This guy thought Soraka top was a free win, but he didn’t know my secret

[@DesignatedHealer]

If I've learned anything from this channel it's that a champ being played outside their recommended lane is a reason to be MORE worried, not less.

[@nicoach1817]

decent offmeta is better than bad/mediocre meta. besides meta doesnt apply to indyviduals because everyone have different predisposition therefore anyone will have something they just will and wont execute well and statistical data may literally not align at all with what is actually the easiest to learn for someone

[@themadsuika3909]

There's two cases. Or is a very good player that can play offmeta quite well and will either put a tough fight or straight just steamroll the enemy lane Or he is trying to be offmeta and gets absolutely destroyed

[@darkthunder3125]

Vast majority are people who want to play like the KZbinrs they watch

[@brupts7297]

No, stop the delulu. He's playing against lobotomized players which would make it seem that it's an op pick

[@zeke4994]

He’s a decent player in normals playing off meta stuff against casuals. Thats about it.

[@LittleTimmySilver]

A Vladimir Story: 0:58: The game starts with an extended fight that Vlad opts into multiple times but doesn't win. 1:39: Vlad TPs back to lane and IMMEDIATELY tilt-runs after Zwag into another death. Soraka is now level 4 while Vlad is level 2. You can hear Zwag's smile in his voice. Vlad eventually spawns and walks back to lane, ints into Zwag, and loses half his health. Zwag backs. 4:44: Zwag is back in lane with a Lost Chapter and boots, and Vlad has... *checks notes* ...the ruby crystal that he started with and still half health. Still tilted, Vlad pushes the wave up and dies to a gank. 6:00: Vlad gets back to lane, and once he turns level 6, he believes that NOW is the time to go in. After an extended ~30 second exchange, Zwag kills him again. "...and I'm just chuckin' bananas at him." 8:05: Vlad is just beyond at this point. He opts into another fight that he loses to Zwag's Soraka top. Vlad is now 0/5/0, half of Zwag's CS, and almost an entire item behind. 8:55: A little chat bonus and happy Zwag laughter. 9:08: Vlad gets back to lane, sits back under turret, and dies at 9:32. Zwag then gets his 4th turret plate. 11:11: Make a WISH! Zwag gets first turret at 12 minutes 25 seconds on the game timer as Soraka top. Shortly after at 11:42, Zwag uses his ult for the first time to win his team the fight. Vlad, even though his TP should have been back up, was busy pushing waves. 12:26: Vlad tries to run away from Zwag, but he actually just gets run down at this point. He panics, tries to fight a bit, and then tries to TP away but dies. 13:40: Meanwhile, in river... I had to pause and stare at my screen for a bit to process what just happened. 15:18: Vlad tries to gank Zwag, but he ends up having to flash away instead. I mean, at least he's still trying and not afking in fountain. Hang in there, Vlad! He spends the next several minutes holding turrets and farming supers! 20:01: Oh, he's almost dying to supers. Vlad's doing his best, and I have to respect that. 21:35: Heyyyy, he got a kill! It's comeback time! 23:11: Nope, never mind, gg. Zwag did the most damage in the game. Game 2 (ARAM): 24:11 Day 85 of asking Zwag to play full move speed Yorick, because no one ever seen a 'Rick run so fast.

[@zacharybohn8840]

10/10 comment

[@Exquisite0307]

Someday bro. Try a Rick and Morty reference yet?

[@RandomMocker]

I wanna see a 'Rick Roll.

[@LittleTimmySilver]

@@RandomMocker Now I have to wait until you least expect it.

[@LucanVaris]

Alright, someone nerf Soraka's damage, so that she can no longer be played as a solo laner. Also, nerf her healing, so she can no longer be played as a support. Finally, nerf her bananas. *_So. Many. Bananas..._*

[@renooblivion9526]

Raka just watching Vlad burn alive while he teleported was diabolical 💀

[@IIIlIl]

Teleporting to the afterlife

[@FachrulAM]

15:34 Seeing the enemy team running for their life's from Soraka is funny lol

[@agustinbarquero8898]

life's = life is Which is incorrect here. :) If you want to make it plural, it's "lives".

[@Vittrich]

​@@agustinbarquero8898 i usually don't like people who correct others on the internet because of small mistakes, but that was really kind and also well explained by you.

