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1135s it's time to put up her shut up we're in
1137s the grand finals and I can't wait to see
1139s what ends up happening here this is the
1141s true text for both of these teams right
1143s now it's going to be about who wants it
1145s more who has been on the grind
1146s practicing this so
1149s much getting to the Grand finals that is
1151s a huge achievement on its own not to
1153s mention all that is a stake with the
1155s prize pool on itself coming away with
1158s that Championship Victory say that you
1160s can do it this is their chance to get
1162s that first place for
1164s Redemption they're here to make a name
1166s for themselves come out of these Gates
1168s Strong send a statement to all of the
1170s people that have ever doubted that in
1171s this
1174s tournament Luigi with the Tracer alone
1177s she has to try to keep this one up
1179s especially now that the Sal going on ala
1181s keeps guessing alive and allows the r to
1183s come through the mering rims on and Kuni
1187s never ever give up that's so much
1191s out not for drag comes out of the SE now
1193s it's bar code it's a real good shot and
1197s Genji is split in half
1199s make your final stand on midt about to
1202s get crazy out here but some need to make
1204s this the C the flex ends up getting
1205s canel get anybody else get a touch on
1207s the 33 me away the high left uncontested
1210s the f everything going way of
1215s kcg beautiful start to this game the
1218s third look at they focus down the enemy
1222s Sigma see that anim coming through and H
1225s key goes over the top immediately takes
1227s down Halo he goes down no support in a
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1239s without the Blass the rer onto the back
1241s line and the blizzard coming through
1243s from Zone going to pressure out Kindred
1245s and they just get melted there needss to
1248s be some way for them to keep on to only
1250s the players are falling one by
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1275s good morning afternoon and evening
1277s OverWatch 2 fans we're back for day two
1280s of the calling all heroes Challenger
1282s Series championship it's been a wild
1285s ride and we had some sweeps knocking
1287s teams down into the lower braet
1288s yesterday before we get too F much
1291s further again I'm your host Ash and I'm
1293s going to be joined on the desk by my
1295s lovely casters we've got two pairings
1297s this time and we've got Dogman and got
1301s Moxy welcome back you guys Moxy how are
1303s you feeling I'm doing good it's been a
1306s while we were last here with the major
1308s free we got to see a lot of these teams
1309s in action that has potentially moved on
1312s since then especially moving from Sigma
1314s towards the ratra but with this first
1316s match up I think we're still going to be
1318s seeing some very similar things coming
1320s through from Michael wave which is good
1322s in some ways but has a couple of
1323s shortcomings that we'll get to in a
1325s little bit yeah I'm looking forward to
1327s it but we've got to talk about how these
1329s teams have gotten here o overall I mean
1332s it's been the season long yearlong
1335s season I should say actually for the
1337s very first time um down in 2023 so we've
1340s got five teams that ended up qualifying
1342s through those Challenger circuit points
1344s and then the three teams through the
1346s last chance qualifier earlier into last
1349s month um Dogman when we're looking at
1352s the expectations here though what have
1355s you got to say well I mean obviously
1357s both of the Timeless teams have those
1359s high expectations you know they've been
1362s dominating throughout this whole you
1364s know tournament throughout the entire
1365s year and maybe for some of those lcq
1368s teams they don't have high have high
1370s expectations but they still are very
1372s talented a super super good team in
1374s kunoichi who has been really standing
1376s out in the lower bracket so far
1378s obviously with that three over Titans
1379s blue so although you know a lot of these
1382s teams have a variant of or a variant
1385s degree of expectations I think at the
1388s end of the day these Timeless teams are
1389s looking to win it all and maybe they
1391s have the most on their back yeah so
1393s overall storylines for you guys at home
1395s to keep your eyes on overall that
1398s consistency from those circuit Point
1399s Challengers teams and then to the
1401s surprise factor from our lcq members
1404s there that have come into the fry but we
1406s also have to chat about what they're
1408s playing for right the money that's on
1409s the line the prizing that we have to
1412s Vive for and not only is there that
1414s money Moxy these trophies are so cute
1418s you've got one for the MVPs and the
1420s Champions and even those participant
1421s space bars I was going to say the money
1424s is one thing the Merit is another but
1427s the trophies are the true showstopper
1431s but I think there's a lot on the line
1433s for a lot of these teams but none more
1435s so than for ESS aerial this is a team
1438s who have been competing since the very
1440s beginning of the 2023 circuit they've
1443s come they've taken every single major
1445s every single Championship if they don't
1448s manage to take this one surely they're
1451s going to be a little bit gutted that
1453s they're not able to complete the
1454s Infinity Gauntlet and add this last
1457s gemstone to the mix that's the thing we
1460s but overall on top of that you've also
1462s got to take a look over towards the
1464s money um I mean sure the prizing is
1467s there we do have those expectations for
1469s Timeless ethereal that they're looking
1471s to take it all the way home and what
1474s better driving Factor than that 20 grand
1477s prize pool pot of course you guys get
1480s the overall breakdown here on the screen
1482s as far as that individual cash that each
1485s player will get to pocket at the end of
1487s the day but we also have to look over
1490s towards where they're going to be
1491s playing on top of what they're playing
1493s for here Dogman there were some changes
1496s I know you and Moxy weren't quite around
1497s there for the lcq so we did have some
1500s adjustments to the maps that we're
1501s seeing coming in through compared to
1503s manger 3 yeah I mean a lot of these maps
1506s are you know I think who is it that
1509s talked about it yesterday I think it was
1510s CB who talked about you know the fact
1511s that Kings Row and Midtown have been
1513s thrown in there for the hybrids I mean
1515s there has been a lot of brawl regardless
1516s of map it seems we go to ba based on
1519s like I would say less on the map pool
1521s but I think things are definitely
1523s decided you know whatever the meta may
1525s be right whatever comes through with the
1526s most recent patch and those are the
1528s things kind of deciding you know what
1530s kind of happens obviously you know with
1532s maps like Kings Road rout 66 some of
1533s these older Maps it's maybe a bit easier
1535s for these teams to maybe want to play
1537s those as they have the most experience
1539s on them however at the end of the day a
1542s lot of what's decided in game is
1543s definitely based on you know which
1545s heroes are the strongest at the time and
1546s Moxy talked about it I mean ratra has
1548s been absolutely a force to be reckoned
1550s with so far in the championship series
1553s Racha definitely has been but you also
1555s have to keep in mind like teams like
1556s kenoi teams that are going to be
1558s bringing out some of those funkier
1560s compositions to uh kind of highlight
1563s some of their star players such as Sky
1565s skiest um on that uh that trademark
1569s Mercy if you will but not only are the
1571s players playing for something you guys
1573s at home actually have a chance to get
1575s those lovely twitch drops down in chat
1578s as well as a reminder to get those hours
1580s in here on stream because Moxy these are
1584s stunning like they slay make sure that
1587s you're account is linked on Twitch as
1590s well we've all been there we've all done
1591s it we've been like okay cool I've put in
1594s six hours on the stream I'm going to be
1595s able to bag all of those goodies and
1597s then you look to try and claim that
1599s dropping you see the connect and you're
1602s like oh no not like this so definitely
1605s make sure that your battl net account
1606s and the correct battl net account is
1608s actually linked to that twitches like
1610s you said there are some really great
1612s cosmetics and I mean the Cosmetics team
1614s never disappoints lovely to see as well
1617s that far has actually been seeing some
1618s play time in ch as well considering she
1621s is very much the mascot hero for this
1623s tournament the fact that we did actually
1625s get see kinichi as you said broke out
1627s not just that staple Mercy pick from sky
1630s but also the far alongside it yeah the
1633s farm Mercy was going hard yesterday that
1636s is for sure but let's take a revisit
1639s over towards how yesterday actually
1640s ended up handing out there Dogman again
1643s I think I talked about a little bit in
1645s that show open they were those three
1647s and0 sweeps over in the upper bracket
1649s quarterfinals for the very first matches
1651s of the day there for day one and
1654s honestly seeing three's across the board
1656s was a little bit surprising to me yeah
1659s yeah it was but I think while that is
1661s surprising I think it can bode well for
1663s you know viewers of the tournament so
1665s far just to see that three happen or so
1667s early on you know that kind of sets us
1669s up I think for the long run of okay
1671s maybe today we have some close matches
1673s in the semi-final no jinxes of course
1675s but there's a good chance that because
1677s early on in the quarterfinals all those
1679s three happened that's kind of maybe what
1680s you expect and as the tournament goes on
1683s you know the script writer is almost
1684s doing too good of a job where maybe
1686s today tomorrow in the grand finals have
1689s some exciting matches to look forward to
1691s um because also like you said even in
1693s the lower bracket I mean we had kunichi
1695s that also got the three the only the
1697s only difference was Fable um obviously
1700s going 3-1 in their series as well which
1702s it was a really hardfought series from
1704s both teams down there in the lower
1705s bracket so obviously moving forward both
1707s of these bracket teams also look really
1709s good so really Whoever has to drop down
1712s a low bracket from the semi-finals is
1714s probably going to be worried about both
1715s Konichi and Fable three's and 31s also
1718s don't necessarily tell the whole story
1720s about what a map in itself that score
1723s line ended up being right I know for the
1725s Fable versus inarizaki matchup those are
1728s pretty close on some of those Maps but a
1730s bit heartbreaking also to not even
1732s really get that opportunity for a team
1734s like VT blue to get that momentum
1737s started it seemed like they didn't seem
1739s quite like the Vancouver Titans blue
1741s that we had seen previously Moxy and
1743s unfortunately we did have to say goodbye
1745s to them yesterday yeah I mean they got
1747s delt a really tough hand to be honest
1750s coming into to that upper bracket having
1752s to go up against immediately Timeless
1754s celesti who are a very smart team the
1757s mechanics are incredibly clean but I
1759s think honestly the best point that times
1762s Celestial have on their side is how
1764s they're able to look at certain
1765s situations that they're in and
1767s immediately adapt scenarios on the Fly
1769s we would see where they would look for
1771s trades they would be able to sacrifice
1772s their tank to actually find themselves
1774s in a better positioning to bait teams
1776s into them with things like on King's Row
1778s that absolutely amazing amplification
1781s Matrix to set up this soen as everyone
1784s from VT blue sees a lack of that remat
1788s and thinks full steam ahead it's go time
1790s and walks directly into it when their m
1792s is still respawning and as a result the
1794s second the app goes up VT blue go
1797s packing to that spawn point and I think
1800s that dented their confidence like you
1801s said they didn't really get to start
1803s having that momentum they were very
1804s hesitant to actually put their foot
1806s forward against Tom Celestial because
1807s they were always having to second guess
1809s whether or not this is actually an
1810s opportunity we can take or this is
1812s something that they're making us think
1814s that it's an opportunity that we can
1816s take and as a result they just got
1818s incredibly nervous incredibly hesitant
1820s and when you're going up against her mat
1822s and may hesitation is something you
1824s cannot afford it definitely isn't but
1826s we'll have to continue the but that
1828s lower bracket run for those other teams
1831s a little bit later because we have to
1832s get into the upper semifinals to kick
1835s off our day and for the first matchup of
1837s course Timeless ethereal versus Michael
1840s wave and Moxy again these are two teams
1843s we didn't get the opportunity to see
1844s them on stream yesterday on day one but
1847s they have both obviously made a very
1850s consistent Splash throughout the entire
1852s season yes this is a team that well
1855s these are two teams that are incredibly
1857s known in the cah circuit ESS aeral
1860s you're not going to know that name
1862s unless you've been living under a rock
1864s because they have taken every single one
1866s of these tournaments by absolute storm
1869s arguably some of the best players in
1872s fact I would say bun is definitely the
1873s best May that we have in cah s Hill is
1877s actually going to be starting on off in
1878s the roster so excited to see what tank
1881s matchup is going to be there cuz the
1883s last time they went up against microw
1884s wave they were going into a Diest and a
1886s Genji and they changed their composition
1888s around it regarding whether or not they
1891s had bun on that mate mirror or if they
1893s needed to put them onto that Tracer to
1895s be able to keep an AR on the Genji
1897s looking to infiltrate into the
1899s backline and I mean Timeless ethereal
1902s without a bad doubt being the team that
1904s everyone is looking towards to be the
1906s ones to take it all but the question is
1908s if they're going to actually make that
1910s clean upper bracket run or if Michael
1913s wave can potentially give them a run for
1914s their money being one of those dark
1916s horses that everyone has to keep in mind
1919s here Dogman yeah I think that Michael
1922s wave are those kind of underdogs right
1924s if we take a look even at the most
1926s recent major right before the
1928s championship series I mean Michael wave
1930s had a real shot of kind of taking down
1932s those Champs really making like a
1934s statement that they are a team that can
1936s definitely compete at the very top I
1938s mean the whole lineup has been very good
1941s um realistically I we need to probably
1943s see that step up to the next level from
1945s them maybe whether that be from their so
1947s storm player in death or some other area
1950s they definitely have it in them to do
1952s that as well as they've been a team to
1954s always do well in the clutch too so
1956s realistically Michael wave is an
1957s underdog that is not only capable of
1959s winning the whole thing but taking down
1961s Timeless today would be absolutely huge
1963s for them which I definitely think it's
1964s within their right to do so we'll have
1967s to see what they've been cooking so far
1969s but overall we also have to consider now
1972s that we're heading into this next
1973s matchup as well maybe I don't know Moxy
1977s if for this first map do you think there
1979s could be a m pick that could favor
1981s Michael wave in the sense of trying to
1984s find that early Advantage I know we
1985s immediately see Leon cower coming in hot
1988s here as Timeless ethereals pick but
1991s sometimes that map pick ban as far as
1993s what we see actually coming into these
1995s options it can make a big difference in
1998s how a series plays out yeah I mean the
1999s last time we saw Michael wave and time
2001s ofil actually match up against each
2003s other was back in the major and it was
2005s Michael W who took control point so that
2007s is something to remember like Dustin has
2008s said they are an underdog coming into
2010s this but they are an underdog who' have
2011s already proven that they're able to
2013s stand up against this team however as we
2016s head into Li Jang we're potentially
2017s going to be seeing a lot of that ratra
2019s come through on control center but if we
2022s do head over to Gardens that's the
2023s potential the possibility that
2025s opportunity to see a junker Queen pick
2028s coming in through as well where you have
2030s that chat you have that Rush the ability
2032s to immediately position yourselves onto
2034s the point and then you basically bait
2035s them through that choke so that's
2037s someone can get grabbed out by the
2038s Jagger blade pulled out of position made
2040s vulnerable for your soan to absolutely
2042s shred down and there you just spiral the
2045s fight for numbers well we're going to
2047s have to see if Moxy 3 crafting does pan
2049s through here for some of those hero
2050s swaps we're going to head straight into
2052s this first match up you to have
2054s fun thank you Ash and the Jang Tower of
2057s the map will be starting on as we uh
2060s load on in Moxy I mean early predictions
2063s you obviously think that there
2064s potentially could be that JQ um
2068s what do you think the chances are that
2069s we actually do get to see that though
2070s right I mean both of these teams
2072s obviously like that ratra but you know
2074s we have seen that JQ come out at points
2077s what do you think we're actually likely
2078s to see as we load in obviously it
2079s depends on the submap
2081s but so if we go somewhere like Night
2084s Market we could potentially see a Diest
2086s come out from Mari however when we saw
2088s Mari the last time she did actually play
2091s a ratra over on I believe it was
2093s Icebreaker for Antarctic Peninsula if we
2096s head into Gardens I think I think that's
2097s potentially what we're going to be
2099s seeing soill pick up the junker Queen
2101s whether or not Mario's going to mirror
2103s it or come out on something like ratra
2105s cuz you still have a lot of distance
2107s line of sight angles that you can take
2109s advantage of you want to be able to
2110s block off the potential of the jagged
2112s blade picking those players out of
2114s position as the fight begins as well but
2116s it looks like we're just going to have
2118s the clean mirror matchup neither of
2120s these teams really wanting to deviate
2122s too far away the Jan Queen into a mat is
2124s an incredibly tough match up for the JQ
2127s actually be able to take advantage of
2129s particularly because the rat just has so
2131s much poke and is such a huge presence as
2134s the fight begins that a lot of the time
2136s the junker Queen doesn't get close
2137s enough to actually have 75% of her kid
2140s even available yeah so both both teams
2143s running that ratra has been kind of
2145s dominant so far throughout the
2148s championship series so now Michael wave
2150s and Timeless ethereal both go towards
2152s that bridge take off some poke initially
2155s saw Hill already the first one to take
2157s take control of that pillar side as well
2159s force that maywalt early nothing really
2161s comes of it for Michael wave so that
2163s utility already gone could mean that
2165s Timeless just push onto microwave
2168s however they've kind of locked
2169s themselves around the Doge that's a
2170s great area that's given death the
2172s opportunity to take out FN as she tried
2174s to go aggressive for moves bur from the
2177s server now you don't have that man
2178s anymore and you still have death pumping
2180s that damage in from the backline sill
2182s dangerously low and so is x0 on the
2184s other side of Timeless but they've
2185s managed to keep everybody alive for now
2188s that second mayw comes out from soe
2190s separates Timeless away as mic wave
2192s looked to cap the point out they do have
2194s some members back and in fact it's
2195s wicked to go down so Timeless working
2197s themselves back into it yin and yang
2199s they've done quite well bun also finds
2201s death so that damage removed from
2203s microwave and although microwave had the
2205s edge had the advantage they built up
2206s some ultimates first it doesn't matter
2208s because Timeless ethereal came back and
2210s are going to take the point first yeah
2212s soill livs that's the huge thing
2214s microwave find that first pick like
2216s you've said they had to to rotate onto
2217s the point however because because they
2219s put themselves onto that Dojo angle so
2222s that when the mayol was cool down they
2224s still had all the defensive capabilities
2226s to dodge around the potential sodium
2228s pick it meant that when the point
2229s started to unlock they had to challenge
2231s time with spal by walking directly into
2234s them and as a result now they're going
2236s to get picked apart time and time again
2239s on these approaches losing that Baptist
2242s is the absolute worst thing because you
2244s have the amplification Matrix to try and
2246s rely on on using setting it down
2248s breaking apart the space that t fa will
2250s have holding on to to just get out of
2253s Choke alive so good what they do over
2257s mic wave finally has regrouped nearly
2259s 40% on the board ultimates nearly even
2262s except that overclock not going to be on
2263s death side and same with the
2265s annihilation Mari Bard by bun is here as
2268s well as microwave tried to walk in
2269s immediately removes Mari sill tries to
2272s take some space with the annihilation
2273s forces the beat drop also has the Pucket
2275s here I mean what better way
2277s close out on this team fight in
2278s particular with just that blizzard in
2280s Annihilation Michael wave you both
2283s support yeah what's the golden rule of f
2287s never commit both support ALS in one
2289s fight unless it's the last fight and to
2291s make Ms even worse Timeless aerial hold
2295s on to both of that so Zoe can try and
2298s use that blizzard to just put themselves
2301s onto point and force ESS aeral off of it
2303s to try and find that flip but time have
2305s all of the sustainability to keep a tank
2307s an could use the amp Matrix make sure
2309s that they stay alive and just not allow
2311s the contest to go through and Tim should
2314s be aware that so's got the blizzard so
2315s they're probably trying to play around
2317s that too however at least one person
2319s should get caught out by it however
2320s they're using that pressure just to take
2321s the point for now Michael wave nearly
2323s 60% towards the flip now a counter
2325s engage by Z with that amplification
2328s Matrix there's the blizzard to stop it
2329s overclock is here on the outside allowed
2331s them to find Death as well so no more
2333s overclock in sight for Michael wave yes
2335s they took that point however no more so
2337s Jordan here and look who's taking all
2338s that space in Saw Hill however W oh my
2341s God what a B on to bun however does cost
2345s W for wife sadly so no more Lucio here
2347s and yeah everybody just kind of closes
2349s out on this point and what an amazing
2351s job by Timeless ethereal overall and
2354s that's map number one Gardens goes in FA
2356s or submap number one goes in favor of
2357s Timeless ethereal yeah Timeless ethereal
2360s know that they have banked up enough
2362s point percentage that if a blizzard
2364s comes through they can abandon that
2365s point they can regroup later because
2367s it's only about 10% that microwave are
2371s allowed to pick up and then Mari has to
2374s turn around and use Annihilation not to
2377s push back onto the players of time
2378s Seal's front line but to actually peel
2381s for the backline of your own team and as
2384s a result yet again the flip goes over
2386s seesaws onto to Aerial side and
2389s microwave just don't have the point
2390s percentage nor the bodies as they lose
2393s one by one player by player dropping and
2396s they lose so so many plays in such a
2398s quick succession that no one is able to
2400s actually get back in time to start that
2402s contest fight and now we had over two
2404s Night Market it again is going to be
2406s that mirror it again is going to be that
2408s overall swap but we're going to see Zoe
2409s this time actually taking a far longer
2412s off angle try and infiltrate and put
2414s more pressure on the back line yeah I
2416s mean maybe it's tough to get really good
2418s May walls off here too bun finds so
2421s early two on that Left Flank I mean they
2422s took care of it they sent three to deal
2424s with two on the Left Flank and microwave
2426s didn't even react
2427s Perfect re-engage by Timeless etheral
2429s they're looking like a well oiled
2430s machine right now it's such a hard one
2433s to try and break as well you don't want
2435s to get stuck in that original choke
2437s because that's where the Mayall is going
2438s to have all of the value you want to try
2440s and flank into the back line so you can
2442s potentially something like the M or to
2444s break line of s side of the heal from
2446s that Baptist onto s heill to try and
2448s deny the tank presence from stopping
2450s Michael away from walking forward
2451s they're at least going to be able to
2452s pick out x0 before they can move out of
2455s that choke but bun is just being an
2456s absolute for in their side at the moment
2458s not allowing them through passage onto
2460s Point yeah but this is this is how
2462s microwave can kind of like get
2463s themselves back into it you know with
2465s that pick off from soe this is what you
2468s wanted from that a garden it's it's a
2469s lot harder I would say on that map
2471s because of how much cover is here maybe
2472s Night Market gives them that retake
2473s potential but microwave they fli that
2475s point Moxy and they're not too far off
2477s in terms of vol charge either yeah now
2479s they have that choke you can see as well
2480s microwave is splitting their team
2482s they've got that may with Zoe and also
2484s wicker on the Lucio in case you get run
2486s down down on to be able to use that
2488s speed and get everyone out safely you
2490s can see it t they tried B wanted to wall
2492s off but zo's able to get away with the
2494s help of wo zo we using a lot of those
2497s resources to stay alive now had to use
2498s ice block so they're caught out at the
2501s moment this window really just trying to
2503s save Zoe but Zoe Falls I mean kind of is
2506s tough for microwave unfortunately Zoe
2508s really trying to exhaust or just
2510s exhausted all of mik wave's resources
2512s trying to save him now mik wave back
2514s towards the point without their M they
2515s get engaged on by time who dropped their
2517s own amplification Matrix to microwave
2518s want to use any ultimates here they
2520s already lose agmr so yeah everything is
2522s kind of falling apart at the seams for
2524s microwave towards this point Timeless
2527s will take the point flip it back in
2528s their favor microwave however coming in
2530s with a lot of ults to this fight have to
2533s be careful that they don't get CAU out
2536s however losing another player in choke
2539s are we going to see ESS fi try the same
2541s thing by keeping that may on the off
2542s angle yeah you can see F just trying to
2544s keep an eye out make sure that microwave
2546s going through that choke immediately
2547s meeting sill rather than looking for
2549s that off angle yet again so is that such
2551s an early Mayall and as a result bungus
2554s throw the blizzard knowing it's not
2555s going to be blocked in line of sight oh
2557s my God but there was a gap the microwave
2559s could fit back through counter beat from
2560s Halo to keep their team alive as well
2562s Zoe drops the blizzard onto the front
2564s line so s Hill is frozen finally will go
2567s down the lamp a little bit too late
2568s there for Z that was a slight mistake
2570s that usually we don't see Timeless make
2571s counter overclock from x0 trying to make
2573s a hero play but everybody's already gone
2576s from timeless
2577s surely eventually they'll fall to yet
2579s they do and M wave will come back
2580s they're making it close here on Night
2582s Market AJ is going to be coming in of
2584s the ant Matrix death is going to have
2586s the overclock Mario that potential to
2588s entirely shut down all of this base with
2591s Annihilation but soill has an
2593s annihilation of your own and that means
2595s that if the amp goes through theat can
2596s just pop all and wol right through
2600s it playing this CH Point drops the
2603s vortex still holding around this corner
2605s as well trying to make sure Timeless
2607s fight for all of this space but they
2609s already drop back towards the point Halo
2610s on the flank again has been so proactive
2613s on the loose R amplification Matrix here
2615s big window with the overclock to does
2617s the annihilation slow it down from s
2619s Hill does have the immortality field can
2621s they actually find S Hill in time they
2623s do with counter Annihilation but it does
2625s cost soe their life however Michael wave
2627s maybe just with that one kill because
2628s the ratra is gone this is this is
2631s potentially fight winning and map
2633s winning for microwave they drop back
2634s towards the point 90% of the board
2636s counter window from Z but not really any
2638s value found just there only some space
2641s created yeah back on the doomfist comes
2643s back towards the fight the boots again
2645s from Halo but nobody's off the map Halo
2647s then tries to fall back towards the rest
2648s of the team but it's Mar death to find
2650s two again in microwave they're coming
2652s together in this overtime to shut down
2654s Timeless ethereal they only had this
2656s blizzard here but bun you know saving it
2658s for next map basically just kind of
2660s cosmetic as we're going to round number
2662s three on the very first map of the day
2664s yeah Michael way making it competitive
2667s able to take Night Market they're able
2669s to exhaust a lot of the ultimates that
2671s Timeless had going into what was last by
2673s territory and Tim of they know it's last
2675s white territory you see that overc
2677s commitment that overstep that you
2678s normally wouldn't make if you lose a
2680s tank that usually signals trying to back
2683s on off regroup and save ultimates for a
2685s later fight they know that they don't
2686s have the percentage to be able to play
2688s it that way however so we see the full
2689s commitment come through so heill
2691s swapping onto that Doom trying to come
2693s back in time with the roll light over
2694s from Cliff side to regroup group while
2696s those ultimates are still active but
2698s microwave expect it they're able to see
2700s the Doom frad away Zoe even coming back
2702s in on a Genji of horon so she can do
2705s pretty much the same thing as now we
2707s head into Control Center and if you
2709s thought the May was valuable before that
2711s value just went up exponentially these
2714s walls are going to have to be absolutely
2716s Pixel Perfect from both of these players
2719s 100% agreed this is definitely a map
2721s where May tends to shine a lot more at
2724s least this submap compared to the other
2725s two
2727s meanwhile Michael wave they have full
2729s white control on the right side but
2731s they're bit split right I mean they
2732s maybe get mayal here like he said from
2734s fine however yeah they lose Zoe already
2736s I mean just the counter gauge is there
2738s everybody's too split death wanted to
2739s kind of play from Main so you could see
2742s you know kind of a difference in terms
2744s of how they wanted to play that however
2745s death does find X10 at the very least so
2748s they're kind of working themselves back
2749s into this off of death's positioning
2751s they'll have their players back before
2753s Timeless do so Timeless do get that
2755s first point Capa however they're in a
2757s four versus five now Michael wave do
2759s they take advantage of it they drop onto
2761s sill but sill drops forms changes forms
2763s to stay alive and stay healthy so they
2765s trade pack s however death still finds s
2767s Hill and now with the ratra you don't
2769s have any more Frontline pressure it's so
2770s hard to win without your tank and now
2773s time with yeah they're just going to
2774s back up build some ultimates and wait
2776s for sill to come back yeah towns fa not
2778s able to find that store that they were
2779s looking for bun was playing towards
2781s control uh room rather than on the point
2784s itself so you don't have that store
2786s presence with the ice block and the war
2788s instead now we're going to see the
2789s regroup and Matrix coming on out early
2791s from microwave to buy position so they
2793s can try and flush P the aerial back off
2795s of that point into death who's building
2798s up so much all charge on the sojan but
2801s neither the window has come from Michael
2802s wave time with aerial bite back nice
2806s window with X10 to shoot through it
2808s gives them that kill and now saw Hill
2810s also takes down Mari Michael wave just
2812s slowly falling apart here we're going to
2815s have 40% of the board here but Timeless
2817s etheral will get the objective back on
2820s their side so he's going to have
2822s Annihilation Mari as well he going to be
2825s able to have it to much both of these
2827s lucios holding on to the sound barrier
2829s are we going to see the commitment of
2831s that Annihilation to try and flush out
2834s that support ultimate to set the stage
2835s for these blizzards to find more value
2838s ex and death also Incredibly Close and
2841s similar to those charges on that
2844s overclock as melave takes an off but
2846s Halo spotted them out yeah and into the
2849s Vortex too oh my gosh before the beat
2852s can even drop the save death
2854s unfortunately happened far too fast for
2856s death to react wi now will go down to
2858s x102 Annihilation here from sill just to
2861s kind of inish off everybody from Michael
2863s wave and they do so quite well nearly
2865s 60% of the board now for Timeless
2866s interial Michael wave trying to sneak
2869s yet again this is a very sneaky team
2872s whether it's Zoe playing pseudo Tracer
2874s with the m looking to dive in into the
2876s back line of death wanting to taken off
2878s angle with that overclock and catch
2880s someone unawares before the S comes
2882s through in time to save them and
2884s unfortunately it meant that they were a
2885s little bit too predictable as BN is able
2889s to ice pick Dev who yet again is sent
2892s packing the wall making it even harder
2894s for microwave to be able to retreat as
2896s with control of all of this space
2898s Timeless a will just burn microwave out
2900s of so much point percentage we on last
2902s fight yeah now buns got to pretty much
2904s the world in her hands at the moment
2906s with that blizzard trying to distract
2908s her at the moment towards the white room
2910s wait for their so Jordan to come back in
2912s fact soe goes first with their own
2913s blizzard sill gets caught out but the
2915s immortality field with the window here
2916s should keep sill alive through that and
2918s now a counter engage X1 finds one with
2921s the overclock annihilation in Desperate
2923s Times to try to counter but you can't
2925s that's a 3K for X10 in this fight bun
2928s finds the fourth rck goes down and
2930s Timeless ethereal will take map number
2932s one in this first to three yeah there's
2934s just no iWood pressure on the soan when
2936s that overclock starts to come through
2937s because everyone from microwave all of
2939s their attention has to go onto that
2941s point if they step off of it the round
2943s is done regardless so all they can do is
2945s just stand and take all of that damage
2948s as XM is able to pop on off it looked
2951s close on Night Market but this is
2954s something that th s are incredibly good
2956s at it's something that we actually saw
2958s them taking advantage of the last time
2960s these two teams matched up against each
2962s other they stumble for a moment a miss
2966s second and then they look at your win
2968s condition they look at how your team is
2969s operating how they're positioning they
2971s download that strategy and they figure
2973s out your next step before you even take
2975s it and you could see every single time
2977s they were in control of that point it
2979s wasn't just the point they were playing
2981s in control of it was all of the space
2983s alongside it as well every time Michael
2985s wave thought that they were being one
2986s step ahead Timeless aerial were already
2990s standing there tapping that watch yeah I
2992s mean that was you you see some of these
2995s like really dominant teams kind of like
2996s if we noticed on Gardens they maybe
2998s slipped up slightly at the very
3000s beginning you know maybe you take that
3002s like first map warm up or something but
3004s you know Timeless they really didn't
3005s lose a step like you said sure Night
3008s Market didn't go their in their way but
3010s you know besides that they looked really
3012s good Moxy I mean throughout the entire
3014s map everybody kind of stepped up X10 bun
3016s saw Hill Halo and Z all had their own
3018s moments meanwhile microwave what can you
3021s give them really I mean it was just kind
3023s of like soe had a had a good pick off at
3026s one point I mean what what what takeaway
3028s do we have if you're on the side of uh
3032s microwave to give them some sort of you
3034s know excitement coming into this next
3036s map I mean I want to see more
3038s Shenanigans come through from them
3040s they're risky because if you are
3042s splitting your team off you were ready s
3045s right Timeless aerial they started
3046s figuring out that they would be playing
3048s split apart rather than the May with
3051s that ratra to try and find Value and
3052s isolate some of those targets down and
3055s as a result we saw three players from
3058s Timeless aerial committed rather than
3060s one or two to watch the flanks because
3063s they know it's not a sort of guessing
3064s game it's not a maybe we'll put a couple
3066s of players here and it could potentially
3068s find Value it's we know they're going to
3069s show up here so we're going to make sure
3071s that we always outnumber them in a fight
3073s so I want to see either the full
3075s commitment to that strategy from Michel
3078s wave where they all go for those
3080s rotations so that it's five players
3082s rather than two that don't immediately
3083s get overwhelmed or they mix things up
3086s and temper that strategy a little bit
3088s more because doing that once is good it
3091s leaves your opponent guessing it means
3093s that you're always going to be turning
3094s around trying to watch your back figure
3096s out whether or not you need to be on the
3098s lookout to keep your back line safe but
3100s doing it twice and then fice falls into
3103s a pattern which becomes predictable and
3105s when you're predictable and OverWatch at
3107s this level unfortunately it's on the
3110s same level as being
3111s dead basically 100% it's for microwave
3115s coming into this 100% agree with you
3116s it's like they got to mix something up
3118s here um obviously it's not the
3120s composition because really at the end of
3123s the day you know you see fans be like
3125s okay we need to play something else
3126s different comp maybe something you're
3128s getting kind of smoked on this current
3129s one why don't you try something new but
3131s you can't really do that right
3132s especially on the next map which is
3133s King's roox mean you know him better
3135s than anybody this is another really good
3137s ratra map um you don't change anything
3140s up except your play style maybe like you
3142s said and Kings Row is a map where
3144s Timeless ethereal are still very good
3146s team I mean you talked about it as well
3147s in the previous major the one map that
3149s microwave did win was control now you
3152s don't win that too I mean you got to be
3153s a little bit worried right yeah
3155s especially I mean like you said King is
3158s a very good map for the May for the
3161s ratra it's also a really really good map
3164s for the soen a lot of off angles a lot
3166s of space that you might not necessarily
3169s be expecting a DPS to be already
3171s occupying and something that we haven't
3173s really talked about is the difference
3175s between these two surgeons a lot of it
3177s is down to the fact that because
3179s Timeless will keep winning these fights
3181s keep controlling that space X10 is
3183s already set up for victory right already
3187s having that Advantage already having
3188s control of that off angle gets to
3190s pre-fire before anyone from microwave
3193s steps forward so Zoe is always having to
3195s play on the
3196s reaction but again when you're able to
3200s come out with 32 eliminations in three
3203s rounds of control that imediately Sparks
3206s alarm bels this is a play that you need
3208s to be able to shut down and you need to
3210s start doing it now yeah I mean it's I
3214s guess I guess it's tough though boxy cuz
3215s it's like it's just easier to said that
3217s done cuz like what do you do against
3220s Timeless theal where you shut down one
3221s player but everybody else kind of plays
3224s to to that same level that other player
3225s did that that has been the star of this
3227s team you know it's it's an absolute
3230s monster that you're dealing with on the
3231s side of Timeless ethereal is's a reason
3233s they've done so well in every single
3234s tournament so far leading up to Champs I
3236s mean maybe I guess on the opposite side
3239s for microwave Moxy you could I guess
3241s give them a takeaway like maybe now that
3243s the the lights are brightest that it
3245s could potentially impact the performance
3247s of Timeless ethereal but on map number
3249s one I mean they didn't even seem phased
3251s right Moxy I mean they just were
3253s constantly like a just a well Machine
3255s just going moving forward making sure
3256s you didn't have any space always finding
3259s those pick offs and and I guess the best
3262s thing you could do is just try to fix
3263s those tiny mistakes and hope that it
3265s pans out yeah th safal they were a very
3268s smart team even if you think about you
3270s know that first fight that they took on
3271s leian Gardens where they lose they they
3274s draw well they lose First Blood right
3277s Michael wave were able to find that
3278s first pick because they have that
3279s forward positioning already into Dojo
3282s but time and the ferial are again
3284s looking one step ahead they know that
3285s Dojo is going to be a strong position at
3288s the beginning of the r because the
3290s natural cover but as soon as that point
3292s becomes capturable it actually becomes a
3294s lot more problematic than positive
3296s because it means that you have to rotate
3297s on to point through the open space and
3300s if a team is already set up on point
3302s they get to continue holding that
3304s natural cover with the pillar directly
3306s in the middle of the point and they also
3308s get to set their soen up to already have
3309s that line of sight on that rotating
3312s repositioning team and this is something
3314s that time aeral took advantage of time
3316s and time again because when we were
3319s seeing the may flanks come through from
3322s Zoe it meant that the May was away from
3324s the confence
3326s you were trying to set them up you're
3327s not already in that fight and as a
3329s result May is in this composition not
3332s just an incredibly aggressive tool but
3334s also an incredibly defensive tool things
3337s like that wall or even the ice block in
3339s itself being used to be able to absorb a
3341s lot of the damage and frat coming
3343s through from that soan all of that was
3345s removed in its entirety and Exon got to
3348s Free Farm yeah I mean I I like how you
3351s brought up earlier you know Timeless
3353s theal thinking like one step ahead and
3355s you know that is what all the best
3356s players do right it's just always
3358s thinking you know before you know
3360s instead of reactionary right always
3361s thinking okay you know if this happens
3363s then I'll I'll do this as a team will do
3365s this and it's that you know overall High
3367s mind mentality that Timeless ethereal
3369s like like you pointed out are just
3370s really taking advantage up right now
3372s it's not just time with FAL it's also
3373s time with Celestial might potentially no
3376s there it is actually just going for a
3378s little bit of an attempt of a night bun
3380s looking to maybe come in with that Mercy
3382s pocket to a couple extra shots of damage
3385s as is able to immediately shut the
3388s defens of sergeon down and that is all
3390s hands on deck green sign is go Timeless
3392s aeral moving forward and trying to take
3394s a off of first fight I mean that was an
3397s absolutely nice shot from bun and then
3400s xpen finds off Zoe too yeah everything
3403s just falls apart at that point right Mel
3405s wave at best they could hope that they
3407s get quick deaths here maybe get a
3409s recontest but definitely not at this
3412s point Timeless ethereal they're just
3414s going for more they even far death again
3416s I mean death I don't know we need to
3417s look at the deaths per 10 after this but
3419s you know death might be up there with
3421s the leading category after the end of
3422s this game yeah that is really
3425s unfortunate again time aerial they count
3428s out that respawn timer X and just power
3430s slides into position knowing that death
3433s is going to be using that Mobility to
3434s try and regroup with the team as fast as
3436s possible and takes you down Mari onto
3439s that orisa is going to make it even
3442s harder for Michel wave to find this
3445s because that orisa is just an absolute
3447s walking hit box will be able to use
3449s things like the javelin spin to absorb a
3451s little bit of that damage but you're
3453s just giving exent so much charge at the
3455s moment there's no Shield to stop the so
3457s from shooting in to your back
3460s line This choke point at the moment one
3462s of the hardest to get through however
3464s Timeless do have the ultimates to do so
3466s however Zoe also has built up near
3468s towards that blizzard interesting
3470s decision to drop this amplification
3472s Matrix on the cart horizont or vertical
3476s gave the K onto Zoe So Zoe's not going
3477s to have that blizzard in this fight
3478s wicker did trade it no overclock here on
3481s Timeless side so ultimate kind of
3483s building up slowly everything being a
3485s stand still in that department so it's a
3486s big neutral game fight until ajmr comes
3489s through with that window Mari comes back
3491s for the peel on sill who has been so
3493s aggressive taking that space for
3495s Timeless ethereal kind of gives Michel
3497s wave a solid position overclock comes
3499s through though Javelin slows down X10
3501s for now M has to drop back beat drop
3503s from wi here to keep them sustain
3505s against this blizzard from bun who
3507s doesn't actually find anybody just yet
3509s either time trying to buy time for sill
3512s to come back with that Annihilation is
3513s the second Mari also has teror surge in
3516s just a moment nice peel now that that
3519s the annihilation comes out from sill but
3521s a counter blizzard to stop sill from
3523s going further gave him the kill there
3525s too so mic wave one pick after another
3527s actually slowing down Timeless ethereal
3529s and holding this choke oh they spot bun
3532s they know that bun didn't manage to make
3534s it through choke really good wall coming
3536s through from Zoe to stop that may from
3538s being able to regroup with the rest of
3540s your team and now this is where Thea
3541s actually starts coming into a lot of
3543s value because you can hold around that
3545s corner you can wait for thas to feel for
3546s sill to start to make that movement
3548s forward you can use the javelin throw to
3550s push the tank back and then everyone
3553s from microwave can collaps onto the
3554s players left vulnerable behind them may
3557s coming on through so that everyone from
3559s th can try and kite the actual
3562s consequences of that overclock and it
3564s does his job perfectly yeah swops the
3566s ultimate but no one
3568s Falls counter window amplification
3571s Matrix there but it's met with a Terra
3573s Sur Mari obviously was holding just for
3575s that situation and it works out just
3577s well dropping the amplification Maj from
3579s as ajmr as well gives them even more
3582s kills and this is looking really good
3584s for microwave at the moment however
3586s Timeless etheral still have 3 minutes on
3588s the clock X's going to be coming up to
3590s an overclock as well Wick is going to
3592s have the sound barrier there it's going
3593s to be an absolute magnifying glass on
3596s this Lucio to be able to time it
3598s properly we've already seen s take
3600s advantage of how long it can take for
3602s SAR to actually connect to the ground
3604s with how quick overclock can take one of
3607s these pushies down Zoe not going to be
3609s playing quickly going to be playing as
3610s slowly as possible try and find Val with
3611s the wall have they been able to isolate
3613s anyone no she hasn't and as a result
3615s Michael wave finally forced off of that
3618s choke and actually having to regroup
3621s entirely W with this B drop's going to
3623s have to be huge cuz X10 like you said
3625s has that overclock ready to go wall on
