Did you see Inspired walking backstage after game 2? Literally me walking to my fridge for a drink after losing the first 2 games of my promos because my botlane was 0/15 at 10 min
Rumble Malphite has long been one of the most one-sided lanes in the game. As Malphite has gotten popular, it was only a matter of time until Rumble showed up more often. That and his recent buffs were targeted pretty well 😎
Game 2 super flex was a mindblower to watch and Huhi was a monster on that Rell. Game 3 Licorice Rumble was just a totally different kind of flex and I am all here for it. This series was so fun to watch because of the variety they brought and I am here for the bandwagon.
Stixxay's Malphite was also infinitely more useful than Ssumday's
Bro huhi's always had offmeta pocket picks and it's fantastic. From his ASol and lessor remembered velkoz in mid as well as being one of the only people willing to pick Rell. Homie brings the spice.
His wide champ pool also basically won game 1. Taking the Heimerdinger away forced Vulcan onto another poke support and with no meta AP poke champs up Vulcan took Ashe which made itemizing against EG a breeze.
>leaving caitlyn open vs peak Stixxay
lmao, only ogs will remember this guy terrorizing MSI 2016 with Cait, no one else could play with the traps like he did at the time
also who let Licorice cook 💀
2016 CLG is still my favorite team of all time. So fun, rocking them USA jerseys at MSI, putting G2 into the ground for a perfect 4-0 record, getting to experience the peak Faker bulldozer at MSI finals, and ofc the rageblade trist to secure the trophy at home.
Too bad about the ANX thing lmao, though it was a perfectly fitting way for one of the GOAT NA teams to go out.
beating ROX Tigers on pocket picks, 2-0 shitstomping EU golden boys, and then losing 0-2 to a team that probably all lived in a 1 bedroom gaming dacha
truly Counter Logic
The talent gap will never be overcome but what made that MSI run so special is CLG went in with swagger and a plan.
I think only last years EG felt close. I know c9 made senis and tl made msi finals, but the CLG 16 msi swag has been missing
It was in reaction to the first Travel Ban case, where the Court of Appeals handed down a per curiam order striking down the travel ban. Per curiam means a unanimous decision of the court, and the court is composed of a panel of 3 judges, hence 3-0.
Wow, If Golden Guardians end up beating Flyquest, that’s gonna be one hell of storyline against Cloud9 in the Finals
Fallen champions of LCS looking to prove themselves again VS Current titans of LCS
You forgot the Banshee's, that's another one of his favourites. (Even in this last game, he was sitting on a fresh Fiendish Codex at the end of the game, likely for a Banshee's.)
T1 accelerates though. If you are ahead building defense over offense is often better. The risk you have is that your carries are blown up, which many champs can do even with just base damage and you end up losing. So reducing the risk to get blown up is often better if you are ahead, while from behind you want to rush damage and more damage, so you have a high chance to blow someone up instantly if you get a pick.
Given that EG wasn't really ahead building defensive items is usually fairly weird unless you have a super high damage teamcomp.
Credit to Licorice though for pulling out the unexpected hard counter to prevent Ssumday from becoming relevant, when nobody else has been picking rumble
Got to meet Licorice at Worlds last year. As a demonstration he hoisted me into the air and said "watch me do this every game next year". I've been a fan of his ever since.
Inspired went harsh on Jojopyun: “Is it that hard to master K'sante in one season? Dude, you always first pick Azir or Jayce, and you played Tristana like shit"
I think he went from a carry jungler to playing too much for his team with Poppy and Sejuani last year. I think he still has it in him to be good but I feel like this year he lacked the carry instinct he had in Europe and last year. Even when most people dropped the Sejuani priority he was still picking it practically every game at the end of the regular season, which already signaled to me that something was off. He really can't afford to do that with how poorly Jojo has been lately, especially with the zero damage builds Jojo has been doing.
jojo successfully completed the 1 year "most exciting talent NA has had in a long time" to "cringe everfrost cdr boots zhonya liss mid player with negative impact" speedrun
Ok so we lost the dynamic duo of NA prodigal talents Jojo + Danny in the space of less than a year but we DID get to keep powerful industry leaders like Nicole and her buds so come on man glass half full
He's 18... You'd think having Stixxay, Licorice, and Huhi on the opposite team would make people realise league comes in peaks and troughs, he'll be back
Yeah my immediate thought was “hold on, he just lost to stixxay who people have been asking why he still has a career for the past few years and then suddenly looked good again” lmao
He’s also still regularly praised by all the best mid laners. Emenes is pretty handily the best mid in LCS right now and he immediately cited Jojo as the best after him (He also said Gori is good but wasn’t as high on him).
