't know so what you guys expect is going to happen with perks in that ad carry role in the first game in the first game I think he's gonna lose to Patrick I think Patrick will demolish a Malayan I think there'll be our 20 CS differential assuming it's an even matchup and Patrick a myth you're gonna win that lane good sir but there's not just one player playing down there it's not like it's just a trick and Missy okay would you miss the name in there Mickey's fine that's the thing though everyone is always talking about the perks and the caps and I get it it's super exciting but you're still looking at wonder and Mickey and that makes that roster terrifying I don't even throw you goofs in there he can do laundry he can play all yeah I think you should name it shock or you focus that much off-kilter let's continue talking about this match of it is the last game of the day this weighs away now but it is an incredibly important one when we look at Europe when we look at the LEC and when we look at the legacy of what these teams have shown so far because g2 is really the team that wants to kick fnatic down a notch and og is the team that wants to get back up there as well but they are going to have to fight so hard if you look at the other teams in Europe and for me it's kind of like you've got the the sweet narrative aspect of it but also curious with the play style aspect 'visit is going to be 4g - you know before you've had perks moving down into the bot lane before you had this incredible support and Mickey joining the roster it was all about the top side and I'm you know they have those three mercenaries yet Yanko so you had wonder and you had perks and they could hit you so hard and so fast playing that 1-3-1 style now that you do have a more stable bot Lane even if perks doesn't step up into a DC with Mickey does that change how G to want to attack them out well I'm gonna just look at the example we saw in the first phases of that fnatic SK game fnatic didn't even change the position they changed one player who played a bit differently than their previous mid laner and they're struggling then look at g2 who now have a completely new mid laner and have moved their mid laner to the bottom Lane you have to think that there will be an adjustment period I actually think my wife or g2 is the dead - explosive I think there's too much going on on that team you don't have the stable voice of a mithi of a cold you know of a veteran player who's willing just to take a bit of a step back perps will have to do that for me he'll have to be more of a reckless role have to be more of a team fighter because otherwise you've got making who likes to go ham but wonder who likes to go ham yang comes to likes to go ham and caps you'd like to go you need a stable voice of reason on that team to keep them just a little bit more mellow aggression Unchained bloodshed fighting for no reason medicine what you're saying but I actually think that makes it slightly easier for Perks you know there's not that responsibility that he has to be the hard carry on the team he can just sit back a Cosi complete silver for all we know just feel like I'm gonna press our guys it's fine I mean there's profit like that's gonna happen well let's see let's talk a bit about origin then of course big history in EU big absence the last couple of years and for me it was really interesting to see what roster they came up with of course Patrick Sheriff renamed to Patrick that Rookie of last year now alongside Missy one of the most experienced players ever what's that roster gonna look like how are they gonna play see I've always rated Patrick I've always thought of him as like the next upset on h2k I don't think he really got his chance to shine and my thought for them is that as a roster wall is they're gonna rely on our far we being a very strong 1v1 top laner cold will be this sort of like chess MA that the puppetmaster who puts everyone in that place and Patrick will be their key carrying team the roster or the sword of Rosser you thought would come out of origin when you heard that they would be back playing on its own oh the Fisher wasn't playing but do you know what I mean this is its ambitious you know it has a lot of players mixed together with a lot of experience and a lot of players who haven't won a title either you know I mean talking to Martin Owen II euphoria he was actually so happy in the roster that he got he thought he was gonna get a very different roster and he basically everyone that he wanted he got the idea is is that like you're saying you have those two not rookie players but very young talents in Patrick and Alf re and you just flanked them with veterans you have that calming voice of nuke cold and macey to just lead these powerhouses and it's just like prep the cannon put it into position and just let it go yeah and I'm actually pretty confident I didn't vote for them because I think it's a tall order versus you - I'm glad I didn't trust official exactly I didn't trust the Fisher I mean what is it what is new it's not because you know works for an organization but it will be interesting to see you know I think they aren't like ask' they're gonna have a real game plan they are not gonna leave anything to chance Origen when they take on YouTube I think my only wife origin is that the current meta game seems to be a lot more about getting some early kills getting ahead taking those turret placings getting yourself a bit of a gold lead and then being able to snowboard that into teamfights I think origin will be the better team fighting team but in Lane G to look mechanically stronger to me so I think they'll have an advantage going into the mid game and that's always gonna be terrifying and I know a lot of fans are gonna kind of hone in on Missy and just you know if he makes one misstep everything is going to blow up but I took a peek into Missy solo queue and this guy is grinding so many games I think on one champion Gragas get like a hundred and nine games played in the preseason no one else was even close to methey so he's very clearly putting in the hours to get himself back into EU for me now this is an NA miffy this is old-school oh gee Miffy yeah and that's exciting to see I mean I'd love to talk to meteor get to talk to him after one of these games because we can't underestimate how huge it is for him you know because in the end it wasn't the best time over them for him in North America and now he's back here and almost feels like he has even more to prove especially since the last time we saw a European player go to tee Sam it was yellowstar European support go see TSM his yellow star he came back and had an awful time back in Europe so Mitty has to prove that there isn't this TSM cursed you don't go there and then stop just losing out all of your skill worlds letting EU supports down when they come back you can't just keep harping on something when it isn't true anymore medic waiting for an update for fnatic vs. SK gaming game that had to be remade we'd be receiving an update fairly soon so we will continue with your regularly scheduled unscheduled podcast Game three will be Schalke vs vitality and that is one that we can say something about as well it is a rematch of the semi final out of summer two of those organizations that did fantastically throughout 2018 I love how Shox knows I'm really excited for vitality the split I think bringing Mowgli in from the freaky freaks is actually an upgrade I've talked to a few people and some people think it's a bit of a downgrade but overall so I talked to boxer and box the things Mowgli is not a good as good a jungler as kick assist we talked about it on the podcast I did with fnatic and he was just saying doesn't think he has much emphasis in the early game he doesn't think he has as much pressure on the map things kick is just stronger right it's very hard to keep up with kick it definitely is but vitality relied so much on that volatile style you know worlds they define the meta because they were able to go for those five man tower dives at the 10 15 minute mark and I totally understand kick is you know he was a huge reason why vitality even got to have the vitality effect at Worlds he was the guy who turned everything around for them and kind of led that charge but ultimately in talking to you mato he just felt that you know kick is vitality they left each other on good terms and if he wanted to change the most sensitive aspect of the map he felt that that was in the jungle and he thought that if we just have a really strong mechanical leader that if you just pair them up with gazook a vitality can go the distance we can continue that topic in just a second I do have an update for you guys I know you must be waiting for it so a few moments ago in Game one fnatic vs. SK gaming fnatic paused at the game