3627s the backside from soe to stop them from
3629s falling back so thinking one step ahead
3631s is the side of microwave perfect be drop
3633s from wika to slow down X10 in the
3636s overclock also the blizzard is here on
3638s the inside of the pub amazing Blizzard
3640s from the side of Michael wave and Bun
3643s also dropped the counter blizzard but
3644s nobody's there to follow it up so bit of
3646s wasting ultimates here from time was
3648s ethereal and Michel wave holding strong
3651s and Mari didn't even have to burn
3652s something like a terror surge to be able
3653s to counter the blizard something that we
3655s see so often from Arisa into the maze
3657s taking advantage of the fact that Terror
3659s automatically gives you that four to
3661s five forms so you don't get affected by
3664s that blizzard now you're going to have
3666s it to nullify the ant Matrix yet again
3668s from T looking to buy support ultimates
3671s and that space as amp goes up but it's
3673s from microwave side as Halo has to get
3675s aggressive and try and knock those
3676s players off of The High Ground Halo
3679s playing Super aggressive with that beat
3680s drop available now that amplification
3683s Mar goes down X1 find soe to on that
3686s flank that was consistent that we saw in
3687s the previous map for soe being found
3689s first now with the annihilation saw Hill
3692s goes aggressive make sure Michael wave
3694s don't try to fight back I mean they use
3695s the ter surge to no avail and Michael
3698s wave just kind of gets that reset now at
3700s the moment I don't know if they get a r
3702s test in the streets phase here they
3703s bought a lot of time off the clock
3704s though Mo ESS had to commit so many
3707s things as well make sure that they
3709s didn't have to go right back through
3711s that choke they used two support
3713s ultimates and the annihilation
3715s to use that aggression and finally pick
3718s up that checkpoint that checkpoint is
3720s not where things stop getting hard for
3722s these attacking teams on Kings right now
3724s you're moving into the most difficult
3726s area to push forward and because of all
3729s of that time that got sunk in your time
3730s bank you've only got 2 minutes to do so
3733s and since you had to burn free ultimates
3734s to be able to guarantee that the time
3736s continues you have to push right into
3738s these fight to oh my halo what a Boop
3742s onto wi there overclock here from death
3744s on the flank not going to result in
3746s anything X10 just shuts it down without
3747s their own overclock and now I mean
3750s Michael wave just running towards that c
3751s maybe they'll get a kill or two if they
3753s can make it messy it's definitely not
3755s out of the question but all of this kind
3757s of started from that Boop off the map
3760s there from Halo now a blizzard comes
3761s through from soey and no followup is
3764s here either here time Li just comes back
3766s they I guess had to use the overclock
3767s the very at least X10 we'll get 3K in
3770s this fight trying to die on the card is
3772s microwave at the moment I guess they'll
3773s be happy with x using that overclock
3776s yeah Zoe sees that the May isn't working
3778s is going to swap onto that Genji to try
3780s and put a little bit more pressure onto
3782s this back line and also Dash up onto The
3785s High Ground to X10 is currently standing
3787s that soier needs to be pushed off of
3789s this angle or he's going to have the
3790s terrorist so can always playing getting
3792s into position one Das on The High Ground
3794s but time is the burial figure it out
3796s they know the swaps coming through and
3797s they peel oh but the terror surge is
3800s there to counter the amplification
3802s Matrix we saw this previously on Street
3803s phace Moxy oh my God Michael wave DS
3807s down Timeless for now however Timeless
3809s only used that an Matrix the 40 seconds
3812s left they have a Rec test here as well
3814s yeah but the great news for Michael wave
3816s is THV used the ant Matrix and Terror
3818s search displacing everyone meant that a
3821s and Halo were not able to get damage
3823s through to pull their ultimates up for
3825s this next fight wicker is going to have
3827s a s barrier and Halo is still missing
3829s hers like this from soe making it mes he
3833s drops back but unfortunately goes down
3835s you know nobody was trying to go as
3837s aggressive as soy was there death though
3839s does find X10 Mari here on that Left
3840s Flank has the immortality build wi still
3842s has that beat available do they use it
3844s in time to save Mari no they hold on to
3847s it for now and back the card's falling
3848s back somebody touches some Timeless I
3851s mean Halo still has a beat drop
3852s everybody's got ultimates here but now I
3853s mean overtime ticks down this is getting
3855s scary for microwave if Mari is able to
3858s Javelin spin the blizzard that's going
3860s to be absolutely huge cuz wi will be
3862s able to hold on to the sound barer they
3864s have to try in touch you can see her
3866s just trying to use that javelin's been
3868s anticipating when the B but she uses it
3870s early and sire as a result has to come
3872s through the blizzard with the beat Dro
3875s late there from Halo 2 so it layers on
3877s top of microwave at the moment
3880s Annihilation here towards the car death
3881s finds one but the annihilation I mean
3883s makes it so nobody else could touch
3884s Timeless etheral and overtime cap out
3887s and honestly Moxy that was not too
3889s shabby for microwave considering how bad
3891s first point went right yeah the recovery
3894s was huge they landed really well on
3895s their feet being able to swap onto that
3897s Arisa and take advantage of that choke
3900s that really brutal corner of these
3901s attacking teams to be able to push past
3903s very slim to in the past how we see
3905s reinhardt's playing around those Corners
3907s waiting for their cool Downs to be able
3908s to cycle back online before getting to
3910s play aggressive again really helped out
3913s the orisa if you get walled off by the
3915s may you have things like the fortify and
3917s the javelin spin to be able to keep
3918s yourself safe it means that there's a
3920s lot less pressure on the Baptist to
3922s throw immortality field and every single
3924s time your tank gets isolated out plus
3927s you can put more pressure on the mate in
3929s terms of how not just the walls are
3930s being used but also the blizzard utility
3933s so a lot of the time it becomes a lot
3934s more telegraphed when that ultimate's
3935s going to come through so Wier with that
3937s Lucio can make sure everyone's tided di
3939s around it but really crucially the true
3942s counter in play was Mari coming in those
3944s Terror surges to stop amplification
3946s Matrix from being that domino effect
3949s that toas will use to pave the way to
3951s Victory it's not just an Matrix buying
3953s themselves the space it's also being a
3954s able to shoot through it and do so much
3956s more damage and build their ultimates so
3958s much faster than their opponents and
3960s that Avenue that wind condition was
3961s drained entirely by the orisa yeah I
3964s like I like that swap that that is an
3966s interesting decision to do that like you
3968s said Mario was doing a super good job at
3970s shutting down Z and the rest of Timeless
3971s at points however you know coming back
3974s to it Timeless still capped out right
3977s even in overtime they capped out now
3979s they're in the lead coming into their
3980s defensive side all we going to see the
3983s same come through from Michael wave Tas
3985s were able to fall pitch onto a so
3986s quickly off of one pick but it's just
3989s not happening at the moment Michael wave
3992s having to contest they're already
3993s starting with the orisa which is nice to
3994s see no Ultimate Reset to try to
3996s circumvent that amplification Matrix
3999s we've seen what works and he TR to
4000s Double Down they're trying to go past
4002s sill but sill says no so go back to the
4005s spawn doors holding around this statu
4008s side now has the rest of their team I
4011s mean Timeless ethereal just shoving away
4013s Michael wave in one fatal push W almost
4016s goes down but lives at the moment
4018s already nearly a minute shoot off the
4019s clock for Timeless ethereal and that's
4021s the drawback when you're running the
4022s orisa right we talked about being able
4024s to play around those corners and wait
4025s for those cord Downs to cycle back you
4026s don't get those if you're trying to
4028s approach the point on the attack every
4030s single time Mari is forced to use
4032s defensive she becomes so much more
4033s vulnerable and time can immediately
4035s pressure that tank even further so
4038s microwave just don't get the space to
4040s set these DPS up to
4042s prosper look at trying to set up a flank
4044s off the top of the clock tower at least
4047s have zo we kind of deal with that sojor
4050s meanwhile block guard used by bun nice
4052s wall there with the amplification Matrix
4054s from AJR and fors them that kill counter
4057s window from time with atherial down
4059s their M player though so no blizzard in
4061s sight for now however at least get some
4063s time for bun to come back to spawn now
4065s with a minute and 30 off the clock Mari
4067s tries to come back through with that
4068s spin so that cool down is used zo gets
4070s the wall off too so they're trying to
4072s find saw Hill fast however the heals are
4074s too good there from both Halo and C be
4076s drop now available teror surge available
4078s on the side of Michael way who uses
4080s their ultimates first here it's bun to
4081s get found again actually after coming
4084s back from Spawn so great work from Mich
4086s wave to find that kill be drop counter
4088s engage by both lucios Zoe still has that
4091s blizzard ready to go doesn't want to use
4092s it just yet now Annihilation is here
4094s from sill but everybody's CED it away so
4097s that Annihilation doesn't get any value
4099s at all saw hill now I mean this is going
4101s to be tough to live right just shoved
4103s into the corner deleted by death and
4106s microwave capture that first point after
4108s about two minutes yeah are we going to
4110s see microwave push aggressive for to
4112s deny Timeless aerial control of that
4115s choke yes we are they're not able to
4117s find a stag of pick but they are able to
4119s move forward instantly because they know
4122s that first choke moving into B is why
4124s you lose most of your time if you're an
4126s attacking team it's always going to try
4128s and play quiet not get spotted out over
4132s into Pub if you get spotted out it's
4136s really a death sentence for the mate if
4138s you don't however this blizzard is going
4139s to be huge and time absolutely another
4142s the WIS not 20 stealth check paused it's
4145s a huge blizzard I've never seen a
4148s drunken stealth build before Moxy but
4150s you know having a pine at the pub
4151s allowed them to find those few kills now
4154s overclock comes through with the
4155s blizzard oh my God so hits the shot
4156s before Frozen are you kidding me what a
4159s Kill from SE maybe affords Michael wave
4162s a chance in this fight too and it does
4164s so T Hill goes down Timeless use
4166s ultimates to no avail now they just get
4168s to push that card even further through
4170s the streets phase it's been so far
4171s Flawless for them here yeah absolute
4173s showstopper of a fight for Zoe coming on
4175s through with that may pick death as well
4178s getting to play a little bit more
4179s forward with the overclock trying to
4181s shut down Timeless aerial if you can
4183s pick apart one of these players before
4185s that contest can probably be launched by
4187s the defense that is absolutely huge
4190s however you do know that you're going
4191s into an amp Matrix coming on through and
4192s you can see Michael wave positioning
4194s around the payload
4196s accordingly back off towards the main
4198s side a still here he actually comes back
4203s to deal with this overclock over the top
4204s just using it to kill death oh my God
4206s that is absolutely BM doesn't even want
4208s to use the rest of it now comes back
4210s through the top side as well and what a
4212s counter window there to Michael waves
4215s engage maybe a bit overzealous there
4216s Moxy what do you think on microw wave's
4218s push I'm a fan of it to be honest if you
4221s can actually use the overclock and find
4224s that pick think about it that catwalk
4227s angler is only really going to be taken
4228s advantage of by either xent or Z and as
4231s a result that H would have found next to
4233s nothing microwave other than a Maya
4234s wouldn't really have had anything else
4236s to be able to counter it at least now
4238s it's off of the table yes you do
4239s sacrific to soan overclock but soan is
4241s deadly in her own ride all the way
4244s through neutral as part of why she's
4245s such a strong DPS ride every single time
4247s that charge hits 100 you essentially get
4250s a mini over clock even though X is going
4252s to be coming in before one going to be
4254s able to C around it but Mar's not going
4256s to be able to I that one huge War comes
4258s through from BN isolating the tank
4261s immediately blits down and microwave
4263s have to press reset and this is where it
4265s gets dicey because that sacrifice for
4267s the overclock once can work but if you
4270s have to keep throwing ultimates then
4271s just to be able to BR force your way
4273s through choke your ultimate bank and
4275s that time bank is going to dwindle down
4276s very quickly while ESS aeral can afford
4279s to just Bank up ultimate so even if they
4280s lose B they can stall you out in
4283s C sure see how mik plays this minute and
4285s 17 seconds left in the clock time is
4287s that darel's defense is going pretty
4289s well in the street phase after looking
4292s kind of sus at the beginning bun hits
4294s those shots fors the ice block of Zoe
4296s but in a safe enough position where it
4299s doesn't matter can't catch him out with
4300s that may wall in fact so is using it to
4303s to her advantage on that top side AAR
4305s meanwhile with the window and
4306s immortality field keeps an alive for now
4308s nice speat drop from Halo with that over
4310s top amplification Matrix I mean double
4312s supportal and the Blizzard from from bun
4314s there gives them that win for now and so
4317s Mari actually comes back to the teror
4319s Blizzard is here as well Mari finds one
4321s kill now forces that overclock from X10
4323s all Hill finds Mari too so even though
4326s they come back in with ultimates they
4327s don't find the value from them and now
4329s it's just absolutely terrible for
4331s microwave they only have an overclock
4333s for next fight there the adaptation that
4335s we were talking about coming from fromal
4337s they see that Mari has been countering
4338s the amp matrixes with the terror surge
4340s so what's the solution drop a matrix on
4342s The High Ground where the orisa has
4344s absolutely no way of being able to use
4346s Terror surge to contest it and as a
4348s result X is able to take full advantage
4351s of that ultimate heading into last fight
4352s we have Annihilation on the board so
4354s taking a lot of pressure trying to stay
4358s alive knowing that you're going to be
4359s that Target of focus for microwave to
4361s take you down because it's the only
4363s ultimate that the defensive team has gu
4366s got to find those kills overclock
4367s unfortunately does not and now bun with
4370s the help of the amplification or the
4372s annihilation able to find D too I mean
4375s this is brutal now for Michael wave
4377s right I mean they lose soe yeah soe goes
4379s down Halo also finds that immortality
4381s field everything else is falling apart
4383s for Michael wave although at points they
4385s look good timeus ethereal really just
4387s capitalized on Kings Ro to go up 20 in
4389s the series and put us a map Point yeah
4392s there was a window that was there that
4395s was open and a jar AS Michael wave
4398s approached that last fight but the win
4402s condition hint
4404s on being able to take down before
4408s overtime started or at least pressure
4411s the ratra low enough that you have to
4414s utilize that Annihilation before it goes
4417s down to that timer burning on the
4419s payload because the way that you
4421s counteract Annihilation is you move out
4424s of the way of it it's one of the
4427s simplest strategies in all of OverWatch
4429s to deal with a win condition in a fight
4433s but there's a t little asteris that's
4435s there at the end of that sentence and
4438s that is until overtime comes into play
4440s because what does overtime not allow you
4442s to do move off of the objective so
4446s Annihilation when you're in that
4447s overtime fight is one of the best
4449s ultimates to have if you're a defensive
4451s team and I think to maybe lead the
4454s conversation towards these individual
4456s players MOX I mean X10 you know was
4458s playing Amazing throughout the series
4461s and you know who also has kind of
4462s interested me too because obious ly as
4464s for as good X10 his I I think that also
4467s bun has been a standout player on the ma
4469s so far Zoe I I think has been somewhat
4472s struggling on the m i I think she a
4474s fantastic player especially as we saw on
4476s previous major so playing some of that
4477s Genji I believe she is really good at
4480s those other characters that aren't made
4481s but I think a reason why bun has been
4483s such a standout player MOX is cuz bun
4485s can Flex onto whatever and make a huge
4487s impact right yeah Bun's walls as well
4489s are always incredibly creative a lot of
4492s the time we see the mayol being used to
4493s to sort of isolate a Target down manage
4496s to pick yourself up a kill in those
4498s first moments of a fight so you can
4499s immediately spiral with just numbers
4501s alone or you play to try and support
4503s your tank if your tank takes a little
4505s bit too much damage and your supports
4506s don't necessarily have line of sight or
4509s the confidence and being able to keep
4510s them up you're able to utilize that may
4512s by themselves a little bubble of
4514s downtime for the tank to be able to
4516s reposition and back on up look at that
4520s look at the damage that Mario was doing
4522s but still lost that's yeah it it comes
4525s down to this thing called meaningful
4527s damage and meaningless damage and you
4529s have to remember as well that Mari is
4531s shooting into a shield tank as opposed
4535s to everyone on Timeless side who was
4537s shooting into an orisa which means that
4540s every single time you're damaging that
4541s orisa you're directly impacting the
4543s health bar as opposed to soill who gets
4546s to psycle through that ratri time in
4547s time again and that ratri Shield is
4550s actually something that we do have to
4551s talk about because it's problematic for
4553s every thing it's not just problematic in
4555s terms of providing meaningless damage
4557s for the statistics on microwave side
4559s it's also incredibly problematic to
4561s splitting off veins of support onto Mari
4564s side because if you have that Shield it
4567s stops the B heel you have to utilize the
4570s boots or even a high ground position
4572s where you're a lot more vulnerable a lot
4573s easier to pick out for the May and the
4575s sergean to be able to Target because
4577s you're constantly having to maneuver
4578s that line of support around the shield
4581s standing in your way we have all been
4583s that we have all been a support like an
4585s Anna or a Baptist where you're playing
4587s into something like a ratra or a sigma
4589s on the other side who understands that
4592s not necessarily the value from having a
4594s shield is for your team it can also be
4597s such a detriment to the other side as
4600s well yeah 100% great points and
4602s obviously at Saul Hill who has been
4604s doing well on that ratra so far
4606s meanwhile everybody we will be going to
4607s do a short break when we come back we'll
4609s see you guys for that at number three
4610s we'll see if microwave can make that
4612s reverse sweep
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4797s welcome back everybody in the
4799s championship series of calling all
4801s heroes we are finally here at the end of
4803s the year or beginning of the year Jesus
4805s it's 2024 Moxy I'm going I'm losing mind
4808s may have felt like an AG DUS but we're
4810s still in 2024 we are we are and uh in
4814s this series between Timeless ethereal
4815s and Michael wave we're in the semifinals
4817s of the upper bracket currently Timeless
4819s theal up 20 on microwave Kings Row was
4823s at least CL well it was about the same I
4825s would say even that leang Tower wouldn't
4827s you say that so far Moxy I mean time was
4828s ethereal 20 semi close I would say what
4831s do you think yeah that was like a little
4833s bit of a stumbling block where again
4835s time aeral had to figure out how to deal
4838s with that orisa swap coming on through
4840s forari but the second that they did they
4842s were Off to the Races they hit the
4844s ground running they were like okay if
4846s you're going to use Terror resurge to
4848s just block those amp matrixes on the low
4850s ground we're going to take the fight to
4852s The High Ground because we have so exp
4853s and we're still going to be able to take
4854s full value but speaking about low we're
4857s going to be heading over to Sur Vasa
4859s which means that we're probably going to
4860s be seeing potentially a little bit of
4862s the junka queen I mean some teams do
4864s like flexing the junka queen so that you
4865s can arrive at the point faster than your
4867s opponent but again this is a huge gamble
4870s because junka Queen into ratra struggles
4873s so it's sort of rolling the dice and
4875s picking your poison of whether you think
4877s you're going to be going into a ratra
4879s mirror or whether you think the other
4881s team is also going to be playing the
4882s Jung Queen and you want to go for that
4884s forward positioning or go for the ratra
4887s knowing that you have that advantage
4888s over the other side anyway yeah and you
4891s know Zas like you said I think we we
4894s have to wait and see what these two
4896s teams play however you know at the end
4898s of the day the ratra has just been so
4899s freaking good yeah I mean we've already
4901s seen teams attempt the junka queen on
4903s this map into the ratra it did not go
4906s well Dustin it resulted in one of the
4908s fastest flash points I have ever seen it
4912s was
4914s it was rough to say the least but I feel
4917s like we're going to get the mirror maybe
4919s Michael wer going to swap to something
4921s from like the junker Queen if the first
4922s fight doesn't really work out for them
4924s and they want to try and get to another
4926s point a little bit faster but I just I
4928s feel like their R miror is just too
4930s strong to for go I like the idea I like
4933s what I like what you're going for you
4935s know I think Mari as well has kind of
4937s shown I I guess in that in this series
4938s in particular the the gissa so that
4941s definitely could be a swap to come
4943s through however at the end of the day
4945s like like you said about you know saw
4946s Hill and Timeless ethereal how they're
4947s playing their amatra at the moment um
4949s they just play it so flawlessly right I
4952s mean they just managed to make those
4953s rotations with their own utility
4955s incredibly well um I say that as saw
4958s Hills obviously hovering over the orisa
4961s so you know we could see sill
4963s potentially mix it up I guess why not
4965s considering up 20 and he could try
4966s things out right Golden Rule especially
4968s on flash point never talk about the
4970s composition until the team is out of
4972s that spawn do microw wave going to be
4974s starting off on the ratra we can talk
4976s about how strong the ratra is on this
4978s point there's a lot of opening angles a
4980s lot of different rotations that you can
4982s take ratra is very good at being able to
4983s shut them down with things like that
4985s Vortex and the shield being used to
4987s influence every single approach possible
4989s as there it is sill rolling out on the
4993s orisa and all of the things that we were
4995s just talking about all of the utility
4996s that ratra has orisa for goes entirely
4999s if you get Vortex off you can just
5000s fortify or better yet you can javel and
5003s Spin and Matrix it up before it even
5005s hits the ground and look at that time
5007s aerial off of s being able to use the
5008s momentum already on that point
5012s first this ra gun shot from Death there
5014s but at least forces him back oh my God
5017s Wier gets removed and now that spin
5020s comes out from sill to try to push out
5022s Mari from that immortality field they
5024s find it anyway they find Mari eventually
5026s anyway in the first point Timeless F
5029s will pretty much take it with E Yeah
5031s Timeless the fal going to look for those
5033s stagger picks as well to come through
5036s Mari immediately going off of the remat
5039s Seeing it's not going to work soill is
5041s just able to utilize all of the orisa
5043s defensive capabilities to Brute Force
5045s through all of this ratra aggressive
5048s capabilities and we're going to see the
5049s sigma The Shield being in place to put
5051s more pressure onto X and trying to find
5053s some of these other angles you've got
5055s the accretion to try and knock back some
5056s of these players of time SP when they do
5058s get too over aggressive and look to
5060s punish and already we can see that extra
5062s pressure with those SP coming out on to
5063s x0 to force you off of that High Ground
5066s angle so that you're not in a position
5068s to take one of the backline down push
5070s back for
5072s now utilizing as much of that Shield as
5075s they possibly can to get some space here
5077s but you a lot of this fight does rely on
5079s these so Jordans at the end of the day
5080s right both death and X10 popping in that
5083s damage nearly 80% of the board for
5084s Timeless etherial this point these
5086s points go very very quickly X10 gets
5088s poked down low force them back for now
5090s and with that so tries to drop that May
5093s well to take some aggressive space with
5094s that bti amplification Matrix they
5097s actually give up the point Timeless
5098s theal does for now come back through use
5101s their own amplication Matrix with the
5102s wall Mario gets pushed into the corner
5104s and deleted as do Zoe so although they
5107s gave it the point temporarily it didn't
5109s really matter Timeless ethereal take it
5111s back will take the first point of the
5112s three yeah there's the rubber band
5114s Timeless etheral they see that they're
5116s taking a little bit of pressure that
5117s Mari is forcing xent off of the angle
5119s that they've set up onto The High Ground
5121s the thing is the sigma with that
5122s pressure
5123s isn't a wi condition so Michael wave
5125s like you said have to commit that an
5126s Matrix just to find the flip and
5128s Timeless the fal because they've already
5130s banked up of all of the stall the deck
5131s and buys them with the sojan so much
5135s point percentage that they can just step
5137s off the point C around the amp and then
5139s come back in with one of their own
5141s absolutely no sweat off of their backs
5143s and worst for microwave RNG falls into
5147s Timeless Aerials favor this is one of
5151s the problems that these teams run into
5153s with flash point is going to spawn
5155s closer to some of these other teams to
5157s respawn and unfortunately microwave now
5159s have to push the sigma around the
5161s environmental Cliff with the orisa
5163s having the capability of shutting
5165s everyone off blun actually goes down
5167s first of all people and also agmr finds
5170s sill in that blizzard also gratic flux
5172s was there to try to capitalize he will
5174s find agmr but the damage is already done
5176s at this point right
5177s Timeless just going to have to reset at
5180s the moment they don't even want to
5181s contest this point just going to get
5182s some Hill back for another fight they do
5185s manage to build up 12% with that initial
5187s control but it is a very fast flip and
5190s microwave now having things like the
5192s sigma and the may they have that stall
5193s sustain potential so that if things
5196s start going a little bit siy they're
5197s still going to be able to bleed a lot of
5200s point percentage cuz like you said flash
5201s point goes up incredibly quickly tphal
5204s taking that Cliff side faking it out
5206s however try and bait those utilities
5208s from microwave side yeah blizzard off
5212s that push actually catches out Zoe Z
5215s does find Zoe in that five B drop
5217s already after they've lost one also the
5219s Matrix is here so a lot committed for
5221s mic wave and what appears to be a lost
5224s team fight so far though all Hill goes
5226s down death finds them at least so M wave
5229s kind of coming back into this as well
5231s amplification Matrix here so they're
5232s able to find wi Mari trades back Halo so
5234s they are trading but there's too many
5236s people for Timeless at this point a lot
5238s of ultimates committed there to not even
5240s capture the point that's kind of tough
5242s unfortunately the fight going on
5245s incredibly long actually falls into
5246s Michael wave's favor as we're going to
5248s see 77% picks on up for this team soill
5253s on to that ratra immediately looking for
5256s that poke face to try and delay Michael
5258s wave's approach for as long as possible
5259s to be able to play catch up with the
5261s percentage that they're
5263s missing now mic wave go around the
5265s outside nearly 60% on the board here
5267s pretty much last F territory on this
5269s point in particular for both te
5271s compositions by the way mari's
5274s now that is super interesting what these
5276s teams are deciding admidst the match in
5279s terms of composition pointed out with
5281s flash point maybe these tank players
5283s will try to do that saw Hill backs up
5286s doesn't have to worry about that may
5287s wall anymore either nearly 90% of the
5289s board for Timeless M wave have all the
5291s members of their team on the point no
5293s ultimates for either team just yet May
5295s wall perfectly placed again Mari goes so
5297s low down to 80 HP but immortality field
5300s here to keep him healthy as well that
5302s cool down remov death finds X10 that's
5304s huge for Michael wave they also have the
5306s blizzard first as well 80% now on the
5309s board they want to find these stagger
5310s kills time try to back up not lose
5312s anybody here however it's far too late
5314s Michel wave they kind of hooked this
5317s fight very very late and it worked out
5320s for them 98% on the board they're surely
5322s going to take this point tie it up so
5324s far on flas point and find some stagger
5326s kills what a set play coming through
5329s from Michael wave that swap to the
5330s Orissa is huge every every single time
5333s Zoe want to try and use that may to
5335s isolate time the they're already playing
5337s clumped up so Mari actually uses the
5339s javelin throw which does a lot of damage
5342s but also has a significant amount of
5344s knockback so every single time sill is
5347s actually playing with their team whoever
5349s get played behind theat get shoved back
5351s in the Wall comes up to isolate and now
5354s yet again we're going to see the
5355s blizzard being used to isolate sill away
5357s from the back line away from the
5358s defensive capabilities and with the tank
5360s having to back on off T have no space to
5363s be able to utilize the two DPS ultimates
5365s that they have you were talking about
5367s RNG earlier going in favor of Timeless
5371s now it's swap back for Michael wave
5373s right finding that kill at that choke
5375s point with the wall ends up working
5377s perfect for them now death comes with
5378s the overclock over the top right
5380s counters he drop from Halo but also
5382s another one WI a key death using this
5385s overclock as many shots as they possibly
5387s can get off here is going to give
5389s Michael wave a huge Edge sill tries to
5391s come back with the annihilation but will
5394s go down far too much healing here not
5396s enough damage for Timeless aerial who
5397s are pushed back yet again by Michael
5400s Wayne yeah microwave committing in
5402s massively but again they've already been
5404s able to buy themselves 52% and Counting
5407s off the point they've got the May to be
5409s able to stall ESS F do have the
5411s ultimates however so you can see M being
5412s a little bit more hesitant try and hold
5414s that forward aggressive position but
5416s still so much percentage still up in
5418s counting before T the field are even
5420s able to get into position and they have
5421s three ultimat they can't afford to use
5423s all of them but because if they lose the
5425s next fight they're still going to be
5427s down a
5429s pointless comes through from this back
5432s left taking their time use the
5434s amplification Matrix first the microwave
5435s want to disengage they do around the
5437s corner so that's already one ultimate
5439s out but they've got two more to have to
5440s work with at the moment Michael wave
5444s still waiting fighting their time time
5446s it'll take that Point Flip now X10 goes
5448s aggressive drops the overclock through
5450s on that flank we find two immediate
5452s mediately Michael wave will sink for now
5455s that's three for X10 back to the spawn
5458s they go however they like you said marxy
5459s have built some time bank to work with
5461s yeah Bon's able to hold on to the
5462s Blizzard as well that is absolutely huge
5464s like we said Timeless F they needed to
5466s be able to find that flip it goes into
5468s overtime so Michael wave no matter how
5469s long that fight goes on they're not
5471s going to be able to pass 99% so Tas will
5475s have all of the time necessary to be
5476s able to stall now they themselves get to
5478s stall the approach coming through if
5480s Michael wave are able to onto that point
5483s it just plays into Bun's hand it means
5485s that the blizzard is going to be able to
5486s connect onto so many more of these
5488s players you don't want to use the
5489s ultimate out in the open instead you
5492s want to bait Michael wave into walking
5494s directly into it by dangling the point
5497s in front of them as
5499s bait bun with this blizzard is going to
5502s be huge right I mean ajar has to come in
5504s with that ant Matrix we use it early in
5506s fact so maybe that confuses the side of
5510s Timeless for now however it doesn't look
5511s like an ex 10 finds death blizzard is
5513s here from bun Frozen May on the point
5515s get saved by the morality field both of
5517s these Baptists have been playing so well
5519s however who's been playing even better
5521s it's X10 on the sojourn two in this
5523s fight make it three overtime now ticks
5525s down unfortunately it was far too hard
5528s of a point to retake Timeless there will
5529s take this one to put it on M or I guess
5533s it's like point point what do you call
5535s it map Point what do you call it
5536s whatever my point it's really good
5538s Target Focus coming through from tphal
5540s as well they know that Zoe is closing up
5541s on blizzard ofone they make sure that
5543s the M goes down so that once buns
5545s blizzard has run its Co microwave don't
5547s have the win condition or the confidence
5549s to be able to Pro ultimate in AB said
5552s they're going to have it to use now
5554s we're going to see the blizzard
5555s immediately drop from Zoe the follow up
5557s is there and this is huge for microwave
5560s that is one fight win for the cost of
5563s one ultimate now Dustin they have the
5565s next wi to be able to we the storm and
5567s keep building up this Bank of percentage
5570s yeah both teams May is coming alive here
5572s on surasa will take the point like you
5574s said now going to play with some
5576s ultimates in the bank W some poke they
5579s could easily do so build up towards that
5581s window here time was aerial right the
5583s pressure is on them on their own retain
5586s saw on the orisa that was going Mari on
5588s the Oris as well with a terror surge he
5590s does have that at Matrix but we have
5592s seen Mari engineer the terror surge to
5594s counter it entirely and unfortunately
5597s isn't able to give the opportunity go
5599s solo as the at Matrix comes up has to
5601s fall back behind cover of Fountain no
5603s chance of using the teror to shut it
5605s down counter teror surge now here for
5607s Mari but will fall it it's tough I don't
5609s really know how you get surprised there
5612s if if your microwave you have so many
5614s ultimates you somehow still get caught
5616s out by a window in Saw Hill right it was
5618s just one phase of ultimates it felt like
5620s it was bait right you look at where the
5623s at Matrix actually comes through from Z
5625s it's right on the choke which is
5627s perfectly measured for Zoe's M it very
5629s much was microwave trying to force
5631s timeless into a game of Ultimate Chicken
5633s so that the mayw is able to perfectly
5635s cover the ant Matrix but the mayw
5637s doesn't cover the ant Matrix in time and
5639s Mari takes so much damage XM by then has
5641s already been able to break free from
5643s that choke put yourself onto that high
5645s ground with all of the damage coming
5646s through from the soan that when we see
5648s both of the orisa drop Terror surge
5650s because that pushes you into a static
5652s position Mario is the one who loses the
5654s gamble because of the additional damage
5656s coming
5656s for and Pops the overclock in this fight
5660s has to deal with a Lucio who's harass
5662s ing him no kills just yet for death just
5665s found some pressure for so to find the
5667s kill onto Halo but now X10 comes back
5668s through with their own overclock however
5670s down Halo some of that healing and
5673s potential speed boost is just out of
5675s here so X10 overclock will eventually
5677s get ran through so counters with the
5680s blizzard here able to find saw Hill too
5682s bun has their own blizzard but nobody is
5683s here to follow up at this point right
5685s you lose your orisa and now everybody
5687s just kind of funnel through on the point
5688s for a potential recontest with that good
5691s W do love from Zoe directly on the choke
5693s to disconnect the front line and the
5694s back line the however playing last fight
5698s the blizzard you're going to have a
5699s terror surge as well Mari having to swap
5701s off of the orisa onto the sigma did
5703s reset a massive chunk of that poke
5705s pressure coming on through from the
5707s sigma composition however now you get to
5708s play defensive around those capabilities
5711s Javelin from no Mari goes over the wrong
5714s side of the wall oh my God but the bo
5716s back to safety never mind brought back
5718s through to the terrce surge X10 will
5719s find them however death finds one on the
5721s downside saw H go so low and is found by
5724s death oh my God what a round in
5727s particular for death here two kills in
5729s that fight without the overclock to just
5731s some nice rail gun shots and the
5734s amplification Matrix there from ajmr
5736s turns this fight and now we're all tied
5737s up on map Point here Moxy on suros
5741s Redemption Arc for the soldier and death
5743s coming in absolutely clutch Mari going
5747s into the wrong side of the May well
5749s toppling directly into ess's full team
5752s forced AJ into utilizing that
5753s immortality field way too soon before
5756s ultimate started to come into play but
5758s death on the sojan doesn't need an
5760s ultimate to still have that insane
5761s amount of kill potential that is
5763s afforded to the DPS and now point
5766s percentage is reset microwave still with
5768s this sign going to be coming in to the
5769s flux as well Halo holding on to that
5771s sound barrier doesn't want to have to
5773s use it early however because you've got
5775s to deal with fre with it now here's that
5777s overclock early wall or may BL block
5780s used by bun keeps them alive for now so
5782s it almost works out however Z drops the
5784s amplification Matrix to get shut out by
5786s a body shot from that there and then
5788s Mari with the Poke damage great work
5790s from Michael wave so far bundas comes
5792s through to die on the point a reset
5794s coming through from time with atherial
5795s and Michael waves counter swaps counter
5797s picks have been working out there we go
5800s that's the bait the same bait that we
5801s saw coming through from microwave the
5803s last time that we had Z dropping that
5805s ant Matrix onto choke this time around
5807s however you are able to take advantage
5809s of the sigma's defensive capabilities
5810s you make it look like you're pushing
5812s onto time the superial side Z as a
5814s reaction immediately drops the at Matrix
5816s to try and punish and immediately
5817s microwave just cut noise pull back and
5819s that at Matrix Point has absolutely no
5822s value and as a result you're not going
5824s to have it for the next push whereas AJ
5826s is still holding on to one of your
5829s arm M wave sitch back has to deal with
5832s the overclock from X head who doesn't
5833s find any kills gets damage but no kills
5836s microwave also drops the beat and on
5838s this map it seems like X10 the number
5840s might have been found from death who
5842s comes from above to get that kill bun
5844s does trade pack soe e drop here to try
5847s to keep everybody alive but the gtic BL
5848s still finds value on a saw Hill yes time
5851s was to a trading but it's not enough at
5852s this point ant Matrix in the back
5855s everybody else here microwave will steal
5857s a map and potentially start this reverse
5860s sweep oh really good stuff coming for
5862s from microwave again being able to
5864s recover flash point is a map that is
5867s probably one of if not the most
5869s stressful to play into second to
5872s potentially only push this mode goes by
5875s so incredibly quickly if you think
5878s trying to just keep a track of ultimate
5881s economy and how aggressive you are being
5882s and temper that aggression into
5884s defensive capability is hard on some of
5886s these other map types it becomes even
5888s more important with flash point with how
5890s quickly that point percentage actually
5892s progresses unlike something like control
5894s it's not a case of when that point is
5896s finished all of your ultimates lose
5898s value no it is when the next Point
5900s finishes another unlock so you have to
5903s make sure that you can win a fight out
5905s while still holding on to something else
5907s to be able to win the fight out
5909s afterwards or if you indeed lose that
5911s fight identify as the fight progresses
5914s okay this is not a fight that we're
5916s going to win we're not going to make it
5918s easy but we're still going to make sure
5919s that we don't overcommit so that we can
5921s come in with a better Advantage for the
5923s next one and that is something that
5924s Michael wave took too hard because at
5926s the start of that map it looked really
5929s rough yeah it did I mean that that's a
5931s great point that microw wave really were
5934s able to make those rotations early
5935s because they got those fight wins like
5937s you said I mean every critical moment it
5939s appeared like Michael wave just came out
5941s on top with either that Blizzard from
5942s Zoe laid into the fight on the rotation
5945s before the point even unlocked I mean
5947s like you said everything kind of went in
5948s their favor because of how they've
5950s played and you know maybe this goes back
5952s to what we were talking about earlier
5954s where when the lights are shine
5955s brightest right how does Timeless
5956s ethereal react at the moment on this map
5958s in particular x10's been playing Super
5960s well throughout every single map until
5962s this one where it did feel like death
5965s kind of found their groove were able to
5967s shut down X1 at points yeah and I mean
5969s if you look at the stats as well the
5971s deaths are pretty equal death does die
5975s five times compared to x107 but everyone
5977s else is very much even 77 89 85 and it's
5982s down to the fact that microwave they
5985s don't necessarily only play aggressively
5987s they make sure that they play into what
5990s used to be predictable they've sort of
5992s pav of conditioned Timeless into
5995s expecting actual full commitment onto
5997s all of these pushes right if you look at
5998s how Le Jang started with how aggressive
6001s this team was being when they started to
6002s take those flanks they were fully
6004s committing into all of those fights and
6006s it's something they started taking
6007s advantage of towards the lad half of
6009s flasho because they started pulling
6011s their punches they started going for a
6013s couple of faints they went for some of
6014s those left hooks when they actually made
6016s it look like they were going for an
6017s uppercut punch and as a result Timeless
6020s aeral reacted wrongly they dropped
6022s things like the amplification Matrix
6024s they try to go too aggressive they
6025s wanted to try and match some of those
6027s ultimates for ultimates and as a result
6029s they play directly into Michael wave's
6031s hands and that is something that is
6033s crazy because normally that strategy is
6036s timeless' own it's l like microwave when
6039s okay that's what you do well I can do it
6041s better yeah it's it's it's absolutely
6044s amazing to see what microwave have been
6045s able to do on suras so we'll have to see
6048s if they can keep doing it right
6049s obviously waiting for that next map pick
6051s coming through we saw the map pull
6052s earlier on Moxy I mean for this series
6055s in particular I think it really matters
6057s for this team for Michael wave to really
6059s get things going here and now right
6061s obviously you talked about potentially
6063s um death having to step up make those
6065s amazing kills on the sojourn having to
6068s have uh soe do well on the May right on
6071s that map in particular things have
6072s changed but do you think that this is
6074s just a flash in a pan do you think this
6075s is a on map type of thing or is there
6078s things here that they've learned that
6079s they can move forward with in the next
6081s map I think there's things that they've
6082s learned 100% if you do one strategy once
6085s you can think okay maybe it's someone
6088s having a little bit of a moment or maybe
6089s it's a fluke maybe they want to go
6091s aggressive and then they saw the ant
6092s Matrix and they went okay this is a
6094s fight we don't want to take and they
6095s pulled away but they saw the value that
6097s that got and they continued to do it and
6100s going back to that pattern right if you
6102s do it once it's a surprise if you do it
6104s a second time it becomes somewhat
6106s predictable if you see it three times
6107s happening you know it's going to be
6109s coming but that still applies to being
6111s able B to work out these Solutions if we
6112s see someone do the same thing multiple
6115s times it means they've caued onto a
6117s strategy and if it's working they're
6119s going to double down on it and that's
6121s exactly what they did so moving forward
6123s in the series I think ultimate economy
6125s is about to become a lot more up in the
6128s air between these two teams I think
6130s we're going to have some slight of hands
6131s come through Dustin we might we might I
6134s mean obviously the next map is going to
6135s be ESP Pancho we'll have to see if
6137s things are changed for either side and
6139s it seems like microwave are to do that
6142s and same with Timeless ethereal like you
6143s said that was kind of the game plan was
6146s a little bit ripped off from them right
6148s that kind of change up between uh
6150s compositions amidst the series right
6152s it's very tough to do that too I mean
6154s that has been a big evolution I feel
6156s like for a lot of the players in
6157s OverWatch 2 is to figure out you know
6159s what Heroes they can swap to throughout
6161s the series to instead of just locking to
6163s okay let's play goats you know for
6165s example back in the olden days and it
6166s seems like for push in particular we
6168s could really see a mixture of things
6170s Moxy you could see anything from that
6172s ratra composition to the sigma to the
6174s orisa which composition do you think is
6176s favored here on ESP panche on push in
6179s particular um because that's obviously
6181s the map we're going into and it's such a
6182s crucial map to cider too R 100% we've
6186s seen him so much and I hate to say it
6188s but we're probably going to continue to
6190s see him he's just an incredibly strong
6192s tank he has a lot of defensive
6194s capabilities so that when things like
6196s the May or the sergeon start to come
6197s into play who have that amazing burst
6200s potential one if you're playing into a
6202s may you don't want to be running that
6203s Sigma a lot of the time because that may
6205s primary ignores it it's not one of those
6209s projectiles right it doesn't get matrix
6210s by the shift instead it's like that Echo
6213s focusing beam where it just rips through
6216s that shift rips through that one
6217s defensive capability and if the SAR is
6219s close enough he just integrates in
6221s seconds Ram doesn't really have to worry
6223s about that especially since they've
6225s removed the full CC on the May beam your
6228s tank no longer gets frozen up so for the
6231s ratra who is that touted Tempo tank who
6234s wants to be able to play a little bit
6235s defensive a little bit slow with the
6237s Poke phase which plays perfectly into
6239s setting up your so but then when you
6241s want to get aggressive when you want to
6243s get the ball rolling you have all of the
6245s aggressive capability and better yet the
