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Nice look at the trade.
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He really is just patient.
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He looks at Minimap, he sees the guy.
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Just sprints into the trade.
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I mean, Reyna's got to be walkpushing elbow or something.
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Oh, he walkpushed there.
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Second 17 and 7, just playing patient.
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I won't let him creep on you, I'll never do it.
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This Jett's window on the jiggle here.
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You saw his foot on the right.
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Second is really good at those, like, timing clicks.
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Nice shot, Sova.
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Wow, committed the spray chat.
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That's a crazy spray to go for, honestly.
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Nice.
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Zekken has good dead zones and good sprays.
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That's kind of like the two mechanical things that stand out so far.
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All right, we're taking a look at Zekken.
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It's been a while since I've reviewed him.
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I've reviewed him probably at least two or three times now, but he's currently top 10.
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He's literally ranked 7 right now.
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He's been duo -queuing with Alum, but more importantly, he is kind of dominating the rank ladder.
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I am taking a look at his Corrode because it's a new map, and he does pretty well this game.
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And then after that, we're going to take a look at Yoru Abyss.
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So yeah, everyone knows Zeken.
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I don't really need to introduce him anymore.
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The guy is insane.
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Insane.
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It's like an A split.
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oh my god it's a war already surprising
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he used to smoke the block of his back there well flanking one mid one one flanking one hp flank
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if you're gonna kill him right now one important in mid yo hello nice one more one more
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huh nice well a split shout out alum
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Seems like he's pretty patient on his attack round so far.
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He didn't even fight with his Neon here.
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Oh wow.
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Why'd he jump?
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Scorwell?
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Holy shit.
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What a scrappy round chat.
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He's insta -hunting the top mid walk.
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He's not here, is he push B main?
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Oh my god, he is there.
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Oh, someone called 1hp.
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Wow, what a interesting round.
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It's like look, he doesn't scale a link here with alum.
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He's kind of just like, yeah, alum, you got that shit.
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Let me just stare at the mid push.
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Meanwhile, his alum's like solo fucking sliding on this guy.
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Then he gets stunned.
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He doesn't even scale here.
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Gets this kill, thankfully.
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Pops the heal.
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Some weird shit happens here.
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He's like, you know what?
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I can ult.
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He's going to run out of bullets.
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I'm pretty sure that's a misclick.
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What I don't understand is why didn't he scale A -link at all?
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Traces the edge the whole time reacts to the kill someone called one hp
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that was a war
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that was a war you got there a second good shit bro jump through
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and get it on the other side of the roof but
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if it lands on the other side of the roof it'll just like slide to the right spot
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you just gotta jump throw and try and get it above
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that if you come second he did see the enemy fade eye too
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so he's expecting it to like for the trap play i guess
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and we do have double duelists
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so on paper he doesn't need to be the one scaling right well
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he didn't hold for it this round chat
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and guess what happened his teammates aren't gonna hold for it
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so he held for it last round
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he was like you know what i'm just gonna spam the wall this time
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and then the fade actually does make the play
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he had one bullet he had one bullet left chat that could have went south hella quick
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wait he smoked his back again that's twice he's done that now i'm both mid takes he's playing pixel
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you're gonna sit in a smoke yep
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it's really good to try and claim your smoke because it's almost always a free kill like that
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wow the neon got the trade good job neon
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I think if you play smokes you should try and get really comfortable sitting in your own smokes
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I should kill that neon too on that.
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Crosshair placement was shit.
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Yeah, he's even acknowledging it.
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Your advantage when you hold the smoke is so fucking high.
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I think we could do that and I smoke and then we hit B.
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We want to abuse this bad vibes.
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Okay.
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And if they're like a flash mid, swing and break his eye and then come B.
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We're doing like a...
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We're basically opening the round the same way we're going B this time.
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Yeah, Zac can have some of the best decision making in the game in my opinion.
