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| 1037s | is just a formality meaning that max |
| 1041s | is your lobby legends champion |
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| 1052s | everybody and welcome to hearthstone |
| 1054s | lobby legends eternal night it is the |
| 1057s | third iteration of lobby legends of |
| 1059s | course we get to find out who the very |
| 1061s | best battlegrounds players in the world |
| 1063s | are competing for their share of a 50 |
| 1066s | 000 prize pool i'm your host gia and it |
| 1069s | is my great honor to welcome back to the |
| 1071s | casting desk battlegrounds |
| 1073s | extraordinaire educated collins how are |
| 1075s | you doing man that's a really nice way |
| 1077s | to introduce me but i'm doing really |
| 1079s | well i'm really excited to cast it |
| 1081s | should be a really good tournament i |
| 1083s | know the last uh lobby legends is really |
| 1085s | like naga centric and it's a little bit |
| 1087s | uh weird to be casting i was like oh you |
| 1089s | know nagas won this game and the next |
| 1091s | game in the next game i think we'll get |
| 1092s | a lot more interesting games a lot more |
| 1094s | decision making i hope you guys learn a |
| 1096s | lot from this tournament |
| 1098s | that is right collins it has been some |
| 1100s | time since nagas were introduced we went |
| 1102s | through a whole patch with diablo and |
| 1104s | it's gone again we went through a whole |
| 1106s | patch that has changed some heroes and |
| 1108s | minions and now the meta has sort of |
| 1110s | settled a little bit and we got to see a |
| 1111s | sort of different skill set of the |
| 1113s | players where they're not just |
| 1114s | scrambling to figure out a meta brand |
| 1116s | new they have some experience under |
| 1118s | their belts but they are also going to |
| 1120s | be playing a format that should now be |
| 1122s | familiar to anybody who's tuned in to |
| 1124s | lobby legends before we do have 16 |
| 1126s | battlegrounds players from all over the |
| 1128s | world four of them coming from china but |
| 1130s | the other 12 not necessarily restricted |
| 1132s | to any region because it was an open |
| 1134s | qualification system mainly through the |
| 1137s | latter and they will be divided into two |
| 1140s | lobbies of eight players playing three |
| 1142s | games each today so we'll have a total |
| 1143s | of six today and then the top four from |
| 1146s | each of those advances to our final |
| 1148s | tomorrow where we enter a different |
| 1150s | format uh collins can you take us |
| 1151s | through what check format is |
| 1153s | so check format |
| 1155s | first place uh has seven points and down |
| 1158s | the eight with zero the first player to |
| 1161s | get 20 points will |
| 1163s | get to check and you need to get first |
| 1166s | place after you have you've gotten |
| 1169s | checked after you've gone past 20 points |
| 1170s | to actually win uh the tournament so |
| 1173s | multiple players can be in check if |
| 1174s | they've all passed 20 but the first |
| 1176s | player past 20 that gets first place |
| 1180s | wins the whole tournament and the points |
| 1182s | will be distributing for second and |
| 1184s | through last |
| 1185s | that is right we are making sure that we |
| 1188s | close the tournament out on a bang no |
| 1190s | matter what happens the very last game |
| 1193s | of the day will have to feature the |
| 1194s | champion winning the lobby in order to |
| 1197s | take down that ten thousand dollars for |
| 1199s | first place and we do have a lot of |
| 1202s | surprises in store collins not just in |
| 1204s | the tournament itself but |
| 1206s | throughout the day we'll be having a lot |
| 1207s | of reveals because um the team has so |
| 1210s | graciously provided us with some new |
| 1212s | heroes and new minions to show to the |
| 1215s | public for the very first time i am |
| 1216s | super excited to see that collins and |
| 1219s | we have had a patch honestly relatively |
| 1221s | recently so just to have new comment uh |
| 1224s | content coming in this soon i think is |
| 1226s | such a treat |
| 1227s | yeah i'm really excited to see what they |
| 1229s | have in store first it always for me |
| 1231s | it's always like what are they going to |
| 1233s | do now are they gonna ruin my game and |
| 1234s | my strategies you know i like like |
| 1237s | perfecting things and being like oh this |
| 1239s | is really good here so really interested |
| 1241s | to see uh what kind of changes they have |
| 1243s | they always tend to have really cool |
| 1245s | things from buddies to prizes to uh even |
| 1248s | just like adding diablo for a week i |
| 1250s | thought that was interesting i i didn't |
| 1252s | mind it personally so i'm kind of |
| 1253s | interested to see what |
| 1255s | their changes are gonna be and how it's |
| 1256s | gonna shake up the meta again |
| 1258s | that is right honestly during our |
| 1260s | rehearsal you were talking about how |
| 1262s | this most recent patch buffing ethissa |
| 1264s | was actually a nerf to you because you |
| 1266s | thought naga were already strong you're |
| 1268s | out here saying you like diablo always |
| 1270s | with the hot takes collins it's gonna be |
| 1272s | so much fun casting with you again and |
| 1274s | we do of course get to see what our |
| 1277s | players are competing for first place |
| 1279s | taking down ten thousand dollars but |
| 1281s | just by being here you walk away with a |
| 1283s | minimum of a thousand two hundred and |
| 1285s | fifty dollars because it was quite a |
| 1287s | grueling process just to make it this |
| 1288s | far wasn't it yeah |
| 1291s | this is a hard lobby or a hard |
| 1293s | tournament to get into the finals for |
| 1295s | because you do have to be top 16 and |
| 1297s | then you're you're a bunch in a group of |
| 1300s | uh 36 players or so and or 48 players |
| 1303s | and then you have to win two |
| 1306s | top fours you have to get top four in |
| 1308s | your lobby and then get top four in your |
| 1309s | lobby again with some of the best |
| 1311s | players we're pretty much the best |
| 1313s | players in the world so it's so hard to |
| 1315s | get here and you got to give him credit |
| 1316s | even to make it this far |
| 1318s | absolutely and now they're at the final |
| 1321s | hurdle two days of competition but in |
| 1324s | order to make it through to tomorrow you |
| 1326s | of course have to make top four once |
| 1328s | again today throughout the three games |
| 1331s | that you will be playing per lobby and |
| 1333s | in order to get top four of course it |
| 1335s | means that you need to finish with one |
| 1338s | of the highest point totals and we have |
| 1340s | a distribution that is very much even |
| 1342s | here there's no premium for getting |
| 1344s | first place it is just plus one point |
| 1346s | for every finish you get but the more um |
| 1349s | important point i think is that there |
| 1351s | will be even distribution among those |
| 1353s | that tie so if two players go out in |
| 1356s | seventh and eighth at the same time they |
| 1358s | will walk away with point five points |
| 1360s | each let's say that three players clock |
| 1362s | out through six to eight at the same |
| 1363s | time they will each get one point |
| 1365s | because it's a total of three divided |
| 1367s | amongst three players and this can make |
| 1370s | for some very very close |
| 1372s | situations among the players and because |
| 1374s | of this distribution i think it's very |
| 1376s | likely that tomorrow when we start |
| 1378s | getting players in check it could be |
| 1380s | multiple players entering check at the |
| 1382s | same time |
| 1383s | yeah you do tend to see a lot of |
| 1385s | similarities in terms of the points |
| 1387s | because the players are pretty close |
| 1390s | together you're not going to see super |
| 1391s | huge discrepancies sometimes players |
| 1393s | have maybe a bad day or or maybe a |
| 1396s | misread on their opponent or the meta |
| 1398s | and they may be performing poorly but |
| 1400s | generally you'll see a lot of players |
| 1401s | card |
| 1402s | come together because they are so |
| 1404s | closely skilled that one player will do |
| 1405s | well then another player will do well |
| 1407s | and |
| 1408s | and all that works out so it should be a |
| 1410s | close tournament usually and we'll see |
| 1413s | who can stand out among the best that is |
| 1415s | right and the first lobby legends we did |
| 1417s | have the nice kind of running away with |
| 1419s | it um nobody really expected that we |
| 1422s | would have the minimum amount of games |
| 1424s | in a day on our finals day but he |
| 1426s | achieved the impossible what felt like |
| 1429s | of just um being the first player to get |
| 1431s | in check and then taking it down in the |
| 1433s | second lobby legends we had max seven |
| 1435s | key come out as a champion but several |
| 1437s | players entered check at the same time |
| 1439s | so maybe this time uh collins third |
| 1441s | lobby legends we could have maybe |
| 1443s | multiple players entering check for a |
| 1445s | while and then that back and forth sort |
| 1447s | of switch in the meta people targeting |
| 1449s | those with 20 points and above and maybe |
| 1451s | a more long and drawn out process to see |
| 1454s | who will actually walk away and be the |
| 1455s | champion but that's the beauty of this |
| 1456s | format we don't exactly know how many |
| 1459s | games we're playing out tomorrow but |
| 1460s | today we do know that we have six to be |
| 1463s | played out three from lobby a and three |
| 1465s | from lobby b and we also know that we |
| 1467s | have some new information to reveal to |
| 1470s | the public very very soon i am so |
| 1472s | excited |
| 1473s | yeah |
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| 1476s | all right |
| 1477s | i think we have the official reveal so |
| 1480s | let's go ahead and take a look at it now |
| 1483s | it is a |
| 1484s | new |
| 1485s | hero |
| 1486s | um |
| 1488s | relics of the deep is the hero power |
| 1489s | discover a spellcraft spell of your tear |
| 1492s | or lower passive your first one each |
| 1494s | turn is permanent i think this is lady |
| 1496s | bash i i i don't see a name here but i'm |
| 1499s | pretty sure that's this used to be a |
| 1500s | hero where when you leveled uh it would |
| 1503s | level up your tavern by one essentially |
| 1506s | i do i do remember that art but this is |
| 1508s | very interesting for naga so it means |
| 1510s | your spellcraft the first one you play |
| 1512s | is permanent and then you can also |
| 1514s | discover a spellcraft here it does cost |
| 1516s | one right that's the one caveat |
| 1520s | and it pretty much forces you to play a |
| 1521s | naga composition uh so it kind of makes |
| 1524s | every |
| 1526s | every minion uh a lava lurker |
| 1529s | essentially and that is a pretty strong |
| 1530s | ability to have as a passive every |
| 1532s | minion is a lava lurker um it is going |
| 1535s | to depend on |
| 1537s | you getting |
| 1538s | uh a spellcraft minion early i think |
| 1540s | because you don't really want to be |
| 1541s | paying one for every single spellcraft |
| 1543s | that's pretty expensive especially in |
| 1545s | the early game but if you can get a |
| 1546s | pretty early spellcraft meeting i think |
| 1548s | this could be a playable hero |
| 1550s | true that is very much spot on analysis |
| 1553s | here because first time reading it i |
| 1554s | kind of thought okay so every time i |
| 1556s | press the hero power my first spellcraft |
| 1558s | will be permanent but it doesn't say |
| 1560s | that your first one from the hero power |
| 1562s | each turn is permanent it can be your |
| 1563s | first spellcraft from any source and |
| 1566s | that's going to be very interesting |
| 1567s | indeed |
| 1569s | it is of course bringing to mind the um |
| 1573s | what's the name of that avenged card i'm |
| 1575s | so sorry the four or five on tier three |
| 1576s | because that one also lets you get |
| 1579s | hashmere |
| 1580s | yeah exactly from your tier or lower and |
| 1583s | so uh thinking about the most impactful |
| 1586s | ones of course from troll commander that |
| 1588s | if you already have a bunch of nagas |
| 1589s | that can be so many stats sticking |
| 1591s | permanently |
| 1593s | and if you're all the way up on tier six |
| 1594s | just discovering an additional um |
| 1597s | like orgazoa one it's already permanent |
| 1599s | in its nature right that could be pretty |
| 1601s | good |
| 1602s | yeah i think show commander is really |
| 1604s | gonna be the one you're gonna be looking |
| 1605s | for early because that one's gonna give |
| 1607s | you maybe plus three plus three plus |
| 1609s | four plus four turn |
| 1610s | with that on any minion you want if it's |
| 1613s | a cleave early that's going to be really |
| 1614s | really powerful so um i think if you can |
| 1617s | get an early shoal commander with a hero |
| 1619s | like that you can really do a lot of |
| 1620s | work but the problem i would say for |
| 1623s | that hero is your it's going to be very |
| 1625s | hit or miss if you don't |
| 1626s | get a good start on the hero |
| 1629s | no noggins no nothing that hero power is |
| 1631s | of spending one for a spellcraft's not |
| 1633s | going to save you so you're really going |
| 1634s | to have to hope that you get a good good |
| 1636s | start get a short command maybe triple |
| 1638s | into that and then utilize that to kind |
| 1640s | of uh bridge out your game maybe go for |
| 1642s | cleaves or something like that yeah i |
| 1644s | think it's super interesting that with |
| 1646s | the one cost hero power a lot of people |
| 1649s | might think oh i would play a farm curve |
| 1650s | on this but this is not a hero power |
| 1653s | that gives you additional minions on |
| 1655s | board it's just buffing the ones so you |
| 1656s | need to think about whether it's |
| 1658s | actually worth using on that turn or not |
| 1660s | but moving back into our actual event |
| 1662s | colin sorry uh ping you and i got a bit |
| 1665s | carried away there we do have our first |
| 1667s | lobby set of eight players playing out |
| 1669s | the first three games today from left to |
| 1672s | right we have dapi waterloo beaufort |
| 1674s | zorgo |
| 1675s | just rebranding to zorg it looks like |
| 1677s | gohan kiji hakase olyash and koyomi any |
| 1681s | name standing out to you immediately |
| 1683s | here uh |
| 1685s | i'm a big bullfriend waterloo fan |
| 1687s | personally you know waterloo is |
| 1690s | uh i play against oh i play against both |
| 1692s | of them all the time but while every |
| 1694s | time i'm like shooting for rank one or |
| 1696s | something he always like comes the next |
| 1697s | day and like takes it back and i'm just |
| 1698s | like come on waterloo like there there's |
| 1701s | been |
| 1702s | more than once i've been waterloo |
| 1706s | you know so yeah definitely hoping he |
| 1708s | has a strong showing uh there and both |
| 1710s | are always a good friend of mine very |
| 1712s | very strong we played in torch rival |
| 1714s | tournaments together and always a |
| 1715s | consistent player really |
| 1718s | uh analyzes the game very strategically |
| 1720s | so i really hope he can showcase his |
| 1722s | skill here too |
| 1724s | i do want to shout out to dapi as well |
| 1726s | he's such a consistent player on ladder |
| 1729s | been to a lot of tournaments and this is |
| 1731s | you know just one of many lobby legends |
| 1733s | i expect to see him play throughout the |
| 1735s | year and oleash as well i think i |
| 1737s | watched him stream the qualifiers for |
| 1739s | the upcoming lobby legends and he is of |
| 1741s | course representing the french-speaking |
| 1743s | community of course our two lobby |
| 1745s | legends champions so far have been from |
| 1747s | europe so there is some pressure on |
| 1749s | players from there to uh keep that |
| 1752s | performance rolling but i think lobby a |
| 1754s | has quite a large representation of apac |
| 1756s | players so personally i'm excited |
| 1758s | collins and we did get word that the |
| 1759s | game is starting very very soon i am so |
| 1762s | excited to see |
| 1763s | right down from the hero choices all the |
| 1765s | way to what type of comp is gonna take |
| 1767s | the victory |
| 1768s | yeah i i pretty much watch all these |
| 1771s | players to be fair right like it's hard |
| 1773s | to uh pick one from the group and say oh |
| 1776s | which one's gonna win right that's gonna |
| 1777s | be a really hard decision because |
| 1778s | they're also skilled and i've seen them |
| 1780s | throughout tournaments they do so well |
| 1782s | so |
| 1782s | i just want to see who has like the best |
| 1785s | read for this particular patch i think |
| 1786s | this is a really good patch for |
| 1788s | um testing skills so hopefully we'll |
| 1791s | we'll see some |
| 1793s | decision making interesting choices from |
| 1794s | our players |
| 1796s | all right over on waterloo's perspective |
| 1798s | there is the choice of you know some |
| 1801s | safer heroes like daryl which you talked |
| 1803s | about as not necessarily a ladder pick |
| 1805s | but maybe for tournament however not too |
| 1808s | many token minion types in i am looking |
| 1811s | at ozomat i just feel like it's a pretty |
| 1813s | decent hero i like that it was |
| 1814s | introduced to the game but it is gonna |
| 1816s | be a daryl for waterloo interesting i i |
| 1819s | would lean ozumat here as well but the |
| 1822s | the reason to pick daryl is just because |
| 1824s | uh if you don't like the pics right oh |
| 1826s | that isn't really like a guaranteed i'm |
| 1827s | going to do well pick it's more of like |
| 1829s | i'm getting some health but daryl you |
| 1831s | can pretty much guarantee as long as |
| 1832s | mechs are in that you are going to have |
| 1834s | some type of game plan dance on |
| 1836s | something get some divine shields and |
| 1838s | that can give you maybe a top four |
| 1840s | definitely not a win but top four is |
| 1842s | really pretty good in lobbies like this |
| 1844s | so i think it's a respectable decision |
| 1846s | there all right so you brought up as |
| 1848s | long as mechs are in right so you can |
| 1849s | get those big pup bots and would you say |
| 1852s | demons are also a big factor so you can |
| 1853s | get the big tricksters early on uh i |
| 1856s | would say demons are definitely less of |
| 1857s | a factor especially especially with |
| 1859s | daryl you just you def you just need to |
| 1861s | find a game plan something to dance on |
| 1863s | right so demons allow for trickster but |
| 1866s | you don't need the trickster if you have |
| 1868s | a |
| 1868s | puffbot if you have deflectors that's |
| 1870s | good enough you don't need demons at all |
| 1872s | and the issue with demons is it doesn't |
| 1874s | have a |
| 1875s | a token element in the |
| 1878s | minion type so if you have demons that |
| 1880s | means you're not having elementals means |
| 1881s | you're not having b so uh it might be |
| 1884s | sometimes a downside to have demons in |
| 1886s | your lobby but most of the time as long |
| 1887s | as you have something a dance fund it's |
| 1889s | going to be pretty fine and tricksters |
| 1890s | do count |
| 1891s | all right so we do have another player |
| 1893s | buying pup but and staying down that is |
| 1895s | zorgo on pyramid which has newly become |
| 1898s | playable these are words you utter |
| 1900s | during rehearsal how do you feel that |
| 1902s | pyramid's general strategy is these days |
| 1905s | uh pretty annoying uh very strong i i |
| 1908s | would say pyramid especially |
| 1911s | if no murlocs are in you can really just |
| 1913s | abuse the trickster |
| 1915s | uh |
| 1916s | health stack right since you get to |
| 1917s | target exactly where you want the buffs |
| 1920s | to go you just wait a couple of turns |
| 1922s | and then just start buffing tricksters |
| 1924s | and no one can really uh overcome that |
| 1926s | health advantage you're getting through |
| 1928s | that so really powerful really strong a |
| 1930s | definitely an annoying hero i did do |
| 1932s | pretty well uh utilizing it in a |
| 1934s | previous tournament so i'm a little |
| 1936s | biased i'm not going to say oh it's |
| 1937s | broken but it is really really strong |
| 1940s | all right we will check in a little bit |
| 1942s | more in pyramid later but over here we |
| 1944s | have gohan who is a player that i'm uh |
| 1946s | admittedly not super familiar with but |
| 1949s | uh picking up the double tads from the |
| 1951s | vardan hero power is pretty good to make |
| 1953s | sure that this five gold turn can be |
| 1955s | smooth um would you favor buying one of |
| 1957s | those selling through and then buying |
| 1958s | another minion probably the gambler yeah |
| 1961s | definitely the gambler here he had the |
| 1962s | option opportunity to lock the um |
| 1965s | the triple uh micro machine in the shop |
| 1968s | but really didn't want to do that so i |
| 1970s | ended up skipping that |
| 1972s | well daffy has a triple in the shop |
| 1974s | himself triple pop butt kind of |
| 1976s | expensive though especially on curtrice |
| 1979s | but um i haven't played cartridges for |
| 1981s | quite some time admittedly but i kind of |
| 1983s | thought the general philosophy was to |
| 1986s | just play standard curves so you could |
| 1988s | eventually get that first hero power |
| 1990s | proc on eight gold but we do see dappy |
| 1992s | playing the jeep curve here leveling on |
| 1994s | five gold instead what do you think is |
| 1997s | the turn where he's expecting to get |
| 1999s | first level hero power through |
| 2001s | uh it's it's a little bit awkward |
| 2002s | because he has no economy so there's no |
| 2004s | clean way to get it to |
| 2007s | get his hero power to proc and as well |
| 2009s | get that triple so he wants the triple |
| 2011s | just because it's going to be big stats |
| 2013s | as long as you get the proc but uh he |
| 2015s | doesn't have the goat for it so he might |
| 2017s | just level again and and maybe take the |
| 2019s | damage and try to get the proc |
| 2020s | afterwards but uh he |
| 2022s | his start isn't super clean because he |
| 2025s | doesn't have economy if he had like an |
| 2026s | extra gold here somewhere maybe a tad |
| 2028s | was in the shop he could he could |
| 2030s | trigger it immediately but it looks like |
| 2032s | he's just gonna go for the three and uh |
| 2034s | see if that can give him a bit of |
| 2035s | direction not the strongest player right |
| 2037s | you're losing a lot of stats but the |
| 2039s | bronze warden is a lot of tempo if he |
| 2041s | wants to go for that |
| 2042s | that is true i mean i hardly see players |
| 2046s | taking triples into three drops but |
| 2047s | again the tournament meta especially |
| 2049s | lobby legends is a lot different we see |
| 2051s | a lot more emphasis on tempo we see |
| 2053s | players that have tempo styles getting |
| 2055s | rewarded pretty consistently here and |
| 2057s | finding the bronze warden i think is an |
| 2059s | above average outcome for three drops |
| 2061s | because of course once kurchus gets that |
| 2063s | hero power rolling every buff on a |
| 2065s | divine shield minion can act as you know |
| 2068s | pseudo two times those buffs over here |
| 2070s | though on the cookie um |
| 2073s | went for a pretty early level to three |
| 2076s | and ends up with three minions to get |
| 2078s | the teacup on not too bad but nothing to |
| 2082s | synergize with the taragosa quite yet |
| 2084s | yeah it looks like he went three on |
| 2086s | three hero powers started with the terra |
| 2087s | ghost and then got to uh alternative |
| 2090s | minions the mug is actually a really |
| 2091s | good hit there right it hits all three |
| 2092s | minions busting up now he's in an okay |
| 2095s | spot not a super strong spot but you |
| 2097s | know generally okay maybe he won't like |
| 2099s | take huge amount of damage here |
| 2101s | and three on three curve on cookie is |
| 2103s | pretty common to make sure that that |
| 2105s | first cycle on the hero power has the |
| 2107s | chance of getting you a three drop not |
| 2109s | guaranteed though unlike with gail wing |
| 2111s | for example where you do get a minion |
| 2113s | from your tier uh so beaufort being one |
| 2116s | of the first or the only player that is |
| 2118s | to enter the line of two health total |
| 2120s | kind of scary uh but we also have kjell |
| 2123s | hakase here with uh |
| 2126s | oh |
| 2127s | triple icky in the shop he's still on |
| 2131s | one though right so that's the weird uh |
| 2134s | position he's in right he he just stayed |
| 2136s | on one going for the pairs he got the |
| 2138s | pairs uh now here normally you sell one |
| 2140s | double level the |
| 2142s | options he has for master win isn't |
| 2144s | super good yesera doesn't really help |
| 2146s | him uh |
| 2147s | fergo has been kind of neutered right |
| 2150s | not really playable in most options so |
| 2153s | probably just going to sell the one for |
| 2154s | double level oh he's just gonna take a |
| 2156s | three here not the decision you normally |
| 2159s | see but i i guess looking for maybe uh |
| 2162s | oh no he's just gonna bite and hold okay |
| 2165s | um |
| 2166s | this plays a little bit |
| 2168s | uh |
| 2170s | it's it's not stronger right than just |
| 2173s | double leveling sell the one for you'd |
| 2174s | have two kms on your borders of the one |
| 2176s | right so you you end up |
| 2178s | going from having two akims on the board |
| 2180s | to having one inky amp and still the one |
| 2182s | four so you're arguing the |
| 2184s | one fourth is better than two icky amps |
| 2186s | which i wouldn't say that and now you're |
| 2188s | also like a little bit behind because |
| 2189s | you're instead of being on three now and |
| 2192s | and maybe next turn get a five or four |
| 2195s | now you're you're guaranteed have to |
| 2197s | level by a level get a get off get a |
| 2199s | four drop so |
| 2200s | yeah kind of interesting decision there |
| 2202s | i agree this is not stronger on board |
| 2205s | than obviously just freezing the shop |
| 2208s | and um not having to hold the triple in |
| 2210s | hand but maybe hakasey really valued the |
| 2212s | refresh in the shop that he'll be |
| 2213s | getting because he doesn't have to |
| 2214s | freeze here |
| 2216s | i'm curious though if he will actually |
| 2218s | end up taking a four drop because you |
| 2220s | know in metas prior this type of setup |
| 2223s | is great to get an avenge card which are |
| 2225s | mostly concentrated on tier four but |
| 2227s | we'll see if he feels he has the time |
| 2229s | because he's down to 25 already but now |
| 2231s | there's a second triple in the shop |
| 2233s | could take two fours or freeze for two |
| 2236s | fives later on or take a four and a five |
| 2238s | so many different ways to approach yeah |
| 2240s | the second trip was interesting |
| 2241s | especially if you hit it now |
| 2243s | it doesn't hit it now |
| 2245s | but i do think not taking the fort is |
| 2248s | extremely risky right you're on 25 it's |
| 2250s | so much damage to to get punished i |
| 2253s | think you have to take the big final |
| 2254s | here especially with all the games you |
| 2255s | picked up uh yeah definitely picks that |
| 2257s | up and uh |
| 2259s | wants to put the big phone a little bit |
| 2260s | uh |
| 2262s | later than the akms to get the bu the |
| 2264s | buff there |
| 2265s | oyome on the maiev though this is |
| 2267s | another hero that really banks on |
| 2269s | getting triples in the early shops but |
| 2271s | hasn't hit any frozen a pair in the shop |
| 2274s | two pairs on board and you know with the |
| 2276s | imprison or another pair in hand it's |
| 2278s | just so close to being amazing but not |
| 2280s | quite and he's only on 23 gonna lose two |
| 2283s | more health by playing the imprisoner |
| 2285s | collins how does coyote stabilize |
| 2287s | yeah this is honestly a horrible spot to |
| 2289s | be in uh ask kaiomi because there's |
| 2292s | nothing there's no hope uh necessarily |
| 2295s | for you right now you're you really want |
| 2297s | to hit a triple so |
| 2299s | um right now there's nothing clear right |
| 2302s | the |
| 2303s | like the the bob god rule is you |
| 2306s | next turn you roll a triple and |
| 2308s | preferably not the skelly triple you |
| 2311s | roll a triple you level and um maybe get |
| 2313s | a five but the the there's even more of |
| 2316s | an issue because he's on tavern tier |
| 2318s | three so normally in this spot you're on |
| 2320s | town three of tier four as well and then |
| 2322s | next turn on five that's when you get |
| 2324s | your triple you get a six drop but he's |
| 2326s | on three so even if he gets the triple |
| 2328s | the best he can do is get a five so even |
| 2330s | if things go well for him he's still not |
| 2333s | in a great spot because the best outcome |
| 2335s | for him is to salvage this game right |
| 2337s | now is to get uh |
| 2339s | an eliza but he doesn't even have that |
| 2341s | option next turn and he doesn't have the |
| 2342s | triple either so he's just in a really |
| 2344s | really rough spot to be in honestly |
| 2347s | yeah from this position honestly it |
| 2349s | feels like he might have he got to |
| 2350s | triple okay finally a roth weaver triple |
| 2353s | which is one of the better outcomes uh |
| 2355s | but like you said there's still the |
| 2356s | problem of not being uh not having |
| 2359s | access to a six drop here should he |
| 2361s | settle for a five i i don't think so |
| 2364s | cause eliza is too good of a hit i think |
| 2366s | you just take the loss here and then you |
| 2368s | go for the eliza the one issue with this |
| 2371s | play though is it this is the type of |
| 2372s | play i do where if you don't |
| 2375s | get eliza you're dead |
| 2378s | you know i mean i i i tend to lean |
| 2381s | towards that because if you do hit eliza |
| 2383s | it's such a good power spike you might |
| 2384s | be able to even win the lobby from that |
| 2386s | so um |
| 2388s | but you know the risk the risk is there |
| 2390s | if you don't hit it you you know you're |
| 2391s | going to be in a really rough position |
| 2393s | especially if you're |
| 2395s | that low on health so |
| 2397s | we'll see what he decides to do |
| 2399s | over back to waterloo it's been a while |
| 2401s | since we checked in and i actually |
| 2403s | wanted to when we were still on here on |
| 2405s | turn one ask you about whether he should |
| 2408s | be valuing daryl differently because |
| 2410s | beasts and elementals are out so |
| 2411s | obviously you don't have alicat and |
| 2413s | sellamental to get double value from the |
| 2414s | daryl hero power but so far waterloo's |
| 2417s | made it work right he has leveled maybe |
| 2419s | a little bit slower than the rest of the |
| 2421s | lobby but like you said as long as your |
| 2423s | s3 with access to deflectobots it's not |
| 2425s | so bad uh he hasn't hit any further |
| 2428s | divine shield minions though so would |
| 2429s | you say he was in a bad spot |
| 2432s | um |
| 2432s | i would say he's kind of just doing |
| 2435s | daryl things because even if you the |
| 2437s | thing about daryl that maybe people |
| 2439s | don't utilize enough is you don't |
| 2441s | actually need divine shield minions if |
| 2443s | you just have a bunch of 20 20s you beat |
| 2445s | everyone like it doesn't need to be |
| 2448s | divine a lot of people kind of spend too |
| 2450s | much time rolling for divines when they |
| 2453s | just need to get a big unit on your |
| 2454s | board so i think um wilder understands |
| 2457s | that he's not really hitting the vines |
| 2459s | but he's not focusing on that he's just |
| 2460s | like making good units if he sees a |
| 2463s | divine he will definitely pick that |
| 2464s | up but he's making sure he's strong |
| 2467s | enough to survive and then as soon as he |
| 2469s | hits a divine or something he really |
| 2471s | wants to then he'll tell his gambler |
| 2473s | then he'll sell the tabs that he |
| 2475s | probably bought and uh then commit on |
| 2478s | the dance but for now he's okay as long |
| 2480s | as you're not taking damage you should |
| 2481s | be fine |
| 2483s | it's like he might take some damage |
| 2485s | though yeah okay |
| 2487s | that's actually bad yeah not just to |
| 2490s | take down the wrath weaver but it's the |
| 2491s | annihilator sticking around that is |
| 2493s | going to clock um waterloo for quite a |
| 2496s | bit that is a conscious decision on the |
| 2498s | part of our miyev player kayomi to take |
| 2501s | a five drop there which we weren't |
| 2503s | necessarily expecting but at least for |
| 2505s | now it looks like he stabilized zorg |
| 2507s | though with that pup bot looks more like |
| 2510s | a daryl than daryl does |
| 2512s | but what is going to be the direction |
| 2515s | from here it's around this time that the |
| 2517s | hero power uh |
| 2519s | is still i think useful but maybe in a |
| 2521s | couple turns falls off i think something |
| 2523s | very interesting to note right now is |
| 2525s | that no player is on five |
| 2529s | this late in the game normally like if |
| 2532s | you're playing ladder and stuff so many |
| 2533s | people be on five like it doesn't really |
| 2535s | matter at all people on a level but no |
| 2537s | player really wants to risk their first |
| 2540s | tournament game just being like oh i |
| 2542s | went to five i couldn't find anything i |
| 2543s | lost so everyone else staying low |
| 2545s | this isn't really a great uh tier five |
| 2548s | lobby so it does make sense where a lot |
| 2550s | of people are staying down mexican so |
| 2552s | you can lean mexi and whatnot but it is |
| 2554s | interesting to see that |
| 2556s | every all the players unanimously have |
| 2558s | come to conclude i'm not gonna level are |
| 2560s | you gonna level no not me are |
| 2563s | and you all just staying down |
| 2566s | maybe row for a demon yeah rose for the |
| 2568s | demon no i'm gonna eat those six anyways |
| 2570s | okay |
| 2571s | yeah |
| 2572s | this was such an interesting turn from |
| 2574s | waterloo because he consciously did not |
| 2576s | use the second soul devourer to eat the |
| 2579s | imp and then roll for a demon so that he |
| 2582s | could eat it with a triple he just went |
| 2583s | straight for the triple and ate that |
| 2585s | showing a lot of restraint here because |
| 2587s | obviously if you make that other play |
| 2589s | and you don't find a demon on the next |
| 2591s | roll it's a big punish so waterloo here |
| 2593s | showing whatever strain and making sure |
| 2595s | that he actually gets that huge soul |
| 2597s | devourer on board yeah this is a very |
| 2599s | interesting freeze though right you can |
| 2601s | see he's freezing the um |
| 2604s | the |
| 2605s | nest matron ride wants to dance on that |
| 2607s | maybe lean there because right now it |
| 2608s | looks to me if i were playing in this |
| 2610s | lobby the the |
| 2612s | best thing i want to do is some type of |
| 2615s | murloc setup i i would say that that's |
| 2617s | what i would lean here so if you get a |
| 2620s | big nest matron that pretty much dies |
| 2623s | last most of the time you can |
| 2625s | get a lot of economy and lean towards |
| 2627s | that |
| 2628s | murloc setup with the economy you get so |
| 2630s | i think that's the plan uh waterloo is |
| 2632s | looking at the one issue is you know |
| 2634s | you're taking none you're taking a ton |
| 2635s | of damage so you might not get there but |
| 2638s | that's what i would be trying to do and |
| 2639s | you can see beaufort has the right idea |
| 2641s | here right definitely leading towards |
| 2643s | that has the um |
| 2646s | the 2-6 murloc and the amalgam as well |
| 2650s | so and hits the murka if he wants to do |
| 2652s | that he could also go for the m mama |
| 2654s | just because it's more proximate i don't |
| 2655s | think he needs that the one issue with |
| 2657s | america is he doesn't have any targets |
| 2660s | for it no battlecry murlocs but he could |
| 2663s | definitely find some |
| 2664s | not quite yet but |
| 2666s | he is the first player to hit tier five |
| 2668s | now and um it is a very close decision |
| 2671s | like you said |
| 2672s | i wonder if he would lean mama just |
| 2675s | because it gives him more consistency to |
| 2677s | land the poison on that second amalgam |
| 2679s | but key to note that aside from seven um |
| 2682s | beaufort has invested in |
| 2685s | the amalgams and |
| 2687s | uh dragons are in so he could end the |
| 2689s | game with nadine and pyro spawn with |
| 2692s | those poison amalgams and that's very |
| 2693s | difficult to beat unless somebody's |
| 2695s | going wild with max here but over on |
| 2697s | gohan's side dying um wait we already |
| 2700s | had a kill yeah i i was gonna mention it |
| 2703s | uh when you're at some point but yeah i |
| 2705s | can say unfortunately on the master win |
| 2707s | does go out he did have kind of a |
| 2709s | struggling game there that we did take a |
| 2712s | look at unfortunately it wasn't enough |
| 2713s | there so kind of unfortunate uh he was |
| 2716s | the only one with the icky amps right uh |
| 2719s | he went for i think he went for a four |
| 2721s | uh and wasn't able to recover from there |
| 2724s | he had a good demon set up but just |
| 2726s | wasn't strong enough |
| 2728s | meanwhile for gohan going for some sort |
| 2730s | of taunt comp honestly just a pile of |
| 2732s | stats we saw that um he golden the |
| 2734s | strong shell scavenger probably thanks |
| 2736s | to the hero power and that's a lot of |
| 2739s | stats in theory but he is next on the |
| 2741s | chopping block at least in terms of |
| 2743s | health total is there a way that this is |
| 2746s | enough to turn into a top four |
| 2750s | uh possibly right his his board isn't |
| 2754s | atrocious it's just there's not like a |
| 2756s | clear direction this is this is |
| 2758s | reminiscent of the taunt comps that i |
| 2760s | used to do of old back when |
| 2762s | you could kind of get away with uh |
| 2765s | going brand and then just buying a bunch |
| 2767s | of taunt buffers but nowadays people |
| 2770s | people scale a lot faster so it's hard |
| 2772s | to |
| 2773s | make that be strong enough to work but |
| 2775s | yeah it looks like he's gonna get |
| 2777s | uh struck by jugglers unfortunately for |
| 2780s | him and maybe they get knocked out |
| 2783s | depends on this last trade okay okay |
| 2786s | never mind weaver is isolated meaning |
| 2788s | that gohan serves oh he would have |
| 2790s | survived even if this old uh devourer |
| 2792s | stuck around |
| 2794s | but that is huge news that koyomi |
| 2797s | managed to stabilize by taking that |
| 2799s | battle master and just kind of playing |
| 2801s | demons with that huge wrath weaver i |
| 2803s | think he hasn't leveled beyond four just |
| 2805s | using the kathrana tier to continue |
| 2807s | cycling and that is a decent enough way |
| 2811s | because this is a lobby that's going |
| 2812s | very aggressively people are leveling |
| 2814s | late dappy though finally activates his |
| 2817s | hero power next level and gets |
| 2823s | well you could go eliza just for tempo |
| 2826s | just play in the front uh the other line |
| 2828s | is to take the cali but it is a little |
| 2829s | bit late for kelly however he is on 39 |
| 2832s | so it's not impossible but |
| 2834s | um |
| 2837s | going for the choice i did not even |
| 2838s | consider |
| 2840s | uh nosy |
| 2842s | so taking this leads me to assume |
| 2844s | there's another six drop that we weren't |
| 2846s | seeing that he really really wants and |
| 2848s | maybe that's a mega buster because he |
| 2849s | didn't have some mechs around so at 39 |
| 2852s | you can also use that as an argument to |
| 2854s | go for nosy looter you have time to get |
| 2857s | that golden minion in two turns |
| 2859s | meanwhile for oleash here picks up a |
| 2861s | module to put on the egg or the |
| 2863s | kaboombot |
| 2865s | um |
| 2866s | it's a bit interesting because putting |
| 2868s | it on the egg means you can try and |
| 2870s | guarantee yeah oh yeah true he has two |
| 2873s | yeah so he just uh just do both right |
| 2876s | poke no |
| 2877s | los dos over here and just gonna |
| 2879s | probably put it on the egg as well uh |
