MAD vs. FNC | 2021 LEC Spring Week 2 Day 2

[Music] rips them to mad lions had so far the start of the season is a bit of a bad dream for fnatic all the roles that we had losing was something unacceptable but right now i feel like even if we lose we always try to find solutions and not to think that it's the end of the world now another one kicking off the midline gillian's running from the tails oh he stands still he knew he missed it oh there it this time he is it the atmosphere that brings upset and risky is something that i missed very much since my uh unicorns of love days be careful it's a dps checkup against that olaf i don't know if he wins this one but it looks like he just might the double dash out to save jupiter leaping forward looking at one that's the double kill coming in for el yoya and the dragon to follow i think i am my biggest obstacle like my mental if i can get over it if i train harder than the others i'm gonna beat them to be the best you for sure need talent and you need to have the motivation to never give up left alone without the rest of the team as towards the running of the killer instinct from kazi the double kill continues to chase down white knight that's the trouble this year is gonna be one of the best chances uh that i've had to get on top i had to do it in an a first but no i i want to do it in europe as well cloud nine waited six years and they will hoist the trophy again when i left back in 2018 i think it was um i was a top three minute potentially now in front of the tunnel the team now is going to fire back the contents there to save the day oh [Applause] but no i think i can be on the top with caps i think with fnatic we can be a top team and i will make sure that i'll be a top millionaire as well penelope is definitely weaker because reckless was such a huge part in their success i think over time i think they will be good but probably not better than before eliot coming in is going to shake up the question you know does kaiser have to activate the team or can elijah put mad in a situation where they don't have to rely on kaiser i mean there is always adaptables not doing good and that's something that obviously i think scares me kind and scares all players but yeah once you you believe yourself and what you're capable of i think that you can beat anyway ace astralis with the triple kills [Music] oh amazing video welcome back to the lec our final match and our match of the week fanatic versus mad lions the finger poses like the down and the up and the whoa wow sharks is pumped i'm pumped i mean it just the pauses by just missing a tipo somewhere but you know fantastic video and every time we see kaiser going at all the only thing i'm going to see in my head is no he doesn't oh is that it that's what he said was going down all i ever did i just think he was just pointing down for some reason oh no there was it was going down you know what we have this meeting that our producers say listen we really got to drive the weight down of the matches so when we get into it immediately get into that big narrative nope we're talking about poses baby just kidding this is a very important game and it is a very weighty match both teams are coming off a win yesterday setting the stage for an exciting game to close out the day and this is one of those matches where it is of course always incredibly important at the beginning of the season or at any point at the season but especially when you're up against an opponent who you know is going to be one that you likely will face further on in the season in the playoffs that you want to have a good showing against when you look back at how close the playoffs race was last summer even all of last year i think you have to know you have to look at the people you expect to be facing off against and you have to know that every one of those matches is almost worth double because you push them down one you push yourself up one the head-to-head is also incredibly important so even though it's early and we don't want to set high expectations these games are incredibly important for both of these teams and two teams that want to show something with their new lineups up versus these opponents the jungle matchup will be crucial self-made we know how good he is trying to make his mark and has had some fantastic games with mad so far being extremely proactive in the early game is he going to have to be the difference maker yeah i think that both these junglers really like the early game i think that there's a difference in the two styles where alyoya is willing to give up himself for the team play things like the iron that we saw whereas self made is always going to pick a carry he's always going to get himself ahead you saw it yesterday he picked olaf he took the second blue from nisky when niski was zooming late self mates here to carry he's here look at the stats second in damage second in kp he's gonna be in your face and he's gonna do so much damage so i hope that madeline's don't give away olaf to fnatic for sure because giving away olaf yesterday seemed like a free lose basically yeah and you talk about posing and as much as i love that post-family self-made was the man who's posing you had to be scared of because he was walking in the tower range tank and tower shots spamming emotes and bm'ing that was how confident he was that was how far ahead he was so while i would love to see a clash of styles i just don't think there's a world where we ever see self-made play olaf again if i'm honest who knows and i think both these teams have two different weaknesses right we saw it over the last couple weeks fnatics just as a team they join the inters right it's all makes a mistake or goes in fnatic just pile in with them and it turns into just an ace and it just snowballs out of control whereas mad lions make these individual two aggressive plays jumping into tier two's humanoid going aggressive getting caught out so both these teams have two different weaknesses i think but i think that the last two games have shown they've brought it together quite well that it has they also have aggression in almost every lane when it's needed we've seen from nisky yesterday in terms of fnatic that he holds the line a lot for this team and it doesn't mind sacrificing himself so the team can perform so we'll see if that is translated into the picks and bands we'll be covering them right here on the desk a couple of known faces taken away namely that team um that twist faith rather is not finding themselves on either team yeah tf although i did lose one game today it's still like nine and one at this point it's probably the most the strongest me in the game i think olaf and tf are kind of like locked in red side bands at this point just purely because of the win rates and how strong these champions are so i like the bands from fnatic the setband is a little bit confusing to me as to mad lines why they're burning out set um but they're probably targeting hillary clinton there who did have quite an aggressive showing on it last week and renaissance deflect as well and running from ben tells me now camilla natrox are like top tier top laners right now for these two two players and while i think that every single matchup in this in this game is going to be important with the zoe band coming through now as well karzi kaiser versus upsets hillary saying it's going to be really interesting to me because karzi kaiser yesterday we said it earlier in the day absolute lane domination whereas upset was left alone with hilla saying freedom to roam now both of these supports have been known to play for hard lane domination and they've been known to abandon their 80 carries in rome and the bot lane match up is going to decide so much of how this early game plays out for both of these bot lanes a lot of freedom because no bot laners for now are being bent out too much except for the set perhaps so there are possibilities there yeah lucian ben tells me kaiser's one of the most so pleased right now we've seen the pantheon is open as well eliot really likes the ivan and lily as well so even if he doesn't pick jungle now i think