Grats on the marriage! Also, I really love this "man in the woods talks about League" thing you've been doing.

Gbay making a video right next to the raptor camp

I think Gbay massively underselled the 2016 worlds. Simply by not mentioning the fact that it produced the arguably single best bo5 of all times. ROX vs SKT. The mf counter pick, the Pray arrow, the Bengi first time nidalee in an elimination match due to a simple mistake of playing with Blank before and not banning her. 3 of the most memorable worlds moments coming out in one best of 5.

2017 had its moments like FNC coming back from 0-4, Misfits taking SKT to 5 games with Blitzcrank and Fervor Leona, the games themselves weren't interesting but the tournament as a whole wasn't THAT bad imo

Very hyped for a docu-series on 2022 worlds. Absolutely my overall favourite worlds!

I went and saw NA LCS finals in toronto in 2016 and it was honestly the best event ive ever been to in my life, actually experiencing live league of legends is a totally different experience the crowd was absolutely electric and everyone there was so nice and you always had something to talk about to anyone you talked to.

Would be cool if you could do same thing with the MSI, there are alot of interesting story lines, EDG counterpicking Faker's undefeated LB and winning first ever MSI, Uzi and RNG winning first of their many MSI's and going for perfect run that year, TL upsetting IG and G2 upsetting SKT and winning whole thing and so on...

European fanboy here; I think that Worlds 2019 is heavily underrated! G2 as a team was somewhat unique, having a former mid-laner and team leader role swapping to ADC at this level of play, everybody being able to play crazy flex picks (Pyke top by wunder was gorgeous, Irelia/Akali flex all the time, Mages bot from time to time) and Europe possibly not only winning a world championship but G2 winning every other event that year (spring + summer split and MSI). While the finals still break my heart, everything that led up to that was super exciting-

Gbay you've been my favorite League creator since forever. Please never stop doing what you love. We love you!! Can't wait for Worlds. I'm looking forward for your documentaries about the underdog teams this year.

Worlds is like a global holiday to all lol fans worldwide. Honestly one of my favourite times of the year

Congrats on the Marriage Gbay! Been watching you since I was a kid & can't wait for more videos from you! Dope tier list, can't believe you're still catching up with these after this much time

As an EU fan, nothing beats the hype of 2018 and 2019 runs followed by utter heartbreak

I have fond memories of the Worlds 2015 Final. I live in Berlin, where it was held and so does the whole squad. One of my friends mom works in a mall that coincidentally also had one of the few ticket shops with a limited stock so we didn't even have to go through the whole process of trying to purchase tickets online. KOO was one of my favorite teams to watch throughout the whole tournament, especially since Peanut had become one of my favorite players and getting to experience SKT/T1 play was great aswell. It was such a great day and I look back to it every once in a while. Even if I don't play league actively anymore, It's been such a big part of my life. Oh and I'm also pretty proud of being part of the group that initiated the "KOO Tigers" chant trying to cheer them up after they lost. The whole stadium went along, which shows the immense support for the underdog in that situation

2018 worlds was the reason I started watching more worlds. It will forever be one of my favorites.

This made me want to go back and watch the Albus Nox Luna series again. That was the most exciting professional League of Legends arc I've ever witnessed.

Worlds 2022 reignited my passion for league which seemed to have died with covid. Eventhough i havent played league again since then still, it just feels more exciting to watch it. Couldve been more perfect if faker, who ive followed since i started in 2013, didnt win, everything else about it was incredible. The storylines, the games, the hype, all made me felt what i felt when i was playing league at my peak.

Congratulations to you and Mrsbay99. Really looking forward to the hypothetical multi-part 2022 Worlds series! Also I love your new office.

I love Worlds season. The crowd getting hyped, the crazy pro plays. Even though I only play ARAM and rotating modes, Worlds for league gets me so hyped.

I still vote for 2019 being an S Tier worlds because 1, the west (EU) was actually competitive here. FNC and this G2 will probably be the only western team that don't lose to Chinese and Korean teams by default and sadly that is unlikely to happen again. 2, this worlds had the best champion diversity and teams actually had different playstyles with actual signature picks outside of meta.