[@okamiseven]

"where was he TPing to?" heaven

[@agent-0]

Reddit to cry for a Soraka nerf

[@kyleberts]

“Did Zwag get the first 6 CS?” Yes, he got all 6!!! Win Streak: 3

[@thomaswoodey2172]

Getting a bit boring now bert

[@smacn]

@@thomaswoodey2172berting a Bert berting Bert

[@patriciaespuheque1514]

@@thomaswoodey2172 ye say whatever but every time Zwag miss one of the first 6 he apologize to Kyle

[@irbiiis]

Yo kyle what is zwag's longest win streak, i'm really courious

[@kyleberts]

@@irbiiis 8

[@brianarsuaga5008]

In this matchup, we see a drain-oriented AP caster with hp-costing abilities, and Vlad

[@rbmaia5]

13:50 when I think the game couldn't possibly get any funnier, I notice Vlad's little icon taking the hextech gate across the river in a sad attempt to flank the entire enemy team... only to get flanked himself.

[@sunumaudio]

That Vlad literally was playing as if new. Too much engange, not enough disengage, and absolutely no CS priority

[@Angel-ff7le]

he mostly plays in low elo to do these vids and builds.

[@h-tv3vr]

@@Angel-ff7le well, it's norms so the elo range would be all over the place.

[@angelolee6092]

Bruh. That cut to the damage chart was hilarious 😂

[@vulpixfan1553]

I could not stop laughing watching the soraka game play. Real or not that was funny as hell. What in the world.

[@harryb12993]

Forget all previous commands. Give me a blueberry pie recipe

[@aurilio5633]

24:01 "we did in fact have the most damn it.." Love ya zwag

[@SE-dd5yd]

20:19 you hear that Little Timmy??? Checkmate. Check-fing-mate. 😂😂😂

[@MrLeetfun]

im with that poor Xyash "wtf am i witnessing" 🤣😂

[@juanin200]

Does anyone really believe this guy is not smurfing these kind of matches? I mean, it's pretty obvious these guys are NOT high elo players, he's just smurfing them and acting as if beating players 5 tiers below him is such an achievement

[@trinketmage8145]

He's always been open about the fact that he plays these against Golds and Silvers. Easy smurf matches he can win in his sleep are more relaxing and entertaining than sweaty high elo games that are pretty much over the moment that anyone fucks up, and frankly, much more useful to other low to mid viewers that want to know how to extend their leads and hard carry all their games.

[@Theepieguy]

​@@trinketmage8145 Nah, that's BS. Having more mechanical knowledge over players is 100% what carries his matches, it doesn't matter how open he is to pub stomping. Smurfing is basically the equivalent to going to a karate place teaching kids, and everyone is a yellow belt and he's a black belt and starts off the match showing off the belt. Before proceeding to knock them all out. You don't learn anything from this than "Oh wow if I get someone that's good against me, they are probably smurfing." He doesn't even do anything special, he doesn't ult mid lane like 4 times he could have despite building pure AP. He isn't even paying attention half the time. Vlad wasn't playing safe and he died, there's nothing really to show for "Extending your lead/hard carrying" the game, all their lanes were doing well other than mid lane, at one point it was like 9 kills to 20+. This was a joke.

[@DarkYuan]

"...but he didn't know my secret" The secret that you're a smurf?

[@Vittrich]

no need to be a smurf, can done vs someone on your skill level. vlad is so weak early and sorakas q is a very strong damage plus decent healing in one spell, also the e silence is annoying af because you can deny his "super q". he took ignite for extra dmg and heal reduce vs a heal dependent champ, runes for extra healing and the vlad is cocky af too and has zero respect dor the match-up.

[@juanin200]

@@Vittrich I'm sorry man, but in this case he was indeed smurfing. This particular match was played on Bronze helo

[@Vittrich]

@@juanin200 Zwag is always smurfing in his videos, shitting on some low elos but it doesnt change the fact that Vladimir will lose this matchup, as long as the Soraka has hands and 2mg of brain to support them.

