The FBI's lead investigator on the case calls a meeting w/ their IT dept & says "we know a portion of you play LoL in your spare time & we will hold an internal tournament to find out who's the best & the top 5 will form a team. Those who make the cut will be trained as field agents to take down these criminals. You must become good enough to enter the professional tournament circuit for our investigation. We can't do this without you."😄 Little did they know 1 of their senior IT guys used to be an online legend in the beginning of LoL. Still suffering w/ carpal tunnel, he swore he would never play again after all the hours & late nights he spent playing led to him neglecting his family. His wife got a divorce, took his daughter, his house & half of his income. He's been living out of his car since & hasn't seen his daughter in yrs but maybe, just maybe, he can now prove to them all that time wasn't for nothing🤣 Feel free to call me Hollywood, lol
I always loved M5. Unique name, unique characters, represented their own soviet russian culture. Totaly unique. Probably most of people doesnt even know this guys how strong. Now people talking about "meta changed" etc. this guys changed a game not meta.
I am from Hanover, the city where CeBiT (and therefore the IEM finals) were held. In 2012 I actually skipped school to go to IEM and watch the tournament live. During the final against Dignitas no one could believe what they were seeing when GoSu and Diamond pulled out their Alistar/Lee double roam strat, the crowd was so wild... Man I miss these times...
I play lol on the college level and we just had a scrim against a team that used blitz jungle and a roaming sett mid. Weird picks and strange strategies are still a part of collegiate level play, but it’s hard to find footage from those games.
I will always remember them for Darien's picks. This guy picked Warwick top, dominated with him, and forced his opponents to ban that champ the next game. Nobody played Warwick and he forced the enemy team to ban him. That is legendary.
@@takechixd8771 Back then, the game was relatively ~new~ and the meta was stalled and boring. They brought innovation to every lane especially bottom and jungle. Broke the "only use these champions" meta. They are remembered for their experiments which were always fun to watch and it did work.
@@SynDeus i still remember their super creative use of top shyvana where they would just CONSTANTLY push to tower, steal the enemy jungle and repeat. No one had an answer for it.
I was so honored to play with Alex Ich. Dudes a monster, hard carried our team in HotS with one of the ballsiest plays I ever seen, he ended up hitting rank 1 in HotS too
Golden age of League. Those meta shifts from Moscow Five were amazing. People don't remember how stale League was before them. Moscow Five introducing Galio, Ryze, Mordekaiser, AD Kennen, Shyvanna, Support Nunu, Udyr and so on... Champions which were unheard-of in pro scene. This was a time when i truly loved League, because Russians proved that you could play literally everything if you knew how to capitalize from those "hidden" stats with specific builds and play style.
do you think any game which comes out today will hit the same feels? everything seems so stale today.... i miss early league, dota and the now-dead HoN
@@abogmus8904 For me? Absolutely no... Not because games lack depth or quality as they are only advancing further. But I will never have same amount of time nor dedication to the game - priorities change with age :)
@@abogmus8904yep.faker is retiring,and so are many other top players.the current generation will probably try to stick to the currect meta since in works,but the next one,who is currently trying to climb out of gold,those few players who care too much about having fun to just stick to the meta,they'll become the new m5.there will soon be teams who will play neeko top and kindred adc,and they will stomp the current meta
This was the only team who could get me excited watching league, im a season 1 old player I've seen all of this up to this day, only SKT was close, but M5 just made my day, you just knew they were gonna dumpster their opponents. it was fascinating to watch, they changed league play style forever. Thank you for such documentary
Not the FBI but LCS killed them. I've always been an M5 fan, from the Empire Nunu moment on. Friends and I watched all of the European tournaments back then... It's been years since I stopped watching competitive LoL, but these moments really bring back some wonderful memories. It is important to mention that their coach (Groove, ex CS pro) was crucial for the growth and performance of M5/Gambit. His role was somewhat similar to those in Asian teams. None of the Westerners had coaches back then. If I remember correctly, they came to league from dota. Which also explains the depth of the approach. But I cannot imagine a story about this team without a legendary quote: see hero, keel hero...
Darien with the golden renekton. Diamond inventing counter jungling. Alex Ich with his K6 resets. Genja bringing trinity force corki / kog'maw to the meta. Gosu Pepper as the thresh prince. Long live Moscow 5.
Genja for me was the weirdest one. He did Hurricane and Guinso for Varus, then for Ashe xD. Alex and Diamond were GODS back those days, and the rest with a very good teamwork never saw before.
I will never, NEVER forget that one teamfight with like 3 guardian angels and zilean that lasted something along the lines of 2 minutes. Nothing will ever come close to that ever again...
I keep forgetting what match it was but the moment he shouted comments of what is happening in the teamfight and the fight just keeps going and going for like 15secs and he didnt stop shouting until the fight ended, never forgot that
Dude, that just brought tears to my eyes. They made me enjoy LOL, and they teached me how to play, in each role, and how to be part of a team. The team was amazing, since you didn't know what to expect from them! Evelyn jungle? Or Nasus Jungle? Maybe KogMaw triforce? Ashe Manamue? Aatrox top? What about Nunu, that God dammit Nunu, on bot lane? They were the team that this game needs now: something that was amazing to watch, just for it's way of being who they are. They made me feel so old... it's been 6 years since my last match, even thought I tried LOL a couple of times. But, sorry, I can't feel the joyfulness playing a game like this anymore. I miss being a child, a fan, a fanatic. Thank you Moscow 5
I didn't know about the game back then nor did I know about this team till now and the end of this video still brought tears to my eyes. Good video overall.
"It may not be fair to blame the FBI for the end of M5's dominance" Actually it is. After M5 fell, M5 players didnt have a gaming house to boot camp at. They would only practice online. Also M5 owner was very strict, thats why M5 performed so well, he would always push them
@@hovlo426 hahh YES was just thinking the same thing! The FBI doing their job have nothing to do with the end of M5... the bruz who broke the law is literally 100% responsible for their own actions!
Moscow 5 was my favorite team in EU since Season 2 and after I stopped playing for a couple years I never really knew what happened to them. Thank you so much for this documentary, it really helped me live through the nostalgia a bit and I feel really enlightened about what I've learned
@@cahrlloow9843 in the early years of M5, Fnatic could not touch them. It was only after they changed organizations that Fnatic was able to start defeating the Russians.
I remember watching M5 and cheering for them. Their gameplay was so explosive, each game was unique, champions pool were unique. Now I know why, but then it was just amazing (not Anivia farming for 50 minutes).
Man M5 was my favourite team to follow. So explosive, so much fun to watch. It was a shame Gambit couldn't follow, but all good things come to an end eventually I guess. But damn that was a damn nice documentary. keep it up Gbay!
I remember loving M5. Those MC5 League of Legends seasons were the most fun and amazing seasons, both in playing and professional watching. It was just fun.
Yeah, at their peak they were something to watch for. Sadly, it wasn't some rapid falloff, numerous problems risen once the rest of the world caught up to the meta and Koreans got more prominent presence. I'd say only AlexIch was playing with any degree of stability after their peak. Diamond quickly fell off and together with Darien became unstable in performance, either doing fine or somehow failing miserably. Their bot lane, Genja and Pepper started losing hard. Like super hard, they would lose majority of their matchups unless they got babysitted by their jungler/mid laner. The former being unstable in performance himself, the latter already struggling to prop up the jungler and top laner.
