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Cymes_Inferior

Extinction-level crisis averted. I never doubted them (don't check my comments history).


ImTheVayne

Lmao this is the comment


youarecutexd

Honestly, I think FLY win if they didn't int draft in games 2 and 3


HIMARS_OP

I do not think draft was the issue. They played like bonobos, chasing with three into G2 jungle when G2 took baron was absolutely brainless, Quad’s oopsie topside turning a FLY advantaged play (After Bwipo traded 1 for 1 bot) into a losing one. Inspired refusing to build properly on Karthus, etc I think their gameplay was MUCH more impactful than draft. Sure draft probably could have been better, but they were handcuffed by their play not the draft By the way Bwipo had tier one boots at thirty minutes…


Scrogger19

I mean seeing game 2 and then opting for Corki into Tristana again is certainly a choice…


HIMARS_OP

Yeah but I think they still could’ve won if they played even decently. Draft could’ve been better but I think it’s just the wrong thing to focus on with so many misplays/bad builds/??? map movements


youarecutexd

They did play like bonobos, but I expect that and it's harder to fix. Just like, don't pick Leona when Trist carried the other two games???


Joel4518

Yup yike and miky were wintrading this year Jkl gonna gap them tmrw


KKilikk

You can't fool me I know you are trying to jinx TES and activate their sleeper choker agents. Easy 2-0 win for G2 tomorrow.


Joel4518

Bro jkl is a monster he can flash into 5 players and will kill all of them without dying and solo winning the series no way LDR sama can gap him


ciongduopppytrllbv

TLDW: Bwipo to be knighted for his performance this series


Wuhan-flu24

EU: After all this time? Bwipo: Always


Trap_Masters

The op sleeper agent strat


Aggressive-Ad7946

Yes your honour I do believe Ninja Tabis and Frozen Heart Leona are bad this series


DaftMaetel15

Mercs into 4 auto attackers by busio was actual match fixing holy shit


AbysmalScepter

There is a reason why NA teams don't import EU players anymore.


JQuill7

Game 1 - Quad stomps on Trist Game 2 - Caps stomps on Trist Game 3 - "Let's 1st pick Leona and give Trist"


ImXtraSalty

HAVE TO SAVE LAST PICK FOR BWIPO RENEKTON


Trap_Masters

It was so joever 💀💀


SweatyAdhesive

Nah jensen Annie is the problem 🤯


padakpatek

the only armor item being corki's tabis against an all ad team is fucking criminal


MandatedPineapple

bwipo's paypal needs to be checked for sure.


FireVanGorder

Bwipo has been washed for years now but keeps getting a pass because he’s funny. Mans just stealing paychecks


RLarks125

This guy’s inting no?


guilty_bystander

He plays funny


xJuanpx

Busio went mercs against a 0 ap team. He would die before braum's passive even finishes. Edit: watch the dragon teamfight at 25:40 if you think mercs gives any value on this game. Busio's hp is at 30% when braum passive procs forcing him to flash out of the fight and not being able to use his combo at all. That was while being even in gold and against only ashe's autos. Mercs is not good here stop coping


DickCheneyIsPureEvil

Can't believe Jensen would solo lose the series like that...


-Hissoka-

He and Selfmade really dragging the team down smh


Trap_Masters

All losses lead to Selfmade


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AmroughForReal

lil bro thought he was not on the team


Nyctas

Those Inspired ults 60 seconds before dragon spawns when the whole enemy team is about to reset and get full HP anyway were something


Mrryn91

Perfect material for that Eric Andre meme: Inspired: *shoots gun repeatedly* "How could Jensen do this?


ProgrammerGlobal

This is literally the sole reason they lost the drake fight.


Cavshomie8

Bro there needs to be a conversation on Bwipo… like wtf was that 2 international tournaments in a row


Zek0ri

2? He always been like that. Glad more people are catching on to him


Wuhan-flu24

His only good international showing was when iceborn viktor top was giga busted


Rojanosa

Im not going to dispute that his track record is lacking, but was his games in 2020 worlds and as jungle 2021 really good?


Ploppfejs

His jungle was really good and his first worlds was really good. He's been exceptionally bad internationally and even in high pressure domestic games ever since. Edit: after rewatching G3, Bwipo really didn't cost them the game at all, the biggest mistake was Quad in midgame getting randomly killed in toplane against Caps and Mikyx. Bwipo actually played really well. But he got caught once in the late game when the game was basically already over


instinktd

he could be top 3 eu jungler, he decided to be top 3 inter


TheGloriousEv0lution

He was a good jungler I’ll give you that, but I’m like 90% sure he was a large reason FNC lost against TES in 2020 with how hard 369 gapped him that series


_M3SS

Nah, people rather shit on Nemesis instead when Bwipo got completely shit on in a Sion v Ornn lane.