6247s defensive capability to be able to
6249s survive having that aggression and
6251s wanting to move
6253s forward see what the two teams decide to
6257s choose moving into here and you're leing
6259s more towards that ratra for orisa in
6261s particular like you said there's so many
6262s different ways to play it very crucial
6265s map this one here Moxy in the
6268s semi-finals obviously whoever wins here
6270s will move forward into the upper bracket
6272s Grand finals the other team
6273s unfortunately is going to drop down the
6275s lower bracket will still have a chance
6277s moving forward but it's a very important
6279s map in particular whoever wins this
6281s right for Michael wave they'll
6282s potentially have the momentum if they
6283s win it here right Moxy but for Timeless
6285s they can shut it out right here and now
6287s yeah these two teams have been learning
6288s a lot from each other as well we've seen
6291s multiple strategies carry over we've
6292s seen multiple picks as well coming on
6295s through from some of these other players
6298s if Michael wave decided to go the
6299s pharmacy Route Asun is definitely one of
6301s those Maps where you can find a lot of
6302s value there's a lot of The High Ground
6304s there's a lot of those rooftops very
6306s similar to Kings R streets phace and
6308s also Dorado a that the far can use but I
6310s think we're just going to be seeing
6312s standard meta unless microwave deite now
6315s is the time to pull out that old
6318s identity of the Genji doomfest I'm on
6321s the fense about this Dustin though
6323s because the last time we saw them use
6324s this Timeless eeral broke its back
6328s within
6329s seconds yeah we'll see if it works out
6332s for him that's definitely a a strong
6335s choice to make right now on espira you
6337s know maybe it forces Timeless to mix
6339s things up though right I I think we it
6341s might win them the first fight and on
6342s push that is huge because the last time
6344s we saw Tas real deal with it they had
6346s fun on the Tracer to actually stop Zoe
6349s from being able to get into the back
6351s line and POS the thre as the Genji and
6353s th they didn't expect the Genji they
6355s didn't expect the Doom first they're
6357s entirely unequipped to be able to have
6359s that Avenue of Choke control aore
6362s obviously going to set up a lot of those
6363s anti grenades that's where we're on the
6364s N at the beginning misses the first one
6367s however just goes for a set now kind of
6369s knows where everybody is just tossing
6370s out cool Downs understanding that you
6371s know they can't really be Dove on by
6374s Timeless there's too too much of a
6375s distance Gap to really make here nade
6378s misses again from microwave side so they
6380s really look they're kind of poking and
6381s prodding for that anti grenade meanwhile
6384s ESS zero taking some space with that
6386s robot already 9 M minute off the clock
6389s to here not a lot of ultimates built yet
6391s either neither team doing a lot of
6393s damage just yet another anti Miss yeah I
6395s mean that that's really what microw wave
6397s needs at the moment for them to find
6399s this dive however at least they've not
6401s lost anybody just yet so it's not really
6403s gone too terribly for them here we go
6405s off cool down yet again Nano building
6407s the Nano for times the charm with the
6409s anti grenade zoee doesn't even need it
6410s just finds X10 we talked about so being
6412s a great Genji having to play M
6414s throughout the series now makes that
6416s Swap and really doesn't seem to have
6417s lost the step finding that first kill
6420s and now with that I mean microwave
6421s surely can maintain this no never mind
6423s sill comes back finds Zoe trades it out
6426s equalizes it now on the four versus four
6429s they sto that robot from pushing forward
6430s now here's that Nan boost but it's on a
6431s doomfist right is the damage there
6433s immortality fi to keep everybody alive
6435s no the an grenade finds Halo with the
6437s final blow so Mari just there to create
6439s some space with the Nano boost and now
6442s they're actually able to get that first
6443s fight win it was an incredibly long
6445s first fight seems like Timeless are
6447s still fighting it though they want to
6448s find these kills but no eventually
6450s Michael wave will get them and control
6452s that robot immediate swap from Zeo as
6455s well you can see that those antines are
6457s going to pose a problem and the KIRO is
6460s straight away brought on out for the
6462s Suzi to be able to cleanse that effect B
6465s still not swapping onto the Tracer most
6467s likely because you have that blizzard
6468s you do not want to give up such a
6470s valuable ultimate the problem is is the
6473s blizzard going to be able to find Value
6475s wicker is playing protect the Anna so
6477s not on the Lu to be able to kite around
6479s it so the backline is Prime real estate
6481s for the blizzard but everyone else the
6483s doomfist the Genji the soan they all
6485s have the mobility to dodge it
6488s entirely AG marander going to get
6490s blocked by the shield now a rally to
6491s keep Wick alive here overclock as well
6494s the help against the push from Timeless
6496s sleep on a saw Hill gets woken up
6498s immediately ultimate still available
6500s from Timeless after beat nice an grenade
6501s slows down X10 but eventually cleansed
6503s off from z w that got thato like you
6507s mentioned Moxy bun find soe too who went
6509s for that dive no Genji now here for M
6512s wave a lot of that damage gone land to
6514s Mari as to back up out of there for now
6517s they do have a lot of that cart space so
6518s as long as they don't lose anybody
6519s they're in a decent spot but we'll see
6521s if they can do that yeah it was
6522s definitely wishful thinking Mario will
6524s get staggered and Timeless have control
6526s of the robot okay we're going to have
6527s nanoblade for this next fight and that
6529s is one of the Tim com the time seal
6532s struggled with and this is what they're
6534s going to do to shut it down they catch
6537s the back line away from the sojon AJ
6541s taken down kept in position by the
6543s blizzard alongside your Bria that's the
6546s problem a lot of the time that you run
6547s into normally we see it with pulse bombs
6549s right if you find pulse bomb stick onto
6551s either the Anna or the Bita they play so
6553s close together a lot of the time it
6554s results into a double elimination it's
6556s the exact same mentality coming through
6559s from buns blizzard because he C an away
6561s from the Genji you delay the prospect of
6563s the Mano blade but it's only been
6565s delayed they're still going to have to
6566s rip the bandaid off eventually and
6568s eventually might come sooner rather than
6570s later there it is Halo deleted suzu out
6573s can't save X10 here that's two in this
6576s fight and so he's going to live for now
6579s Annihilation from sill actually got two
6581s on the the side make it more oh my God
6583s the counter push on the the side we're
6585s watching Genji POV it ends up not
6587s mattering because ESS ethereals
6589s annihilation in front line has killed
6591s everybody slight of hand Dustin slight
6595s of hand you think the nanoblade is going
6597s to be the most important but sill sees
6599s an opportunity rally has already been
6602s used by Wicker in a couple of fights
6603s previous soill knows no one can shut
6607s down that Annihilation no one can kite
6610s it out either and as a result the
6612s objective keeps moving and yes you lose
6613s your back line but you still put up so
6615s much more distance in comparison to what
6617s microwave have achieved and now they
6619s have to cycle back into the link of
6620s nanoblade I don't know if they'll even
6622s get another one online I don't think so
6624s either I mean that's just absolutely a
6626s back breaker 100 m now and climbing for
6630s ESS etherial it seems like the suzu from
6632s Z as well has just countered every
6634s single anate from ajmr I mean they're
6637s playing this very well at the moment yes
6639s they find sill at least but Moxy I mean
6641s they've already built up 112 M and
6644s they're climbing even even farther yeah
6647s you're going to have overclock combined
6649s with K Rush you do lose exent but You'
6652s still got B on that may Michel wave now
6654s going to take advantage of the soier
6657s missing to push that objective a little
6659s bit further back there Halo's just
6660s delaying not allowing microwave to be
6663s able to break past those early spawns
6666s coming through from time who refus to
6668s give up The High Ground that safe
6669s vantage point that they can hide when
6671s the dive comes
6672s for has the back gun out there doesn't
6674s want to use a d just yet H connects on
6677s the saw Hill for now overclock flank
6679s from X10 immediately though Mari came
6681s back with the slam oh my gosh what value
6683s found for the doomfist that is a huge
6686s kill to get but they did have to use the
6688s rally as well as that ultimate just for
6690s that overclock there in this fight
6692s particular Michael wave will win and
6694s find these stagger kills to get control
6696s the robot with 3 minutes and 40 seconds
6698s left two for the price of one and
6701s crucially the one that you're able to
6703s draw out from toless aerial side is not
6706s anything that can be used to counteract
6708s the nanoade coming through this is the
6709s true win condition for Michael wave
6711s right it all anchors and Cycles around
6715s this nanoblade but Timeless will have
6717s the beat drop to be able to sustain
6719s through it or bun can even just use that
6721s counter blizzard to stop Zoe from being
6723s able to find the dash resets Zoe's the
6725s one pushing the card though as the back
6727s out nice pocket there but the May slowed
6730s down also Nano death in back of the
6732s overclock this time to mix it up I like
6734s the change up beat drop here from Halo
6736s Su stains for now and they actually find
6739s X10 that was a huge kill find because x0
6741s has been a thorn in the side of Michel
6743s wave every single time they go for that
6744s push so they deal with those flankers
6747s and come back towards this robot off of
6749s a nano overclock play so this is huge
6751s this is Big Burn coming through from
6753s microwave in two ways one you bait out
6756s Halo into utilizing the sound bar to
6758s counter the Nano overclock which means
6760s thoughe doesn't need the nanoade to have
6762s enough damage to chunk through the
6763s health B from from aeral side to
6765s actually convert into kills and two bun
6767s could not use the blizzard to be able to
6769s counter it because like the Genji who
6770s needs to get close to melee slash
6773s through you the soin can play out of the
6775s range of blizzard so Tam just had to
6777s take it on the
6778s chin yeah Mari and Zoe probably just
6781s going to go have to go really hard here
6782s in this fight but bun finds the kill in
6784s the wi while they're setting up oh my
6787s gosh and now they try to go forward AE
6789s comes through cleansed immediately by Z
6791s I mean perfectly played by them but now
6792s that blade comes through Annihilation to
6794s force back soe I mean that's the value
6796s out of the Genji blade dry there's not
6798s really much else you could do as long as
6800s they don't lose anybody they might be
6801s okay however looks like Timeless are
6803s always in a position to find these
6804s stagger kills now from the top side
6806s sahill comes through ajar goes down no
6808s speed boost or peel Mari actually
6811s commits that doomfist ultimate as well
6813s that finds one in the flank they don't
6815s have a lot of healing just the Bita can
6817s they find Halo if they find Halo it
6819s might be winnable or Z able to find Z
6822s that could be something here for
6824s microwave as they're still on the top
6825s side of the bridge the robot really
6826s isn't pushing too far oh just kidding
6828s it's actually moving in favor of M wave
6830s so they they've managed to come back
6832s towards this robot and a counter push
6834s there for microwave is successful yeah n
6837s overclock as well potentially on the
6839s cards as well for this next fight Bon is
6841s going to still hold on to this blizzard
6843s to be able to shut it down T will have
6845s not had to use it so far is still
6847s holding on as that emergency pre glass
6851s in case of solution as microwave having
6854s to try and figure out how to formulate
6856s this Ty for punch is making it so much
6858s harder for death to actually have that
6860s go on The High Ground try and pick some
6862s down and as no one's low enough to find
6865s a kill while they're trying to save bun
6867s there counter push comes through from
6868s microwave however X10 it's rid of Zoe in
6872s that fight sill also finds Mari and this
6874s car or this robot has not pushed far
6875s enough yet either not even halfway to
6878s how far Timeless got on their original
6880s pushes now 30 seconds left Moxy it's
6883s it's looking very very dicy at the
6884s moment for Michael wave yeah Michael
6886s wave just can't formulate this dive time
6888s aeral aren't being brought down enough
6890s so when Mari punches in it's only a
6892s distraction there's no actual threat to
6894s it and time have identified as such as B
6898s goes onto that off angle challenging
6899s microwave death's going to have to pop
6901s that overclock and try and find kill
6903s Halo goes incredibly low will be able to
6906s hide behind that ball and keep herself
6908s and the sound barrier safe as somehow
6910s she still gets healed up clocked out
6913s from xtan comes through death on the
6915s flank wi also stuck in that blizzard
6918s will go down to saw Hill x0 waits for
6920s death to peek around the corner and this
6923s should close things out for time as
6925s ethereal to cement themselves in that
6927s upper bracket finals finding Zoe on the
6929s Stagger that blade is negated pretty
6932s much throughout the entire map and
6933s especially at the very end time with
6935s ethereal are moving forward in this
6938s tournament I said I was on the fence
6941s about that Genji doomfest I like the
6945s idea of it it's something that you pull
6947s out in the hopes that it's surprises
6949s time was a fairly you did see that they
6950s were running out on that composition
6952s without the KIRO which they immediately
6954s swapped to when they identified okay
6956s they're going to be formulating Dives
6957s they're going to be trying to play off
6958s of the setups of these antonides we need
6960s that suzu in full effect so that we can
6962s hold on to our cool downs and abilities
6965s as well as our own lives when that
6966s starts to come into play but
6968s unfortunately that surprise factor that
6971s sort of faint into a jab that Michael
6973s wave will hoping and gambling the Diest
6976s and the Genji pick would be is just too
6979s well read by time with Sao because it's
6981s something that they've already played
6982s into with this team and Genji struggles
6986s so much at the moment in this matter
6988s because of the amount of shutdown there
6990s is you don't have to swap onto something
6991s like a tracer to control all of the
6993s Avenues of the backline because the May
6995s does the job for you you can't deflect
6997s the beam it does so much damage in
6999s seconds every single time the May is
7001s there the Genji can't fully commit in
7003s and use Sora as a result when Mario was
7005s punching forward a lot of the time Zoe's
7007s presence was entirely absent and on that
7010s note I know you pretty much just kind of
7012s talked about it there Moxy but I mean at
7015s least I guess for the in terms of
7016s Michael wave to get your take on it do
7018s you think that what they've done you
7020s know mixing up that composition map bym
7022s basis um and then ultimately going for
7025s that full commit on that doomfist Genji
7027s sojourn I mean do you like that at the
7029s very least that they're willing to you
7031s know step out of bounds per se and
7033s change that composition up to a very
7034s high degree even though it cost them in
7036s the end potentially I like the fact that
7039s they try I don't like the fact that they
7041s continue to only run it as the map
7046s progressed especially because we saw
7048s time and time again even though they
7050s would mix things up right we saw not
7052s just the Nano going on to Zoe for the
7054s blade it was also going on to death with
7056s the seran for the overclock which found
7057s a lot of value the problem is nano is
7061s only going to be up so often you have to
7064s be able to win those neutral fights when
7066s ultimates don't come into question
7068s especially on push where a a lot of
7070s these points go down to players choosing
7073s the right moment to be able to keep that
7075s objective moving or hold it in a better
7077s position for their back line to be able
7079s to actually keep themselves alive a
7081s little bit longer and you don't have
7083s that When dive comes into the mix
7084s because you have to be hesitant you have
7086s to wait for all of the pieces to fall
7088s perfectly to bait out some of those
7089s abilities to be able to punch on forward
7091s and as a result it means you're always
7092s going to be playing split and that
7094s objective gets nowhere near the amount
7096s of push distance in the neutral as it
7098s does for the other side so even though
7100s they were coming of some amazing Nano
7103s overclocks and some really strong Genji
7105s blades as well it just wasn't enough it
7107s was free good fights compared to just
7110s overall consistent damage output and
7112s threat and space control as a result
7114s coming from ESS aside looking good
7117s Timeless ethereal so far to put
7118s themselves in Upp bracket but we'll
7120s break everything down in a second we'll
7122s go to a short break when we come back
7123s we'll see some of our analysts I believe
7125s we have Christopher and Ash on the side
7126s to break everything down with me we'll
7128s see you guys in just a second for that
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7158s breakdown
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7317s Timeless ethereal just secured their
7320s spot there in the upper bracket finals 3
7323s to one versus Michael wave but Michael
7326s wave started making it a bit tough as we
7328s headed into that third map where they
7330s were able to get their one match win
7333s there Chris and also welcome to the
7336s calling all her broadcast than for
7339s having me
7340s like that's first off the gate so
7342s excited to have you here with us and
7344s join us on the analyst desk but second
7346s off I got to get your overall thoughts
7348s on this last match up I think this the
7350s series was pretty high quality I was
7351s really impressed with both teams met a
7353s read it for like strategically I think
7355s everyone knew what they were doing um
7357s even Maps one and two I think that we're
7359s actually really close um I think for
7362s Michael wave they'll obviously be
7363s disappointed to lose but I think that if
7364s they if they go back and and kind of VOD
7366s review it I think they'll see that that
7368s that that series was really really that
7370s for them to
7371s win yeah they definitely had the
7373s opportunity to do so there Dustin I mean
7375s it was tough I think because Timeless
7377s ethereal they're kind of the raid boss
7379s in this overarching tournament this
7382s entire season right but Michael wave as
7384s they were a bit of those slow starters
7386s earlier on in the series the adaptations
7388s were definitely coming through yeah for
7391s sure I mean I mean they got they got the
7393s praise Michael wave got the praise from
7394s you know two time wait no he just one
7397s time second place OverWatch League World
7399s Champ not really World Champ What do you
7401s call that second place your finalist
7403s runner up yeah run runner up coach of
7405s the year one of the goats in our scenes
7408s I mean that's obviously High Praise I
7409s think that they I think 100% Chris
7411s touched on it microw wave if they look
7413s back at the vaud 100% need to maybe just
7415s like take what they did moving forwards
7417s and uh they'll probably be solid in the
7419s lower brackets I mean they saw that we
7420s saw that last major this team was just
7422s really good super talented um definitely
7425s a dark horse that isn't you can't just
7427s push aside Timeless etheral really did
7428s their prep ation and their work ready
7430s for Mich wave in the series yeah Mich
7432s wave definitely a team to keep your eyes
7434s on if you're out at home and looking to
7437s root for somebody to be that dark host
7439s to make that lower bracket run because
7440s again this being the upper semi-finals
7442s they do have that second chance of life
7444s to try to continue on and make it
7446s through the remainder of this weekends
7448s but we also have to consider the fact
7450s that Timeless ethereal I mean they were
7453s the top team throughout the entirety of
7456s this 2023 calling all Heroes season for
7459s a reason I think their macro gameplay
7461s the way they look to set that up Chris
7464s is definitely was shown here in this
7466s last matchup yeah I think absolutely I
7468s think that one difference when we talk
7469s about the ram comp compared to the sigma
7471s mirror is it feels very difficult for
7473s the ram to die so if you just group up
7475s as five and run the Ramy won't die so
7477s what ends up happening a lot is both
7478s teams try to send off angles on retakes
7480s you start to see the Lucio sojan flank
7482s from microwave here and what Timeless
7484s was so so so good at is they predicted
7486s these flanks either they set traps like
7488s you see here there was numerous times
7490s where I started to see um they would do
7492s what we would call overloading where we
7493s see there was a 2v2 on their left side
7495s so let's send our serjan to go match it
7497s so that we have the 3v2 and what they
7499s always made sure is they won this side
7500s fight and as long as you win the side
7502s fight your Ram's just going to live
7503s forever the hero is genuinely unkillable
7505s no matter what happens um and I thought
7507s that was a really really smart meta read
7509s and I really feel from a strategic point
7510s of view that's where the series was won
7513s yeah it's where you see them kind of
7515s being in their illegal their own in that
7517s kind of sense and those setups are also
7520s obviously for the GPS players to
7521s capitalize on so when you think about
7524s the sojourn plays that we saw coming out
7526s their X10 was making quite a name for
7529s themselves in the first two maps but we
7532s slowly actually saw death starting to
7534s catch up especially on surasa where it
7536s felt like in that second half Dustin
7539s they really started to heat up yeah I
7542s mean it's tough because we we keep
7543s wanting to talk about microwave like I
7544s said and even in the stats game if you
7546s just looked at this alone you'd be like
7547s okay you obviously the so Jordan with
7550s the better Stat one but in fact no I
7552s mean Timeless in in xent in particular
7554s was really just good in this system as a
7557s team and as a player in particular so it
7559s was it was tough to kind of shout them
7560s out all the time but realistically
7563s obviously X10 came out on top most of
7566s the time in these so fights yeah I think
7568s one thing that I was really impressed
7569s with X10 was whenever MZ had the the
7572s bapti that amp Matrix X10 would group up
7576s with it and would look just to charge
7577s rail body shot we saw numerous fights
7580s exactly like death is doing here where
7582s we were able to just win team fights off
7583s just a body shot which was a really
7585s really like I think a big difference
7587s between the two surgeons especially on
7589s map one and
7591s two yeah the difference makers in those
7593s kinds of plays for sure but I feel like
7596s we also need to highlight Z I think
7598s Chris maybe you want to say something
7600s about this Flex support that was coming
7603s through just like their ability to help
7605s with that sustain also the windows
7607s coming in to help extend capitalized as
7609s well I think exactly I think both B TS
7612s had a really solid series I think to be
7614s honest everyone who played can be pretty
7615s pleased with that their game playay but
7617s I thought especially when it comes to
7618s ult Value Timeless were able to get so
7620s many wins purely off the amp Matrix
7622s which is a huge factor in terms of the
7624s overall swing of the
7626s economy well yeah and I mean thank God
7628s Landon's not here Chris right you know
7630s we don't have to hear any more glaze
7631s about Landon in this series I'm just kid
7634s both both these Baptist are really good
7636s obviously you know even at at that level
7638s we're Landing nearly is right yeah one
7640s day maybe you can get
7644s there well it's just so much fun being
7646s able to talk about the plays that were
7649s happening and the way that Timeless
7650s ethereal were able to just continue to
7652s adapt even after that map loss but we do
7655s have to give a congratulations and Kudos
7656s over to the team and also head over to
7658s an interview this time we're going
7660s having the chance to talk with their
7661s coach LEP hi LEP how are you doing
7664s congratulations on winning that upper
7668s semi-finals
7676s unfortunately I don't think I was able
7678s to hear you there you may even M it
7680s on sorry my mic was down uh it's been a
7683s long day I'm really excited really happy
7686s to be here to be able to represent my
7687s teammates and to be able to represent
7690s the Thomas brand pleasure to meet
7692s yall it's a pleasure to meet you too
7694s thank you for taking the time to do this
7696s interview um so kind of curious like for
7699s Timeless ethereal obviously your team
7703s was reigning Supreme over the entire
7705s season undeniable performance in that
7707s kind of sense with the consistency and
7709s seeing that they were always kind of a
7711s step ahead of a lot of these teams um
7713s despite the competition still looking to
7715s catch up of course but overall what was
7718s what did preparation look like heading
7720s into this Championship
7722s weekend was were things kind of carrying
7724s on as usual was there anything special
7727s you guys ended up like leaning into
7729s knowing that so much more was at stake
7732s um not really I think for me the biggest
7735s thing is especially coming in and
7736s coaching a roster that's been playing
7738s together for a while um a lot of things
7740s that I wanted to focus on were more so
7742s out of game there's things in game that
7744s I can't really talk about with regards
7745s to strategy um so a lot of like
7748s adaptation whenever it comes to strategy
7750s but I really wanted to make sure that
7751s the team was able to maintain composure
7753s especially go being able to go down in
7754s these Maps um taking a team that's
7757s really successful like Timeless and and
7759s going into playoffs and having a lot of
7761s pressure on their shoulders I really
7762s really like uh we have this saying
7764s maintain a a deep calmness and we
7767s associate that with the color blue right
7769s so being blue and being like like really
7772s really calm and being able to come back
7774s from these situations is the biggest
7775s thing that I wanted to wanted them to be
7778s able to do and have so that's that's
7780s kind of what we focused on going into
7782s this I love being I love hearing that
7784s the fact that you guys really just focus
7785s on like keeping grounded and whatnot
7787s because I was actually planning to ask
7789s like if the team actually felt a lot of
7792s that pressure like knowing they were
7794s playing so consistently throughout the
7795s entire season and looking to secure that
7800s first place spot for the championship
7802s series to earn that Infinity Gauntlet as
7805s Moxy was saying earlier on the broadcast
7807s was that something that weighed on their
7809s shoulders um that's not really a
7811s conversation that's like very open right
7814s like that's not something that's like oh
7815s we're worried that we're not going to
7816s get the trophy um lots of confidence I I
7820s will say and that's really really nice
7822s to have um but I just want to make sure
7824s that even even if it's not like an open
7826s thing that like subconsciously like
7827s we're we're all on the same page and
7829s that we're all like you know we just G
7830s to go in we're going to do our job and
7832s we're gonna get the trophy at the end of
7833s the day you know yeah the big thing is
7836s just being able to focus on playing your
7838s own game and not getting too in your
7839s heads of at everything um we did see in
7842s this last series there was a lot of hero
7845s swapping there forari on the side of
7847s Michael wave with the tanks and on the
7849s analyst Des we're talking a little bit
7851s about how Michael wave looked like
7852s they're really trying to kind of get
7854s ahead in those hero swaps and looking to
7856s try and counter that um how did it feel
7859s in the moment trying to work around
7861s those changes because Mari swapped up
7864s really really frequently and I'm curious
7866s to see if that kind of affected the
7868s approach to the game coming out from
7870s Timeless oh no it did not um I will say
7874s that normally hero swaps are kind of
7877s like a an interesting thing to think
7879s about uh but going back to what I was
7881s saying before about like just
7882s maintaining composure um we've prepped
7885s we had the Reps we had the practice
7886s especially scrimming the teams that were
7887s scrimming um so really really not
7889s worried really uh sill is able to pick
7893s whatever tank they feel comfortable on
7895s and just win with it and that's what I
7897s wanted and that's what we
7898s did man you guys are so like you're just
7902s on it I feel like not even I tunnel
7905s vision is the wrong word because that I
7908s feel like has more negative connotation
7909s but just very focused in the way that
7912s you guys are able to kind of just carry
7915s on and play your own game as I was
7917s saying before and not really allowing
7920s those external factors to kind of affect
7922s that and just move like water around in
7924s those adaptations um oh yeah
7927s but it was a pleasure chatting with you
7930s left and I want to give you a chance to
7932s give any shout outs or thank you here
7933s while you're on stream um yeah I'd like
7936s to give a special shout out to my
7937s teammates right and by my teammates I
7939s mean cuz I really feel that we're family
7941s at the end of the day and everybody has
7944s their own piece to play everybody has
7945s their own part to play whenever it comes
7947s down to actually getting into these
7948s matches and I want to throw a shout out
7950s to all the players all the staff um me
7952s included you know got to give it some
7954s props to myself and that's really
7957s it awesome well thank you so much for
7960s taking the time for this interview and
7961s good luck to you and time atherial on
7963s your upper finals matchup later on we'll
7966s see you guys later bye
7971s that such a sweet interview always love
7972s being able to talk to the coaches and
7974s get like that kind of perspective on the
7976s team and everything like that but we are
7978s going to throw to a quick break we're
7980s going to be back with the other side of
7981s the upper bracket semifinals in just a
7984s bit and we'll see you guys
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8292s hope everybody grabbed a drink and some
8294s snacks for some more OverWatch 2
8295s gameplay as we head over to the other
8297s side of the semifinals that was just a 3
8300s to1 win for Timeless ethereal up against
8303s Michael wave who are knocked down to
8305s that lower bracket and will be facing up
8308s against kenoi later today but I mean
8311s Moxy that matchup that we just saw was a
8315s lot closer I think than maybe we
8317s initially expected Michael wave really
8319s got to give them some props there yeah
8321s it's definitely a lot closer than I
8323s think anyone really expected like you
8326s said so I think this is such a huge past
8329s of confidence to a lot of the other
8331s teams in the bracket they have a lot of
8333s potential VOD that they can go back and
8335s look at and discover okay what exactly
8338s were microwave able to take advantage of
8339s because they found weaknesses in
8341s Timeless aerial weaknesses that we
8343s haven't really seen thus far so I'm
8346s really excited to see how these other
8347s teams are going to adapt moving forward
8350s when we see that winers final yeah but
8353s we also just heard from coach left who
8354s talked about the fact that Timeless
8356s ethereal they know how to keep their
8357s cool keep themselves grounded so they
8359s earned themselves that first upper final
8362s spot like you just mentioned there Moxy
8364s and now it's time to head over to that
8365s next matchup Dogman the fact that we're
8368s looking towards Timeless Celestial
8370s versus wisp Embers coming up next what
8373s are your
8374s expectations um I I think this is going
8376s to be a dog fight right between both
8377s teams I obviously I think behind the
8379s scenes we were talking about it how you
8381s know whisp Embers actually is a very
8382s very solid team and Timeless letio
8384s looked super good in their upper bracket
8386s matchup as well both teams obious
8387s obviously getting that 3 0 I think we're
8390s just in for a barn burner of a series if
8392s I'm going to be honest with I know I've
8392s been jinxing things a little bit cuz I
8394s said the last series would be close
8395s which it still was uh but this one I
8397s think in particular definitely has
8399s everything in the works to make sure
8401s that goes the distance yeah and looking
8403s over at the WIS members roster as well
8405s as we say hello to these players here
8407s Moxy I mean we have to
8410s consider this team the individual pieces
8414s here and I you got to tell me a little
8416s bit more about them I mean I just really
8418s looking forward to as DUS said a Bomb
8420s Burner of the match but there is one
8421s specific match up that I am so looking
8423s forward to and it's sosla versus H key
8426s these maze are going to be so
8429s interesting to get to watch and see how
8431s exactly the wall is utilized whether or
8433s not it's utilized aggressively whether
8435s or not one of the other maze decides to
8437s hold on and try and play a little bit
8439s more counter so that they can play a
8442s little bit more Shenanigans with some of
8444s those off angles we've seen a couple of
8447s different pict as well coming through
8448s Streit has definitely impressed as well
8450s a
8451s incredibly aggressive ratra player who
8454s just decides to go all in forwards and I
8457s know something that Christopher is going
8458s to be really excited to see is that
8460s something that he talked about where he
8462s was saying you have your soan who
8464s actually pairs up with the Baptist when
8465s those amplification matrixes are right
8467s to become available that's something
8469s that time Celestial also does as
8472s well and I mean Dogman looking over at
8475s Timeless Celestial on top of that who is
8477s your or or I guess swapping over to WIS
8480s members actually who is your player to
8482s look out for in particular um well
8485s obviously you know Moxy already talked
8486s about hkey so I obviously is a fantastic
8490s M player one of the best players
8491s mechanically in all of calling out
8493s Heroes um so obviously we have to shout
8496s shout out hki right just such a
8497s fantastic player Senna as well playing
8499s more towards that soge really has to do
8501s a lot of work in that department so
8504s probably look more towards there for you
8506s know who's going to step up I think on
8507s moxy's point hke is definitely a
8509s standout player that always plays well
8512s right so that's going to be consistent
8513s for Wisp embas right it's a matter of
8515s who else can step up to that same degree
8517s are the supports going to play to that
8518s level that we saw in the previous series
8520s I think we talked about the Baptists in
8522s that Series in that match up in the
8524s other semi-finals match can an you Andor
8526s play to that high level as well I love
8529s that you mentioned Anu andu there
8531s because that's who I was actually just
8533s about to bring up those support players
8535s I mean anun especially on to look toward
8537s but for you able to still step up on
8539s that Flex support and get to that level
8542s and support anion in that supporting
8545s role there Moxy we've s seen a lot of
8547s elevation coming out from that backline
8550s yeah supports at the moment are an
8552s incredibly strong role in OverWatch I
8555s think they've always been an incredibly
8556s strong role but at the moment in this
8557s meta West supports have that damage
8559s potential as well as the means of
8561s ability to be able to try and one V one
8564s some of these DPS it is so important
8566s that you able to hold your own when
8569s things like those backline flanks try to
8570s come on through so that you don't
8572s deplete resources coming through from
8574s your other players and it's something
8575s that Christopher talked about right if
8577s you have a ratra he doesn't really need
8580s babysitting 24/7 like some of these
8581s other tanks so you have a lot more
8584s downtime for these supports to get a lot
8586s more damage hungry and we're seeing it
8588s in things like the Lucio breaking off
8589s with the sojan or the Baptist just
8591s looking for picks because you are
8593s technically a hit scan which means you
8594s also do a whole chunk of damage to the
8597s of a team as well well I'm looking at to
8599s seeing how both these squads step up to
8601s the plate we're heading over to
8602s Antarctic Peninsula up first and dogin
8606s said it was going to be a dog fight so
8608s I'm gonna let you two take it away and
8609s see if things get
8611s Scrappy thank you Ash I appreciate it
8613s and you know what a series that we have
8615s on our hand second one of the day
8617s obviously Antarctic Peninsula will be
8619s map number one like ash pointed out and
8622s you know we haven't seen it at least
8623s today we did see some Antarctic
8625s Peninsula yesterday Mox I mean do you
8628s think that compared to just taking today
8631s into account what are the major
8633s differences that we're going to see
8634s probably from these two teams compared
8636s to like leang Tower from earlier Moxy
8639s it's still sort of the same even though
8643s the scenary changes you still have that
8645s identity of rat just being incredibly
8648s powerful May again a lot of these maps
8651s and over have been built with those
8653s chokes in minds and with choke control
8655s comes maze value Rises and skyrocketing
8658s there's a lot of different angles as
8660s well from approaches to these different
8662s points which means that the soan with
8664s the off angle is able to find Value in
8666s the past we would see the Bastion
8667s alongside the me but the Bastion
8669s requires a little bit more support
8672s coming through from your back line and
8674s it also means that you have a lot of
8675s less space control you don't get to take
8677s as many off angles which means that if
8679s the other team is running a soan a lot
8681s of the time you can find yourself
8682s getting boxed in and claped on and in
8684s control that can feel very
8685s claustrophobic so we've sort of moved
8687s away from the era of the Bastion and
8690s very much settled on the sojan and made
8694s tag team and it works
8696s perfectly yeah I mean from a spectator I
8698s always love watching sojourn I know I
8700s know it's a controversial tank but to be
8702s honest I mean the Bastion is just not as
8705s exciting to watch as soj for me at least
8707s I don't know I don't know I mean we we
8708s we've had this discussion before MOX
8710s you're like can we uh Bas is also sort
8713s of a lot easier to know the timings of
8716s right there's the transformed mode where
8718s you have to immediately bait out and
8720s then try and hide and a lot of the time
8722s it comes down to being able to utilize
8723s the May wall to be able to absorb the
8726s brunt of the damage when that
8727s transformation comes through before
8728s everyone kites around the corner sojan
8730s doesn't really have that downtime button
8732s and it actually pushes a lot more stress
8734s and pressure onto your alt tracker
8737s because not only you're having to alt
8738s track the charges of the other team
8740s you're also having to keep a track of
8741s the all fire on the rail gun and there
8743s it is we're going to see the soans come
8744s through as a r on the OWN actually going
8747s to see full commitment however for one
8749s whsp and the center and poru going to be
8751s sticking right next to each other to
8753s provide that off angle position yeah
8756s wall already removed from wisp Ember
8758s aside they'll play Slow Street lord well
8761s also forced out that immortality bu and
8763s sna finds the kill through it I mean
8765s what a nice shot from Senna on the point
8767s side take out AER now that soan has been
8771s removed there's not a lot of damage here
8773s M's able to find HD at the very least
8775s but no too much damage here now whis
8777s Ember took the point and took that first
8779s fight win look at the difference as well
8781s in Old charge compared to Senna and azer
8784s and all of it comes down to the fact
8786s that wisp Embers actually assigned the
8789s Lucio to just F the sojan into a better
8792s position before the fight began so sen
8794s already had control of that off angle
8796s and time Celestial walk directly into
8799s all of that damage already coming
8800s through and they just didn't have the
8802s position to be able to return the favor
8804s and as a result wimers gets just control
8806s so much more of the fight is yet again s
8809s going to be coming that disrupting shot
8810s disrupting all of tless Cal before they
8812s can walk on coin and try and threaten
8814s the face on the front
8816s line has that rail gun shot ready to go
8819s the back already using that remra Shield
8822s as well tops it for now immortality
8824s field plus amplification major in a
8825s great spot so they can sustain on the
8827s front line and get the damage on the
8828s street Lord who goes down in this
8830s particular fight another Lost first
8833s member of Timeless Celestial and whisp
8835s Embers are looking strong at the moment
8838s there it is again amplification Matrix
8840s used for Sen to be able to find that
8842s damage you don't need the head shots you
8843s can just find the body shots and as a
8845s result it charges so much of the
8846s overlock but the kill finally taking the
8849s sojan down allows azer to start to
8852s actually challenge that space and B up
8854s the overclock to have it too much we're
8856s going to see the disruption shot come on
8858s through as HQ for a defensive blizzard
8860s to keep that point and to tank aive
8863s counter blizzard now comes through stops
8865s that may from retreating too far HT will
8867s go down to snar with this overclock to
8870s Timeless Celestial able to get a lot of
8872s that space Kindra just kind of tries to
8875s stagger towards that point don't think
8878s any more ultimates are going to be used
8879s here for whis members but it's going to
8880s go for a reset and time of celestial
8881s will claim the point now yeah but off of
8883s just a blizzard and Kindred surviving
8885s that long whis Embers are able to buy
8887s themselves over 90% of the point that's
8890s insane time Celestia have to win all of
8893s these other fights in a row which means
8894s that they have to be so careful that
8895s they do not overcommit in those ultimate
8898s economies wh bers in the metime can
8900s afford continue poking pressuring until
8902s they find a fight that's favorable to
8904s take end push forward time Celestial com
8907s to the left side drops the beat on that
8909s engage from Wiis EMB who had used the
8911s overclock Now counter beat for you is
8913s here On's already down though even
8915s through it don't even know if any Got
8916s the Beat in that particular situation
8919s but looks like they don't need right
8920s everybody else on whisp em able to
8922s capitalize off this Annihilation from
8924s whis from Kindred and now they move
8927s forward towards this point Timeless
8928s celesio has nobody here they got snar on
8931s that symmetra to come back and maybe try
8933s to touch 97 98 Lucio almost here can he
8936s touch in time yes Lucio does touch but
8939s Falls immediately now just the Tracer as
8941s well staggers coming through now I mean
8944s what else could they really do Timeless
8945s sles right just a bunch of staggers
8947s towards the point everybody else here
8950s will get out of this map whisp embus
8953s will take round number one yeah and
8955s unfortunately they just have to walk
8957s directly into yet again an at Matrix
8959s with Center directly behind it with
8961s control of that point and when you head
8963s into overturn you do not have the point
8965s percentage to play R to wait it out you
8968s just have to throw yourself directly in
8970s front of that damage it looks like it's
8974s definitely whisp starting to pull ahead
8976s Timeless Celestial really faltering not
8978s being able to pick up that momentum a
8980s lot of the energy and confidence off of
8983s having that seran got knocked out of
8985s their Sals off of just the first fight I
8987s really want to see AZ getting a little
8989s bit more support coming through from the
8991s rest of their team as we've seen whisp
8993s ambers they're fully committing to make
8995s sure that Senna finds so much more value
8998s yeah this has been really good for West
9000s ambers and
9001s Senna and they just TP out of Spawn same
9004s compositions on both sides here Moxy as
9006s surely both teams meet towards the right
9009s side we'll have to see who actually has
9011s the advantage though and actually
9013s controls the top side both may walls
9015s used disruptor shot on both sides pretty
9017s much mirr from both sides however
9019s immortality field has to be used first
9020s on time of celestial side Senna and the
9022s rest of whisp Embers are just doing far
9024s too much damage forcing out those cool
9026s Downs early and now without one member
9029s of their team surely the rest of them
9030s will fall street board will go down set
9033s a 4K in that for 3K in that fight in
9035s particular and the point will also go in
9037s their favor first yeah Kindred having a
9039s really good initiation engagement as
9042s well goes onto that High Ground drops
9044s down directly in front of Timeless
9045s Celestial team but has that wider angle
9048s so even when the May comes through still
9050s gets to be healed by an and that Lucio
9053s and as a result when we see the wall
9055s isolates straight that does not happen
9057s for tus L they have to invest
9059s immortality field to keep the ram alive
9060s and the second that cool down go off the
9062s Fus get such a leg up to be able to win
9064s the fight this time around we're going
9066s to see theic get isolated but no Kindred
9069s is able to jump around it before it
9071s comes through kindred's already built up
9074s towards that Annihilation however freet
9075s Lord and Aire actually come back on top
9078s from their counter push two for the
9079s street Lord what a fantastic Name by the
9081s way love it now everybody else on whisp
9083s Ember stagger towards the point As Time
9085s Celestial finally have found some ground
9088s and take the point 44% picked up for the
9091s side of Wis bembers they going to have
9093s that Annihilation like you said because
9094s of the amount of pressure and movement
9097s up close that Kindred has been able to
9098s find with that Nemesis form and as a
9101s result the mo is not really going to be
9103s able to utilize this and Matrix to hold
9105s down the space CU whisp em can just use
9107s matate to move through it as we're going
9109s to see amp for amp come through both of
9111s these teams holding on the mat Al as a
9114s result but time you have to for the
9115s blizzard in defensively just looking so
9118s dicey from a bapti POV M pretty much
9121s entirely reactionary to everything that
9123s was happening no precise positioning
9125s just throw out lamp throw out
9127s regenerative bur jump over the wall
9128s immortality field down to cap it works
9130s out for them because they found that
9132s first kill and now HP also will fall too
9135s sosler what a shot keep things moving
9137s forward finally finally in the series
9139s Timeless Celestial look to have that
9141s point Advantage however beat Dro counter
9143s engage with the overclock they find a
9145s Kill from it nice Bob and we from AER
9147s but eventually they will fall no trade
9150s just yet Annihilation here from Street
9151s Lord does have immortality field to keep
9154s moving forward but Kindred also popped
9155s their own Annihilation so it is back and
9159s forth back towards the point no flip
9161s like you said they're still touching the
9162s point waiting for their so to come back
9165s but the help pools aren't looking good
9166s for time Celestial they're slowly
9168s getting the back the blizzard is here
9169s also with the ant Matrix so two
9171s ultimates committed to finally clean up
9174s time Celestial and they find everybody
9176s here and flip the point oh that was such
9179s a long stall whisp ERS eventually
9182s understand okay we're not going to be
9183s able to take these players down without
9186s committing ultimates in and as a result
9188s that is going to have a butterfly effect
9191s into this next fight time CES are so
9193s close to so many ultimates they just