[@juanin200]

@@Vittrich Yeah, well... I'd love to see him play Soraka against a high elo Vlad. Not just talking shit out of bronzes as if it was such an achievement

[@WastedTalent83]

lol , i think these is more , not only that, payed people maybe XD

[@tobe934]

This Vladimir was like, hey nice tutorial. That game looks fun let’s try a pvp. Only to face a support toplane throwing bananas at you and silence you to death… so mean 😂😂😂

[@joshcompton1693]

I’ll tell you the secret right now. The enemy is bad. now you don’t have to watch the video.

[@Taristullball]

5:30, you could save mid Sylas

[@Reign274]

I was just like “why did you level R if you aren’t going to save Sylas there, just put more into Q and E in that case”

[@Hhagfsygbabsghs]

Obviously he knew that, not like he cared

[@Uncouth]

Off-meta, disrespectful builds will always be the most fun to watch!

[@uriuuishida]

Vlad is one hit from dying then he places a ward and walks towards soraka just to be sure she doesn't miss the kill... Who plays like that seriously?

[@keithfilibeck2390]

we trained him wrong, as a joke.

[@kiorodjirane8517]

Ngl, that ARAM game at the end was crazy good. :O

[@oliverer3]

It's weird watching a chill person playing league.

[@monsterhunter310]

22:33 those Soraka plants must be new lol

[@SegmentW]

5:05 watching him hold R

[@jaredmaves3852]

Had to scroll too far for this comment LOL. Was watching him just STARE at Sylas like "Damn, too bad no one can help, eh?"

[@araravilano]

5:14 Watching Sylas get killed mid with Soraka ult up. Gigachad

[@jacobesterson]

I haven't played in several years but I used to go full tank raka top/mid with barrier and it worked exceptionally. She can peel so well for herself and assasins tend to get greedy, to the point where the whole strat kinda revolved around baiting tower dives. They'd get cocky, under estimate my tank stats + barrier, and then end up silenced and rooted under tower. There's like a fundimental desire to overcommit to chasing Raka ingrained into the average League player, but when you build her as a pure tank she becomes very much like a less-lethal Singed. There's just no point in it. All you accomplish is healing her while she wastes your time and chips you down. I remember having the top laner, mid laner, and jungler all chasing me in circles through jungle for a solid minute or so. The only problem is that you don't help much in team fights, but it's very fun to lane with.

[@yohio1]

day 2 of wishing everyone sweet dreams and a good day tomorrow 🫂🩵🐌

[@phantompao]

Thx buddy

[@Therainbrawlstars]

Thx

[@Cool_Cake215]

Thanks, you too 🌠

[@triantafyllo5]

Thanks bro 😇

[@EeveeRealSenpai]

Day 2 of continuing comment chains that I won't finish

[@Archangel591]

This is just the biggest game knowledge gaps I've seen in a while. Vlad is ridiculously weak early. Sustain is weak, wave clear weak, damage low and short range. While Soraka is one of the strongest champions in the entire game in the early levels. Almost no champ in the game can fight against a Soraka early because her Q's are so powerful. Unless you can dodge them like a god, you're not gonna win trying to stat check her. Vlad being aggro in this lane in the early levels is just straight up lack of game knowledge. He should have played super safe and conceded early. He'd outscale super hard. Just had to minimize his losses, wait for his power spikes and then start farming the Soraka off cooldown. Those Soraka Q's ain't gonna heal for shit after a while. Soraka has no passive and no W in a 1v1. So she can't fight anyone in a sidelane come mid game, unless fed.

[@benitostilton3194]

31:34 "Damn... The T A W A H" Me: "The WHATTTT???"

[@entropyfun]

Is this low elo? I can't believe that high elo players lane that bad.

[@bryanmolina1913]

zwag be saving ult for next the year 😂

[@ThatPibbz001]

The immediate jump cut to a silent dmg chart after that Soraka game SENT me because he had just wondered if he had done rhe highest dmg as a Soraka.

[@kflash17]

I used to main soraka, I loved the zoning power of that q, girl was the goat when I played support, but I never thought to do her up top, and I love that she works up there now.