going to 2-3 is fine like you said cars in kaiser lots of double kills yesterday and against hilasang they're going to struggle talia is open as well yeah as much as i like the idea of looking at the ivor it's talia and pantheon and if we don't get a talia pantheon jungle matchup there better be some special taliyah ready-made counter from self-made here i mean i'm happy to be upset i'm gonna be throwing a question mark pence because both these champions are so incredibly strong and have looked so very easy to execute yeah definitely agree that and i think pairing something with the tier something like i said the pantheon really good pick for fnatic i think kaiser is also super high in the priority list right now i think talia needs the total lanes that you can work with you know you can go for double ad solo lanes we've seen humanoid run the tristana i think something like an h rockstrassen could work really well with the philia but it does lack the setup so i think leona is also a really good pick for mad lions gets the setup going for the knock-ups for the cc are we expecting more possibilities for cross map plays outside of the two junglers that seems to be a trend we've seen in a couple of games today [Music] galley is the interesting one gallery is the other one that has been relatively popular when you take um you know these two plus tf out of consideration that i would have my eye on but i'm curious to see what the actual priority is there for the bot lane matchup because the semi global can be very strong but galio also when he gets behind he's just not a champion that i generally want to see yeah there's a few bottling combos here you've got ophelia's thresh you've got the cena as well your things like the kalista we've seen saya rise to uh rice fruition i think the raccoon paired with that's really good we saw that with the xl bot lane uh i think the problem is rakan's just weak blind pick right against melee supports after shock supports even range supports it struggles in the early game so blind picking things like the rakan is kind of not the best thing you want to do yeah and additionally with recon you wouldn't really have great tools to face check because unlike you know the olafs or the hecarims of the world where you have this unstoppable alt to get you out to safety if you do get caught out talia is very vulnerable if she has to push in without vision and recon while he does have a lot of good engage and some decent escape tools pretty easy to one shot especially early to mid game so curious to see if we get more hyper-engaged supports or if there is a pivot away maybe on the fanatic side to more range supports i would frankly hate it i love hillary saying on engage more than anything but this irelia into the azir is super interesting this irelia pick is slightly confusing to me because i would have had pantone with something like a syndra on orienta i think that just rounds out the mid jungle so much better yes this ireland could be a flex the top lane but pants on irelia mid jungle seems like the scaling is not that great especially against something like this yesterday in the interview nisky did say that he wanted to see the return perhaps of some other champions than the ones that we've been seeing in the control mages so it could be an indicator but as you say the flex is still on the table and the big thing here is we look at the second bands alistair coming out i expect more support bands will continue to come through as both sides 780 carry and both are missing a support but in this matchup obviously irelia i i expect from misky's hands to be pretty dominant early to be able to bully the azir but if we get into a point in the game where it is a lot about team fights the changes that happened to aurelia forever ago her w no longer reducing magic damage is a big deal here because she has to leap through all the taliyah stones to get onto that back line so if he's not finding a flank in fights or fighting on a side lane it's going to be very hard to get value out of this irelia pick before she just gets destroyed on the way in yeah i think the scaling on mad lines with zaya nazir is obviously way more favored than fanatics pantheon and the irelia and i think the irelia into azir is a good matchup in terms of getting all in going you could probably kill the azir if you understand level 3 level 6 as well if you have the ignite you can definitely get a solo kill in that lane the problem is if you don't pull off a solo solo kill and the lane is even in the first 10 minutes i think azir just kind of wins out no way it's for haley right the irelia the pentium the helia yeah the pantheon could get flexed the bottom lane is a pantheon could work i mean the e removal on the tower shots for the pantheon men so yeah the flex is still there there is a lot of supports banned even the set is out you're looking at things like the leona being the most op right now the nautilus and the rel i think those are the top three supports right now pantheon could be flexed i think it would make it slightly better if you can get an ap jungle but there's no real ap jungle available that has a lot of cc other than the lilia really but it doesn't really tell uh it doesn't really go super well with the aurelia and finally taking their time that i think it will be leona so they're freeing up last pick from whippo which i like trying to give him a favorable match-up and holding on to that potential flex for as long as possible and the good thing about irelia even if it's not a split damage profile is that it is set up or follow-up cc for the pantheon so kind of tracking to see how that how well that's utilized and i like how many engage options fnatic do have on this composition so far that said at this moment kaiser is going to need to go into the nashers if they want more magic damage there needs to be i think a little bit more magic damage to balance this composition out as we now have a wukong i honestly didn't think we'd see the champion again after the suite of nerfs he got so interesting because it's both an armored pocket pick and a champion he loves to play and a kaiser champion he loves to play i think the fnatic are in a bit of a hole right now they have double a d on the mid jungle and there's a gragas malphite band from the side of madeline banning out two ap carries and i'm not sure if ripper wants to go for something like the cannon the rail does come out which we thought was one of the top supports now i'm curious to see how fanatical out here you need an ap top laner something that scales pretty well because there's not too much late game insurance on fnatic they have a lot of cc they just need a little bit of engage oren would work pretty fine i think but it wouldn't be the best in terms of magic damage and it wouldn't it needs something to use skirmish something and team fight something aoe i think oren is probably the best pick here for them perhaps there's uh for the rest nothing else that ripple has played we have an aatrox perhaps sorry it's punched on top i love it whoa okay i i was trying to figure out what ap top laner you can play but now the evelyn coming back for self made if you're a fanatic fan this is so good to see you got to see the worlds this man put on a clinic upset looks absolutely shocked okay this draft yeah self-made has to carry the game because the iranian pantheon are really volatile lanes and they won't scale super well if they fall slightly behind because mad lines are scaling it's really really good they're going to outscale fnatic 100 so self made needs to get fed and fnatic need to sort of get this game rolling but i love how they like had the wool over our eyes and then all of a sudden made it all make sense because of locking in the eveline at the end and i guess they're hoping that that also caught um mad lions off guard but they've got a strong composition themselves and it's so crazy because coming into yesterday it looked like the meta didn't change at all on 11-2 but now in this final game it's completely different there are so many picks we have not seen so many combos we have not seen coming together