| 2882s | the one thing is he does want to buff |
| 2884s | the |
| 2885s | deflector with the |
| 2887s | green thumb and maybe just end another |
| 2889s | divine shield he doesn't really have a |
| 2891s | clean hero power target he could go and |
| 2894s | just put on the egg and hope that it |
| 2895s | doesn't die first which is probably the |
| 2897s | safest option there just hope that the |
| 2900s | egg doesn't die first night i think |
| 2901s | that's probably what he's going to lean |
| 2903s | to do here |
| 2905s | yeah i mean given that his cover isn't |
| 2908s | particularly safe oh okay so |
| 2911s | putting the hero power on the pup bud |
| 2913s | instead meaning that he has |
| 2916s | another reset on the deflecto |
| 2919s | um that isn't taunted |
| 2921s | this is a very conservative choice but i |
| 2923s | like that actually i i think that's |
| 2925s | respectable right just getting another |
| 2927s | potential reset so it increases it |
| 2930s | almost guarantees increases his odds of |
| 2932s | winning because uh you just add another |
| 2935s | extra reset and you know how the fights |
| 2937s | go right if |
| 2939s | if it's the opponent watching this |
| 2940s | battle yeah he's gonna get hit on the |
| 2941s | reset it's like i can't believe that |
| 2943s | happened but uh after you watch this |
| 2945s | game 50 50 times you know that they |
| 2947s | always go for the resets if they can |
| 2950s | i like that decision there |
| 2953s | looking like a pretty close fight though |
| 2954s | it really depends whether this egg dies |
| 2956s | first or the baron because um gohan on |
| 2959s | the varden is on his last legs here oh |
| 2963s | baron goes down |
| 2965s | that's really bad |
| 2968s | i'm pretty sure yeah there's the reset |
| 2970s | that i was talking about every time i've |
| 2973s | i've seen this hundreds of times before |
| 2975s | i write you like i'll put on the reset |
| 2977s | there's a chance no good every fight you |
| 2979s | get the reason you're just like i'm too |
| 2981s | good |
| 2983s | and that is a huge reward for oliash |
| 2986s | there every additional player you can |
| 2988s | knock out is a big relief here but dapi |
| 2991s | finally gets some value through |
| 2994s | uh gets that omega buster so he did |
| 2997s | um manage to get some value out of the |
| 3001s | wait that isn't the nosy one yet right i |
| 3003s | think he tripled no |
| 3005s | yeah |
| 3006s | no i don't think that's the triple maybe |
| 3008s | he tripled the uh the murloc right into |
| 3010s | it oh yeah um or something like that i'm |
| 3013s | not 100 sure but i do like the nosy |
| 3016s | decision though like i wasn't |
| 3017s | considering it at all but i don't think |
| 3019s | he could have transitioned to cali and i |
| 3021s | also don't think the other option was |
| 3024s | that relevant so the nosy does give him |
| 3026s | a chance to win the lobby and i wasn't |
| 3028s | really even considering that so i really |
| 3029s | liked that decision from uh dapido to |
| 3032s | just kind of say oh i'm super healthy |
| 3036s | and |
| 3037s | nosy can give me buster buster's one of |
| 3039s | the only compositions i can use to win |
| 3041s | so i kind of like that decision though i |
| 3044s | think it's super good recognition of his |
| 3046s | position in the lobby because a lot of |
| 3048s | the time in lobby legends you need to be |
| 3050s | very very sure when you can be in a |
| 3052s | position to get first place and that |
| 3054s | health total really justified it for uh |
| 3056s | dobby there and he's the player that |
| 3058s | looks like he has the most directional |
| 3060s | comp so far best chance at hitting first |
| 3063s | place uh waterloo here still playing for |
| 3066s | piles of stats which is something you do |
| 3067s | as daryl but we'll see if he can get |
| 3070s | value out from the nest matron that he |
| 3072s | froze quite some time ago ending with |
| 3074s | the pyro spawn here to potentially get |
| 3077s | that glyph guardian to knock off a |
| 3078s | shield before it attacks it's a |
| 3080s | respectable board for sure yeah it's a |
| 3083s | bit |
| 3084s | uh interesting because when i talked |
| 3086s | about it last i was thinking oh you get |
| 3087s | the nest matron so you can kind of lead |
| 3089s | murlocs but he's like you know i got the |
| 3091s | nest merchant because it's free stats |
| 3093s | free gold and with free gold i could |
| 3095s | dance better than uh normally right and |
| 3098s | i actually respect that as well right |
| 3100s | like you don't need to go murlocs |
| 3102s | especially when you know most of the |
| 3103s | other players aren't growing murlocs |
| 3105s | rocks are really impressive when um |
| 3108s | other people are also murlocs and you |
| 3109s | have the poison and they don't right so |
| 3111s | they have like 100 health minions and |
| 3113s | then you just have like two five poison |
| 3115s | and that beats them right so |
| 3117s | uh with the lack of murloc forcers you |
| 3121s | just stats uh will be performing a lot |
| 3123s | better so i like that though yeah also |
| 3126s | it fits the context of that there's |
| 3127s | quite a few players leaning next as well |
| 3129s | and you would rather have stats than |
| 3130s | poison against that mech stuff hoyomi |
| 3133s | though soloing the board with his wrath |
| 3136s | weaver here stabilized on tier four |
| 3139s | still and is looking in a good position |
| 3142s | to finish in the top four here but |
| 3143s | beaufort has the best of both worlds |
| 3145s | right he has big stats and the murloc |
| 3147s | setup has no poison yet on the uh swolf |
| 3151s | and it's gonna be kind of hard to get |
| 3152s | poison since he's sold out of his tokeny |
| 3154s | minions but as the option to triple it |
| 3157s | now if he wants to yeah it's at this |
| 3159s | point it's pretty easy to get uh |
| 3162s | your poison whatever you want uh just |
| 3164s | because you just end on an acolyte or |
| 3166s | something you just end on any any one |
| 3169s | minion that has two procs and i'll |
| 3170s | usually get it for you the one thing i |
| 3172s | do want to mention is this is a very |
| 3175s | beaufort comp like very specific he |
| 3178s | loves peggy let me tell you he loves |
| 3180s | peggy so just seeing that he just has |
| 3183s | like it's full of murlocs but then |
| 3185s | there's like a golden peggy randomly in |
| 3187s | there for like no reason just a buffer |
| 3190s | just a buffing amalgam it's so beaufort |
| 3192s | you can really see his style in this |
| 3194s | game even in a lot of lobby legends |
| 3197s | it's not there for no reason it's it's |
| 3199s | it's kind of there like if this amalgam |
| 3202s | was like a 510 it's like very similar to |
| 3205s | what it does like the benefit of this |
| 3207s | peggy is it it maybe trades two minions |
| 3210s | instead of uh |
| 3212s | one right |
| 3213s | if it was just 10 health but |
| 3215s | if you're playing murlocs you'll usually |
| 3217s | play some sears you'll play some burger |
| 3219s | so it should be able to trade two most |
| 3221s | of the time some damage and hear me out |
| 3223s | it's one of the more fragile minions it |
| 3225s | can die to proc the revenge |
| 3229s | yeah i mean that's technically true |
| 3233s | right so he ended the board with the |
| 3236s | young merc eye to proc but gurgle over |
| 3238s | the swolfen what do you think about that |
| 3240s | decision it was a golden swolfen with a |
| 3242s | brand on board he could have gotten a |
| 3244s | lot more stats on a single minion as |
| 3246s | opposed to a decent amount of stats on |
| 3248s | many minions oh you're saying the |
| 3250s | decision to target the burger over the |
| 3252s | swollen i would say um i i generally |
| 3256s | when you're playing murlocs like |
| 3257s | spreading the buffs out to as many |
| 3259s | minions as you can just because |
| 3261s | it reduces the chance you get like |
| 3263s | leeroy randomly and then you lose or you |
| 3265s | get a randomly manted queen then you |
| 3268s | lose because that's the one issue if you |
| 3270s | just focus on a swolf in people just |
| 3272s | like run like taunted taunted mantis and |
| 3275s | your suffering goes into the man dude or |
| 3277s | this the sulfur goes into your lyra and |
| 3279s | then that's like your only real carry |
| 3281s | and then you die so i kind of like if i |
| 3283s | can spreading the bus out a lot of times |
| 3285s | i don't have the option but if i do i |
| 3287s | wouldn't |
| 3288s | need to do that |
| 3290s | makes a lot of sense you know collins |
| 3291s | this is why i'm always happy to cast |
| 3293s | with you it's like i'm getting free |
| 3295s | coaching lessons at the same time as |
| 3297s | working |
| 3298s | it's just win-win win |
| 3301s | yeah i i do think uh |
| 3303s | there's a lot to learn especially in |
| 3305s | these type of tournaments from the |
| 3307s | players because even even though these |
| 3310s | players are like super strong it doesn't |
| 3311s | mean they're playing perfectly but it's |
| 3313s | always good to understand |
| 3315s | where they're coming from what their |
| 3317s | decision making is because |
| 3319s | if you can't understand that you'll |
| 3320s | undoubtedly get better so it's always |
| 3322s | good to kind of look at them uh |
| 3324s | sometimes criticize them but just try to |
| 3325s | understand where they're coming from in |
| 3327s | their decision making |
| 3328s | oh yes barely surviving against waterloo |
| 3331s | there which is really impressive because |
| 3333s | waterloo's board is just a pile of stats |
| 3335s | he's been playing pseudo menagerie but |
| 3337s | you know not with the light fang to buff |
| 3339s | anything it's really just above his own |
| 3341s | myth racks whereas oleash looked like he |
| 3343s | had a lot more synergy with those mechs |
| 3345s | and resets but |
| 3346s | still the stats are doing their work |
| 3348s | here meanwhile dobby did he get that |
| 3350s | from nosy how did he get a golden |
| 3352s | barrett how did that happen i don't know |
| 3355s | i feel like he just rolled into it |
| 3358s | i don't yeah |
| 3359s | i i guess it has to be rolled into |
| 3361s | because even if he got the golden from |
| 3364s | nosy it wouldn't have that's that line |
| 3366s | exactly right so he just only got the |
| 3369s | buff once yeah |
| 3371s | he he high rolling |
| 3373s | [Laughter] |
| 3374s | really really strong there |
| 3376s | uh definitely the player to look out for |
| 3379s | i i think um from my opponents but i |
| 3381s | also think beaufort has a really good |
| 3383s | chance of of just dominating with the |
| 3385s | burlaps as well yeah he has tons of |
| 3387s | stats maybe enough to outlast the mechs |
| 3389s | from dappy but the immediate fight we |
| 3391s | have to look out for is dopey versus |
| 3393s | waterloo waterloo of course with those |
| 3395s | you know just taunted minions big stats |
| 3397s | and the myth rocks do you think it's |
| 3399s | gonna be enough to stand up to golden |
| 3401s | baron as i'm asking that question i know |
| 3404s | i already want to say no but yeah |
| 3407s | golden baron is busted uh in most of the |
| 3410s | situations he is trying to dance in a |
| 3412s | ghoul maybe |
| 3413s | have the ghoul do a bit of work for him |
| 3415s | i i just don't think it's going to be |
| 3417s | enough right the opponent like |
| 3420s | buster with baron it's by itself is very |
| 3424s | powerful and once you add golden into |
| 3426s | the equation it just becomes obnoxious |
| 3428s | so |
| 3430s | question though what's the benefit to |
| 3432s | buffing a ghoul as opposed to just |
| 3434s | having it to remove divine shield |
| 3437s | uh |
| 3439s | there's not too much i mean |
| 3441s | it depends if you want to not put it |
| 3443s | first if you don't want to put it first |
| 3444s | then you can maybe put a little later so |
| 3446s | that it can trigger perfectly when you |
| 3448s | want especially if you're fighting uh |
| 3451s | dragons or something you want to maybe |
| 3453s | have to go after the medina so maybe you |
| 3455s | buff it a little bit but in this |
| 3456s | particular situation when you know it's |
| 3457s | next then you know you're gonna put it |
| 3459s | first there's not like super |
| 3461s | uh big reason oh wait is he actually |
| 3463s | winning he is winning he is |
| 3465s | yeah i mean |
| 3466s | honestly i was surprised that there |
| 3468s | wasn't that much buff after we saw the |
| 3470s | omega buster go off there was still a |
| 3472s | chance i think for daphne to win had |
| 3474s | that baron not been sniped and the egg |
| 3476s | got in all three deathrattle procs but |
| 3479s | it still works out in waterloo's favor |
| 3481s | very impressive stuff but this is gonna |
| 3483s | be oleash i think clocking out here |
| 3486s | because there's simply too much stats on |
| 3488s | the murloc board from boher uh excuse me |
| 3490s | murloc peggy board |
| 3492s | i guess you would have to add that yeah |
| 3494s | the one issue i would say for that piece |
| 3496s | board is that there's no extra resets |
| 3499s | besides that one buster |
| 3501s | normally when you're playing buster comp |
| 3503s | beaster and so you just go from a cobb |
| 3504s | buster but since you don't have the |
| 3507s | macaw engine you have to rely on kangers |
| 3510s | but it doesn't look like he's put any |
| 3512s | kangers into his board he's kind of just |
| 3515s | running eggs which you know something |
| 3517s | eight eight's really not that impressive |
| 3519s | so the nice thing he found a second |
| 3521s | buster but and he also has a kangaroo in |
| 3523s | his hand actually so i do think now he's |
| 3525s | in a |
| 3526s | extremely good spot |
| 3528s | after this turn |
| 3529s | golden young merc eye as well and both |
| 3532s | are sold through selfless hero he sold |
| 3534s | through an additional murloc but the |
| 3535s | peggy is still around of course |
| 3538s | it's taunted now it's protecting against |
| 3540s | leroy she is just core |
| 3542s | yeah i mean this is a bull for special |
| 3545s | right i'm i'm doing something random but |
| 3546s | there's a peggy in my board |
| 3549s | i've seen it too many times for me to |
| 3551s | question it anymore it seems to work out |
| 3553s | for him so yeah he's hoarding all the |
| 3555s | mantad queens as well making sure that |
| 3558s | there's less chance for opponents to |
| 3560s | actually have those to snipe down these |
| 3561s | huge dots because that amalgam has just |
| 3564s | been growing and growing thanks to peggy |
| 3566s | and it's also been tripled now the murky |
| 3569s | going to target the swolfen so it's |
| 3571s | gonna get a whole bunch of stats as well |
| 3573s | this is |
| 3574s | too much health and poison on it that it |
| 3577s | feels like only another poison comp |
| 3579s | could try and counter this yeah the the |
| 3581s | buying the mantids uh it serves two |
| 3583s | purpose you've mentioned it right |
| 3585s | removing it from the pool so there will |
| 3587s | be less options for your opponent to run |
| 3589s | mounted but another thing it does do is |
| 3592s | it just |
| 3593s | allows him to easily transition as soon |
| 3595s | as he wants to like fully commit to the |
| 3597s | victory he is still both are still |
| 3599s | pretty healthy 27 can take a easily take |
| 3601s | a a loss so he gets to just wait wait |
| 3605s | and uh try to skill as much as possible |
| 3607s | with the brand with the peggy and then |
| 3608s | as soon as he wants to actually go for |
| 3610s | the win then he sells the brand then |
| 3613s | hopefully he'll sell the peggy play |
| 3615s | double mounted leroy and and just secure |
| 3617s | the win |
| 3619s | huge deal that his mounted queen also |
| 3620s | got a win fury there this is yet another |
| 3622s | upside of including an amalgam in your |
| 3624s | rear lock comp it counts as another |
| 3627s | minion type so another um pseudo adapt |
| 3629s | for that mounted queen but even if it |
| 3631s | didn't get the divine shield i think |
| 3632s | beaufort was very solidly in the lead |
| 3635s | here just far too many stats for |
| 3637s | waterloo to contend with so we are down |
| 3639s | to our top two now dappy with that mech |
| 3641s | comp the golden baron and that omega |
| 3644s | buster is it gonna be enough stats i |
| 3647s | don't feel like he has quite enough of |
| 3649s | the synergy there but we do see a |
| 3651s | deflecto in hand and a kangor so it |
| 3653s | could be enough buffs depending on how |
| 3655s | he positions it i i do think he could |
| 3657s | definitely win as long as he plays the |
| 3659s | kanger and the kanger goes off before |
| 3661s | the amalgam gets before the baron gets |
| 3663s | sniped um but another thing right i do |
| 3666s | think uh waterloo like did its job right |
| 3668s | he played daryl right daryl not the best |
| 3670s | derral lobby not that many tokens but |
| 3672s | you got third place there right i think |
| 3674s | if you're going into this taking daryl |
| 3676s | in this position in gang third you're |
| 3678s | extremely happy so i don't think this is |
| 3680s | like a a bad finish for for waterloo i |
| 3683s | think this is exactly what he was |
| 3684s | looking for when he picked the up the |
| 3685s | daryl there oh definitely it's very |
| 3687s | impressive he wasn't really given me |
| 3689s | well get the triple okay like they could |
| 3691s | get first place but he made it work and |
| 3693s | this is exactly what dappy was looking |
| 3696s | for huge deal |
| 3698s | i feel like he only held on to the canoe |
| 3700s | egg pair to give him more chances at |
| 3702s | finding another buster but now he |
| 3705s | triples the faux reaper as well |
| 3708s | uh zap just in case you might need it |
| 3710s | but probably doesn't hit the board here |
| 3712s | looking for the triple zap and also the |
| 3714s | zap is pretty bad against him as soon as |
| 3716s | the opponent knows he has fingers |
| 3718s | because they'll it'll target the |
| 3719s | kangaroo the nice thing about that |
| 3721s | kangaroo is a 5 8 so um the zap will hit |
| 3724s | it twice so even if he runs like double |
| 3726s | kanger he can do that safely but it is |
| 3728s | kind of annoying especially once your |
| 3730s | opponent knows that you do have the |
| 3731s | cameras on the board |
| 3732s | he had the deflector as well at five |
| 3734s | attacks so it wasn't guaranteed |
| 3737s | yeah um |
| 3739s | but we will see if this is enough here |
| 3741s | beaufort doesn't quite know exactly what |
| 3743s | type of mechs he's facing but i think |
| 3745s | i'll quickly realize the mantids are not |
| 3748s | as valuable as i |
| 3750s | i like this so he's he's going for the |
| 3752s | uh the issue though is that the buster |
| 3755s | is taunted but if the buster wasn't |
| 3756s | taunted right this is an insanely |
| 3759s | uh good play to do but normally you'd |
| 3761s | put the |
| 3762s | uh you put that on your amalgam right |
| 3764s | but he's thinking oh if it's not taunted |
| 3766s | i get to cheese him completely |
| 3769s | very very clever stuff |
| 3771s | oh right but he does have double manti |
| 3773s | which would screw up his plan so that's |
| 3775s | maybe something to consider |
| 3778s | oh the baron |
| 3781s | knife so early and the deflector goes |
| 3783s | down before the kangaroo so it doesn't |
| 3785s | get a reset here |
| 3787s | this feels like beaufort is scamming a |
| 3790s | little bit but i honestly i'm not sure |
| 3792s | who was favored because look at the help |
| 3793s | on that amalgam as well |
| 3795s | i'm pretty sure beaufort was not favored |
| 3798s | here and he did get the scab |
| 3800s | uh |
| 3802s | it's maybe not super super |
| 3804s | uh one-sided but i don't think normally |
| 3808s | beaufort would kindly get the wood you |
| 3810s | can even see how close this is even with |
| 3812s | the bad hits for uh dappy he's still |
| 3815s | barely losing |
| 3817s | all right but now both players have the |
| 3819s | full information not the only three |
| 3822s | health to work with whereas beaufort has |
| 3823s | at least one more loss in him safely i |
| 3826s | would say so now how did the text change |
| 3828s | because beaufort knows that the mounted |
| 3830s | queens could be more of a liability to |
| 3832s | him because those if they get taunt can |
| 3834s | just immediately kill the buster it's |
| 3837s | not too much of a liability because he |
| 3838s | knows that the buster's taunted so even |
| 3840s | if he sold the mansions and and did his |
| 3842s | play there uh he he will still have to |
| 3845s | hit the taunted buster so it doesn't |
| 3847s | really matter that um that's taunted |
| 3849s | there the one thing uh dappy just has to |
| 3852s | look for is maybe like another kanger or |
| 3854s | or something because you do want a |
| 3856s | little bit more |
| 3857s | uh |
| 3858s | direction he could also go for the |
| 3859s | divine shield uh reset and maybe he |
| 3862s | would have to sell the egg to do that |
| 3865s | which isn't like super good but it's an |
| 3867s | option there and he also uh both are |
| 3870s | knowing that um |
| 3873s | his zap isn't going to be as effective |
| 3876s | as he wants since he has he only has a |
| 3878s | seven attack zap and the both uh he'd |
| 3881s | have to |
| 3882s | double hit the um |
| 3885s | double hit the kanger to proc it first |
| 3888s | right |
| 3889s | so he um might not commit to his zap but |
| 3891s | we see dapi thinking about whether he |
| 3894s | should play his own i i do think he's |
| 3895s | going to end up selling this zap on |
| 3896s | board on the one in hand to end on the |
| 3898s | mackerel just feels like more stats |
| 3900s | overall because you can get multiple |
| 3902s | hits on that divine shield um the |
| 3905s | question i think for beaufort is do you |
| 3907s | think he should replace a mounted queen |
| 3908s | with a leroy for example because um if |
| 3910s | the mounted queen doesn't hit the vine |
| 3912s | shield leroy actually has more value |
| 3914s | into a divine character you do know what |
| 3916s | duck he's doing right he's waiting till |
| 3917s | the last second to sell it so that |
| 3919s | beaufort has less of a chance to hit the |
| 3920s | zaps |
| 3922s | that's why that's why he's waiting it's |
| 3924s | it's it's not he he as soon as he sells |
| 3926s | the egg he's guaranteed like doing the |
| 3928s | play but he's just waiting to give uh |
| 3931s | for a less of a chance |
| 3933s | okay |
| 3934s | that zap is still insane because there's |
| 3937s | two of them right the first one |
| 3939s | obviously didn't have that great odds of |
| 3941s | sniping the kangor but by playing both |
| 3943s | of them you guarantee that it gets to go |
| 3946s | with the loo however |
| 3948s | there's still a lot of stats the one the |
| 3951s | one positioning thing that i was |
| 3952s | thinking about i didn't mention it but |
| 3954s | now that the fight's over i can't |
| 3955s | mention it was that he he did need to |
| 3958s | move the cleave up a little bit because |
| 3960s | the way |
| 3961s | um he had the board set up it would go |
| 3964s | um deflector into buster into cleave but |
| 3968s | because the buster's guarantee you're |
| 3969s | gonna die before you clean it means that |
| 3971s | the cleave attacks maybe like um |
| 3974s | fifth attack right which is way too late |
| 3976s | a lot of times they get sniped before |
| 3978s | that so i would like moving the cleave |
| 3980s | maybe second or so that would be the one |
| 3982s | change um i don't think it would |
| 3984s | realistically |
| 3986s | change the outcome because beaufort |
| 3988s | played double zap one zap wouldn't have |
| 3989s | been enough but double zap actually |
| 3991s | guarantees both the kill on the |
| 3993s | deflector and the um |
| 3995s | and the kanger and the nice thing about |
| 3997s | double zap means that that tonic buster |
| 3999s | doesn't proc before the double zaps go |
| 4002s | off right so |
| 4004s | really good uh decision there to go |
| 4006s | double zap i don't think you'll see a |
| 4008s | lot of players committing to using both |
| 4010s | of them in in that turn and it secured |
| 4012s | him the win there oh i completely agree |
| 4014s | that was such a master class in how to |
| 4016s | approach the end game because as we know |
| 4018s | in battlegrounds there's so many |
| 4019s | different iterations of what kind of |
| 4021s | text you're supposed to have against |
| 4023s | exactly which situation and it so |
| 4025s | happened here that this was a curtrious |
| 4027s | mech board where you knew that one zap |
| 4029s | unlikely to do the job but exactly two |
| 4031s | if the positions worked out for you is |
| 4033s | the winning combination and we saw |
| 4035s | beaufort go for that exactly no |
| 4037s | hesitation in selling the mounted queens |
| 4039s | and keeping just a 2-4 plain straight-up |
| 4042s | annoying module instead of that it was |
| 4044s | the perfect counter to what dapi had to |
| 4047s | offer and i think a very very well |
| 4049s | deserved victory there but also want to |
| 4051s | shout out to um waterloo in particular |
| 4055s | for having that very unconventional |
| 4057s | darryl game in a lobby that didn't have |
| 4059s | beasts or elementals still recognize |
| 4061s | that for the purposes of this tournament |
| 4063s | just playing these big stats being smart |
| 4066s | enough to take every early lobby as a |
| 4068s | victory and then slowing sorry every |
| 4070s | early round as a victory and then |
| 4072s | slowing down the damage you take in the |
| 4074s | late game just to kind of eke out a |
| 4077s | barely achieved third place that was |
| 4079s | really nicely done as well |
| 4081s | yeah i think a lot of players salvaged |
| 4084s | their bad starts i don't think um really |
| 4087s | any player got an insane start and you |
| 4089s | can actually tell that no player got it |
| 4091s | in second star because they were all |
| 4093s | tavern four i think |
| 4095s | the players that would have gotten it |
| 4096s | insane so you can you can imagine in |
| 4098s | your head right they get an early six |
| 4099s | it's eliza there's steam roll they get |
| 4101s | an early six it's like maybe double fell |
| 4103s | bad or something they seem real right |
| 4105s | but no player really had that you would |
| 4107s | say maybe beaufort had a really nice |
| 4109s | mech start and he was able to like |
| 4112s | transition that into the victory right |
| 4114s | but it wasn't that's not an insane high |
| 4116s | roll of a cookie game right you get you |
| 4119s | get a you know a peggy or three peggies |
| 4122s | into a malgadon you buff that it has |
| 4125s | poison and you're like yeah i won though |
| 4127s | uh so yeah definitely well played by |
| 4129s | pretty much every all the players to |
| 4131s | kind of salvage the position they were |
| 4132s | in |
| 4133s | that's right this is why it's lobby |
| 4135s | legends our players know which |
| 4137s | situations they're able to turn from |
| 4139s | like an eighth place up to a six or even |
| 4142s | better that's how you climb the ladder |
| 4143s | and that is how you accumulate the |
| 4145s | points both are here of course getting |
| 4147s | the full seven points for first place |
| 4149s | but on the flip side hakasey has a lot |
| 4152s | to make up for being the first one to go |
| 4154s | down we also have a tie between zorg and |
| 4156s | koyomi clocking out in the same round |
| 4159s | and it's only two more lobbies after |
| 4161s | this very very little time to make up |
| 4164s | for a bad start here so beaufort's got |
| 4166s | to be feeling on top of the world |
| 4168s | meanwhile everybody in the bottom for |
| 4170s | it's crunch time |
| 4171s | yeah i i do think with the the one |
| 4175s | like difficulty of these lobby legends |
| 4178s | is the qualifiers there's only three |
| 4179s | games right or you're out and then the |
| 4181s | finals is only three games when you're |
| 4183s | out so if you do poorly in the first |
| 4185s | game |
| 4186s | you're so behind in the points and also |
| 4189s | behind mentally because you know oh i |
| 4191s | don't have a lot of time to recover i |
| 4193s | can't just shake off this loss it |
| 4195s | matters a lot so i |
| 4198s | i hope that you know |
| 4200s | um the players at the bottom are able to |
| 4202s | just you know kind of turn it around |
| 4204s | just say okay it's one game i just need |
| 4206s | to perform in two out of the three and |
| 4208s | i'll make it so um that's the mindset |
| 4210s | they should go you know you you you have |
| 4213s | like a free a get out of get out of |
| 4215s | eighth jail free card and you used it on |
| 4218s | the first one and now you just have to |
| 4219s | perform the rest of the two |
| 4221s | yeah colin's talking from experience |
| 4223s | here no doubt we do have our players |
| 4227s | needing some time of course to gather |
| 4228s | their thoughts and make sure that they |
| 4230s | can focus all the way for the next |
| 4232s | couple games because i think there's not |
| 4234s | going to be that much |
| 4236s | leeway to be playing as safe if you |
| 4238s | finished in the bottom four it's gonna |
| 4239s | be time to take some more risks so we |
| 4241s | are gonna go to a quick break don't go |
| 4243s | anywhere right after this it is the |
| 4245s | second game of the day |
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| 4414s | so |
| 4416s | [Music] |
| 4442s | hello everyone and welcome back to |
| 4444s | hearthstone lobby legends eternal night |
| 4447s | we have just finished our first game of |
| 4449s | the day where that first lobby was taken |
| 4452s | down by beaufort very nicely with that |
| 4454s | murloc peggy comp and that nice double |
| 4457s | zac to take down daffy's mex collins |
| 4460s | it's been already so intense from the |
| 4463s | very first lobby any predictions as to |
| 4465s | who will be taking down this next one |
| 4468s | so i actually think um sometimes when |
| 4471s | people do poorly they they tend to |
| 4475s | play extremely risky to try to recover |
| 4477s | their poor placement after playing a |
| 4479s | couple of turns i actually think that's |
| 4480s | a bait and really should just like |
| 4482s | ignore that and just play normal because |
| 4485s | um |
| 4486s | the players are too good that playing |
| 4488s | risky just gets punished um pretty much |
| 4490s | almost most of the time uh maybe in |
| 4492s | ladder you can like play risky and get |
| 4494s | rewarded but i've just noticed like all |
| 4497s | the players i see just playing risky |
| 4499s | they just get punished and then they |
| 4500s | they perform worse than if they didn't |
| 4503s | play risky at all so i think um i'm more |
| 4506s | looking to players just to do |
| 4508s | to stick to their script and that's |
| 4510s | that's why it tends to be that the |
| 4511s | players that do well continue to do well |
| 4513s | because they're not feeding the pressure |
| 4515s | they're not going to play risky they |
| 4516s | already know um to play saves keep doing |
| 4519s | what they're doing and they'll do well |
| 4521s | and you that's why |
| 4523s | i i tend to notice that |
| 4524s | the players that do won the first |
| 4526s | continue to do well so i'm not really |
| 4528s | i don't think we'll see a huge shake up |
| 4529s | but it's only been one game one game's |
| 4531s | not enough to like break people's |
| 4532s | spirits it's usually you know the second |
| 4535s | game then then people start breaking |
| 4538s | down so we'll uh we'll have to see |
| 4541s | i mean yeah momentum is a big thing and |
| 4543s | keeping your mindset safe is a very big |
| 4546s | thing as well so valuable to have |
| 4548s | somebody who has tournament experience |
| 4550s | lobby legends qualifier experience and |
| 4552s | main stage as well and collins we do |
| 4555s | have more reveals throughout the day |
| 4558s | very exciting stuff just a while ago we |
| 4560s | showed the world just what the new hero |
| 4562s | is the upcoming lady vaj with naga |
| 4564s | synergy but |
| 4567s | silver pack patrick |
| 4569s | i know this card |
| 4570s | i know this card what's in standard what |
| 4573s | it's coming to battlegrounds |
| 4575s | okay |
| 4578s | wow it's not a meme okay so |
| 4580s | uh tier one beast and this is a taunt |
| 4584s | minion on tier one which is pretty |
| 4587s | interesting because we could also see |
| 4589s | this just being very easily tucked in in |
| 4591s | a comp and late game because low attack |
| 4593s | taunts have some value to play around |
| 4595s | just like what we saw a while ago like |
| 4597s | buster in front it plays around |
| 4599s | skellycomp interesting ah |
| 4602s | ah there it is i'm trying to think of a |
| 4605s | use for this and yeah playing around |
| 4606s | scaling playing around |
| 4609s | i don't know this doesn't play around |
| 4610s | with leroy all right just dives to lure |
| 4612s | and the lyrics still alive but i mean |
| 4614s | maybe |
| 4615s | maybe you can kind of play it if you |
| 4617s | have like a taunted amalgadon you're |
| 4618s | just like uh i'll make a 50 50. because |
| 4621s | if they don't kill my mogadon and i win |
| 4624s | so there are some uses to having a one |
| 4626s | attack taunt right that's really the |
| 4629s | main draw there playing around scaling |
| 4631s | things like that but i don't i mean this |
| 4633s | isn't going to be end game and a lot of |
| 4635s | compositions right it doesn't it doesn't |
| 4637s | have that um isn't like oh my god it has |
| 4640s | taunt i have to play this so uh pretty |
| 4643s | interesting to add it here surprise it's |
| 4645s | not three star unit you know that that |
| 4647s | would be more uh on standard for me yeah |
| 4650s | that is interesting i actually can't |
| 4652s | think of a beast that has taunt straight |
| 4654s | up on the on the on the just mama bear |
| 4657s | ryan mama bear |
| 4660s | all right colin seriously though |
| 4662s | um mine does |
| 4665s | yours i get the wrong croc has taunt on |
| 4668s | it fair enough fair enough uh but yeah |
| 4670s | that is i think pretty relevant as well |
| 4672s | because with beasts like we mentioned |
| 4674s | mama bear and pale scale croc these are |
| 4676s | minions that you really don't want to |
| 4677s | die early so just having something that |
| 4679s | immediately has taunt i think has quite |
| 4681s | a lot of value to protect your um |
| 4684s | synergy beast a bit later on but i am |
| 4687s | just so interested what this is going to |
| 4689s | be like in battle it's battlegrounds |
| 4691s | because i don't think um some of the |
| 4693s | newer players know just how much history |
| 4695s | this card has oh but oh this is a |
| 4697s | horrible shutter |
| 4699s | yeah this is a horrible shutter lobby oh |
| 4701s | someone doesn't get a free win i would |
| 4703s | say shutter is probably the best here in |
| 4705s | the game right now or at least the most |
| 4707s | problematic here in the game because in |
| 4709s | the hands of a really skilled player |
| 4710s | which all these players are it's just |
| 4712s | absolutely broken but yeah i i i'm sure |
| 4715s | that p is like super sad that he can't |
| 4717s | just abuse shutter get a free first |
| 4719s | place here yeah |
| 4721s | but it is going to be a patches game |
| 4723s | which is bold because it's kind of tough |
| 4725s | to play pirates right now but oh yes on |
| 4728s | the |
| 4729s | uh mastering one here always going to be |
| 4732s | fun to take a look at that but i'm |
| 4733s | seeing a ysera as well for hakasey who |
| 4735s | really needs to make up for his |
| 4737s | performance in the first game you sarah |
| 4739s | of course a bit more viable now that |
| 4740s | tara goes is down to tier three |
| 4743s | for the first hero power though |
| 4746s | not too much that's interesting but i |
| 4748s | guess you could use the hero power |
| 4750s | yeah yes sir |
| 4751s | yes sarah is one of those heroes that |
| 4753s | got better with the change right tara |
| 4755s | ghost iii does matter the one downside |
| 4757s | for the acer is that murlocs are in so |
| 4760s | even if you have a huge tarragon people |
| 4762s | can just take malgadons and uh and uh |
| 4766s | mantids with the murloc uh poison and |
| 4769s | just like take that down so not the best |
| 4772s | uh |
| 4773s | lobby for you sarah but definitely a |
| 4775s | lobby if in the right situation can |
| 4777s | hyrule and take a get a good recovery |
| 4779s | game |
| 4781s | i'm looking at another curtris available |
| 4784s | here zorg with that that's the hero that |
| 4786s | again i'm not super fond of picking on |
| 4789s | ladder but it is similar to daryl in |
| 4791s | that just that additional stats can |
| 4794s | secure you a top four if played |
| 4796s | correctly um also got a ticket to us in |
| 4799s | here it's been a while since we've seen |
| 4800s | that i actually think tickets is pretty |
| 4802s | decent uh right now like maybe not |
| 4806s | uh safe i wouldn't say it's safe right |
| 4808s | but uh has the potential to hire |
| 4811s | especially in you know with good players |
| 4813s | that are picking or getting the right |
| 4815s | prizes especially the early prize uh the |
| 4818s | good stuff and and uh discovering |
| 4820s | minions from your tavern tier things |
| 4821s | like that you can just have a pretty |
| 4824s | powerful early game and once you're at |
| 4825s | the late game you're so strong uh some |
| 4828s | of the prizes in the late game are just |
| 4829s | not fair so pretty good |
| 4831s | i do like that the price the good stuff |
| 4833s | is named as it is and it's not a bait |
| 4835s | right because it used to be a baby |
| 4837s | yeah it used to only do plus one and it |
| 4840s | just wasn't good enough but once they |
| 4842s | doubled it up it did became pretty good |
| 4846s | health is not to be underestimated and |
| 4847s | that's why the buffed pyramid is also |
| 4850s | very relevant but we do have kaiomi on |
| 4852s | the cookie here potential to just okay |
| 4855s | go straight to three on three and then |
| 4857s | power the pirate or does he hero power |
| 4860s | the mac |
| 4861s | i think those are the two that i would |
| 4863s | be looking at here going for the pirate |
| 4865s | or the mech |
| 4866s | with the pirate you can get the 4-4 |
| 4869s | that gives you gold and if you get that |
| 4870s | you get there with the mech you could |
| 4872s | get deflecto right so yeah it goes for |
| 4874s | the mech there it hits the deflector |
| 4875s | probably gonna take it i could maybe see |
| 4878s | the salty if you want to lean pirates |
| 4880s | but i think deflector just opens up more |
| 4882s | options i agree i also like the mech |
| 4885s | hero power because if you do miss on |
| 4886s | being offered a three drop i feel like |
| 4888s | the two and one drops from max are |
| 4890s | slightly better than the ones for |
| 4892s | pirates here we go |
| 4894s | i i see that hakusai does remember the |
| 4897s | uh yes sarah curve three on three hit |
| 4899s | the terragosa level to four at the promo |
| 4901s | hope you hope you win |
| 4903s | and he's leading for that |
| 4906s | yeah this was a big debate back in the |
| 4908s | day though whether you were supposed to |
| 4909s | go three on three with you sarah or |
| 4911s | chief curve with a couple of evolving |
| 4913s | chromo wings those are both i think |
| 4916s | viable lines |
| 4918s | yeah i would say that the this line is |
| 4921s | riskier but has the higher chance of |
| 4924s | winning the lobby and if you're gonna |
| 4926s | play to win the lobby you may as well go |
| 4928s | for the riskier line you're already |
| 4929s | you're already technically playing a |
| 4931s | risky hero and if you're not going to go |
| 4932s | over for the risky line why just play it |
| 4934s | why not just play a safer hero way you |
| 4935s | don't have to take that risk |
| 4937s | makes sense go big or go home and that |
| 4940s | taragosa does immediately appear for |
| 4942s | hakasey doesn't get the perfect second |
| 4944s | dragon like obviously you'd love a |
| 4946s | bronze warden to |
| 4948s | help you take less damage from here but |
| 4950s | you can't be too greedy from here on out |
| 4952s | it's about trying to safely get to four |
| 4955s | and hit the pro bonos |
| 4956s | um i bore waterloo on y'all y'all's one |
| 4958s | of my favorite heroes everyone everyone |