9195s need to give a little bit of a little
9197s bit of pressure and then they can
9198s immediately drop on point with the
9200s blizzard to buy themselves all of that
9201s space shout out to the supports for
9203s doing such a good job on Timeless
9205s Celestial sign oh no as I say that kqa
9209s will go
9210s down over the top does have at least the
9213s amplification Matrix but no kills are to
9215s be found it's only healing not a really
9217s great angle for that Matrix May wall
9220s here though could give them a kill but
9222s no everybody has focused around just
9224s living on WIS Ember side they already
9225s built 83% of on the
9227s board he don't drop one point either so
9230s they commit to ultimates but they don't
9231s get the flip off of the back of it 90%
9234s at least the Lucio in this fight whisp
9236s Embers still playing back no ultimates
9238s here just yet until this speat drop has
9239s been built what does whis Embers
9250s want and everything kind of just happens
9253s at once apparently as I pretty much
9255s lagged out there rest of wisp Embers
9257s with a beat drop able to find the kills
9259s time celes will get wiped wisp Embers
9262s you know was looking dicey early on win
9264s this map although it was a little
9265s strange in the end for me in particular
9267s they're going to win antartic Peninsula
9268s and go up one in the series wisp em is
9271s able to take that first control if your
9274s time is Celestial Dustin you owe an
9276s apology letter to this team the one
9280s fight that they needed both of their
9282s supports up to be able to coordinate the
9285s drop down from goinging to low to be
9288s able to take advantage of the ultimate
9291s deficit between these two sides of
9293s having the blizzard and the at Matrix
9295s two tools we should immediately buy
9298s yourself all of the space to be able to
9299s find that flip and the Lucio goes down
9303s at the worst moment that is a tragedy
9308s that Shakespeare can only dream of being
9311s able to reach the levels of oh my
9313s goodness that that domino effect of
9316s lacking those two ultimates and not
9318s being able to find the flip off of it to
9320s be able to spiral into having the stall
9322s effect with that ratra cost them the map
9325s that's
9326s crazy that's that's tough as uh
9329s basketball player Dennis Scher would say
9331s fire Emoji at the end of that as well
9333s yeah I don't know like like what do you
9334s do about that if you were the sign of of
9336s of um of Timeless Celestial because yeah
9340s I mean everything was just going in
9341s favor of wisp throughout the series it
9344s just seemed like they continuously had
9346s that pressure from Front Line I mean
9348s Kindred was pumping damage if we just
9349s look at the stats alone Kindred had like
9351s four or 5K damage do you think that's
9353s more so to just how Kindred was playing
9356s on the ratra or is that just because
9357s their supports were doing a better job
9359s potentially on wisp side oh Kindred was
9362s like you said absolutely escalating in
9364s terms of the remat damage but Sosa was
9366s actually doing so much more may damage
9367s as a result here she holds on to the
9369s Blizzard and by the time the H actually
9371s utilizes but blizzard snos has almost
9373s built up 60% of one already having used
9377s the ultimate and that just goes down to
9378s the fact that the ratra is always in the
9380s face and just pushing continuously but
9382s like you said that's reflected in terms
9384s of the amount of heals so much
9387s sustainability to be able to keep that
9388s ratra up and alive and keeping that
9391s space under control because again fatra
9395s alone has so much stall so much
9397s potential to be able to just cycle
9399s through the shield cyle for Nemesis use
9401s the block to be able to just mitigate a
9404s lot of the damage so that it is
9406s survivable until things like y Lucio and
9408s your Baptist are brought back into the
9411s fight or they're able to cycle back into
9413s things like that regenerative burst or
9415s immortality field I mean that was rough
9417s I think we were talking about earlier
9419s with Ash where it's like yeah you know
9420s you don't look at you know map score or
9422s whatever else you know it doesn't really
9424s tell the full picture um but I think a
9426s 20 on inter Peninsula I think that that
9428s was the full picture right I think that
9430s in particular it just felt like wisp
9433s emers just were always in control I mean
9435s if you just look at stance if look at
9436s the map how everything went you had
9438s points like you said but if if you're
9440s relying on that one moment like you said
9442s Moxy where you can't have your Lucio die
9445s I mean that's always rough you can
9446s always fix those tiny things like that
9448s however throughout the series it just
9450s felt like whsp were not letting go of
9451s their advantage right yeah again they
9454s were able to find these forward
9455s positions before fights began where they
9457s were always at a better vantage point
9460s they knew to be able to bait things like
9462s the May well they had to sell that idea
9465s of the ratra being V unble so that the
9467s May immediately goes okay this is my
9468s time going to be able to burn a lot of
9471s those cool downs but yet again it's
9473s Timeless Celestial baiting you into this
9476s full sense of security where you think
9478s you have the upper hand and then two
9480s seconds later immediately revealing that
9482s surprise this has been their game plan
9485s all along and this is something that I
9486s was talking about when we had that desk
9488s segment at the start of the day Timeless
9491s aeral are incredibly good at masking
9492s their intentions but Timeless Celestial
9495s are true masters of this they are
9498s absolute magicians out being able to
9501s divert your focus into one thing while
9504s slightly pulling off another entirely
9507s and a lot of the time you don't realize
9508s it's l too late and then suddenly you've
9511s already lost the map already lost the
9513s fight and moving forward this is
9515s something that we're going to actually
9517s see being utilized against them now with
9520s whisp Embers doing exactly the same
9522s thing making you think that you have the
9523s upper hand against the ratri going for
9525s that first m and then immediately
9527s revealing that all along it's actually
9529s the shoe on the other
9530s foot what a team whisp Embers we'll see
9533s if they can continue their prowess as
9536s they've kind of shown up more so towards
9538s the later half as well of calling o
9540s Heroes right I feel like this team is in
9542s particular has been good right a solid
9545s team in terms of just points they have
9547s been third throughout the entire
9549s tournament but in the Champ series in
9551s particular they do appear to be kind of
9552s coming alive Kings Row will be that
9555s second map
9556s is it going to be a similar story
9559s Antarctic Peninsula or is this maybe
9561s where we see Timeless look at the
9562s drawing board and say okay and we
9564s figured this out we can kind of play a
9565s bit differently well it might not be the
9567s same story but it's going to have the
9568s same characters it's going to be the ram
9570s it's going to be the May it's going to
9571s be the so and obviously you've got to
9573s have your loo and your Baptist to be
9575s able to utilize that speed boost kite
9578s aggressively forward with your own remat
9580s or split off with your soldier make sure
9581s that you protect them on the off angle
9583s but also have that speed boost to be
9585s able to negate and navigate around the
9588s opposing rat ultimate as well this
9590s mirror match up is so interesting to see
9593s CU a lot of the time when one ultimate
9595s comes from one side the opposing
9597s ultimate of that same hero also comes
9599s from the other side and it then goes
9601s down to the mro on which team is able to
9604s come out on top and a lot of the time in
9606s fact the majority of the time on that
9608s first control map it was whis Embers
9610s yeah I like you mentioned the micro cuz
9613s in this particular instance it was like
9614s this mechanical prowess that Kindred and
9616s the rest of whis Embers were really to
9618s really able to show right I just think
9620s that a little bit of a diff you know
9621s potentially MTD Moxy main tank this no I
9625s wouldn't say MTD cuz again it's just
9627s wisp Embers getting to play that forward
9629s position putting a little bit more stock
9632s into things like those forward positions
9634s utilizing for you on that Lucio to be
9637s able to get Santa into those approaches
9638s of Kindred into the right angle to be
9641s able to take full advantage of her kits
9643s as we're going to see whest members now
9645s on on the attack first of all yet again
9647s time SL are very similar in terms of the
9649s positioning Lucio and sojan up on that
9652s High Ground to be able to pre on the
9654s players as they knew for yeah we always
9657s see the sojourn spot for the top left
9659s and as a is able to capitalize off of it
9662s in the previous series we saw sojan get
9664s picked off there not in this case and
9666s look who swaps the Widowmaker real quick
9667s it's Center back from the spawn no kills
9670s B from it just yet either though but
9671s already 40 seconds off the clock on the
9674s aing side for w members
9676s no merry go around unfortunately this
9678s time as we're going to see a still
9680s holding on to that position disruptor
9682s shot is so good in these scenarios
9684s because you can utilize that ability to
9686s slow down these pushes and rotations
9688s from the attacking team which means that
9689s they St can choke a little bit longer
9691s but the second that they're able to
9693s break her staircase it immediately comes
9695s whis bers running the show they don't
9697s have to worry about the choke splitting
9699s them off they can just p on the soan and
9702s immediately sh out down yeah you got to
9704s you got to react to that didn't even
9706s fall back to the Clock Tower or anything
9707s just thought they held that position
9709s maybe they wanted to go aggressive there
9711s at the choke but they just reacted far
9712s too late regardless wh Ember did a
9714s fantastic rotation like you said Mar
9716s yeah really fast as well this is
9718s something to having that Lucio puts into
9721s motion quite literally you can go from Z
9723s to 60 in the absolute blink of an eye
9726s and like you said sometimes it catches
9727s some of these players on thew speaking
9729s about CAU on W what a May coming through
9731s from H yeah I don't know SN did not
9734s expect that amplification Matrix to try
9736s to equalize it but no I mean everybody
9739s in W member is able to fall back s it
9740s will get merer too as he as they Peak
9743s the corner oh committed as well yeah
9747s yeah early on they could not find the
9749s kills with it either and now there's
9751s just a bunch of staggers this is
9753s absolutely falling apart this scene for
9754s Timeless Celestial you got to be worried
9756s if you're a fan of them yeah this is sea
9757s salt in the wound right now Timeless
9759s Celestial losing the Baptist early and
9763s then the tank late that is so much
9766s payload distance and that is the payload
9768s sailing a free pass through one of the
9771s hardest chokes to break normally in the
9774s game wh members have to be so happy
9776s about that one because they didn't even
9778s have to commit that many ultimates to be
9780s able to break it as now we're going to
9781s see oh time Celestial CL where the amp
9784s is going to be no oh my God shut down
9787s after peing that by the Lucio of all
9789s players however H ke with the blizzard
9792s and the rest of their team able to find
9793s Street load here as the right with the
9794s overclock tries to find a kill jumps
9797s over to the top of the train but no
9799s kills are found just a bit of
9801s positioning and now whis Embers do they
9803s want to come back through they did use
9804s some ultimates
9805s earlier to some success but really
9808s they've not breached to this choke point
9810s just yet now into the blizzard goes
9812s Kindred nice job from snar however the
9815s immortality fi is there to keep him
9816s alive too beat drop by kqa or kqa is
9820s there however a counter one by poor youu
9823s whis Embers try to go aggressive then
9825s Kindred will commit
9826s that Annihilation Street lower trying to
9828s counter with their own however the
9829s damage is already done snar will go down
9832s in does fall lower the heals there it
9834s looks like they are regen burst keeps
9835s them nice and healthy as well those
9837s right clicks now an amplification Matrix
9838s from mer they really want to win right
9841s here time of celestial they're buying
9843s time as well for some of their players
9844s to come back from the spawn doors icicle
9846s slows down merer for now but after that
9849s ant mrex right ultimate used no kills
9851s found whis Embers now to come back in
9853s with their own on the cart even further
9855s pushes away Timeless Celestial now
9857s towards the mega health pack do they
9858s potentially get a re-engage before
9860s they're out of meters to go
9861s amplification Matrix Falls one M left
9864s immortality feel committed here as well
9866s now that eventually will be gone no cool
9869s down here for that player on whis are on
9872s Timeless Celestial s now whis to use
9873s their own against Aur who drops the
9875s overclock do they find the kills at
9877s Senna on the other side without the
9878s overclock able to find them and the
9880s blizzard here too it was a long fight at
9882s the end of the streets phase but whisp
9883s EMB are able to close out it's a long
9886s fight but it's actually towards the
9888s halfway mark that W members are able to
9890s land on their wi condition and that is a
9892s disruptor shot from CER into a more May
9895s from H key to keep time Celestial stuck
9897s inside that corner where they forc to
9899s utilizing that immortality field so when
9901s we see azer come in with the overclock
9903s which should immediately swing things in
9904s their favor they do not have the cool
9906s down to be able to keep the sojan
9908s standing and utilize the ultimate to
9910s shut whsp Embers down and as a result
9913s they sunk the overclock into a l fight
9915s and Senna gets to utilize hers with an
9918s absolute Shooting
9920s Gallery just just flies forward even
9923s further two kills no hex given Lucio
9926s back to the spawn one fight remaining
9929s and this this card's so close to the end
9931s here yeah with Bas they've got the
9933s sustainability in PA sign bar Kindred
9936s going to have the annihilation as well
9937s the Trac SW coming through from a
9940s immediately shut down however Timeless
9943s Celestial not able to utilize any of the
9945s ultimates that they were about to come
9947s into that fight with Dustin and that was
9949s huge getting the Tracer out of the way
9952s that quickly with the respawns for the
9954s defending team being that close and
9956s three ultimates coming into play that is
9958s massive for Wiis bembers they're able to
9960s shut down so much to potential for the
9962s defense and finish off King row with 2
9964s minutes and 55 so often we see teams
9968s full push King roow with barely a minute
9970s to their name that is a master class on
9972s how to play this
9973s map what a collapse what a collapse I
9976s don't mean to be toxic but that was uh
9979s that was amazing like you said from whis
9980s bembers but Timeless Celestial I mean
9982s what happened what happened with them
9984s oxy I mean they just like got picked
9986s multiple times it felt maybe like
9989s compared to the previous map there
9992s wasn't a lot of fight in the situation
9994s whisp ERS just kind of rolled over him I
9996s mean there was like one point in streets
9998s phase but ever since then it was it was
10000s just not comparable it was positioning
10003s coming through from WIS bambas it was
10004s really small when SN want to try and use
10006s things like the blizzard sen was always
10008s playing an off angle so as aay wasn't
10010s able to take advantage of any player
10012s getting frozen out as a result Kindred
10014s might have been caught in the crossfire
10015s but with the fact that you don't lock
10017s down either the Baptist or the Luci
10019s there's always going to be enough St
10020s sustain potential especially if you get
10022s caught out in the namesis form you get
10024s to just keep all of that damage
10026s mitigation for the longest time and AER
10029s was having to continue contest with CA
10031s without getting to take advantage of the
10033s natural win conditions for this
10034s composition West is doing a very good
10036s job of being able to shut the mirror
10038s down time alas if they want to keep this
10040s competitive they cannot afford to slow
10042s down a singular moment in King's Ro they
10045s really
10046s can't now we'll see what they decide to
10048s do here's that sojourn off angle that we
10050s tend to see on first point King's Row
10053s really is the thorn of the side of
10054s Timeless as they try to walk through but
10055s azire finds Senna you know that's an
10057s amazing first pick from azere really has
10059s been a stand up player for Timeless so
10061s far whenever it feels like Timeless
10063s Celestial do good it's off the back of
10065s this player they rotated towards this
10067s point Timeless Celestial now starting to
10068s get up those ticks wh Embers this time
10071s playing it slow with the Lucio in the
10072s top side Miss shot from a keeps for you
10075s alive also immortality field here gives
10078s them the opportunity to fall back but
10079s they're being chased down by three
10080s members did they live no way regroup
10082s with their team now going to have five
10084s players whisp Ember somehow escaped such
10086s a dicey situation in The High Ground s's
10088s back s's back as well they try to come
10090s back through whis Ember we get a walk
10092s towards Street Lord who's already forced
10095s use that block in change of form so a
10097s lot of that tankiness already removed
10098s asre goes aggressive or sorry tries to
10101s fall back to the rest of their team but
10103s it's caught in the middle of the open
10104s snos was able to find C to whis Embers
10107s they've almost made the comeback here
10109s but the ant Matrix over the top now I
10110s mean that's far too much damage and
10112s healing no counter RS here from wisp
10114s Embers I mean they potentially could but
10116s HT goes low and Matrix here there nobody
10119s here to touch the bo oh my God wait
10120s Kindred almost was there but just
10122s couldn't still stays alive still I don't
10125s even know if they expected to live there
10126s in that situation honestly but now
10128s they're going to back up just give up
10129s the choke point and take the streets
10131s fight kri gets out a
10133s lot that's huge cuz now you get to
10136s retain this position in streets you've
10138s got an Annihilation to come through
10140s there's no ammage from either of these
10141s teams so whoever has that forward better
10143s positioning around this corner is
10145s already going to be coming in with that
10146s Advantage as HP looking for the off
10148s angle through that narrow hallway trying
10150s to scope out where to place this
10152s wall now forces that block then bses the
10155s blizzard I mean that's just perfect how
10157s you're supposed to play that sosler
10159s panics uses their own blizzard doesn't
10160s get anybody because the cool Downs
10162s weren't used for HK so amazing work we
10164s talked about that match up between HQ
10165s and snar in this particular instance HQ
10168s comes out on top yeah just a little bit
10170s of pressure to force s into utilizing
10173s that ice block so that you don't have it
10175s available to dodge the blizzard freeze
10177s coming through and then whis able to
10179s catch onto the May isolate them down so
10181s they don't get any of that initial
10183s progression with the BZ
10185s as wiers with a defensive position with
10188s the overclock Center comes in and shuts
10191s AZ down so much more value for the
10194s defensive soan than the attacking this
10196s is what we were talking about right
10198s having that cushion of safety of cover
10200s to be able to fall behind that is why
10202s it's so problematic to be able to push
10204s through some of these choke spaces and
10206s soan especially now that you get to
10207s retain some of that all fire charge is
10209s just benefiting massively from being
10212s able to hold all of that power before
10213s the fight even begins luc's jeweling in
10216s the top side puu has to back up for now
10218s ultimate Advantage is finally in favor
10220s of Timeless they use the wall here
10222s finally force that cool out of HT that
10224s could be huge for them and Matrix is a
10226s bit too far back though I mean from
10228s merer unfortunately now they can't use
10230s it here it's easy to disengage for whis
10232s members they just back on out of there
10233s have their own amplification Matrix anun
10235s over the top towards the boiler side
10237s could use it for themselves but don't
10238s even need to the May wall was huge
10240s blocked everybody in the pub side and
10242s time of celestial just collapsed against
10245s the Mayall by
10247s itself hq's May is just magic I'm so
10250s happy that I get to see it again it
10253s really just feels like H has such a good
10255s grasp of when to use these Ms and like
10257s you said as a result of how good these
10259s walls are being wisp Embers gets to
10261s retain hold of these ultimates and as a
10264s result they're running the economy Hess
10266s Celestial used the amp Matrix and found
10269s nothing with it because H not only is
10272s able to find the wall to shut it down
10273s but also sets up the wall for the pick
10275s to come through so they lose a play and
10277s have to try and run through with the
10279s tail against their legs and now anion
10281s gets to hold on against this corner with
10284s an ant Matrix to slow time the
10285s celestials push down early soft
10288s disengage from with members now they
10289s come back through a magx ready at the
10291s choke wall already used by themselves as
10294s race finds that pick though on the Lucio
10296s for has been playing pretty aggressive
10297s so far so maybe that's what resulted in
10300s their de my stre Lord also finds H will
10302s find Senna and then finally now Timeless
10304s SEL sh we able to get through kred finds
10307s merer on the Stagger that's pretty s but
10309s in this situation right we're entering a
10311s massive old fight coming up if this is
10315s anything like the last long fight though
10318s it's going to go in whis B's favor
10320s remember they are incredibly good at
10322s bleeding immortality field out from MOA
10325s Before Time of celestial are able to
10327s utilize it to set themselves up
10329s aggressively for things like this
10331s overclock this band are going to try and
10333s do the exact same thing over block used
10335s early from a noar sitting on an off
10337s angle on the left side now uses that
10339s Blizzard at the choke 3 m to go can
10342s anybody touch either there's an ant
10343s Matrix help stallord goes really
10346s aggressive uses that Annihilation on the
10349s inside but doesn't get any more value be
10351s drop here counter engage unfortunately
10353s Timeless Celestial cannot keep the front
10355s line alive and with 3 m to go it all
10357s falls apart 1 minute now on the clock
10360s whisp Embers even get to hold on to
10361s their own Annihilation you can see how
10364s afraid Timeless were of the deja v as
10365s well to the point that they start off
10367s the fight with the overclock before whis
10370s bembers are really even able to be put
10372s into a position where they fall pre to
10374s it as a result immortality field gets to
10376s be held on to and Tona Celestial don't
10378s get to utilize either the overclock or
10380s the blizzard to free up the space on the
10381s pay to pick up the checkpoint now we're
10383s down to 35 seconds they've only got one
10385s ultimate to play around it's going to be
10387s the at Matrix but with spers that's
10389s giving up this space they're going to
10390s have H look for a flank to set this wall
10392s up but they are getting challenged time
10394s making sure H does not get that free
10396s range to try and shut these players down
10399s yeah and got the immortality on the left
10400s side meall in the front because of this
10402s positioning from HK Kindred was able to
10404s come through with this uh Annihilation
10406s now 12 seconds left nobody else here
10408s moxim they're going for the spawn Camp
10410s potential 8 second yeah they touching
10412s Time Tracer Lucio coming through I mean
10414s they're going to try to try to touch but
10417s you know Moxy whisp ambers don't even
10419s care about people coming to touch
10420s they're up 2 now in the series and if
10422s that last series was a chest match up
10424s this feels like like a checker one wisp
10426s Ember is just absolute Gods at the game
10429s right now 2 over Timeless Leal which is
10432s also supposed to be a very good team
10434s making them look like amateurs today
10436s yeah you can see that time of celestial
10438s they were very aware of the amount of
10440s time that they had left they knew that
10442s they wouldn't be able to cleanly get
10444s through those chokes uh in another fight
10446s that they had to take and as a result
10448s they had to full commit onto the fight
10450s before we hit into that overtime and it
10453s just it shot them in the foot they had
10455s to go incredibly aggressive early on
10456s because they didn't want to be too
10458s hesitant where HQ would be able to shut
10460s one of them down before the fight
10462s properly be as a result we saw that full
10465s commitment all of the ultimates invested
10468s and no one from WIS bambas Goes Down And
10471s even worse time CES when they actually
10473s utilize those ultimates to try and push
10474s whsp ERS either away entirely and just
10477s Zone them off of the payload or force
10479s them to contest and walk directly into
10480s all of that damage and kills they pop it
10483s too early and they don't get either they
10485s don't get the payload moving forward and
10487s they also don't get any of the kills
10488s that they're looking for and as a result
10490s whest members just wait them out and are
10493s able to sustain through all of the
10494s damages before coming back in swinging
10497s and th Celestial after that fight where
10499s they fully commit in they have nothing
10501s left in the tank to be able to push any
10504s form of attack especially when H key is
10508s baiting them all onto taking that fight
10510s up toward stairs for Kindra to just come
10512s through with the annihilation and as the
10514s ultimate suggests absolutely rip through
10517s the entire team I mean it's tough it
10521s really is I I I think that you you said
10523s how they're kind of like it feels like
10525s time with Celestial are kind of shooting
10526s themselves in the foot at times like
10527s like they're take they're making the
10528s game Scrappy and you know that could be
10531s good if you if you really have insane
10533s mechanical prowess but at the same time
10535s with if you're just kind of going in and
10537s expecting something to go your way
10538s without a plan b or something else it
10540s just feels like it falls apart right
10542s there was that instance where they came
10543s through on that Pub side like like you
10544s said and then immediately just died to
10547s no ultimate so maybe time of seso can
10550s take this break and kind of come back
10552s recall what they did good in that
10554s previous map and bring it into the next
10555s one but at the moment 20 for Wisp
10558s they're on that map point we'll have to
10560s see what happens after the short break
10562s guys so see you guys in just a
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10573s bit
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10749s welcome back everybody we're in the
10751s middle of a matchup 20 at the moment for
10753s Wisp who are making this game against
10756s Timeless Celestial make sure not to say
10758s ethereal looking pretty easy for them at
10760s the moment I thought this match would be
10762s close today Moxy break break down what's
10764s happening at the half at the moment
10765s between these two game or uh teams yeah
10768s I was on the same lines as you Dustin I
10770s thought it would be really close
10771s especially looking at how Celestial were
10773s performing yesterday against BT blue on
10775s Kings Row it looked like a different
10778s team entirely they were the ones
10780s punishing yesterday VT Blue's hesitation
10782s and setting up all of these really AI
10784s angles looking for these really nice
10786s trades if a tank went down no sweat it
10789s was actually something that they were
10790s disguising as a little bit of a smarter
10791s play later on down the lines but you can
10794s really see that something against wisps
10797s has unsettled them and that something
10799s has come in the form of H key hkey has
10803s broken this team entirely every single
10806s ultimate is finding value every single
10808s wall as well as being able to cut and
10811s isolate these targets worse instead of
10814s applying pressure on the ratra a lot of
10816s the time it's being used to apply
10818s pressure onto snla and without snosa
10821s having those abilities things like the
10822s ice block when your own blizzard kicks
10824s in you don't have that self- sustained
10827s tool to be able to find fire of the
10828s ultimate and with the may remve not only
10831s do you lose sustain you lose that Focus
10834s threat coming through with that massive
10836s dump of damage you can do on the primary
10838s with the 100 per second and you lose a
10841s lot of the trust in your tank too
10843s because Street just does doesn't have
10844s that safety line that's available for
10846s Kindred when HK is still standing yeah I
10849s mean fantastic points Marx and you know
10851s I'm curious you know obviously the
10853s series is not over just yet but you know
10856s whis bers look to be in the driver seat
10857s I really am curious at the end of the
10859s series when you and Chris break
10860s everything down you know what exactly
10862s happened for ESS Celestial potentially
10865s obviously it's not over just yet maybe
10867s onor ofasa they've got something planned
10870s um but like you said I mean h key and
10871s wisp Ember is mock they're just looking
10873s they're looking at another level right
10875s now they're looking like they can win
10876s this whole thing as we head into flash
10878s point these maps are going to get a lot
10880s bigger these objectives are also going
10882s to get a lot wider with a lot of
10883s different angles and flanks you could
10885s potentially take I want to see the same
10887s strategies that th celester were doing
10889s yesterday where they would split their
10891s team into different Pockets so they
10893s could take these off angles and apply
10895s pressure all around as opposed to just
10897s having five people run directly at wisp
10899s who have just so much more space to be
10901s able to shut them out entirely if if you
10904s see a sojan isolated with only a Lucio
10907s run at them it's something that whisp
10909s did to such a good effect when they were
10911s attacking Kings and it's something that
10912s Celestial are just ignoring
10914s entirely well now first fight on
10917s surasa in time with Celestial flip the
10921s course of the current timeline and make
10924s this reverse sweep happen wall already
10926s out from them they play actually back at
10929s the moment whisp Embers the on trying to
10931s take the four positioning a May wall
10933s block off the sigma makes sure Street
10935s Lord is always pressured out and kindan
10937s stays healthy oh my God Senna almost
10939s goes down because they were in such
10940s aggressive position but o unfortunately
10943s doesn't get the kill and now with Embers
10947s I mean they got full control of the
10948s point they took it aay goes low on this
10950s off angle too but in fact it's m to go
10952s down first the Kindred this unrelenting
10954s pressure from this front line and
10957s everybody on whisp is too much I mean
10959s they not only took the point first but
10961s also sent Timeless back to spawn and do
10962s you know what guaranteed that that they
10964s picked up their first flip it was the
10966s split again wisp committed players onto
10969s The High Ground to separate and provide
10972s a different angle of control and time
10974s the celestial did not have the sustain
10977s to keep Street confidently standing on
10979s the point alone they got bullied off of
10981s those angles they had to pull back and
10983s as a result whis Bas take control of
10985s that point and start the percentage
10986s building and before T CEST even able to
10989s mount a second push wisp already about
10992s to prach 70% of this point oh snaz what
10996s a pick on a CNA though that's kind of
10998s what they need these these opening picks
11001s these flashing the pain stuff from snar
11003s two kills in this fight amazing work
11005s from the M player of Timeless Celestial
11007s the cleanup just comes through and at a
11009s time when you desperately need something
11011s like that too they still use the ant
11012s Matrix but so did anun however they've
11014s got to hold this now for for 100%
11017s against 99 and pushes like that where
11019s you're trying to play aggressive and
11020s have everyone play off of the angle and
11023s damage and fret that the ant Matrix
11025s provides that's when you can commit five
11027s players on the same Angle now when
11029s you're in a defensive position I want to
11031s see them take up more space and I'm not
11034s seeing that at the moment there's no
11036s split off from azer with kqa to be able
11039s to try and find value with this
11041s overclock instead they're all bundling
11042s very much up on point which wh ambers
11044s are just going to be able to utilize to
11046s run straight up wall off Kindred goes
11049s low beat drop here though to keep
11051s everybody healthy counter beat from kqa
11053s over clock from as eventually run out bu
11055s lizzard also used with that now Kindred
11058s gets to come in however Street Lord only
11060s finds one Kindred finds three on this or
11063s two on this engage and the immortality
11064s field that potentially could come
11066s through but they don't even need it just
11068s yet cuz they're just getting all the
11069s damage be that low ground Lucio almost
11072s said in fact aay to fall I mean there's
11074s not much that Annihilation is going to
11075s do at this point could have potentially
11077s saved it for the next one with Embers
11079s now come back take that point and will
11082s take point in I'm going to start the
11083s sign like a broken record but again it's
11085s the off angle that whisper able to
11088s utilize to translate into a fight win
11091s Sena and Paul show up behind the point
11094s time Celestial have to immediately
11096s divert half of their attention to
11098s dealing of shutting the sojan down they
11100s don't find the pick they do scare the
11101s players off of the space but the damage
11104s has already been done Kindred has
11105s already been able to infiltrate the
11106s space and utilize that Annihilation to
11109s claim all of the kills and when Whi
11111s already playing with so much percentage
11112s to their name they just need a couple of
11114s moments to be able to pick up the point
11116s in its entirety and now worse for th
11119s Celestial not only whis to the point
11122s first they also pick up two kills this
11125s is brutal this bember just close out and
11128s it's exactly how you said Marx he just
11129s feels like every single fight you know
11133s is time of celestial keeps getting
11134s surprised but whatever whis Embers are
11137s planning and we're going to see the same
11139s thing we SP this when you see this map
11142s when you see the positions that they're
11143s play playing look at how close Senna and
11146s Pa are playing and look at how bunched
11149s and bottled up time of celestial
11152s are my God I mean it's going to happen
11154s again 40% nearly on the board now we
11157s still have members of their team back
11159s towards the point but there's that off
11160s angle Finally checked by Timeless
11162s Celestial forces them to regroup as five
11165s but they're still strong as the unit cuz
11166s they have this ant matric so it was all
11169s in the game plan incenta finds the kill
11171s on azer even through M's own
11174s amplification Matrix no immortality
11175s field to keep their soj alive that
11177s damage has been removed overclock will
11179s not be built snar is going to be the
11180s only savior with a potential blizzard
11183s but sosler goes down too wh members are
11185s playing this perfectly nearly 80% of the
11187s board now they're going to close out on
11188s this one and make it m point so when you
11190s don't take off angles and utilize these
11192s ultimates you have to remember this is
11194s an ultimate being used in front of five
11197s people that's five people reacting to it
11199s and one of those players includes a m so
11202s the ant Matrix comes up and H is
11203s immediately able to react then is able
11205s to take a pick as well before Tom
11207s Celestial are able to take advantage of
11209s that ultimate their own ultimate being
11211s utilized and yet again wisp Embers are
11215s able to win the point time Celestial
11218s still not mixing things up as are going
11219s to provide a little bit of a distraction
11221s to try and slow whis B's rotation down
11223s and it's something that has to be done
11224s because they're coming with way more
11226s ultimates than ESS have available they
11228s need to be able to set themselves up
11230s onto this point as Center yet again look
11233s for an off angle to surprise Timeless
11236s that they lose a lot of the value of
11239s these defensive capabilities the peel
11241s was there oh my God that beat just save
11243s sen like one HP no freaking way a goes
11247s down Kindred on the front line meanwhile
11249s with that Annihilation Timeless
11251s Celestial could even buy any time for
11253s their own tanks to find those ultimates
11256s whisp Embers again take the point first
11257s yeah an insult injury even more Destin
11260s time Celestial may have been able to put
11262s themselves on the point first but
11263s they're not able to claim it wisp Embers
11266s start picking up percentage and ESS
11268s Celestial only have two ultimates to be
11272s able to try and put themselves on top of
11274s it anion's going to be coming in with
11275s the ant Matrix wants to hold on to The
11277s High Ground as a result to set CER up so
11279s that she can utilize that angle
11281s potentially as tyus have to just try now
11283s and divert whis's attention but the Poke
11285s is going to be so much more percentage
11287s picks up for their opponent and they try
11290s to come in over clock here on the back
11292s side any kills yes and finds center now
11295s that so joint is removed who's been a
11296s thorn to the sign of Timeless two in
11299s this fight for a looking good so far 70%
11303s going to be building towards 75 for whis
11305s Embers as the point flips back for
11306s Timeless who just used the overclock in
11308s that fight I want to see the off angle
11311s MOA has the at Matrix the last time we
11313s saw this exact point there we go they
11315s used the off angle the bapti set up on
11318s the exact building so that azer could
11321s have such a bird ey angle onto whisp as
11324s they move forward with this not even
11326s overclocked but just Al fire and Body
11328s Shots coming through Amplified with the
11330s damage from the Baptist but they give it
11332s up I guess they had to I mean they just
11334s want to come back towards this point
11336s regardless I mean they they have to
11338s regroup right they have a Skyline angle
11340s to at least pressure for some rail gun
11342s shots now on you the rest of with
11344s members right deciding what they want to
11345s do like you said Moxy they're giving all
11346s the space to the side May wall here to
11348s slow it down they know the engage is
11349s coming but mer finds HK great work for B
11353s to keep Timeless alive in a series that
11356s has been so dire for them overclock here
11358s on the point both as ra shot as well
11360s they don't even need use an overclock
11362s shot or rail gun shot to get the final
11363s blow whis Embers tries to reset quick
11365s for a potential recontest time Cal not
11368s really wanting to utilize any other aler
11371s I think whisper just going to give this
11372s up entirely they're not going to be able
11374s to touch easily they're too close to the
11376s Blizzard and the annihilation they're
11378s not going to have either support
11379s ultimates either so if you actually go
11381s into another fight before putting
11383s yourself onto that next point you risk
11386s doing too much to allow kqa to hit that
11389s sound power and give th Celestial a
11391s bigger advantage in terms of overall
11393s sustain in a composition that's already
11396s absolutely drenched in
11399s survivability look at this monks whisp
11401s Embers are actually at the point first
11402s so don't actually opt to hold the choke
11405s point necessarily it's a bit too hard
11407s open this entire section is rotation
11409s around from Timeless Celestial they come
11411s from the main they're actually kind of
11412s on the attack side in this instance HQ
11415s ready with the wall knowing this is
11416s where Timeless likes to go maybe in
11418s practice in scrims they understand what
11420s Timeless game plan is and now at the top
11422s they come oh is there blizzard it's
11424s countered everything with time celesio
11426s is trying to do however the change of
11429s form keeps their tank player alive for
11431s now so wh great counter play by Timeless
11434s yes whis cap for now Santa finds the
11436s kill in AER 2 and now one not that so
11439s the damage is gone sosler will toss in
11441s the blizzard to try to equalize it but
11443s but nobody nobody's found in fact they
11445s don't even have the point either so not
11446s really is is going their nothing is
11448s going really their way at the moment
11449s immortality field to back up for now
11451s they're still down one waiting for AZ to
11453s come back from Spawn Annihilation engage
11455s from Kindred they know this is their
11456s chance to win they'll find Street Lord
11458s even before the sojourn is back snar
11460s Falls to and that's already 50% off the
11462s board for just one fight yeah that
11465s blizzard was literally just to put the
11467s pressure onto streak so that wisp could
11469s be able to cap because they know they're
11472s about to hit support ultim if the fight
11474s goes on long they can utilize those
11475s support ultimates and stall it out and
11478s Bol percentage to win in the overall it
11481s is such a long con and it plays out
11483s perfectly T Celestial now coming into
11486s this next fight for ultimates but they
11487s know that they can't afford to just dump
11489s all of them in but with 85% and counting
11491s on the board P wi they have to make a
11493s move soon uhoh hiding with AO over clock
11497s ready no pills found on whis either just
11499s yet speed drop reengage there is that
11502s overclock onto the an Matrix they
11503s actually fight off S for now but s
11505s doesn't go down that's the problem and
11507s now s comes back gets the May oh my God
11510s what a shot from the soour if we're were
11512s talking about HQ earlier now we're
11513s talking about sen on this map two kills
11515s for them there and whis B just Clos it
11518s out I mean nearly Flawless against
11521s Timeless Celestial to put themselves in
11522s an upper bracket finals yeah wisp Embers
11526s we thought maybe this would be a bond
11528s burner we were wrong they just had such
11530s a better understanding of how to utilize
11532s the space
11533s how to utilize the mobility of things
11535s like the Lucio and the ser and looking
11537s at the th Celestial that we saw
11539s yesterday against BT blue those were
11542s exact conditions that this team was
11544s meeting I do not know what Chang in
11547s between then and now the only thing I
11549s can say that was the big Difference
11551s Maker was just not having that same
11554s level of trust or finding the same level
11556s of value around the May utility and I'm
11559s sure that's something that Christopher
11560s will love to touch upon because May is
11563s so just absolutely bombarded with
11567s different values that you can find in
11568s terms of micro and macro and being able
11571s to coordinate in a team environment as
11573s opposed to how you would play May in
11575s your own solo unranked games yeah I mean
11578s it's just amazing work from wisp Embers
11581s and you know it does feel like Timeless
11583s Celestial did kind of seem like a a
11585s shell of their former s throughout the
11587s entire year they played very well but
11589s leading into this you know through
11591s whether it be the M play like you said
11592s or over team cohesion it just it just
11594s all fell apart in the upper bracket um
11597s and this is obviously where everything
11598s matters most right we're in that
11600s championship series this is the end of
11602s the road for a lot of these players in
11604s the calling all heroes Grand you know
11606s tournament um and obviously whis B
11608s showed up today they just look beautiful
11610s as a team a 30 series versus time of
11613s celestial really I don't know if there's
11616s anything you could take away from that
11617s if your time is Celestial is there Moxy
11619s is there anything they could take down
11620s to lower bracket I think for them this
11623s is where they need to learn their lesson
11625s that share outwards aggression with all
11628s five players just piling in on the same
11630s angle does not work it will work
11634s sometimes when you have things like
11635s amplification Matrix and you just want
11636s to Brute Force Bullhead your way through
11640s these fights as quickly as possible to
11642s be able to find those kills and lock a
11643s space down but when it comes to spinning
11646s the long con and keeping control of all
11648s of these different Avenues especially in
11651s the setup two fights you have to be so
11654s much more controlling of that space and
11656s I hope it's a lesson that they take into
11658s the L bracket and that they learn from
11659s where they see okay this Lucio and the
11661s sodium were running rings quite
11663s literally around us this was a problem
11665s that we had to turn around and deal with
11667s it depleted resources from elsewhere in
11669s our team resources that were immediately
11672s punished by the other side this is
11675s something that we did for pre too but
11677s it's also something that we can use to
11679s our own Advantage this is something that
11680s you have to utilize to your advantage if
11683s you want to be able to find success in
11685s the mirror match up of the Rat sojan and
11687s Lucio I'm looking forward to seeing you
11690s and Chris break down that entire series
11692s I mean there was a lot to to there
11694s probably is a lot to talk about from
11695s that series but I'm going to be heading
11696s out for now we'll see you guys after
11698s short Brank with Chris and Moxy to break
11700s everything down what happened in that
11711s series
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11895s the expectations set up going into the
11897s semi-final series by Dustin in the
11900s pre-show was that this was supposed to
11902s be a dog fight but instead it looked
11904s like wisp Embers had that dog in them
11908s because Chris we really saw the way that
11911s they were able to bring everything to
11914s the table in this series but this is
11916s upset since they will never trust Dogman
11918s that's been one of my lifelong lessons
11921s um I think you're right I think I think
11922s that um on paper this looked to be a
11924s really close game it felt you know I
11926s think Moxy you were spot him with
11928s everything you said on the broadcast
11929s really it felt like hmer really
11931s struggled to get any form of angle
11933s pressure they kind of funnel themselves
11935s into this this narrow fight a lot of the
11937s time and if you want to play narrow in
11938s this meta then you have to at least win
11940s the ult trades which they almost never
11943s did it was really painful as well
11946s sometimes to watch them go always for
11948s the same angle cuz it was it was so
11950s predictable from wisp side and there was
11952s so many different things and different
11954s abilities in this composition that can
11956s shut those ultimate pushes down which
11958s again is another reason why you want to
11959s try and take those off angles cuz it
11961s burns through a lot of that right the
11962s ratri can only put his shield in one
11964s location the May can only put her wall
11967s in One location so if you take an off
11969s angle a lot of the time it's to bait
11971s some of those abilities out so that on
11973s another angle you can find the value but
11975s since you're always going from the exact
11977s same approach one of those abilities is
11980s always going to be online to be able to
11981s shut whatever you have planned down I
11984s think you're exactly right sorry I think
11987s you're exactly right because I think
11988s especially with ratra 2 I think that the
11990s way that we do blocking it can only go
11992s in One Direction too um and I feel like
11994s that's um that's very much the off angle
11996s is the way to be if it's Sigma I think
11997s it's slightly different The Shield is
