The Superteam that Broke the Rules and Changed League Forever

[Music] League of Legends fans will remember MSI 2019 for a very long time from liquids impossible upset over tournament favorites Invictus gaming 2g to historic an na vs EU grand final is what most western fans dream of and liquid and g2s unexpected climb to the top has a lot of people saying that the mythical gap the difference in scale between the west and Korea may have finally closed but has it to conquer champion first of all what is the gap the term started out as a way for elite fans to describe the difference between Korea's most dominant teams and everybody else but after 2018 that saw China dominate the West's greatest teams the Institute to love the two biggest Asian regions together the gap hadn't closed it was just one more opponent on the other side it was China and Korea and then everybody else the past months we haven't seen some very very big changes in the offseason and the most important one and definitely the most shocking one must have been caps joining g2f perks moving to the bottling position hello everybody this is Carlos Osler we have decided to make an incredibly radical lineup change and I know not everybody is on board with this change but we definitely are and are very confident that this is the right choice so with this lineup we intend to accomplish what is a and has always been a dream of ours in a dream of mine personally and which is winning world's coming I mean how can you take one of the best EU mid laners move him into the ADC position so you can make room for the best mid laner in Europe I think there's a better likelihood the team crashes and burns and fails than succeeds can it work yes of course at the whole point of super teams but I'm not gonna buy into the hype yet once they prove to me it'll work then I will believe that you two can finally be good on the international scene consistently but until then it's a super team curse that I'm more afraid of starting for loves teams and I thought you two looked the most interesting they fail assuming that way that I wanna play they have a like a very aggressive mindset and I'll try to go more ham and just like force mistakes and make your own mistakes but then also get an advantage and try to get snowboard to get the shutdown gold is worth so much party caps is coming as well oh right through the wall sleepy trouble trouble Oh their business now he dashes fourth quarter belt uses the ulti instant cleanse from cat battle star nemesis baiting a man period as the double dashboard cap says hey maybe I've had the opportunity here does get locked up they're gonna kick off for a little more on the run but no the perfect oh geez who will silence anyone but doubted them and they will fight for the title okay we double double twitch chat press f to pay respects because oh geez funeral is coming up meanwhile on the other side of the world Team Liquid made changes to their roster hi I am Jensen didn't even leave it for Team Liquid I want to announce that we're gonna have core jayjay as a starting member of our league of Legends team I am here with Korra JJ congratulations on being arts spring split 2019 MVPs makes that a very scary carry friend as impact goes in the wall comes out in the back carry and deadly it down team Lizbeth already won the fight but how much more can they find contract wants to get us up away the passive will be wasted here he goes if the blob let's and only buys a couple of extra seconds golden Guardians will not make anything else happen it back they stick around play too long the lose frog they're gonna lose everything and they cannot get out I do not know why this team hesitated he spots a Katy with the void seeker is this the play rocket plane wants to answer back can looks at Jackson answer both back by Sven now running away for v3 on the map smithy is down Acadian has no smite though they want to try to finish this but it like wit when the fights it is just enormous at this point of the game Nolan came content tented slovakia's hungry for his first final the Erickson's gotta fall to rest his team is gone liquid tie the record it's three LCS titles in a row despite their domestic when it was hard to expect a lot from Team Liquid going into MSI they looked like a powerful team packed with talent on paper they weren't a names best shot and international success but any fans have been disappointed too many times I'm she left she lying to all these super minions and misfits are going to do it they get a Russian XSP the Wolves rookies these up side with the Nexus open these Mets pit push themself I run right into the quarterfinals and there it is an EU bead na of the day not just what's the GSMA evade them in the first game this time who revenge it's there for all of Europe it seems and going into MSI it was clear that the meta favored fast aggressive teams who played around strong solo laners seems like Invictus gaming the defending world champions and SKT the returning Korean Cannes Team Liquid might have looked good on paper but a lot of na fans were still thinking about just how big the gap seemed the thing that I G does really well is they correctly assess like early game win conditions of their composition and enemy composition like way better than anyone else right so they would come in and it would be like okay they're