 So, they hard rush the opener. River gets sapped. I feel like that's a sprint-step-sap into Cheap Shot. There's the sprint, look. Interblind. Kidneys me out of Cheap Shot. Trinket the Kidney because Mage is gonna get the shatter off, which is fine. He uses the freeze. Spell the Nova before Vanished Garot, which is nice. Go behind the little pillar. This is good. M.C.S. used. Unlucky not to get the shield there. Should get one now. Oh, another Vanished. Into DR Cheap Shot. They don't kill me in the DR Cheap Shot I live. So I P.I. Desperate Prey. I still had Stone Form up, I guess. Where do I have it? Oh, Stone Form here. Okay, so I have Stone Form up for the silences. Managed to loss a little bit on this pillar, which was nice. Desperate Prey out of the Cheap Shot. Now a shield. Yeah, shield was a little bit late. Forced to cloak on the rogue. Mage is dead. Okay, this was a decent game. I don't hate my positioning this game on the pillar. Kielsen, thank you for the sub, man. Appreciate the T1. So again, on Runes, I'm gonna... Am I gonna stay back? I think I'm gonna try and stay on the little pillar. Nice little pillar, if possible. River has low resilience, so he's definitely a target. Especially for Alliance Mage Rogue. Which is a lot more survivable as Stwarf Priest, because obviously one fear of the rogue has to trinket, and he can't trinket anything else. Insta Block to avoid damage while I get sapped. Comes out, CS at the poly. Shield was maybe late. Was this late? Shield, let's see. Purging the Mage. I should insta shield river here, I think. He doesn't have weak and soul. So if I insta shield him, he stays at 90. Instead of a shield late. There's the PS. Rogue cloaked, so I don't think it's bad. They still have blind for me, so I'm keeping distance. I fuck up my death and put it on the Mage. That should be on the rogue for sure. Trinket though, last. The DR poly. Fear the rogue. Rogue trinkets. Blinds me. Oh, the water elemental. He breaks the blind. Rogue should go down. Okay, and then we have 1v1. Which I should win against Mage. I think this was an older game. This one. This was like on the first day. So I don't like my positioning at all here. I'm like pushing in. Making it really easy for them to get on me and have a good open aware. The Mage is able to DPS me like the whole time. Cheapshot is barely over. And Mage is already shattering me. Gets the lance. Doesn't go for the frostbite actually, just spamming lance. Rogue vanished, garots me. Into re-imps. Okay, I should just stay here. If I just stay here, I think I live. I get a shield and then PS. Instead I run back to the Mage, so the Mage is able to do damage to me. So this is what I was talking about with lossing again earlier. If I just stay lost of the Mage there, I'm going to survive. So I need to be more aware of just generally lossing the second, you know, the caster. Because the CS is going to end. And I would still be here. The Rogue would be on me, but it's okay. He's not going to do 35% health in this tiny amount of time. So I would at least get the shield off and then the PS. Or even potentially PS shield if I'm ballsy. So that the shield absorbs more. And then I can PI as well. Palm, Renew, spam some Novas. And then at least I survive because they're very all-in on this opener. Rogue used Cloak as well. So staying on the pillar this time. Better position. The Mage actually is able to rush in. Normally River is able to slow the second DPS a bit more. Not sure what happened there. He was in the sap. Yeah, maybe... Oh, he trinketed the sap into a resap, I think. Yeah, so that was why the Mage was able to get so much ground because of that. I actually get a Dispelling on the Mage, which isn't too bad. Maybe I could go for a Nova instead of Dispel to potentially get the Rogue. If I get the Rogue out, it's huge. It's basically minus one vanish. Goes for the Cheap Shot into Gara. River gets CS this time, which is nice, right? We really want River to force the Mage to CS him so that they can't Cheap Shot into Gara into CS me. Because that's a really scary opener for us. If he's able to force the CS on him, it's huge for us. Goes for the One-Second Kidney. They don't kill in it. I managed to Desperate Prayer because of Stone Form during Silence. Into the Reshield. Into the PS. And then some Novas. I should use my Fear a lot earlier there. Get the Reshield. Need to Re-In a Fire, if possible. Not able to Dispel Nova. Maybe I could have Dispelled that Nova. I don't know why he used it in the last Global. It's fine. I think he's able to kill her. So this was a little bit better. There were still some small mistakes, but definite improvement on the last game with regards to