Onic Philippines bounced again with a vengeance, thrashing North America’s Area77 with a 2-0 victory of their do-or-die group stage conflict on the Cellular Legends: Bang Bang Mid-Season Cup 2025 late Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
A day after falling prey to Aurora Gaming of Turkey, the Philippine bets regrouped and vented their ire to remove an all-Filipino Area77 and advance to the decrease bracket semifinals of Group B.
The win gave Onic Philippines one other probability at advancing to the playoffs, nevertheless it should face Malaysia’s HomeBois first in one other must-win scenario later tonight.
“Para sa akin, hindi kami na-shock [sa talo namin sa Aurora] kasi alam naman naming nagpur-prepare din ‘yung Aurora para sa amin,” Onic’s mid laner Frince “Tremendous Frince” Ramirez stated within the post-game press convention.
Onic head coach Tony “Ynot” Senedrin added: “It is simply the identical, we simply used our one life, I suppose. So it was actually as much as us to have a look at the loss objectively, be sure that we do know the alternatives now we have.”
Onic wanted simply 14 minutes and 12 seconds to safe Recreation 1 towards Area77 with Tremendous Frince making a shock Kagura choose, delivering a spotless KDA of 4 kills and three assists.
The sport then snowballed in Recreation 2 when Onic’s jungler Cyric “K1NGKONG” Perez delivered three early kills towards his counterpart Lance “Shiro” Nones (Suyou), who sustained 4 deaths within the first 4 minutes.
Area77 couldn’t recuperate from that early collapse because the reigning world champions maintained map management the remainder of the match with K1NGKONG dictating the tempo and the remainder of Onic executing near-flawless performs.
A lopsided 23-4 kill unfold noticed K1NGKONG unleash 14 kills and 6 assists towards only one dying as Onic lived to combat one other day.
—JKC, GMA Built-in Information
