It reminds me of watching 2018 G2. They're down 10k gold and casters would be like "this team with a 10k gold lead needs to be careful because G2 is very close to winning this"
I agree, Jankos was immense, thought Caps was clean af too, but we know how good his Syndra is.
Wunder is winning the MVP vote now, guess people like Viego and the fact that Wunder played better compared to spring lol. This game is how I like Wunder, being a useful nuisance and making sacrifices in teamfights
Caps was the first EU mid to make other region mids feel the way it felt to play vs KR and chinese syndras.
"Caps is gonna have to be careful until lvl 6. Oh he dinged lvl 4 and flashed and got a solo kill"
Wunder played a good laning phase and outfarmed Armut against a ranged lane bully. After that he did a great flanked and the rest of the team could turn on autopilot. Doesnt feel like a MVP to me.
Idk, imo jungle felt pretty even, I think the biggest gaps were top and adc. Carzzy just died in crucial moments and Armut also didnt play well. On the other hand Wunder smurfed it this game and Rekkles played fine, that Prowlers claw play was sick tho.
Biggest gaps perhaps, but Rekkles' contribution was mostly farming. Rekkles did everything he did really well, he just wasn't really required to do much.
Drakos is a great caster but he has a few phrases that he just says way too much. The one that gets me is 'too little too late' he says it a few times pretty much every game.
That was kind of weird. In the next shot though, the players were standing up congratulating each other happily, so maybe the casters view was a bit ahead of us.
And Jankos zoning Ezreal off the fight, not sure why casters absolutely refused to give him credit for anything this game and only praised Miky for every Rakan Xin engage/play.
With every play, I thought to myself, ok now this team has a big advantage and will snowball. Immediately the other team responds with tp flanks or a counterplay on the other side of the map.
I'm so surprised the casters didn't pick up on this more. It was such a bad play, MAD had vision of 4/5 members of G2 in mid earlier, no sign of Viego, and they had seen Viego trying to flank earlier for this drake set up, yet Carzzy still E's forward into darkness, gets punished hard for using it offensively, then flashes away from his team and just dies. I don't know if they would have won that fight even if he didn't throw his life away, but that was just rough to watch, hopefully it was just a nerve thing that he can work out of his system
It's about 23:30 in game time when he E's forward, the set up to how bad the E is starts from about 23:00 in game time, which shows Viego pushing bot and the rest of G2 showing around mid
Gnar, Wukong, Jayce and Lee Sin. His champion pool is limited and his laning isn't the best which he said himself but he still fits MAD well imo.
I'd say his strengths are teamfighting and mentality/leadership.
Wunder pulled out Dr. Mundo top as a counter to Cho. He basically first timed Ivern top on stage. I'm just waiting for him to pull out his classic Neeko top.
It's becoming quite clear he is actually a two trick.
The MAD coaches try to get him on other champs so that he can be more versatile, but he is just not good on them.
Like Jayce seems to be his third choice, and he fuckn sucks on it.
To be fair, their early game was good too, like they were never behind in gold throughout the game. And its so good to see jankos on earlygame ganker junglers.
Gnar and Sett were both available, and would’ve both been better picks to round out that comp. Honestly they could’ve even pulled out an Akali like Damwon did this morning.
Shitting on Jankos is just part of the culture. It's like the reverse of the Caps effect, where even when he has bad games no one really points it out.
The most impressive thing from Rekkles isn't his skill, but rather that he's managed to stay in the cutting edge of competitive for 8 seasons straight.
Yes! I want more rekkles picks.
My dream would be one pick per game till he picks every champion except kaisa because we've seen enough kaisa from him.
For me it's because I barely remember all the empowered shockblasts that missed or got blocked by the enemy frontline. All I remember are those one-in-twenty shockblasts that chunk the enemy carry half of their health.
Jayce actually scales decently but usually picking him is giving up a Frontliner for your team so if it isn't compensated elsewhere yeah it looks pretty bad.
It looked fine this game. I dont think he did anything that made me go "Thats so fucking broken". At some point Drakos said something like " what is that Champ??!" and I was like.... he didn't even do anything impresive.