on both sides and frankly i just want to see how it unfolds yes let's see we're ready for our match of the week let's get into the action [Music] let it out [Music] welcome to our match of the week is mad lions take on a fanatic and exactly like dracos was saying on the analyst desk so many different looks in this game so many new champions and one of the things i have to just call out immediately is this wukong pick something that we saw kaiser play in support last year he went 3-0 and we saw armor playing at worlds well it was not the most successful we have seen him playing it as soon as i saw that wukong locked in i was like what where who's going to play where's my and then obviously rel gave me that answer yeah of course going into the top lane it's going to be super exciting to see him back on that but also self-made on the classic evelyn what's up guys how you doing hope you're all enjoying the show uh but uh yeah self-made i remember a particular game he played at worlds last year where he's certainly put on the show flying over the wall catching out doublelift and this is a champion that he has been so good on for so long one of his pockets he absolutely has and in terms of uh lec performance three wins one loss it is hugely influential the analyst was talking about how fanatic will need self-made to step up and help carry this game and while we were watching the draft unfold we were discussing about the mid game and how much there's gonna be some priority on fnatic to make someplace take advantage of how evelyn can honestly benefit every single one of these lanes because of just how much cc and setup a potential exactly right all of the fnatic lanes have really high agencies basically they got like they've got dashes they've got cc they've got all this set up to jump on you from pretty far away and pair up very nicely with an evelyn so post level six is when we need to see fnatic get stuff done because like kid was kind of talking about on the analyst desk is these champions do need to get an advantage in lane but they're not gonna have a ton of support three level six and that's where uh fnatic's lanes are gonna have to give some respect over to algoya's talia of course on the other side and even self-made is in his early path and is making sure he secures both of his bucks early on just to make sure there's nothing going on in any sort of invade play level two advantage to upset and hilly and they're pushing kazi and kaiser backwards first time that i'm seeing the xayah rail combo here in the lec armor takes a lot of damage from where bone starts to back away and for fnatic we've seen a tale of two fanatics their first two games absolutely crazy uh blood boss non-stop means some patience from them as armor will dash forward jump onto it for a lot of minions to work with and that will force the flash immediately from whipper yeah that's rough because i i do actually really like uh pantheon in this matchup early on but with the big stacking wave and the level three coming across from armour you saw that wiffle almost ended up falling down there but obviously if it's level three versus level three pantheon is gonna definitely have the upper hand there regardless though he has to let the lane push into him similar to how you see nisky and the lane pushing in him there as well as well because again your jungler very likely not going to emerge from the jungle and a classic trope of self-made in 2020 was that he would just be farming non-stop you know he was just trying to blitz through his jungle get the highest level in the game because he was going to be the carrion as the evelyn he is the focal point well southmate decides he wants to show up already as dennis play catches out cause he in very good flash over the wall manages to escape but that's success flash and cleans down now on this ayah it's a little odd though because like why why use the the cleanse right if you're flashing away from the zenith blade the the initial uh cast of the charm isn't going to do anything so cars are going to lose both summoners there in a situation where he did not have to and uh just like we saw in the last game because of self-made early passing and forgoing the krugs in his first clear elio goes in to take those away and we actually saw we didn't mention it but our moot placed a ward on krugs at level one so elia knew those are going to be up and planned accordingly to be able to be there and steal that away a very good heads-up play then from the mad lions team as well and every time we look at that bottom lane hilasang just is positioning himself so far forward it feels like he really wants to go in as the crash stand comes out from kaiser they turn their attention and damage onto kazi a lot of damage being burned down remember no flash no planes upset hold on to his flash teleports now coming out as well carter's below 50 hp a dash forward and he's not going to get taken out just yet big knights will secure first flight for hillary hilly will get dropped down by humanoid who cheaped into the fray now kaiser is looking for a follow-up niski manages to get the flawless duet he gets crashed down on once again by kaizen the seismic shot he's dashed away from nisky gets himself one kill before he's taken down by humanoid it's a two for two it's craziness down in the bottom lane as it trades evenly and self he's not farming the menu he's changed he's this man last year he farms those entire three waves he just takes it all he'd be level six already but no he's setting up making sure it's going to be in a decent position before niski returns to the lane but a two for two trade overall and dead even it looks like in terms of gold now the question is is that the right call here from self made obviously humanoid got the two kills in the bottom lane i want to come back to this thought in a moment or two obviously that crash down mount up combo from kaiser doing so much work multiple during the course of this fight yeah i mean upsetting hill saying playing very aggressively here and because cars didn't have sums that's why they wanted to make the play but even the tps humanoid gets his off a second before nisky which is a little unexpected communication maybe not saying we need you now but also with the junglers coming back on the map oh yo he's passing both sides jungler's top we've got another one right back in this is not a replay this is another fight while yo he's here already in helisang is going to be left before dead arrested mad lions looking to run him down self-made is just about to enter the fray at least bought a lot of time and self-made decides to back away in fact decides not to push into the river and actually it chill out a little bit this this happened last week too where again this comp and el yoya even steals away the scuttle crab so nicely done by him can they actually chase down selfie because that's a self slow it definitely feels to be the case self made will have some support from nisky and he manages to escape for now but five kills in six minutes and his non-stop action at the bottom yeah but but here's the thing is like right like cater on the analysts was saying fnag need to increase the speed of the game but not for the first five or six minutes right let's get self made to level six let's get in that invisibility so we can start taking over the map and not just playing for the two versus two around the bottom lane i do feel like fnatic pressing their luck a little bit too much and now with two kills onto his ear the other kill is on the xayah mad lions are very happy with what's happened so far headlines will have some support that's a great slight glide emperor's divide into a beautiful stun from kaiser and that's just an easy and uh the answer to your question about two minutes ago were like should have self made have taken the mid wave no he shouldn't have because there was no flash on this key you you can't let the lane push forward like that so as soon as nisky's on the opposite side of the lane well you see a gank like that come through from kaiser kaiser very good at spotting those mid lane rotations and gank opportunities