G2 vs. AST - Week 2 Day 1 | LEC Summer Split | G2 Esports vs. Astralis (2021)

[Music] welcome back to the lec for our final game of the day it's going to be a little bit of g2 versus astralis action now cadrell i think it's safe to say that despite the matching score lines that both these teams are so happily sharing this might be a bit g2 favored yeah it might be although australis is 2-1 and tied with g2 and win rate you have to understand that they beat sk who had like the roll swaps and the subs and maybe decks all right um they lost some mad lines obviously and you could argue by strength of schedule australis are looking strong but it's hard to say i think this is a good test for them i mean matt lions pretty much dismantled them well cfg2 does the same but i think that'll give us a good good kind of vibe as to where australis is sitting in the standings despite their win rates and that's one of the really cool things about this week right is that we're seeing a lot of the roll swap teams play the roll swap teams and we're seeing a lot of the teams that are currently at the top with no roll swaps playing each other so a good opportunity for g2 to cement themselves again as a top team and a great opportunity for astralis to exceed expectations to surprise us to show us something new and take down one of the favorites yeah we'll have to see how this game goes but you expect g2 to be favored now g2 did lose against schalke although i say that's more of a curse nothing's impossible here for astralis and beating g2 would be massive for them but then again for the side of g2 i think a clean and decisive game here is what you need um not so much for confidence but just to put the stable facts the g2 is as strong as they were last season in a sense yeah and last year and it was uh yeah a bit of a shaky week overall still 2-1 for g2 but some of the questionable moments in the game and obviously a bit of a lane fade struggle for wonder wonder i'm sorry i promise i'll stop bringing it up after today it was one time that said nocturne gonna be banned away lulu and karma gonna follow i like this personally i find the top lane meta when these champions are in very boring i find the support lane meta very boring when these champions are in i am over go fast [Music] spring was the season of go fast cadre no more go fast champions no more hecarim let's get more like we did last game more skirmishing more scrappy that's what i would like to see yeah well varys taken off the table from g2 i wonder if s real is a first big priority there's so many obs right now in the meta there's rumble there's rennington there's viego there's gwen there's nocturne there's ezreal which is still open there's odier as well akali which is i don't know if i'm writing saying this but it's only lost one game i think in new york yeah i think it's won every single other game and everyone's first picking it so now how does astralis want to respond zanzara doesn't stand out to me as much as a rumble player although he has played it once i think his rumble wasn't that impressive i want to see more early game champions from him trundle obviously stands out the most but trundle versacardi doesn't sound very fun but we might get a lucian mid here into the akali to match maybe they keep that flex alive until the last pick but lee sin is also open and white knight is undefeated on leeson and i would really like to see more lee sin from white knight he's been a very confident mechanical player big playmaker and all of the team fights that astralis have been able to win even in the difficult early games he's made individual impacts now is the rumble paired with dilution we have to feel that illusion is going to the hands of well magic felix assuming that the akali is going mid lane and we've seen this mid lane matchup lucian gets ahead in cs maybe with the help of a jungler he gets a kill but akali feels like an inevitability cagel there's just nothing it feels like you can do to stop this champion oh yeah i'm inevitable yeah the icarly will basically pick up kills and fights no matter what the zinzan might come out here for yankos yes it does so early game staple really good kind of meta for g2 i think especially with things like zinza on volleyball and udyr it really suits yankov's playstyle but just touch the touch on the rumble again zanzara their only loss of astralis was on rumble and it feels like when he if you re-watch that game he's playing rumble like an early game champion he's looking for ganks he's not power farming and he's behind the levels in cs i think so i want to see him try to be more of a carry rather than a um a factor to get his team ahead more of like um what sort of catalyst for his team i want to be more of a carry but the tristana coming in here flex for g2 recklessly played it caps can play it as well i expect it to go towards the bot side in the akali mid but the lee sin for white knight picked up certainly has been and of course is going to be an interesting one i like the flexibility that g2 esports have held onto here akali could go into the top lane tristan it could go into the mid lane this is going to make drafting overall much harder for astralis they've chosen to ban away the set a wildly popular champion in uh the lpl hasn't seen quite as much priority here in the lec now i would be really surprised if um g2 don't ban away ezreal here now i have this this little feeling when i played with jessica in excel he really liked ziggs bot lane it got buffed and a little bit of ap onto australia's side wouldn't hurt too much so if a ziggs comes in here i'd um not be surprised but i think that ezreal should be the pick for jessica unless they banned it away but seth rennington bands coming in for the lease and top to help it out a little bit because they probably know that akali's going mid but the kaiser band coming in so maybe he does opt into ezreal maybe g2 think that having this trustana in the bot lane even if they pick asriel she should keep the push and they're not too worried about it and while part of me is very excited for the ziggs i have to feel like it would be very difficult to survive against the team composition that g2 esports has put together kaiser banned away or necktin set so top lane focus bands for now it seems like astralis are expecting akali mid just on the bottom g2 esports gonna have to reveal something here unless of course they just opted for support oh yeah it's probably gonna be a problem every single um oh it could be loner leona's also pretty good in the lane it's one of these two champions to pair with rosanna leona obviously gives you more engage with the akali and the brown wins you the lane the thing is what we're seeing here is because of the msi meta nautilus leona being the strongest champions in terms of uh engage melee supports rel as well the counter to aftershock engaged supports is brown once they go in brown puts the shield up blocks the enemy team's damage and then the re-engage comes in with the stun from the passive so really going to meet what sports reagan into aftershock supports we'll see how australis respond with their last pick i wouldn't be surprised he may be a callisto nautilus but i'm expecting um an ezreal nautilus coming in but what will wunder play in the top lane he's flashing a lot of things that i would love to talk about that's not one of them but we'll talk about it anyway if it does get locked in greg it's decent in the least i believe you can interrupt the q2 with the body slam yeah you can indeed