[2023] NBPL SPRING 2023 BIWEEK4 SOLO DAY2

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70s	yes who's getting new gear
73s	joke's on you it's me
85s	kurumi needs a new outfit
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541s	I don't have
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554s	oh yeah
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576s	YouTube
583s	children
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601s	family
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622s	thank you
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745s	there is no point to this Viper
750s	you've spent too long fighting Mortals
753s	in a forgotten Hutch but I am no
756s	immortal
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767s	yeah
769s	but it is time to accept your fake sweet
773s	daughter
774s	you're not my mother you're a monster oh
778s	ungrateful
782s	it is an honor for I allowed to serve me
785s	in death as in life
791s	Viper
793s	and who is this past Justina group
796s	Winter's Grace
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821s	let's finish this
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860s	thank you
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914s	hmm yes who's getting new gear
918s	joke's on you it's me
929s	like kudumi needs a new outfit
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1590s	there is no point to this Viper
1595s	you've spent too long fighting Immortals
1598s	in a forgotten much but I am no immortal
1606s	your anxious
1614s	but it is time to accept your fake sweet
1617s	daughter
1619s	you're not my mother you're a monster ah
1623s	one grateful
1627s	is an honor for I allowed to serve me in
1630s	death as in life
1636s	Viper
1638s	and who is this past Justina goob
1641s	Winter's Grace
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1666s	let's finish this
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1719s	thank you
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1760s	yes who's getting new gear
1763s	joke's on you it's me
1773s	performance
1774s	like kudumi needs a new outfit
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2314s	episode
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2346s	well you think we're in charge
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2424s	ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the
2426s	Rock blade Point pro league I'm your
2427s	host Daniel cancer this evening The Room
2429s	Keeper joining me tonight is going to be
2431s	Raven as we head into our fourth
2433s	bi-weekly and we are going to be taking
2435s	our day two of solos and you know Raven
2439s	I think you hit the nail on the head
2440s	just a few moments ago when we talked
2442s	about some of these players entering
2444s	their super villain Arc
2445s	yeah spider every time I see him smiling
2449s	he always has this just ice cold look on
2452s	him and you see it in his gameplay he
2454s	just is an absolute menace to everyone
2457s	in the lobby I I still say that he is
2459s	the best fighter in the lobby even
2461s	though Mike he always has a special
2463s	place in my heart and he absolutely
2464s	decimates everyone else Mike has that
2468s	consistency where he does not falter
2470s	even when he's not doing super well you
2473s	just see it in his face that he's just
2474s	gonna keep coming back you cannot stop
2476s	him and you've seen it uh with the
2479s	back-to-back wins the Cinderella story
2481s	that I'm looking forward to ruin keeper
2482s	is they split it down the middle though
2483s	might gets one of them more that goes
2485s	2-2 going into the finals
2487s	you know I have to bring it up because
2489s	I'm a huge wolves fan you know I've got
2491s	their Jersey from last year on my wall
2494s	signed by all the members of Team wolves
2496s	but Kai bow earlier this week absolutely
2500s	dominating his lobbies as well so you
2503s	know I'm expecting to see a lot out of
2505s	her boy wolves about this week as well
2507s	especially given that it's the last
2509s	bi-weekly and you know we don't want to
2512s	see him struggling to try to make it
2514s	into Worlds and I don't think he wants
2516s	to either and that's why he's Come Out
2517s	Swinging this week here in the uh solos
2521s	so maybe we'll get to see him come alive
2522s	for a second time today but there's a
2526s	lot of notable names going ahead to head
2527s	today we've got wbg spider we've got
2529s	aow's Mike of course we've got wolves
2531s	Kai Bao we've got Fang coming through as
2533s	well and then of course I you know a lot
2536s	of people have their eyes on Master demo
2539s	as well you know we expect a lot of
2542s	things coming out from this player and I
2544s	don't think the performance we got
2546s	earlier this week is the demo we're used
2548s	to seeing so hopefully we'll be able to
2550s	see him come alive and we'll get to see
2552s	the true demo uh shine through today in
2554s	our day two of solos but uh what are we
2557s	looking forward to here in terms of your
2559s	picks ribbon
2561s	uh what's surprising that the meta is
2563s	constantly evolving even though they
2565s	haven't gone to the next batch and the
2567s	rest of the world is playing on this new
2568s	akos medal and soon to be the new Viper
2571s	meta uh it's good to hear that zipping
2575s	is kind of falling out of it now not in
2577s	nbpl she's still one of the staple picks
2579s	on an end as far as like a defensive
2581s	round but uh I was talking to tryhard
2584s	about it and zipping doesn't really
2586s	counter anything like you're really just
2588s	depending on your mechanics and she
2590s	doesn't really do anything for you and
2591s	yang she's just all right overall it's
2594s	just a solid it feels like a throwaway
2596s	pick so you're seeing a lot of
2597s	adjustments that I find interesting you
2599s	saw like the Viper pick the Justina
2601s	picks the valda picks they're all coming
2603s	out to to counter on days that they know
2606s	certain characters coming out like Tarka
2607s	Tarka loses the water uh Justina does
2610s	really well uh overall against a lot of
2614s	pigs Vault um
2617s	sometimes you see you Sean and Fong
2619s	tossing out the monk Perry Bell uh we
2621s	were discussing Perry Bell before uh
2624s	that frame one Perry belt is just
2626s	hilarious and with compared with dagger
2629s	it had you just have so many traps to
2631s	catch people with it I'm hoping Fong
2633s	does the same thing puts on a show for
2635s	us always one of my favorites to watch
2637s	you know again we I in my opinion Fong
2640s	the true super villain uh this man has
2643s	been in his villain Arc this season you
2645s	know day one coming into the you know
2648s	overall for the nbpl that final game
2651s	where it just drops the Legendary
2652s	Weapons up top he says look y'all can
2654s	have my scraps I don't need them fights
2656s	the whole lobby with the purple dagger
2658s	comes out on top absolutely insane
2660s	player and then like you said almost as
2662s	if to be trolling brings the Perry Bell
2664s	in on the monk uh last week as well and
2667s	it dominates most of a Lobby almost
2669s	walks away the overall mbb as well like
2672s	this this is a player who clearly has
2674s	come out this season to show people that
2676s	not only can he win games but he can he
2679s	can do it in a way that is cheeky and uh
2682s	with a little bit of BM as well because
2685s	he's tired of people putting some
2686s	disrespect on his name and you gotta you
2688s	have to admire a player who's willing to
2690s	come out and uh risk it all just for the
2692s	sake of a little bit of uh BM onto some
2695s	of their other players so that players
2697s	start to respect you a little bit more
2699s	but again we take a look there at those
2701s	scoreboards and it is uh wool skybound
2703s	who's sitting all the way at the top
2704s	right now had a 40 Point day for himself
2707s	uh this last day of solos here in our
2711s	fourth and final bi-weekly of the spring
2713s	split so it's gonna be interesting to
2715s	see how he performs today it's gonna be
2716s	very interesting to see how all of these
2718s	players perform because it is a stacked
2721s	Lobby going forward today Raven
2724s	of course and T225 man
2727s	every time I see him and I see how how
2731s	explosive his play style is I just I
2734s	wish his coach would just step him aside
2737s	and just be like you know
2738s	you don't have to go all in every time
2740s	we could dial it back just a smidge
2742s	Jesse Smith and that's all it would take
2744s	for him to like transcend to that
2746s	coveted first place he's always there in
2749s	second place because he's always willing
2751s	to go for it and he's very accurate with
2752s	his explosives play style now there's
2755s	just certain moments where you just
2757s	shouldn't do it like going into the
2758s	second gang you just don't need to do it
2760s	if you're really set up for endgame just
2762s	play that end game scenario
2764s	cure those placement points and he would
2766s	see him at the top if he'd do it
2770s	man
2772s	every time I see him play I just say
2775s	looking here by the way for you ladies
2776s	and gentles at home it is uh alliance's
2779s	gin's birthday today you're gonna see
2781s	him blowing out his uh birthday candles
2783s	here look I got him the crown and
2784s	everything the man's oh oh oh yeah give
2787s	him the kick oh no it's it's
2789s	oh I I really thought that cake was
2791s	about to go into his face I'm I'm not
2793s	even gonna lie the man it looked like he
2796s	was about to set her boy up here uh from
2799s	jdg but uh we extend our absolute
2802s	birthday wishes out to Alliance Jin
2804s	happy birthday Jin an absolute uh just
2807s	unit of a player you know this is
2809s	something we talked about yesterday with
2811s	Alliance in general this is a team that
2814s	really has started to pull themselves
2816s	together uh in this particular season
2819s	they have learned from all of their
2821s	mistakes uh playing throughout the
2824s	seasons and have just improved so
2826s	drastically and jyn is a huge part of
2829s	that
2830s	I wonder what flavor this cake is Rune
2833s	keeper I've never seen this colored cake
2836s	before maybe maybe green tea that's what
2838s	it's looking like
2839s	birthday
2844s	birthday boy rules who's gonna be the
2847s	guy to be the good guy let him notice
2850s	it's gin in the last 1v1 and just uh you
2853s	know just go go a little easy on the
2854s	birthday boy you know
2856s	no no no no no
2857s	you it could be your birthday we're
2861s	gonna celebrate and I mean absolute King
2862s	he's out here sharing his cake with
2864s	everybody from you know his
2866s	co-competitors to the hosts on set you
2869s	know true gentleman but when it comes
2871s	down to naraka and it's time to fight
2874s	the kid gloves come off you enter the
2877s	arena everybody's equal none of none of
2880s	this we're gonna let somebody win
2882s	there's too much on the line too much
2883s	pride going here and you know if if I'm
2886s	a lion's gin I don't want somebody to
2888s	let me win right we are you just talking
2890s	about how much hard work team Alliance
2892s	has put in and how jyn has been one of
2895s	those players who has done so much work
2897s	on themselves they've improved so
2900s	drastically since season one and season
2903s	two of The nbpl this team really has
2906s	gone places and you know we talked about
2908s	it yesterday how there are other teams
2911s	I'm looking at wbg of course uh who
2914s	haven't gotten worse as teams but they
2916s	haven't it doesn't feel like they've
2918s	continued to put in the work to get
2919s	better and we've seen those teams start
2922s	to fall off and teams like team Alliance
2925s	who will continue to work on their craft
2927s	and continue to improve slowly start to
2930s	work their way up and I mean Alliance
2932s	finished out yesterday in top three a
2935s	huge accomplishment for that team
2937s	considering the level of competition
2939s	that they were against Raven
2943s	absolutely I mean all these teams even
2946s	if they're at the bottom of the
2947s	leaderboard these guys are all
2949s	competitors I love seeing a Cinderella
2950s	stories of the teens who come back and
2953s	keep on fighting it's extremely
2955s	intimidating to fight against these big
2957s	names like Mike and spider you you have
2960s	these guys who just seem to roll over
2963s	the lobby and then when you see them
2965s	coming towards you
2967s	you either uh show up and try to take
2970s	the flight or you run away and it breaks
2973s	my heart to see certain players just
2975s	never throw a swing back and just
2977s	completely die with their back towards
2979s	their opponent and going into this first
2982s	round
2983s	um
2983s	I'd like to see some of these newer
2986s	players actually take the Yay hopefully
2989s	they they got into the lab and work on
2993s	their their zero band they're straight
2994s	dueling to just show and give them a
2997s	confidence boost because first round uh
2999s	a lot of people like to play it slow but
3001s	I'm a big believer in playing it fast
3002s	and getting the nerves out and just uh
3005s	having a good momentum to the start of
3007s	the day
3008s	especially when you have these really
3010s	really strong players you gotta they're
3011s	always going to take advantage of the
3013s	nerves in the beginning and if you come
3015s	out swinging they're like all right all
3016s	right Young Blood we're gonna it's like
3018s	that today let's see what you got and we
3020s	got demo on the ball there that's what I
3023s	like to see in a couple justina's
3025s	telling you this this was I was excited
3027s	about uh RunKeeper some different picks
3030s	in the meta they're trying to squeeze
3032s	every drop of efficiency out of this
3035s	current meta
3036s	oh absolutely I mean we love to see
3038s	Justina actually coming back in the meta
3040s	both in solos and trios you know it was
3043s	we were shocked a few weeks ago to see
3045s	our first gymstina pick coming through
3046s	and the fact that the particular comp
3048s	they were running that Justina on
3050s	actually you know walking away with the
3053s	MVP not once but twice out of the three
3055s	games it was played but here today no
3058s	surprises to see so much Justina quite
3059s	honestly in the solos with how well it
3062s	has been doing spider gonna be uh
3063s	running the only Ferry into the lobby
3065s	I'm gonna see a few mataris here as well
3067s	one zipping coming in from a railgun and
3071s	then of course demo gonna be piloting a
3073s	Volta here in game number one which is
3076s	gonna be extremely interesting to see I
3079s	love seeing valda come out in solos I
3081s	know Moxie if she's watching right now
3082s	is also excited uh we have so many Volta
3086s	players here in N A who love to see some
3088s	good ball to coming through in the nbpl
3090s	but this is going to be interesting man
3091s	again it's such a stack Lobby you know
3093s	we we've talked about so many names here
3095s	but you know we also got Gigi Shaw we've
3098s	got a jdg's Chu Zhang who really
3100s	impressed the both of us last week as
3101s	well like this really is going to be
3104s	quite the interesting day of naraka
3107s	given groups A and C going head Dad here
3109s	and celestra off the rip already going
3113s	to be a hot spot we're gonna see quite a
3114s	few teams dropping over there uh just to
3117s	the west of celestro where you can get
3119s	all of those dark side coins and it's
3121s	going to be heavily contested alliance's
3123s	gin gonna be opting for a different
3124s	strategy going to be dropping over by
3126s	secret tunnel looking at those fireflies
3128s	and potentially uh loot all of Eventide
3131s	Temple to themselves well the rest of
3132s	these uh players are all centralized
3135s	around celestra and it's going to be a
3137s	brawl from the rip Raven
3139s	oh we got the Firefly Dane Alliance gin
3143s	trying to claim the Firefly cave he's
3145s	gonna kick his way down here get some
3147s	fireflies have that alt on Deck but
3149s	spider immediately at the money location
3151s	already one HP willing to go into the
3154s	pocket and take this fight but choosing
3157s	takes the goat down with that great
3159s	sword lnb knows that spider's gonna try
3162s	to disengage and just Scoops up his legs
3164s	now the reason why I call this spot the
3165s	money spot all these boxes chat has tons
3168s	of money and what that money gives you
3170s	is tons of James and that's why you see
3171s	demo here he plays a long game where he
3174s	tries to set himself up perfectly for
3176s	endgame having the most amount of loot
3179s	possible and now he does have purple
3181s	armor and a blue Katana op spawn this is
3183s	Demo's comfort zone if he's able to find
3185s	a fight here I know he'd be willing to
3187s	take it he has enough heels to take this
3189s	fight and we have Shen Yuan hiding the
3191s	trail looking for the scale Rush not
3193s	able to get it demo caught a little bit
3195s	off guard finds composure though he's
3197s	looking for that opener
3199s	they're only two Blues immediately
3201s	knowing that he has F3 catches the one
3203s	sending the one two three an enjoyer of
3206s	the just default attack demo is the one
3210s	two three enjoyer now Shen running on F2
3213s	not gonna get a heal from it and
3214s	actually gets buried I was surprised
3217s	that he was willing to send so many
3218s	Blues out finally sends the overholds
3221s	this next one but he keeps throwing
3222s	Blues just a free bird through these
3225s	blue skies and a nylish genuine I would
3227s	have been surprised by that about the
3229s	most recklessness he's come to play
3231s	today now we have fog and spider at the
3233s	tower now spider did die off Swan and
3236s	Fong with his trusty old dagger he is
3238s	the dagger master and spider does not
3241s	have that much loot it doesn't matter if
3243s	it's a white dagger Fong is going to use
3246s	that dagger now spider being the only
3249s	fair in the lobby he's gonna actually
3250s	gonna work against him but now we have
3253s	choosing at the money spot getting
3256s	juggled getting a reset off the scale
3258s	rush over and over he's gonna need some
3261s	space to reset here using the goombastom
3263s	to get some damage on recompose he
3266s	doesn't diminally jump in the neck
3267s	really really smart play by him he
3269s	doesn't really want to burn his own now
3271s	he's at 50 off charge now it did get
3273s	nerfed in the previous patch so it's not
3275s	as strong
3277s	but now we have Mike on Matari this is
3279s	my favorite opener Rune keeper Matari is
3282s	kind of just good against everything
3284s	right now she's good against the
3285s	aggressive characters she's good against
3286s	the defensive characters and she is
3288s	probably the best assassin for
3291s	third partying right now as I say that
3293s	Mike is the victim of getting third
3296s	party he uses the F3 to reset and break
3299s	some ankles demo wonders where Mike Mike
3303s	has gone
3304s	Mike he's in this rock to get a full
3306s	reset though you love to see it yeah ewg
3310s	shutting you on over here engaging jdg's
3312s	Choo Jang this fight's still breaking
3314s	out between these two over here by the
3316s	money spot genuine with the white staff
3318s	though at a little bit of a disadvantage
3320s	here uh given his Armor's already been
3322s	ripped off in the third party looking to
3324s	come through here from wolves Kai bow
3327s	and of course we still have that pillar
3328s	in place for it in a very advantageous
3333s	situation for himself is you're on gonna
3335s	be forced to use that teleport pop the
3337s	ultimate to get the reset and
3339s	re-teleport out yet again as aow's mic
3342s	shows up to the party as well wolves
3344s	kaibel going to be forced to use that F
3346s	to take a reset here as Micah pressure's
3349s	off to go give Chase to Jay-Z's jujang
3350s	and kaibao more than happy to give Chase
3353s	here looking for the opening into the
3355s	third party may have engaged just a
3357s	little too early here but is going to
3359s	wait for the optimal moment here to come
3361s	in with the Pulsar trying to catch XU
3363s	Jiang off guard if if he can here's that
3365s	moment but he's actually going to catch
3367s	on to Mike Mike gonna come in with the
3368s	backstab onto wolves guy bow kaibal now
3371s	going to give Chase here Mike though
3373s	with the ability to just F back there it
3374s	is kaibal knows where he's at though
3376s	gonna turn around and immediately look
3378s	to finish this elimination on to aow's
3381s	mic off Mike no tools left in his kit
3383s	going to be falling victim to that heavy
3386s	staff and we're gonna see kaibao give
3388s	Chase while the other player looks to
3390s	back away but it's D with the bow from
3393s	literally downtown out of nowhere who
3395s	comes in to steal the elimination that's
3398s	going to be two eliminations off the rip
3400s	here for master demo for team KZ what a
3405s	shot that was to get it through the
3406s	window at that angle Raven demo an
3409s	absolute mad lad you love to see it demo
3413s	starting off with that that first week
3415s	energy now he didn't have the best
3417s	finals performance but he's shaking it
3419s	off he's back to the drawing board and
3421s	I'm glad to see he's still firing on all
3423s	cylinders here I'm curious to see how
3425s	kaibao has made this adjustment that it
3427s	has him dominating this weekly but now
3429s	ew ewc around now
3432s	she's been having a tough time in nbpl
3434s	so far I've seen her do really really
3436s	well in these fights and she it looks
3439s	like she's she's going Toe to Toe and
3441s	it's just her timing with these third
3442s	parties and as I say that demo lurking
3445s	again with the third party Landing a big
3447s	bow shot on ego ego a little bit
3449s	confused of where all this damage is
3451s	coming from now Chiron wisely backs up
3454s	can get a couple heals off so
3457s	she can come back and take these kills
3460s	demo not over committing to the
3462s	situation and this is a lot of what he
3465s	was really really successful at the
3467s	first week he came into the league he
3468s	never overextended he went for high
3470s	probability plays just came in found a
3473s	one HP opponent it was a bow shot it was
3476s	just a one chart it was a light attack
3477s	he just snuck in some Great Kills now we
3480s	go back to the goat spider he's scaled
3482s	up he is the only fairy in the lobby
3484s	everyone knows it's him that's a good
3486s	and bad thing it is spider but can you
3489s	take down spider especially a full HP
3492s	spider next to celestra where he has one
3494s	of the best disengages in the league now
3497s	choosing it seems to be spiders
3500s	Kryptonite the he just has
3503s	that bugs for a four spider and spider
3506s	waiting for that Yang being on Feria
3509s	going against the justina's man Feria is
3513s	just that Thai or win character if she
3517s	wants to she can stall you out and then
3519s	just get the Yang depletion or I like to
3521s	call the Yang buff that just highly
3523s	motivates you to go get a kill go get
3526s	get super aggressive all in someone I'm
3529s	hoping we get Mike versus
3533s	explaining here unfortunately Mike not
3535s	able to match that e fast enough we get
3537s	Fong versus Kai Bao and ego versus
3541s	spider
3543s	yeah this is going to be a really
3545s	interesting match up here spider versus
3547s	ego spider immediately gonna use that
3549s	grapple to go Airborne looking to make a
3551s	little bit of early damage there with
3553s	the cannon but not quite able to find
3554s	the shot in to the spear hot swap into
3557s	the cannon though to find a little bit
3558s	of that extra burn damage here smart
3561s	plays against the Justina player who
3563s	looks to use that F2 to go in and get a
3565s	little bit of that armor backup but
3566s	spider gonna continue the juggle with
3568s	the staff here ego continues to let him
3571s	find that one two into the juggle
3573s	uppercut off of the staff and spider
3576s	will continue to abuse that combo and
3578s	make a short work of him here as we turn
3580s	now to wolves versus Kaley's Fang Fang
3583s	finds the distance there coming in with
3586s	the swap into the dagger will clean up
3588s	the elimination onto wolves Kai bow and
3591s	it's going to be ego and kaibel heading
3593s	out of these Realms of Yang with that
3595s	Yang depletion and of course Fang wait
3598s	did Fang just take Mystic my am I
3604s	he's he's doing it
3607s	he wanted he wants to find that play
3611s	I apparently he wants to hunt down the
3613s	opponents here by taking the Mystic
3615s	might but it does deny him access to
3617s	Vermillion uh for the rest of the game
3619s	here as he will not be able to find it
3621s	inside the second realm of gang so
3623s	interesting choices coming out of Fong
3625s	here uh but he does have that legendary
3628s	set of dual blades he just doesn't get
3630s	the safety net throughout the mid game
3632s	that he typically looks for a wbg's
3634s	fighter here with the set of legendary
3636s	nunchucks turning on to te's S railgun
3639s	here and absolutely starting to put in
3640s	work after he catches that uppercut
3642s	combo the uppercut uh coming from these
3645s	nunchucks such a strong combo if you can
3647s	land it on somebody a massive Panic from
3649s	wbg spider and not only the follow-up
3652s	repost but also thong coming in doing
3656s	some damage as well spider now turning
3658s	his attention to Kayla is falling here
3660s	looking to absolutely Blitz him down and
3662s	Fong might be regretting that decision
3664s	to take Mystic might over Vermillion
3666s	Birds might because if he gets
3668s	eliminated here that is it for our
3672s	coming in looking to capitalize on the
3675s	fight breaking out between spider and
3676s	Fong because kaibao in desperate need of
3680s	uh that Soul Bloom so he can get rid of
3681s	that Yang depletion
3684s	that is true he might be regretting his
3686s	decision going for the Mystic now he
3687s	does get 20 damage reduction and he does
3690s	find the perfect opportunity for that
3692s	third party he just doesn't notice that
3693s	two zang's lurk in the background and
3695s	yoinks to kill with the musket now
3697s	celestra is the infinite kite spot you
3700s	will not catch people here with great
3702s	movement especially fond with his
3704s	instant scale Rush with that dagger when
3706s	you use dagger it has the fastest scale
3708s	Rush In the game it doesn't go the
3710s	farthest but it is the fastest fastest
3712s	one you touch the wall now we have the
3714s	weekly leader right now Kai Bao looking
3716s	to get in do some work on spider spider
3719s	running for his life using
3722s	this top of the bridge to scale Rush
3724s	across this is one of the hardest places
3726s	to catch people in this Bridge route
3728s	there are three different levels that
3729s	people can be on there's so many
3731s	different walls that they can scale Rush
3732s	up and down and there's a hole in the
3734s	middle that they can go up and down
3736s	no but he spider still able to get that
3739s	reset and he does have that cannon with
3742s	the flame breath and that's going to be
3744s	big money going into end game now if
3747s	ferio gets to this end game she will
3749s	have the best chance of winning but can
3750s	she survive all these ice weasels all
3754s	these justina's no she cannot but she
3757s	does have the Buffs though that's why we
3758s	go to buff instead of Mystic
3760s	immediately gets exploded and there's
3762s	just a mosh pit inside Celestia in this
3766s	pit all the justina's popping their own
3768s	trying to yank the kill Mike barely
3771s	dodging the wheel going by Tuesday
3773s	lurking in the shadows and Chang you
3775s	decides he's a blueberry in there he has
3777s	a blue armor this is not safe everyone
3780s	gots purple armor here the second
3782s	someone pokes me I'm gonna get targeted
3784s	so I'm out of here I'm gonna go find a
3787s	chest and speaking of Chess chat we have
3791s	some codes to the right if you're
3794s	looking to get into naraka it's one of
3796s	the best battery and only Battle Royale
3798s	that is a fighting game on the market
3801s	yeah this is a really unfortunate year
3804s	uh for Fong pong taking that Mystic
3806s	might not finding uh the exact
3809s	eliminations he was looking for here and
3811s	the thing is if you'd taken Vermillion
3813s	Birds might while he was in that fight
3815s	earlier he could have stuck around and
3818s	tried to just pressure the fight to
3819s	potentially pick up an extra elimination
3821s	there uh before the buff ran out but
3823s	because he didn't he was actually forced
3825s	to back off and spend so much time just
3828s	kind of zooming around celestra and in
3830s	the end it the only player to get any
3833s	sort of uh gain out of these fights
3835s	breaking out was on you he comes down
3837s	bottom picks up both the elimination on
3839s	the wbg spider and on to wolves kaibao
3842s	and luckily for spider spider did take
3844s	that Vermillion Birds might so he's
3846s	still in the game going forward here and
3849s	that's kind of why you always see these
3851s	players end up taking Vermillion over
3853s	the Mystic might there such an
3855s	interesting decision though from bung I
3857s	like it I feel like it was a very
3859s	emotional decision in the moment like he
3860s	was like all right I've got you know
3862s	there's so many players tight around
3864s	here I'm gonna be able to see everybody
3865s	on the map let me go in and start
3866s	picking up eliminations but
3868s	unfortunately you do lose that safety
3870s	net and we see it not end up working out
3872s	for uh Kayla as long as we turn back
3874s	here you see yeah look at this it's uh
3876s	the uh perspective here for Zhang Yoo
3879s	who picks up both of the eliminations
3881s	onto wdg spider and wolves guy about
3884s	with the bow like you said though with
3886s	the blue armor though more than happy to
3887s	take their two eliminations and just go
3889s	ahead and get straight on out of there
3891s	and everybody else so confused about
3894s	kind of what happened uh in that mosh
3896s	pit that uh everybody looking to back
3899s	out of the fight gives zhangyu the uh
3901s	opportunity uh to escape and we're going
3903s	to turn here now to our second set of
3906s	Realms of Yang and it's aow's Mike who
3908s	looks to be currently uncontested wbg
3911s	spider is still hanging out here uh with
3914s	that purple armor but is Cala Fung are
3916s	they gonna take the risk and go into the
3918s	realm of Yang a second time it looks
3920s	like they haven't made that decision
3921s	just yet they're hanging out maybe they
3925s	will decide to go in but maybe not an
3927s	aow's Michael will take the realm again
3929s	completely uncontested as we have a
3931s	little fight break out here Gigi Shaw uh
3933s	trying to get their hands on some scraps
3935s	out of the box OC Jeong Yu here uh being
3938s	given Chase to you by multiple players
3940s	and it looks like fongo has decided to
3942s	go inside the realm of Yang and we're
3945s	gonna turn to that fight here in just a
3946s	little bit but John you on the run right
3948s	now no armor available to them taking a
3951s	ton of tick damage from the zone is able
3953s	to find an armor swap inside here cannot
3956s	find the ahp that they need
3958s	unfortunately they're going to die to
3960s	Zone tick here oh my goodness as soon as
3963s	wbg's fighter throws out there there's
3965s	just nothing that Fong can do turning
3967s	now to aow's Mike King
3970s	go ahead and use that app get a little
3972s	bit of armor back but doesn't want to
3974s	hold out too long and give Mica the
3976s	opportunity to find any sort of reset
3977s	here Mike finding work though with the
3980s	staff here if I'm really trying to put
3982s	in the work with the dagger though Mike
3983s	unfortunately missing that first
3985s	backstab on the teleport finds the
3988s	second one but it's canceled out by the
3990s	old coming out from Fong Fong able to
3991s	find the freeze though no place for Mike
3993s	to go and Kayla is fun will find their
3995s	second Victory outside the realm of yang
3998s	man this Justina picks seems to do
4001s	really really well versus Matari I've
4003s	personally had trouble versus the
4004s	Justina matchup asmatar even with the
4007s	buff I feel like Justina really gets to
4009s	dictate the tempo of the fight now Fong
4012s	is playing F1 so she really can play
4014s	that stall game as well F1 gives you an
4017s	armor heel at the end of it now Fong
4019s	super set up for this end game with his
4022s	trusty old dagger and you saw spider
4023s	there
4025s	previously killing a ego in storm
4028s	because he has can't uh flame breath
4031s	with the cannon that has burn damage
4033s	this seems to be one of the big shifts
4035s	in the solo meta that once you have a
4037s	cannon you desperately look for that
4039s	flame breath and even if you don't have
4041s	it it's such a good tool in this end
4043s	game to pressure other players because
4045s	it's very easy to land attacks as I say
4047s	that Mike chasing demo around trying to
4050s	get this vulva out of here valdo one of
4052s	the characters as well
4054s	that he is the only Volvo in the lobby
4056s	just like spider is the only fair in the
4058s	lobby now spider is one of the few
4061s	mataris in lobby and they know spider or
4063s	Mike is a big threat and Shaw is trying
4065s	to take Mike out and Mike immediately
4067s	pops his own and is going to go to town
4069s	on shop getting him off of him
4071s	using that F3 to teleport and reset and
4074s	hug this wall anytime Atari has any type
4077s	of buildings or wall she is going to be
4079s	good to go in order to reset and survive
4081s	it really takes multiple players to lock
4083s	her down and shot unfortunately is being
4086s	targeted by the whole Lobby all everyone
4088s	realizes that that tag Shaw is it it's
4091s	time to chase him down spider with that
4093s	Cannon gets to dictate who's going to
4095s	get lobbied with that flame breath
4097s	Shaw's not going to be able to pick up
4099s	his white heels and because of that burn
4102s	damage it's gonna cut his heels in half
4104s	every time he goes to heal Shaw does
4106s	have a staff he's able to use these
4108s	focus and dashes repeatedly over and
4110s	over to create some space get that armor
4112s	reset but still the flame breath from
4115s	spider is putting constant pressure from
4117s	Shaw there is nowhere left to run with
4120s	the circle being this small it is the
4122s	inevitable that he will be caught here
4124s	it's just who is going to get this kill
4126s	today now we've been seeing a lot of
4128s	bows here today Rune keeper because the
4131s	bush having that double charge and just
4133s	coming in with that meaty shot and it's
4135s	very very quiet oh exeron actually picks
4139s	up the kill she's on the board it's a
4141s	new week new her
4143s	New Destiny she's rewriting the Destiny
4146s	she can hang with the boys unfortunately
4149s	now Fong with the buff is going to track
4151s	her down this is matari's worst enemy
4154s	The Bell buff she can't hide anywhere
4156s	that she blinks she's gonna have to go
4158s	out on her Shield who is she gonna
4160s	attack on her way out spiders here with
4162s	that flame breath Cannon except San Juan
4164s	needs to find a new home she needs more
4168s	buildings to kite this is not enough
4170s	space she's at one HP she looks for the
4171s	armor reset a little bit of a flub here
4173s	Mike holding that arm he comes in with
4175s	the overhead and chops her head off
4178s	super duper unfortunate Virginia around
4180s	they actually stepped to the edge of the
4181s	Zone there so that they can pick up that
4184s	elimination uh and unfortunately it ends
4187s	up leading to their demise as they end
4189s	up going low and in a Lobby full of
4191s	sharks like this is gonna be Kaylee's
4193s	Fong's turn now uh you know falling and
4196s	giving Chase to both of those previous
4197s	kills now falling victim to the exact
4199s	same thing but for some reason uh these
4203s	players are actually giving him space I
4204s	think nobody really realized uh Fong had
4207s	gone so low I think the player who
4209s	actually hit them with that must get
4210s	shot was kind of on the other side of
4212s	the map and when you've got players like
4213s	wbg spider and aow's Mike between you
4216s	and your potential victim uh you kind of
4218s	uh let that one go so Fong gonna live it
4221s	to fight another day it looked like it
4223s	was just gonna be one player being
4225s	rolled up in that uh death streak over
4227s	and over again but uh the threat of the
4229s	space being created by uh Mike and
4232s	spiders positioning there keeping the
4233s	other players from pressuring on to Fong
4236s	and Fong able to find that reset behind
4238s	The Rock on the other side of the map we
4241s	are one minute and 20 seconds until zone
4244s	four collapses on to zone five
4246s	and we're going to see a big portion of
4248s	the Zone actually cut off by a natural
4249s	Bane's breath here so many of these
4251s	players can be forced away from sort of
4253s	these vertical positions that they're
4255s	wanting to hold wbg spider heading into
4257s	the box unable to get their hands onto
4259s	that legendary armor as a huge cannon
4261s	shot comes down and they're forced to
4263s	use their F ability to just get away
4265s	from the box here there is still a
4267s	legendary long sword available in the
4269s	Box a weapon that's been heavily favored
4271s	in solos as well and it looks like ego
4272s	really wants to go back and try to get
4275s	their hands on it you actually see them
4276s	drop their staff in anticipation to be
4278s	able to go in and just grab that weapon
4280s	out of the box but it looks like they've
4283s	missed their opportunity to do just that
4286s	as so many players who pressured on the
4288s	box but the ego not quite sure if
4290s	somebody was able to get it or not
4291s	Kayla's phone uh taking a ton of damage
4294s	and risking a lot going in here and
4296s	standing inside the Bane's breath trying
4298s	to find their reset aow's mic coming in
4300s	and looking for them but not quite
4302s	finding the direction that Fong is in
4304s	fog just barely walking away there from
4307s	the Bane's breath coming down one second
4309s	left remaining on that and now Fong
4311s	gonna take control of this Hut here and
4313s	with this dagger gonna be able to hold
4315s	so much of this space Raven
