Worlds 2024 Finals Preview / Who are the WORST and BEST performing players? - Power Spike S3E34

[@chsunny2750]

Yamato trying to get a word in but Monte and Dom keep dragging it back to T1 and the narratives.

[@jeevang7853]

That’s because DGon is a horrible host lol. He lets Monte and Dom cry and whine too much, hence this dumb video being close to 3 hrs long. Can’t watch this crap.

[@StraightUpOnGod]

I hate it when Yamato gets interrupted

[@Darkyryus_]

Smoge

[@K1m9857]

Yamato isn't contributing well in the conversation

[@dakwonju]

​@@K1m9857and the ones going on and on about T1 are? 🤔

[@the_beemer]

I don't see it as radical as many of the other comments, but I think the show becomes more enjoyable when you first give your takes instead of trying to mainly debunk narratives angrily. It's fine to do that, but I think your content should mainly be your analysis and not restating what idiots think. Or maybe have a "comment of the week" segment where you lay into one stupid narrative/tweet/comment for 5 to 10 minutes but ignore community for the rest of the show Watched every episode, but things like format rants and fan grievances used to be a minor element and now they are the entire show and it a bit overplayed. Those things are like spice, they enhance the taste of a good meal, I don't wanna eat a ghost pepper though. Don't forget to serve a meal (analysis content)

[@assassinsfriend]

Agree.

[@hyunyoungcho8608]

Agree with your comment too

[@VietFS]

Well said. I'm not sure if i'm getting tired of it or it is happening more. But It feels like Dom uses the podcast as therapy session sometimes. The same frustrating twitter/reddit comment overexplained covered as a joke.

[@Diya-dg6ur]

Isn't dom the idiot? Isn't he the making up narratives? Like who says Faker didn't get criticised for worlds?? Faker got called a choker after 2022 worlds. Then he randomly talks about conspiracy theories(t1 patch)

[@shinobuu__]

Agreed

[@cronus9992]

I think yamato is too good to talk analytics about the game with dom and monte, the number of times he gets interrupted and he is the only one who talks to the point and being concise at the same time. Dgon you gotta do timers on the opnions and make sure the conversation and section of topics they talk about aligns

[@StraightUpOnGod]

Spot on.

[@narfidy444]

Monte and Dom just bring out the worst in each other. I don't mind the tri cast dynamic, Dom is definitely more level headed with Yamato around, but these quad casts are kinda not it. I do think it's important for them to address narratives and stuff because the community often runs away with it. The LCK discussion was super great, and then immediately into the LEC discussion that Monte started yelling about. Just not my kind of content

[@hugjes]

Yamato frequently uses too many words to get his points across, which is a shame because he has solid knowledge and opinions.

[@gitinia]

Let it remain vibes. THis isn't a debate.

[@chrisjenkins8164]

Yamato seems like a legit good person ... Dom and Monte can't stop going down on themselves ... The most egotistical duo on the planet

[@razxish]

50% of the podcast is whinning about toxic fans. Its just annoying to hear this as a neutral fan honestly

[@nirvash241]

its starting to get tiring to be honest they can choose to ignore fans glazing cause their teams is winning but nopeeeeeeeeeeee lets put a video talking about them but put a different title on it

[@kappakagemanden3848]

its almost like the fanbase is complete cancer

[@Pastelbluesox]

T1 fan spotted

[@qGods]

@@Pastelbluesox Dom meatmuncher spotted

[@lightidentity]

@@Pastelbluesox dipshit spotted

[@Mizzraim]

Yo monte, let yamato finish please

[@Runningitsendingit]

‘Gotta make this about me’

[@djhumanoid]

he let thorin cut him off so many millions of times he has to let it out

[@jdbeg-x7h]

I'm a big fan of the content about the game but it's becoming a bit jarring to watch when there's a lot of focus on complaining about 'toxic fans' in the community. I'm not usually on reddit/twitter so i don't usually see those kinds of comments and so this podcast just comes off as being super spiteful. Constructive analysis is great but it's weird when it just transitions into aggressive whining about what other people say. Hope you guys can get past this and deliver the content that people want to see more of in future

[@jeevang7853]

There's a reason Caedral is better than all these four combined.

[@colin5197]

​@@jeevang7853 because he's afraid to actually speak his mind to avoid any backlash and abuse from the community lmao😂🤣🤡

[@Obiwankenobi-w5q]

Yea I love all of them they are so great but the spite for what random fans say on Reddit is a little much. No one even goes on Reddit anymore and I don't even have a Twitter account so it's really not relatable and super niche I feel like. Hopefully we can get back to them just saying their opinions and not caring what others think

[@zugzwang7088]

It's like they made this podcast mainly out of spite to T1 and T1 fans. Still did get some analysis but too much focus given to narratives that doesn't matter. Hard to watch

[@davienssprime123]

@@jdbeg-x7h Its fine for some episodes but this is done every fucking episode

[@aminebarka9213]

Just to clarify, i got perma banned by Dgon in chat in this episode for saying that he needs to step in and switch the subject when the rants go for too long. I'm simply never watching again and i'll just stick to Yamato's stream because he seems to be the only one willing to actually give analysis and talk about the game

[@dgonesports]

LMAOOOO i didnt ban you. I o7'd when you got ban.

[@aminebarka9213]

@dgonesports Oh well, I'm assuming someone on the podcast did otherwise i would have been unbanned if it was some random mod. But yeah, i don't think people getting perma banned for actually making non-harmful comments in chat is ever a good look.

[@laurentmikasso7452]

@@dgonesports Please talk to your friends. This is unwatchable, can't they give analysis instead of whining 24/7 about random fans who will never come here to watch a full podcast and get full insight on esports and the game? Please let them know that there is a reason why Caedrel is popular and it's not because he is afraid to address controversies, but it's because he does not want the negativity to overwhelm the content he wants to put out. If there is something bad just address it directly and swiftly move on to what you have to bring and not dissing what everybody else is doing that you dislike. I am really glad to finally find out after reading the comment section today that i was not alone feeling this way. But previously it was always dismissed as "These are just angry T1 fans". This really is sad to watch.

[@nirvash241]

Dgon is the one who loves to start this rant like he randomly will bait DOM to talk bout T1 or whatever garbage person to be honest

[@offthegrid777]

​@@nirvash241 Bro, you think IWD can be baited to do anything he does not want to argue about??? XD,,, It's hard to be a mod for three strong willed and opinionated analysts/streamers without getting bulldozed -_- . Sorry to hear someone got perma banned.

[@deralaaarm6312]

How can four adult men (especially two) get so triggered by a couple of 16-teen year old edgy T1-Fans, up to a point where they lose any sort of objectiveness themselves, atleast when they talk about T1. I usually value your opinion alot, but at this point it is so unwatchable.

[@FlashBang91]

As a huge fan of monte and thorin since the beginning of their lol coverage, its tough to say but i think im about checked out at this point. I respect the work yall do to perpetuate accurate and compelling narratives and to push back against riot bs and saudi takeover, but it's just too much of the same condescending rants dominating shows week after week. Its ridiculous that we have to hear the exact same lines from si...this is not entertaining anymore. Not everyone is a hate watcher, i miss more thorough analyses of games with a more lighthearted banter and tone, which is why im loving lfn culture these days. A closing thought is that in this episode you clearly know that most of the dipshit 't1 fans' are just worlds casuals, and you question why they even care about who is the best player. I wonder why you dedicate so much time to those people at the expense of your fans who watch this channel and lol all year, im glad to see others commenting with the same feelings. All the best

[@jeevang7853]

Huge fan? Really? There's a reason these guys can only do KZbin these days.

[@NoradNoxtus]

because of dipshit morons like you coming out of the woodwork around this time of the year. it's all hamless banter either way but since you feel sometype of way about it clearly you feel personally attacked in this scenario so yeah, you're one of them bro.

[@marstonpablo2542]

Yeah they're ass now. It's hilarious how Monte and IWD are talking about echo chambers in the first 5ish minutes of this. Reality is, they just jerk each other off so hard all the time. It's the biggest echo chamber.

[@offthegrid777]

​@@jeevang7853 Can you enlighten me, what's wrong with KZbin? It's the only platform with less toxic viewers and regulars can carry a rational discussion... What are you on about? 😂

[@kxsimmo]

Yamato killing it on the podcasts. Hard agree that the meta benefitted all teams in different ways, and the spotlight on T1 is just because it's T1. This meta favours BLG more than T1 100%.

[@treque22]

I Agree! he finds the positive, or give you always some new perspective to pay atention to. With Thorin and Montecristo I get the feeling that no matter what, they will always push a negative narrative.