11999s wider he's more squishy but with ram we
12001s have to find a way to like angle round
12003s and shoot him in the back of the head
12005s and you saw like they understood that
12007s right from wisp side when they were
12008s trying to push uh and take back that
12011s first point on S when they lost control
12014s they sent that soan round the back with
12015s the Lucio to make the ratra turn around
12018s and have to like you said Christopher
12020s utilize a lot of those defensive
12021s capabilities that then just led to such
12024s a huge deficient in the tank 1V one that
12027s spired really quickly out of
12028s control I think something to keep in
12031s mind here as well is the fact that for
12033s Ty Celestial it didn't seem like they're
12035s playing at that level that we've seen
12036s them play at in the past even going back
12039s yesterday to day one and Chris I've got
12041s to get it from your point of view as a
12042s coach what do they need to do now
12044s dropping down into the lower bracket
12046s again they have another opportunity to
12048s make this run they're not eliminated
12050s we'll be seeing them later today but
12053s that's also a blow to the mental on top
12055s of that in-game strategy I think when we
12058s look at double brackets I think there
12059s was something really interesting to
12060s consider there's two challenges right
12062s there was a challenge to win and the ler
12063s bracket later today there is maybe an
12065s argument that due to how Timeless paid
12068s yesterday we we are good enough to win
12069s this so we keep keep doing what we're
12071s doing but the has to be a feeling that
12073s the three teams that we've seen today in
12075s this Ram mirror look very very strong
12077s and there is a real question somewhere
12079s tonight do we go into vodw do we try to
12081s cook something up is there a queen comp
12083s that we can make work do we bring out
12084s some sort of dive comp assuming our goal
12087s here is to win the whole event is our
12090s Ram mirror at this moment in time strong
12092s enough to beat all three of the teams
12093s left in the
12095s tournament I mean it's a big question
12097s that you have to throw out there in that
12099s kind of sense but overall I think the
12102s undeniability also has to go towards the
12106s DPSS on the side of wisp Embers s to be
12110s the first one that I want to highlight
12112s because I think her performance Moxy was
12113s Stellar throughout the entire series and
12116s so consistent at that yeah and again
12119s this sort of goes back to the problem
12122s that we were seeing coming through from
12123s the opponent in that you're always
12125s coming from one angle so the surgeon
12127s always knows where to expect actually
12129s need to fire so that actually leads in
12132s to not just a lot more damage coming off
12134s of alt shots or rail gun but also a lot
12138s more damage coming through off of those
12139s disruptor shots too we were seeing that
12141s wisps off of those disrupted shots would
12143s actually be able to follow up with mayal
12145s coming through from hkey to force things
12147s like the immortality field out it is so
12149s rare that we see teams back quite
12152s literally against the wall having to
12154s burn through a immortality field to be
12156s able to save themselves from going down
12158s to a sojan cool
12161s down and I mean damage output is just
12164s one part of the story right Moxy I mean
12166s you have to consider also on the other
12168s side of things here Chris I know you
12170s really wanted to highlight and had your
12172s eyes on H key as this DPS player while
12175s not having that same kind of damage
12177s output had insane value with her utility
12181s so obviously I'm a coach that's coached
12183s quite a bit of May in my time and and
12185s one metric I always have for May players
12187s I think even if you don't get the
12188s highest value from wall or from off
12190s angles if you can feel really consistent
12193s at maybe an 80 90% old win rate our team
12196s is going to cap second on every single
12198s map at the bare minimum and my soj can
12200s carry the rest of the fights that feel
12202s really good and for hkey she was amazing
12205s I think almost every Al I saw was a
12207s fight win and what was doubly effective
12209s is sometimes both Ms be using all at the
12211s exact same time and if you can not only
12213s win the fight with your M but then
12215s commit The Other M to using the old at
12216s the same time the old economy is in
12218s total shambles for the enemy team I mean
12221s it's it's pretty insane like how
12223s consistently she was able to make that
12226s turnaround happen and whatnot but Moxy
12229s we are going to have to say goodbye to
12230s you for now I know you're going to be
12232s joining us again tomorrow but thank you
12234s so much for casting earlier or today
12237s just now and we'll see you on day three
12240s and Christopher is obviously going to
12242s stick around for the remainder of the
12243s day but we do have to say hello to
12244s another special guest on the desk we're
12247s heading over to an interview now this
12249s time around with cap congratulations
12252s um Mr coach on your win here in the
12255s upper bracket
12257s semi-finals thank you it feels
12260s good um what were your expectations I
12262s guess going into this matchup against
12264s Timeless Celestial your teams have gone
12266s head-to-head again like previously
12268s before uh did you expect things to be a
12272s little bit different didn't seem like TC
12274s were playing to the level that we
12275s usually see them
12277s at yeah I mean um we knew that they play
12281s the ram mayom and that's our most
12283s comfortable match up just because we've
12284s been prepping mostly for Timeless
12286s ethereal who plays that as well so like
12287s we kind of knocked out two birds with
12289s one stone by preparing for both of them
12291s at the same time but um we weren't
12295s underestimating them but we weren't um
12298s too worried um we just don't play scared
12301s and we treat every match the same and
12302s we'll do the same to the other Timeless
12305s team yeah because I was going to say
12307s you're heading up against them coming up
12309s next so I I already have a bit of your
12311s thought
12312s into that but curious about whis Embers
12315s and how you as a coach have been
12318s prepping your team heading into
12320s championships I've kind of been asking
12322s everyone the same thing because I think
12323s that sometimes the amount of work or
12326s time that you put in can adjust if you
12328s know you're that you're heading into
12329s like the final event of a season so has
12332s anything kind of changed on that front
12333s are you guys putting in more hours or
12335s just operating as
12337s usual yeah I mean um I was working with
12339s one of the teams that was in the berry
12341s blast tournament as well well so for
12343s like a little bit of the time we were
12344s preparing I was kind of split but um W
12347s and tensa have helped me a lot with
12349s taking over stuff when I can't be there
12351s and they're both very very capable as
12352s well and the players especially um like
12355s Annie Yun is very good at like um I was
12358s actually with her on both teams so like
12360s a lot of the stuff I was doing with one
12361s team I could kind of transfer to the
12362s other and um they luckily I just made
12365s them both play the same comp the whole
12366s time too and the map pools were the same
12368s so um we really locked in this week and
12371s we did a bunch of double blocks and um I
12374s think we're really really well prepared
12375s for it the players have put in a lot of
12377s time but I mean it's definitely showing
12380s in the server right now and a bit of a
12382s fun question I'm actually curious I
12384s don't know if you've had the chance to
12385s take a look at the lower bracket as it
12387s stands but if you were to beat Timeless
12390s ethereal in the upper bracket right now
12392s who do you think makes that lower
12394s bracket
12396s run um so is lower bracket right now who
12399s was in that besides um so there's
12402s Timeless Celestial Fable Michael wave
12404s and kenoi and then in theory if you were
12407s to win the upper bracket final Timeless
12409s ethereal would also be dropping
12410s down oh okay um I would probably be
12414s looking out for Michael wave to be
12417s honest um okay I think they're a really
12419s strong team especially um last series
12421s when we played them we had a very very
12423s difficult match against them um but yeah
12426s I would expect them to make some big
12428s adjustments probably going back and I
12429s think they are a really serious
12431s Challenger but okay you guys he it here
12434s on broadcast uh Dark Horse to look out
12436s for for sure but cap thank you so much
12438s for taking the time to do this interview
12440s with me and before we go want to give
12442s you any opportunity to say thank yous
12444s shout outs or anything in general that
12445s you want to put out there on
12447s stream yeah I mean um first would be to
12450s uh all the players um I expect a lot out
12452s of them and I do a lot of work for the
12454s team but that means that they have to
12456s read a lot of stuff and show up to a lot
12457s of stuff so it's definitely not easy to
12459s keep up with all of it but they're doing
12460s a really really good job and um tensa
12463s and Wy other coaches on the team are
12465s doing a really good job and then um
12467s special shout out to Annie for um having
12469s to deal with me on both of those teams
12471s is probably not easy
12474s but hey I mean it seems like you guys
12477s are cooking regardless so thank you so
12478s much C for the interview and wishing you
12481s the best of luck heading into the upper
12482s bracket finals tomorrow but we still
12485s have the lower bracket to look out for
12487s heading over to the corner quarterfinals
12490s where CB and Tiny shiny we'll be back
12492s right after this
12520s break
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12865s we had an interesting start to our day
12866s in the upper bracket but it's time to
12868s drop down to lowers again I'm Ash and
12871s welcome back to the calling all heroes
12873s Challenger Series championship presented
12875s by radiant and I've got to introduce
12877s some more casters to you guys we said
12879s goodbye to Dogman and got Moxy earlier
12882s who brought us that upper bracket action
12884s we got to say hello to Tiny shiny and
12886s cie they were both here these lovely
12888s ladies we here from yesterday day one
12891s and now we're heading into day two and
12893s you guys get the fun elimination matches
12895s CV how are you feeling fun elimination
12898s matches is a good way to put it I kind
12899s of like I'm a fan of all of these teams
12902s so I'm looking at it as like yeah tiny
12903s shiny and I we have the very dubious
12905s honor of saying goodbye to two more
12907s teams who have worked their hard out all
12909s season long to get this far but you can
12912s only go so far before your journey
12914s unfortunately has to come to an end and
12916s for two of these four teams today will
12918s be that end and there's a lot of fan
12921s favorites down here in the lower bracket
12924s tiny and I think that just makes it even
12926s the more difficult and I'm sure that
12928s there's a ton of fans in chat right now
12931s also just waving their Flags hoping that
12934s their team is the one that moves on to
12936s that lower bracket final every single
12938s team that we have in this lower bracket
12941s currently has been in basically all
12943s Colonial Heroes events that have been
12945s happening over the past 10 months I mean
12947s even myself have become a fan of all of
12949s these teams and it's so sad that we have
12951s to say goodbye given all of the hard
12953s work that they have put in which all
12955s means that all these teams are going to
12957s be fighting twice as hard to keep
12959s themselves alive it's going to be a
12961s difficult one and we've got an
12963s interesting matchup as our treat for the
12965s first lower brackets quarterfinal that
12967s we get to look towards it's going to be
12969s Michael wave versus kenoi and I think
12972s the story here CB is that we're looking
12975s towards kenoi as that kind of fan
12978s favorite as far as a lot of the players
12981s on this team but they're also going up
12984s against quite the boss of a team in
12985s microwave I you you got it right like
12988s huichi are definitely fan favorites not
12990s just for the personalities that they
12991s bring to the table you know fan
12993s favorites like SK and ski very popular
12995s streamers but also because they come out
12998s with this very unconventional
12999s composition that completely not only
13002s breaks the mold but shatters it and
13003s reduces it to atams every week I'm
13006s seeing a new post on r/ competitive
13008s OverWatch about how wrecking ball is so
13010s terrible literally unplayable EV says
13013s Nah uh-uh wrecking ball is playable
13015s watch and learn pal I got
13018s this yeah it's pretty insane the way
13020s that kenoi have that prowess to even
13022s just Flex around skti in her main hero
13027s that being the mercy and just
13028s consistently being on that kind of one
13030s trick and
13031s but at the same time there is that
13033s concern of okay does that limit them
13035s especially knowing tiny a team like
13038s Michael wave have that ability to adapt
13041s around those kinds of situations and
13043s break down those weaknesses Michael wave
13046s is the one other team that is currently
13048s within this bracket that has made some
13051s other adjustments to their lineups
13053s playing these unconventional Heroes and
13055s that really can boil down a lot to Mari
13058s on this tank an incredibly flexible play
13060s player that can showcase high levels of
13062s Talent on so many different tank Heroes
13064s and even that alone having Zoe on the
13067s Genji death playing a variety of hit
13069s scan Heroes and the stability that this
13071s backline provides Michael wave of all
13073s the teams that kunoichi have faced so
13075s far this is the one that will swap right
13078s back in their face and potentially give
13080s them a taste of their own
13082s medicine it'll definitely be interesting
13084s to see how that ends up panning out with
13087s that kind of adaptability but even with
13089s the interview with quoi coach Kobe
13091s yesterday talks about how there were
13093s some tricks in their back pocket that
13095s they didn't really need to pull out so
13097s I'm interested to see if that will come
13099s to fruition today as we head into our
13101s first map here CB and Antarctic
13103s Peninsula I I think it better start
13105s coming out because if you're going up
13107s against a team as flexible as Michael
13108s wave then you definitely want to start
13110s pulling out some of those tricks because
13111s just like tiny shiny was saying like
13113s they can match kunoichi's Madness all
13116s they want cuz Mari can play just about
13117s any tank Under the Sun and make it look
13119s good and I think this also kind of F
13122s that like playing that rock paper
13123s scissors play style also kind of masks
13125s one of Michael wave's Key weaknesses and
13127s that being when we're playing the ratra
13129s mirror matchup May is absolutely crucial
13131s and you got Zoe who is in my estimation
13133s the best Genji in calling all heroes but
13136s kind of falls behind when it comes to
13138s the may play you don't have to have her
13140s on May here if you're you know just
13141s embracing the silliness and going with
13143s kunoichi's
13144s game well we're going to have to see how
13146s it goes it's going to get fun it's going
13148s to get silly and it's going to get
13149s Scrappy in this server you guys take it
13151s away for our first series in the lower
13155s bracket thank you very much Ash C I do
13159s have to say Michael wave have done their
13161s research today we will not be starting
13163s on Le Jang Tower they have not picked
13165s their own Doom it is Antarctic Peninsula
13168s no Shenanigans at least to a terrifying
13172s degree will happen on this map a much
13175s more even Playfield to start us off
13177s right out of the gate you're sub
13178s tweeting Vancouver Titans Blue by
13180s calling out that leang Tower pick I mean
13183s yeah Vancouver Titans blew more like
13184s Vancouver Titans blew up as soon as they
13186s had to pick their own map it didn't work
13188s out antartic Peninsula I think will
13190s still have some points especially
13192s Icebreaker where that kind of flyer
13194s style composition is viable but sub
13196s level in Labs not so much and I think
13199s that might have been a better pick
13200s retroactively for VT blue to go uh you
13203s know before they ended up being sent
13204s packing by kunoichi but hey you know
13207s kunoichi like we've said have more
13209s tricks and we have also seen kind of
13211s flex and adapt to various different
13212s styles even when they're being
13214s counterpicked by the heroes or indeed by
13217s the map so I wouldn't count kunoichi
13220s from playing their own game out entirely
13222s I would still kind of expect to see
13223s something come out from their side it's
13225s it's kind of like how is Michael wave
13228s going to respond right are they going to
13229s dodge that blow they're going to come
13231s back with the jab of their own something
13232s kunoichi can't see coming what's it
13234s going to be what are we going to do is
13236s Michael wave even going to like try and
13237s come out with something meta or are they
13239s going to go right out the gates trying
13240s to go for a counter to what we expect
13243s kunishi to come out with well uh we
13246s really can't say much while the spawns
13248s are still active but with the way things
13250s are being teased as of now Michael wave
13254s look to be switching it up against what
13256s we kind of got a taste of Vancouver
13258s Titans blue pulled out a a version of
13261s what Michael wave have up now with the
13263s junker Queen the echo in the sky Zoe
13266s picking up a different hero mind you not
13268s currently on the Genji Runo CG they are
13271s with Good Old Faithful ball Pharmacy
13274s Lucio and Tracy I'm liking this uh this
13277s Echo Mercy pick though cuz I think it
13279s plays very well into Zoe's hero pool
13281s playing something that she can be strong
13282s at you have a very similar set of skills
13285s to the Genji you know you're still
13286s flying up all out the far but you're
13288s still looking for those assassinations
13290s like you would not trying to section
13292s people off like you are on the May so
13294s this I think does work out but the
13295s question is are they going to be able to
13297s get the better of the esos skti do on
13300s the other side
13301s it's a battle for the skies and a battle
13304s for the ground and this is where Michael
13305s wave has the chance to set the
13307s difference the junker Queen isn't going
13309s to be as quick as a wrecking ball
13310s absolutely not but you can have more
13313s Point presence once this objective
13314s starts to unlock and identifies that as
13316s a threat commanding shout out Mari under
13319s a bit of pressure ajmr was able to come
13321s back pump that healing on in and El can
13324s continue the focus up into the skies
13326s wcgl though will have to continue
13328s without a tank the objective yet to be
13330s capped The Continuous pressure onto elel
13333s having Zoe and wi up there has been a
13335s great dampener on the effects of
13337s kunoichi's comp with that going down
13340s only the trade for the two elel Still
13343s Remains with it is the flyer comp out of
13345s the sky eeve is already identifi that
13347s the wrecking ball is not going to be
13348s playable on this some point here with
13350s these particular hero compositions
13351s commanding shout from Mari coming out
13353s just to try and keep her backline alive
13355s like wa aren't able to keep gmr alive
13358s much longer though absolutely abolutely
13360s beautiful I mean death is doing their
13362s darnest to keep Kun HC cgl at p and you
13366s just can't stop the Rockets piling in
13369s from above and you had that swap go on
13372s in SK ends up falling down this is so
13374s Scrappy it's literally just taking these
13376s little skirmishes at several points on
13379s the map is there really even a plan set
13381s in place right now C right now the plan
13383s for kunoichi is to just take that kill
13384s onto wi and run with it you can either
13386s go in aggressive to try and get another
13387s pick off or you can just rest on your
13389s laurels wait for or sorry wait for
13391s Michael wave to play into you maybe find
13393s another pick but continue to build up
13394s the capture percentage and force Michael
13396s wave to be the on to make a mistake but
13397s it's barode that gets caught out by
13399s death death has been dominating in terms
13403s of the effectiveness of the Tracer hero
13405s and it's really been sh kunii or either
13407s down a player or that player is entirely
13410s offi unable to support the team and it's
13412s on to elel to make up for that deficit
13414s it's a 2v2 trade each team losing a DPS
13417s and a support death still being alive
13420s they will be constant damage peered on
13422s in eay has decent amount of Health to
13424s spare and it's not going to last too
13426s much longer the support for Michael wave
13428s is simply greater in this instance and
13430s will allow them start getting more of
13433s presence on this objective even if it
13435s takes them a little bit longer clear
13437s kunoichi cgl how quick their
13439s compostition moves but even if they're
13441s able to clear kunoichi it's not clean
13443s they lose Wicket towards the tail end of
13444s it barcode has to be dealt with she is
13446s going to fall there and that's going to
13447s allow a window for wi to try and get
13449s back in but somebody's going to have to
13450s back up to try and let her fly back in
13452s it's going to be Zoe so you're losing
13454s all of your Sky presence that's going to
13456s open the door for Ence skiest to get
13457s back at roughly the same time and we're
13460s at a neutral fight where now Michael
13461s wave can't really leverage any sort of
13463s positional Advantage they only have the
13465s ults to rely on and kunoichi are coming
13467s close to matching
13469s that is going to last long and Zoe knows
13472s it has to be taken advantage of now
13475s sound Bearer prop from SK a little bit
13477s earlier nobody was in an incredible
13479s amount of danger so Kuni get the
13481s greatest value out of that ultimate
13483s scared by Zoe's presence with the
13485s Rampage and now that will be going down
13488s completely like wave get the opportunity
13491s they don't have to use anything they're
13493s still very much in control of this
13494s objective and W took SC to the skies the
13496s pistol comes back out she gets both of
13498s them oh we talked about Zoe being the
13501s one to keep him a check how about W the
13503s GL shut it down H let's have a look at
13505s the calendar boys I think it's a wick of
13507s weekend over here she's pulling out the
13509s Glock taking out the Flyers all on her
13511s own doesn't even need Zoe to be the one
13512s to clean it up even though Zoe
13514s definitely could and has been thus far
13516s it's getting a little bit dicey though
13518s look at kunoichi's old Bank they're
13519s going to have three big ones coming up
13521s online only a pulse bomb for Michael
13522s wave they have to try and this ksun rush
13524s and utilize it or get something big with
13527s this pulse bomb from death for the the
13530s Rampage in first from Eevee going to
13532s have to be able to work with this tank
13535s has to have a lot of press on the point
13537s T Rush making it slightly difficult the
13539s resurrection though is will be
13540s guaranteeing their fate Michael wave
13543s will not be getting the point this time
13544s around and have to come back for another
13546s attempt and they use that cun Rush that
13548s I was calling out from ajmr that was a
13550s lost fight now you don't have that
13551s you're only going to have this one fight
13553s to try and build up to mari's Rampage
13555s you can see wi and death making some
13556s swaps actually Zoe going a follow as
13558s well they're going full on junker que
13560s composition and I think they don't have
13561s to worry about elel in the sky anymore
13563s now that they may is in play so we're at
13565s something a little bit more favorable
13567s for Michael wave here looking for WI to
13570s try and take death on an angle if
13571s there's time and hopefully burn down
13575s elel already has to use that ice blocket
13578s now yes he is in a tee of trouble the
13580s angel falling first is never a good sign
13582s for KI SK can only provide so much
13585s support and cide any with that aning
13588s effect online both these teams at 99%
13591s yet it is Michael wave strongly in
13593s control of this objective that will
13595s start burning on down and after a close
13598s battle on Labs Michael way sque it away
13601s and you know this might not be a huge
13603s surprise to a lot of the people watching
13605s in chat the big fans of kunichi but it's
13607s kind of a surprise to some of us to see
13609s kunoichi taking it to what is quite
13610s literally one of the top teams in
13612s calling all heroes and making it that
13613s close they don't win but 99 to 99 and
13616s there was a realistic chance where if
13619s the trades in that last fight had gone a
13621s little bit more in their way maybe if SK
13623s had found another pick somewhere that we
13625s might be singing a different tune here
13626s we might have been caught off guard
13628s kunoichi might have taken the first
13629s Salvo there but Michael wave able to
13632s stabilize able to come back in get the
13634s trades it's mostly Mari coming through
13636s with a lot of those throwing knives
13638s getting the kills getting all the value
13639s she needs now as we go into suble Lev
13642s though there's going to be a low ceiling
13643s throughout both teams still want to bust
13645s out the flyers I don't know about this
13647s one I don't know how long we're going to
13648s stay on this obviously you know there's
13650s still some angles you can utilize these
13652s types of heroes from but I don't know if
13654s this is going to stick for too
13656s long this is such an interesting swap
13659s you would have expected them stay on the
13660s soldier that may pick but Zoe will be
13664s taking the battle to the skies cracks
13665s predicting for elel is going to be and
13668s it's a very good assumption zoy has done
13670s an excellent job keeping theora in check
13673s the cool Downs don't get as much value
13675s it's all the safer this flying Duo has
13678s to play the hamster wasn't able to get
13680s out alive very limited support for your
13683s tank with that Lucio Mercy especially
13685s with your support being Tethered to the
13687s farup player for Michael wave go ahead
13690s start getting that percentage up on the
13691s objective where we need to see Kuni get
13693s a quick reset to have their tank back in
13695s Fr and Michael waiver doing something
13697s that you know other teams that have
13698s played kunichi thus far have failed to
13700s do but I mean the death fails to get out
13702s of alive Barco gets the kill there going
13704s to fall Kuni aren't out of this SK and S
13708s absolute s tier players look at them tag
13711s teaming this with the boops flopping
13714s them into the sight lines of these
13716s Rockets I mean this is coordinated
13717s damage that Kuni cgl can get their R and
13720s that's what Michael wave are so afraid
13721s of happening I mean I was going to say
13724s how Michael wave were you know doing a
13726s good job of finding a pick and then
13727s keeping the pressure up so skiest can't
13729s go in for a res but kichi they know how
13731s to play that game as well so when you
13732s have death going in that deep and dying
13734s there's no shot wi is going to be able
13736s to get in there especially not without
13737s the valkyrie so kunoichi they keep up
13740s the pressure they put the pedal to the
13741s metal and they put Force Michel wave
13743s back just root force them with those
13745s Rockets coming up from El and those
13746s don't look to stop anytime soon oh but
13749s what will stop death is death itself
13752s elel got that straight damage D damage
13755s boosted rocket onto the Tracer following
13758s it up with a third and a fourth this is
13761s why you got to keep the far player in
13762s check if you let elel run wild Michael
13764s wave do not stand a chance look how far
13766s kunichi are willing to push this almost
13768s all the way into Michael wave spawn they
13770s know they don't have the ult advantage
13771s but they know they can make these fights
13773s Scrappy long bloody make the trays go
13775s out in their favor and force Michael
13776s wave to try and just win a war of
13778s attrition to to even get on the point
13780s here they're going to back up and give a
13782s little bit of space here try to bait
13784s Michael wave into their trap though but
13786s death has a pulse bomb get again where
13788s is it going to be placed SK goes little
13790s dangerous there oh and death has SK in
13794s their sight and something needs to land
13795s up H pump had to hit but it doesn't oh
13798s Kum cgl they are very much up in this
13800s Fray You Can notice how much Zoe is
13802s struggling without that Mercy pocket
13804s going away and Michael wave are getting
13806s that pick off onto the supports is
13809s enough for them to start stabilizing and
13811s guarantee a res will not happen on the
13814s other sidei they're not done committing
13816s eay use that ultimate to give herself a
13819s little bit of extra Health boost up to
13821s one fight territory that's a situation
13823s kunichi are okay with being in yeah
13826s absolutely they're going to have more
13827s time to try and build to more ultimates
13828s and try and take this back but what
13829s we've seen from Kuni is more often than
13831s not they don't really need ultimates
13833s they just need elel to pop off and
13835s that's happening more often than not
13837s that's pretty much how they've managed
13838s to get this far ahead but Michael wave
13841s have identified the win condition it is
13843s deny Ski's reses kill skiest if you can
13846s and Michael wave have a look at wi she
13848s swapped off over onto the Lucio no more
13850s reses for Michael wave no second chances
13853s they have to try and make this stick
13854s with the Lucio now the speed is
13856s certainly helpful and hey why not an
13858s extra burst duplicate over to the junker
13861s Queen Z fighting to on point EV under an
13863s incredible amount of pressure will be
13865s squashed like a bug Michael way that's
13867s an efficiency two DPS Al one fight win
13871s so wi swapping over to the mercy isn't
13873s actually all that disastrous cuz you
13875s know Ekko is less reliant on a mercy
13877s pocket than afar is so Zoe can still
13879s find Value especially with that
13881s duplicate but now you're going to be
13882s looking at these supportal to try and
13883s take Micha wave the rest of the way the
13885s sound Barry that Wick has built up to
13887s the Kitsune Rush that's going to be
13888s coming out from ajmr and more
13890s importantly that Rampage from Mari where
13893s is that going to land it's going to come
13894s out it catches e is the followup there
13896s it looks like it is yeah absolutely e
13898s you don't get any healing from that
13900s companding shot was already expected but
13901s G gets the res off that should not have
13904s happened at all trying to make this one
13906s a winning fight sound beer from W though
13908s the Lucio swap proving out and working
13910s out in dividends for this team Michael
13912s wave are on the verge closing out this
13914s point there a couple pesty players
13916s pattered off in this corner Zoe doesn't
13918s have a ton of Health to work with
13919s getting skti though might be the nail in
13921s the cof and Kuni cgl have to struggle
13924s they have to stagger to get to the point
13926s but there's nobody to help atmr death
13929s was so focus on what was happening in
13930s the front line and suddenly this one is
13932s very much winable kunoichi sound barrier
13934s is laid on out Mari now back on the
13937s wrecking ball using some of this
13939s Mobility to speed to stagger it out and
13940s even grab SK off the back of it there's
13943s a little bit of time if Michael wave
13945s take a soft regroup get one final
13947s contest but it's not going to be pretty
13949s Stash from the jaws of defeat SK goes in
13951s zo needs to stay alive here but's the
13953s one who gets punished Zoe not I think
13955s was able to touch and get to overtime
13957s triggered death is going to pop up but
13960s has to recall
13961s out have to get in there but there's
13964s nobody left Ste we knew it was going to
13966s happen Michael wave took a page out of
13969s kunu cgl's Playbook they made the chaos
13972s into their own but it wasn't enough to
13974s turn the tables we now have had 2 99 to
13978s 100 objectives back to back and I'm
13980s expecting the exact same thing here on
13982s the third and it's all SK there because
13985s I mean kunoichi cgl had no business
13987s winning that last fight but ajmr was
13988s left High to contest the point against
13990s SK and barcode who went in identified
13993s the lone KIRO without the TP to try and
13995s you know get back to the team for safety
13997s they go in with that assassination it's
13999s actually essel that comes back on the
14000s Genji and cleans up these last couple of
14002s kills and suddenly despite Michael wave
14005s having the upper hand it's completely
14006s snatched away from them and look where
14008s we are now we're on Icebreaker the map
14010s that I set at the top is going to lend
14012s itself the most to this Pharmacy
14015s composition one that Michael wave are no
14016s longer mirroring but now opting to
14018s counter with death on the Cassidy hey
14020s and it works well all right that works
14022s cool Cassidy often a weaker hero in
14024s terms of the hit scan Department you put
14026s it in the hand to death all right that
14028s works one player down that's a second
14030s kunichi even a resurrection will not
14032s help you here it's a quick reset to the
14034s spawn the question to CB do we see any
14037s swaps I mean if you're K hgl I think you
14040s don't swap because you've played enough
14041s into counters that you kind of know how
14043s to play around them so I don't think
14045s they're sweating it never mind I'll eat
14047s my words right now going to swap over to
14049s the
14050s hey you know what I'm I'm happy to see
14052s it though cuz we've seen kunoichi be
14053s successful with this comp before they
14054s are not by any stretch of the
14056s imagination a onetick pony team they do
14058s have multiple looks and this is another
14059s one that has looked passible for them it
14062s has in the past I do have concerns with
14065s the Lucio Mercy typically you'd see a
14066s swap over to the K go have slightly more
14069s sustained and look how much pressure
14070s Eevee is under the commanding sh used
14071s defensively and even that barely made a
14074s dent in the damage that Mari has output
14076s and she simply has more support at her
14078s back so anytime Michael away take these
14080s fights heads on they're going to win
14081s nine times out of 10 yeah I I kind of
14083s agree I think you do have to have SK
14085s make the swap over onto the Anna
14086s probably I know that's a little bit more
14087s of a comfort pick for her but anything
14090s that can keep the sustain alive it is
14092s actually going to be the kittyo but now
14094s that we've made these two compositional
14095s swaps we're already 40 to 50% by the
14098s time this next fight kicks off of
14100s capture percentage for Mel wave they're
14102s halfway home and they haven't
14103s even oh but the death goes down mid dead
14107s ey Zoe attempting to make up for it
14109s pulse bomb one thing you haven't seen
14111s yet though is SK on this KIRO incredibly
14113s deadly but so is inmr the flank from the
14116s supports is getting way too much value
14118s CV this simply should not be happening
14120s out of all the players to go with the
14122s back it should be death and wi not
14124s ajmr ajmr and wi I mean wiah would
14127s absolutely go for a play like that and
14129s it works out I mean I've seen her go for
14132s these crazy flank plays from time to
14133s time it's one of these things that like
14135s whenever it happens it's like an event
14137s you know she'll get flame for a team for
14138s but if it works out it works out you
14139s take the dub there and especially with
14141s ajmr backing her up finding a couple
14143s pick offs with the kunai you absolutely
14145s take that where in one fight territory
14147s now Kuni have built up an old Bank
14149s though how are they going to leverage it
14151s of extra healing but no barcode
14153s potential the res is always there
14155s because he has to make it happen she's
14157s on the objective Point Flip is
14158s guaranteed so kunichi have more time
14161s should they need go for a bit of a soft
14163s reset with [ __ ] falling it's almost a
14165s definite need at this point eay holding
14168s on to a rampage last on to three players
14170s s barrier negating any sort of value
14173s that could have had and it just simple
14175s clean up call the targets one by one cuz
14178s Michael wave are back in control of this
14180s point kichi they can try as they might a
14183s touch here looking pretty darn
14185s impossible the dogs win this round as
14188s Michael wave up I I I want to give a
14191s little bit of props to skiest there
14192s towards the tail in just some of the
14194s movement that I saw from her able to
14196s stay alive even outside the valkyrie to
14198s try and pocket even keep her alive in
14200s the fight but it just wasn't enough the
14202s onslaught from all angles that was
14203s coming out from Michael wave they kind
14205s of have cracked the code it would seem
14208s at least initially if they play a
14209s similar composition style a similar
14213s taking similar fights with they're just
14214s going for these random assassinations
14216s these random flanks and just trying to
14218s win out some of these duels I you can
14220s absolutely just out mechanic kunoichi
14223s here you don't have to play these
14224s counter comps you don't have to go with
14226s things like the ash like we saw
14227s yesterday you don't have to try and play
14229s the Cassidy even though it does work out
14231s wonders for death towards the tail end
14232s there you just have to go and be
14235s aggressive and be ready to match the
14237s aggression be ready to match the chaos
14239s that's going to come out from kunoichi
14241s but kunoichi are by no stretch of the
14243s imagination in over their heads just yet
14247s every single one of those points was
14248s close and again Michael wave is a top
14251s team we saw kunoichi bullying the
14253s entirety of lcq with this comp but
14255s that's lcq right those are teams that
14257s aren't as established didn't didn't have
14259s the circuit points to get right into the
14261s fold get right into championships
14263s Michael wave is a team that we were like
14265s all right this is a team that could
14266s potentially Dethrone
14268s Timeless they're easily a top three team
14270s within this competition and to see this
14273s go as close as it did with kunichi right
14276s now I mean this is not going to be an
14277s easy match for Michael wave to go ahead
14280s and win kunichi they're the Oddball the
14282s outlier of this tournament right now
14284s it's putting Michael wave's flexibility
14286s to the test and so far they have P but
14289s just barely we get to look a little bit
14292s at these stats and you can see the
14294s impact where this kind of started to
14296s flip back over in terms of numbers we'll
14298s see that of course Michael wave have
14301s more elims more damage and healing
14303s across the board but the big difference
14304s we want to highlight though as they were
14306s taking more fights the longer they were
14308s staggered out it's because kunichi just
14310s had a faster return time I mean the
14312s difference I want to highlight actually
14313s is that nine deaths for skiest she's you
14316s know still the lowest amount of deaths
14317s on her team but if if you assume that
14319s the mercy is going like we've kind of
14321s highlighted that as the win condition
14323s against all of the compositions that
14324s kunoichi like to play if you kill skiest
14326s you win the you you win the fight
14328s outright nine team fights won that's an
14331s easy way to win a control point you know
14334s three for three on all three of them
14336s that's all you really need I think you
14337s know Michael wave have identified it
14340s they have figured it out that if you
14342s deny the reses if you kill skiest and by
14344s like by all means have Wi on the mercy
14346s as well to match her on that hero she's
14348s somebody who I know can stack up to
14351s skiest on the mercy if she really puts
14352s her mind to it and she definitely does
14355s she's putting her mind to this one 100%
14357s And you know this the most death that
14359s we've seen from skti that's over
14361s quadruple we saw in sk's first two maps
14364s of their game yesterday I am not lying
14366s she had two deaths across two maps and
14368s this isn't a testament to her skill it
14370s comes down to the matter and we're
14372s looking at Michael wave chasing her down
14374s they have done their homework and realiz
14376s hey if we take out Mercy Kuno 's
14379s composition is not standing on stable
14381s foundations it's just a castle waiting
14384s to crumble underneath them and unu H
14386s selection to take themselves to Kings
14388s Row over Midtown here CB not too
14391s surprising considering this is the map
14393s they're most often comfortable on yeah
14396s it's not surprising at all I would
14397s actually be surprised to see kunoichi
14399s take us to a Midtown here because yeah
14401s King's Row I like to call it the neutral
14403s map the map that you can get away with
14405s playing quite literally anything under
14406s the sun if you're good enough at it I
14408s mean that's kind of true for every map
14410s but some maps like don't really enable
14413s certain play Styles right like playing
14414s Brawl on watch Point jalter like yeah
14416s you can do it but it's not going to be
14418s easy Kings Row you can play Brawl you
14420s can play Dive you can play poke you can
14422s play literally whatever you want it is a
14424s happy home for literally any kind of
14426s composition that you want so hey if you
14427s want to get silly and play chaotic Play
14429s Wrecking Ball Pharmacy Kings Row is the
14431s hybrid point where you are the most able
14433s to do that and you know I know other
14436s teams are going to try and go directly
14437s for the brawl comp as their first
14439s instinct I know Michael wave at this
14440s point likely won't do that because they
14442s have to play kunoichi's game but I mean
14445s like anything Michael wave wants to play
14447s is also going to be just as
14449s viable what we usually see from kunoichi
14451s on this map is they they'll stick with
14453s their guns likely the junker Queen to
14455s start is out but once we get to that
14457s third point or even the Winston as a
14459s matter of fact once we get to that third
14461s Point that's what we'll start to see
14462s those swaps coming in you can't run the
14464s far as well the Winston becomes pretty
14467s darn difficult to play so until we get
14469s to that objective we're expecting very
14471s similar Shenanigans to come on out here
14474s Michael wave will be the ones on the
14477s right side on the attacking first so
14480s they have the opportunity to go ahead
14481s and set that pace for their own defense
14484s and try something
14486s new this is definitely a new look for
14488s Mari if it does come out I did want to
14489s highlight her by the way in her junker
14491s Queen play on the previous map I think
14493s you know junker Queen is one of her
14494s Comfort Heroes and she is getting a lot
14496s of work done on this hero to the point
14498s where you know we've seen eay going for
14500s tank swaps all over again hey there's
14502s one now wouldn't you know it we've seen
14503s e always going for tank swaps to try and
14505s you know play around whatever it is
14507s kunoichi wants to do at any given moment
14509s but Mari despite having the capability
14511s and the flexibility to make similar
14513s swaps hasn't been put in a position
14515s where she needs to so she can just get
14516s away with playing junker Queen all she
14518s wants now we're seeing or like it's
14520s still attacker spawn she's hovering over
14523s the dvo which is not something that I've
14524s seen her play but again I don't think
14527s that there's a tank Under the Sun okay
14528s there's one there's one I wasn't
14530s expecting I still trust her but still
14534s okay you you've swindled me Mari you've
14536s played me for a fool I I don't doubt it
14539s Mari I I've seen her Road Hog before and
14542s it is a sight to be seen after I mean
14544s you're going to shred through aarya the
14545s bubbles are forced out suddenly they're
14547s incredibly vulnerable you have to
14548s support with both the bcy and the Anna
14551s but I don't think they expected es to be
14553s on that hero those bile will become an
14556s issue if Mari is not careful with her
14559s positioning burning through these
14560s bubbles like they're essentially made of
14562s wet paper and then backing off once
14564s those cool Downs are expended it's only
14565s a matter of time until she finds an El
14567s but SK is under a lot of pressure you
14569s can tell that death and Zoe are both
14571s looking for angles where they can
14572s pressure her back and if she can't keep
14574s her zarya alive and that zarya is not
14576s going to be for this world with almost
14578s gets punished inde he does though by El
14580s so it's Michel wave that are going to
14581s have to give ground first microwave
14584s backing off you do not have your
14586s Mobility tool anymore the only thing do
14588s have is Zoe has worked her way up onto
14591s the high ground it's going mean SK will
14593s have to rotate positions and actually
14595s he's in a bit of trouble the Sleep came
14596s out on through though oh she's just
14598s crazy with this oh on the other side
14602s though agmr finds the kill onto barcode
14604s that is going to get resed up by skiest
14606s thankfully barod died somewhere safe
14608s death though did not there's no res on
14609s the field for Michael wave so again they
14612s have to give ground they have to back up
14614s I mean and if ajmr dies here as well
14616s that's even more stagger more ground
14618s more time loss for Michael wave they
14620s have a pretty solid foundational
14622s strategy here but they haven't quite
14623s been able to execute it and look at
14625s kunoichi's old bank there's going to be
14627s a whole lot of executions going around
14630s all I can say is Rip Michael wave unless
14632s this K Rush gets an insane amount of
14634s value this is not looking to end well
14637s for the attacking side does have to play
14640s around the
14641s hotel Downs to go in just for the natos
14644s to be applied barage and that's one dead
14647s Mari kick was gain for microwave and
14649s that's all they're going to get on this
14651s push alone but they did get four
14654s ultimates out of kunoichi that was the
14656s pulse bomb the Nano The Barrage the the
14659s valkyrie yeah you're going to get the
14660s res there onto SK towards the end Zoe is
14662s still lurking around here the recall
14663s forced out but she's just going to go
14665s deep into kunoichi's spawn they can't
14667s chase without giving up too much ground
14668s there actually barcode is going to go
14670s back and try and take this duel with SK
14672s there to try and help her out Zoe might
14674s be able to get out alive but this will
14677s kind of open the door for Michael not
14678s have to be checking their back doors
14680s knowing that barode is back here
14681s preoccupied for hands tied up now death
14683s can solely focus on to that's a second
14686s tick game the far going down St they can
14688s attempt to get a resurrection off e can
14690s hold the rest of them back with the
14692s graviton surge the amount of healing the
14694s resources from Michael way pulled
14696s together is too much for kunichi to
14698s handle they will forfeit this first
14700s objective and the
14702s Stagger brutal po SK that's a big nade
14705s wow it catches two I don't think she's
14707s going to get a L for it immortality
14710s that's that's BM ajmr you didn't need
14712s that all right well Michael wave with
14714s that stagger are going to get a lot of
14716s ground here cuz SK they have to wait for
14718s her right that's like all the major
14720s healing especially if you're going to
14721s keep skiest attached to elel barcode
14723s charging a little bit forward but not
14725s going to play anywhere where she's going
14726s to be in any realistic danger kunoichi
14728s have to hold ground here and wait for
14730s the card to play but I mean Michael wave
14732s should realistically get this cart
14733s around this first corner for free just
14735s off of that SK stagger there SK is
14738s slowly making her way back on her
14740s grandmother legs Zoe the recall Force
14743s out needs to be cautious about how she's
14745s playing has enough the team to peel out
14747s and barode getting stuck with the death
14749s bade and sing ground again can she stay
14753s alive this time death is there to bail
14755s her out of danger Michael wave they're