so very nicely done once again and now we're going to the top lane we absolutely are cyclone into the nimbus striker julia joins the fight as well and whippoe gets dunked down he was already struggling a little bit in the lane the tp's on cooldown doesn't have his ultimate available but there will be some minions lost to the tower as well five kills to two plus 1400 gold before eight minutes on the clock we kept hyping this mat this game up to be a bloodbath to be action-packed i didn't think it was going to happen i thought there'd be some tempered moods what did you watch fanatic in week one trevor you're out of your mind fnatic are just all forward non-stop and it's it's cursed them it i mean maybe right but like if you look at their wins and their losses across the last four games first two games were losses uh uh minus 3k at 15. eight deaths at 50 and they're already on five and then in their wins it was much more clean it was much more controlled and calculated now still only a 15 to 100 gold difference right now and as they're starting to hit level six the ability to initiate to make skirmishes on fnatic's terms are definitely possible if you look at the minimap self-made and niski are making their way down south yes the windy on karzi's flash is just about to pop back up kaiser still won't have his for about another minute but now whoopo also level six as soon as he gets prio and mid look for these sorts of moves and again the two be two about to be a three v three guys is gonna help out so much cause he will get dropped down by this ignite starts to take down he does not get taken out i misspoke entirely oh yeah he's going to arrive to prevent any further follow-up and cause he escapes his life check this out okay it looked like there was going to be a gank attempt from blippo in the mid lane too but it won't end up coming away i mean just a great knock up there from kaiser to stop the last auto attack coming out from upset that keeps his 80 carry alive and the flash wasn't even used there from cars used the next time again captains he's going to have the flash he's going to level up to six as well now that global just can be used to engage in top and he sees where it is gonna jump on him a lot of damage coming out the comet's appear thrown out as well almost 400 hp that's a solo gets down and blippo should be able to finish this off easily so solo kill to puerpo after he was ganked just a few moments ago and i just heard from production that kazi escaped with seven hit points seven hp he escaped without six more than he needed trevor well manages to not give any gold to the bottom lane hillary's saying an upset playing way forward like every single opportunity that you're jumping in now of course with buppo getting that solo kill he's going to be just a little bit more accelerated yeah that's going to be good news for him it's also good because of course he lost the global to initiate that play which was really nice because he used the turret to make sure he still had vision of our mutts wukong even though he'd used his clone and popped the inv and popped the invis but wipo's tp is going to be returning so both top laners gonna have that ready eliot also has the weaver's wall so it's a little bit easier to react to any of these uh plays coming through from the evelyn by having a global of yourself try and hop on in there even if you don't have perfect vision but they will be starting up the herald on top of vision karzi is also rotating towards mid so mad lines are banking on the fact that with the numbers advantage fnatic cannot contest them here both ultimates not available for any initiation tools but upset and hilly iron range the solar flare is available the herald should go down before fnatic can arrive not available just yet and we'll actually gets picked up there now hilly will look for kazi he gets caught out stunned flash over the wall by nisky defensive flashlight long enough to get mad lions into the fight hilasang will be the next target and the size mcsharp throws him backwards along with the zenith blade now purple is going to start slapping down on el yoya he gets a kill back burpo turns his attention to humanoid as nisky and self-made trying to join while that's going on armored is pushing the top lane like help your team dude you have tp of ultimate do something he's just hitting turret plates uh i i don't know like a fanatic should not be at numbers uh even numbers right and upset's pushing down bot side but our moot decided to back away from the rift outside hitting the top down sure he gets a billion gold off of that play for himself but the rest of his team got hit hard now can armored get away with his life cyclone is available to him no way you died here too are trying to find him in the vision teleport coming in from humanoid as well as niski onwards going to be able to buy some time with that cyclone and gets away the nimbus strike will be able to deliver him to nisky now humanoids already thrown out the emperor's divide and armored is chunked down humanoid sand soldiers not enough to pick up niski and gwippo is maybe he's gonna sacrifice himself the samsol just get one back southmate steps in forward once more and will die to the tower that is a two for three in favor of mad lions two for two sorry as nisky did what am i watching trevor idea i have absolutely no idea i i i just don't know what to say well let's summarize the game 15 kills and fnatic were down nearly 2k gold over the last few minutes of play they've managed to claw that back to six or 700 if you look at the cs differences armhut currently ahead of whippo as well as humanoid ahead of nisky on the other hand though upset is farming up a storm nearly 40 cs in the lead and we've hit that point of the game where fanatics initiation tools and skirmishing what are we doing and play into their advantage wipo's already got himself one solo kill against armored it's gore drinker versus gore drinker is just going to wait for the cool downs and not going to be able to have the range there on their queue so this time omwit escapes yeah bobo really liking that 1v1 they're dropping in with the sky fall but uh yeah i mean just a very perplexing series of events and now i i feel like coming out of a play like this having so many flashes burnt this is definitely going to benefit fnatic even though overall i think madeline's got a lot of what they wanted six kills now on the azir obviously we just saw the gold manifested by that about one and a half thousand uh a lead over nisky who very quickly is trying to get into some magic resistance with the wits end for himself but the lack of flashes self-made having his ultimate ready now there is a a big window now for fnatic to make plays on pretty much anyone not named humanoid because i feel like every time they try to do something against humanoid he has just beaten them and it is not working for them yeah that's what i got well fnatic's game plan has been very very clear just fight fight fight at all costs uh no matter what it reminds me a little bit of their game against misfits from week one where it just was non-stop action whether it was the right call or not uh it's entertaining to watch and fnatic are going to push all the vision into the red buff uh jungle of mad lions and with 30 seconds until infernal they manage to pick up the first drake of the game and maybe want to look to play around this next one in 20 seconds yeah i think they will uh for for the time being i feel like mad lions they've got eight seconds so i don't think they're going to be able to get that final turret playing top lane before it goes down but that top turret has taken quite the beating with all the time our moves spent on that side of the map so they take down that turret and now himself made look throw yoya that's a lot of damage i mean just the full combo delete area where he stands and that's kind of a good one he doesn't have flash though cannot get out just yet emperor's divide it's a fantastic combo so one for one no i so i actually like the idea of what self-made was trying to do there by hiding in the pit because there were