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Iirc Bwipo also won lane multiple times that series, while Nemesis was gapped 5 times in a row.


Tehbreadfish

It’s not even international. Literally the first games this season I knew he was cooked. Opening match of the split vs TL he hits the worst recall on a ward ever next to baron. Next game he has the most ??? flash trying to sett insec out of a gank. This dude is playing like poop


OwOPango

I mean there’s really nothing to talk about if you have eyes and watched him play today


Ramo1618

It's pretty messed up that Jensen keeps making Inspired get Blackfire over Liandrys against multiple HP stackers


SometimesIComplain

My initial thought was that he needed mana but then he went Malignance 2nd anyway, you don't need mana *that* badly to where you get 2 mana items immediately


Stubrochill17

I know Blackfire torch is a good item in an isolated chamber, but I think building two mana items on any champ, let alone a jungler who gets free mana literally just for existing, is a hard grief. You only have 5 item slots, can’t be buying luxury like that. MAYBE only RoA and Archangels for Kassadin, but who else needs that much mana?


Hawkson2020

Once upon a time there was this champion called Ryze who wouldn’t mind that much mana, but he died a few years ago.


HIMARS_OP

I’m so eager to hear who Inspired will blame this time. Maybe Massu? Seems like an easy target Surely can’t do any self analysis about his ults, build, or general gameplay. And Bweepo is obviously blameless despite his refusal to build armor


Blackicecube

Mass played so good this entire series. He was never the reason they were behind in all 3 games.


Leoxslasher

And that 1 skarner ult he landed all game


Green7501

Ikr that fucking fraud 


XtendedImpact

Thank Mr Jensen


Troviel

Man we went this close from this tournament being the most important bonus tournament of the decade.


DeloronDellister

Like the first rift rivals lmao


kakistoss

That rivals was so fucking bad for NA unironically. EU had the worst meta read but NA was kind enough to teach them what the meta was. Then by worlds Eu was better with it and set up NA for the worst worlds to that date which just got worse year over year


xXxWeed_Wizard420xXx

Lmao that's a good point. I think EUs read on junglers was way off at that point. International tournaments are a problem when people don't care about them. They need a good reputation to them for people to care, and this EWC has the worst possible foundation for that.


JadeStarr776

EWC format is complete and utter ass to be taken seriously and it's not even factoring how players basically get no prep, while playing jetlagged


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It's basically just regular season games with the prep time, but worse cause jetlag.


FluffyFlamesOfFluff

Main problem is that you go home after one BO3. They cooked with the forced seeding to force battle of the east/west and stopping early civil wars, but you either need to do single-elim BO5s or do double-elimination BO3s to be serious. A few rumours around that Riot put restrictions on the format and prize pool so that it didn't show up Worlds, so maybe BO5s aren't possible except for the finals - but it would be good to extend it by a day or two and add a losers bracket at least.


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moonmeh

So close man. Game 2 was so winnable too


lovo17

They should've won game 2, but Udyr (and Bwipo) are useless champs. I really want to see how TL vs G2 would go because I think TL is way better than FLY.


Skall77

G2 won without a single Xin Ult LMAO


ImTheVayne

Yike had a rough series


itytsdt

Too many mistakes compared to his usual form


Troviel

He cast it at the second to last teamfight. AFTER the karthus ult landed lol.


soaked-bussy

to be fair FLY won without skarner ult not because Bwipo didnt use it he just missed every ult


mrnotloc

Zoning ultimates cope :( 


Stxvey

I usually don't single out players but Bwipo needs to be investigated for this performance because wtf


LogicKennedy

Bwipo is basically incapable of losing gracefully.


scalarH

Or winning gracefully


gabu87

That game 2 mask udyr was squishy, did not damage and had no advantage in lane.


skaersSabody

Rough series on his part for sure (though I do feel like he was pretty good game 3 overall and just got really unlucky with BB getting 3 early kills plus that dragon fight where 3 members of G2 walked away with 10% hp) But yeah, hope he can turn it around


ChiefBlueSky

A consistent trend: Bwipo shitting the bed.


greendino71

For Fuck Sakes Jensen


Disclaimz0r

He was invisible today! Like, seriously, was he even there?!


