Oh and also, I heard he’s never been swept in his life!

the quality in these videos is astounding, keep up the awesome work thano!

My friend played him when he was GC2 div 1 and monkey moon just hit SSL… It was crazy how this rank disparity made a difference of 8 goals (10-2)

This is potentially the best video you have produced. Editing wise, tornado has done a flawless job, and content wise, this is a truly inspiring video. Keep peaking, bossman.

Next Video: "How Monkey Moon made history by getting perfectly swept by Dignitas"

Damn. The editing never disappoints!! Gs Thanovic

Coming here after they scored 0 goals against Dignitas (in the whole series), and then Monkey used the Battlebus in game 4.

Awesome episode ! Great of you to base your analysis on the take of arguably toi of the sharpest analysts out there ! I’d love to hear your talk about TRK from SRG

This hurts after watching BDS vs Dig today in the Semis

This is one of your best, @Thanovic and it’s the type of video I really like from you. I know it’s possibly more work than a freestyle video, but I encourage you to do some more like this too. Good balance of education and entertainment. Thanks my guy!

Maybe one of your best videos, good work dawg

Always a good day when this man uploads:)

The editing and quality of your videos continues to blow me away

Yet another masterpiece well done thano :P

Funny acknowledging that bds lost 4-0 twice in rlcs after this was uploaded

HOLY SHIT! Dude this is the highest quality Rocket League video i have ever seen! Keep it up Thano!

This was an awesome video!

i’m a c1 who plays like a solid c2 and i just learned how to do speed flip correctly. rewatching replays really do help out getting better

I just realized this video was so good and inspiring that i stopped watching halfway through because i had to go play and practice my boost management xD

What a great video! Hope Monkeymoon gets to see it, he’d probably be very proud!!

really great video idea man i like it

dude i missed you and your streams hopefully you get your pc sorted soon and will this kinda vacation make you well rested. Awesome vi d

Such a good vid man, great content honestly. Summarises quite well what it's like to play against him too 😂 I smash like subscribed!!

thx for the GOAT video!!!

Ethan, what have you done.. jinx of the century man.. OMEGALUL

The timing of this vid is just awesome.. 😄

I find it hilarious that watching this video after yesterday's eu regional where bds got swept in back to back series's 1 of which they got perfectly swept in a best of 7 (the first team to be perfectly swept in a best of 7 in particular)

Thanovic saying that monkey moon was the best player in the world and dignitas is out here perfect sweeping bds he’s a beast tho