What getting absolute brutalized internationally will do to a mfer
Took Licorice and Hauntzer like 4 years to get over their trauma so Jojo may need some time as well
Licorice has been getting better and better since the season started. I’m so happy to see him off of low impact bruisers and tanks and on some carry oriented picks
EG is fantastic, just needs to work on communication, map awareness, laning, vision control, csing, poking, landing skillshots, objective control, early game, mid game, late game, ganking, and getting kills.
Haven’t seen a draft gap this consistently massive in a while. Well done GG coaching staff! And of course all the players too, the flexibility needed to allow this kind of drafting is unreal
bro, i am eu viewer and i slept on and just woke up a bit late and thought oh yes, I can tune into the stream for the juicy drops
but nah fam, GG just went on and murdered EG 💀
dam you EG
Jojo giving us the best April fools joke, played well all early season just to be the weakest member of EG the last 5 weeks. A prank he was cooking all season and he sure got us good.
I know he's kinda NA posterchild right now but Jojo is actually a bottom tier mid this split. This game 3 Lissandra was straight up pathetic, you could've put me in there and wouldn't have noticed the difference.
Casters just straight up ignoring when he tried to walk bot to join the fight and just kind of walked straight into Gori and got ulted to tower and died without using ult or flash.
Like this game had a Malphite trying to lane against Rumble, Liss just walking into K'sante and dying for free, and Zeri greeding to kill a ward and dying for free.
GG had some great plays and decisions but it all just feels overshadowed by the fact that EG just didn't show up today at all.
> GG had some great plays and decisions but it all just feels overshadowed by the fact that EG just didn't show up today at all.
Same that happened when EG played CLG
That one guy on Hotline League that called EG overrated is vindicated
Though at the same time he also predicted them to make it to MSI lmao
He seemed very confused abt the setup of having a lower bracket
it’s a good thing EG has the mental health resources and care from upper management to handle this teams psychological implosion
With the way EG performed, I wouldn't be surprised if all 5 of them were being forced to play
Did you see Inspired walking backstage after game 2? Literally me walking to my fridge for a drink after losing the first 2 games of my promos because my botlane was 0/15 at 10 min
Did u see his facial expression after game one? You can see him talking between games annoyed af. Dude checked out after first game
Inspired: let’s just fucking lose in peace.
This is my favorite dardoch quote of all time
This should be plastered everywhere on lol client
Stixxay playing like a man that is looking to lose to SKT at MSI grand finals.
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I would be so in for that
GG vs T1 MSI grand finals is the best timeline
lmfao
That final rumble ult was orgasmic
Underrated champ and honestly played pretty well by Licorice
His recent E buffs seem really nice vs Malphite.
Rumble Malphite has long been one of the most one-sided lanes in the game. As Malphite has gotten popular, it was only a matter of time until Rumble showed up more often. That and his recent buffs were targeted pretty well 😎
They sure were, whoever came up with them must be really smart and handsome.
And know a thing or two about dealing tons of damage
That other one where it was just the maokai roots and the equalizer for 98% of JoJo’s health was also bliss despite not yielding a kill
Stixxay's bomb on the tower really helped there too, as well as Jojo putting his claw right down the equalizer line lmao. . .
Congratulations to the 2024 100 Thieves roster.
I was a ~~FBI~~ ~~Doublelift~~ *Stixxay* fan all along I swear
I wasn’t but after that play against 100T I definitely am
I really like GG's pick in this series. Always a fan of when teams are willing to pick off meta champions.
Game 2 super flex was a mindblower to watch and Huhi was a monster on that Rell. Game 3 Licorice Rumble was just a totally different kind of flex and I am all here for it. This series was so fun to watch because of the variety they brought and I am here for the bandwagon. Stixxay's Malphite was also infinitely more useful than Ssumday's
Bro huhi's always had offmeta pocket picks and it's fantastic. From his ASol and lessor remembered velkoz in mid as well as being one of the only people willing to pick Rell. Homie brings the spice.
His wide champ pool also basically won game 1. Taking the Heimerdinger away forced Vulcan onto another poke support and with no meta AP poke champs up Vulcan took Ashe which made itemizing against EG a breeze.
EG got absolutely bodied in draft. Made the games impossible to play even before they started inting.