controllers on both sides and he didn't know right so he thinks without a flash with people collapsing he hides inside the pit but with controllers being up they expected wait a second he actually didn't leave he's standing in the same place so he does get punished for that we'll get the turn on the bot side of the map and now it's it's a race junglers need to get back into the map because there's an infernal ready to go okay let's take a zoom down picture now with towers starting to fall with people starting to get caught out as they're moving into their own jungles and and into the dragon pits the analyst desk in kegel in particular was very very firm on mad lion scaling and how he was a little nervous for fnatic with mad lines being in the lead albeit minorly and the fact that humanoid is so fit fnatic have to avoid him at all i mean mad lines just check a lot of the right boxes right they have strong frontline initiation they have three very powerful backliners too with great self appeal against all the dive that fnatic have soon straight up 5v5 especially once items get uh in the hands of mad lines they're going to look super super good because you're just going to hop out to safety the question is fnatic will always have the upper hand and skirmishes and that's where whiplash is looking for will kick off has got a lot of damage onto all yoyo with the help of self made is easily able to take him down they'll drop on top of kazi who has flash and claims available but there's no further sums followed up mad lions got the dragon now yo-yo died for the third time he was the sacrificial oh they want him they really want him yeah they really do fanatic again signaling their intent no ultimate from self made he may not need it the feather flies from cause he stays alive long enough for kaiser to jump in and fnatic are diving in between two turrets it's just a bit over the self made know that he didn't have ultimate because that looks like a play you go for when you know you have you can get out to safety but it wasn't up well it means that self made goes down to diving on top of kazi armor with the cyclone will buy so much time whippo joins and picks up a kill of his own now oh yeah we'll arrive just in time to hold the minion wave to prevent any further pressure onto this tower and i'm not quite sure what madeline's a fanatic i'm thinking with all these plays but it is just it is non-stop action and i think it's a little bit scary for fnatic when you start thinking how taliyah how zaya how the azir can handle these engaging exactly because like a lot of action is to be fair like that's exactly what fanatics comp wants at this period in the game but it needs to be action that leads to results good results positive or they're getting gold advantage they're getting turrets because a big problem for them is the fact that there's only one turret down uh in the bottom lane so you see a lot of their plays have been focused around that bot lane but until we start taking away these other outer turrets well there's just areas that self-made can never pass through uh because of the true vision that the the church do grant so fnatic need to be able to convert these kills into towers they need to just be winning in the kill trades because otherwise mad lions i mean you can already see they are starting to stack up some items yeah they really are self made was looking for the engage was able to sidestep i think with fnatic focusing so much around the bottom it is important to call out that upset is still farming at the store he's been on that uh gale force for a little while and it was just picked up by causing the other thing too is with the the introduction of the new items for for self made in particular on the seven being able to get a proto belt or a rocket belt sorry guys that's a rocket belt for your first item it's really great having that extra sense of mobility that isn't just attached to like her e where it's a point-and-click being able to close the distance a little bit more combo that with a blue smite there are more tools for self-made to get in range to actually apply that charm and get the pick and that's a a really nice little buff there for self made and to this champion well we need to track what fnatic's vision looks like because if self made can find himself in positions to kill off members of mad lines in the next few minutes this uh even gold game can very rapidly swing yeah in either team's direction um there's just a few interesting builds for now yo has gone hourglass first played the room king picked up for nisky first as well yeah in particular that hourglass for elgoy i love and we gotta play the bot side 2v2 let's go all right nisky and armoured are currently trading for the time being gwippo joins the freight humanoids got the emperor's divide he's gonna need to use it to buy time many times armor escapes with his life for now with the huge outplay that was ridiculous damage where did humanoid go the main one second he was there the next he wasn't it nisky's like a magician or something i didn't even understand how quickly he died if we get a replay of that i would love to see that in slo-mo super super slow-mo like i need i need to be able to process what just occurred on my screen and i wonder if it was a combination of like pantheon q plus a full combo from nisky just all landing at exactly the same time oh my god i mean let's just watch and see what happens here i suppose because humanoid got a beautiful ultimate off and it it seemed like the damage was going to be enough but then armor of course used and then what happens oh blippo's five stack on the q there we go oh my that q did what 400 500 damage from whippo five stacks ridiculous my focus was so much on nisky diving in with the uh vanguard's edge ulti and then whooper just snipes him through it's a magician nisky right so slight of hand he just used his body instead of his hand to distract and very crucially maybe for the first time this game you see how the fnatic comp sort of wants to play right yeah had they not conceded as much earlier on he would have been a lot happier fnatic are now in control of the gold and dragons coming up in 30 seconds you can see already both teams grouping around this they did get a pretty sizable shutdown on humanoid too i love the way self-made is playing he knows he can't be seen well now he's seen them just kaiser he wants in fantastic engage with the magnet storm helium football is so so low that's a trade off supports for now fnatic are able to retreat the rift herald was dropped and that will pick up a tower in favor of fnatic recall coming out from webster thing though he has his ultimate he's level 11 and he tp didn't fight he wasn't even there when kaiser went in for that one for one trade and him and el yoya oh man are they gonna be able to find fnatic are fanatic gonna take the aggressive way in i don't think they know they're even there but they have to back away now do fanatic want to try and contest this at all no it's one dragon a piece thus far they'll concede it back away there's no ways they start no so there's already missing pinks for mad lions on baron so fanatica are starting it up but madeline suspect they have a blue trunk spotted out so that'll shut down that play instantly and also mean this mid tower is not long for this world all right man lions will be able to use that weave as well cut off a little bit of the support it's not greatly placed there's the engage from hilly he flashed him manages to get the zenith played humanoid buys time with the emperor's divine upset he's on the back line trying to take down causey he's got the damage but he's stunned knocked up by the cyclone manages to get back to fanatic before armour takes him out with that cyclone of his own this is gonna be three kills going to fnatic but they did lose their tower in the fray but ken fanatic actually turned to this baron i don't know they lost their 80 carry but they've got auto attackers on this team nisky whip are going to deal a lot of damage to baron and they're going to go for this just in the blink of an eye fnatic able to jump on