Hey Nathaniel! Congrats on the marriage! Been watching your content for a long long time and am glad to see how far you've come! I was in one of the first 100,000 followers you had. I've pretty much watched every series you've made (Road to Diamond, the short video essays, the Runescape videos, the list goes on). But I digress. This isn't about nostalgia lmao. Watching this list makes me sad I missed out on Worlds 2022. Looking forward to your documentary on it! One thing I'll add about 2015 Worlds. A lot of the initial games played out the same way in the beginning (All 5 blue team members go bot, all 5 red team members go top, push to take turr, normal lanes... You get it). This got pretty boring to watch initially. HOWEVER, 2015 Worlds has a special place in my heart still. It was the year Dyrus retired. His goodbye speech was so bittersweet that it still gets me a little teary eyed when I remember his passion and love for his fans, and the disappointment which was TSM in 2015. Plus, watching Faker play his iconic Ryze against Kuro's Kassadin. The memory of Kassadin Riftwalking into Ryze and then getting machine-gunned down in a second is so deeply ingrained in my brain that I don't think I'll ever forget. 2015 Worlds was the first Worlds I watched because I had joined the game only a few months before. It is very near and dear to my heart. I hope you get to see this, man!

CANNOT WAIT until your documentary on 2022 worlds. Definitely the best. I even bought a DRX Zeka jersey after seeing his performance on Akali and Sylas. I played tons of league for the next few months after that worlds after not playing for a couple years. Watching that series live was one of the most entertaining sporting events I've ever watched.

Definitely my favourite youtuber when I think about it, I actually get excited to watch your videos when they drop whereas mostly I just watch what's available. Been rewatching Road to Diamond series, and that was classic.

I was gonna comment asking desperately for a 2022 doc, but I got to the end of the video and I am so hyped now. So instead I will just say I cant already wait to see it and I generally love your content. Oh, and congratulations for the marriage.

Great vid like always!

new Gbay video! highlight of my day. Love the content!

Always nice seeing you posted, just saw your short on the official league of legends page!!

Great video to revisit all the memories of group stage matches and bracket matches that are engraved on my brain. With that I also went through the worlds songs and I think some worlds would move a tier just because their song is soo good.

Great video! Really enjoyed it.

great video gbay! I couldn't stop watching it for a second! very nice storytelling! keep up the good work ˆ_ˆ

2016 not on S tier is a crime.

thanks for the high quality historic league vids. never stop because youre byfar the best!

The Spanish crowd in 2019, quarters and semis, was the best ever in LoL. Imagine G2, thats its even from Spain, winning Damwon and then SKT, road to the grand final.

Another really great video Gbay! For what its worth you should be really proud of the content you put out.

I think the season 5/ 2015 one is one of the more special ones to me. Because it was the one that had one of the last NA stories of a proper NA team before it felt like NA is just used for every other region to retire or get second chances in. The retirement of Dyrus from TSM. The story going into worlds, and then him having that heartbreaking speech. That will always hold a place in my mind even though it's so tragic.

Congrats and thanks for catching us up to speed!

Top tier content as always!Can't wait for the 2022 documentary.

Man this new jungle looks crazy

I feel like everyone's favourite Worlds will just be whichever one you were most engaged with League. If that was 2018 (like it was for me), that's probably the Worlds you look back on most fondly, even if it wasn't objectively the best.

The international in dota is the perfect example of why double elimination actually fosters more upsets, pretty much any team can become world class with the momentum of lower bracket runs. Just look at recent TI winners, not a single favourite among them

I remember the 2018 being very enjoyable to watch, I still believe TheShy is the most skilled top laner to ever play the game

last years world was different, i hadn’t even played in over a year yet watched almost every single one bc the story lines were just so amazing, SKT and DRX was just peak

Havent watched you in a long time. Glad to see you doing good

2016 was my fav tbh. That run of Albus Nox Luna has never been seen in such a way. They werent just an underdog, they were THE underdog, and the players were incredibly likable.

Hell yea, worlds 2022 doc will be awesome. Was such a great worlds. Thanks for another banger Gbay!

Can I just say that I love that little hop in the intro? Keep it up my man!

I was getting worried when the video was almost over before 2022 even got brought up.. good to hear theres a whole documentary in the works for it

The "open circuit with a bunch of different majors" was Season 2. Season 1 Championship was direct invite to qualifiers, and took place before like half of the 2011 events. That said, it should be a solid A-tier. It's the first time we ever saw international matches, ever. Which also came to define the entire way the game is played, since NA/EU/SEA played the game fundamentally different. And most of the teams were stacked with players who were community favorites. Rather than just faceless pros. Made it all feel much more 'personal'

This year’s world should be in S tier imo. The new format is exciting and fun. A lot of upsets. T1 came in with a lot of doubts, almost lost to a NA team then started changing the meta and dominated all 4 teams of the rival region. Incredible story!