[@goreahmed3733]

@@treque22yea those 2 guys seem pretty negative about stuff in general , yamato really sees things in a different light

[@jeevang7853]

He's the only sane one here

[@StraightUpOnGod]

This is why I love listening to Yamato. Is unbiased and gives amazing insights.

[@edwardwongliupepelutivrusk1262]

@@StraightUpOnGod It's not unbiased, it's just different opinion, when the opinion you agree on doesn't make it unbiased. What i think, Keria is hugely benefit from the sup meta right now, the tank leona etc meta is going away which is affecting ON performance, also you could argue Keria playstyle is more creative, but on traditional enagage sup meta ON is better. As far as other lanes, this meta favours BLG and T1 equally

[@george571]

We want analysis guys... you're beating the dead horse of a minority of fans. You actually have incredible analysis and insight. PLEASE, more of that, lets stop droning on about fanbases jfc...

[@nguyentri3608]

Who is we? You have 1 comment on this channel, it's not like you're sticking around after worlds anyways 👋

[@maisafwa]

How about making a different show about “debunking” wrong narratives and give us a show about the actual game not complaining about other fans for 70% of the show. It’s tiring.

[@zoezoeofficial]

X1

[@NintendoGzus]

Well let's see, all the top comments are from non-toxic fans asking to please stop with the toxic fan content. Will they listen? Or do they actually love the toxic fans? Find out on the next episode of "Who is this podcast actually for?"

[@TYFLOL]

very interesting!!

[@engryfill9047]

This comment is hilariously accurate. Spot on!

[@NoTimetoCry]

nah they gotta bring in the views. Caedrel started later than IWD and it's 10 times more sucessful because he's actually trying to entertain and be fair (bias for comedy sakes). Meanwhile IWD will keep being salty and pathetic for 4 years with 0 improvement in viewership.

[@aidansimpson7107]

@@NoTimetoCry yes dom the 2nd most successful ENG costreamer should care about being nice and yelling to attract man children instead of creating the stream he wants to! bias for comedic sakes xd!

[@Frandahab]

​​@@aidansimpson7107 he's not going to be the second biggest for very long. To preface things, he's only the second biggest now because LS nuked his costreaming entirely, he was pulling many more viewers than Dom at his peak. I also think Jankos, if he doesnt go back to pro, will overtake Dom. The point isn't "yelling to appeal to manchildren", it's just overall likeability, Dom goes out of his way to make himself unlikeable. As for manchildren, I think a person well into their thirties making his persona about hating fans of a team sounds way more immature than anything Caedrel does.

[@fathertime7864]

took them about 3 seconds to bitch about T1 fans 😂 The funniest thing is they say that the T1 fans spreading these narratives do not watch much league but they feel the need to debunk narratives from these nobodies who "don't know anything about league". Bro those opinions don't matter but It's almost like you have to engage with them and mention them every single video so you can get more views and interactions. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@filippoye609]

It's mostly annoying for them to see these objectively false narratives being the agreed consensus from people who clearly don't care and don't invest as much time watching the games as them. I get that feeling but Lolesports has been this way since forever, I'm surprised they still didn't get over it

[@jamesartemio1312]

@@filippoye609 it's more annoying how far they would go to counter. They always want the best team to win, as it should be, but when they lose at the most important tournament of the year, it's like "worlds is meh.. worlds is a bad format.. MSI is better.. domestic dominance blah blah blah." A 1000%, every team that won msi, would rather lose MSI if it means winning worlds.

[@fathertime7864]

@@filippoye609exactly those people do not spend time analyzing and watching the game so why the fuck do their opinions and narratives matter? and why do Monte Dom and Thorin need to "debunk" them? You don't need to be am expert to see a stupid take on twitter and realize it's shit then move on.

[@kaktuscar3795]

Dom, if my memory serves me correctly, you said once that T1 bad performance at MSI is do to fact that MSI is shorter tournament than Worlds and they don't have enough time to adapt to the meta. So what are you talking about now? T1 is good only because GenG can't play this format or what, i really don't understand?

[@thedefibeast8932]

Dude changes narratives every time he gets shit on by T1

[@fathertime7864]

dude's a hypocrite when it comes to teams he doesn't like

[@filippoye609]

Yeah and what exactly contradicts what he stated here? Worlds is 2 months on the same patch while MSI lasts less then 1 month. GenG not performing to their LCK standards was attributed to the lack of good quality practice, because their gameplay is very reliant on crispyness of macro and rotations.

[@notmetho906]

@@filippoye609 says by who? Did any of the gen g staff or players says those?

[@Diya-dg6ur]

faker did in fact get called a choker after 2022 worlds

[@TheAngelFolly]

Why are we all forgetting that people said Faker should retire, he's washed, and he's holding the young T1 members back.

[@skrattaoppar9753]

Dom is like Ash from pokemon, he gets a reset every season lol

[@StillKeepOnLosing]

​@@skrattaoppar9753 Dom is Choke'vy's little cat from pet cemetery.... He won't go away

[@쿨이에요유니티]

We get it there are dumb,toxic fans, but 40% of the podcast is shitting on toxic fans, please talk more about the game

[@simone-fz9hl]

i'm not sure they are able to anymore, especially when the game constantly disproves them. they have to make up arguments to feel they are right

[@RumandCocaine]

You would just type "you're just a hater" or "what a shit take", nothing good is coming from any of you just look this week's comments everywhere you go, It's like someone posts something and there's over 500 comments and 90% has keyword t1 or faker

[@simone-fz9hl]

@@RumandCocaine this is not an argument

[@쿨이에요유니티]

@@RumandCocaine I get it but it would be better if they made a separate show talking about dumb fans. Not ruin the immersion of the show because they talk shit about a fan every chance they get.

[@semitemos1727]

​@@쿨이에요유니티 i am sure if T1 were dumped out before Quarterfinal, they would have talked different. But the results are not backing them up, so the only choice is to shit on the minority toxic fan. Their analysis is sometimes biased against T1, but most of the time quite reasonable. Cant help, i just skip their nonsense jokes.

[@szephyr]

I think it’s actually really easy to talk about T1’s sudden resurgence during worlds while also talking about how Gen G. maybe didn’t look as cohesive as a team. To Dom’s point- if Gen G had more time on the patch, obviously they would figure it out, but that’s just not how worlds has ever really worked. Whether or not that’s a good or bad thing is up to the viewer.

[@foiguramu]

That was such a dumb logic from Dom. GenG was operating under the exact same rules as the other teams. If anything, they had more time to prepare for the Worlds patch than T1 did because T1 had to run the regionals on the playoffs patch and GenG ended the split earlier. Also the SoloQ argument is such a bullshit given that in every 2 weeks in LCK, they scrim on different patch for stage games than the live patch. Only LCS had live patch in stage among major regions. It's insane that no one called him out on his frivolous points

[@Wegotdazoomies0599]

It's the other fucking way around. Geng has never figured patches out, they just brute forced patches. That's why they win msi and regional splits, because there isn't enough time (or incentive) to figure out the patches for those tournaments deep enough to beat a team like GenG. Even if it were possible, is it worth it if it might compromise your overall performance in the next split/tournament? T1 is like a Jojo character, they outsmart you then outsmart your outsmarting when you try. GenG is someone who'd watch you try to get smart and just punch your face and win, but their problem is that when their punch gets parried or dodged they have nothing else in the tank. Chovy can play any champs, but he plays all of them the same way.

[@yihadistxdl951]

@@foiguramu Because the logic had no issues. Gen G typically takes more time to adjust to new meta shifts. He has said many times T1 adjusts the fastest to meta shifts usually with the exception of the adc mid meta. SoloQ argument is not bullshit at all as well. Yes obviously in LCK they scrim on different patch than the live patch. Usually patches make a few minor small changes. The patches that have come to the game after the worlds patch are absolutely massive and completely change the meta to a different direction entirely. The difference between current live patch and worlds patch is FAR bigger than what the difference normally is between lck patch and live patch. Gen G probably had more time than T1 to prepare for the meta shifts, but nobody actually knew what the meta would be coming to worlds and the different meta reads are tested during the event. T1 had a better meta read than GenG as they always have when they have less time to prepare. GenG refines over longer period of time and becomes the best team. T1 is much better at improvising because theyre a scrappy fighting team, unlike GenG which is a very refined and conservative control team. Of course they had the same rules as everyone else, Dom is simply saying that other teams are better at other things. And the worlds environment suits T1 and their style perfectly. I dont understand how you guys think its a crazy take when FAKER HIMSELF said coming to worlds that "Worlds is our home ground" and said that theyre very familiar and comfortable at worlds. Which is literally exactly what Dom said as well. Surely you understand this, you dont seem to be an idiot after all.

