 What's up everybody on the mangoos, you were awesome and I've got some clown gameplay for you today. Now, don't expect to see an amazing highlight real video here, this is just me digging my heels in not surrendering and playing the line for our quarterback twin blast. The comp we ended up with is really good for front to back teamfighting, so instead of just trying to be the star of the show, I stayed in the front to soak up abilities and ultimates while also keeping an eye on our backline to provide peel when they got jumped. This is also a rare game where I got a little bit testy with our jungler, but I think I ended up handling that well and gave him good advice instead of passive aggressive flaming. I chose this particular game to show that tanking for your team doesn't always mean jumping into the enemy backline and leaving your ADC exposed. Sometimes it just means just being annoying as hell while keeping your backline safe. We're up against an off-land chimera which I had actually considered playing this match which is kind of funny that I ended up going against it. Now off-land chimera is not too bad because he does get regen stacks off of the minions. The Achilles heel, of course, though, is he has no escape, so if you have an experienced jungler, this shit is not going to work out in your favor. It's just not going to work for the chimera, especially if they gank early. However, we did not have an experienced jungler. They came over like one time to gank and it was like a half-assed gank that didn't work out so well. So yeah, the off-land chimera works, but if you do see this as a jungler, if you're playing jungle and you see this, you need to go in on it. There were a few times that I could have punished it and gone in, but the thing is, if I go in too hard, all that's going to happen is that he's going to blink away and then just regen. So I have to bait out his blink before I can go in for the kill on the chimera and I need the jungler to help me do that because I'm Kuang. I don't have a huge amount of burst damage. I just got my combo. And this chimera, of course, realized how to play Kuang. I think this chimera had played Kuang before because he would watch me swing twice and then he would avoid me until I no longer had the uppercut to hit him with. So this is a little unfortunate. And yeah, nothing really happened in this lane for frickin' ever. It was like 10 minutes in and I was still 0-0-0. I did try and gank the duo lane once and it didn't work out. They were under tower whenever I had the opportunity. But yeah, this goes on for quite a while with neither of us really gaining the upper hand. Well, I will say that the chimera kind of gained the upper hand because of his regen. Every time we had an exchange, he would heal up from it and I wouldn't. And it would end up forcing me back. So kind of unfortunate. And that's how you play chimera off lane. This guy did a good job of it. Again, though, if you've got a grucks, thing now, we have a chimera ourselves. We could have punished this pretty hard, this off lane chimera. And we did not, which kind of sucks. Our chimera finally comes in. The gank leaps on him and then he backs off. I went in. You don't see this a lot from chimera players. You usually see them once they go in, they're in. So I went in and then I ended up backing off because he wasn't there. And then he came back in. So this was just uncoordinated as hell from us. I think if I would have been in comms with this guy, we could have coordinated and actually got this cabera. But he sticks around. And of course, exactly as I said, once we actually get a little bit close to punishing him, he just blinks away. But now his blanks off cooldown is on cooldown. So that's good. At least we got his blank out and I kind of screwed up this game because I built Ghost Axe first. Ghost Axe is the, it's an item that gives you heal reduction on hit. I should have just went Zemia's toy. Zemia's toy does the same thing when you get hit and it just deals damage. Zemia's toy would have been a much better option than freaking Ghost Axe. Now Prime underling is up. Our chimera is not in lane. So I think that he was missing. Then I think danger on the actual Prime Guardian because I know that's what they're doing. That's got to be what they're doing. We don't see their jungler. We don't see their Kai. And yep, there's Kai on the Guardian. That's one of your jobs as offlaners. They'll award this thing. And I didn't think I could really kill him here, but I wanted to be able to at least hold out long enough for my team to arrive. So he's kind of playing ring around the rosy. He's using the, he's using, he's, I'm kind of getting three man right now. Our gadget comes in. So does their Wukong, but we still got a chance here. They ended up taking it though because our jungler wasn't there to smite it. Unfortunate. I tried to just keep Wukong off of our gadget. Their bellica comes in. It's just a fucking mess right now. And we ended up, we didn't even get the kill on Wukong. Unfortunate. And there you see the obligatory surrender vote that you get in every game. No better how it's going. See this fight breaking out in the jungle and it's a, Narbash and Kai. Looks like Narbash is out. Kai's in there. I'm not too concerned about trying to protect this Kai but