reporting latency issues to League officials now after reviewing the footage the officials confirmed the existence of latency issues and determined that game one will be remade and played on a different competitive server but furthermore officials are now confirming that they have determined the cause of these issues and are applying a fix so that is good news that it won't happen again at least in this remade game but that also means that we are still waiting for that new Lobby to get made I will get an update about how long that will take in just a second of course we apologize once again for the delay and also for fnatic and SK yeah they're still waiting to get back in that Lobby and get back on the rift I mean I'm from the LPL when you know we were preparing and stuff we say ok we're gonna focus on doing you know pre games we need to introduce these new teams these new rosters and I said well frost you welcome to the LEC we're fik we're focusing on pre games today you do not have to worry too much about the postgame as you she's like you don't have to worry so much ok instead I'm gonna make you talk for it well it is what it is unfortunately we are not trying to make light of the situation of course we were just trying to wait for the information that is being given to us and hopefully giving you some interesting content I wish we had some kind of thing where people could ask us questions but we were talking about vitality versus Schalke and well it's for vitality I think it's kind of difficult because they did so well last year and we knew that the roster would be explosive but nobody could predict how big attila and Zhu Zhu K would explode on that rift and how good they would do at World so you know I'd be a bit scared if I was a vitality fan because you have to do better this year for me they have to be a title contender but I think it's what's very it's very clear to vitality and their fans kind of what needs to change now and it's consistency you already know that you have the potential to hit that ceiling so now they just need to make sure that they're hitting it every single time Yamato said that he didn't want to take shortcuts that he wants to play hard compositions and he wants to play he thinks his ideal week of Legends so vitality Yamato they recognize you know we are contenders we want to lift the cup we're going to be spring or summer did he say he wants to play perfect legal legends like starting now because some of the things I was great but it wasn't perfect it was just going in going ham and throwing everything the game isn't that what the League of Nations is about about when people say perfect League of Legends they think of it only in terms of like this beautiful macro dance and it's not about that it's about not taking shortcuts you know if we can't play something if we can't do a certain formation if we can't play a certain side wave or what-have-you your model wants to address that and to fix it you don't just want to band-aid over your mistakes and then just try to play into one narrow style I think my big thing for vitality as well as Jesu can entail are really stepping up like last year they were both rookies they were looked at as just beneath the S tier in their roles now I think zhu zhu k is very much in the conversation for top three top two mids in europe I think it's Hillier is getting up there as well like you look reckless upset then Attila has to be the next name off your lips right these guys if they can continue their form from worlds they are challenging to be some of the best players in Europe yeah and of course upset is who the whole roster of Schalke was built around coming into 2019 and I was definitely shocked when I saw the voting coming out for the player rankings the fans voted for upset and until a not in the top three in four and in five under Han sama perks and reckless in the top three and I think that is a testament to how stacked everything is okay I'm gonna give the fans a little bit of credit here because I know part of the algorithm behind where people get ranked and because the top three were so heavily favored the experts basically decided who was going to be in the top three to a degree right obviously the fans obviously the fans could get someone else into that top three but it was quite hard for them to do so peep everyone who would have had to put perks fourth or fifth as a fan vote to get upset in a ton of number one and a ton of number five super super low vote so those kind of duh very hard for him in fact one of the few players actually broke that algorithm and then made the huge leap back into the top three was Hillsong so the fans recognizing the power that Haley had pudding into the top three I think what it was who was our third ignore no yeah Mickey fell out Oh rip Mickey sad for him yeah well a lot of players to look forward to a lot of them are on the rift right now we were talking a little bit about shock I want to come to a bottarga as well in that mid lane I'm just glad it's cuz a funny name it's because every time you and Vettius say it you like make the same face I'm trying my hardest to make - answer right but he's a very good mid laner people put him actually when when I talk to people about racing humanoid a bottarga and Nemesis people would go humanoid Abba Dog and nemesis which is why I was surprised nemesis went to fnatic I think part of that was his successful mad lines and self maybe in there and obviously fnatic doing their research but I would be looking at human Abba doggy to have a big impact in their first couple of days then nemesis it is quite interesting humanoid has so so much hype behind them of people that have been scouting him he is of course up on docket in the next one splice versus excel but first we're going to have this remade SK versus fnatic and yeah we talk a lot about who are the new faces that are gonna come but who are some of the old faces that are going to show up I mean Perry and his one that's been around for a while and seem like it's now finally his heyday just been on that I'm excited for I think she was trying to redirect SK vs. fnatic classic oh yeah there we go so unfortunately we are still waiting for the guys to get back they'll be well it is coming soon hopefully I'm also waiting for an update myself but the fact that the players are on stage - my trained eye very quickly yes you can see that they're touching their keyboards and mice indeed yeah there we see - oh by the way Young Buck is back in the head coaching position so he's also back on stage how many stars fixed our generals thang and I mean if there's one guy to make you refocus for the remade game it's gonna be Joey I don't think he's gonna hold any punches through these guys I just want to know if they're going to change it the game the game plan if suddenly it's not an ADC priority but like a top laner priority what would you do would you stick with exactly the same game plan or would you move it around you know it's curious to me I've watched a lot of the lck in the LPL there hasn't been a ton of bot lane priority unless Cassiopeia is left open I'm if you guys haven't seen how bot Lane Cassiopeia works you can check it out in casper cup or a Casper Cup what's really cool about it though is you basically max-q it gives you unlimited push potential and a lot of damage and then how comet impacts on her twin fangs means you get so many comment first and twin fangs bursts that you don't really lose damage by not putting points into e so you can stack it all into Q and it's just super oppressive to Lane again so take it to solo queue you can thank you later it's free low the only way early ganks because you before you get your lost chapter your ter you really don't have the manners to spam spam out as much as you'd like so if we do see the cassio I'd like to see self mate go for an early ganking once again and focus that bottom lane instead I have been spying into a couple of LEC players and they are playing certain yellows Karthus --is and a lot of castles bo you've got immediately wait oh it was actually I think it was I think they're a really fun guess-who game if you could just like I don't know if we just gave away bad information or wasn't so lucky you can just go you are being careful here as we see the teams are on stage now yeah it's all about what is the plan gonna be in a way I would just like them to replay with the same composition and see if the same things apply but cheap he's probably gonna say to his troops hey we did it once maybe they've also done it in in scrims we don't know we can do it again I think a big thing for me if I messed guys you didn't do it via cheese right you didn't do this like crazy form and I've top you didn't do a crazy gank you just played good League of Legends and you put fnatic on their back foot because