[@jamesartemio1312]

It is a really bad take. Worlds really has been like this for years and it’s not like the meta shifted far from what they were good at. They’re still one of the best in this patch. Ad mids got nerfed but ain’t chovy supposed to have a champion ocean? Kiin champs are still strong, Canyon still have his jungle champs, peyz is great on kaisa/ez which guma is not, and keria is not picking the meta engage champs

[@unixitymystic4699]

​@@yihadistxdl951​I now need a clarification on what are the "other things" that "the other teams" are better at. And why is that T1's problem. Just credit T1 and move on. Initially it was GenG takes time to figure out meta. Now it is GenG is not warmed up enough. Then find that sweet spot, yo? If the team is good enough, they shld figure it out. Plain simple.

[@mgbgaming360]

So let me check if I got it correctly. So Dom's explanation on the T1 win is: Gen G was not in good form because Worlds' format is not conducive for them due to reasons like low scrim quality and no time to practice cause of the travel and media days etc etc. BUUUUUTTTT these reasons not only doesn't apply to "scrappier teams" like BLG/T1, but also it works well for them? Cause T1 is a team that works well on low practice? Really? This is the explanation? No wonder at 1:19:05 Montecristo started joking around that maybe t1 fans were behind the DDOS attacks cause it will make T1 win cause they excel on low practice! and you can see Dgon's cant-take-it-anymore reaction while Dom still legit explaining himself. LOL 😂🤣😝

[@kaktuscar3795]

I'm glad that i see more and more comments like this. People are seeing through his BS and realizing that he just hates T1 with his soul

[@PeoplePleaser578]

You realise they were both memeing about the DDOSing right? Like Dom was joking as well, because the point is T1 typically do better in shorter tournaments with less practice because they can just pick whatever and force fights. As Yamato said Worlds is random, they deal better with randomness than a team like GenG that needs more structure. Or do people actually think T1 just sandbag the entire year because they only care about worlds?

[@unixitymystic4699]

​@@PeoplePleaser578How does "T1 doing better at shorter tournaments" and "T1 doing better at Worlds" add-up?

[@PeoplePleaser578]

@ Because worlds is a shorter tournament than the rest of the year… like that’s not a hard concept. You realise worlds has less games than every other tournament in the cycle… right? And it’s only on one patch so they adapt really quickly compared to a team like GenG who need more time to prep. Worlds is entirely different to the rest of the year.

[@unixitymystic4699]

@PeoplePleaser578 Thanks for clarifying how well your listening skills are when Dom spent minutes arguing that the Worlds tournament is TOO LONG. 👍

[@charliecharlez]

This is so hard to watch. I just wanna know their thoughts and insights about the game. But instead, it’s all about toxic fans, T1 this and that wtff 😵‍💫

[@Digbigbombig]

yes when the largest fan base is also the most toxic and is permanently attacking analysts and ccs for saying T! has not been good all year which is proper analysis it becomes inevitable to talk about them.

[@simone-fz9hl]

@@Digbigbombig this doesn't happen, stop making up strawmans

[@ToTheGrave20]

Because these 'analysts' aren't analysising. They're shtting on a vocal minority. ​@@Digbigbombig

[@Digbigbombig]

@@simone-fz9hl just go to any tweet slightly critical of t1 from any pig league personally or the league subreddit. Of course it happens.

[@Digbigbombig]

@@ToTheGrave20 realistically it doesn’t matter if they are a minority or not. When any of these guys make a comment like “T1 was not as good as GenG for the entire year” this is analysis, and when the response they get is “T1 hater” or “choky” or anything of the sort, of course they will respond by shitting on them.

[@vanne_o7o7]

I am tired of their whining about the "narratives" I watch every piece of content LFN puts out and even watch Dom and Monte's streams. It's overplayed now. I want analysis and their based takes on the game. Not them half of the time just complaining

[@loke2821]

Guys I really enjoy watching you but you have become somewhat paranoid with T1 and Faker. You are trying so hard to prove the T1 stans wrong that you are starting to do the same thing as them and just blindly try to find reasons to undermine them. Give credit where it’s due,because this team transformed though hard work cause in summer they were shit, so let’s embrace this transformation and enjoy the finals.

[@manzamanze1611]

@@loke2821 thats what im saying. i like dom before since despite his hate for teams e.g. t1 and fnc, he still gives credit where the credit is due. blindly hating and looking for angles to discredit someone doesn't make you look better than the t1 stans man.

[@dddddjjjjjjjjjjjjful]

They r analysing it they can’t give benefit to a short spurt vs a long year of mid 😂

[@quasarlgq]

​@@dddddjjjjjjjjjjjjfulpeople who said they sucked all year have watched as little league as people who said they were great all year. (Haven't met anyone that said the latter tho, even though this podcasts try to convince me they are everywhere)

[@laurentmikasso7452]

@@quasarlgq Exactly man, they dig those comments so deep and make it seem like this is the vast community sentiment through upvote metric on reddit. Like is reddit the center of the universe or something and 656 upvotes means this is the majority speaking?

[@lkts2852]

No one is saying they sucked all year because sucking would be unfair to a team that is top3 LCK all year. But they sucked in summer and they were clearly worse than BLG​ and GENG all year so winning against them in the end of the season just shows a short spike of performance increase.@@quasarlgq

[@SpedGoose]

58:39 Imagine saying T1 meta when azir is unpickable, b1 yone/sylas, ahri prio for Chovy/Knight, Lane swap still being there which inhibits Cait lux type comps, double ad bot killed in multiple ways(laneswap, supp item change, hob nerf, etc) Faker literally picked yone,sylas,akali,ahri(which were all considered as Zeka/Chovy/Knight champions, if you said to one of them before worlds that Faker is a better ahri than Chovy/Knight, I'm sure you guys know what happens xd you will be there for the whole episode :D )

[@derekmarshman6154]

Tell me you don't understand league without saying that you don't understand league

[@mauricewalmsley7035]

@@derekmarshman6154 If you see a fault in OP's position, why don't you make some lameass attempt at countering it, rather than just being a whiney little bitch?

[@mauricewalmsley7035]

Yeah. Early than this IWD was going on about how the patch hurt Chovy by nerfing Yone and Smolder. Yone is the second highest priority champ this Worlds, and Chovy picked Smolder (who is 4th highest PB of mid champs) in game 5 vs FLY.

[@SpedGoose]

@@derekmarshman6154What makes you think you know league more than me? I gave u reasoning behind my thoughts, maybe you can do that too? just like a proper human being :)

[@teecubed1648]

There are plenty of reasons why this Worlds isn't a T1 meta and it's impressive they managed to adapt to it this quickly, but the most fundamental point is the best teams shape the meta around them. Of course these numbskulls don't understand that and I'm just glad that all of them are in the same place so I don't need to watch. Kinda sad though, this channel could've been the true "Last Free Nation" exposing Esports orgs and their dodgy dealings, bringing to light some of the issues most people wouldn't know about and seeking some sort of justice for victims. Instead it's basically turned into a shelter for toxic content creators to validate their toxicity off each other and breed their cesspit of haters.

[@jamesartemio1312]

So GenG is the best team in the world… if the condition is perfect for them…? Sounds like a very big weakness to me. No one is gonna deny they’ve been the best team this year but to make these dogshit excuses. It’s like taking a sword to fight a war, fought with guns. Nobody is gonna wait for you to learn how to use a gun, when you should have known how to already in the first place. Again, no matter how much you say worlds is a bad format, EVERY SINGLE PRO wants to win this specific tournament.

[@siorai2089]

He started to talk about Worlds being a bad tournament after LCK started to dominate it again. Especially T1. He had no problems when EDG was winning for example

[@filippoye609]

"no one is going to deny" that's just false though, you've seen the fandom crowning T1 like they've always been the best team of 2024 because they won this last BO5, and btw that's how it's going to be forever. If you win Worlds you're the best team of that Year for the vast majority of fans.

[@jamesartemio1312]

@@filippoye609 for me, I just treat it as traditional sports. Winning worlds is the most important to win like how the finals of every sport there is. If a lot of people would think they are the best then that's ok with me. I just don't like the criticism this episode. T1 just won the series to advance to the most important series of the year. Instead of just talking about the series and how good they played, there's just multiple excuses than to just give credit. They blame the botlane a lot when they have not given peyz any prio in this series and expect him to carry. The meta excuse when this meta still favors GenG champions. Chovy played good when he should have played great. Just unlimited excuses..