interrupt the um the leasing queue with the gregas so that's more of a nullifier here not so much accounts pick i wonder if he's just going for that safe weak side top laner here because of the oh there's the carcass bot lane for jessica i think we were talking about an ap mage i thought it was going to be ziggs and i think that's astralis has come needed more ap but that's a karthus bottling now i can't imagine the good news is he's freed up one summoner's spell to take flash that's a good start maybe going to be paired with the tp as well compared to the other cards that we saw obviously in the hands of football in the jungle but karthus a big variable maybe g2 weren't expecting now that said g2's composition feels very similar to what we saw from fnatic in the previous game a little bit less volatile with the gragas in the top lane but certainly still very explosive that said cadrell we've seen what happens when you take bad fights or bad trades against a karthus he gets good alts off the game feels impossible to play especially with double a d solo dinners we talked about a little bit more ap rumble into icarly it's not really the only ap damage threat you want the karthus is a good pick especially when akali tristana and zinza are going to be diving you picking something like the ezreal here he can't self peel for himself dive on the cards baby i think jessica can get a lot of work done in this fight there's not much side laning here barring the lucian and akali it's a lot of team fight though team fights frankly all i want to see moments away now from the last game of the day g2 esports versus astralis who will come out on top [Music] hey dracos i want to give you a stat oh wow promiscuous died first blood in every astralis game that's that's we gave him the consistency award let's see if he can keep it up as they um stack here they must look for an invade on the yankos it's an opportunity for promiscu you can hook forward their level one is very weak if bomb tristana are there so they need to be careful not to go too deep in the end they don't put a ward they just back off you can see why i strongly step forward a single hook there paired with the isolated damage coming in from karthus q would have been massive that said jessica playing it safe good heads up play there doesn't know where the enemy team is taking the time to throw a skittle down in the bush but rumble is very weak level one zinza tristana brown is probably one of the strongest level ones i've ever seen in my life so they're definitely gonna late invade here jessica needs to be careful for this push i think he's gonna cue it he's not going to kill it but he's going to walk they have a ward on the blue that's really important then g2 already used their sweeper so although astralis won't get chunked out they'll know this is happening and zanzar on the rumble is slightly disrupted here in the early game we'll see if he goes raptors into the enemy blue because it is watered in the river i think he's just gonna have to do a full top side clear and then look to contest scuttle crabs afterwards um and jankos is gonna take the blue and back off i think he could go for the gromp as well no zanza is moving in he might want to look to just try to trade a good movement around enemy vision good respect to that war that has been placed down zanzara now going in of course didn't have to start with the w hasn't taken necessary runes to overheat immediately level one so his clear is a little bit slower that said jango's already moving back to his own territory yeah very small puffing there from zanza maybe he knew that bush was watered because the invade they probably spotted it so he went around the fog of war so now jankos doesn't know that he's on his blue but zanzara knows that he's left his grump up and they see a little bit of trading involved here but glenn's on a reckless level one's pretty big deal guardian gonna eat up some of that damage but the cues need to hit from the clutches so they want to keep this straight going promise you not gonna be trouble is it gonna be four promise q walking running mickey 1v1 the portal combat the flash forward the auto four four four promise queue he dies again fourth game in a row for australia's dice for force for first blood unfortunately jessica might die here too the reckless jumps forwards he doesn't have flash though but the bombs coming in halo blades going hey look he's gonna try to maximize passive value but reckless is going to walk away that is huge for the g2 bottom line it's a disaster yankos is going to help them push out as well the waves gonna crash in the tower jester just has to tp back tristana brown level one you can't fight into it and g2 get two kills on the spot side of the map just from straight to v2 and just such an incredibly difficult start to the game we said jessica wanted people to come into him but not not at level one this is too early yeah they need to get level two here i think jessica wants to push for the level two but promiscu wants to hook in the problem is he used his aftershock on the auto attack just previously so he had no aftershock for the trade and yes jessica can land q's level one but tristana hayler blades is much more powerful and they have heal and ignite too so the combat summoners are there whereas jessica has the tp so in the end promise could get solo killed rekkus levels up from the wave smartly and then he's able to jump forwards and despite just this flash the stun comes in and the halo blade is back up for it perfect timing to make it all work out in the end for g2 esports and the resets on the jump as well you can see why they chose to prioritize this lane for the second time the season the broncos donna very powerful as now we've got three people in the mid lane match you feel like smartly backing away still level two i think you'll level up from that creep in mid perhaps but he's level two with almost four minutes in the game yeah he does level up to three but zanzar is so far ahead in this jungle i wonder what the ankles did i think he did blue red into push-out balls and from there he based and he wasn't able to clear more camps this is going to be his third camp of the game as he might look for more on the bot side no flashes on both of the bot lane of astralis uh i promise you're not gonna take the bait this time around i'd love to see the wave though is it slow pushing into g2 oh it is indeed the the good thing for straws is tristana's passive will push it back but for now they just have to farm gromp it looks like and certainly a tough position for them to be in cage of course when we think about the standings overall these teams were net connect but i think it's important to put things in context when you think about how astralis have been playing because as a team early games have not been the strength they are 2-1 yes but they've been at big deficits they've been in a major league only four percent of their games they've spent a huge amount of time in the deficit that said as you noted earlier in our rogue vs misfit segments a dub is a dub it doesn't matter how you get it and how astralis have ultimately been getting it is a lot of their team fighting is a lot of these mid to late game situations where they can out scale where they can maybe out fight some of their opponents with flashy moves from white knight yeah and i think the reason we're seeing teams win with poor early games is because it's the first week of the split with these stats right and i think the teams despite