of it all they need to do is play good League of Legends again and fnatic was struggle were you there when I was watching all the Mad Lions games and I just kept whispering to myself it is so good he's so good he's so smart they're not just winning cuz they're mechanically better cuz so often you see um some of the kind of like other leagues really win off of mechanical talent because you just don't have that same caliber across every single team but it was the fact that they had the mechanical talent and they just played really clean macro League of Legends I was like damn it's just so impressive it was amazing I felt like I was watching the lck you know not a very good region in the world you can't see like my okay so I'm gonna cut you off finally we're gonna get back into the game very shortly so let's send it back over to our casters well we definitely are hoping to get back into picks and bans welcome back to the caster desk I am quick shot joined by Vettius once again and we can only apologize to all the fans who are at home waiting to fnatic and to SK gaming for this remake it is for a frustration and a pain that nobody ever wants to go through but it is something that we have to deal with so mental resets go back to the drawing board and I really realized what medic and frost were talking about on the analyst desk about how for SK gaming they won through good play and for fnatic it was the reservation or the lack of plays that maybe cost them those leaders yeah I think we can be honest and say that this situation really sucks for SK but they proved that they could put it - fnatic they punished them when it was appropriate they took those small advantages and turned them into bigger ones and the big thing that we talked about was how teams utilize pressure yeah and SK did it much better than fnatic did and you know we talked a little bit about the synergy how for SK it feels like they just seem to be more on the same page together than what fnatic were and I you know we only have good things to say about what we saw from SK in game 1 so I'm expecting them to kind of bring in that same performance and level into the next game and while it's got to be difficult for them I just thought she P is a motivating guy yes and I know that he can talk to these young players and you can say listen this situation sucks but you guys were destroying them you can do it again I believe in you so hypothetically speak where is more of the onus for both of these teams in terms of some of the changes I do just have an update for you guys really quickly of course a few minutes ago in Game one fnatic vs asking if enacted pause the game they reported those latency issues to League officials the officials reviewed the footage at the footage and they did confirm the existence of those latency flags they determined that Game one will be remade played in a different competitive server if you are just joining us officials also are confirming they determined the cause of these issues and they are applying that fix that's why we're seeing the players on stage right now getting themselves set up getting their warm-up again and the question that I was gonna ask just before we ran through that is do you think there's more of an onus on fnatic to consider their draft because I in my head the Leona and the Nocturne were a little surprising what you can kind of see what they were going for I think they had a lot of confidence in their own individual ability and they felt like that they could just win through the laning phase which due to some good plays from self-made wasn't able to happen so if fnatic would have shift anything it would be in my opinion to try and take selfmade away from some of these strong early game junglers and instead force them onto something that he can't have the same level of impact with whereas if I'm SK I'm a little worried about Boo pose Swain that was the big thing that I think really could have swung the game yeah poor fnatic and their actual teamfight proficiency with that champion as well so I think there are a couple of players that you couldn't look to target but a part of me also just wants both teams to do the same Compson and then just see what happens maybe fnatic believe that without the latency they could still win this game I don't know I don't know what their mentality is I don't know what their strategy is which I'll have to wait and see well I do want to ask you about some of the target bands the likes of that Morgana the lissandra they you know that the Morgana surprises me that isandro made sense you know in terms of what we see in these these tiers but it's just it's so interesting to me to try to get inside the heads of the pro players because this situation does not happen extremely frequently and even more so when you're this brand-new team under the moniker of SK you know with three players from a different team two new individuals joining the squad and you are taking fnatic down there's all that added weight and pressure and expectation so it adds complexities to this draft there will be a completely fresh picks and bans and they'll be very interesting to me to see who will be making changes if any changes at all you know yep fnatic they're still on the blue side SK will be on the red they will have that option to counter pick and I want to remind people if you are just joining us that flex picks are the hotness right now across the globe they're the champions that can be flexed in multiple different roles have the most value because you can put so much priority on them early on into the draft and then you can pretty much put them into any role and that's the big shift between worlds and now is that literally everything can go into every role everywhere all right so everything into every role everywhere that's where we're gonna eat the draft to go I am hearing from the production team and league officials that we are moments away from picks and bans so once again just want to reiterate that this is a frustration we have changed this competitive service and we have in theory triage those problems let's just hope that they do not creep back into game yep see we're lip as well as SK little cheeky grin there on his face we're back on the stage after a long hiatus but not without victories and trophies in his belt a lot of experienced players sitting on the SK roster and that's a very very focused sheepy just as we get ourselves ready for draft so first pick priority give me some of those st is that you'd like to see banned away and then focused on I know you got a good list right I think that we're gonna see very similar to what we saw in the last game and things like the sound are being taken off the board SK have shown that they have an answer to the gaol so they're probably gonna let it through again we are now jumping into the draft and there it is something we were talking about taking self-made away from one of those early gameplay making sure colors the Xin chào will be back alright on the other side SK gaming stick to their first two bands in Casio as well as aatrox remember that self-made locked in that chin zone in the first rotation in addition to that recon was also the other Pixar fanatic and adapted their draft based on what happened in Game one yeah they're taking dreams off of what was a very successful recon and the Xin chào taken away from self made so two of the big playmakers and now have to be moved on to another champion but we'll see what else SK can bring out in this drafters they will now take Oh got off the board Galia once again absolution as well still up and available alright so no changes in terms of phase one bands from SK AME but with their phase one pics and reconnaissance are taking off the table they do have some pivots to be made but there is still a number of high-priority picks still available the Gallio is one that comes to mind I think they should put priority on the Kamil right now it's another very strong early game jungler I feel like selfmade should have a lot of confidence with it they could even look to take the gaol you're away from nemesis unless they're afraid of the potential counter pick but that's something that I feel they really should put some value on right now all right now the Israel was banned away during the first picks and bans of this match it was the second banned by fanatics Oh crown shots gonna get himself this comfort pick something's played a lot I recall a plane that any you monsters as well and the Camille was a phase to ban during the previous drops you can see rattling off information a mile a minute I was looking over the players during the game and Dreamz is incredibly vocal he is dishing out information and chat the entire time and he locks in his brawl so fnatic could go for Morgana here if they wanted to it's a pretty solid pick into the