4318s	this is one of the benefits of uh
4320s	everyone playing the same character you
4322s	on the same mask Huang is able to use
4324s	that Bane's breath to go in break
4326s	contact use that triple Dash and there
4328s	are a couple justina's running around
4329s	now
4330s	the tricky thing about this even though
4332s	you're the same character you're not all
4334s	using the same weapon so one of the
4336s	tricks you can actually do is have a
4338s	different weapon and when you break line
4340s	aside from whoever is chasing you switch
4342s	weapons and it's kind of like a cosplay
4344s	like yeah I'm not that one trick dagger
4346s	player I'm actually playing long sword
4347s	bro you got the wrong guy now Mike
4349s	confuse there's a gold long sword
4351s	getting Phoenix blasts across the map
4354s	Mike also doing the cosplay switching to
4357s	pull sword trying to get everyone off
4359s	his case so they don't realize that
4361s	symmetaries that just get absolutely
4363s	massacred by that Phoenix blast with the
4366s	long sword there is an attack shape that
4368s	you can get
4369s	that gives uh the long sword two beams
4372s	it's one of the best Shades in the game
4373s	Mike getting Phoenix blast again and
4377s	pair using the Perry anime to actually
4379s	try to dip out so that Fawn cannot track
4382s	him and where he goes next because fog
4384s	is the only player that knows that Mike
4386s	Took a ton of damage now spider picking
4389s	up on the scent that someone is bleeding
4391s	another shark the shark the great white
4394s	at the lobby spider
4396s	looking to pick up his rival everyone
4400s	knows that Mike is on this matara he
4402s	always opens up with Matari it's one of
4404s	his tried and truths he's kind of set
4406s	the meta in the league for the Matari
4408s	and he's always had really really
4410s	successful rounds and the weeklies and
4412s	in finals a ton of success and because
4415s	he's able to disengage he always has a
4417s	good solid first game
4419s	Fong now getting pushed to one HP and
4421s	Mike going back to full health now Fong
4424s	against the ropes trying to survive here
4427s	everyone does have that flame breath it
4429s	doesn't look like Fong is going to be
4431s	able to get out here there is nowhere
4433s	left to run Mike throwing in these
4434s	horizontals trying to yoink this kill
4436s	doesn't want to go too low here and
4438s	let's Fong and get away just for now fog
4441s	disappearing that priest is actually
4443s	gonna break contact and survive this is
4447s	the first time Rune keeper that I gave a
4449s	canister's blessing where because we
4451s	were watching him he actually survived
4453s	look Caitlin's Frank this is twice now
4456s	he's gotten himself out of a very sticky
4458s	situations and it's just been off the
4461s	back of these players shirking one of
4463s	the advantages of uh being in lobbies
4465s	like this and understanding how players
4466s	shark like this as well is that you can
4468s	actually find yourself getting out of
4470s	some of these situations by creating so
4473s	much tension that multiple players are
4476s	coming in trying to pick up the
4478s	elimination on you and those players end
4480s	up being forced to engage with one
4482s	another if they want to try to continue
4483s	the Chase and as they engage with the
4485s	other each other they create these
4487s	openings for you to get out and if
4489s	you're able to create some damage onto
4491s	one of those players as well you can
4493s	potentially shift the target very very
4495s	quickly these players do not care uh
4498s	who's bleeding they are going to be on
4500s	the player that is bleeding so if you're
4502s	able to create some damage onto another
4503s	player and take attention off of
4505s	yourself these other players are more
4507s	than happy to just go ahead and shift
4508s	Focus instantly because the kill is a
4511s	kill They Don't Really Care who it's on
4513s	at the end of the day as long as they
4515s	are the one securing it and that's what
4517s	we see Fong do Fong throws out damage
4519s	while keeping it moving keeping uh the
4522s	pressure up so that multiple players are
4524s	forced into that Fray and because of
4526s	that he's going to continue to live uh
4529s	through this Lobby and has made it all
4531s	the way uh to our top six here holding
4534s	on right now with four eliminations at
4537s	the very top of the pack uh we of course
4539s	currently have chaos Fong wbg's fighter
4542s	Casey's demo jdg's chujang Alliance Jin
4544s	and aow's Mike ironically
4547s	um almost every single player we were
4549s	giving High Praise to at the very
4550s	beginning of the day Raven I was just
4553s	thinking that too this this is the
4556s	perfect ending we got the birthday boy
4558s	here we got the crowd favorite spider
4560s	and Mike we got demo our last hope we
4564s	got Fong the the Menace the troll the
4566s	dagger demon we got choosing the up and
4570s	coming Dark Horse of nvpl you couldn't
4573s	get a better end game here I'm really
4575s	hoping that the birthday boy gets it I'm
4578s	sure if the the veterans are true homies
4581s	they go easy on the birthday boy you
4583s	know they get he gave him cake I know I
4585s	saw the the Plus
4587s	the plus rep they know who Jin is in the
4590s	lobby now and they're like man I can't
4591s	kill him he gave me cake it's just it's
4593s	that subconscious that you got I would
4595s	do this all the time when I was in
4597s	school when I do a presentation I'd buy
4599s	some donuts and some coffee and everyone
4601s	would always enjoy it and when you just
4603s	sweets is just such a finesse to your
4606s	competitors and that cake I've never
4608s	seen a cake that looked like that Rune
4610s	keeper I'm sure there were some special
4611s	love in that cake he even went out was
4615s	was feeding them giving giving it to
4618s	everyone there's no way you could feel
4621s	hostility towards this man on his
4624s	birthday and you're seeing the Gin is
4626s	just getting to live here to this end
4628s	game just not really focused at all no
4630s	one's really harassing him they're just
4632s	going after those farrias
4634s	that that diabolical Fong with his
4637s	dagger and it's gonna go to this heal
4639s	off here now even though everyone's
4641s	playing a lot of this defensive game
4643s	it's quite the mistake versus two
4645s	furious the lobby really needs to
4647s	concentrate on these fares but I am
4649s	curious who wins in such a heavy area
4652s	Justina Lobby normally you really don't
4655s	get to see this and this is one of the
4656s	first times we've seen this in this
4657s	Lobby we do have demo on that valda but
4660s	I've never seen a ball to make it to
4661s	heal off ever in the mbpl roomkeeper she
4664s	just always gets picked off and demo
4666s	goes down in that six plates our young
4668s	hero but he does get two kills and we
4670s	keep going with choosing with that
4672s	mercile of dictating a lot of the tempo
4674s	of this end game Lobby normally we'd see
4676s	spider with that Cannon getting to chip
4678s	everyone down but because that staff is
4680s	in the middle threatening to juggle it
4682s	actually
4683s	when you attack with a weapon it does
4686s	break in half any projectile that comes
4688s	towards you so you're able to create
4689s	some space speaking of that spider using
4691s	this fence perfectly to kind of
4694s	carve out a little bit of terrain for
4696s	himself to get to this heal up situation
4698s	and we're seeing that long sword room
4700s	here we mentioned before working with
4702s	Wayne and meta especially on Atari that
4704s	you can just send these max range beams
4707s	safely and as I say that I curse Mike
4709s	into a death he gets taken down by his
4711s	rival spider singing his fangs into Mike
4715s	taking that filthy Matari out of here
4717s	now Jen the birthday boy on The High
4719s	Ground I'm hoping he wins rookie I'm
4721s	giving him my energy spider into the
4723s	mech
4724s	it's going easy onto Jen I don't know
4727s	how he's found his way he hasn't been
4729s	hit at all I swear to God these guys are
4730s	going he's on enough getting glow
4732s	getting taken out freezing the two mechs
4734s	Jin take him to the skies able to gravel
4737s	console over and over while spider and
4738s	choosing ends up taking everyone else
4741s	out on the lobby and the mechs are gonna
4743s	go out it back and forth they keep going
4745s	now gin coming down with the Super
4747s	Saiyan Dash is on just Cena dashing back
4749s	and forth and he's able to get in second
4751s	place and pick up that second kill
4753s	unfortunately the goat himself
4756s	stoic man himself the hero of this story
4760s	The unmovable spider still takes it
4763s	birthday boy in second you like to see
4765s	it though oh my goodness you know WVU
4767s	spider here and of course jdg's Chu
4769s	Jiang the only two fairy is in the lobby
4771s	like you said it feels like there was a
4773s	failed Target acquisition going on here
4775s	these two players needed to be focused
4777s	out if any of these justina's had any
4780s	sort of Hope of uh walking out on top of
4782s	the lobby and you just didn't see it
4784s	right and a lot of that coming down to
4786s	like you said jdg's Chu Jiang with the
4788s	staff and that merciless Havoc that
4790s	legendary Soul Jade allowing him to
4792s	control the spacing and the tempo of
4794s	that final Circle it keeps so many
4797s	players from being able to engage
4798s	because if you engage onto wbg spider as
4801s	the Matari or the Justina jujang just
4804s	gets to come in free with that merciless
4805s	havoc and knock you into the zone and if
4807s	you try to engage onto Chu Zhang because
4810s	he is playing that Feria he has the
4814s	ability to drop that pillar and knock
4815s	you back and then make you vulnerable to
4818s	the rest of the lobby because of that
4820s	the lobby really afraid to engage either
4822s	onto wbg spider or to Zhang uh because
4825s	of the threat of that staff and the
4827s	merciless Havoc so we see time and time
4829s	again the lobby kind of like taking
4831s	these pokes at those two players and
4833s	every time both of them almost in a
4836s	little a little bit of a gentleman's
4837s	agreement right if spider gets targeted
4839s	out it's jdg's tujang who's there to
4842s	capitalize on it and vice versa if it's
4844s	chujang getting targeted out spider
4846s	there to capitalize on it and they
4848s	realize this is smart plays coming from
4850s	both of them that they're the only two
4851s	fairy is left they're going to be the
4853s	last two players coming together they're
4855s	going to be able to control that final
4857s	Zone by dropping those pillars knocking
4858s	players away and then of course necking
4860s	up in the final Circle so as long as
4863s	they can deal with the other players
4864s	both of them going to be able to secure
4866s	eliminations going to be able to make it
4868s	into that top three situation but it's
4870s	wbg spider gets to capitalize on it the
4873s	most jujang picks up a couple of
4874s	eliminations with the merciless during
4877s	the lead up to it and then spider just
4879s	able to get in the middle go ahead and
4881s	throw down that turret mode where he's
4884s	just shielded up and he's not taking HP
4886s	damage and able to just continue to
4888s	shove jdg xujang back away from that
4891s	Circle and because of that super easy
4894s	for him to just kind of capitalize on
4895s	the whole thing we see alliance's gen
4897s	try to come in and snipe the kill away
4899s	from spider onto JD's shoe shujang in
4902s	the end but unfortunately spiders just
4904s	able to continue to throw those rain
4906s	Shots Out Chu Zhang gets basically timed
4908s	out by the circle spider picks up both
4910s	the eliminations great game one coming
4912s	in from wbg spider and it was almost
4915s	disaster for spider he died immediately
4917s	off the rip and there was a moment that
4919s	I bet kele's Fong is absolutely
4922s	regretting right now early on he catches
4924s	wbg spider out after that first
4926s	elimination
4928s	ease him with white armor WoW Fong has a
4931s	blue dagger and blue armor and for
4933s	whatever reason even after grapple
4935s	chasing onto spider
4937s	sees him backs away I guess he sees the
4940s	ferry and decides okay I don't really
4941s	want to take this fight with the Mech
4943s	early so I'm just going to back off of
4945s	this and I'm betting at the very end of
4947s	this he's regretting it pretty heavily
4949s	uh given that wbg spider is going to
4951s	come out on top with almost four points
4953s	over top of him six eliminations in
4955s	first place finish means he's gonna be
4956s	walking away with a game score of 13.6
4959s	Kelly's fighting with five eliminations
4961s	in a third place finish uh gonna be
4964s	taking nine points and jdg's a Chu Zhang
4967s	sorry no that's a fourth place finish
4968s	for Fong I apologize Chu Jiang with
4970s	three eliminations and a third place
4972s	finish we'll be taking a 6.5 and
4974s	alliance's gin who picks up one
4975s	elimination uh we'll be walking away
4977s	with a game score of 4.6 wbg spider
4981s	super happy with his game one
4983s	performance
4984s	you love to see it absolutely you're
4987s	what you're saying about Ferry was spot
4988s	on that spider and choosing end up
4991s	having like a gentleman's agreement
4993s	between the two where well if they're
4995s	not going to focus this down I guess we
4997s	just win win the lobby and we split it
4998s	off and let the best man win they end up
5000s	picking out all of their really really
5002s	tough competition including Fong
5004s	including Mike
5006s	and the birthing boy Gene gin demo does
5009s	have a chance to possibly get that valda
5012s	to end game and Volvo is really really
5015s	good in the heel off because she gets
5016s	that second life and she's able to
5018s	freeze you up in the zone holding you in
5021s	the wave as her second Health pool takes
5023s	away it's just she can never get there
5025s	like even if she's F1 it is a scam of
5028s	whether or not she can reset it's not as
5030s	good as yodo's F3 where it blocks
5032s	projectiles and as you're seeing a lot
5034s	of the meta in these end games is a lot
5036s	of these players are holding those
5037s	cannons you see spider you see
5040s	um Mike the two kind of meta-defining
5043s	players in the league running that
5045s	purple Cannon and getting a ton of
5047s	damage on all the players on the outside
5048s	now low-key the best change in the game
5052s	I believe moonkeeper is actually the
5054s	merciless with the staff because when
5056s	you do that double charge with the staff
5058s	it's basically the dragon war with the
5061s	nunchucks and what that means Chad for
5063s	for the beginners this is really really
5064s	extended combo that reaches really
5066s	really far out but the broken part of it
5069s	the part that you can really take to
5070s	your advantage is you can turn it away
5072s	and wait for it to go gold and turn it
5075s	back into your opponent now they cannot
5077s	carry it anymore and you can do this
5079s	over and over and this allows you to
5081s	command a certain spacing on the map
5084s	that no one else can Target you it's one
5086s	of the reasons that chuzan gets to this
5088s	end game is she has his Jade with the
5090s	staff and he's constantly marking his
5092s	territory with this staff throwing it
5094s	around
5095s	showing everyone that if you get close
5097s	to me I will beat you down with my stick
5100s	now even though he is doing that
5103s	he still has to deal with spider who is
5106s	the 10-time MVP of the league he just
5109s	plays everything so flawlessly rarely a
5112s	in his armor and uh opening up
5116s	with the Feria this is something that I
5118s	even thought I would do in the next
5120s	upcoming solo tournament Rune keeper
5122s	going with the farrier playing it a
5124s	little bit slow instead of going with
5126s	Mike's Matari I feel like fair just
5129s	because
5130s	it is his first round and if you've ever
5132s	played a tournament all the new players
5134s	all the veterans you know that first
5135s	turn first day first tournament
5138s	first round you're just having a little
5140s	bit of butterflies in the stomach but as
5142s	soon as you can start holding those
5144s	Blues as soon as you start whole dodging
5145s	it goes away slowly but you like to kind
5148s	of play it slow see what happens and
5152s	see how the days goes and because of
5155s	that I believe that choosing and spider
5159s	they catch the lobby sleeping
5163s	we're gonna give it they just everyone's
5164s	snoozing playing it slow playing it too
5166s	safe and these guys like you said like
5169s	fog caught spider out in the open and
5171s	didn't commit to it now he only he did
5173s	only have blue armor it is versus white
5175s	armor uh it is versus he knows who's his
5178s	Target is either Tuesday or it's spider
5180s	as the lobby starts they're the only two
5182s	fairies in the lobby so he doesn't want
5184s	a hard commit just then but at the end
5186s	of the day inferior gets that end game
5188s	uh you see the gentleman's handshake
5190s	where it says like well we're gonna chop
5191s	up this Lobby get that solid points off
5194s	rip and unlike later lobbies where
5196s	you'll see the fairy of Hard Target
5198s	fired the getaway with murder
5200s	yeah and that's the big thing is you
5202s	know we've spent a lot of time this past
5205s	week talking about how important Target
5207s	acquisition uh is during you know trios
5210s	and solos and in solos when you come
5212s	down to a Lobby like this you know who's
5214s	going to be able to control that end
5215s	space and in this game it's Feria you
5218s	need to get fairy out of there before
5219s	that zone seven really has collapsed
5222s	onto and they're able to just command
5224s	that space and unfortunately for this
5226s	Lobby they just weren't able to fly into
5228s	that Target acquisition and sometimes
5230s	it's hard to make that decision making
5232s	early like we talked about Fang actually
5235s	catches wbg spider out early and spider
5238s	in a really poor position in that
5240s	particular moment uh I don't believe he
5242s	had his pillar not that buffong knew
5244s	that but he also only had white armor a
5246s	white dagger not the best position uh
5249s	for you to be earlier uh as a failure
5252s	player especially in the face of a uh
5254s	Matari or a Justina staring you down and
5257s	Fong even though he commits the grapples
5259s	to chase as soon as he realizes that
5261s	it's a Feria decides he doesn't want any
5264s	part of it and comes to regret the
5265s	decision later when both of areas are
5268s	still alive in that late game that final
5270s	Circle and he's not able to Target one
5273s	or the other out because they are just
5275s	covering for each other
5276s	so that Target acquisition isn't really
5279s	just you know okay I want to get
5281s	specific players out of the lobby
5282s	sometimes you really need to be getting
5284s	specific Heroes out of the lobby because
5286s	if you don't they're going to be able to
5289s	dominate those circles
5291s	um but we've got a short video for you
5292s	guys and then we're gonna immediately
5293s	come back and jump in for game number
5295s	two
5297s	um
5298s	[Music]
5316s	foreign
5343s	foreign
5354s	foreign
5359s	insight to his mental here and you know
5362s	talking about the ability to sort of
5364s	start snowballing uh if you can find
5367s	those kills in the early game but not
5369s	able to do anything if he can't find
5371s	those early eliminations and this is
5373s	something you know that team wolves in
5375s	general sort of struggles with
5377s	is that early game aggression and how
5380s	hard they come out of the gate and when
5382s	it doesn't go their way overall they
5384s	don't really know how to adapt and uh
5387s	Kai Bao kind of giving a secret away
5388s	that he's exactly like uh his Trio's
5391s	team if he can't find those early
5392s	eliminations and catch that early
5394s	momentum he doesn't really know what to
5396s	do he lacks Direction uh heading into
5399s	that mid and late game which is really a
5402s	shame because you know when we talk
5403s	about wolves guy about we're talking
5405s	about a player that uh last year during
5407s	season two it was like every single day
5409s	we came in it was wolves kaibao and wbg
5412s	spider trading kills off of each other
5414s	uh kaibao would find an early
5416s	elimination off of spider spider would
5417s	come back and kill him then Kai Bao
5420s	would you know find him in a realm of
5422s	Yang and finish him there spider would
5424s	go get a soul Bloom come back trade
5426s	another kill off of him and it was just
5428s	like these two kept going back and forth
5430s	the Wolves Kai bow really quite one of
5432s	the most skilled players in the league
5435s	it's that decision making and figuring
5438s	out what he wants to do during that mid
5440s	game when things don't go well early
5442s	where Kai Bao as a player really seems
5444s	to suffer it's not a skill gap for him
5447s	Raven
5449s	yeah and this is something that the
5450s	coaches should really fill in the role
5451s	for kaibao I'm curious to see when he
5454s	gets his game I'm going what it's going
5456s	to look like definitely in the mid game
5458s	if what your first your plan a doesn't
5460s	go the way you want to go just being
5462s	able to focus on some type of Plan B
5464s	really does a ton for your mental the
5468s	fact that he doesn't have an answer in
5469s	his mid game is very surprising because
5470s	of how successful he is that just goes
5472s	to show how talented of a player he is
5474s	that he's making something out of
5475s	nothing when he really doesn't have any
5477s	strategy and something that you can do
5479s	in that mid game is look to salvage
5483s	bodies and get your game going as far as
5485s	finding a weapon of choice that you
5487s	personally like getting that heel box
5490s	and looking for those third-party
5492s	opportunities now
5495s	having someone to do a scouting report
5496s	for you so that you know where on the
5498s	map you want to be at certain times is
5500s	really really helpful and all these guys
5502s	in their clubs have someone that they
5504s	work with over and over I'm curious to
5507s	see what he has in store for this
5509s	daytime holleroth now cloudy doesn't
5512s	have any fire supplies but the
5513s	interesting thing about Hollow Roth it
5516s	still has the alt cages there are cages
5518s	around the map that are static spots are
5520s	not 100 guaranteed but when you find
5522s	them you're able to use them to get your
5525s	alt so you still have a little bit of
5527s	burst capability one example of this is
5529s	in the top left at the yushon ruins
5531s	there is always a firefly cage when you
5534s	port in and a lot of the times a firefly
5536s	there
5537s	and you see a lot of the best Jewelers
5540s	go there for that isolated fight now it
5542s	is a little bit tricky the area has a
5544s	ton of different Corners crevices
5546s	mountain tops and the portals go all
5549s	around the map so if you're looking for
5552s	a spot where you want to have Alto spawn
5554s	you don't like playing a lot of zipping
5556s	crazy chaos as you're seeing in this
5558s	Lobby most of this Lobby is going
5561s	zipping we have Kai balance zipping gin
5563s	unzipping
5564s	Panda man Shaw Mike ego
5570s	yeah this is something you typically see
5572s	coming into all or off map one if you're
5574s	gonna see a zipping uh heavy Lobby it's
5577s	going to be typically Hollow Rock and
5579s	there's something about that verticality
5581s	and the extra amount of places that
5584s	allow you to scale Rush uh especially if
5586s	you're in a place like plumed or out
5588s	where you have all these slippery rocks
5590s	and stuff that zeping really excels
5592s	because she's either able to use that
5594s	bubble or the old to allow herself to
5597s	heal while she can continue to move and
5600s	because there's so much movement
5602s	possibilities on a map like Hollow Roth
5604s	there's so much verticality it can be so
5607s	hard to keep track of a z-ping and the
5610s	fact that she can heal while she moves
5613s	really makes it even harder to track
5615s	them down because they don't have to
5618s	stop and uh just go ahead and use those
5621s	pots to find the reset they just burn
5623s	their ability and keep it moving and
5625s	that's why you typically see so many
5627s	zippings coming through on these map
5630s	selections because they can play so
5633s	hyper defensively and when they make a
5635s	mistake it's very hard for these other
5637s	players to capitalize on it we're going
5639s	to cut now the wbg spider though who's
5641s	uh gonna be swapping things around and
5643s	coming in onto their Matari pick
5645s	for round two here we can see wolves
5647s	kaibao going head to head here with a
5649s	panda man Panda man and wolves kaibal 2
5652s	fan favorites actually here and both of
5654s	them on the zipping but unfortunately
5656s	Kai Bao going to go Airborne here with
5659s	the uppercut coming in from the katana
5661s	of course the katana being one of
5663s	panaman's all-time favorite weapons he's
5664s	gonna catch the Reed onto the Perry as
5668s	well and that's gonna be it for kaibao
5669s	as he gets sent back to the soul altar
5672s	early by Panda man Gigi Shah also going
5674s	to catch the reader on the wbg spider
5676s	following it up with the dagger will
5678s	pick up an early elimination onto wbg
5681s	spider and this is interesting because
5683s	both wbg spider and wolves kaibao are
5686s	players who are pretty mental players
5689s	and when they get eliminated early it is
5691s	tough for them to make a comeback and
5693s	have a good game uh now turning over to
5696s	shenu on going head-to-head with jails
5698s	ego ego going to back away from the
5700s	threat of the bubble here smart plays as
5702s	ego will drop their own hook bubble to
5704s	get some healing in and genuine to find
5706s	it there we go with the Perry into the
5707s	raposto ego gonna be taking a ton of
5709s	damage gonna hold the blue though Long
5712s	holds it ends up coming out on top and
5715s	since Shen Yuan back to the soul altar
5717s	man the the aggression coming out of the
5721s	lobby today everyone is taking their
5723s	first read and just running with it now
5725s	turning the spider versus demo I I'm
5728s	pretty sure Demo's not going to take
5729s	this fight he's going out spider just
5730s	out holding the loot
5732s	um no situations going for those hard
5734s	reads now you know actually coming out
5736s	of the corner willing to take this fight
5737s	and spider using that Matari trick able
5740s	to Blink onto the ceiling looking for
5742s	the scale rush and using that first up
5744s	break to reset and go again Now demo
5747s	onomatari still has his cooldowns knows
5749s	that spider is against the ropes but
5751s	spider even though you have him against
5753s	the ropes he's got to find that armor
5754s	swap
5755s	people carrying him across and with that
5758s	sticky staff keeping and maintaining
5760s	pressure on spider
5762s	sap being one of the best weapons to
5764s	chase down your opponent now while
5766s	you're in this the melee amethyst is
5768s	gonna do you no justice and demo noses
5771s	and is going to choose to take this
5772s	reset while spider is able to get max
5774s	range and get that distance as I was
5776s	talking about
5777s	some of the places on the edge that you
5780s	can land that most people don't see
5781s	these is the caves in the middle of the
5783s	map a little bit to the left and you see
5785s	Fong versus railgun now the one of the
5788s	cool things about finding spots like
5790s	this that you personally love is the
5792s	unique kiting path that you can do
5794s	you're seeing Fong able to break and
5797s	create some space versus railgun to get
5799s	these heel offs because real gun may not
5801s	be as familiar with this area while Fong
5803s	with that trusty dagger in that super
5805s	fast scale which is able to create the
5807s	space now we have one of the best dagger
5809s	players in the world Mike versus ego he
5812s	goes against the roast was able to get
5813s	this armor swap
5815s	able to keep going but Mike throwing
5818s	that one charge Perry going back and
5819s	forth pressuring ego
5822s	forcing his hand and capturing him as he
5826s	turns his back to him perfect play by
5828s	Mike
5829s	yeah dominating the spacing I would say
5832s	huge misread by ego there too he
5834s	actually tapped out his forward into uh
5837s	the blue charge hold from Mike as if he
5840s	expects Mike not to let it rip uh after
5843s	those frames from the top Dodge forward
5845s	uh go away there and I mean Mike really
5848s	in an optimal position to just get away
5850s	with letting that rip and ego actually
5852s	gets a hugely punished for it as well
5855s	long here is just gonna actually go
5856s	ahead and use the pillar there to create
5859s	the space to extend that combo and
5860s	guarantee the elimination and
5862s	beautifully here as well is he almost
5865s	immediately gets his old back right he
5867s	doesn't have to commit to actually using
5869s	the old if he just extends the combo to
5871s	pick up the elimination and then on top
5873s	of that he gets the bonus damage from
5874s	extending the combo which gets in bonus
5876s	rage and then he's able to go and pick
5878s	up that Soul Bloom and he finds himself
5880s	back at 75 charge almost
5883s	instantaneously uh so the threat of the
5885s	third party very very minimal coming in
5887s	for fong in that fight plays that
5889s	extremely well wbg spiders still out
5892s	here at plume Castle as well demo nearby
5894s	still looking to potentially keep that
5897s	fight going as we turn and take a look
5899s	at oug's Panda man who is able to pick
5901s	up an early elimination uh onto wool sky
5904s	bow Panda man somehow able to find
5906s	himself a set of legendary dual blades
5909s	this early on
5911s	uh not quite sure uh if you got those
5913s	from the puzzle or not but I would
5915s	assume uh he was able to get those from
5917s	a Podium given that that's where he
5919s	killed the Wolves came out early on in
5921s	the game speaking of which came out
5922s	heading back up towards Podium where he
5925s	lost his life uh pretty early here
5927s	looking to find any loot that he can is
5929s	going to find a couple of upgrades uh
5931s	for some pots there ewg Ron here is
5934s	still holding on tight we haven't seen
5936s	anybody fully eliminated from this game
5938s	a much much slower game uh compared to a
5941s	game at number one Raven we're off the
5943s	rip we saw multiple players uh just
5945s	being eliminated and celestra was such a
5949s	hot spot uh as we are Zone one
5951s	collapsing on to zone two we're getting
5953s	ready to see those first sets of Realm
5955s	of Yang come together and it looks like
5957s	about us Shen Yuan and OSI zhangyu
5959s	looking to pressure towards those Realms
5962s	of Yang it looks like juron also
5964s	thinking about doing the same as well as
5966s	wbg Spider Panda man more than happy to
5969s	just keep looting on the outside of uh
5971s	The Zone here knowing that they are
5973s	going to be behind given how early that
5975s	they were eliminated and uh it looks
5977s	like wolves kaibao and Casey's demo uh
5980s	also going to be trying to pressure onto
5982s	one of these Realms of yang
5985s	I love these defensive rounds where more
5988s	of the lobbies alive gambling into these
5990s	end games it's very interesting to see
5992s	how these top players take these terrain
5993s	situations and maximize every little
5997s	part of it now Mike versus ew chairon
6001s	right before this Yang we're seeing it
6004s	going crazy everyone's jumping in those
6006s	mosh pits spider trying to take
6007s	advantage of the situation and somehow
6009s	Mike ends up getting out of here shandru
6012s	on the only one here actually she is
6014s	another zipping they just choose to
6016s	focus her down and she gets absolutely
6018s	annihilated waiting for this box or this
6020s	Yang by the five different players
6023s	though half of the lobby is right here
6024s	the boxes here the entrance to Yang is
6027s	here
6027s	spider is here on that Matari able to
6030s	Blink out of here create some space
6032s	there is a lot of kiting you can do at
6034s	this um platform over here when you go
6037s	under you can continue to scale rush but
6039s	this is what I've been waiting for to
6041s	see this
6042s	Yang go down and now we have genuine on
6045s	the valda versus very I'm very curious
6047s	to see if valda on pole sword is able to
6049s	create enough bursts within this time
6051s	frame to kill a Feria and surprisingly
6054s	saying you opens up with the Goomba stop
6056s	doesn't get the follow-up Focus attack
6057s	off of it and now genuine is going to
6060s	slow it down looking for the scale rush
6062s	trying to get some momentum waiting for
6064s	her bubble to come back up when she gets
6066s	that bubble up she's gonna be looking
6067s	for the big combo this is very very
6069s	common in the Chinese meta on the ladder
6073s	there are tons of bottles but as I say
6074s	that she opens up and gets carried on
6076s	her Focus attack
6080s	she is against the Rope right now valdo
6082s	does get the hit though she's gonna be
6084s	able to get a huge combo here almost a
6087s	hundreds of zero here with the Google
6088s	stop and that Focus attack ends up
6090s	taking her down shangyou clutches it up
6093s	what a nail biter Rune keeper yeah I
6096s	mean he's shun you in the early game
6098s	here actually uh just completely crushes
6100s	any momentum there of all the player has
6102s	they use that pillar to actually break
6104s	the first F1 that comes out and because
6107s	of that the voltage is forced to play
6109s	entirely defensively when they want to
6111s	be on the offense there and that ends up
6113s	losing them uh the game in the long run
6116s	there they are able to finally find that
6118s	second bubble and get a ton of damage
6120s	off but because of how defensively they
6122s	were forced to play they're so far
6124s	behind in the fight at this point that
6125s	they're just not able to uh follow up
6127s	and make something happen without
6129s	getting themselves limited we're gonna
6130s	see aow's Mike here jump onto the
6132s	ballista looking to try to create some
6134s	sort of space into this fight but all of
6135s	these players know just how dangerous
6137s	Podium it is and how dangerous it is to
6139s	take the fights nearby given that that
6142s	ballista is there so you're going to see
6143s	them actually Shifting the fight away
6145s	and Gigi Shaw gonna go very low off the
6148s	back of multiple rain shots here it
6150s	needs to keep it moving wbg spider
6152s	though more than happy to keep the chase
6154s	going here over top of all of these
6156s	traps actually going to keep the
6159s	pressure onto GG shot GG shot getting
6161s	ready to hit the literal wall here wbg
6165s	spider actually ends up missing that one
6167s	grapple there it's going to give shaw
6169s	enough time to potentially get a single
6171s	pot off your cleanup space to get top
6173s	side and that's what we're gonna see
6174s	should I able to find one pot wants to
6177s	go for the second but wbg spider up top
6179s	knows exactly where he's going to be
6180s	coming in here with the nunchucks trying
6183s	to create that pressure and that space
6185s	using this pull sword here Shaw really
6187s	trying it to create some sort of Gap to
6190s	find a way to maneuver down below and
6193s	look for a pot but spider not having any
6195s	of it using the nunchucks to just give
6197s	that attack Chase with it unfortunately
6200s	loses track for just a second here knows
6202s	they're going to be top side Shaw still
6204s	not finding the time to get that pot off
6206s	that they're looking for we'll find time
6207s	to get the reset onto the bubble though
6209s	that's going to get them a little bit
6211s	here Shaw actually able to find a huge
6214s	right click here off of the poster
6216s	knocking spider into the Zone spider can
6218s	be forced to TP away and Shaw gonna keep
6221s	it moving and this is dangerous for
6222s	spider if spider takes even a little
6224s	more tick Force back into the Zone here
6226s	they're gonna start taking a lot of
6227s	damage but they're able to find a heal
6229s	off and Shaw more than happy to take the
6232s	full reset while spider gonna be forced
6233s	to play into Shaw from The Zone here
6236s	because it throws the bubble
6238s	anticipating spider continuing to
6240s	pressure onto them but spider going to
6243s	start Slow Rolling here knows that he's
6245s	over committed to this fight and giving
6247s	Chase for far too long
6249s	man and you're seeing that the Metar
6252s	versus zipping zipping just has a huge
6254s	Advantage when it comes to the zone and
6256s	even though
6258s	she was one HP the whole time and spider
6259s	was pressuring her the fact that she
6261s	pulled it into Zone and able to get that
6263s	F off uh if you're fighting a zipping
6266s	for a long time she's eventually going
6267s	to start winning because that F does so
6269s	much healing now and her alts coming
6271s	back online as I'd say there's a mosh
6273s	we're proud ocean crowd surfs into his
6276s	death
6277s	shangyou with the F able to pick up that
6280s	kill one of the things that it's slept
6281s	on as a very good kill confirmed is
6284s	various F1 a lot of the times when
6286s	someone's 1 HP they're able they go into
6288s	like Ultra Instinct where they're
6290s	dodging every single move
6293s	dodging eye framing looking to get that
6295s	scale rush but the second you get close
6296s	you can press this trusty old AOE this
6298s	F1 that does a decent amount of money to
6302s	take down those one HP opponents
6304s	yeah and while we're talking about this
6306s	unfortunately we actually see we missed
6308s	the fight between GG shot wbg spider and
6310s	it's GG Shaw who comes out on top
6312s	unfortunately spider eliminated from
6314s	Lobby number two here Kelly's Fong here
6316s	giving a a little bit of pause to AWS
6319s	Mike who's forced to pop the bubble and
6321s	back off but man what an unfortunate
6324s	turn of events that we didn't get to see
6326s	the rest of that fight breakout Raven
6328s	the drama Spider Man shot shot turned it
6333s	on his head though I this is one of the
6335s	things about Matari I don't think Matari
6337s	does well versus zipping it's one of her
6338s	harder matchups just because she's able
6340s	to Siege you with that Relentless heels