getting leads can't seem to find the close-out games and i think that just comes from individual mistakes getting caught out or over extending in fights and i think that when we get towards the middle of the summer season these mistakes won't happen anymore and these early games they need to recover the fundamentals if sansar's down here mickey doesn't have the flash there is a double tp for g2 though if they over commit w away sidestep good wall of pain admits a bit more damage on the reckless two solid uses of the q there but will not be enough to really dissuade anything else yeah a lot of fighting down towards this bot side and g2 are the ones who now want to crash the wave zanzar are still slightly ahead of yankos but he will be able to farm back up and zanzra hasn't found too much he has the predator on the rumble it's only leveled up just now and uh there isn't much action on the map now jessica doesn't have the tp g2s flashers are coming up soon and both of the both the solar laners on each side have tp available so any fights in both they're coming in wonder obviously i'm knocked back why not not quite going to take a tower shot but now i have to try to walk away to safety because yankles is in the area could use the warthog to just barely make it out slow things are on the way in the flash forward caps latching out as well flash calling lead back but over aggressive coming in there from caps big kill there in the mid lane for astralis and white knight tp away on the top side blue buff engine so he tp to his nexus towers so it gives him a free base he gets out doesn't even have to burn the flash and white knight this is his fourth game of lee sin in a row although he has got two wins and one loss his lee sin has been fantastic in finding pigs with the kick flash and it's a really important pick for them they early rotated in the draft makes a lot of sense in g2 don't even decide to ban it away but we'll look at the replay in mid because caps gets chunked out a lot here and uh zanzar's around from the bot side of the map he's got no camps up good trading for magi felix and captain is trying to push in the wave and trade aggressively as well but his stronger is in the top lane and zanzar is here despite not having the predator really good flash cutting there for magi felix big confidence on the flash forward excellent level six time and coming in from magic felix and magi felix obviously a guy that came in had a pretty solid debut who had that one corky game where he got really far ahead when a mortal shield bow was powerful really popped off but in this game we didn't expect a lot from him partially because well we're gonna hold that thought because there's a bit of an engage in mid lane cap's now trying to style leaping in on the magic felix and caps goes right back out caps doing caps things white knight doing white night things couldn't have asked for better timing there hey that's the leasing we talked about hey that's the all-star mid laner we talked check clean execution from both capsules mechanics wait we're gonna get a replay here in the bottom left oh you hate to see it i wish he flashed in a mode as well but really clean mechanics there from whiteline flash kick into e and then sorry kick e flash q really good execution to finish off caps who really didn't have a way out but good to get the kill solidified and the 1v1 kill in the mid lane for caps despite losing his flash and dying to magic felix good pick up there and that's the power of the akali when she gets that ultimate very powerful caps of course uh level discrepancy in the first play but turns it around knowing he has the alt advantage as mickey just continues to harass and cadrell as a newly minted challenger lee sin player challenger lee sin jungle one trick um not a disc it's just part of the challenge um do you approve of white knight's leasing mechanics yeah not bad not bad clean so far i think uh to me lee sin is actually an easier champion people make out i think that once you uh play a couple games on this chance champ and you master the uh the flash and the war jump i think it's pretty straight forward on how to play the fights um it's like picasa going yeah art's not that hard guys you just uh put some paint on a canvas and you just go okay well that's a bit uh captures trading aggressively onto my felix oh my god it's going back in one comes out but it's just gonna mostly get hit by the creep wave there now the thing is for astralis despite how disastrous that early game started things are starting to look up jessica now hitting level six the gold discrepancy isn't that massive mostly because of the successful play in the mid lane that came from magic felix and eventually from white knight was that picasso reference because my lee sin is pure odds yeah it was a positive thing oh okay i had to balance it out i tried to like fight you on the desk i didn't like it you didn't like it yeah i won the children at home don't like it when mom and dad fight don't ask me which one of you might be called here though mickey can't just leap back to cavs mickey very confident movement here not scared whatsoever yeah so you might be confused with what's happening on the map right now so it's all about mid lane captain's trying to crash waves and so is magic felix and it's both very volatile champions captain has the ultimate you can get all in magic physics has done flash so both jungle and bot lane are moving mid on every boss wave and that's why we saw this lull stay for two minutes around mid looks like both of them are gonna back off yankos is gonna go towards his um his camps and in the end nothing's gonna happen just yet but eyes on caps as the game progresses level up on akali even though he's down in cs and he has died twice the lane phase hasn't been going so much in his favor as we look at cap's damage it's pretty low but his csd and his gold chair in the early stages is very high um which is to be expected from such a player with caliber i've been playing exceptionally in uh in week one you'd say even though they did lose that one game to schalke when he still caps right ultimately he's just a super clean player you saw there in some of the mechanical plays i like that magic felix has been able to match him and it's interesting to see how much priority has just been given and focused on to this mid lane clearly astralis respecting the scaling potential of this akali that said neither mid lane are really able to create a greater edge here yes caps has another death but that one went over to white knight making a wonders problem and interestingly g2 yes they're constantly roaming mid but the looming threat of a karthus means that jessica doesn't even need to roam mid to have an impact in that 1v1 matchup yeah and i think speaking of justly the thing that surprised me the most from this game from g2 despite getting a 2v2 kill at level 2 they lost the dragon they're down well even in cs and all they've been able to do is move towards made fiji felix doesn't have flash just yet captures going and he misses the e though gonna be big mickey now stepping forward custom blows though should make this an easy quick kill pickup as caps gets out there with the r2 perfect execution to finish the job but zanzara he's already taken the objective overall this is probably a positive gold trade for the side of astralis yeah use the predator to get out wunder won't be able to get there in time g2 use their bot lane to move mid and they do manage to get a kill onto caps it's all about