[@meltsjavi]

@@filippoye609 "no one" does not mean literally no one. idk if you knew this. One of the most popular narratives among casual fans and even t1 fans is that t1 was getting smacked by geng for two years. T1 finally beat them at worlds, so people are happy. Do you expect fans to just be like "T1 sucks all year, at least they won now" obviously not. Its a ridiculous standard. Also your last point is just venomous lying. People call the winners of worlds the best team in the world because its the final tournament of the year. This is how it is for all sports. Winning the ucl doesnt make you the best team of the entire year, but it does make you the best team of that tournament. This is exactly how fans treat worlds, in fact its exactly how fans treat sports in general. "vast majority of fans" you mean the small minority that stan teams. Yes this happens with barce stans, real madrid stans, GS stans. They are still a minority, and pretending as if they represent the entire fanbase of a sport is moronic.

[@engryfill9047]

@@meltsjavi man I don't get this rants about the narratives pushed by the vocal minority of toxic fans. If you ignore them, they'll just die on their own.

[@davienssprime123]

I dont get the DOM over forcing on somehow this being more of a T1 patch? Guma cant play ezreal or kaisa. He himself does not rate faker that well on sylas, akali or ahri or yone He has repeatedly said Keria cant play engage supports or normal supports (the meta is engage support) Zeus isn't even a jax player. It is possible Doran is better on that champ than him. It isnt even a carry top meta This is Oner's comfort meta but this is the same jg meta that was in spring and a lot similar to the jg meta from past 2 years Sounds more like a BLG meta

[@manzamanze1611]

Same bro. I understand if its oner. But the ad mid meta is being nerfed throughout the regular season. People just hate for the sake of hating nowadays since its their brand.

[@100wonderking]

These guys always contradict themselves lol. Next time you'll see another reason why T1 doesn't deserve winning worlds. Anything to discredit what T1 does

[@小塔莎]

Blg(with Wei) stomped the whole LPL in ad mid patch, T1 struggled in the same patch, ranked 3 or 4 in the LCK.BLG actually did really well in both patches while T1 clearly favors this patch.

[@linkasfd4295]

It's a win/win for him if he pushes that narrative. It's more impressive for BLG if they win and it's "expected" if BLG lose since Riot are biased.

[@brittanyk9272]

This is sarcasm right? Faker has been killing it on Ahri and Sylas plus his alkali game was fire. Keria is literally the best support on engage supports. Dom is just hating.

[@genesis7391]

Now just a real question: Who cares about Reddit and random ‘t1’ Twitter fan comments? Is this a NA thing? In Europe I know no one who uses Reddit frequently tbh… Just block/ignore those guys if they cross lines and focus on the real content :)

[@G2LoL]

Might not be World Champions but at least we're eternal Season Finals World Champions

[@PeoplePleaser578]

Nobody else will be Season Final champions 😎

[@unclespunkle4063]

Yall also pub stomped those randoms in EU for 95% of the year just completely uncontested thanks for making that region look so lost

[@user-ed9xi7qs4z]

Tell caps I said hes a top G and I cant wait to watch him win worlds one year.

[@Michael20089]

I enjoy LFN content for the most part but it gets a bit tiresome to hear how there are dumb T1 fans for the 1000th time I would like to hear more about the games

[@8dolfonrunescape]

Take the look at all the comments, the point needs to be drilled in until the rabid behaviour stops.

[@jeevang7853]

@@8dolfonrunescape Rabid behavior? lol. Nobody wants to hear "professionals" whine like little girls for close to 3 hrs. I cannot even finish this video lol.

[@120rikeshlawoju8]

@@8dolfonrunescape So its a infinte cycle

[@quasarlgq]

​@@8dolfonrunescapeit's funny, the only times I get rabid T1 fans in my feed is when I listen to videos of people insulting T1 fans for an entire podcast. It is as of this was, rage bait, to try to get some more views. But whatever. Yamato own analysis video's shall do as content, because this ain't about the game.

[@Zozo-3AM]

@@quasarlgq be glad that's the only time you see rabid t1 fans then lol.

[@StraightUpOnGod]

I'm here for Yamato's thoughts only.

[@Deevoo90]

This has become so tiresome, just listening to them flame the toxic fans, all 100 of them. There used to be good banter at last free nation, and it was enjoyable analysis, but now it feels so toxic. No one who watches league truly believes chovy is bad. SI and last free nation have been my favorite content creators for years, now they are just flaming and embracing the toxcicity. As a fan of faker from season 3 i understand he is not the same now, and is far behind chovy domestically.

[@JerryReyes]

youre wrong. Chovy is getting so much flame and its not juist a loud minority. I agree though i think they should talk more about the games and less about the fans

[@Diya-dg6ur]

​@@JerryReyesbut chovy has been hyped as the best midlaner and best player coming into worlds for some time now. Isn't it normal for that type of player to get held to higher standards? It's not true that faker didn't get criticised before for losing worlds. In 2022, he went to finals but he still got called a choker. At that point faker wasn't even being called the best player in 2022 and he still got criticised. Faker went to finals of worlds and he still got criticised. Faker has previously won worlds but he still got called a choker. So why is it abnormal if chovy gets criticised now. Also, it's not even chovy with the most criticism. That is lehends Another example is doublelift. Didn't he also get criticised for not winning any trophies before he started winning them and filling up his trophy cabinet? Why is it so abnormal to scrutinize players with excellent reputations who did not manage to win trophies? Hasn't that been the case for a while now?

[@jeevang7853]

@@JerryReyes My only complaint with Chovy against T1 is that he did not take enough risks. He played like Bjergsen: do nothing, farm, focus on KDA, and quietly lose. As the best player of the year, he needed to show why he deserved the title. Instead he was a letdown.

[@JerryReyes]

​@@Diya-dg6ur Because chovy has managed to win trophies. Lots of them. He just hasnt won worlds. It would make more sense if he was the reason they were losing games but hes not. when did i say that faker didnt get criticized? Faker admittedly didnt have a great series in 2022 finals. He had also had bad performances since 2016 and was the reason they lost to samsung galaxy. Up until that point there was reason enough to believe that Faker was either choking or washed. He hadnt shown he was a great player consistently domestically or internationally for a long time. Chovy has shown he is a great player for 5 years and has only one stain on his resume which is not winning worlds. Its not that people are just saying he is a choker. People acting like hes not good to begin with. They are hating on chovy simply because they feel threatened by people who say Chovy is probably just as good as faker skillwise. And no, the amount of hate faker received is not nearly the same as chovy. People back then just thought that he was done for and washed but still respected his legacy. People dont even acknowledge Chovy's career because most people think worlds is the end all be all of pro play. Chovy is by far getting more criticism than lehends even though legends solo lost them the series. I dont think you can argue otherwise. Analysts all agree that it was lehends but the community doesnt care. they even blame chovy for his teammates always underperforming and say hes a bad leader or that people are coping. Its not abnormal to criticize players who have not performed to expectations. You should put Chovy under a microscope just like Faker SHOULD have been put under a microscope in 2022. That's not the problem. The problem is discrediting a players year-long performance and having a simplistic view like loss=choking.

[@Diya-dg6ur]

@@JerryReyes worlds is pretty much the tournament that matters tho. and if you think that is ludicrous then i will remind you that even pros say this. he is touted to be the best player. typically people want to see the best player to do more than just fine. people also want to see the x factor and he doesnt seem to have that(at least till now. maybe will see later in one year). frankly, chovy didnt play very well in the quarters either. waittt since 2016?? what are u talking abt? in 2016 he was a very big reason for their win at worlds cuz kuro kept getting dismantled by faker. in 2017, he had standout performances in games with rng and msf which are still talked abt to this day. faker did play very well in 2017 worlds overall except for the finals. tho it is true that he did not play very well that single series. in 2022, he played very well in the match that helped them qualify into finals and chovy hasnt even shown that he can win worlds. so its not that he hasnt won for a long time. unlike faker, chovy has never won worlds. heading into 2022 worlds, faker wasnt even in the top 5 midlaners in people's lists like caedrel. so does it make it sense to say that he choked? didnt he actually play better compared to his expected performance? in contrast, didnt chovy play worse? isnt it more justifiable to call chovy a choker in this case? and isnt there a reason to believe chovy chokes considering that he doesnt really play like he does in lck at worlds? how many times has he gone to worlds and how many times has he lost? even in this years quaterfinals match, i cannot say that chovy was the reason they won and managed to get to semis. and remember the context is that chovy is considered to be the best player. like i mentioned before. worlds IS the biggest tournament and he has not performed at the biggest stage. in fact he has had pretty bad performances in the past in worlds. people say chovy is a better laner than faker tho. what are u on about??? do u want me to show heavily upvoted reddit posts and comments talking abt how chovy is the better laner? and personalities also say the same things. why are u acting like dom and making up narratives now? (personally, i think faker is a better player than chovy however. frankly if there was supposed to be a successor to faker, then i would have preferred showmaker. he had a good mix of faker's playmaking capabilities and chovy's laning capabilities. but unfortunately he got burned out. being a good player and being a good laner is not the same thing in my mind. is chovy a much better laner than faker in my mind? definitely.) when have u ever seen people not acknowledge chovy's abiliities. u do realise that part of the reason why chovy has the "chovy cs" meme is because he is almost always ahead of cs compared to the other laner. (the other part being that people think is too focussed on csing) worlds IS the end all be all of pro play in the minds of both the audience, the pro players AND riot games. no that is not true. lehends is getting more criticism. also, wasnt there a highly upvoted chovy defense post on reddit as well? do u just forget abt that part? where is lehends defense post? nowehere. why do u think that is? how can u then say that the community didnt care abt lehends doing bad? was faker considered the best player coming into worlds for 2022? or even the best midlaner? faker was criticised in 2022 tho! why are you saying should? why act as if he didnt get criticised? because that is how it has always been? not all matches have the same weight. and that is the truth of it. let me give an example- who do u think the most popular players in lpl are/were? why do u think they are so popular? (hint- its because of their international results. particularly worlds)