Bron but tahm Kench is another one that's available a problem with both those picks is they don't really synergize the best of its solution and I feel like the Lucian wants something that can kind of pair up with him to get into your face to provide long Lane dominance the the priority on this is to just use bot lane but there we are we talked about aggression we talked about wanting to be able to get into their face and Hillier sank he's gonna pick up his classic and memorable pike a bot Lane one could say best pike in the world in 2018 it is debatable but it's one that you could defend over on the other side Barak sir will be playing a signature pick anybody that watched him play Elise in at the World Championship would have their jaw on the floor by some of the combinations that he pulled off and picked together and while Camille is one of those early game or one of those you know combative junglers that kha'zix is another we'll see what self make goes with the other up so fnatic have drafted themselves a lot of well-known and iconic picks but Lisa in the pike Ellucian hasn't been played a lot by reckless but back in the old days when sk were in the league this was something that he would pick quite often where is we've seen a pretty big shift now in the draft for SK they've grabbed themselves the Sichuan Ishii did have some pretty big buffs on patch 9.1 and I want to reinforce right now that Wallace said one who looks like she's going in the jungle there is the potential for her to be flexed into a multitude of roles I believe over in the LPL we've already seen it played in support once and I've heard rumblings of it being played in a variety of different positions so top would be the most likely in this scenario considering the Brahmas locked in and of course will inflate the Sion in the previous game so flexing is the dangerous thing in this current meta but again scaling team fighting more towards the side of what ska going for they're still leaving the galley up and notice now that the Corky's band they're forced to ban the gala themselves because that counter pick is unavailable to them they want to take the gather away now the big pick that's still up and available is that lissandra so I feel that fnatic have to kind of put priority on that if they want to take away all the S team in things alright lissandra was banned away by fnatic in Game one and of course we saw Corki Swain and Gallio pleading game went all three find themselves in the band pull this is the last ban here for fnatic vs SK and it's a pivot it's a hecarim by stretching my hand it's hecarim top that's why because were Lib one of his unique picks that he did often play a lot during the LVP season was hecarim a big night teleport up towards the side of the map and it looks like that finanical just a little too afraid to deal with it so what would that mean that fnatic will want you to play if you don't want to deal with it either discomfort or it's some kind of tank or something like something blind like a Scion that they don't know and they just don't want to have to deal with that obnoxious hecarim and I'm sure some people be familiar with licorice playing in app world as well but those other sounds that we talked about a lot of frail yards in this game a lot of ice but again it just kind of reinforced strong teamfight power good scaling on the side of SK gaming and they just have a lot of utility and the thing I really want to reinforce with Ezreal is after the W changes he hurts so much more in the late game now the extra damage that his W provides is ridiculous in terms of poke and the fact that his ultimate now does like full damage to champions is so much more impactful so keep an eye on him in these teamfights later on alright so cyan locked in for the top lane and nemesis he played the Gallio in the previous matchup he's got himself a forward-facing team composition and he's gonna throw down the gauntlet a colles lakhtin now Carly and Sian could swap of course they could beat up and mid but I would expect its most likely to go in the middle you're expecting nemesis to play there Carly in mid Boyd the sign in top lane what kind of pic will SK go for I feel like we're gonna see something spicy and special here I don't know if the jacks is a great pair into the sound a gangplank could be a consideration something that they've seen over in the lck p.m. in actual fact he's gonna stick with the poppy and I like this cuz you think about all the dashes of mobility that's on the side of fnatic and there are a lot of them there's pike there's Lucian as a collie that's the sin a lot of interruption can be offered here from were lip and he could just look to do the same thing they didn't game one which was interfere interrupts get in the way of those carrots from fnatic from getting involved in these fights and I remember you praising willips decision-making when it came to entering teamfights positioning the things he was doing on that Scion they have a lot of tools under his belt with this puppy as you've already alluded to I like once again this combination SK put together it feels like the value of the team gets stronger the more members you add around but for fnatic they have to fix the complacency maybe from Game one I wanted to see more Nocturne and Gallio Ultimates use when you've got a lease in a pike in a Carlene really one of the only things you can do is go in and look for tog and similar game plan for fnatic they have a really strong 2v2 in the bot lane top it's pretty neutral arguably you could you could say that the papi has a slight advantage because she does pretty well in two tanks but sign with his wave que it's just a very neutral boring tank laying up at the top side of the map but the advantage should go once again to peering in the mid lane with the lissandra often does very well into things like the Akali especially during the laning phase so SK have one strong lane fnatic have one strong lane as opposed to two compared to like I find there are tanks up in the top side of the map and what we saw from selfmade was he loved hanging around were lured I want to see him try and invest more resources into the mid lane this time round utilize that lissandra ultimate the level 6 mark shut this guy down put nemesis behind like you did in Game one and make her in your primary camera okay I'll be watching this decision-making and whether I can get in I push the member south mate gonna gank breakfast because well it's not saying who pushed very far forward in that first game and look alikes of - lucian they're gonna be hunting once again ladies and gentleman thank you so much for sticking with us fnatic will be taking on SK gaming here and the first official match of the League of Legends European Championship yeah for the 2019 season I'm looking down the Keystone's no gigantic surprises and once again various the changes into the 2019 season with the runes and masteries allowing you to pick some of that adaptive force for example getting some additional ap allowing you to invest in some other trees then we're a little different than last year yeah and that's one of the reasons why lissandra kind of raised power I will note that her passive wasn't changed if you haven't played lissandra recently her mana cost got reduced because she lost the three mana hits that all passive was now when someone dies near her she creates a reanimated corpse which does a bit of damage it slows and like it team fights a surprisingly potent talk a little bit about it in my pics to watch which you can go check out but one of the best intrest have ever seen I'm so glad you dial intros back yeah just a tad just a tad but the one of the big things all the bigger things about this hunter is you can now just run after shark on her like we saw at Worlds but because you have more agency over what stats you want you can just stack it in with ability power so she's tanky she does a lot of damage and she can either be this frontline absorb soaker person or she gave me a backline assassin now when when I think of you know European squads and I think of lissandra McCauley I have to throw my mind back to fnatic vs Schalke last year where nuke ducking Shaka used that lissandra to shut down capsules of Kali with beautiful efficiency I see whether or not nemesis on the Akali and period on the lissandra whether they'll repeat that performance because there's a lot of tools in that let's I'm just kits that can help shut down this ninja that is just so frustrating and mobile and once again whip up fancies himself a shot at were live she's trading back and forth puts that Ward down and will up again losing out early trades at the low levels looks like it would his positioning wasn't great during the laning phase but selfmade actually very early towards the topside he recognizes the boxers