@Комиссáр Vasyanka Not arguing that it wasn't due to their hectic travels and a lot of stress with getting visas prepared in time. My point was - it wasn't a sudden drop when those "FBI" problems hit them. They gradually started falling behind. If anything, it proves that the main issue was something much more longterm. As for Diamond - I didn't really follow his solo play afterwards. What I do know is what I saw in the competitive matches back then. When previously Diamond could bully enemy jungler and generally was one of the backbones that often launched lanes into winning, together with AlexIch, he started to fall behind more and more. Either getting muscled out of his own jungle or dying during his own ganks. If both him and AlexIch were performing as well as before - it would be a different story. Maybe they could still work something out, despite top and bottom not performing as well as before. But as I said, in my opinion only AlexIch performed well throughout that gradual fall. Even if he was in mid lane position, he couldn't just prop up everyone by himself. My another impression was that Diamond kept picking champions that worked before, when meta was already moving forward. And those picks started to gradually underperform when enemy teams got accustomed to them. If he is still playing and at a high solo level - that's fine, but I doubt it is any indication or counterargument to why he stopped producing results in competitive games back then.
Lol I remember Genja used to build Tear on Varus, probably during season 3, and commentators were laughing their ass off that, as in that's a garbage buy. What do you know, Tear Varus became meta a few years later. The team was so ahead of the time in many ways. I miss these days.
Does in LoL meta is changing so slow or so fast that it ended where it begun? I was trying to say few years is a long time in esports where meta could have changed dozen of times till Tear on Varus became really a meta thing not just situational.
Diamondprox still plays for GMB. I dream that one day, we get at least some of the team back together and make a comeback. No need to dominate anything, just enough to remind everyone of the old guards.
@@merlux9324 Well... I remember that me and my friends used to play full ad cow and blitz. Everyone was screaming on us that we are goint to throw the game and stuff. We was owning almost every game. After 2 years loltubers started to make videos about that ,,ULTRA MEGA COMBO PERFECT ONE SHOOT KILL DUO" and sudenly it was a thing. So you cant tell me that you cant be ahead of everyone in lol.
Manager of the best League of Legends team in the world, still finds time to defraud over 160 million credit card users on the side. Russians take not just League, but also the "side hustle" to a whole new level.
Hardly what it is today. As in meta at least on EU, NA goes with a lot of flex pick that let you do new stuff all the time. So dont know if you watch league or you are just trolling.
there are options for different comps in today's game but sadly the Esports forced meta by the trainers for entertainment and selling skins for champs mainly is whats driving the competitive play not a new or old or different strategy they have basically as "script" of champions to use for the month and they have to use them and just to spice it from time to time dont use an conventional adc but some ap carry in place it for the lolz but it feels so forced in a way it never works in ranked play if your the one trying it
@@Tigrion What????? Where are you getting that information? And I don't think it's fair to compare how those picks are working for them when you're likely not a pro/challenger level player lol. Of course results will be different based on your skill level.
@@definitelynotobama6851 its wasnt them it was their owner he stole all that money even way befor he was the owner of m5 they were investigated for it never found guilty
My comment will get burrowed Down but whatever. It was the new LCS system that beat them the most. Having to travel back to Russia and to cologne again every week is really frustrating. Also they were known for preparing really hard for big tournaments by boot camping for couple of weeks or so, creating new tactics, picks and stuff. But in the time between they've been inconsistent. But with new league system when you have to play every week there is no room for something new because you have to just go for standard consistent playstyle. So ye I think the stress was rising up quickly in their team and they just begin arguing with each other all the time and eventually team got destroyed
This game is overplayed but if someone find a way to bend rules hotfix patch incoming. Riot centralized game too much with new hybrid peace of shit kits and lcs system is unplayable for inovations = dead game.
They legit fucked them up I agree they couldnt get a visa for the lcs in berlin, you would think that this is riots fault but again how would they know this would happen, its so unfair
I was playing CS:GO semi-pro when this went down. None of the guys on my team were LoL players but we constantly talked about M5 because it was insane seeing them sweep every tourney. I remember the day this story popped up we were dumb-founded.
i think the genius who made the extrategies of moscow 5 where those 3 shitlords who own the group, ..since after their arrest the moscow five gambit team didnt played well ...maybe because they only followed his leader ...that was probably a genius on mathematics viewing the entire game as a bunch of numbers ..that is how you should actualyy in fact look at LEAGUE of legends to play good ,because the entire game is made out of a bunch of numbers ,and you have to have a solid memory for math.. =( the team moscow5 probably where just agents to fill the roles where the their leader where the genius mind .
ya me too, heart of gold for top laners, there were like 2 more gold items, but cant remember atm haha. (checked: kages Lucky pick, avarice blade and the philosopher's stone.) and i, myself as a main support back then, bought mostly the starks fervor item(if i had 2 or 3AD in my team). people Always were like, wtf you build/buy that shit? well guess what happened soon after :) pro's started building it too in regional/worlds matches. causing it to be turned in zekes herald the season after, a less better item to starks fervor, so i ended up buying it rarely. and now its all gone. but i started using it first! people never seem to believe me though when i say that, but my used to be regular teammates do remember and back me up^^ i would really like a vanilla LoL as an extra mode when it got/gets 10 years old, wich would be this year. just a special something to all old players like myself and to show new players how it used to be. that would be so very nice
yeah dude i was thinking the same thing, I played LoL for like 4 years and i cannot stand the thought of playing even one more time unless someone was paying my bills for it lol... but yo shout out for the doc man its very well made you should look into some serious youtube editing for someone man
LoL is just a game but that was a dope documentary, moscow5 was next level ahead of their time. i gotta respect them for rolling pros nonstop for as long as they did
@@dophie3292 s2 was the shit back in the day. I don't really remember s1 apart from playing Lee top with 2 Bloodthirsters, but s2 was really memorable since the game started growing so much and became what it is nowadays. Feels sad man that m5 didn't win s2 Worlds. If they only banned the Nidalee.. I didn't know the background of their owner however.
Gbay.. this is a genius masterpiece! I literally watched this documentary for about 6 times now. I love the storytelling, the style and just to see nostalgic gameplay and the story of M5. Also listening to your voice since about season 3 or so ... love it
My least favorite moment was when the Support ADC meta botlane started up, but that was waaaay early on. That's why I'm pretty happy with the double mage bot lane that's been happening for a while.
What killed M5/GMB was the actual League schedule. Constantly playing week after week made their innovative gimmicks less impactful even though we did occasionally still see them(I remember that Thresh/Voli stuff and Kog during that one Worlds). Also, they had to travel to the LCS studio every week from Russia which put strain on them personally as well as their training time.
Yeah, totally agree. I remember one interview which Alex gave to Shox after the game, he said they are practicing in their dreams, cause they got no fcking time due to shcedule. Cant remember when it was.
While I liked the video, several points should be corrected. First of all, the major one- FBI had almost no impact on this team destiny. Yes, arrest of Smelyanets resulted in a couple of months of uncertainty, but guys just registered a new brand Gambit Gaming with the same management. Groove (Konstantin Pikiner) was the manager of this team, Smelyanets never affected them in any way except paying salaries and flight/hotels bills (and they had enough money themselves by the time he was arrested). Gameplay problems later in their careers were mostly due to personal conflicts inside the team (girlfriend problems etc), but what really broke them- is the Seasoned League system. All M5 members were from different cities, they lived thousands kilometers away from eachother. So in early days of LoL they lived in their homes, and gathered just for a week or two before a major LAN event on a bootcamp, then separated until next event. And such events were about couple of months apart from each other. So it was all fine. Guys could practice online and just polish strats right before event. When Seasoned League was introduced for EU, it created a major problem: Russia is not a member of EU, and Russia citizens can stay in EU for 180 days per year maximum and no more than 90 days per 6 months. So this team could not live in Germany as every other EU LCS team and they had to fly every week from Russia to Germany. That effectively meant that they had 1, maximum 2 days per week to practice. As every team in the region and world overall was getting better and better, learning from M5/Gambit, these guys themselves got weaker and weaker due to travelling fatigue (sometimes they had to play just a hour or two after landing) and inability to practice effectively (Edward had to fly two planes to reach Germany for example, spending about 12 hours to do so). They had to lose points during season just because they couldn't attend regular games in certain weeks to not break visa rules etc. So, they were more and more inconsistent and exhausted. Their innovative strats were able to win them games still, but they were losing more and more due to lack of practice as they couldn't execute properly. It was a tailspin that resulted in roster changes and broken synergy, that resulted in even worse results. But thanks anyway for this video, it was a good time and M5/Gambit made a lot for a LoL as a competitive game.