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in pro play and in ranked wow he really is full baiting here though look
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look he's just watching his teammates just like scale that guy dies he's still just chilling
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i need to play my clove more like this huh let's fucking smoke mid and b type shit
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Wow, the C's plus stun
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He is going to rip the ult
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Oh, what a shot Crosshair is off
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Just flicks directly on the guy and shoots
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Damn Okay, so a lot of mid
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Almost always doing the stair smoke, by the way, chat
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Ways out the C's this time
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Just going for some spammy spam
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You used to be able to see over the like get it like a nice spam line on that back wall there
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That looks like they kind of got rid of it
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We almost have our second smoke back up
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Okay Smoke mid.
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It's interesting to see that no one's really calling anything aside from the ranked guy
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We're going A -side?
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We have two smokes to be used.
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Oh, RIP.
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Alum's dead.
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He's going for a lurk.
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Wow, he's actually going for a lurk here.
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He's not calling his teammates back either.
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Wow, he's playing so late chat.
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He's playing super late mid.
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He's going to catch this A -rotator.
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Okay, looks like there is no one here.
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They're all going to be spawn chat because he played so late, he knows that they aren't coming through mid or a link.
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What a weird way to play that round, but it kind of makes sense.
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Good ass spray chat.
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Zekind is one of the few guys that was like still like insta spraying,
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but he was one of the guys that I noticed insta spraying before the spray buff.
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Let's go back why do you guys think he hung back mid there
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so it was an attempted a split with the ult
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then they get to kill top mid so they pivot but he stays trying to catch the rotator
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he knows the vice ult gets some free site he's like just vice ult vice ult probably gets some site
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which means he might be able to just keep the space
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i don't think it was for an insert i think
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if he was an insert he would called them back
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when he heard the guy rotating off but it does work out because like look
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at this point if there is no one rotating through a link or top mid they're almost
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guaranteed all spawn so they don't like they can kind of expose their backs here
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i mean it's nice it's just like it's putting a lot of faith in your teammates at most
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There'd be spray control though.
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Stair smoke every round, huh?
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Oh shit.
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We're dead A.
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Is he gonna make a play to walk top mid, do you think chat?
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Nevermind, Alum got the trade.
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Wow, Reyna walked in the smoke and killed one?
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That's rare.
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Nice, we got the trade.
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He really is just patient.
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Reyna likes playing in at Vice B.
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Do you go from onside?
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nice got the trade i want to see how he gets the trade
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right here looks at minimap he sees the guy just sprints into the trade I'll play it myself.
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I have I in 5.
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Good luck, soldier.
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He also hasn't really been using too many of his smokes chat.
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I think he's been gun out a lot.
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I mean, Rana's got to be walkpushing elbow or something.
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Oh, he walkpushed there.
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I was like in 17 and 7, just playing patient.
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I won't let him creep on you.
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I'll never do it.
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Wow, he just hardpeaked that.
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No jiggles at all.
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Just full walked out A.
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Gets the opening kill.
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I think in this meta chat, you have to be really good at contacting space.
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We saw Loud do it in Champs.
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I mean, they just full walked out of here and got the opening kill.
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Wow, he's going for...
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He's going deep.
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He said let me fight for a side vault.
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Does he use the K?
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He has smoke.
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Good smoke.
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He can own this smoke.
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You see how close he did it to him?
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It lets him go inside of it without the risk of the other guy giving timing.
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He should be able to get one freebie here.
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Oh, we got spammed.
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Good spam.
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All three.
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His teammate died.
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Everyone died, chat.
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Our Reina never dismisses.
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And the A contact was so good there.
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He actually just like owned the Neon.
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Let's see.
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Offense.
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Let's see.
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Started mid most rounds with the Stair Smoke.
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Would throw in variations where they would contact A or B with the mid smoke still.
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Worth noting that Zekin doesn't really hard scale.
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He's a bit slower and tries to go for trades when he has a good picture on the setup.
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Reminds me of Krile Cell's insurance policy, but closer to the pack.
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I define this typically via B scaling.
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Anything else worth noting chat?
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Good sprays, I guess?
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Yeah, just good sprays.
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He used a K at all?
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Not that I can remember, honestly.
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That one round that he kind of lurked back in A -link
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while his teammates went top mid to B wasn't a pattern.
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So I'm hoping we can kind of see it in some of the other bots today.
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Mug bot mid.
