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I mean, it's ...

We just watched Lion play, uh, play BLG, and it was very reminiscent of TL versus T1, right? Um, maybe even closer, because all of the games were closer.

We didn't really have one where we got just, like-

Yeah, I think that's fair

... blown out, it felt like.

Um, but, like, you know, just reminiscent in that same way, and it just feels like ...

I don't know how I feel about it, I guess, because it just feels that pro league right now is team fights, and that's, that's the whole game.

Um, if you're on a completely different level, then sometimes you can get kinda embarrassed and just, like, blown out before you even get a 5v5.

It has happened, uh, for sure.

Yeah.

Um, you know, but generally speaking, the games are just decided by the 5v5s, and the top LPL and LCK teams just seem like they're completely on a different level.

Um, you know, T1, HLE, BLG all look right now like they are just way better at team fighting.

So even when you get there with a chance, it never really feels like it's a, it's a guarantee until, like, it's actually done, right? Um, 'cause, 'cause these teams, regardless of if you have good scaling, regardless of if you have, you know, whatever, um, I don't know if it's just, like, experience or if it's nerves or if it's, you know, just they're just that much better or a combination, but, uh, definitely feels very reminiscent in, in a lot of them.

And, um, you know, I think back to, uh, the first game today, um, against, uh, against BLG, and that felt very much like that.

There was honestly, like, a, a lot of these series where it just felt like, "Damn, we are, we are so close," and you think, "Okay, you can see the angle how we can win this team fight.

Berserker is super fed." And then it just kinda felt like in that one, Berserker got a little bit nervous when Amumu's hook shotting in, and he super early flashed, but it's like, even if he ults, you could just bust or shot him away and then jump probably.

And then if they fully commit flash and then Dhokla's like, "Oh, crap, I gotta save Berserker," and he jumps in, and then he dies for free, and Berserker can't even join the fight at all.

And we get 5 for 0 aced in this game where we were dead even the whole time, and then it just ends.

And it's like, that was heartbreaking.

Yeah.

Well, I also, too, the beginning, the, the way the beginnings of all these games started, feel like, "Oh, you know, we're getting behind." Maybe it's, like, Dhokla in lane or something like that.

Mm-hmm.

Or, uh, you know, Isles dies a couple times early or something like that.

But then our, seemed like our plan was always, "All right, let's go side lane, and we'll pick off Bin.

Bin's our boy, and we'll get-"

I mean, it's ...

We just watched Lion play, uh, play BLG, and it was very reminiscent of TL versus T1, right? Um, maybe even closer, because all of the games were closer.

We didn't really have one where we got just, like-

Yeah, I think that's fair

... blown out, it felt like.

Um, but, like, you know, just reminiscent in that same way, and it just feels like ...

I don't know how I feel about it, I guess, because it just feels that pro league right now is team fights, and that's, that's the whole game.

Um, if you're on a completely different level, then sometimes you can get kinda embarrassed and just, like, blown out before you even get a 5v5.

It has happened, uh, for sure.

Yeah.

Um, you know, but generally speaking, the games are just decided by the 5v5s, and the top LPL and LCK teams just seem like they're completely on a different level.

Um, you know, T1, HLE, BLG all look right now like they are just way better at team fighting.

So even when you get there with a chance, it never really feels like it's a, it's a guarantee until, like, it's actually done, right? Um, 'cause, 'cause these teams, regardless of if you have good scaling, regardless of if you have, you know, whatever, um, I don't know if it's just, like, experience or if it's nerves or if it's, you know, just they're just that much better or a combination, but, uh, definitely feels very reminiscent in, in a lot of them.

And, um, you know, I think back to, uh, the first game today, um, against, uh, against BLG, and that felt very much like that.

There was honestly, like, a, a lot of these series where it just felt like, "Damn, we are, we are so close," and you think, "Okay, you can see the angle how we can win this team fight.

Berserker is super fed." And then it just kinda felt like in that one, Berserker got a little bit nervous when Amumu's hook shotting in, and he super early flashed, but it's like, even if he ults, you could just bust or shot him away and then jump probably.

And then if they fully commit flash and then Dhokla's like, "Oh, crap, I gotta save Berserker," and he jumps in, and then he dies for free, and Berserker can't even join the fight at all.

And we get 5 for 0 aced in this game where we were dead even the whole time, and then it just ends.

And it's like, that was heartbreaking.

Yeah.

Well, I also, too, the beginning, the, the way the beginnings of all these games started, feel like, "Oh, you know, we're getting behind." Maybe it's, like, Dhokla in lane or something like that.

Mm-hmm.

Or, uh, you know, Isles dies a couple times early or something like that.

But then our, seemed like our plan was always, "All right, let's go side lane, and we'll pick off Bin.

Bin's our boy, and we'll get-"