mid lane this time around australis wasn't there to answer because they're on the herald and caps gets the kill already a shot down in his akali despite getting ganked early early on in the game g2 repaying with their bot lane and their jungler tp used caps doesn't have a lot of tools to punish this one but if mickey sticks around it's gonna be a bit of a problem three and four on the stacks that's ignite ticking never mind he's got plenty of tools to punish this one magic felix burned down mickey x tanking the tower the hook comes in though rumble from downtown not quite absolutely up ticking burning caps as a livestream flash forward just trying to burn burn burn but that's the knock up jankos is gonna get cut down and zanzara doing some work here in the mid lane jankos had flash there i'm confused as to why he didn't flash away maybe he thought he was gonna die captain's dead shut down goes over the just like completely forgot about that ultimate and there it is if you don't get the kill just press r and they do manage to get it so it's a two for one trade and astralis come out ahead despite magic felix's tp which was way too aggressive and now rekkles is the one on the pressure jessica crushing his bot waves and mickey was mid so he might be a little bit too late to spot um tier one as we look at this again this tp for magic felix was way too aggressive i mean mickey's around caps has the ultimate uh he has the e sorry so it means that this when he gets stunned he can pop the e really small usage there the ignite comes out matchmaker lives for a few seconds longer and here's where i'm slightly confused because caps gets out and then zanzara flash onto yankos who also has flash up so i thought he would just match flash with flash here instead he tries to turn doesn't get the kill and the requiem finish soft caps and maybe now we understand why yankees wait look at reckless he's trying to stop him with the ultimate but he doesn't get there in time oh no he might not yeah he uses the heel as well to escape reckless just about tries to see oh and he flashes away as well on the bottom side jessica is gonna get one tap here easy quick kill pick up gonna throw down a few lay waste a happy bee from reckless happy to get a bit of revenge there most certainly oh man so many things are happening that we missed there in the bot side reckless jumping through the tower regards to try and cancel yes loses both his summoners but in the end as we come back to live rekkles gets the kill onto jessica who also use this flash and now he's gonna get tower plates and boulders it's a fight in top body slam leasing kicking him back under the tower is clean from white knight the knock back the flash to safety he's in down ariel but the equalizer make it rain baby zanzara coming in clutch jankos now has to retreat sonic waves not quite enough energy to recharge flash out from yenkos that's the one he saved earlier and i have a simple question if you are watching at home will astralis beat g2 i didn't think i'd be asking it but i'm damn happy to be spam yes or no in the chat as this herald will move into the dance might get dope here promise queues around that zanzara's on the other side he's gonna get fourth with no flash here they go the herald crashes promise you going in in crescent guard not nearly enough to survive tp comes in and astralis they've evened up the gold they've got two dragons to their name things are not looking bad danza so far ahead five camps up on yankos i'm not sure how many levels but it must be at least one or two three zero two on this rumble he's having a fantastic early game and in the side the bot lane of g2 obviously really far ahead the problem is the karthus will always be useful so this game's just evened up out of nowhere despite the the early bot deficit and yankos being able to split the map level one jankos is the one who's really far behind and this game is pretty much even in k draw i think when g2 vod review this game and certainly when fans look back at this game they're going to wonder what happened because we came out of that initial replay that was so positive for g2 and jankos was at 10 cs to the 24 of zanzar we don't know what happened there but this jungle deficit for yankos has not been getting any better as we've moved later into the game okay that's not indeed the votes coming in people don't think they're going to win okay wow it was nice i'm skeptical which one would you vote for it's hard because on the one hand g2 are very good and on the other hand g2 are g2 so moments like this could help decide it though is caps taking his time on this one and magic felix just gonna finish the job zanzar there for a little bit of burn help yeah zanzar in the right place at the right time once again ready for the all in two levels up onto yankos who's just basically trying to play the game of keep up he does level up in the end so he catches up on that level but he's just playing keep up he's trying to farm he's trying to keep get himself even with zanzara that means zanzara can use his time to actually cover lanes covers top caps falls and felix gets a kill and the tower so he's gonna get his mythic item maybe rekkles wants to force in mid there's only a tp on the lease in here if he goes to aggressively from highway easy gonna be first kill pick up there but that's the ulti coming out right now he's sleep out to safety he's just gonna get cut down before the ultimate even comes out it's a requiem but it might be a bit early shouldn't add him a couple assists though because mickey's now in no man's land he's gonna get taken out easy e waiting for the follow-up harpoon to shut him down and well zanzar is 4-0-3 that is a big rumble that is a big rumble and the problem was despite reckless being so powerful he jumps onto jessica but he gets exhausted and the exhaust buys enough time for jess to get the cues down reckless no flash he can't flash out he has to get the reset on his e and by the time he jumps out he's pretty much dead as we look at that again i think they want to force something here because top lane's losing and they can't find anything on bot lane so let's try to force something mid the exhaust comes out now gets knocked up does end up jumping away but the the alt the route the q's can land promise he unfortunately gets a shot down but then we talked about white knight having tp just tp's into mid and just make sure mickey dies as well so disadvantageous play there for g2 once again yes and of course just a bit tragic there of course nautilus's w the shield is going to give you a damage over time on your auto attacks that what ultimately finishes it that otherwise would have gone to the karthus which would have been massive but obviously not promise q's fault in that case and i never thought i'd say this drakos but astralis are 1k gold up on g2 at 16 minutes in the game they're winning out off the early game caps might be in trouble here zanzra pops you'll but caps has flash he has the tier 2 booth so he's pretty much out cadrell i agree because again if you remember back to what we talked about earlier astralis early games bad astralis team fighting and compositions built around scaling good what do they have this time another composition that scales pretty well what do they have that they've never had an advantage in the early to mid game this is unprecedented it is indeed and if you're un unsure where to look or where to focus in this game reckless and caps are the main carries would you do they're the ones who