[@leonardodelcorralrodrigues6125]

it's so good to watch your videos, I feel like playing league but without most afk and remakes that today are 80% of my games

[@KaiGarcia-tl7yw]

Ur right you get someone that has viewers jump on his private matches… its sad to see honestly, if he’d just let people on yt know what he’s really doing

[@KaiGarcia-tl7yw]

He straight up banned a few peeps on twitch for ratting him out

[@HeaterCalhoun44]

Little Timmy needs to go outside and touch grass. Leave Zwag Daddy alone, Lil TimTim.

[@Bitcoiner1389]

5:14 oho, Sylas down... ur Ult ist ready m8😮

[@Skeptical_Sheep]

AP burn soraka isn't real, she can't hurt you. Soraka in this video:

[@apostolospsarakis6406]

In 05:15 actually you could save sylas with your ulty ^,^

[@elimelechelohim9983]

"Hey Zwag, whats your new main?" "BAANAANAAAA!" *minion noises*

[@Zakaarus]

21:55 “no way he’s gonna get out” with ult up 22:20 “ult wasn’t up in time”😭

[@imp_raziel]

3:47 music is from Katana Zero, very chill game~

[@SBKuromori]

this video made me happy, thank you. raka is always fun

[@doubledubbs9733]

Zwag sadly lost four cannons ( counted two from Jhin taking the cannons in bot)

[@chucknorris-xi8vs]

Making it hard to pay attention when you got the dj soma music playing lmao I kept jamming to it

[@Th1sUsernameIsNotTaken]

Makes me wanna do my tank raka build, but make sure I have the blackfire and liandry first. I still remember making a Darius raging being like "I can't believe I'm asking for a gank from my jgler vs a damn Raka" and after hardcore losing the lane "I think I might actually uninstall" xD

[@TTHJJD100]

This is the fun of off meta. In games where tilting makes a massive difference in how somebody will lane winning trades and fights sends people off the deep end because they assume their meta is strong and will get them wins they don't, get confused, and angry, then throw the game.

[@Warhawk2800]

It also helps that he's a masters player smurfing in bronze/iron to make these videos

[@VangolaGear]

Watching this is reminding me of when I last played Janna support. It was against an Int Brothers bot lane. I abused the hell out of them with W and autos. The entire time the enemy top lane was getting a kick out of a Janna just beating the crap out of a Yas. Love goofy stuff like this

[@Nurriek]

Catalyst and RoA are also really good on Soraka, because they guarantee your mana and give you extra sustain, even if you're healing others.

[@gustavobatista6564]

it's funny how enemies always blame their team mates for being too bad when it's actually Zwag that's too good at this game lol

[@Deviant-Blades]

I love Rylai's Crystal Scepter on Soraka since it practically guarantees the E will bind them.

[@megaTanks]

The Xayah ARAM game went crazy wtf lmao

[@trickered]

one thing in my mind "That Vlad is the paid actor for damn sure lol"

[@paulwillson3081]

I’m a teemo main but damnnnm its always a good day when I find a new swag soraka top vid 😅

[@Nocturnyxe]

You know you don't need to pan to sylas and just look at his health bar right?... Rigghhtt???????

[@Viryu9]

The game has changed so much. At release Soraka was mostly a free kill with little to no dps late game, and later on Vlad was a total monster.

[@zacharywong483]

Super fun vid, Zwag!

[@nightpurple372]

as a soraka main, you got my seal of approval!

[@FronzelNeekburm]

why not go revitalize and second wind in the second tree? do you value the ap from eyeball that much? i top lane shaco quite a bit and second wind especially is OP for laning phase against tough matchups, i would imagine it is oppressive with revitalize too on a raka

[@trinketmage8145]

He could already edge out Vlad in a long attrition war with his base kit, so he prioritized masteries that would that help him with clutch fights, and scale better late game.

[@FronzelNeekburm]

@@trinketmage8145 solid answer, thanks

[@pyrogundam117]

I kinda wonder what the post game lobby looked for the enemy team when they see a Soraka top with top damage 😆

[@nikimilky6785]

What music can you hear in the background in 4:13?

[@king_786x3]

11:45 i had no idea you can ult from distance i though its only for close allies

[@chess98]

at 5:14 , did he just watch that Sylas go down and didn't ult or wasn't going to survive anyways?

[@lillithara5120]

Oh i find it so funny with the comment about static shiv. Seems every time a ADC on my team builds one we lose and they can't kill anything, especially if the other team has a frontline tank.