mad lines out of nowhere i love that play upset positioning diving on to kazi he was zoned away because of everything fnatic were doing just under the tower and he managed to get back to his team and unfortunately armored cyclone was running the mobility and the snap engage of this team right hillasang says let's go in so immediately you have a tp and the man drop upset also goes flying into the back line this gets a little bit wild as he tries to get that fight onto karzi and the rest of mad lions are there try and finish him off but then he's able to go invisible buy some more time from the rest of armor taking pressure away from his teammates as they just continue to charge on ford and get more kills and just correcting myself it was of course the number strike into the crushing blow from armour that picked up the final kill fnatic now four kills in the lead three thousand gold in the lead they will most likely lose this tower if uh humanoid sticks around long enough gonna be able to hammer this one down we'll run out of minions for a moment or two and fnatic content to sit back they've got themselves the advantage with an open map i think is going to favor fnatic at least in the short term oh for sure and because they have baron like that means inner turrets are going to be dropping too so all of a sudden like this game it was close in terms of gold but it felt like it was getting closer and closer to favoring the mad lions but because of this baron and just a really good team fight self-made feels very confident and he's gonna have to back on out of that one card he doesn't even have to lose the flash uh but like this this is gonna cut off the entire jungle from mad lines it means that self-made gets more time to keep on scaling up and more shirts they get only the better here for fnatic and of course just keep your eyes on the itemization as well as the kill dates i mean whippo on this pantheon seven two and four still even cs with omelets if you keep your eyes on upset he's farming up a storm he's been left alone so much because everyone else has been fighting and despite some early ganks in his lane then all the action just moved everywhere else he's got himself that phantom dancer completes it and a solo flare from hilly yeah take that karzi wondering what there was uh fishing for in there i remember self-made committed his flash just a few moments ago this red bull baron power play plus 2 300 gold and fnatic have now got complete control of the map is this kind of self made and push this top lane i mean but again it's just all the jungle camps going to south main now level 13 so full burst ready to go on him and working on a lich bane too mid lane tower gonna fall very shortly as well all the pressure going the way of fnatic and now the map is completely wide open it becomes so much more challenging for mad lions to find the team fight that they want the correct setup for as well as they gear up to try and defend their final remaining inner turret what do you make of niski's build i want to ask that question in a moment or two how's how good is he feeling being pressured humanoid will have some support for molliolia there's an engage from fnatic on the top lane whip will just about get the kill before he's taken down in the 2v1 now fnatic are in some trouble as the fifth storm is hold on for now kazi not under enough threat they are able to take out nisky and fnatic will take the tower and back away wow even in the the three versus four right there from mad lines they come ahead on the top side of the map was just one for one trade down but mad lions will delay the remaining baron buff they lost all the remaining towers outside of their base but not an inhibitor not an inhibitor yet baron will just wear off 50 seconds until dragon it may not take that long for the next fight the way this game has played out just 25 minutes in we've got ourselves uh 31 kills secured already but i want to go back to uh the fact that niski's not alexa to go for the mythic just yet what do you make of this it seems to be working out at least in terms of the skirmishes but it's an odd one yeah it is he's of course just stacking a lot of these on hits here and felt like he he needed that in terms of his itemization but i had the big miss on top of like any sort of active you're going to get from this mythics is the mythic passive whether it's like sacking ability haste which of course uh and irelia is going to love so i'm i'm very surprised to see this come through from him we'll have to see if they can use it to finish i like the way self-made is playing here he might be able to catch humanoid i mean i think he can blow any of the damage dealers up with one combo his flash is still on cooldown and fanatic already inside the pit they don't have the strongest vision uh inside the red buff of mad lions but humanoid is the target self-made is hunting oh but the turret goes down sophie's like what are you doing guys come on and i actually the the idea from self made to be here what jungler does this right your team's doing dragon you're like i want to hunt the side lane it's because well fnatic have full control over the map and madeline's would expect self-made to be bought sides they're not contesting over the drake they're saying go side lane humanoid scale up get some gold for self made he just wants to find any stragglers looking for a talk oh he's got him it's going to be the one he goes golden thanks that hourglass first item purchase now self made in a little bit of trouble lost chris will buy some time and seismic shove was fantastic ended up getting surrounded by the enemy and that is the risk you run when you apply this strategy the rest of fnatic were nowhere near he was hunting and unfortunately became the hunted well he just forgot about the zonias just like i did there i was i was like for sure eloy is down but no the rush of the zonias of course pays off very nicely there for el yoya and now things slow down again so fnatic a lot of that pressure will be gone and again the more time mad lines are given the better for them if they can make this game come down to a critical soul fight or a baron fight that's where they're going to thrive all they need to do is make sure that their flanks are going to be under control because you know that whip was just going to be diving in from the sky you can't really protect against that we can protect against is that uh is that evelyn and they've done a good job of shutting down self made on a lot of his attempts so far now the question is the fact that football is so fed with kills and got himself the two items completed plus the fact that upset has gone relatively unfocused unnoticed zero one six got himself three items completed it's flame horizon kazi we've seen that one play where he used the ultimate into the back line if they go into a straight up 5v5 you cannot underestimate the impact that upset could have on that back line that that's very true that's very true now the big benefit from adlines is that they have the the emperor's divide right they have the featherstorm from carson tooth there's a lot of these great self-peel tools and that's where i feel like for blippo and niski and hill saying their primary objective is to get those cool downs out whether it's you know a great solar fair from hillising that forces karzi's hand to pop up into his ultimate or whippo diving in and humanoid then has to push him away with the emperor's divide opening uh those uh those skills up and giving self-made away into fight is so critical but the crazy thing is even when they look so good there is still counters to themselves made will buy some time jumps on humanoid almost takes him out the vanguard ditch jumps forward now carly forced to use the ultimate himself this is the first one to die and the magnet storm is great from causing now quickbooks jumped out that's upset he's got himself one carry turns his attention to all yoyo flashes over the wall emperor's divide knocks him away for the time being south beat around he had himself made with the reengage he's blown up by the sand soldiers upsets going so low and he's