6342s	you literally have to win twice the
6344s	amount of neutrals that zipping does
6346s	versus yourself just because the old
6348s	heals so much more with the buff and
6350s	plus the F2 as long as she times her up
6353s	with the F2 it's gonna pick her up even
6355s	further on top of the fact that you're
6357s	going to have to risk Focus attacking
6359s	her that F2 creates this shield on her
6361s	that defends her against light attacks
6363s	and
6364s	without that option of that uppercut a
6367s	lot of these little players have crazy
6369s	crazy combo games then once once they
6371s	get you in the air they're going to do a
6373s	ton of damage off their weapon swap
6375s	whether it's Katana dual blades or staff
6377s	pole sword that's why you see almost
6379s	half of the damage done is either
6381s	through staff or dagger
6384s	and sometimes even Katana can do this
6386s	opener but you see it a lot more rare
6388s	just because of how much Mobility those
6390s	other two weapons give you staff and
6392s	Dagger dagger with the dagger Dodge
6394s	staff with that extra Focus attack that
6397s	you can do a light attack oh we got demo
6399s	we got railgun we got the up and covers
6401s	that's what I'm saying the second Yang
6403s	is where you see the new Bloods going at
6406s	it we got railgun a newcomer we got demo
6408s	with the overhold looking for that lmb
6410s	is he gonna do it again he does it again
6412s	demo was living the risky style he's
6415s	going all in now railgun Posse
6417s	ultimately all throughout Demo's gonna
6419s	kick him in the face with that backstab
6421s	now real good gonna ice it off hold that
6424s	r b they're gonna swoop down just a
6426s	little bit but just as I say that demo
6427s	doesn't want to slow it down he wants to
6429s	play this one HP scenario he has a
6431s	little bit of dagger sap left and he's
6432s	able to get that backstab chipping
6435s	railgun off on his hold up let's go demo
6439s	this look this is one of the things I
6441s	really love about a Matari pick is you
6443s	can play it so aggressively I I actually
6446s	I get on
6448s	I get so angry when I see matari's
6450s	playing extremely defensively instead of
6453s	using that ultimate to get those
6455s	backstabs and engage offensively if you
6457s	notice demo does a max range teleport to
6460s	not only aggressively get in and cancel
6463s	out the pot that railgun was in the
6465s	middle of completing but also to
6467s	continue to keep the aggression going
6469s	and keep the pressure up onto that
6472s	Justina pick and that's where Matari
6474s	really excels you know Matari used to be
6477s	this sort of defensive character where
6479s	players complained about how difficult
6481s	it was to catch a Matari because she
6483s	would just blink away and keep the chase
6485s	going and a lot of players here in the
6487s	nbpl you see them kind of gravitate
6490s	towards that old playstyle oh well I'm
6492s	on Matari I can just teleport away we
6494s	can keep the fight going for an eternity
6496s	rather than them just turning on their
6498s	opponents using those teleports
6500s	to create these openings because off of
6502s	that backstab you can not only extend
6504s	combos but you can backstab hit confirm
6507s	into full uppercut combos as well and
6511s	because of that you could be so so
6514s	aggressive with Matari and we just
6516s	talked about you know the longer you're
6517s	in a fights with these sort of stall
6519s	characters like Justina and um of course
6522s	zipping Yang the more of a disadvantage
6524s	that you're at demo comes in uses all of
6528s	those teleports including the reset on
6530s	the teleport to get three backstabs into
6532s	that fight and because he never drops
6534s	the pressure because he's always keeping
6537s	his mind on the next bout of damage even
6540s	though uh the Justine is able to create
6543s	space they are never able to get a pot
6546s	or any sort of reset off and demo is
6549s	able to create the space that he needs
6551s	to get that elimination and that's what
6553s	I want to see more of these Matari
6555s	players doing Raven
6556s	exactly you're right that Matari in the
6559s	past very ratty Kerry her nickname was
6562s	retari but now with all the changes you
6565s	saw Dima with those four backsteps those
6567s	four gold F back says and he was he
6569s	faked it that he wasn't gonna get
6570s	aggressive and he just comes in with the
6572s	fire and he's able to burn down railgun
6574s	now railgun with that Yang sickness with
6577s	two minutes left he's forced to make
6578s	something happen and unfortunately when
6580s	you have to make it happen versus
6581s	zippings it's not gonna go well with you
6584s	he's already getting absolutely mauled
6586s	by all these zippings with the Cannons
6588s	against the zone and this is one of the
6591s	parts that I don't really like about
6592s	Justina if unless you get in that 1v1
6595s	this uh her ultimate just ends up being
6598s	like a a white flag where you see that
6600s	that all going down you see it just you
6602s	know running and you're just like the
6603s	dinner bell gets hit you just know this
6605s	guy is having a bad time is getting
6607s	lobbied but if you don't have that F1 to
6611s	pick up your armor and you're running F2
6612s	to win duel better you are in a worse
6615s	spot and right there you're seeing that
6619s	railgun not able to find a way to get a
6622s	second chance at this and as I say this
6624s	demo finding Mike this is what we'd like
6626s	to see runecaper we want to see demo
6628s	going for that Crown you know he wants
6630s	to wear it he has that confidence he's
6632s	going after Mike he's on the Matari
6635s	on this opening holler out game but Mike
6638s	able to get that max range grapple man I
6640s	miss having max range grapple you never
6642s	get to use max round scrapple in trios
6644s	but in solos that max range grapple can
6647s	be the difference between living and
6649s	dying a lot of people suggest like half
6651s	and half but the one thing that's always
6654s	killed me is either
6656s	not being able to Grapple far enough or
6658s	not able to catch someone who's running
6660s	away from me and when you have that
6661s	zipping at that one HP situation you
6664s	want to add her quickly it is extremely
6666s	frustrating now we're getting that
6667s	Replay that drama that ensued earlier
6669s	and spider was able to get that one
6671s	charge Perry in the clutch and putting
6674s	it back to even but like we were saying
6676s	before zipping just that Siege her
6678s	ability to heal herself that alt is
6680s	healing so much she was at half white
6682s	house and now she's almost back to full
6684s	health and spider needs space in order
6687s	to get a heal off and he gets grapple
6690s	canceled into that Cannon shot Kobe from
6693s	a mile away
6695s	now Shaw we're transitioning into this
6698s	end game we have eight people alive uh
6701s	that the old zipping meta that I know
6703s	you hate Rune keeper the snooze Fest
6705s	where they all just hold their all to
6708s	the end they all go green and they just
6710s	start twirling and it's just not an
6713s	exciting look for
6715s	the zipping matter but we do have the
6718s	solution to this and we had Fong going
6720s	on the Faria today and this is one of
6722s	the sneaky straps you can do is that you
6725s	can play that area into the zipping meta
6727s	and just have that giant turn and
6729s	exterminate all of them as they use all
6731s	in this end game as they try to play
6733s	this heel off scenarios like no actually
6735s	you're about to get blown up by my
6737s	mobile belisa yeah you know very very
6740s	interesting choice as well in the end as
6742s	well because the thing with zipping is
6744s	she just doesn't really bring anything
6745s	to the end game except healing Feria
6747s	you're able to use that pillar you're
6749s	able to knock these z-pings away from
6752s	the center of circle you can actually
6753s	just clutch up all the space that there
6756s	is in the circle and force them to go
6758s	ahead and use that ultimate and stand in
6760s	zone and get uh cut healing from the
6763s	ultimate as well rather than just
6765s	continue uh to have the benefit of the
6767s	healing while they're standing in the
6769s	safety of the Zone because it's very
6770s	you're able to jump in the mac and just
6773s	threaten all that sort of space and
6775s	we're going to see probably exactly that
6777s	come down in the end here you know this
6779s	is the thing is like anybody who sees
6781s	the Feria who's left alive here they
6783s	need to instantly be thinking about
6785s	eliminating this player getting Feria
6788s	out of the lobby because if they do not
6791s	we're gonna see a repeat of uh the first
6794s	final Zone in game one where Ferry is
6796s	just able to completely control
6798s	everything that's going on and if I'm
6800s	not mistaken I do believe it is jdg's
6801s	xujang who this is their second Feria
6804s	game they're running it back to back
6805s	game one into game two meaning they
6808s	won't have the option to do it later but
6810s	in such a zipping heavy Lobby you can't
6813s	blame them for going ahead and running
6815s	at that choice a second time here today
6818s	aw's Mike here with that legendary armor
6820s	taking shots uh from the multiple
6823s	directions scale I find coming to check
6825s	the box to see if there's any goodies
6827s	left and here's something interesting
6829s	for all the new players watching at home
6831s	and our more casual players if you're
6834s	unaware as these weather effects come
6836s	through on the map here in Hollow Roth
6839s	like this dust storm that we have here
6840s	it actually refreshes uh all of the
6844s	trolls for the duration of the weather
6846s	effect and in a game I would like a
6848s	mortal War the reason you see so many of
6850s	these players more than happy to come
6852s	into these weather effects and take the
6854s	negative effects is because there is so
6856s	little loot available in Immortal War so
6858s	being able to step in here and
6861s	potentially uh get some extra loot out
6863s	of these troves so that they have the
6865s	resources that they need to make it to
6867s	end game is such a huge Advantage for
6869s	these players Raven
6872s	exactly finding that end game Lube to
6875s	getting you here when you look at each
6877s	of these players you're seeing four
6879s	white heels four seven blue heels
6882s	and in these end games you're not seeing
6885s	a lot of hard commitments mainly a game
6887s	of musical chairs where you're trying to
6889s	push someone out to be left standing and
6892s	being that Oddball out by chipping them
6894s	with range damage now in this game in
6897s	particular we do have zippings and I
6900s	classify characters as defensive if you
6903s	can actually reliably heal in a very
6905s	very stacked Lobby now zipping is one of
6907s	those characters wuchen is one of those
6909s	characters F1 Justina is one of those
6911s	characters
6912s	because they all have this built-in heel
6915s	now the really really cool thing of why
6918s	you see players like KLA Fong using
6922s	dagger is that dagger Dodge they're able
6925s	to move so fluidly over and over because
6927s	of how much energy the dagger gives them
6930s	you get an additional benefit for
6932s	reduction of energy by using a dagger
6934s	now you also see players like Mike using
6936s	nunchucks
6937s	same deal except not really the energy
6940s	but the RMB is able to give you an extra
6943s	boost of movement
6945s	so tons of players will still use
6947s	nunchucks if they're that high Rarity
6949s	and they do they have a decent matchup
6951s	it's around 40 60 versus dagger
6954s	but dagger still being one of the best
6956s	isolated 1v1 matchups now one thing
6959s	about nunchucks that you'll see in these
6961s	end games that is very tricky in these
6963s	heal off end games when you double hold
6965s	your r b with nunchucks you're able to
6968s	go into gold focus and that's one of the
6970s	huge advantage of these nunchucks and
6972s	Now demo getting absolutely harassed my
6975s	mic not fully committed
6977s	but demote does have another weapon that
6979s	gives you a ton of movement this long
6981s	sword the lmb on the long storm gives
6983s	you this lunging effect where you're
6985s	able to create a ton of space on top of
6988s	your whole Dodge not every weapon has
6990s	this
6991s	such as the katana
6993s	if you notice when p no one here is
6995s	using a katana it's just it doesn't give
6997s	you that extra movement to get away in
6999s	these clutch situations where the
7002s	difference between you getting around a
7003s	corner getting that scale Rush may be
7005s	the difference between the whole Lobby
7007s	turning its head and putting cannons on
7010s	you Non-Stop
7011s	now we're going into end game with seven
7014s	players with a couple trees a couple
7016s	rocks and a couple buildings to play off
7018s	of this is gonna I would still say
7022s	favorite the fairy is because there's
7023s	nowhere to run really and they are going
7025s	to be able to get to this tiny Circle by
7027s	using the little bit of cover that does
7029s	exist right now now unfortunately for
7031s	demo
7032s	the zippings have decided that you have
7035s	to go first and someone with detonating
7037s	rounds is putting the hurt on Devo at
7039s	this max range it might be the birthday
7040s	boy gin it might be fun Fong but comes
7044s	in ends up getting parried by demo the
7047s	presence of my mind of Debo knowing that
7049s	he thinks
7051s	he will not release here just because
7053s	he's under pressure he catches that big
7055s	Perry though and because of that Perry
7057s	demo is able to get a ton of space to
7060s	possibly reset here but unfortunately
7062s	for him Mike did get that gold armor so
7065s	he's able to risk a little bit more and
7067s	those zetto rounds are still going off
7068s	now you don't really want to go to these
7070s	buttery rocks The Buttery rocks are a
7072s	scam you get stuck in on animations on
7074s	these rocks it's very hard to move the
7076s	buildings were the safe havens there's a
7078s	little bit of the tent to play off of
7079s	demo looking left looking right only
7081s	surrounded by more dead arounds gets
7084s	kicked in the face by choosing now he
7086s	takes it the skies looking for a little
7087s	spot he almost gets an opportunity to go
7089s	into that bush but Mike smart enough to
7092s	see exactly where he blinks into this
7094s	guy he's one HP is just who is he gonna
7096s	give this kill to and Mike takes him
7098s	down with that musket shot
7101s	oh my goodness this is literally the
7104s	entire Lobby taking shots at a demo and
7107s	like you said just a matter of time to
7108s	determine who is going to pick up the
7111s	elimination but I've got to give it to
7113s	demo he survived it so long Against All
7116s	Odds there just able to keep things
7118s	moving even using the golden Focus off
7120s	of the backstab to buy himself just a
7123s	little bit more time absolutely catches
7126s	the edge of that tree tries to use it to
7128s	block a ton of those shots seeing if he
7130s	can get even just that one potential pod
7132s	off and he comes so close to doing it
7134s	but it's Mike who's able to catch the
7136s	chip just around the corner with the
7138s	cannon there and pick up the elimination
7140s	onto him and Mike here with this pole
7142s	sword legendary armor legendary Pulsar
7145s	really set himself up for success
7148s	the big problem here is going to be
7151s	Kelly's Fang for this Lobby and OC Jeong
7154s	Yu both of these fairies has still
7156s	available and all of these Z things and
7159s	mataris as we saw during game one going
7162s	to struggle to uh have an answer for
7164s	this as soon as the Zone starts to
7166s	collapse and we're gonna see that here
7168s	in the next 20 seconds these failures
7170s	just need to survive that long AOW Mike
7174s	really trying to look for something here
7176s	but is just not going to be able to
7178s	pressure on to our two fairy Shades here
7181s	that you just don't have anything that
7183s	they can do about it and that's the
7185s	problem if you're not able to Target
7187s	acquisition these two fairies out of the
7189s	lobby in the mid game by the time you
7191s	get to late game you can't really
7192s	pressure all that much onto him
7194s	alliance's gin going to get picked out
7196s	here unfortunately gonna be sent back to
7199s	the lobby uh by the rest of these
7201s	players the aow's Mike going to come in
7204s	here trying to capitalize on that kill
7206s	but not quite able to find it it's OSI
7208s	Zhang Yu who's able to find the
7209s	elimination here with four eliminations
7211s	to his name zhangyu looking to take the
7214s	lobby you're going to turn on to Fong
7215s	trying it to create some space for him
7218s	to Mech up last and that's exactly what
7221s	he's going to be able to do here he's
7223s	just gonna go ahead and be able to Mech
7225s	up and start pumping out damage on it to
7227s	all of the zipping players long waiting
7231s	to pop at the turret mode there it is
7233s	he's trying to get into the middle of
7235s	the Zone trying to create space to get
7237s	zhangyu out of it there it is he's
7238s	actually able to get into the turret get
7241s	John you out of there by himself this
7244s	face that he wants but it's Fong who's
7246s	still alive here the heel off continues
7248s	the target Focus comes through Panda man
7251s	trying to lock onto Fong but not quite
7254s	able to find the damage he needs to
7257s	finish it out so the two of them are
7258s	gonna tie for first place
7261s	oh amazing I'm surprised the zippings
7264s	were able to get that far now one of the
7266s	tricks to surviving these end games is
7268s	actually going Health James and I was
7270s	wondering where the master of the
7273s	strategy Wang Lang is he's not in this
7275s	group right now normally we would see
7277s	those giant Health pools coming out on
7279s	the zippings and various and it does
7281s	make the small difference between living
7282s	and dying you see both of those players
7284s	with a sliver of Health able to win
7288s	that heel off now Mike
7291s	with that uh pole sword I was surprised
7294s	he didn't have blistering he was just
7296s	willing to toss out those armies and
7298s	when you have the pulsory you're able to
7300s	move around holding this one charge
7302s	focus and it hits as hard as a Parry
7305s	attack hits over a thousand especially
7307s	when it's gold without plus attack when
7309s	you start adding activating can hit as
7311s	hard as 11 to 1200 and that's why you
7314s	see the birthday boy gin getting
7316s	absolutely chopped in half just getting
7318s	bumped in the head over and over and
7322s	over unfortunately for him he's not able
7324s	to get to this heel off
7326s	and Mike is able to take him out
7330s	yeah you know the two fairies actually
7332s	played very very well in the end and
7334s	Jung you able to really take control of
7337s	the space he's actually late uh to
7339s	getting to that sort of turret mode when
7341s	you're in that very final Circle looking
7343s	to dominate the space but unfortunately
7345s	uh we see Fang not really paying
7348s	attention even though he's in the turret
7350s	mode he doesn't turn and shoot zhangyu
7353s	which buys young you just enough time to
7355s	go ahead and drop into the turret mode
7356s	get that shot off and it shoves a Fang
7359s	out into the zone and even though Fong
7361s	able to stay alive because he doesn't
7363s	become the focus Zhang Yu takes that
7367s	strong position has enough eliminations
7368s	is able to pick up enough extra
7371s	eliminations in those final moments that
7373s	yes he goes out a little bit earlier but
7375s	he makes the most of it with those kills
7378s	there's sort of this make break point
7380s	right yes you want to have as many
7382s	eliminations as possible yes you want to
7384s	go as deep as possible in terms of
7386s	placement to get the most out of those
7389s	uh placement multiplier points but
7391s	there's also a point where if you have
7393s	enough eliminations you can afford to go
7395s	out second fourth or fifth place as long
7397s	as you have those extra eliminations so
7400s	that that multiplier is buying you
7402s	higher than anybody in the lobby and
7404s	it's much easier to do in terms of
7406s	something like solos versus trios
7408s	because the average number of overall
7410s	kills is around that five range if you
7413s	can get yourself to six or seven kills
7415s	and go out in third or fourth place it's
7417s	really hard for anybody else in the
7420s	lobby to have enough eliminations to
7422s	challenge you for the overall MVP and we
7425s	see that situation unfold here is OC
7428s	Jeong Yu walks away or MVP for game
7430s	number two
7432s	and you also see to add on to what you
7435s	were saying this meta where all these
7437s	players are holding cannons and they're
7439s	looking to get this last hit off in the
7441s	end game now what you could do as well
7443s	is hold there since everyone's throwing
7445s	all these focus it says wait for that
7446s	Perry but because you have these two
7448s	fairies you have these big bodies that
7450s	can either Google stop you with their
7453s	pillar hitting you pushing in the zone
7455s	the first time you roll back in and they
7457s	go into their Mech and they can go into
7458s	the air and then stomp you again push
7460s	you into the zone and this is why I was
7462s	saying that these fairies are a great
7465s	counter to this boring helop style that
7467s	I know you dislike so much Rune keeper
7469s	it is a great answer and she is there to
7472s	exterminate them with her giant ballista
7474s	Cannon and you're seeing in here Zhang
7476s	Yoo not traditionally someone at the top
7478s	of the leaderboards but with this great
7480s	pick able to Big Brain his way top of
7483s	the leaderboard with those five kills
7485s	with a 9.5 score above one of the goats
7488s	Mike himself four kills 7.1 on the
7490s	zipping I believe panaman was also in
7493s	the zipping with two kills and 6.2 from
7496s	out there as well with two kills as a
7498s	6.2 Shu Zhang with six and you're seeing
7501s	this could very very consistent play
7503s	from the top five of how they play it
7505s	off this heal off situation they like to
7508s	find other players to get them targeted
7510s	unfortunately that other player was
7512s	our homie demo getting caught out on the
7515s	Matari just not playing low-key enough
7518s	Now demo is usually really really smart
7520s	to stay in bushes in these end games but
7523s	I like to see him out of the shell out
7525s	there swinging for the moon trying to
7529s	get his feet wet to see what he needs to
7532s	improve on in order to bet to do better
7533s	in these finals just because even though
7536s	you could get through these weeklies it
7538s	is not the same in the finals because in
7539s	these weeklets you're trying to get top
7540s	14 you're just trying to get to the
7542s	finals but as it shifts what it takes to
7545s	win one of these weeklies what it takes
7547s	to be Mike what it takes to be spider is
7550s	a fully fully developed gameplay that
7552s	involves taking a lot more risk because
7554s	fortune favors the bolt and you need to
7557s	get killed in order to win these things
7558s	yes you need to play placement yes you
7560s	need to get to these end games but you
7562s	still need to hit that Benchmark of four
7564s	to five kills like you were saying
7565s	before and now demo this is what I like
7567s	to see versus railgun this is when the
7570s	new Bloods get to go in a lot of the
7572s	veterans are happy offspawn getting
7574s	their purple armor setting up for their
7575s	end game they don't go in the second
7577s	time and a lot of the new Bloods have
7578s	been noticing hey wait a second some
7580s	people are just getting this for free
7581s	what if we just go in there immediately
7583s	and maybe we just get someone who is a
7586s	tier two player not any of these tier
7587s	one pros and we can go at it and be able
7590s	to climb up set ourselves up with this
7591s	purple armor a bunch of Jades so
7593s	something that's different for all the
7594s	newer players it's different than actual
7596s	ranked is in these yangs you actually
7598s	get way more loot than normal even in
7600s	the outside chess boxes there is way
7603s	more loot than normal that's why you see
7605s	these very elaborate strategies where
7608s	you see Mike slowly probing playing the
7612s	chest to see if anyone's paying
7613s	attention and you see as soon as someone
7615s	touches that chest you see just
7617s	Spider-Man grapples all going off of
7619s	everyone trying to grieve and trying to
7622s	like who can get there first who let's
7625s	see if we can get someone else Lobby so
7627s	we can come in and sneak the loot but
7629s	Mike being an expert at being one of
7631s	these sneaky players he's talked about
7633s	it before in interviews that's why he
7635s	chooses to use F3 on Matari instead of
7637s	F2 because he likes to play for those
7639s	boxes where he blinks in and he's able
7642s	to get out with that gold armor and
7644s	you're seeing the veteran play from Mike
7646s	with that gold armor he's able to still
7647s	get second place on that sipping versus
7650s	the two various who have a big advantage
7651s	in end game Rune keeper oh yeah
7653s	absolutely and you know it a lot of it
7656s	comes down to decision making in the end
7658s	right you can come in and you can be on
7660s	that area and you you've made the
7662s	decision early to go okay hey we're
7664s	gonna counter play the lobby we're gonna
7666s	play to end game we're gonna dominate
7668s	these healers you know in the end game
7670s	but as somebody who's playing into the
7674s	counter pick there's things that you can
7675s	do to mitigate those counter picks
7679s	advantages and that's exactly what we
7681s	see aow's Mike doing like you said by
7683s	using that F3 being able to just jump in
7686s	teleport in grab that armor teleport
7688s	back out so that he heads into the mid
7690s	game with the advantage likewise you
7692s	know we were talking about those Health
7693s	sold Jades coming in for these Zing ping
7696s	players also allowing for them to
7698s	mitigate a little bit of that risk so
7700s	they have more HP to heal through but
7703s	we're gonna see how these players handle
7704s	the pigs heading into game three very
7706s	shortly but first we've got a short
7708s	video for you guys
7724s	all right
7739s	thank you
7781s	what's up
7803s	foreign
7868s	thank you
7881s	foreign
7881s	[Music]
7916s	thank you
7925s	uh what's this is
7931s	[Music]
7947s	uh
7962s	[Music]
7968s	thank you
7970s	Alliance is in there giving us a little
7972s	bit of insight into his game plans for
7976s	coming into the grand finals you know
7978s	either trying to get enough placement
7980s	points this week so that he can
7981s	guarantee he had some Grand finals or
7984s	potentially going to representation
7985s	talking about uh how he might actually
7987s	prefer uh making it through reptiles
7990s	there so that he can keep his hands
7992s	warmed up and come in ready to rock for
7995s	the grand finals for the season which is
7998s	you know pretty interesting distinction
8000s	and choice I think most players would uh
8002s	prefer not to go through the rep cage
8004s	but it's interesting to hear that he
8005s	would rather keep his hands prepped and
8008s	ready to go against some of these
8010s	players uh heading towards the Grand
8012s	Final for the season there and again one
8014s	of those players we were talking about
8016s	earlier today that has improved
8017s	drastically Alliance has really shown uh
8021s	that they deserve to be here in the
8023s	league you know I think there were a lot
8024s	of questions during the very first
8026s	season of nbtl about kind of what
8028s	alliance was doing here every time time
8030s	we turned to this particular team they
8033s	were kind of uh put on their ass by the
8035s	rest of the lobby typically you know the
8037s	first seat out but out of the seasons
8039s	have gone on they have really adapted
8042s	not only changing up their roster but
8044s	drastically how the team and trios plays
8047s	how their solos player not only performs
8050s	but plays and the skill level of every
8053s	single one of these players has just
8055s	continued to go up and it's so good to
8058s	watch a team like this be able to
8061s	continue to improve and a quick question
8064s	for you guys watching at home here uh
8066s	who won game number two was it a OC Jen
8068s	UB klas Fong c wbg spider or D kz's demo
8073s	lock your answers in chat right now and
8075s	make sure you're watching your Whispers
8076s	because somebody's gonna get lucky and
8078s	walk away with one of these limited
8080s	great treasure chests you don't want to
8082s	miss out on all the goodies in the game
8084s	you know we were just talking about this
8086s	touring our little break there uh
8088s	actually that you know the Cosmetic team
8090s	really he does not miss with these skins
8092s	right oh yeah I I love the new cyberpunk
8095s	skins nowadays some people may say that
8098s	they're immersion breaking but I think
8099s	they look amazing and I I just wish they
8103s	would add more I wish it would add more
8105s	Moon Bane skins if you're listening we
8107s	need more Moonbeam rewards we need
8109s	moonbait in solos and Duos we just need
8111s	more Moon bang gear that was one of my
8114s	favorite things to have
8116s	because I let people know that you were
8119s	fighting against someone who wins
8121s	lobbies it's just such a cool idea that
8124s	they have in the game
8126s	and with these new skins the one thing
8129s	that's interesting that you'll see from
8131s	these uh Pro naraco players is that
8134s	certain skins actually have input delay
8137s	on it because frames are tied to your
8138s	input delay so certain skins that are
8140s	very very pretty sparkly May reduce your
8144s	frames so you see a little bit of a
8145s	compromise from these Pro players that
8147s	even though skins do reduce your frames
8150s	slightly that using a default skin
8151s	reducing your skin feeling good also
8154s	makes you play way better and we were
8156s	talking about
8157s	wanting to go to Riverside staying warm
8159s	and everything like I completely
8161s	understand where he's coming from that
8163s	it's something that try hard and me were
8165s	talking about he did win this last scrim
8167s	so he gets a guaranteed spot and he
8169s	wants to go back to mbpl he got offered
8172s	a contract but unfortunately he's going
8173s	to Cornell and he's not able to go but
8175s	he wants to go back again but because he
8177s	won this last Grim he's gonna make it to
8178s	finals immediately
8180s	and he was just like this actually might
8182s	be grief because I can already feel
8183s	myself like slowing down now if you're
8186s	one of these players who are still
8187s	hungry and you're not that that Iron
8189s	Will cold
8192s	mechanical demons like 225 like spider
8196s	like Mike and you may feel like you need
8199s	a little bit more of a confidence
8200s	booster you still want to be in the
8201s	arena you still want to keep your arm
8203s	hands warm as he was saying and it makes
8206s	a ton of sense because you're able to go
8207s	and practice these strategies you also
8209s	get to see where you stand against all
8212s	the other players so you have a lot more
8214s	confidence because you know like oh man
8216s	I can go to Yang now Mike's not going to
8217s	be in there oh yeah spider's not going
8219s	to be there oh yeah I'm not gonna have
8221s	Fong waiting a third party with a stupid
8222s	dagger like the lobby is a lot softer so
8226s	you're able to try out and really spread
8228s	your wings to see how hot fly how high
8231s	you can fly with all these new
8234s	strategies and it just takes a little
8236s	bit of confidence to to really show you
8239s	and allow you to perform better and that
8241s	I was one of the things that I liked
8242s	about demons he came out swimming would
8244s	perform really really well now
8246s	[Music]
8248s	his performance
8250s	in finals he tried his hardest uh there
8253s	was just another gear he wasn't used to
8254s	I hope that he keeps on swinging and
8258s	still keeps learning throughout these
8259s	weeklies how these players are running
8262s	these countercom because as we were
8264s	saying earlier Rune keeper when you got
8265s	that defensive holler out game no
8268s	fireflies it's gonna be really slow and
8270s	we're gonna be running into it again on
8273s	a midday Morris now Morris being in the
8275s	old school map everyone's played this
8276s	map in and out it has a lot more places
8279s	to run around so you don't really need
8281s	to play zipping because you don't need
8283s	that F2 to give you that grapple defense
8285s	you're able to have enough defense in
8287s	order to survive now one of the things I
8290s	was really curious about is how Justina
8293s	does in Yang versus Feria it looks at
8296s	spider and Mike believe that they have a
8300s	little bit of an edge versus these fares
8302s	now you see the majority of the lobby
8303s	going with Feria because in General on a
8306s	daytime day you know it's going to go to
8307s	the end game you know
8309s	it's
8310s	Morris so you're able to survive there
8313s	get there by kiting
8315s	so you're and you got the benefit of
8318s	being the same as everyone else so
8320s	you're part of the zebras you're part of
8321s	the pack it's very hard to get picked
8323s	off you don't know who's who but the
8326s	stalkers the lions in the grass Mike and
8329s	spider on these justines I'm excited to
8332s	see what these two have in store off
8335s	spawn are they gonna look for an iso
8337s	play are they gonna land in the herd and
8339s	try to pick off these fairies before
8341s	they can get these their loot going into
8343s	the end game it's really interesting
8345s	round Room Keeper
8347s	oh yeah it's gonna be very interesting
8349s	to see like you said how does justina's
8351s	play into the fairy this year uh Jail's
8354s	ego also going to be playing that Matari
8356s	if you know this is something that a lot
8360s	of these solo players seem to struggle
8362s	with just a little bit is they're gonna
8364s	lock in some of these early to mid-game
8366s	Heroes and kind of afraid to take the
8368s	early to mid game fights because they're
8371s	so worried about making it to end game
8373s	if you're jails you go right now and
8375s	you're the only Matari in the lobby you
8377s	cannot afford to just take it to late
8379s	game because once you get to late game
8381s	if you have no eliminations you're not
8383s	going to be able to find eliminations in
8385s	this Lobby full of fairy MX in those
8388s	final circles speaking of finding
8389s	elimination those XI zhangyu off to a
8391s	Terry yacht again with what he makes
8394s	look like a completely easy kill on to
8397s	GG Shaw's GG Shaw just gets completely
8400s	blitzed out of here this is Wolf sky bow
8402s	here waiting for the third party
8403s	actually gets picked up by demo coming
8406s	through the overhead here we see the
8408s	Perry come through here but demo is
8410s	still able to capitalize pick up the
8412s	elimination kaibao going to find a
8413s	second Perry This Time on to demo demo
8415s	going to go very low looking to come in
8417s	trying to use charge right click on the
8419s	hands there to keep it alive we'll be
8421s	able to create some space here but of
8422s	course kaibao not going to let him live
8425s	through that after demo was able to pick
8426s	up the elimination there but demo can be
8429s	super frustrated about that situation
8431s	given he was able to at least pick up
8434s	the elimination that he put all the work
8436s	in for so he will be forced back to the
8438s	soul altar but demo does find himself
8440s	with an elimination under his belt
8442s	Valdosta new on here and jdg's Chu Zhang
8444s	going head to head here xujang one of
8446s	the few zippings in the lobby also going
8448s	to find themselves into a similar
8450s	situation uh that uh or sorry that uh
8454s	jails uh ego is going to be they need to
8457s	find these early eliminations if you're
8459s	one of the only zippings in the lobby
8462s	you can't really afford to bank on the
8465s	late game yes you're gonna have healing
8466s	come late game but there's so many
8469s	fairies in this Lobby you can't really
8471s	adjust uh to try to survive through all
8474s	of the mechanized Mayhem that's going to
8476s	be coming into that final Zone Raven
8479s	exactly as you say this we're running
8482s	into the other zipping in the lobby
8484s	Kelly Fong with spider chasing him now
8488s	with the with the dagger something that
8490s	you'll you'll see these guys going at is
8493s	you won't really see many blue folks
8495s	attacks from fog and spider knows this
8497s	so you won't really see spider either
8499s	throwing many uh parries he'll just sit
8502s	there and they'll just light each other
8503s	over and over just a little bit of
8505s	charge a little bit of light a little
8507s	bit of charge a little bit of light
8508s	they're just looking for that chip
8510s	damage since deaths by a Thousand Cuts
8511s	and spider knows that this is a zipping
8514s	I'm in Justina this is not the ideal
8517s	situation we're trying to find one of
8519s	these fairies before they have their alt
8521s	online off spawn now it being daytime
8523s	there is no fireflies unless you were a
8526s	genuine Landing in the cave there are no
8528s	fireflies on the map there are there is
8530s	a cave in the South and a cave to the
8534s	right of the tempo in the north now as I
8535s	say this we got Mike on Justina against
8538s	choosing Mike one of the best dagger
8541s	players in the league
8543s	keeping this constant pressure up going
8546s	in and out Mike has probably the highest
8548s	percentage out of all the different
8549s	players and it comes from his sustained
8551s	pressure he sits in the pocket he stabs
8554s	you to death he just keeps poking you
8555s	where you just feel like man I gotta get
8557s	this guy off me I Gotta Throw a blue
8558s	attack and when you throw that blue
8560s	attack he just dagger Dodges backwards
8562s	and one of the tricks of dagger is if
8564s	you crouch cancel you're actually able
8565s	to Parry a little bit faster in the
8567s	dagger Dodge now we have shangyou in the
8570s	no ultimate zone or the Zone I like to
8572s	call Three band he's able to catch Jin
8574s	with the weapon swap huge amount of
8577s	damage a thousand damage with that pull