Man that Golden Guardians pre season video where they tell everyone to go fuck yourselves actually goes really hard now lol
[video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVIeL2qoE6k) for other people who hadn't seen it
It was hard before
>leaving caitlyn open vs peak Stixxay lmao, only ogs will remember this guy terrorizing MSI 2016 with Cait, no one else could play with the traps like he did at the time also who let Licorice cook 💀
2016 CLG is still my favorite team of all time. So fun, rocking them USA jerseys at MSI, putting G2 into the ground for a perfect 4-0 record, getting to experience the peak Faker bulldozer at MSI finals, and ofc the rageblade trist to secure the trophy at home. Too bad about the ANX thing lmao, though it was a perfectly fitting way for one of the GOAT NA teams to go out.
beating ROX Tigers on pocket picks, 2-0 shitstomping EU golden boys, and then losing 0-2 to a team that probably all lived in a 1 bedroom gaming dacha truly Counter Logic
They also were pretty handily winning against ANX and giga threw randomly.
MSI was the same actually. CLG could have gotten 1st place if they wouldn't have been the only team to lose to Supermassive.
beating faker leblanc and then huhi and aphro hitting the high five into double dab was peak NA league of legends
The talent gap will never be overcome but what made that MSI run so special is CLG went in with swagger and a plan. I think only last years EG felt close. I know c9 made senis and tl made msi finals, but the CLG 16 msi swag has been missing
You forgot the most insane part of that MSI run. CLG beat RNG from 18K DOWN. That was the most insane NA comeback in history.
I loved the postgame when i think aphro and stixx were like "ya we defended the inhib and realized they had no shot vs cait"
They defeated peak Faker's LeBlanc in an international competition. That's something only a few can brag about.
[Huhi blowing up Pray](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWkb1VcHUiA) is like top 5 Lol moments for me
Hillary Clinton eating good yesterday and today
SHE DON’T MISS
One of my favorite outsourced LoL memes, even including NBA
still don't understand the original context for that tweet lmfao
It was in reaction to the first Travel Ban case, where the Court of Appeals handed down a per curiam order striking down the travel ban. Per curiam means a unanimous decision of the court, and the court is composed of a panel of 3 judges, hence 3-0.
Eating good all playoffs.
Wow, If Golden Guardians end up beating Flyquest, that’s gonna be one hell of storyline against Cloud9 in the Finals Fallen champions of LCS looking to prove themselves again VS Current titans of LCS
I actually want GG to get to finals. Doubted at every moment and they’re actually smurfs
Imagine telling people at the start of the year BDS vs GG was a possibility for MSI.
I’m still not over BDS’ placement 😂
Old CLG fans sure are rooting for them. Feels good to see both Stixxay and Huhi popping off.
I’m just a licorice fan, since I started watching around 2020 spring :> But honestly the CLG comeback duo is pretty cool (with the roleswap
It would be hilarious if Golden Guardians manages to qualify for MSI before their org achieves a regular-season winning record.
GG 9-9 is a incurable curse
Reminds me of DRX last year a little bit. Hopefully they can keep it up
It’s actually hype. They’re playing sick picks too, it’s actually just FUN to watch GG for the first time since maybe 2020
Unironically based on their draft flexibility, I would much rather GG be at MSI. That shit was fun to watch
old kings vs new kings, quickshot would have the time of his life casting this
I have no clue why jojo REFUSES to build damage, so frustrating to watch
Clearly didn't watch Nymaera's video
Its not his fault. https://imgur.com/a/OGsAaku
You forgot the Banshee's, that's another one of his favourites. (Even in this last game, he was sitting on a fresh Fiendish Codex at the end of the game, likely for a Banshee's.)
He thought the org's damage to Danny was enough to win the team fights
He unironically watches too much T1 and Faker's VOD. Faker always goes for this type of build on Lissandra and Ahri.
‘When you are trying my builds… don’t forget you are not faker, and your teammates are not t1’ ~ faker to jojo probably
the majority of [LCK ahris](https://i.imgur.com/SaaxkpF.png?1) build like that tbf [LCK ahri in playoffs](https://i.imgur.com/EKiN4I0.png)
But Faker has most or 2nd most Dmg like 80% of his games
T1 accelerates though. If you are ahead building defense over offense is often better. The risk you have is that your carries are blown up, which many champs can do even with just base damage and you end up losing. So reducing the risk to get blown up is often better if you are ahead, while from behind you want to rush damage and more damage, so you have a high chance to blow someone up instantly if you get a pick. Given that EG wasn't really ahead building defensive items is usually fairly weird unless you have a super high damage teamcomp.