| 4960s | always like talks smack about yog but |
| 4963s | i've been playing yachts since it came |
| 4964s | out it hasn't changed at all and it's |
| 4966s | always been |
| 4968s | at least to me playable some people |
| 4969s | argue that there have been some times |
| 4971s | where it just wasn't that strong but |
| 4973s | at least for me i've always had like |
| 4974s | some good success playing the hero so i |
| 4976s | always like to see other people playing |
| 4978s | yogg showcasing to the world that it's |
| 4980s | still viable here it has a lot of |
| 4981s | strengths |
| 4982s | as well as as long as you understand the |
| 4984s | curve and how to take advantage of what |
| 4986s | god gives to the table which i would say |
| 4989s | is the ability to level safely |
| 4991s | that is right making sure that you have |
| 4993s | just an additional minion every turn for |
| 4995s | two gold whether or not it's the minion |
| 4997s | you ideally want to hit it's still |
| 4999s | making sure you get to seven minions |
| 5001s | very quickly while still leveling and |
| 5003s | that has inherent value as well waterloo |
| 5007s | here going to take a very convincing |
| 5008s | victory no surprise whatsoever against |
| 5011s | oleash and from here has a decision as |
| 5014s | to whether he wants to level and by tad |
| 5016s | or if there's something else that can be |
| 5018s | done with a double byte had and sell one |
| 5021s | and hero power is that ever a line i |
| 5024s | would i would definitely lean lean level |
| 5026s | by tad and then now then next turn you |
| 5028s | can like level sell |
| 5030s | hero power and have a full board and |
| 5032s | you're still perfectly fine so i think |
| 5034s | that's what uh |
| 5035s | waterloo will be looking to do |
| 5039s | he did see his |
| 5041s | uh taranture pickup wow |
| 5043s | wow |
| 5044s | double triple here |
| 5046s | that is insane what you want to do in |
| 5048s | this position as only is try to get |
| 5051s | sixes right because if he hits a cali |
| 5053s | he's really good if he told eliza he's |
| 5055s | really good so he has two good sixes but |
| 5058s | he's just gonna go for fours okay |
| 5060s | um the nice thing about fours is you can |
| 5062s | hit a venge target so yeah tank so he |
| 5064s | hits the tank now he's |
| 5067s | pretty much guaranteed not to be taking |
| 5069s | damage until he gets his next triple so |
| 5072s | um this is definitely the |
| 5074s | safer line definitely not as risky as |
| 5076s | maybe what i would have done but i |
| 5078s | respected a lot especially if you had a |
| 5081s | really good early first game no need to |
| 5083s | go for that extreme risk |
| 5085s | dappy though with a pretty good um |
| 5088s | patches start here hits the briny which |
| 5090s | is very important to make sure that he |
| 5092s | can keep leveling while still buying the |
| 5094s | minions like we could see at the very |
| 5095s | least next turn um six gold to level and |
| 5098s | then use the coin to get that second |
| 5100s | south sea captain but he won't be very |
| 5102s | happy to see this time this might be the |
| 5105s | only fight that uh |
| 5107s | uh oleech loses i would say that or at |
| 5110s | least has a possibility of losing |
| 5112s | because normally with the setup that he |
| 5114s | has he should not be losing but yeah i |
| 5116s | mean |
| 5117s | uh i always uh oh he could have tied |
| 5121s | yeah there's so many instances honestly |
| 5123s | like if that one one hadn't sniped the |
| 5126s | scallywag on the other side then it |
| 5127s | would have killed the um |
| 5130s | haunt and then i think it was guaranteed |
| 5132s | at least a tie but uh pretty unfortunate |
| 5135s | there for olyash |
| 5138s | yeah i always like to count the number |
| 5139s | of captains the uh |
| 5142s | the patches has and then if it's more |
| 5145s | than one then they're doing well that's |
| 5147s | what that makes sense |
| 5151s | skipping the |
| 5153s | um scares me the kanger i guess to get |
| 5156s | the seer i guess he does have an amalgam |
| 5158s | so |
| 5158s | uh it's not too weird to be skipping the |
| 5161s | kanger but he does like he's only |
| 5163s | running six units and he does have the |
| 5164s | acolyte he also has the two one dragon |
| 5166s | which could also get proc so i thought |
| 5169s | it would it would have been a reasonable |
| 5170s | option to go for that but maybe it's |
| 5171s | just leaning murloc so there's no need |
| 5173s | to |
| 5174s | uh take a kangaroo if you're gonna lean |
| 5176s | that way |
| 5177s | speaking of leading murlocs beaufort's |
| 5179s | doing it again without peggy though so |
| 5181s | is it gonna be as successful oh just |
| 5183s | wait two turns he's not on four yet you |
| 5186s | know he's not four yet so |
| 5188s | he can't even get peggy's now right what |
| 5190s | he's thinking about is do i triple this |
| 5192s | to get the peggy early like that's but |
| 5195s | he's like ah i don't have any pirates it |
| 5197s | doesn't really make that much sense i |
| 5199s | guess i'll wait you know that's what's |
| 5200s | going through his head right now |
| 5202s | tripling for a five perhaps is more |
| 5204s | reasonable they're of course looking for |
| 5206s | bran when you have this murloc set up |
| 5208s | but gohan here maiev with rough beavers |
| 5211s | again we saw this from the previous |
| 5214s | lobby and it is not enough stats i don't |
| 5218s | think to take down the pirates so |
| 5220s | so uh miami is going for the generally |
| 5225s | i would say the latter standard of |
| 5227s | trying to get an early six here the |
| 5230s | problem is this lobby is full of like |
| 5232s | you know high level tempo players that |
| 5234s | are just like ah you're gonna go for a |
| 5236s | six here take 15. you're going for a six |
| 5238s | i also take 15 and now look at him |
| 5241s | you're right he's at 3 hp he's playing |
| 5243s | demons at 3 hp |
| 5245s | right you you get that triple you play |
| 5247s | the triple you're at one right and then |
| 5250s | you you you get a felt bad here you're |
| 5252s | dead so like what do you do like oh my |
| 5255s | god yeah you're right |
| 5257s | he can't even play after that yeah so |
| 5259s | yeah so that that's the issue here |
| 5264s | geez |
| 5265s | okay insta buster |
| 5268s | there was no other option he couldn't |
| 5270s | take the other one |
| 5273s | so yeah pretty rough right he could have |
| 5275s | sold he could have sold one of his um |
| 5278s | his wrath weavers but is that really the |
| 5280s | play right you sell your wrath weaver |
| 5284s | um well if you sell one then you go to |
| 5286s | two and then you play the fell back oh |
| 5288s | okay okay you mean before you play the |
| 5290s | triple yeah makes sense make sense okay |
| 5293s | it's not good so yeah the |
| 5295s | normally right if you're playing lantern |
| 5297s | ladder you're not going to be that low |
| 5299s | so you can take the fallback and then |
| 5301s | maybe with golden golden trickster fell |
| 5304s | bad you scale and maybe win but here |
| 5306s | so much tempo you're getting pressured |
| 5308s | so hard it's hard for you to get uh even |
| 5311s | even if you get the minion you want |
| 5313s | you're still not in a good position |
| 5315s | actually look at the stark contrast here |
| 5318s | from waterloo where you talked about |
| 5319s | this is a hero that can level safely |
| 5322s | yogg at 45 and also has access to a six |
| 5325s | drop and is not that far off from the |
| 5327s | position that uh gohan was in this is |
| 5330s | why i really like heroes like yog |
| 5332s | because |
| 5333s | uh as long as you get like the triple |
| 5336s | you're you're pretty much on my f well |
| 5339s | i mean my f can hyrum uh and get like |
| 5342s | double six but uh on standard like |
| 5344s | you're you're you're you're the same |
| 5346s | hero as your opponent except you're at |
| 5348s | 45 and he's at one you know like who you |
| 5351s | rather be |
| 5354s | pretty rough |
| 5356s | well given that um gohan went for this i |
| 5359s | feel like because he knew he was gonna |
| 5360s | die right if he picked any demon he was |
| 5362s | going exactly for buster that was the |
| 5364s | only other six drop that had synergy |
| 5366s | with this board because of the double |
| 5367s | micro mummy now that he's found it well |
| 5370s | he didn't know he was gonna take 15 in |
| 5372s | the previous fight to be put at three so |
| 5373s | that he had to go to one right so i i |
| 5376s | think he would have taken the thumb back |
| 5377s | if he didn't take 15 there but it's just |
| 5379s | unlucky and you can see yeah once again |
| 5382s | right uh hakusai unfortunately goes for |
| 5385s | the hyrule yesera and wasn't able to get |
| 5388s | the hits he needed that's that's really |
| 5390s | the one thing right you could you could |
| 5392s | maybe even criticize the sarah decision |
| 5395s | right i was saying how i think it's kind |
| 5397s | of a bait because the players are too |
| 5399s | good you just get punished and you can |
| 5400s | kind of step from the maiev and from the |
| 5403s | you sarah right people just punish you |
| 5405s | so hard you think you can you have more |
| 5406s | time than you do |
| 5408s | and you just get knocked out so quickly |
| 5411s | very scary stuff but at least he gets to |
| 5414s | face the ghost while trying to stabilize |
| 5417s | here |
| 5418s | uh |
| 5419s | man does gohan have to rely completely |
| 5422s | on the buster like stay on fire look for |
| 5424s | parents and just smart max he tripled |
| 5426s | again and got an eliza so now that opens |
| 5429s | up the eliza scam as well so now he has |
| 5432s | two different options uh baron is good |
| 5435s | in either one and he also has another |
| 5436s | triple so this is he's starting to get |
| 5438s | there right three six drops he's gonna |
| 5440s | have access to as well as the baron |
| 5442s | which is gonna be good in both |
| 5444s | compositions that he he has on his board |
| 5446s | right now so pretty safe it looks like |
| 5448s | he's um yeah he's gonna greet a little |
| 5451s | bit and not take the triple now uh just |
| 5453s | to hold the gold in his head |
| 5455s | uh which is fair i guess i mean he |
| 5457s | doesn't necessarily he could um |
| 5459s | sell the trickster but uh it's probably |
| 5461s | stronger to just hold the trickster or |
| 5463s | play keep the tricks a fur turn i agree |
| 5466s | but hakasey there was the ghost and |
| 5468s | that's unfortunate because he was eighth |
| 5470s | on last game as well larinda after this |
| 5473s | can we take a look at who managed to |
| 5475s | kill hakasey on the yosera |
| 5479s | for now though we can look at |
| 5481s | daphi versus the |
| 5483s | cookie player here kayomi |
| 5485s | and i think fiomi has enough stats to |
| 5488s | get there but after the golden on the |
| 5490s | nosy i'm not a hundred percent sure |
| 5492s | that was a really good time i'm pretty |
| 5494s | sure cam is alive here i shouldn't have |
| 5496s | a problem |
| 5497s | uh so |
| 5499s | pretty scary though right to be at 14 |
| 5502s | one one loss and you're kind of you are |
| 5504s | kind of dead so |
| 5507s | let's salvage that all right so it looks |
| 5510s | like it was oleash that |
| 5512s | um killed hakusai so early and that was |
| 5516s | you know very sad because it was looking |
| 5518s | promising for hakusai with that |
| 5519s | three-on-three into the taragosa |
| 5521s | straight away but just couldn't get the |
| 5522s | scaling there with the promos i don't |
| 5524s | think not quick enough i believe oleas |
| 5526s | had that early um |
| 5529s | uh |
| 5530s | tank right so probably the tank uh was |
| 5533s | just like too strong for |
| 5535s | uh them to recover and just took the |
| 5537s | loss there |
| 5538s | looks like he wants to buy the trickster |
| 5540s | and level |
| 5541s | uh he's just thinking what do i want to |
| 5543s | sell here do i want to sell my |
| 5545s | uh annoying module or do i want to sell |
| 5548s | my eliza not my license but my scallywag |
| 5551s | right |
| 5552s | uh eliza and scala were kind of |
| 5554s | entertained rule for me so |
| 5556s | it makes sense i got confused there ooh |
| 5558s | he actually sells the ring matron over |
| 5561s | the acolyte really valuing the taunt on |
| 5562s | the death rattle here |
| 5564s | um |
| 5565s | we'll see what he uh |
| 5567s | oh these are so bad yeah these are these |
| 5570s | are probably some of the worst hits the |
| 5572s | one you could say maybe a zap in place |
| 5574s | though |
| 5575s | uh the felbat is like theoretically |
| 5578s | worse in terms of like direction but he |
| 5580s | could just take nosy and try to do what |
| 5583s | uh |
| 5584s | uh the |
| 5586s | uh what's it called |
| 5588s | the caltrus did in the last game right |
| 5590s | nosy into buster he could try doing |
| 5592s | something similar right |
| 5595s | once again |
| 5596s | though to attach the module to the tank |
| 5598s | when i would say the tank avenge value |
| 5600s | still has a lot of work that can be done |
| 5602s | here but uh oleash is just thinking long |
| 5604s | term right wants the buffs on this tank |
| 5606s | and just is gonna start valuing it as a |
| 5609s | divine shield back more so than an |
| 5610s | avenged minion yeah |
| 5613s | there's a good chance he ends up selling |
| 5614s | it anyway so you may as well just commit |
| 5616s | to making it as strong as possible |
| 5619s | another thing that's interesting is uh |
| 5622s | that p has another nosy right he had he |
| 5624s | took nosy in the previous game he's |
| 5626s | taking nosy again so maybe this is more |
| 5629s | of a um |
| 5631s | style decision right to just lean noses |
| 5634s | whenever you can instead of oh i have to |
| 5636s | take nosy here because everything else |
| 5638s | is bad which is usually what a lot of |
| 5640s | players tend to do |
| 5643s | huge damage coming dopi's way though and |
| 5645s | also a while ago from olia she was just |
| 5648s | dead to double tank and a couple more |
| 5650s | minions that clocks for so much damage |
| 5652s | again these high level lobbies the |
| 5655s | temple minions are so so valuable how |
| 5658s | did he lose he has golden eliza double |
| 5661s | scally he lost |
| 5666s | that's pretty impressive |
| 5668s | yeah it is |
| 5670s | potential for another golden eliza as |
| 5672s | well |
| 5673s | yeah i i wouldn't be okay good i |
| 5675s | wouldn't be baited by the hogger here i |
| 5677s | think you're kind of committed i have |
| 5679s | won a lobby with this board that he's |
| 5681s | about to create so i think you just |
| 5683s | commit to it just get get as many allies |
| 5685s | as possible and then look for baron and |
| 5688s | then if you just have baron in this |
| 5689s | setup you're pretty much there so i'm |
| 5691s | kind of happy with this that he's |
| 5693s | creating here finds a buster though |
| 5699s | if he really wanted to be fancy no i |
| 5702s | don't think that's the play but he could |
| 5703s | have went double uh double eliza double |
| 5705s | tony but i don't think |
| 5707s | i don't think that makes all too much |
| 5708s | sense here so yeah i'm kind of okay with |
| 5710s | that not a big fan i mean if that single |
| 5712s | golden eliza was already losing the last |
| 5715s | combat i |
| 5716s | would be inclined to play as safe as |
| 5718s | possible max power here commit another |
| 5721s | eliza actually technically max power |
| 5723s | would be playing six minions and one of |
| 5724s | them is a khadgar but yeah i think he |
| 5727s | can still afford to |
| 5729s | get one more golden before he sells out |
| 5730s | of the tony yeah it's it's not that much |
| 5732s | better to play six in a cadyar than to |
| 5735s | have this board so i i think this is |
| 5737s | pretty fair |
| 5738s | yes agreed |
| 5741s | right facing zorg |
| 5744s | yeah zorg's leaning um |
| 5747s | a golden buster carry and i don't think |
| 5749s | that's gonna be enough to get through |
| 5751s | the stats of four eliza's like it's just |
| 5754s | not enough |
| 5755s | yeah avenge doesn't |
| 5757s | interact particularly well against |
| 5759s | eliza's because you often spawn small |
| 5762s | minions and every small minion that the |
| 5763s | pirates get to value trade is more stats |
| 5765s | on the whole board because they got more |
| 5767s | attacks and we're already seeing the |
| 5769s | huge implications that the early death |
| 5771s | of hakase has on the whole lobby right |
| 5773s | the players who got their six drops |
| 5775s | really quick have the potential to deal |
| 5778s | more than 15 damage to each opponent and |
| 5780s | lots of people could be dropping dead |
| 5782s | soon and i think that's exactly what's |
| 5784s | happening here to zorg oh no no 24. |
| 5787s | all right 23 |
| 5789s | actually because he's not on six so oh |
| 5791s | he's on six so 24 yeah |
| 5794s | barely survives |
| 5797s | everyone's living on a prayer right now |
| 5799s | everyone's at one |
| 5801s | two players at one vote for |
| 5803s | unfortunately though gets knocked out |
| 5805s | here to zero |
| 5808s | not great it kind of cancels out a lot |
| 5811s | of the impact of that first place finish |
| 5814s | last lobby but |
| 5815s | we'll see who can take advantage of it |
| 5818s | because gohan here with the double |
| 5819s | elizabeth himself isn't you know |
| 5821s | particularly leaning heavily on pirate |
| 5824s | synergy i feel like he's still more of a |
| 5826s | buster comp |
| 5828s | yeah i would agree with you the the one |
| 5830s | issue once again there's no beast i |
| 5832s | think buster comps a lot easier to |
| 5834s | commit to if b-serien because you know |
| 5836s | oh i just hit up i just said i'm a con |
| 5838s | my power level is like twice as strong |
| 5840s | where with this you get kanger they need |
| 5842s | the kanger to go in and then you need to |
| 5844s | buff the kangaroo and you bought the |
| 5845s | barons so that they don't get zapped and |
| 5847s | if they do you still lose because it's |
| 5849s | hard to buff the barrett and the kanger |
| 5851s | out of zap range as well as having |
| 5853s | another |
| 5854s | you know small minion that the zap can |
| 5855s | go into so there's so many like extra |
| 5857s | things you have to do instead of like oh |
| 5859s | maca i just need to go first and i win |
| 5861s | like it's it's not as complicated so |
| 5863s | yeah |
| 5864s | in this lobby it looks like the pirates |
| 5866s | and the becks are heavily contested |
| 5868s | almost everybody has a buster or an |
| 5870s | eliza or both and that is going to be a |
| 5874s | question of who |
| 5875s | can get the most in a single direction |
| 5878s | and dappy is very close to doing that |
| 5880s | all the alliances might be out of the |
| 5882s | pool like very realistic |
| 5885s | uh but yeah everyone it's basically it's |
| 5888s | are you eliza or are you dead uh i think |
| 5891s | the eliza players just have too much |
| 5893s | stats this is this is not really a heavy |
| 5895s | stat scaling board there's no crowbar |
| 5897s | scaling there's no naga scaling there's |
| 5900s | no elemental scaling so there's not a |
| 5902s | ton of really clean scaling that you can |
| 5904s | look for so the the players that are |
| 5907s | able to get the eliza's and just scale |
| 5910s | with that it's not super strong scaling |
| 5912s | but it's going to be a huge amount of |
| 5914s | scaling very very quickly and it's going |
| 5916s | to be quick enough that other players |
| 5918s | aren't going to be able to like skill |
| 5919s | their murlocs fast enough for skill |
| 5921s | their you know random mech stuff fast |
| 5924s | enough to deal with that |
| 5926s | this is going to be kyomi going out as |
| 5928s | well not nearly enough stats to contest |
| 5930s | all of this on the other side |
| 5933s | from oleash |
| 5936s | and i think that's our last non-eliza |
| 5938s | non-buster player being knocked out it |
| 5941s | feels like |
| 5942s | yeah |
| 5943s | yeah yeah waterloo also getting knocked |
| 5946s | out there right he was he was trying to |
| 5948s | go buster as well and it just wasn't |
| 5951s | strong enough there's too many |
| 5953s | eliza players with huge stats and i'm |
| 5955s | pretty sure anyone that fights that |
| 5957s | triple golden eliza com just gets |
| 5959s | knocked |
| 5960s | three people knocked out at the same |
| 5962s | time means we have some heavily |
| 5964s | contested points in this game lots of |
| 5968s | people tying but um victory within reach |
| 5971s | for dapi olyash and gohan |
| 5974s | dapi looking great because he got second |
| 5976s | place last game and olyash i think |
| 5978s | finished fourth so both of them gonna |
| 5980s | have a big lead on the field from here |
| 5982s | but gohan the real story of just making |
| 5985s | up for a lackluster performance last |
| 5988s | game here but who's gonna take it all um |
| 5990s | oleash does have you know pretty good |
| 5993s | eliza synergy with the golden baron gets |
| 5995s | three of these kali's and with the |
| 5997s | tamzin hero power can immediately proc |
| 6000s | that as well |
| 6001s | don't needs kangaroos though right like |
| 6003s | his his comp isn't clean for the full |
| 6006s | elisa scam eliza scam is usually double |
| 6009s | scally a baron double khadgar and then |
| 6012s | you have like a filler uh sometimes and |
| 6015s | then also you can you can run seven but |
| 6018s | most of the time you just run six so |
| 6020s | he does have one scally not two but he |
| 6022s | has a golden baron which is kind of |
| 6024s | giving him that edge as well as the |
| 6026s | golden um |
| 6029s | uh what's it called green thumb to kind |
| 6031s | of make that buster unzappable but it's |
| 6033s | not the cleanest variant yeah but it is |
| 6037s | cool to see that green thumb still |
| 6038s | getting some scaling done with that |
| 6040s | scally synergy because you do have all |
| 6042s | the scally's immediately attacking and |
| 6044s | dying and getting you those buffs uh |
| 6046s | kind of |
| 6047s | looks like it's gonna be a pretty easy |
| 6049s | victory for holyash if i'm reading the |
| 6051s | sports date correctly |
| 6054s | uh |
| 6056s | it should be right like the buster comps |
| 6059s | are not as clean if beasts aren't in i |
| 6061s | just think uh if beasts aren't in you |
| 6064s | open the potential to just get sniped |
| 6066s | early right you you have to hit the |
| 6068s | kanger uh in the right order if it dies |
| 6071s | too quickly it's not as good so |
| 6074s | um there's just way more avenues to have |
| 6077s | the fight rng screw you if b sign in so |
| 6080s | it's just not the best |
| 6082s | uh composition to go for it if uh |
| 6085s | if you have if you have no choices right |
| 6087s | you'd want to play something else |
| 6090s | both players for the tank incidentally |
| 6092s | but not doing that much at this stage in |
| 6094s | the game it's more about actual scaling |
| 6097s | and of course the eliza gets there a bit |
| 6100s | more handily than the buster without |
| 6102s | even a full mech board so it is going to |
| 6104s | come down now to oleash versus dapi both |
| 6108s | players that were finishing in the top |
| 6110s | four last game so great news for them uh |
| 6113s | dappy getting his last proc from the |
| 6115s | nosy looter of a golden wrath weaver um |
| 6118s | this board state just honestly |
| 6122s | if he's not scared of his app how do you |
| 6124s | beat this it's too strong |
| 6127s | you don't i i |
| 6128s | there's not a lot of |
| 6131s | clean answers against the sport i do |
| 6133s | want to mention that gohan |
| 6135s | recovered extremely well from the |
| 6137s | position he was in right he was the one |
| 6139s | with the |
| 6140s | uh the double wrath reavers putting him |
| 6142s | the one so he couldn't take the felbach |
| 6143s | scaling and had to just go for something |
| 6146s | else right he fortunately for him he did |
| 6148s | get double uh two more triples and was |
| 6151s | able to kind of uh recover with a bit of |
| 6154s | eliza a bit of buster but it's |
| 6157s | in that position a lot of times you kind |
| 6159s | of you kind of falter you don't know |
| 6161s | what to do you're trying to you're split |
| 6163s | between like three different comps and |
| 6164s | you just like don't make the right |
| 6165s | decisions but he was able to recover |
| 6167s | extremely well going and getting a third |
| 6170s | place from that position he was in |
| 6172s | i'm looking at the board state again |
| 6173s | from daphi he's even zap proof here uh |
| 6177s | okay he plays one |
| 6179s | that one on the far right is not |
| 6180s | necessary right if it dies |
| 6183s | then you still have the six minions if |
| 6185s | it dies to a zap i mean i think he's |
| 6187s | playing this two player rounds up |
| 6189s | because like you don't want this kalis |
| 6192s | to die when you have seven minions on |
| 6194s | board because you don't have as much |
| 6195s | space yeah this is less zappable |
| 6198s | um |
| 6200s | weird to look at but the stronger boards |
| 6203s | would actually be to sell eliza and play |
| 6205s | another cad guy but it's so bad if he |
| 6208s | has a zap so you can't you can't really |
| 6210s | do that |
| 6211s | but |
| 6212s | i love the technique |
| 6214s | yeah the acolyte and a zap played here |
| 6217s | meaning that you can't get too much |
| 6218s | value |
| 6220s | it's not you're right yeah you like |
| 6222s | three golden eliza's is not fair like |
| 6225s | you just gained like one attack and you |
| 6227s | gain so much stats and you're just like |
| 6228s | yeah all your minions need to be bigger |
| 6230s | than like my |
| 6232s | my my 26 attack uh scalies that are |
| 6235s | coming out for free it's just not fair |
| 6238s | valiant effort though with the text from |
| 6239s | oleash like he knew what he needed to do |
| 6241s | against scam comp and dapi even played a |
| 6244s | rounds up by playing an additional cad |
| 6246s | car which is so weird to say but that's |
| 6248s | how it worked out because by killing |
| 6250s | that khadgar first he had a little bit |
| 6251s | more space |
| 6252s | didn't matter so much because of the |
| 6254s | acolytes but it was just pretty cool to |
| 6256s | see it's it's as safe as a it's a safe |
| 6259s | greedy play because if you want to be as |
| 6261s | safe |
| 6262s | as possible you just play another eliza |
| 6265s | instead of another cat guy right but |
| 6267s | he's like oh if he doesn't have a zab |
| 6268s | tonight destroy him right but if he |
| 6270s | doesn't i destroy him but a little bit |
| 6272s | safer you know that's uh i i like that |
| 6276s | there i think it makes a lot of sense |
| 6278s | the mind games are just so fun to watch |
| 6280s | at the top level here like zap in both |
| 6283s | the games we've watched so far has been |
| 6284s | a sort of a key player in the very last |
| 6286s | combats uh more so in the first one |
| 6289s | because um the zap player doubles that |
| 6291s | player did end up taking the victory but |
| 6293s | there was an attempt here a valiant one |
| 6295s | from oleash but it will be doppy taking |
| 6298s | down the lobby on patches very |
| 6300s | impressive stuff at the beginning of the |
| 6301s | game i said it's kind of tough to play |
| 6303s | pirates right now i should have |
| 6304s | clarified it's tough to play apm hogger |
| 6306s | pirates playing eliza definitely still |
| 6309s | viable especially when you can get those |
| 6311s | golden ones out early i think guppy |
| 6313s | really recognized how long he was able |
| 6316s | to |
| 6317s | try and milk the value from tony |
| 6319s | and when he was meant to transition to |
| 6321s | full power level i think it was nicely |
| 6324s | done and he will be i think leading now |
| 6327s | in point standings because of two |
| 6329s | back-to-back very nice lobbies yeah |
| 6331s | definitely uh |
| 6332s | extremely good play from dapita and and |
| 6335s | i i watch him sometimes on stream and he |
| 6337s | always seems to be very chill very like |
| 6340s | nonchalant about some of the decisions |
| 6342s | he makes sometimes he'll just like have |
| 6344s | bad fights he's just like moving on so i |
| 6346s | i do think he's |
| 6348s | he has a very good mindset for these |
| 6349s | tournaments just knowing like oh yeah |
| 6351s | you know things can happen but he plays |
| 6353s | very safe very um structured to perform |
| 6356s | well and anytime he has those |
| 6358s | opportunities to take the victory he |
| 6359s | does go for it right you know seven |
| 6362s | seven eliza's on your hand it's like |
| 6364s | that's good enough right like |
| 6366s | he knows what he's doing i i also do |
| 6368s | want to mention zap is such an |
| 6369s | interesting card because when you look |
| 6371s | at it and when you play with it a lot of |
| 6373s | times like you don't love the card right |
| 6375s | like this card you if if anyone's asking |
| 6377s | what tier six do you want yeah no one's |
| 6379s | saying zap right but once it comes to |
| 6381s | late game it offers such a good um |
| 6385s | decision making for like tech choices do |
| 6387s | i want the zap here do i want the zap |
| 6389s | here it's kind of hard to find that |
| 6391s | balance of designing cards that a zap |
| 6393s | can abuse but also cards that are strong |
| 6397s | enough that you want to risk having a |
| 6399s | zap |
| 6399s | to get abused right because sometimes |
| 6401s | like you could have uh like barons and |
| 6404s | zaps and things like that they need to |
| 6405s | be weak enough the zap can deal with |
| 6408s | them a lot of times it's hard to create |
| 6410s | new minions that also are strong in the |
| 6413s | way that they have low stats that they |
| 6415s | could die but but um good enough that oh |
| 6418s | you want to commit this card and have a |
| 6420s | zap as an answer for it so yeah |
| 6423s | all right so we do have our final |
| 6425s | standings though from game two and |
| 6427s | because hakasey went back-to-back um |
| 6429s | zero points eighth place i think he's |
| 6432s | mathematically guaranteed not to be able |
| 6433s | to make it through to tomorrow whereas i |
| 6436s | think is mathematically guaranteed |
| 6438s | because the max amount that players can |
| 6440s | earn from this point is seven and even |
| 6443s | if let's say um dappy were to get zero |
| 6445s | points and the player at six went up to |
| 6447s | thirteen dappy would beat them on |
| 6449s | tiebreakers because zappy's already at |
| 6451s | 13 and has taken a first and second so |
| 6453s | already a lot that is forming that we |
| 6457s | can already figure out who is joining us |
| 6458s | for tomorrow but that is still going to |
| 6461s | be one more game on our first lobby to |
| 6464s | figure out exactly who those top four |
| 6466s | are and then we will be entering lobby b |
| 6469s | don't go anywhere right after this break |
| 6471s | it is the last game for lobby a |
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| 6495s | [Music] |
| 6514s | so |
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| 6540s | you |
| 6551s | [Music] |
| 6554s | hello |
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| 6586s | so |
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| 6640s | so |
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| 6669s | welcome back once again to lobby legends |
| 6671s | eternal night we have just finished the |
| 6674s | second game of lobby a it's still gia |
| 6676s | and collins here bringing you all the |
| 6678s | action and we are once again bringing |
| 6680s | you a new card reveal we've shown a new |
| 6684s | hero so far and a new minion and collins |
| 6687s | we get to see yet another minion coming |
| 6689s | right up i am so excited it's called |
| 6691s | tavern tipper if you have any unspent |
| 6694s | gold at the end of your turn gain plus |
| 6696s | one plus two oh this is interesting so i |
| 6699s | need to know okay i'm assuming because |
| 6702s | this would be broken that it doesn't |
| 6704s | count each gold so let's say you leave |
| 6706s | five gold you're getting five ten that |
| 6708s | would be kind of good so i don't i |
| 6711s | assume if you just have one gold minimum |
| 6714s | then you'll get the buff product it's |
| 6716s | very interesting it's also a one drop |
| 6719s | which is actually pretty strong it |
| 6721s | starts as a 2-2 this is very playable |
| 6723s | especially with some heroes there are |
| 6725s | some heroes that just get economy |
| 6727s | um that don't need it i would say uh as |
| 6731s | especially like like let's say you're |
| 6732s | going rafam curve |
| 6734s | i think almost every hero can do that |
| 6736s | they want to and then you'll just have |
| 6738s | this extra one gold so you'll get the |
| 6739s | plus one two plus uh plus one two and |
| 6742s | since it's a one drop it's very likely |
| 6745s | that you'll you'll see like two in the |
| 6746s | shop and then you're like okay there's |
| 6748s | two i'm going reform curve and i'm |
| 6749s | getting plus two plus four every turn |
| 6751s | for free so this is a actually a very |
| 6753s | strong |
| 6754s | tier one drop very playable and opens up |
| 6757s | different curves right safe for a lot of |
| 6760s | players so this is i like this uh this |
| 6762s | decision here yeah i love it as well it |
| 6765s | uh here i am again with my um obligatory |
| 6768s | standard comparisons it reminds me of |
| 6770s | crystal merchant from druid which is a |
| 6772s | card back in the day if you have any |
| 6773s | unspent mana at the end of your turn |
| 6775s | draw a card so we have this sort of |
| 6777s | unspent mechanic coming back and in |
| 6780s | battlegrounds immediately translating |
| 6782s | that into buffs is a cool thing because |
| 6785s | you can sort of value does one gold |
| 6787s | equate two plus one plus two you have no |
| 6789s | reason of course like as you said |
| 6791s | because it's not scaling with how much |
| 6792s | gold you left out you have no reason to |
| 6795s | leave more than one gold unspent ever |
| 6797s | you can just keep rolling and as you |
| 6799s | said on the reform curve on five gold |
| 6801s | you are naturally having a free roll |
| 6804s | anyway usually because you want to like |
| 6805s | buy in hero power and you have one more |
| 6807s | goal to roll so you just don't take that |
| 6809s | role and your tavern temper can grow i |
| 6811s | think it's very very cool i think it has |
| 6814s | um maybe even more potential on gwen in |
| 6817s | particular which is a hero where you |
| 6818s | can't really control what your hero |
| 6820s | power is going to be every single turn |
| 6822s | if you take a cheaper one and don't |
| 6824s | spend all of your mana |
| 6826s | then the tavern tipper gets some |
| 6828s | additional benefit as well |
| 6830s | one thing worth noting though is that |
| 6831s | has no minion type so i wonder if that |
| 6835s | is going to you know that always matters |
| 6837s | that all matters mess with the odds of |
| 6840s | anything but straight into the next game |
| 6843s | i'm still thinking about that card |
| 6845s | personally i'm trying to think of what |
| 6846s | heroes would really abuse ally you can |
| 6848s | have like neutrons and stuff like that |
| 6849s | but oh is that is this a shadow walk |
| 6851s | lobby it is oh |
| 6853s | someone's getting a free one who is it |
| 6854s | waterloo waterloo's into the finals |
| 6856s | let's go |
| 6859s | these are in and naga no pirates so it's |
| 6862s | not the perfect shutter walk lobby but |
| 6864s | you definitely still take it i'd say oh |
| 6869s | it's fine it's fine waterloo knows what |
| 6872s | he's doing he can still win with this |
| 6874s | vulgar version is a fine hero elementors |
| 6877s | are in yeah he gets the 5-4 start yeah |
| 6880s | exactly he knew he was going to get the |
| 6882s | 5-4 start not even worried so yeah |
| 6885s | i would say |
| 6886s | maybe i wouldn't even say shutter watch |
| 6888s | riskier i i would say it's not even |
| 6890s | riskier but he wants to win honorably |
| 6893s | which you know i respect |
| 6895s | i wouldn't but i respect it |
| 6898s | waterloo is one of those players that's |
| 6900s | on a relatively safe point total so his |
| 6902s | mindset must just be i just need a top |
| 6905s | four i just need to not completely throw |
| 6907s | and then i'm good we have hakusai here |
| 6909s | with the eudora start and nice economy |
| 6912s | in the shop gets the hero power on one |
| 6914s | but unfortunately i think he's already |
| 6916s | aware that his point total isn't going |
| 6918s | to matter much here um having |
| 6921s | accumulated zero points so far it's more |
| 6923s | about how you can bully others well you |
| 6926s | still want to have showcase a good |
| 6927s | performance right a lot of people are |
| 6928s | watching this and they they do want to |
| 6930s | you know you don't want to be oh i got |
| 6932s | triple third last like that's not you |
| 6934s | know what you want to end the tournament |
| 6936s | on so i i still think even if they know |
| 6938s | they can't uh get to the finals they |
| 6941s | still want to have a good performance |
| 6942s | showcase that they're you know deserve |
| 6944s | to be here |
| 6945s | absolutely tapi with the amalgam picked |
| 6948s | up from gohan on curator very nice to |
| 6950s | see that on scabs and we already see in |
| 6953s | a beast lobby and elementals in the |
| 6955s | landscape of the early game is so |
| 6957s | different compared to the early games we |
| 6959s | see in today because there's so much |
| 6961s | more options for economy um naga are in |
| 6964s | as well so people with shell collector |
| 6966s | can opt for earlier curves and we do see |
| 6969s | a zyrella as well in here |
| 6971s | and that's a hero that can definitely |
| 6973s | make use of all these tokens very nicely |
| 6976s | yeah something that's very important to |
| 6979s | talk about is just how |
| 6981s | different the games are based on what |
| 6983s | minion types are at and there are some |
| 6984s | specific players that do really well |
| 6986s | with |
| 6987s | like for example beasts and they know |
| 6988s | exactly what to do right elementals and |
| 6990s | they know exactly what to do and when |
| 6992s | you start taking that out right it could |
| 6994s | be such a huge swing that you you don't |
| 6996s | even notice like oh what did i do poorly |
| 6998s | is because you're my favorite minion |
| 7000s | type beast we're in but sometimes it's |
| 7002s | hard to internalize that uh especially |
| 7005s | when you're playing like oh just three |
| 7006s | games you have to make sure what's the |
| 7007s | reason i lost right sometimes it's hard |
| 7009s | to come to like oh i didn't have beasts |
| 7011s | in three of my games like that's what i |
| 7013s | lost so uh sometimes it's fun to |
| 7016s | see |
| 7016s | the players that do really well with |
| 7018s | specific heroes and how they are like or |
| 7020s | specific minions and how they were able |
| 7021s | to abuse like obesity i knew exactly i'm |
| 7024s | gonna go full mom a bit you know or |
| 7026s | elementals and double know me every game |
| 7028s | you know that kind of thing it's kind of |
| 7030s | cool to see |
| 7032s | laffy here with the triple already in |
| 7035s | board uh picked up a water droplet from |
| 7039s | his hero power nice to see frieza's for |
| 7041s | the shell collector you'd have to |
| 7042s | imagine i'm curious about this freeze |
| 7045s | actually though because the shell |
| 7046s | collector while it is of course more |
| 7048s | econ he has tons of econ already and it |
| 7050s | doesn't represent any more pairs well i |
| 7053s | mean |
| 7054s | you can't never go wrong with more econ |
| 7055s | is what i'd say so i'm pretty fine with |
| 7057s | this like uh it just gives you more |
| 7060s | options especially since your hero power |
| 7061s | costs two you can always sell something |
| 7064s | to buy something different uh you see |
| 7065s | two players going three on three both |
| 7067s | are on the pyramid which makes a lot of |
| 7069s | sense three on three hit a good target |
| 7070s | and you have the curator also on three |
| 7072s | probably just didn't hit something he |
| 7073s | really wanted to commit to this is a |
| 7075s | pretty good shot though for the curator |
| 7077s | there going for the |
| 7078s | buster and the event stuff |
| 7081s | triple tough dusk in the shop which is a |
