Hearing their comms now vs the beginning/middle of the split are night and day. So much clearer. Felt like everyone was trying to just talk over each other
Closer in game energy is so good. He is so positive but not overdoing it, he calls out mistakes clearly again without overdoing it. Awesome reinforcement when the guys do things right. What a great teammate I'm consistently impressed (but not surprised)
@@stephanshishkov9373 The sidestep was as it was already passing by sure, but the s key in fog before that is why Sej ult missed, so it was still well played.
@@robertradford4707nah it wasn't as it was already passing by. don't try to belittle it. sej was seen when he jumped to his viewpoint for 1 second, closer showed an instant reflex. i'm not sure if you watched it properly or just jealous 🤠
I’ve watched bjerg in comms for years, this is the first time seeing him aggressively lead comms. It’s kinda funny, but their rocket isn’t stopping 🚀🚀🚀
I totally missed Busio's lantern flash to take DL to safety at 9:25 when I watched live. That's such a great reaction from him to totally deny IMT anything. Really sick to see the confidence to use flash in such a creative way on stage, especially in a rookie support.
I think this just really highlights the team's communication and role delegation. It seems as though it's mostly Closer/Bjerg calling fights/objectives, and especially Bjerg calling targets in fights, and Busio keeping track of timers, with the rest just focusing on playing their best and following the calls. Definitely seems to be working out for them.
I’ll say it once more. Give Closer a raise!!! He managed to somehow merge this team together. He is the glue. Also Nukeduck is a god at drafting with them. He mixed in the comfort picks of everyone with solid comps and that has been huge.
This is such an odd thing to credit Closer with. No one person can make a team merge together. There are many things Closer is great at, but you have no idea who, if anyone, has been most instrumental with bringing them together. On the other hand, his mechanics, game-sense, and shot-calling has been excellent in the last few weeks.
just noticed every player is shotcalling a super personalized info set: Closer will typically shotcall what he's gonna do to the enemy team (I'm engaging) and point his team towards these actions (the famous; shutup and follow up on my play) DL will typically shotcall where he thinks the enemy team is emotionally (their scared they won't step up lets force something) and also speak into his team emotionally (don't be scared) Bjerg seems to give really good in the moment direction (yelling who to focus mid teamfight to ensure everyone's on the same page even in these intense moments) Busio is really good at keeping track of information and giving it when relevant or asked for Tenacity updates the team on his gamestate and activities which is useful when on an island (called out his jax vs renek solo kill 1 minute or so before it happened in a match the other week) Super cool how evenly spread out the teams focus and personalities are. I think when they're in their groove they may be my favorite team right now bias aside, even with how we've seen they look not in their pocket lol
This is a really clever observation. I like that you called out Doublelift's emotional role, as that often goes overlooked but is still an important part of the team dynamic.
Im just happy that DL and Bjerg played together but getting into playoffs just feels really good they have young talents that can play so well and a Jungler that is in top 3.
Bjerg's comms are absolutely cracked. He is bringing so much focus to the teamplay right now. Also, you see Taliyah tried to conceal the TP pop at 14:48, but Bjerg to good to be tricked and called it out. Respect.
Bjergsen got his passion and fire again. But Busio man! his so good playing support! Closer being Closer, Tenacity being himself, and DL just trash talk them. LMAO
Is this the first good team Bjergsen has been in since 2016-17 TSM? Must feel good, hope they keep it up in playoffs. Definitely did not expect 3rd but knew they could do it.
Man I stayed up in central time zone for that ending (midnight). And I pretty much stayed up another hour to try and relax and sleep xD (1am by the time I passed out)
Asol just sitting behind the fights holding Q forever. What massive skill expression. Such a good rework design choice it makes playing, playing against, and watching so much fun.
I think changing the color of text depending on who’s talking would be nice, few times in the video I was unable to tell who was speaking what in fights
@@barney2120 It made a great difference. I remember early in the season Bjerg was occasionally deferring to other people's shot-calls. Now that they have worked out that he is the primary leader and strategist for teamfights, they look *much* sharper. But it's also good that the others still feel able to callout opportunities - like Busio calling out his patient, devastating engage where he ambushed them at Baron.
When the world needed them together the most they perform. I hope they will keep focus it’s not a sprint but a marathon happy for their success god bless NA.
You can target ban the ADC but you won’t be able to stop good comms and calls. DL just focusing on his game while having insane shotcalling and playmaking from his team is a sight to behold. Hoping for some great games against FLY!
Agreed. It's always DL's best look. Do you remember the comms videos earlier in the season? DL was more vocally active and it seemed to be distracting him a bit from actually playing (like his baron call that caused the losing backdoor :D ). But now, with him having faith in the team to communicate and guide him, he is able to stay laser-focused on what he does best: pressing the damn buttons.
Bjerg sounds more like the leader to me. Closer is a bit more audible during laning phase, but Bjerg is *way* more dominant in orchestrating the team fights. Closer sounds more like the lieutenant, the first mate, the second-in-command to my ear.
@@FizzLeeague Bjerg is a great leader, Closer is team captain imo. He’s keeping everyone calm, keeping spirits up, congratulating the good plays and letting everyone know when there’s a bad play. He’s our Jimmy Butler. Closer just got that dawg in him
I don't agree that he is mechanically overrated personally. "His" champs aren't brilliant atm but still he's putting out respectable K/D/A's every game and finding enormous engages. Also, show me a cleaner flash predict than Bjerg's on Veigar in the Ahri game from this split. You'll struggle. I *do* agree that he is criminally underrated as a leader. Even in this comment section a lot of people think Closer is the leader. Bjerg is conducting nearly every teamfight masterfully, but still gets snubbed for the credit much of the time.
@@FizzLeeague that’s why I said borderline - he’s not as good as he once was and people who only know him by name probably assume he’s one of the best mid laners by mechanical skill since that’s a large aspect of solo lanes. Imo it hasn’t been his calling card for a while, but obviously it has yet to slow him down
@@miguelhidalgo9543 You're right, I suppose, when you say borderline. It would be nice, if 100 stay in form for a while, to see him get to improve his own play.