[@unixitymystic4699]

Yamato made good points on Chovy at 1:40:00. Many good points for his improvement.

[@justiningram9286]

I dont understand how you can give Gen G every excuse in the book, and say all these things as to why they arent performing well. But T1 gets everything theyve been doing diminished, and that they were getting all of these advantages heading into the tournament. Or theres some sort of conspiracy about Riot helping them out behind the scenes. Then you start throwing in about how bad the tournament is and why thats not conducive to the best league. Then make more excuses for Gen G and why they are still the best team. Why even play the tournaments man?

[@Potatoes85858]

Yeah when T1 wins it's always their opponents underperforming, choking, collapsing etc, not by their own merit. When T1 loses: OMG DOWNFALL HAHAH DOWNFALL.

[@justiningram9286]

@Potatoes85858 I know I'm going to get people coming at me, but it's getting old. They literally talked more about excuses for Gen G and how being at Worlds isn't good, even though all the teams are in the same situation. Then they focused on how bad the tournament is and how that doesn't help them either. Like what is it? Just give them the trophy, I'm just so tired of hearing about it. Maybe they are just better in these long tournaments. It just really bothers me because all they do is cut down how good T1 have played and all the adjustments they've made. They get no credit, it's all Gen G underperfomring and the tournament works against their playstyle.

[@TheAngelFolly]

When teams lose Worlds to T1: tournament format just bad. Dom: scapegoat x griefed it so hard bro. T1 not the best team in the world because they struggled the rest of the year. EWC not a real tournament. When T1 lose to DRX: Faker too old, T1 choke, DRX went playins to winning finals, the Cinderella run. Unhinged fans and hypocrite haters.

[@martin32074]

World is not the only tournament in a year. People only focus on world because it’s called World. Geng won MSI. How many people actually praise them for being the best team? They don’t have nearly as many fans as T1 in Korea. Are those fans praise Geng when they won MSI? Or when blg beats T1? Most people still biased towards T1 coming in to this tournament even they performed so bad in regional. Why can’t Streamers like Dom have his own bias opinion? If it weren’t for T1 fans being so toxic towards other teams and talk down on other teams. Maybe dom wouldn’t hate T1 as much.

[@paulgaton4461]

​@@martin32074fans can have any opinions they want, biased or not, but once someone says his opinions are based on a logical analysis he should be ready for criticisms.

[@PWzhouster]

I wish y'all would focus more on the real hardcore fans that (a) are more likely to watch your content and (b) actually follow the games throughout the year then engaging with the toxic fans that are the very loud minority (happens in every fanbase, in every sport), which ends up actually giving them relevance, and the casuals that are just ignorant. I'm all for correcting the bad takes and narratives, but the balance (especially at Worlds) has felt a bit off. giving deep analysis like wave timing miscues by Guma, looking at draft strategy, talking about wincons is all great and why we primarily watch you all (SI included)

[@sidyT9]

Interesting how Gen G supposedly lost because they had an off day where they were trolling and the game itself was patched more in T1's favour but somehow at the same time Gen G completely dominated T1 in game 2 in their usual fashion we've seen all year with no problems but then someone magically flips a switch and they must be trolling again surely T1 can't just have done something good to win the series right? One day they might realize they engage in the exact same behaviour as the T1 fans they hate so much just on opposite sides lol. both sides just get so mad at each other that they continue to put the other side down more which is how we end up with all these takes discrediting Chovy and T1 and they hype themselves up more and more leading to more unreasonable fanatacism.

[@TonyLee-fm2fy]

Monte saying people seek to validate their opinions is the height of irony and arrogance He spends half his content defending his opinions or backtracking when he’s wrong Yes confirmation bias and cognitive dissonance exist, but Monte would be so much better if he could see his own

[@kieronkow4367]

Isn't that what you are supposed to do though? Defend your opinions if you think you are right or change your opinions if you think you are wrong?

[@Wegotdazoomies0599]

Monte and thorin spends their time creating narratives then complains when people use narratives to defend their bullshit it's beyond hilarious. Bros are biased as fuck

[@TonyLee-fm2fy]

Indeed… Their MO is to create stupid strawmen that don’t exist so that they can elevate themselves when they discredit strawmen arguments that they created themselves

[@TonyLee-fm2fy]

I’m glad other people have noticed that. They create strawmen then discredit it to elevate themselves Monte and Thoorin are smart entertaining dudes They could do so much better though if their egos would get out of their way

[@semitemos1727]

well even these 4 men gather together to seek agreement

[@dillongeorge6585]

Monte try not to interrupt someone challenge (impossible).

[@annoyoulater5529]

them: "T1 benefited so much from the META change from the worlds' patch, that is why they are good at WORLDS" also them: "T1 is good at WORLDS cuz when the meta isnt favoring them they can go back to their comfort picks" me: HhhhhUUUHHH???

[@LongTran-yu5zv]

well at least we know T1 has biggest pool champ

[@pandour]

Sorry for people that can't understand both those sentences can be true at the same time...

[@nathanielrobles3284]

Faker benefited in the meta in all his 5 world wins 😂😂😂

[@TheAngelFolly]

Dom: T1 downfall? T1 DOWNFALL? During semis Also Dom: stop saying Chovy bad. Chovy not bad, chovy good. It's either hyperbole or dumb/ragebait fans. Why are you letting your blood pressure get so high. So triggered for no reason.

[@chsunny2750]

@@TheAngelFolly I use to watch dom's vods because he does have a good eye for the game and is entertaining. But I can't watch any game where T1 wins now cos he's just screaming downfall everytime they lose a play. Either he's playing into a personality or he's just that affected by T1 fans that he's blinded with rage. It's kinda sad.

[@TheAngelFolly]

@chsunny2750 it's a cycle. He gets triggered by unhinged fans or trolls so he trolls them on stream and they troll him when T1 win. Watch him almost have an aneurysm because someone said Chovy can't compete with Faker. It's clearly trolling or a fan speaking from emotion rather than logic and they all act like it's every T1 fan

[@laurentmikasso7452]

@@TheAngelFolly I saw that on stream and here too. Either that fan was just trolling or it does not watch more than 3 hours of esports per year. But watch them using him as the flag holder for all the T1 fans around the world. Truly sad

[@Zozo-3AM]

@@TheAngelFolly well it is every t1 fan...

[@TheAngelFolly]

​@DarkorbitForever12 if you think that, go touch grass

[@zebrion5793]

I love LFN as a platform, but I'm kind of with the folks in the comments. I'm tired of hearing about "toxic T1 fans" every time T1 is in the discussion. I watch a lot of league content and I literally never see any of this toxicity they're complaining about. Maybe it's reddit threads? If so, the team needs to just stay away from reddit. It's not representative of the community as a whole. I get that T1 superfans can be annoying to deal with, but literally half of this entire episode was complaining about T1 fans and taking every opportunity to make excuses for why T1 isn't better than GenG despite beating them in convincing fashion. Were GenG better during regular season? Yeah, they sure were - but this isn't regular season. GenG was playing badly. Chovy was playing badly - but the crew has gone so anti-T1 in their "analysis" lately that they are doing the exact things they are complaining that the toxic T1 fans do. They're overlooking all of the bad of GenG, making excuses based on tournament format, meta changes, double agents, etc. It's the same narrative EVERY time T1 starts doing well. It obviously can't be that they were just better. I started watching this network because it has some of the best analytical minds when it comes down to breaking the game down and explaining macro decisions, item choices by players, what they might be thinking - but the channel is not that anymore. More than half of the content is GenG fanboyism and T1 fan complaints. If this is gonna be the quality of content from now on, I'll just not watch it anymore. There are plenty of other good analysts now that don't sit and complain when their favorite team lost and try to discredit the other team.