You forgot to mention that the Hog Rider card is unlocked from the Spell Valley (Arena 5). He is a very fast building-targeting, melee troop with moderately high hitpoints and damage. He appears just like his Clash of Clans counterpart; a man with brown eyebrows, a beard, a mohawk, and a golden body piercing in his left ear who is riding a hog. A Hog Rider card costs 4 Elixir to deploy. His fast move speed can boost forward mini tanks like an Ice Golem in a push. At the same time, he can also function as a tank for lower hitpoint troops such as Goblins as he still has a fair amount of health. Most cheap swarms complement the Hog Rider well, as they are nearly as fast as him and usually force more than one card out of the opponent's hand. The Hog Rider struggles with swarms, as they can damage him down and defeat him quickly while obstructing his path. Barbarians in particular can fully counter him without very strict timing on the defender's part, though be wary of spells. A Hunter can kill the Hog Rider in 2 hits if placed right on top of it. However, if you place something in front of the Hog Rider, the Hunter's splash will damage the Hog Rider and hit the card in front of it more. The Hog Rider in conjunction with the Freeze can surprise the opponent and allow the Hog Rider to deal much more damage than anticipated, especially if the opponent's go-to counter is a swarm, or swarms are their only effective counter to him. Skeletons and Bats will immediately be defeated by the spell, while Spear Goblins, Goblins, and Minions will be at low enough health to be defeated by a follow up Zap or Giant Snowball. However, this strategy isn't very effective against buildings as the Hog Rider will take a while to destroy the building, giving the opponent ample time to articulate another counter. Against non-swarm troops, it can deal a lot of damage during the freeze time, but this can allow the opponent to set up a massive counterpush. For this reason, players should either only go for a Hog Rider + Freeze when they have other units backing it up from a counterattack, or if the match is about to end and they need to deal as much damage as possible. It is not a good idea to send in a Hog Rider simply to destroy a building, especially if it is the only building targeting unit available, as defeating Crown Towers becomes substantially more difficult. Spells or simply waiting out the lifetime of the building are more effective. The exception to this is an Elixir Collector placed in front of the King's Tower. If a Hog Rider placed at the bridge, he can destroy the Collector for a positive Elixir trade, though the damage from both Princess Towers will usually mean he does not survive to deal any damage to them. However, if the opponent sends in defending troops, it can be an opportunity to gain spell damage value. In a deck with several low-cost cards, it might be worth it to simply send the Hog Rider against one building. These decks shuffle their card rotation quick enough, that they will arrive to their next Hog Rider before the next building arrives in the opponent's card rotation. Long-ranged troops like Musketeer and Flying Machine can snipe those buildings, preserving some of the Hog Rider's health, possibly allowing it to get some Tower damage. When there are buildings placed in the middle to counter the Hog Rider, understanding the placement of the Hog Rider and the type of building placed can help the Hog Rider to bypass certain buildings. Passive buildings such as spawners and Elixir Collector have a larger hitbox than defensive buildings; which means that if a passive building was placed 3 tiles away from the river in the middle of the opponent's side, then it is impossible for the Hog Rider to bypass that placement as the Hog Rider will get pulled to that building. Defensive buildings have a smaller hitbox than a passive building, which means if that if a defensive building was placed three tiles away from the river in the middle of the opponent's side, a Hog Rider placed at the very left or right side of the Arena may be able to bypass it due to its smaller hitbox. If the player has a building already placed down in the center of the arena, and the opponent tries to bypass it with a Hog Rider at the edge of the arena, they can use certain air troops to push the Hog Rider towards the building as it jumps over the river, effectively denying the bypass attempt. They must be already hovering over the correct placement, as very quick reflexes are required to correctly perform this technique. For Bats, Skeleton Dragons, and Minion Horde, they should be placed right in front of the Hog Rider as soon as it is deployed. For Minions, Skeleton Barrel, Mega Minion, Flying