are ahead keep your eyes on them mickey will also be the follow-up but then for astralis you've got the lucian you've got the rumble the lee sin they're the main damage threats for for astralis but then they've got the characters so no matter what happens even if the characters dies he's gonna be a guaranteed ultimate so it's the three-man top side of astralis versus reckless and caps jankos wonder and mikiel's gonna be there to buy time and it looks like astralis are dropping the drake for the herald it's a very messy game i must say 16 kills roundabout in 17 minutes similar to last game we had 23 kills in 23 minutes in the frantic vitality game so a lot of fighting here but sansara is definitely the one ahead here with the top side of astralis 10 stack dark seal 403 on this rumble and again sometimes you want to watch mma you want to watch professionals go at it sometimes you want to watch a bar fight we got a bar fight on our hands we had one last game as well the question for me is in the bar fight hey he seems equipped yeah he could i think drink us under the table to quote the man himself uh regardless as we focus back in on the game uh 1k gold lead for astralis it's it's good it's good news for straws but it's not by any means a death sentence for g2 g2 still have plenty of room to come back to this game as highlighted reckless a big four component of that that said when we look at astralis what do they actually need to do to win this one out they need to have winning side lanes you can see reckless is always going to have the mid push because the tristana's ahead so jeeta will have the mid push but astralis should have the side lane but schliesen should win against gregas and if zanzara plays towards the top side like he has done for magi felix they should keep the sideline push you can see match phoenix building sports i think wit's end here on the lucian uh going for the defensive option because both solar liners of g2 are ability power so we can build that magic resistance as the herald comes in mid it won't take down the tower but australia is actually dropping top lane here maybe they just want to focus on mid g2 setting up some kind of a trap i think magic felix read the play really well and g2 are just gonna have to back off a little bit i've lost tempo there australis might be a bit confused where is this core of g2 where is the mid in bot lane they're not showing on the map and that's why they're a bit hesitant they are gonna take this mid-tier one and once they set up the one-two-one g2 are going to fall behind but if they can find those kind of picks and set those up it's going to put astralis on the back foot but they've grouped up and they've read the play when there could be a little bit in trouble here this is very risky play from wonder he has no vision here hook comes out promised you're going to grab that one we'll actually just wait for the auto now you've got the rumble equalizer from downtown wonder has no business being there gets just shot up they have no vision they have no mid prior they lost their tower that was a risky risky push for vision yeah interesting ton of events g2 try to make a big top in the end they're too late they can't find it mighty felix read it and then wonder things he can go to bot lane well match phoenix was bot lane that whole time he was around mid he moved towards the bot side so really good macro here from australis reading g2 almost like a book but magi felix will need to get this top wave it looks pretty terrible for them and it's pushing towards g2 so it looks like it's just going to drop it they're going to play on two lanes they're going to play for this ball tier one after having taken mister one so good plays so far here from astralis near it again astralis now regrouping mid to stop any response push coming in from g2 esports while white nine continues to deny more cs away from g2 no it's not going to keep you there so i think that's just going to be a bolt to your one for astralis and we're now looking at a 2k gold dude it was 1k just a minute ago steadily starting to grow to grow a bit more as white knight takes its tower and could grow even further if these members of the straws who are moving down to the bottom side are able to find wonder once again look at magic felix again just staying down towards his bot lane i think the top wave wasn't in a favorable spot and he knows if he enters top side he has no vision there yankos could be the one getting caught or mickey if they go too deep they're trying to stay together here but the manchester united's around here comes equalizer big equalizer but ultimately lock it is available now for mickey will mitigate a lot of the initial impact at least that's going to be behind mid here there's a wall in the lane if they over extend here it is the tp it goes good damage magic feel it's now going to come forward yanko's backing away crescent guard still available he needs the caps on the back side he's immediately exhausted he has to wait that one out before he pushes any further jessica laying down a bit of damage as they move back promise q now going to be in trouble it doesn't look like they're going to try to turn here g2 just going to be happy with the pick yeah that's one kill that mid lane ward was really really important there for g2 charlotte's overextending in the bot side of the map they get punished you to get themselves a kill maybe they can get mid towers and result not up yet breakfast looking for xander shot down big kill again for g2 another kill goes over to reckless he was the man we needed to watch in these fights and he's finding the kills certainly is you called him out you highlighted him and now he's getting even more kills to his name why not going to be in trouble backing off here jessica can act as the highway to take him out to safety as magic felix steps forward looking to go toe to toe with rekkles has the red buff to back him up yeah stratus way to spit up in these fights they use the equalizer to try to make a pick and then they don't have it for the team fight promised you didn't even get to use his ultimate jessica couldn't use it because normal is low and white knight wasn't able to use it either that's the problem when you're running away when you're getting collapsed on from so many different angles you either turn as a five-man into one angle or you just try to run and regroup and that's basically what astralis did they tried to run and regroup because look at how split up they are g2 clear focus magic felix and when caps comes in clear focus of promiscu now the reason caps doesn't go in here on his ease because he has no w so if he goes in with the e he's gonna have one shot and g2 are the ones grouped up astralis do manage to group up but they can't turn in time and obviously astralis want to play the team fights out a little bit slower when they don't have his ultimates want to let's rack up those lay wastes and zanzar here just overconfident again this is the power of hail of blades tristana paired with the brahm such a fast fast kill rumble flying to the moon as he can't stop watching time because he's stunned up really good burst coming off from reckless and mickey two more kills onto susana who almost has the infinity added 21 minutes in the game and we looked at reckless as one of the main carries from this game but not only just this game but the weekend as well from last week on the tristana similarly he was ahead but he wasn't able to carry the fights because he was actually jumping away he was