2022 Worlds can never be compared to anything else. What a Worlds. It was UNBELIEVABLE.

Driving engagement up! Congrats aswell!

Aint watched in a looooong looong time. Glad to see you still post

Grats on everything! Also it’s lovely to see that you are officially working with Riot on their instagram posts!🎉

Got to go to worlds 2022 groups and finals. NYC was so loud when NA was playing, even when we were losing. Not louder than when Gumayusi stole baron in the finals though. It was unbelievably deafening after that

I only stared watching LOL esports last year, so 2022 was my first Worlds. I had such a blast watching the storylines (and learning the game 😅), that I’m glad it ranks so highly in your estimation, and that I’ll get to revisit it with your insights before too long

I gotta say, 2022 was my favorite Worlds. My favorite player of All-Time won Worlds. And I can forever call him a “WORLD CHAMPION, DEFT”

Congrats on the marriage, excited to see you grow in this next chapter too! And great video as always!

What people forget about Worlds 2022 is how good the meta was. Sure, ADC was too strong in general, but big games were often decided by any other role. 2022 had the most variety in champion picks for a reason. It was so fucking great.

Love the tier list and the 2022 teaser documentary 😅

So proud of Huanfeng, he went from being almost homeless to spending lots of time in lots of different homes!

Saw worlds 2016 finals in person. That was an INCREDIBLE match.

Love. Much love Gbay.❤😅

congrats on your marriage!!!🎉🎉 great quality content as usual. keep up the good work. wish you well

This had been on my backlog for a while, and boy oh boy did the memories surge when I saw Karsa, Maple and SwordArt under the FlashWolves banner. It was just for a few seconds, too. Those sure were the days.

Worlds 2019 will always stay the best for me. I will never forget the opening ceremony and the hype of the crowd I'm referring to the event and the hype I felt, not the games and the storylines. If you only look at the games and the emotions I felt for the players, its 2022 Also congratulations on the mariage !!

I haven't played league in years and just happened to remember worlds 2022 was going on right before game 5 of the finals. I figured I would just put it on in the background since I had nothing better to do but holy shit that was the best game I have ever watched period.

I really loved the 2017 worlds as a misfits fan. I was sooo hyped since the underdogs made it out of groups and then took skt to 5 games, almost beating them. Their meta innovations were really fun to watch aswell with fervor of battle leona and so on. I get that the event as a whole was really underwhelming to most people but for me it probably was my 3rd favorite worlds overall

I was just today thinking id love a new gbay video

So glad you left the bug scene in. That happens to me with the puma logo on my sleeve all the time. I have bruised my arm slapping it before.

Gbay, just let go! League is over, you have to let go!

I dont usually comment on KZfaq, but i wanted to say that i really like you documentaries. Looking forward to the series on worlds 2022.

I take issue with the representation of the Ardent Censer meta in 2017. Ardent Censer was not played for the entire year and enchanters were not picked in spite of its unrecognized strength. In the 4 major regions' summer playoffs, the top 3 presence supports were Thresh, Alistar, and Rakan. The region with the highest presence of enchanters was in LPL, with Lulu have around 35% presence during playoffs. The way you word it makes it sound as if Riot was willfully negligent of Ardent Censer's strength when in reality, pros just failed to realize how strong it was the entire year, and only got up to speed during worlds. This is a good case study on how pros are typically resistant to strategic change until they are aggressively challenged on it.

So glad you mentioned Kabum vs Alliance, greetings from Brazil!

Context missing on the Ardent Censer meta is that for some reason pros refused to play it until literally worlds itself despite it being broken the entire year. Also I think the change was overstated as the reason for the item's dominance. It WAS a nerf - Ardent literally matched those values at LEVEL 5 AND LEVEL 6. It was the on-hit healing removal after that finally touched the item, but it took more nerfs after that to finally kill it.

Started playing league in 2020-21 but I didn't keep up with pro scene till around late 2021 to 2022. It was mostly because Worlds was in a different time zone and I recently graduated. Worlds 2022 is definitely my favorite since it was the first worlds I mostly kept up with and I researched into all the storylines and it made an entertaining finals of the series. Can't wait for the documentary

2022 was my fav worlds cause rooting for drx was just so fun but i think every eu fan has 2019 as S tier aswell that shit was just so crazy for us even if the finals did scar us

Looks like a fun video!!