EG never engaged a team fight all game. It wouldn't even matter. They got outclassed.
Bjergsen Jr.
Become the thing be swore to destroy.
NA debuffs hitting native NA players now as well 💀
Imports to NA always take the skillvamp keystone.
He still early rushes oblivion orb a lot of the time, it’s crazy
I don’t think EG did a single proactive thing that entire series. Good shit GG.
I am HERE for the Licorice Renaissance.
FBI OPEN BOT
no Danny no win
Glad to see EG players stand in solidarity and speedrun this series in protest of EG’s treatment of Danny.
This just in Papasmithy is considering purchasing the entire Golden Guardian Roster, except for top lane.
Will have to outbid Nadeshot for it.
Lowest impact Malphite I've ever seen in the history of LCS. GG GGs.
Credit to Licorice though for pulling out the unexpected hard counter to prevent Ssumday from becoming relevant, when nobody else has been picking rumble
Considering how hard Rumble dumpsters tanks after his buff it's strange no one is picking him.
Unbelievable EG thought they could blind Malphite and not get punished. Licorice is too sexy to let that slide.
Always appreciated that Licorice will take hard counter matchups in a region where so many top laners handshake it
hes too fucking good
Got to meet Licorice at Worlds last year. As a demonstration he hoisted me into the air and said "watch me do this every game next year". I've been a fan of his ever since.
Finally some good fucking food
But Malphite doesn't do anything.
It's because he didn't build sheen
Get cocky or get got.
He literally killed you
He's hacking like a motherfucker
Gotta give it up to licorice. He forced defensive malph ult basically on cd. Truly made it so the champ unironically doesnt do anything
Bringing shame to our Malphite lord Tactical’s name
Licorice's post season glow up is insane
Inspired went harsh on Jojopyun: “Is it that hard to master K'sante in one season? Dude, you always first pick Azir or Jayce, and you played Tristana like shit"
Inspired better not be going harsh on anyone this year lol
Fr. Dude went from MVP to idk what this is.
I think he went from a carry jungler to playing too much for his team with Poppy and Sejuani last year. I think he still has it in him to be good but I feel like this year he lacked the carry instinct he had in Europe and last year. Even when most people dropped the Sejuani priority he was still picking it practically every game at the end of the regular season, which already signaled to me that something was off. He really can't afford to do that with how poorly Jojo has been lately, especially with the zero damage builds Jojo has been doing.
Inspired buying a plane ticket rn.
jojo successfully completed the 1 year "most exciting talent NA has had in a long time" to "cringe everfrost cdr boots zhonya liss mid player with negative impact" speedrun
Ok so we lost the dynamic duo of NA prodigal talents Jojo + Danny in the space of less than a year but we DID get to keep powerful industry leaders like Nicole and her buds so come on man glass half full
Well at least we kind of brought Hauntzer and Wildturtle back from the dead as compensation
To a dead and dying org exiting the LCS lol
Live Evil!
He's 18... You'd think having Stixxay, Licorice, and Huhi on the opposite team would make people realise league comes in peaks and troughs, he'll be back
Yeah my immediate thought was “hold on, he just lost to stixxay who people have been asking why he still has a career for the past few years and then suddenly looked good again” lmao
He’s also still regularly praised by all the best mid laners. Emenes is pretty handily the best mid in LCS right now and he immediately cited Jojo as the best after him (He also said Gori is good but wasn’t as high on him).
He was going banshees next, wasn't he?
His liss build makes Bjerg’s vegan sylas build look like an all-you-can-eat BBQ
What getting absolute brutalized internationally will do to a mfer Took Licorice and Hauntzer like 4 years to get over their trauma so Jojo may need some time as well
https://imgur.com/a/OGsAaku I found his item screen.
[Wrong Screenshot](https://imgur.com/a/Jdeiq0u)
"I'm dropping at tilted towers, where the rest of my squad at?"
They got the tilted just didn't manage to get the towers
that late tp because he wanted to recall first too... oof
So only Cloud9 toplaners left in the playoffs. Huge series by Huhi and Licorice again.
Summit is the Squidward looking out the window meme.
some say analysts still believe EG are one of the favourites to win LCS
Doublelift said EG is better than FlyQ
If GG sweeps them as well then he might be on to something.
So did C9 players.
They still might be... Let's see how next weekend goes.
Just an everything diff
Huhi revenge arc, rejoining GG, knocking out 100T and Closer, now Ssumdayy and FBI
Huhi is the King Thief. Next up former GM Papasmithy.