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Let's say he's rotating spawn and not a link
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Calls fake Okay now what A link's open, mid's open, we have vice B Good jiggle
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Interesting he jiggles there and not jump spots
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Wow what do you think
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Hold on there
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Trails chat Oh they're not holding him
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How's no one holding him
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He just fully walked out
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What the hell
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He's got god timing
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How the fuck did he just walk behind in that round I wonder if he intentionally jumped to avoid the counter spam.
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You see like how he drops and then he jumps into the angle and then like comes back into it?
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Yard smoke to flood.
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This is normally what micro looks like.
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It's a mid smoke, they go A and then do that yard smoke to try and get through.
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all right it holds it like maximum though wow he's still main that's crazy
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oh that's candeneon nice good eye that's always so satisfying it's like some high eyes to uh counter neon
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uh he needed that kill chat nt oh my god vice one i want to see it one before i think
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oh he's made noise too wow he just insta blotted him holy and both one HP you start crab walking.
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Second like yeah walk back down because of the prowler.
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Didn't spot.
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Nice.
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I'm scared for him, bro.
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You think Vice is nervous here?
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Oh wow, he was close right the whole time.
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Is he gonna mix it up at all chat?
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This first half he went 20 -10 and then the second half he has 4 kills so far.
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There's a guy walking out being holy shit
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That guy's sniping his dick and balls off.
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He might not be wrong.
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The timing of that arena took B main is kind of crazy.
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Oh, they broke the thorn.
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That's big.
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Oh, no chat.
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They're pivoting the B.
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Ooh, that one was two.
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interesting game attack i think had more takeaways than defense defense literally was just top mid,
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drop down with InstaSmug playbook the whole game.
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Not super impactful defense half.
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IMO?
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Maybe getting sniped?
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Alright, let's take a look at his Yoru Abyss chat.
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Wow.
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A little freebie.
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He doesn't play for any more.
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He's just like, let me get the one and get out.
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He says, they gotta push.
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When that fades, I'm flashing.
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Both sight.
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Nice.
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Nice.
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So we call it a nice disciplined...
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Nice and disciplined round, chat.
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Get your one, get out.
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Wow.
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Alright, that Jett's 20 seconds late in the swing window and he just got fucking one tapped.
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This Jett's window on the jiggle here.
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You saw his foot on the right.
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second is really good at those like timing clicks have you
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guys seen his kovac scores in this this is um
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that's kind of what you call like linear clicking these scenarios where like you see a target moving
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and you like put your crosshair in front of it
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and then intercept it which is pretty much kind of what you do
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when you angle hold you know what i mean
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so even though it might look like it's simple it's not
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it's not at all chat hey this this thing is kind of hard especially
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if you're trying to do it with high accuracy like you definitely don't want to be spam clicking
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but he ends up uh yeah number one score that skill
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that we're seeing here i think is a pretty similar to the just like the angle hold like
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that we're doing here so you know
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if you guys want to try training your your angle holds you could try playing some of those linear clicking scenarios
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so the first two rounds he's playing b let's see round three
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it looks like he's going to be doing this tp a lot
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Chamber got one.
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Nice.
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Oh, they're just jumping around, bro.
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We're 1hp.
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We're gonna go for a kill first?
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Nice.
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Good job, bro.
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Get his one.
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Get out.
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He's just letting his teammates get that kill because he's 1hp.
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Don't risk it.
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Looking for the mid lurk.
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Interesting.
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Smart to clear that out.
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Yeah, it is crazy.
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You may just get one.
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Aw, he's last alive.
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Aw, nice try.
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Floating spawn while he walks heaven.
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I don't know if it's gonna work.
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What's his TP for, chat?
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Just to fake it?
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Nice shot.
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Oh, chat, look at that.
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Like, notice how he just, like, insta, like, committed, like, maybe, like, three to four bullets on his sprays there?
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Most people, like, burst strafe on that.
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Not this kill look at this fight here four bullets both times
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I think it's the walkout mid first round he's mid
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we got three guys here holy shit we're holding top Whaley's walking down
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we got one guy in the vent we got an AWP! yo we got four mid!
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what type of read is this?
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I'll get a little freebie. Did that work?
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Looks like it.
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Oh!
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Top box.
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Damn.
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A good spot.