I've been an esport fan from the early day of war3 dota 1, so I really love the tournaments kind-of system. Anw to be fair the Season system like traditional sport make it more professional, i feel. I'm commenting to ask about the ruling of EU, what happened to the Korean/Asian atheletes/ LOL players who stay there and play sport / EU LCS ? I feel like the ruling was strict to Russia citizens ?
@@hatoyin313 Well, I don't think so, as I don't believe in conspircy theories. Yes, Marc Merril kinda hates Russia, but League system is nothing new. The main problem is that esports players are not legally 'workers' in a lot of countries, so players can't get 'work' visas, just 'tourist' ones.
@@tunghamtien Laws in EU were changed in recent years, so now it's easier for a foreigner to get a 'work' visa in EU, but it wasn't so in first 3-4 years of EU LCS.
@@praetorrus There are some European and American Starcraft 2 players that live and train in Korea. Not sure if they have similar issues with their visas and such.
Long time fan here since Season 2 Gotta say these last 3 documentaries might be not only your best content ever, but generally the best content lol has ever seen. Especially this documentary has me indulge in nostalgia, as I was a fan of M5. Awesome writing and screenplay I am glad to see you shifting to less frequent, but more qualitative videos as has been your pathos ever since you began. Stay strong and I hope your financial situation is stable
In the 10 years of competing in different games I have never, ever been so anxious to play against M5 back in 2012, and I'll never respect any team like I did for M5's unique ideas, strategies and it was a pleasure to play against them. They've opened my mind to play even more aggressively and with confidence and think outside the box to gain an advantage, and used that mentality ever since in playing games. Mad respect for all of them.
@@visx1792 they didn't know dumbass. The owner of the team was a criminal, it's really not as uncommon in the business world as you think. Also it never affected them much, the inability to live and practice full time in the EU due to visa issues and resulting travel fatigue was what destroyed the team.
no one I play with now knows about M5 or Gambit Gaming. It's kinda sad that they fell off and disappeared, they were my favorite team, and they were dank af.
yea imagine my friends' faces when Gambit makes it to worlds from the Russian region and I'm like oh my god these guys are the original gods of the League and the creators of half of what's called meta and most of what's called cheese! Remember the first EULCS allstars team when 4 out of 5 players were voted from the Gambit roster and they dropped Genja and took YellowPete because there was a rule that no more than 3 players can be from one team? The only one who didn't get the vote was the 'feed to win' Darien.
S2 was definitely the highest point of watching Competitive LoL. Sure it was sometimes inconvenient finding the right site to watch on. Having to dedicate an entire weekend to a tournament was a pain, and the quality of casting and things wasn't always the best, but because big tournaments were so infrequent, you didn't really know the teams or how the compared to one another. You didn't know their pocket picks, you didn't know how the meta had changed, and it led to a situation where you'd want to watch every single game that happened that weekend because you never knew what was going to happen next. The fact M5 was a big deal back then was just icing on the cake. I'm happy League has continued to grow and evolve, but with weekly matches that mystery and excitement is just gone and that makes me sad. I don't know how you could possibly recapture that energy in a weekly format, but I hope they one day find a way to do it, because that'd be amazing.
For me, since I stopped playing, the magic is still there since I just watch the final rounds. Thus that magic is still here (although you lose track of the micro aspect of things because of not playing)
M5 was, and will always stay for me, the best team in League and the one most enjoyable to watch! I remember season 2 when the worlds avatars came out, I was so happy with the red logo! Their games were amazing! No matter how crazy, they always had plan and not just good, they made the game look fun! It doesn't matter if it was Alex Malph mid, Darien with merlonomicon on Renekton, or Gosu on Nunu sup when none had an idea how to play it, they were just amazing! Sad that it came to an end, I would love me some Genja-Alex-Darien games right now! We will show them what DOMOI means!
Darien was a god, Genja the timelord, Alex Ich the man that made me start playing Kha mid, and Diamond Prox the worlds best jungler This team deserved to win at least one worlds
I don't play league and felt like I was in a college course when you start explaining the priority and jungler stuff haha, I feel like I should have a notebook out. I really enjoy stories like this, despite my ignorance. Great video!
I love this team, they pick, how they innovated on the meta... Of course they never had problems with Koreans, Korean gameplay is aggressive, fast paced pressure with picks never seen. Exactly M5 style. They were the inspiration for Koreans. Remember how Insec spoke fondly of watching Diamondprox play.
they were anything but agressive back then.they were the masters of farming for 50 minutes with anivia mid until khan started showing them that you don't need to play like you're bronze 4 and don't even know what the enemy champ does if you're good enough.minimize activity maximize efficiency for a reason
@@Zt3alth because any issues regarding anybody offends a group of people, thats how disagreements work. Literally hate speech cannot be defined as anything other than something that offends a group of people, and because of that hate speech is literally everything you say, or nothing- if you decide its bull shit.
The Sith Code true but m5 played their own kind of game I think it might of tossed Koreans for a loop. I remember being so stoked when they put mordie mid and amused by the casters constant shock and confusion at m5’s picks and lanes. I honestly think m5 was digging deep Into he game data hence noticing things like add Ken ect.
This is truly a well edited video! Ups and downs, wins and losses. Doesnt matter since its so well proposed and composed! Well done, and thanks for the walk through memory lane!
How could you miss the most important contribution of M5. They were the pioneers of proper in game comms. There was a tournament where they first started showing the fans the in game comms, specially during fights. It was always the expectation that teams were shouting at each other. But in one instance of a messy teamfight, Gosu pepper was commandeering Darien to TP bot and their chat was mostly silent apart from 1 person making calls.
I had played League at that time (seasons 1 and 2) and it was so amazing! Crazy strategies, strange picks/bans, map control... I was really amazed by how Darien had played Top lane. Starting that moment I played just solo lanes. Thank you for video! It was really cool and have brought a lot of old nice memories:)
Forget these esport comebacks Gbay’s comeback to TH-cam is where the hype is really at. Also hope nothing was wrong because this doc took quite along time. It might be writers block or something and I hope you are doing well. Keep up the good work.
Welcome back, prodigal son. And what a high note to come back on! M5 was the most exciting team in League history and will forever be my favourite team ever. I'm always happy when they get remembered with the love and respect they deserve.
Your video formats are Amazing the way you make seemingly basic information interesting and engaging with clips, music, and formatting is astounding. Good Job.
Well, I started playing a few weeks ago and Im in Iron 2, but even I saw it since its pretty much the most important thing at the start, isnt it? I dont aspire to become pro level, but its still encouraging to see world class players still make big mistakes from time to time and Im not only talking about this vid.
@@JoveJoved You said he was related to Vodka Drunkenski. I was insinuating it couldn't be anything other than a blood relative on his fathers side by saying "No, then it would be "Vladimir Drunkenski", not "Vladimir Drinkman", or they wouldn't be related.
Imagine starting a team to play in an obscure, yet to be a global phenomenon, video game, to use as a front for your ilegal endeavors, and being so good at it you actually draw more attention to said ilegal endeavors. This is amazing in so many levels
Gbay I haven't even played League in so long but your videos are just so interesting anyway. You just explain stuff very well. This is the first time someone explained to me what lane priority is. Unless Dunkey starts making League videos again you're the only league youtuber I still follow since you're just so positive. While you'd think League makes any man cynical you find a way to keep on top!