8578s	sword into dagger he's gonna keep
8579s	mashing this lmb trying this deny Jinn
8582s	from getting out
8583s	birthday boy trying to get a little bit
8585s	of luck on his side at one HP he's gonna
8587s	look for an armor swap in here he's not
8588s	able to get him and Shang Yu comes
8591s	flying in with the staff and smacks him
8593s	in the side of head to pick up this kill
8594s	Now demo no the boy in a Perry already
8597s	in but he was wearing slush so we can
8599s	get out of here demo run get out of here
8601s	you can make it
8602s	he does have a bounty on him there are
8604s	tons of armor swaps though he's gonna be
8605s	able to get away for now now but
8607s	unfortunately we have Mike with purple
8609s	armor and he's gonna smell blood in the
8610s	water he sees people running he's gonna
8612s	see that poor demo climbing up
8615s	now choosing trying to cut demo off to
8618s	demo moving into the center of Celestia
8619s	if he makes it to this bridge room he
8621s	has a chance to survive the bridge room
8622s	is the Haven these buildings here it's
8625s	kind of a scam it's all right it's mid
8627s	at best but demo Cohen to the outskirts
8629s	oh he actually pulls a Galaxy brain move
8632s	ends up going to the outskirts and
8633s	everyone expects him going to the bridge
8635s	room and demo able to break contact now
8639s	Mike we got him on Tuesday and both of
8641s	the ranked demons both of these guys top
8643s	of the leaderboard
8644s	and Mike having that staff but
8647s	unfortunately he is chasing a zipping
8649s	that has that F2 so he's not able to
8650s	apply that sticky staff now we go to the
8653s	outside JL ego versus OC zhangyu and
8657s	we're looking at that staff and we've
8659s	checked that inventory when you got that
8660s	stuff you know we got that great sword
8661s	we got that dual weapon swap on Deck
8664s	Chang Yu looking for it he sends out a
8667s	focus attack that's a scam he's working
8668s	for the lmb then ego gets the first one
8670s	unfortunately misses because of the pull
8672s	sword change on that lunge but ego able
8675s	to follow up able to get that sticky
8677s	staff going not letting Shang you get
8678s	away and Shang Yu mashes it matches it
8681s	through gets a light attack through and
8682s	takes down ego it's gonna be really
8684s	unfortunate for ego too ego drops in
8687s	gets eliminated early finds themselves
8688s	afraid to take fights finally uh does
8692s	take a fight being forced to uh engage
8694s	here by OSI zhangyu but zhangyu just has
8697s	such a gear advantage over the top of
8699s	ego that they're able to come out in the
8702s	end here they had enough survivability
8704s	if he Zhang Yu had been into blue armor
8707s	or had a blue weapon similar to the
8709s	situation that we saw ego in ego easily
8711s	comes out on top of that fight given how
8713s	much damage he was able to pump out
8715s	early there it's just unfortunate to see
8718s	ego go out uh to quite literally the
8721s	gear check uh from OC Jiang Yu but
8724s	that's the way the cookie crumbles
8726s	sometimes in naraka you see a player
8728s	who's got lesser gear than you and you
8730s	take that fight you pressure any
8732s	advantage that you can find uh when
8734s	you're playing naraka blade Point into a
8736s	Lobby that is as stacked as this Lobby
8738s	is groups A and C really the big stacked
8741s	Lobby for this week in terms of solo
8743s	players wbg spider here just on the
8746s	outskirts of celester looking to kind of
8748s	pick up stragglers while he waits to go
8750s	for this realm of yang because wbg
8753s	spider not going to be somebody who
8755s	shies away from these Realms of Yang
8757s	even against Barry is here
8759s	he has that ability to catch very out
8762s	and keep her Frozen and he will find his
8764s	way in and it's going to be wbg spider
8766s	versus Casey's demo and te versus bowed
8770s	out this is going to be a fight I know
8771s	everybody's extremely excited to see not
8774s	only is it Justina into Feria but it's
8776s	two of the big names demo versus spider
8779s	demo trying to come into the charts left
8780s	click off of the dagger spider says I'm
8782s	not gonna let you let that blue rip
8785s	twice in my face immediately goes for
8786s	the pairing we see demo make the
8788s	adjustment into the dagger with the
8790s	nunchucks knows he's got the advantage
8791s	here with those nunnies looking to lock
8794s	spider down spider gonna find the Perry
8796s	again demo his pattern starting to get
8799s	red here as Spider realizes that demo is
8802s	a fan of letting those Blues rip Shen
8804s	Yuan gonna use his pillar to keep our
8807s	player T is s railgun away from his
8809s	pillar but railgun able to find his
8811s	pillar in the final seconds there gets
8813s	stuck on terrain though it's gonna bison
8815s	you want plenty of time to not only heal
8818s	up but go ahead and Mech up as well
8820s	gonna be able to just Pummel and take
8822s	trades with railgun here given how much
8825s	of an advantage he has coming into the
8827s	mech tries to go ahead and get into that
8830s	Cannon Mode not quite able to find those
8832s	railguns gonna be forced out of theirs
8833s	very soon and is immediately going to
8835s	take the advantage and start pummeling
8836s	here railgun forced to d-mac as Shen
8839s	Yuan continues the pressure here railgun
8842s	able to find one of those pots though
8843s	shenuan trying to find the advantage
8845s	there only has the one shot available
8847s	there from the big cannon is forced to
8849s	go ahead and dmec if he wants to finish
8851s	this fight out onto railgun but both of
8854s	them gonna time out and head on out with
8856s	that Yang depletion
8858s	oh you hate to see it that Faria this if
8862s	there was just like 10 more seconds and
8863s	yang and Feria is either Thai
8866s	or win there's just there's no in
8869s	between pharah just has that option of
8871s	delaying forever and as I say that we
8873s	have the next defensive Geiger spider
8876s	and Fong going at it now we do have
8878s	spider with that dual Blaze I'm
8880s	wondering if he has the pocket Katana if
8883s	he does have that
8885s	menacing
8887s	dual weapon swap that was so prevalent
8889s	during worlds katana
8891s	dual blades does a almost like 1200
8894s	damage
8895s	with the 60 ping now it still works on
8898s	low ping it's not as much as the the
8901s	staff combo and it's a little bit more
8902s	risky because dual blades doesn't have
8904s	such a great opener versus dagger and as
8906s	I say that Fong giving spider a taste of
8908s	his own medicine hitting him with the
8910s	lights into Perry over and over and over
8912s	just as Spider did to demo earlier now
8914s	Fong even after he has full health both
8917s	nefarias
8919s	double checking his HPA Are You full
8921s	house okay hey let's uh let's team up on
8924s	this the zipping right here she doesn't
8925s	look like us Fong been here before a
8928s	million times and with dipping nf2 this
8932s	F2 Shield that you're seeing right right
8933s	here folks it gives you uh stagger
8937s	protection from grapples or any type of
8939s	light attack so he's able to send
8941s	himself Max's engineer as we say this we
8944s	have demo with that Yang sickness we
8947s	need our boy to get this Soul Bloom he's
8950s	getting hit through the wall so
8951s	unfortunately from GG shop now he's able
8954s	to pick up a couple heels here he still
8956s	has his alt up he's still gonna have
8957s	combo potential after this and demo
8960s	running those purple dual blades he's
8961s	one of the few players inside mvpo right
8964s	now that keeps running these dual blades
8966s	he loves holding those rmbs for those
8969s	big ginormous Focus attacks I think as
8972s	you were saying earlier we keep hear
8973s	that the lobby is picking up on it
8975s	spider picked up on the fact that demo
8977s	is a little bit of a free bird throwing
8979s	throwing a lot of Blues flying through
8981s	those blue skies and demo needs to get
8984s	Shah right now he has a minute and 20
8986s	seconds there's a sense of urgency here
8988s	he does have dual blades it is one of
8989s	the fastest weapons in the game but Shaw
8991s	knows that potentially this man has
8996s	something to lose this man might be a
8997s	Yang depletion guy and he is just max
9000s	range grappling away just absolutely
9003s	griefing demo will Dino be able to even
9006s	finish him if he catches up to him he's
9007s	down to 58 seconds Shaw is sending
9010s	himself through the trees just Crouching
9012s	Tiger Hidden Dragon flying through the
9013s	trees over and over and now he's gonna
9014s	play this super sneaky and double backs
9018s	and demo doesn't realize and loses Him
9020s	Now demo does have a bounty on him and
9023s	he's trying to reverse track where his
9025s	Bounty is and he finds spider and
9028s	genuine fighting amongst the buildings
9029s	he still has 35 seconds that's enough
9031s	time to burn someone down potentially
9033s	unfortunately it is spider and spider
9035s	does have that one so he's gonna pick up
9037s	off his armor Now demo is gonna be
9040s	getting his run back yeah ends up
9042s	fighting shiny one and anyway he has the
9045s	purple dual blades he has the blue in
9047s	mind he go oh he had the double horny
9049s	ends up going with the upper Cub combo
9050s	instead but spider comes back from
9052s	behind and is able to stab him in the
9054s	back but demo does get the solo we're
9056s	alive the hero keeps going the story
9058s	keeps going he's gonna pull out the
9060s	turret he does have buildings around him
9061s	spider tries to Duke the turge he ends
9063s	up getting blown up for his troubles Now
9064s	demo building up another turn shot you
9067s	can see the charge in the side of your
9068s	screen
9069s	building up multiple turn shots and what
9071s	that does for Ferry is it gives her this
9074s	super giant AOE that it's able to combo
9076s	off itself if he were able to land out
9078s	the shot I call it the three-piece
9080s	family meal he hit him with the
9082s	the drumstick then the chicken wing then
9084s	the thigh just Bam Bam Bam see you later
9087s	now spider not intimidated by demo on
9091s	this Fair he sees a blue armor he knows
9093s	it's a blueberry demo gets hit by
9096s	Universal Slash from the side tongue
9099s	flanking demo demo absolutely getting
9102s	blundered by GG Shaw yoinking the kill
9105s	now disappearing forcing spider into his
9108s	old now Fung also getting hit by this
9111s	Universal slash we got two Universal
9112s	slashes on the deck spider retreats to
9115s	the buildings and Shaw hits the Bell
9117s	he's hot on the heels the spider he
9119s	knows he got him really really low he
9120s	knows his alt is down this is one of the
9122s	weaknesses of being on Justina you don't
9125s	have that second life but as I say that
9128s	Caster's blasting spider runs into a
9130s	gifted purple armor against it goes back
9132s	to full health and Shaw ends up backing
9134s	off
9135s	yeah it's super unfortunate here for GG
9137s	shots wpg spider they're very rarely are
9140s	you gonna find a full health performer
9142s	just kind of laying around gifted to you
9144s	especially while you're on the chase
9146s	here uh during the nvpl here you know of
9150s	course those purple so difficult to find
9153s	when you're playing Immortal War and the
9155s	fact that one's just chilling around
9157s	here for wbg spider pays dividends for
9161s	him here as he's now able to shift to
9163s	this fight the attention away from
9164s	himself is going to come in for the
9165s	third party almost able to pick up this
9167s	elimination on to Shaw but a grapple
9170s	hook coming in from Galax Vang actually
9172s	going to pay dividends for GG Shaw going
9176s	to save him from the Menace that is wbg
9179s	spider unfortunate for Shaw he only has
9181s	one direction that he can run here
9183s	because that no old Zone uh threatening
9185s	to cancel out his Mech here wbg spider
9187s	keeping the pressure up with those
9190s	pistol shots and coming through and Shaw
9192s	just trying to continue to get these
9193s	heels off while he's looking to move
9195s	gonna find a little bit of cover here
9197s	but the ballista comes through as Fong
9199s	goes top side and starts taking shots
9202s	down onto GG Sean wbg's fighter and I
9205s	love the aggression coming out from bong
9206s	who goes into the zone to find the
9209s	ballista to keep this pressure Up On To
9212s	Gigi Shaw now we're gonna find himself
9214s	back in the safety of that no old Zone
9217s	that actually pressured him out into the
9219s	position of that ballista earlier and
9221s	he's more than happy to find a little
9223s	bit of safety for himself now given the
9225s	fact that his ult is gone he can hold on
9229s	to this zone for as long as possible
9231s	hoping that these other players are
9233s	going to turn their attention away from
9235s	him onto one another but Shaw's still
9238s	the target here this one does not want
9240s	to let it drop we're going to see the
9241s	aggression continue to come out from the
9244s	dagger demon himself looking to just
9246s	create pressure onto Gigi's shot and
9250s	pick up this elimination Fong does not
9252s	want to give up all of the space that
9254s	he's created but he sees wvg spider
9257s	doing a little bit of shopping here and
9258s	says I'm not just going to let you do
9260s	shopping for free in my face fighter
9262s	come here and it's starting to regret it
9264s	very quickly as the shots come through
9265s	and the attention turns to KLA fun this
9268s	might be exactly what GG Shaw needed to
9271s	be able to get away from this fight
9272s	Raven
9273s	oh and you hate to see like the melee
9276s	breakout you just want to go to this
9277s	shopping and just pick up some armor set
9279s	up for endgame but when you're a Justina
9281s	and you don't look like these zippings
9282s	you just are going to get targeted and
9285s	the second they see that white Miss
9288s	appear on your backside I swear to God
9290s	it's a white flag it's like you're
9291s	surrendering you're not using it
9293s	offensively you're not getting these
9294s	freezes into these combos you end up
9296s	just running away with it but since
9298s	there are so many fairies right here and
9300s	everyone's just jostling to make it to
9302s	this end game with seven players left
9304s	you see OC Chang you having another
9307s	great game and it might be that Feria is
9310s	just his
9311s	bread and butter is his comfort pick and
9313s	he's picking it on the perfect day
9315s	season's offensive days where he's able
9317s	to get these end games and play these
9319s	last little bits perfectly but what
9321s	we're also seeing is he's not just doing
9324s	uh like rat play he's playing to win
9327s	right now he gots the coveted five kills
9329s	now he's playing for that hard placement
9331s	as I say this will Mike be able to play
9333s	hard place but someone has dead arounds
9335s	and is trying to get Mike Focus you know
9337s	Mike is able to iframe some of this now
9339s	if you don't know this folks you're able
9341s	to roll or tap Dodge at this precise
9344s	timing you can hear the dead or rounds
9346s	blowing up on you and it but if you
9347s	don't you end up eating a stagger that
9350s	can lead into another true stagger with
9352s	a light attack or you can actually eat a
9354s	focus attack now what this means in end
9356s	game for these players though is even
9358s	though they're frozen on to Cena you're
9360s	still able to put essentially this stun
9363s	debuff on your opponent and Mike is able
9365s	to play it perfectly to disengage and
9368s	get away from the pack barely taking any
9370s	damage
9371s	I don't believe Mike even had F1 uh to
9374s	heal his armor he has F2 which is a gold
9377s	Focus break allowing you to break out of
9379s	any stagger now the benefits of being F1
9383s	versus F2 on Justina is F1 allows you to
9386s	play these uh nice long end games where
9388s	you actually heal yourself but
9390s	a lot of the times you can get caught on
9393s	your way out now we're seeing the replay
9395s	versus birthday boy and Chang you
9399s	birthday boy has all the luck on his
9401s	side has a long sword unfortunately
9404s	Shang Yu keeping up with this extended
9407s	pressure with the meta brutal staff
9411s	combo with the great sword that does
9412s	over a thousand damage it just
9414s	absolutely chops him in half and now
9416s	we're back to shangyou the lobby leader
9418s	right now back to back fairy is playing
9421s	this perfectly I'm surprised he's
9423s	actually running his dual blades now the
9425s	only reason you would probably run this
9426s	dual blades is you have what I expected
9428s	Cavalry blue that calorie Bloom is a
9431s	jade that allows you to use your lnb and
9434s	actually move with it so you can swerve
9436s	it around it's very very very spooky as
9439s	my friend paku likes to say ooh spooky
9442s	where you can get circles around your
9444s	opponent over and over and traditionally
9446s	in naraka there's a lot of precise
9448s	spacing that you have to kind of finagle
9450s	the system with the melee aim assist to
9452s	get this precise spacing for every
9453s	single weapon but when you got that
9455s	Calvary In Bloom you can just swerve in
9458s	and out on your opponent and it ends up
9460s	being one of the best third partying
9462s	jeans you can have in the game it pushes
9465s	people in the zone and if you hit
9467s	someone in midair it combos into itself
9469s	and it does almost a thousand damage
9471s	very easy to execute very easy space out
9474s	so in competitive just one of the goatee
9477s	Jades of Destiny as I like to call it
9479s	now Fong and this gold chest coming out
9482s	remember Chad all all the loot is in
9485s	there there's so many good Jades in
9487s	there moving in and out we're seeing
9489s	cannons go in and out and he just hard
9490s	commits to it now because Mike is on
9493s	this Justina he doesn't really want a
9495s	hard commit to it himself because he
9496s	knows that if he gets focused he only
9499s	has F2 he cannot heal himself now spider
9501s	on the other hand does not care he does
9503s	have F1 he does have a cannon he
9505s	realizes that Fong is going to be a
9506s	menace in this end game and he needs to
9508s	take down some of his competition this
9510s	is what separates the men from the boys
9512s	is that the men go for those trying to
9515s	take them down they try to Alpha the
9518s	other strong players in the lobby now
9520s	Fong
9521s	able to disengage far enough he does
9524s	swoop by the store looking
9528s	to see if you can scoop up a little bit
9530s	more look at his stats he has Max health
9533s	and Max melee resistance you hate to see
9536s	this Rune keeper this is a Juiced out
9539s	zipping like this is just zipping on
9541s	steroids if you're really fun right now
9544s	you're so happy about the bonus stats
9547s	that you have for yourself here this is
9548s	exactly where you want to be though I I
9551s	will say this
9553s	um the ranged resist might actually have
9555s	been a better choice for fall given how
9557s	many farias are left in the lobby here
9560s	at the end but that maximum health going
9563s	to pay dividends for fun when he gets
9566s	there and he tries to sort of do this
9568s	heal off in the end where he's just
9570s	trying to outlive so much damage coming
9572s	in from the fairies and that zone
9574s	collapsing long of course it was only
9576s	one elimination under his belt though
9578s	this is what uh ends up being the
9580s	problem playing a zipping into this
9581s	Lobby if you've not been able to secure
9583s	kills early to mid game you're really
9585s	just kind of coming in and you're
9587s	playing strictly for replacement points
9589s	at this point right you don't really
9591s	have a hope of winning this Lobby into
9593s	somebody like OC Zhong you who already
9596s	has five eliminations and is playing a
9599s	late game Heavy hero here as long as
9601s	Zhang Yu plays the positionals right
9603s	they're going to do very well JD shujang
9605s	absolutely getting blitzed out here
9606s	we're gonna see that uh zipping old
9609s	coming in and paying dividends those
9610s	xujang able to just barely Escape that
9613s	the question is will they be able to
9614s	live any longer than this nobody in the
9617s	lobby wasting a single moment even Jang
9619s	Yu from across the map with a pistol
9621s	trying to just snipe out to Zhang trying
9623s	to keep XU Jiang from being alive here
9626s	in these final circles for ckl zapang he
9629s	finds the opportunity this is a good
9631s	chance for them to find an extra
9632s	elimination onto another hero that is
9635s	not a Feria and this is exactly what
9637s	Fong wants he doesn't want to allow this
9640s	kill to get away from him but
9641s	unfortunately it looks like it might be
9643s	just that xujang able to find the armor
9645s	swap here and the rest of the lobby just
9647s	completely hummeling down onto jdging
9649s	it's gonna be AWS bike who slides in is
9651s	able to find that elimination and
9654s	unfortunate for Mike here he's running
9655s	that F2 feels committed to stand in the
9658s	zone there take the Zone tick while he
9660s	gets the armor back and you know you're
9662s	talking about the difference between the
9664s	F1 and the F2 here and coming into late
9667s	game it's almost better for some of
9668s	these players sort of to be on that F1
9670s	space because you don't feel hyper
9673s	committed to having to hold that space
9675s	where you might pop that F2 and the Zone
9678s	comes in and starts dealing Zone tick to
9680s	you and we know just how heavy the
9682s	damages from these zones going in from
9685s	zone five forward you take so much
9688s	damage feeling the need to commit to
9691s	gaining that Shield back from the F2 uh
9694s	one year one of these justina's and you
9696s	end up in the zone is one of the things
9698s	we've seen actually do Justina is in
9700s	time and time again in the past and
9701s	unfortunate for Mike he's not even gonna
9703s	make it to Endzone as wbg Spider comes
9705s	in with a massive Perry and is able to
9707s	clutch out the elimination on
9713s	foreign
9716s	it's just so beautiful to watch the rock
9719s	of the spider Place versus one of the
9721s	goats himself Mike he just makes him
9723s	look so readable like a like a book that
9725s	he just checked out from the library he
9727s	runs out the mic under a ton of pressure
9728s	and no cooldowns left and spider just
9731s	takes it to him immediately parries and
9733s	picks up the kill doesn't care about any
9735s	of the extrude immediately presses F1 to
9737s	get the lobby off of him and now this is
9739s	what I was worried about spider
9741s	the Justina this versus all of the
9744s	fairies and zippings they know that
9746s	Justina is the most vulnerable amongst
9748s	all of them they also know that it is
9750s	the lobby leader spider they know they
9753s	want to slow him down if I'm one of
9754s	these uh other players in the top five I
9756s	want to take down spider here now one of
9758s	the things I love about watching spider
9760s	is his ability to move my man is a mover
9763s	he has the dual blades one of the
9765s	fastest weapons to kite able to move up
9767s	and down these buttery rocks and the
9769s	trade you rarely see any movement errors
9771s	from spider now even with these dead or
9773s	rounds on spider he's able to get enough
9775s	space he has eight seconds on his F to
9777s	come up is he gonna pick it up now these
9780s	buttery rocks end up taking him down
9782s	slivering getting stuck in animations
9783s	and Fong with that Cannon you're gonna
9786s	see cannons coming out more and more in
9788s	these end games because it's just so
9789s	consistent to catch very slippery
9791s	players who like spider now Fong
9795s	in a great position we were talking
9797s	about his stats earlier he is Max health
9800s	max melee resistance and something you
9802s	pointed out root keeper range resistance
9804s	I'm gonna have to like lap that out a
9805s	little bit that's something I did in
9806s	season one back when there was like a
9808s	verse an argon running around with their
9811s	bows just hitting for a thousand damage
9813s	just randomly getting headshotted for a
9814s	billion and I was like you know what I'm
9816s	gonna wear some range resistance and
9817s	with Feria in the meadow and she's not
9819s	going anywhere even with the changes
9820s	coming up in the future Ferry is here to
9822s	stay that range resistance might come in
9825s	huge you are definitely adding to the
9827s	solo and na pointing that out to you I'm
9829s	definitely gonna laugh that out and
9831s	report back after this next weekend solo
9833s	finds and see how that works out for
9835s	versus these failures now Fong look how
9838s	tank he is this is a zipping on steroids
9841s	he is taking barely any damage this new
9846s	buff to the V1 able to pick up his
9849s	health he's getting Cannon by all the
9851s	other fairies in the lobby all of them
9852s	want him out of this Lobby they see a
9854s	gold armor sipping just chilling and one
9857s	of the cool things about these end games
9859s	if you're trying to be more successful
9861s	out of this
9862s	if you target someone else it will not
9865s	be you so as long as you have some type
9867s	of good range attack now you can use
9869s	musket you can use bow and try to
9871s	Grapple cancel range people but if you
9873s	have a cannon or you have Universal
9875s	slash if you get a chunky hit on someone
9876s	else you can potentially get this other
9878s	player Lobby now Fong is doing a great
9881s	job surviving this Lobby right now and
9882s	like I said the calvary Bloom comes out
9884s	combos him into the Zone Fong wondering
9887s	what did I do wrong here I've played
9889s	this game perfectly I have all the loot
9891s	and now all of you guys are trying to
9893s	take me out no he gets taken down that
9896s	has to be salty for fog when he had the
9900s	best loot possible in the game and it
9902s	turns out it doesn't matter when the
9904s	failures group up team up Know The Enemy
9907s	of My Enemy is my friend and they
9909s	absolutely annihilate Funk but now who's
9912s	gonna take this Lobby Shang Yu has been
9914s	having a perfect day they won the
9917s	previous day
9918s	before the previous round now he's going
9920s	for this second round Gigi Shaw
9922s	controlling the bottom holding the
9924s	center boat two or two Universal slash
9926s	is in play and paint a man being the
9928s	victim and gets shoved out into zone
9930s	taking all of his armor Health forced to
9933s	use his Mech early now he is going to be
9935s	a disadvantage versus these two other
9936s	mechs both of them are now knowing that
9938s	Panda man is out of the system
9940s	he only has a Meg for now he's going to
9944s	choose to grieve someone right now who
9946s	is going to have to be forced to use
9947s	their second event it looks like Shaw's
9948s	going to take the first hit panaman
9950s	wants a three piece not going for the
9952s	full committing the full three turn
9953s	shots comes back with a goombastom he's
9955s	gonna end up pushing both of them out
9957s	now Panama's play here he needs to wait
9960s	for this kill and pick up the Bloom as
9962s	one of these two go and die and Panda
9963s	man is able to Grapple stall for a
9965s	little bit he'll keep his health up
9966s	there's still a chance that panaman wins
9968s	it yeah the veteran like I knew at Panda
9970s	man taken to the stall hoping to get
9972s	this a little bit normally you suck on
9974s	Taco but at least he has ferio this time
9975s	he probably has a little bit of Health
9977s	he's waiting for that kill shangyou does
9979s	go down panaman picks up the kill but
9981s	he's unable to pick up the bloom and
9983s	Shang Yoo ends up winning another round
9986s	you love to see another player besides
9989s	Mike and spider showing off what nbpl is
9992s	all about
9993s	building up these new players building
9994s	up these new faces Room Keeper oh yeah
9997s	absolutely let's see Zhang you here yeah
9999s	this is a player that for me is kind of
10001s	always a dark horse in any game that
10003s	he's playing and Zhang you kind of just
10005s	has this ability to surprise he'll catch
10008s	the lobby off guard and all of a sudden
10009s	you're like wait a second Zhang Yu has
10011s	five eliminations what's going on and
10013s	then he makes it to final Circle in
10015s	something like a ferry here and he just
10016s	he knows how to Pilot the heroes he
10019s	knows the position he needs to be in
10021s	when he's playing the different Heroes
10023s	and he has the skill level he just has
10026s	to make it there to make it happen and
10029s	Jang Yu showing exactly that that he's
10031s	able to do it again Panda man though
10033s	like you said playing really risky here
10035s	Ops to go for the mech first goes in and
10038s	then opts to play for the stall and it
10040s	actually plays out pretty well into
10042s	Panda man's favor here given that
10044s	there's only two kills available left
10046s	for him in the lobby
10047s	even though he mix up first which a lot
10050s	of people may consider a mistake he
10052s	actually is able to not only get the
10054s	reset not only Force the mechs out of
10056s	the other players but he picks up
10058s	another elimination and goes out in
10061s	second place which is a very very good
10064s	situation for pandaman to be finding
10067s	himself in given the situation of this
10070s	particular final Circle but I think you
10072s	know we have to talk about Kelly is fun
10074s	like you said really kind of set himself
10077s	up perfect for the final Circle but
10079s	unfortunately because he is playing
10081s	Feria we know he's we're not very uh
10083s	playing zipping the only zeping versus a
10085s	Lobby full of areas that he's really
10087s	going to be targeted out here and
10090s	there's not a whole lot that he can do
10091s	about it and the space created by those
10094s	dual blades the weapon selection no real
10097s	surprise coming out from these players
10098s	given that they had Universe slash they
10101s	had Calvary Bloom and as soon as Fong
10103s	finally makes a mistake he walks in to
10106s	that Universe slash she's bounced back
10108s	immediately into the calvary Bloom and
10110s	shoved into the Zone there's just not
10112s	enough healing in the world there for
10114s	the zipping to stay alive while you're
10116s	being focused out by all three of these
10118s	players and you know we talk about
10120s	Target acquisition this is very smart
10123s	Target acquisition coming out from the
10124s	various Shades in this Lobby because
10126s	they know they don't want to go to a
10128s	heel off with this zipping yes they have
10131s	the advantage with the Mech here but
10134s	they know that if she's just able to
10136s	kind of create that slippery situation
10138s	where she can do exactly what we see
10140s	panaman do and go Airborne with the
10143s	grapples she's just gonna be able to
10144s	heal out and take that first place
10146s	finish away from whoever is looking to
10149s	get those maximum amount of multipliers
10151s	the lobby having absolutely none of it
10153s	Fang goes down to no surprise in that
10156s	fourth place position and we see the
10159s	Face-Off between our three various
10160s	Shades and Panda man plays it very
10162s	interestingly but plays it very well I
10164s	don't think he could have asked for a
10166s	better situation the fact that he's able
10168s	to pick up the extra elimination he's
10170s	able to bait out uh sort of those olds
10173s	where he can go aerial and get away
10175s	Force the two mechs to go at each other
10177s	letting him buy the space to pick up the
10179s	elimination and it takes second place in
10182s	terms of placement meaning he gets the
10183s	most multiplier he could really hope for
10186s	uh off of the fuel elimination so that
10189s	he does pick up hand man it's gonna be
10190s	pretty happy about how that final Circle
10192s	plays out but of course OC Zhang Yu even
10194s	happier given that uh he played a very
10197s	dominating game and comes into that
10198s	final circle with five eliminations
10200s	under his belt and with that third up
10202s	plays finish he's gonna be able to walk
10203s	away with a second MVP the back to back
10207s	a 9.4 game score panaman with that third
10210s	kill picked up there gonna be walking
10212s	away with a 7.8 and GG Shaw who finishes
10215s	out first place doesn't have enough
10217s	eliminations to clutch it out will be
10219s	going out in third place overall with a
10221s	7.2 game score
10224s	and you're seeing it at Fourth Place
10226s	went from spider with four kills
10228s	absolutely dominating the lobby with his
10230s	casino and F1 and fong in the fifth
10234s	place now something that you talked
10236s	about before is like
10238s	players going out on their Shield
10239s	fighting back that's the only way you're
10241s	going to get enough space to get heals
10243s	and I feel like fog made a little bit of
10245s	a rookie mistake rare from our man on
10248s	top of the mountain that he has Max
10250s	Health he has Max melee versus he even
10252s	has a little bit of range resistance and
10254s	he just believes like and I got this in
10256s	the bag we're just gonna Coast to this
10257s	win and because of all of the Jets it
10262s	gave him his false sense of security
10263s	that he didn't fight back normally you
10265s	see a lot of the veteran players like
10266s	all right you're gonna Lobby me you're
10268s	gonna Lobby me all right you're going to
10270s	get focused by me now if I'm gonna go
10272s	about you're going down with me we're
10273s	gonna drown you with me and he would
10276s	just start going at that other player
10277s	especially because remember
10279s	you don't know this chat light attacks
10281s	actually block range attacks so it's
10283s	actually really really good if you're
10284s	getting range to death to to go on and
10286s	start hitting someone else so at least
10288s	both of you are getting hit as long as
10289s	you win that stagger you're also cutting
10291s	it so that you're not getting a kid and
10293s	the other players getting hit it's a
10294s	little bit of a finesse that you can do
10296s	in these end games and I I hate to see
10299s	Fong uh fall short of this but I
10301s	understand it at the same time that when
10303s	you have all these days you just like
10305s	you're such in a comfortable position
10306s	you've been here a million times and
10309s	unfortunately for him in the nbpo we got
10312s	some good Target selection the fairies
10313s	are like wait a second that man right
10315s	there he can beat us look at look at
10317s	that gold armor and we know that's fog
10319s	it's not Wang Lang and these Wang Lang
10321s	and Phong are the two players who like
10323s	to play these heel off games and like to
10324s	join games from everyone else and this
10327s	time the newer player Chiang Yu
10328s	everyone's done their homework everyone
10330s	knows this man a lot better
10332s	and they end up taking them out and
10334s	something that I I wanted to really see
10336s	of whether or not to be very successful
10338s	is this just seen us from Mike and
10340s	spider now the variation as Mike didn't
10343s	run uh F1 he ran F2 but spider ran F1 so
10347s	we see that this defensive Justina pick
10350s	ends up doing okay-ish going to these
10354s	end games although it still makes me
10356s	feel a little bit uncomfortable root
10358s	keeper that once you play Justina it's
10360s	like all that I just never seen them
10362s	live
10363s	I never see a vault or Justina get to
10366s	that end game and they and they always
10367s	get fifth place fourth place they like
10369s	they dominate Yang early in mid but then
10371s	they just get absolutely Focus fired in
10373s	that end game here here's the big thing
10375s	though with the spiders pick on to
10376s	Justina right spider does exactly what
10379s	you need to do with this sub optimal I
10382s	don't want to call it a sub-optimal pick
10383s	because Justina has definitely found her
10385s	way back into this sort of meta but you
10389s	need to be playing her early to mid game
10391s	and pick up your eliminations then
10392s	picking up four eliminations and heading
10394s	towards late game with four eliminations
10396s	is adjusting it is exactly where you
10398s	want to be we talked about with how sort
10402s	of five kills is that sort of Maximum
10405s	space where we see top kills for these
10407s	solo games we don't typically see games
10409s	go much higher than that except on rare
10411s	occasion that having those four
10413s	eliminations I mean realistically he's
10416s	two points behind the first place person
10418s	in this Lobby which is not a bad place
10420s	to be when you're not playing a late
10423s	game hero
10424s	um I want to touch on something that you
10426s	talked about though with Kaylee's Fong
10427s	uh going into this this is something I
10430s	talk about all the time with the ability
10432s	to change Target Focus I think you were
10434s	right if he was just able to start
10436s	fighting back he could have made
10438s	something happen but we'll touch on that
10439s	point again in just a couple seconds
10441s	we're gonna throw things over to Leah
10442s	for an interview before we come back and
10444s	lock in for game number four
10446s	foreign
10448s	welcome to the post game interview I'm
10451s	Leah so this time we have demo from the
10453s	team Casey to our interview so of course
10455s	please say hello hello everyone okay
10458s	welcome welcome
10459s	and after like three games how do you
10462s	think today's matchup so far uh it's not
10465s	as bad as history uh like the last two
10467s	days ago so I think I'm okay right now
10470s	but I need to do better okay so the
10473s	first game we see a lot of Justina and
10478s	do good at just enough
10480s	uh
10481s	uh I think I'm okay with Justina
10484s	but I prefer to use Vala for the first
10487s	match because I expected them to use
10489s	Justine actually so I was trying to go
10491s	for a counter pick it almost worked out
10493s	for me at the end but I kind of
10494s	misplayed my end game so okay so we
10497s	honor like in this patch Justina has
10499s	popped so do you think it's a good thing
10501s	for you or not uh
10504s	uh it's it's pretty much neutral it
10505s	doesn't really matter to me as much
10507s	so like which hero is you think you can
10511s	play the best uh which year I can play
10513s	the best I would say probably Tarka
10516s	because I play him the most
10517s	yeah so how do you think Tarka in this