the ones who can see that that Hitler will become like the dictator at the very very beginning and they kill them as a baby that's how good they are at shutting down enemy team strategies I just don't think that anyone's gonna be able to get ahead far enough over SKT to stop them from being as a team of five players just better in a five-on-five situation for Team Liquid the group stage went somewhat as expected they swept Fung who buffalo split with g2 and flash wolves and didn't take a game off of IG or SKT still it was double lifts first time out of groups at an international event I mean feels amazing I don't know I don't know what to say like everyone everything that I did and everyone that I interacted with my whole career like all the things that happened it led to this so I'm just feel really grateful I feel really really happy but also really peaceful but Invictus gaming or through the group stage in fact they had the best record in MSI history going nine and one with only a single lost SKT they looked like exactly what the world is afraid of IG one world and didn't make any changes to their roster simply put they looked unstoppable if IG tries to continue the fight they are gonna be four versus five but the show the tribe meanwhile on Kennon does have teleporting they're using the robot right into the Baron was spotted now first it is in the ward inside the payment teepee use they're gonna burn this one down but they will be at our game just barely in time is it turns gonna get in to raise the perfectness gaming it here comes the teamfight slicing over the top that one kill already traded back though the Akali jumps in for a kill the projectile of already out of a triple he's slaughtering Platteville's he bites the Quadra not since bangkok titans got crushed four years ago Invictus gaming smash the world record they smash as Katie and I gr 4 so when they pick Team Liquid for their semi-final opponent it seemed like a foregone conclusion I definitely I think feel like Team Liquid could be more competitive in this series and some of the voices I've heard around but I think Invictus gaming are the huge overwhelming favorites I have them down as 3/1 we've already seen IG in group stages and regular seasons be a little bit more loose and then in playoffs really turning on that's happening today IG will 3-0 team liquids I got a mini game for you to yell fnatic had the fastest world championship against IG just lasts longer than fnatic 10 you're looking at 89 minutes I think it's gonna be at 300 but just try to hold on but things didn't work out the way everyone expected seemed liquid without their big engaged mechanisms gonna have a very difficult time to video let's double kill over the impact politics nifty will - IG now in full retreat the shot rookie in the shining and Fridays I'm this could be big for the shop Brittany that's a trouble get himself away just barely nice kick from negative core James in trouble Jackie strikes dance above Jackie balls and this game is just a blood but are you doing where are you IG teleport themselves right on top of Team Liquid only to counter-attack instantly from here taken down one more text here's the deal for the last remaining member Invictus gaming team liquid finds they're still looking to maybe find this fight xfinity is gonna be put to sleep damn liquid will do it Peters East island vacation liquids win against IG was probably the most significant victory in the history of an a-league legends and it was one of the biggest upsets the game has ever seen now let's talk about G chips the things understand about this roster is that they weren't just a dominant domestic team they conquered Europe by being one of the most creative to use in the world they flex picks and used unorthodox strategies they even played funnel in the final despite rice attempts to pass a strat out of the game here's the thing they can play whatever the they weren't it's unbelievable so and then you have a really creative coaching stuff that also allows them with their madness they pick heroes because they like the skin not because it makes sense in their setup it doesn't make any sense and an MSI they only got more creative this is a squad that will go for aggressive plays that will make moves that other teams are like adds a 60-40 maybe we shouldn't do that g2 says 60/40 that's ten more in our favor that we need it's like what spawn was talking about in game number one of our cast it's this idea of the creativity that they don't play Shantanu League of Legends that they will change up the temple became the course of the game and they will force you to play reactive they will force you to play on their child's g-tube lead a high-risk high-reward style and MSI sometimes that was enough to beat SKT other times it meant dropping games to fong foo so heading into the semi finals against SKT geez you were confident but analysts had no idea what to predict I think like the sentiment is is that there's more questions than there are answers coming into this best box I agree with everything that is al rides and shocks are talking about but you know the after yesterday the 2o victory that g2 had over SKT feels like it means nothing now yeah without a doubt I think a lot a lot is up in the air given the victory for TL / IG and kind of that ramp up for SKT near the end the dazzle