| 7084s | very nice minion to triple because um it |
| 7087s | its golden version does maintain the |
| 7089s | vine shield permanently after you play a |
| 7091s | blood gem on it and with the quill bore |
| 7093s | start and already uh divine shield here |
| 7095s | this could be some sort of gem splitter |
| 7097s | angle for beaufort |
| 7099s | yeah it's it's really good because it |
| 7100s | also has huge or very high base attack |
| 7103s | which is really what's important for a |
| 7104s | pyramid so you immediately make a 5 8 |
| 7107s | that pretty much like can almost solar |
| 7109s | board right but once you hit that second |
| 7111s | pr second product you have a 5 |
| 7114s | 13 right that's going to do a lot of |
| 7116s | work for him so pretty good spot for |
| 7118s | both for there |
| 7119s | after leveling three on three |
| 7122s | zappy with the scabs has leveled now to |
| 7125s | two and is sitting on a triple this is |
| 7128s | going to be a very very easy um road to |
| 7131s | just power leveling to either got a five |
| 7133s | drop or a six i think he has the econ to |
| 7136s | take a six but we'll see how much damage |
| 7138s | he'll be taking here naga are in so i am |
| 7141s | always thinking about athissa just |
| 7143s | straight away |
| 7145s | yeah there's it looks like a lot of |
| 7147s | people are going to be going triples |
| 7149s | into a five or six especially because |
| 7151s | this is a huge like tavern tier five |
| 7154s | temperature six shop you can see zepido |
| 7157s | or adapi is has that strategy zorg on |
| 7160s | the zoroa has a similar strategy uh even |
| 7163s | the uh |
| 7164s | eudora has a very similar strategy as |
| 7167s | well a lot of people uh understand the |
| 7169s | nature of this lobby which means be |
| 7171s | servant so mama beard is the direction |
| 7173s | elementals are in no means a direction |
| 7175s | nag is a renaissance direction so i |
| 7178s | don't think a lot of people are going to |
| 7179s | be going full tempo this lobby it's such |
| 7181s | a stark difference from the first lobby |
| 7183s | in the game where you saw almost no one |
| 7185s | go to five i think you're going to see |
| 7187s | an exact opposite in this lobby where |
| 7189s | almost everyone's going to fight and |
| 7191s | that's just due to what minions are in |
| 7193s | and the heroes they're also playing |
| 7196s | yeah it's due to what minions are in |
| 7197s | because of what options you can get on |
| 7199s | five and six and also because there's so |
| 7201s | many minions that offer economy on tier |
| 7203s | one the elementals beast and the naga |
| 7206s | which means that you have more freedom |
| 7208s | to level safely with that extra gold |
| 7211s | accounted for over here is facing uh |
| 7214s | scabs doppy on the scabs because yeah we |
| 7217s | did just see the options from dappy he |
| 7219s | picked up a cyclone which is a nice |
| 7221s | steal here didn't take the droplet |
| 7223s | because he has no intentions of tripling |
| 7225s | this early and already has his own |
| 7227s | settlement to control whether he's |
| 7229s | getting a five or six friend yeah so |
| 7232s | should win this fight i don't think a |
| 7234s | lot of people could contest uh pyramid |
| 7236s | once you get into the |
| 7239s | mid-game situation just because getting |
| 7242s | five health for free is just too strong |
| 7244s | of a hero power especially when it's not |
| 7247s | um |
| 7248s | especially when you get to target it's |
| 7249s | so uh pretty pretty hard for beaufort to |
| 7252s | be losing these early games so you |
| 7254s | should have a pretty clean |
| 7256s | level to five |
| 7258s | four or five and then decide what to do |
| 7260s | from there oh soul devourer that's a |
| 7262s | pretty nice one you triple sell i think |
| 7265s | i i don't think you yeah i don't think |
| 7267s | it just prints money |
| 7270s | all right going to eat the amalgam he |
| 7273s | can buy another demon if he wants or |
| 7275s | just probably just roll he's on tier 4. |
| 7278s | nomi or |
| 7279s | mama bear is what i'd be looking for we |
| 7281s | don't get to see the discovers |
| 7282s | unfortunately kind of the |
| 7284s | uh the the bug there but |
| 7287s | hopefully we'll get to see pretty soon |
| 7289s | what he decides to do nomi is really |
| 7291s | good because there's two elements in the |
| 7293s | shop mama bear is also okay because he |
| 7295s | gets to roll but goes for myth right |
| 7297s | which i think is also pretty safe yeah |
| 7299s | you're never sad about myth rocks in |
| 7300s | this net i feel like the 3-3 is huge |
| 7304s | you go for like the quillboard the 3-3 |
| 7307s | i think that's what i would look for |
| 7308s | here yeah immediately represent four |
| 7311s | minion types on board he wants a better |
| 7313s | cobra okay fair enough |
| 7321s | another |
| 7323s | sort of menagerie player here |
| 7326s | so he ended up going for double |
| 7329s | uh fives which i think is the absolute |
| 7332s | safest line here like if you wanna not |
| 7335s | be last this is the play go double five |
| 7337s | here hope you hit beast hope you hit |
| 7340s | ella or well not at least ellie's a |
| 7341s | little bit different but i hope he had |
| 7343s | beast essentially and use that to |
| 7345s | recover so he does hit the croc and he |
| 7347s | has the amalgadon right so it should be |
| 7350s | fine but um not |
| 7353s | the cleanest direction to go from here |
| 7356s | but it it's definitely strong enough to |
| 7358s | stay alive and |
| 7359s | guarantee a top four oh for sure guppy |
| 7362s | is in the safest position |
| 7364s | and i don't know if he's come to the |
| 7366s | same conclusion as me because i was just |
| 7368s | eyeballing it i think he's through to |
| 7370s | tomorrow no matter what but just in case |
| 7372s | something went wrong with the math i can |
| 7374s | completely um get behind just going for |
| 7377s | a safe line here waterloo also a player |
| 7380s | that's in a good position but has the |
| 7382s | potential to |
| 7383s | going for the triple here zorg going for |
| 7386s | a six here we'll see what he uh what he |
| 7388s | picks up hopefully it's pretty strong |
| 7390s | uh and we do have um |
| 7393s | yeah |
| 7394s | oh gets a tender right yeah and then the |
| 7397s | tender discovering i like the brute here |
| 7399s | but i can see the collector as well but |
| 7402s | i'd probably lean brood i think if |
| 7403s | you're going tender brute really gives |
| 7405s | you that |
| 7406s | um early game stat buffs to kind of |
| 7408s | commit to nagas |
| 7410s | ooh waterloo went for the five right now |
| 7412s | uh unfortunately we don't see the |
| 7414s | discover options again |
| 7417s | uh but it's very disciplined of him to |
| 7419s | not wait for six because i felt like at |
| 7421s | 33 he still had the license to try and |
| 7424s | hold out for ethissa or orgazoa but it's |
| 7426s | actually so good it gets scary true |
| 7429s | that is maybe the best hit |
| 7431s | especially as volgen |
| 7433s | you can just turn that into when the |
| 7436s | combat starts at 24 64 immediately |
| 7440s | disgusting |
| 7442s | uh here we have kayomi on silas i am not |
| 7445s | percy the biggest fan of stylist i |
| 7447s | always just get like |
| 7449s | like |
| 7450s | abused by bob because i'll level up the |
| 7453s | new tickets and then i'm just like come |
| 7455s | on bob why |
| 7456s | uh but as long as you can get a good |
| 7459s | start feel strong once you can hit the |
| 7461s | late game with your tickets being able |
| 7462s | to discover free fives three sixes can |
| 7465s | be absolutely broken |
| 7469s | and he is pretty safe at 34 for now |
| 7471s | definitely gonna lose this fight but |
| 7474s | we'll see if this amount of damage |
| 7476s | discourages him from going for a six |
| 7479s | the other unfortunate part here is |
| 7481s | there's a chance these road boards don't |
| 7483s | get their frenzy off one of them at |
| 7484s | least though provides a jump |
| 7488s | it should be fine right yeah he just |
| 7490s | loses to the 11 |
| 7493s | attack minion but he's only taking six |
| 7495s | he's at 34. that's not a bad loss he |
| 7498s | gets a jump |
| 7500s | we'll see if he is going to i mean he |
| 7502s | has to go for a six right if he just |
| 7504s | froze this in shop and didn't take a |
| 7505s | five this is looking for athissa or |
| 7509s | orchestra |
| 7510s | yeah he he's definitely set up to get in |
| 7513s | the tissa he's not he doesn't have the |
| 7515s | best at tissa setup because he has no |
| 7517s | spellcraft no |
| 7519s | ways to really proc it probably just |
| 7521s | gonna take the tender uh here and try to |
| 7523s | commit to that so it looks like we have |
| 7526s | a couple players trying to go for the |
| 7527s | naga engines um this isn't necessarily |
| 7530s | the best setup for it especially since |
| 7532s | he's kind of a turn behind compared to |
| 7535s | like zorg who got the tender a turn |
| 7538s | earlier but maybe he can still recover |
| 7540s | with what he has so far |
| 7542s | right |
| 7543s | um i do participate a full ticket board |
| 7546s | and there's quite a few that have you |
| 7549s | know at least minor synergy with the |
| 7550s | board i was gonna mention that i do love |
| 7553s | nago when quillboard are in because the |
| 7555s | blood gems are just additional spells a |
| 7557s | lot of the time it's better to buy a |
| 7559s | sunbacon relaxer than an actual naga |
| 7561s | when you have |
| 7562s | uh athisa on board because it's two |
| 7564s | spells for the price of the uh five |
| 7566s | three um he's probably gonna take the |
| 7568s | highmane right if he wants to go full |
| 7570s | tempo maybe he could even sell the um |
| 7572s | he's gonna sell the |
| 7574s | yeah i was gonna i'll say go sell the |
| 7575s | amalgam over the uh tent the |
| 7579s | green thumb but wants to keep the |
| 7582s | amalgam the problem with keeping amalgam |
| 7584s | is there's no mechs right so you can't |
| 7586s | give the blind shield you can't give |
| 7587s | poison to it so it's not that |
| 7589s | relevant in my opinion it's just like |
| 7591s | some people |
| 7592s | just you know |
| 7594s | they don't want to sell their pets you |
| 7596s | know |
| 7597s | that pet does it costs one good and it's |
| 7599s | value is one goal but they're like you |
| 7601s | know what i've had it my whole childhood |
| 7603s | and i don't want to sell that sucker |
| 7605s | it's not worth anything you know that's |
| 7607s | what i would say but you know some |
| 7609s | people would say you're a monster and |
| 7610s | i'll just be like well i mean i want to |
| 7612s | win so you know |
| 7614s | wow call us like the last person i cast |
| 7616s | with on lobby legends is lissa and i |
| 7618s | cannot feel a more stark difference |
| 7620s | between you and her than what you've |
| 7622s | just said right now |
| 7624s | oh my goodness look at this damage 15 |
| 7627s | it's only 15. |
| 7628s | yeah but |
| 7629s | it's fine it's only 15 that's fine okay |
| 7632s | he's he's below damage cap now though |
| 7634s | this is not a great yogg start |
| 7636s | yeah so this is the issue of yogg so |
| 7639s | some people um were always like oh you |
| 7641s | know yog's not that good you know you |
| 7643s | love when you die and that's why the |
| 7645s | triple having a pair is really important |
| 7647s | or making sure that you're buying like |
| 7649s | really powerful units or |
| 7652s | making sure you transition |
| 7654s | to a very strong position on this turn |
| 7657s | right because this is the main drawback |
| 7660s | of yog if you don't have a triple you |
| 7661s | don't have direction you go to five you |
| 7664s | don't see what you're looking for he |
| 7665s | finds a croc yeah so that could be |
| 7668s | the piece he needs um to survive but if |
| 7672s | you don't find something good like a |
| 7674s | croc you just get tempo down and you die |
| 7676s | so you do have to be careful when you |
| 7678s | play this hero |
| 7681s | okay you're a power hero part because |
| 7683s | you can still trip i know i know i know |
| 7686s | i like the yog he's a young player i |
| 7689s | like it i respect that |
| 7692s | but actually there wasn't any like |
| 7694s | terrible outcome from the hero power |
| 7695s | here obviously the best is if you land |
| 7697s | the croc if you hit the tavern tempest |
| 7700s | it's the same amount of gold anyway |
| 7702s | because he was always going to triple |
| 7704s | cell here honestly |
| 7705s | if you could replace one more minion |
| 7707s | that would be amazing because the |
| 7708s | wildfire elemental still not great here |
| 7711s | but the big deal is finally that's a lot |
| 7713s | of stats because of the croc i really |
| 7715s | like him putting that uh cleave last i |
| 7718s | think it makes so much sense he has the |
| 7720s | high mains taunted that was the one |
| 7722s | thing i was looking for in his position |
| 7724s | you know just to like if i had something |
| 7725s | to criticize but he did it right he put |
| 7727s | it left because i just think it's a lot |
| 7728s | safer to have a big cleave finish out |
| 7731s | your turns especially this early when |
| 7733s | once you hit a certain attack or health |
| 7736s | break point they can't one shot your |
| 7737s | minion so i i really like that |
| 7739s | especially with the taunts that he |
| 7740s | already has i agree |
| 7743s | bird buddy times two for gohan is |
| 7746s | um obviously a lot of stats as well but |
| 7748s | we'll see if it can stand up to the |
| 7750s | cleave at the end here |
| 7753s | oh yeah you could snipe the hydra in |
| 7755s | fact |
| 7756s | though the one thing i |
| 7758s | was gonna say i i think i forgot to |
| 7760s | mention it but um this double bird buddy |
| 7763s | it's really good tempo in the early game |
| 7766s | but it never wins it almost never wins |
| 7768s | right it's more of a top four |
| 7770s | composition you just want to make sure |
| 7772s | that i'm gonna talk for a buddy yeah |
| 7774s | it doesn't win but yeah strong enough to |
| 7776s | take out the uh |
| 7780s | it takes out only ash from 14. i i |
| 7782s | didn't expect that i don't know who was |
| 7784s | favored looking at the fight but i |
| 7786s | didn't think that odish was going to die |
| 7787s | even if he lost here that is |
| 7790s | terrible news for him i am not sure if |
| 7792s | he's safe anymore the |
| 7794s | issue like surprisingly the issue that |
| 7797s | he had is he had too many beasts with |
| 7799s | his croc he would actually have a better |
| 7801s | chance to win if he had less |
| 7803s | beast because you really want to focus |
| 7805s | those buffs on that cleave and the |
| 7807s | cleave if that cleave can go twice you |
| 7809s | probably win but since he had so many |
| 7811s | beasts it was so hard for that croc to |
| 7813s | target that beast buff and end up |
| 7815s | spreading it out by having a bunch of |
| 7817s | eight eighths that didn't really do too |
| 7819s | much and ends up |
| 7820s | losing because of it i i don't think |
| 7822s | that's the main reason right it's more |
| 7824s | of the risk of playing yog but um if he |
| 7826s | had less bc he probably had a better |
| 7828s | chance funny enough |
| 7829s | oh but watching that last cleave from |
| 7831s | the hydra just go straight on the left |
| 7833s | and leave the two bird buddies intact |
| 7836s | and break open the rat pack that was a |
| 7838s | heartbreaker but |
| 7840s | uh we'll see what's going on in the rest |
| 7841s | of the lobby beaufort i don't know if |
| 7844s | he's 100 i don't think he was because he |
| 7846s | had that seventh place in the second so |
| 7848s | has to come in clutch here and he's in a |
| 7850s | great position uh has the critter |
| 7852s | wrangler so he's turning these buffs |
| 7854s | into or like the spellcraft into hydra |
| 7856s | getting some permanent buffs plus two |
| 7858s | plus two for each and the wind fury on |
| 7861s | that is amazing |
| 7863s | yeah i i'm kind of uh |
| 7866s | i'm kind of of the opinion that uh |
| 7869s | critter wrangler did not need to be |
| 7870s | buffed to 2-2 again i just don't think |
| 7873s | uh the the |
| 7875s | most common abuse of this minion is to |
| 7878s | just buff cleaves and when you make it a |
| 7880s | tutu a lot of times the cleaves are |
| 7882s | strong enough again so you end up having |
| 7884s | cleaves that go three times four times |
| 7886s | and you're just like man this this one |
| 7889s | card is soloing my board so um we're |
| 7892s | going to have to see oh |
| 7896s | i'll shut up |
| 7899s | no no no don't i need you to give all |
| 7901s | the smart analysis disgusting hit there |
| 7904s | for |
| 7905s | for uh |
| 7907s | who what player is that for the dappy |
| 7909s | there to get that hit there and uh keep |
| 7912s | himself alive because i i do think this |
| 7914s | is um |
| 7916s | if if beaufort went first dapidor's dead |
| 7919s | basically i completely agree |
| 7921s | it's not close |
| 7924s | what a scam but he i mean |
| 7927s | he he doesn't even need that he's |
| 7929s | already in right that he's already in |
| 7931s | he's just like yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna |
| 7932s | try to mess the rest of the players up |
| 7934s | too |
| 7935s | island on everyone else he's getting |
| 7937s | revenge on beaufort for killing him in |
| 7939s | the first game |
| 7942s | all right waterloo here on the vol'jin |
| 7945s | has not really grown the corrupted |
| 7948s | myrmidon since we last checked in on him |
| 7950s | hasn't managed to find ethissa but is |
| 7952s | hanging in there with the shoal |
| 7953s | commanders has make another one yeah |
| 7956s | make another one |
| 7958s | yeah you just buff the 2440 the 2644 and |
| 7962s | then you swap it |
| 7964s | and then you have this huge |
| 7966s | is there any merit to swapping the 1917 |
| 7970s | because it looks like it's not going to |
| 7971s | be permanent on this board i feel like |
| 7972s | it's giving the worst spellcraft out of |
| 7974s | these |
| 7975s | well |
| 7976s | maybe right i i i i like this play |
| 7980s | because he's just going to make the |
| 7981s | biggest minion possible to swap in but |
| 7985s | um |
| 7986s | there is there is the the line of just |
| 7989s | um |
| 7990s | taking the things you're gonna sell but |
| 7992s | i do think just like making the big |
| 7994s | minion is has the most overall value so |
| 7996s | i i lean towards that play probably |
| 7998s | going to take the leroy as well |
| 8001s | i like that sell the 17 than the 7 17 |
| 8004s | playlist |
| 8007s | so losing the show commander does get |
| 8009s | him out of a pair but i agree that this |
| 8011s | is a situation where you're at 14 i |
| 8013s | think it's more important to just not be |
| 8015s | greedy here |
| 8017s | um |
| 8019s | yeah okay good sal's dad plays the leroy |
| 8022s | i like this play here i think this makes |
| 8024s | a lot of sense the one issue i don't |
| 8026s | think he's gonna go uh get into that but |
| 8029s | if the opponent has like |
| 8031s | you know a mantid or a leroy ton that he |
| 8033s | could get absolutely blown up but i i do |
| 8036s | i don't think um the pyramid which is |
| 8038s | beaufort right had that set up the both |
| 8040s | red the cleave which is going to get |
| 8042s | absolutely punished right with this |
| 8043s | positioning so i really like that though |
| 8046s | really like that actually yeah that's so |
| 8049s | good |
| 8050s | i don't know if waterloo had already |
| 8051s | faced bofor at the point that he had a |
| 8053s | cleave but this is an amazing read and |
| 8056s | just make sure that the hydra only gets |
| 8058s | one attack through before it dies |
| 8060s | nothing too relevant destroyed on |
| 8062s | waterloo's side and he is gonna take a |
| 8064s | very easy win because of the huge |
| 8066s | thoughts on these corrupted ramadans it |
| 8068s | might even be lethal right yeah it is |
| 8072s | gets the kill there with that |
| 8073s | positioning i i really like that because |
| 8075s | even if you say oh he's fought him |
| 8077s | before you can see his his instinct is |
| 8080s | to put that leroy first right but then |
| 8081s | he's thinking oh what he doesn't clean |
| 8083s | the dad let me actually fix it put it |
| 8085s | next to the top and he gets absolutely |
| 8087s | rewarded for that so you gotta give him |
| 8088s | credit for for that positioning decision |
| 8091s | there so i really like to see that |
| 8094s | gohan |
| 8096s | dealing 10 to hakasey on the eudora here |
| 8103s | barely surviving here with a tie |
| 8108s | you can see the difference with this |
| 8110s | lobby and the non-beast lobbies right |
| 8113s | there's a lot more beasts uh that are |
| 8115s | doing well a ton of |
| 8118s | uh top four players i would say three of |
| 8120s | the four |
| 8121s | are beasts or three of the five are |
| 8123s | beasts actually right so just that |
| 8125s | introduction of that one extra |
| 8128s | um minion type is changing how |
| 8131s | people play what they're looking for and |
| 8133s | things like that this is a really huge |
| 8135s | triple look how big this is there's no |
| 8137s | murlocs in the lobby right so you're |
| 8139s | pretty much going to need to play mantid |
| 8141s | you're going to need to play uh leeroy's |
| 8143s | to deal with that one card there |
| 8147s | interesting that waterloo there's always |
| 8149s | a decision right because you in order to |
| 8152s | turn the spellcraft stats into permanent |
| 8155s | buffs using the vulgin hero power you of |
| 8156s | course need to play the spells first but |
| 8158s | there was a world where the triple maybe |
| 8160s | gives him a thissa and sometimes you |
| 8162s | would rather have had the spells in hand |
| 8164s | oh |
| 8165s | do you think this is |
| 8167s | even with the |
| 8168s | yeah even with the tissa you get more |
| 8170s | stats like this so |
| 8172s | on one minion |
| 8174s | any relevance to buffing the rest of the |
| 8176s | board there is a good chance he sells |
| 8178s | the rest of those |
| 8179s | actually okay fair this place like |
| 8181s | double mantid double leroy so those |
| 8184s | those units aren't really permanent so i |
| 8186s | have no problems just like committing |
| 8188s | making that big unit that you know |
| 8189s | you're going to keep the rest you're not |
| 8191s | really 100 sure you're going to keep |
| 8192s | there's a good chance you keep them if |
| 8194s | you don't find anything else but it's |
| 8195s | not guaranteed i think you can win with |
| 8198s | all of those factors it does make a lot |
| 8200s | of sense now you put it that way and |
| 8202s | against beast yeah if you are reading |
| 8204s | your opponents as seven beasts you're |
| 8206s | not worried about poison you're not |
| 8207s | worried about leroy unless they played |
| 8209s | at that very same turn so just going for |
| 8211s | maximum stats even if it's all on one |
| 8213s | minion is the way to go |
| 8215s | yes |
| 8218s | i was um talking about how he he was |
| 8220s | running uh the beast buddy and beast |
| 8223s | buddy i would say is not a competition |
| 8225s | that wins but it is a composition that |
| 8227s | top four is right you can see he's kind |
| 8229s | of in that position right he's he's not |
| 8231s | weak especially since he's added the |
| 8233s | mama bear he's added |
| 8234s | uh like rat pack synergies in there but |
| 8237s | it's not he's not in a position to kind |
| 8240s | of dominate anyone i would say uh |
| 8242s | especially huge stats like uh |
| 8245s | the |
| 8248s | the vulgen has |
| 8250s | so unfortunately for hakasi going down |
| 8253s | in fifth place |
| 8255s | dapi though um still has potential i |
| 8258s | mean he's just top forward every lobby |
| 8260s | so far that's very very impressive |
| 8262s | potential to get even further than that |
| 8265s | now with the reborn on the gas coiler |
| 8267s | there's always scam potential getting |
| 8269s | leeroy's out of nowhere facing waterloo |
| 8272s | obviously the poison is going to be so |
| 8274s | valuable because waterloo's playing that |
| 8276s | huge crop ramadan |
| 8278s | yeah definitely the most consistent |
| 8280s | player i think and even in the other |
| 8282s | tournaments too not just this one he's |
| 8284s | always been doing really well and very |
| 8286s | consistent so definitely |
| 8288s | uh showcasing even among like these very |
| 8290s | high scope players has that tendency to |
| 8292s | find a way to |
| 8294s | stay consistent stay strong and beat out |
| 8296s | some of the other high level players in |
| 8298s | in these tournaments |
| 8299s | with dappy i remember casting him at |
| 8302s | first i think |
| 8303s | um was it a pocky's tournament one of |
| 8306s | those competitions yeah i i don't quite |
| 8308s | remember which one but it's definitely |
| 8310s | been more than a year since then and i |
| 8312s | still recall the first thing he did was |
| 8315s | pick reno and on turn one by a roth |
| 8318s | weaver and gold in it and i was like wow |
| 8320s | he is so committed to playing for temple |
| 8323s | and that's not necessarily the case |
| 8325s | until now we've seen dapi you know go |
| 8327s | for tempo when it's relevant you've seen |
| 8329s | him go for greed when it's possible but |
| 8331s | one thing that still sticks out is that |
| 8333s | he's always just got such great |
| 8335s | awareness of what situation he needs to |
| 8337s | go for in each lobby and he can lay that |
| 8340s | out as early as turn one and it's great |
| 8342s | to see that he is doing well once again |
| 8345s | yeah it's always good here we have zorg |
| 8347s | we haven't really talked too much about |
| 8349s | him he's always been a fancy player |
| 8352s | that's what i think |
| 8353s | i think of him he's got this beast set |
| 8355s | up |
| 8356s | it's kind of funny right he taunted the |
| 8358s | croc and as soon as he taunts it oh |
| 8360s | there's a triploid now he's like ah yeah |
| 8363s | but |
| 8363s | it should be pretty strong set up for |
| 8365s | this fight especially |
| 8367s | against his opponent it's kind of a |
| 8368s | mirror match but uh |
| 8371s | he has a little bit better setup for the |
| 8373s | mirror because he has the double croc |
| 8376s | double mama versus the bird buddy uh |
| 8379s | variant which isn't as strong as like in |
| 8382s | my opinion is double cross |
| 8383s | or |
| 8385s | yeah exactly |
| 8386s | we'll see what happens right things can |
| 8388s | change especially with his mother's |
| 8390s | bears getting sniped before the opponent |
| 8392s | but |
| 8393s | i could still end up winning with the |
| 8396s | good hits here |
| 8397s | oh that's that's nice |
| 8400s | yeah |
| 8401s | i do think this rat pack will |
| 8404s | well actually okay okay yes |
| 8406s | no no wait wait no no it's not yeah |
| 8408s | because of the summons yeah |
| 8411s | i am not action there i am not a fan of |
| 8414s | this uh |
| 8416s | uh what's it called baby crush yeah baby |
| 8419s | crush not a fan of this card it's so |
| 8421s | troll |
| 8423s | i do think zork probably got scammed |
| 8426s | maybe he was like 30 30 to lose or |
| 8429s | something like that which |
| 8430s | i think is okay right like that's not as |
| 8433s | egregious of a flip as as it could be so |
| 8437s | just kind of losing the mirror |
| 8440s | crazy that gohan has gotten this far |
| 8442s | with essentially just a bird buddy comp |
| 8444s | but like you said this is a card that |
| 8446s | hardly ever wins but it does guarantee |
| 8448s | top five and in this case got him all |
| 8450s | the way to top two is it gonna be enough |
| 8452s | against waterloo uh gohan i think needs |
| 8455s | to look for a leroy or some sort of |
| 8458s | technique he i love it he's he's happy |
| 8460s | to hit that but that's not good enough |
| 8462s | and he fought waterloo so he knows |
| 8464s | exactly i guess he's just happy to get |
| 8465s | second right because maybe maybe like |
| 8468s | his chatter or something is like you're |
| 8469s | guaranteed in you know good job and he's |
| 8471s | like yeah i could see that yeah |
| 8474s | here's a leroy okay |
| 8476s | he does understand that he needs the |
| 8478s | leroy to win yeah |
| 8480s | he definitely has to end on six minions |
| 8482s | for it but this leeroy if he's gonna |
| 8484s | have any chance needs to hit that huge |
| 8487s | corrupt myrmidon because otherwise it |
| 8488s | could solo this entire board yeah so by |
| 8492s | the way right waterloo skipped the |
| 8494s | shutter walk which we were like oh |
| 8496s | shadow walk free win |
| 8497s | but then just does it with the with the |
| 8500s | vulgen so |
| 8501s | i i gotta say he knows what he's doing |
| 8503s | right so yeah for sure |
| 8506s | what do we know collins uh well i mean i |
| 8509s | know a little bit less |
| 8511s | what do i know i am so sorry i |
| 8520s | you you come in some of my lobbies and |
| 8522s | you i'm just like i have to fight |
| 8524s | gia again |
| 8538s | absolutely yeah even with the um even if |
| 8541s | that leroy goes in you probably still |
| 8543s | win |
| 8549s | yeah you still win exactly just like i |
| 8552s | said |
| 8553s | if i still win it's just that easy for |
| 8555s | uh waterloo waterloo getting that first |
| 8558s | place and pretty much gonna guarantee |
| 8560s | him into the finals i think with that |
| 8561s | performance so |
| 8563s | very happy for for him to get that clean |
| 8565s | win |
| 8566s | very impressive stuff all the way from |
| 8569s | the beginning of just using um the pick |
| 8573s | of vulgin for example like because we |
| 8574s | talked about shutter walk right because |
| 8576s | we saw the beast we saw the naga that's |
| 8578s | a good shutter walk lobby but he also |
| 8580s | recognized that he saw um |
| 8584s | elemental's such a big one because of |
| 8585s | the buffed above light it just means you |
| 8588s | uh can win so many of your early fights |
| 8590s | as bull uh vol'jin if you just see a |
| 8592s | single bubblet at the start and he |
| 8594s | absolutely did leverage that into a |
| 8596s | victory at the end there um tripled into |
| 8599s | corrupt urban dawn knew that this was |
| 8601s | the win condition didn't get too greedy |
| 8603s | with his six drops either i think it was |
| 8605s | a very very clean strategy from waterloo |
| 8608s | start to finish |
| 8609s | yeah very well done from him there and |
| 8612s | even gohan as well that i was a little |
| 8614s | bit worried about his positioning right |
| 8616s | he was kind of relying on bird buddies |
| 8618s | and i don't usually like bird buddies as |
| 8620s | a |
| 8621s | engine to top four because it's so risky |
| 8624s | uh once people get like really powerful |
| 8627s | comps they start beating you but he |
| 8628s | leveraged that bird buddy to go into |
| 8630s | like a more standard beast composition |
| 8632s | which can absolutely top four and using |
| 8634s | that to get the second place there so |
| 8636s | very well done |
| 8639s | right and of course we have to shout out |
| 8641s | that one play from waterloo to put his |
| 8644s | um leroy next to the taunt at the far |
| 8646s | right to play around the huge win fury |
| 8648s | cleave i think that was from both her |
| 8650s | yeah very very nicely done |
| 8652s | um |
| 8653s | that was one of the highlights of the |
| 8654s | tournament so far for me because collins |
| 8656s | this is already our halfway point for |
| 8659s | day one that's the final la game of |
| 8662s | lobby a played out in just a few more |
| 8665s | minutes we'll find out who is going to |
| 8667s | join us through to tomorrow the top four |
| 8670s | from lobby a i think we are already sure |
| 8672s | about dapido i think waterloo has booked |
| 8674s | his ticket as well but um my mental |
| 8676s | track hasn't really kept up with who is |
| 8679s | third and fourth |
| 8680s | i would say maybe gohan as well |
| 8683s | uh since he was clapping at the end no |
| 8686s | idea from the point standpoint just from |
| 8688s | his excitement |
| 8689s | to be getting second i'm gonna i'm gonna |
| 8692s | guess there as well but fourth fourth |
| 8694s | person no idea so we're really got to |
| 8696s | figure it out once the break's done yeah |
| 8699s | a bit unlucky for zork there he lost a |
| 8701s | flip i'm pretty sure he was favored in |
| 8702s | this fight and maybe that could be the |
| 8704s | difference maker so really be sad if he |
| 8706s | misses by a couple punches because he |
| 8708s | lost that flip there that's right oleash |
| 8711s | i think was in the running he had a |
| 8713s | couple top fours um |
| 8716s | of course beaufort won the first lobby |
| 8718s | but is just coming a little bit short |
| 8721s | alongside zorg tied on fifth and sixth |
| 8724s | they are .5 points away from making it |
| 8727s | through to tomorrow |
| 8729s | yeah both beaufort and zorg right like |
| 8732s | barely |
| 8733s | don't make it with those plays right |
| 8735s | waterloo personally took out vote for |
| 8738s | there and zorg lost the flip uh where if |
| 8742s | he gets to flip he makes it in right |
| 8744s | gohan uh |
| 8746s | gets clean right with that second place |
| 8748s | uh |
| 8749s | position gives him enough points to get |
| 8751s | a clean third there so very well done |
| 8753s | you can kind of see |
| 8755s | the different |
| 8756s | placements there the pedo very |
| 8758s | consistent waterloo also very consistent |
| 8760s | and the everyone else kind of bunched |
| 8762s | together afterwards |
| 8763s | that is right unfortunately though for |
| 8765s | coyomi and hakka say that's going to be |
| 8767s | the end of their run as well i think two |
| 8770s | players from japan which has always been |
| 8772s | strongly represented in battlegrounds |
| 8775s | but there's still a lot of apac players |
| 8776s | making it through of course most notably |
| 8778s | dapi just having those |
| 8780s | extremely consistent performances very |
| 8783s | very impressive stuff and for oleish |
| 8786s | there that's gotta be such a big relief |
| 8788s | i felt like he was getting scammed out |
| 8790s | of a top four but just makes it barely |
| 8792s | with a 0.5 um heartbreaker for zorg |
| 8795s | though um and beaufort as well i think |
| 8798s | we'll be seeing them at future lobby |
| 8800s | legends though i have no doubts yeah we |
| 8802s | definitely will they're all good players |
| 8803s | there so kind of rough sometimes |
| 8806s | especially when you don't make it by |
| 8809s | half a point or a point like that you |
| 8811s | really start analyzing your play you |
| 8813s | start you know internalizing what do i |
| 8814s | do wrong and and sometimes you know |
| 8817s | bob's just not on your day or the fight |
| 8819s | rng is not on your day and you just have |
| 8821s | to move on and |
| 8823s | do your best in the next ones at least |
| 8824s | that's what i tell myself you know as i |
| 8826s | cry but you know it's |
| 8829s | that is right so now that we have our |
| 8832s | top four from lobby a in the books half |
| 8835s | of our finalists tomorrow have been |
| 8837s | determined as well but we have to just |
| 8840s | go to a short break to figure out um |
| 8843s | just who will be joining us from lobby b |
| 8845s | tomorrow |
| 8846s | right after this we will figure out who |
| 8849s | are our finals in the top eights don't |
| 8852s | go anywhere we'll be back right after |
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| 9471s | greetings from the tavern and welcome |
| 9472s | back to lobby legends eternal night |
| 9475s | where we are entering the second half of |
| 9476s | the day it's lobby b now still giant |
| 9479s | collins here to bring you all of the |
| 9481s | action and collins how you been doing so |
| 9483s | far did you enjoy our lobby a |
| 9485s | proceedings |
| 9486s | yeah it's been a lot of fun just kind of |
| 9488s | watching them play i've been really |
| 9490s | interested by the |
| 9493s | compositions that |
| 9494s | uh each player made i don't think we saw |
| 9497s | a lot of like |
| 9498s | clean perfect i hit exactly what i |
| 9501s | needed and then bam i know exactly what |
| 9502s | i'm doing right didn't really see any |
| 9504s | nomi's didn't really see that many like |
| 9506s | super clean attitudes no cali comps uh |
| 9509s | some beast in the third game right but |
| 9512s | not any a lot of the games ended up with |
| 9514s | people like |
| 9515s | finding something to do right there it |
| 9518s | wasn't i'm i knew exactly what i'm gonna |
| 9520s | do from turn six oh i won it's like oh i |
| 9523s | don't know what to do let's get some |
| 9525s | stats let's get a little bit more stats |
| 9527s | oh i found a buster maybe i'll play half |
| 9529s | buster have stats okay now full buster |
| 9531s | now we're there you know it's not it's |
| 9533s | not super clean and that's |
| 9536s | in my opinion more interesting to watch |
| 9537s | because it requires more decision making |
| 9539s | so i kind of want to see if that's more |
| 9542s | of a mega high level discussion or if |
| 9546s | it's more of like just these are the |
| 9548s | players that just play for safety here |
| 9551s | you go now these players are just |
| 9553s | playing full hyrule everyone's just |
| 9555s | getting stats you're kicking people out |
| 9557s | turn seven |
| 9558s | that kind of thing so uh we're gonna see |
| 9561s | what the second group of players have in |
| 9563s | store for us that is right we will be |
| 9565s | seeing who is joining us from lobby b |
| 9568s | very soon but just to recap what |
| 9569s | happened over in lobby a the four |
| 9571s | players who will be joining us for the |
| 9573s | finals tomorrow are dapido waterloo |
| 9576s | gohan and oleash gohan we failed to |
| 9579s | mention actually i just found out from |
| 9581s | manage over the break is actually one of |
| 9583s | the chinese players he also goes by 13 |
| 9586s | and that was the name i was expecting to |
| 9588s | see so unfortunately we weren't able to |
| 9590s | share too many details about him but it |
| 9593s | turns out he is one of the i guess |
| 9595s | lesser known players among the chinese |
| 9597s | representatives but he's very consistent |
| 9600s | in china he played all three of their |
| 9601s | lobby legends qualifiers so far and he's |
| 9603s | had back to back to back good results in |
| 9606s | all three of the gold opens but over in |
| 9608s | lobby b collins we'll be seeing even |
| 9610s | more of the players from the chinese |
| 9612s | region and we always kind of keep a |
| 9614s | special eye out for them because we |
| 9615s | don't get to see exactly how their |
| 9618s | qualification system works there |
| 9619s | everybody else we can follow how they've |
| 9621s | been doing on ladders so far and names |
| 9624s | like dabido waterloo and oleash |
| 9626s | definitely have been on the radar for |
| 9629s | quite some time |
| 9630s | yeah it's it's it's always interesting |
| 9632s | to get to see |
| 9634s | players from different regions and like |
| 9636s | their style right sometimes you'll have |
| 9638s | uh a region like really focus on this |
| 9641s | particular stuff maybe full tempo you'll |
| 9643s | have some |
| 9644s | regions i'll be like a little bit safer |
| 9646s | you'll have like like i remember in a |
| 9648s | tournament we had |
| 9650s | one region like really focused on like |
| 9652s | growing |
| 9653s | uh warrior curve and the other regions |
| 9655s | didn't really focus on that much and you |
| 9656s | really got to see the differences in |
| 9658s | some some sometimes you know once i'll |
| 9660s | be a little bit better or a little bit |
| 9662s | better for tournament play than another |
| 9665s | but it's always nice to have this mix of |
| 9667s | strategies mix of |
| 9669s | um |
| 9670s | decisions because it it overall makes |
| 9672s | everyone better when you have uh more |
| 9675s | choices in the game |
| 9677s | right and i think a lot of people will |
| 9679s | be hoping to bring lavi legends glory to |
| 9682s | their own regions as well because so far |
| 9684s | our two champions have both been from |
| 9687s | europe if i'm not mistaken being nice |
| 9689s | and max seven key uh could be a bit |
| 9691s | different now at least with the results |
| 9693s | from lobby a we only have olyash going |
| 9695s | in so far from the europa region in a |
| 9698s | lobby b though we are going to quickly |