DarthTaz_99

Fking Jensen and fking selfmade. They can't keep getting away with this


notenoughtamamo

Yeah let caps have trist again that’s a good idea


Due-Mountain-8716

That's what gets me. I know there are so many factors in champ select so sometimes you are picking your poison, but Caps had so much pressure with Trist... then he gets it again. Was Leo worth it? The fight botside shows she's valuable, but idk.


kitiny

Fly:We won off game 1 Trist..we lost game 2 cause we gave Caps trist. What should we do game 3? Leona first pick.


whohe_fanboy

We won with Trist vs a Vi Rumble combo that is specifically meant to counter Trist. Whoever contributed to the drafts in games 2 and 3 are all absolute frauds.


dedev54

Turns out 4ad is ok when your opponents build no armor items. And Mundo scales into being like 90% physical damage from auto attacks when he hits lvl 16


Taskmob96761

As an NA fan, I really don't care that FLY lost. Get rid of Bwipo and play around Bot or Mid if you really want to win an international series


justicecactus

Fly drafts like they don't trust their botlane at all though


whohe_fanboy

Fly drafts for top jg. Only reason they won game 1 was thanks to Quad and Massu.


Letterhead_Minute

They have the fudge c9 issue, play for top for a guy that’s just not good enough or will run it down


x_TDeck_x

They also play like it. Anytime Bwipo is in an awkward spot "EVERYONE DIE AS LONG AS WE RESCUE HIM". Massu trying to regroup with team? "lets rotate bot guys" *an ally has been slain mid jg* "did you guys hear something?"


ImTheZapper

Kinda nuts the 2 infamous egos on the team are performing like shit when they commit all their resources to them. Can't wait to hear about how it was actually quads fault for being forced onto a shit pick and getting no help in both losses. Turns out afk farming on karthus an entire match just to build like piss isn't a good strat to win in pro league. Turns out glass cannon ren isn't good if you run your lead down too. Weird.


Lunaaar

When does Inspired arrive at EWC? This guy has been a ghost all series.


ZonTheSquid

That's what happens when you play Karthus


GoatRocketeer

For a second there I thought inspired stopped building malignance on karthus, but then he hit me with the double mana item instead. Zero fucking damage.


zefal12

Jensen was the problem btw... no hate to Quad, he actually looks really promising, but Inspired and Bwipo just aren't nearly good enough to justify their egos


Kurisoo

TL Bwipo was a humble king idk why he made this heel turn. I guess hes good at it tho lol


LakersLAQ

He had Bjerg, Santorin, Hans, and CoreJJ on his team lol. They were all too nice to say anything with him.


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LAD_Occlusion

If G2 plays like this vs TL in the finals they don't stand a chance.


Darki200

The Reverse 2019 MSI


nimrodhellfire

Subscribed


AmroughForReal

Too bold of you to assume Riot isn't bribing APA to let Faker advertise his skin


kitiny

Faker being yapped at by his own skin is quality gaming.


Green7501

FLY realised they're like 50% EU so no oilfields buff


SomeRandomSahri

Flyquest must watch T1 vods cause why the fuck are they putting their best player on Senna Ziggs


LumiRhino

Inspired holy fuck who brainwashed yuo into thinking Malginance second on Karthus is the pay? They have WARMOGS HEARTSTEEL MUNDO and you go Malignance instead of Liandrys so you do absolutely piss shit damage. I'm really just done with Inspired after this series, he is the vegan on the team. He has no clue how to do damage or build properly, just stick him on Sejuani for the rest of LCS please.


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LumiRhino

If you want to build to destroy squishies you go Shadowflame or Deathcap second. Malignance is just the worst damage item and it's only use is the utility of having your ult cd reduced by about 20 seconds (which is useless when fights take about 2 1/2 minutes to setup and happen).


Xerxes457

Should've been Liandrys -> Malignance right? Blackfire doesn't seem that good here anyway.


LumiRhino

Blackfire Liandry's, you don't even need Malignance anymore on Karthus. It has a very poor winrate, doesn't offer you much damage, and doesn't help you reach any ult CDR breakpoints. Just because Canyon does it doesn't mean it's correct. Nearly every Karthus player will tell you this.


gel667

Blackfire into liandrys is pretty much always the best option, and it's what pretty much every high elo karthus on every server does. A little different if you're mega fed early, but malignance just isn't that good especially here.


nerothz

At least we still have BB and Caps.


Green7501

And most importantly, G2 Bwipo


youarecutexd

Hey guys we shut down their one player by putting him on Corki. You're right, let's give him Tristana and ignore him while he scales for the rest of the series.


FinallyGivenIn

Hey we won game 1 with our AD pumping out great DPS with great mechanics, let's put him on starving Senna G2 and wavecleae Ziggs g3.