will not find the target g2r solo ANCA study very very careful that one defensing his chances already get one that's a second kill the g-tube the tangos it's buy some time and look at it he's going to the right the tiger is down take it out by cap but at what cost yet comes played the dragon strike his balls barbecued the picks up a kill did now Tate he's running on two folks he's got double buffs available look at the power cores from first he's in so much trouble it is still e taken down by Teddy a little bit of exchange yeah capsules or to use the perfect execution it goes all the way back in with the flip five point strike picks up the kill - mata now younger-looking understand this that's a double kill for taxi crashes over the wall never here comes card charges into him for devastating effect maker is not done he's got himself a mega doesn't matter Katie are running for their lives captures trying to find the kill that matches the troublemakers alone but the more you got one at Samantha where is Timmy follow his aged people that's the law he's dead yeah goes into the pit g2 eSports have been gifted and donated a parent from SKT the parent the cat beat damn champions can fool gods can bleed where were you when the West brews up to conquer champions g2 eSports eliminates SK Telecom North America faced Europe at the other side it was a finals that no one could have predicted na versus EU league's oldest and most amiable rivalry one that has not mattered on this scale since season two a Western team was guaranteed to lift the trophy we saw the show talking about this uni rivalry that it's existed since before season one to me the most exciting thing about this chapter of it is it's no longer you and na fighting over table scraps they are now fighting to be the best in the world but in the end that tournament that moment belong to g2 once again and they look for these kills a big charter knocking on the back line it's already one kill make it a second as these team living members that are falling fast and furious g2 esports in commanding fashion will take Game one attempt for impact they find a slow they find almost those tiny ankles gonna bring the stop punch this community fight and may God be still slicing up teamliquid and suddenly it's one person's the world and he cannot stop it G to look at a sub 30-minute win and there is single game away from your first ever FSI trophy we're playing goods yeah feel like every Lane is not lose about and airing a booth matchups at home I don't want to be that guy right put your Hawk game away from winning in the side seats you unwilling to be stopped the tourists still in their eyes for this flight ng to back from children before this might be lace inside of the face inside of 18 minutes and g2 ripped through the hearts of Team Liquid a North American path as they secure themselves in the top on the world this is what peak League of Legends looks like and it comes from Europe a world record g2 eSports 3 wonder that it would be the fastest international boeuf I've ever played and he was right but while the finals were a disappointment for na both Western teams got to go home with their heads held high at Worlds 2018 the West proved they could go toe-to-toe with the best and some analysts dared to dream it's exciting and it's hopeful I think I'll be crushing if Korea just bounced back and they started destroying everybody again but it is great to see that after a couple years of development and growth that these other regions that have been playing second fiddle to lck can finally compete now he's a consistency before I'm truly gonna buy into this hype frame that this parity and that gap is closed but an msi the west proved they could win I mean we had we've had our two best international results ever now back to back that is extremely promising I think that is so exciting you know as far as a time to be an na fan and you know and I look back to to fnatic you know making finals last year world and they got blasted right and caps is now here winning in an international title and showing people is achievable it's not just that you know it in though if you're Western team if you're from you or na you are only playing for scrap so you can actually be the best team in the world and I think you know g2 has shown that and that's so exciting now has the gap really closed well that kind of depends on how you define the gap Korea and China still have an incredible depth of talent that the West just doesn't so if you pit the fifth-place teams in each region against each other it probably wouldn't be close and that means Eastern teams will still get better practice in their home regions come world North American and European hopefuls will still have a hell of a mountain to climb but this is a huge change in a conversation Western teams will always have to work extremely hard to beat their Eastern rivals after all we're talking about the very best teams in the world but when it comes to each region's best the days of China and Korea being utterly unbeatable are over when world 2019 kicks off every major region should believe that they can win because they can and a few love League of Legends there's nothing more exciting 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Length: 20min 10sec (1210 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 20 2019