| 9701s | see who is joining us i can list off the |
| 9703s | names while we're never thought about |
| 9705s | that huh i guess i we do need some other |
| 9708s | regions to show up huh okay i need to |
| 9710s | stop slacking i hear you |
| 9713s | loud and clear dude |
| 9715s | i'll work on it |
| 9716s | i'm in college casting should be your |
| 9718s | fallback you're an amazing player |
| 9721s | this is just your side gig okay i do |
| 9723s | love casting though it's really fun so |
| 9725s | uh i asked |
| 9727s | maybe main thing we'll we'll see we'll |
| 9728s | see |
| 9730s | we're also looking forward to some more |
| 9733s | reveals so far we've gotten like a |
| 9735s | couple of minions and a new hero and |
| 9738s | every time we've had more to say but the |
| 9740s | game was starting so we couldn't quite |
| 9741s | finish out all of our thoughts here but |
| 9743s | yes these are new minions that will be |
| 9745s | joining battleground soon look forward |
| 9747s | to a patch notes soon as well you can't |
| 9750s | quite share all the exact dates but i uh |
| 9753s | oh okay okay new one right away kooky |
| 9756s | chemist a tier 2 minion battle cry swap |
| 9758s | the attack and health of a minion no |
| 9761s | minion type |
| 9762s | wow |
| 9763s | okay i remember i remember this from |
| 9766s | arena this is a straight up arena card |
| 9768s | to me where i used it a lot to kind of |
| 9771s | get those better traits and |
| 9773s | battlegrounds how will i utilize this |
| 9776s | uh there's a lot of minions with really |
| 9779s | high health not |
| 9781s | high attack |
| 9782s | i'm sure this is broken by the way |
| 9786s | i'm sure this is broken i just |
| 9788s | don't know exactly where |
| 9791s | it oh chroma wig obviously that's so |
| 9794s | true it's chroma wig that makes this |
| 9797s | broken yes you you take a golden chroma |
| 9799s | wing you you shoot it up to like a |
| 9801s | thousand attack and you swap it now you |
| 9802s | have a thousand health minion yeah so |
| 9804s | there's there's the abuse here with this |
| 9806s | card it's a tier two four four which is |
| 9808s | already playable even without the battle |
| 9811s | cry you you take that normally and then |
| 9814s | if you have an early early chromo wing |
| 9816s | you just swap the attack |
| 9818s | and it's it's unkillable so yeah this is |
| 9822s | gonna be broken uh if dragons are in |
| 9825s | that's my |
| 9826s | immediate reaction to this and it's |
| 9828s | gonna get nerfed another |
| 9830s | somewhere all right hot tape |
| 9833s | either chrome or wings getting nerfed or |
| 9834s | this car is getting changed in some |
| 9836s | fashion so yeah |
| 9838s | it's so funny that your first thought is |
| 9840s | to swap the attack and make the health |
| 9842s | because when i looked at this my first |
| 9844s | thought was okay if i'm playing pyramid |
| 9845s | i put all the health on my hydra and |
| 9848s | then later on i swap it and have a giant |
| 9851s | cleave i don't know if i'm thinking big |
| 9852s | enough but that's just a couple of |
| 9854s | synergies there and i'm sure there's |
| 9856s | with volgen with all of these heroes |
| 9858s | that can deal with stat swaps i'm sure |
| 9860s | there's even more synergies to think |
| 9862s | about i wonder if there's ways you can |
| 9864s | use like a battle master to have high |
| 9866s | attack is that ever something you can do |
| 9867s | if you're playing divine shields i don't |
| 9869s | know it's just such a cool card well my |
| 9872s | my initial thoughts when it comes to |
| 9873s | swapping is health is more relevant |
| 9876s | attack and it's a lot easier to get |
| 9877s | attacked so i was just looking like how |
| 9879s | do i get huge attack very quickly chroma |
| 9880s | wing bam there's the b for sure |
| 9882s | but there's not a lot of other |
| 9884s | cards that really function in the way |
| 9887s | crowing does where it just gets attacked |
| 9888s | like crazy and there's there's not |
| 9890s | really a way to abuse that so i just |
| 9892s | think um that's probably going to be |
| 9895s | where we find the problematic synergies |
| 9898s | within that combination but other than |
| 9901s | that i don't really see a lot of other |
| 9902s | like clean synergies for for that |
| 9905s | particular interaction so we'll have to |
| 9907s | see maybe |
| 9908s | uh |
| 9909s | the other players can find a better |
| 9912s | abuse |
| 9913s | and then see than just me with a 10 |
| 9915s | second glance so |
| 9917s | we'll see |
| 9918s | and there are a lot of other players to |
| 9920s | talk about la vie v has a lot of the |
| 9923s | heavyweights from the battleground scene |
| 9925s | included i think a lot of people be very |
| 9927s | familiar with goddammit just such a |
| 9930s | consistent tournament performer huge |
| 9932s | streamer uh great on ladder and xqn |
| 9934s | perennially top of the eu ladder as well |
| 9938s | such a huge name very happy to see him |
| 9940s | in lobby legends and then we have some |
| 9942s | repeat performers jaguan say and kid i |
| 9944s | think were both playing in the previous |
| 9946s | lobby legends as well then we have |
| 9949s | valera and zizi also from the china |
| 9951s | region joining um |
| 9953s | kid there and they are both just such |
| 9956s | experienced players and then in the |
| 9957s | middle alex and karamon from japan just |
| 9960s | another heavyweight locale for the |
| 9962s | battleground scene yeah a lot of great |
| 9965s | players here a lot of |
| 9966s | known names i think |
| 9969s | is very common here so should be |
| 9971s | interesting i do think we're gonna get |
| 9974s | different |
| 9975s | uh |
| 9976s | games from the first three once again it |
| 9979s | might be due to just different minion |
| 9980s | types maybe more beast games but i also |
| 9983s | think these players play a little bit |
| 9984s | different from what i've seen watching |
| 9986s | them a lot of them are |
| 9988s | a little bit more high rolly so we might |
| 9991s | see some like |
| 9992s | stronger board states that's one thing i |
| 9995s | noticed in this particular |
| 9997s | string of three games at the board state |
| 9999s | weren't weren't particularly |
| 10002s | destructive or overpowering compared to |
| 10005s | what is possible in the game so uh some |
| 10007s | of these players like to make some crazy |
| 10009s | boards so i'm hoping to see |
| 10011s | uh some some nonsense from these |
| 10015s | just go ahead and drop names we know |
| 10017s | xqm's play style he loves the green |
| 10019s | there i also think god dammit |
| 10022s | does that a lot as well uh to be fair so |
| 10025s | those two players really like to uh like |
| 10029s | dance on the edge of what is possible |
| 10032s | you know sorry guys it should be very |
| 10034s | fun |
| 10035s | push the limits and i'm just going to |
| 10037s | add another name in there we hear from |
| 10038s | bennett that zz is also a player that |
| 10041s | loves to go for first place you see his |
| 10043s | name here is blz bl is his team tag so |
| 10046s | we'll just call him zz for now yeah |
| 10047s | unfortunately for this uh row for dummy |
| 10050s | this is not a hero that pushes the edge |
| 10052s | of what's possible so yeah uh he's |
| 10054s | really gonna be trying to top four |
| 10056s | should be very happy if he hits that but |
| 10058s | uh just taking a look at some of the |
| 10060s | heroes we have we have another pyramid i |
| 10062s | think pyramid is going to be picked |
| 10063s | every time uh you see it just because |
| 10066s | it's so safe so strong we have this reno |
| 10069s | really copying uh the p right uh dappy |
| 10072s | there right with the turn one reno hero |
| 10074s | power uh if no murlocs are in i really |
| 10076s | like it and it looks like yeah there are |
| 10078s | no murlocs in so i think this is a |
| 10079s | pretty safe play to get |
| 10081s | at least a healthy position uh might not |
| 10084s | be |
| 10085s | full commitment to demons but this |
| 10087s | should give you a lot of help to kind of |
| 10089s | stay alive and then find a real game |
| 10091s | plan or that's a game plan |
| 10093s | valera is committed from turn one that's |
| 10095s | it he has no more hero power throughout |
| 10097s | the rest of the game but he says getting |
| 10099s | this raft weaver to scale twice as much |
| 10102s | as it would compared to the normal |
| 10103s | version is going to be enough tempo to |
| 10106s | secure him a top four and of course this |
| 10107s | is just the first lobby of the day and |
| 10109s | the goal is to try and be top four at |
| 10112s | the end of it it's not necessarily about |
| 10114s | playing first place always xqn though on |
| 10117s | the mukla very very interesting this is |
| 10119s | a hero that i wouldn't say necessarily |
| 10121s | suits the playstyle i'm used to seeing |
| 10123s | him go for but again it's about securing |
| 10126s | top four really i think this hero like |
| 10128s | makes a ton of sense uh |
| 10130s | yeah cause cause uh what this hero does |
| 10133s | once again |
| 10134s | i don't think this hero needs like 10 |
| 10137s | armor i i was very confused when i read |
| 10139s | the patch notes and like oh mook was |
| 10141s | like getting the same armor value of |
| 10143s | like rock and issue and like some of |
| 10145s | these like very |
| 10147s | poor performing heroes and like so one |
| 10150s | thing about mukla is if you get a good |
| 10152s | start you can just kind of level |
| 10155s | uh once again and and that's the |
| 10156s | difference uh where you would say oh |
| 10159s | mooks is not really a great hero for |
| 10160s | like high rolling well if you're able to |
| 10162s | level quickly to five to six and then |
| 10165s | you get to play the game from there with |
| 10166s | super high health yeah you get to you |
| 10169s | can actually hyro super crazy a lot of |
| 10171s | people with mukla just tend to like oh |
| 10173s | i'll get the blind shields up here power |
| 10175s | divine shields but i think the real key |
| 10177s | with this hero is being able to use the |
| 10180s | the |
| 10180s | bananas just to stay safe and then once |
| 10183s | you're safe then you make a real game |
| 10184s | plan so i think it does fit the |
| 10187s | the play style of someone like xu |
| 10189s | very cool you're opening my eyes to |
| 10191s | something different here collins uh zz |
| 10194s | on the varden which has frozen and free |
| 10198s | dealing gambling i love i love frozen |
| 10200s | gambling yeah |
| 10202s | so much money so much economy that |
| 10204s | triple is free you just sell it you get |
| 10206s | your economy back it's really really |
| 10208s | strong hopefully he does hit the |
| 10211s | uh |
| 10212s | the extra gambler right because if he |
| 10214s | rolls another two drop there's a chance |
| 10216s | that they'll get the two drop as a pair |
| 10219s | so this it's a big deal whether he gets |
| 10221s | that triple a gambler roll or gets |
| 10224s | another two drop |
| 10226s | but we'll see what happens to him |
| 10228s | while we're on his perspective we can |
| 10230s | talk about how zzz had apparently one of |
| 10232s | the most dominating runs at one of the |
| 10235s | thousand plus people gold opens last |
| 10237s | year so the format for that used to be |
| 10240s | five games no check format and he |
| 10242s | actually managed to end it after four |
| 10244s | rounds because he got only like one |
| 10247s | first first first and second so they had |
| 10250s | to change the format because of him |
| 10252s | after that tournament this guy has a |
| 10254s | pedigree that is not to be |
| 10255s | underestimated and there is the triple |
| 10257s | like you were talking about it's nice |
| 10259s | when you play a tournament and then |
| 10260s | they're like you know what |
| 10262s | this guy's too good let's just change |
| 10265s | the tournament |
| 10266s | that's gotta feel real good there so |
| 10268s | yeah i i i like to see it we'll see if |
| 10270s | he can |
| 10271s | uh repeat that type of performance in |
| 10273s | these in these tournaments or these |
| 10275s | lobbies |
| 10277s | right moving over to jaguan say who is |
| 10279s | one of our repeat performers played in |
| 10281s | lobby legends too as well he's on the |
| 10283s | scabs here and has a very nice economy |
| 10286s | start um |
| 10288s | should he pick up this deck swabby pair |
| 10291s | and potentially not play one of them |
| 10293s | because i feel like you want to stay on |
| 10295s | tier one okay never level and you play |
| 10297s | the second one right okay um |
| 10300s | the other line is you take the demon for |
| 10302s | stats yeah so uh he can also do that too |
| 10305s | the second the second scally you would |
| 10308s | take if you like looked in the in the |
| 10310s | rest of the lobby you saw there were |
| 10311s | other other people with pirates starts |
| 10313s | because if they're playing firestarts |
| 10314s | very likely they also have scabby so |
| 10316s | you'd look for a triple but it looks |
| 10317s | like he looked and there wasn't a lot of |
| 10319s | people playing pipes but you know maybe |
| 10321s | he got that pirate the scally from that |
| 10323s | opponent right so he knew he had a |
| 10325s | skeleton uh but i guess he just wants |
| 10328s | the stats just wants to stay alive right |
| 10330s | if you |
| 10331s | don't take damage you're doing pretty |
| 10333s | good especially in the early game so |
| 10334s | yeah interesting because on six gold i |
| 10336s | often feel like okay if i haven't |
| 10338s | leveled here let me just stay one more |
| 10340s | turn until i get the guaranteed triple |
| 10342s | just complete the warrior curve but |
| 10343s | we're already seeing players like i |
| 10346s | pretty much |
| 10347s | always on six with this here with the |
| 10350s | scaps |
| 10351s | i almost never stayed on seven gold with |
| 10353s | this i think you once you level on six |
| 10355s | then pretty much your curve is hero |
| 10357s | power level here apparently level here |
| 10359s | power level sometimes you sell sometimes |
| 10361s | you don't depending on whether you get |
| 10362s | economy from your hero power but that's |
| 10364s | just a very common thing you can do with |
| 10366s | scabs there and that's why i'm a caster |
| 10369s | uh we have zz here with the peggy and uh |
| 10373s | he got that from the gambler tripler but |
| 10375s | the gambler itself is his only pirate so |
| 10377s | if he doesn't pick up another pirate i |
| 10378s | mean i have seen a couple games i think |
| 10381s | on lee's stream where he has just left |
| 10383s | the gambler in place |
| 10385s | because it's the only thing to benefit |
| 10386s | from peggy yeah but it wasn't a golden |
| 10389s | gambler you see there's a difference |
| 10391s | right it's too much of a of a price to |
| 10394s | pay you're you're saving six gold just |
| 10397s | to keep up uh |
| 10399s | a pirate i think you just find a |
| 10401s | replacement at some like as soon as |
| 10403s | possible well maybe not as soon as |
| 10404s | possible very quickly and then you just |
| 10406s | move on with your life |
| 10408s | happy to be on karemon's perspective |
| 10410s | here though because when we checked in |
| 10411s | with him he had a little bit of a pop-up |
| 10413s | i think just happy to see that he's got |
| 10416s | a triple two triples in three truffles |
| 10419s | and chop i can't even count there's the |
| 10421s | the the trickster the bubblett and this |
| 10423s | elemental oh my goodness you talked |
| 10426s | about collins how we haven't seen just a |
| 10427s | game where you got everything you want |
| 10429s | and you high roll this might be it |
| 10432s | yeah only issue is he is on 27 but he is |
| 10435s | winning this fight and i think this is a |
| 10437s | big deal to win this fight as long as he |
| 10440s | like stays 17 health so he doesn't like |
| 10443s | take 10 damage and i think he'll be in |
| 10446s | an extremely good spot uh he he's also |
| 10449s | the curve is also perfect where he can |
| 10451s | just level and level |
| 10453s | and get three six drops most likely fell |
| 10456s | back there's no murloc so as long as he |
| 10458s | doesn't take like 10 damage in the next |
| 10460s | fight he should be extremely |
| 10463s | extremely good position |
| 10465s | and we are seeing xun doing exactly what |
| 10467s | she recommended colin's just leveraging |
| 10470s | that hero power to let you level pretty |
| 10472s | safely he's still at three armor with a |
| 10474s | triple frozen in the shop that's a great |
| 10476s | start on mukka if i've ever seen one |
| 10479s | pretty nice distribution of the bananas |
| 10481s | as well where he does get the divine |
| 10482s | shield minions to relevant attack totals |
| 10485s | but also has saved from some bananas to |
| 10487s | make sure that the chromo wings get good |
| 10489s | value from the doubling |
| 10491s | yeah uh |
| 10492s | i'm just going to throw this in once |
| 10494s | imagine the swapper attack is in there |
| 10496s | right you just uh you just full st |
| 10499s | you're playing much like you full stack |
| 10501s | the chroma wing you triple that chroma |
| 10502s | wing and then that thing has like a |
| 10504s | thousand attack with mukla buffs it it |
| 10507s | does and then you swap that that's going |
| 10509s | to be a ten a thousand like that that |
| 10511s | that card's getting changed |
| 10513s | it's like no relaxing ten a thousand |
| 10516s | like turn turn seven that card's getting |
| 10518s | changed so i'm just saying like the |
| 10520s | potential for that to be absolutely |
| 10522s | broken is right there |
| 10524s | uh and you can kind of see it but |
| 10526s | fortunately the that's not in the game |
| 10527s | yet but i'm just like sweating with that |
| 10530s | introduction because that's an it's |
| 10532s | gonna be in every lobby it has no type |
| 10534s | so if it was like maybe not uh |
| 10537s | like if it was if it had a type maybe |
| 10538s | you could say oh you know dragons are in |
| 10540s | but this card's out here it's in every |
| 10542s | lobby so you're gonna have to see it |
| 10545s | all right god dammit on this need here |
| 10547s | also with a triple in the shop looks |
| 10549s | like almost all of our players have |
| 10550s | access to at least one triple which is |
| 10552s | nice to see everybody with the potential |
| 10554s | to spike |
| 10556s | he is going to take a victory over xq |
| 10558s | and here it's need hero power not super |
| 10562s | useful in the early game but if you can |
| 10564s | get to you know six drops and use that |
| 10566s | hero power you can suddenly get so much |
| 10569s | value out of each and every high tier |
| 10571s | minion no beast though so not much |
| 10573s | potential for a gas coiler to spawn |
| 10575s | more gas coilers and things like that |
| 10578s | making a five here which is pretty |
| 10579s | interesting um i do understand the five |
| 10582s | just because it's tempo |
| 10584s | right there's there's you don't want to |
| 10586s | like |
| 10587s | take 15 just to get a six i don't think |
| 10589s | that's worth it right so you may as well |
| 10591s | take a five the problem with the five is |
| 10592s | there's not that many good hits he |
| 10594s | actually found probably |
| 10596s | the second best hit maybe not the best |
| 10598s | hit i would say no mean this position is |
| 10600s | probably the best hit but he found the |
| 10601s | second best hit uh where he can really |
| 10603s | do a lot if he |
| 10605s | uh finds a major dome or something like |
| 10608s | that afterwards he should be pretty good |
| 10610s | and even just the freeze of the sally in |
| 10612s | the shop because this board was party |
| 10614s | and double molten rock that was already |
| 10616s | kind of good |
| 10619s | i mean |
| 10621s | it has another triple in hand it's the |
| 10622s | potential for yes |
| 10625s | i mean it could be triple kelly |
| 10627s | well the game's over no i'm kidding he |
| 10629s | there's another triple next turn uh he |
| 10631s | can still get double kelly there you |
| 10633s | might just take nosy here because the |
| 10635s | other two aren't really good direction |
| 10637s | little rag has kind of fallen off super |
| 10639s | hard is the direction it used to be |
| 10640s | pretty good i think if you are gonna go |
| 10642s | little rag the best bet is to just go to |
| 10644s | tier six and play like double little rag |
| 10646s | on tier six where you can start hitting |
| 10648s | playing uh six drops and things like |
| 10650s | that but uh if you're tripling into a |
| 10652s | little rack's not really the direction |
| 10654s | you want to go so i think we're probably |
| 10655s | going to see a nomi pick up here but |
| 10657s | they're all pretty poor |
| 10660s | all right it is the nosy just like you |
| 10663s | said another shot at kala ghost in a |
| 10665s | couple turns and uh on the very next run |
| 10668s | with that additional triple but for now |
| 10671s | um karamon wasn't looking particularly |
| 10673s | strong however dragon say has hit a |
| 10675s | triple of his own that buster doesn't |
| 10677s | have any synergy just yet but he's kind |
| 10679s | of safe at 25 definitely not gonna die |
| 10682s | uh even though i don't think he's |
| 10684s | winning this fight oh that's alex alex |
| 10686s | with the i'm going to top four and scam |
| 10689s | everyone composition uh i personally |
| 10692s | don't love to play this because i feel |
| 10694s | icky inside but it definitely works uh |
| 10698s | you pretty much always win with this |
| 10700s | hero with this setup uh it's just so |
| 10702s | hard to get through all the all the |
| 10704s | taunts and the buffs and the |
| 10706s | the uh the juggles and everything uh but |
| 10709s | it unfortunately falls off once people |
| 10712s | start having like |
| 10713s | really good compositions but in the mid |
| 10716s | game you you smack people for a lot and |
| 10718s | you maybe knock people out that don't |
| 10719s | deserve it |
| 10721s | well bats i think we're getting off the |
| 10723s | cali train i'm sorry kelly's so good |
| 10727s | kelly's so good here what are you |
| 10729s | talking about yeah this is an easy uh |
| 10731s | easy sell is he starting the wrath uh |
| 10734s | reaver i actually like that i don't |
| 10736s | think you need to take extra damage the |
| 10737s | raptor is not that |
| 10739s | relevant anymore so i wouldn't mind |
| 10741s | selling that wrath we were just saying i |
| 10743s | don't want to take one damage for this |
| 10744s | yeah i like i like this a lot and just |
| 10747s | committing |
| 10748s | yeah i completely agree um |
| 10751s | that roth weaver if he gets to the point |
| 10754s | where it actually puts him down to 15 |
| 10756s | it's just not worth the investment |
| 10760s | i like this he tripled into a little rag |
| 10762s | because he had the uh the tavern tempest |
| 10765s | in the shop that's why he that's why he |
| 10767s | committed i love it |
| 10769s | makes sense you can buy one here and a |
| 10772s | lot of the time hit the triple on that |
| 10774s | as well and that's an amazing triple to |
| 10776s | hit when you have the low rag yeah i do |
| 10779s | agree not got unlucky with the next |
| 10781s | refresh |
| 10784s | it's very unlike oh yeah okay so he's |
| 10786s | guaranteed almost guaranteeing it by |
| 10788s | freezing it because uh he will get that |
| 10791s | refresh you need something to refresh |
| 10793s | for |
| 10793s | the varden ability to active so there's |
| 10795s | one slot it has to be a five and then he |
| 10798s | has to lose a 50 50. it's so unlikely |
| 10800s | yeah |
| 10801s | yeah so maximizing the odds that he gets |
| 10803s | the triple on the tempest there that's |
| 10805s | just very clean warden play here i feel |
| 10807s | like this is a hero that is slightly |
| 10810s | underpicked because not everybody |
| 10812s | understands the different ways to |
| 10813s | manipulate the shop to give you better |
| 10815s | odds of hitting the triples and it's |
| 10817s | nice to see zz utilizing to full |
| 10819s | potential there |
| 10821s | unsee here really depends where he can |
| 10823s | get this faux reaper to go but okay |
| 10826s | that's an amazing cleave that's going to |
| 10827s | be a huge win here i think |
| 10830s | i do agree vorden's so broken in the |
| 10832s | right hands and also the right lobbies |
| 10834s | as well like you do need to have lobbies |
| 10836s | that can abuse it but |
| 10838s | in those ride lobbies like this could be |
| 10839s | just the best hero like excluding |
| 10842s | shutter walk but you know |
| 10844s | oh it's not really fair |
| 10846s | i haven't really checked in with kid for |
| 10848s | a while but he does have the triple |
| 10849s | weaver in the shop and has been buffing |
| 10852s | up this chromo wing using the hero power |
| 10855s | from pyramid as well to keep it healthy |
| 10859s | yeah another thing we wanted to get is |
| 10861s | like just taking a look at xq and you |
| 10863s | can see so many bad sixes |
| 10865s | uh that people are hitting right the |
| 10867s | good ones are probably fel bad buster oh |
| 10870s | yeah |
| 10871s | ripple devourer makes this turn a lot |
| 10875s | better wow yeah you just eat whatever |
| 10879s | not the other devourer but yes i think |
| 10881s | yeah okay yes yeah don't do that |
| 10886s | okay it looks like he will |
| 10888s | leave the big fernal intact because he's |
| 10890s | eating it oh okay my bad |
| 10892s | he buffed it to eat it right because he |
| 10894s | gets double the value so |
| 10896s | that plus four becomes a plus eight |
| 10898s | since you're eating and getting twice |
| 10899s | the sets |
| 10901s | but do you like eating that over |
| 10903s | the minion that isn't scaling here then |
| 10905s | prisoner |
| 10906s | i maybe would have |
| 10908s | kept the trickster in case i had felt |
| 10909s | bad so that i i might have i would have |
| 10912s | had maybe plus one plus one less stats |
| 10914s | but i had a trickster on the board |
| 10915s | because if you hit the fell bad then |
| 10917s | it's a lot better for you but this is |
| 10919s | generally |
| 10920s | reasonable right you he went for as many |
| 10923s | as much stats as possible so i respect |
| 10925s | that ooh i like the i like the i like |
| 10928s | the four six there i think he should |
| 10929s | take that that's what the sense |
| 10933s | he didn't have to take nadina because |
| 10935s | there just wasn't a fel bat like that |
| 10937s | was the only synergy he could get at |
| 10939s | that point to go with this crow mowing |
| 10941s | so making the best out of a bad |
| 10942s | situation |
| 10944s | yeah same thing with xq and right |
| 10946s | extreme had the triple in the shop he |
| 10947s | got the triple his best option was |
| 10950s | mantid queen which uh isn't really a a |
| 10953s | card you want to be playing in the early |
| 10955s | game it's more of a tech tech option the |
| 10957s | late game uh |
| 10958s | early early game mantic queen's really |
| 10960s | good with a lot of minion types because |
| 10963s | uh it just wins you the fight but it's |
| 10965s | not something you want to rely on |
| 10969s | a lot of people spiking here the scabs |
| 10972s | with the buster getting a lot of work |
| 10974s | done but the stats are too much from the |
| 10976s | soul devourer uh he is gonna survive |
| 10979s | though |
| 10980s | yeah a lot of damage there a lot of |
| 10982s | people taking a lot |
| 10984s | um there's not anyone that really jumps |
| 10986s | out as like hitting the nuts hitting the |
| 10988s | clean or the strongest boards a lot of |
| 10990s | people kind of want to take stuff and |
| 10993s | like they got a zap and they're like oh |
| 10994s | no they got a newsie they're like oh no |
| 10997s | they got like a a random cali with no |
| 11000s | synergy and they're like yeah i can't do |
| 11002s | anything |
| 11003s | so |
| 11004s | no one really high rolled but everyone |
| 11008s | tried i would say right it's a little |
| 11010s | bit different than the previous lobby |
| 11012s | where people weren't even trying a high |
| 11014s | roll they just wanted the top four here |
| 11017s | everyone's trying to hyrule and failing |
| 11019s | yeah caravan especially with all those |
| 11021s | triples but didn't really find two of |
| 11023s | the same kind which is when you can |
| 11024s | really pop off and commit to a single |
| 11026s | direction still though just played for |
| 11029s | maximum stats and can just hit people |
| 11031s | for a lot of damage because it's still |
| 11032s | three six drops |
| 11034s | uh no major domo still i really like |
| 11038s | what dumb it's doing actually he's |
| 11040s | utilizing his hero power uh and trying |
| 11042s | to make that work if |
| 11044s | if uh zz wasn't at seven uh hd |
| 11049s | well yeah i guess double gd but if he |
| 11051s | wasn't at seven hp i like the double |
| 11053s | kali but with seven hp you just can't do |
| 11055s | it |
| 11056s | this can't do it uh triple kelly |
| 11059s | oh |
| 11060s | no |
| 11061s | yeah but at this point he just |
| 11063s | kind of have to commit to the little rag |
| 11065s | right sell out of the brand yeah |
| 11069s | wait for max stats get one more roll in |
| 11072s | play with genie |
| 11074s | oh you can buy another um refreshing |
| 11077s | race |
| 11079s | i think i always confuse that in the |
| 11081s | anomaly |
| 11083s | yeah he got it he got it |
| 11085s | what he didn't get through was the |
| 11086s | unfreeze because i'm pretty yeah wow i |
| 11088s | mean no time there that's that's you're |
| 11091s | asking for a lot there |
| 11095s | it's a tough game with the slug |
| 11099s | all right gets a good hit there |
| 11102s | um just has to dodge he only has one |
| 11104s | option so it it should be fine for him |
| 11108s | taking a lot here |
| 11110s | wow |
| 11111s | so happy that the damage cap is still in |
| 11114s | existence valeria's |
| 11116s | this was the reno that hero powered the |
| 11118s | rappy wrong one correct right and tried |
| 11120s | to recover from there |
| 11122s | uh |
| 11124s | oh z got knocked |
| 11130s | despite having the double genies i guess |
| 11133s | it wasn't amazing scaling right away |
| 11135s | right it was just potential that yeah |
| 11137s | but |
| 11138s | that's rough |
| 11140s | yeah level to six right and that's the |
| 11142s | risk of leveling to six right you take a |
| 11144s | lot of damage in these type of lobbies |
| 11146s | where normally you can get there and you |
| 11148s | get to six you play double kali and then |
| 11150s | the next turn you're like immediately |
| 11151s | strong here you didn't have the the time |
| 11153s | to go for double kelly so you're just |
| 11155s | trying to make things work and it's a |
| 11158s | lot weaker than what you're used to and |
| 11160s | then you you falter out |
| 11162s | yeah xqn gets zzz's ghost here and he is |
| 11166s | playing um |
| 11168s | a bit of |
| 11170s | a mishmash here obviously the nadine |
| 11172s | with chromowing is great but it's not |
| 11174s | really defending anything else the myth |
| 11176s | rocks seems kind of late feels like xq1 |
| 11178s | has been looking for the triple on this |
| 11180s | for quite some time but hasn't hit so he |
| 11182s | really only has two big threats here i |
| 11184s | would say he initially tripled the |
| 11186s | chromo wing right we saw that and he had |
| 11188s | to get the mantid and then he tripled |
| 11189s | again and he had the nadina and they're |
| 11191s | not like super strong options uh by any |
| 11195s | means so just not the greatest uh |
| 11198s | rng in terms of the triples for him |
| 11201s | there so a bit bit unlucky |
| 11203s | but still you know not dead fighting the |
| 11206s | ghost maybe a couple other people died |
| 11208s | and he squeaked out like a top five or |
| 11210s | so so there's a bit of hope for him |
| 11212s | there |
| 11214s | for goddammit do you think he should end |
| 11215s | this turn by taking the triple or does |
| 11218s | that actually weaken his board so he |
| 11220s | could just hear a power block and then |
| 11222s | get a six next turn uh which is what |
| 11224s | he's doing |
| 11225s | but he could also just sell get the trip |
| 11227s | we'll get a five but i don't really |
| 11228s | think he needs to do that so i like the |
| 11230s | hero power lock i agree i don't think |
| 11232s | there's any fives that really help him |
| 11234s | right now like nomi's far too late |
| 11235s | second master doesn't scale enough so |
| 11237s | he's got second master i think second |
| 11239s | master would be okay but that's the only |
| 11241s | hit |
| 11242s | uh |
| 11243s | well i mean maybe no me but it's late |
| 11245s | it's late for that so probably the |
| 11247s | second last |
| 11250s | i think on six there is much stronger |
| 11252s | prospects in finding a mounted queen |
| 11257s | the nice thing of a six as well is he is |
| 11260s | playing sneeds right so he can just like |
| 11261s | hero power get more manchester |
| 11264s | randomly and and things like that so |
| 11266s | uh there are more values since he is |
| 11268s | playing this particular hero than just |
| 11270s | like oh i wanna |
| 11271s | it even if you don't hit a matchup you |
| 11273s | can just hero power and get him mastered |
| 11274s | that way |
| 11275s | he's gonna knock jargon say out here |
| 11277s | even though uh looked like he was pretty |
| 11280s | promising with the buster comp there was |
| 11282s | just too much stats on this master |
| 11284s | reality uh speaking of too much stats |
| 11287s | the fel bad scaling for caramel and it's |
| 11289s | been a while since we checked in on him |
| 11290s | but he did manage to commit to more of a |
| 11293s | demon direction since then |
| 11295s | yeah once again this is kind of why i |
| 11297s | don't like playing gray bow because it |
| 11299s | kind of leads you in that like scam |
| 11301s | composition and these players are too |
| 11303s | good right like you top four on ladder |
| 11306s | but here like the players are just |
| 11308s | bigger than than on ladder so you don't |
| 11311s | get the top four people just like have |
| 11313s | nuts boards and then you just like |
| 11315s | falter out so a bit bit of a rough uh |
| 11318s | rough one for alex jp though |
| 11321s | it |
| 11322s | is going to level is he is he oh he's |
| 11326s | not oh |
| 11333s | i mean any elemental that generates more |
| 11335s | is just so much thoughts on his master |
| 11337s | of realities here because of this golden |
| 11338s | party elemental |
| 11340s | basically doing old arana things |
| 11343s | but better |
| 11344s | i did like the uh |
| 11346s | the level but i could also see not |
| 11348s | leveling because if you hit |
| 11350s | uh something you can keep you can hear a |
| 11352s | power of that and get leroy which is |
| 11353s | basically the same as uh |
| 11356s | mantid so it kind of fulfills both |
| 11359s | uh |
| 11360s | procs but it looks like he's just fully |
| 11362s | committing he probably wanted to look |
| 11364s | for the second uh the second master |
| 11366s | which i think is probably the best hit |
| 11368s | in the game out of all fives and sixes |
| 11370s | that look like you just take second |
| 11372s | master but i didn't get it just hit |
| 11375s | tavern which is okay it's just stats but |
| 11377s | not like real tempo |
| 11379s | uh but generally strong enough it should |
| 11381s | be pretty pretty good right now having a |
| 11383s | 99 99 is |
| 11386s | pretty hard to deal with actually it's |
| 11387s | 104. i i blinked in the game |
| 11392s | no worries it is just very heads up to |
| 11394s | recognize oh |
| 11396s | the lyra went straight in and i think |
| 11397s | goddammit even consciously included a |
| 11399s | ring matron in this mom to have more |
| 11402s | taunts to try and play around leroy but |
| 11404s | gets |
| 11406s | absolutely wrecked by that um i think |
| 11409s | it's very good recognition that master |
| 11411s | has potential in this lobby because |
| 11414s | there's no murlocs you can tell less |
| 11416s | potential for poison better potential to |
| 11419s | go for some scams here but goddammit |
| 11420s | still actually takes the victory amazing |
| 11422s | but doesn't doesn't kill him right so |
| 11424s | that's that's the problem of that leroy |
| 11427s | hit uh |
| 11428s | the the reno stays alive |
| 11431s | and each placement matters so much so it |
| 11434s | actually feels bad to to not get that |
| 11436s | that kill there |
| 11438s | but it was xqm that went out instead i |
| 11440s | believe in fifth place |
| 11443s | kind of rough a lot of people actually |
| 11445s | playing something similar with the |
| 11446s | nadina and chromowing like just one |
| 11449s | dragon is enough to do the job |
| 11452s | yeah i mean there's not too many like |
| 11455s | good directions i would say i would say |
| 11458s | the one who has the best directions |
| 11459s | probably the mayev with the uh felbat |
| 11462s | scaling it's just so hard to deal with |
| 11464s | fel bad skilling when there's no poison |
| 11467s | but other than yeah look at this board |
| 11468s | it's so disgusting but other than this |
| 11471s | player i don't think there's a lot of |
| 11473s | other players maybe dumbed on on the |
| 11475s | sneeds can like get a scam there because |
| 11478s | he can he can create more poisons with |
| 11480s | leroys and mantis from this fives and |
| 11483s | sixes that he'll be picking up later in |
| 11484s | the game but other than that i don't |
| 11486s | think there's a lot of people that can |
| 11487s | contest this kind of scaling |
| 11489s | aaron looks pretty good with that huge |
| 11491s | trickster oh fine |
| 11492s | looks even better you know a golden sold |
| 11495s | that yeah i like that |
| 11497s | and it's just pretty funny to look at a |
| 11499s | blood board with a ghoul but actually |
| 11501s | golden bubble dies to exactly two damage |
| 11504s | and not one i learned that the hard way |
| 11506s | so it will not die to the ghoul |
| 11508s | it's just next level tactics you you |
| 11511s | think i'm grooling my bub lead no no no |
| 11513s | i'm uh buffing it up and |
| 11515s | doing yours |
| 11517s | okay who leaves the building anyway |
| 11519s | never mind |
| 11521s | he's gonna buy the the other one don't |
| 11522s | worry i see it i see it |
| 11525s | [Music] |
| 11527s | what did he sell there he saw the |
| 11529s | bearing |
| 11530s | he sold his master of realities oh okay |
| 11533s | that's fair that's right |
| 11536s | oh |
| 11537s | the lyrics to play around |
| 11539s | oh he might have wanted to lock that uh |
| 11542s | he he really wanted he really wanted to |
| 11544s | lock that board that board was so good |
| 11546s | for him but yeah uh this unfortunate uh |
| 11549s | just rolled at the last second wasn't |
| 11551s | really thinking about it and then he was |
| 11553s | like oh wait that board is insane for me |
| 11555s | but he's he's still in an amazing spot |
| 11558s | so even even if he doesn't get that lock |
| 11561s | he's still really happy uh but he could |
| 11564s | have been even happier right the |
| 11566s | demolished everyone with a lock like |
| 11568s | that getting another fell back |
| 11571s | rolls valera though and i think valeria |
| 11574s | can't be too sad about that when you |
| 11575s | hero power your wrath you run turn one |
| 11577s | as you know you are just |
| 11581s | barely tied there that sneak hero power |
| 11583s | coming in clutch for goddammit |
| 11586s | steve kind of broken in the right hand |
| 11588s | so what is this like |
| 11590s | wait don't give me ideas |
| 11592s | no i i am a big snead hater personally |
| 11596s | don't play that hero i don't like him at |
| 11598s | all he's he's too toxic right getting |
| 11601s | random |
| 11602s | uh you know random leroys from your hero |
| 11604s | power getting random mantis from your |
| 11606s | hero power that's just too strong too |
| 11608s | obnoxious to deal with yeah i'm not a |
| 11611s | big fan either |
| 11612s | okay just rolled triple cleave |
| 11616s | in one turn did he just have that in one |
| 11618s | turn |
| 11619s | it looks like but is it good i don't |
| 11622s | know what he can sell he can sell the uh |
| 11624s | the elemental that's the only other |
| 11627s | yeah |
| 11628s | it's not good though i |
| 11631s | uh to be fair that's that's the thing i |