Machine, Electro Dragon, Baby Dragon, Inferno Dragon, Balloon, and Lava Hound, stagger the above placement one tile to the right if the Hog Rider is placed on the left side of the arena, and vice versa. They can also use ground troops to achieve the same result. Something like an Ice Golem deployed at the Hog Rider’s landing spot will obstruct his path and force him to go around the unit, which causes him to be closer to the building instead of the Crown Tower. The Hog Rider can kite Very Fast non-building targeting troops due to his own Very Fast speed and building only targeting if he is placed on the fourth tile from the bridge, slightly into the opposite lane. He can also stall grounded units when placed right at the bridge. He will pull them towards him while deploying, and then be untargetable by them when he jumps over the bridge. After landing, he will pull them back. This can be useful when the player needs to deal damage in the same lane they are defending. It will also help separate troops behind a tank in a large push. A Tornado placed on the second tile front of the player's King's Tower and staggered two tiles towards the Princess Tower will activate it without any damage dealt to the Princess Tower, helping them in defending future pushes. This can also be a method of mitigating all damage dealt to a Princess Tower, but doing this more than three times may result in the King's Tower's health being low enough to be targeted directly, opening up the possible threat of a back door three crown. A better alternative is to pull the Hog away from the Princess Tower into the attacking range of all three Crown Towers, which will negate all damage as long as none of them are already distracted. A very powerful combo is the Hog Rider, the Musketeer, and the Valkyrie, typically referred to as the Trifecta. The Musketeer will defend against most troops, while the Valkyrie can protect her and the Hog Rider from swarms or high damage units. The Hog Rider is used to deal damage to the tower. This can be effectively countered by Lightning, one-shotting the Musketeer and severely damaging both the Valkyrie and Hog Rider. The Minion Horde is also effective, but the enemy can Zap them and the Musketeer will one-shot them all. Even if the Musketeer is defeated, the Hog Rider and Valkyrie will have enough time to severely damage the Tower. The Hog Rider should be placed behind the Valkyrie to give it a boost so that it stays in front of the Hog Rider, protecting it. A Hog Rider combined with a Goblin Barrel can be awkward for the opponent to defend against. Timing it so that the Hog Rider is tanking the tower shots for the Goblins is the most effective way to deal damage. However, a Barbarian Barrel can shut this down with minimal Tower damage for a positive Elixir trade, as long as the Goblin Barrel was placed directly on the Tower. Pairing the Hog Rider with the Balloon can deal devastating damage. If executed properly, the Hog Rider will act as a tank while the Balloon threatens to deal massive damage. The Hog Rider can also destroy any buildings attempting to slow down the combo. However, this combo is very vulnerable to swarms and anti-air cards as neither of the troops target anything but buildings. Additionally, they are easy to separate, due to the disparity in move speeds. Alternatively, the Hog Rider and the Balloon can be played in different lanes to spread the opponent's defenses thin. However, a building or Tornado can bring them back together for an easier defense. The Hog Rider can be paired with the Lumberjack as both a swarm bait and damage combo. It is a very fast combo with an extremely high damage output potential, so the enemy will likely try to counter it with a swarm. If this happens, use a spell like Arrows to render the opponent defenseless. If they manage to defeat the Lumberjack, the dropped Rage will make the Hog Rider even more dangerous than it normally is. A fast and deadly combination is the Hog Rider and Mini P.E.K.K.A. combo. Both units are fast but the Mini P.E.K.K.A. does much more damage and does not attack only buildings so the Mini P.E.K.K.A. can deal with troops like the Executioner and Musketeer. However, this combo can be defeated with swarms like Skeleton Army, which will defeat both of them since neither of them can deal area damage. They are also unable to target air troops, so the Minion Horde can stop this easily. A risky play is to deploy the Hog Rider at the bridge as soon as the match starts. If the opponent does not react fast enough, the Hog Rider will deal a significant amount of damage to the Princess Tower. This can also allow the player to quickly scout the opponent's deck if they happen to react to him fast enough.