positioning. We've got Mage Rogue again. It's time Alliance, Mage Rogue. So again, trying to stay back. Kind of scared for River, so getting the Shield on him. He gets Sapped. It looks like they want to go on him this game. I'm staying back. This basically forces space between me and the Rogue. So the Majors are essentially Jeweling, and River can stay relatively high HP. He has time to block. He's lost a lot of HP already though, randomly. Which is unfortunate. Now he manages to get the Block off. I get a Renew Off, so this Poly is not so bad. The DR Poly goes for the third. We get the Pom for it. I'm out of range of the Rogue, so it's risky to try and death the Mage on that Global. Better to go for the Safe Pom. Go for the PS. Should Shield there instead of MD. If I Shield down then he's fine. Dispel the CS, which is good, and Mage is in a lot of trouble here. Rogue cloaks. Probably going to get Blinded while he's cloaked. But it's okay, I still have my Trinket. Rogue has no Cloak now, and he's died. So it's basically GG. Vanishes. Goes down. So this was kind of a weird game actually. I don't know if it's worth me pushing in more even when they go River. Because I'm inviting a Nova CS Poly then. Or just a Free Blind. So I don't think it's worth. Different Mage Rogue. What happened with their opener? Mage is just really close in stuff. Rogue hasn't Sapsed. If the Rogue Sapsed there they could actually get a really good opener. That was a weird one. Rogue just randomly opens me now. Mage is still on the top in a route. Their opener is just scuffed now. Rogue wills. Just getting the nice early fear there, right? Because if we get to 30 seconds we just win the game now. Mage no Trinket. Rogue no will. I'll go for the PS because I think, okay, they have CS, they have Kidney. They have Vanished. They want to do something. The more I can long them out the better. So I'll go for the PS. And I'm just playing aggressively with my Globals, right? Gets CS. I think I resisted the Kidney there, yep. Managed to get the reshield. Staying on the pillar. And I think I managed to lost the Shatter on it actually. Shame I didn't fiend the Mage. I think fiending the Mage could have been a good Global here as well. And then we still have Stone Form Desperate Prayer at the end. Go for the Style Bandage. Again, this was a weird game. I think that was a low team. I'm not sure why I put that one in. Oh, this one starts very fucking quickly. Doesn't it? Holy crap. Okay, let's see. So these guys just open on me. Cheapshot into the Frostbolt. Two Lancers into it. Into the Vanished Garret. Into the Renova Lance. I managed to get the PS, no Kidney. Rogues used Cloak. Maybe this PS wasn't amazing, but it was like precautionary I guess. Managed to get the Rogue out, which was nice. Full Kidney. Mage gets blinded, so trinketing the Kidney is fine. We still have Stone Form and Desperate Prayer available. Rogue is just like really low and no Cloak, so he's just done so. I couldn't just Stone Form. I'm like faffing about for a little bit there. If I just Stone Form, I'm fine. I feel like I agreed my Stone Form a little bit too much sometimes. I think I need to just throw it when we're ahead. Again, this was a low team. Staying near the little pillar, trying to lost the Mage. Get Cheapshot behind it, so this makes it difficult for the Mage, which is nice. Managed to get the PS off, no Kidney. Heal making a guest appearance, nice. And they sheet me randomly. I feel like it's too late for them to swap Mage now, but we'll see. Mage is Hypothermia. Get the Shield off on him. Trying to kill the Mage here. We're just getting randomly one shot. Ooh, a Step Kick. Do I fear him? Okay, there's the fear. Rogue trinkets. Wait, how does he get out of the... Yeah, he trinkets the fear. Have fiend on him. He's too far behind, I think, to do anything. Doesn't have blind. Can't restyle if I'm going to take him out. Okay, Alliance Mage Rogue. That last game was a little bit messy, but... Mostly because the river has no gear, so he gets one shot where he shouldn't. Managed to nova the rogue out, actually, into a fear. And dot him. Get the cloak vanished instantly for free, so that one vanished behind. Mage is pushed onto me. Pop a fiend on him, because I've got a free global reshield. This is nice. I think I resisted a cheap shot here, actually. Into last vanish re-cheap shot, I think. I think he prepped wall and stealth in that case. And they're just, like, all inning me there. Whoa, whoa, whoa. That was very scary, actually. What the fuck happened there? So he vanished cheap shots me. So he must have prepped in stealth, right, because he cloak vanished before. So he has one vanished left, right? I'm fine