10520s	patch uh he's okay but for tournament
10524s	um reset characters or other characters
10526s	are more used than them because of how
10528s	people survive so long in the end game
10530s	yes I see uh okay so let's move on to
10533s	our new part answer for Twitter and this
10536s	time our question is like which hero did
10539s	wbd spider pick in game three so I also
10543s	want to ask you like
10546s	um
10547s	because last interview you said you are
10549s	like still trying to guess which hero
10552s	they will use in each game so how do you
10555s	think like uh after we come in this week
10559s	like how do you think you're doing
10560s	better in this part you think uh yeah
10563s	I'm doing way better uh I'm more
10566s	confident I'm going for fights more I'm
10568s	trying to go for Yanks more to get a
10570s	feel of the players and how they play
10572s	okay so which hero you think like they
10574s	would choose most in game four
10578s	in game four
10580s	um
10581s	I'm not sure but depending on the map if
10583s	it's Firefly map it might be karka or
10586s	another Feria match but
10589s	um yeah what about what about game five
10593s	uh I'm not sure actually if it's a
10596s	firefly map it's possible that it might
10598s	be two fighting cars like Tarka or maybe
10602s	I don't know Yodo had the last few end
10605s	games I'm not sure uh so is like Justina
10608s	is appear a lot in the training game
10611s	uh
10614s	uh not that much actually it's pretty
10617s	different in the training and it's also
10619s	pretty different here tournament so it
10622s	gets me off regard a bit but I'm
10624s	starting to uh understand why they
10627s	choose these characters and why they
10629s	choose the characters in the training
10630s	okay I see so please democrine on the
10633s	time three two one screenshot okay and
10637s	do not to forget to check your mailbox
10639s	and do not miss the price well we still
10642s	have pregame following so like cannot
10646s	ask you like which hero you want to
10648s	choose in the game four to face like so
10652s	many targets uh game four I'm probably
10654s	if it's Firefly map I'll probably go for
10657s	Target if not Tarka I either go zip
10660s	engine or variation
10663s	okay so like uh because also I guess too
10668s	maybe there will be a lot of Tarka but
10671s	do you think maybe you can choose like
10672s	some uh hero opposite to face Tarka uh
10677s	uh I think you can like you might see
10680s	some valdas if you've played really well
10682s	on your 1v1 you just win neutral you can
10685s	counter Tarka and like characters like
10688s	Kyoto can fight Tarka in 1v1 in the Yang
10691s	so yeah but you do is like it nobody
10694s	issues now
10695s	because just now and you
10698s	know that's true out of the game that's
10700s	true but I know you like Europe a lot
10703s	yeah I still like Euro I I think she
10705s	still has her uses maybe not like a lot
10708s	of the time but maybe you can still pick
10709s	her at least once in six games okay so
10712s	do you like want Judo to get buffed in
10716s	the next patch
10717s	uh uh actually or like which SKU you
10721s	really want like you those to get back
10724s	I would like her old to get buffed
10726s	because I think her I mean her oath is
10729s	okay for end game for tournaments but uh
10732s	and yang but in 1v1 it is more risk than
10736s	reward because people can just easily
10738s	Dodge away from it okay that is a kind
10742s	of good advice from demo and okay and
10746s	thank Timo for doing this interview and
10748s	our interview is and M we still have
10751s	three game falling so good luck to you
10753s	thank you Lee okay bye everyone
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10798s	that from the easy cup
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11035s	blade Point pro league as we take a look
11037s	here at the halfway point at the overall
11040s	scores for our players today
11043s	unfortunately won with a whopping zero
11047s	points on the board thus far today
11049s	Jail's ego three games deep with two
11051s	points girana with a 3.6 aow's mic with
11055s	only 12.4 uh in his first to three games
11059s	today this is a position we don't
11060s	typically see uh Mike in towards the
11063s	bottom of the leaderboard here but he
11065s	still has three games left to play today
11067s	so it's gonna be interesting to see if
11069s	he can bring it back jdg's Chu Jiang the
11071s	16.1 klas a Fong with a 19.7
11076s	unfortunately uh for Tes railgun you
11079s	know this is somebody uh that a lot of
11081s	people have kind of had their eyes on
11083s	and having a poor performance today with
11085s	a 1.6 Casey's edemo though coming in
11088s	with a 9.1 the thus far looking to try
11093s	to find some sort of space for themself
11096s	hopefully his next three games will be
11099s	even more explosive as we continue to go
11102s	deeper into the day but we're going to
11104s	take a look at the top of the
11105s	leaderboard here very soon of course all
11107s	eyes going to be on OC uh you know
11111s	zhangyu really coming in today and
11113s	impressive with the back-to-back Victory
11115s	and seems to have been able to carry
11118s	that momentum from game two in to game
11120s	three and because of that they've had a
11123s	22.6 point day wbg spider rounding out
11127s	second place overall for the day with a
11129s	21.9 wolves Kai Bao having a much worse
11133s	day too than they had in their day one
11135s	and you know day one a 40.7 uh Point day
11138s	for them unfortunately thus far only
11139s	able to put up 3.4 points on the board
11141s	game two and three they were eliminated
11144s	quite early and it's been a difficult
11146s	day for them going forward but three
11149s	games left to play time will tell if
11151s	wolves Kai Bao will be able to bounce
11154s	back and find that sort of spacing you
11157s	know this is something we talked about
11158s	with wbg spider uh time and time again
11161s	that mental space being a difficulty for
11164s	spider is something he's been working on
11167s	pretty drastically this season you know
11169s	I go back to the second to bi-weekly of
11172s	the season the finals for that bi-weekly
11175s	I feel like wbg's fighter really learned
11178s	a lot you know he's always been feast or
11181s	famine when he has a bad game he lets it
11183s	affect his mental and he doesn't want to
11186s	uh find these sort of spaces where he's
11189s	done okay and then kind of ride that to
11192s	the late game whereas after that sort of
11195s	final uh spacing he's been able to find
11199s	those more appropriate mid-level games
11201s	but we have a quick question about wbg
11203s	spider for you and which hero did he
11206s	pick in game three was it a Justina B
11208s	various C Matari or D Turkish sure you
11211s	lock your answers in and keep yourself
11213s	looking at your inbox here on Twitch for
11216s	a chance to walk away with one of these
11217s	limited great Treasures but back to
11220s	talking about that sort of mental space
11221s	spider learning a lot during that
11223s	bi-weekly has been able to address that
11226s	sort of feast or famine play style
11228s	whereas Lil's kaibao continues to
11230s	struggle with exactly that he is either
11233s	absolutely feasting on the lobby or he
11235s	is completely famine and that's what
11237s	we're seeing come out of him today as he
11240s	struggled to find his footing you know
11241s	in these sort of uh games where he gets
11244s	killed off the rip and he's just not
11246s	able to overcome that sort of mental
11247s	block Raven
11249s	at true now for that question me and you
11252s	were talking about uh spider's pick for
11255s	a long time and before we went on break
11256s	you wanted to elaborate on that Justina
11258s	pick I remember you were telling me that
11260s	there was really really good point that
11261s	you were going to share with me oh yeah
11263s	absolutely you know so the big thing is
11265s	that spider piloted it very well this is
11268s	this thing I've really been talking
11269s	about and noticing a lot in the mbpl is
11273s	understanding the position you need to
11276s	Pilot these heroes in not just that it's
11278s	a good pick but understanding why it's a
11281s	good pick and where that pick excels
11283s	spider understands that Justina is an
11286s	early to mid game pick given the current
11288s	meta Justina needs to find those kills
11291s	in that early and mid game because
11293s	they're not going to pop off in that
11295s	final Circle they are going to be
11297s	targeted out and they are going to be
11299s	eliminated and just like we talked about
11301s	earlier with OC zhangyu in game two
11303s	where Zhang Yu was just able to put
11305s	together enough kills it didn't matter
11307s	that he went out early in the final
11309s	Circle he was still able to take the MVP
11311s	that's the same sort of space you want
11313s	to be in if you're playing an early to
11316s	late game hero like Justina and that's
11318s	what we see wbg spider do in that last
11321s	game he's able to put together four
11323s	eliminations and yes he kind of goes out
11325s	in the middle of the pack but it doesn't
11327s	matter so much because you put those
11330s	four eliminations and the board still
11331s	walks away with a 7.1 game score for
11334s	that third game only two points behind
11336s	the nine point game score that was put
11338s	together by OC Zhang Yu and that's a
11341s	pretty good place to be in given that
11343s	you're a hero that can't make it to late
11345s	game and this is something that I think
11347s	a lot of the league has struggled with
11349s	coming into this season is really
11352s	starting to understand
11353s	when and where you need to Pilot
11356s	specific Heroes given the lobby makeup
11359s	right understanding that okay hey I'm
11362s	gonna be running this early to mid game
11364s	hero where can I go find those
11366s	eliminations that I need because once I
11369s	get to late game I'm just playing for
11371s	Pure survivability I'm not going to be
11373s	able to find any more eliminations that
11376s	I need and I can't really risk going for
11379s	those eliminations so it's nice to see
11381s	wbg spider sort of uh spearheading that
11385s	adjustment into that understanding of
11388s	when and where you need to Pilot those
11390s	Heroes Raven yeah and that's what I was
11393s	saying I was excited to see this meta
11397s	kind of evolve and now they haven't
11399s	updated and they're squeezing every
11401s	ounce of Ingenuity and Innovation out of
11403s	this meta right now and when I saw Mike
11405s	and spider go Justina I was like wait a
11407s	second wait a second is there something
11409s	here are they gonna be able to Pilot
11411s	their way through these Mech Warriors
11413s	and as we're going into this Morris dusk
11416s	uh we're gonna get all the targets
11419s	coming out the fire dogs and with the
11422s	counter of Matari I people always say
11425s	like valda was a
11427s	tarkas
11429s	rival but actually it's always been
11431s	Matari I played Tarka back in the day
11433s	the OG tarkas and even with a very Nerf
11436s	Matari compared to this demon we have
11438s	now the Matari the modern day Matari is
11441s	for sure one of tarka's counters and
11444s	with that you can't really rule out all
11447s	the Squirtle Squad these Valdez they
11450s	will absolutely decimate atarka if the
11453s	Tarka isn't very experienced now we do
11456s	have Panda man the OG I know for sure
11458s	that Panda man's gonna win his matchup
11460s	versus these wall does because he's just
11462s	been in the pocket so much he's gonna be
11464s	able to dodge these waves
11466s	um it's actually not very easy for these
11469s	volvas to land these waves and if you
11471s	didn't know this chat as a beginner one
11473s	of the counters to Tark us all as he's
11475s	going to try to infinite as he's running
11477s	up to you you can save your alts when he
11479s	gets committed and gets right point
11480s	blanketing and you can actually wave him
11482s	and it takes him out of all bring him
11484s	back to neutral where you do have the
11485s	advantage because you have a gold F or
11487s	you have your F1
11489s	that gives you that bubble bath 100-0
11491s	combo with the weapon swap it doesn't
11493s	take much to learn it you can just get a
11495s	staff get a grades for it weapon swap
11497s	using scroll wheel and use that ball to
11499s	bubble bath to take down these targets
11501s	now the reason why players play these
11503s	tarkas on this Morris map is that it is
11506s	a firefly map and there are certain
11508s	spots on the map where you do get
11510s	fireflies and what fireflies give you is
11512s	all charge and so you're able to go from
11515s	left to right up and down the map able
11518s	to pick up a kill pick up the soul blue
11519s	get a little bit of heal get a little
11520s	bit of all charge and make your way back
11522s	to a firefly so essentially you always
11524s	have your alt on Deck now looking at
11527s	this we have Shah on Matari versus Shang
11530s	Yu in Temple now this is going to be one
11533s	of matari's gray Landing spots a lot of
11535s	the best mataris in North America do
11537s	land here because it is impossible to
11539s	kill them once you get them low they're
11541s	always able to break contact use all
11542s	these ceilings use all these rooftops to
11544s	get away now we have spider in a high
11546s	yield spiral
11548s	against railgun and railgun halves the
11550s	goat against the wall but spiders using
11552s	these bubbles perfectly ends up getting
11554s	taken down by the dagger though dagger
11556s	just that lunging Army just reaches so
11558s	far now we have Shang Yu the previous
11560s	Lobby winner can he do a three-piece I
11562s	haven't seen a three piece in a while in
11565s	any of these nbpl lobbies he has shot
11567s	against a rope now if you didn't know
11569s	this also in a murder War getting kills
11571s	gives you a ton of money getting the
11572s	first skill gives you a lot of money and
11575s	demo ends up taking extra on out
11578s	probably getting that huge money bonus
11580s	so we're gonna be seeing that demo into
11581s	that late game now we're taken off to
11584s	the edge of Zone Mike does have purple
11586s	armor off spawn this is really really
11588s	bad for the lobby once Mike gets
11590s	snowballing he has purple armor he has
11592s	purple dagger now Mike this is Mike's
11594s	game to lose if he over commits here and
11596s	ends up getting picked off this will
11597s	slow us down slow this game down
11600s	big time but if he plays this really
11602s	really well if he waits for this last
11604s	hit opportunity he is going to be able
11607s	to snowball this Lobby to jump back up
11609s	it was really weird seeing AOW Mike back
11612s	in like 16th Place 17th place we're only
11614s	halfway through this day though and he
11616s	has potentially three kills in front of
11618s	him and if anyone is known for taking
11620s	down every single kill in the lobby it
11623s	is my ego with the velocity punching
11625s	Mike sending him back and Shen yuwon
11628s	getting on the board finally getting a
11629s	kill for the day killing ego and kaibao
11632s	jumping in a previous Lobby leader
11635s	before spider was able to take it out he
11637s	ends up aggressively popping his old
11639s	absolutely decimating Shen yuan's hit
11642s	points for and Mike sitting on the
11643s	outside still playing this cool waiting
11645s	for his opportunity he missed the first
11647s	opportunity to get a kill but Mike a
11649s	veteran of the game looking for the
11651s	follow-up kill with genuine jumping up
11653s	and down in his Mech he doesn't know who
11656s	to focus on Mike lurking he's a Tarka he
11659s	still has all he does have purple armor
11661s	he has a dagger this is definitely the
11663s	threat you don't want to be there is a
11665s	tower nearby and genuine is not going to
11667s	make a run for it he's going to hold his
11668s	ground he's gonna die on his shield I
11670s	respect this but Mike with the dagger
11672s	versus long sword a really bad matchup
11674s	yes she only won just gets taken down
11676s	with the easy one two
11678s	yeah this is a huge mistake coming out
11681s	from about auction you want the target
11683s	acquisition here was really poor tried
11685s	to continue to give the chase to kaibao
11687s	even though aow's Mike's just sort of
11689s	standing out in the open it never takes
11691s	the opportunity to go for a reset
11693s	because it wants to keep the pressure on
11696s	to kaibao but when you're ulting from
11699s	behind like that you can't try to
11701s	utilize your old to get the maximum
11703s	amount of damage out you really are just
11706s	using that alt to buy yourself the space
11708s	to take a reset Shen you on not only
11710s	never takes the reset but continues to
11713s	position themselves where they're
11715s	between two potential threats so they
11717s	just never get to find any sort of uh
11720s	respite to go in and get themselves out
11723s	of a bad situation turning now to
11725s	Kelly's Fong and Casey's demo going
11727s	head-to-head here demo trying to give
11729s	Jay schwang able to use those grapples
11732s	and that teleport to create enough
11733s	distance to at least get one pot off and
11736s	turn around with the dagger on to demo
11738s	finds a lot of space but we're going to
11739s	see demo make the very quick selection
11741s	into the nunchucks here and this is an
11743s	adjustment we saw a lot of players like
11745s	Wang Liang start doing earlier this
11747s	season where they keep those nunchucks
11748s	in the back pocket for the potential of
11751s	running into the dagger they go for the
11753s	backstab here but Dima with the elbow
11755s	was able to get the fire tick off and
11757s	that fire tick actually gonna clutch the
11759s	kill out onto Kayla's Fong and Fong he
11762s	knows they are so mad about that that
11765s	fire tick killing them even wow they
11768s	were into that back step we're gonna
11769s	take a look back on the replay here at
11771s	xujang versus ewg XU Ron juron going in
11775s	to the bubble for bubble here but Zhu
11777s	Zhang just able to really control the
11779s	space and the neutral here into this
11781s	staff and we're gonna see the armor Swap
11783s	come through and to a massive pairing
11785s	from Chu Zhang and with that purple
11786s	dagger that repost comes through and
11788s	just does a ton of damage followed by a
11791s	simple tap Dodge into the follow-up left
11793s	click there is going to be more than
11794s	enough to clutch the kill out we turn
11796s	back now to wolves going head-to-head
11798s	with Casey he's a demo kaibao into the
11800s	nunchucks we're gonna see demo make the
11802s	adjustment back onto the dagger though
11804s	tries to find a little bit of space here
11806s	we're going to see the old come through
11808s	looking to find those backstabs in
11811s	kaibal not quite there yet does have the
11813s	full meter available on the nunchucks
11815s	though sudimo needs to play this very
11816s	careful but kaibao needs to try to wait
11819s	out this charcoal ultimate so they don't
11821s	end up walking into the infinite you can
11823s	see demo not only with the nunchucks in
11825s	the back pocket but with a white Katana
11827s	for the potential Katana infinite and
11830s	they might be able to find while they're
11831s	playing Target now over to aow's Mike on
11833s	to the long sword ego here able to use
11836s	that ship to actually take control of
11838s	the neutral and start returning the
11840s	favor there with the long sword Mike
11841s	finds himself on a bit of a back foot
11844s	here as the egos using those leaps to
11846s	create the extra space to get that speed
11848s	up but it's Wolves Kai Bao who's able to
11850s	slide in pick up the elimination and is
11853s	able to take the soul Bloom able to deny
11855s	ego the opportunity to reset here the
11857s	ultimate's gonna go away as well kaibao
11860s	really in a strong position to take yet
11862s	another elimination here and that's
11864s	exactly what they're gonna do as they
11865s	pick up the elimination onto jl's ego
11868s	great Kill from coming from kaibao I
11871s	didn't even realize Echoes was here in
11873s	the lobby it looks like CN is not
11876s	willing to get risky only ego brave
11879s	enough to open up with an Echoes is the
11881s	water warm now Echoes on the Firefly day
11884s	versus tarko the matchup definitely goes
11887s	within akkos's favor but the third party
11890s	potential is a little bit brutal
11895s	one of the big deals with ocos right now
11898s	and why we're not seeing him uh played
11900s	so much is this is really sakos right
11903s	it's not that post patch where although
11905s	those adjustments were made to his
11907s	ultimate and those quality of life
11909s	adjustments might not seem like major
11911s	adjustments to the Casual player but for
11913s	us here in the nbpl all of those
11915s	adjustments are pretty drastic uh for
11919s	akkos and I feel like a lot of players
11921s	here in the nbpl opting to not want to
11923s	play ocos because this pre-updated ocos
11928s	plays drastically different uh from the
11931s	updated akkos and you're gonna actually
11933s	pick up bad habits if you're trying to
11936s	play this pre-updated ocos versus
11938s	learning how to play actual akkos
11941s	that's an excellent point RunKeeper I
11944s	completely forgot that pre-accos release
11946s	didn't have the double jump shenanigan
11948s	it actually was a huge quality of life
11951s	increase that you're able to use those
11953s	little kitty cat prances over and over
11955s	and not have to worry about accidentally
11957s	double jumping that is a huge difference
11960s	so it makes sense a lot more after you
11962s	brought up that point why players are
11963s	not going to use this because it's
11965s	basically a nerfed Echoes if it comes to
11967s	it like the The
11968s	Echoes that exists right now is just
11971s	super super strong right now and it is
11974s	slightly better than the tarker that
11976s	most players feel right now now we have
11978s	Shen Yuan versus spider
11980s	genuine finally he's on the board and is
11982s	forced into his Mech because spider ends
11985s	up getting that one charge pairing now
11986s	rarely do you normally see Mike coming
11988s	out with the one charge Perry gambits
11990s	now spider taking a line from Mike and
11992s	just instantly on first light always
11995s	going for this one transparent
11996s	conditioning his opponents that you're
11998s	not gonna be throwing this one shot blue
11999s	unless you're not getting away with
12000s	murder I am going to let you know that
12002s	we're going red we're betting it all on
12004s	red repeatedly unless you stop throwing
12006s	Blues on me he's good sir I want the
12008s	pressure and I want you against the wall
12010s	and now Shen you went feeling that
12012s	pressure is gonna get grapple kick tries
12014s	to get away but spider not letting him
12016s	go anywhere a little bit of a schmoo
12018s	right there spiders grapple going on
12021s	vacation but he ends up picking up the
12023s	kill on shenu one should anyone know
12025s	where to go just buttery rocks left
12027s	right nothing but now we got Fong and
12030s	choosing in celestra
12032s	now Fong is on that Matari and we have
12035s	Kai Bell located lurking on the outside
12037s	and I'm most likely not going to hard
12039s	commit into this fight it's very hard to
12041s	get something going here even though we
12042s	got valda here it's just with this
12045s	Temple right here there is just so many
12047s	different layers and if you're a newer
12049s	player
12050s	and you're looking to survive this is
12052s	one of the Havens inside Celestia we
12054s	call it the temple spot you go up and
12055s	down the roofs there are holes in the
12057s	ceilings that you can go up and down it
12059s	is very easy to scale rush and
12062s	really break contact from your opponents
12064s	just because something in all video
12066s	games uh there isn't really true 3D
12069s	sound you can't tell where someone is as
12071s	far as above you below you left or right
12074s	you mainly know know by different
12076s	triggers like a rooftop sound a ground
12078s	sound a sound sound and that's how your
12081s	brain mentally puts everything together
12082s	it's one of the tricks of the trade that
12084s	you can take to any other game but is
12086s	another trick that these Pro players in
12087s	naraka are using right now now
12091s	the reason why these lull moments happen
12094s	in the game is because the Yang just
12096s	happened and you're seeing
12098s	outh and te both having it for Millions
12101s	buff that gives them a second life and
12102s	there are two players who have Yang
12104s	signus they're going out there they're
12105s	trying to get a kill real railgun is
12109s	going against Shaw Shaw might have lost
12110s	it has Yang season itself but railguns
12112s	against the ropes looking for that punch
12114s	it's significantly nerfed in this patch
12116s	said when tarker actually punches it
12118s	uses so much more stamina
12120s	and because of that he's not able to
12122s	sustain the pressure and with this shot
12124s	pops her backstab and this is one of the
12126s	weaknesses of matari's backstop is
12128s	you're able to tap down diaphragm and
12129s	even with the trash iframe that Tarka
12132s	old gives you rare gun is still able to
12135s	iframe those backsides and giving him
12136s	enough room to pop off these shields now
12138s	Shaw wants to take it to him knowing
12140s	that the his ultimates coming out
12142s	railgun with the rare one two three able
12145s	to hold Dodge and catch shot slipping
12147s	with the uppercut put him against the
12149s	wall buddy this Matari Atari is able to
12151s	Blink away possibly pop off this yoke
12153s	maybe he has the F3 reset
12155s	railgun struggling to complete this kill
12158s	this is one of the brutal things of
12160s	fighting such a defensive character like
12162s	Matari zipping
12164s	Justina F1 versus tiger once that alt
12167s	comes out you become a mere mortal now
12170s	Kai Bao in the bush area with the herd
12174s	versus choosing these two were posturing
12176s	earlier with the hurt four players going
12179s	at it we got all the Heavy Hitters over
12181s	here we got spider we got true zinc we
12183s	got Kai Bao but it's the blue chair we
12185s	got Divo demo I if you look at the
12188s	leaderboard earlier are boys doing well
12190s	Rune keeper he's fragging out
12192s	what do you think has changed for Nemo
12194s	on this map uh demon coming in here a a
12197s	little bit more confidence and B he's
12199s	playing a hero he knows he needs to be
12201s	aggressive on he knows he's not going to
12204s	take Tarka into late game in this
12207s	particular Lobby and really try to make
12209s	a big pop off happen so he's made that
12212s	adjustment he knows mid game is really
12214s	where he's going to find the most
12216s	success and it also for demo this is a
12219s	comfort pick he knows how to play Tarka
12221s	he knows how to Pilot this hero even
12223s	when you know demo is looking to have a
12226s	casual game and just have some fun it is
12229s	on that Target pick that Teemo is going
12231s	to have that fun and enjoy himself and
12234s	you know we were just talking during the
12236s	break how stressed demo looks coming in
12240s	here and you know he's in a stressful
12241s	situation he's in a new country he's
12244s	playing against some of the top players
12245s	in the league playing on the stage is
12248s	drastically different than playing from
12250s	the comfort of your home you know
12251s	there's a lot of things that can lead to
12253s	that level of stress so for demo coming
12255s	in here and finding viability onto his
12258s	comfort pick it's going to make it
12260s	easier for him to find a little bit of
12261s	momentum this game and it's a great
12263s	decision on his part to come in play
12265s	Target in this game find that momentum
12268s	and if you can carry that momentum over
12270s	into the next couple of games even
12272s	though he's not going to be able to lock
12274s	in his comfort pick except one more time
12277s	that it's a great place for him to be
12280s	mentally and mental is a huge part of
12283s	the game for these players especially
12285s	when you're the noob kid on the Block
12286s	having that mental advantage means more
12289s	than sometimes just the decision-making
12292s	or the skill level speaking of which
12294s	we're going to see wbg spider here going
12296s	head to head here with aow's Mike this
12298s	is a matchup everybody loves to see
12300s	especially in this realm of Yang these
12302s	1v1 situations spider trying to put in
12304s	work with that poster trying to use that
12306s	blistering Edge Mike it goes for the
12307s	Perry there not quite able to find it
12309s	off of the blistering Edge at that
12311s	maximum range we'll however find the
12313s	uppercut coming in off of the dagger
12315s	trying to use his dagger dashes to
12316s	create the Space Fighter on the much
12318s	slower weapon here really trying to find
12320s	the advantage by threatening the space
12322s	using the pistol to find a little bit of
12324s	damage but just isn't really able to
12325s	find it on to Mike and is playing
12327s	extremely defensively because they know
12329s	they need to wave out the old but just
12332s	enough damage coming through from the
12334s	fire tick and the shove back from the
12336s	old Mike will find success in our second
12339s	set of Realms of Yang against wbg spider
12342s	man it is rare to see Mike going into
12345s	the second rounds of Yang because my
12347s	man's on his back foot and we finally
12349s	get to see my favorite matchups of the
12350s	game Mike versus spider the two
12353s	heavyweights the two goated players both
12356s	winners
12357s	of the weeklies but spider taking the
12359s	lead with two wins now I was hoping that
12361s	Mike was gonna even it out able to take
12363s	another one here forcing spider to
12365s	reconsider if he's the actual goat of
12368s	nbpo but spider still firing on all
12371s	cylinders absolutely dominating this
12373s	weekly he's going to be able to go into
12375s	this weekly finals with the lead as I
12378s	say that the railgun just like last time
12380s	his Cinderella story he just pops off on
12383s	the second half of the lobby but
12385s	unfortunately for him Shang Yoo coming
12387s	in with the kill steel up to three kills
12390s	on this volt the counter to Target he
12392s	still has alt up and railgun's gonna
12395s	have to back off knowing that shangyu
12397s	does have to buff that gives him a 20
12399s	reduction in damage and he's able to see
12402s	through walls with this buff every
12405s	couple of seconds railguns against the
12407s	wall right now his backs against the
12409s	wall he needs to fight back though with
12411s	these gold nun he's gonna have a good
12413s	chance now unfortunately
12415s	baits out his own and immediately waves
12418s	him taking him down making it look easy
12421s	Shaggy was ready to stay at the top he
12423s	is top of the mountain right now
12425s	speaking of which so the OG tarkas
12429s	though top of the Tarka game Mike and
12431s	Panda man the goats to do it always
12433s	representing the target Clan even when
12435s	they weren't meta before everyone was
12437s	jumping on the Tarka bandwagon these two
12439s	were absolutely dominating with Tarka
12442s	now Mike with these gold nunchucks
12444s	versus choosing against the ropes
12446s	doesn't have much room but he's able to
12449s	get this white heal up now he's able to
12451s	survive one full Focus attack Mike has
12453s	be a little bit more careful because if
12455s	he over commits and gets parody he can
12457s	still potentially Die Mike realizes it
12461s	playing it a little bit slow a little
12463s	bit easier he does have to buff so
12464s	there's no way choosing is going to get
12466s	away here as you see right there every
12468s	couple of seconds you're gonna see the
12470s	buff tick and choosing a little bit of
12472s	red outline go off so that Mike can
12474s	completely see where he's going now
12476s	choosing tries to use a little bit of a
12478s	Zone trick to break contact but Mike a
12480s	veteran of the game wisely sees shoes
12482s	that go left and right and now Tuesday
12484s	at one HP anything you can sneeze on him
12487s	and he'll die he tries to put a bubble
12488s	the bubble ends up working he does get
12490s	the armor re-swap but Tarka does have a
12493s	ton of burning mechanisms that can just
12495s	chip him through this White House Mike
12497s	tries to use it to his Advantage he's
12499s	looking for that punch to get that
12501s	little bit of white house he ends up
12503s	getting the tricky grapple lmb into
12506s	Perry taking down choosing yeah
12509s	absolutely huge there for my ows Mike
12511s	again really into his comfort zone here
12513s	you know unfortunately speaking about
12515s	Comfort zones while we were watching
12516s	that beautiful fight break out between
12518s	aow's Mike and wbg spider we did see a
12521s	demo eliminated from the lobby but dmo's
12524s	still having a much better game here in
12526s	our fourth game of the day doing very
12529s	very well uh to keep himself moving here
12531s	but it is aow's bike like you said one
12533s	of The Originators of the Tarka here
12536s	coming in and finding huge success on
12539s	the target gpick unfortunately Alliance
12541s	Jin in sort of the opposite situation as
12544s	he's just kind of hiding in the bush
12545s	here while Mike does a little bit of
12547s	shopping Micah with the three
12548s	eliminations on his belt but
12550s	you know somebody we haven't really seen
12552s	all game OC Zhang you going for the
12555s	Triple back to back to back currently
12558s	sitting at the top of the lobby with
12559s	four eliminations Zhang Yu coming awake
12563s	today this is really a surprise again
12565s	Zhang you to me always kind of one of
12567s	those dark horses that has the ability
12569s	to come back in the lobby and come out
12571s	on top of a lobby but we've never seen
12574s	Zhang Yu come in and take the double MVP
12577s	in a single day much less the triple and
12580s	he's heading in that direction right now
12582s	and he's playing on valdo which means
12583s	late game he's actually on the superior
12586s	pick in terms of that sort of counter
12588s	meta against all of these targets
12590s	because this Tark is going too old and
12592s	as soon as they go to commit onto Zhang
12594s	Yu like you said zhangyu just going to
12597s	be able to open into that wave cancel
12599s	out their ultimate and keep them from
12601s	being able to give back to that ultimate
12602s	in those final moments Mike trying to
12605s	find an opportunity to remove the balda
12607s	from the lobby this is extremely good
12609s	Target selection and we talked talked a
12611s	lot about that Target selection all day
12613s	today and Mike knows he does not want to
12615s	go into this late game year against the
12618s	valdapick he knows that the valda will
12620s	find success here in to the Target G
12622s	we're going to see the Perry come out
12623s	from Mike though and unfortunately
12625s	there's nothing that OC Zhang you can do
12628s	about it as that Perry is going to
12630s	clutch it out and it's going to come
12631s	down to a 1v1 between aow's Mike and
12634s	alliance's gin they know it they know
12636s	they're the only two players left in the
12638s	lobby they're just going to look for a
12639s	flat space to go duke it out
12642s	do you hate to see everyone I wanted to
12645s	see the pre-pre three piece from zhangyu
12648s	but unfortunately Mike will not stay
12651s	dormant he was hibernating earlier he
12653s	was
12654s	in like 17 16 place a rare place for
12656s	Mike but Mike having some of the
12659s	strongest horsepower within the lobby
12661s	Moonbeam surfing right now not even
12663s	afraid of moon Bane knows that his this
12665s	is his Lobby win but he's going against
12666s	the birthday boy and this is what I was
12668s	saying before Rune keeper I hope Mike
12670s	knows that it's Jin and that we get some
12672s	birthday love here maybe a little bit of
12674s	a little light band to little body
12676s	language you know a little Crouch
12677s	canceling showing like no parent a
12680s	little bit of a pair no no no like
12682s	either just immediately frying Jin's
12684s	armor birthday boy getting no freebies
12686s	here Mike immediately going at it
12689s	popping his old but gin showing Mike
12691s	what's up throwing the first two blue
12693s	attacks Mike without the Perry right
12695s	here now jyn using his F to trap Mike
12697s	Mike going a little bit crazy with that
12700s	Soul scratch going in circles over and
12701s	over
12702s	when you see Mike turning in circles
12705s	over and over it's because he has his
12707s	great attack chain and now jyn
12708s	unfortunately getting caught by the
12711s	classic
12713s	infinite for your birthday that's what
12716s	you get open up the present you got Mike
12718s	sending you to the sky over and over you
12721s	hate this Room Keeper
12724s	AOW is Mike just giving Jen his birthday
12726s	spankings you know just making sure that
12729s	he gets the the appropriate amount
12730s	coming here in the end to be fair though
12732s	you know Alliance is Jim playing that
12734s	fight very very poorly he opens it up
12735s	very well and then when he's finally
12738s	forced to Ultimate you know cast his
12740s	ultimate there uh Mike had already uh
12743s	burned his ultimate much earlier than we
12745s	see alliance's Jin do there jyn needed
12748s	to play the waiting game typically if
12749s	you're gonna be the tarco who tries to
12751s	initiate that fight when you pressure
12753s	into that space you run the risk of
12755s	running into the elbow and when you've
12757s	both already used your infinite Escape
12760s	tool of course that being tarka's
12762s	ability to activate his ultimate to get
12765s	out of the infinite the last thing you
12766s	want to do is run headlong into an elbow
12768s	uh and then end up in the infinite which
12771s	is exactly what we see how happen two
12774s	alliances gin he would have been much
12776s	better served to just play the waiting
12779s	game wait for Mike's old to run out and
12781s	while he still had his ultimate he could
12783s	have pushed in yes he probably would
12786s	have only had five ten seconds left
12788s	remaining on the ultimate but if he was
12790s	able to get in and catch that elbow
12791s	that's the difference between a full