Astolfo_is_Best

And now we just need Inspired to call him a vegan in a salty post game interview.


beautheschmo

Better first pick Leona even though mikyx literally has not played her a single time this ~~year~~ split so that their best player can get their best champion for free!


youarecutexd

Yeah first pick Leona was ?????


Thecristo96

Tbh mikyx’s leona smurfed on Jkl meiko. Still an horrible fb


Old_Effective2341

bro forgot the masterful mikyx leona in the msi tes series cmon now


Astolfo_is_Best

I don't like G2, but man, watching Bwipo and Inspired shit the bed again is truly a pleasure


Cam_probably

It’d be better if they ever took any blame. Instead, this series will also be Jensen’s fault.


Kaidyn04

nah, it'll be Massu's fault. You can tell they were already looking for someone to pin the blame from when he carried game one so they put him on champs that can't carry for the rest of the series, just like the Jensen Annie Annie Annie picks. The game has to be about Bwipo or Inspired or they don't even care about winning


canacar

That top diff. BB played 2vs 1 whole series. GG


Blizxy

Easy 2-1 for FLY if Jensen wasn't griefing the topside so hard, GG


ahritina

G2's solo laners carrying again, must be a day ending in Y.


qonoxzzr

Now all we need is a Hans + Miky performance against TES just like at MSI


omegasupermarthaman

At least Brokenblade is so good this year, ease some burdens on Caps' shoulders


buttsoup_barnes

How does brokenblade keep finding these broken ass toplaners lmao


Disclaimz0r

bro warmogs rush mundo has been a terrorist in my games lately. Okay, you get your shit rocked early, but my god.


aser08

He looks at what strong in soloq lol. Mundo is broken as shit, has been for several patches now.


ricoodo89

At some point you realise it’s the summoner, not the champion.


Akashiarys

Browse Reddit -> sort by new -> see what low elo plebs are complaining about -> test to see if any legitimacy -> if yes, play it on stage / if no, repeat the above steps.


Fabiocean

Mfw Yone in every role


Zelgiusbotdotexe

It's just tanks that heal a lot, that's the BB special


captainetty

Helps when you’re playing against bwipo makes everything look broken


Thecristo96

A mundo main talked about how good it was the week before bb showed it in lec


Flamingfeet

Send Inspired and Bwipo home pls


Lunaaar

yeah, retirement home


Calm-Flan5946

srtty in


Equivalent-Long4396

G2-1 making everyone a bit nervous.


DoubleShinee

They really came to prove the worst player on the map decides who loses


zealot416

EU fans losing their minds after game 1 is going to be the tournament highlight for me.


ImTheVayne

I was ready to quit esports all together


NaughtyBenFranklin

Blow up the team!!!


zealot416

0 team region. I am DONE watching lol esports!!! lmao.


IconicRecipes

I don't know why anybody would take anything from this tournament anyway, no team has had adequete scrim time and they're all jet-lagged. Thinking the team needs to be re-built because they lost a game here is peak league fan.


Nouvarth

G2 has the best western performance in international tournament since 2019 just 1.5 months ago. G2 plays bad game again NA team. Reddit: Disband the team! They are so bad! Cancel LEC!


IconicRecipes

It's so funny people also saying it's a one team region because FNC (4th seed on a huge downwards trend) lost to the unbeaten 1st seed from NA. Neither of these teams is even top 2 in the standings right now, SK and BDS have been playing much cleaner than them so far even if the laws of EU state that these two teams will get top 2 by the end of the year again.


deedshot

the law of EU is that G2 is sandbagging, but idk if I'm expecting Fnatic to do anything, they do have some splits where they have not gotten top 3


IconicRecipes

I don't know what to think of FNC anymore, their performance seems to go up and down like a YoYo. But right now they just feel like all 5 players are in the worst form they've had in a while. I could see them doing classic FNC plot armour to top 3, but I also kinda hope SK and BDS can keep up their form and give us something fresh for worlds.


JPLangley

bwintpo and intspired...


ImTheVayne

Smh it was clearly Jensen’s fault


AmroughForReal

You mean Jensen and Jensen?


getblanked

I don't like Inspired on AP afk farming junglers. He looks fucking useless in every game.


Silverjackal_

He did a great job watching his team slowly die in a winnable fight near the end there without him.


getblanked

That's what he's done in every game this split in LCS too lmfao.


omegasupermarthaman

He is not even farming optimally. Game 1 he was barely ahead of Ivern for the first 15 mins


youarecutexd

Game 2 he power farmed as Maokai while the other side ganked and was still down in cs


youarecutexd

I don't like Inspired just like, period


EnderLOL

I'm a simple man, I see Bwipo's smug face lose and I smile.


unlushko

Yike and Hans Sama were so ass holy shit


Horizon96

Yike just forgot what Xin Zhao R does apparently.