| 11633s | don't think it's that great tiny |
| 11635s | reaper well it's it's going to be golden |
| 11638s | right so it's 12 attack cleave i mean |
| 11641s | little tiny |
| 11642s | yeah it is |
| 11644s | i would probably lead the baron just by |
| 11646s | the baron but you sometimes you can't |
| 11648s | resist a triple because the triple give |
| 11650s | you a second mantad true and the second |
| 11652s | man is just better so you may as well |
| 11654s | just want to try it |
| 11656s | we are entering a sort of poison |
| 11659s | situation for the end game |
| 11661s | um |
| 11663s | oh yes another shot at mounted i think |
| 11665s | is still very very relevant |
| 11669s | does he play it though or does he like |
| 11672s | not care it's like i'll just hold it |
| 11674s | like i'm about to die maybe but i'll |
| 11676s | just hold it |
| 11679s | right now should read mixed minions he |
| 11681s | actually has two nadinas |
| 11683s | and only one dragon so i don't think |
| 11685s | caramel can have very good of a read on |
| 11688s | what's happening so maybe he's just |
| 11690s | gonna hold this um for now |
| 11692s | i think it is losable |
| 11694s | right it is loseable for maya which i |
| 11697s | would say normally if you're in the |
| 11699s | mayab you don't think this is loseable |
| 11701s | like your board is so strong but |
| 11703s | uh |
| 11707s | oh |
| 11709s | collins |
| 11711s | uh oh uh i think collins needs to get |
| 11713s | his bikes fixed for a bit but uh he was |
| 11716s | absolutely right in saying that it was |
| 11718s | loseable very close at the end there but |
| 11720s | ends up in a tie instead amazing how kid |
| 11723s | has leveraged that one chromo wing into |
| 11726s | killing off three four minions because |
| 11728s | of those nadina procs here caramon is |
| 11731s | going to figure out how to adjust but |
| 11733s | for now needs to face goddammit on this |
| 11736s | need and if we recall goddammit had |
| 11739s | those elemental boards like that huge |
| 11741s | master of realities which i think |
| 11743s | caramel already has accounted for with |
| 11745s | the double leroy would have to get |
| 11747s | pretty unlucky to miss that with both of |
| 11749s | his attacks going first |
| 11750s | and the rest of goddammit's board i |
| 11752s | don't think is threatening too many |
| 11754s | stats |
| 11755s | yeah i may have like |
| 11757s | dropped my mic and everything |
| 11760s | it's all right |
| 11762s | it happens |
| 11763s | but yeah it looks like uh the mayav did |
| 11766s | win there uh it's kind of hard to beat |
| 11768s | this board uh if you don't have |
| 11771s | perfect hits |
| 11772s | i don't think uh dumbed will have a |
| 11774s | better op uh better chance as well like |
| 11777s | it's just chimney stats with golden fell |
| 11779s | bad golden |
| 11780s | uh trickster |
| 11782s | uh yeah argus though he might be able to |
| 11785s | play around the two leroys in front |
| 11787s | depending on whether he takes the argus |
| 11789s | the problem is even if you play around |
| 11791s | the true leroys you still die like you |
| 11794s | don't have enough stats to deal with the |
| 11796s | rest of the board so airfare it just |
| 11798s | doesn't matter it's just too many stats |
| 11800s | here i mean okay if the master survives |
| 11804s | let's say it survives both the leroys |
| 11806s | and the mounted queen |
| 11808s | can it deal with the board that's |
| 11810s | already we're already going to like 10 |
| 11813s | situations and then |
| 11815s | even with that going i still think he |
| 11817s | loses so no i think he has a chance yeah |
| 11820s | all right all right but he is putting |
| 11822s | the master all the way in the back just |
| 11824s | you got to believe in yourself at least |
| 11826s | truly |
| 11828s | that's what that is i believe in myself |
| 11830s | and my minions but just hope that these |
| 11833s | leroys want to party and don't hit the |
| 11835s | master it's a golden baron now and a |
| 11838s | second meant it i mean it's not it's not |
| 11841s | happening |
| 11844s | yeah the methods are just too much |
| 11848s | even without the mantis he still wins |
| 11850s | that's my point like |
| 11853s | he could he could run just that one card |
| 11856s | that one fell back and he was solo the |
| 11858s | board |
| 11859s | it is true way too much health after |
| 11861s | those tricksters |
| 11863s | but i i spoke too soon i forgot that |
| 11866s | he's playing snead a super toxic hero |
| 11867s | that can randomly get leeroy's out of |
| 11869s | the pool but obviously it's not enough |
| 11871s | right but if it was a little bit closer |
| 11873s | imagine winning this fight because |
| 11875s | you're leroy like you just pulled leeroy |
| 11877s | from a five drop alive though that's a |
| 11880s | big deal |
| 11881s | oh yeah |
| 11883s | yes because of the leroy |
| 11886s | i didn't like that one either that is |
| 11888s | true i actually thought that was the end |
| 11889s | of the game |
| 11893s | i'm like oh wait there's another player |
| 11895s | in this lobby too okay i thought that |
| 11898s | was it |
| 11900s | it has so much gold to work with doesn't |
| 11903s | go for the full um chomp on the second |
| 11906s | soul devourer though i think he's just |
| 11908s | not looking to sell anything because he |
| 11910s | really values his health total every |
| 11912s | single point of it i think in order to |
| 11914s | get full |
| 11916s | eats from the soul devourer he'd have to |
| 11918s | remove the cataract here at some point |
| 11922s | ah the i mean the what's the thing he's |
| 11924s | looking for i guess he just needs leroy |
| 11927s | manted there's not a lot of |
| 11930s | other options there's an argument that |
| 11932s | that selly mental is playable because |
| 11936s | i honestly your felt bad isn't doing |
| 11938s | anything you're uh |
| 11940s | the libra is amazing uh |
| 11943s | that captain that met uh catherine earth |
| 11945s | here is also not doing anything right so |
| 11948s | maybe the selfless could like rebuff the |
| 11951s | one of your bigger shields so i could |
| 11953s | see that as an option it's not a great |
| 11955s | option you're really looking for leroy's |
| 11956s | at bad tits but it's definitely |
| 11959s | something you can do |
| 11961s | if you're pushed to the edge |
| 11964s | yeah for kid here i don't think he has |
| 11966s | full information on what exactly the |
| 11968s | stat line is of the board from |
| 11971s | uh goddammit on this need so he might be |
| 11974s | thinking that a little bit more attack |
| 11977s | on his draftweaver maybe lets him value |
| 11979s | trade a party elemental or sorry a |
| 11981s | molten rock if it attacks twice but |
| 11984s | you're absolutely right once he sees i |
| 11986s | think that he'll know that the buff on |
| 11988s | the demon in the middle is not |
| 11990s | particularly helping his odds |
| 11998s | it's uh |
| 12000s | it's doable right i would say it's |
| 12002s | doable for kids here |
| 12004s | right |
| 12005s | the dina the okay okay rolling leroys |
| 12008s | ugh |
| 12009s | disgusting this is why i don't like this |
| 12011s | hero guys like yeah really rice i'm not |
| 12014s | okay with this |
| 12015s | are you guys okay with this i'm not |
| 12019s | college does get the win though |
| 12023s | you're you're |
| 12024s | giving new meaning to lobby legends you |
| 12026s | are lobbying for a change to this card |
| 12030s | i have a lot of biases i you know a lot |
| 12033s | of cards i would be like this is gone |
| 12036s | you're gone |
| 12037s | you know preston you're gone |
| 12040s | macro you're gone |
| 12041s | yeah i i i |
| 12043s | let i don't like you get out of here |
| 12046s | wait what did you |
| 12047s | do to you |
| 12049s | uh don't burst your bubble |
| 12053s | ah no i'm bubble bursted |
| 12056s | no sympathy |
| 12058s | you're gone you're selling pets and |
| 12060s | bursting bubbles nothing can stop |
| 12062s | collins and he's on a rampage |
| 12065s | yeah uh no sympathy for me here yeah |
| 12069s | but uh okay |
| 12070s | um last |
| 12072s | fight here well potentially kid's still |
| 12075s | at 21. |
| 12076s | but who is going to win between these |
| 12079s | two end game compositions they are |
| 12081s | strikingly similar actually where it's |
| 12083s | kind of turned into a leroy mounted end |
| 12085s | game which is you know not uncommon to |
| 12087s | see |
| 12088s | um |
| 12089s | see the problem with this is like one |
| 12092s | person has golden trickster golden bear |
| 12095s | and golden fell back double mounted and |
| 12098s | a leroy and the other guy has like one |
| 12100s | chromo wing and two nadines like |
| 12103s | it's not the same we are not the same |
| 12107s | sorry i didn't realize he had no mantids |
| 12109s | of his own yeah this is uh not yet in |
| 12111s | there huh |
| 12114s | you get you get divine shields through |
| 12117s | uh you know |
| 12120s | nadine i get divine shields through |
| 12122s | manta procs we are not the same right |
| 12125s | that's that's what this guy is uh but |
| 12127s | yeah a really clean setup from |
| 12130s | uh kuramon here just like triple the |
| 12133s | this is the dream of the |
| 12136s | uh the myev right the maya he got three |
| 12138s | triple pairs in the shop got three |
| 12140s | triples got double fell back with a |
| 12142s | golden trickster uh used the golden |
| 12144s | trickster with the fell back to scale |
| 12146s | knew there was no uh murloc so he didn't |
| 12149s | have to |
| 12150s | shy away from that could fully commit to |
| 12153s | just building and keeping those setups |
| 12155s | and then just cleaned up that |
| 12157s | composition by adding some |
| 12160s | poisons in one way or another either |
| 12164s | i i know he's cheering but let me let me |
| 12167s | spoil this it didn't matter he always |
| 12169s | wins there's a hundred percent victory |
| 12171s | yeah let's be let's be honest maybe that |
| 12174s | made the difference of whether he can |
| 12175s | kill on this turn though |
| 12177s | because i think so that's true that that |
| 12180s | is maybe the difference you do you do |
| 12183s | skip a turn |
| 12184s | which i guess matters copio right it |
| 12188s | does save your energy and perhaps the |
| 12191s | most important point for caramon here is |
| 12193s | he didn't get baited by the kala ghost |
| 12195s | because he did go through that briefly |
| 12197s | as i had |
| 12199s | yeah i mean i think if he got double |
| 12202s | kelly |
| 12203s | he's also in a very very strong spot and |
| 12205s | could definitely compete |
| 12207s | with that board he made |
| 12209s | at the end i think if he had double kali |
| 12211s | nadina uh had uh prestors on the board |
| 12215s | as well he could actually just beat that |
| 12217s | board so i i do think |
| 12219s | if he got double it'd be fine |
| 12221s | that is fair enough but that is first |
| 12224s | game in the books there karamon taking |
| 12227s | down a very convincing victory but i |
| 12229s | also just want to shout out to kid |
| 12231s | because by no means was he handed a |
| 12233s | directly |
| 12235s | um |
| 12236s | straightforward comp he just kind of |
| 12238s | made it work with one chroma wing and i |
| 12240s | guess the wrath weaver early on |
| 12242s | leveraged double nadina because he |
| 12244s | wasn't given scaling six drops or none |
| 12246s | that particularly synergized well with |
| 12248s | this comp still turn it into a second |
| 12250s | place and consistently showing that |
| 12252s | pyramid the new buff to it has just been |
| 12254s | um so helpful in order to just let it |
| 12257s | scale safely into um |
| 12260s | higher tiers yeah i think the kid had |
| 12263s | the most impressive game |
| 12265s | at least for me where he just had a |
| 12267s | promo wing like that was really his only |
| 12271s | unit that mattered and he decided you |
| 12274s | know what i got my triple was nadina i'm |
| 12277s | just gonna commit what i'm gonna do is |
| 12279s | stack my pyramid buffs on the chromo |
| 12282s | wing so it doesn't get one shot so i'm |
| 12284s | going to get three attacks off with my |
| 12286s | chroma wing and then i have this rather |
| 12289s | that you know i'll just keep around it's |
| 12291s | a big minion and then i i'll i'll have |
| 12294s | fillers in the meantime whether it's a |
| 12296s | zap whether it's you know random extra |
| 12299s | lira or something like that some filler |
| 12301s | but i'm really just relying on this |
| 12302s | chroma wing getting reset twice that's |
| 12304s | my whole cop and it's good enough to get |
| 12306s | top two with that it's a really |
| 12308s | impressive day |
| 12309s | i'd agree and goddammit as well i think |
| 12312s | conscious decision to just stay down and |
| 12315s | play towards the master of realities |
| 12316s | once he um recognized that he had a good |
| 12319s | enough setup with the golden party the |
| 12321s | double molten rock and you see there's |
| 12322s | no murlocs in the lobby just play for |
| 12325s | huge stats and then keep on hero |
| 12328s | powering that huge stadded minion |
| 12330s | because it's so likely to die at the end |
| 12331s | of your comp so you have the board space |
| 12333s | to get as many roles at leroy as |
| 12335s | possible so even though neither you and |
| 12337s | or i collins are a fan of sneeds as a |
| 12340s | hero i'm a fan of how goddammit |
| 12342s | approached it |
| 12343s | i'm just a fan of goddammit in general |
| 12346s | so |
| 12347s | it doesn't matter what hero is playing |
| 12348s | i'm like yeah that's a good play |
| 12350s | but yeah really really figured out i do |
| 12353s | think it's interesting he decided not to |
| 12355s | uh commit to |
| 12357s | a light spawn he got an early light |
| 12359s | spawn and you know when you're playing |
| 12360s | sneaks you do get more avenged procs |
| 12363s | than normal because you do get the |
| 12364s | resets but decide ah that's not gonna |
| 12367s | scale fast enough to out outpace my uh |
| 12370s | my master realities and i don't think it |
| 12372s | would have so |
| 12373s | i do think it's pretty |
| 12375s | a good decision because i i think some |
| 12377s | players would just like commit to this |
| 12378s | life spawn and just like end up having a |
| 12380s | weaker board than what uh goddammit |
| 12383s | ended up doing |
| 12384s | completely agree and we can see how the |
| 12386s | standings shook out after that first |
| 12388s | game here it's zz unfortunately who went |
| 12391s | out in eighth place there was a lot of |
| 12392s | potential with that varden honestly but |
| 12394s | just got beat up a little bit too early |
| 12397s | you have unsaid and uh alex tied in |
| 12400s | seventh sixth here and then a little bit |
| 12403s | of a gap before we get to xqn who |
| 12405s | clocked out a bit earlier than we would |
| 12408s | have thought uh valeera though ending up |
| 12410s | in fourth i think that's exactly what he |
| 12412s | was uh expecting going for the early |
| 12415s | wrath weaver hero power with the reno i |
| 12417s | think you can't really hope for too much |
| 12419s | more than a top four there but it's |
| 12421s | still very much anyone's game here |
| 12423s | because uh two more games to be played |
| 12426s | out collins |
| 12428s | yeah i mean these games go fast to me i |
| 12431s | i guess i i maybe i'm just used to |
| 12434s | playing and like getting top eight and |
| 12436s | like waiting in silence for 20 minutes |
| 12438s | you know too much of that but you know |
| 12439s | these games are just like snapchat oh |
| 12441s | we're in the next one and the next one |
| 12442s | the next one so um there's only two |
| 12445s | games left right so these players do |
| 12447s | have to turn it around right the people |
| 12449s | that didn't make top four but i do think |
| 12451s | it's possible for everyone and uh |
| 12454s | just from looking at the first game i |
| 12456s | don't think we had any like stand up |
| 12458s | like weird players or like oh this this |
| 12460s | looks wrong to me i think everyone did |
| 12462s | what uh |
| 12463s | their hero and |
| 12465s | their you know their shops were supposed |
| 12468s | to do so hopefully we just get more good |
| 12470s | game to everyone and then we'll see who |
| 12472s | the finals are |
| 12473s | yeah i would completely agree |
| 12475s | and it's very important for caramon as |
| 12478s | well not to rest on his laurels just |
| 12480s | because he got a first place doesn't |
| 12481s | mean he's through to tomorrow i hate to |
| 12483s | go for one there's an example but yeah |
| 12485s | exactly just fell short at the very end |
| 12489s | there every one of these players is |
| 12490s | hungry to get every last point that |
| 12493s | they're able to but they do need a bit |
| 12495s | of time to |
| 12496s | rest and gather their thoughts as we |
| 12498s | enter the next game so we are gonna go |
| 12501s | to a quick break right after this it is |
| 12503s | game two of the lobby |
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| 12539s | so |
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| 12550s | so |
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| 12648s | so |
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| 12676s | so |
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| 12702s | welcome back once again to lobby legends |
| 12704s | eternal night where we have just |
| 12706s | witnessed game one of lobby b with |
| 12708s | caramon taking a very convincing win |
| 12710s | with that maya triples all around |
| 12713s | collins this is a bit similar to what |
| 12715s | you're hoping for right a player that |
| 12717s | hits the high rolls and gets there it |
| 12719s | wasn't straightforward though so what |
| 12721s | are you hoping for next it it's it's |
| 12723s | definitely exactly what i |
| 12725s | thought would happen some of these |
| 12726s | players it's not that they all hit the |
| 12729s | high row but they all attempted it right |
| 12731s | they attempted it they looked for it |
| 12733s | whereas in the other lobbies they were |
| 12735s | just like i'm just gonna stay on four |
| 12737s | maybe get a five and then they'll stay |
| 12738s | on four for a while then they'll get |
| 12740s | another triple then you're like you know |
| 12742s | what maybe i'll take a six like turn 10 |
| 12744s | turn 11. where here a lot of them turn |
| 12747s | seven turn eight turn nine they're all |
| 12749s | looking for sixes unfortunately for them |
| 12752s | a lot of them got like zap a lot of them |
| 12753s | got like early man a lot of them get |
| 12755s | like a nosy a random cali with no |
| 12758s | synergy right but they looked for it |
| 12760s | right which is very different than the |
| 12762s | group of players we had the previous |
| 12763s | lobby so that's kind of interesting and |
| 12765s | i thought that was going to be the case |
| 12766s | with the players we had there so |
| 12769s | pretty cool to be correct in our |
| 12771s | assessment |
| 12772s | something i always talk about with |
| 12775s | how i look at bg in a different way to |
| 12777s | standard is that battlegrounds i feel |
| 12779s | has so much room for style expression |
| 12781s | like if you're the type of player that |
| 12783s | wants to go for first place maybe you |
| 12785s | hit eighth a bit more often than the |
| 12787s | others but you can also get the spikes |
| 12789s | and those are both very valid ways of |
| 12791s | approaching tournaments and the ladder |
| 12793s | but another thing that we are looking |
| 12795s | forward to is showing some more new |
| 12798s | minions collins here's another one for |
| 12801s | everybody to see for the first time drum |
| 12803s | roll please |
| 12804s | barring partner |
| 12806s | oh give a minion taunt okay |
| 12810s | so |
| 12811s | i i like this uh just because |
| 12815s | there's not enough |
| 12817s | time uh |
| 12819s | availability in the game sometimes |
| 12821s | you're just rolling it down trying to |
| 12823s | get taught and another thing about this |
| 12825s | it doesn't give stats so usually both of |
| 12828s | the taunts uh |
| 12829s | the argus and the houndmaster they do |
| 12832s | give stats plus one plus one plus two |
| 12834s | plus two when you're playing things like |
| 12835s | us |
| 12836s | game pirates you don't wanna give your |
| 12839s | skelly's |
| 12840s | stats so actually this might be really |
| 12842s | good it's also a tavern tier 2 compared |
| 12844s | to four so this |
| 12846s | will make giving todd significantly |
| 12848s | easier to do uh |
| 12850s | i've i've had multiple games where i |
| 12854s | needed an argus and i rolled down like |
| 12856s | 30 40 50 gold no argus |
| 12859s | and my game i lose the game because of |
| 12862s | it and i'm just like how is this like |
| 12864s | okay i just need taught like it's not |
| 12867s | it's like i'm missing pieces of my |
| 12868s | composition i just need a thought for my |
| 12871s | my random golden and i can't get it so i |
| 12873s | i'm happy they added more more uh ways |
| 12876s | to get taught in the game |
| 12878s | yeah and another interesting thing to |
| 12880s | note is that out of i think four minions |
| 12883s | that we've revealed so far only one of |
| 12884s | them has had a type in the silverback |
| 12886s | patriarch and all of them except for |
| 12888s | tavern tipper are also just cards that |
| 12890s | we've seen in standard as well very cool |
| 12892s | to see that they're utilizing some of |
| 12895s | these standard cards in a way that they |
| 12897s | can bring some spice to battlegrounds as |
| 12900s | well um all of these minions with no |
| 12903s | minion types so do you think that's |
| 12904s | going to affect sort of the um |
| 12907s | reliability of getting towards certain |
| 12909s | comps |
| 12911s | um |
| 12912s | kind of uh |
| 12914s | it depends if they're gonna remove |
| 12916s | minions as well right we don't know if |
| 12918s | they're gonna change the minions if they |
| 12920s | remove one or two then they probably |
| 12921s | shouldn't be too bad uh we are in the |
| 12923s | games but it is an interesting adding |
| 12926s | taunt it's just a nice tech option |
| 12927s | generally i don't think it's gonna |
| 12929s | change the game or anything like that |
| 12931s | all right |
| 12932s | all right you're for xq and i i hate |
| 12934s | these options honestly this is like |
| 12937s | going next uh he's probably gonna take |
| 12938s | edwin and just like try to top four but |
| 12941s | if this was me oh he's gonna go for |
| 12943s | onyxia which i also don't like at all i |
| 12946s | think the buff |
| 12948s | didn't really fix the problem of nyxia |
| 12950s | which is like it's so hard to |
| 12953s | even get the setup if you get the setup |
| 12955s | it's it's stronger right getting three |
| 12957s | ones but you have to hit acolyte you |
| 12959s | have to hit uh icky amp and things like |
| 12962s | that and you're not guaranteed to get |
| 12963s | that |
| 12964s | we have an afk as well not a |
| 12966s | particularly high powered lobby i would |
| 12968s | say in terms of hero hero choices but i |
| 12971s | am so curious how this pans out i can |
| 12974s | say with the jaundice i think super |
| 12975s | reasonable especially if you hit alice |
| 12979s | he already won uh let's move on uh but |
| 12982s | i i do think that hero selection is |
| 12984s | pretty interesting i actually don't mind |
| 12986s | afk |
| 12987s | uh in the right lobbies and usually |
| 12990s | crowbars have to be in for me to even |
| 12992s | attempt picking afk and also |
| 12994s | i like pirates and i don't think a lot |
| 12996s | of people look at pirates and they're |
| 12998s | probably more like dragons than mex |
| 13000s | being in but actually like if you can |
| 13001s | get double uh |
| 13003s | the 4-4 pirate yeah double it's so good |
| 13006s | it's |
| 13007s | it's actually one of the best starts in |
| 13009s | the games you can just get double briny |
| 13010s | start but um you know we'll see if that |
| 13013s | happens for the afk but i do look at |
| 13015s | quillboards and pirates for afk at the |
| 13018s | start um the other heroes tests you know |
| 13022s | in high level lobbies i think tess gets |
| 13024s | better so |
| 13025s | probably fair here there's another yaw |
| 13027s | yogg is being pretty popular another |
| 13029s | vardhan martin i think once again right |
| 13031s | hands this is a |
| 13033s | decent warden lobby so i i think it's |
| 13036s | pretty safe and then you have the |
| 13038s | the |
| 13039s | indian say with the free the free uh |
| 13042s | alley cat started and then kid on reno |
| 13046s | could be good as well |
| 13048s | yeah there's heroes that have obviously |
| 13050s | tons of spike potential here but we'll |
| 13052s | see how they approach it like last time |
| 13054s | we saw reno it was a maximum |
| 13056s | conservative approach from valeera going |
| 13058s | for the rathweaver hero power on turn |
| 13060s | one but i wonder if somebody will be |
| 13063s | going for warrior curve instead trying |
| 13065s | to hit a five drop in golden dot which |
| 13067s | is the other general way we often see |
| 13069s | reno being played uh touching back on |
| 13072s | your point about afk i completely agree |
| 13074s | that i never even consider it when there |
| 13076s | are no quillboards in but quillboard |
| 13078s | with afk if you do manage to hit that |
| 13080s | 3-3 bristle back route plus a gem |
| 13082s | generator that can be one of the best |
| 13084s | ways to approach the mid game but let's |
| 13086s | see what the choice is oh no we can't |
| 13089s | see it uh |
| 13090s | i will say really good uh uh start for |
| 13093s | xqn there with the double uh |
| 13096s | the double shell into the icky and |
| 13098s | that's so good uh for uh onyxia there |
| 13102s | are a tear |
| 13104s | uh |
| 13105s | game's over for me if i have to pick |
| 13107s | that as a |
| 13109s | that's gonna be my honest opinion like |
| 13110s | uh i have to take this the game's |
| 13112s | probably over you can maybe salvage it |
| 13115s | if you get the um |
| 13117s | the bristleback brute or |
| 13119s | i would say that that would be the only |
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| 13123s | all right i'm i'm fffing |
| 13128s | all right um |
| 13130s | so there is a little tiny bit of synergy |
| 13134s | here with the trickster okay he's being |
| 13136s | a bit greedy like |
| 13138s | not playing the uh |
| 13140s | emissary but i guess uh |
| 13143s | i guess it's fair |
| 13144s | you're not in a good spot no matter what |
| 13146s | you do |
| 13147s | yeah |
| 13149s | okay he can still take this victory i |
| 13152s | think |
| 13153s | yeah |
| 13154s | yeah |
| 13158s | another yonk doing york things okay okay |
| 13161s | get some para ready right so one thing |
| 13164s | you've got to be uh really cognizant |
| 13167s | when you're playing yog is to make sure |
| 13169s | that you have access to a pair while |
| 13171s | you're leveling so that you can easily |
| 13173s | triple and |
| 13175s | the best thing is to have the triple in |
| 13177s | the shop but if you have one pair at |
| 13179s | least or or |
| 13181s | hopefully two pairs then you level the |
| 13183s | five then you can roll on five and then |
| 13186s | get the get the early six so |
| 13188s | uh he has a pair already so that's a |
| 13190s | good sign |
| 13192s | yeah yog's one of those heroes where |
| 13193s | like obviously your hero power means you |
| 13195s | don't lose a lot of the early combats |
| 13197s | but it falls off a lot in the mid game |
| 13199s | so making sure you actually leverage |
| 13201s | that tempo to hit an engine for the late |
| 13204s | game is of utmost importance we are here |
| 13207s | though has a triple in the shop for |
| 13208s | himself and this turn picked up the |
| 13211s | racking hero power which is pretty nice |
| 13213s | it's not even in the shop right he he's |
| 13216s | my f cosplayer i just oh having that |
| 13219s | locked in uh so that he gets it it looks |
| 13222s | like he got a last turn so it he'll |
| 13224s | probably end up getting a |
| 13226s | five right he'll get a five here and |
| 13229s | that's pretty good i think this is a |
| 13230s | pretty good five lobby oh look at look |
| 13233s | at xq and right gets the triple holds |
| 13236s | the triple classic play from him there |
| 13238s | we'll see if he |
| 13239s | uh he picks up a four or five i think |
| 13242s | both are pretty good options six is |
| 13244s | pretty costly you'll take a lot of |
| 13246s | damage if you want to commit to a six |
| 13248s | there but we'll probably see a four or |
| 13250s | five from him there |
| 13253s | bell collector is a great triple to get |
| 13255s | as well because of the extra coins it |
| 13257s | provides you yeah taking that |
| 13260s | yeah i like the four here because you |
| 13261s | can get uh ever all the good avenge |
| 13264s | units are here right so you can get |
| 13266s | oh there's no elementals actually so no |
| 13268s | elementals but you can get the demon uh |
| 13270s | doomsayer and you can get the |
| 13273s | which uh matron i think those are the |
| 13274s | two cards she was looking for here he |
| 13276s | whips here so big |
| 13278s | big sad |
| 13279s | here for xq and uh if you're ex-hunt fan |
| 13282s | you're not happy with this option it has |
| 13284s | to take the uh the mug and probably just |
| 13286s | gonna take a type uh |
| 13289s | maybe the cold bore i guess it's not |
| 13291s | super great but |
| 13292s | okay just gonna go for more adventure so |
| 13295s | he might not even play the okay so he's |
| 13296s | still gonna play the mug |
| 13298s | i guess he has to because he can't |
| 13299s | really level i mean he can't really not |
| 13301s | level because he needs to level and get |
| 13303s | the events so he has to play the cards |
| 13306s | yes a bit rough there missing out on |
| 13309s | the easy game plan uh but we'll see if |
| 13313s | you can make it work here caraman on the |
| 13315s | test has tripled and is looking at some |
| 13319s | i'm gonna say i thought a decent bonker |
| 13322s | option but actually goes for the wave |
| 13323s | rider and said oh because he has a lava |
| 13324s | lurker yeah it's basically a bonker |
| 13327s | right like because you're getting you're |
| 13328s | getting plus two plus two a turn right |
| 13330s | so it's basically a bonker with the gems |
| 13332s | so and it does it opens up naga synergy |
| 13334s | so i think this makes a lot of sense uh |
| 13336s | it's not that strong i'm gonna be honest |
| 13338s | but it makes a lot of sense and |
| 13341s | that's what matters right not not the |
| 13343s | strength of the hero but the amount of |
| 13344s | sense you're making right |
| 13346s | uh sure |
| 13349s | uh reno's taking a lot here though yeah |
| 13352s | i think kid is holding out for a five |
| 13354s | drop here or six or six maybe ah it's |
| 13359s | hard to get a six right yeah |
| 13362s | this is instead of double sold and level |
| 13364s | golden mama and he wins well not wins |
| 13367s | but he he's that's like guaranteed top |
| 13369s | four i think those are really good yeah |
| 13371s | janice i wanted to see what the janice |
| 13372s | had as well so these are the very two |
| 13375s | important turns for both of these heroes |
| 13376s | the reno gets the mama bear golden mama |
| 13379s | bear is really gonna carry him probably |
| 13380s | guarantee top four here we'll see if he |
| 13383s | can make it into a top two or a top one |
| 13385s | and then janna's gonna get double |
| 13387s | five drops here we'll see if he also |
| 13390s | gets a mama bear |
| 13391s | ew yeah bristleback knights playable not |
| 13394s | not good but tempo |
| 13396s | mm-hmm |
| 13397s | this may be good where he doesn't even |
| 13399s | use the swap hero power right sell out |
| 13402s | of |
| 13403s | uh |
| 13404s | would you sell the hyena pair or the or |
| 13406s | the icky |
| 13409s | that's a good question actually |
| 13412s | maybe the |
| 13413s | hyena |
| 13416s | uh but icky is fine i i don't think |
| 13419s | they're going to be game changers |
| 13422s | unfortunately but |
| 13424s | you know honestly they don't they don't |
| 13426s | necessarily crack pretty much |
| 13429s | you can also go again yeah i like |
| 13431s | agamore cause because he has the bristle |
| 13433s | back and crocs kinda like i would take |
| 13436s | mama bear over croc but i would take |
| 13438s | again uh mama bear over |
| 13440s | again but i'll take again for croc |
| 13442s | because |
| 13443s | here like you get the synergy and you do |
| 13445s | have the one two in the shop right so |
| 13447s | you're just thinking about what's |
| 13449s | strong this board and another thing is |
| 13451s | you are playing janice janice can just |
| 13453s | like reroll battle cries so you just |
| 13455s | need to hit like |
| 13456s | um that 3-3 the necro light if you hit a |
| 13459s | necro light then you're kind of golden |
| 13461s | so i think in the position he was in i |
| 13464s | think the again does make more sense so |
| 13466s | i like that i like that choice for me |
| 13468s | well |
| 13469s | i i think a lot of players take croc so |
| 13472s | there's no fault on you there uh i think |
| 13474s | croc makes a lot of like obvious sense |
| 13476s | but if you wanna have the best board i |
| 13479s | think you take the agum here |
| 13482s | well this is fault on me because i i |
| 13484s | thought i was an agam fan i thought i |
| 13487s | was an ag on one trick but i failed to |
| 13489s | recognize that it could potentially be |
| 13491s | good here so i'm just kind of |
| 13493s | disappointed in myself to be honest but |
| 13496s | um yeah with jaundice like especially |
| 13498s | that point you made is huge especially |
| 13500s | if you can find a brand that is so much |
| 13503s | potential there if he hits brand |
| 13505s | necrolight i just think he wins like i |
| 13507s | don't know if there's other players that |
| 13509s | can contest that but |
| 13510s | oh wait okay you just everyone needs to |
| 13513s | dodge the renault |
| 13515s | dude |
| 13516s | we're playing |
| 13517s | we checked in we were like okay this is |
| 13520s | for sure top four uh i mean even better |
| 13522s | most likely with the golden mama bear |
| 13524s | but i didn't think he would hit |
| 13526s | full board beasts on the very next turn |
| 13528s | i i just wanna like let's let's let's |
| 13531s | reevaluate it's turn seven |
| 13534s | nine gold this is the board you have a |
| 13537s | golden mama with reborn a huge cleave |
| 13541s | two |
| 13542s | beasts that have death throttles to proc |
| 13545s | and everything on your board is like |
| 13547s | tavern tier four basically plus they all |
| 13550s | have 15 health it's turn seven it's this |
| 13553s | is not okay |
| 13555s | it's not okay |
| 13557s | no one beats this i would say |
| 13560s | uh yes i completely agree um the |
| 13564s | real |
| 13566s | thing that kid has to think about at |
| 13567s | this point is just how does he convert |
| 13569s | this into a first place |
| 13571s | because mama bear beast while this is |
| 13574s | going to beat everybody for the next two |
| 13576s | combats i would say um |
| 13579s | it does fall off potentially |
| 13581s | because the scaling isn't permanent |
| 13583s | right or like you cannot keep buffing |
| 13586s | these the best way to win is like |
| 13588s | someone dies and then you just hit |
| 13590s | people for 30 |
| 13591s | and then they die |
| 13592s | you win like that's actually like |
| 13595s | what you want if this was ladder you |
| 13596s | just hope like someone's low rolling |
| 13598s | super hard and then like you just like |
| 13600s | they just concede and then you're just |
| 13601s | like okay i just hit people for 30. |
| 13605s | but uh unfortunately not happening here |
| 13607s | but to put it into context let's say we |
| 13610s | we have the again player right that's |
| 13612s | long-term scaling potential how does kid |
| 13615s | once he knows that there's a player that |
| 13617s | can out-scale him given time um how does |
| 13620s | kid leverage this into a higher |
| 13623s | position um |
| 13625s | okay so let's say okay so let's say |
| 13627s | you're the ring you're in this position |
| 13628s | you want to win the lobby you don't want |
| 13630s | to like get top two because i think in |
| 13631s | the position he's in he's almost |
| 13633s | guaranteed top three but |
| 13635s | most likely gets top two and like |
| 13637s | probably loses like the super eye roller |
| 13639s | if you want to like win the lobby |
| 13642s | um |
| 13644s | you probably need to go |
| 13646s | [Music] |
| 13648s | golden |
| 13651s | baron goldrin i guess would |
| 13653s | reborn macaws and reborn on everything |
| 13656s | that probably has the highest odds to |
| 13658s | just be the strongest |
| 13660s | composition because the other line is |
| 13661s | you go like more mama bears but the |
| 13664s | probably more mama bears it's it's way |
| 13666s | riskier than just like golden golden |
| 13668s | baron golden macaw where you have like a |
| 13671s | hundred hundred cleaves right like |
| 13673s | that's that's what golden |
| 13675s | uh golden band would be right you'd have |
| 13677s | a hundred clears and that would that |
| 13679s | would pretty much knock out everyone |
| 13681s | uh |
| 13682s | but it's it's it's more work it's harder |
| 13684s | to do but i definitely think in the |
| 13685s | position he and he can't just kind of |
| 13687s | look for that level of the sixth row for |
| 13689s | the roll for the golden rule for the |
| 13691s | baron set it up the problem is it's not |
| 13693s | in your hands right baron is not a |
| 13695s | common |
| 13696s | uh card to get so |
| 13698s | it's more risky |
| 13700s | and i feel so bad for xq and he just got |
| 13703s | um rolled by the agam player and he's |
| 13706s | facing reno next and while he has |
| 13708s | finally found that um doomsayer it might |
| 13712s | be too little too late because i don't |
| 13714s | think even with the juggler and the |
| 13716s | decent setup with the akms that he can |
| 13718s | stand up to he has eight life |
| 13720s | yeah i mean there's this i would say is |
| 13722s | more a problem of the hero selection |
| 13724s | this is something you have to just like |
| 13727s | reevaluate and say is the next year |
| 13729s | really what i want to pick because i |
| 13731s | mean even the hero selection we were |
| 13733s | kind of looking at like is that is that |
| 13734s | what we want do we want to play next |
| 13736s | year here at least that's what i was i |
| 13738s | was thinking i'm not a big fan of the |
| 13739s | hero i just don't think the buff was |
| 13741s | good enough to justify picking it over i |
| 13744s | mean he didn't have good options to be |
| 13746s | fair like all his options were pretty |
| 13748s | bad but |
| 13749s | uh |
| 13750s | this kind of leans you in forcing you to |
| 13752s | play a avenge-centric composition right |
| 13754s | and it it i think if he got that early |
| 13758s | four and it was uh either a doomsayer or |
| 13762s | uh what's it called or uh |
| 13766s | yeah or uh nest matron we'd be having a |
| 13769s | completely different discussion where |
| 13771s | it's like he's absolutely incredibly |
| 13773s | strong he's on tier six he has so much |
| 13775s | gold uh but since |
| 13778s | he didn't get that early for what he |
| 13780s | wanted |
| 13781s | now he just takes 15 he takes 15 again |
| 13784s | and now he's on the back foot right |
| 13786s | almost getting uh |
| 13788s | uh uh eighth place here like it's very |
| 13792s | very problematic for him |
| 13795s | how's the triple gonna go for the five i |
| 13797s | mean go for the six |
| 13799s | has to hit fell back here for this to do |
| 13801s | anything relevant i think |
| 13806s | gas |
| 13807s | coiler mama bear |
| 13810s | those are options |
| 13812s | as well |
| 13813s | i'm gonna go for the synergistic one |
| 13816s | yeah mama with the juggler can get some |
| 13818s | work done but see |
| 13820s | the argument for a gas curler would be |
| 13821s | the reborn that |
| 13823s | i i do think mama is |
| 13825s | is like |
| 13826s | mostly correct as well right and he does |
| 13828s | have another target for that i just |
| 13830s | don't know if you're gonna keep it |
| 13832s | uh oh the croc yeah so |