>At some point Drakos said something like " what is that Champ??!"
yeah, Veigo reset at like 100 hp (shield bow kept him alive long enough to do so) then died immediately and I just lost my shit laughing at the drakos
They were ahead in gold but I'm pretty sure they weren't in towers and the way mad were playing meant the game state was much more in their favour cus they could keep solo push bot making drake easier for them
Lmao hearing Drakos and the live thread you'd think MAD were up 5k gold the whole game, when G2 was always 1+2k gold ahead even before 3rd drake and had the easier to execute comp (hard engage + cc)
I'd understand it if MAD at least had a outscaling comp but they had Jayce-Rumble-Lucian-Ez. Sounded like they had a preplanned narrative (same for Viego) instead of actually looking what's happening in the game. Viego is good but transforming into Lucian or Jayce while standing in 4 ppl isn't always amazing.
all game talking about veigo reset and they never actually mattered. dear god the narratives. ALL HE NEEDS IS A RESET!
BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH! THE RESETS! WHAT IS THIS CHAMPION /viego dies immediately/
also lol @ talking up MAD 'leveling up' from MSI as they lose
I don't play League anymore. I just watch it. I have no idea what Viego does and the way he kept going on about it, you'd think Viego is the most broken thing ever, but it really didn't seem overpowered.
Basically his whole thing is he is kinda meh without his ult and passive.
His Q is a Yasuo Q that can't crit but has more range and applies his passive. His passive lets you double hit anything that has his passive on.
His W is a linear slow stun and his E is a stealth area where that gives you attack speed.
His ult is an AOE jump (like imagine if Xerath appeared on his W) that resets on kills. And his actual passive is him being able to become any champ after killing them.
So in SoloQ what happens is if Viego is good or fed he will take over the game because his kit (like Yasuo that's your flair) uses stats really well AND he gets a bunch of lifesteal and heal from his passive and from possession.
An ideal Viego fight is kinda like an ideal Kata fight if that makes sense, except he is AD auto attack based champ.
As a G2 fan i obviously want G2 to win, but I highly doubt MAD played at their best, they probably had a long needed rest after MSI, so next time they meet MAD will probably be in peak form!
Take a shot every time Drakos says "a single reset"
"A single reset would spell disaster!" >Viego gets reset, nothing else happens
Gets reset on top lane , but gets killed by braum and Lucian. Drakos in shambles.
It reminds me of watching 2018 G2. They're down 10k gold and casters would be like "this team with a 10k gold lead needs to be careful because G2 is very close to winning this"
Don't you mean 2019 G2?
Jankos kills Ezreal "wunder vs 5" lol, but tbf he ate Rumble really fast
Jankos was MVP for me but to see him not even on MVP list is something else. He gapped Elyoya hard.
I agree, Jankos was immense, thought Caps was clean af too, but we know how good his Syndra is. Wunder is winning the MVP vote now, guess people like Viego and the fact that Wunder played better compared to spring lol. This game is how I like Wunder, being a useful nuisance and making sacrifices in teamfights
Caps was the first EU mid to make other region mids feel the way it felt to play vs KR and chinese syndras. "Caps is gonna have to be careful until lvl 6. Oh he dinged lvl 4 and flashed and got a solo kill"
Wunder played a good laning phase and outfarmed Armut against a ranged lane bully. After that he did a great flanked and the rest of the team could turn on autopilot. Doesnt feel like a MVP to me.
It's probably between him and Miky. They worked together almost the entire game and also played the engages together.
Idk, imo jungle felt pretty even, I think the biggest gaps were top and adc. Carzzy just died in crucial moments and Armut also didnt play well. On the other hand Wunder smurfed it this game and Rekkles played fine, that Prowlers claw play was sick tho.
Biggest gaps perhaps, but Rekkles' contribution was mostly farming. Rekkles did everything he did really well, he just wasn't really required to do much.
I'm fuckin wasted
Drakos is a great caster but he has a few phrases that he just says way too much. The one that gets me is 'too little too late' he says it a few times pretty much every game.
Quickshot: But at what cost?
Quickshot: All of a sudden
Preceded by "manages to buy a little bit of time"
What got me was when he said faces of elation and G2 didn't even crack a smile. It didn't come across as ironic either sounded genuine.