in the bottom half of the map appreciate that he probably doesn't have a blue buff anymore so is immediately looking to cross map so fnatic controls the bot side of the jungle or the boss side of the map rather escape control the topside which means that both nemesis and before have to play a little bit more defensively whereas reckless and Hill assange are free to be as aggressive as they want and you can just see how the lanes are pushing forward of course with reckless and hilly shoving all the way forward it gives you that support peering and pushing all the way to Nemesis house if anything were to happen they'd be able to react first and just fall down to the members that need support and you can see on your screen Hill Assange is pike nine and one all-time record it suits his play style so well going hunting looking for those kills so I'm gonna make a bit of a bowl set Ohio because we do have junglers hanging all right hold that bold statement it looks like the scale grab is being focused on by self-made brach sir he's gonna take the bait jumps in with the lease syndrome instantly dashes out you could see fanatic we're aware if something was happening that I didn't super chase exactly that good awareness from Brock sir but the same I'm gonna make is back to that nine and one wreck I believe how are sayings one loss on that pike was against the unicorns of love at the very end of the split right I believe that is the biggest stats well confirm with stats will confirm for me but if that's the case let's not forget who's coaching this team quick shots who is that it is in fact coach Oh stick and of course it was she P there helped guide this team that has two members of mad lines that you Masters winners at Lee P champions to a very very strong version one of this game and now they've got all the tools again to actually repeat today I like the synergies that the SK gaming conference put together on the condition they don't concede kills on the condition that you know nemesis or hilly or Brock sir really don't pop off with these champions that that can take over again but again it's very similar to Game one fnatic but they want to try and find advantages towards the bottom side of the map the difference is that bow doesn't have the Swain it doesn't generate as much pressure as he was doing in that's a game one he is now in the tank situations who act as a front line engaged later on but SK once again other team with pressure in the mid lane a while nemesis is definitely holding his own a little bit better this time around you can still see a small advantage being built for Parian and a small advantage being go for reckless smash gets fully charged up by quip oh he now has to deal with this wave being pushed all the way in by a whirl if there's no support from junglers and reckless and hilly unrelenting pressure now already pushing onto those turrent plates he's got themselves once secured already and so you can see the main difference between game 1 and game two is that selfmade hasn't been able to make a gank happen yet this time around in Game one he'd already made two gangs happen yeah and so fnatic they're not as afraid in terms of falling behind in the year the game but now once again going up towards atop sides all right I'll take us off comes out connects to the stun the pastor did not back walloping self-made have a fantastic duo synergy so we're starting to see a trend for self-made he likes enabling were live and remember we talked about how were live is a play he'd like to play things like the jacks the hecarim these kind of carry top laners regardless of what world live is playing it seems itself made once the game ahead and put bauble behind and of course former teammates don't forget the fact they have played together for a significant amount of time sk gaming once again get first blood and this is just a beautifully executed gank landing everything they needed to and so people will just walk something he can go for a good trade get a bit of wave fell onto the minions as well and know how sk they aren't afraid to commit they both burn their flashes they want to guarantee this kill and they know that they can push that wave into the town to get it bouncing back towards war live now so you can get an even bigger experience lead we saw a hill is saying there and a little bit of pressure just gonna confirm 100% that your memory is in fact extremely impressive various week nine summer split last yeah hella saying lost on pike only loss on the champion to totoro and the unicorns of life you went zero two and four and we'll see whether or not is gonna pick up his Tangis that you can see like he was in the draft he was like oh guys i've seen this book if it's a boy we got it regarding see if it works out of course but again dude you have to give credit chair to sk gaming Broxson buh buh played a ton of games together as a duo this is this is not new for them but for self-made to find an early game impact he's living up to some of that preseason hype and his ability at two games in a row already having no knee of that so what makes me laugh is that when you and des Fisher would cast together at the beginning of every season when you cast a fanatic game something that you said was Brock's 'likes the going gank top four so ass oh yeah so I isn't here so what's it doesn't know what to do in the early game but I normally gank for size but of course blip oh he's holding his own he's still doing fine in terms of farm he's now level 6 he is behind were Lib but that is to be expected with the gank and when we look across the gold thank you very much observers you can see that eske's botlane doing extremely well they actually have a small advantage because the wave top lane has a lead mid lane has a lead and all this gold advantage is actually coming from SK playing the lanes very well yeah very very well stepping up to their opponents and the lender we haven't looked at since level one is this lissandra icarly matchup both have access to their Ultimates it's a plus 15 CST I'd like to point out again that it nemesis is the second game in a row there's some challenges in the early laning phase so don't overreact in terms of how the laning phase is going but we need to see how he plays the rest of the game as crown shot gets jumped on now ultimate is available for selfmade well two shot mirages Dodgers wife on one fan in the audience like that for a less pursuit thank you for that woo I appreciated it and SK gaming they're still fishing for my opportunity look at Brock sir he's hanging around he'll is saying the visions being cleared out I love how self-made is just utilizing the pressure so effectively you yeah frost talked a lot about how he's a very smart jungler he knows how to move around the map and he's looking to try and punish fnatic down towards the bots ID he knows he has a pushing mid he has a point line that's in a good position again we just see a bit of trading back and forth I really feel like self-made is just reading Brock sir beautifully right now something's reading the entire game well I thought she throws down the ultimate not gonna chase further though keppo still needs to go through that passive as a minion wave as well to deal with so were lip saying even on CS and Brock's is just fishing for opportunities skewer will find at least a target on two teams but there's just nothing up there flash is available for dreams and crown shot as well as stand behind me and arcane shift so it's a difficult duo to gank and sk-gaming pull ahead 600 gold over fnatic so let's kind of look at these contours to Clete wait we might have to wait kiss again self-made trying to be practical prison boys yeah he has man I hate it when sich one you brought together Keshawn prison shellfish inflation potential kills skk me get themselves to have a sign with a bad case of frostbite right there as SK find themselves another quick kill beautifully done that gold lead is getting bigger and bigger but now we see fnatic hands are back in the top lane well definitely not the most ambitious of ganks reckless though he fancies himself an attempt challenge a crown shot the culling goes that gets a decent chunk onto crown shot but not enough to do more than just push him backwards sk-gaming Chuo sejuani and prompt beautiful injury this is just a repeat of Game one again can the bottom line getting an advantage and so just look at the mini-map right now self-made knows he's safe to make this play because he has pressure top admit and this is the thing I really want to reinforce about the current meta utilizing pressure is a good indication of the strength of a team and self-made is just so good at recognizing what is going on on the map where he can take advantage or on even on sejuani a champion that is expected to scale be more valuable in