[@saeeda4517]

Tried to discredit t1 is every way possible, its so bad they have to resort to literal conspiracy theories now.

[@TheHbase]

There's no way Fearless is worse than seeing K'Sante in every single game for a year straight.

[@JerryReyes]

monte advocates for a partial fearless. if you win on a champ its banned for the series

[@kayaxe]

Powerspike has been by far my most favourite podcast, it's surprising to see the comments being so unison about the same point. I'm not gonna weigh in, all I hope is that at least Dgon or the squad will give a brief acknowledgement to all these comments, don't just completely ignore it, I want to feel like the community's concern is being heard!

[@enochvaldorian2029]

Dom seething right now HAHAHAHAHAHA T1 WORLD CHAMPS

[@chriswoolard7962]

Its crazy that zeus said this was the third different country in three years theyve celebrated kerias birthday. Puts it into perspective.

[@trh3xa174]

1:43:07 if Faker was hailed as the best mid player in the world coming into Worlds then yeah. I think he'll be called a choker. He's the GOAT but alot of people didn't even have Faker in the top 5. He was running it down in Summer and T1 as a whole was terrible. So if Keria was running it down. Yeah Keria will be probably be the target of criticism but I don't think Faker would be called a choker cuz no one really had expectations of Faker with how his form was coming into Worlds.

[@YohanBayer]

The same people who pushed the "Shaker" narratives back in 2019 now are trying everything to protect Chovy from the chockers narrative. The same will be talked in the next week about Knight if T1 win.

[@jamesfzy]

Heck it will be par for the course if Faker lost to Gen G and "choked" it. Everyone expected Gen G to beat T1, even now some don't feel confident with T1 as much. Both Faker and Chovy played Sylas and Ahri and the difference is night and day. Gen G's playstyle lends to consistency over a long period of time, which works well in the normal seasons where there is little pressure and you can try to force your own tempo and losing games don't matter as much.

[@dylanzchen]

LOL Y'all going to let Yamato get a word in or...Yamato probably offers the most insight, Dom is just an LPL meat rider

[@rezpondtwuyu7825]

no kidding he's ridding that LPL Meat 24/7

[@hyunyoungcho8608]

Don’t get why they consistently need to shit on the tournament format. What is the point? Most sports tournaments run like this (eg. fifa world cup). You know what the format is so as a team coming to compete, no matter how youve been playing during the year, you should come prepared to perform at your best level at this tournament, can’t keep putting blames on format/luck for certain teams not winning.

[@djhumanoid]

they don't like the format because it's made for casual fans and not hardcore fans. using the same format as physical sports is not a good thing, because esports players don't have the same limitations (like getting injured or tired) ie double elim NFL playoffs world be ducking amazing but it's impossible

[@meltsjavi]

@@djhumanoid This physical limitation argument is such a joke because it's not even why sports don't do double elimination for major world cups. The fact is that casual fans prefer the drama of single elimination. Lose one series and you're out provides high stakes and fans like high stakes. World cups also aren't interested in seeding the competition. Who cares if the second best team lost in quarters, they weren't the best. Double elimination can also cause confusion and unfair advantages between winners bracket and losers bracket. Why take the tournament everyone is watching at the end of the year and complicate it because some hardcore chud fans want it?

[@djhumanoid]

@@meltsjavi that's valid

[@rhydondaddy]

Dom sounds like he lost some $$$ because T1 won

[@xKael141]

He actually won money, he bet on T1 win

[@windywindy9491]

@@xKael141thats what he said to you, his attitude doesnt seem to be it

[@craneteam87]

i know Dom and Co hate the unhinged T1 fans, and yes they suck, but please remember that T1 also has the most unhinged haters too. Shaker is still commonly spammed in chat, the truck meta really hit T1 the hardest, and the team was DDOS'd for almost a whole year. i am glad that Monte brought up Faker's injury as a possible explaination for summer perfomance though. in the T1 doc about the worlds win, he talked about how he was progessively losing feeling in his hand. i love this podcast but i was the T1 fan hate could just get its own holy war episode or 2, bc i really wanted to hear more about the last 4 teams at worlds and less about how some casuals will paint narratives

[@gg-minus]

just got here after 20 mins of being uploaded. let me know if majority of the video is calling t1 fans dumb + t1 got carried by the patch + worlds is the worst tournament because its not double ellim. ill finish watching later after work. thanks

[@Asashirii]

thats 95% of what dom and monte have to talk about, so you pretty much nailed it

[@100wonderking]

Accurate description

[@himurakenshinbattousai1670]

U couldn't be more correct 😂

[@RumandCocaine]

This account is a year old so don't take it seriously, i believe this creature has 20 other spam accounts and has already seen the podcast.

[@jeevang7853]

@@RumandCocaine you checked? lol

[@zirenyth]

I will continue to watch every single LFN LoL podcast because its the best out there but can you guys not talk about T1 Fans for 1 show ?

[@misterf8310]

man, stop talking about t1 fans, is more annoying that the t1 fans

[@Ovinski]

90% of T1 fans stories are in their head only. You'd be surprised how creative they get with this obsession over T1 fans.

[@cosmicXreptile]

u didnt see the massive thread with T1 Fans getting mad at an analysis video from Gen G over their loss. Their was legit almost over 500k tweets from T1 fans about that.

[@jackx410]

Wrong. Need more, the T1 fans need to be reminded how toxic they are as much as possible.

[@Cloak07]

so true, “T1 fans” are living rent free in their heads lol its hilarious

[@ThomasVanhelden]

I agree. It's really annoying how they get hung up on some trolls and ignorant kids on Reddit.

[@Asashirii]

the professional victim act for dom is getting really old now. You hear 1 minute of this dude talking and you'd think he was the most hated person on the planet

[@Tlcampbelljr1]

You’re not going to pick Faker for most improved?! Dude couldn’t land Yone ult and now he’s piloting Akali very well against Gen G.

[@derelik8917]

If fans get to call faker "shaker" after a bad series in 2019, fans can call chovy "choky" after consistently failing to deliver while being touted as the best LOL player for years. Let fans think what they think. Stop trying to push narratives. You sound like the toxic T1 fans that you hate so much.

[@marson28]

I hate how they sarcastically always say "but worlds is the most important tournament of the year, rest of the season don't matter" Like it's the most prestige tournament that have been going in the same format for 14 years. It's like when you compare to NBA, I will take 1 NBA Finals ring over 5 ECF/WCF titles. Is it T1's fault they just show up to the most important tournament of the year which the whole world is watching? SHOCKING.

[@Zozo-3AM]

worlds is 1 month man. Sure, it is the event of the year bla bla bla. But ppl act like it's the only thing in the year. Try saying JDG was the best team of 2023 and see how many rabid T1 fans you get going "oh then why didn't they win worlds? 🥸"

[@그림자Blaze]

​@@Zozo-3AMand why they didn't win WORLDS? 🤣🤣🤣

[@PG-hy2lf]

@@Zozo-3AM sorry but that’s just how ruthless team sports is, if you don’t win a ring in basketball it doesn’t matter what your regular season standings are, showing up in the final tournaments is also a skill in itself

[@engryfill9047]

​​@@Zozo-3AMwell if you look at this, winning worlds literally immortalised you in the game with skins and most likely be featured in the next worlds song. It is also the end of the year, sort of conclusion if you may. Only caring about worlds isn't that shocking of a take man. Edit: JDG is indeed the best team of the year.

[@notmetho906]

Yea and those are the same people that think that ewc was not a real tournament 😂

[@iSeanTGQ]

Dom talking about ZOFGK being dumb is why he will and never could own an esports org. ZOFGK is the reason T1 is the most profitable esports org there is today, you think Faker’s influence alone can sell out merchandise for other members? Its the ZOFGK branding that is raking in the profits because they can sell every single member in a variety of products ranging from tees to facial care. And that is the single reason why they might be kept together again. Winning worlds does not pay the org as much as having popular members do

[@Zozo-3AM]

Fk off, the ZOFGK bs is the prime example of toxic kpop culture seeping into league.