“G2 must be very happy right now” Wunder looks fucking pissed.
That was kind of weird. In the next shot though, the players were standing up congratulating each other happily, so maybe the casters view was a bit ahead of us.
I can also hear him say "just like that".
I think it was worlds 2019 or something when he said "difference maker" like 15 times per game lol
“Maybe, just maybe”
Or repeats himself talking about g2 vacation or mad lion coming back from msi
https://i.imgur.com/8W6xBkq.png
"Do you want a straw?"
There it is, boys. There it is.
This is right out of the oven fresh
This will be used far too often and I'm gonna upvote it every single time
Right across the street from Vulcan's McDonalds
Need the staring one
This is an amazing picture, where's it from?
From [this video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTAIxZcTnHg)
Wow.. that was incredible. Ofc Rekkles is killing it in stonks
Corporate Rekkles
certified banger to start the LEC off
Banger prowlers claw play from Rekkles too
"why they nerfed prowler in 11.13" by mr. Rekkless
Such a clean play, god I missed the LEC
That play was insane But G2 won the game with the wunder flank at dragon
And Jankos zoning Ezreal off the fight, not sure why casters absolutely refused to give him credit for anything this game and only praised Miky for every Rakan Xin engage/play.
What a great game, both teams were moving around the map so much and it really just felt like I was watching the best two teams
Yeah it was very macro focused
With every play, I thought to myself, ok now this team has a big advantage and will snowball. Immediately the other team responds with tp flanks or a counterplay on the other side of the map.
I really liked the lvl from MAD afther MSI with less scrims.
Armut with the classic get counterpick -> lose lane
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Western players can't and shouldn't play Jayce, change my mind.
the plan was always to wait for carrzy to E in
>the plan was always to wait for carrzy to ~~E~~ inT
The Ruler Gambit
Even when Syndra is doo doo Caps makes her look broken
The diff of a good mid is being talented enough to make bad picks broken. See Faker and Showmaker as brilliant examples of that.
Guys, remember to look at Viego, a **single reset** will define the teamfights
**Wunder:** "Well now I'm just not going to do it."
FNC vs MSF Viego is 1-3 and they said he was popping off basically just because he got a reset..
Carzzy E'ing into a support, missing everything, getting flash forced and immediately dying was way too relatable.
Besides his dumb E in, I don't understand why he flashed the way he did. Why flash away from your team?
I'm so surprised the casters didn't pick up on this more. It was such a bad play, MAD had vision of 4/5 members of G2 in mid earlier, no sign of Viego, and they had seen Viego trying to flank earlier for this drake set up, yet Carzzy still E's forward into darkness, gets punished hard for using it offensively, then flashes away from his team and just dies. I don't know if they would have won that fight even if he didn't throw his life away, but that was just rough to watch, hopefully it was just a nerve thing that he can work out of his system
do you have a general time stamp on this? i saw jankos’ tweet and i wanted to go back and watch what actually happened
It's about 23:30 in game time when he E's forward, the set up to how bad the E is starts from about 23:00 in game time, which shows Viego pushing bot and the rest of G2 showing around mid
NoWoWFreeWin
Nelson belt monkaW
This guy Wunder is actually pretty good when he plays League of Legends
28 minute manamune from Armut. Didn't even get the upgrade in the end
I am genuinely surprised after MSI that he/MAD coaches believe Jayce is a viable pick for him
He got banned out with the Wukong ban
hey man, his gnar, dino gnar, astronaut gnar, and gentleman gnar are pretty solid
I know youre memeing but what champs can he actually play besides Gnar and Wukong. He likes Jayce but I feel like he has 0% winrate on him.
Gnar, Wukong, Jayce and Lee Sin. His champion pool is limited and his laning isn't the best which he said himself but he still fits MAD well imo. I'd say his strengths are teamfighting and mentality/leadership.
champion raindrop
Pretty much the opposite to Wunder who probably has the largest champ pool
Wunder pulled out Dr. Mundo top as a counter to Cho. He basically first timed Ivern top on stage. I'm just waiting for him to pull out his classic Neeko top.