Congratulations on the wedding and incoming 500k, I hope you continue to make videos in the woods

Hi Gbay, your 10 things i learned on youtube video has been sitting at the top of my watch later list, and after this video i figured id finally watch it. You said something about how leaving comments means more to you than us, the audience, might realize. Consider this a thank you letter. I have stopped caring about LOL a long time ago, and this video is again a sign that i would probably enjoy you reading an essay about Peanutbutter. I really like the way you look at the things you love and enjoy. When i come back from my trip i will figure out how to make a patreon account to finally shoot you a couple bucks now that i landed a stable job. I would love to hear you talk more about other interesting topics. Thanks for the countless hours of entertainment, you're the best

About halfway through the video and I gotta agree with the whole list so far! Been watching pro league since season 2 worlds was so entertaining. Gotta say that 2022 was probably my favorite worlds of all time, hoping 2023 can live up to it!

Congrats man

I've never been so happy to hear someone skip an entire segment. Can't wait for the 2022 doc!

Congrats on the marriage! Love all your videos, always a good watch.

Gbay starting off the video by jumping out of the woods is a vibe.

World 2022 was still, in my opinion. One of the most banger tournament EVER

I've seen riots recap of the 2022 world's and deft's storybook run, but I CANNOT wait for the GBay rendition of it. can't get enough of DRX's 2022 world's. I'll be looking out for that series!

i Watch worlds since 2015, and in my opnion 2022 was the best worlds 100%, the history, the emotion and the matches were just insane, DRX made a miracle run after the unlucky games they had, like the inibitor losing them a game, it was so hard to watch, that made me root for them on the finals even though I'm being a faker fan, I couldn't sleep until the final was over

I dont get to see much greenery so seeing them in your videos is so lovely

Gbay that morning: Ah yes the middle of the forest would be a great place to film a league video! Very cool video tho, and I wish u guys all the best and a great Wedding!

thank you for taking me down memory lane. the first competitve gaming event i watched was s1 worlds and ive seen every single one since. my personal favorite was probably season 5 bcus of a few reasons. the eu finals was played in stockholm, my hometown, so i got to see league live for the first time. but also, i had been a fan of fnatic since i watched them win the first championship and the two teams that played in the finals was essentially old fnatic vs new fnatic (origen vs fnatic). and to see them both go to worlds and both make it to the semi finals was amazing to me. sure, it ended a bit bittersweet with them just getting completely wiped but in hindsight it was such an amazing event. also, during season 2 worlds, didnt the crowd start cheering in the CLG vs WE game every time it disconnected as a meme bcus it happened so often? i vaguely remember that.

Thanks for the video glhf

Fully agree with the 2016 placement, it’s the only worlds I ever went to and it was wild. Was at the second venue just next door to the actual arena, where Riot had a big screen to show the games and had all the statues they had made of the champions.. that was so cool. The only part was that very last 5th game was such a stomp, SKT won and when the confetti went off, I just remember the silence… no one really cheered for a sec, it was all like, regular clapping and was so sad to hear. It felt like everyone was collectively like, “wha, that’s it? After all that?”

i really hate the notion that if it wasn't the underdog winning then it's boring because then that means that you are only looking at the story side of the competition and not the games themselves which is only half of the enjoyment that the esports have, and for me, it certainly is so exciting when an underdog upsets teams but only if not for the expense of the favored team which means they actually won with pure skill and hard work and not just the enemy underperforming which means they're win is actually justified, they're not just lucky frauds that got away with it and the games themselves were actually shit league of legends because that also throws away everything that has been building up to that moment, that is why for me, it is one of the most exciting when an underdog actually steps up and make the favorite truly sweat for it but in the end, it is the favorites proving that they ARE the best not just with talent but also hard work, no bs and that is something to be truly celebrated, and it probably also means that the underdog is just not yet ready which is why they were the underdog to begin with but it could also be that they were setting up for something GREATER, and this is why when ssg lost to skt in 2016 but continued to push on with their CLIMB to RISE and grow to actually be one of the best teams and finally won fair and square against the same opponent, as a fan it truly was one of the best feeling to have in a lifetime.

2014 is a solid A tier. A lot of great story lines and the games were way more interesting that Gbay is giving them credit for. Very entertaining event.

Nice timing!

From the moment worlds 2022 ended I knew a documentary would be coming and I can’t wait for the multi part series.

the osrs sound effects are a nice touch, congrats on the marriage!

and worlds 2023 was even bigger! nice video!

I really love this

I like how you mentioned ardent meta for 2017 but didn’t mention that in 2018 trackers knife got removed so Korea had to adapt with less vision , leading to more aggressive play styles from other regions like china

22:14 “I value i dog stories and upset more then anything else.” I have a pretty good feeling about 2022’s ranking.