14758s not going past this one corner null
14760s they're going to get basically all the
14761s way through the street pH with kunichi
14763s Bary du all the last one standing I mean
14765s not even standing they're flying they're
14767s not contesting the they can't do a whole
14769s lot so Michael waiver just continuing to
14770s get more and more C progress and you
14772s know all that elel can really do is
14774s force them to turn their heads around as
14775s barode comes back in to try and get a
14778s contest here but like you know now you
14780s got Zoe working with a full slam of her
14782s own oh death going down though elel is
14785s free to move about on the objectives the
14787s best pick that kunichi could have asked
14789s for for now Resurrection coming on
14792s through as well Michael wave down their
14794s main supports not looking too good for
14796s them moving forwards on to the second pH
14798s and the fact that they didn't use any of
14800s their ultimates only the amplification
14802s Matrix for M wave not a bad tradeoff
14805s it's not bad but now the card is in this
14807s really deadly area where it's going to
14808s be a huge walk back to try and get there
14810s any like at all to take any fights and
14813s you realistically only have two maybe
14815s three of them if they're all fast left
14817s in you every time you lose a player on
14820s this fight when the cart's here it is so
14822s so punishing Michael wave have to
14824s leverage these SS might even have to
14825s expend all of them to match kunoichi's
14827s old bank if they want to get the cap
14829s here otherwise I don't know how much
14830s farther this cart can go the Dead Eye
14833s will help clear some space off and the
14834s pulse bomb stick on to evii cgl not
14839s having a tank here is going to be
14840s devastating SLS to make up for the
14841s change barrage of rockets grabed one p
14845s highly contested the annihilation popped
14846s a scary sight indeed to look at but
14849s nothing scarier the death itself a
14851s triple kill going down under their name
14854s to push that part the couple meters it
14856s needs to access the foundary and that's
14858s such a huge hero play from Death because
14860s if they don't find that 3K Michael wave
14862s don't cap there because of that Nano
14863s barrage that went out and just took down
14865s ajmr just a pure assassination but
14868s that's all of this composition's heals
14869s it's all of it sustain Michael wave they
14871s would not have been able to keep that
14873s fight up any longer death had to click
14875s some heads and the pressure is still on
14876s to keep it going essel making damn sure
14879s that with some of those Rockets being
14880s lobbed over the roof there right at
14882s death's
14884s forehead death has been baren the
14887s existence a Kuni cgl and you can start
14890s to see that Focus fire going in onto the
14893s Cassidy that goes on out it's a nice
14895s stick on through mortality field of
14898s course not a terrible cool down to take
14900s especially with ebi Rampage in sight
14903s knows the sound barrier is an option
14905s Michael wave aren going to have to use
14907s it yet the res though scy squeaks it off
14909s over the edge nearly and just barely so
14913s and is going to keep them in the battle
14915s the extra healing pumped on in evi has
14917s to stay alive here here if she goes down
14919s Michael wave suddenly the door will be
14920s swung wide open again and is death with
14923s a second you just can't practice this
14926s aim it's done over and over again
14928s Michael wave Li on their hit scam player
14931s to baild them out of any sort of trouble
14934s we're looking at one last fight one last
14936s attempt for kunichi hold of progress and
14939s again death has to find those kills and
14941s they do skiest pops the valkyrie so
14943s she's able to get the easy res onto elel
14945s but that's not enough cuz death dishing
14947s out their Nam is not done yet they've
14949s lost agmr though and the res does come
14951s through so it's not clean but it might
14953s be enough SL goes down scity you're not
14956s escaping the tendrils ofar she's
14958s extending to reach there's nothing worse
14960s than facing a ratra Annihilation on the
14963s death of your own door 44 seconds and a
14967s full completion for Michael wave they
14970s found the way to counter out elel and
14973s the an of the whole time has been death
14976s I'm going to I I don't know if we're
14977s going to bring up the stats scorecard I
14978s don't know if that's what wants to do
14979s but I want to talk about some stats cuz
14981s I'm looking at death right now 17 aims
14984s 11 final blows and one death one death
14989s okay that we're saying 13 final blows on
14991s this one the scorecard I have over here
14992s says 11 13's more impressive so we'll go
14994s with that we'll just we we'll boost the
14996s numbers a little bit but e either way
14999s like that many final blows like death is
15002s all you need and a lot of those final
15003s blows or at least three of them onto
15005s skiest again that's the win condition
15008s that's what's able to get them that cart
15009s the extra way every time they needed it
15011s death bailed them out towards the tail
15013s end of Street phas and even made that
15015s fight that was looking kind of shaky
15016s towards the end of Point C A winnable
15018s one just by sheer force of head clicking
15020s it's good oldfashioned OverWatch
15022s hearkening back to the days of big boss
15024s Pine you can't play the game if you're
15026s dead it literally is as simple as that
15030s Michael wave it's not like they're doing
15031s anything extraordinary as a team in
15034s particular except for giving death the
15036s space to work you rely on them to click
15039s the heads well there you go that's all
15041s you want from a hit scan player and they
15043s are delivering the top level that they
15046s have to to shut down kunichi cgl's place
15049s and force them out of their comfort zone
15051s eel now on the Genji not even attempting
15053s the Flyers one thing I do want to
15055s highlight though for Michael wave is a
15057s consistent weakness for their
15058s composition right now is ajmr on the
15060s Baptist Baptist is a hero who is very
15062s very susceptible to dive play the kinds
15064s of things that we've been seeing a lot
15066s of from El and barcode I El no longer on
15069s the far on the Genji but still will be
15071s ideally looking for ajmr to cut off
15074s mari's
15075s Lifeline agmr has been the player from
15078s Michael white but we'll see go down most
15081s often C looking for their way in and
15084s find Zoe in the backline Varco narrowly
15087s missing that shot and actually gets
15089s punished themselves Mory saw the
15090s opportunity and she poun on it Michael
15093s wave up a player and they're continuing
15096s at Advantage as far as they can get no
15098s players peeking their heads out in fear
15099s of being staggered and and that's also
15101s so good from Zoe cuz realistically all
15103s she has to do there is not die long
15105s enough for Mari to come in and seize
15107s that opportunity like you mentioned
15108s there's a nice knife stuck into evi
15110s there playing around this statue now you
15113s got to wonder again where is Zoe lurking
15114s at aruni the ones looking over their
15116s shoulders
15118s now you need to have your head on a
15120s swivel you got death in the front line
15123s Mari looking for you on some sort of off
15125s angle and of course Zoe peppering away
15127s at your supports and top already had to
15130s come through SK onto the KIRO of all
15133s heroes the only thing that really has to
15135s be said for p ultimate on each side but
15138s the double damage is instantaneous with
15141s eBay's death and Kun hgl they're
15143s struggling to get any form of Point
15145s presence and honestly C I feel like this
15147s is going to go back to that support line
15150s it's really hard for them to hold any
15151s sort of consistent space because they're
15153s like a swarm of bees they're just
15154s constantly moving at you and I mean if
15157s you put up a WI window and you have
15158s death shot with the Matrix like that
15160s it's going to be real hard to do but now
15162s that they've dealt with Zoe they don't
15164s have to protect their shoulders anymore
15165s now they can swarm in push on forward it
15169s is called that dead ey is going to save
15171s you death kunu HCG now firmly planted on
15174s the objective several ultimate should
15176s they need to use them and Y you are
15178s definitely going to have to e playing
15180s with in theu a rush Rampage on out
15182s there's no suu keep that purple effect
15185s on away that's be the same case for
15188s Michael wave immortality field can only
15189s do so much if barcode is nailing the
15192s shots I I kind of want to see ajmr swap
15195s over the Theo cuz you mentioned the suzu
15197s I'd like to see Michael way have a
15198s similar tool here yeah over clock barode
15201s win the D with death but it's actually
15203s EV that comes through with the final
15204s blow there and that's going to slow
15205s Michael wave's rule just a little bit
15207s they're already kind of holding strong
15209s at this corner but they're down someone
15211s they're going to go ahead and get that
15212s kill though onto evi now they can take
15214s all of this space back Kuni essentially
15216s have to play on the cart at this point
15217s point in time and Michael wave can now
15219s secure the archway oh you don't get to
15221s play on cart you get to play from Spawn
15223s that's what Michael wave are telling
15224s them like go shoot get back here this is
15226s our payad for now that is a critical
15228s death from E now they have to fight
15230s through this darn near impossible choke
15233s ajmr does make the exact swap that I
15234s wanted to see them come out here with
15235s though the Kido now a lot less
15237s vulnerable to Dives than that Baptist
15240s was now Michael wave should have a
15241s little bit more staying power and a
15242s counter for ev's Rampage but do they
15244s know that that's what's coming they have
15246s to with the commanding shout coming
15248s oh they don't even care about that if El
15250s is slicing and DIC it through your
15252s backline that's two down with the Genji
15255s Zoey mirring that hero but not finding
15257s anywhere close to the same amount of
15260s value all it results in is a late
15262s stagger is the p on the move that was a
15265s valkyrie pocketed Genji blade there
15268s which is essentially as damaging as a
15270s nano blade and now you're going to have
15271s SK building up to a nano over own she's
15273s a little bit behind but will get there
15274s eventually that you can put on to
15275s barcode instead Nano rail shots are some
15278s of the most deadly things in this entire
15281s game and with barcode hitting him you
15282s got to believe that that's going to be a
15284s great plan once again though kunoichi
15287s still have that rampage that looks to be
15289s the tool that they're going to want to
15290s leverage in this next fight here Zoe
15291s going to kick it off with the Dragon
15293s Blade what is she going to find it's SK
15295s SK andle going down the suer back as
15298s support and why not a third what's going
15301s toi lost one they lost two this one is
15303s done they're giving this one over to
15305s Michael wave his least amount of
15307s resources committed as possible and no
15310s pocket required no Nano no nothing no W
15313s hello barode they're going for so Micha
15315s wave going for the Stagger there but on
15317s somewhat as lethal as barode that might
15318s be a little bit greedy yeah wi will get
15320s back relatively quickly she's Lucio but
15323s that's going to you know really neuter
15325s Michael wave's maneuverability here
15326s they're not going to be able to pull
15328s back as quickly especially if evi does
15329s go in with this Rampage which she's
15331s opting to do three down off are covered
15335s in the color purple and E glowing in
15338s Blue's Sparkles so many effects
15340s happening on the screen yet one is
15342s canceled out the key is the ramp or
15345s excuse me Annihilation getting no value
15347s Mori made the attempt to come on through
15349s but Michael wave coming up with nothing
15351s and are going to have to Forfeit the
15354s second objective player so far back
15356s contesting not worth it at all have to
15358s hold it down here on The Foundry SK
15361s makes a swap over onto the Lucio I'm not
15362s sure if that's going to stick because
15363s now we don't have the Kido we don't have
15365s this to stay now this is back in the
15366s spawn no to swap back over onto that hio
15369s but barode doesn't want to wait for SK h
15372s no you're not waiting for SK you are
15374s scared there is a death there is a sound
15376s barrier and you guys need to go bye-bye
15379s get a regroup and come back swinging
15381s Michael wave now on a composition they
15384s are arguably the best at yeah was Zoe on
15387s the Genji and we've seen it time and
15389s time again she is again in my opinion
15391s the best Genji in all of calling all
15392s heroes and we don't have a May on the
15393s field to keep her in check and I don't
15395s know if elel plans on making that spot
15397s Mari something cheeky but she gets sused
15400s out oh can she manage to get out of this
15402s alive that heal bar struggling to stay
15404s above 100 HP you can see HMR Anda
15408s stretch to their limits and all it
15409s results in is a dead tank oh I like the
15413s idea it was there but Michel wave just
15415s weren't prepared kunoichi they've made
15417s that same play themselves and checked
15419s their Corners properly but I I don't
15421s even actually know what Mari was going
15423s for there cuz she didn't have the
15424s Rampage so you don't have the ult to use
15426s from there another great shot from De
15428s that's going to be resed it's not no it
15430s gets denied she went around the corner
15432s she went out of the range of it and you
15434s know if you can just kill everybody else
15435s the resurrection doesn't matter the
15437s playing field is already even in fact it
15439s favors kunichi cgl Dragon Blade Rampage
15442s one two combo punch and suddenly they
15444s are knocking on Michael wave's door Zoe
15447s Dragon Blade in hand if anybody can turn
15450s this fight around it is her on her
15452s signature hero she's not going to have a
15454s ton of support no sound barrier no
15456s damage boost for Nano coming her way
15459s already put down at half he she's
15461s looking for ski trying to get around the
15462s corner that's one swing the mercy does
15465s fall as a result kunu cgl significantly
15469s weaker no support lines and this fight
15471s is not theirs it it's kind of like a
15473s Road Runner cartoon there Zoe doesn't
15475s have to actually kill skiest he just
15476s forc her to fall into some quick sand in
15478s the form of deaths disrupt their field
15479s and that's all you need with the dead
15481s Mercy gets a dead fight Michael wave now
15483s have their heels dug in we're under a
15484s minute kunoichi they're going to swap
15487s over onto the main now to try and keep
15489s Zoe in check but I don't know if this is
15491s really going to work out with this much
15492s time left on the bank and with ajmr in
15494s your back out the K du yeah they're
15497s going to get traded out advantage that's
15499s all for Michel wave that's going to go
15502s their way the res is there and the more
15504s that this happens you have SK oh you had
15505s SK I spoke too soon death is yet to make
15508s their Mark it's going to be the final
15510s battle the final 20 to Michael wave know
15512s it committing every single ultimate that
15515s they have to force the staggers on
15517s through barode has to swap over the
15518s trace realistically the only player that
15520s can touch it they're not going to have
15521s eay to do it and you called out skiest
15523s going for the res on to SK but because
15525s it's on the other support there's no one
15527s there to save you when Mari goes in with
15528s that Rampage and the rest of the Cavalry
15530s comes on through the touch is going to
15532s come out and there is overtime but what
15535s are they going to be able to find here
15536s not a whole lot with skd already taken
15538s down and SK joining her both the
15540s supports have fallen and death being on
15543s the Widowmaker no touch is possible
15546s Michael
15547s looking to claw their way through with
15549s the losers bracket and it only is going
15551s to take one more map to get them on
15554s through they're still sweating for it
15556s though it is almost never clean but when
15559s you have people like death and when you
15561s have people like Zoe just popping off
15563s with big plays like this on some of
15565s their comfort Heroes which could have
15567s wish have kind of accidentally
15569s themselves into letting Michael wave
15572s play it gets so much more difficult to
15574s play your game to play these for lack of
15576s a better turn cheese compositions like
15578s the Wrecking Ball the Farmery you're not
15580s getting as much juice out of them as you
15582s really want and even still you got
15584s players like ajmr going on these flank
15586s plays trying to take these duels with SK
15588s that they know they can win and indeed
15590s they do and again like you called out
15592s yeah you can have skiest go out and res
15594s SK but that's your healer that's both
15597s your healers that's your only living
15599s healer breaking off to go try and Bick
15600s the other one back up that's when Mari
15602s strikes with the Rampage that's when
15604s death comes through that's when wi pops
15606s the sound barrier and everything just
15608s starts cascading like an avalanche
15610s watching Wasing over kunoichi and
15613s bearing them alive in the snow and they
15615s can't quite dig themselves out because
15616s there's not enough time and they don't
15618s have any more shovels huichi are
15622s starting to crumble the surprise factor
15625s is no longer there on venot forcing
15627s Michael wave onto their best composition
15631s and that's not a team you want to be
15633s facing especially with flash points
15635s coming up next it has to be a terrifying
15638s thought that this map is going to be
15641s difficult it's going to be a tough
15643s battle and what else can kunichi have
15645s left to say they've showed us two of
15647s their signature looks and neither have
15649s come to much fruition and you got to
15652s remember the Vancouver Titans blue game
15654s that we watched last night with you know
15655s against kunoichi cgl is where Vancouver
15657s Titans had already started to feel like
15659s they were cracking the code a little bit
15661s so if you're kichi you can't feel too
15664s confident going into that because now
15665s you know that Not only was The Jig
15668s already up yesterday but plans B and
15670s plan C have also faltered because
15672s Michael wave is just one step ahead of
15674s you at every possible turn and you know
15676s in some cases in the case of agmr one
15679s step behind you and you got to turn
15680s around to look for him and that damage
15683s output is pretty insane giving the
15685s proportionality to the healing that agmr
15687s has I mean c you you can't understate
15690s this enough how wiah and ajmr have been
15693s propelling Michael wave forward
15695s completely dismantling we've been seeing
15697s kunii have been confident and they've
15699s looked comfortable yet they find
15701s themselves at a roadblock they can't
15704s seem to Break On Through and you when
15707s you look at the stats you see barcode
15708s you see elel they're trying their best
15710s but the deaths are so incredibly High I
15713s and you know looking over on the other
15715s side towards the stats on Michael wave
15717s to me what I'm seeing there is everyone
15718s is firing on all cylinders we
15720s highlighted ajmr briefly their deaths
15721s was a little high at 10 but to me that
15724s is a mixture of them getting caught out
15726s from early playing the Baptist early on
15728s and then going for this aggressive
15730s flanking Kido style where they do get
15732s caught out from time to time but they're
15735s taking people down with them every
15736s single time so you're finding all of the
15739s value there meanwhile wi is there to Aid
15741s with some of those flanks whether it's
15742s ammr whether it's death whether it's Zoe
15744s and speaking of death and Zoey they are
15746s might as well rename them to death and
15748s taxes the way they're inevitable right
15751s now took me a second to get that one
15754s I've been cooking that one for weeks
15756s actually you should be I mean death
15758s right now is Unstoppable death is
15761s inevitable and with Sasa being that next
15763s map there isn't a single other map type
15766s that is going to lean as heavily into
15768s Jes as this one right here this is
15771s kunoichi's last leg all of the fans out
15774s there they're sitting on their edge of
15775s their seat hoping to see something
15778s different to find a bit of light to hold
15781s on to so far Michael wave have been in
15784s control and it's only slipped further
15786s into their favor as the series has gone
15789s on it's time for that stle to change
15792s huichi I want to make One Last Stand
15796s they're choosing surasa which is an
15798s interesting pick to me because every
15799s time I think of kunoichi and there you
15801s know when we get to flasho I always
15803s think of new junk City I do I can't
15805s recall if we saw them play Sasa at all
15808s in lcq or how their compositions worked
15810s out I think we might have and I think
15813s there's a couple points like the opening
15815s point that aren't going to play to too
15817s nicely into the flyer composition so we
15819s are going to have to see the more
15820s grounded side of kunoichi but that's
15822s where they feel like they're a little
15824s bit weaker you know especially compared
15826s to a team like Michael wave who has been
15828s scrimming contenders level teams you
15830s know play playing all these different
15832s kind of compositions all these different
15833s looks just you know by the like by the
15836s way just as a little side tangent about
15838s Michael wave is I talked about Zoe and
15841s her Genji being an absolute asset to
15843s this team but her May being a little bit
15845s you know falling behind behind I know
15847s for a fact that Michael wave have been
15849s experimenting with a lot of different
15851s compositions to try and find some way to
15853s either you know force her to become good
15855s on the May or let her play her Comfort
15858s Heroes and again you know that level of
15860s flexibility that level of prep work even
15862s though you're not prepping for what
15863s kunoichi is going to play you're still
15865s prepping yourself to put Zoe in
15867s situations where she is going to
15870s succeed not just Zoe the entirety of
15873s Michael wave right now you touched on it
15875s a little bit in our first first map of
15877s Mari being on this junker Queen there's
15880s two junker queens that you really want
15881s to think of when you look at this
15884s current calling all Hero's back this
15886s this backline and it is currently
15887s Kindred and Mari these two will go toe
15890s to- Toe with each other in terms of that
15892s hero the fact that she's able to play
15893s that Comfort has been all the more
15895s valuable for Michael wave I believe she
15897s had the most eliminations on the entire
15899s team as a matter of fact from the last
15902s map alone and they're going to have to
15904s decide whether they pick that up or go
15906s an En entirely New
15908s Direction I'm not sure how I feel about
15911s this I'm just going to let it ride I I
15914s don't expect Zoe to come out here on on
15916s a junk ride yeah no this is this is this
15919s is a little bit more like it microwave
15921s this is about what I expected kunoichi
15923s though they are on their composition
15925s their signature with the Wrecking Ball
15926s EV going to go for a wide angle there
15929s way up towards the north side of your
15930s screen right there going to loop back
15932s around with SK I don't know if barod is
15935s going to be in position to pinch on this
15936s but she's going to get into position
15937s real quick who's the target going to be
15939s likely HMR and that's going to make it
15941s all the more difficult for Mari to hold
15944s space gmr the first one to kind of get
15947s poked out you can see death is in's
15950s Crosshair currently and playing
15952s incredibly cautious is getting some
15953s flashbacks uh from when we saw the
15956s cowboy making an appearance in our
15958s previous two maps Michael wave getting
15960s that first capture and elel loses ahead
15963s ooh that's a big yikes you have to be
15965s respecting death space and I'm not going
15967s to be surprised CB if we see that
15969s immediate swap back over to a junker
15970s Queen form composition that's the 3K for
15973s death and yeah that should be that
15975s should be the death of this composition
15976s for Kuni and something I want to point
15978s out for death by the way is they're not
15979s playing around cover they're just kind
15981s of playing out in the open where they
15982s don't have to respect any space that El
15985s wants to take and so kunoichi can't
15987s really play forward elel has to continue
15990s to play safe it's her that's forced to
15991s play behind cover and death that stands
15994s in the like stands Fearless in the face
15997s of their namesake it is insane how good
16000s you have to be in order to change that
16002s Dynamic I mean look at that that is able
16004s to play out in the open knowing that
16006s they're afraid another head shot goes
16007s down and takes so much effort that's all
16009s four players only shooting the cowboy
16012s before Death Shall hit the hay microwave
16015s down to their contest but Zoe comes
16017s right back up and gets the elimination
16020s no one stuff DSD and Michael wave have
16023s to commit some more of these ultimates
16024s and an attempt to extend this fight
16026s further with it being overtime though
16028s there's not much more of a point in
16030s extending it as long as you're losing
16033s down in the numbers take a reset and
16035s come back swing it your something I
16038s really like that speaks of the team
16039s cohesion Isel gets another 3K what what
16042s else is new and they're going to keep
16043s going actually make it a four as they go
16044s into the spawn to try and take down
16046s death something that I really like from
16048s kunoichi though is after Ile Falls
16050s curtesy the anti-air ninja that was Zoe
16053s EV goes in and commits the pile driver
16055s to make space to Force Zoe to vacate the
16057s premises so that skiest can safely go
16059s back in and get the res so it's not even
16061s just skiest and her mercy ability but
16063s the team's ability to play around her
16065s and allow her to get this value speaking
16068s of value Zoe is looking for SK without
16071s that sound beer coming on down kunoichi
16073s they're not going to have a chance at
16075s staggering this fight even further it's
16077s going to be a shli presence as Zoe has
16080s cut them all down to size oh kunishi
16083s made a hefty investment in this battle I
16085s can only assume that swaps come on in
16088s with three out of their four available
16090s ultimate being dumped on the floor check
16092s at the whole kitchen sink and Michael
16094s wave hoping for the best and it is the
16096s worst case scenario that's made an
16098s appearance SK now sound be has the
16100s return evi cannot contest any longer
16103s it's onto the Frog L to the walls Sky
16106s providing a little bit more of that
16108s support from above and suddenly the
16110s recontest is there B has to use a lot
16112s more than she originally intended just
16115s to get that little on top that security
16118s elimination flip that objective back on
16121s over and let it close out evi going down
16123s surely will exite process II is doing so
16126s much
16128s right back in and it's going the way ofi
16131s ajm Mar finds two taking out both elel
16134s and barcode and this might actually be
16136s winnable for kunoichi they just have to
16137s deal with death the pulse bomb comes out
16139s onto EV but the healing is there SK
16141s criminally low but TSD is still there e
16145s still making all the space The ksun Rush
16147s from ajmr comes out Michael wave want to
16149s buy themselves back in they're trying to
16152s buy themselves back in but it appears
16153s they are all out of tickets agmr tried
16156s to give them the golden one and death
16158s grabs SK she got way too aggressive
16160s there that's going to come back to bite
16161s kunu Ichi Michael wave they have their
16164s tank back into play and Mory gives them
16166s a significant chance of flipping this
16169s into dear favor Minefield from Eevee s
16173s out about half of the objective by way
16176s they are completely okay with that
16178s dodging and maneuvering around the mines
16180s as needed not letting the tank get any
16182s Val fion PST bomb that goes through the
16184s South barrier not enough the
16185s resurrection oh my gosh TB this has been
16188s going on for nearly a minute and a half
16191s and we are still to yet to find a Victor
16194s within this Market objective it's the
16197s sustain it's the how quickly these
16199s players can return to the battle
16201s extending its Life Time After Time
16203s anytime you think it is over somebody
16205s find find a way to pump the life back in
16208s it's been skd it's been agmr but finally
16212s we have a Victor the pointer of purple
16214s kichi are walking away with it the
16216s longer that overtime Wick goes the
16218s quicker it burns so once once mle wave
16220s are finally forced to regroup take a
16223s split second a second is all it takes
16225s for the point to finally go in favor of
16226s kunoichi but that could not have been
16229s more Scrappy Michael waiver going to
16230s have some SS to try and take this one
16232s but kunoichi's comp is fast they've
16233s already got first uh first position
16236s positioning here on the next point
16238s trying to wait for Michael wave to come
16240s through one of these chokes bait them in
16241s to somewhere where can take them down
16243s but barode is no longer taken no longer
16246s in position to do any of that no death
16249s swapping over to the Tracer has actually
16252s done a lot more than what we saw on the
16254s Cy you're now mobile and you can do
16256s basically the exact same thing peppering
16258s these shots into skd and forcing them
16261s back and it gives Michael out quave the
16263s opportunity to cap hey yeah barcode was
16265s the bait there that was trying to get
16267s Mich wave to come in but like Michael
16269s wave took the bait and then cut the line
16271s ran off with it cons Rush coming out
16273s from ajmr what value are able to find
16275s with it so we going to pop the Dragon
16277s Blade but that's gets those Rockets Sho
16280s right back down her throat ajm AR the Ki
16283s Rush all there in the kill feed for the
16286s assist and with the kunai as well I mean
16288s Michael wave are solidly in control of
16291s this objective and they still have the
16293s Rampage as well if they're able to catch
16294s skiest out with it it might be curtains
16296s for this point on kuni's end already as
16299s where it's 60% for Michael wave and
16300s remember in flash point it goes so much
16302s faster than control one fight territory
16304s is right around where we are right now
16306s Kuni they have to make something stick
16308s it's got to be bar cod's pulse bomb and
16310s they're not going to have SK to Aid in
16312s the capture here already down in a 4v5
16315s and spting it up that pick on to Zoe is
16318s a wonderful start and that one right
16320s there onto ajmr elel is working her
16324s magic and hitting these rockets and it
16326s comes up when kunoichi needs it the most
16328s as inconsistent as it's been you can
16331s never be not you can never not be happy
16333s just yes the kill Fe that's three ults
16335s though used for kunoichi and none for
16337s Michael wave they still have that
16339s aformentioned Rampage and now they've
16340s built up to a sound barrier and a pulse
16342s bomb of their own whereas kunoichi they
16345s realistically only have SK sound barrier
16347s to play for and again you know they
16349s don't necessarily need or rely on
16351s ultimates they just need elel to pop off
16353s or barcode to do the same thing but a
16355s very aggressive sound barrier from wi is
16357s going to make it all the more difficult
16359s to do so Kuni at the very least are
16361s going to have to give space here as they
16363s giving space Michel wave now on the
16365s objective and this is okay you wait for
16367s SK to rebuild that sound barrier cuz
16370s you're going to need it for the Rampage
16371s SK needs to live get the Tim off but no
16373s she goes down with the South barrier in
16375s the toe finding nothing for their team
16379s Michael wave taking out the key player
16381s at a critical moment they ready to close
16385s out round round number two here of Sasa
16388s CB this is going to get very close
16391s getting them onto that match point
16393s scenario if kunichi keep staggering
16395s touches in it's always possible this
16398s flip there's not going to be a touch
16399s coming into play he going to have to
16401s reverse sweep on top of a reverse sweep
16404s kunii to move on in this Championship
16407s bracket he it wasn't so SK didn't just
16410s die with the sound barrier and to she
16411s actually ajaxed it and I think that's
16413s crucial and it's going to be all the
16415s more troublesome as we move on to the
16416s next Point look it's just right over
16418s next door to where the previous one was
16420s so Michael wave are already going to be
16422s on the point despite kunoichi's fast
16424s comp they have a wealth of other
16425s ultimates that they're going to need but
16427s they're definitely going to wish they
16428s had a sound barrier once the blade from
16429s Zoe builds up they're not going arode
16434s ajmr that's a dink to the head of barod
16437s I mean you can't understand enough the
16439s value that this hero is finding mean
16442s ajmr is should not be allowed to do this
16444s on the k it's SK we talk about ajmr
16448s right up there with them and there's
16450s only so much that the rest of the team
16451s can do cani commit the barrage and what
16454s they've been doing so far TB it hasn't
16456s been working now you are on close to
16458s your last life got to switch something
16461s up and you I'm going to call it out
16463s again SK still nowhere near another
16466s sound barrier and Zoe does have the
16468s Dragon Blade wasn't forced to expended
16470s in that previous fight so if she pops it
16472s kunu are going to have to rely on Ski's
16473s Valkyrie to try and sustain them through
16475s and that might not be enough especially
16477s if zo's able to get close to El and
16479s potentially even deny the res that's
16481s going to come out you can see that's the
16483s duo she has in her sights right now she
16485s wants to pop this blade and she wants
16486s essel to be the first Target El isn't
16489s going to let her pop the blade out every
16490s time Zoe thinks about she gets too low
16492s and eventually she's knocked over like a
16494s bulling pin to H cgl they have the
16497s health sky with in this Valkyrie for him
16500s she can choose the go for the
16501s resurrection or not M wave at this time
16504s don't have a win condition play off of
16506s they going off the map is a bit of a
16509s yikes and that has to be made up for
16510s it's BD is it the player to do it
16512s there's now no healing on kunoichi's
16515s side and only the hamster to stall it on
16518s out and that's not going to be enough
16520s kunichi they bled the resources Way Too
16523s Thin and will end up collapsing in the
16524s final hour and they still have one more
16527s hour it's one to one but there shouldn't
16528s be another touch here SK does come in
16530s and get a late kill there but because
16531s she dies so late and that's your Lucio
16533s one of the faster Heroes that would
16535s typically be the one that you send in to
16537s go for the touch there it's just not
16539s going to happen all of the fast Heroes
16540s died way too late to be able to go for a
16542s contest here so it's Match Point map
16544s point for Michael wave and look at the
16546s ults still holding on to the Dragon
16548s Blade plus a rampage plus a katsune rush
16551s SK might have that sound barrier I've
16553s been talking about but she can only use
16555s that to counter one Salvo that's going
16557s to come out from Michael wave out of
16558s potentially three they're going to be
16560s coming kuni's way and one of which is
16564s going to land a L Mark unless something
16566s goes seriously wrong and it has but for
16569s kunichi Zoe right now besides this is
16571s the moment to pull out the blade that's
16573s one that's two and you don't need any
16576s more than that Michael wave have the
16578s percentage ticking on Palace that's such
16580s a smart blade from Zoe too knowing that
16581s she's going to find that pick and that
16583s skti is going to want to try and go in
16584s for the res so she pops the blade so not
16586s only can skti not go for it but if she
16588s does she's going into this really narrow
16590s hallway where the Dragon Blade is going
16592s to be all the more lethal so anyone who
16594s tries to go in and make make that save
16596s or try and facilitate getting that res
16598s gets their head Cho clean off by Zoe's
16601s by Zoe's Dragon Blade there Michael wave
16603s still have all the tools they need to
16604s hold this but a Minefield on the point
16606s going to make it a little
16607s tricky Minefield you're able to dodge
16610s and weave Zoe though way too low that
16613s call out came through and kunoichi
16615s decided Now's the Time unleashing The
16617s Barrage of rockets on mari's head and
16620s soon others to follow with this flip
16622s coming on through notice the sound
16624s barrier is still being held on
16627s to I haven't been forced to use it sk's
16630s holding on to it death late death there
16632s that might be pretty big for kunoichi
16634s it's a tracer again you know death will
16636s be back relatively quickly so not the
16637s biggest thing in the world but because
16639s SK still has this sound barrier and
16641s microwave has cycled through a couple of
16643s their ultimates now the mission is clear
16645s you use the sound barrier to counter out
16647s the Rampage that's going to come out
16648s since you don't have the suzu on your
16649s side that's going to be the way that you
16651s survive this next Salvo death has to
16653s find a key pulse bomb somewhere to
16656s negate that death has done it before and
16659s very well can do it again now down lose
16664s a lot of value you don't have all your
16665s players there to get it or if just to
16667s get SK she'll be able to scooch her way
16669s on out and now death is Chas down SK is
16672s it the support no she's the one giving
16675s death back into the grave Kun cgl that
16678s is the only pick off that they need
16680s Michael wave would be crazy to commit
16681s more ultimates into this knowing they
16683s still have one more Lifeline to fall
16685s back onto this objective of Palace
16688s belongs to kunichi cgl and it's going to
16691s go all the way to five to decide the
16693s outcome of this series SK is not just a
16696s Reddit Lucio she's practically a mod on
16698s r/ Lucio Mains I don't know if that's
16699s actually true but she should be so I'm
16701s going to reach out to the mods and uh
16703s have a talk with them and say you know
16704s get SK on the team cuz she knows what
16706s she's talking about she goes in and wins
16707s The Duel with the Tracer and death and
16709s Zoe actually got a flip-flop now death
16711s onto the Cassidy I think again to try
16713s and pressure out and that might might be
16716s a doable task here on Gardens this last
16718s Point here where the skies are a little
16719s bit more open if death plays as boldly
16722s as they were before it's looking like
16724s they might be able to put the punishment
16725s out onto skap with the sound barrier
16728s though kunoichi want to push go kunu are
16730s pushing go P bomb goes a little bit wide
16733s and EV is out of The Fray the
16735s resurrection though is in and the cidy
16738s is out oh everything is going right for
16740s kunichi cgl SK proving the Mercy's worth
16744s we haven't seen her near as show up as
16746s much as she has in the past and yet this
16748s game in Sosa when it matters the most
16751s Angel flies high but it's so costly for
16754s kunoichi they used everything with the
16755s Minefield there it's costly for Michael
16757s wave as well you know they Ed three alss
16759s as well I actually don't know if Mario
16761s used her but she definitely doesn't have
16762s it now she's made the swap over onto the
16763s diva and this is a very not far friendly
16766s composition that Michael wave are
16768s playing Zoe's going to be constantly
16770s hunting for skiti Mari and death are
16772s going to make it so that elel is purely
16774s suffocated in the Sky can't even poke
16776s her head out without feeling the
16778s pressure and right now SK is feeling the
16780s pressure from Zoe SK under a ton of
16783s pressure not as much as death I mean
16785s death being on this Cy you have one roll
16787s and how's that going to save you well I
16789s can tell you it's not Kuni T you down at
16792s cly the cost of nothing and now it's
16794s sk's name next on The Chopping Block get
16797s that trade you'll be back in the matter
16799s of seconds yeah and that's a lot of
16802s resources pulled away from the point to
16803s try to get the kill on SK but that's the
16805s big one right there as Mari taking down
16807s skiest now the door has been busted wide
16810s open from Michael wave to try and make a
16811s play here and once they get all of their
16813s players in tow safe for death who's
16815s going to fall courtesy of ESS we get
16816s again trade going on through kunichi
16820s won't be able to regroup that one fight
16822s territory seems to be where this is
16825s landing EV is going to stall this out
16827s until eventually rolling off the
16829s objective and now it's going to be have
16831s to be a full cap for Michael wave to
16833s walk away with surasa you can kind kind
16835s of see how much kunoichi is prioritizing
16837s death though noticing that they're on
16838s the cidy death has a bullseye on their
16840s forehead right now and everybody is
16842s trying to look for ways that they can
16843s catch death out while they're trying to
16845s look for an angle where they can catch
16846s essel out it's like three games of Cat
16848s and Mouse all going on at one point or
16851s yeah at once at one point in time Mel
16853s wave though five old they can stagger
16855s this out get themselves to 99 quite
16857s easily kunoichi has to look for a way to
16859s crack this with the Dead Eye up first
16861s was looking for the
16863s far is going to be sneaking away behind
16865s the corner and it's just another 7
16867s Seconds off the table this is where
16870s things start to get crazy and SK is
16872s crazy for standing in front of death for
16874s as long as she did Michael wave now
16877s sound barries bu support ultimates
16879s committed that is going to be difficult
16880s to come back from kunichi cgl we have
16882s one final regroup and a bunch to work
16885s with got to be looking for elel to make
16887s a big play with this barrage she's done
16889s it countless times but it hasn't been
16890s enough to secure a win for kunoichi yet
16892s but if it comes out now it will be the
16895s win if not it will be kunoichi going
16898s home set packing as melave take it the
16900s close bomb gets eaten by Mari Zoe goes a
16903s little bit wide and now elel looking for
16905s a play looking for someone to put this
16906s barrage one final explosive on the field
16909s Amari gobbles that one on up two the
16911s trades are even and Zoe is fighting one
16914s that's two and this pancake and SK
16916s Michael wave are just PL their way back
16919s up they're saying No kichi this is our
16921s map we are one of the best teams in the
16924s calling all Hero and we will not be
16926s knocked out here not here not today
16929s that's Mari one of the best tanks in the
16931s calling all heroes circuit in my opinion
16933s the best easily the most flexible and
16935s she understood the assignment so so
16937s clearly just as I said you had to be
16940s looking for with that barrage ELO goes
16942s to try and pop it Mari like you said
16944s gobbles it right up swallows all those
16946s Rockets Full Sail doesn't even have to
16948s stop to chew and then you know also eats
16951s the pulse bomb from barcode so another
16953s win condition taken out before that one
16955s even comes out gets the remack kill onto
16958s SK and then just cleans everything else
16960s up with the self-destruct remack clears
16963s out the mines clears out EV clears out
16965s everything clears a path for Michael
16967s wave to take it 3 they're still alive in
16970s the lower bracket we have not seen the
16972s last of this dog and this team that's
16974s got that dog in them but we have
16976s unfortunately Seen the Last of these
16979s tricky foxes over on the side of
16982s kunoichi kunoichi they made an excellent
16985s run to get through the Championships
16987s battled the way through the lcq ended up
16989s winning the whole dang thing and this is
16992s where the trail shall end fox has blazed
16995s their way through and Michael wave are
16997s there to shut them on down and you you
17000s really got to be proud of kunoichi's
17001s accomplishments they worked with what
17004s they had and it is an incredibly
17005s talented roster that plays a completely
17008s Unique Style that no one else even dares
17011s to pull on Al this team is skilled on
17014s such an individual level they pull it
17016s together with the Synergy they've
17018s managed to develop over their countless
17021s hours of playing together and
17023s competition and it takes the best of the
17025s best to finally science their
17027s voices like you said the best of the
17029s best Michael wave is easily an A or S
17032s tier team depending on how you look at
17033s it here in calling all heroes and you
17035s know yeah it's a three 0 Michael wave
17037s win this three but every single map was
17039s close and there was never a moment where
17041s you felt like there's just no hope for
17043s kunoichi where they didn't have any
17044s options where there wasn't somebody
17046s ready and willing and able to make a
17048s play so they made Michael wave a top
17051s tier team work for it there's nothing to
17053s be ashamed of if you're kunoichi for
17055s coming this far and falling in such a
17057s such a grand fashion against a team like
17060s Michael wave but Michael wave are just
17062s so hungry they want this they want this
17064s so so badly and there's only so many
17066s teams that that really show how much
17069s they want it Michael wave is one of them
17071s they're one of the few that might
17073s actually be able to have it
17075s top three team easily within this
17078s current bracket their run shall continue
17081s we need to talk about what went down
17083s during this game Christopher and Ash
17085s will be coming back on the desk to give
17087s us a bit more insight on what went down
17089s don't go anywhere we'll be right
17097s [Music]
17103s back
17112s [Music]
17118s [Applause]
17123s [Music]
17133s e
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17163s a
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17193s e
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17223s no
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17253s n
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17277s the lcq Champions fall in the lower
17281s bracket kenoi knocked out 0 and three in
17284s this matchup against Michael wave and I
17287s mean Christopher we know that kenoi
17290s they're able to bring out these cheese
17292s compositions very much so circulating
17294s around skti who is that hard lock on the
17297s mercy and it can work for against some
17300s teams but up against a team like Michael
17302s wave where they're so adaptable that's
17304s not going to
17305s fly yeah as an expert of cheesed comps
17308s um I really respect it um I think it's
17312s really interesting it felt like Michael
17314s W tried multiple multiple things they
17316s tried originally kind of matching it
17318s with the Echo and which I think is
17320s always a really dangerous game if you
17322s play a team on a match up they're
17323s comfortable even though I think the
17324s theory probably says that Eko is a
17326s counter to far and it felt like once
17329s they they figured out the city comp that
17331s felt like the the best counter that's
17333s where most of the success came from and
17335s I think it also allowed Zoe to play
17337s Genji which is clearly her best hero and
17339s so it felt in a way for KI that Michael
17341s wave was one of the worst teams to try
17343s this comp against cuz you almost allowed
17345s people to to play their comfort
17348s Heroes I think it's difficult to Tiny
17351s when you're looking towards a tank like
17354s Mari who is just so flexible in her own
17358s right like the ability to play
17361s essentially any Tank Hero in the game
17363s and look so comfortable doing it as well
17366s yeah CB made the statement earlier and
17368s I'm gonna have to back it up I seriously
17370s believe that Mari is the best tank that
17372s we have in this competition in terms of
17375s flexibility and the ability to perform
17377s on these Heroes at a top tier level I
17380s mean there's never a time that I'm like