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He's only done one mid walk down so far chat.
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Whoever the rounds like A or B start.
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Which is pretty similar to what we saw with Salada.
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You just play like 20 % on Abyss?
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Obviously he's playing Yoru so it helps
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Aw man, they faked A.
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Is he gonna go for a reclear in mid?
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It's pretty risky here
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But the alternative is just being infostarved
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Oh nice shot!
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He doesn't want to die in the mid rotate
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That's one bolt chat!
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They have 12v, but we have a gun
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It's 4v4 Oh we got the first.
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Nice shots over.
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Wow, committed the spray chat.
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That's a crazy spray to go for honestly.
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Nice.
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Easy easy wow let's go back to
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that spray chat i think he like shot one bullet
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and then readjusted and sprayed after yeah he did
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if you guys have seen my video on this i explained it
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but like if you get caught off guard go for like one quick dead zone tap
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and then you adjust after and then go for your how you want to shoot
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but he does it with the spray it's like really good
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i think to like dead zone tap just in case you get lucky on your first bullet
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but yeah you just he just fucking sat there and sprayed the guy.
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That's pretty hard to do, honestly.
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Zekken has good dead zones and good sprays.
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That's kind of like the two mechanical things that stand out so far.
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What's up, Adif?
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We got your ult here.
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Oh, shit.
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Oakleaf got spammed.
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I mean, ah
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Mom never got planted
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Pretty good defense half I wouldn't say it's anything crazy
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It's like pretty simple playbook
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Simple playbook Playing mostly B.
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Spawn rotate TP to A thrown at five seconds before round start.
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Otherwise we'll start A and do opposite.
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Only one round actually walked down mid.
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Most of defense is him figuring out how to rotate based on the early info.
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Basically need good mid rounding.
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Yeah.
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Other than, on his B site holds consistently, he gets one and gets out.
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Doesn't ever overstay.
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Okay.
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Let's take a look at attack.
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Bone TP ghost.
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No flash.
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Yeah.
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Zekken doesn't really play that aggro in general, it looks like.
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Yeah, no TP here.
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Guess he's using it for post plant.
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That chamber is kind of not smart.
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How do we use our TP here, chat?
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That's going to go off the map a second.
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Did that not go off the map?
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Oh my god, it didn't.
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Your TP can travel across air?
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i didn't think you could do this this was a nice shot on this guy
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like look at the angle hold chat here's neon get laid out just perfect crosshair placement click that's
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that linear clicking chat get on
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that we're gonna start training our linear clicking
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i'm gonna boot up kovacs later today bro all right hold on let me let me let me throw
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that tp is that always consistent just fucking floats over here
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oh my god look it's like bouncing bro like if it hits this corner it's gonna fall off the map
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dude that is hella scary how do we hit a Clone left.
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Follow the clone.
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Another guy on top site.
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Wow, they're so forgot to one tap.
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No TP, no flash.
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That boy just ran out with his clone.
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It's always hard to play the 8 -post plant.
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Oh, he came out spawned.
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What a timing, man.
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He looked at minimap and turned around.
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That sucks High flash for the top up down angle Big TP.
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He hasn't actually taken his TP yet on attack
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Maybe it's just not worth it
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Good kills team
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oh wait that's the first time he's done that what was this call here
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okay so he's flashed tp 'ing because the subo was close with the shotgun i guess
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Damn what a shot.
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Oh, we didn't get that one
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We didn't go out
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Okay, so we have site the site's smoke is useless
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We're in a five five post plant
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We make the play into heaven off of the spam.
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We don't get to kill Alam kills two out of spawn.
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Teammate says, I have ult, can we play life?
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And then he just leaves to go play A main.
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I see.
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That makes sense.
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Playing A main post plant is always good on Abyss, I think.
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I feel like the A post plant on site can be pretty tricky.
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So if you can, going back into main like this is good.
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Meathead.
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I thought that
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Neon was about to kill him.
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We're actually working mid on Abyss for once.
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Jump, jump, jump, jump.
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Have you come?
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Oh, I got it, I got it.
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Give it to me, bro.
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Chat, this is what it looks like when you insta -spray and it doesn't work.