too hesitant to go in and actually just commit to straight up fights could be a smart decision we'll never know if he could have cleaned up that fighter on the elder drake against schalke but we might have another fight on our hands here around the dragon mickey ultimate goes wide zanzar langdon his all down but it feels a little bit early white knight going back to safety promised you going in it's a split call from the side of astralis and again the gragas barrel comes out looking to pick up promiscuity before the fight even starts the colding blocked by mickey x astronomers have gotten nothing in this fight but they burn major cooldowns now it's mickey kicked back to the team but that's not a priority target zanzar overheating the midst of everybody jessica off to the back side waiting has the ultimate available is going to use it now can you get enough damage down they're burning they're ticking but reckless is still jankos getting taken down reckless the resets will he find more here white knight waiting in the darkness needs a bit more energy reckless leaping forward zanzar flash forward keeps him alive no more resets for rekkles both sides walking away bloody but unbeaten well i'm surprised astralis even got a three for three out of that two members just about live and zanzara gets away reckless wasn't able to find the kill because of the shield and promiscu just engaging way too early astralis really didn't have that much space to work with look at this choke that they're stuck in g2 have the whole river to play around in this teamfight caps can flank from either angle magic phoenix has to dash over the wall here to regroup this team but look at the space australia tap they're funneled in a choke white knight can't find the kick and then promiscu dies because of the indecisiveness of the team now astralis do manage to find a reengage and watch white knight here he tries to kick rekkles with the jumps in but he actually gets mickey x i wonder if that's a missed target because if he gets reckless there he gets cancelled on his jump i think and he's gonna get sent straight into astralis and that could have changed the whole fight but three for three and astralis do manage to pull it back and small mistakes ultimately what caused the straw is so dearly there and zanzar just barely able to make it out of this one bentley barely lives very nearly goes down and he does preserve his dog seal stacks good position to be in don't know if he's going to be confident enough to fully commit to the megiz but we'll see how it's going to play out at this point karthus now on two items but extra magic pen coming up for the boots as well so things going to get easier i think for astralis in these fights to come certainly if g2 want to keep diving forward it's gonna be about getting in and then immediately getting out in the case of this karthus passive but that said i think one of the big problems in this game cajo for the side of astralis is if they make any mistakes in terms of how decisive they are engaging the cask from wonder and the passive from mickey are devastating yeah there's a lot of lock up yancos can use the ultimate as well to dissuade the fight and rekkles just picked up infinity edge that's something we've had our eyes on for the last five to six minutes he just based and picked it up level 14 tristana with infinity edge three items strong and astralis if they want to find the fight i think front to back won't be enough they need a leasing kick on this rasana or they need to find a way to burst her down before the fight starts as g2 finally able to pick up that mid-tier one i think straw is just pressuring sides right now the gold has now evened up good news for g2 obviously some shutdowns on the side of the straws to be picked up reckless getting stronger and stronger though has a shutdown a bounty on his head if astralis can find that one but uh as you mentioned three item tristana feels like a difficult task for any team and uh straws unless they hit a flawlessly sin kick or a well-placed nautilus alt or hook it's gonna be super hard to kill reckless here i mean the good thing is he has no defensive items if the uh requiem can come out if magi felix can find some kind of chunk or a white knight can get the qrq onto reckless there's no exhaust on g2 so that's going to be a full burst with the requiem from cartes maybe they can take him down but he has mickey to protect him and he has wonder like you said to disrupt the fights just depends on whether his positioning is good enough to avoid these members of astralis who want to dive onto the back line well wanted to rely on any member of our league rekkles is certainly uh near the top of that list see if he can as you mentioned earlier the shaka performance i think one that he might be frustrated with now can make up for it and mickey again on the prom and they more than uh more than have the tools actually to win out on these fights yeah both teams dancing around baron here you saw matcha felix push out top and windows pushing out ball it's a trade off of side lanes and then they push these side lanes to move to mid to get this wave in now what does that do if you have the mid push it means you control the river if you control the river you control the vision that means the enemy team has to either check if you're on baron check where you are on the map or face check you or play it slow until the next mid wave so that means astralis has control and they're gonna take away these pings of g2 now they might be a little bit too deep here shanienko is now getting the follow-up on immediately the ultimate is going to come out the english just gets instantly deleted reckless on the backside they're going to grab one kill they can now pitch for the reset caps in the midst of everybody zanzara is he going to have enough space to move out the flash away cap needs to finish off this kill here zanzara still running for the hills magic fields off to the side completely and totally isolated astralis are being dissected by g2 esports but here comes the requiem will it be enough white knight running trying to make it out to safety no blast cone in the area caps will not over pursue but here comes magi felix the dash of the wall the one tap the two he manages to take down caps reckless in the pit wonder mickey there as well this should be g2's baron magic felix can he make a hero play white knight has tp it's a 2v3 and they have no smite if they can get a little bit of vision in this pit i think g2 might have to back off unless they have the burst with tristana it's a bit of a flip here no smite for either team promiscu coming out of base yeah they're going to have to call it flipping the game in 50 50 in that baron just isn't worth it g2 decide to back off and i think that astralis here way too deep they're trying to clear pinks on their wolves entrance blue and g2 can just collapse wonders basing has tp caps is around the side and no matter what happens in this fight despite the ankles dying they're getting pincered from so many different angles caps comes around the side is able to chase down the zanzar who doesn't have the stopwatch because he used it earlier on to survive against rekkles and g2 just chased him down and you can see how quickly jessica falls and while he does have the passive he just has no defensive stats it's very easy for caps to get on the back line and finish him off and here the karth assault is okay but it's just not nearly enough to turn the fight and if maggie felix doesn't get