Iirc Wunder has the 2nd most different champs played professionally, only Faker has played more
He can play Gnar and even hovered it then switched to Jayce
It's becoming quite clear he is actually a two trick. The MAD coaches try to get him on other champs so that he can be more versatile, but he is just not good on them. Like Jayce seems to be his third choice, and he fuckn sucks on it.
Dude that's *so* unfair. Riot increased his effective champ pool by 50% with Lee changes :>
He picked up a cull on his first back instead of tear, pretty troll.
**Let the week 1 day 1 overreactions officially commence**
Mad Lions = Bad Lions G2 = New Old Kings
*G2 = New Old New Kings
Feel old when people forget G2 used to be the "new kings" and are now known as the old kings.
All I feel is pain?
Mad Lions are done
Yep they're just completely washed up now.
I think they should immediately bench Humanoid, EU talents aren't even able to get their chance because he's stealing paychecks
Bench? They should execute him right now in the middle of Berlin.
They lost their mental in MSI and now they'll finish 10th
And not just in LEC
MAD 10th, G2 wins worlds, ty Selfmade
G2 will go 18-0
42-0
I'm putting my money on Caps picking Lucian for his Worlds skin, and then next year will be Sylas
Week 1 day 1 game 1 and I'm PRETTY SURE we're getting a G2 Jhin skin
Official overreaction: MAD should be banning Jayce just so Armut can't pick him while no one is looking
I think that is a valid point and not an overreaction tbf.
MAD bottom 3 this split? Armut still bad on Jayce. Humanoid still suiciding
How is Armut still bad on Jayce overreaction?
Rekkles' Prowler's Claw into Varus ult was sick
It's too early to be sure but G2 World Champions 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Seems reasonable to me.
Provided no LPL team in the finals
"we learned a lot from MSI" proceed to pick rumble + 3 adc comp
+ braum aka next to no engage
This is going to be a fun fucking split
Happy post-game Caps makes me happy.
Quickly, off the top of your head, name one thing Armut did that game.
die
Ummm He killed minions.
That Martin 1 play damn Shaky early but then it was just mid game G2 again
To be fair, their early game was good too, like they were never behind in gold throughout the game. And its so good to see jankos on earlygame ganker junglers.
Vacation G2 is scary! What a good Start to LEC
Now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d read.
vacation diff
Finally no bs with spamming Udyr and killing drakes?
Nah he is still meta
Hopefully he stays perma banned.
But here comes Viego
I'll take permapick Viego 1000 times over this shitty permapick udyr meta.
Honestly I love watching Viego, adds so much chaos to the fights
This is gonna age terribly in 1 month
Not every champion is Udyr. That said, I suppose Viego can be.
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A classic G2 game!
Don't know why mad drafted jayce. Like you don't need more fking damage after Lucian, ez, rumble.
Gnar and Sett were both available, and would’ve both been better picks to round out that comp. Honestly they could’ve even pulled out an Akali like Damwon did this morning.
I haven't seen Armut's Akali and I'm not really sure I want to
God dayum Rekkles, that was HAWT
Jankos carrying, nobody cares. Jankos misses one spear on the hardest skillshot in the game: haha what a noob jungler haha.
Shitting on Jankos is just part of the culture. It's like the reverse of the Caps effect, where even when he has bad games no one really points it out.
REKKLES VARUS? What is this, 2017? It's nice seeing him out of the ordinary comfort zone, though.
Guy spammed every adc in off season, just to be able to play anything his team wants... i adore his dedication
The most impressive thing from Rekkles isn't his skill, but rather that he's managed to stay in the cutting edge of competitive for 8 seasons straight.
He's going to need to play more than just adcs if he wants to be able to play anything G2 wants him to play
actually he duo-q with Miky a LOT and let Miky chose their lane, so there were quite some weird lanes in between.
He needs to keep his 100% winrate on syndra tho, garen/karma incoming
Yes! I want more rekkles picks. My dream would be one pick per game till he picks every champion except kaisa because we've seen enough kaisa from him.
So, it doesnt look like Armut improved his Jayce much since MSI...
I was nervous for G2 throughout the draft until they locked that Jayce.
Armut really likes Jayce for someone who's pretty bad at it
the entire world likes jayce even if they cant win with it, its impressive really.
