How G2 continue to dominate / The KC Miracle - The Best Damn League Show. S4E18 ft Jensen Goh

Thorin is joined by Jensen Goh to discuss the LEC Summer regular season's conclusion, G2 and Fnatic heading into the Esports World Cup, the new-look KC finally making Playoffs, Rogue's disappointing year, LEC Playoff predictions, and more.
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0:00:00 - Which styles of play work in LEC?
0:05:30 - Heretics
0:16:06 - KC
0:21:51 - G2
0:32:49 - Rogue
0:36:45 - Fnatic
0:42:02 - BDS
0:46:06 - Fnatic vs TL preview
0:50:29 - GiantX
0:54:51 - Playoff predictions
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[@G2LoL]

Nothing new then

[@turnermarius4471]

Facts 100%

[@MarvinatioN26]

at least you got a proper segment this time

[@Pigraider268]

Would be funny if you lose the finals tho. Cmon give it a try ;)

[@G2LoL]

@@MarvinatioN26 bigger dub than our 2-0 this week

[@szabel.]

one my favorite guests,, if not my favorite. always love seeing jensengoh, i enjoy his systems approach

[@bochibochi9990]

I got baited, read dominate on the thumbnail and insta-clicked, well I was going to watch it anyways. Thanks for another episode!

[@vistington3145]

do you not look at the thumbnails?

[@tank-is2yl]

Everybody talks about BDS coaching, but Labrov calling in game has go so good. It's clearly being improving and is a important part of their wins

[@roachdoggjr4648]

Labrov has significantly improved likely because of the coaching, he was seemingly a failed prospect before he joined BDS

[@tank-is2yl]

@roachdoggjr4648 I'm not just interested in gameplay. They clearly decided for th bo1 in summer to completely limit his champ poll to literally 1 champion to allow him time to focus on practising making good calls in stage games. This is a skill he is developing well, and thanks to it, BDS have been much better in their ability to decide when to take teamfights, not just following their traditional flowchart for fights.

[@stefanpekez9487]

GX possible team : Oddo, Bo, Jackies, Upset and support upset feels comfy to play with. That mid&jung would jump at every fking skirmish and probably outplay most of them coz both are mechanically gifted.

[@treynguyen1236]

Jensen Goh?

[@THEkullerpuller]

Honestly if Yamato, Upset and Bo aren't on a team next season I'm just done with LEC. Unless all of these teams somehow find players that are all the next Caps I don't want to see some rookie over an Alphari, an Upset, an Odoamne or even a Nemesis and these orgs just being okay with mediocrity because they don't want to try and make a difficult player work in order to become a great team.

[@Cashmoneez]

I genuinely don’t understand why a perennial bottom feeder team like rogue doesn’t even try to take a flyer on Bo like what do you have to lose lmao

[@THEkullerpuller]

@@Cashmoneez yeah that's what I mean. I understand why G2 or Fnatic doesn't pick him up but if you are Rogue or GX just get him and and see if it works. He even dragged Targamas and Saken to so.e very good early games so why shouldn't he be able to do that with their players. Add in Odo for late game shot calling and you are probably a middle of the pack team.

[@voyager1175]

I was gonna say W take by Thorin for Caps but then I heard this stupid Humanoid narrative again. If it is 1 game of Jekyl it is 9 games of Hyde also internationally. Caps absolutely shitted on Humanoid for 3 years straight. Humanoid isn't some kind of stud against better players than him. He is just coinflippy where the coin lands 1 time up and 9 times down

[@Whyisthatlamptalking]

Yeah, I don't care what take people have on humanoid - at the end of the day, he got dumpstered on by APA in two separate series. Even if it's true that Humanoid has the ego mentality Thorin and Jensen were talking about, regardless of who your opponent is, if you're disrespecting them at an international tournament, you're just a bad player. I'm tired of hearing about his "high highs", we haven't seen those in years. It makes it even worse if you've already lost to your opponent in an embarrassing fashion the first time around and still not correct your mentality accordingly. If humanoid is seriously the "second best" mid laner in EU as so many people still claim, EU is truly doomed when caps retires.

[@THEkullerpuller]

Honestly GenG vs G2 is a really cool matchup and I'm sad we didn't see it at MSI because Caps might have actually been the 2nd or at least third best mid at that tournament. Ofc the gap to Chovy is pretty big but it would be really hype to see the best mid ever in the west vs the best mid ever in the east when both are in a very good form.

[@christophercalderon5204]

So what did they dominate again?

[@shaise]

"I wouldn't get Jackies if ihe was a 1$ midlaner" fucking spot on Jensen, he's pure trash

[@matyaskvapil7674]

Jensen is a piece of dog**** we know that, nothing new. Thorin isn't much better, at least he's funny. I wonder why people still listen to these professional shit-talkers.