17382s oh mari's really got to step it up it's
17384s not like she's never somebody that you
17386s look over to because she just gives you
17388s that star level performance that you
17389s want out of a tank player and it's a big
17391s part of the reason that Michael wave
17393s have made it as far as they have it
17395s really is and that's the thing is though
17398s we cannot take away from the fact that
17399s kenoi really put up a fight here we have
17401s to keep in mind Michael wave they're the
17403s ones that we were looking at to win this
17405s matchup considering the fact that it's
17408s the the Jos between the consistency of
17411s circuit Point winners who have gotten
17413s into this Championship weekend versus
17417s those who are coming out of that lcq
17419s obviously hot and despite that 0 and3
17421s loss for kenoi it doesn't tell that
17424s whole story about what the individual
17426s matches were like as far as that one to2
17429s loss two and three for the last two mats
17431s they kept it tight and Chris that far
17434s was so oppressive to start things off
17438s but death making that swap onto Cassidy
17440s changed the game yeah it's kind of a a
17444s polarizing counter the Cassidy versus
17446s far matchup because it's if you hit the
17449s shots it's a very very impressive
17450s counter if you miss the shots all of a
17452s sudden the hero feels very easy to hit
17454s the far can actually get a lot of kills
17456s but death was not missing and especially
17458s on Kings Row if we look at the the final
17460s blows counter here 22 almost all of them
17462s were on the far
17466s no it was absolutely ridiculous I think
17468s we're going to get to see some of these
17469s shots coming out as well tiny it was
17472s pretty insane like we saw how well the
17475s pharmacy was working there for kenoi at
17478s the beginning and they were really
17480s oppressive in blocking off a lot of like
17482s the narrow hallways that Michael wave
17485s were looking to push through but the
17487s adjustment really was everything and
17489s like Chris said it allowed Zoe to also
17491s Flex onto that
17492s Genji Kun
17494s Chris said it earlier you you put
17496s Michael wave accidentally on their best
17500s composition and it was to their own
17502s detriment I mean Zoe the best Genji that
17504s you are going to find within the calling
17506s all Hero scene you have death absolutely
17508s popping off on the Cassie I mean there's
17510s just so many things that went right
17511s through this series and honestly if
17514s Michael wave could play against a
17516s composition like this I guarantee you
17517s they are the only team that would ever
17519s want to do it
17521s again well we're going to have to see
17523s how ends up going as this competition
17526s goes even further but again big kudos to
17529s kenoi for the fact that they are able to
17531s try and take this the distance it did
17533s get tight at times but the comfort of
17537s Michael wave was just a bit too much we
17539s do have an interview on the line though
17541s so I'm going to say goodbye to my
17543s analyst desk and say hello ajmr how are
17547s you congratulations on your win here in
17549s the lower
17550s bracket I'm doing
17552s good um how happy with our performance
17554s in our last match but the one before we
17557s shouldn't have lost the Timeless we made
17559s a lot of silly mistakes honestly so I'm
17562s feeling okay but I would feel better if
17564s we won our first game I mean that's
17567s understandable but as far as you are you
17570s able to maybe talk me through how you
17572s and your team were able to kind of come
17574s back from that mentally just knowing
17576s that okay it's tough to drop down to
17578s that lower bracket especially in a
17579s matchup where you felt confident that
17582s you should have been able to take
17585s uh [ __ ] happens in oh I can't say that
17587s word oops it's okay it's okay s um i'
17591s I've gotten in trouble on broadcast
17593s before from doing things so I gotta be
17595s on my best behavior
17598s anyway the match versus Timeless that's
17601s really like what we've been prepping for
17602s because they're clearly the best team in
17603s the tournament and as the analyst said
17606s we're so flexible that like we can play
17609s versus any cheese comp and just Beat It
17611s by playing something normal because we
17612s can all play what we would need to
17616s to and I know you can't give away too
17620s much obviously there's another day to go
17623s we're going to continue on hopefully
17625s seeing you guys make that lower bracket
17626s run but what was the preparation how did
17630s it look like I mean I know the
17632s importance is always playing and
17633s focusing on your own game but you did
17635s mention preparing for that matchup
17637s against Timeless in particular was it
17639s kind of just expanding on what you're
17642s the foundation that you guys already
17643s have as a team
17645s well we've before this tournament after
17647s our placing in like the last major or
17650s minor I don't remember what it was
17651s honestly um after our last placing I
17654s decided for my team like we're gonna be
17656s scrimming pretty much constantly and
17658s reviewing after every scrim like for the
17660s past week we've stayed in voice chat
17662s until like 1 two in the morning every
17664s single day just either talking about the
17665s game or just like bonding as a team so
17667s we've been putting a lot of effort into
17669s trying to be better going into this like
17671s tournament and this next few these next
17674s few matches really where it actually all
17677s matters I mean it really is paying off
17680s from what we're seeing um this
17682s particular weekend already just you guys
17684s have leveled up throughout the entire
17686s season and now looking at the fact that
17688s you have headed now into the lower
17690s bracket semi-finals on the other side of
17693s the quarterfinals right now are Timeless
17695s Celestial and Fable looking to go
17697s head-to-head and I'm curious actually if
17700s there's a team between the two of them
17702s that you in particular want to face up
17704s against
17705s again um I don't mind who wins I have
17708s friends on Fable so I want Fable to win
17711s but I have friends on both teams really
17713s so no matter who we play against among
17716s the two I feel like my team's winning
17717s though Michael wave on off okay we love
17720s hearing the confidence Michael wave on
17722s top can we get those W's in the chat
17723s before that um and is there is there any
17727s last like shout out thank you anything
17729s that you want to say on stream it
17730s doesn't have to be a shout out or a
17732s thank you but your opportunity to speak
17734s your truth shout out to Molly for being
17737s the best tank in the
17739s tournament hey the analyst ask his Raven
17742s about her it's undeniable like the
17744s flexibility that she has but ajmr you
17747s popped off in this last series your
17749s entire team did congratulations against
17751s you and Michael wave and thank you again
17753s for taking the time to do this interview
17755s no
17757s problem okay such a sweet interview
17760s there with ajmr they were absolutely
17763s lovely and I can't wait to see what then
17765s their team are able to do tomorrow but
17768s we do have to continue on with the lower
17771s bracket quarterfinals we're going to be
17772s seeing Timeless Celestial versus Fable
17775s coming up
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17792s next
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17853s la
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17856s [Applause]
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17882s all
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18002s he
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18041s [Applause]
18047s [Music]
18055s [Music]
18070s [Music]
18081s Michael wave have moved on in three and0
18084s fashion to the next portion of the lower
18086s bracket now we've got to see who's going
18089s to be facing up against them it's
18091s Timeless Celestial versus table coming
18094s up next and bit of a preview of how
18097s today pans out we already just did have
18100s to say goodbye to a fan favorite there
18102s in kenoi CB yeah a lot of teams or sorry
18106s a lot of fans are going to be kind of
18107s heartbroken to see kunoichi bowing out
18110s but making it that far with a mercy
18111s Centric comp something that a lot of
18113s people would have assumed to be a
18114s limitation but ended up being an asset
18116s to the team is definitely an
18118s accomplishment in of its own
18120s unfortunately not enough of an
18121s accomplishment to keep their lower Brack
18123s run alive not enough to topple Michael
18125s wave and Michael wave keep going a
18127s little bit further and by the way
18129s watching that last match almost has me
18131s wishing that Cassidy Genji was like the
18133s DPS meta again like I I yearn for that
18137s era of OverWatch to make a return I got
18139s just a little taste of it and I'm hungry
18141s I want more she wants she's she's
18144s looking for the juice the the juice
18147s right there the DPS juice but as we head
18149s into this matchup now ESS Celestial
18152s versus fable well this is a different
18154s story tiny the one that the match up
18156s that we just saw between kenoi and
18158s Michael wave was a tale of a team that
18162s had consistently been playing at a high
18165s level within the regular season versus
18167s the ltq Champions but now this time
18170s around I think the competition is a just
18173s a bit tighter considering the way these
18175s two stand in circuit
18177s points circuit points maybe but I do
18180s want to talk a little bit about the
18182s individuals itself Tomo Celestial we got
18185s to see them play earlier on in the day
18187s today uh ended up falling down to the
18190s losers bracket to face Fable one of the
18192s things that they noticeably work on is
18195s that they are incredible at pushing the
18197s tempo snar can set up with these May
18200s wals Street can follow in on the ratra
18202s but their biggest weakness came about
18204s when he started to see these flanks they
18206s were getting completely wrapped around
18208s and outpaced by wisp Embers in so many
18211s different regards which is why I think
18212s fable is really going to push them here
18215s in this lower bracket match that's
18217s something to consider as well that was a
18218s Timeless Celestial that didn't feel
18220s quite like themselves and Fable being
18222s the ones to push them in this matchup
18226s here CB do you feel like Fable has a
18229s little bit of an advantage knowing that
18232s that momentum isn't behind Timeless
18235s Celestial after the earlier match today
18237s and on top of that Fable having kind of
18239s just been chilling up until now
18242s obviously looking to warm up into this
18244s matchup but it's not like they're
18245s playing off the back of the loss it's
18246s their first matchup of the day I I think
18249s both of these teams I'm looking at them
18250s right now when they both feel like teams
18252s that have a lot to prove I mean I even
18254s you know had like fed you the question
18255s for Avery for the interview yesterday
18257s and I wanted you to ask them how badly
18259s do they want to prove themselves well it
18261s feels like players like Arya also have a
18263s lot to prove as well because she has
18265s been popping off we've seen a lot of
18267s flashy sojourn play all throughout this
18269s tournament and Arya has been no
18271s exception definitely one of the names
18272s that comes to mind on the other side is
18274s timeless Celestial and I highlighted
18276s them saying that at least three members
18278s of their starting roster have calling
18280s all heroes trophies to their names some
18281s of those under the Timeless ethereal
18283s Banner being integral parts of their
18285s success and they want to prove that they
18287s still got it that they are just as good
18290s as the team that gets all of the
18291s attention and they have to do it at
18293s fables expense both have a lot to prove
18295s but only one can prove themselves that's
18298s a thing only one can because the other
18300s one is going home after this best of
18303s Five series and we're heading over to
18305s Antarctic Peninsula coming up first here
18308s tiny and I feel like this is no surprise
18311s I think for control we very much so have
18313s leaned on Antarctic throughout this C
18316s Championship Antarctic Peninsula has
18318s been more of a fallback as of lately
18321s it's it's the map that you could say is
18323s the most conventional to play with this
18326s metacom and arguably one of the easiest
18328s to do so on you don't have to worry
18330s about any Oddball picks with Le Jang
18332s Tower nobody's even picked Samoa with
18334s how new it really is to the entirety of
18337s OverWatch in general so Antarctic
18338s Peninsula has been the happy medium for
18341s any team that has been approaching the
18342s meta more conventionally well I'm
18344s looking forward to seeing if Timeless
18346s Celestial are able to pick up after that
18349s tough loss earlier today in that upper
18351s bracket or if Fable are the ones that
18353s are able to take the narrative for
18355s themselves and write their own story
18357s I'll leave you guys off into the server
18359s and see you on the other
18361s side
18363s final game to round out the day we've
18366s said goodbye to three teams and a fourth
18369s we'll be joining them after this matchup
18372s CB Fable and Timeless Celestial this is
18376s one of those matches that you can go in
18378s and not exactly have an idea of who is
18381s going to come out on top as they both
18384s have some incredibly strong attributes
18386s that need to be looked at I I'm I'm
18388s checking the the stream chat right now
18390s seeing like if uh who's betting there
18392s Channel points on what and it looks like
18394s the streets right now are saying
18396s Timeless Celestial but even still like
18398s there's a lot of Shooters out there for
18400s fable as well and rightfully so because
18402s what we saw from them yesterday was
18404s nothing short of impressive and if that
18406s keeps up I don't think this is going to
18408s be one-sided I don't think Timeless
18409s Celestial are going to get out of here
18411s unscathed I think it's going to be
18412s bloody I think it's going to be back and
18414s forth I think you're going to be looking
18415s a lot at Arya versus Azure seeing who is
18418s going to get the better of the soier in
18419s 1V one you know mini versus sosler which
18422s may is going to be setting their team up
18424s for Success the most and of course we've
18426s got the tank match up Avery versus
18428s Street Lord Street Lord was super
18429s impressive on the ratra yesterday does
18432s that pattern keep up is Avery able to
18434s match that despite being known more for
18436s their Sigma playing the ratra now to
18439s great effect who is going to get the
18441s better of some of these
18442s head-to-heads Avery has really stepped
18445s up in their role as the tank but I want
18447s to turn our eyes more towards these DPS
18451s Arya and mini versus a andar
18454s particularly here on Su LEL they will be
18457s the ones that have the greatest impact
18459s on the outcome of this first fight both
18461s approaching to The High Ground get Arya
18464s from Fable along with k or excuse me
18466s along with Fier will be backing off just
18468s slightly to go on these off angles the
18470s exact thing that was the thorn in the
18472s side for Timeless Celestial and cost
18474s them their previous series and with how
18476s good bble smro play and positioning is
18479s you will need to be cautious that from a
18481s moment one you can already see the ality
18483s Fields came out Avery required a lot of
18486s assistance in that exact moment fa's
18488s already capped the point time Celestial
18490s have been sitting here doing a whole lot
18491s of nothing you got to walk on forwards
18494s and eventually one of those hits will
18496s Land Street Lord in the Maller coming up
18498s with one of pce and a Meer 12% that
18500s Fable walk away with you talk about
18503s Fable positioning the fact that they're
18504s able to cap the point first and they
18505s position themselves in a way that they
18507s can do that but in order to get that
18508s done Arya had to play the low ground for
18510s a long period of time she wasn't able to
18512s get an advantageous angle and the rest
18514s of the time Fable backs are up against
18516s the wall so all it takes is ESS
18518s Celestial to acknowledge their their
18520s window push the go button push Fable
18522s back get a couple kills and I mean it's
18524s Azure that comes through with the rail
18526s shot the opening Salvo and the rest of
18527s the bodies hit the floor to
18530s follow only a matter of somebody pulls
18533s the trigger cter of course winning that
18535s race but no the May wol wonderful
18537s placement that's the impact that sosler
18540s can have for this team has been an
18541s excellent addition
18543s to that roster trade up for Panther
18545s plentifully working over into Timeless
18548s Celestial faor but they got to be
18549s careful cuz they Ling head left right
18552s and Center they're pushing onto Arya
18554s who's a hit scan player who do not want
18556s to mess around with I'm a slash Shield
18558s are getting a little bit too aggressive
18560s for my liking the fact that they're
18561s barely Clinging On To Life is a very
18564s risky style of play one that Fable have
18566s taken advantage of it are going to get
18568s the point flip off the back of it and
18570s you said Timeless left barely Clinging
18571s On To Life they can only re
18572s realistically have enough bodies to
18573s cling onto The High Ground fa will
18575s identify that send some bodies in to go
18577s flip the point and now time of celesti
18579s will have to drop off of that high
18580s ground in order to defend and try and
18582s take it back but how a Celestial they
18584s still have it I mean the merer that's an
18586s Matrix on The High Ground that's
18587s blizzard thrown in as well from sosler
18590s Avery is staying alive the at
18592s defensively from Panther wonderful call
18595s on that reaction is present canot be
18597s enough to shut down a a deadly player
18600s with the overclock in hand once that
18603s expires slightly less of a threat to
18605s worry about but what fa will take
18607s seriously nonetheless Ora that's an
18609s overclock of her own now peppering these
18611s shots on in Street Lord not standing a
18614s chance be able back in control of the
18616s objective and have won the positioning
18618s battle so far as well as the current
18620s point
18621s percentage they've also won the war of
18623s attrition but it doesn't seem like
18625s that's going to last much longer sosler
18626s with two kills towards the tail end of
18627s it still alive she's going to drop down
18629s and try and pressure out Avery and
18631s there's realistically only fiery to try
18633s and help Avery out and oh yeah there's
18636s there's a Lifeline if ever there was one
18638s sounds like it pulled off The High
18639s Ground is that what just happened to
18641s that void no no she she she dropped down
18644s to try and find a wall onto Avery there
18646s I think I didn't actually see a Vortex
18648s go out but regardless she does give up
18649s The High Ground makes herself vulnerable
18651s to fiery and Fable have capitalized
18653s they're at 80% and Ticking one fight
18656s territory and ESS Celestial don't have
18657s any ult to try and break through
18659s this you have a whole lot of nothing you
18662s need someone want to come up in the
18663s neutral the one to do that would be Oz
18665s or in this case nozar icicle to the Dome
18668s of mini bble now don't have the wall to
18671s isolate their players or save Avery in
18673s this situation so timeo Celestial will
18675s continue their fight onto sublevel with
18678s a miracle of a shot they had no ults to
18681s bust down the door but the it turns out
18683s the keyhole was icicle shaped and sosler
18685s found exactly where to put it right into
18687s a skull something fun about snaza by the
18689s way that I tried to bring up in the last
18690s series we saw time celestial play was
18693s that when she was playing for Timeless
18695s ethereal as their hit scan player she
18697s was mostly playing the sojourn now is
18699s transitioned more over onto a flex DPS
18701s role playing the May to Great effects
18704s definitely one of the better May players
18705s that we currently have in the tournament
18707s here kind of you know in the upper half
18709s is it going to be enough to keep things
18711s going in Timeless Celestial favor here
18713s one fight territory either way Fable
18715s going to have a blizzard here really
18717s soon snaza lagging a Teensy bit behind
18720s if mini strikes first this might be
18721s disaster you're looking at that I'm
18723s looking at the wobo combo on The High
18724s Ground azur with a damage boosted
18727s overclock terrifying sight nonetheless
18730s Panther not peeking around the corner in
18732s the slightest and that cost Avery their
18735s life lack of support the zoning The High
18737s Ground was never contested throughout
18739s this and Fable are losing outs on the
18742s objective they were so firmly in control
18744s of at the beginning of this points and
18746s it really does show how these two teams
18749s are going to push each other it's going
18750s to be a war of attrition throughout the
18752s series and and you were absolutely right
18754s about that ant Matrix the damage boost
18756s for the sojourn is absolutely lethal and
18758s what I would have liked to see is mini
18760s use that blizzard up on The High Ground
18762s to just force Timeless Celestial to
18764s vacate the premisis make it so that you
18765s can't safely play behind that window so
18767s that the so can't stay behind it can't
18770s shoot through it can't get all of that
18772s value but the blizzard is held on to a
18774s little bit too long and when it finally
18776s comes out it doesn't actually get enough
18778s value to buy Fable back into that fight
18780s meanwhile snaz just has to throw her in
18782s to try and close it out it doesn't even
18784s need to find anything it just needs to
18786s Zone off the last remaining bodies and
18788s it does so Timeless Celestial going up
18791s on this point here now as we go to Labs
18793s we'll have to see it's been pretty even
18795s Fable they don't feel like they're out
18797s of this they feel like they still have a
18798s realistic shot just a couple small
18801s mistakes away from taking Su levels they
18803s iron those out we might be going the
18805s distance on control and this map
18807s honestly has a lot more room for them to
18810s work which I talked about a little bit
18811s earlier with their positioning they send
18813s Arya and fiery off on these flank angles
18817s and it provides additional pressure that
18819s time of celestial historically have not
18821s dealt well with so when they're trying
18823s to back off this High you need to be
18825s constantly checking your angles where is
18827s Arya where is she playing because she is
18829s constantly a threat regardless if
18832s they're on the objective or not either
18834s team has been able to set so foot on the
18837s point as cuz they were so focused on a
18839s wonderful May wall that s are man to
18841s prop up behind Avery you have to say
18844s though that snar has been getting the
18845s better value out of these May walls
18847s compared to many absolutely and again I
18850s can say it till I'm blue in the face
18851s that the May is the most important piece
18853s in this composition it's your ability to
18855s section off the enemy players with the
18856s walls your ability to have you know
18858s potentially the highest value ultimate
18860s in the game in that blizzard right now
18863s and I mean if you're just constantly
18864s getting the better of that exchange your
18866s team's going to have so much more space
18867s to play with they're going to be so much
18868s more lethal have so many more
18870s opportunities to go in with a nemesis
18871s form or going with a rail shot from an
18873s off angle find a kill find a frag bust
18876s the whole fight wide open for yourself
18878s and that's been all sosler has been
18880s doing despite giving her life up a
18881s couple times has taken more than her
18883s fair share of lives in
18886s exchange SAR right now is with Celestial
18890s so much map control to deal with I mean
18892s that's an immortality field already out
18894s in the mer what are you doing that's two
18896s players that they are chasing on their
18898s own immortality Fields out has the
18900s backup on just jump in the gun a little
18902s bit really driving the anxiety through
18905s the roof get time of celestial have
18906s their back tee back and Fable have their
18909s backs against a wall May mini cannot
18913s stay alive we won't get to see the
18914s blizzard make an appearance in this
18916s fight the annihilation on the other hand
18918s very much so present Avery use it to
18920s grab a little bit of extra health and
18922s sustain Panther providing the support
18924s and it's the perseverance of fable to
18927s push them in these fight they just don't
18928s have the health stars to validate it
18930s they don't even I mean Fable don't even
18932s the resources validate it one of the I
18934s don't like about that Annihilation but
18935s they do have the overclock though kqa
18937s feeling quite annihilated now courtesy
18938s of AR going in with the disruptor shot
18940s takes down the entire backline for
18942s Timeless Celestial Street Lord going to
18944s go 6 feet under with them and that's
18946s Fable finding the flip there but again
18949s you know I go back to that Annihilation
18950s from Avery I wasn't a big fan of it
18952s because it also Drew out the immortality
18953s field from Panther it drew out so many
18955s resources just besides the annihilation
18958s and try and keep that presence there but
18959s it ended up being just enough to create
18962s that opening for Arya to seize and she
18964s does so but not at the cost of any
18967s ultimate save for the sound barer from
18968s ESS Celestial they nearly have four big
18971s ones to flip it and take this whole map
18974s Fable fight to go ahead and win the
18976s blizzard is massive it lands out two
18978s players you just need to find that
18980s killing blow and there it is azure's
18983s value completely nullified thas
18985s Celestial though did manage to flip the
18987s point back over and as a result will
18989s find themselves in a single fight
18991s territory and it just might be the end
18993s of the entire map that Annihilation that
18995s was committed so the rest of the players
18997s off fa don't have the heal to persevere
19000s through this fight and now they're
19001s scrambling to pump this health in Street
19003s Lord only 17 Health to spare and 94% on
19007s the board it was the kills that fable
19010s fable were able to find being on the mer
19012s and kqa that ended up creating that
19014s space yeah you had Azure and Street Lord
19016s able to contest the point for a while
19017s but their hell Bars were both on the
19019s clock without any healing looks like
19020s Avery who's now on the ground ay is 6 ft
19024s under if not even further a brutal death
19027s to the ratra player Fable will struggle
19030s to regroup without their tank they need
19032s to find a Target to single focus on but
19034s in fact it's sosler slitting them up
19036s taking the ones and winning them time
19038s Celestial are proving themselves they
19041s want to be the team to move forward face
19044s their sister Squad and take map number
19046s one and we're highlighting snor a lot
19049s here and for good reason she has been a
19051s huge asset to this team since joining
19053s and not only that I was highlighting
19055s again how she played the sojourn for
19057s Timeless ethereal I didn't even see the
19058s Ajax there from ARA early on that was
19061s that was something special from Arya
19063s anyway focusing back up talking about
19064s snaza I got to gas my girl up over here
19066s she was playing the soour for Timeless
19068s athero when they went on their
19069s undefeated streak throughout minor 3 and
19072s has now made again that swap like I was
19073s saying over to more Flex DPS like Heroes
19076s picking up the May which is something
19077s that other Flex DPS players like Zoe
19080s have at times struggled with SN
19082s being able to make up that difference is
19083s going to provide all the more
19085s flexibility to this roster make it so
19086s that they can play any look she comes
19088s out with a tracer gets a couple of big
19090s pickoffs there towards the end and it
19092s just seals the deal for Timeless
19094s Celestial and I think Fable are trying a
19096s little too hard to buy themselves into
19098s fights that they don't really have a
19100s whole lot of buying power in towards the
19102s end there time of celestial able to get
19104s the better of it flip the point deny a
19106s lot of percentage and then come back
19107s with their healers snaza pops off and
19110s it's done and dusted Fable don't have
19111s another opportunity to go back
19114s in Fable are a team that we've known
19117s very well for their macro play style
19120s their positioning has been impeccable
19122s their ultimate usage up there as well
19125s and once we take a look at this look at
19127s the difference in Ultimate use between
19129s Minnie and snar or even Street Lord and
19131s Avery or excuse me those are deaths I
19134s can't count but even there are
19136s differences in those as well but the
19138s seven blizzards would be absolutely
19140s bananas there's that would have been a
19142s real stat but I love it we do also kind
19145s of have to highlight Azure there you
19147s know we weren't talking about Azure as
19149s much compared to snar because six final
19151s blows to seven but you can see the
19153s damage that Azure is putting in as well
19155s as the overall limbs how much this soen
19157s is contributing to the overall success
19160s of Timeless Celestial Arya not falling
19162s all that much far behind Azure but you
19166s know you're kind of seeing this pattern
19167s right where the soier that's getting the
19169s better of the exchange is ending up
19171s winning a lot lot of these fights
19172s outright for their
19173s team the soj yes but also think about
19176s the setup that snar has been providing
19179s for aurai you charge up these shots on
19182s the roacha whether it's one that's
19183s walled off or not it doesn't matter
19185s you're able to keep walk pushing that on
19187s through and then take even more players
19190s down as a result so having this this
19193s Advantage within that initial phase
19194s you're forcing all of the cool Downs out
19196s of fable the very important ones the the
19199s Nemesis form that IM mortality field
19200s suddenly they have the resources to keep
19203s pushing on forwards allowing the rest of
19205s Timeless Celestial to push on in and
19208s just stomp on them it it kind of speaks
19210s to what I said earlier though that both
19212s these teams feel like they have
19213s something to prove they both feel hungry
19215s that's why they want to try and buy
19216s themselves into these fights that may or
19218s may not be winnable but in some of these
19220s exchanges it is timeless Celestial that
19222s are coming out ahead we'll see if that
19224s pattern continues as it's fables Matt
19226s pick they're taking us to Midtown we
19228s finally get a break from Kings Row for
19230s the day Midtown does exist chat we have
19233s seen another hybrid map for the first
19234s time and I think Fable did take us to
19237s this map when we saw them play yesterday
19238s and we theorized that maybe Avery Sigma
19241s would come out and it didn't actually
19243s and I don't know if it's something that
19244s Fable want to do but one thing I do want
19246s to bring up is earlier on in the
19248s Winner's bracket we were watching
19249s Michael wave play up there Mari did bust
19252s out the sigma as kind of a counter to a
19254s Arisa composition and I think that might
19257s be something that street Lord might try
19259s and come out with at some point is the
19261s Arisa if you know Timeless Celestial
19262s don't feel like they're getting as much
19264s mileage out of the ratra as they really
19267s need to so you know we might kind of see
19269s that rock papers is exchange again it's
19271s optimism it's copium it's me trying to
19274s set Avery up for Success so I can hype
19275s them up some more like I have been since
19277s I uh since I started casting them but
19280s it's still Midtown is where you're going
19282s to be able to get away with that if it
19284s does start to happen there are always
19287s those options yet with how like just
19290s solid these teams have been on the ratra
19293s brawl compositions it doesn't I don't
19295s really see obey for that it's
19296s necessarily going to change I I do want
19298s to see more from Fable though those
19301s glimpses with Arya moving on up and
19304s taking these off angles and getting at
19306s least one elimination off of it even if
19308s it ends up in a trade that's where they
19310s were able to win that's how they were
19311s able to win their Series yesterday
19313s against somebody as good as Persona
19315s while Persona was getting incredible
19316s eliminations Arya managed to get the
19318s most important ones because of that
19320s positioning in in Antarctic Peninsula we
19322s just didn't get an opportunity to see it
19325s we have to see which team is on the
19327s defense first and if they're able to
19328s lock down the choke and deny some of
19330s those angles that we saw Arya taking in
19332s the previous series here on Midtown cuz
19333s we know that's the wi condition that on
19335s fables attack they're going to want to
19337s try and Leverage is getting her all the
19338s way in to that little building right
19341s over there on the side of the point and
19343s you trying to rotate through the
19344s laundromat to make that happen if the
19345s other team's able to lock that down and
19348s not let her get that deeply entrenched
19350s where she's going to have a shot onto
19352s your backline then you're good or you
19355s try and punish her making that rotation
19357s and just collapse on the rest of the
19358s team as they try and make it through the
19360s choke either way you can't leave the
19362s door wide open for everybody you have to
19365s stop the valve at some point in time
19367s like you got like you got to be like all
19369s right you know we're at full capacity
19370s fire Marshall's going to shut us down if
19372s you all keep coming in hey no fires here
19375s we actually are operating outside of the
19376s fire station and the fire truck not a
19380s fire hydrant that will keeping everybody
19382s safe and that's kind of the big playing
19383s point that you'll see once you move past
19386s this initial choke it's all kind of this
19388s ring around the rosie around the good
19390s old fire engine to decide how this ends
19393s up playing out Arya historically has
19395s gone towards this High Ground to the
19397s back right off screen that you see or
19400s closer to that subway car sitting on the
19403s stairs and time of celestial need to be
19405s watching all of their angles as they
19407s rock on out no compositional changes as
19410s we expected to even if the option is
19412s still there so it is actually to be
19414s Fable on the defense first looking for
19416s the way to lock Timeless Celestial out
19418s it was something that they weren't able
19420s to do against uh against uh inarizaki
19423s yesterday either so we'll have to see
19425s Azure going to go for the rotation all
19427s the way around the alleyway here still
19430s just kind of holding the angle we'll see
19431s where they end up actually going they've
19433s got an angle on Avery and I think
19434s they're just trying to bully Avery back
19436s so that everyone from time of celestial
19438s can get through the door now that kqa is
19439s there though Azure can go around through
19441s the alleyway take this angle and put the
19443s pressure out onto the backline of
19445s fable though Han committing to it fully
19449s understanding the risk and in fact we be
19451s moving as a full five ST which we did
19453s touch on that a little bit on the
19456s analyst side was Christopher that
19457s brought up how all of these players
19458s they're playing so closely knit together
19461s while it's great for packing one big
19463s punch it's often times these off angles
19465s that provide the most value in terms of
19468s elimination so auray poking her head out
19470s a little little bit more is helpful when
19473s you're trying to make this rotation on
19475s in now Inside the Fire Station but SN is
19477s cut off a wonderful mole from mini who
19480s we haven't had the opportunity to talk
19481s about just as much but if she keeps
19483s doing things like that TB that's going
19485s to change and we talked about how
19487s careful Azure was just kind of like
19488s dipping their toes into the water not
19490s really ready to fully commit to this off
19492s angle that patience did allow for the
19494s rest of time of celestial to catch up
19496s but snaz getting caught out and cut off
19498s is going to be really bad cuz it's going
19500s to be so difficult for her to get back
19502s with the rest of her team CU now Fable
19503s could just focus her down every single
19505s time they still have to watch for the
19506s other four at their backs but not having
19509s the May with the rest of the formation
19510s is really bad oh especially on that High
19514s Ground what Val are going to get the M
19515s certainly double the damage double the
19517s healing averry in a sticky situation
19520s needs to hold up that block making sure
19522s everything is safe and in fact it is
19523s Street Lord that ends up going down if
19525s you looked over at the top y went up to
19527s The High Ground distracted the mher so
19529s there wasn't any healing going over to
19531s the tank what a genius play from Fable
19533s splitting their opponent's attention and
19535s prioritizing a single Target and time
19538s Celestial going back to that fight where
19539s azuay was over there on the flank they
19540s needed to be so much more Swift because
19542s it all just kind of falls apart from
19544s there cuz again sosler wasn't there for
19546s any point in time in that fight mini had
19548s the wall to try and block off that
19550s window the ant Matrix does come out for
19552s the side of ESS Celestial that's all
19553s well and good but then Panther goes in
19555s with an ant Matrix of their own and
19556s Fable they don't have to worry about
19558s snaz coming through with the wall to
19560s block it off they get all that damage
19561s and it all just goes right into Street
19563s Lord's face Street Lord Falls ESS
19565s Celestial can't maintain presence the
19567s push
19568s dies um as if to illustrate my point
19571s goes for a push dies oh that's one
19574s eyeball that's two eyeballs and Azu R is
19577s down able getting value out of the
19579s blizzard excuse me Min is on the other
19582s side clo Celestial end up coming the
19584s Sounder to this this ultimate management
19586s is completely Bonkers and you're just
19588s chucking them into the abyss essentially
19591s and we're only down to a minute and you
19593s would have liked to have the blizzard
19594s for the side of time Celestial to try
19596s and deny some space to bust this choke
19597s point open because aside from that first
19599s fight you haven't really had an
19601s opportunity to safely get everyone
19602s through it and now all you really have
19605s is the annihilation to try and push
19606s people back like a snow plow and hope
19608s that makes enough space for Azure to pop
19610s the overlock they do and they find mini
19612s that's a huge value pick for the sound
19615s beer came on out auray hit the opening
19618s blow tal Celestial need to push on and
19621s take advantage the second is looking
19623s pretty darn good the point is now
19626s occupied Fable have a few remaining
19629s members they're grouping up in this
19631s subway car Panther holding on to this
19633s ant Matrix that's a ton of angles you
19635s don't want to peek and saring the head
19637s of mini returning on the Stagger fa
19640s needs to get on the objective sometime
19642s soon and it has to be Aver ideal in this
19644s scenario making the brush the point
19645s sloting them down not enough Panther
19647s shucking it in from downtown yet Fable
19650s inevitably will Rumble time of celestial
19652s sneaking on through and have gotten the
19654s fire truck on the move it was a pretty
19657s solid plan for fable there but there was
19659s one key problem and that's they need to
19660s contest the point and that was all up to
19662s Min on the Tracer to do so once that
19664s Tracer Falls suddenly Fable don't have
19666s any staying power and despite a great
19669s ant Matrix comes out from Panther it's
19670s not actually all that useful cuz
19672s everybody else namely Avery has to try
19675s and walk forward take the full brunt of
19677s the time of celestial offense and just
19679s to try and keep the point in cont long
19681s enough to maybe build up to something
19683s else here that's a great wall from
19684s sosler is going theard oh it's getting
19687s Frosty out here in the streets of
19689s Midtown they might not be still on the
19691s ground but there is a storm happening
19693s inside Fable losing out on their tank
19696s player this payload is going to get so
19698s far if it gets all the way through this
19700s Midtown Tunnel and ESS have the control
19701s of this High Ground they might just roll
19703s straight through the second point and
19704s more importantly yeah they have this
19706s High Ground Azure is going to have all
19708s the angles they could possibly want to
19709s keep pumping in the damage farming up up
19711s the rail shots off of Avery taking the
19712s dels with Arya where Arya is now going
19714s to be at a disadvantage fa will have to
19716s not only stop the C from capping but
19718s find some way to reclaim this and look
19720s at the angle that they're taking They're
19721s all playing so far back giving so much
19724s space that trying to retake this High
19726s Ground is going to be a Fool's task
19728s unless they can get some feet up there
19730s you can I mean there's four players of
19732s time of celestial and there's at least
19734s two small choke BL it's literally a
19736s death sentence to attempt at this High
19737s Ground then they have to play on the
19739s neutral make Timeless go towards them
19742s and the at Matrix is going to be brutal
19744s to deal with the Z packing a punch right
19747s behind it overclocked with double
19750s deadliness his orya who gets his Z out
19753s from behind hit the touch C throws Arya
19755s with the second at the same combo
19757s Panther and Arya coming up at the final
19760s moment holds this payload ideally they
19763s need to get the tank down street Lord
19765s close to Annihilation would be crazy if
19767s they popped it and especially with ar C
19769s at as many she has as she had T need to
19772s wait for her to cool down it's almost a
19774s critical mistake from Fable CU they give
19777s so much space they wait too long to make
19779s a move that time Celestial able to take
19780s the angle right that on that door the
19782s left hand side of your screen they're
19783s able to put an ant Matrix up there but
19785s Arya the hero they needed at the moment
19787s they needed her most comes through with
19789s the shot right through the ant Matrix
19791s takes Azure out and then finds three
19793s more to boot and with only 10 seconds
19794s left Arya guarding the cart ESS
19796s Celestial have ult to try and buy their
19798s way into this but they need to make it
19799s stick they need to stick the landing
19801s right now mini with the blizzard can put
19803s it all to bed but the blizzard is going
19805s to be there to stick them into place but
19807s it doesn't catch Street's on the pale of
19809s the annihilation in play B will have to
19811s deal with the ratra now where they're
19812s going to be in a world of hurt they're
19814s looking away from the tank it's the
19816s support in the backline time with
19818s Celestial are catching these players out
19819s they've managed to split them just
19821s enough for Street Lord has maintained
19823s this Annihilation for almost the full 20
19825s seconds duration has even more Health to
19828s back it on up Fable they're not out of
19830s it just yet a nearing close to one of
19832s their own ultimate but the P1 here snar
19835s blizzard is on the way they're not
19837s currently in the fight Fable need to
19838s close this out quickly Panther extra
19841s support from an off angle is this the
19843s tool that makes them come on down the
19845s blizzard has arrived but it's too little
19847s too late time of SL Shield they're down
19849s in numbers they're down in health and
19851s the payload they'll hit the breaks just
19854s shy of the second objective one of the
19856s things that Christopher was saying when
19858s he was analyzing the last couple of
19859s series though he was talking about the
19861s stat you don't see when it comes to the
19863s May players is the blizzards Ed versus
19865s fight wins that's the blizzard Ed for
19867s Min and it doesn't look like the fight
19869s is completely one outright as a direct
19871s result but it did slow things down for
19873s Timeless Celestial too like too too much
19876s of a halt to where they aren't able to
19878s really play for their own blizzard by
19880s the time sosler is back with one of her
19881s own she might as well have just thrown
19883s it down the drain because there was no
19885s more value that could have been found
19886s there you had Panther on the angle with
19888s the ant Matrix pumping in all the
19890s healing all the immortality fields that
19892s Avery could ever possibly want to keep
19894s the ratra on the point keep all the
19895s staying power and time Celestial just
19898s don't have enough resources to force
19900s them to vacate the premises the cart
19902s stops just shy of point B and we have to
19905s give props to Arya for that one because
19908s that would have been a cap in that
19909s second to last fight there if not for
19911s arya's Heroic 4K oh my goodness I mean
19915s when we kind of break it down a little
19916s bit more here is notice how slow that
19920s these teams are playing they're letting
19921s the sold decide the outcomes of these
19923s fights and time Celestial themselves
19925s because they took so long to get through
19927s that first point I mean Arya builds up
19928s the advantage just being in a Defender
19930s sort of position so Fable had such an
19933s upper hand in the majority of those
19935s engagements it came back to bite
19937s Timeless and now they're going to have
19939s to try to give Aur the exact same
19941s opportunities as Fable now begin their
19943s own attack Arya with that little Hanzo
19946s arrow shot make sure no one's trying to
19948s do anything tricky swapping back over
19950s over onto the soj and we know what she
19952s wants to do right she wants to try and
19954s go through this laat over into that back
19956s building but you can already see it's
19958s being occupied by sosler who doesn't
19959s want to let that happen it's a great
19961s heads up play there but sosler vacates
19963s the premisis as the ice block is forced
19965s out from mini they're still trying to
19967s play defense and not let Arya get set up
19969s there though that's a great play right
19970s now from time of celestial we'll see if
19972s they're able to make anything out of
19973s this with the May wall they just might
19975s there's a lot of players sandwiched
19977s inside the lro mat the only one that's
19979s not is a mini one has been setting Fable
19982s up for these eliminations it's unlikely
19985s be able to pull this one together the
19987s only thing they have going for him right
19988s now it's a couple players that are
19990s corraled at their back the mayw well
19991s actually working against Timeless
19993s Celestial for at least thought for
19995s Street Lord will be able to clean
19996s everybody up and Fable another lengthy
19999s stagger coming through it's such a good
20002s read from time Celestial yeah it might
20003s be another lengthy stagger if they're
20005s not able to bail mini out looks like
20006s they able are so Timeless celesti will
20008s have to give more ground but you know
20010s they were playing in the spawn there but
20011s again you have sosler on that angle so
20013s Arya can't get set up you can't let your
20016s soj go in on a flank you can't get all
20018s of the value that comes from having this
20020s pick getting that Lucio split off with
20021s your you know with your hit scan player
20023s Arya I think is going to try and go
20025s around the alleyway this time around
20026s while the rest of fable just going to
20027s walk right through the front door but
20029s another snaz wall is right in their face
20031s and a window to boot Fable are split in
20033s two and firey bends over backwards a
20036s little bit too far for Lucio's liking
20038s Fable I mean every single time that try
20040s to get a rotation off they lose somebody
20042s at a critical point and it's because of
20045s Azura's positioning and if you're going
20047s to keep losing fights off of that you
20048s need to be conscious of where all of
20050s time a Celestial are if you keep getting
20052s split off and you're not finding the
20054s value out of these May wols something
20055s need to change in your play style yeah
20057s they have to find a new plan here cuz
20059s you're definitely not going to be able
20059s to get Arya where you want her to be you