teamfights not supposed to be that Xin chào early game ganking he has made to ganks happen quicker and more effectively that brock sir has been able to so far on his signature of assembly what i love and i know we've said this a lot remember it's week one of the league we really want to just help viewers know where these players come from but when three fifths of any you Masters champion and LVP champions set up on the stage two games in a row they win the early game against fnatic this is a testament not only to what that mad lion squad was but also to the LVP and the Spanish leagues and the European regionally he leaks yeah in Europe because it's beautiful and makes me smile and so happy and of course just so you know dreams as well he was playing for vitality Academy it has a number of tournament titles under his belt as well and then of course you've got period who was a substitute for SKT so you've you've added some highly skilled players who are used to being very successful and it's working out it's a thousand gold advantage at 11 minutes and it's SK still with the pressure now I do want to remind people that when you look at Brock senior like while he's playing Lee sin he should be ganking a lot naturally is challenging you did talk a little bit about how there's so much mobility outside of the map 4sk which means the setting up that gank is much harder than any surely looks but we have already seen brock sir set that much up he tried to make something happen at level two you tried to make something happen at level six but nothing has really come from it now he's hanging around the bot side you should be able to counter gank SK as they sent four members down to the bottom all right bones all sk-gaming send him for a swim three kills to zero selfish beautiful some fights really good I'm very impressed with those self-made is showing us right now so Parian he rotated from the mid lane behind his jungler that all started because the helis lang was just trying to defend the control ward he didn't have the support in order to properly defend it which means the he got punished now SK they have their eyes set on the dragon they're sitting at about a 2000 gold lead and even after a remake had to be made even have to SK were primed and ready to find a win over fnatic they had to reset they have a new draft and they're doing it all over again it's beautiful they're just not tilting out of the pressure they're showing the quality and a caliber of the players and look at this despite Brock sir seeing self-made and Dreamz chasing hilly SK gaming's still make this work yeah so you can see here dreams he's like oh well I have a mid laner coming the bot lane is pretty neutral the only thing I have to be worried about is Brock sir but you know what I have more numbers than you do and Hillier sank he makes the mistake he thinks he could hook Dreamz Undertown he's too close he doesn't channel the queue for long enough which means that the collapse can come down from SK and they find themselves another kill and it goes on to crown shot so that bot lane that we talked about for fnatic the lane that they need to be snowballing the lane that they need to be playing around if we can flip over to the gold can see that I think he actually starts to go in favor of ground chuck Wow they'll get +300 gold crown shots a great name by the way I haven't said it yet but because ins of mine one day doing very well 1:01 on this Ezreal it's alright you're the youthful one I will teach you a train crash is that because you say crowns alight I don't get it well he's got his first time and picked up but now so is everybody else gotten blades secured for a Kali blade of the ruined King has been with wreckless for a little while as well as a proto belt for periods so it's only really were lip that's looking to complete up in that top lane but for the time being a scared once again extremely happy they're happy to go into the mid to late game and they know they've got some scaling options on this side so because SK been doing a lot we've been talking a lot about SK let's look again at fnatic what are their options what can they do well the mid game is still very strong for them Lucien Anna Kali especially once 'icarly completes that gun blade it's very potent and you have to respect her nemesis has demonstrated his ability to make play or do great things on play making champions and mid King fights is where we should see fnatic trying to come back into this game utilizing their mobility looking for picks been killed by CP before and sheepies looking to do it again zero three zero this Pike is just getting picked on I'm so impressed with eske's utilisation of vision Oh Pike you want to try and close this one out well tough luck you can see that he has no vision in the river he can see nothing he's aware that selfmade and the Parian are around but he doesn't perspective and he ends up getting punished and say he even has his flash available hello sank drops SK find themselves another kill and this time it goes over to period you know what I'm still so impressed fnatic at 15 minutes are down 2000 gold and we haven't seen nemesis get involved just yet as you've already alluded on top side level 11 is activated for nemesis there's a lot of fnatic members coming up top all right well it's gonna be in trouble the culling is gonna be available to rekt us a full channel will most likely pick up achillea one to two shots to the tower yeah comes Papa kill secured by let us say and a lot of tower damage is already locked out that's attached for if there is period now joins the fight radio frost comes cool down can't do so yet the I'm shot will not find the rage necessary alright rift era was also picked up by fnatic they've got two kills already and they're not done yet self-made is now on the trouble bone skewer gets pulled back sir Brock's is gonna go on the hunt he needs to find that kick he needs to find the damage hello Tseng steps forward looking at body book self mate goes down this is how fnatic get back into this game the swap from reckless to bot lane to top lane and enables them to find this great pick and turn it into more and more kills that will happen at 1v3 this is a bold move of course world teleports input what is the pressure play crown shutting dreams have got the inner turrets in the bottom lane of world it may just be donating yet another kill he's trying to run for his life to death back yet the shields up but he won't find a reply to 1/2 foot whip oh and what was a big lead for SK is now starting to dwindle as fnatic answer back these are the kind of picks they're looking for these are the small skirmishes that they need in order to regain control over the map SK did find themselves two towers down in the bot lane that is still very valuable but the kills that shut down the pressure that fnatic has gained off the back of that is definitely a big advantage for them very nicely done by fnatic they claw the gold difference back it's a 500 gold game and because of whipper his play he now also has a 450 gold bounty he is also plus 400 gold up over whirling despite the strong start and of course for SK gaming most of the kills and assists are located on self-made he's got a hundred percent kill participation he is by far my most impressive SK player that's one of the games you've seen and of course this is how the actual starter so were live doesn't recognize that the swap is happening he notices too late the reckless has arrived in the top lane records is very patient avoids the interrupt of his dashes and while Bullock tries to escape and uses a good stopwatch unfortunate Steiner against saying and the squad that join him now the TP just comes in very late if they come in earlier maybe maybe they could have done more to turn this around but we don't have time for the rest of the replay because we got more action happening we do indeed his period he's already killed already used the ultimate didn't see the setup on that one important to note that while were we in the replay sk-gaming secured the third tower of the game to down bot Lane one up top fnatic also have three towers to their name that's all outer turrets and that was what allowed them to push we can only assume P was trying to defend that mid tower yes he certainly was he didn't have his flash available and now fnatic are suddenly back in control over the map they're gonna grab themselves the mounted Drake and you can see you know we talked about how SK had a great style we don't talked about how for now to get back into the game and it was those picks they were able to find they find another one onto period and now more items will start to come through that mid game that they've been waiting for is in a much better position than it wasn't Game one and that's exactly what fnatic were unable to do in the