| 13837s | maybe like maybe i mean it's hard to |
| 13839s | it's hard to transition in the croc you |
| 13841s | have no gold and i i don't even know if |
| 13843s | that would |
| 13844s | be better outs here you're you're kind |
| 13847s | of just looking for a second um |
| 13849s | juggler right yeah a second juggler he |
| 13852s | might just end with the croc like sell |
| 13853s | something play the croc play the second |
| 13855s | imprisoner and call it a day yeah |
| 13861s | not super strong but it it |
| 13864s | it probably gives him the best odds to |
| 13866s | stay alive here he has to do something |
| 13868s | just to finish one or two places higher |
| 13873s | oh yeah i mean this yogg's board isn't |
| 13875s | super strong as well |
| 13878s | so |
| 13879s | i definitely can win there |
| 13884s | which sport is that |
| 13886s | that is easy right that's easy's board |
| 13888s | yeah so |
| 13893s | kind of going for |
| 13894s | um what's it called promo taragosa but |
| 13898s | very very late promo and very very late |
| 13901s | pterygosis so they're not as big as they |
| 13903s | need to be at the stage of the game |
| 13905s | yeah i would definitely agree that it's |
| 13908s | too late because i often go for this |
| 13910s | obviously when playing ucera and i |
| 13913s | noticed that if if any game i get the |
| 13917s | promo later than 10 gold i am just |
| 13920s | losing for sure and this is turn nine |
| 13922s | already |
| 13924s | yeah so a bit unfortunate like |
| 13927s | pick the direction too late i think for |
| 13930s | zzz that that would be the problem there |
| 13932s | promotera is pretty good especially when |
| 13934s | there's no murlocs but you have to get |
| 13936s | it super early and that's why there's |
| 13938s | only a handful of heroes that can really |
| 13941s | do that well right ysera and whatnot |
| 13943s | that can really focus on on that game |
| 13945s | plan but |
| 13947s | a bit late for him |
| 13950s | low scale for insane is a great pickup |
| 13955s | to be his naga minion type here |
| 13958s | i think he's selling the brand to get |
| 13960s | the triple |
| 13961s | a bit sad right you don't want to sell |
| 13963s | the brand because if you hit a necro |
| 13965s | light it's so good for you so he's |
| 13966s | thinking about selling um |
| 13968s | like one of his minions on the board |
| 13970s | this is it's a big greedy but i see it |
| 13972s | probably the hyena right because it's a |
| 13974s | different type |
| 13975s | yeah and he does have this gas coiler in |
| 13977s | hand to replace the beast type and then |
| 13979s | just have that be buffed up i think it's |
| 13982s | not too much of a tempo loss |
| 13985s | it's the brand it's just so much |
| 13987s | potential yeah i i i'm greedy too right |
| 13991s | like that's that's the problem the |
| 13993s | problem though is he knows he's playing |
| 13995s | reno |
| 13996s | right |
| 13997s | oh my god you're right |
| 14000s | he's asking himself can i even risk |
| 14003s | losing a golden hyena just uh you know |
| 14006s | just to save this so it's more like |
| 14008s | normally if he wasn't playing anyone |
| 14010s | else but he |
| 14011s | like he he can check the arena the |
| 14013s | arena's dealing 15 every time like you |
| 14015s | know that this guy's insane so uh he |
| 14018s | might just say you know what i can't |
| 14019s | sell this i can't sell this hyena i have |
| 14022s | to keep it |
| 14023s | uh and we'll see yeah he keeps the hyena |
| 14025s | yeah so this is more of a i'm fighting |
| 14028s | this hyrule player i can't risk |
| 14032s | uh playing any weaker than i have to so |
| 14035s | i get my triple and we'll see if it's |
| 14037s | good enough |
| 14038s | i was gonna say it feels like that |
| 14041s | wouldn't have made any change but the |
| 14042s | hydra did go far left uh |
| 14045s | it's still not looking good for jandis |
| 14048s | but |
| 14049s | can you get some mirrors baby |
| 14055s | i mean yeah i mean |
| 14057s | this this is early early mama bear with |
| 14061s | reno it's not fair it's really not |
| 14064s | there's not a lot you can do to |
| 14066s | counteract this board state this early |
| 14069s | and that's why i'm saying like if you |
| 14070s | really want to win with golden arena you |
| 14072s | just |
| 14073s | have someone leave early and then you |
| 14075s | kill everyone |
| 14077s | but it's it's early enough right people |
| 14079s | still can't contest golden mama with a |
| 14081s | full beast set up so just knocking |
| 14083s | people out now |
| 14085s | and the prophecy of afk just |
| 14088s | dying soon has been fulfilled |
| 14090s | unfortunately we didn't get to see what |
| 14092s | was happening with god dumb it too much |
| 14094s | but couldn't make the vardhan work |
| 14096s | either and surprisingly xqn with a board |
| 14099s | that looked like he was just gonna get |
| 14101s | completely rolled has stayed in there in |
| 14104s | the top four |
| 14106s | yeah |
| 14107s | i'm |
| 14109s | honestly surprised like i'm gonna be |
| 14111s | honest this board doesn't look like it |
| 14112s | should be top four but |
| 14115s | it uh it definitely found a way right |
| 14117s | maybe he got a good fight i don't know |
| 14118s | who he fought last turn right maybe uh |
| 14121s | some a weaker player or a player that |
| 14123s | wasn't relying on stats because this is |
| 14125s | a really good like i'll stay alive board |
| 14128s | right with the jugglers you can snipe |
| 14130s | key units early and that might give you |
| 14131s | the |
| 14132s | the piece you need while having the croc |
| 14135s | scaling at the end and it is croc |
| 14137s | scaling with |
| 14138s | onyxia right that's that that maybe |
| 14141s | might be the uh the key piece why this |
| 14144s | stayed alive because you have that nyxia |
| 14146s | uh extra procs almost almost in every |
| 14149s | every attack here's another product |
| 14151s | here's another proc uh so that might be |
| 14154s | the difference maker why this board |
| 14156s | stays alive when normally if you're not |
| 14157s | playing nyxia does this board doesn't |
| 14159s | look that threatening at all |
| 14162s | fair point it is still utilizing a venge |
| 14165s | with inixia just on a minion that's a |
| 14166s | bit higher tier than we expected i think |
| 14169s | another big point is that xqn first |
| 14171s | faced reno when the damage cap was still |
| 14174s | intact uh he is gonna meet his end |
| 14176s | pretty soon though it looks like um |
| 14180s | yeah that hydra is just too much |
| 14186s | yeah i mean |
| 14188s | if you want to win with golden mama bear |
| 14190s | reno just play normal |
| 14193s | don't do anything you're just destroying |
| 14195s | people regardless okay does it really |
| 14197s | matter is it going to be a first place |
| 14199s | is the question here i mean we have |
| 14202s | caravan on the test with honestly not a |
| 14204s | very test looking board because this is |
| 14206s | just |
| 14207s | not any synergy that he's stolen from |
| 14209s | anyone right it's just kind of maybe he |
| 14211s | stole like the highest stat minion from |
| 14214s | each board he saw but it's just mainly |
| 14217s | playing for |
| 14218s | uh survival as well |
| 14220s | so normally i would say that uh |
| 14224s | it's very likely to get second place um |
| 14227s | in in this but the problem here or maybe |
| 14230s | the benefit for the reno player is that |
| 14233s | everyone else is getting tempo and so |
| 14235s | they're having to do subpar |
| 14238s | tempo plays because they don't want to |
| 14240s | take damage don't want to die and |
| 14242s | because of that you have a clean like oh |
| 14244s | i just buy the beast and i get stronger |
| 14246s | by tripling my beast |
| 14248s | and and that's my game plan while |
| 14250s | everyone is like i need to like do this |
| 14252s | tempo play here to you know squeeze an |
| 14255s | edge have an edge for this fly but i'm |
| 14256s | gonna be weaker in my next flight |
| 14257s | because i'm doing that and because |
| 14260s | you're just focused on i buy hydra i buy |
| 14263s | another hydra oh golden hydra you know |
| 14266s | it's a lot easier to just have a |
| 14269s | stronger board than your peers because |
| 14271s | you're you have a game plan from the |
| 14273s | very beginning of the game and even |
| 14275s | though you're getting stronger slowly by |
| 14277s | slowly everyone else isn't really |
| 14278s | getting stronger you're just |
| 14280s | scaling slowly to survive |
| 14282s | so as you can see no one has a disa |
| 14285s | no one has |
| 14287s | uh you know the one player that could |
| 14289s | maybe contest |
| 14290s | uh was the uh the jandis but got killed |
| 14295s | by the reno so exactly doesn't even |
| 14298s | matter |
| 14300s | this is a very good example of a type of |
| 14302s | lobby that you would see more often in |
| 14304s | tournament than in ladder where one |
| 14306s | player has been bullying the lobby so |
| 14309s | you have everybody else reacting in such |
| 14311s | a way where they respect that player try |
| 14313s | and just play for one or more higher |
| 14316s | placements and because of that we end up |
| 14317s | in |
| 14318s | such a situation where the game is only |
| 14321s | on turn 12 and probably ending in the |
| 14324s | next two combats and we have one player |
| 14326s | that has a board that doesn't look like |
| 14328s | it should be getting first but it is |
| 14330s | going to achieve that |
| 14332s | we haven't seen the end of it right i |
| 14334s | still believe in some of these plays |
| 14336s | that turn it around but yeah i mean |
| 14338s | reno's pretty pretty dominating here |
| 14341s | this is respectable though with all of |
| 14343s | those glow-scale activations a lot of |
| 14345s | shields |
| 14347s | but |
| 14348s | i don't know if it's enough stats to |
| 14350s | beat the mama bear plus death throttles |
| 14356s | it's it's |
| 14358s | it could be due to the wind theory the |
| 14360s | problem |
| 14362s | the problem is like you have to be able |
| 14364s | to one shot uh all the minions |
| 14367s | that doesn't seem to be the case also |
| 14370s | there wasn't um any chance for the the |
| 14373s | hydrocleaves to go into the |
| 14376s | leroy right right yeah |
| 14382s | could be a tie |
| 14384s | could be could be |
| 14387s | oh not anymore right |
| 14389s | no wait yeah now i can okay my bad |
| 14391s | wow just barely |
| 14393s | impressive for caramon to stay alive |
| 14396s | here yeah but his board is going to be a |
| 14398s | lot weaker from now on without the glow |
| 14400s | scales right yeah and unfortunately |
| 14405s | no one no other player has like good |
| 14407s | scaling i would say between the test and |
| 14409s | the master win |
| 14410s | uh they're kind of just playing to |
| 14412s | survive uh and hoping that that's good |
| 14415s | enough so there's not really any like |
| 14417s | clean scaling for either of those |
| 14419s | players so the arena just kind of has a |
| 14420s | field day like oh you guys aren't really |
| 14422s | scaling i'm just buying beasts |
| 14425s | i'm over here |
| 14427s | there you go |
| 14428s | and play like how i did my very first |
| 14430s | day on battlegrounds which is just roll |
| 14432s | roll roll roll roll for triples |
| 14435s | honestly it's a good strategy in a lot |
| 14436s | of games so |
| 14438s | i i don't mind that at all |
| 14441s | but you can kind of curb things where |
| 14443s | maybe don't start out doing only that |
| 14445s | but in certain situations when you're |
| 14447s | good enough you realize that's the only |
| 14448s | way to scale then do that again yeah |
| 14451s | but you can kind of see the arena slowly |
| 14453s | transitioning to the comp i suggested |
| 14455s | right now has the golden macaw has two |
| 14458s | gold rings has the hydra has the baron |
| 14461s | right slowly transitioning away from |
| 14463s | fully mama bear centric into more of a |
| 14465s | macaw |
| 14466s | uh big cleave uh composition so you can |
| 14470s | kind of see |
| 14471s | he understands the lines to win right at |
| 14474s | the lobby right |
| 14475s | at least the best chance from a |
| 14478s | b centric standpoint right you you you |
| 14480s | start selling those death rather selling |
| 14482s | the rat packs selling the |
| 14484s | um the random units adding an extra |
| 14488s | hydra adding you know going double hydra |
| 14491s | and i really like that right because it |
| 14493s | just showcases a |
| 14495s | i could have just |
| 14497s | committed to |
| 14499s | deathrattle beast for the whole game but |
| 14501s | i want to win the lobby i see i'm in the |
| 14503s | position to do that i will go for golden |
| 14505s | macaw i will go for bear and i will go |
| 14507s | for golden so just really really nice to |
| 14510s | see i love i love this kind of gameplay |
| 14512s | that is |
| 14513s | completely right he knows the win |
| 14515s | condition here just to make sure that |
| 14517s | you don't you know waste a potential |
| 14520s | first place like honestly this was one |
| 14522s | of my biggest problems starting out with |
| 14523s | battlegrounds is i didn't know how to |
| 14526s | close out games where i definitely had |
| 14529s | the potential to reach a first and |
| 14530s | somebody just outscaled me because i |
| 14532s | wasn't getting greedy enough and it's |
| 14534s | nice to see kid uh recognizing when he |
| 14537s | needed to play for max tempo and just |
| 14539s | how long he could just |
| 14541s | power level on the um early mama bear |
| 14544s | start |
| 14546s | yeah it's it's a it's actually a very |
| 14549s | common problem uh maybe not a problem |
| 14551s | but a tendency of players to just |
| 14554s | uh keep doing what they're doing right |
| 14556s | so let's say they get a |
| 14559s | a random direction maybe a know me |
| 14561s | they're like okay i'll do know me |
| 14563s | forever and then they'll get put in a |
| 14565s | weird position they're like yeah well |
| 14566s | i'm no means i'm not gonna change but |
| 14569s | sometimes it's like you roll like double |
| 14571s | kelly or something and you're like oh |
| 14573s | man i'd rather just double cali here and |
| 14576s | uh |
| 14577s | it's hard to be like oh i i'm not going |
| 14580s | to commit to this i'm just going to play |
| 14583s | whatever gives me the strongest board |
| 14584s | stay and i think a lot of high level |
| 14586s | players understand that they're like oh |
| 14588s | i will play whatever i need to survive |
| 14590s | but if if you give me |
| 14592s | uh you know golden something golden |
| 14595s | direction into something i will |
| 14596s | immediately sell my board and commit to |
| 14598s | that uh just because they know that the |
| 14601s | potential there is a lot stronger gosh i |
| 14603s | would love for their to just be a card |
| 14605s | printed called direction and i can play |
| 14607s | golden direction |
| 14610s | i don't need to use my brain i just take |
| 14612s | the golden direction |
| 14614s | oh man that's |
| 14616s | that's that'd be beautiful |
| 14620s | i'm playing direction con yeah i love it |
| 14622s | yeah you just get everything |
| 14625s | all right uh caramel here again |
| 14628s | we have so many players that don't |
| 14631s | necessarily have strict synergy in any |
| 14634s | one direction but they've just been |
| 14637s | sticking together or holding it together |
| 14640s | turn after turn |
| 14642s | okay i really thought he was gonna sell |
| 14644s | the hydra to reborn the gas crawler |
| 14647s | uh but |
| 14648s | not doing that okay |
| 14651s | i saw valeria's board before which had |
| 14653s | quite a few divine shields |
| 14656s | oh wait was karen the one with the |
| 14657s | divine shields |
| 14659s | okay yeah i think this um |
| 14663s | perfect tester yeah huge |
| 14667s | but the leader i don't think it's the |
| 14669s | thought yeah yeah |
| 14670s | the other player has reborn you know gas |
| 14673s | curler which i you know i think is the |
| 14675s | secret the secret to the victory |
| 14679s | not really but |
| 14681s | it is pretty much a game under there |
| 14684s | true it does just guarantee that there |
| 14686s | is no way that caravan can get out of |
| 14688s | this one alive |
| 14692s | was there a way |
| 14696s | uh |
| 14697s | no |
| 14697s | no |
| 14698s | there wasn't okay |
| 14700s | but that does mean caravan uh follows up |
| 14702s | his first place with a third which puts |
| 14704s | him in a very strong position still to |
| 14706s | qualify through to tomorrow valeera has |
| 14708s | at least a second place to follow up his |
| 14710s | fourth so in a very similar spot as well |
| 14714s | i don't quite think he's gonna be able |
| 14716s | to take it down versus kid but |
| 14718s | the one difference i would mention |
| 14720s | between the throttle beast and golden |
| 14723s | maccabees is that the golden maccabees |
| 14725s | are actually a lot more vulnerable to |
| 14727s | poison and leroy aren't they |
| 14729s | yeah but there's no murlocs so |
| 14732s | you can kind of say what's the chance |
| 14734s | that they're gonna run double leeroy |
| 14735s | double you know mounted queen and |
| 14738s | they're and they're trying to play safe |
| 14739s | to not die |
| 14740s | uh it's not super duper high |
| 14743s | um but |
| 14745s | that is true but usually |
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| 14749s | you kind of mitigate that by having |
| 14751s | reborn on everything so your |
| 14754s | your um your macaws have reborn so |
| 14757s | it'll go into something |
| 14759s | not that relevant or go into the mantids |
| 14761s | and then you don't care then |
| 14763s | your rebirth will go to the other |
| 14765s | mountain you don't care and then your |
| 14767s | cleaves will cleave half the board and |
| 14769s | you don't care and then your other |
| 14770s | cleave will cleave the rest of the board |
| 14773s | right yeah |
| 14774s | if all of these minions that remain that |
| 14777s | aren't the big synergy buffing minions |
| 14780s | if they're all just cleaves then yes you |
| 14781s | very much make up for the fact that you |
| 14783s | don't have death throttles because each |
| 14785s | of your normal attacking minions takes |
| 14787s | down two to three on the other side |
| 14789s | i like this board from kid this is what |
| 14791s | i'm doing just uh macabre golden cleave |
| 14795s | cleave let's go |
| 14798s | it's just so pristine |
| 14801s | let's see he's so casual about this win |
| 14803s | he knew he won the game from like turn |
| 14805s | seven he was like |
| 14807s | guess it's over |
| 14810s | so i'll take my seven points then |
| 14815s | look at the sad sandy's majestic |
| 14821s | yeah but perfectly transitioned it right |
| 14823s | from the golden center comp into the uh |
| 14826s | macaw-centric golden comp which i i |
| 14829s | really think just gives him the best uh |
| 14830s | odds right like how do you deal with 50 |
| 14833s | attack leaves |
| 14834s | uh with no no huge skill in the game |
| 14837s | even if you had scaling it'd still be |
| 14840s | tough to beat this and this board can |
| 14842s | get even stronger right he hasn't even |
| 14843s | tripled that um that gold run so you get |
| 14846s | that golden now you're having a 100 100 |
| 14848s | 120 attack please like a 320 attack |
| 14852s | please pretty much kills everything so |
| 14854s | yeah this is how you win with this |
| 14857s | with this golden early gold mama set up |
| 14860s | you can see he has no mom on this board |
| 14862s | right like fully transitioned out of it |
| 14865s | 300 attack claims i remember that from |
| 14867s | the old vulgin buddy days |
| 14869s | yeah |
| 14871s | that's true though divine shield too |
| 14874s | let's not talk about that |
| 14876s | very much |
| 14878s | all right so that is gonna be kid taking |
| 14880s | down the lobby in first place there |
| 14883s | really wasn't much contest ever since he |
| 14885s | got that mama bear you hit the nail in |
| 14886s | the head colin's talking about how as |
| 14888s | long as he's able to knock out the big |
| 14890s | scalers early enough and we saw that the |
| 14892s | one person with potential to try and |
| 14895s | outscale kid was the jandis jargon say |
| 14897s | there with the agam but died kind of |
| 14900s | early and from there kid really just had |
| 14902s | a field day very impressive stuff all |
| 14904s | you gotta do is kill the players that |
| 14906s | are trying to kill you before they kill |
| 14908s | you it's that simple right like |
| 14911s | the janice was trying to kill him so he |
| 14912s | killed the jazz before he got the scale |
| 14914s | and killed him so hey now you win the |
| 14916s | lobby it's that easy |
| 14919s | yeah i wish i could take that advice to |
| 14922s | heart but it never quite works out that |
| 14923s | way for me collins when i try it kill |
| 14926s | the nexus it's that easy i mean |
| 14929s | fair enough oh yeah but we have to shout |
| 14931s | out xqn again here because it really |
| 14933s | looked like he was in no position to |
| 14935s | take down a top four here after missing |
| 14937s | the um avenge target on his first four |
| 14940s | drop discover but still managed to get |
| 14943s | there with a decent amount of points um |
| 14945s | i think he was fifth in the first game |
| 14947s | so he still has um very much real |
| 14950s | potential to qualify through to tomorrow |
| 14952s | but definitely needs a stellar result in |
| 14954s | this last game but for a couple of our |
| 14956s | other players i think things are looking |
| 14958s | quite dicey with back-to-back low |
| 14960s | placements |
| 14962s | yeah um it's very easy to |
| 14966s | continue doing poorly after a poor |
| 14968s | showcasing because first of all once |
| 14970s | again you're watching the other |
| 14972s | competitors just like do well and you're |
| 14974s | like i threw |
| 14975s | and then sometimes |
| 14977s | people have good days people have bad |
| 14979s | days right and it's a lot easier to |
| 14980s | continue having a bad day if you have a |
| 14982s | bad start and it's a lot easier to |
| 14984s | continue to have a good day if you have |
| 14985s | a good start so the players are doing |
| 14988s | well like they're they're not doubting |
| 14990s | themselves they're not in their own |
| 14991s | heads they're they're focused on the |
| 14993s | gameplay while you're just sitting there |
| 14995s | for like 20 minutes like ah did i do did |
| 14998s | i did i pick this right unit here did i |
| 15000s | buy this right unique here maybe i |
| 15002s | shouldn't do that maybe i should play |
| 15003s | safer maybe i should not play my style |
| 15005s | and then they end up just like |
| 15007s | overreaching or under reaching not |
| 15009s | playing uh |
| 15011s | risky enough or not playing safe enough |
| 15013s | and just performing badly so i don't |
| 15015s | really fault them for having uh bad |
| 15018s | games it's it happens to everyone it's |
| 15019s | very possible uh but it is unfortunate |
| 15023s | right like these are the tournaments you |
| 15025s | want to showcase your best and |
| 15027s | you don't want to be having bad days on |
| 15029s | on these like very important tournaments |
| 15031s | for sure |
| 15032s | really happy that we have you here |
| 15033s | collins to talk about from first-hand |
| 15035s | experience the mental aspect of the game |
| 15038s | because as casters were always like oh |
| 15039s | the pressure is really real in |
| 15041s | tournaments but they could easily just |
| 15043s | say like how would you know but you're |
| 15045s | right here saying it and proving the |
| 15047s | points but we do have our standings here |
| 15051s | after the second game is in the books |
| 15053s | beelzeezy in a very similar story that |
| 15056s | we were seeing from hakasey in the first |
| 15058s | lobby just |
| 15059s | continuing an unfortunate streak and i |
| 15061s | think mathematically unable to make it |
| 15064s | through to tomorrow but on the flip side |
| 15066s | kid following up a second place with the |
| 15068s | first insane caramon with two top fours |
| 15071s | and valeera as well just impressive |
| 15074s | stuff all across the board but xqn also |
| 15076s | just managing to leverage um a fourth |
| 15079s | and fifth place into right now a fourth |
| 15082s | place looking quite good but it really |
| 15084s | is that fourth spot that is really |
| 15087s | highly contested |
| 15088s | yeah that fourth spot and maybe the |
| 15091s | third spot of valeera goes uh it does |
| 15094s | really poorly in the next game but |
| 15095s | really that fourth spot's what |
| 15096s | everyone's shooting for uh definitely |
| 15099s | gonna be rough uh because you know like |
| 15101s | you know everyone has a target on your |
| 15103s | back right because i do think they can |
| 15105s | see the player names right so they're |
| 15106s | like oh execute when they do like you |
| 15108s | kill that guy you know so it's gonna be |
| 15111s | uh it might be weird right everyone |
| 15113s | might you know just do not level you |
| 15114s | know let's play an extra million down |
| 15116s | you know just to do a little bit more |
| 15118s | damage and |
| 15119s | uh knock them out early so we'll see if |
| 15122s | if things change if people start playing |
| 15124s | very safe right so for kid and kuramon |
| 15127s | right they they can kind of chill they |
| 15130s | don't have to try super hard but it's |
| 15132s | always nice to like dominate over a |
| 15134s | competition just be like 500 points |
| 15138s | ahead so we'll see what they want to do |
| 15139s | there and i can take a page out of |
| 15141s | dappy's book from last lobby right even |
| 15144s | though he was like for sure through |
| 15145s | after the second game he was still |
| 15147s | flexing on people knocking some of the |
| 15149s | other players out early and we are going |
| 15153s | to find out who will be the four players |
| 15155s | from lobby b joining us through in the |
| 15157s | finals tomorrow right after a short |
| 15159s | break gotta give them time to rest and |
| 15162s | recover make sure they're playing at |
| 15163s | their best on the very last game of the |
| 15166s | day so don't go anywhere right after |
| 15167s | this we'll be back with game three |
| 15171s | [Music] |
| 15185s | [Music] |
| 15192s | [Music] |
| 15219s | now |
| 15220s | [Music] |
| 15325s | so |
| 15329s | [Music] |
| 15369s | [Music] |
| 15380s | welcome back once again to lobby legends |
| 15382s | eternal night where the eternal night is |
| 15385s | coming to an end actually at least for |
| 15387s | today collins it is going to be our last |
| 15390s | game of the day at lobby b |
| 15392s | already shaping up with some front |
| 15394s | runners but we do have at least two |
| 15396s | spots i think that are still very |
| 15398s | heavily contested what you looking |
| 15400s | forward to seeing |
| 15402s | i'm looking forward to seeing some |
| 15404s | people play with their hearts out you |
| 15406s | know just trying their best to get their |
| 15409s | points especially the people in the |
| 15411s | middle |
| 15412s | um i would say maybe everyone below xq1 |
| 15415s | needs to |
| 15417s | win the lobby or at least top two so i |
| 15419s | really want them to go for those greedy |
| 15421s | play styles because you know if you |
| 15423s | do something safe you get third and like |
| 15425s | you still don't make it like what's the |
| 15427s | point so at least go for the the risk |
| 15430s | the problem there is if |
| 15433s | everyone does that then if you play safe |
| 15435s | you actually top two so then again you |
| 15436s | know maybe that's the actual line if you |
| 15438s | have that read so |
| 15440s | uh it's really interesting to see how |
| 15442s | people are gonna play in the last game i |
| 15444s | think the last games usually see the |
| 15446s | most |
| 15447s | weird things uh especially in qualifiers |
| 15450s | so i wonder what unique strategies we're |
| 15452s | gonna see here |
| 15453s | desperation and risk may abound because |
| 15456s | that is simply the name of the game with |
| 15458s | only three lobbies to play out within a |
| 15460s | single day it's crazy how much pressure |
| 15463s | the players are under this is an entire |
| 15465s | month's work of playing through ladder |
| 15467s | and qualifiers to make it to this spot |
| 15469s | but for half the field their dreams are |
| 15471s | cut short just that quickly but before |
| 15474s | we get into the last game of the day we |
| 15476s | also have one more reveal to show |
| 15478s | everybody it is another new minion |
| 15481s | joining the many that we have shown so |
| 15483s | far collins what's it gonna be it's |
| 15485s | irrelevant |
| 15487s | after this attacks give a friendly |
| 15489s | minion of each side plus one plus two |
| 15493s | so it's kind of like a light fang |
| 15496s | uh but it yeah it's like a live fan |
| 15498s | because it has no type |
| 15499s | uh |
| 15500s | but yeah interesting so it's not |
| 15502s | permanent that's one thing to keep in |
| 15504s | mind because |
| 15506s | it's it's a battle uh combat the thing |
| 15509s | that jumps out to me is uh alec here you |
| 15513s | play alakir with this it gets the win |
| 15515s | fury then with divine attacks twice |
| 15517s | and you're giving everything plus one |
| 15519s | plus like plus two plus four that's |
| 15521s | super broken in the early game right so |
| 15524s | um |
| 15525s | this this isn't a direction right i |
| 15527s | don't think we've seen any directions in |
| 15530s | the new reveals we've just seen |
| 15532s | like tech cards mostly and maybe |
| 15534s | direction if you're going chroma wing |
| 15536s | with the swap attack but |
| 15537s | you know that's gonna get changed in my |
| 15539s | opinion so |
| 15540s | this is a pretty decent early game unit |
| 15545s | the problem with it is you kind of have |
| 15547s | to |
| 15548s | build around it right so you need to |
| 15551s | have synergy |
| 15553s | i wonder if this ever makes say a wag |
| 15556s | toggle more playable i have the answer |
| 15560s | no |
| 15560s | okay thank you for the conclusive um and |
| 15565s | doubtless answer there but yeah it's |
| 15567s | super interesting to see that there's so |
| 15568s | many minions without a type being |
| 15570s | introduced that it makes me wonder are |
| 15572s | we gonna see tyrion's coming back oh yes |
| 15575s | i love it |
| 15577s | i mean |
| 15579s | a girl can dream i miss tyrion |
| 15583s | do i miss tyrion i think tyrion was |
| 15585s | pretty cool design uh but i i really |
| 15588s | think |
| 15589s | he was a lot better when you had that |
| 15591s | tier one |
| 15592s | um |
| 15593s | divine shield unit |
| 15595s | yeah |
| 15596s | yeah that really helped a lot writer's |
| 15598s | protector i think yeah i think that's |
| 15600s | correct |
| 15601s | all right once playing queen ashara or |
| 15604s | or queen yes |
| 15606s | that's pretty cool |
| 15607s | oh joe and say with not much hesitation |
| 15610s | granted the other heroes weren't |
| 15611s | particularly good we saw a test game a |
| 15613s | while ago but it's kind of hard to make |
| 15615s | that work sometimes um azshara without |
| 15618s | dragons in is a bit difficult to |
| 15620s | activate the hero power early maybe |
| 15624s | silas is the riskier play i guess he |
| 15626s | needs the points are so yeah then i i |
| 15629s | guess silas makes sense if you're going |
| 15630s | to if you need the points i think |
| 15632s | english masao is also pretty playable |
| 15634s | there not super good either i wouldn't |
| 15636s | be super happy with any of those options |
| 15638s | but i think |
| 15640s | silas as long as you get a good start |
| 15641s | you can kind of recover from it |
| 15643s | are you ready and the ticket is on the |
| 15646s | best minion as well here i mean i don't |
| 15648s | know i am a big micro mommy fan but |
| 15651s | would you ever say that swan striker is |
| 15653s | the best in the church micro mummy all |
| 15655s | the way i'm with you okay |
| 15657s | all right great yogg start there |
| 15660s | true |
| 15661s | yeah |
| 15662s | hero power come on show us your audio |
| 15664s | player hero power |
| 15666s | let's do it i want to see it |
| 15667s | yeah to be fair the same michelle you |
| 15670s | can still freeze it right the safe play |
| 15672s | is just um |
| 15673s | he's not uh he's not a yogurt |
| 15677s | it's even weirder to me because he and |
| 15679s | he guarantee loses the fight now right |
| 15681s | where if you take the other two you |
| 15683s | don't guarantee lose |
| 15687s | yeah |
| 15688s | but yeah i mean |
| 15690s | yeah yeah taking three is yogg turn one |
| 15692s | oh you hate to see it right that's like |
| 15694s | the |
| 15695s | worse back how's it going out there eh |
| 15699s | oh he's just lovely okay |
| 15701s | so xq and i guess from the get-go was |
| 15704s | planning not to go for the aggro yacht |
| 15706s | curve just going standard curve instead |
| 15708s | i mean if you're buying the minion that |
| 15710s | that's what you're saying right uh that |
| 15712s | you are going to play standard |
| 15715s | otherwise |
| 15717s | you why would you buy essentially right |
| 15719s | so buying the minion kind of showcases |
| 15721s | that you are just leveling because even |
| 15723s | if you wanted that minion you just hero |
| 15725s | power and then you buy it next turn and |
| 15726s | then sell hero power but uh since |
| 15730s | he didn't do that it means he wanted to |
| 15731s | level uh i i would have liked the aggro |
| 15734s | yacht curve but that's that's what i'd |
| 15736s | what i do whenever i get that option so |
| 15738s | interested to see how that turned out |
| 15740s | for him |
| 15741s | harmon bought bublet on turn one it |
| 15744s | looks like and then swapped it over |
| 15745s | because i don't think there's many |
| 15747s | situations where you buy bublet as |
| 15749s | volgen unless like there's nothing you |
| 15751s | want to swap the stats on on that first |
| 15753s | shop and then you just have that |
| 15756s | on your board so that if a divine shield |
| 15758s | appears the next turn you still can swap |
| 15761s | well he has he found two bubblettes |
| 15764s | right because oh true the two five four |
| 15767s | so maybe he um |
| 15770s | i guess he did |
| 15772s | why it's it's interesting |
| 15776s | i can't quite figure out the order of |
| 15777s | proceedings but there were two bubbles |
| 15780s | involved you're right yeah |
| 15782s | either way his board is strong that's |
| 15784s | what matters let's not let's not |
| 15787s | rack our brains on things that barely |
| 15789s | matter what was the order |
| 15791s | you know you have five minutes to answer |
| 15793s | this test and i'm like nah i'm failing |
| 15797s | i'm good all right |
| 15798s | zz here um on the varden we've had a |
| 15802s | vardan in every single lobby which means |
| 15804s | that at least for these top players it |
| 15807s | is at least a decent priority pick |
| 15810s | i actually think in the right lobbies |
| 15812s | this is like the one like top three best |
| 15814s | heroes like the the |
| 15816s | amount of nonsense you can do with this |
| 15818s | hero is just so stupid especially like |
| 15821s | when you can really abuse the power of |
| 15824s | getting true |
| 15825s | tier five triples at will |
| 15828s | that |
| 15829s | the |
| 15830s | situ like the setups you can do is just |
| 15833s | like sometimes absolutely incredible and |
| 15835s | also like when you're playing vardyn |
| 15837s | just being able to get triples |
| 15840s | pretty freely |
| 15841s | is is also just such a massive boon to |
| 15843s | the hero so i really like this hero |
| 15846s | especially in the right lobbies uh when |
| 15848s | you can abuse high level good high level |
| 15851s | minions right so |
| 15853s | dizzy gets the um copy on the mug |
| 15857s | instead of the snail cavalry which is |
| 15859s | amazing because mug triple is amazing |
| 15861s | it's just good because you get the tempo |
| 15863s | on top of obviously discovering a minion |
| 15866s | from a higher tavern tier and that means |
| 15869s | he's not in a bad position in the next |
| 15871s | couple of fights it's like not amazing |
| 15873s | stats but decent honestly mug trip was |
| 15876s | probably like the best tier two triple |
| 15878s | in that situation i don't think i could |
| 15880s | ask for anything better so he's just |
| 15881s | super happy super super chilling just uh |
| 15885s | doing a lot of damage and should be |
| 15886s | pretty pretty nice he gets a four next |
| 15889s | turn and then |
| 15890s | he can choose what to do from there |
| 15895s | yeah i would say vardyn is one of those |
| 15897s | heroes where if you have access to |
| 15900s | playing a triple even if you would |
| 15902s | sometimes would rather hold for a six it |
| 15904s | can be fine to just take a lower tier |
| 15906s | triple because you get the benefit of |
| 15908s | not having to freeze the whole shop and |
| 15910s | when you don't freeze the whole shop |
| 15911s | your hero power activates again wow he |
| 15914s | tied that's nice god insane |
| 15918s | what a scab i i don't think you should |
| 15920s | be tying there but we we take those i |
| 15923s | mean martin doesn't need the help to be |
| 15925s | fair like |
| 15927s | yeah he's already at 39 with this huge |
| 15929s | setup and now he's getting even more |
| 15931s | more luck on him |
| 15933s | oh another monster right he has an egg |
| 15936s | or uh uh i think he his mech already has |
| 15940s | divine shield oh right you're right butt |
| 15942s | yeah it is a pup bot i thought he had |
| 15944s | the the two three but you're right |
| 15947s | no rip snarling up |
| 15950s | hey |
| 15951s | it's good temple |
| 15952s | yeah next turn he can like sell by three |
| 15955s | and maybe |
| 15957s | uh |
| 15958s | the problem though is he won't get three |
| 15960s | in the shop right he'd have to roll a |
| 15962s | pair which is unlikely so he i guess he |
| 15964s | could like just |
| 15966s | level the four as well and like level |
| 15968s | the four roll and then maybe take a five |
| 15970s | afterwards so there's he has a couple of |
| 15972s | options essentially |
| 15974s | all right xq and looking pretty good |
| 15976s | with this pair here like you said it's |
| 15978s | just so important to make sure you have |
| 15979s | a pair in your back pocket as yog also |
| 15982s | picked up a deflecto so many different |
| 15985s | directions he could go here um nice |
| 15987s | energy to have that |
| 15989s | mini ramadan to make sure that snails |
| 15991s | always get health every turn |
| 15994s | yeah pretty decent board unfortunately i |
| 15997s | think that the warden like high road so |
| 16000s | might still lose even with this board |
| 16002s | setup but normally like this is good |
| 16004s | enough but yeah they've already like |
| 16006s | super high road right so with golden mug |
| 16009s | and then into |
| 16010s | the pirate synergy it's just gonna be |
| 16012s | hard so yeah really |
| 16014s | tough fights for xq in here right you're |
| 16016s | playing |
| 16017s | yeah you really shouldn't be losing |
| 16019s | these early games but yeah you're |
| 16021s | already on 25 |
| 16023s | with yog like it's it's a disaster |
| 16028s | uh |
| 16030s | i mean you hear a power level like |
| 16031s | that's that's like the normal play but |
| 16034s | i mean you're at 25 right so now you're |
| 16036s | [Music] |
| 16038s | whoa |
| 16038s | [Music] |
| 16040s | so for alex here this guy i know what |
| 16043s | i'm doing |
| 16044s | i know what i'm doing |
| 16046s | sell something hero power the sally and |
| 16049s | then wait for two six drops later yes |
| 16051s | yes that's what i'm doing what's the |
| 16053s | something is it the pop bot that's gone |
| 16055s | here |
| 16058s | oh |
| 16059s | that's a good point |
| 16061s | i think it's a pup pod oh that's a good |
| 16064s | point i didn't see that |
| 16066s | yeah |
| 16067s | you're right |
| 16070s | i thought uh i thought i could sell the |
| 16072s | three one but it's actually the triple |
| 16074s | so i can't do that so yeah yeah i just |
| 16076s | have to sell that |
| 16077s | okay but the good thing is here next |
| 16079s | turn you can level zelda sally hero |
| 16081s | power |
| 16082s | you get double six it's so it's so good |