12794s	combo onto Mike's armor versus no combo
12797s	whatsoever eating the elbow and finding
12800s	yourself in the infinite not quite sure
12802s	what jyn was really thinking I I feel
12804s	like if you know the carcametta you know
12806s	that match up very well you know you
12809s	don't want to run into another Tarka
12811s	when both of you have popped your
12813s	ultimate like that because that's
12814s	exactly what's going to happen you're
12816s	going to run straight into that elbow
12817s	and just get picked up into the sky
12819s	exactly but like the the Tarka matchup
12823s	unless you sit there and you zero ban it
12825s	for hours and I know for a fact that
12827s	Mike is one of those players who zero
12829s	bands Tarka for a long time especially
12831s	when it was back with the double jump r
12833s	b Shenanigans with staff or spear
12836s	because absolutely Tech chasing you over
12838s	and over
12840s	with this long range light attack that
12842s	you can just catch your opponent and
12843s	punch them over and over but now it's
12844s	shifted that you really really need to
12847s	precisely use that Dodge because it
12849s	consumes so much more energy now if you
12851s	didn't know this about Target matchups
12853s	guys parka usually when he dodges
12857s	he can elbow right afterwards but there
12859s	are two type of dodges now they don't
12860s	have that much iframe on them so there
12862s	is a weak point on there but in the
12864s	ditto a lot of the times you're trying
12866s	to catch the punch first or you're
12868s	trying to iframe his punch and go second
12870s	uh the way you go first though which uh
12875s	Jin
12876s	pretty much shows me that he is not as
12878s	experienced in the matchup is you tap
12881s	Dodge first and wait and punch your
12883s	opponent as they come in Jen just goes
12885s	for the classic run-in
12887s	typical Dodge into punch looking for the
12889s	uppercut ends up just getting caught out
12891s	Mike reading it from a mile away and
12893s	puts Jin into the classic Tarka infinite
12896s	now the character is extremely Nerf and
12900s	we will see a lot of this character
12902s	being phased out as you see more akos
12904s	has come in just because uh akus does a
12908s	lot better job versus zipping now Tarka
12912s	did have a a lot easier job when it was
12914s	discovered that you can press F1 and
12916s	punch zipping into a focus attack a lot
12918s	of a lot of tarkers came out of
12921s	the Shadows bringing him back to the
12923s	solo meta but as zippings wise enough as
12926s	everyone got used to it and as Tarka got
12928s	gutted as the characters the zip things
12930s	are back the swarm of green ladies is
12933s	back as we're seeing this this game went
12935s	by super fast we got Mike at the top
12937s	with five kills and 12 points Jang you
12940s	unfortunately we don't get a three piece
12941s	but he's still first for a second is
12943s	still a really great time at four kills
12946s	and eight points and we got two Zhang
12948s	Keeping Up with Mike Keeping Up with all
12950s	these great players with four kills
12952s	ending up with 7.5 now unfortunately for
12955s	railgun he doesn't get there
12957s	but he's picking up and the same thing
12959s	happened last time he was slowing down
12961s	uh during the first half of the the day
12964s	but during the second half he seems to
12966s	wake up it seems to warm up it starts
12968s	getting a ton of kills now you'd love to
12969s	see it demo had three kills off spawn
12972s	unfortunately not able to get there in
12973s	an end game but three kills off spawn
12975s	demo starting to feel it starting to
12977s	feel a bit better I know Devo is one of
12980s	the OG tarkas he loves that character he
12982s	plays it all the time
12984s	he did get four off Tarka during the
12986s	vaal The Meta but he always came back
12987s	and you're seeing it here demo able to
12990s	fight off the best of it hanging with
12993s	Fong hanging with all these great
12995s	players in the game now we're seeing ego
12998s	on the the Ark of the gutted akos we're
13001s	gonna see more of them in the future out
13002s	hopefully but unfortunately we're still
13005s	gonna see a ton of this old school meta
13008s	with the nunchucks and Dagger that was
13010s	really cool to see nunchucks for pretty
13012s	much six months out of the year
13015s	nunchucks wore the premier weapon
13018s	it just does so much damage and has one
13021s	of the most oppressive left clicks or
13023s	horizontals in the game it just Scoops
13025s	up you can't duck it like a lot of other
13027s	weapons you can duck Katana you can duck
13029s	Greatsword you can duck long sword but
13031s	you cannot duck nunchucks it has this
13033s	round cylinder that Scoops up even the
13035s	bottom part and it covers you
13038s	so you're seeing Mike Mike when he broke
13041s	onto the scene he was too young to go to
13042s	the first world but he grew up with
13044s	nunchucks he grew up in that meta back
13046s	with Shang Shang it was Shang shank Mike
13048s	going at it with nunchucks
13050s	and you see Mike with these crazy Jades
13054s	he's just scaled out of his mind he has
13056s	nunchucks that trigger now if you don't
13058s	know this chat I'll say this over and
13060s	over there aren't Jades of Destiny in
13061s	this game when you get certain Jades
13063s	they are just such a huge advantage that
13065s	you might as well put the game in the
13067s	back nunchucks app and Trigger are one
13069s	of them because you're able to just hold
13071s	lnb and every single time someone Focus
13074s	attacks you while you're holding left
13075s	click or lmb it blocks for you don't
13078s	need that meter it can be a range attack
13079s	it can be a focus attack so you don't
13081s	have to worry about someone sneaking in
13083s	a one charge you are completely
13085s	in the clear to just hold l b in their
13088s	face and the second they accidentally
13089s	click Parry or you catch them slipping
13092s	with tap dodging you just get to scoop
13094s	them up and Mike being a veteran of the
13097s	game being a nunchuck connoisseur able
13100s	to absolutely decimate that lobby with
13103s	the nunchucks Game Keeper oh you know
13105s	this is something I was going to mention
13107s	earlier when we started seeing all of
13109s	those nunchucks in game number two
13111s	actually was how important a soldier
13113s	like trigger is and like you said you
13116s	can just hold that left Mouse button in
13119s	the face of your opponent and they
13120s	really don't have a lot of great options
13122s	into neutral if they try to tap Dodge
13125s	away if they try to half focus into you
13128s	or that 0.9 focus and let that white rip
13130s	you still have the you know the focus
13133s	charge coming through you're able to
13135s	just let that rip and that charge to L
13137s	and B left click actually does a ton of
13139s	damage coming off of those nunchucks and
13142s	like you said it doesn't take meter when
13144s	you have that Soldier Jade this is
13146s	actually something we saw during season
13148s	one of nbpl last year the nunchucks
13152s	actually getting a massive Nerf to how
13155s	much meter it takes to use that trigger
13157s	without the trigger Soul Jade because of
13160s	how oppressive it really was so
13163s	absolutely huge to see that coming
13165s	through one of those Soul Jades of
13167s	Destiny as you like to call it but we're
13168s	gonna throw things over to a quick video
13170s	with aow's mic and then we're gonna come
13172s	back for game number five
13174s	foreign
13205s	foreign
13220s	Mike here giving us a little bit of
13222s	insight to how he feels about his
13224s	performance during the last bi-weekly
13225s	and he's sort of recognizing his
13228s	decision making being the reason that he
13231s	didn't perform as well as he wanted to
13232s	and this is somebody that we talk about
13234s	one of the best Duelists right if you go
13236s	watch you know any of his streams or you
13239s	watch him play in these sort of 1v1s
13242s	like we saw him go up against wbg spider
13244s	inside the realm of Yang when it comes
13246s	to those zero bands or those three bands
13248s	Mike really just knows how to out duel
13251s	his opponent so well it's if he makes a
13254s	mistake it's going to be in that
13256s	decision making the positioning or
13258s	something like that but as we saw in
13260s	this last game when he's on a comfort
13262s	pick like something like Tarka he knows
13265s	that match up inside and out he knows
13267s	the proper decision to make he expects
13270s	Alliance gen to do exactly what he does
13272s	like you said where he comes in and tap
13274s	Dodges and tries to aggressively go into
13276s	the elbow Mike knows that matchup he
13278s	knows the position he needs to be in to
13280s	counteract that catches the elbow
13281s	catches him in the infinite and that's
13284s	really where Mike can shine so it's
13285s	great to see Mike reflecting on his
13288s	performance thus far in the nbpl and
13290s	understanding where he's made mistakes
13293s	why he's made those mistakes reflect on
13296s	that and improve as a player this is
13298s	somebody you're always going to see sort
13301s	of in the labs trying to improve not
13303s	just as uh their skill as a player but
13307s	in their decision making as a player as
13309s	well their understanding of the meta in
13311s	the game Mike is always looking to just
13314s	sort of maximize that amount of
13316s	performance every single day of the week
13319s	Raven
13321s	exactly like I I love watching Mike play
13325s	and he you're right he Min Maxes
13327s	everything he is really knowing for his
13329s	boy and what boy he translates to for
13332s	our n a players literally translates to
13335s	gamble but I think it more means read on
13337s	our perspective because in that pocket
13340s	where everything is going to happen and
13343s	you're in the clutch Mike has a really
13345s	great feel for what his opponent is
13347s	going to do same thing with spider and
13349s	like you were saying he recognizes that
13351s	he needs to improve on his game and it's
13353s	something
13354s	that when I first met trihart who has
13356s	the best boy in North America who did it
13359s	all super well in China getting fourth
13362s	place in Solo worlds is that just
13364s	because you have the best fighting
13365s	doesn't mean you always need to fight
13367s	and that's something that my struggles
13369s	with now in that Lobby it didn't matter
13371s	because everyone was fighting so Mike
13373s	was thriving he got four kills he ended
13375s	up winning it everyone's just going at
13377s	it he is one of the best to do it only
13380s	being really contested by spider himself
13383s	now what he needs to work on what any of
13387s	you can work on in that early to mid
13389s	game is figuring out exactly what you
13393s	want to do when things go right and when
13395s	things go wrong you were seeing that gin
13397s	earlier didn't really know what to do
13399s	when things didn't go right where he
13401s	didn't have momentum and he is known for
13403s	playing for that ending and that is one
13405s	thing you could start out if you want to
13407s	get into tournaments it's just figure
13408s	out how I'm gonna get from point A to B
13411s	to C
13412s	being that early that mid and that end
13415s	game just so you can see it just so you
13417s	can hang with everyone else and you're
13419s	gonna learn a lot more being alive than
13421s	being dead now you can work on your
13423s	fighting one of the best ways to fight
13425s	is to work on your reading or your boy
13427s	by three Banning there are tons of
13429s	players in there where you remove all
13431s	the abilities and you just sit there and
13432s	you feel out the pocket of all the
13434s	different options that you can play and
13436s	all of these solo players are known for
13438s	their three band as well all of them can
13440s	hang out with the best creative Warriors
13442s	out there and for those of you who don't
13443s	have great computers it's one of the
13445s	best ways to work on your fighting and
13447s	it's extremely fun to play with all of
13449s	the different mechanics that you can
13451s	play in naraka now going into a hollerra
13455s	dusk things are a little bit different
13457s	because you got this wide open map and
13459s	now we got fireflies and we still have
13461s	the Firefly cages on Deck now we're
13463s	seeing choosing on the akkos you love to
13466s	see it now this is a weirdo pick Fong on
13471s	I have not seen a Wu Chen being picked
13474s	anywhere and Mike going fully defensive
13476s	on the zipping everyone is doing
13479s	something a little bit different now we
13481s	got demo on the Tarka again I'm hoping
13483s	that our boy gets across the finish line
13490s	look I'm I'm looking at demo playing
13492s	playing Target right I I sort of see
13495s	this coming right he goes to his comfort
13496s	pick he starts finding more success you
13498s	want to carry that sort of momentum you
13500s	go back to your comfort pick I want to
13501s	talk about Fong though on this Wu Chen
13503s	yeah this wu-chan pick is very feast or
13506s	fandom famine into this current meta
13508s	typically when we see wuchens we see a
13510s	lot of people running that V3 on Wu Chen
13513s	but V3 wuchen really doesn't find that
13517s	level of success in the current meta
13519s	because of how stahly Heroes like you
13522s	know Feria and Z ping are here I
13525s	actually really want to see the swappar
13528s	Rooney come out from bong here that
13530s	ability to recognize that your opponent
13533s	is in a killable Range make the swap
13537s	into that hit stun confirm with the full
13542s	combo follow-up is really where Wu Chen
13545s	can come in be aggressive and find a ton
13547s	of success speaking of finding a ton of
13549s	success AWS Mike off the rip from a blue
13552s	pile gifted with purple armor just
13555s	immediately not no better place for you
13558s	to be than if you are aow's Mike right
13560s	now wolves kaibal gonna find quite a bit
13562s	of success as well coming in gonna find
13564s	himself that purple armor and a white
13566s	spear as well gonna go bot side to take
13569s	the fight with zhangyu away from the
13571s	ballistas such a smart decision coming
13573s	out from wolves came out you do not want
13576s	to take this fight top side because of
13578s	your top side the longer this fight
13580s	breaks out especially into something
13581s	like z-peng Lang Yang the longer you run
13584s	the risk of falling victim to those
13586s	ballistas as we take a look here Casey's
13588s	demo going to immediately take advantage
13590s	of the fact that akko's not in that
13593s	updated State he's sort of in that
13595s	nerfed state he was on during release
13597s	and is immediately just going to pick up
13599s	his first kill of the lobby turning now
13602s	to kla's Fawn going head-to-head with
13604s	Jail's ego ego though here with that
13606s	uppercut onto these sort of slippery
13608s	rocks here actually playing into the
13611s	favor of ego as he's able to carry that
13613s	uppercut combo into a second uppercut
13616s	combo and find a ton of success against
13618s	Fong here the terrain actually coming to
13621s	bite Fong back in the ass as he actually
13624s	falls victim to not one but two uppercut
13626s	combos strictly because of the way the
13629s	terrain plays out we're turning back now
13630s	to the fight between wolves kaibao and
13632s	OC Zhong you that fight that we talked
13635s	about where kaibao makes the decision to
13637s	come bot side here to get away from
13640s	those sticky ballistas up top and we're
13642s	gonna see Zhang Yu try to take this
13644s	fight down into the roller here because
13646s	they do have that bubble they have that
13648s	healing they're able to keep away from
13650s	the stickiness of the staff here that
13652s	Kai Bao is running you know we talk
13655s	about this all the time if you're
13656s	running that F2 of area you're able to
13658s	just sort of ignore that hit stun from
13660s	the grapples or white attacks and that's
13662s	exactly what the staff is looking to do
13665s	you're looking to stay sticky on your
13667s	opponent keep them from being able to
13668s	get away from your hit stun and when you
13671s	have the bubble it makes it very hard
13672s	for somebody like kaibal on the staff to
13675s	continue to pressure that fight wbg
13677s	spider here going to find themselves
13678s	falling victim to Fireball Tarka this
13681s	time from GG shop
13684s	unlucky from spider to run into a
13687s	fireball Tarka speaking of targets we
13689s	got demo on his comfort pick chasing
13691s	down the kitty cat Echoes choosing
13694s	trying to make this Echoes work but demo
13697s	absolutely murdering him off spawn and
13699s	now he's about to get that salty run
13701s	back get the run back choosing doesn't
13703s	want any part of it wants to take him to
13704s	the neutral ends up using his old to get
13707s	a little bit of space room but demo
13709s	still hot on this tail with this darker
13711s	all he has increased movement he's able
13713s	to keep chasing him down and we got
13714s	Panama joining in now Panda man one of
13718s	the best fighters against these bursting
13720s	characters he is the Tarka OG himself he
13724s	knows how to weave himself around these
13725s	situations and Matari being the assassin
13728s	class right now with all of her Buffs
13730s	and with all of her gold uh F's when
13732s	she's able to go in this she's able to
13735s	assassinate these bursting characters
13736s	and with all these buildings she's able
13738s	to do this risk-free essentially Now
13741s	demo overholding and catching Panda man
13744s	slipping now anime had the health
13746s	advantages not unfazed by any of this
13748s	willing to take him down now Devo there
13750s	is no exit out of this building ends up
13753s	just coming out of the front and Panda
13754s	misses him demo is able to get this good
13755s	reset
13757s	spoke to someone choosing tags in
13759s	willing to chase down demo and catches
13761s	him with the cross Perry unable to pick
13763s	up the soul Bloom panaman denying it the
13765s	veteran play keeping that sober and
13767s	keeping all that all charged for himself
13769s	knowing that choosing and
13771s	Deemo were just in a long engagement he
13773s	saw both of their alts so now chuzang is
13776s	against the ropes he's a free kill for
13778s	panda man Panda man immediately pops his
13780s	old using it to break that F
13782s	unfortunately even though you're able to
13784s	break the staggerate it is not a gold F
13785s	and one of the counters to Matari is
13788s	that staff that Focus chart staff just
13790s	sucked you back in that lmb just keeps
13793s	your toes locked in absolutely violates
13796s	your Dodges now chuzang with that F1
13798s	able to knock pin him away and get some
13801s	damage reduction he's able to find the
13803s	weapon armor swap I mean able to get
13806s	onto one of these roof stops now this is
13808s	one of the few places that you can kind
13810s	of go up and down over and over as
13812s	you're seeing choosing go on the wall
13814s	and if your opponent follows as you
13815s	follow you end up getting scale rash and
13817s	you're seeing great play by choosing
13819s	able to break contact from an aggressive
13822s	Panda man now X you're on you want to
13825s	see her pull it together she has gotten
13828s	a couple kills this weekly unfortunately
13831s	ego putting her in the uppercut combo
13833s	forcing out her old she's able to get
13835s	these armor swaps now can she find her
13837s	way out of this pocket able to double
13839s	jump doesn't get the Perry I thought she
13841s	was gonna go for the double jump Ferry
13842s	ego able to close it out with a clean
13845s	lnb Focus attack
13847s	yeah absolutely coming in from ego here
13851s	they just were able to really control
13852s	that entire situation against shiran's
13854s	return or attention back to wbg spider
13857s	here spider uh eliminated early was able
13859s	to pick up a elimination of their own as
13862s	well though but this is typically where
13864s	we see spider start to struggle is
13866s	you're playing a hero uh like Feria here
13869s	you're looking to play towards that late
13871s	game and a sir biter unfortunately you
13874s	know he typically loses his confidence
13875s	when he loses a duel like that uh early
13878s	on but we've seen that shift in the last
13881s	couple of weeks I talked about where
13883s	he's really been able to accept the fact
13885s	that it's okay to have more middle of
13888s	the pack games that you can play for a
13890s	consistency game you don't have to play
13892s	that feast or famine and that's what
13894s	we're gonna see come out of wbg spider
13896s	probably this game as he picked up an
13897s	early elimination it did cost him his
13900s	resurrection early so now he'll probably
13902s	take this early realm of Yang looking to
13905s	carry the momentum forward and if he
13906s	doesn't make it it's fine and he'll go
13908s	pick somebody off get himself back in
13910s	the game and then just sort of play out
13912s	for that late game because he is playing
13914s	that farrier right he wants to go to
13916s	late game he wants to see that final
13918s	Circle and that's probably what we'll
13920s	see wbg spider do this game is play for
13924s	more of a middle of the pack consistency
13926s	game than try to absolutely pop off and
13929s	go crazy if things don't go his way in
13932s	this realm of Yang or if he doesn't get
13933s	this realm of gang he's trying to go for
13935s	it but Dilo actually going to deny the
13937s	realm of Yang from wbg spider and he's
13939s	immediately going to back off he knows
13941s	what his decision-making is here he's
13943s	going to come back in trying to take the
13945s	fight to demo demo able to catch him out
13947s	in that charge left click there from the
13948s	Dual Blaze unfortunately demo going to
13950s	find himself taking rain shots from both
13952s	spider and another player so in a
13954s	position he doesn't want to be in here
13956s	and spider not willing to give up the
13958s	chase demo trying to kite around these
13961s	traps hoping to maybe see a mistake come
13963s	out from spider that trap actually
13964s	catching onto the edge of demo though
13966s	demo taking more rain shots as well from
13968s	the other side really finding himself in
13970s	a difficult situation is able to get one
13972s	pot off as Spider finds one as well but
13975s	demo again really in a tough situation
13977s	is both railgun and spider are keeping
13980s	that pressure on to demo strictly
13982s	looking to catch him out he's gonna be
13984s	forced to pop the ultimate here and just
13986s	a run for it the problem is he is so low
13989s	if one of these grapples is able to
13991s	connect and come on to demo that is
13993s	going to be all she wrote and demo can't
13995s	afford to stop and look for the reset
13997s	because of how low he is as soon as he
14000s	loses that protection from those rain
14002s	shots these players spider and railgun
14004s	are going to take advantage of it
14006s	luckily he is able to come through and
14008s	find that armor reset we're gonna see
14010s	spider start to pop a heel and wait to
14012s	swap into the armor at the last possible
14015s	second and this is something you see a
14017s	lot of these nbpl players do is they'll
14019s	go ahead and start the pot and wait till
14021s	the pot's about to go through to swap
14023s	into that unhealed armor to take the
14025s	upgrade with as little risk as human
14027s	only possible demo here able to find a
14030s	full reset unfortunately forced to trade
14032s	that purple armor for a set of white
14034s	armor and it's not the space demo really
14037s	wants to be in right now wbg's fighter
14038s	and railgun finally turning back on each
14041s	other looking to go at one another's
14043s	throats now that demo has created enough
14045s	space that the chase is no longer worth
14047s	it for these two players
14051s	spider and railgun now with the Yang
14055s	coming out and with two new players
14057s	coming out with the uh Yang depletion
14059s	they're gonna have to take this a little
14061s	bit slow upgrade on demo to get out of
14064s	that sticky situation he trades out that
14065s	purple armor for his life it's
14067s	definitely worth it I was hoping that
14068s	demo would have picked up some of these
14070s	fireflies uh he ends up choosing to go
14073s	in the city which ends up being the
14074s	better decision ends up able to get that
14076s	armor Swap and run into Zone to break
14078s	contact I'm surprised spider didn't go
14080s	crazy aggressive like he did last time
14082s	last time someone tried to take him to
14083s	Zone early in the day he just chase
14085s	after it now in
14088s	tang in the South we got the mosh pin we
14090s	have Shaw picking up railgun with a fong
14093s	in there with the going for the Bell
14098s	buff instead of the normal verbillion
14101s	we've been seeing uh Fong doing this
14104s	play today able to figure out where
14106s	everyone else now this is something that
14108s	our team started doing a little bit more
14110s	just because we we find it being a curse
14113s	with the vermilions above like we just
14115s	never find everyone when we have this
14116s	bus even though it's a safer buff to get
14118s	recharges your alt and everything and
14120s	you have the second life and then you
14122s	can reposition afterwards but you can't
14123s	really find the squad I see what Fong is
14126s	doing though he's able to figure out
14128s	where all the zippings are where they're
14129s	poking someone to death and he's able to
14131s	join in and possibly get a kill now
14133s	there is safety in numbers contrary to
14135s	popular belief when you're around a ton
14137s	of players
14138s	as long as someone doesn't get emotional
14141s	and just all in your game popping alts
14143s	and leading to both of your demises it's
14145s	actually very very safe because if
14146s	someone else is getting attacked that
14148s	means you're not speaking of which now
14150s	spider finds demo salvaging his game out
14154s	in the zone but Shang Yu is coming over
14156s	here looking to steal the kill demo
14158s	against the ropes not able to get away
14159s	and spider takes him down quickly eating
14161s	the soul Bloom able to back send you out
14164s	but shanghu catches his Dodge going out
14166s	it looks like spiders gonna be forced
14167s	into his Mech but he gets caught twice
14169s	in his whole Dodge shangyou causing a
14172s	ton of pressure unfortunately for spider
14174s	he gets the sign bonked on his head
14176s	spider in the corner in a tough spot
14179s	Shang Yu putting the goat against the
14183s	wall pushing him down the hill spiders
14185s	never been in this spot before what a
14187s	cheeky position shenyu with the presence
14188s	of mind seeing that sign above spiders
14190s	head I've never seen a Mech get a sign
14194s	dropped on his head unfortunate for
14196s	spider now with full corruption none of
14198s	his isn't gonna matter at all Chang you
14200s	actually backs off the points leader of
14204s	the week and let's spider go there oh my
14207s	goodness keeper I would not have let him
14209s	go if I had him on the corner oh my God
14212s	no I mean spider really in a difficult
14213s	situation there you know he drops the
14215s	pillar there to take the advantage
14217s	against demo he never in a thousand
14220s	years thinks that he's gonna be forced
14221s	to take the mech there and unfortunately
14223s	with the way the terrain is he literally
14225s	can't go inside or outside he's
14227s	absolutely trapped there we see the sign
14230s	come down and unfortunately you know I
14232s	think it's a side effect of uh our boy
14235s	playing zipping there you know Zhang you
14237s	you're on a defensive character here we
14239s	go we're gonna see the hit confirmed
14240s	into the full uppercut combo coming out
14243s	here from Fong and Fong knows it's not
14246s	gonna be enough to kill this z-ping but
14248s	hoping to maybe swap targets
14250s	unfortunately Mike is more than happy to
14252s	just burn the ultimate and very quickly
14254s	finds himself healed up so he's not
14256s	going to find that Target selection swap
14259s	that he was hoping to find with that
14261s	combo but Fong's playing the aggressive
14263s	swap a Rooney it's what I wanted to see
14265s	coming out from the wuchen unfortunately
14267s	he's in a difficult situation it doesn't
14269s	look like we're gonna get to see much
14270s	more Fong if these players continue to
14273s	pressure him the way that they are but
14276s	like you said wbg spider wasn't really
14278s	in a poor position there but I think it
14280s	comes down to the fact that Zhang Yu was
14282s	on zipping you're wanting to play
14284s	defensive you're forced to pop the
14286s	ultimate because you're taking that zone
14287s	tick you're constantly in pressure
14289s	you're worried about third parties and
14292s	spider able to just consistently uh go
14294s	into that turret mode and throw those
14296s	shots and knock you back and do damage
14298s	sort of scares zhangyu a little bit and
14301s	because he's on a more defensive hero
14303s	decides to back away I agree with you
14305s	though I think I would have played that
14307s	a little more aggressively and I never
14308s	would have let wbg spider get away from
14311s	that situation as we turn now to Gigi
14314s	Shaw who is going to find himself in the
14316s	realm of Yang looking to take another uh
14320s	Yang fight here it doesn't look like
14322s	anybody else wants to be in that
14324s	position though and Gigi sha might just
14326s	walk away with the free buff and uh
14328s	legendary weapon from this realm of Yang
14331s	Raven
14333s	oh my goodness Rune keeper I just
14335s	noticed you were talking about the Wu
14338s	Chen pick my man Fong is absolutely
14341s	trolling he is using F2 with that with
14344s	the new buff on Wu Chen they changed F2
14347s	that every single time it auto releases
14349s	uh one of these daggers it sucks your
14352s	stamina away from you but you don't have
14354s	to really press any buttons it just kind
14356s	of guard to also guards you from a last
14358s	hit situation but you never see this
14360s	blue chin out normally The Meta pick is
14363s	to play Wu Chen with the F3 where it
14365s	heals armor but fog is playing this
14368s	super troll F2 pick you'd love to see it
14370s	Fong always a fun time to spectate what
14375s	craziness is he gonna show today and he
14378s	doesn't disappoint last week he opened
14380s	up with a monk with Perry Bell this week
14382s	he got the Wu Chen with F2 and he's able
14385s	to survive
14387s	the the great chase down from Michael's
14390s	fighter that is really really tough he
14393s	goes with the no mix up mix up sitting
14395s	in zone not going left or right and just
14398s	waiting there till he's Max corruption
14400s	then finally coming in now unfortunately
14402s	these guys have Eagle Eye Vision able to
14405s	spot him
14406s	but they know it is fun it's the only
14409s	wuchen it's the dagger demon himself
14411s	they know he's just going to run forever
14413s	Fong ends up using his V2 not to really
14415s	do what you wanted Rune keeper and to
14417s	like to swap someone out but just to
14419s	fully disengage it's kind of this is the
14421s	the problem I see with Wu Chen it ends
14423s	up being the Justina problem and the the
14426s	valda problem like
14428s	you got that 1v1 capability but in these
14431s	group situations uh if you don't got
14433s	that F3 you just get torn apart now he's
14436s	able to survive for a really long time
14438s	but he eventually gets chased Down By
14441s	The Echoes of choosing and oh shangyou
14445s	and Chang you having a great great
14448s	couple games like he he just once he got
14451s	that first win he just started
14453s	snowballing out of control we have Shaw
14455s	with the missing Mike going around the
14458s	map looking to pick off some of the
14460s	players see if he can get someone
14462s	lobbied with that 20 damage reduction
14464s	but this is a fight I really really want
14466s	to see I want to see Mike and spider
14467s	commit to this fight just to learn
14469s	something new every time I watch these
14471s	two I learned something new about how
14473s	you can fake how you can play different
14475s	scenarios in this neutral and Faria and
14477s	zipping are going to have an extended
14479s	neutral both of these characters are
14481s	very very defensive they have multiple
14482s	lies essentially Mike already popping
14484s	that alt early knowing that on zipping
14488s	if you pop your old earlier you're gonna
14490s	get the most heal out of it and if you
14492s	cancel it you could potentially get two
14494s	alts you're gonna see might cancel this
14496s	all right here he needs to add 32 now
14498s	with this extended fight and these two
14500s	is great
14501s	fighting ability Mike will most likely
14503s	have his all back at line at 70 spider
14506s	looking for the stomp trying to combo
14508s	Mike but Mike wisely backing off knowing
14511s	that he can get the zombie reset and the
14513s	name of the game here as zipping is play
14515s	the long game wait for your opponent to
14517s	over commit unfortunately for Mike Mike
14519s	ends up over committing on the double
14521s	charge gets caught up by spider spider
14523s	winning neutral over and over and over
14526s	Mike against the ropes spiders just on
14529s	another level today Rune keeper
14531s	oh yeah I mean absolutely spider going
14534s	off here and you know the trade back
14536s	right because spider went up against
14538s	aow's Mike last game in the realm of
14540s	Yang and it was Mike who was able to
14541s	come out on top in a very similar match
14545s	up here but this time it's wbg spider
14547s	who's able to find its success here and
14550s	spider you know he's one of those
14551s	players he doesn't let that go he takes
14553s	losing those sort of one-on-one fights
14556s	personally as we turn back and take a
14558s	look at the replay here OST John you
14560s	versus Gigi Shaw inside the realm of
14562s	Yang Sha of course playing that fireball
14564s	Target this is an absolute favorite of
14566s	mine even post the Nerfs here for Tarka
14568s	I still really enjoy the fireball play
14571s	style coming through especially with the
14574s	changes to the Elbow on the ultimate of
14577s	course the elbow taking that ultimate
14579s	charge away from you on Turka the
14582s	fireball just feels so much cleaner and
14585s	now we turn into another replay yet
14587s	again this time it's against GG Shaw and
14589s	jdg XU Jang and again shot really show
14591s	showing is how well they can pilot that
14594s	Tarka and Shaw one of those players
14596s	who's always sort of favored the
14598s	fireball version of Tarka the support
14600s	that comes through it of course the
14602s	burnt tick that comes through as well
14604s	and showing us why even though the huge
14606s	Nerfs to fire damage that come through
14608s	the Nerfs to the aerial on the Fireballs
14611s	from Tarka as well just is still a
14614s	viable pick here even in the nbpl you
14617s	can pilot it and make it work and Gigi
14619s	sha more than happy to show everybody
14621s	exactly that Raven
14624s	Fireball Tarka
14628s	can say I am a connoisseur of it every
14631s	time I try it the the one the worst part
14633s	about Fireball tarco is when another
14635s	Tarka sees you with Fireball they just
14637s	uh like a a ding just goes off and
14640s	you're just like oh free just that F1
14643s	gives you this is just such a cheeky
14645s	trap that you had the respect it in each
14648s	at each moment and if you accidentally
14650s	fall for it you just get absolutely
14652s	annihilated by the infinite but as you
14654s	were saying though it is usable in these
14657s	really high-end lobbies because these
14658s	players play super super safe their
14660s	spacing is top tier they're able to use
14663s	it as his range game
14665s	because normally uh if a player is
14668s	really really good oh my God
14670s	spider ends up getting picked off by
14673s	shanghyu with the assistance of the
14675s	Moonbeam Leia spider having such a great
14678s	weekly just wants the gold armor trying
14682s	to force it on his Feria trying to get
14685s	that scale up but ends up getting
14688s	down by the Moon made I know
14692s	a little bit just it's so funny to
14696s	listen to some of these Pros the only
14697s	time I've ever seen spider show emotion
14700s	is when he gets hit by moonbeans because
14702s	he just knows the only thing could take
14703s	him out in this game is the dang dragon
14706s	in the middle of the sky none of these
14708s	players hold the candle two spider he is
14711s	the goat of the lobby and he's showing
14713s	it with back to back weekly wins and
14716s	it's looking like he's gonna do it again
14718s	this week not if Shang Yu has anything
14721s	to do with it though Shang you ends up
14724s	picking another kill has the gold pole
14725s	sword has a gold dagger he wants to take
14730s	the Throne all these players are not
14732s	happy with the status quo these players
14734s	are still trying to go for it you're
14736s	seeing Mike getting rocked to the core
14738s	not holding that top three spot you're
14740s	still seeing two two five up there
14742s	swinging he's not in this Lobby
14743s	currently but he's still swinging as one
14746s	of the most dominant players and
14748s	something interesting from today Rune
14750s	keeper that I notice is there's a lot
14752s	more pull swords being used
14756s	that many pulsars being used in the
14759s	current solar meta
14761s	you know this is this is something I've
14762s	talked about a long time as somebody
14764s	who's you know I particularly enjoy my
14766s	trios and my Duos right but I have
14768s	played solos back in the day and during
14771s	solos I very much enjoyed the mind games
14773s	that are possible you know with
14775s	Greatsword and now pole sword both of
14777s	the weapons playing very similarly
14778s	because they are that sort of uh heavy
14781s	sword very similar to the staff and of
14783s	course uh spear being weapons that you
14785s	can transform into one another and the
14788s	mind games with that pulse are just the
14790s	threat of the damage that you can create
14793s	and the fact that you can actually
14794s	maneuver with the pole sword you know
14797s	you can actually still move with the
14799s	Greatsword as well but the pole sword
14801s	you really have this access to sort of