dropped as well they died too quickly mad lions have won the fight in haste fanatic the team fight for mad lanes is just too good great play it was so scrappy all over the place a million different things you had to track but mad lines tracked them so wonderfully humanoid and and the rest of the team able to survive throughout it they're gonna pick up the baron and take a major lead in the game it is impossible to track each individual moment that is taking place here because it's on so many fronts but honestly i don't like the order of operations for fnatic having self-made go in first it doesn't even get a cool down so nisky then goes down and kaiser what an ulti out of him the follow-up isn't great but upset he's zoned for a long time the second he joins into the fight it's good but again has to flash away from these abilities the emperor's fight catching him over the wall is just so brutal for him as he tries to deal with it the flank on the other side doesn't work upset can't quite finish off any of these kills so elijah finishes him off as well it was just on slivers of hp mad lines out playing in the moment the amount of patience and awareness from humanoid to hold on to that emperor's divide until the very moment his life is at risk turns the entire game around upset unable to clean up the back line means mad lines while we were in the replay they were able to pick up the barren buff now they are the team that's on the engage they are the team that's even in gold with a team composition that we feel is better scaling and we've seen that unless the team fight goes perfectly for fnatic mad lions have the tools to turn it around it feels like they can replicate it too now sort of taking a fight to fanatic look at the next positioning on the map setting up the potential flank here but there's so many controllers they have to get through there's no way they can dodge away from all of this vision now three members resetting well self-made goes all the way around southmate might actually be able to dodge away from this vision nisky will be seen but here we go all right hello gets a fantastic solar play upside jumps in with the killer instinct but he's knocked back immediately upset stays alive just a few seconds longer has the ga available will now be revived elevators on the flank he needs to get in really quick because upset's just about to go down kaiser wasn't able to find anyone with the azir toured he can't let him blink they can't get around it niski's able to shut down humanoid but this is such a long fight now all of a sudden almost with those crushing blows off the crushing blows is tearing apart fanatic selfie jumps in with the caress and it ends up being a four four three oh my god the the sandisk the sun dis stopped selfmade's entire plane he spent so much time trying to set up that flank fnatic engaged so early to try and keep mad lions in the area but the turret from humanoid completely shut down that play and madeline's win yet again it is ridiculous stuff the third dragon will be picked up after mad lions we're sieging the inhibitor turret and you can see how long range engaged from hillasang plus upset on kaiser yeah but there just wasn't enough time i also feel like killsane goes in really early right that means upset have to go through the ga but then of course there's still oh the turret goes up a little bit earlier so southway didn't quite realize that armour was also in the area that's a big problem for him and then fnatic need to press forward but then there's this turret they also have to deal with they have to get through the thick front line of armoured as well there's nothing they can do and cell mate doesn't have quite the damage with the extra shielding coming in from kaiser are you not entertained the most kills that we have had in a game this year was 47 and we are just shy of that i feel confident we'll break that for sure during ready check yesterday ethia said it would it'd be a bit sad if this game fizzled and boy oh boy it has not fizzled it has been brawl after brawl two and a half minutes to the next baron four minutes to the next dragon and fnatic are posturing for an engage hillerson goes forward and starts to back away that's the ultimate problem armour commits the cyclone as well looking for self-made and nisky to find targets and they can't just yet tell us that goes in oh no but that's not enough that may have been to i know stop mad lines fanatica splits now i mean to be fair there's no objectives on the map here so uh there's just the exposed inhibitor and bottling the mad lions can try to play for they have minions down there two in 30 seconds on the death timers feels like that'll be the call coming through from the mad lions but fnatic really trying to force these engagements and i think you need to try and catch mad lines in a tighter corridor there in a place where they have less room to maneuver you can sort of choke them down with whipple flying in the solar flare too i think fnatic tried that maybe the order of engage uh i mean that was just the mid lane man there's a lot of space for mad lines to work with the question that i would have asked in any other game was why did they engage there i'm not going to pose that to you because it's not fair i've asked that on nearly every single fight thus far 25 kills to 21 and that will be the bottom inhibitor secured so this will be now even more map control and pressure on fnatic's side they have to deal with the supers in the bottom lane they've got three minutes until the soul is available for mad lines to secure yeah self-made should hit level 16. not quite off that way but off of his next camp he'll have that and that's a really big spike in terms of damage with that ultimate became so much more kill threat on a lot of these champions but i don't know if he has kill threat really on anyone when you factor in the the all the self-peel tools and the raw tankiness in terms like a zhonya's as well he doesn't have a lot of great targets and that is again why he needs other players on the team to do the dirty work of getting rid of those big spells and it's gonna have to be a little bit more clean in this next fight a little bit more coordinated the next few minutes fnatic have to be talking to each other about these things self-made needs to tell his team you guys have to do this for me otherwise becomes so much harder for me to fight well it has been so difficult already and for upset he invested a lot to complete that guardian angel before the previous inhibitor fights it is not available it's 25 of the cooldown available for the next few minutes and just looking at available summoner spells flashes for everybody on the mad lions hourglass available for yoya as well as humanoid so the window of opportunity the ability to punish there is going to get even more nuance even more difficult for fnatic on the bright side there's a baron in 20 and there's a mountain in 140 so you have some uh ideas of where mad lines are going to prioritize yeah i mean mad lions can just go to this baron very quickly they get in the push in mid you can already see self-made is setting up trying to find a flank angle he's going to try to enter the fight from the north end and the good news is there's no control words to spot that out unless you were to try and get all the way to the mid lane in which case he would be speed grippo trying to throw out those spears from the side seismic shove just he's just gonna wait there okay what would the sort of ideal engage scenario from fnatic be in your eyes right now uh i mean i i think it has to be hilasang finding uh cars your humanoid uh likely trying to burn karzi's ultimate coming out the the difficulty is cars he could just decide to use the cleanse instead he has so many tools to work with but again self-made sitting in the brush has to dodge away from the red sweeper can use the brush try and close the gap play off the vision a little bit more and the barons going down what goes on the bottom lane where is the pressure bounce down to 3 000 self made steps forward fnatic they stand close by but absolutely nothing happens a lot