| 16085s | and the money is perfect because it's a |
| 16087s | shell conductor and you got the |
| 16088s | cellulose turn and you're zarella this |
| 16090s | is just the xyrella dream you know i |
| 16092s | feel like this hero is so good right now |
| 16094s | especially on these tokeny economy-heavy |
| 16096s | lobbies yeah i i love zarella in this |
| 16099s | lobby like one of my |
| 16100s | best performing heroes i would say |
| 16103s | um except for the tournament where i got |
| 16105s | eighth on it but other than that like |
| 16107s | you know fringe scenario |
| 16109s | uh definitely has |
| 16111s | all the tools it needs to really play |
| 16114s | a high leveling high |
| 16117s | uh power play style and just do well so |
| 16120s | i really like this hero right now i |
| 16122s | didn't think i would honestly when i |
| 16124s | when the meta started but after you know |
| 16126s | you play like a five four six |
| 16128s | i mean five six games with the hero and |
| 16130s | you're like yeah this is doing really |
| 16131s | well for me |
| 16132s | especially with that banging skin i mean |
| 16135s | look at that |
| 16138s | that's the best skin in the game |
| 16142s | to be fair like skins don't oh okay i |
| 16144s | thought that was another triple skins |
| 16146s | don't like necessarily encourage what |
| 16148s | hero i'm going to play but there are |
| 16150s | some skins where i'm like yeah |
| 16152s | you know |
| 16153s | i'm so glad i'm playing this hero |
| 16155s | because this skin's really good so yeah |
| 16161s | i don't think you take the uh |
| 16163s | no i don't i think well i don't think |
| 16164s | you have to take the triple now right |
| 16166s | you just wait and you win this fight to |
| 16168s | a hundred percent true you actually are |
| 16170s | strong but if you got oregon more value |
| 16172s | right okay yeah yeah yeah that's true |
| 16174s | that's the one caveat if you hit uh |
| 16176s | orgazoa |
| 16178s | then then i like this play if you don't |
| 16180s | hit orgasaur then |
| 16182s | then the place sucks ah no no no the |
| 16185s | flight doesn't suck but it's weaker |
| 16188s | it's just weaker it doesn't suck though |
| 16191s | i do think he'll end up winning either |
| 16192s | way though because look at this it's |
| 16194s | turned seven |
| 16196s | yeah i i wonder if he's gonna unlock |
| 16198s | that second sully and or the second |
| 16200s | scabs and uh scally and say i'm gonna |
| 16202s | commit to scali because oh he is okay |
| 16205s | good because i like this because |
| 16208s | it |
| 16210s | he's at 20 right like that's the one |
| 16212s | thing right and this will give him a ton |
| 16214s | of power |
| 16215s | uh and you can win with we could you can |
| 16217s | win with uh eliza comp so it's not |
| 16220s | you're not giving up on the game even |
| 16222s | though |
| 16223s | you know the directions already |
| 16225s | committed this early so i like this |
| 16227s | decision here |
| 16229s | i would agree |
| 16231s | we have valeria here who is one of the |
| 16233s | relatively safe players here but still |
| 16235s | can't really afford to get an eighth and |
| 16237s | playing a comp that really i think is |
| 16239s | emblematic of the position he's in right |
| 16242s | he doesn't necessarily have big scaling |
| 16244s | for later on even just the decision to |
| 16245s | pick rat king this is not often a hero |
| 16248s | that takes first place but you can get a |
| 16250s | lot of tempo in the mid game if you're |
| 16252s | just trying to secure like minimum |
| 16254s | fifth or something and i think he can |
| 16256s | still get away with qualifying with |
| 16257s | something like that then it makes a lot |
| 16258s | of sense |
| 16260s | yeah extra taking another loss though |
| 16263s | all right like you gotta you gotta be |
| 16264s | feeling the pressure at this point uh |
| 16267s | has two cards in his hand though so |
| 16269s | that's kind of interesting oh he's |
| 16271s | actually lost his fight with the eliza |
| 16274s | that's um yeah because he didn't he |
| 16276s | didn't he didn't unlock and go double |
| 16278s | eliza so he's running six units so what |
| 16281s | happens is i've done this all the time |
| 16283s | you run six units what happens you |
| 16285s | realize it gets sniped at the beginning |
| 16286s | and then you lose the game yeah very |
| 16288s | common thing that's why i didn't want |
| 16291s | to |
| 16292s | get the triple there but i understand it |
| 16295s | especially if you if your game plan is |
| 16297s | to get a tender and then play nagas and |
| 16300s | i definitely understand it but i think |
| 16301s | if you were committed to eliza scaling |
| 16303s | you'd just rather have double eliza |
| 16305s | there but unfortunately gets punished |
| 16307s | hopefully it doesn't bite him in the |
| 16308s | butt |
| 16310s | xq misses on ethissa and orgazoa but |
| 16312s | buster is still something he has the |
| 16314s | deflecto here could pivot from naga at |
| 16317s | this point because i really don't think |
| 16318s | he can afford to level to six and try to |
| 16320s | force the naga still |
| 16322s | yeah one issue once again right with all |
| 16325s | the buster players is there's no beasts |
| 16327s | like this is the one thing i keep |
| 16329s | hammering home it's a weaker buster |
| 16331s | variant if you don't have m makazin and |
| 16334s | if you're trying to win if you're trying |
| 16336s | to do well |
| 16337s | like you want them a car option at least |
| 16340s | as an option just because it gives you |
| 16342s | more hits right even if you're not going |
| 16344s | to go macaw if you have macabre as an |
| 16347s | option now you have two you double the |
| 16349s | amount of like |
| 16350s | hits you could you can get right right |
| 16352s | now you just have kanger to double your |
| 16354s | power but if you have kanger and macadam |
| 16357s | bam that's it's more likely you hit one |
| 16359s | of the two and then you're a lot |
| 16360s | stronger so i i think you have to take |
| 16363s | the buster but |
| 16365s | it feels bad |
| 16367s | i agree but we have to like |
| 16369s | contextualize that in exchange position |
| 16372s | he doesn't have to take a first place to |
| 16374s | qualify through he's currently in fourth |
| 16376s | place right so but as long as he |
| 16377s | maintains that on his right should not |
| 16379s | be last right for sure problem right |
| 16384s | it's definitely possible to be put in |
| 16386s | the last place position |
| 16389s | it's a kid |
| 16391s | one curator yeah manages a tie but xqa |
| 16394s | also ties all right he's above damage |
| 16396s | cap |
| 16399s | yeah it should be pretty good |
| 16402s | um for them a lot of players are playing |
| 16404s | relatively safe even the vulgen as well |
| 16407s | just doing a lot of safe plays looking |
| 16411s | for a baron now just the usual stuff |
| 16413s | mackerel nice macros pretty good here |
| 16418s | needs the baron though that's that's a |
| 16420s | big deal |
| 16423s | is the glow scale ever an intermediate |
| 16426s | option probably the ryan's dead right |
| 16428s | yeah i think it's too much of a bait |
| 16430s | even the leroy i think is really yeah |
| 16432s | you you need the you need your comp |
| 16434s | online |
| 16435s | uh and you can't like waste your your |
| 16438s | money there to like buy this like if you |
| 16441s | do that you're just gonna die like a |
| 16442s | turn later and you might not even that |
| 16444s | might not even like make let you stay |
| 16447s | alive a turn like so you might just |
| 16448s | still lose either way it's not that big |
| 16450s | of a power spike so i i wouldn't i |
| 16453s | wouldn't bother |
| 16455s | caramon shows that he's leveling now |
| 16458s | which may or may not be a relief to |
| 16460s | execute because he'll see this triple |
| 16462s | soon right for sure caramel vices yeah |
| 16465s | you you buy for sure i think he's |
| 16466s | thinking whether he wants to like hero |
| 16468s | power um or swap swap onto the 6-4 yeah |
| 16473s | ah okay and then get the triple yeah so |
| 16476s | i i think that's that's what he was |
| 16477s | deciding that's why it wasn't immediate |
| 16479s | but it makes sense to me |
| 16480s | let's see it this uh |
| 16483s | could do it since you have the uh |
| 16486s | yeah yeah yeah so going for that and he |
| 16488s | also is getting two coins a turn so |
| 16491s | i think with those two options it makes |
| 16493s | sense or not one one corner turn which |
| 16495s | is still pretty good |
| 16498s | it's the baron okay |
| 16500s | it's a six minion board that ends up |
| 16502s | here for xqx he did actually buy the |
| 16505s | glow scale interesting stuff however |
| 16507s | that accolades is putting a wrench in |
| 16510s | his plans we we talked offshore |
| 16513s | we talked off-stream how i thought |
| 16515s | acolyte was more of a tech car than zap |
| 16517s | and you can really see it here |
| 16519s | where it just destroys this board right |
| 16522s | yeah going for buster but double acolyte |
| 16525s | ex-hunt is kind of playing around that |
| 16527s | too right you could see that he put |
| 16528s | windfury on his buster you don't |
| 16530s | normally do that right but he's thinking |
| 16532s | oh i'll put winfrey on the buster to |
| 16533s | guarantee the product because i know i |
| 16535s | need this to go off but acolyte hey |
| 16537s | double attack i attack your i tech that |
| 16539s | too |
| 16540s | and uh yeah it takes takes the full |
| 16542s | brunt there it's a really really |
| 16544s | uh unfortunate situation there for uh |
| 16547s | xq i need to taunt that buster |
| 16549s | immediately |
| 16551s | completely agree god dumb it here finds |
| 16554s | a glow scale |
| 16555s | he's more of like elementals right with |
| 16558s | the dome |
| 16562s | i would say he's kind of critter |
| 16563s | wrangler or he's leaning towards it |
| 16565s | trying to get um |
| 16567s | good uh like if you want to do well i |
| 16570s | think in this position you want to find |
| 16572s | uh like the rev the what's it called the |
| 16575s | win fury naga and then you just use the |
| 16577s | critter wrangler winfrey nuggets start |
| 16579s | buffing that and then you can like maybe |
| 16582s | get something there |
| 16583s | the god yogurl is it happening for the |
| 16586s | module |
| 16586s | [Laughter] |
| 16589s | i mean you could just sell the 64 and |
| 16591s | buy it and just say i'm not risking it |
| 16599s | i think you have to now i mean yeah he |
| 16600s | just he played the full board now so |
| 16602s | like even if you get the module off here |
| 16604s | apart you'd have to sell something |
| 16605s | anyway so glow scale out |
| 16607s | module in |
| 16609s | just make sure you can finally taunt |
| 16611s | this poor buster |
| 16615s | could also buy the uh the tutu |
| 16617s | all right never mind |
| 16621s | this this this is reasonable |
| 16625s | quite strong |
| 16627s | could lock the second deflector i i |
| 16629s | don't know if it's quite strong that's |
| 16632s | that's maybe |
| 16634s | this is okay |
| 16635s | um once again you'd rather have a |
| 16637s | macabre variance yeah and yeah you're |
| 16639s | against uh eliza |
| 16641s | right so |
| 16643s | it just depends on the timing of the |
| 16646s | kangaroo dying i think |
| 16649s | he has a golden buster the uh |
| 16652s | oh true that's |
| 16654s | i just know this now okay yeah so i |
| 16656s | don't know if it depends |
| 16660s | he just got double sniped that's a |
| 16662s | disaster he needed that fire |
| 16666s | macro can do bs things you know so |
| 16669s | there's there's a chance |
| 16671s | the ping-pong is real |
| 16674s | once again would delete that card from |
| 16677s | the game buddy you know whatever |
| 16680s | i'm gonna i'm gonna say it's fine here |
| 16682s | even though i'm crying inside if if xq1 |
| 16684s | does ping pong is way to victory |
| 16688s | it looks like he does ping-pong yeah |
| 16691s | i feel like he was favored to begin with |
| 16693s | come on that parent just got double |
| 16695s | sniped two attacks in a row |
| 16698s | i don't know |
| 16700s | okay he was i mean he was i |
| 16703s | he might have been favored but the way |
| 16705s | he won |
| 16706s | disgusts me okay |
| 16710s | okay |
| 16711s | it's it's a bit disappointing that uh |
| 16714s | macro is going to save another player's |
| 16716s | life he i i the problem is i have too |
| 16719s | many memories of getting destroyed by |
| 16720s | mackerel you know i don't have any happy |
| 16723s | memories they're all just sadness oh |
| 16725s | okay i see yeah i mean it is very rough |
| 16727s | to see alex go out like that not gonna |
| 16729s | lie i thought he was in a great position |
| 16731s | with that zero like he had two six drops |
| 16733s | but um couldn't i think he got the |
| 16736s | golden buster but didn't have any |
| 16738s | synergy for it like he was still relying |
| 16741s | on eliza to carry him through and then i |
| 16743s | think he was going to pivot the mech |
| 16744s | from there but didn't have the time |
| 16748s | he was kind of playing two comps |
| 16750s | essentially right and he i i think it |
| 16752s | would have been better for him to just |
| 16754s | commit to one right he had the eliza's |
| 16757s | early and if he just committed full |
| 16759s | eliza roll it down for kangas roll it |
| 16761s | down for |
| 16762s | a tony roll it down for baron right i |
| 16764s | think he would have been a little bit |
| 16765s | stronger he kind of also just like |
| 16768s | fully committed to buster because it |
| 16770s | looks like he tripled and got a second |
| 16772s | like got |
| 16773s | busters but then has no other mechs |
| 16775s | there right so it's kind of weird to |
| 16778s | be playing both directions and he also |
| 16781s | took that extra like 10 10 11 damage by |
| 16786s | playing down a unit and then getting |
| 16788s | sniped i assume he got sniped on the |
| 16790s | eliza and then took went from like 26 to |
| 16792s | like |
| 16793s | 11 or something so right |
| 16796s | a lot of decisions |
| 16798s | do a little bit of greed getting to him |
| 16800s | here but we are seeing sort of the |
| 16802s | opposite of that from goddammit this is |
| 16804s | the second time he's played for not know |
| 16806s | me elementals and this is not even |
| 16808s | master of reality elementals either it's |
| 16810s | just utilizing the power of major domo |
| 16813s | alongside a cleave and recognizing that |
| 16815s | naga are in so cleaves get doubly |
| 16817s | powerful as well |
| 16819s | [Applause] |
| 16821s | oh baby x gun actually has a decent |
| 16823s | board now really good |
| 16825s | now now it's more like oh this is |
| 16827s | respectable |
| 16828s | uh here where he can definitely win this |
| 16830s | fight uh especially now he's getting so |
| 16833s | many busters uh as well so yeah pretty |
| 16836s | good salvage uh game from xq and right |
| 16840s | it was looking pretty rough for him but |
| 16842s | then |
| 16843s | gets the taunts gets the kangers gets |
| 16846s | two macros in the back with the vine |
| 16849s | shield and |
| 16850s | and now his board is really hard to deal |
| 16852s | with so i i like the recovery here from |
| 16855s | the next one i'm trying to adjust myself |
| 16858s | to your standards colin because a while |
| 16860s | ago you talked about how when there was |
| 16862s | one kangaroo baron and the buster it was |
| 16865s | okay and now this board is decent |
| 16868s | because more doesn't say |
| 16871s | yeah i mean quite a while ago was strong |
| 16873s | as well |
| 16874s | you're talking to lobby legends players |
| 16876s | right decent |
| 16877s | good boards they're like |
| 16879s | like |
| 16880s | what the |
| 16881s | azizy has i would say is a good board in |
| 16884s | like two turns right like that's that's |
| 16886s | what i'm looking at right right now it's |
| 16888s | okay you know it's okay it's pretty soft |
| 16891s | but like give me two turns and now he |
| 16893s | has a good voice right good |
| 16896s | whoopsie |
| 16897s | i'm not sure |
| 16898s | has happened again |
| 16900s | i i move too much |
| 16902s | i get to get a little too hyphy there |
| 16905s | right so yeah maybe you need to |
| 16907s | oh my goodness imagine having to play |
| 16909s | hogger while waiting for the vardan |
| 16911s | animations every refresh that sucks i |
| 16915s | can't imagine playing golden hogger in |
| 16917s | this meta with the lag as well right you |
| 16919s | have the lag and then you have the |
| 16921s | vardan animations and then you have the |
| 16923s | spellcraft sometimes that can be really |
| 16925s | slow too if you buy spellcrafts as well |
| 16928s | like the |
| 16929s | the four six right that that could take |
| 16931s | a long time so |
| 16932s | i respect it though |
| 16934s | i respect it as well right |
| 16937s | to go for this he only has half less |
| 16939s | than half a minute left it's insane |
| 16942s | there's just not that much scaling but |
| 16943s | technically these hoggers in a different |
| 16946s | situation different hero maybe in a |
| 16948s | different patch where there was less lag |
| 16950s | it could be easily up to 100 hundred but |
| 16953s | not in this case |
| 16956s | yeah it's it's |
| 16958s | it's very common for |
| 16960s | hoggers to have |
| 16963s | the most stats in the game basically so |
| 16965s | yeah |
| 16966s | whatever stats your opponent has you're |
| 16968s | pretty much outpaced hoggers |
| 16971s | double strong arm that's really lucky |
| 16974s | or obviously very behind on the |
| 16976s | spectator i think he he can do it |
| 16980s | i believe roll for bread roll for brent |
| 16983s | just do it roll it down for bread |
| 16988s | okay |
| 16989s | lorena gonna leave us in suspense there |
| 16991s | because something else spicy is |
| 16994s | happening here xq in a fight for his |
| 16997s | life the kangaroo is still alive so i |
| 16999s | think he'll take this it'll be fair |
| 17001s | every fight for xuren is a fight for his |
| 17003s | life right |
| 17009s | yeah wait take us back to hogger |
| 17011s | this is a win for xqn |
| 17014s | thank you |
| 17015s | we're still watching the animation it's |
| 17018s | not done yet |
| 17019s | we're still watching the animations play |
| 17021s | oh my lord okay |
| 17026s | we are like a whole minute behind here |
| 17028s | it feels like an animation |
| 17032s | it was who was i to criticize he hasn't |
| 17034s | played the strong arms yet they might |
| 17036s | well still got the hoggers to 100 once |
| 17038s | that whole thing has resolved |
| 17044s | okay |
| 17050s | yeah pretty solid board for dumbest here |
| 17053s | uh just using the cleave |
| 17056s | as his engine and then he he also has |
| 17058s | this molten rock as just like a filler |
| 17061s | if you can get through the cleave you |
| 17062s | also have to get through the molten |
| 17064s | rocks and then he also has this murloc |
| 17065s | poison just like hey i have poison you |
| 17067s | know maybe two poisons and that might be |
| 17070s | our final composition so just a clean |
| 17073s | board not like super |
| 17075s | crazy but does the job and does it |
| 17078s | really well |
| 17079s | i really love seeing this from our |
| 17080s | players like the scrappy board states |
| 17082s | where they do attempt for one direction |
| 17085s | but when they see that it's not |
| 17088s | necessarily enough tempo they can just |
| 17090s | kind of say okay this is my carry minion |
| 17092s | these are the supports and even though |
| 17093s | the pieces don't necessarily all go |
| 17095s | together individually they are strong |
| 17098s | enough to deal with the common board |
| 17100s | states on the other side and it's been |
| 17102s | leveraged into a minimum top four which |
| 17104s | is very nicely done from dummit |
| 17106s | yeah xcaren also recovering from that |
| 17108s | start right he was put in a very |
| 17111s | precarious position but was able to |
| 17114s | recover and now he's he's okay you know |
| 17116s | he's ooh bran |
| 17118s | all right let us not be fooled by this |
| 17120s | 15 seconds is this still the same uh |
| 17123s | it's just oh no no no no no no no no no |
| 17124s | no no no no no no no no no no no no no |
| 17124s | no no no no no no no no |
| 17125s | no i know i know |
| 17128s | that turn is still going like oh wow |
| 17132s | uh he's just in a different universe |
| 17134s | than us |
| 17137s | as long as he plays the strong shows i |
| 17139s | think he's |
| 17140s | okay |
| 17142s | to be fair execution's board is pretty |
| 17144s | good so there is a chance that he just |
| 17147s | gets knocked out anyways but he should |
| 17150s | be fine |
| 17151s | yeah it is a backboard right there oh |
| 17153s | look at this |
| 17154s | look at dumb it he puts the cleave at |
| 17156s | the far back that's very specific |
| 17160s | wow |
| 17161s | this is so awesome to see players when |
| 17164s | they get these insanely good reads and |
| 17166s | they're so rewarded for it |
| 17168s | yeah i don't think i'm i'm putting my |
| 17170s | cleave like at the very back you know |
| 17172s | personally but |
| 17174s | xqn doesn't get there against the huge |
| 17177s | pirates but he does secure a top four |
| 17179s | which i think in most worlds is enough |
| 17181s | to qualify him through to tomorrow |
| 17183s | yeah i i think top four placement |
| 17185s | especially ty third fourth is gonna be |
| 17187s | good enough there so really glad for him |
| 17190s | just uh |
| 17191s | getting what he needed right not not not |
| 17194s | any crazy games but |
| 17196s | gets a fifth gets a fourth gets a third |
| 17198s | fourth like |
| 17200s | that's all you need and no one cares if |
| 17202s | you win the finals right no one cares |
| 17204s | that you got third fourth like it |
| 17205s | doesn't matter you just didn't win the |
| 17206s | finals now job's done on day one you |
| 17209s | don't need a first place to make it |
| 17211s | through to day two not necessarily uh |
| 17213s | caramel i think also secures himself |
| 17216s | with a fifth place here valeera with a |
| 17218s | sec a third i think is also looking |
| 17220s | pretty good it's just one more spot that |
| 17223s | i am unsure of because uh kid was doing |
| 17226s | pretty well but finished in seventh this |
| 17228s | time goddammit potentially can recover |
| 17231s | here |
| 17232s | oh |
| 17233s | yeah i i think maybe the winner of this |
| 17236s | lobby will |
| 17238s | well no b z can't make it right so it's |
| 17241s | only dumbed right that can |
| 17244s | yeah but thomas will know if he needs |
| 17246s | this last point like necessarily to make |
| 17249s | it through uh for zizi |
| 17252s | this is about pride at this point |
| 17254s | because i don't think even with seven |
| 17255s | points he could qualify |
| 17258s | i mean you can see the stress in |
| 17259s | dumbet's eyes right like so maybe he |
| 17261s | doesn't need the points right like oh |
| 17263s | man i need to win this oh but now i need |
| 17266s | to win this like it could be true |
| 17271s | so we see here the taunted leroy which |
| 17273s | is honestly a tough |
| 17275s | like i can never |
| 17277s | easily figure out when i need to do that |
| 17279s | collins what do you think is the thought |
| 17280s | process behind toning this up uh you |
| 17282s | taunt leroy if you know your opponent |
| 17285s | has a big minion in the front |
| 17286s | essentially right because you taunt the |
| 17288s | leroy so that they go into your minions |
| 17290s | of you going to their minions so if they |
| 17291s | have a big man in the back you want to |
| 17293s | put your lever first like here is a |
| 17294s | perfect example for your leader first |
| 17296s | amazing but this is also |
| 17299s | a good example to put your lever in the |
| 17301s | back so because all of his minions are |
| 17302s | big |
| 17304s | doesn't really matter where you put it |
| 17306s | because it's gonna kill something here |
| 17308s | uh so |
| 17309s | yeah i mean |
| 17311s | the the mindset though is if they have a |
| 17313s | big minion in the front then you taunt |
| 17315s | your leroys if they have a big man in |
| 17316s | the back then you play leroy's first he |
| 17319s | has a big minion everywhere so it |
| 17321s | doesn't matter where you put your |
| 17322s | libraries it's going to kill something |
| 17326s | with the grimace i think he knows that |
| 17328s | he obviously cannot outscale the golden |
| 17330s | double hoggers they're zz only gets more |
| 17334s | stats here but |
| 17335s | we're worse watching the fight from the |
| 17338s | last turn oh because it took so long to |
| 17341s | play the cards out |
| 17343s | all right |
| 17344s | that's actually hilarious |
| 17346s | okay |
| 17347s | so zizi should also know that he doesn't |
| 17350s | need to bother scaling up his pirates |
| 17352s | that much more because they are big |
| 17353s | enough to trade everything here he just |
| 17356s | needs to be strong against leois and |
| 17358s | poison on the other side and he does |
| 17359s | already have golden selfless and baron |
| 17361s | how does he get better against these |
| 17364s | uh i don't think he needs a zap right so |
| 17367s | that's that's maybe something and he he |
| 17369s | can replace his app with a mantad |
| 17372s | um he can also replace his app with more |
| 17374s | poison like so more murlocs essentially |
| 17377s | the murlocs are gonna be hard to do |
| 17378s | because you don't have |
| 17380s | uh that many avenged procs right so it |
| 17383s | just has to be perfect but |
| 17385s | um i guess those are the things i would |
| 17387s | be looking at uh one thing that he could |
| 17390s | have done if he had more time was just |
| 17393s | make a amalgadon poison and put divine |
| 17396s | shield on it but uh doesn't look like he |
| 17398s | has the time for that |
| 17401s | yeah |
| 17402s | eliza here i think it's kind of like a |
| 17404s | burlap right yeah yeah has to be |
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| 17410s | barley could have taken the two three |
| 17412s | yeah but you know it's not that |
| 17414s | important |
| 17417s | really just formalities from this point |
| 17419s | but yeah um zz has even had time to |
| 17422s | start with double glow scale it feels |
| 17425s | like because all these hoggers had |
| 17426s | divine shield |
| 17428s | leroy doesn't care about divine shield |
| 17430s | though |
| 17433s | maybe it's actually there's actually a |
| 17436s | chance |
| 17437s | that |
| 17440s | okay that's gonna be zz finishing out |
| 17444s | with a first place even though i think |
| 17447s | the points don't matter for him we'll |
| 17448s | see though if that one point |
| 17450s | differential matters for dumbet in just |
| 17453s | a bit collins this was such a close last |
| 17456s | game we didn't really see any of our top |
| 17458s | performers from the previous games |
| 17461s | taking down those last two fights so i |
| 17464s | am so worried for all the players that |
| 17465s | were in the middle |
| 17467s | i mean i think all the players pretty |
| 17469s | much deserve it i haven't really seen |
| 17471s | like |
| 17473s | enough mistakes to warrant you know hey |
| 17476s | this guy doesn't deserve you know maybe |
| 17478s | there was like a mistake or two here |
| 17479s | there but |
| 17480s | um i do think they they all played |
| 17482s | pretty well so depending on you know the |
| 17485s | results uh it's gonna be hard right |
| 17487s | there'll probably be some players that |
| 17489s | don't get in by a point or two i mean we |
| 17491s | even saw the last lobby right we had |
| 17493s | beaufort and zorg right barely making it |
| 17496s | out from a point so |
| 17498s | i mean sometimes you're just a little |
| 17500s | bit unlucky on the day and you you |
| 17502s | barely make it out there so |
| 17504s | we'll just have to see |
| 17505s | all right |
| 17507s | recap some of the crucial fights from |
| 17510s | this last lobby honestly the azshara |
| 17512s | just a pic of that is not something i |
| 17514s | expected to see i feel like that's a |
| 17516s | hero that especially when dragons aren't |
| 17518s | in it's hard to get the hero power |
| 17520s | active early and i honestly haven't |
| 17523s | played her that much after the nerf to |
| 17525s | nagas but they've been buffed again so |
| 17527s | can't quite |
| 17528s | um |
| 17529s | place the overall power level at the |
| 17531s | moment but overall i've been just so |
| 17533s | happy to see like the variety of the |
| 17535s | heroes picked throughout the six games |
| 17538s | today for ashara i i do feel like you |
| 17540s | need crowbars in because it's so it's so |
| 17544s | different nagas with quillboards and |
| 17545s | august without it's so different so i |
| 17547s | would lean that and then preferably |
| 17550s | dragons in also allows you to get that |
| 17552s | early |
| 17553s | um |
| 17554s | a shower proc with the chroma wings |
| 17557s | start so those are the two things i |
| 17559s | would be looking for if i wanted to play |
| 17561s | queen of shower i know crowbars weren't |
| 17563s | in in this particular lobby so that |
| 17565s | would maybe lead me off of it but then |
| 17568s | again there you can always get like bad |
| 17570s | heroes and you just take that because |
| 17571s | it's the best of the worst |
| 17574s | we also saw valera on the rat king and |
| 17576s | just making that work as well i think |
| 17578s | didn't he finish tied third fourth |
| 17580s | that's impressive a hero that is |
| 17582s | consistently talked about as one of the |
| 17584s | worst ones but you know it's up like it |
| 17587s | it has the potential to be a tempo hero |
| 17590s | just like gravel who's saying right king |
| 17593s | is bad it's just not |
| 17595s | that fun |
| 17596s | oh okay |
| 17598s | the hero has its charm in that |
| 17601s | you get a good start and you just like |
| 17603s | hold on to that start get that that |
| 17605s | early tempo |
| 17607s | it's also like kind of um |
| 17609s | random and like which |
| 17611s | which um here which procs you're gonna |
| 17613s | get for the |
| 17614s | uh the hero power but that if you get a |
| 17616s | good start like the hero power does a |
| 17619s | lot for you so |
| 17621s | it's not it is true |
| 17623s | i mean maybe it's bad if you're me and i |
| 17625s | just never hit the right minion type |
| 17627s | when i need it so it's even worse than |
| 17629s | chaos |
| 17630s | but good |
| 17632s | okay thank you best advice you've given |
| 17634s | me all day |
| 17636s | that's all i have to say to that one |
| 17638s | yeah |
| 17638s | it's all our six games in the book so |
| 17640s | collins just so many |
| 17642s | fun games i've been really really happy |
| 17645s | in particular to see the scrappy types |
| 17647s | of comps making it to the top four quite |
| 17650s | a lot of times we've seen people without |
| 17651s | a clear direction still managing to |
| 17653s | scrape their way into top four because |
| 17655s | they recognize when it's more important |
| 17657s | to play for tempo when it's more |
| 17659s | important to just be strong for the very |
| 17661s | next fight and claw your way through an |
| 17663s | additional position and this is always |
| 17665s | what i can see is the big difference |
| 17668s | with lobby legends compared to just |
| 17670s | ladder or your run-of-the-mill |
| 17671s | tournament it's really easy to see how |
| 17673s | these players are the best of the best |
| 17675s | and it's you know proving that it takes |
| 17678s | a lot to get here a huge and grueling |
| 17680s | qualification process but now you can |
| 17682s | see who's made it through to tomorrow oh |
| 17685s | my goodness what a tie |
| 17687s | oh no i think yeah dumbed wins the |
| 17690s | tiebreaker because he has a better |
| 17692s | finish right with the second place |
| 17694s | finish that's enough of a tiebreaker |
| 17697s | since xqm just got like third fourth and |
| 17699s | fifth |
| 17700s | uh so unfortunately for him doesn't make |
| 17702s | it in that's gotta feel worse than like |
| 17704s | beaufort zerg right because they're |
| 17706s | they're out by a point right this is |
| 17707s | like i have the same point as you it's |
| 17709s | like yeah |
| 17711s | the tie tiebreaker of course being the |
| 17713s | highest individual placement of each |
| 17715s | player and we see goddammit had a second |
| 17717s | place with six points whereas xq1 was |
| 17719s | consistently sort of in the middle there |
| 17721s | so goddammit does win on tiebreaker uh |
| 17725s | joining of course caramon valeera and |
| 17728s | kid to qualify through to tomorrow that |
| 17731s | is all our eight players in the finals |
| 17733s | in the books collins wow what an insane |
| 17737s | field |
| 17738s | yeah really interesting too right the |
| 17740s | point structure in that second lobby is |
| 17742s | all extremely close compared to that |
| 17744s | first lobby we had like maybe two people |
| 17746s | standing out uh from the rest here here |
| 17749s | it's like everyone really fought for |
| 17751s | those final points and uh pretty even |
| 17754s | second lobby there much more scrappy uh |
| 17757s | but also a little bit more hyrule even |
| 17759s | though they didn't exactly get the units |
| 17763s | or the direction they were looking for |
| 17764s | they at least tried which we really |
| 17766s | didn't see in the first lobby everyone |
| 17768s | was just like staying down trying to |
| 17770s | bunker up and and get the each point uh |
| 17773s | as safely as possible so we have a dumpy |
| 17776s | we have waterloo we have gohan we have |
| 17778s | oleach we have kid karamon valeera |
| 17782s | who will be in the finals tomorrow lots |
| 17785s | of great players there |
| 17789s | uh we have dappy and kid being repeat |
| 17792s | performers and lobby legends as well |
| 17793s | great to see their consistency here and |
| 17796s | i think gohan kid and valeera all coming |
| 17799s | from cn and their qualification system |
| 17802s | four players went in through at the top |
| 17804s | 16 and then three of them coming out and |
| 17806s | top eight is an amazing result for them |
| 17808s | and then we have waterloo as well who is |
| 17810s | kind of a cross region player um he's |
| 17812s | kind of obviously one of the best on |
| 17814s | ladder on any servers but also active in |
| 17816s | the cn scene so they are really coming |
| 17819s | in with a strong performance in this |
| 17821s | lobby legends |
| 17822s | it could be time collins for the eu |
| 17825s | streak to be dethroned |
| 17830s | possibly i i i would say there is a |
| 17833s | there's a good chance that will happen |
| 17835s | right just even just rolling the dice |
| 17837s | right the |
| 17838s | likelihood for europe to win a third one |
| 17841s | in a row |
| 17843s | wouldn't put my money on it but then |
| 17845s | again the strong i mean there's a lot of |
| 17847s | strong players in europe so |
| 17849s | uh very possible you never know |
| 17851s | yeah oh yeshen goddammit they're |
| 17853s | definitely not going to make that easy |
| 17855s | for anyone to come and take the title |
| 17857s | but that is all our games for the day |
| 17860s | wrapped up i am |
| 17862s | really really excited to see who takes |
| 17864s | it tomorrow when we enter the check |
| 17867s | format today of course it was just the |
| 17869s | usual proceedings of gathering points |
| 17871s | making sure you got through the top four |
| 17873s | and we did only have six games but for |
| 17875s | anyone who isn't familiar tomorrow we |
| 17877s | could have way more than that i would |
| 17880s | say um six is a very like that's the |
| 17883s | bare minimum i don't even know if it can |
| 17885s | go |
| 17886s | like |
| 17887s | the bare minimum is four |
| 17890s | right because uh yeah |
| 17892s | if a player gets first three times |
| 17893s | they're in check |
| 17895s | right and then they just win the fourth |
| 17896s | game but |
| 17898s | likelihood of that very very low uh |
| 17900s | unless you're on fire so |
| 17902s | yeah i think i recall from the first one |
| 17905s | my research on the first lobby legends |
| 17907s | is that four is the um absolute minimum |
| 17909s | and i think 11 is the maximum but very |
| 17912s | likely that we get somewhere in the |
| 17914s | middle of that because like we said it's |
| 17917s | about finding the players who got into |
| 17919s | check first so they've accumulated 20 |
| 17921s | points and then in order to actually |
| 17922s | finish the tournament they need a first |
| 17925s | place finish so no matter what champion |
| 17928s | of the tournament will be winning the |
| 17930s | last game of the day very very exciting |
| 17933s | stuff collins any |
| 17935s | favorites ah |
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| 17940s | yes am i going to |
| 17942s | tell them and jinx them on on stream no |
| 17947s | i'm not doing that to them i've had that |
| 17949s | happen a couple of times and i always |
| 17950s | feel bad so i'm not gonna be that guy |
| 17952s | all right um any favorites from the |
| 17955s | revealed cards instead oh that's a great |
| 17958s | question like yeah what is my favorite |
| 17960s | revealed card |
| 17962s | oh |
| 17963s | probably the taunt giver even though i |
| 17965s | feel like that's maybe the least |
| 17967s | inspiring that's the that's the card i'm |
| 17970s | buying the most i think |
| 17972s | uh |
| 17974s | probably yeah the taunt giver is |
| 17976s | probably the one i'd probably be buying |
| 17977s | the most because it's so important to |
| 17979s | have taunt in a lot of compositions and |
| 17981s | i've just had so many games so i'm just |
| 17983s | rolling it down and i don't have the |
| 17984s | taunt and i'm just like i just need an |
| 17986s | argus i'm like i win if i have an argus |
| 17988s | and i'm just like where's my argus i'm |
| 17989s | just like i died and it just feels |
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| 17993s | for me i think the tavern tipper because |
| 17996s | i am very prone to not finishing my |
| 17997s | turns because i'm too slow but now i can |
| 17999s | say if i have tavern chipper and i left |
| 18002s | a gold and tiff bob i'm like that's on |
| 18004s | purpose i wanted to get my tavern |
| 18006s | chipper buff i do think that's the most |
| 18008s | interesting one uh out of all the |
| 18011s | reveals the the one where you're like oh |
| 18013s | i could |
| 18014s | my game |
| 18015s | might change because this card's in |
| 18018s | where some of the other ones it's like |
| 18020s | it's an extra bonus like the uh the one |
| 18022s | that gets buff buffs all the |
| 18024s | minion types like |
| 18025s | you're if you're running that cop you're |
| 18027s | just like oh this is an extra bonus to |
| 18029s | this composition where tavern temporary |
| 18031s | makes you think oh am i going to change |
| 18032s | my curve because of this card right and |
| 18034s | that's that's a unique |
| 18036s | decision that you don't |
| 18038s | usually do with pretty much every |
| 18042s | every minion |
| 18043s | you don't buy them and you're like well |
| 18044s | that's changing my curve like it's like |
| 18047s | that's not that's not a common thought |
| 18048s | but this one does allow you to have that |
| 18050s | decision it's always cool to have more |
| 18052s | decisions like that so i like that card |
| 18055s | right many new minions revealed today |
| 18057s | and one new hero as well but we have |
| 18060s | even more tomorrow so as if the finals |
| 18062s | and finding out who's the third champion |
| 18064s | of lobby legends wasn't motivation |
| 18067s | enough make sure you all tune in |
| 18068s | tomorrow for the finals of lobby legends |
| 18071s | eternal night new cards on the horizon |
| 18074s | and a new champion as well super |
| 18077s | exciting stuff and we will see you at |
| 18080s | the same time tomorrow have a good day |
| 18083s | take care everyone |
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| 18242s | now this is a huge 50-50 |
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| 18247s | irrelevant |
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| 18259s | this is just a formality meaning that |
| 18262s | max |
| 18264s | is your lobby legends champion |
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| 18299s | my |