here. Maybe jumping down was bad here. There was no need to jump down here, I think. I need to be more careful with that as well. Like, sometimes I'm jumping down and playing quite aggressively, where I don't need to. Like, they're on their back foot right now, right? They have nothing left. If I just stay up so the mage can't do damage to me, we just buy more time for free. Instead, I jump down to him. Get vanished cheap shot with the nova. Into kidney shot MCS. I have to trinket this kidney, right? I trinket the kidney in stone form. Stone form was a little late. If I trinket the kidney in stone form earlier, I would have been able to desperate prayer a little bit sooner because I was on global even though the silence was over. Desperate prayer there and I'm fine. But they tried very hard to all in me there. PS novaing when I could shield is not good. So again, just need to think more about my positioning. We've got mage rogue alliance. So I get sapped in not the worst place in the world. And they have options to go on us both here, really. They've already started doing stuff to the river. I get re-sapped. And they sheep river now river trinkets. And gets re-sheaped. But they're not doing anything with the go cheap shot into kidney shot. I might have lost so he can't shatter me. And I think I resist the cheap, the CS there. Yeah, I do resist CS, which is nice. Managed to get the double fair rogue instantly trinket and cloaks. I get garrot. It's a stone form into desperate prayer. This was nice. Standing on the pillar again. Maybe that was not necessary. Maybe because of how the mage got fared into the room. I can just run out into the open there. Need to be more aware of where the mage is getting fared to. Because if I can cross, they're done. Especially with the stone form is a good opportunity for it. Because it means the mage has to cross back. MCS gets kind of wasted. PS now. This was like their last go. I'm trying to get the sheep, but obviously lost. Managed to get full fair on the rogue. Should be fine now. And this is where the alliance mage rogue breaks down. That second fair on the rogue. So again, staying back, this is good. And they get the sap on me. No real way of getting in combat. Maybe I could have tried some MDs. Could have been worth. Get resapped. Could I have avoided that? It's very late. I should be trying to spam shield river there. I think if I shield river there, I don't get resapped. Actually, I can't shield it. I could have palmed him probably. Should just be trying to spam a palm. Maybe he would like death on someone. Because I couldn't get a cast on the rogue. Because it was like the weird delay of vanish. Where you can't get a cast on them. Where they're not in stealth, but they're in stealth and you can't hit them. This is second rogue's vanish. He didn't actually do anything with the sap. Weirdly. Did he get hit out? Oh, the bolt hit him. No, he didn't get hit out. Third vanish. Okay, so he goes for the third sap and gets blizzarded out. He greeds it too hard. Goes for the vanish. And gets hit out again. And then just dies. Okay. So, he just made a hash of that. Yeah, I could nova as well. But I think that either nova or palm there is fine. I think this is the last game. Just spell the nova, jump down for the cheap shots to avoid some damage from the mage is not bad. Maybe, yeah, okay, I got the PS off. This was good. They're holding damage from the PS. I think I should be running away from the rogue now, maybe, rather than with him. Should reshield here. This is bad. I had a long time to reshield there. Like a really long time. I should be just running away from the rogue, going for the reshield and letting River deal with the rogue. Or maybe just feign the rogue and then run off. I managed to get a desperate prayer off just before cheap shot actually. I think I resisted a kidney earlier as well. But I had my trinket for it. I used the trinket now actually on the cheap shot. Was that good? Let me see this. This was a bit fucking messy, wasn't it? See, cheap shots here. Blinds River gets blocked, goes for the kidney out of cheap shot, resist it, PS it. So I could have just trinket at that because there was no blind. Here, I follow the rogue. I should never do this. I should just feign him and run the other way. It's a gift. And then I have so long to shield and I just don't do it. Which is bad. And then I get cheap shot one second and trinket it. So again, this was... I didn't need the trinket here, right? No way. And then I'm just losing the rogue. He has nothing left to get to me, so I'm fine. So a couple of messy things here this game. Mostly the, again, not shielding fast enough. But yeah, that's made rogue.