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You have a 10 % chance to insta -spray and whiff.
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And this is one of those.
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uh 10 chance the other 90
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you'll get the kill 90 is still pretty good right
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that's like that's like an a what a thorough entry wow it's a trap play after wow that's genius chat
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that is actually genius they didn't way they all as part of the hit
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they took the site first baited them to go for the flood and then ult it after.
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Wow.
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Nice.
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He doesn't actually insta -shoot that flick because of the way they ult, I guess.
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This second kill, I think, is quite nice.
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Like, he reacts so quickly in this jet.
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He's kind of just, like, insta -flick shoot.
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I went for, like, burst spray on the second kill and then burst spray on the sobo too
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but he ends most of his kills with the spray oh shibar what the hell i'm one hp
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going heaven shot oh nice shot dude zakin's angle holds are like hella impressive shot wow that's fast
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wow okay let's see attack rarely taking tps on the site hits typically going for fake tps
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and scaling out with the team slash initiator util um what
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else did we have chat generally trying to play with his teammates in the post plant not really overheating
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i guess mechanically we're seeing a lot of kills with sprays what else is there to add chat yeah
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it's kind of like that's just good valorant right generally just
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good valorant peace peace peace peace all right peace out chat
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Zekken just plays good valorant”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: chat, mid, smoke, kill, spray. This video has 444 sentences and 3663 words to shadow. The speech runs for 28:25. The speaker talks at a steady 129 words per minute, a comfortable pace for shadowing. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| spray noun | /spɹeɪ/ | A fine, gentle, dispersed mist of liquid. |
| spam noun | /spæm/ | Any undesired electronic content automatically generated for commercial purposes. |
| teammate noun | /ˈtiːmˌmeɪt/ | One who is on the same team. |
| neon noun | /ˈniˌɑn/ | The chemical element (symbol Ne) with an atomic number of 10. The second of the noble gases, it is a colourless, odorless inert gas. |
| angle noun | /ˈæŋ.ɡəl/ | A figure formed by two rays which start from a common point (a plane angle) or by three planes that intersect (a solid angle). |
| bullet noun | /ˈbʊlɪt/ | A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed. |
| flash verb | /flæʃ/ | To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. |
| rotate verb | /ˈɹoʊ.teɪt/ | To spin, turn, or revolve. |
| rank noun | /ˈɹæŋk/ | A row of people or things organized in a grid pattern, often soldiers. |
| linear adjective | /ˈlɪn.i.əɹ/ | Having the form of a line; straight or roughly straight; following a direct course. |
| burst verb | /bɜːst/ | To break from internal pressure. |
| fade verb | /feɪd/ | To hit the ball with the shot called a fade. |
| clone noun | /kloʊn/ | A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical. |
| flank noun | /ˈflæŋk/ | The lateral flesh between the last rib and the hip. |
| flick noun | /flɪk/ | A short, quick movement, especially a brush, sweep, or flip. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| get out verb | To leave or escape. | |
| walk down verb | To continually advance (on an opponent) and punch (the opponent) in order to control the fight and dominate the opponent, while shrugging off the opponent's… | |
| walk out verb | To stage a walkout or strike. | |
| go off verb | To explode. | |
| stand out verb | To jut out, protrude (from a surface etc.). | |
| back up verb | To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so. | |
| come out verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | To be discovered; to be revealed. |
| come through verb | To come into a room or other space through a door or passageway. |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- It's been a while since I've reviewed him.
- He's like, you know what?
- Do you go from onside?
- You see how close he did it to him?
- Teammate says, I have ult, can we play life?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to smoke · used to be |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | It's been · I've reviewed · He's been |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | be surrounded · be used · being infostarved |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 96 contractions and reduced forms, such as we're, gonna, doesn't. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: flash /flæʃ/, variation /ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/, shout /ʃaʊt/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/, shotgun /ˈʃɑtɡʌn/
- Long words — get the stress right: mechanical /məˈkænəkəl/, accuracy /ˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/, consistently /kənˈsɪstəntli/, importantly /ɪmˈpɔɹ.tənt.li/, intentionally /ɪnˈtɛn(t)ʃənəli/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like spray, spam, teammate.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.