this kill on caps here what caps will do is he will base tp back and it's a 4 v2 for this baron and g2 probably would have just gone for that 30 seconds on the drake we'll see a fight around there probably as g2 are setting up magic felix is basing if he wants to get to this freaking time i think he might have to tp on midwave as he's building towards the infinity edge himself in the tension cadre will just continue to rise these stakes for these fights get higher that's a very aggressive tp you're now coming in convincing everybody magic felix gonna dash out to safety rumble all now goes down they catch jankos for the crescent guard blocking most of the damage white knight not going to connect on the sonic wave and caps still on the flank the straws again they burned all the way through the body slam flash from wonder cavs coming over the wall he's got the blast cone as well where is he going to go eyes on the akali no eyes on reckless well just back away here oh wonderous movement just about keeps him alive very nearly goes down there dodges away from a couple of cues from jessica and really solid engage there from wonder very aggressive tp from matthew felix a bit too deep maybe and that's why tp on the midwave is just safer that pink wand wasn't the place to tp i think jesler goes down because he has no flash promo skew the same and wunder just decisive engage absolutely the body slam flash was clean from under the fact that he makes it out too is just incredible performance now we've got triple ocean drake stacking for the side of g2 they're gonna be happy to have the extra sustain in the fight and it feels like cadrell we've seen this from astralis and it's such a shame because they've been so neck and neck in the goal for the vast majority of the game but it always feels like it's one mistake here one over step here one miscalculation there and so many of these salt mall mistakes are starting to compound against g2 esports but now maybe just maybe all caps could be in trouble to pick back he said can try to review the calling in the shroud i don't even need to just gonna shut him down like that big pick there it's a 4v5 now y9 doesn't have the ultimate but i think astralis needs to force this baron rekkles has no flash and he's the only real damage source left but promiscuous already caught off to the side he's now been locked up there's no follow-up there that's going to be the rumble going down as well wonder trying to find these in the midst of everybody but jessica has the protection to keep him alive for now yanko's trying to get a little bit more room and he has it keep your eyes on the requiem where's it going to go reckless still untouched though and g2 can't clean up this fight they have to wait for the cart this goes to fade away now is their time to step forward if they want to 40 seconds on gesture promise q is dead too caps has the tp up in 15 seconds i think this is just going to be a g2 baron zanzara has no flash to get in the pit and yeah can jump in there whenever he wants yes match felix has the culling but i don't think it's enough and that's just going to be baron for g2 i think promiscu just got caught out there i think they needed to be five man strong and look for a turn in the 4v5 but in the end a couple of mistakes here and there g2 punish them it feels like skipping steps promiscu maybe hoping to catch someone waiting over the wall ultimately it's him who gets caught and it starts so positive cadre yeah a really good setup from astralis to actually make this peak onto caps they know that g2 used all their tempo down towards the bot side to get the drake after the fight so they initially just run straight towards the top side jungle make a pick but astralis promise getting caught out here and then this cast from mundo disrupt the whole fight gets three members jessica no flash gets taken down as well and yankov's ultimate saves him and then it's a 3v4 they wait for the karthus patters to fade and then they start up the baron themselves caps has tp in 20 seconds and justice dead for 14. and one of the big struggles i think we've seen so consistently in these fights is that either the right ultimates are not available to peel for jessica or they're used maybe a little bit too early by the side of zanzar you saw that equalizer come down very early in the fight not able to do a lot of damage there and once zinzow gets on top of jessica jessica will die unless there is peel to get him away yeah we talked about rekkles this game and caps and what reckless his positioning would look like because if he can get good positioning and have mickey next to him then he should be able to clean up fights and that's exactly what he's doing he's got five items now on the street and the stopwatch level 17 red buff baron buff he's gonna one shot any one of astralis who walks up because they don't have any front line promiscu is not a frontliner even with the aftershock proct i think reckless is gonna melt him most certainly and mickey x is there to back him up with the cc that he needs to just make sure that no one can ever get away from this tristana as if the jump resets were not enough and cap's now getting closer to level 16 things are going from bad to worse for the side of the straws because again the karthus is lagging behind an xp he doesn't even have rank 3 of the requiem yet yeah look at the b map g2 playing a one three one you can see pushing top pushing mid pushing both but it looks like astralis want to break it open by engaging with that thought a little bit of the knock back there but again promise q locked up yanks just gonna pick up this kill white knight off to the back trying to kick reckless in the midst of the entire team maybe they get a little bit of lockdown but reckless goes and requiem simply not enough and reckless is still alive the lead back the knock back the alley hoop it is dunk city here just for g2 jessica tried to get the ultimate off but caps finishes him off in the back line he dies for it but he saves a couple of members maybe now jake g2 is way too high on health i think the requiem wouldn't do anything astralis tried to force the fight in mid because g2 had the 131 valiant effort i must say but reckless and caps just clean house jankos gets himself a triple kill and the requiem that was quite a funny interaction always just dive for the confidence the second he stands still to cast the ultimate gotta respect it from the side of g2 g2 happy to have the win we'll move up to 3-1 tying the top of the table straws will drop down to two and two but still a solid showing from astralis overall ultimately though g2 uh are they gonna be not here to mess around you know never mind they are here to mess around and to win the game interesting game astralis holding their own for the first 15 to 20 minutes uh but i think g2 just way better positioning around the fights better set up astralis very split up half the time getting tp'd on a lot uh just kind of blunders here and there is what g2 is what made g2 have better positioning in the fights allowed them to win the fights and then snowball the game out of control and again for stars the good news is there's a lot of moments you can look back on with pride where you made the right call where you executed appropriately at the right time but there were also a lot where there were fumbles small miscalculations and moments where g2 simply outplayed in the skirmishes and this is the second game in a row first fanatic and now g2 where you pick up around bot lane you