“Vladimir Drinkman” the most Russian name I ever heard
One of the top comments is this but slavic instead of russian
Axaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxa suka
I'll drink to that!
if he would've become a knight his title woul've been Sir Drinkalot
Drinkman and Smellionits what a duo
I came here fully expecting to see the FBI just show up to this tournament and show everyone how to really play LoL.
x73chevelle LOL
*Barack Obama has entered the lobby*
The FBI's lead investigator on the case calls a meeting w/ their IT dept & says "we know a portion of you play LoL in your spare time & we will hold an internal tournament to find out who's the best & the top 5 will form a team. Those who make the cut will be trained as field agents to take down these criminals. You must become good enough to enter the professional tournament circuit for our investigation. We can't do this without you."😄
Little did they know 1 of their senior IT guys used to be an online legend in the beginning of LoL. Still suffering w/ carpal tunnel, he swore he would never play again after all the hours & late nights he spent playing led to him neglecting his family. His wife got a divorce, took his daughter, his house & half of his income. He's been living out of his car since & hasn't seen his daughter in yrs but maybe, just maybe, he can now prove to them all that time wasn't for nothing🤣
Feel free to call me Hollywood, lol
@@Dang3rMouSe this is art!!!!!!
@@Dang3rMouSe oh man, I really want to read a book like that
Vladimir drinkman is the most Slavic name it’s possible to conceive
LordRydag xDDDdD
@Matthias Funai woosh
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@Matthias Funai r/woosh
Holy shit, when I read that, I couldn't hold myself back. This dude is a legend
5 minutes in I forgot what it was about, I just thought I was watching the history of competitive LoL, not even complaining
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Literally
took me back to season 2
watching this gives me the wish to have the old league of legends back
I dont even play LoL and i sat through watching this
yea idk but same xD
Glad this was the top comment, cos I was gonna write this XD
Same
Same.
Same
Stealing my red? Gotta steal your credit card then
I'll make you pay for that! >:0
HomicidalTh0r 😂😂😂😂😂
hahaha
Revenge will be swift....or a swipe!
''Steal thy red, pay by cred'' - M5.
This is not a story, this is a legend. You only see such a twist in movies.
Thank you for putting this video together!
I always loved M5. Unique name, unique characters, represented their own soviet russian culture. Totaly unique.
Probably most of people doesnt even know this guys how strong. Now people talking about "meta changed" etc. this guys changed a game not meta.
Maybe they will make a movie about this?(
@@lucasmatiastagliapietra1696 I'll admit it's a good script
A legend ? I understand why Lol playerbase is like that, your standards are under the ground.
@@lucasmatiastagliapietra1696 we will in Russia
I am from Hanover, the city where CeBiT (and therefore the IEM finals) were held. In 2012 I actually skipped school to go to IEM and watch the tournament live. During the final against Dignitas no one could believe what they were seeing when GoSu and Diamond pulled out their Alistar/Lee double roam strat, the crowd was so wild... Man I miss these times...
That's the first time I saw them too. My class from Sweden went to CeBIT and I just stumbled upon the tournament. Good times.
First IEM I watched live and I skipped school for this too.
Give me back the 10 seconds i wasted while reading your useless comment
I play lol on the college level and we just had a scrim against a team that used blitz jungle and a roaming sett mid.
Weird picks and strange strategies are still a part of collegiate level play, but it’s hard to find footage from those games.
Hats off to you Gbay, this is an amazing video.
The title got me quick
"Playing CS and drinking vodka" - how to make friends in a Slavic country
Rush b blyat
and go fishing
both in adidas
@@ThangVu-mw5zxGo fishing with Explosives xd
Lets be honest...in every country)
I will always remember them for Darien's picks. This guy picked Warwick top, dominated with him, and forced his opponents to ban that champ the next game. Nobody played Warwick and he forced the enemy team to ban him. That is legendary.
Aatrox with Manamune. Renekton with Zhonya.
_NEVER FORGET!_
He didn't play Warwick, he played weedwick
There was a point when Darien was occupying all 3 enemy bans and he'd still stomp.
bro was so ahead of the meta,he was playing season 13
Hit me right in the feels. I remember the days of M5 dominance...
How was it?
@@takechixd8771 video should have answered it for you, they reinvented the game.
@@DieEineMieze It was a rhetorical question
@@takechixd8771 Back then, the game was relatively ~new~ and the meta was stalled and boring. They brought innovation to every lane especially bottom and jungle. Broke the "only use these champions" meta. They are remembered for their experiments which were always fun to watch and it did work.
@@SynDeus i still remember their super creative use of top shyvana where they would just CONSTANTLY push to tower, steal the enemy jungle and repeat. No one had an answer for it.
why did i get emotional over a team ive never heard of from a game ive never played
Great story telling plus a string section crescendo man. It'll get ya every time.
Same
M5 was so epic. I still remember watching the great comeback of Katowice live.
me too. they seems to be a group of friends having fun instead of a esport team
LOL,I feel u
I was so honored to play with Alex Ich. Dudes a monster, hard carried our team in HotS with one of the ballsiest plays I ever seen, he ended up hitting rank 1 in HotS too
hold on. He's Russian and he's name is Vladimir Drinkman?
Vladimir
Drinkman
What, Ivan Vodkanov was taken?
Dimitri Vodkaman
@@CoffeeMadeMeSay Ivan Vodkanov> I-want Vodka-now
🤣🤣🤣🤣👌
Jew surenames
dam
Bruh I thought gbay had died lmao. Welcome back friend.
he is doing a jontron but he is far less famous to do that and get good still
@@lucasbiermann257 he's not he just sold out to Facebook he's active there
Never knew that you of all people watch him.
he just needed to pay some bills again. lel
Kneecaps u play league shit didn't know
5 men, 1 dream, 9 eyebrows ༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º༼ ºل͟º( ͡° ͡ ͜ ͡ʖ ͡ °)ºل͟º ༽
Damn man I remember this copy pasta :D
and 1 Darien
Genja jajajaj
LOL
Thats amazing
Golden age of League. Those meta shifts from Moscow Five were amazing. People don't remember how stale League was before them. Moscow Five introducing Galio, Ryze, Mordekaiser, AD Kennen, Shyvanna, Support Nunu, Udyr and so on... Champions which were unheard-of in pro scene. This was a time when i truly loved League, because Russians proved that you could play literally everything if you knew how to capitalize from those "hidden" stats with specific builds and play style.
do you think any game which comes out today will hit the same feels? everything seems so stale today....
i miss early league, dota and the now-dead HoN
@@abogmus8904 For me? Absolutely no... Not because games lack depth or quality as they are only advancing further. But I will never have same amount of time nor dedication to the game - priorities change with age :)
@@abogmus8904yep.faker is retiring,and so are many other top players.the current generation will probably try to stick to the currect meta since in works,but the next one,who is currently trying to climb out of gold,those few players who care too much about having fun to just stick to the meta,they'll become the new m5.there will soon be teams who will play neeko top and kindred adc,and they will stomp the current meta
GBAY WE WERE SO WORRIED
he posted on twitter everyday
No we weren’t , it’s just u
He streams on facebook too
I did, and I'm not him so there are two, so since there are two the two are we, so we were@@yeache2430
He streams on Facebook often
I forgot I was still subscribed to Gbay, I don't even play league anymore but this was still a cool video bro. Nice job
Same xD
This is happening to many of us it seems. It appear in my recommended feed and I notice I was suscribed. Old times. haha
I am not even subscribed ... not playing league for more than 2 years. Still a great video
same
I didn't even realize I was watching a gbay video until the end
This was the only team who could get me excited watching league, im a season 1 old player I've seen all of this up to this day, only SKT was close, but M5 just made my day, you just knew they were gonna dumpster their opponents. it was fascinating to watch, they changed league play style forever. Thank you for such documentary
Not the FBI but LCS killed them. I've always been an M5 fan, from the Empire Nunu moment on. Friends and I watched all of the European tournaments back then... It's been years since I stopped watching competitive LoL, but these moments really bring back some wonderful memories.
