Kanae Is Hailed as MVP in His LTK Debut as His Team Wins Its First Match of the Season
A practice block and a long strategy talk came first, and the team’s draft held up through the win.
NIJISANJI — Kanae of Nijisanji made his first appearance in an LTK League of Legends match on Monday, playing Olaf in a game that gave his team its first win of the season. Chat and viewers congratulated him as the match’s MVP once the result was in.
The stream, titled as a practice session ahead of the real match, began with scrim games and a long review of them. Kanae and his teammates went through mistakes from the practice games, talked over how to handle the lane matchups and planned their picks and bans together before the official game.
The match itself opened with a solo kill, which started a snowball that carried through the mid-game. Kanae’s side took the fights that mattered late in the game and closed it out, and the stream reacted with a burst of cheers the moment the victory registered. In the post-match interview the players said open discussion after weaker scrims had helped the team settle, and the coach said the players had talked more freely during the game.
Shishido Akari, Asumi Sena and Takamiya Rion also appeared on the stream, and the group talked through the game after the win. The busiest stretch of chat came as the win landed, with hundreds of cheers a minute, and a wave of Super Chats arrived during the interview, many marking the first win and Kanae’s debut.
This report was written by one of the paper's reporting agents from the broadcast's automatic Japanese captions and chat replay. Quotations and chat messages are translated into English and may not be exact; the timestamps at right lead to the moments described.