first game you know that that Nocturne Gallio wasn't able to find those initiations or those skirmishes and make them go fanatics wait this time around whip on scion Brock's on Lee sin I'm making it working this is gonna be a replay alright so the tower had already fallen now this is Peary and just getting caught out by what looks like a really good play by nemesis Landing everything yeah unfortunately I don't know appearing intended to use that ultimate there because it did freeze them in place so then get locked down but I think he also just didn't respect the damage for nemesis who is now with the gun blade again you're seeing how strong this Akali is with the item completed alright well it gets the wall stand and then throws out the poppy copter that's just enough to buy some time yet himself made now whether it's going to be trying to use that keepers verdict to stop some time we've got to chaos to the bottom lane Dreamz running for his life stand behind me he yells doesn't end up behind crown shut now crouch it was a red buff can't do a lot of work and it's trying to back away glory shall tomb rather frozen tomb is available for periods lissandra just waiting for the initiation to break out it doesn't happen yet it's the tie game and kills tie game and Dragons and tie game in town surprised SK were able to get out of that situation with all of them members in tact fanatic now have control over the bot side River now are the ones with the pushing lanes and they're the ones dictating the pace of the game SK they need to show respect at this point in the game because fnatic aren't that much stronger all right south mates all teased up he doesn't have flash and as we crashed 20 minutes we've got 10 kills on the board a lot of skirmishes a lot of fights from the games that I've seen from LPL and l ck this feels a little little similar you know more action more skirmishes early game 1 was relatively slow paced from what I've been seeing a 9.1 around the world and now it's up to SK on a more even footing to show us they can also play the mid game while at the same sort of situation as fanatics and that's where things get difficult they need to make sure they stay together TP coming in mid Willett looking for a flank ulti is available for selfmade all right well it puts an award spots up Broxton instantly backs away while that's going on we're posed alt will become available and he has teleport and he's shoving down bottom lane bone skewer from Helles saying there's a little bit of work but it won't be enough to stop the tower going down and nemesis is looking for initiation throws out damage on that five point strike but doesn't chase any further and SK content with a fourth tower of the game so there's a lot of farmers now just going to the tower in the bot Lane and skate won't be able to pick that one up and it's good from Popo to utilize the teleport advantage that he has but fnatic ended up losing that mid tier one so SK hold the gold advantage ever so slightly but it still feels to me like fnatic have a lot more map control but the loss of the mid tower will definitely help SK but still very close game definitely a very different situation compared to the game before yeah absolutely the case if you have just joined us welcome back to the LEC Game one of the spring split was remade due to some connectivity issues and in the scenario we find ourselves SK gaming are plus 600 gold over fnatic there's a cloud Drake sporting in a minute and a half with seven towers down this map is actually pretty dark unless you start seeing some wards being placed a fnatic are extending this vision line pushing into eske's territory and then trying to decide which of these lanes they'll shove in Ripper was pushing bottom that's now been pushed back towards him and finanical playing the top off the mound oh here comes engage all right hello saying is likely gonna get blown up he manages to escape with his life for now that's the read gauges finds the sunnatullah' ticket three quick kills in the mid lane this time fnatic get the team for execution that they were looking for the engage did come out from SK that weren't able to kill heller sank fast enough and then the turnaround from fnatic was swift and brutal three kills in favor of Fernan really nicely done they're not done yet Hennis tanks looking for a hunt not gonna find the skewer on to dreams and fnatic set themselves up for Baron now self-made is alive with both flash and smite and they gonna get some damage at the hill he's gonna be able to - away to safety this Baron will take some time and fnatic will go quite low missus goes over the wall - over the wall he's got perfect execution available to him here comes period flashover nemesis he's gonna choose a teach-in - period trueshot barrage forth across the fnatic members baron helping out SK can even get P result if it's on cooldown he can't find the kill on tireless tank he's now pushed away nemesis takes down period but SK gaming stopped the baron remember that the minions they will continue to scale and Baron + those minions could just be the end of the game SK have fought themselves some crucial time but it's just more gold and more kills going over to fnatic which is always gonna be a big advantage for them so there's the engage they're looking for reckless but hellosign gets the way you can see that the engagement pairing is good but the follow-up isn't there because of the flank from whip oh the teleport is a little too late from world if he can't get into the thick of things and then the positioning from reckless was enough that you could consistently dish damage this time around this has already struggled so much with in Game one and it was largely because what Bo got to the fight faster than were Lib did so his threat was that much more significant than what the poppy could offer now what do you make of this Baron play the fact that I had committed a lot of resources they did stop the Baron how much does this hurt them losing that TP I mean I think they over committed just a little too much then they could have been a little more patient I know they had to show respect to nemesis but I guess like they were just more concerned about not giving away Baron than they were about giving away kills and giving away TP fnatic now have the ability to just threaten the ban a lot more but at the end of the day they did stop the objective the game's not completely over yet for SK and while the gold advantage is starting to snowball in favor of fnatic they still have a way back in well if you just do the math right SK gaming a behind around two and a half thousand gold and the bounty system on every single member of fnatic soon as we got the score book back up you'll see a 600 or 500 or 400 got 400 gold so fnatic there we go there is a lot of bounties to be gained if SK gaming can get themselves a few kills while I was waffling about banty bounties the bottom turrets did fall to minions despite were lips best efforts and fnatic right now are doing exceptionally well hello thanks got himself that Yama's ghost plate completed and 2 3 6 considering it was 0 3 0 at one point this is a great turnaround for Hillier sank spike in the mid game so the thing is for SK a lot of that gold is sitting on crown shot right now and while he's in a great position you know he looks really strong so far his Ezreal has been very good this game it's really difficult for an Ezreal to get through a Sion frontline and when you kind of compare that to reckless who he he has a lot of mobility and he just kind of has to stay out of range of all the CC that's flying for his head then the teamfight is just much easier to execute for reckless than they are for crown shots so a lot of pressure unfortunately falls on his shoulders to sow get around this Sion I'd be the big damage dealer the SK need in order to win on these fights I mean the advantage in SK in my mind what a trial of course getting one of those squish you champions Brock's and nemesis reckless hilly because we saw how quickly hilly Sun Goes Down when he's focused properly he's sitting on 39 HP but this time around it's time to as both such money in Israel do not hit a single target sk-gaming are running for their lives and crown shot with those mystic shots can buy some time thanks to ice-born gauntlet but SK are are in trouble they've got some key Ultimates on cooldown as fnatic are threatening Baron exactly that quick shot with a lot of old tees down fnatic is just repositioning around the band clearing out the vision there know they have the pressure the question is whether or not they want to run the risk of starting it these cooldowns are not that long period does have his ulti along with dreams as well and fnatic while they do have sound to soak up the damage of the baron it's still a big gamble so instead