Nice vid! The expleanations and everything else is so well done! Lets see how Monkey-Moon and Team BDS are going to do after this devastating Apollo Open for them

Great video!

Nice vid :)

Brilliant video essay.

Nice video and choice of music. Link or name for the songs used?

Another point that applies to a team that is looking to improve together and play in a league is to watch your games (specifically the ones where everyone is thoughtfully playing and not in autopilot) from your opponents point of view. That is a really good vantage point to see where your holes are. Specifically if you want to speed run the replay reviews skip to turn over points, shots/saves, and goals. For the turn over point look to see where the week point is that caused the other team to take possession and maintain it (if they do). The second most important is when the opponent scores, here you want to look at how they formulated there play (I.E. how they pulled your team out of position and why they did specific touches) and how/why they placed their ball the way they did, on these ones it's important to think out how you could've positioned better (based on the opponent's position(s)) to better cover the net, and how you could utilize your other 2 teammates to make the save easier (I.E. forcing the ball in a direction; which is a lot easier to do, than explain).

Good one Thanovic

thanovic love your content man big fan

great timing thano

Ik I'm ranking up at least two ranks after watching this banger of a vid

Nice vid.

This aged really well, after 8 lost games in a row at the apollo open

Thanovic is like the GamersRdy coach that we didn't think we needed

You said it to existence

editing on this video is perfect holy shit

This guy make quality vids he should have at least 1 mil subs

This video hits hard after the 4-0 sweep by dig and queso XD

HAppy BIrthday thanovic :D :D :D its my birthday too

Funny that this comes out right before BDS get swept twice in the Apollo open

Ty for this thano

Excellent video. I also appreciate that the sliding ranks at 7:00 stalls at GC cause SSL is not meant for us mortals.

Finally someone to confirm what my eye's have been telling me but couldn't put into words

Winning is so important.

This is so funny to watch after seeing bds loose to dig

What an unfortunate time to post such a well made video.

THANOVIC are we getting another video with your brother?

Seiko has entered the chat...

he has won the world championship again in august he is the goat

In this video: Thanovic and company describing ideal high level gameplay and showing monkey moon clip on people

This video ages like fine wine Jk lol love your vids Thano

Seeing this after they got swept by queso 😂

Daniel gotta be right there too, he’s the only reason SSG competed with NRG

Man this timing couldn't have been worse :P

Good one..

Well this was unfortunate timing to upload, after bds got swept twice and first perfect sweep in a bo7 in EU/NA

I have a great idea, do this with a lot of players, but with the best player in each category. The series would be "Why *player* is the *attribute* in the world. Like "Why Ahmad is the fastest player in the world."

Anytime you have Thanovic talking about how good somebody else is, that should tell you exactly how other level they are.

Man, that video dropped at the worst time possible LMAO

It's honestly scary how good bds and monkey moon are at the moment. If they keep up the grind they will dominate rlcs for the next years...

Monkey moon did a tweet as i watched this video😂

Strenghts: Can double flip reset in Diamond 2. Weaknesses: Ability to load into a game with good teammates.

This is what I call "High Quality"

"How monkey moon won the worlds!"

If I don’t see a squishy/monkey moon best of 3 1v1 soon I’ll be sad.

My fantasy team atm is daniel, turbo and monkey. I know turbo is recently a lil bit off but put some respect to 4th time World champ. Bds ftw

Perfect sweep! perfect sweep!

Hahaha bad timing for this vid. Jk it was very informative thank you!!

BDS just got perfect sweep lmao

This video is perfectly timed☠

the timing on this upload lmao haha BDS double swept in RLCS

Then proceeds to get swept twice

Got sweeped twice today tho💀😂

Ugh I came here for the gaming glasses or card holder advert - had to watch ALL the content to find out there wasn't going to be a plug in this video.

Is that a remix of the interstellar theme?

Monkey moon is the Charles olivera of RLCS hes been around for years always at the highest level of play and its all coming to fruition for him now

The New Mountain

Perfect day to upload this video, especially when they loose 8 games in a row XD

dude there is almost no monkey moon content on youtube, I just saw him 2400 mmr rn, so i was interested why he is so good and wrote "Why monkey moon is the best rocket league player" in yt as a joke and i got your video with literally the same title 2 hours ago, is it telepathy? :D Thanks for the video :)

this aged nicely

every time I go back to RL theres a new best player from Kronovi, Squishy, Jstn and now monkey moon lol

good video

And on the day this video came out, BDS was swept back to back...

Damn, i was thinking Thanovic might not feel well, since his KZfaq gameplay videos (which i do love!) are easier to produce and he put those out more often recently - but really it's just to have time for insanely high quality videos like this. (let me say again, no offense to gameplay vids, i was just concerned for how Thanovic is doing)

dont know if you just saw the lower bracket finals but......

Here before the BDS-Dig final

I love how bds just got swept by both team queso and dignitas

man... you jinxed them 💀

7 hours later... Dignitas performs a perfect sweep on BDS and BDS is eliminated in the first winter regional event in 3rd

Here after BDS got 4-0 but Team queso and DIG

Musty not getting a muffin caused NRG to lose

I never lost to him, albeit I never played against him, so I'm pretty sure I hold the title