It is important to mention that their coach (Groove, ex CS pro) was crucial for the growth and performance of M5/Gambit. His role was somewhat similar to those in Asian teams. None of the Westerners had coaches back then. If I remember correctly, they came to league from dota. Which also explains the depth of the approach.
But I cannot imagine a story about this team without a legendary quote: see hero, keel hero...
It's actually been 84 years.
Junstin Y oh Yeah Yeah
Please respond to me senpai
Wtf i see this guy everywhere
:0
Why 84
That was a good one. I actually watched the whole thing without skipping a second. That's hard to do^^ really well done.
Darien with the golden renekton.
Diamond inventing counter jungling.
Alex Ich with his K6 resets.
Genja bringing trinity force corki / kog'maw to the meta.
Gosu Pepper as the thresh prince.
Long live Moscow 5.
Also Alex Ich's AP Master Yi!
Alex Ich Pay to win
Genja for me was the weirdest one. He did Hurricane and Guinso for Varus, then for Ashe xD. Alex and Diamond were GODS back those days, and the rest with a very good teamwork never saw before.
Darien AP Renekton swaglord!
Remainder of when Darien got Manamune for Aatrox...
There was a team named "The Milfhunters"
lol
Sean Avery sad
Problem?
@@skeletor2012lmao
@Ricesteamer 2 Unexpected JoJo
@Sean Avery damn
tl:dr;
Their team manager/owner got arrest for credit-card frauds in US.
Thanks
Thank you
cheers
Well it's a TL:DR of the title, but this is a documentary about the teams history lol
It would be *tl:dw
Too long, didn't watch.
I will never, NEVER forget that one teamfight with like 3 guardian angels and zilean that lasted something along the lines of 2 minutes. Nothing will ever come close to that ever again...
Genja and 3 doran's blade
This really brought back a lot of nostalgia. I had goosebumps all over my body listenening to Deman!
Ikr! He was amazing
I keep forgetting what match it was but the moment he shouted comments of what is happening in the teamfight and the fight just keeps going and going for like 15secs and he didnt stop shouting until the fight ended, never forgot that
Yea Deman was THE caster back in the day. I'd love to watch a serious current LoL game cast by Deman and Joe Miller again.
@@Cloudcraftsman Hell yeah dude.. I would sacrifice my left nut for that
26:37 is the explanation of the FBI involvement.
Although the rest of the video is a good watch too! I'd skip here if you're short on time.
Ty
bless you
We wont forget your sacrifice thank you !
Thank you. I didn't click this shit to get a history lesson
You are a gentleman, a scholar, and a hero
Dude, that just brought tears to my eyes. They made me enjoy LOL, and they teached me how to play, in each role, and how to be part of a team. The team was amazing, since you didn't know what to expect from them! Evelyn jungle? Or Nasus Jungle? Maybe KogMaw triforce? Ashe Manamue? Aatrox top? What about Nunu, that God dammit Nunu, on bot lane? They were the team that this game needs now: something that was amazing to watch, just for it's way of being who they are. They made me feel so old... it's been 6 years since my last match, even thought I tried LOL a couple of times. But, sorry, I can't feel the joyfulness playing a game like this anymore. I miss being a child, a fan, a fanatic. Thank you Moscow 5
I didn't know about the game back then nor did I know about this team till now and the end of this video still brought tears to my eyes. Good video overall.
I would never expect myself to drop tears of joy while watching this.
You probably miss Scripts as well lmao
PepeCry BibleThump good speech :'(
What an idiot. They basically f'ed over so many people's lives yet you only care about a video game.
"It may not be fair to blame the FBI for the end of M5's dominance"
Actually it is. After M5 fell, M5 players didnt have a gaming house to boot camp at. They would only practice online.
Also M5 owner was very strict, thats why M5 performed so well, he would always push them
Thats what i was thinking too , they got comfortable with their Owner and he probably had a very big impact on them when it comes to playing.
the only one who destroyed the team is the idiot who decided to start a e-sports team after stealing millions of credit card numbers
@@hovlo426 hahh YES was just thinking the same thing! The FBI doing their job have nothing to do with the end of M5... the bruz who broke the law is literally 100% responsible for their own actions!
@@hovlo426 true
It isnt that they had stolen the money of 160 million people?
Moscow 5 was my favorite team in EU since Season 2 and after I stopped playing for a couple years I never really knew what happened to them. Thank you so much for this documentary, it really helped me live through the nostalgia a bit and I feel really enlightened about what I've learned
`Unlike the rest of the west team gambit doesn't have a problem playing with Koreans`. I don't know why but this line is just so funny. 🤣😂
this dude comes YEARS after everything to make money and says they were so dominant when Fnatic was their kryptonite.
Are you saying they weren't dominant? lol
Everyone was their kryptonite online, but on LAN they were untouchable
@@cahrlloow9843 in the early years of M5, Fnatic could not touch them. It was only after they changed organizations that Fnatic was able to start defeating the Russians.
@@cahrlloow9843 no they werent lmao did you not see that score? They kept beating fnatic lmao
Marko Btw cus lan has NO LAG
It's like we discovered Michael Jackson never died
wait
Michael selling lies again?
I remember watching M5 and cheering for them. Their gameplay was so explosive, each game was unique, champions pool were unique. Now I know why, but then it was just amazing (not Anivia farming for 50 minutes).
Man M5 was my favourite team to follow. So explosive, so much fun to watch. It was a shame Gambit couldn't follow, but all good things come to an end eventually I guess. But damn that was a damn nice documentary. keep it up Gbay!
After this I want Riot to make a M5 Shyvana skin or elsr
I remember loving M5. Those MC5 League of Legends seasons were the most fun and amazing seasons, both in playing and professional watching. It was just fun.
Yeah, at their peak they were something to watch for. Sadly, it wasn't some rapid falloff, numerous problems risen once the rest of the world caught up to the meta and Koreans got more prominent presence. I'd say only AlexIch was playing with any degree of stability after their peak. Diamond quickly fell off and together with Darien became unstable in performance, either doing fine or somehow failing miserably. Their bot lane, Genja and Pepper started losing hard. Like super hard, they would lose majority of their matchups unless they got babysitted by their jungler/mid laner. The former being unstable in performance himself, the latter already struggling to prop up the jungler and top laner.
@Комиссáр Vasyanka Not arguing that it wasn't due to their hectic travels and a lot of stress with getting visas prepared in time. My point was - it wasn't a sudden drop when those "FBI" problems hit them. They gradually started falling behind. If anything, it proves that the main issue was something much more longterm.
As for Diamond - I didn't really follow his solo play afterwards. What I do know is what I saw in the competitive matches back then. When previously Diamond could bully enemy jungler and generally was one of the backbones that often launched lanes into winning, together with AlexIch, he started to fall behind more and more. Either getting muscled out of his own jungle or dying during his own ganks. If both him and AlexIch were performing as well as before - it would be a different story. Maybe they could still work something out, despite top and bottom not performing as well as before. But as I said, in my opinion only AlexIch performed well throughout that gradual fall. Even if he was in mid lane position, he couldn't just prop up everyone by himself. My another impression was that Diamond kept picking champions that worked before, when meta was already moving forward. And those picks started to gradually underperform when enemy teams got accustomed to them.