[@offthegrid777]

I may have lost count of how many bard skins I bought because of Keria. 😂 How many LoL accounts do I have at this point? ☝️

[@iSeanTGQ]

@@offthegrid777 exactly! Each member has their own fans and this creates huge marketing for T1! It is no longer Faker’s T1, it is ZOFGK’s T1 and they like those odds!

[@ArchAngelDublin]

GenG wins=good game. T1 wins= bad game, bad format, lucky patch, annoying fans. Just get to the analysis lmao

[@theburden9920]

T1 wins = other teams being double agent 😅. Literally they beat the tournaments like 3 years in a row now?

[@aleksandargrbic100]

​@@theburden9920Yes we should praise T1 for their mind control ability of making kanavi and Lehends run straight into them

[@skrattaoppar9753]

​@@aleksandargrbic100I'm worried about ON lol. ON has been running it down. It was 3-0 against WBG but ON made it closer than it should have an T1 capitalizes on these tiny mistakes and take it miles

[@TheAngelFolly]

2022 MSI, LCK fans complain that playing on 35 ping undermines competitive integrity LPL fans: losers, nothing's wrong with the tournament. It's fair because it's the same. Worlds 2024 Dom and Monte: Worlds format bad and it favors T1. T1 fans: ???

[@Mizzraim]

@@theburden9920 they won 1

[@cronus9992]

Dom should get over his obsession over t1 downfall!! Every episode his tears get saltier with his theories.

[@scotthoover468]

I really hope for the show’s sake T1 wins Worlds. We need to drink your tears. T1 3-1, lets go

[@offthegrid777]

I'm amazed, bro. This aged well. Anyways, it should have been 3-1 instead of a 3-2 but T1 gave the game 3 away. About 10% of the fans predictions were 3-2 for T1.

[@SwapieEdits]

This T1 hate has become so cringe, first they beat “the greatest team of all time JDG” then they beat the other “greatest team of all time GenG” how about showing some respect to them this is so annoying, also the reason why chovy looks good on the numbers is cause he takes grasp and sidelines all game where’s the skill in that? Faker takes electrocute and makes plays he’s so much better than chovy when it comes to carry potential other than chovy on smolder

[@tipix2234]

JDG GENG NOT GREAT AT WOLRDS META

[@LongTran-yu5zv]

​@@tipix2234 well, they 're great, T1 just better. Is it that hard to understand?

[@OkoIyae6]

Yamato is mad patient golly

[@PETrov_Yo]

What’s wrong with having more games between teams. Years ago Monte was making the case that LEC would be more competitive if they had the Bo3 format like LPL and LCK. It doesn’t mean we will become the best region but it’s not like it makes anything worse.

[@CxerRy96]

Conversations like this remind me why I love rankings like the one in tennis more than any type of tournament format...like, you don't have to win every single time, you just have to perform well enough enough times throughout the year and you're consistently #1 by the end of the year

[@tericgreenan8816]

Why is Monte on this podcast? He does not have anything useful to say and he just interrupts Yamato.

[@years-gq6dy]

No wonder Dom didn't look depressed, he actually bet on T1. This rat 😂😂😂

[@baam6258]

God every show is a T1 butt hurt session with these guys 😂 how miserable do you have to be to hate on winning

[@Zcopo]

Quickly becoming the rant down podcast

[@andrewjeng3297]

Weird, the way Dom puts it, everyone cannot get a good amount of practice, so that the team that is more used to having "less practice" has an advantage...like that train of logic is so forced. Another way of looking at is is that T1 is an instint-driven team that players better by feel, and GenG is the analytical team that needs more reps, they need to play more games to perform better. Well unfortunately Dom like u said, Worlds is slow enough, we don't have 4-5 more weeks of games for GenG to lock in, it's Worlds, where the winner is often decided by who's having a better performance day. That's the hype, anyone has a chance

[@laurentmikasso7452]

Especially when you stop and think twice about the fact that they are not used to be working in low practice. For the past 3-4 years of this roster only this year have they been exposed to DDOS, which was not supposed to be heard as an excuse for people in this show but now it is perfectly fine to bring this excuse for Gen G and use the DDOS handicap as a benefit for T1 looking good at worlds. This is just dreadful lack of self-awareness by Dom and Monte

[@TheAngelFolly]

@laurentmikasso7452 T1 don't get to have excuses if fans like/hype them and they lose. Nevermind that they usually lose in finals. Play on 35 ping? Excuses. Get ddosed for months? Excuses. Go to finals against the team they were scrimming on the opposite side of the bracket and lose in a close 3-2? Excuses. If they lose, they were never good enough to win and all the fans were just glazing T1. But if they start winning, they had an advantage because they mind control the Korean on the enemy team to int. They're used to low amount of practice because of ddos. Of course they should be winning, they're T1. 🙄

[@offthegrid777]

If I were to believe anything from what I've observed so far T1 has the best mentality coming to Worlds in the last 2 years prolly from all the support and feedback they've been getting. It comes from being seasoned international players, something that cannot be taught or trained.

[@ahfsh98fire]

Dom just got one guyed by the concept of a one guy

[@XeroTheLegend]

Yamato has been such a huge blessing to the show and balances out the ranting with different perspectives and experiences that actually engage with the topic. Yamato gets interrupted way to often, and gets cut off for the first hour whenever he was coming to his final point. It might be because Yamato speaks in a smoother cadence than Dom or Monte, but just because he pauses does not mean he's finished his thought. As a long time viewer, i was expecting this episode to be entirely about worlds, and its disappointing to see that things like format changes and fanbases take up so much time of the episode. Please, do not make the price of correcting narratives the viewers that you have worked so hard to make.

[@yassirelhidani6803]

I just want to hear yamato only , he is the mature one in this podcast , can't take any analysis or takes from this show now , complete apparent bias , fake narratives , just straight up unwatchable.

[@Saucebiscuit]

Dom and Monte could be 100% right on all their takes, debunks and fans comments. However the reality is listening to people complain and filter most of their analysis through random peoples comments on the internet is just straight up bad content. It comes across and bitter, petty and I would use the term "joyless" tone throughout the show. Its actually hard to watch. Hopefully they can figure it out cause its really bad now.

[@jackcross4895]

You should make a podcast you loser nobody. Oh... you ogfer your advice for free since noone would pay to see or hear your useless blather

[@thedefibeast8932]

Dom is too biased against Faker, instead of just accepting Faker outperformed Chovy in the series and has been consistently been top quality throughout worlds he is just spewing venom for the sake of it. The other guys are beta males who dom just bullies to agree with his opinion. Caedral is a better non biased analyst than these chumps. (Minus the TheShy hype but I guess that was just for views and Lols)

[@yassirelhidani6803]

Yamato is pretty good , he gets interrupted a lot tho.

[@쿨이에요유니티]

if faker played lucian and did what xiaohu did with the zigs E, they would 100% talk about it, but no we only get 5min of wbg vs blg discussion

[@TKMotoRolA_RazR]

tbf dom didn't even notice xiaohu using E in that way. also xiaohu isn't considered the greatest player ever

[@쿨이에요유니티]

@@TKMotoRolA_RazR that's my point if that was faker Dom would 100% notice it, Maybe not at first but he usually replays t1 team fights.

[@TKMotoRolA_RazR]

@쿨이에요유니티 i'd say that's just faker's aura. faker can do a decent play and everyone will hype it up. if he messes up, then everyone on his head still. heavy is the head....

[@podefunder]

@@쿨이에요유니티 yes, because the expectations are higher for Faker and T1 than for a Xiaohu that’s been underperforming all year.

[@tonyg3910]

He did int twice in g4 against geng. But his team won 4v5 anyways😂

[@MrShamaniam]

Is anyone else tired of hearing monte describe exactly what the dade award is for the 1000th time?

[@1638whatsuphello]

“Till the heat death of the universe” was hard af

[@AL-xq6jt]

Its from dbza

[@nikolakrastev8880]

Guys stop complaining about fans. It is getting old at this point.

[@jackcross4895]

Not for me

[@S3tsuna1]

Selfless? More like selfish that's how I would describe his playstyle. Dude's playing Ahri and sidelaning whole game while his opponent who's on Akali is the one roaming around making plays for his team.