to be honest, I do go in on the bellica. I want to keep the bellica busy because bellica will destroy your support with her ultimate if she gets half a chance. And actually dash through her knockup, which was quite nice. Now our twin blast is here. So I dash through. I want, I turned around. I didn't chase those kills down. I want to make sure that this Chimera doesn't go after our twin blast. And note to self here, I need to save my uppercut for after he ambushes from now on. And our twin blast is laying it down, gets the kill on the Chimera. So this is when I really transitioned into tanking. Rolling into this mid lane team fight and the tides are kind of starting to turn for us. I throw my sword, I jump in. I don't want to stay around too long. I just wanted to see if I could bait out any ultimates, which I did not unfortunate, but that's fine. Now that Chimera is here, so now my focus is going to shift, not from engaging onto this team but keeping onto the Chimera. So I retracted my sword there because I didn't want the Chimera to jump onto our backline and start fucking them up. I need to be able to uppercut him away from our team if anything happens. And right now he's off into the jungle. I know he's going to try and flank. That's what he's going to try and do. So pop in on this bellica, got the blink out of her, which is nice. And we got an ultimate out of Sparrow. She was coming off the top ropes there. We got an ultimate out of Decker. It's not going to do much. They're not pushing in on us because they can't do much to me because I'm fairly tanky right now. Now the Chimera is leaping in. So now we immediately switch up to Chimera, he ults me. So that's a Sparrow ult, a Decker ult and a Chimera ult down and to no avail. They do get me with a bellica ultimate. Bellica did pop me with her ultimate. That's, but I ate four ultimates there. I ate four ultimates and our team is able to push through. I don't care if I die, if fucking four of them die, right? I call that a successful trade. That's what I call that. I got caught out pretty hard here. I knew they were coming over to me. I didn't know how close they were. I didn't know the Kai was already in the bushes. So I throw my sword and he ults me. So that's one ult down. We'll teleport back to our sword to see if we can escope through the bushes. He immediately leaps upon me and then Decker hits me. Now I'm caged in. I'm caged in with the Kai, knock him up and try and flee away. Here comes Sparrow. There's the Sparrow ultimate down. Teleport back to my sword, run back through the bushes. And so that's a Chimera ultimate. That's a Decker ultimate. That's a Sparrow ultimate. I'm extremely low, but I'm not zero. So I'm gonna head back in and see if I can help protect a little bit. And we're getting healed up by Narbash. I probably could have escopaded there, but Chimera did end up getting the kill. But Chimera wasn't able to ult the Twin Blast. Decker wasn't able to ult the Narbash and the Twin Blast. And Sparrow wasn't able to get her ultimate off because they wasted it all on me chasing me around. We're pushing up through mid and this is one of my favorite places to place a ward. So, and of course they're coming in, but I want to prevent them from flanking. I want to be able to see them coming if they're gonna try and go in our back line. They set up a little party bush here, but I think the enemy team knows. Bellica's kind of scouting around from the fog wall. Check the sword order, keep her in place. And she immediately dies. That was really, really well done from our team. Bellica should not have been pushed up that far without knowing where we were. Cause they, again, they were all set up for the party bush. And we have an advantage right now. We have a, this is a 5v4. So I wanted to press it. Narbash and Twin Blast go in and they are immediately met by Kai. I altered a little too soon, but I'm going to dive in. I wanted to get into their back line, but Kai is in our back line. So of course I'm going to immediately redirect and go after Kai. So now Sparrow's teaing off. We got Wukong. I'm just in the back line doing whatever I can, but I'm also keeping an eye. You see, I turn around cause I want to keep an eye on our back line to make sure that they're not dying. So I ended up getting killed, but look at them. They're all very low cause they were all focused on me. I have, I'm building Ziggs Claw barrier in there. So they're kind of killing themselves whenever they kill me and our team is able to, to clean up. Again, I don't care if I die. If it means we get multiple kills off of it. This is where I get a little testy off the heels of that last fight. They decided to do prime Narbash and Twin Blast. Now I played with this Twin Blast before. I know he's really good. I wasn't queued up with him or anything, but I, I know that this guy's good. I played with him before. So there's a Decker ultimate and our Chimera was farming the whole time. He, I mean, he's in the game now, but like, where was he this entire time? And they ended up taking prime. I died. We, we lost prime. I died. Chimera died. Alls we got was their Deckers was like, who gives a shit? That was just a terrible fight. So I, you know, I got a little testy. I asked, you know, hey, where was our jungler? That was a little passive