20061s do have a blizzard but so do Timeless
20063s Celestial as they were able to win the
20064s previous fight off of only an amp Matrix
20066s so Fable you have a slight ult Advantage
20069s but not a substantial enough one to just
20071s brute force your way through this you
20073s have 2 minutes try and bleed out as many
20075s resources from time Celestial as you can
20077s and then maybe fall back on Plan B but
20079s this fight has to either be one or it
20081s has to go quick I I don't think it's
20084s going to go quick but it certainly will
20086s be w at the end of the day and time of
20088s celestial looking to book themselves
20090s that ticket that's one two ultimates
20093s expended and both supports from Fable
20096s the golden rule of OverWatch don't put
20098s them both in the safe PL and yet there
20099s they go with nothing to show for it yeah
20102s and now you're not going to have a sound
20103s barrier to counteract you know the
20105s annihilation or anything else the time
20107s of Celestia want to come and throw at
20108s you mer is going to have another amp
20110s Matrix so more positioning going to be
20112s forced from Fable you're kind of looking
20114s at min's blizzard to try and be the
20116s thing that breaks it open possibly the
20118s overclock from Arya but as we've seen
20120s Timeless Celestial know better than to
20122s give Arya an angle to make any use out
20124s of that one sosler already in position
20126s with a wall to cut her off if she tries
20128s anything too tricky you can see she's
20129s going through that Alleyway again the
20131s Wall's going to be invested go right on
20133s top of Min the genius play that wasn't
20136s intended mini might have a huge impact
20139s on this fight that straight Lord the
20141s wall didn't come up it couldn't save the
20143s tank player time cestia the Sounder
20145s hanging on for a little while longer and
20147s it gets them through not one but two
20149s players on the side of fable Avery
20152s sitting on no Health Panther is one so
20154s that health bar is going to go up
20155s anytime soon yet they still find two
20157s with the pbes CB this should not be
20159s happening
20160s that's that Nemesis form giving you the
20162s extra armor Avery didn't have a Baptist
20164s to try and keep themselves alive so they
20165s have to pop it and thankfully you're
20167s able to find two and they really had no
20169s business finding those kills at all
20170s they're going to get two ticks for it
20172s there is still some bodies in the
20173s vicinity that can go for the contest
20175s Street Lord on the point has the
20177s annihilation and that might be all they
20179s need annihilation in overtime there's
20181s not a more devastating ultimate you have
20183s to face the tank is gone the may follow
20187s suit Timeless Celestial AR hi in behind
20190s straight Lord securing their second map
20193s win in this series and find themselves
20195s on Match points of their losers bracket
20199s match and I think they know what they're
20201s doing I mean it wasn't a great offense
20203s from ESS Celestial a pretty solid
20205s defense for fable but the defense from
20207s Celestial was just all the better they
20210s understand the assignment you don't let
20211s the soj have the off angles you deny it
20213s as much as you possibly can Arya can
20215s never get set up by the time she does
20218s you have too many ults you have too many
20219s re sources it becomes too costly for
20222s fable to even make that Gambit to even
20224s get that play into position and every
20226s single time that it happens you're
20228s losing a backliner you're losing your
20229s Baptist suddenly Avery has to try and go
20232s for Heroic plays and they do absolutely
20235s but then you know Street Lord just comes
20236s in with an Annihilation and you even had
20238s more ults to back that up more resources
20240s to keep Street Lord as an everpresent
20242s threat and Z Panther was not at all in
20245s any position to get back and try and
20247s keep Avery Alive by the time that all of
20249s that tor
20250s of ultimates and resources and abilities
20252s came through for time the celestial
20254s that's a full nearly a full hold a
20256s couple ticks given but we'll still call
20257s that a full hold for Timeless Celestial
20260s Fable though they look like they are on
20262s the brink of cracking
20264s this they look so close yet they're so
20267s far at the exact same time I mean CL
20270s Celestial right now between snower and
20273s Street Lord alone I mean those are two
20275s key issues when Fable attempt to take
20277s space when Fable are in defense and they
20280s have the opportunity to make these
20281s decisions first CB I'm impressed they
20284s look great I didn't expect them to be in
20286s a full hold situation until Timeless
20288s came on out and slar and Street Lord ran
20291s it down mid and looked excellent while
20293s doing it and and Fable they have the
20296s potential to push this to more maps I
20298s have not been more confident in saying
20299s that than any other series we've had on
20301s broadcast today they just need that
20304s little extra oomph to get them over that
20307s Mark have a look at the soj head-to-head
20309s right now here AR ver Azure it's pretty
20312s close very similar only one difference
20314s in final blows and one difference in
20316s deaths either way the you know 16 alms
20319s overall versus 20 that's just indicative
20321s of you know Fable losing more fights
20322s than they ended up winning here what's
20324s setting it apart for me though is sosler
20326s versus mini that 15 and five on the olys
20329s despite only getting five final blows
20331s keeping your May alive is going to mean
20333s more walls are going up more blizzards
20335s are going to come out you can even see
20336s that you know one more ult used and more
20339s fights are going to be one off the backs
20341s of that that's the value that the May
20343s brings she's not always going to have
20344s the highest damage in the lobby she's
20346s not always going to have the best you
20348s know final blow to to death ratio but
20350s she's always going to provide that
20352s unspoken value that's not going to show
20353s up on a scoreboard and snaza is very
20356s much so indicative of that in this
20357s series yeah Minnie has had a very mini
20361s presence within a couple of these maps
20363s in comparison to snar which feels almost
20366s unfair to make considering how good they
20368s are at M in general and you can't
20372s understand it enough the value that that
20373s hero brings to the table and this is
20376s where Fable find themselves on the last
20379s chapter of this series and potentially
20382s the final one for their story overall
20384s we're going to give them some more time
20386s to keep writing to find that answer and
20388s we'll be back after a
20394s [Music]
20398s break
20401s [Music]
20428s I'm
20436s [Music]
20458s n
20460s [Music]
20483s [Music]
20483s [Applause]
20487s [Music]
20488s yeah
20495s [Music]
20496s [Applause]
20501s [Music]
20530s [Music]
20555s [Music]
20563s [Music]
20572s [Music]
20577s both teams looking to write their own
20579s history one in a fairy tale book the
20581s other in the Stars one of them Fable
20584s facing elimination as Timeless Celestial
20587s are on Match Point here two it's fables
20590s map pick where are they going to
20593s potentially write their final chapter
20596s well there's only two options for you
20598s flash point new junk City or Sasa we've
20602s only seen new junk City I believe once
20604s in our entirety of calling all Hero as a
20606s broadcast so far so I'm assuming we're
20610s going to go over to surasa unless we
20612s decide to shake things up a tad bit n
20614s surasa back to the beautiful gardens of
20618s India perfectly fine and there's not too
20621s much of a difference between these Maps
20623s unless you're fighting slightly more
20624s Close Quarters in some points of new
20627s junk city surasa is were Fable believe
20629s that they'll be able to write themselves
20631s a successful story and Sasa is kind of
20634s an interesting one because like the May
20636s is still very valuable here but you know
20638s on FL point where some of these things
20640s are a little bit more wide she's not as
20642s much of a threat as she is on like a
20644s hybrid or a control so you're going to
20646s be Reliant a little bit less on Mini to
20648s try and match up with sosler and you're
20650s going to be looking for a lot more of
20652s these flank angles where you can set
20653s Arya up for Success on the soen which
20655s she has been lights out on but just not
20659s quite enough so to to carry the entirety
20662s of fable as you know mini has fallen
20664s behind in the may head-to head and some
20666s of the backliners are getting caught out
20668s where they don't really need to be this
20670s is where you can really let your
20671s souljour shine and potentially you need
20673s to let your souljour shine and also
20676s where you know you can really change
20678s things up as well maybe have either
20680s Avery or or mini make some hero swaps
20682s onto something they might be a little
20683s bit more comfortable on a little bit
20685s more dominant on somewhere where Fable
20687s can kind of wrestle control away from
20689s time of celestial
20690s here Fable right now they got to come up
20694s with something there's a couple ways in
20696s which they can step up but can timeless
20699s Celestial really be stopped I feel that
20702s the more that they play the more their
20705s confidence grows and confidence is a
20707s dangerous thing for both timea Celestial
20710s and Fable themselves to take more fights
20713s when you're confident that you can come
20715s out on top of them and surasa is a game
20719s all about ultimate management the
20721s positioning the decision making and so
20725s far both teams have proven to be
20727s excellent and it comes down to the
20728s smallest of errors that just deide
20730s fights decide maps and what could be our
20734s last you mentioned confidence being a
20736s dangerous thing for my money there's a
20738s difference between confidence and
20739s arrogance and the difference is whether
20741s or not you are able to back it up and
20743s right now time of celestial they are not
20745s arrogant they are confident and they
20747s have right to be being on Match Point
20749s here and we're sticking on the same
20751s compositions we've been on the whole
20753s time no major change UPS so far but we
20756s got to keep an eye on where Azure and
20757s Arya are looking to play right now Azure
20760s just helping the team lock down this
20761s choke point Arya though might be capable
20764s of finding a little angle here with the
20766s a of fiery yeah look at this see this is
20769s the angles that we're talking about
20770s flash point leaves us open now zuray is
20772s caught by surprise you have to turn
20774s around look at them at some point and
20775s that's the immortality field going down
20777s orya has already gained significant
20778s value for your team fa have the point
20780s essentially for free they don't have to
20782s worry about the May wall and like you
20784s don't have one of your own so there must
20785s be some other way to win this fight Arya
20788s still in the backline grab snar she's
20790s the one that has been stepping up for
20792s this team and it's still not enough to
20794s make it happen mini falling so soon was
20797s too much of a detriment it props to azer
20799s for that one by the way that rotation
20801s from Arya and fiery actually almost one
20803s Fable the point because it made it to
20805s where they were able to get through the
20806s archways because the rest of time of
20808s celestial had to pull back to try and
20810s deal with Arya the threat but
20811s unfortunately she missed the rail shot
20813s she needed to hit and the immortality
20815s field was there to prevent any sort of
20817s cleanup damage so despite Fable being
20819s able to make it through the archways and
20820s get onto the point they don't actually
20822s find enough kills enough purchase to
20824s actually give themselves any staying
20826s power on the point and come back but now
20829s that Azure has been dispatched though
20830s the Wall comes up from mini now it's
20832s time to go and not really you don't want
20835s to walk into the ant Matrix and the mayw
20838s well down it's defensively useless and
20841s time of celestial are going to hold the
20843s space despite being down a player and
20845s rightfully so Fable haven't had a good
20848s opportunity to push them themselves
20849s Panther having an an Matrix of their own
20851s online will surely change the tide of
20853s that fight but mini has to stay alive
20855s thankfully they'll manage to esate their
20857s way back over to where Panther and fiery
20859s are located and now this is the fight
20861s that Fable want to take in Street Lord's
20863s Annihilation has way too much damage to
20866s deal if you can try to cut it out but if
20868s you can't do it in an overtime situation
20870s testing the point is all that matters
20872s and you need to get their Fe barely
20874s letting that overtime Lick stay a blaze
20877s ARA now with the over clock that's one
20880s down looking for the second support
20882s doesn't even need to find it the rest of
20884s fa able to collapse and recover this
20888s objective but it's a little bit sketchy
20890s there for a second I really don't like
20892s the ampt Matrix angle that Panther put
20894s out there cuz you it wasn't able to get
20896s a whole lot of healing onto Avery and it
20898s forced FY to be able to need to invest
20900s the sound barrier as well so you've
20902s burned both your support ultimates you
20903s also had to use the blizzard and the
20905s overclock there and you kind of like
20907s forced yourself to have to do that to be
20909s even be able to cap here you're only
20911s going to have the annihilation time of
20913s celestial thankfully aren't going to
20914s have the blizzard to try and freeze it
20916s in its tracks but they will have the
20918s overclock to just chunk it down little
20920s by little and azer is going to have the
20922s opportunity to pick their way in where
20925s do they want to come in overclock coming
20927s in from behind fa will have to turn
20929s around but they don't Panther gets stuck
20931s off on the corner thankfully Avery walks
20934s on in the Waller is trading his team on
20936s an even playing field that is until the
20939s down the ultimate make a mark and auray
20941s makes arya's head roll around the
20943s marketplace of surasa points looking to
20947s be flipped back on over and with that
20949s overtime about to go down time of
20951s celestial guaranteeing themselves a nice
20954s start on Sasa and it kind of goes back
20957s again to burning both of those support
20958s ultimates but not only that losing
20960s Panther first once that overclock gets
20962s popped that's again all of your staying
20964s power everything that you need all of
20965s your healing to try and keep the ratra
20967s in Play Gone off the table no longer a
20970s factor and Timeless Celestial don't have
20972s to respect your space anymore they can
20974s walk right in kick their feet up on the
20976s coffee table take it for themselves and
20978s also take an early position on the next
20980s Point here and Fable don't really have
20983s any any tools any keys to try and unlock
20986s this whereas th Celestial have a look at
20988s snaz with that blizard going to go in as
20989s soon as she gets it th Celestial they're
20992s pushing the advantage of a he's the only
20994s one not covered under the umbrella of
20996s the immortality field oh you love it
20999s when time Celestial takes this
21001s initiative they know when they're in
21002s control and they take any opportunity
21005s given to him an inch becomes a mile and
21008s Fable back so far and they're going
21011s committing the blizzard into this CB oh
21013s they're so staggered out there two
21014s ultimates that everyone from Celestial
21016s is able to get far far away from yeah
21018s they just kite it they just usea speed
21020s boost now there's the an that comes out
21022s from M or Arya Falls as well fa are
21025s investing so much into this and I don't
21027s see any way're are going to make it
21029s worth their while it's sunken cost
21031s fallacy they keep pumping in more and
21032s more when they really don't have to they
21035s feel like it's winnable but it just
21036s never was how much they didn't bat an ie
21040s and what Fable were doing right now
21041s they're still staggered mind you there's
21043s only three of their five players in this
21045s current situation Street Lord has an
21047s Annihilation so it's about to come even
21049s L unless they can start to run away the
21051s damage Block doing ceny keeping the tank
21054s on their feet pushing on through and
21056s time they're going to get a clean sweep
21058s on this path through a second point and
21061s and all the resources that Fable used to
21063s make that fight last as long as it did
21065s all it did was waste time 90% for time
21068s of celestial I don't think there's even
21069s going to be a touch so right away Fable
21072s are going to have to go the distance run
21073s it all the way back to try and cap out
21076s surasa if they want to stay alive in
21077s this fight and in this tournament they
21080s cannot give up another inch they can't
21082s make any more egregious mistakes like
21084s that one no more fights where you're
21087s sunking in every ult into a Lost Cause
21089s And just burning out the clock cuz the
21091s clock is not on your side there's not a
21093s whole lot on your side right now as
21095s Fable are once again taking an early
21097s position on the point Fable they have
21100s the overclock but Azure can match it kqa
21102s has the sound barrier that's the big
21104s Difference Maker for time Celestial
21106s right now time Celestial they know they
21108s have the Sounder to fall back on should
21110s things go really wrong and as the
21113s annihilation going out all right things
21114s are going wrong time to pop out the
21116s sound barrier Aur is on the point don't
21118s fight too much on the overclock value
21120s and this positioning the ANTM I don't
21122s know how to feel about it unless all
21124s right Ari can manage to find a sight
21125s line SAR your head still justes peek
21127s over that staircase mind you fa
21130s expensive commitment one that they
21131s shouldn't have managed to squeak away
21133s with they're definitely going to need it
21135s considering the start they had on this
21136s map that overclock angle from AZ was
21139s just kind of bad like they go in from
21140s the low ground while Fable playing up on
21142s The High Ground and they're not able to
21143s get a whole lot of value out of it and
21144s they also invest the sound barrier which
21146s means now look at fables DPS Al you'd
21148s love to have a sound barer to cancel out
21150s any of those this is fa's opportunity to
21152s swing it back in their favor that little
21154s mistake from time Celestial Fable can
21156s now capitalize on and mini has to be the
21158s one to do
21159s it now on Fable and to mini mini But
21163s Mighty but and Silent throughout this
21166s fight does manag to get one on the
21169s blizzard it's not a great trade Fable I
21172s mean KN the sound barrier at your back
21174s try to push on up and all right we see
21177s you now G a little bit more of that
21180s momentum back and are slowly snowballing
21182s it into consecutive fight wins but
21185s arya's overclock also wasn't the best
21187s either it didn't find any kills and kind
21189s of forced FY again to have to use that
21191s sound barrier to keep Fable in that
21193s fight and now their old bank is looking
21195s mighty dry Timeless celestials not all
21197s the much more damp but they're coming up
21199s on some big name ultimates Fable the
21201s only way they can buy themselves into it
21203s is if they get an early entry frag here
21205s from time of celestial and they know
21207s that look at the angle that SN is
21208s playing she wants to be the one to draw
21210s First Blood which is interesting from a
21213s may you do want to have a Zer behind the
21215s ant Matrix so completely understandable
21216s but you don't have the same amount of
21218s setup need to keep an eye out on the
21220s walls but no marer doesn't have eyes in
21222s the back of their head that's a t pick
21224s no support for time of celestial any
21226s damage they take is now permanent Fable
21229s have to know that this is going to be
21231s the battle they can win pther committing
21233s the at Matrix knowing just that and the
21235s fact they don't have to commit every
21237s single resource is one wonderful The
21239s Comeback starts here that's exactly what
21241s they needed Arya mission accomplished
21243s she gives her life but not before two
21245s members of Timeless Celestial fall and I
21246s said that Fable needed to find one entry
21248s frag well two is twice as good and now
21251s Fable they only invest the ant Matrix
21253s now their old bank is looking a little
21255s bit more respectable check the base in
21257s your voice when you're talking to us now
21258s Timeless Celestial you got an overclock
21260s of your own for Azure where are you
21262s going to use it from they will have
21264s their first point uh have presence on
21266s the point first it's AZ going to have to
21268s look for a way to try and pinch Fable
21271s bleed some more resources out of them
21272s and give thess Celestial the
21275s advantage
21278s Celestial wall being out as early not
21281s going to help anything right blank angle
21284s as well that's enough I mean look at
21286s this time of celesio finally are they're
21289s they're gaining independence right they
21290s like oh I don't need to give you a hug
21292s anymore you can be peeled off and take
21293s these off angles and look what it can
21296s get them the good news though is that
21298s only lose one for fable they it's Avery
21300s that falls the rest of fable they just
21303s vacate the premises they don't take any
21304s more fights they don't stagger they just
21306s completely disengage and they now have a
21309s very firm ult Advantage kqa sound beer
21311s can make it take a little bit longer are
21314s going in with a real early blizzard
21315s Avery might fall here that W from mini
21319s that's going to keep Avery alive but not
21321s Arya take you a read the flank and that
21324s is going to honestly keep time of
21326s celestial away from a most of that
21329s Potential Threat the one in the front
21330s line has yet to be dealt with able and
21333s while they didn't get anything out of
21334s the annihilation forces to space
21338s necessary moving towards this objective
21340s Gans an incredibly open point be
21342s watching your back I mentioned kqa sound
21345s barrier but she wasn't actually given
21347s the opportunity to use it because she
21348s was on that flank angle taking the duel
21350s with Arya she does win it which is
21351s absolutely massive but that means Street
21354s Lord doesn't have that safety net and
21356s does fall courtesy of Avery and the rest
21357s of fable without that tank in Play Just
21360s March right forward and flip the point
21362s 74% for Timeless Celestial that's still
21364s one fight territory but enough room for
21366s fable to make a comeback if they con
21367s seeed the point which they currently
21369s have no intention of doing so dueling
21371s Windows come out Panther just trying to
21373s stop the onslot that comes out from time
21375s of celestial you can even see fiery
21377s checking angles that they know Azure
21379s wants to try and poke
21380s from look at this they're so aware of
21384s Thomas position Celestial could be
21386s positioned ready for those threats and
21388s they're using their ultimates
21389s accordingly as I said it before when
21390s Fable feel like they're in control
21392s that's when things can go well as soon
21394s as things start to get crazy when the
21395s chaos Inu it's going to get sloppy it's
21398s going to get messy and mini will fall uh
21401s without all of those resources the
21403s immortality field and sound barrier not
21404s even close to a support to push in any
21408s of OSS Celestial violent intentions able
21412s they might have one more opportunity to
21413s contest but it's not going to be pretty
21414s if it's is there they were chasing down
21416s fiery but Arya is actually the one to
21418s fall and we don't have a whole lot of
21419s time there might not be another touch
21421s still alive and might be able to get it
21423s going for it a get spooked away and fire
21426s is not there to get the touch Timeless
21429s Celestial just completely ripped the
21431s pages out of fable Playbook toss it to
21434s the side left on the writers floor their
21436s story comes to a heartbreaking end and
21440s Timeless Celestial were the authors all
21442s along Timeless Celestial are staying
21446s true to their name gods in the realm of
21449s OverWatch and you do love to see the
21451s comeback even if it didn't look like
21453s they were playing their own game at
21455s times a team such as Fable looked like
21460s very simple work for them to move on
21462s through this tough upper bracket match
21464s did not affect them and their ability to
21467s pull through like they've showcased in
21470s previous events and they're going to
21472s keep them heads above the water for
21475s now it really hurts to see a team like
21478s Fable going down but props to both Fable
21480s and even kunoichi earlier cuz both teams
21483s despite three-oh score lines they went
21485s down swinging with nothing to be ashamed
21487s of there was some key mistakes that came
21489s out from Fable towards the tail end that
21492s just kind of make you feel like they had
21494s it in the palm of their hands but it
21496s slipped the sound barrier coming out
21498s just a hair too late to save Minnie's
21500s life and again if your May is the first
21503s to fall your ability to control the
21505s battlefield is completely gutted and
21508s Timeless Celestial swarm the battlefield
21510s take everything they could possibly want
21512s force a retreat out of the last
21514s remaining members of fable firey has to
21516s go in for the touch isn't able to Avery
21519s tries to go in with the doomfist gets
21520s booped away props to kqa for that play
21523s right there you see Avery just an inch
21525s away from keeping it back into contest
21528s and Fable they would have had tools
21530s right where they could have maybe made a
21532s comeback here it was about as close as
21535s you could have asked for surasa to be
21537s but it wasn't close enough and it wasn't
21540s in fables book today no their story
21543s unfortunately has come to an end and
21547s they made a valant valiant heroic effort
21550s throughout all of it and you know W with
21553s a squad such as Timeless Celestial you
21555s need to understand that both of these
21557s teams had something to fight for you
21559s teased it at the beginning of the series
21561s they had to prove themselves and only
21563s one of them could actually have the
21565s opportunity to win the day and it was
21568s Timeless in this regard and given their
21570s team play their ability to communicate
21572s and regroup around the street Lord who
21575s dominated the space throughout the
21577s majority of the series and you have to
21579s hand it to them for that skill I I
21582s absolutely gonna I'm going to hand it to
21584s Fable I'm going to hand it to Timeless
21585s Celestial because Timeless Celestial we
21587s talked about confidence arrogance
21589s Timeless Celestial right now they look
21591s confident despite being in the lower
21592s bracket that confidence might carry them
21595s all the way potentially to a Timeless
21596s versus Timeless match in the future a
21598s Family Feud that only Steve Harvey could
21600s have dreamed of that's that's kind of
21603s what we want to see out of them and if
21605s they keep playing like this what we very
21607s well might see out of them so
21609s congratulations to time of celestial for
21611s continuing their run but again we have
21613s to give our hearts out to Fable for not
21616s being able to continue their story again
21617s nothing to be ashamed of you have to
21619s hand it to them players like Arya making
21622s big plays things that we didn't expect
21623s to see but so many flashy sojourn plays
21625s across the board and Arya you know
21628s arguably at the Forefront of that
21629s throughout tank players like Avery that
21631s still feel like they have a lot to prove
21633s and the capability to back it up I'm
21635s sure we haven't seen the last of some of
21637s these Fable players but unfortunately in
21638s this tournament we
21640s have Heroes have been made here on
21644s today's stage we have now bid goodbye to
21647s half of our teams within the
21649s championship of the competition is far
21651s from over we're going to throw it back
21653s to a break get our analyst desk get
21655s Christopher and Ash back up talk about
21658s some of the action that went down so
21659s don't go anywhere the calling all heroes
21661s action is yet to
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21686s conclude
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21725s [Music]
21779s [Music]
21816s [Music]
21836s w
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21848s Timeless Celestial will be moving
21851s forward in the lower bracket 3 and0 up
21853s against faval and we'll be heading up
21855s against Michael wave tomorrow but before
21858s we even get into that we need to talk a
21861s little bit about what happened today
21863s here Chris and we did see Timeless
21866s Celestial earlier on in the that upper
21868s bracket up against whsp Embers where the
21872s play was pretty high octane but I think
21874s things shifted here in this
21875s match yeah it's hard to know if it was
21878s Timeless played at a different pace then
21880s like try tried to make a difference and
21883s or if it was just the kind of nature of
21884s the two teams but it felt a lot more
21886s slow paced it felt like teams were were
21888s playing wider
21891s and yeah trying to you know like really
21894s wait for the off angles wait for the
21895s right moments to go in
21902s yeah no that's for sure I think it's
21904s pretty interesting the way that things
21906s did shift in that kind of way and I know
21908s that despite the fact that Timeless
21910s Celestial definitely came out with that
21912s three and0 here CB there's also the fact
21915s that they did look a little bit
21917s uncomfortable I don't feel like we
21919s necessarily saw them playing their own
21921s game in a sense that we're used to
21923s seeing and we're maybe a little bit more
21924s cautious in their approach I mean Fable
21929s definitely didn't feel all that cautious
21930s time of celestial definitely did there
21932s were points on Midtown where I felt like
21934s you know time Celestial knew what Fable
21936s wanted to play like we kept calling out
21937s that they wanted to get Arya in position
21940s to make a big flank play get some value
21941s out of that sojen angle and all Timeless
21943s Celestial had to do was just negate that
21945s constantly play to stop her from getting
21948s in that position and then shut the door
21950s on the rest of the the rest of fable who
21952s were trying to come through and then you
21953s know you saw like that fight towards the
21955s end there on surasa one that I Fable is
21957s going to be kicking themselves for where
21959s Fable was anything but
21961s cautious yeah that's the thing I think
21963s it was an interesting balance in how
21965s both teams were looking to tip that
21967s balance into their favor either Which
21969s Way But a big difference maker in the
21971s last matchup I've got to say we've got
21974s to look towards those tank players you
21976s know Avery had a bit of a slower start
21979s compared to the consistency that we saw
21982s coming out from Street Lord there Chris
21984s but overall we got to talk about that
21987s utility usage
21988s too yes I think so I think that the
21991s stats look pretty even I think that we
21992s can say that uh both the ratra players
21994s had a pretty good performance one thing
21996s I really liked about Street load was I
21998s felt the ult efficiency was very very
22000s high I think there's a thing that you
22001s can do on RAM where you use your first
22004s shift you take space you realize you
22006s have the ult for the reset so you
22007s continue to take space where you would
22009s not ordinarily go and then use that
22011s third shift to just kind of you know
22013s walk across the entire map without any
22015s possibility of death and and I thought
22017s there was numerous times where Street Lo
22018s was clearly thinking numerous steps
22020s ahead okay I'm 90% Al if I do a punch
22024s trade here into an ult into a punch
22026s trade I can kind of just take over the
22027s entire map and I really felt like the
22029s ults were very very high value and
22032s speaking of those ults as well just like
22034s talking about the numbers there to CB
22036s it's considering the fact that street
22037s Lord manages to get four of those
22039s annihilations off two times the amount
22042s that we were able to see coming out from
22044s Avery yeah and like Christopher was
22046s saying like it does kind of kind of feel
22048s like whenever Street Lord is popping
22049s that ultimate they're getting the
22050s maximum amount of value it's often times
22052s when they're deep entrenched like right
22054s up in the enemy Baptist face where you
22056s know the bat has nowhere to run just has
22057s to stand their ground try and fight it
22059s out but that's really hard to do with an
22061s annihilating ratra just slowly draining
22063s your health away re bleeding out every
22066s resource you possibly have or it's when
22068s Street Lords deeply entrenched in the
22070s entire enemy team and those tendrils are
22072s just sucking up everyone's health bars
22074s that's that's the kind of value right
22076s versus on the other side with Avery
22078s where it felt like they were kind of
22079s using it a little bit more just to try
22081s and extend the fight try and stall
22082s things out a little bit longer and
22084s that's still value but only if you're
22086s able to follow up on it yeah a huge
22089s scale with sorry there's a huge scale
22091s with the the raml here where if I use it
22094s one second too early the enemy team runs
22096s away if I use it one second too late I'm
22098s kind of already dead um and it's very
22100s very easy to make what looks like a
22102s really strong ult into one that doesn't
22103s really get too much value and I think
22105s Street Lord especially nailed almost
22107s almost all of them yeah I think too we
22110s also even saw not to take away from
22112s Fable in any kind of sense they they
22114s were looking for opportunities to cut
22115s Street Lord even off from the team too
22117s you saw Minnie trying to use some of
22119s those May walls to block her off from
22121s that team but overall we also have to
22124s think about tomorrow to Chris the last
22126s point to kind of touch on because
22127s Timeless Celestial they really need to
22129s be be able to regroup because again it
22132s look like they're playing a little bit
22133s more cautious and they have to reset
22135s going into tomorrow's games
22138s yeah my my feeling I watched it from the
22140s client so I watched it kind of overhead
22142s and my feeling was that Timeless um they
22144s were trying to play wide but they didn't
22147s look truly comfortable like what I kind
22149s of saw was they would play wide and
22150s something bad would happen and then they
22151s would just group up you know like that
22153s they're a family so they need each other
22155s and and my feeling is that especially
22157s when we watched that first game of the
22159s day the way those two teams were dealing
22160s with the flanks was really high level
22162s and my feeling is that if I'm timeless
22165s Celestial right now I strongly consider
22168s trying something new or at least maybe
22170s if we lose map one tomorrow we try
22171s something new if I could make a
22173s suggestion I think that if you want to
22175s keep playing the ram comp if you swap
22177s Baptista Moira and then throw a Genji or
22179s a Reaper in there I think that you can
22181s play this comp very stacked you can play
22183s this at a pretty high Tempo I think it's
22185s really viable in this current meta it
22186s might not be S here but I think it's
22188s really really okay um so I think if they
22191s want to to try something new but they
22193s don't want to switch too many Heroes
22194s around that would maybe be my suggestion
22196s I I I think you might have seen some of
22198s the same scrims that I've been seeing
22199s because I've seen that exact composition
22201s being like tested from time to time from
22203s some of the even some of the teams in
22205s this tournament so I think that idea
22207s might already be entrenched in some of
22209s these teams heads it's just going to be
22210s a matter of whether or not we actually
22212s see that kind of like Genji Reaper Moira
22214s variant come out to play that'll be
22217s interesting we haven't actually seen
22218s that much Moira coming in in any of
22220s these matches I think there is one
22222s yesterday for a split second so
22225s something to definitely keep in mind
22226s there and appreciate of course your
22228s expert analysis on that from both of you
22230s but especially Chris who you were only
22233s joining us for today it was an absolute
22235s blast having you on calling all heroes
22238s with us we hope that we can have you
22239s back again and thank you so much for
22241s your time if there are any last words
22243s that you want to say before we end up
22244s saying goodbye to you for tonight no
22246s thank you guys for having me it was a
22247s pleasure really and I'd love to do it
22249s again um sometime in the future it's
22251s been a pleasure fingers crossed and it's
22253s been lovely working with you cie I'll
22255s see you on the other side of things but
22257s I am going to phone into an interview
22259s now heading over to a conversation with
22262s one of the winners here from Timeless
22264s Celestial goldfish the coach on this
22268s team congratulations on your lower
22270s bracket run thank you thank you we uh
22273s put a lot of put a lot of effort in in
22274s today to try and you know win this win
22276s this second match as the obviously the
22278s first one didn't go as we hoped but yeah
22282s it's nice to have nice to have won the
22284s second second second match well I mean
22286s elimination on the line right you got to
22288s keep that energy going and um I was
22291s actually curious knowing that that first
22294s match didn't go the way that you guys
22296s had necessarily hoped I think the Hope
22298s was obviously that it would be a little
22300s bit closer I think the expectation was
22302s there from the audience as well um I
22304s know the 3 and 0 doesn't tell the whole
22306s story as far as like how every map ends
22308s up playing out but what did the recovery
22311s look like after that loss now heading
22313s into this match that we just saw yeah uh
22316s the going into the the next match we
22319s looked over like the the maps of course
22321s and I mean it just looking at the
22323s overhead with my team it was pretty
22324s obvious what we were doing wrong um so
22327s you know I just you know went over the
22329s basics with them and did a couple couple
22331s micro things with them and it I mean it
22333s was it was all simple for for them to
22336s understand so and because were I I trust
22338s all my players to you know you know
22340s absorb information and learn things
22341s really well and they've been doing that
22342s excellently for like the past best
22344s little while that I've been working with
22345s them so I I wasn't I I wasn't too
22348s worried after after doing the VOD review
22349s with them I wasn't too worried that
22351s about this this second match I was
22352s pretty certain that we were going to be
22353s able to pull this up because you know
22355s everyone after during the V riew
22357s everyone I I didn't even have to tell
22359s them what went wrong to be honest but
22360s just you know they they all got it and
22362s then you know fixed it up in the in the
22364s next match so I'm really proud of
22366s them well that's awesome to hear and you
22369s love being able to hear that praise like
22370s and the self-recognition in that kind of
22373s sense from the entire team too um
22375s looking also at like the changes that
22377s you guys were making from that first map
22379s earlier today into the second was it
22382s more of a story of looking to try and
22384s play a bit more of your own game or be a
22386s bit more flexible with the pacing that
22388s you were looking to approach these
22389s matches with um it was kind of a kind of
22393s mostly like paying attention to the
22395s pacing of the match and things like the
22397s simple things like uh like I mean yeah
22399s kind of just like playing our own game
22400s and you know not getting caught off by
22402s what the other team's doing and you know
22404s just being more relaxed and not being so
22407s worried about maybe if something's not
22408s going as expected to not not panic and
22410s not do anything drastic and just you
22412s know be because I I I have this you know
22414s this this thing where the the calmer you
22416s are during matches the easier it is to
22418s process what's happening and you're the
22420s less likely to make mistakes so you know
22423s I just you know just drill the basics
22426s into them and just just make sure just
22428s you know remind them just stay calm and
22430s everything you guys know you guys know
22431s how to play the game and they'll just
22433s you're going to be all right and then
22435s you know it was I saw a lot lot better
22437s cool down usage and a lot better uh
22440s recognition of when a fight's lost and a
22441s lot less burned ads and good you know it
22443s was good stuff so yeah I love hearing
22446s that I feel like we heard from another
22448s coach earlier today and the theme has
22450s definitely been keeping your cool um and
22452s making sure that you're grounded in that
22454s kind of sense and I'm actually curious
22456s like when obviously with OverWatch too
22460s this game is built for chaos and the
22463s comms are naturally going to I think
22465s devolve into that at some point in time
22468s is there a player on the team that is
22470s really good at kind of leveling things
22471s out when that does happen in
22474s game uh I would say it's a it's a mix of
22478s probably uh Street and uh the Muller
22481s they're both pretty uh they're both
22482s pretty good at at recognizing when
22484s something's going wrong Ki is also
22485s pretty good at it but uh they're you
22488s know my my backline and Street are Al
22490s they're all pretty good at recognizing
22491s when when something when something's
22493s going wrong and and you know calling
22495s that like we need to do this or we need
22497s to slow down or stuff like that so you
22499s know yeah it's that's also nice to have
22501s to having a players on my team that you
22503s know we can trust to to be able to rec
22506s like recognizeing call Tempo yeah you
22509s got to have that glue to keep everybody
22510s together and like the rock to keep hold
22512s everyone down and keep that Fort um
22515s locked down as well and now thinking
22518s about tomorrow's matches looking into
22520s the fact that you are going to be
22522s playing up against Michael wave how are
22525s you in the team feeling
22527s knowing who you're going up against and
22529s Michael wave I feel like they've been
22531s making quite a splash so far this
22532s weekend too yeah Michael wave is a good
22535s team and uh I'm uh I'm not I'm not super
22539s uh I'm not gonna say I'm worried because
22541s obviously they're a good team so it's
22542s going to be a hard match but uh I think
22544s that you know just you maybe going over
22547s a few Maps again and just like making
22549s sure my my team is you know set on on
22551s all the basics and you know just just
22553s staying calm I think it should be a
22555s pretty good match tomorrow
22557s I'm excited to see it I think it's going
22559s to be a close on I think it's going to
22560s be really fun to watch you guys do get
22562s out in the server and Before We Say
22564s Goodbye I just want to say one thank you
22567s so much for taking the time to do this
22568s interview with me and two are there any
22570s shoutouts thank yous anything that you'd
22572s like to say on the stream right now uh I
22575s mean obviously just shout out shout out
22577s to my team uh I I I love those guys they
22580s uh they do you know they they're they're
22582s good listeners they're good Learners and
22583s they're a great environment to be around
22585s and I I've loved working with them so I
22587s couldn't ask for couldn't ask for a
22588s better team to have honestly I love I
22590s love this
22591s group that's so sweet well good luck on
22594s your run tomorrow and we hope to see uh
22597s teams Timeless Celestial continue their
22599s lower bracket run wishing you all of the
22601s best thank you for the time doing this
22603s interview goldfish it's nice to meet you
22605s thank you thank
22607s you okay another interview for the books
22611s and unfortunately we did have to close
22613s that chapter on Fable but Timeless
22615s celestial will be moving on to tomorrow
22618s where they're going to be facing up
22619s against Michael wave we have to bring
22622s back our casters to continue to talk
22624s about how today has panned out because
22627s it's been a pretty wild ride
22630s CB sorry Ekko just jumped on my desk
22633s wanted to give her some pets yeah and
22634s absolutely like sorry well I got I got
22637s to give love to to my cat here yeah it
22639s has been a wild day though and we have
22641s unfortunately now like you said earlier
22643s had to say goodbye to four of our
22645s original eight that we came here with it
22647s is now Timeless ethereal versus wisp
22650s Embers that's going to be a pretty
22652s pretty important match to keep an eye on
22654s in the winners finals we might even see
22656s a repeat of that in the grand finals if
22657s whoever loses that one uh turns out to
22660s be victorious against the winner of
22663s Michael wave versus Timeless Celestial a
22666s lot of moving Parts here a lot of uh a
22668s lot of story lines being written today
22670s and a lot of them unfortunately coming
22672s to an
22673s end yeah tiny it's been a
22677s pretty I don't know I'm like looking at
22680s the numbers right now and we are saying
22682s goodbye to four of those teams like CB
22684s just mentioned but I really feel like
22686s again those three and O's aren't telling
22688s the whole story here especially looking
22690s towards this lower bracket as to how
22693s close some of these matches really ended
22695s up
22696s being I can agree I I think that the
22699s results that we've seen so far haven't
22701s been all that surprising but there has
22705s been a lot of these three as you said
22707s that may not necessarily look like 3's
22709s until you look in on the big picture
22713s especially that match that we saw
22714s earlier today with Fable and TLA
22717s Celestial they had a lot of Shining
22719s Moments that it really could have gone
22721s either direction and fortunately that
22724s may not have been the case but it does
22726s show how these teams really are
22727s competing at the top
22730s level yeah it's pretty insane how close
22732s the competition has gotten as the season
22735s has gone on late handing us all the way
22737s into this Championship weekends but now
22741s we have to look towards tomorrow I think
22744s the matches that we have there that
22746s we're going to be looking towards
22747s knowing Michael wave versus Timeless
22749s Celestial and Timeless ethereal versus
22752s whisp Embers there's no shortage of
22755s bangers I think both matches are going
22757s to be heat there CB yeah again the one
22761s you want to keep an eye on definitely is
22763s going to be that first Winner's final
22764s matchup with nyxl or sorry wisp Embers
22767s versus Timeless uh ethereal you know
22770s numbers one and two Timeless always Tak
22773s in the gold and wisp Embers always the
22775s Bridesmaids never the bride second place
22778s in four out of the six tournaments
22780s looking for one the the looking for the
22783s one that matters to get that gold into
22786s yeah really looking to prove themselves
22788s in that kind of sense but day2 is coming
22791s to a close now a big thank you to
22795s Christopher Dustin or Dogman and got
22798s Moxy for being on earlier today and to
22800s you to Tiny and cie for joining me on
22803s the desk as well tiny any final thoughts
22806s heading into tomorrow's matches buckle
22809s up it is about to get serious we have
22812s had seriously there's no there there's
22814s no understatement the only team that has
22816s beaten Timeless ethereal in a final so
22818s far has been the roster that we see in
22821s wisp Embers and with everything being
22824s completed $20,000 plus other prizes on
22827s the line I mean Ash there's so much to
22830s be looking forward towards tomorrow and
22832s we better see all of you back here oh
22835s absolutely a big thank you to our
22836s production team to radiant and to all of
22838s The Talented admins behind the scenes
22841s putting on this show and of course to
22843s the teams for showing up and being part
22844s of this event and everyone at home for
22846s tuning in we'll be back tomorrow to
22849s Crown the winner and the champions of
22851s the calling all Heroes
22855s season
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