If he is still playing and at a high solo level - that's fine, but I doubt it is any indication or counterargument to why he stopped producing results in competitive games back then.
Lol I remember Genja used to build Tear on Varus, probably during season 3, and commentators were laughing their ass off that, as in that's a garbage buy. What do you know, Tear Varus became meta a few years later. The team was so ahead of the time in many ways. I miss these days.
Does in LoL meta is changing so slow or so fast that it ended where it begun? I was trying to say few years is a long time in esports where meta could have changed dozen of times till Tear on Varus became really a meta thing not just situational.
Time Lord Genja ^^
Gauntlet Ashe, everybody?
Diamondprox still plays for GMB. I dream that one day, we get at least some of the team back together and make a comeback. No need to dominate anything, just enough to remind everyone of the old guards.
@@merlux9324 Well... I remember that me and my friends used to play full ad cow and blitz. Everyone was screaming on us that we are goint to throw the game and stuff. We was owning almost every game. After 2 years loltubers started to make videos about that ,,ULTRA MEGA COMBO PERFECT ONE SHOOT KILL DUO" and sudenly it was a thing. So you cant tell me that you cant be ahead of everyone in lol.
I always like to support a new TH-cam channel
LOL
But he's not new /s
@@DanielThirion i think he meant it as in he s takin a different direction and is basicly no longer the gbay he knew
@@iordachealexandru7811 r/wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooosh
@@zaarongaming8174 you wooshed the wrong one
Manager of the best League of Legends team in the world, still finds time to defraud over 160 million credit card users on the side. Russians take not just League, but also the "side hustle" to a whole new level.
Yet there lol Team is poor
Its even funnier when u know gbay’s yt channel was hacked by a Russian before.
Lmfao
pretty sure he was commiting fraud before he started the team
Best team in the world? Samsung? Skt??
Remember when each LoL tournament meant new strategies, team comps and playstyles? Now it's all just obeying the meta.
Because the devs balanced the game that way. No more broken stuff = no more diversity.
Hardly what it is today. As in meta at least on EU, NA goes with a lot of flex pick that let you do new stuff all the time. So dont know if you watch league or you are just trolling.
there are options for different comps in today's game but sadly the Esports forced meta by the trainers for entertainment and selling skins for champs mainly is whats driving the competitive play not a new or old or different strategy they have basically as "script" of champions to use for the month and they have to use them and just to spice it from time to time dont use an conventional adc but some ap carry in place it for the lolz but it feels so forced in a way it never works in ranked play if your the one trying it
@@Tigrion What????? Where are you getting that information? And I don't think it's fair to compare how those picks are working for them when you're likely not a pro/challenger level player lol. Of course results will be different based on your skill level.
Have you heard of: G2?
God I loved Them. League has not been the same after their days.
R.I.P. Never Forgotten!
Cosminen they stole personal information and money from millions of people.
@@definitelynotobama6851 its wasnt them it was their owner he stole all that money even way befor he was the owner of m5 they were investigated for it never found guilty
@@definitelynotobama6851 yo dummy it was the owners not the players, do your research
Bro they’re not dead lmao. Just disbanded
@@definitelynotobama6851 did you even watch the video
I dont play league of legends but still watched this and found it very interesting. Thanks for making this
Please
My comment will get burrowed Down but whatever. It was the new LCS system that beat them the most. Having to travel back to Russia and to cologne again every week is really frustrating. Also they were known for preparing really hard for big tournaments by boot camping for couple of weeks or so, creating new tactics, picks and stuff. But in the time between they've been inconsistent. But with new league system when you have to play every week there is no room for something new because you have to just go for standard consistent playstyle. So ye I think the stress was rising up quickly in their team and they just begin arguing with each other all the time and eventually team got destroyed
This game is overplayed but if someone find a way to bend rules hotfix patch incoming. Riot centralized game too much with new hybrid peace of shit kits and lcs system is unplayable for inovations = dead game.
They legit fucked them up I agree they couldnt get a visa for the lcs in berlin, you would think that this is riots fault but again how would they know this would happen, its so unfair
But American Teams will have to travel back to America every week to or not ?
@@dominikminet1276 no , they have their own league na lcs
@@nolex1 So how come Koreans dominated so long?
I was playing CS:GO semi-pro when this went down. None of the guys on my team were LoL players but we constantly talked about M5 because it was insane seeing them sweep every tourney. I remember the day this story popped up we were dumb-founded.
All this nostalgia. Thank you Gbay. Now I really want Vanilla LoL to happen
i think the genius who made the extrategies of moscow 5 where those 3 shitlords who own the group, ..since after their arrest the moscow five gambit team didnt played well ...maybe because they only followed his leader ...that was probably a genius on mathematics viewing the entire game as a bunch of numbers ..that is how you should actualyy in fact look at LEAGUE of legends to play good ,because the entire game is made out of a bunch of numbers ,and you have to have a solid memory for math.. =( the team moscow5 probably where just agents to fill the roles where the their leader where the genius mind .
@@BitmapJack That might be true, but one of their master minds was Genja for sure. Dude's always 3 steps ahead regarding champion builds. EDIT: typo
ya me too, heart of gold for top laners, there were like 2 more gold items, but cant remember atm haha. (checked: kages Lucky pick, avarice blade and the philosopher's stone.)
and i, myself as a main support back then, bought mostly the starks fervor item(if i had 2 or 3AD in my team). people Always were like, wtf you build/buy that shit? well guess what happened soon after :)
pro's started building it too in regional/worlds matches. causing it to be turned in zekes herald the season after, a less better item to starks fervor, so i ended up buying it rarely.
and now its all gone. but i started using it first! people never seem to believe me though when i say that, but my used to be regular teammates do remember and back me up^^
i would really like a vanilla LoL as an extra mode when it got/gets 10 years old, wich would be this year. just a special something to all old players like myself and to show new players how it used to be. that would be so very nice
I dont like LOL, but that was a beautifull documentary bro, well made.
i dont even know why i watched it lol. it was just a good documentary
LoL behaves more like a drug than a game.
yeah dude i was thinking the same thing, I played LoL for like 4 years and i cannot stand the thought of playing even one more time unless someone was paying my bills for it lol... but yo shout out for the doc man its very well made you should look into some serious youtube editing for someone man
Bro u spelled LOL wrong. The "L" should be on first and the other "L" should be last. That's where many people get it incorrectly
LoL is just a game but that was a dope documentary, moscow5 was next level ahead of their time. i gotta respect them for rolling pros nonstop for as long as they did
Ah memories. Only regret that I have is not getting an m5 icon back in s2.
I've got the s3 gambit one but I didn't watch them back when they were m5. Still crazy ass players in s3 though
@@dophie3292 s2 was the shit back in the day. I don't really remember s1 apart from playing Lee top with 2 Bloodthirsters, but s2 was really memorable since the game started growing so much and became what it is nowadays.
Feels sad man that m5 didn't win s2 Worlds. If they only banned the Nidalee.. I didn't know the background of their owner however.
oooo dude i ask Riot to give us the icon of M5 but they said that's not possible! :(
That was possible? Fuckkkk i want clgeu logoo
@@jonahb5629 no it's not..... i request it but they can give us this old staff :(
Gbay.. this is a genius masterpiece! I literally watched this documentary for about 6 times now. I love the storytelling, the style and just to see nostalgic gameplay and the story of M5. Also listening to your voice since about season 3 or so ... love it
m5 singlehandedly made competitive lol interesting to watch.
the good old days...
Yi Ap Pentakill, never forget.