aggressive, but you know, people started saying some shit about him. I responded, you know, he's probably not bad. He's probably just new to the role, which I think is true. He's probably good at plenty of other positions, but he kind of got in the draft. He got forced into jungle and he picked Chimera, which you see a lot of people do if they're inexperienced with jungle, even though Chimera is a pretty damn good jungler right now. But then I just ended up just kind of letting him know, hey man, we need you and your smite at these major objectives. So hopefully I said that in a nice enough way where he didn't take it as flaming and then he just took it as good advice for in the future. Their Wukong jungle has been burning these objectives all game long. They almost got spirit king series on this match. I don't, I thought they had fixed this shit with the sword where it would just go over the ledge instead of into a fucking ledge. That was a little unfortunate and I'm, so I'm just kind of missing everything. Now we got Wukong into our back line. I'm going to try and take him out. His, his clones are hitting me, but they're also damaging him because again, I'm building Zinx Clawberry and I have it completed right now. So their Chimera is pushing into our core. So we see this Decker. I'm not going to chase this Decker. I don't give a shit about Decker. I'm not, I'm not going to kill her myself. If my team wants to go killer, cool. If they don't kill her, I don't think that's that big of a deal. What I do think is a big deal is this Chimera pushing our inhibitors. So I went back to defend that instead of chasing the kill down on the, on the Decker. I think our team ended up getting that kill on her anyway. So fuck it. We pushed up pretty hard on the heels of that team fight. Now I just wanted to show you that towers and overprime are very tanky and they hit really hard early game. Once you get some, just like a little bit of armor, like I, I have Zimmius Toys Zinx Claw barrier and I'm starting to build into Berserker's helm. You see, I was actually gaining health because of the Narbash while, while taking tower shots. So yeah, you can eat those tower shots like, like fucking breakfast. Um, honey bunches of tower shots there. Don't, yeah, don't worry about it late game. If you're building tanky, just step into that tower and take it out. Now we are transitioning over to take, take you on this Chimera. So I just got stunned by Decker. I didn't even know she was close. I know this Kai isn't going to kill me anytime soon. And our, our twin blast is there. He, the Kai ulted me. I think he's starting to get, he was going really, really well at the beginning of this game. I think he's starting to get a little bit scared, especially of our twin blast and he's starting to make a few mistakes. And then we got stupid Wukong coming after us, knock him up. And I think, and yep, our twin blast is able to take him out. This, I mean, tanking like this is kind of dependent on having a good ADC and having just a good team in general. Because we have the Narbash healing our backline and healing us. And because we have Gadget throwing the big bombs from way behind and we got our twin blasts stepping up and getting these kills. That's the reason we're able to front the back team fight like this. Now I showed you earlier how you don't need minions to tank the tower for your team. However, you don't want to do this either. We had minions come again. I didn't need to be taking these tower shots but that first minion got decimated by the first shot. And I'm just kind of showing off right now. I'm like, yeah, I don't give a shit about this tower. I'm going to hit it. But the rest of my team isn't hitting it. They finally step up to start hitting it. I didn't need to take this much damage. I could have backed out at any time and let the tower focus on the minions and then went back in. Like I don't know why I did that. We ended up taking the tower anyway. So cool. And here we are at the end of the game. We went from a game where our team wanted to surrender. It looked like we were just done for because they had like all of our tier one towers down and we didn't have any of theirs down. They were pushing on our inhibs. Now we have all their inhibs down. We have their core down quite a bit. And we're just going to continue what we're doing. I wanted to back out here, but then Narbash got caught by the Decker cage. So I jumped back in and we're just going to back on out. I was calling for a retreat, but if they step up too far, we could turn this around on them. We got, we're gathering around Narbash like a big green fire. And then, yeah, I just wanted, I didn't teleport to my sword immediately because I just wanted to keep them off of Narbash while we retreated, but they're pushing in really far. And I went ahead and ulted up so that I have my stun. And now we just, we're just turning the tides. I've got low health, but it's not zero. So we're going to keep pushing in, just taking all the attention on myself so that Twin Blast can step up and just decimate people. And now that they are being decimated, oh, that was such a close thunk. That was such a close thunk. Now that they are being decimated, easy victory. They were focused up on us instead of defending their core and we won. Man goes.