Chovy

was tough, bro.

Chovy's a bad tag.

Chovy sounds like something you call someone.

Chovy's an insult.

Chovy sounds like one of the characters in

Donkey Kong Country.

We look

The main thing is, for me, as you mentioned, Saint.

I can walk away from that Gen.G series and honestly say that Saint was better than Chovy in a best-of-three.

i'm not the type of person to just go and say oh it's just like that in that series saints had very good siding management and chovy didn't have the same groove like they leaned heavily on the skill set of keen and ruler i think those were the two players that stepped up big time for genji and i do think that saint had a phenomenal series another thing that stood out for of course lion is the fact that uh They were very honest in terms of how the bot lane matchups were supposed to go.

They had the Kalista Renata into the Alistar and they had full control of the bot side.

And I do think that Lion does, they have such a high floor to their game because everyone on that team just leans on a player that is just so insanely consistent in terms of how he makes his plans.

The vision that Inspired has for the game, it's like, it's as if, you know, he has invented a new role and his role is the quarterback of the team, you know, and he's just like maneuvering everybody like chess pieces in terms of what angles they should look for, because everything seems so damn prepared in terms of how they play, whether it's down to like Isles holding his abilities to always polymorph any entry of Chovy, uh on on on mark or how they combo and cc chain uh or how just um every time they spotted kiana in that game one it was like instant snap their their whole game plan was like we're gonna stack dragons and the moment we see kiana we snap on her so she can never take space and river and that's something that just worked so beautifully i i think lion in terms of how they plan games they are uh definitely on on like that the highest level because it's like I think the matchup against Gen.G is very good for them because I don't think Gen.G is the type of team to really aggress heavily on you in the first 10 minutes of the game.

I think that's where you can be very disruptive to Lion's game plan, where you force them to skirmish a lot earlier in the game.

I think that's how you can make Lion uncomfortable.

Another extremely, extremely close fight at the second dragon around the 12 minute and 10 second mark.

Brilliantly executed fight from Chovy on the Akali.

He ended up picking up a kill, diving really deep for the Alistar and then managing to get out of it without dying, which was impressive.

Still, Invictus carries, well, the AD carry and mid were actually way ahead, up almost a full item combined around the 14-minute mark in this game.

guy sitting next to you right here, by the way.

I mean, I versed Chovy in scrims.

I don't know.

He felt much better than before, too.

Somehow, like, it felt like...

I think Chovy's definitely very...

I don't know if he has scrim Gen.G or not, but...

Not yet.

But...

when they need jungle support dynamics to make sure that their solo lanes actually get to farm and they need to find like correct timers and windows to push deep all the way and they need to skirmish a lot more in the game I think this is where KC is falling apart and the same way I would describe Gen.G too I think that Obviously, Chovy, Ruler, and Keen are in a different universe in terms of level of players, but the moment Gen.G have an underperformance in any of their solo lanes or even in bot lane, you can see the exposure of the issues of how Duro and Canyon play the game together.

Obviously, as Ruler returned to form, suddenly Canyon's playing better too and everyone can see it because the game becomes very streamlined for Canyon where he can just farm, farm, find angles wherever he sees them and then just clutch it up on the actual objectives.

And I think that that's the danger of KC is that Gen.G can get away with it against most teams and most players, because Keane and Chovy are going to be better than the majority of players in the world, if not everybody.

But with KC, I think you run into walls very, very fast.

And when it comes to competing at a world championship, I think that you almost have to count on the fact that some players are going to underperform.

Well, good luck, mate.

You've probably got the second best mid laner in the entire world, not only this year, but for like the last fucking five years.

So Gen.G, you're just, if you find excitement sitting there in awe of how good this team is, then That's for you, but I think this one should be an easy one.

I think it's exciting in the sense that we have Rookie versus Chovy many, many years later, because obviously this was a matchup that we got to see at the 2019 World Championship.

But in that one, for some reason, Sword was playing the carries and Chovy was playing Sion mid every game.

So hopefully we get a real mid lane 1v1 matchup, you know, like Corki versus Azir.

No, I'm kidding.