Marcos C kha zix pentakill
Best moment in League history for me was when the enemy team was forced to ban Warwick top for Darien. His expression was priceless
kein ding yo bot.de And then asians ruined it 😂
My least favorite moment was when the Support ADC meta botlane started up, but that was waaaay early on. That's why I'm pretty happy with the double mage bot lane that's been happening for a while.
What killed M5/GMB was the actual League schedule. Constantly playing week after week made their innovative gimmicks less impactful even though we did occasionally still see them(I remember that Thresh/Voli stuff and Kog during that one Worlds). Also, they had to travel to the LCS studio every week from Russia which put strain on them personally as well as their training time.
Yeah, totally agree. I remember one interview which Alex gave to Shox after the game, he said they are practicing in their dreams, cause they got no fcking time due to shcedule. Cant remember when it was.
While I liked the video, several points should be corrected. First of all, the major one- FBI had almost no impact on this team destiny. Yes, arrest of Smelyanets resulted in a couple of months of uncertainty, but guys just registered a new brand Gambit Gaming with the same management. Groove (Konstantin Pikiner) was the manager of this team, Smelyanets never affected them in any way except paying salaries and flight/hotels bills (and they had enough money themselves by the time he was arrested). Gameplay problems later in their careers were mostly due to personal conflicts inside the team (girlfriend problems etc), but what really broke them- is the Seasoned League system. All M5 members were from different cities, they lived thousands kilometers away from eachother. So in early days of LoL they lived in their homes, and gathered just for a week or two before a major LAN event on a bootcamp, then separated until next event. And such events were about couple of months apart from each other. So it was all fine. Guys could practice online and just polish strats right before event. When Seasoned League was introduced for EU, it created a major problem: Russia is not a member of EU, and Russia citizens can stay in EU for 180 days per year maximum and no more than 90 days per 6 months. So this team could not live in Germany as every other EU LCS team and they had to fly every week from Russia to Germany. That effectively meant that they had 1, maximum 2 days per week to practice. As every team in the region and world overall was getting better and better, learning from M5/Gambit, these guys themselves got weaker and weaker due to travelling fatigue (sometimes they had to play just a hour or two after landing) and inability to practice effectively (Edward had to fly two planes to reach Germany for example, spending about 12 hours to do so). They had to lose points during season just because they couldn't attend regular games in certain weeks to not break visa rules etc. So, they were more and more inconsistent and exhausted. Their innovative strats were able to win them games still, but they were losing more and more due to lack of practice as they couldn't execute properly. It was a tailspin that resulted in roster changes and broken synergy, that resulted in even worse results. But thanks anyway for this video, it was a good time and M5/Gambit made a lot for a LoL as a competitive game.
As if they design a system just to remove them
Jk...
But, could it be?
I've been an esport fan from the early day of war3 dota 1, so I really love the tournaments kind-of system. Anw to be fair the Season system like traditional sport make it more professional, i feel. I'm commenting to ask about the ruling of EU, what happened to the Korean/Asian atheletes/ LOL players who stay there and play sport / EU LCS ? I feel like the ruling was strict to Russia citizens ?
@@hatoyin313 Well, I don't think so, as I don't believe in conspircy theories. Yes, Marc Merril kinda hates Russia, but League system is nothing new. The main problem is that esports players are not legally 'workers' in a lot of countries, so players can't get 'work' visas, just 'tourist' ones.
@@tunghamtien Laws in EU were changed in recent years, so now it's easier for a foreigner to get a 'work' visa in EU, but it wasn't so in first 3-4 years of EU LCS.
@@praetorrus There are some European and American Starcraft 2 players that live and train in Korea. Not sure if they have similar issues with their visas and such.
What an exciting time it was. I've watched this multiple times within the last few years. Loved M5 and Gambit.
"Vladimir Drinkman"
That's the most Russian name I've ever seen
Well the last name seems to be English, so it's only half Russian
nice try kid
I'm surprised this has got so many likes as it's clearly plagiarised.
Yeah, because Russians have surnames in english
23:07 LOL QTPIE LOOKS LIKE A CAVEMAN
Nothin changed lmao
He is
looks like a Russian shaggy
He still does.
Our baby bois season 2 Dig
Dude, I don't even play League and couldn't stop watching. Extremely well done piece of cinematography.
amazing documentary didn't feel the time at all
Same. I thought I watched a basic 10min video and noticed almost 40min had passed. 😂
16:26 Very family friendly chat banter
Didn't even notice xd
Omg XD
LOOOL
hahaha so good
lmao
Long time fan here since Season 2
Gotta say these last 3 documentaries might be not only your best content ever, but generally the best content lol has ever seen.
Especially this documentary has me indulge in nostalgia, as I was a fan of M5.
Awesome writing and screenplay
I am glad to see you shifting to less frequent, but more qualitative videos as has been your pathos ever since you began.
Stay strong and I hope your financial situation is stable
In the 10 years of competing in different games I have never, ever been so anxious to play against M5 back in 2012, and I'll never respect any team like I did for M5's unique ideas, strategies and it was a pleasure to play against them.
They've opened my mind to play even more aggressively and with confidence and think outside the box to gain an advantage, and used that mentality ever since in playing games.
Mad respect for all of them.
who r u
Yeah... except the organisation was built on massive organised crime. Pity they didn't have a cleaner org to support them.
@@visx1792 they didn't know dumbass. The owner of the team was a criminal, it's really not as uncommon in the business world as you think. Also it never affected them much, the inability to live and practice full time in the EU due to visa issues and resulting travel fatigue was what destroyed the team.
cutiemod this
I just fell in love with the M5. Didn't realize they were this great :O
no one I play with now knows about M5 or Gambit Gaming. It's kinda sad that they fell off and disappeared, they were my favorite team, and they were dank af.
Cant blame em, most of them probably picked up the game around season 6 or so like i did.
the darien memes were the best part
Sorry you play in silver then, cuz any good player knows about M5.
yea imagine my friends' faces when Gambit makes it to worlds from the Russian region and I'm like oh my god these guys are the original gods of the League and the creators of half of what's called meta and most of what's called cheese! Remember the first EULCS allstars team when 4 out of 5 players were voted from the Gambit roster and they dropped Genja and took YellowPete because there was a rule that no more than 3 players can be from one team? The only one who didn't get the vote was the 'feed to win' Darien.
gambit is still here playing regional tournaments named LCL, you can even watch them playing this weekend on twitch :]
S2 was definitely the highest point of watching Competitive LoL. Sure it was sometimes inconvenient finding the right site to watch on. Having to dedicate an entire weekend to a tournament was a pain, and the quality of casting and things wasn't always the best, but because big tournaments were so infrequent, you didn't really know the teams or how the compared to one another. You didn't know their pocket picks, you didn't know how the meta had changed, and it led to a situation where you'd want to watch every single game that happened that weekend because you never knew what was going to happen next. The fact M5 was a big deal back then was just icing on the cake.
I'm happy League has continued to grow and evolve, but with weekly matches that mystery and excitement is just gone and that makes me sad. I don't know how you could possibly recapture that energy in a weekly format, but I hope they one day find a way to do it, because that'd be amazing.
For me, since I stopped playing, the magic is still there since I just watch the final rounds. Thus that magic is still here (although you lose track of the micro aspect of things because of not playing)
That’s nostalgia talking. League is still fun to watch.
season 3 for me
Watching league is no longer fun because league itself is no longer fun
Same, dude, same thoughts I have.
Some nice Nostalgia. I even remembered some of the clips.
All I truly remember from M5 was the AP yi game.
Diamond was best jungler at the time
Well, i do remember their double jungle. Urgot solo bot and Shen Alistar on the jungle
I remember AP malphite against Fnatic
And Manamune Aatrox
Oooh yeah and i remember Warwick top
You make me care about the competitive scene of LoL when I haven’t cared about it since season 2. Nicely done as always goldbae99.