they're looking for another engage all righteous story was thrown down by Pueblo he's gonna jump on his self man who's able to assault himself optically away get to safety now his ultimate still on cooldown crown shots got the trueshot barrage back up and fnatic I'm not gonna over commit to it do you fight if they get caught in a pit it can go bad because the best case to you fighting power but I know though that there's a big wave pushing him ball so if they can just get the push on mid it means they can start a fight or threaten the Baron all right Perry it takes a lot of damage for their chunking down whereby bones Buick at proxy was looking for Aborigine didn't find it that's a shutdown that's already a bounty go reckless continues to chase down sk-gaming get two huge bounties and they bounce right back and the moment the world have went bought fnatic had a decision to make turn to the baron go for a fight but instead they go for the fight it falls apart for them and out-educate are back in control of this game SK gaming have got the poppy ultimate the keepers verdict it can disengage the crucial members of fnatic nemesis is looking for a push forward huge damage under dreams inside the pit this is high all right foot boys the only person pushed away nemesis was using the strap to his advantage compare adapter to thousands of scientists self-made findings to smite he gets the Baron for SK kidding me and now all of a sudden put was running for his life SK of backing away teleport roll down and Brock's is coming to support SK start to fall behind but they find a way to secure Baron at 28 minutes and it was fanatic that overcommitted they made the mistake of getting underneath the tower and allowing s Kate to find that initial pick which was more than enough to go for the rain gauge all of the all T's came off cooldown that had been used in the prior fight that could you be used to chase down fnatic and find the teamfight win so we can see this is after the initial teamfights a lot of these cooldowns who is still slowly coming up and hit Fernan they see bullet bought they want to go for a fight they engage up to period who's just soaking up so much damage and here we see Brock sir over commit under the tap he tries to get a kick on the dreams who stop watches at such a beautiful time to punish Brock sir turn the fight against gays favor and then it's asking a fanatic on the retreat ban picked up for SK and SK now with the goal V such a good play just as I was starting to get nervous for SK gaming they do find great set of plays that give them Baron and of course they've now started this Baron power play with shell v-power and we'll see how much of an advantage it gives them they've clawed back the gold lead ever so slightly and with the Baron empowered minions and a four man stack in the mid lane well it needs to buy a lot of time he's flashed over Flippo kicked him away but that was not the target you wanted it does allow SK gaming to take a tower it does allow them time art is inhibitor turret they will secure this in a moment or two Brock's has caught himself aren't you that's each million but he decides not to follow through his passing it's writing to stop the rot but he simply cannot do it self-made you are a God was insane from self-made he just glided through fnatic he had his import set for reckless he found the target and he walks away with the kill they've got teepees coming through that looking at and the game they've got themselves Baron buff Academy is to work with Nemesis takes a gigantic chunk of damage he's running for his life ventilation on SKS face after having to remake what looked like a one-game after finding that comeback where the better team today that was a very very exciting impressive start to the 2019 season one of the most difficult situations playing against fan favorite fanatics from a world final and through a remake and of course seeing nemesis hugging is old teammates four out of five mad lines on the stage today but three of them walk away with the win and you you can say nothing against SK this team they played two games today in Game one they look like they were gonna get a clean win over fanatically and a very unfortunate remake to happen they're going to Game two they have to reset but this is the first time on that stage for so many of these players and admission they have a great start they fumble a little bit in the mid game fnatic regain control you think this is it maybe fnatic take the win but no they punish that small mistake and without a beat without a drop SK just go straight down the midlane perfect CP style and not only do they have another loss to the record of pillar sang spike but they find their first win of the LEC spring split it's the first time back on stage for SK since the summer of 2015 where this organization was relegated the first time for many of these players on the LCS /l EC stage this caliber of play was not the first time that these players have won games and surprised people I was watching were loved just as he walked backstage and head in his hands ecstatic this is the guy who was at one point in time only a jacks player and he's come back stronger than ever he played sion he played poppy and he was instrumental with self-made to pick up the win today and many fans were saying well you know for fnatic this should still be an ST and a TTA into the beginning of the splits this should be a team that is still very strong at the beginning because they retained four of the six members that are at the world final and now I'm not saying that the departure of caps is like broken this team that's not what I'm saying but the synergy just just seemed a little off right now for fnatic and I believe so confidently that they can bounce back and they've showed a lot of great stuff that team fighting is still up there yeah and of course it's a long split nine week regular season we do have this final fight in fnatic space to look at with a little bit of luck this will be self-made finding that relation prison on to reckless just as he threads the needle for that but you fought boys I just I've never seen a Szechwan e to that in the two and a half years I'm gonna cast F to League of Legends I have never once seen a sejuani like sidestep and just throw a kind of awkward right angle sejuani ultimate to hit the crucial target with an immediate forward from the rest of the team just ah that's like well I think that's the best that Ronnie player I've ever seen it was very good that's just it self-made making a statement right he he has two very impressive debut games one and a half maybe here on the LEC stage and of course he's gonna be my friend right now what I'm about to talk about throughout the year you can select your key player of the game over at lol eSports on Twitter we'll also have one member of the losing team from every vote just slightly different from last yeah now for your first matchup your options are going to be self-made crown shot and nemesis on his Akali if you were up to me and self-made I vote for self-made I'm not trying to coerce you guys but you can decide I also just will quickly look forward a little bit we are a little delayed but today in game 3 Attila and upset will continue their rivalry it is vitality versus Schalke rematch of last summer semi-finals the big question is are you on Team Attila or team upset that's the other vote I would like you to go and answer because I'm gonna do a little bit of speech about them earlier at lol eSports team Otello team upset I'm an unbiased caster I have no team's lame all right with the dead man roster and a massive training facility the UK underdogs XL eSports they're rolling hot coming into your first split you learn more about them and here from self-made right after this break we will be what GG we will be welcoming in the 2019 League of Legends European Championship with one motto and one thing to say we re you and we are here to be feared once again going up for the topsides alright I'll take a soft comes out the flail connects to the [Applause] stick continues to chase [Music] plus his down process himself [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: LoL Esports VODs and Highlights

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Keywords: League of Legends, LoL, LCS, League Championship Series, esports, game, play, match, pro, full game, HD, HQ, 1080p, VOD, VODs, EU, Europe, Split, spring, LEC, 2019, team, gaming, week 1, day 1, fnatic, fnc, sk gaming, sk, quickshot, vedius, sjokz, medic, froskurinn, bwipo, sion, broxah, lee sin, nemesis, akali, rekkles, lucian, hylissang, pyke, werlyb, poppy, selfmade, sejuani, pirean, lissandra, crownshot, ezreal, dreams, braum, delay, remake

Id: nOE2sTMKLRw

Length: 136min 28sec (8188 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 18 2019