14803s	this big sweeping attack that not only
14805s	creates space but gives you huge
14807s	movement as well so not only does it
14809s	give you the option to threaten space it
14812s	gives you the option to be able to move
14814s	through space and if you can catch
14816s	somebody with this sort of Mind Games
14817s	that you're able to do with the pole
14820s	Sword and the fact that la Hobbies here
14821s	in the nbpl don't end like your typical
14825s	lobbies in a Solo ranked match right
14827s	very little do you ever see a solos
14830s	Lobby in rank to actually go to final
14832s	Circle right typically you're seeing a
14834s	lot of these players take these
14835s	one-on-one fights
14837s	um or finding those third parties in the
14839s	lobby being whittled down to two players
14841s	in zone five to zone six and it just
14843s	being the sort of 1v1 but in the pro
14846s	league you see these lobbies typically
14848s	go you know to five to eight players in
14851s	the final zones and with something like
14853s	the pole sword you are able to
14856s	capitalize on somebody being caught out
14858s	the fight breaking out the sort of chaos
14861s	that ensues with having that many
14863s	players left alive in the lobby you can
14865s	do those sort of cheeky moving charged
14868s	you know vertical attacks with that pole
14870s	sword that give you that range and catch
14873s	not only the player out who's actually
14875s	being caught out by somebody else but
14877s	the player who's doing the catching out
14878s	hitting both of those players into the
14880s	zone doing a ton of damage forcing them
14883s	to take that late Game Zone tick puts
14885s	you in a massive advantage over
14888s	everybody else in the lobby look as not
14890s	only do you get those players low but
14892s	you continue to not be the focus of the
14896s	lobby because you've shoved these
14897s	players into the zone and done so much
14899s	damage that nobody is paying you any
14901s	mind because of that shark mentality
14903s	that exists in the nbpl you very quickly
14907s	create a Lobby full of players who are
14910s	hungry to pick up those eliminations and
14912s	it buys you even more space to play the
14914s	sort of Mind Games with the pole sword
14915s	Raven
14917s	exactly speaking of sharking we have
14921s	Shaw the lobby leader right now with
14924s	these fire arrows and burst arrows
14925s	trying to get this Matari
14928s	Jin the birthday boy on the ropes
14930s	absolutely getting harassed by these
14933s	fire arrows and Versa when you have
14935s	fires and bursts air you're able to turn
14937s	your
14939s	both basically into a giant Fireball Jin
14942s	just absolutely gets melted by all the
14944s	shaw still has his Fireball on Deck but
14947s	Shang Yu ends up picking up the kill
14949s	with that pistol across the map now if
14954s	you're having trouble using range for
14956s	you newer players pistol is one of the
14958s	best weapons to pick up initially it's
14960s	very very fast and it basically shoots
14962s	like a shotgun now when people are going
14964s	to heal the reason why pistol is a very
14966s	very strong metal weapon is you can
14968s	shoot at people's feet when they try to
14970s	crouch cancel over and over while they
14972s	heal if you shoot at someone's feet you
14974s	will always hit them you don't have to
14976s	aim for their head you don't need to go
14977s	for those juicy hits the same reason
14979s	that Shaw is able to get a ton of damage
14981s	over here with his bow attack and get a
14983s	ton of disburse you can do the same
14985s	thing with a pistol just by shooting at
14988s	their feet all the time you don't need a
14990s	crazy amount of Jades you just need any
14991s	type of default pistol it is a great way
14994s	to finish someone off with one HP and
14996s	it's just holding Blue over and over in
14998s	front of you and you're not looking that
14999s	double charge now ego man Shaw just has
15002s	every burning Jade in the book he is
15004s	blistering Edge and this bow and
15006s	blistering Edge also puts a burn on your
15008s	target he's able to kill ego through his
15011s	Mech chipping away at his white Health
15013s	damage now even though you're in Mech
15015s	when you get hit by burn damage it will
15018s	straight go to your health pool this is
15020s	why flame breath fire arrow blistering
15023s	Edge are super coveted Jades right now
15025s	on the nbpl it takes down a lot of these
15028s	turtleing characters also reducing the
15030s	amount of healing now as I say of them
15032s	got choosing getting shot against ropes
15036s	tossing him into Zone going full kitty
15038s	cat mode but Shaw fighting back
15041s	not able to get the kill not able to get
15043s	the soul Bloom and just gets bullied by
15046s	Xiang Yu having a super Stellar week
15050s	picking him up with three wins today
15052s	Rune keeper are we seeing a new dawn
15055s	would Shang you at the top
15057s	look I I've talked about it before Zhang
15059s	Yu is a dark horse and absolutely any
15062s	Lobby he plays in but today has just
15064s	really been his day he's able to find
15066s	himself at the top not only is this a
15069s	three piece right he's got three MVPs
15071s	for the day the only other player to
15074s	ever do this being wbg spider but he
15078s	also has a second place finish in the
15080s	last game right where he went from back
15082s	to back dubs to a second place finish
15084s	and now to a dub yet again OSI zhangyu
15088s	absolutely
15090s	dominating today and here's the thing
15093s	every time he's such a sneaky little
15096s	player right we never see him taking
15098s	these sort of fights we're always paying
15100s	attention to the aow's mice the wbg
15102s	spiders the sort of big fights breaking
15104s	out you know players like Gigi Shaw
15106s	who's a very flashy player coming in
15109s	strong you know of course on the target
15111s	pick like you said with all those fire
15112s	Soul Jades
15114s	zhangyu just creeping along the lobby
15116s	man picking up eliminations prod never
15119s	really turning to him because those
15121s	fights turn around very very quickly for
15124s	a player like Zhang Yu zhangyu doesn't
15126s	over commit to a fight if he's going to
15128s	go in he's almost always sure that he's
15131s	going to pick up the elimination and
15133s	he's going to do it very quickly so it's
15135s	very easy for prod to sort of miss those
15138s	fights with Jang Yoo where he slides in
15140s	picks up a cheeky elimination or he just
15142s	sort of zeros to 100 somebody very very
15145s	quickly and that's why we see him doing
15147s	this thing where he just slowly creeps
15149s	up the leaderboard throughout the game
15150s	we're not talking about him and all of a
15152s	sudden we're in final Circle he picks up
15154s	two more eliminations and you're like
15155s	wait a second where the heck did OC
15157s	Zhang you come from right like and
15160s	that's where he really excels that's why
15162s	we always sort of talk about him being a
15164s	dark horse he kind of has what we call
15166s	the xsg strategy from season one where
15169s	xsg was always in that second to third
15171s	place and then all of a sudden they
15173s	would come out and have that big pop-off
15175s	game and you would look at their score
15176s	and be like wait a minute they've
15177s	actually been second or third all day
15179s	and you know they just dropped the 25
15181s	bomb all of a sudden now they're in
15183s	first place zhangyu doing that sort of
15186s	same strategy where he's like look I'm
15187s	not gonna make myself the target the
15190s	focus of this lobby but I am going to
15193s	slowly creep my way there and take these
15196s	MVP spaces away and he is doing exactly
15199s	that today it's like he's finally been
15201s	able to master his craft slide in
15203s	exactly where he wants to be and I think
15206s	the question is is will he be the first
15208s	player to walk away with a four piece
15210s	will Heath click take the claim away
15212s	from wbg's fighter because the only
15214s	three piece we've ever seen in the solos
15216s	League was wbg spider if he's able to
15220s	take that four piece away today it's
15224s	going to be huge and I will be willing
15227s	to bet money it impacts the mental of a
15230s	player like a wbg spider because when he
15233s	has his records broken he is never happy
15235s	about it unless it's Tim who's doing the
15237s	record-breaking
15239s	that's an excellent point Rune keeper
15242s	spider usually looked at as the goat but
15244s	saying you having a crazy day with
15247s	another five kills at iconic five kills
15249s	that you always talk about with 12
15250s	points Shaw looking like he was going to
15252s	clean up the lobby having all the Jades
15254s	in the world to get all those focuses
15256s	going but ends up getting assassinated
15258s	by shanghyu still getting second place
15260s	would
15261s	five kills with 11 points still a super
15263s	great day from Shaw in third place
15266s	overall now JL ego he's been getting the
15270s	short end of the stick and a lot of
15271s	Engagement but this time ending up with
15273s	three kills
15275s	I'm getting six points now spider I feel
15278s	like spider gets a little bit complacent
15280s	near the end of uh Solo's week he starts
15282s	overextending and a rare mistake where
15284s	he just forces the box right there
15287s	unable to give it up and just gets greet
15290s	by the moon bait now I mean it is only
15293s	weekly so this is a good time for uh
15295s	silly things like this to get out of
15297s	your system
15298s	now with spider he does get a huge
15301s	benefit being on this Ferry and now
15302s	looking at spider oh my goodness this
15304s	this weapon swap combo getting the
15306s	gravel kick into that lmb Allenby with
15309s	the dual blades
15311s	just so disgusting he tries to get it
15313s	going again on shot but this time Shaw
15315s	came to play honestarco looking super
15317s	super comfortable absolutely decimating
15319s	in the lobby now unfortunately I
15321s	remember watching this fight with demo
15322s	he gets absolutely
15325s	double team in Tang
15327s	now Fong on this troll F2 pick is still
15332s	Owen out there making stuff happen
15334s	surviving forever versus all the best
15337s	fighters oh we see demo end up getting
15340s	taken down back there inside Tang it was
15343s	heartbreaking but we finally get to see
15345s	the fight that I really love spider
15347s	versus Mike and it looks like spider is
15350s	just firing on all cylinders and Mike
15352s	just can't get it going today running a
15355s	weird defensive pick on a day that
15357s	normally Mike dominates like might for
15360s	that's more of like a wang Lang or Fong
15362s	strategy where they don't really like
15364s	going to Yang so they play the defensive
15365s	characters on these Firefly days but
15368s	Mike is known for just being super super
15370s	aggressive is going in coming in hot
15374s	just ready to bang and today I'm seeing
15379s	a different side of Mike I feel like
15381s	maybe maybe he's trying to play a more
15383s	tempered playstyle but
15385s	if the tempered play style that may seem
15388s	optimal then this is like a tip for all
15391s	the other players you don't really want
15392s	to play someone else's style you always
15395s	want to play the style that you feel
15397s	comfortable with because if you play
15399s	your style
15401s	you you capitalize on all the different
15404s	moments that you put and into this
15406s	playstyle and you a lot of people
15409s	underestimate just how much work goes
15412s	into playing a certain style that you
15414s	think like oh this might be the new
15415s	secret if this person's doing this let
15417s	me try this out the application of moves
15419s	are way more important than the actual
15422s	move itself I see all the time different
15424s	uh techniques being used over and over
15428s	but there's no need they're just really
15430s	really flashy
15431s	they don't really get anything done but
15433s	if you're going for those really high
15434s	Clips they are really really awesome and
15437s	I love to see those weapon swab combos
15439s	in it my team always jokes about it
15441s	every time we see a jugglecomer like oh
15443s	that's a past due I'm past due right now
15445s	when you just take your opponent and
15447s	launch him all the way down the hill
15449s	shout out to my boy past you one of the
15452s	best combos in n a uh you know this is
15454s	something we talked about in trios
15456s	actually yesterday you know you're
15457s	talking about people seeing these sort
15459s	of play Styles and trying to adapt them
15461s	because they see them working and this
15463s	was what we talked about in trios where
15465s	it seems like a lot of the teams see
15468s	other teams experimenting with stuff and
15471s	rather than doing their own
15472s	experimentation going oh well if they're
15474s	experimenting with it it absolutely has
15476s	to work so we're going to do it without
15478s	understanding how to actually pilot that
15482s	particular combo and it costing them
15484s	pretty heavily but we've got a short
15485s	video for you ladies and gentlemen
15487s	before we come back and we lock in for
15488s	game number six and our final game of
15491s	the day so don't go anywhere
15494s	oh
15499s	[Music]
15509s	[Music]
15533s	[Music]
15544s	[Music]
15550s	[Music]
15562s	thank you
15564s	[Music]
15573s	thank you
15575s	[Music]
15588s	ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the
15590s	rocker blade point of pro league as we
15591s	take a look at the standings so far
15593s	we're five games deep today the single
15596s	game left for these players to put
15598s	points up on the board and you know
15601s	all eyes on OC zhangyu zhangyu really
15604s	coming in and like you said we talk
15606s	about that play style and how important
15608s	it is to stick to your guns and you
15610s	developing his own sort of play style
15613s	that we've seen him constantly try to
15615s	play throughout the league where he sort
15617s	of is looking to be that Dark Horse
15619s	where he wants to creep up on the lobby
15622s	so that he's not perceived as a massive
15624s	threat but then find himself in those
15626s	sort of spaces where all of a sudden he
15628s	is very much a threat and he is sort of
15631s	perfected that it feels like today as
15634s	we've watched him walk away with not one
15635s	but three MVPs and almost four he
15638s	literally missed that last one by a
15640s	single elimination and that says a lot
15644s	given that the record is wbg spider with
15646s	three MVPs locked down taking a look
15649s	here aow's Mike with a 26.7 point day
15652s	sort of a disappointing day for Mike
15654s	Mike typically tends to have these big
15656s	pop off days and this is sort of middle
15659s	of the road for a player like aow's Mike
15661s	Casey's demo on the other hand already
15663s	with a four point lead over his previous
15666s	day it slowly but surely continuing to
15670s	improve day to day as demo finds himself
15673s	climbing further and further up the
15676s	standings this is exactly what you want
15678s	to see coming out of a new player coming
15680s	in experimenting with himself finding
15683s	his speed finding his momentum and
15686s	getting better in increments you don't
15689s	want to be a player who all of a sudden
15691s	just has a pop-off game and gets better
15693s	and looks okay for one game and then
15696s	come to find out that you just sort of
15698s	either had a lucky gay game or lucky day
15701s	that's not where you want to be you want
15702s	to find yourself with these little
15705s	increments of improvement so you slowly
15707s	climb it towards the top like players
15710s	like wbg spider GG Shaw here who've had
15713s	incredible days but it's Oshi Zhang Yu
15715s	Who currently holds the most points for
15718s	a single day and he isn't even done yet
15720s	today he is a sixth game left to play
15723s	today Raven
15725s	oh my goodness two two five with that 35
15728s	Point day and same with Mike with 26
15733s	points it's just like another tier above
15736s	all the rest for these top players where
15738s	you're getting these crazy 28 point get
15741s	days 40 Point days Kai Bao not having
15744s	the best day only with seven points so
15745s	far but having a previous day with 40
15748s	points just being able to crawl off one
15751s	day just goes to show how aggressive
15753s	some of these players and when things
15755s	start aligning up the stars align you
15757s	get these pop-off performances
15759s	something that is very interesting to me
15761s	and I continue to study it every single
15764s	day is how spider keeps innovating in
15766s	the meta and being as consistent as he
15768s	is you always talk about his mentality
15770s	and how he his mental kind of gets to
15773s	him a lot of the time I've heard from
15775s	multiple players that he's just not as
15778s	motivated to stay on top and if this is
15780s	a spider who is not that motivated to
15782s	stay on top and now he's like firing all
15784s	cylinders he's like all right
15786s	let me just find another way to reinvent
15788s	myself and he's at this place this is a
15792s	scary spider to go against now with
15794s	another question for one of these
15796s	limited boxes how many Echoes was picked
15799s	in game five I pointed this out chat was
15802s	it a one B two c three D four I know
15806s	exactly who played that akos the nerfed
15809s	kitty cat he was going crazy with it he
15812s	was making it work he got to end game
15815s	didn't win out but he was making this
15818s	work with a gutted Echoes I can't wait
15821s	to see what happens in the next patch
15822s	and before we We Came live I I showed
15826s	you the the the patch notes coming up
15828s	now everyone's been talking about Echoes
15830s	but there is something down the line
15832s	that asks us all questioning what the
15835s	competitive landscape is going to look
15836s	like and I was showing you run keeper
15839s	this Viper Viper is going to have a gold
15842s	F on her
15844s	silence and on her heel her anti-heel
15847s	that gives a 3.5 damage effect what do
15850s	you think that's going to do to the beta
15851s	root keeper like I mean I honestly I
15853s	think Viper has always sort of just been
15855s	on the edge of being able to be in the
15858s	meta we actually saw a Viper pick uh
15861s	last week in solos as well one that was
15864s	piloted very well honestly the only
15866s	reason that Viper ends up going down is
15868s	they make the mistake of ulting a little
15871s	too early heading into final Zone and
15873s	making themselves sort of a Target
15875s	because you're playing the only Viper in
15876s	the lobby when you cast that big signal
15880s	out that hey I'm Viper and I'm here
15881s	you're pretty easily going to find
15884s	yourself uh being picked out by the rest
15886s	of the lobby but I think Viper pretty
15889s	easily finds her way sliding into the
15891s	meta here because that silence really
15894s	being the F that everybody wants to run
15896s	onto Viper and having a big impact of
15898s	fights but the fact that you're giving
15900s	up a golden Focus to take it has been
15903s	one of the reasons a lot of of players
15904s	have been hesitant to bring Viper sort
15908s	of back into this meta and I've always
15910s	been somebody who believes that the V3
15913s	version of Viper that allows you to
15916s	silence players while you're fighting
15918s	them for the duration force yourself to
15920s	get up in their face you can follow it
15922s	up with that F2 and then it keeps them
15925s	silenced for even longer has been a
15928s	viable Choice into Solas and the fact
15930s	that we're going to see a golden Focus
15931s	added on to that F2 allowing you to
15934s	extend combos allowing you to sort of
15937s	hit through certain things now on top of
15940s	that is definitely going to bring Viper
15943s	into the meta you know there's a lot we
15945s	can talk about in that coming patch
15947s	that's coming up but we're gonna get
15948s	ready to go ahead and lock in for game
15950s	at number six so we're gonna turn all
15951s	eyes back on to these final hero picks
15954s	for the game many of these players
15956s	already having locked in their double
15958s	hero picks for the day a couple double
15960s	failures couple double tarkas coming
15962s	through so it's gonna be interesting to
15963s	see we get eyeball going to be coming in
15965s	on the target this is a comfortable pick
15967s	for kaim out demo somebody who we talked
15970s	about previously who has a fairly decent
15973s	Takeda saving that Takeda for the final
15976s	pick of the day Shen Yuan could be
15977s	coming in on the target as well and this
15979s	is a mixed bag of a Lobby I think Tarka
15982s	various Shea we're seeing spider come
15985s	back in you know this is spiders Comfort
15986s	pick I don't think this gets talked
15988s	about enough but spider when he came in
15991s	and had that explosive uh entrance to
15994s	the scene of the nbpl it was during that
15997s	meta that I hate the zipping meta that
15999s	sort of defensive meta that just allows
16001s	spider to prolong and take those fights
16004s	to the neutral where he wants to take
16006s	them so no surprises honestly seeing him
16009s	come in with this pick for the final
16011s	pick of the day ego going to be bringing
16014s	in and that sort of Nerf to akkos for
16017s	his second pick of the day for his
16019s	double pick interesting to see ego
16021s	bringing it back after it not doing him
16023s	very well earlier in the match that he
16026s	does picket esren going to be coming in
16028s	with his second pick on to Target Fong
16031s	gonna be bringing in the Justina back
16033s	and we're gonna see matari's cicada's
16036s	what a stacked Lobby in terms of
16038s	europics we're seeing Raven
16040s	exactly the this defensive stack Lobby
16043s	like you were saying
16045s	uh with the last day you're going to see
16047s	a lot of just like all right it's last
16049s	day now for the players doing well
16052s	they're just like all right just want to
16053s	Breeze through this we're gonna play our
16054s	defensive character just get to end game
16056s	get this over with but for the other
16058s	players who need this last hurray they
16060s	need to make something happen you're
16062s	seeing
16063s	and Justine has popped up you're seeing
16064s	a little bit of these targets pop up but
16066s	can Tarka really beat Feria and yang
16068s	this is the part where uh counter
16072s	comping or counter charactering is
16074s	really really important I'm hoping that
16076s	demo catches on to this uh there's just
16079s	a lot to learn when you break down all
16081s	the statistics of which characters you
16082s	should play on which day now going into
16085s	the off spawn we have a ton of players
16087s	at Temple we are saying you panaman and
16091s	going for this Matari pick as I was
16094s	saying before but spider fighting his
16096s	ISO fight and this is where spider
16097s	shines forcing you to this tough
16100s	position he doesn't care about getting
16101s	armor he's just gonna Force you the
16103s	decision and make you crack Shen you on
16105s	cracks with his skull from that lnb from
16108s	the pull sword trying to get away but
16110s	getting barely clipped recently the pole
16113s	sword has been buffed so thats lmb does
16115s	launch out before it was very much
16117s	feeling like you were stuck in the mud
16118s	you would press on the B and it would go
16120s	nowhere now it actually lunges out
16122s	almost as far as long sword
16124s	now with that it did adjust a ton of
16127s	combos because of it so if you're trying
16128s	to learn some of those dual weapon
16131s	combos with pull sword the hold is a
16133s	little bit different you have to go
16134s	backwards instead of the traditional
16136s	left with grade sword now we have Mike
16138s	dude Mike has been getting purple armors
16140s	all day today I'll spawn
16143s	and normally when Mike gets purple armor
16146s	it's over for the lobby but today it may
16149s	not be over for all this one now as I
16150s	say that though Mike takes railgun for a
16153s	ride hitting him with that menacing dual
16156s	weapon combo absolutely deleting from
16158s	another sending him back to his second
16160s	life Now demo dropping the grapple kick
16162s	combo dropping that long sword infinite
16164s	I think what that almost looked like a
16167s	focus line there's no way that's in
16168s	solos and Shaw ends up picking up the
16172s	kill with the F1 that AOE chip ending up
16175s	killing demo now Mike was lurking on the
16178s	outside with his purple armor he ends up
16179s	getting all the chip getting reset with
16181s	that dagger lnb lmb Crouch lb lmb that
16185s	dagger spam now shot against the wall
16188s	Against All Odds with Mike both mechs
16193s	out standing in front of each other
16195s	if you're actually in Mike in your face
16197s	or in Mac facing the other player you
16199s	can still die as I say that Shaw turns
16203s	around and gets AOE Splash you're only
16205s	safe from all damage when you hold right
16207s	click inside your Mech and go into
16209s	turret form when you're actually
16210s	standing up you are vulnerable to
16213s	attacks it's a very small window but you
16215s	can get demacked by monks you can get
16218s	hit by Focus attacks if you're facing or
16221s	even range attacked now fire will always
16223s	bleed through but it's something to note
16225s	when you play Feria make sure you swing
16228s	your face away from your opponent when
16230s	you're trying to heal now samuron you
16234s	want to see
16235s	uh her do better so that they're gonna
16239s	be way more girls in nbp I know there's
16241s	another girl as well and she's been
16243s	doing a lot better this week
16245s	and her fights are going pretty much
16247s	according to the plan it's just that
16249s	third party she just needs to iron out
16251s	the details of how third party's gonna
16253s	go Battle Royale being brutal especially
16255s	in this pro league when it comes to
16256s	third party
16258s	speaking of which on the edge though one
16261s	of the ways you can avoid third partying
16263s	is fighting these Edge fights where Mike
16265s	is right now and he's absolutely
16267s	decimating and everyone finding shenuan
16271s	again taking him down Mike wants to have
16275s	that 35 Point game he wants to end the
16277s	game the day strong he wants to show
16280s	that going into this last finals he can
16283s	pass spider they can go to first two
16285s	going into this final week yeah
16288s	absolutely Mike really having a great
16290s	day today you know even though he
16292s	doesn't walk away the MVP the last game
16294s	he still does very very well looking to
16296s	find himself in that space yet again and
16298s	he's on Feria as well so the more early
16300s	kills that he's able to secure it what
16303s	is happening here between Fang and
16305s	spider hold on I have to cut myself off
16307s	did I just watch them both Perry into
16310s	each other's face three times in a row
16313s	before trying to take back control of
16316s	the neutral what is this both of them
16318s	going for the read and just unable to
16322s	find it as if throwing out that rock
16324s	paper scissors paper back to paper back
16326s	to paper before somebody finally throws
16328s	the rock Haley van Gonna Hear invest the
16330s	Alton where wasn't happy to go ahead and
16332s	go into the staff looks to go with the
16334s	follow-up with the bubble coming through
16336s	is gonna make it impossible for fanga to
16338s	get that follow-up that potential swap
16340s	if he's got the great sword or the pole
16341s	sword in the back pocket he does find
16343s	the freeze again though and he's gonna
16345s	send wbg spider back to the soul altar
16349s	man I love the Mind Game the no mix-up
16352s	makes up and you just you just don't
16354s	expect someone these are two of the best
16357s	fighters in the game and they just Mash
16359s	Perry over and over just straight mashed
16361s	potatoes red what red one charge red
16364s	again you're never expecting it from
16367s	these players that they're just going to
16368s	play red but at the end of the day it's
16371s	very very lean because they're not
16374s	really faking it they're just going for
16375s	that commitment right away now fog
16377s	versus Mike Mike amends up committing
16379s	throwing that one turns immediately
16380s	throws the one charge period immediately
16382s	gets the Bonk has fallen against the
16384s	Rope but Fong does have the f1's gonna
16386s	be able to get a little bit of Health
16387s	you're gonna see Mike again immediately
16389s	commit light into one two three Fong
16392s	immediately commits ends up pairing this
16394s	is what separates the top players from
16396s	the bottom part of the league they are
16399s	very very committal they waste no time
16400s	they get in there there is no waste in
16403s	moving we like to call it between me and
16406s	my teammates playing very fluffy when
16408s	you're very fluffy very soft everything
16409s	you do is a faint and versus anyone with
16412s	a lot of confidence they're just not
16414s	gonna buy it they're gonna say that
16416s	you're just gonna Dodge here you're
16417s	gonna try to kill me with Dodges and you
16419s	cannot kill people with Dodges you need
16420s	to swing Fong takes his turn back with
16422s	the dagger lights over and over the
16424s	dagger demon Mike throwing of the first
16426s	fake getting Fong to bite on that one
16428s	charge Ferry ends up getting the
16430s	uppercut but soft true versus the Sheena
16432s	low ping privilege Funk able to get that
16436s	F1 but Mike still what we're doing we're
16438s	committing we're in your face we're
16439s	holding we're releasing these elements
16440s	found not able to get the Perry has to
16442s	use his all defensively waving the White
16444s	Flag backing off but getting immediately
16446s	an armor reset someone's lurking in the
16448s	shadows right now Mike has to be careful
16450s	he has a ton of kills on ferry already
16452s	he doesn't need to go too crazy panaman
16454s	Vibe checking veteran play checking with
16456s	the grapple seeing what everyone's hit
16457s	points out but Mike is able to pick his
16459s	health back missing the opportunity to
16461s	take down one of its most dangerous
16462s	opponents now Mike standing next to his
16465s	Mac not sure what this third party is
16467s	going to do now Fong
16469s	doesn't have his Justina old ends up
16471s	taking to the sky finding the max
16472s	grapple getting away from this Mike it
16476s	is the last day and we know Mike has no
16478s	break he is always going to put his foot
16481s	on the gas with Yang coming up Mike it's
16483s	just sad that he's not able to get in
16485s	the gang but going into yang we got your
16488s	boy Kai Bao
16490s	getting ready to go head to head here
16492s	with t-e's s rail gun can I bow 50 50
16495s	for these Realms today question is will
16497s	he be able to come in against that
16499s	Abyssal or I love this play for Tes
16501s	railgun right you don't know that
16504s	somebody's gonna have that Abyssal war
16505s	that Abyssal order so punishable if the
16508s	enemy knows you have it but railgun just
16510s	committing to throwing the blue getting
16513s	that Abyssal we're out catching Kai Bao
16515s	off guard because you don't know your
16519s	opponent's Soul Jades till they show
16521s	them to you and aft's railgun here just
16524s	absolutely able to capitalize on that
16527s	committal from throwing that abyssalware
16530s	out catching kaibao off guard I love
16532s	that sort of decision making coming
16534s	through don't you Raven
16537s	Aura is the troll Jade especially when
16541s	someone is high ping they just Loop you
16543s	over and over and you just don't know
16544s	that someone has some of these Jades of
16546s	Destinies when they just throw it out to
16548s	you immediately that's one of the
16550s	benefits of throwing that one charge and
16552s	that's where I think Mike gets a lot of
16554s	his strategy from and you see Mike
16556s	coming in with the double charge he's
16557s	like hey guys what are you guys doing
16558s	how about you talk to this nunchuck full
16561s	meter dump it's yoinking that kill
16564s	and now Mike with no brakes finds Fong
16567s	again Fong is like bro Mike can you get
16569s	away from me why are you stalking me
16570s	just on type of fog Fong's looking for a
16573s	little bit of a weaker Target not really
16575s	wanting to fight these failures over and
16577s	over especially a super Decked Out fair
16579s	with that purple armor and these full
16582s	custom skins you know with these skins
16584s	even though the players can't see them
16585s	there is a skin buff Mike rocking out
16588s	the style with the full decked out
16589s	cyberpunk and hail I don't know how I
16592s	feel about Tails I feel like Tales are
16594s	very distracting I'm very observant of
16597s	just little details on the screen
16599s	especially when the detail is these
16601s	giant beliefs the shots raining down on
16603s	me it's just Chang you coming in with
16606s	the optimal play my man Shang Yu is Mr
16608s	Optimum today he wants everyone to know
16611s	that there's a new kid on the block
16612s	that's going to play solid throughout
16614s	the games he's gonna go for kills he's
16616s	gonna go pick up kills Mike doesn't care
16619s	he still gots his foot on the gas
16620s	everyone is fighting even with these
16623s	Melissa shots coming down no one cares
16626s	and this is like one of the places you
16628s	can min max while you're playing Battle
16630s	Royale a lot of people get these tunnel
16632s	visions and you don't want to do this in
16634s	these multi-way fights the hardest part
16637s	of being a top player is understanding
16640s	the 1v1 V1 V1 scenarios like you can do
16643s	the 1v1 scenarios but what makes someone
16645s	super Elite is they're able to find
16648s	finesses in these multi-way
16652s	rounds and you see Mike like a police is
16654s	going up most players are just running
16656s	away they hear it go off they're going
16657s	to spread like cockroaches not Mike
16659s	Mike's looking for that opportunity to
16661s	get in there pick up more kills snowball
16663s	out of control let spider know that he
16667s	is still there and he wants to take
16670s	to his spot as a rightful top player of
16672s	the nbpo Mike coming back winning the
16675s	first week and despite her winning the
16677s	following two weeks now you might think
16680s	that these players going for all these
16682s	kills is just a throwaway but you do get
16685s	points by winning the weekly going into
16688s	the finals and as I say that I curse
16690s	Mike and he gets taken down so I'm sorry
16692s	Mike I'm sorry look I mean you know Mike
16695s	aggressively pressuring here puts
16697s	himself in position he does it to
16699s	himself right let's be honest we talked
16701s	about this being the weakness of Mike as
16704s	a player he doesn't know when to stop
16706s	fighting if you're a player who has five
16707s	eliminations in nbpl solos just ride it
16712s	out to end game you literally don't need
16714s	more eliminations than that nobody else
16716s	in the lobby even could have potentially
16718s	picked up five eliminations except for
16722s	OC Zhang Yu and he would have had to
16724s	have killed every single player in the
16726s	lobby that was left and the odds of that
16728s	happening just are not very high if I'm
16731s	aow's Mike and I have five eliminations
16733s	and we're zone three I'm just playing to
16736s	the end game like this has been such an
16738s	aggressive Lobby and I get it Mike loves
16740s	to play that sorry it's zone two we're
16742s	down to nine players like I'm I have
16744s	five eliminations I'm not I'm not
16746s	dealing with it I'm just going to go
16748s	walk away I'm gonna hang out in a bush
16750s	he was absolutely stacked he had a
16752s	legendary staff he had purple armor he
16754s	probably had most of the Soul Jades that
16757s	he wanted he had all the heals he could
16758s	have wanted this is Mike's mistake I I'm
16761s	not even gonna let you say that you
16762s	cursed her Castor cursed at him because
16764s	he does it to himself right he doesn't
16766s	know when to take his foot off of the
16769s	gas and that is his biggest weakness as
16772s	a player mechanically speaking Mike an
16775s	absolute demon when it comes to chasing
16778s	a player down and putting those blinders
16780s	on Mike an absolute demon knowing what
16783s	to take his foot off the pedal uh not so
16785s	much WBZ spider now going had to head
16788s	here with Wolves guy about wolves tries
16790s	to catch catch out the infinite there
16792s	but spider preemptively throws the
16794s	bubble predicting the possible infinite
16797s	coming out from wolves kaibao keeping
16798s	him from being able to catch spider out
16801s	there he does catch him with the
16803s	uppercut but not able to follow through
16805s	with the infinite because the bubble
16806s	protecting him from the Stagger lock of
16809s	that uppercut wolves just gonna go ahead
16811s	and cancel the ultimate year take the
16813s	opportunity to get the heels here really
16815s	optimal gameplay coming out from wolves
16817s	kaibao to hold on to as much of that old
16819s	charge as humanly possible finding space
16821s	to get the recharge wbg spider though
16823s	with that legendary staff that he was
16825s	able to take away from AWS Mike not
16827s	wanting to let kaibal slip away here but
16830s	kaibao more than happy to just go ahead
16832s	and keep the Run going on there's so
16835s	many players around here he knows he can
16837s	potentially exactly slip into the realm
16840s	of Yang find himself a reset by himself
16843s	a little bit of time the question is is
16844s	will he find his ultimate while he's
16846s	inside this fight in the realm of gang
16848s	versus te's S railgun it the run it back
16851s	these two players going head-to-head
16853s	again and this time will kaibal fall for
16856s	that Abyssal War coming out from the
16857s	dagger no Rogan actually has the staff
16860s	and the merciles havoc and says we've
16862s	completely swapped up the game plan here
16863s	the old coming out from railgun
16866s	unfortunately kaibao doesn't have the
16868s	ultimate own to return the favor here
16870s	and this is what I was talking about he
16871s	slips into the realm of Yang to find a
16873s	little bit of safety but unfortunately
16875s	that safety net not very safe given he
16877s	doesn't have the ultimate in the Tarka