M5 was, and will always stay for me, the best team in League and the one most enjoyable to watch! I remember season 2 when the worlds avatars came out, I was so happy with the red logo!
Their games were amazing! No matter how crazy, they always had plan and not just good, they made the game look fun! It doesn't matter if it was Alex Malph mid, Darien with merlonomicon on Renekton, or Gosu on Nunu sup when none had an idea how to play it, they were just amazing!
Sad that it came to an end, I would love me some Genja-Alex-Darien games right now!
We will show them what DOMOI means!
Darien was a god, Genja the timelord, Alex Ich the man that made me start playing Kha mid, and Diamond Prox the worlds best jungler
This team deserved to win at least one worlds
Ha ha, no
Maybe in Season 1.In all other seasons, i don't see them being better than the champions of that season
IEM Katowice is sometimes considered more representative than the actual world championship.
Cebolinha the Chorão IEM Hanover was basically season 1 worlds, it was a lot bigger with more teams and more prize money.
They had season 2 almost, they just had to ban nidale -.-
Exclusive shots of me farming 9:30
lmao
If it wasn't for the champion, I'd swear they'd taken the footage right from one of my games.
Oh man that clip was horrible and I had to watch it three times to hear what he was saying because I got so triggered every time.
hahahahaha
Don't care what anybody says, THAT was the funniest comment for this video. Good work man!
I usually never watch videos longer than 5 or 10 minutes cause I get bored, but man was this good. Great documentary bro!
I don't play league and felt like I was in a college course when you start explaining the priority and jungler stuff haha, I feel like I should have a notebook out. I really enjoy stories like this, despite my ignorance. Great video!
I love this team, they pick, how they innovated on the meta... Of course they never had problems with Koreans, Korean gameplay is aggressive, fast paced pressure with picks never seen. Exactly M5 style. They were the inspiration for Koreans. Remember how Insec spoke fondly of watching Diamondprox play.
they were anything but agressive back then.they were the masters of farming for 50 minutes with anivia mid until khan started showing them that you don't need to play like you're bronze 4 and don't even know what the enemy champ does if you're good enough.minimize activity maximize efficiency for a reason
I have never played nor watched a single professional game of LoL, but this is a very great video. Watched it all the way through :)
I agree. I don't play videogames, but this was inspirational.
Leave the chat
@@o.sunsfamily leave then
@@chavalomiguel5587 no u
Man this makes me nostalgic. I started the game when they made the Shyvana meta and she was my first main/one trick.
23:07 qt lookin like he doesn't remember where he is after that game
Yeah but in defense, that's kind of his default.
This is why we love him
16:26 Oh league community, it's never changed (the chat)
llol
@Shemsuh0r they're called "snowflakes", and they think _literally_ everything non-pc is literal hate speech ;;
@@stricker1eagle500 bruh how is that not hate speech
yeah it has, everybody that was "toxic" was banned 3-4 years ago
@@Zt3alth because any issues regarding anybody offends a group of people, thats how disagreements work. Literally hate speech cannot be defined as anything other than something that offends a group of people, and because of that hate speech is literally everything you say, or nothing- if you decide its bull shit.
Gbay, these documentaries are brilliant. I just wish they were more often than every 4 months. Keep up the fantastic work.
Sad that M5 never got to face SKT.
yea be a good one,though faker and benji together was pretty much unstoppable
@@nerdlord2288 just faker was pretty much unstoppable
Yea, cause M5 in season 3 versus SKT T1 K ? Yikes.
Like , they have 0 win conditions versus them. Way too much raw talent out of that SKT roster.
The Sith Code true but m5 played their own kind of game I think it might of tossed Koreans for a loop. I remember being so stoked when they put mordie mid and amused by the casters constant shock and confusion at m5’s picks and lanes. I honestly think m5 was digging deep Into he game data hence noticing things like add Ken ect.
Émile Guilbeault skt never won when benji left lel
I looked at the comments and I was like "I'll give him 5 minutes to sell me..." and here I am 31 minutes and 55 seconds later lol
I love you dude, I was so pissed that you were gonna leave out Katowice 2013 until the end. My favorite moment in gaming altogether
This channel still exists.. by God how long has it been? Last time I saw an upload was on July of 1978...
4 months....
@@Troe1505 Funny how you think I'm being serious :|
R/woooosh
Ow wtf gbay posted again
This is truly a well edited video! Ups and downs, wins and losses. Doesnt matter since its so well proposed and composed! Well done, and thanks for the walk through memory lane!
first gbay video i watched in 3 years.
same
I thought GBay died after the 5 ms Irelia nerf
How could you miss the most important contribution of M5. They were the pioneers of proper in game comms. There was a tournament where they first started showing the fans the in game comms, specially during fights. It was always the expectation that teams were shouting at each other. But in one instance of a messy teamfight, Gosu pepper was commandeering Darien to TP bot and their chat was mostly silent apart from 1 person making calls.
I had played League at that time (seasons 1 and 2) and it was so amazing!
Crazy strategies, strange picks/bans, map control...
I was really amazed by how Darien had played Top lane. Starting that moment I played just solo lanes.
Thank you for video! It was really cool and have brought a lot of old nice memories:)
Jesus you just made me sit through a 37min vid, pretty good format, i loved the narration and the edit style, keep it up, subscribed.
Forget these esport comebacks Gbay’s comeback to TH-cam is where the hype is really at.
Also hope nothing was wrong because this doc took quite along time. It might be writers block or something and I hope you are doing well. Keep up the good work.
Welcome back, prodigal son. And what a high note to come back on! M5 was the most exciting team in League history and will forever be my favourite team ever. I'm always happy when they get remembered with the love and respect they deserve.
Your video formats are Amazing the way you make seemingly basic information interesting and engaging with clips, music, and formatting is astounding. Good Job.
anyone else find it hard to watch the kassadin miss all the farm under tower?
Thank you Jesus, I was in pain looking for anyone else who saw him mis literally every one
He got one
@@anthonytilt3845 + he was saying that kass should be getting the gold and exp ....it annoyed me very much
Well, I started playing a few weeks ago and Im in Iron 2, but even I saw it since its pretty much the most important thing at the start, isnt it? I dont aspire to become pro level, but its still encouraging to see world class players still make big mistakes from time to time and Im not only talking about this vid.
I love how qtpie is just about always in the back ground in these clips.... in game clips and even irl clips
Vladimir Drinkman? Is he related to Punch Out's Vodka Drunkenski?
No, you're thinking of Vladimir Drunkenski.
@@lanmandragoran8337 What reference are you making?
@@JoveJoved You said he was related to Vodka Drunkenski. I was insinuating it couldn't be anything other than a blood relative on his fathers side by saying "No, then it would be "Vladimir Drunkenski", not "Vladimir Drinkman", or they wouldn't be related.
Drunkyewski
Awesome documentary! So much lost and finally recovered memories of m5 and me watching them being in 10th grade. Feels like im 15 again
M5 showed me any champ can be played anywhere.
thats wrong
Yeah, thats why soloQ sucks
when the kassadin missed like all cs under tower ^^
Dude what an awsome doc. This is like cavern era for me. Great work!
Imagine starting a team to play in an obscure, yet to be a global phenomenon, video game, to use as a front for your ilegal endeavors, and being so good at it you actually draw more attention to said ilegal endeavors. This is amazing in so many levels
Imagine not being able to see/make those kind of amazing videos when Article 13 comes through.
Gbay I haven't even played League in so long but your videos are just so interesting anyway. You just explain stuff very well. This is the first time someone explained to me what lane priority is. Unless Dunkey starts making League videos again you're the only league youtuber I still follow since you're just so positive. While you'd think League makes any man cynical you find a way to keep on top!