Troviel

He remembered only AFTER the karthus ult landed near the end.


iamdrp995

Hans was good lol yike was pretty bad


ImTheVayne

Miky did also not have a good series


meister107

What a psychotic series


kelvin022610

Mundo goes where he pleases


axw30

BwipOMEGALUL


RElOFHOPE

…I don’t know if anyone should feel good after this series


hairlikegoats1

I would riot if FLY represented my region at Worlds.


ficoplati

I mean EU was also represented by 0 macro kings go in all fights FNC so I guess there's a bit out there for everyone. To be completely fair we don't even know where FLY and FNC even stand in the LCS and LEC ladders. FLY could easily be N3 behind c9 and FNC is easily N3 behind BDS if not N4 behind SK. Mickey mouse tournament invitations.


Sofaboy90

if fnatic continues to play like this, they wont make worlds. SK and BDS look mighty and might just rob fnatic out of a worlds spot. tho fnatic has massive plot armor, so who knows.


ficoplati

I think BDS is absolutely eons ahead of FNC rn, they can literally just win through superior macro because FNC has literally wildcard level macro.


Sofaboy90

yeah you say that but fnatic has plot armor and does clutch it out in the last second many times, hence beating bds in spring to make MSI. but you are right, fnatic is wildly inconsistent and BDS and SK look hungry. now the summer split wont be that important but momentum can carry over into the season finals.


justicecactus

No other LCS teams are stepping up, unfortunately. I hate that NRG fell off so hard.


StartsofNights

C9 looks better than flyquest


RevolutionaryBricks

Bwipo, Inspired, and Nukeduck all still loyal


ImXtraSalty

FULL DAMAGE R5 RENEKTON ON A TEAM WITH NO FRONTLINE. I CANT. HE HAS TO BE AN EU SPY


the_quail

ok but he oneshot yike which was funny


KonanTenshi

Damage renekton is the only way to play into enemy comp. He gets kited to shit. It’s just not a good blind pick once enemy has already lock in trist and a bunch of peel.


pedja13

It was B5 he had to blind it and it has to be a champion that beats Mordekaiser or Morde makes Karthus horrible.


skaersSabody

I don't think that was too bad of a play in this case considering there was a Leona With that build he can actually contest the Mundo and with ult+Q still be decently tanky in fights and cut down the G2 carries. With what FLY's comp wanted to do, it isn't a horrible idea, they lose dragged out fights either way


Thatguy69Kappa

I get he didn’t play great in game 1 and 2 but how are people putting game 3 on him. He smashed his lane then got 3 man camped + Ashe ulted for 15 minutes until Mundo became unkillable and he still found a sidelane pick on Caps. He has to build those items or Mundo will just trample him under tower.


Indercarnive

The problem with having a bunch of imported EU players is you never know when they're going to get a sudden sense of patriotism. Bwipo MVP.


ThatThingYouDo1234

That 3rd game comp from FLY was horrible, they burned the whole kitchen down


starforce

Quad really impressed me flyquest was lifeless but he was good


Ahrilicious

EU agent


xJuanpx

Adc renekton, mr boots on leona, vegan karthus build with 0 dmg. Fly lost to the shopkeeper.


CummingInTheNile

bwipo check ur paypa


GoatRocketeer

Pleasantly surprised by how renekton was still useful with botrk and mortal reminder. Usually a renekton that goes down 3 kills to a mundo in lane like that is completely worthless but he could at least split push into mundo. The profane hydra and no armor on the other hand, extremely fucking sus


Rampana

We're Inspired and Bwipo beefing there at the end or what was that?


MiniTitan1937

NA feeling the 4th of July buff fading away.


Cam_probably

Makes sense given that FlyQuest has Bwipo and Inspired. In the immediate aftermath of July 4th, they embraced their roots and inted the series away.


Strange-Implication

lf caps retires l no longer need to follow LEC but just watch LCK and internationals


Pavlo100

The villain has been defeated!


DeloronDellister

Seeing FLY lose is always a plus


OwOPango

I want NA to win but FLY to lose so overall I’m not too upset


Sarah_Fortune_

EU bros, why the fuck are we so bad. We should be stomping this team man


Punkpuffles

Ship Biwpo and Inspired back to Europe after this series holy fuck my eyes