16880s	versus Tarka match up here and railgun
16882s	gonna put it to the walls on wolves
16885s	kaibao for the second time in game
16887s	number six man normally combat would be
16890s	safe there and there'd be a little bit
16891s	of footsies but real quick just comes
16893s	down blazing with the merciless
16896s	immediately throwing Focus attacks now
16898s	we have ego versus Shu Zhang
16900s	choosing already forced into the the
16902s	mech and very very competent with this
16904s	tournament usually able to hit his
16906s	opponents playing very very patient but
16908s	ego making the moves on the kitty we go
16912s	on The Echoes using his agility to his
16915s	Advantage versus his filthy failure now
16918s	he only has 15 seconds to make this work
16919s	he still has alt up now Feria looking
16921s	for the grief oh it's so painful it's so
16923s	painful to watch every time I see this
16925s	tie every time I see this dueling tie
16927s	they just need to increase this by just
16929s	10 more seconds 15 more seconds so this
16932s	doesn't happen to players anymore and
16934s	choosing drags in the deep water and
16937s	drowns them both you hate to see it now
16939s	spider and Kai bow kaibao having that
16942s	Yang depletion getting the second life
16943s	and this is actually a really optimal
16945s	play if you're about to die anyway it's
16946s	worth it to go in the Yang hopefully
16948s	spend that neutral and end up getting a
16949s	second life now unfortunately him his
16951s	second life absolutely gets deleted
16953s	spider just as I'm saying this
16954s	explaining this spider just shows him I
16957s	got a gold staff probably Max attack and
16959s	you're just getting chunked that staff
16961s	hit as hard as a great sword he just
16964s	absolutely mauled him
16966s	no blue attacks just all light attacks
16969s	absolutely deletes him and spider is
16972s	just going into
16974s	this last day almost like three good
16978s	games ahead of everyone now some of the
16981s	players don't have a second day some of
16982s	the players do have a second day and
16984s	spider is absolutely annihiling everyone
16987s	now
16988s	railgun has a staff has shown his
16991s	bursting capability he's willing to pop
16993s	this old early doesn't need to play
16994s	neutral forever is willing to show that
16998s	frog stance with the target where you're
17000s	just jumping up and down with the r b
17002s	it's not as impressive as it was before
17004s	because you don't get the punch when
17005s	they get stuck in the stand to the
17007s	ground but you still get the reset and
17009s	do jumping rmbs over and over now we
17011s	have ego versus choosing another run
17013s	back ego
17015s	hoping to get through this day just with
17019s	a little bit more points to know that he
17021s	is staying but he's still staying into
17023s	showing his mentals very strong now he
17025s	is playing Echoes a nerfed Echoes so you
17028s	love to see it he's having a good time
17030s	he's showing what this new new character
17032s	is kind of capable of let's see if he
17034s	gets the F2 reset switches the pull
17036s	sword ends up getting grief on the
17038s	weapon Swap and now railgun comes in
17040s	with the merciless with the flank still
17043s	with the buff looking to pick up this
17045s	kitty cat showing him who's boss this
17048s	character is not here yet he's not
17050s	Target's counter tarka's here to stay
17052s	and he absolutely gets deficitimated by
17055s	Shang yuk with the kill steal yeah you
17058s	know zhangyu coming in and doing the
17059s	thing here I I'm actually pretty pretty
17062s	upset with uh ego as the player here how
17065s	he comes out of that realm of Yang with
17067s	old still intact just press the V key
17070s	you you know you're gonna come out even
17072s	if you still feel like you're gonna be
17075s	forced into the draw by jdg xujang why
17078s	are you holding on to the ultimate
17079s	knowing it's going to be refreshed
17081s	coming outside the realm of gang it
17082s	makes zero choice and sorry makes zero
17085s	sense to make that choice and then on
17088s	top of that into the fight with jdg's
17089s	two Zhang yeah again he holds on to the
17092s	ultimate till he's almost dead these
17095s	players I understand that there's the
17097s	threat of the third party but when
17099s	you're sitting here with Yang depletion
17100s	head to head with somebody like jdg XU
17102s	Jang who already burnt their ultimate
17104s	outside of the realm of Yang when you
17106s	come back out why are you holding the
17108s	ultimate burn it go ahead get yourself a
17110s	soul Bloom worry about what comes after
17112s	after you've guaranteed that you at
17114s	least still get to play the game I I
17116s	don't understand why some of these
17118s	players hold on to that V so long and
17120s	there's no excuse to come out of Realm
17122s	of Yang not having used your ultimate
17125s	for any reason whatsoever chujang though
17128s	still here with the Yang depletion a
17130s	minute and 15 seconds left or remaining
17132s	trying to find that Soul Bloom they are
17135s	so desperate to get their hands on here
17137s	but oshijang you sees an opportunity to
17139s	pick up their potential third
17140s	elimination and here's the thing zhangyu
17142s	starting to find that momentum that he
17145s	keeps finding towards these mid to late
17146s	games where he might potentially be able
17149s	to pick up yet another other Lobby here
17151s	railgun coming in and looking at to
17153s	capitalize on the third party here on
17155s	the gdg's uh going very very low looking
17159s	depression air into the Zone here that
17161s	zone tick starting to put in a lot of
17162s	work Zhang Yu though sees the
17164s	opportunity here is going to come in all
17166s	they need to do is clutch out a single
17167s	rain shot here on to chujang they're
17169s	able to find a little bit of damage but
17171s	not quite enough they're going to come
17172s	over the top looking to find out who's
17173s	going to find the elimination isn't
17175s	going to be zhangyu or te's so
17177s	railgunjangyu desperate for it will
17179s	fight it that's going to be the third
17181s	elimination of the game and Zhang you
17184s	looking to clutch out the potential four
17188s	piece for the day with three
17190s	eliminations under their belt they tie
17192s	things up with tease uh s railgun for
17196s	the leader of the lobby wbg spider able
17199s	to come over here and find themselves
17200s	another legendary staff to go along with
17205s	a legendary set of armor setting
17207s	themselves up for the heal off going
17208s	into late game Raven
17211s	when you're seeing such a juicy spider
17213s	going into the Zen game he has 30 Health
17216s	10 attack and 50 Mana that is a juice
17219s	out zipping you don't want to be an
17221s	opposite end of that especially if it's
17222s	spider because he's going to take
17223s	advantage of each of the situations just
17225s	the same way as shanghyu this is what
17227s	you want to do as Matari as I was saying
17229s	earlier if you're looking to get into
17230s	range
17232s	in especially in tournament form one of
17234s	the places you want to start is with
17235s	this pistol it's going to be there as
17238s	your tried and true finishing out those
17240s	one those last hit situations you're
17243s	seeing choose like able to get away over
17246s	and over but
17248s	zhangy was able to get that pistol shot
17250s	find that feed shot poke him to death
17252s	until he eventually caved in now
17253s	normally if you had a bow shot that shot
17255s	would be extremely difficult but with
17257s	that shotgun pistol you're able to just
17259s	put a giant cursor on your opponent even
17262s	using the grapple to use that little bit
17264s	of grapple aim assist to land that
17266s	shawnahan now we have spider who is
17269s	fully decked out on gin spider is gonna
17272s	be Unleashed it's he's just like Mike he
17274s	never takes his foot off the gas pedal
17276s	especially in these weeklies now in the
17278s	finals spider is definitely a little
17280s	more tempered but in these weeklies
17281s	going into the last day he's kind of
17284s	just trying to get out of here he wants
17285s	to eliminate the lobby as fast as
17287s	possible he's already secured first
17288s	place it's impossible for anyone to pass
17290s	him he's literally almost three games
17292s	three solid good games ahead of the rest
17295s	of the lobby that is how consistent wpg
17297s	spider is spider is just in a league off
17300s	his own ahead of the pack
17302s	with shangyou and kaibao poking at his
17305s	heels but the difference between spider
17307s	is he is just incredibly consistent that
17310s	means at many many points of his
17312s	strategy he is just out thanking you he
17315s	is getting he's putting himself in these
17317s	situations where he is more likely to
17319s	win than his other opponent now is that
17322s	just by feel is that by strategy I'm
17324s	sure spider has a great mind behind him
17326s	that helps him with all these strategies
17327s	guess by how put together I see his
17330s	gameplay just because he has the best
17332s	fighting mechanics doesn't mean he
17333s	chooses the best
17335s	uh overall strategy for a while he was
17338s	choosing Yodo and
17340s	tryhard was telling me he was in
17342s	discussion with spider that he was like
17343s	why are you choosing Yodo that pick is
17346s	kind of troll Jessica's in this current
17348s	meta Yodo traditionally has been one of
17351s	the best defensive characters in the
17353s	game because when you get to that heal
17354s	off situation you have this giant all
17356s	that heals you and you have an F3 that
17358s	absolutely bullies locations so no one
17359s	can fight you in these CQC scenarios but
17363s	then you add Feria Feria has an all that
17367s	she can do over and over without going
17369s	into it it gives her 50 all shards but
17371s	she can slam you denying that heal
17373s	Delight denying you that bully situation
17376s	he also has a gold F this the Goomba
17379s	samp also gives you a combo and as
17382s	I was saying all the spider looking to
17385s	get matari's lobbied here it's kind of
17387s	sad for me Rune keeper that all these
17389s	mataris just get absolutely picked off
17392s	in this target selection because she is
17394s	my favorite double pick but it looks
17396s	like as I feel when I'm playing here
17399s	when you get to these end games because
17400s	your ability to move is really really
17404s	good you still need to be able to heal
17406s	and you don't really get enough space to
17408s	heal as Spider cleans it up with that
17410s	gold staff Perry taking down Chang you a
17413s	I know you're doing a little really well
17415s	but uh it's wbg spider I'm here at the
17418s	top get back down there this is really
17421s	unfortunate too because spider pressure
17422s	is on to zhangyu zhangyu is able to find
17425s	the Escape except he's s railgun is
17427s	waiting in the wings with that merciless
17429s	Havoc catches out zhangyu and all of a
17432s	sudden zhangyu finds himself getting
17434s	lobbied due to a just poor third party
17438s	and unfortunately for Zhang Yu that's
17440s	just the way it happens sometimes right
17441s	like you you find yourself in a
17443s	sub-optimal situation where spider was
17446s	able to sort of catch you out and start
17448s	creating that pressure and then off the
17450s	back of that these other players look to
17451s	capitalize railgun was one of those
17453s	players looking to capitalize and just
17455s	puts them in a situation where wbg
17457s	spider is now able to keep the pressure
17459s	up and on to Oshi zhangyu and keep it
17463s	coming and because of that Zheng Yu just
17465s	not able to get away doesn't really
17468s	um play out the way Zhang he was hoping
17470s	for he tries to play a little bit of the
17472s	Mind Games with the positional on the
17474s	Matari and the invis but wbg spider
17477s	knows how those Mind Games Works knows
17480s	where you're likely to run away to and
17482s	is able to follow it up and
17484s	unfortunately when you are wbg spider
17486s	and you have a legendary staff you're
17488s	able to pump out so much damage so fast
17490s	that Perry typically wouldn't be a death
17493s	sentence on most other weapons but that
17495s	staff when it's legendary the Perry
17497s	follow-up into repost literally just
17499s	does the full health bar of Zhang Yu and
17502s	he doesn't even get the option to keep
17504s	playing the game past that you make that
17506s	one mistake spider gets the read and you
17508s	find yourself sent back to the lobby we
17511s	are down to our last four players the
17513s	zone six gets ready to collapse onto
17514s	zone seven in the next 22 seconds here
17518s	we're going to see things get
17520s	interesting railgun using that merciless
17522s	Havoc just to buy himself space the
17524s	problem being his railgun has picked up
17526s	multiple eliminations this game off the
17528s	back of that sort of surprise tactic
17529s	right we saw it during his first realm
17531s	of gang fight against kaibao where he
17533s	just lets that blue rip he lets that uh
17536s	Abyssal Aura come out the Wolves kaibao
17539s	not expecting and then a second time in
17541s	the realm of Yang against kaibao as well
17542s	he comes in with the staff SWAT swaps
17545s	things up and all of a sudden lets that
17547s	merciles have a grip but this is the
17548s	problem with using a soul Jade like
17551s	merciless Havoc to buy yourself space in
17553s	a final Zone like this everybody sees
17555s	you constantly letting it rip and you're
17558s	giving that tell away you're letting
17560s	these players know you're going to
17561s	continue you to throw that merciless
17563s	havoc and then players like wbg spider
17565s	have the read on you come in pick up the
17568s	Perry and very quickly you find yourself
17569s	sent back to the lobby Raven oh my God
17573s	Rune keeper I can't believe he just went
17577s	so aggro right there he just sends to
17580s	both of the Blues back to back that no
17582s	mix-up makes up ends up getting read
17585s	like a book just absolutely checked out
17588s	from the library just the definition of
17592s	do not spam Blues just max rage Blues
17596s	over and over really exposing his hand
17597s	and like you were saying he had was
17599s	having a lot of success uh surprising
17602s	players with that Jade but once the
17605s	surprise what's it what's it what's a
17606s	giga shown like the gig is up he can't
17608s	be just throwing out these these
17610s	merciless blues and expect these players
17612s	at max range not Perry that's just so
17615s	ambitious now we have Jin and Panda man
17618s	in this end game Jin pretty much secure
17620s	to make it to find I'd say around 32 34
17624s	points is really really safe the people
17626s	we're gonna have to sweat it is
17627s	definitely Fong and demo
17629s	at 25 and 26 points as much as demo uh
17632s	we saw him in the leaderboards he's had
17634s	some mixed results for the last two days
17636s	it is still really really good if you're
17639s	doing better than klai Fong now
17641s	finishing up this Lobby this last round
17643s	of the day we got Panda man he's in the
17646s	mech but spider is on that zipping who
17649s	is super Juiced out of his mind he has
17651s	massive hell tapes he has melee races he
17653s	has Max attack and he has that gold
17655s	staff with the sap he's just looking for
17657s	that Perry he absolutely deleted getting
17660s	with that pair he did almost the full
17662s	health bar of my man spider wants to go
17665s	home wants to lay in bed after a job
17667s	well done
17668s	he absolutely dominated his Lobby
17670s	showing everyone how naraka should be
17672s	played on every single character spider
17674s	holding the center having all the Jades
17677s	in the world looking for the hit Not
17679s	Afraid the release of Blues forcing
17681s	Matari out into the open there is no
17685s	Mech to come down this is spiders game
17688s	to win he's gonna look to get a perion
17690s	Jinn with the sap gonna get the bloom
17693s	gonna get the F on top of the old Panda
17695s	man with the mushroom a latched his
17697s	effort to take down this Juggernaut but
17700s	spider cleans it up and it just looks
17702s	like another day in the office Room
17703s	Keeper look at him oh my God absolutely
17705s	you know though here's the thing I was
17707s	just talking to somebody about this in
17708s	twitch chat while you were doing an
17710s	incredible job casting this final Circle
17712s	for the last game here is that wow
17714s	spider might come out on top here and is
17717s	at the top current top of the
17718s	leaderboard it's actually OC Zhang Yu
17721s	who will come out the overall top player
17724s	of the day with the triple MVP for the
17727s	day and the most score not only for
17730s	today but the most score in a single day
17733s	for this week thus far if he comes in
17736s	and has a Repeat Performance in his day
17739s	number two Zhang you will easily find
17742s	himself overtaking wbg's fighter
17745s	you love to see it I love good
17747s	competition because it forces these
17749s	players to the next level it's really
17751s	tough to stay motivated once you get to
17754s	the top and I know spider mentioned it
17756s	when he was at the top of nvp on
17758s	multiple weeks and then also going to
17760s	Worlds winning the final trophy he
17763s	lacked directions
17765s	now I don't know who got to him whatever
17768s	motivational coach he is doing just fine
17772s	because he is basically three games
17775s	ahead of everyone else everyone has a
17777s	lot of work to do going into these
17779s	finals and even though Changi was
17781s	showing the lobby what is possible that
17782s	these top players are mortal you can
17785s	take them down they do have weaknesses
17786s	and he's finding these nice holes in the
17789s	early game transition in the mid game
17791s	and that mid game transition in the end
17793s	game a lot of the Yang when it first
17795s	drops no one knew what to do you mainly
17797s	see the best fighters just going off
17799s	popping off absolutely bullying the
17801s	lobby but now you're seeing as this meta
17803s	developed these players finding
17805s	different ways to get cheeky uh
17808s	power spikes spots where they have a
17810s	little bit better gear a little bit more
17813s	confidence so they can go after these
17814s	top players who have all the advantages
17817s	in the world but once you get one of
17819s	these weird Jades like you were saying
17820s	like an Abyssal or a merciless if you
17822s	get that opener and someone's not ready
17824s	for it you're going for a ride there is
17826s	no dagger day that is bad this is one of
17828s	fox kind of secret weapons every single
17830s	dagger Jade is good so naturally he
17833s	gravitated in that weapon and when you
17836s	get the Stray hit from someone you take
17838s	them for a ride there are so many
17839s	different combos now at this point in
17842s	the raqqa almost a year and a half in
17843s	it's so crazy to think that narak has
17845s	been around for this long that combos
17847s	have been optimized to the Moon oh yeah
17850s	absolutely and you know there's
17851s	something I want to remind our viewers
17853s	at home there's a lot of thought going
17855s	on in twitch chat right now and it's
17856s	easy you know we get into the analytics
17859s	and stuff and sometimes we forget that
17860s	players might not know some of the rules
17863s	here in the nbpl so I want to talk about
17865s	the fact that in terms of hero selection
17867s	for the this final game you have to
17869s	remember that in solos we saw a shift
17871s	last year you're only able to play the
17874s	same hero twice one time so if you've
17877s	played Target G twice you were forced to
17879s	play a different hero every single game
17882s	a couple of people talking about the
17884s	Takeda pick coming out here from demo in
17887s	this last game but demo unfortunately
17888s	had kind of already exhausted his picks
17891s	throughout the day he chose to play that
17893s	Tarka twice that actually served him
17895s	very well in games four and five
17897s	he had a much better performance on that
17899s	Tarka that he's more comfortable with
17901s	during both of those games he really
17903s	wasn't down to too many viable meta
17907s	picks left for him to take going into
17909s	the day so you've got to remember that
17910s	these players have to play different
17912s	Heroes every single game when it comes
17914s	to solos and then a wbg spider here able
17917s	to walk away the MVP here for game
17919s	number six four eliminations of first
17921s	place finish gonna be walking away with
17922s	a game score of 10.4 zhangyu a little
17925s	bit lower down than he wanted to be in
17926s	this game with three eliminations and a
17928s	5.7 but aow's Mike able to hold on to
17932s	top three with five eliminations he'll
17934s	be walking away with a game score of six
17937s	the other thing to keep in mind for our
17940s	viewers at home when you're watching
17941s	those scores on the far left that's
17944s	their overall score thus far for the
17947s	week so a player like wbg spider this
17950s	was his second day you only get 12 games
17953s	throughout the week so wbg spider has
17955s	already had his 12 games for the week
17958s	players like oug's panaman or OC Zhang
17961s	you on the other hand this is their
17963s	first day coming in to their bi-weekly
17967s	meaning they only had six games to put
17969s	points up on the board so you're gonna
17970s	see those big gaps like wbg's fighter
17973s	who has doubled the amount of points of
17975s	say panda man this week but spider has
17977s	had double amount the amount of games so
17980s	for you people watching at home you have
17982s	to understand that there is a still six
17985s	games to be played for many many of
17987s	these players OC Zhang you being one of
17990s	those players who has a high chance a
17993s	very easily uh outpacing wdg Spider
17996s	given the fact that he walked away with
17998s	not one not two but three MVPs today the
18003s	only other player to ever do that in an
18006s	nbpl solo day was wbg's fighter you can
18010s	bet money the wbg spider has got his
18013s	eyes on OC zhangyu after today's
18016s	performance Raven
18022s	exactly Rune keeper man what a change of
18026s	pace in The Meta every single week of
18028s	nvpl always something new with the
18030s	justina's coming out
18032s	now I think the the elephant in the room
18035s	is Mike's performance today I love Mike
18038s	to death he is one of the biggest
18040s	Inspirations for naraka for me his
18041s	aggressive style and his whole style was
18043s	what I base my initial style off of in
18045s	the game now Mike with these five kills
18049s	Mesa rookie mistake by overextending
18052s	going for the absolute gold just even
18055s	with the ballistic firing off just
18057s	keeping going with that failure now it's
18059s	not even like he needed to take his foot
18060s	off the gas he could have just slowed
18062s	down slightly just a smidge he's going
18064s	like 150 miles an hour he can go 120
18066s	miles an hour and still go ahead of the
18068s	pack and he ends up
18070s	overextending and dying this is
18072s	something that you don't spider do as
18075s	much as other players spider usually he
18078s	will get aggressive and as soon as
18079s	someone else comes in he's able to play
18082s	the scenario perfectly where he gets the
18084s	other person third pod while maintaining
18085s	pressure and he joins the kill now both
18087s	of them really really good at picking up
18089s	the soul blooms after their fight but
18092s	there are certain situations that I know
18094s	spider just doesn't put himself in now
18096s	and looks very subtle because he's just
18099s	taking a fight after fight after fight
18101s	after the fight but if you're looking to
18103s	learn naraka and you want to get in and
18105s	start winning some of these tournaments
18107s	think about where these players are
18109s	taking the fights what kind of terrain
18111s	are they in and what characters are they
18113s	playing with which weapons because each
18114s	one has a different Advantage I like to
18116s	explain it like it's kind of like
18118s	Pokemon where water beats fire except
18121s	now it's weapons it's terrain it's a
18122s	character instead you want to think of
18124s	these countering situations to give you
18126s	every absolute Edge to win these
18130s	situations and come out on top now as
18132s	you're seeing you're seeing Shang Yu
18134s	coming out having a stellar performance
18136s	like you were saying Rune keeper and you
18138s	didn't really see super dominant play uh
18141s	we'll be right back if an interview is
18143s	ready and afterwards we'll wrap things
18145s	up for you guys folks
18147s	foreign
18182s	I could
18184s	uh because I want to have a tribe I
18186s	think maybe Hawaii is really suitable
18188s	for the map Hollow Rose well not only
18192s	today uh also like in the beginning of
18194s	these Seasons when there is like nobody
18196s	play vowda you play vowda and now nobody
18200s	play a coast you play AKO so why you
18203s	always choose the hero like not so
18205s	popular
18221s	um
18232s	okay
18234s	[Music]
18243s	the hero like considered a lot of
18246s	complex situations so I think if I
18249s	choose a coast like in the final Circle
18251s	maybe nobody will uh this will find me
18255s	and also in the beginning of the seasons
18257s	I play Wilder because I learned from a
18260s	really likes excuseful players so I want
18264s	to have a try Okay so
18267s	oh okay so let's move on to our new part
18270s	and so for Treasure and these times
18272s	question is how many games did xiaomi
18275s	from the same OC win today
18283s	so please children how do you think
18285s	xiaang's performance today
18290s	attention
18294s	[Music]
18297s	okay I think he played very well also
18301s	let's talk back about
18304s	because everyone knows in this patch Hui
18308s	is not the completely patch in in this
18313s	time but when the next week next Arcos
18317s	come when he had F3 and V3 do you think
18320s	Paco's whipping the key hero of the game
18329s	um
18335s	okay I think maybe not because I think
18338s	in the final Circle Arcos is not really
18340s	strong but there will be there still
18343s	will like a lot of players to play in
18346s	the next patch okay
18348s	foreign
18361s	talk something out of the game did you
18364s	see spiders and Panda mans cosplay Tarka
18368s	like America
18373s	how do you think about that
18376s	um
18390s	gave me a really
18398s	like a girl so if you have a opportunity
18403s	to like make a cosplay which here you
18406s	want to do the cosplay
18414s	to go
18416s	yeah
18418s	okay so I want to choose akos because I
18421s	think akos is like suitable for me well
18424s	so uh
18426s	how do you think echo's outfit on each
18429s	other foreign
18431s	[Music]
18435s	wow so you like the uh the hero who like
18440s	show his muscle in the game
18445s	now
18448s	[Music]
18449s	okay because I just like
18457s	this week is the final week of our this
18462s	season so like during the whole season
18465s	anything you want to say in the
18466s	interview now
18474s	um
18479s	okay I want to get a bi-weekly jumping
18482s	of the force by weekly I remember in the
18486s	last season you got two
18489s	is that right
18491s	[Music]
18493s	okay so
18495s	why these seasons
18497s	[Music]
18499s	still have no Champion now uh
18517s	because in the beginning of the seasons
18519s	I have like tried a lot of new things in
18522s	the game I still want to do more details
18526s	uh in solos so maybe there is to do some
18529s	problem for me but I will do it better
18531s	in the following games okay I know that
18534s	all the preparation is for the Grand
18537s	Final so good luck for you guys
18544s	okay that's all for the inter World
18546s	we'll come right back to the casters bye
18549s	[Music]
18551s	welcome back ladies and gentlemen Leah
18553s	thank you for the lovely interview and
18555s	jdging there uh you know he he's got it
18558s	right fashion truly is the end game like
18560s	you were talking about earlier you get
18562s	that that happiness buff that uh the uh
18565s	that cool Factor where you're like yeah
18567s	I am a looking good out here on the map
18570s	to Zhang gets it he is a man of culture
18573s	and we love to see it but Man Raven what
18576s	a great day of uh solos coming through
18578s	OC zhangyu coming in and tying wbg
18581s	spider for the record almost breaking it
18583s	not once but twice you know in the game
18586s	where he gets second he's literally one
18588s	kill away from that fourth MVP this game
18591s	he's really setting himself up
18592s	unfortunately he finds himself falling
18595s	down to that sort of uh third party
18597s	where spider sets him up and railgun
18599s	really uh kind of catches him off guard
18601s	there uh with that merciles of havoc and
18604s	then spider of course comes in and does
18605s	what spider does and knocks Down The
18607s	Dominoes that he starts on a tilt more
18610s	than happy to pick him himself up the
18611s	elimination there but zhangyu very very
18614s	impressive day coming out from this
18615s	playway he still has a second day to
18617s	play I can't wait to go look at the
18620s	final stats and leaderboards after this
18621s	because Zhang Yu really going to like 45
18625s	48 Point day very easy coming out of
18628s	this player uh and he has another six
18631s	games to potentially put points up on
18633s	the board and he's sitting in second
18635s	place against veterans like wvg spider
18639s	and aow's Mike who have already had both
18642s	days to come out and put points on the
18644s	board incredible coming out from this
18646s	player
18647s	as you were saying zhangyu I think uh
18651s	what's really really crazy about the
18654s	whole thing is he's not like spider and
18656s	Mike when it comes to going into Yang
18658s	now he did go in a little bit but he
18660s	doesn't revolve his strategy around it
18662s	and that just gives a ton of Hope for
18664s	all the other players if you're looking
18666s	to get in a tournament naraka and you're
18668s	any of these other players struggling
18669s	you don't need to let it get into you
18671s	that you're not going into Yang Xiang Yu
18674s	showing that there's another way to win
18675s	these tournaments perform Super well now
18677s	it still means that you're gonna get
18679s	into fights but where you get in these
18681s	fights jangyu has figured out the secret
18683s	he's going around picking up these tough
18686s	kills and he's targeting his competition
18688s	now a lot of these players are willing
18691s	to go for any other player anything that
18692s	believes they will scoop up they will
18694s	slurp up those skills but in order to be
18697s	the leader of these lavas to play for
18698s	that top three you need to take down
18701s	your competition now looking at the
18703s	leaderboards to end the day Shen you on
18707s	not having the best day only 2.2 kills
18709s	even though we saw him a ton in fighting
18711s	uh Axiron 4.1 better than she's done in
18715s	the past so she's continuously improving
18716s	ego also getting in fights all the time
18719s	today still banging his head against the
18720s	wall trying to make things happen with
18722s	11.6 unfortunate for him but 11 points
18726s	takes still a respectable scoring now
18728s	moving up in the leaderboards we got
18730s	Fong usually at the top of the
18732s	leaderboards playing very solid with his
18733s	dagger messing around a little bit a
18735s	little bit too early with the Wu Chen F2
18738s	but you'd like to see it I love to see
18740s	that new play but 25 points and a second
18742s	day he's gonna be popping up he's most
18744s	likely gonna call Demo a little bit on
18746s	the cusp this first week he ended up
18748s	getting first place around 40ish points
18750s	solidifying his finals run now will he
18753s	make it this time now I think demo Came
18755s	Out Swinging trying out some new
18756s	strategies so I have a lot of Hope for
18757s	the homie he needs to keep going at it
18759s	playing a little bit closer to the meta
18762s	of what characters were doing I think he
18763s	was had like 70 accuracy he had four out
18766s	of the six lobbies correct as far as
18767s	which character he should pick choosing
18769s	an absolute Monster Day 32 points with
18772s	gin having an okay day playing that
18774s	placement having a 13.5 probably
18776s	securing his placement though at 32.5
18778s	now the top eight where all the big
18780s	hitters are at railgun actually doing
18783s	super super well getting into the top
18785s	eight now he's probably gonna get push
18786s	down to the top 14th but still
18788s	respectable day with a 14th and 18.9
18791s	normally he's at the bottom 225 didn't
18793s	play today but Panda man again in the
18796s	mid-range he's always on the cusp being
18798s	one of the veterans having a really
18799s	strong day with 24.5 and Shaw tryhard
18803s	always talks to me that shot is one of
18805s	the stronger players one of the
18806s	aggressive players one of the uglers uh
18809s	unfortunately he hasn't had his pop-off
18811s	but he's still right there knocking on
18813s	the door and could be considered one of
18814s	the dark dark horses going into the
18816s	finals now your favorite kaibao not
18819s	having the pop-up day I was excited to
18821s	see your boy the see what he had
18823s	prepared of one win what what he did so
18825s	well his first hit I didn't happen to
18827s	capture that game that date but still
18829s	48.2 most likely gonna call and Shang Yu
18833s	like you were saying earlier RunKeeper
18836s	with his record breakings with all of
18839s	his new profound confidence who do you
18843s	think going into these finals is going
18845s	to take it who are your picks who's who
18846s	do you think's taken first who's your
18848s	Dark Horse all right so you know it's
18850s	going to be very very interesting to see
18852s	how finals goes you know it solos in the
18854s	next week are our last day of solos
18857s	going forward is going to be very very
18859s	intriguing to see because zhangyu does
18862s	have another six games to continue to
18864s	put points on the board very clearly a
18866s	48 Point day he's bought his way into
18869s	finals already we know this he's going
18872s	to go to finals the question is does he
18874s	keep the momentum going forward for his
18876s	last six games during the regular
18878s	bi-weekly and how does he perform in
18881s	finals this is something we haven't
18883s	really seen from Zhang Yu a massively
18886s	good performance during the week does he
18889s	end up making it to finals and continue
18891s	that sort of momentum and energy or does
18893s	he follow suit with some of the other
18895s	players like Tes railgun uh uh not your
18899s	wbg spiders but you're uh
18903s	um other players who typically will get
18905s	in there with these sort of high scores
18906s	and then not perform during the
18908s	bi-weekly or does he follow the pattern
18910s	of players like wbg spiders and aow's
18913s	Mike who are able to get in with these
18915s	sort of big Point leads and continue to
18917s	carry them during the final that's going
18920s	to be very telling of this player as a
18923s	player going forward in the future
18924s	because we've never seen them in this
18927s	sort of situation they typically kind of
18928s	come in in the middle of the pack have
18930s	maybe one or two hop-off games overall
18933s	during the bi-weekly final and then
18935s	because they were middle of the pack
18936s	they're a little bit higher up they
18938s	still get those placement points to go
18939s	to Worlds but they don't have those sort
18941s	of big explosive days like we see out of
18944s	them here today it's going to be a very
18947s	very telling week how this player
18950s	continues to grow and this week's going
18952s	to impact that great I want to predict
18955s	that Zhang Yu's gonna come out on top
18957s	don't get me wrong I would love to see
18958s	spider take do and then Mike take two
18960s	but it would be very interesting to see
18962s	this sort of Dark Horse player all of a
18964s	sudden come out find his legs here
18967s	during the last bi-weekly of the season
18969s	and kind of put a little a little dot at
18973s	the top of the eye and be like look I am
18974s	here to play I'm not just this middle of
18977s	the pack player I am here to compete
18979s	walks away with a bi-weekly final gets
18982s	those coveted points to go to Worlds it
18984s	would say a lot about them as a player
18985s	so I'm gonna put my money onto UC Zhang
18988s	you but if I had to put my money on a
18991s	second horse I'm looking at aow's Mike
18995s	he didn't have the performance that he
18997s	wanted to have today but this is a
18999s	player that is extremely hungry for it
19002s	and we saw that coming out of their play
19004s	style today and we talked about how wbg
19008s	spider not quite as hungry for it as
19010s	he's been in the past so aow's mic has
19013s	him in a little bit of an edge in terms
19016s	of that thought process going forward so
19018s	I would flip my secondary bet on aow's
19021s	mic but that's all the time we have
19023s	today ladies and gentlemen Raven thank
19024s	you for coming and being my co-caster
19026s	today ladies and gentlemen of naraka
19028s	thank you for being such a lovely
19029s	audience of course thank you to all the
19031s	incredible players today who put on an
19033s	incredible show for us to cast that's
19035s	gonna be it we're gonna see you guys
19036s	tomorrow for trios till then keep it
19038s	being amazing I'll see you then
19047s	thank you
19052s	[Music]
19061s	[Music]
19069s	[Music]
19076s	[Music]
19081s	thank you
19088s	[Music]
19112s	[Music]
19118s	okay kids
19123s	[Music]
19136s	[Music]
19145s	[Music]
19156s	what's up
19158s	[Music]
19164s	[Music]
19172s	[Music]
19189s	content
19205s	[Music]
19210s	so the odds armed in my favor I was soar
19215s	above the mountain I won't give an or
19220s	Surrender I'm the Phoenix in my head all
19225s	the scars beneath my armor I will wear
19229s	them like in order they remind me to be
19234s	stronger like the Phoenix in my head and
19240s	they can try to bring me down
19244s	oh push me to the edge but it won't work
19250s	oh no
19252s	[Music]
19254s	they can try to bring it down
19262s	[Music]
19264s	rise a thousand times
19269s	[Music]
19271s	oh
19271s	rise a thousand times

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