[@coders5708]

Yes, t1 where it matters, 90% prove themselves. And how t1 returns according to its conditions and performs should be studied. But instead, you can come back like montercrsto and say what in front of drx? XD, the level of analysis is less than that of a 5-year-old child, GG. Although the t1 team had a poor performance in the summer, they were still challenging the top teams of the LCK. But in general, I realized that the t1 team does not really try its best in domestic competitions and only tries, but it does its best in international competitions. And his ultimate effort is something that many teams, almost 90% of teams, cannot stand in front of

[@ShawnBlaque]

It's hilarious how at the height of Faker's powers he was picking stuff like Riven and Olaf mid and smashing people at worlds. While Chovy at the height of his powers is picking Smolder in game 5 to narrowly squeak by FLY lol

[@jeevang7853]

I am concerned for these guys' well-being if T1 wins this weekend. Someone should check on them and remind them there's always next year. They can root for another team to beat T1, since GenG didn't.

[@alexliu6012]

My Brain tells me T1, but my heart tells me BLG!

[@offthegrid777]

Dgon is so chill & cool, my absolute fave in LFN.

[@ontherockz]

I hate this elitelist mentality some of these casters/analysers have. The player age range for the game is 13+ (probably players/fans much more younger) they're literally engaging and getting triggered by children. The same kids keeping them employed and giving you something to talk about...

[@dgonesports]

wat. the league playerbase is old. especially compared to Valorant. so you can take your 13+ and add 14 years since worlds.

[@マステルオサド]

​@@dgonesports this argument only works if the game didn't get a single new player since season one. A lot of young people get into the game because they watch the older streamers play it. A lot of the T1 stans that live rent-free in Dom, thorin and Monte's heads are indeed 15-16 year olds that love the idol image of the players that is being pushed by T1.

[@Runningitsendingit]

I like leaving egregious statements on Monte/Thorin/Dom’s Twitter about why Faker is better than Chovy because I get to see how much it tilts them on these podcasts lol. They labour over my comment that I made in poor faith, and in about 10 seconds, for 10-15 minutes. It’s priceless, Thanks guys for taking the bait.

[@MrNrj6490]

I love the history of pro LoL so much, and I really appreciate content creators like all of you for being so committed to recording it. But the content that your fans want isn’t Monte’s bizarre rant on how seeing Marvel movies and not wanting to feel uncomfortable is ruining society. Not hours of negativity and hate against toxic fans. Dom is usually a great voice on podcasts, but reasonable LoL fan thinks that Chovy is a bad player, you don’t need to spend so much time complaining and responding to strawman arguments about it. We want the analysis, the discussion. I’m glad so many other fans feel the same, because it’s what I love about shows like Power Spike normally.

[@dadakma]

Yamato is the best host on this podcast. He speaks concisely and always has a good point which relates to the initial question/topic suggested by Dgon. Monte always has good points but he keeps fckin interrupting the other hosts, feels really amateurish. Dom is the absolute worst to watch, other than some analysis on geng and their style, he did not add anything worthwhile to this episode.

[@hana-qs3xj]

Yamato is the only guy genuinely trying to stay on topic and talk about the actual game. I used to think the T1 rants were funny because I've had my own run-ins with the especially delusional ones, but... If I wanted to spend 3 hours hearing about how annoying and stupid T1 fans are, I would just go provoke them on twitter or something. And yeah, Monte constantly interrupting Yamato (who is, again, the only person consistently trying to actually talk about the game in a productive way) gets really annoying. It sucks, because I think Dom and Monte have really good insights on the game, but I'm not really willing to sit through 2 hours of seething about strawmans just so I can get 30 minutes of actual discussion.

[@danialhayati2779]

99% complaining about fans, sorry those few who one guy them.

[@cyder_6406]

Idk why they keep taking the words of like 10% of T1's fanbase, and strawman arguing against them for like 80% of the podcast. Its genuinely pathetic and I feel bad for Yamato and Dgon, legit stare at their face and body language when Monte and Dom interrupt every minute to trash on a strawman T1 fan argument. Theyre just sitting there awkwardly thinking "Yikes".

[@jakesicotte6206]

The appealing thing about power spike is the segment aspect like traditional sports shows. Seems like everyone is having a hard time sticking to what the segment is about these days, getting chaotic

[@afewafweaujshdfiluhe]

Love it that they cannot stay on topic b/c of T1

[@999dawnfm]

another stream of Dom saying he gonna kill himself so nonchalantly 😭🥴

[@jeevang7853]

Attention whore needs attention

[@nassimnassim9214]

So double elim is the argument now to downplay T1. this is getting pathetic

[@kayoom9613]

First they criticise about the group stage format for Worlds then they criticise about the Swiss stage format and now they criticise the single elim format for playoffs which by the way is literally the most tried and tested method across most sports if not all competitive sports. I hope T1 wins on Saturday just to piss them off even more.😂

[@manzamanze1611]

Just wait til next year. They're getting more creative every year.

[@kayoom9613]

@@manzamanze1611 Riot is getting bribed by T1 CEO Joe Marsh to buff the champs that T1 plays best xdd

[@100wonderking]

@@kayoom9613 I can totally see them use this excuse xd

[@jeevang7853]

@@100wonderkingthey already do lol

[@kkerbawy]

It feel good to be one of those t1 fans. I know no matter how bad things get I'll always have a place to live. In Dom's head, rent free

[@podefunder]

You’re not in his head rent free, you’re constantly harassing him throughout the year on every platform lmao

[@moggreg]

Do you actually think iwd knows who you are? Someone on youtube with the username kkerbawy, surely he thinks about you a lot. I would be offended if I was T1 and had you as a fan

[@brittanyk9272]

@@podefunderhe makes hate video about anyone who doesn’t have the same opinion as him. He brings it upon himself.

[@podefunder]

@@brittanyk9272 objectively untrue and the hypocrisy is palpable

[@brittanyk9272]

@@podefunder okay sure. If you say so. I’m not saying to go out and harrass him but he does. He makes hates videos about fan comments.

[@vc3081]

This is like 6th Dom podcast in a row, where he spent all his time to flame T1 fans, saying that T1 are cooked by Riot, and defend him against them, it is already boring. Seems like he is locked in this team because he shits on them, they outperform and now he tries to find a point how to defend himself

[@Obiwankenobi-w5q]

If Dom finishes himself then Piglet wins

[@jacl2977]

LPL fanboys crying again ICANT

[@adrianvillarreal9746]

Glad Montecristo is trying to build up other players to make more narratives but when you try to always justify t1 being ass and they always perform at worlds it kinda proves that you don’t see the bigger picture outside of lck

[@jackthomas3483]

Man. RIOT keeps RIGGING tournaments for T1. Before MSI 2022, they nuked TF, Lee, Jinx, and Jayce while buffing Kaisa and Tristana! Before MSI 2023 they nuked double ADC bot lanes And this worlds clearly T1 (not BLG) loves a meta with Ahri, Sylas, Yone, Jax, Ezreal, Kaisa as tier1 picks!

[@manzamanze1611]

+engage supports

[@podefunder]

It is true they’ve changed the meta favorably for T1 the last 3 World Championships (not MSI) and this is definitely the biggest reason for the Worlds glowups. Is it intentional or nefarious? At this point I’m a little suspicious, but I’m pretty sure teams like GenG just abuse new systems or champs (ADC mids, Zeri, Smolder, etc.), those things ruin the viewer experience, and Riot subsequently nerfs them. I think it’s moreso Riot likes to see the things T1 is good at at Worlds. Also, I find it amusing that prior to the tournament I was arguing with T1 fans who were saying T1 was going to perform because the meta massively changed in their favor (I thought it favored BLG more - in hindsight we were both right lmao). And now that T1 succeeding, I’m arguing with T1 fans who say that the patch changes didn’t help or even hurt them. Shows that the arguments aren’t particularly intellectually honest and are just proceeding from “how can I make T1 look good.”

[@podefunder]

@@manzamanze1611Riot nerfed many engage supports on the Worlds patch

[@legendaryhumper]

@@podefunder​​⁠​⁠Wtf are you talking about? The meta changed because people were complaining about adc mid being meta lmfao, stop talking out of your ass.

[@zhedart1391]

I may agree with yone and only yone. Every midlaner is sick with ahri so you just cant single out t1. Sylas is not something you see faker plays every friday like azir and guma isnt good with kaisa and ezreal so? Rigging? That is so low of you to think that.

[@nirvash241]

Chovy is being branded as Choker because he is supposed to be the best player in the world by miles and all he can do is farm not create play let alone carry.... Chovy is good but he was never good when they are behind and that's a huge thing..... Faker showed tons of clutch factor even when behind....what was that saying "I may int but I'm not a coward".... Chovy got none of that for ZOFGK... T1 can probably run it back if ZOFGK themselves prefer money and don't mind their current lifestyle cause I don't think no other can team can pay more .... yes salary cup exist but not like other stuff is included on that cap like promotional and shit... and T1 is the best for that