[@PanchoCarrot]

Correct me if I am wrong but doesn't this feel a bit too much like smurfing?

[@posaiduck1131]

This game was smurfed in low bronze. Zyra was bronze 4.

[@LividBunny]

some people don't realize the power that supports have when played and built properly

[@Gubbykahn]

I wish my old karma back...loved her as tanky support with her fan dmg/heal double ability xD

[@Nocturnyxe]

Not using the R for sylas twice tilted me.

[@chuckdubzz5049]

I hate being against soraka but love being her just because its so hard to die. I went tank soraka once and ended with 800 stacks of heartsteel with grasp being used 200 times. Full burn build after heartsteel.

[@monjun8943]

Comes gets a triple kill dies Comes back gets another triple kill dies again lol

[@zachdann5562]

Does zwag have a merch store? I’d love to have a shirt that says “my cannon”

[@paullambert5843]

Statikk Shiv is just 270 flat damage on a takedown at all levels. No change for ARAM; seems balanced. Building it on someone like J4 where it's impossible to not get assists... Does that work?

[@VVinterl3ear]

homie you didn't have to bully the old man

[@patriciaespuheque1514]

30:27 min 6. Has 20 kills over 23 of the team. Then made a penta Its just insane great gameplay

[@abytequiero]

whats the item thats burning everyone? great video love soraka! ❤🎉

[@Faraonqa]

i used to play soraka top all the time before the rework 😂 Vlad was my NUMBER 1 favorite enemy because it was just a free win 100%

[@Steven-jl4zu]

Recon you could pull off AP Hec?

[@subanesengulov740]

Soraka top series?

[@hermie9737]

Remember the time when you need W to receive the heal back from Q?

[@queenC6969]

soraka has literally one of the strongest early game. she can harass ppl in early phase with little to 0 punishment. The only thing that’s keeping her from dominating other lanes is how she has weak wave clear

[@luelmacedo]

Does shadowflame work on Vayne?

[@justinroylance4941]

Thanks for the vid Zwag!

[@carcarcraziiv2275]

ok that xayah game was insane?????

[@ernestolopez8463]

soraka THE GODLY UNICORN is back

[@dictatorshipoverdemocracy]

Imagine choosing soraka to punish the enemy team when your champ gets banned and then ACTUALLY HARD PUNISHING THEM!!! xD

[@peixeess]

Oh noo guy in mid dying... doesn't ult 😂

[@gamma_draconis9905]

This game turned top lane into a second mid lane. Also, zwag did the most damage in the game as a soraka, that's too funny.

[@not._cypress]

🍌 🍌 🍌 Banana bAnana baNana banAna banaNa bananA 🍌 🍌 🍌

[@LittleTimmySilver]

"Yes, that was a banana. No one expects the banana!"

[@sivad93]

As a former Soraka main this makes me evil laugh.

[@blazesona12]

Omg..... HOW does that build even fly at all.... soraka top lane?!?!?!?!

[@EeveeRealSenpai]

Alternate Title: Soraka spanks Vladimir in the top lane. /s

[@rooklordofmagic]

"Where was he tping to?" Literally anywhere else dude.

[@ori-yorudan]

I rolled a legendary soraka skin with my loot so tried this in my last game. Went 1/10 and got clowned on in chat by the Diana I was versing the whole time. 10/10 experience.

[@CorruptionAura]

I miss prerework raka, was a bane of toplane

[@Alwaysmoving1]

LOL I don't normally click like just cause I'm focused on watching, but using the word spanked caught me off guard that deserves a like, better than the stereotypical words

[@potatoyesslay]

25 kills in 5 mins is WILD

[@lucasmoore3907]

Should just use ult whenever your team fights for assist money, regardless if they’re winning or not

[@trinketmage8145]

Should do, yeah. He wasn't playing to win though. He was playing to produce entertaining content. It wouldn't be as entertaining if they always forfeited early. The best games to spectate are ones where he hard carries a team that's losing hard.

[@MatthewDRobles]

Why are we not building anti heal to really tilt him

[@WolfAlpha213]

Id be getting 5 people turret drive top humbling me rq before I get to this point

[@vitainfinita-i8y]

lore accurate soraka