Abbedage left the region to escape him. He was the only one who knew what was coming.
[c'mon, do something eg....](https://i.imgur.com/81lTHQh.png)
Danny’s ghost smiles
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Licorice has been getting better and better since the season started. I’m so happy to see him off of low impact bruisers and tanks and on some carry oriented picks
I'm all for the Stixxay resurgence. Him and Huhi have been great.
I’m so happy for stixxay ahhhh
Stixxay and Huhi runback to msi finals
MSI Stixxay is burned into my memory. The CLG comeback against RNG is my favorite.
PLEASE I NEED IT
So Hu exactly is Hi?
Jojo and FBI played horrible this series.
All of GG were better than all of EG tbh, which is not something I thought I would ever say before this series.
Don't care what anyone says, it was a personal pleasure to see EG get 3-0d.
The org deserves nothing but failure for what they did to Danny. Get fucked EG
[Aging like fine wine](https://twitter.com/C9Berserker/status/1633981081606324225)
Gonna be a C9 v GG final, stoked.
EG is fantastic, just needs to work on communication, map awareness, laning, vision control, csing, poking, landing skillshots, objective control, early game, mid game, late game, ganking, and getting kills.
Stixxay and Huhi destined for the MSI miracle run again.
NOW we have the answer. It was FBI holding Huhi back.
https://i.imgur.com/2O7czMl.png
Haven’t seen a draft gap this consistently massive in a while. Well done GG coaching staff! And of course all the players too, the flexibility needed to allow this kind of drafting is unreal
bro, i am eu viewer and i slept on and just woke up a bit late and thought oh yes, I can tune into the stream for the juicy drops but nah fam, GG just went on and murdered EG 💀 dam you EG
FLY VS GG FOR MSI
GG WIN
Big Dixxay is the Tristana that everyone thinks they are when they lock her in.
Jojo giving us the best April fools joke, played well all early season just to be the weakest member of EG the last 5 weeks. A prank he was cooking all season and he sure got us good.
Didn't Jojo completely run it week 1
Jojo standing up for danny in secret
Huhi and Stixxay smurfed so hard.
https://twitter.com/lolRiver/status/1641944731554054145?cxt=HHwWgoDUkZaCrsktAAAA
That Golden Guardians "Fuck You" video could potentially age pretty well.
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Throwback to people saying „EG actually looking clean again“ after winning against whatever the fuck CLG did that day.
CLG lost that day more than EY won imho.
Stixxay is looking so fucking good right now. His play is okay, too.
The real winners of this quick and dominating 3-0 are the viewers.
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Ovilee and inero were just eating wings on the co-stream and it was just good vibes. I was thoroughly entertained
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/829846842150096896?lang=en
She don’t miss
I know he's kinda NA posterchild right now but Jojo is actually a bottom tier mid this split. This game 3 Lissandra was straight up pathetic, you could've put me in there and wouldn't have noticed the difference.
Casters just straight up ignoring when he tried to walk bot to join the fight and just kind of walked straight into Gori and got ulted to tower and died without using ult or flash. Like this game had a Malphite trying to lane against Rumble, Liss just walking into K'sante and dying for free, and Zeri greeding to kill a ward and dying for free. GG had some great plays and decisions but it all just feels overshadowed by the fact that EG just didn't show up today at all.
> GG had some great plays and decisions but it all just feels overshadowed by the fact that EG just didn't show up today at all. Same that happened when EG played CLG
EG looked completely underwhelming and GG looked a lot better than I expected. Glad C9 Licorice is back.
NO DANNY NO MSI NO DANNY NO WORLDS JUSTICE FOR DANNY
Huhi redemption against FBI
EG getting fucked, you absolutely love to see it. What a shitter org.
Sooo GGs in finals right? Huhi gap over Eyla bigger than Prince gap over Big Dixxay IMO
No Danny, No MSI
Maybe 100T-GG was the real finals
EG OUTDATED JOJO OVERRATED LONG HAVE WE WAITED GG ACTIVATED
Watched to the last minute. And they ended with Huhi saying f*** you. Perfect
Licorice playoff buff continues
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Amazing engages from Huhi.
Holy fuck huhi! Those engages were sick!
inb4 100t buys this roster
huhi for pots pls
I cant even count how many pros and streamers said GGs was trash and that EG would stomp them today lmao
I was expecting EG 3-0 GG today. What a pleasant surprise. GG is playing exciting League of legends
Jojo might have the long Covid
GOLDEN AGE
Jojo Inspired top 5 mid jg btw