of damage on the quasi and the solar flare comes down but self-made is dead he's dropped where he stands football finally arrives to the fight for the emperor's divide sends fanatic backwards upset and hillar sang against the world the lost man standing is the newest man too fanatic and upset starts their gp in the basement they're trying to end the game trevor they've got the baron they've got the ability to do it upset will try to take down el yoya and he should be able to just about do it that's it mad lions on the nexus they survive the onslaught that fanatic throw and mad lions take down fnatic mad lines showing up in a big way in those team fights there's the critical one inside of the top side jungle hood right there completely destroyed fnatic didn't even look like they stood a chance courtesy bowing down to the rest of the teammates thanks for the carry guys i'm just an 80 carry what can i do mad lines bring back the win celebration for the first time taking off next match of the week uh absolutely ridiculous 50 kills across 35 minutes and i honestly think around 30 of them were before the 20 to 22 23 minute mark fnatic just threw themselves at mad lions relentlessly yeah yeah i mean it was it was it felt like sloppy play for a lot of the time coming out from fnatic especially in moments where they didn't have the advantage or they were still waiting to get the proper items and build into it it was just all steam ahead and they they got punished for it the question i ask myself is like if this is limit if this was intentional this was by by design why first of all and also the number of times that madeline's were able to outplay was really exciting to see i think cadrell used the term earlier today where he said that fnatic they like to group and fight his five mad like to do that individually like in their solo position this game felt like the complete reverse it was wild kia play with the game nominees at lec on twitter armored humanoid and kaiser um crazy stuff i hope you enjoyed match of the week i mean i certainly did but like the sun completely stopped self-made twice that was just the most that's so frustrating because somebody spent so much time just ah why also remember that that was the last pick evelyn that put pantheon into the top lane right so fnatic opted into that strategy and unfortunately it didn't work out but what again we'll soon hear from kaiser before cause he joins us in the post-game lobby don't go anywhere don't you dare yes what a game [Music] [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] so [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] welcome back to the lec for the final interview of this week to what a match of the week it was and kaiser i'm very happy to have you for the very first interview uh for your very first interview actually in 2021 how was this game for you was very entertaining to watch on our side i want to know how about you i mean i think this was like the by far the most stressful game i've played this season so i mean it was like my heart is still racing actually like i know that fanatic is a really tough opponent so i expected this kind of game for sure like a lot of kills and a lot of fighting and a lot of back and forth but this was like a one-of-a-kind game for sure it was so insane i mean it's so exciting to watch and i i want to know more because looking at your comp i mean you had a good scaling comp you just had to wait i guess for time to play in your favor with all the skirmishes you had all the fights how were you able to stay on top and actually beat fnatic in the end um i mean azir got a lot of kills early game i think they played a bit too aggressive on the bot side so like once once like the azir got like three kills or something uh from tipping behind them on bot lane the game felt kind of uh like not easy but like uh we had like a better shot at getting through the early game right because azir was already so far ahead of his opposition we made some mistakes in the mid game like we got caught a lot but i mean that's kind of bound to happen if they have like pantheon old evelyn of course it's really hard to play against especially self-made of course so we had some slip-ups but we never really doubted our late game that's for sure i wanna know more about these uh sleep apps actually because you felt really in control fnatic didn't stop tr didn't stop fighting you at any point so and they were leading the game actually in terms of gold before you took the baron so i'm just wondering how did you make everything happen and what were those mistakes that you were mentioning that you could have avoided i mean i think we underestimated their ability to just go on sideline with like for example pantheon or evelyn like they they we are basically pressured on every side because we don't see like once we don't see pantheon or once we don't see evelyn they can be everywhere kind of and they did a really good job at like avoiding vision so we were always like really scared and we tried to make plays when we didn't really need to like for example we went a few times on irelia and then they just pantheon launched it evelyn came in and of course for example cars he was really scared of walking into our jungle because safeway could be there and just one shot him so we couldn't really follow up that easily so i think we should maybe play it a bit more passively and just let ourselves a scale into the game but it worked out in the end how was the communication going during the game with all this craziness going around it was actually not that chaotic i think we like uh after dying a few times on sideline we we kind of calmed down a bit we we tried to slow down the game we just tried to play macro like we we went s5 basically like because that's how you kind of have to play the game against evelyn at uh like after mid game uh so we just tried to stay calm of course like in fights and after fights we were like really hyped so everyone was screaming and like saying holy go baron and stuff like this so uh yeah it was really chaotic after some time okay yeah chaotic indeed but you got the win in the end and you also got player of the game here kaiser so explain to me this performance you had on rel this champion that we don't often see in the lbc actually and i think this champion is actually really underrated i feel like a lot of people just don't understand her strengths maybe and like maybe go a bit too aggressive because her midi form or like a out of horse form is like really easy to punish so maybe a lot of people just think she's bad because she like when you go in at the wrong time then you just get punished really easily she's kind of like ali saw leona in a way but i'm really happy that uh right made such a fun champion because like this champion is also like really strong right now uh just in general into tank matchups and since and enchanters are not really meta right now she can be like blind picked even or like uh played into like every tank i guess so uh yeah that's really good i agree with you the toolkit is super strong it's super effective in team fights and you had an amazing performance here kaiser so congrats on winning the match of the week before i let you go i have one question and i tweeted about this yesterday where are the mad lion celebrations in 2021 why did you stop doing this well uh we didn't really come up with like any really like funny stuff but i think maybe once like we start getting more comfortable in the season i guess maybe we start doing them again but right now we didn't have really any anything planned so i'm really sad about it as well but maybe they come back in the future all right well thanks for answering this because i know all the fans were wondering about this and game first creativity for the celebrations after kaiser thank you so much for the interview and good luck next week in the lec thank you you're welcome and that's all for us on this side of europe but stay tuned for the first game lobby in a few minutes with kaiser karzi karzi yes [Music] you

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Published: Sat Jan 30 2021