win out on the lane phase you get a little bit of resources then you just take over the game it feels really hard for these bruiser champions like lisa and viego uh even things like nocturne rumble to be able to get onto the back line get onto trisana or kalista with a brown next to them who can peel block most damage get this done and then you can start moving forward so it looks quite powerful against these aftershock supports and engaged bruisers certainly does and i wonder if we're going to see more compositions where the burden of execution is maybe lowered for some of the teams that have been struggling in these team fights that said kia player of the game at least on twitter wonder reckless or mickey x are your options they're all honestly pretty solid again it's uh engage it's mechanics and then it's uh gregas i mean i thought he was mechanics i thought mickey was brain this time oh yeah you can do that too reckless is always the mechanics though cause that's just the idea role all right we're gonna hear from caps before reckless joins us in the lac post game lobby don't go anywhere we'll be right back more league content [Music] [Music] oh [Music] the systems are overloading we can't risk another game we need to take a break and regroup we're starting to lose our mind captain we cannot go back to elo hell last time it took us months to get out of it initiate break protocol hurry up ah yes yes i did it i we did it we did it even the biggest champ needs a break [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome back to the lec g2 takedown australis and cats i'm sorry but i have to say it i'm actually super impressed having this interview with you right now given how good you've been in the caps recaps interview so i hope i can at least as good as you today how are you doing um yeah thank you i'm i'm doing pretty good i mean it was uh it was quite a game we just had uh but i'm just happy we ended up with a win and so far the the summer season is going going decent decent that is great to hear let's talk about this game though because it was close i feel i mean from a viewer's perspective but how was it for you and what made it so close yeah i mean definitely i think i mean bundling was kind of smurfing right they got the double kill like level two i think i mean maybe little one so it was like it kind of should be over from that maybe but uh unfortunately i think i got called like quite a bit which probably made a bit harder for the game like they were pretty good at like catching me when i wanted to go on the illusion and then uh i guess i i ended up like having to play a bit from behind from that um oh yeah yeah yeah go ahead you were saying something yeah and oh yeah so basically i mean basically was just like a bit hard but then we also just found right and especially when you have a really fair lady carry when you get some more items on him he will be much stronger than like other lanes like relatively when he gets like more items so while regular super fed early it might not be as easy to snowball as it is later in the game when he actually gets more wide alright well i wanted to have your take on akali because we've seen some unbeatable akali so far but as you said you were in a difficult situation here can you explain the peak when it's in a difficult situation how hard is it to play it with uh yeah i mean definitely akali is pretty strong right now i think she does like a lot of damage and especially the stealth is like hard to to deal with for a lot of champions uh i think this game again i felt a bit behind so i wasn't doing as much damage as i wanted to but i mean still even then it's like if you get so squishy you'll probably just kill them especially when you have a lot of champions that can that can go in it can be hard for for especially carries and mid lanes to live uh i guess this game that carpool so maybe he didn't really want to live he kind of wanted to die but but i can at least like try to bring him bring him into his passive i'm glad that you mentioned karthus because i was surprised that they went for this week we didn't see so many ap bot lanes usually lately but um what did you think of their drafting choices and this champion especially in this composition yeah i mean uh it was definitely like an an interesting choice i mean they they went for like delusion mid so maybe they felt like they didn't want another eight carry or uh maybe specifically against the kali i guess comes also makes some sense because it's a lot of like uh damage that goes through the w um but yeah i'm not sure obviously i think i don't know i didn't actually see what happened like that with one or two but something went wrong i think maybe ron miki got like a queue off and rick was able to like all in together with them so it's hard to see too much if they die little one or two um but definitely like in theory it makes sense all right well another flex pick in this meta actually we've seen alert lips exactly to me like it's the the center of this meta right now the fact that you can pretty much flex anything into a lot of positions and it reminds me that in 2019 it was one of the strong sides of g2 the fact that you're able to flex many peaks and surprise the opponent so how is this meta playing for you and do you think you're going to be able to take advantage of it without saying too much of course yeah i mean for sure it's like a lot of fun so far i mean now next patch they are making like a kind of big patch uh change so maybe things will change then but i mean so far there's a lot of champions that can be flexed and we are kind of playing them on all roles most of them at least so in that sense we don't really have any temps we don't feel particularly comfortable on in terms of like a lot of the stronger picks so it's definitely definitely nice metaphors i think we have seen like a lot of gwin bands against us so far uh and today i think we've got gwen and vehicle banned out before we we got to pick so definitely something that we we like to have in the matter but we'll see if it changes with the next patch yeah with the mobility and so on but we'll touch on that a bit later but for now match of the week tomorrow you'll face off against rogue uh han sam i felt a bit confident i want to say earlier when i talked about talk to him about the matchup how do you feel about rogue and what you've seen from them so far um i mean bro it seems decent i mean they're just like kind of doing the same thing they always do right they have usually have a lot of like winning lanes and try to snowball the game but um but there's a lot of kind of like new champions that can maybe like shake up a bit of the the way they play so i'm feeling pretty comfortable too i think if we get a champion that can kind of like create some chaos so to say then they'll feel a bit out of out of their comfort zone i mean that's also kind of what we saw in the final i feel like when uh when the medlines were able to create a bit of chaos uh like they especially would like the wukong and stuff then they didn't really know what to do and i'm hoping we can replicate that tomorrow yeah we'll see how you can spice things up against them tomorrow but for now caps thanks for the interview and good luck thank you for having me you're welcome and to wrap up this day we're going to take a short whack and we'll be back in a couple of minutes with post-game lobby with sharks medic and reckless stay tuned

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Published: Fri Jun 18 2021