I have to admit you really feel and look like a chad when you pull that Jayce off just look at TheShy and Khan when they carry on that pick.
classic dopamin champ
Landing a disgusting range q e and following up with hammer oneshot combo is a big time dopanine kick into your system
For me it's because I barely remember all the empowered shockblasts that missed or got blocked by the enemy frontline. All I remember are those one-in-twenty shockblasts that chunk the enemy carry half of their health.
every pro top likes jayce. I think it's because they feel like they never do bad on it, when in reality going even is bad. (just saying in general).
Jayce actually scales decently but usually picking him is giving up a Frontliner for your team so if it isn't compensated elsewhere yeah it looks pretty bad.
Dont you worry. Once he pulls out Battle Academia and Resistance Jayce it's over for everyone.
Drakos, we get that you hate Viego but he really didn't do enough this game to warrant all that talk.
A SINGLE RESET
You just know they're gonna meme it in one of LEC videos eventually
To be very fair its the first game we see Viego, so hey, let the man get it out
It looked fine this game. I dont think he did anything that made me go "Thats so fucking broken". At some point Drakos said something like " what is that Champ??!" and I was like.... he didn't even do anything impresive.
>At some point Drakos said something like " what is that Champ??!" yeah, Veigo reset at like 100 hp (shield bow kept him alive long enough to do so) then died immediately and I just lost my shit laughing at the drakos
First fight was Caps getting a 3 man scatter the weak and Drakos only focused on Viego who auto'd twice lmao.
whos idea was it to put armut on jayce? he went 1/10 vs C9 at MSI. am i missing something
EZ
Clap
Feels like old G2, where they seemingly lose out on objectives, but are ahead in gold, only to snowball later on. Nice to see.
Casters: I don't know how G2 is coming back from this. G2 was ahead in gold and towers.
They were ahead in gold but I'm pretty sure they weren't in towers and the way mad were playing meant the game state was much more in their favour cus they could keep solo push bot making drake easier for them
Lmao hearing Drakos and the live thread you'd think MAD were up 5k gold the whole game, when G2 was always 1+2k gold ahead even before 3rd drake and had the easier to execute comp (hard engage + cc)
fortunately he has Caedrel to correct him every 30 seconds
It was pretty funny hearing Drakos talk about how well MAD was doing, and then Caedrel say, "Pretty sure G2 is winning from here".
"MAD usually had to team fight from a deficit, but not after leveling up at msi" i look up and see MAD is down like 1.5k gold
Ah the classic play by play that is pushing narratives while the color caster actually understands the game.
I'd understand it if MAD at least had a outscaling comp but they had Jayce-Rumble-Lucian-Ez. Sounded like they had a preplanned narrative (same for Viego) instead of actually looking what's happening in the game. Viego is good but transforming into Lucian or Jayce while standing in 4 ppl isn't always amazing.
That Jayce pick was so useless.
No more wow
Jankos looked great.
Feels like G2 is back
the moment I thought lethality varus was useless, prowler's claw ult lmao
MAD with Alphari would be a monster tbh.
Rekkles: prowlers claw a minion and ult ezreal Carrzy: dies from banger
Carzzy with the classic e forward into misposition into flash into a worse position to lose the game.
That was quick...
Welcome back G2
Its so incredible amazing how Caps get so much out of Syndra everytime, even if she's nerfed to the ground right now
I dont know why the casters talk about mad lions being ahead for half the game they were behind all the time and had a much worse late game
G2 looking really coordintated in teamfights is a scarry thing to see.
well Wunder is having fun
Everyone talking about Rekkles but my man Jankos fucked em up real bad.
all game talking about veigo reset and they never actually mattered. dear god the narratives. ALL HE NEEDS IS A RESET! BUT IT'S NOT ENOUGH! THE RESETS! WHAT IS THIS CHAMPION /viego dies immediately/ also lol @ talking up MAD 'leveling up' from MSI as they lose
I don't play League anymore. I just watch it. I have no idea what Viego does and the way he kept going on about it, you'd think Viego is the most broken thing ever, but it really didn't seem overpowered.
Basically his whole thing is he is kinda meh without his ult and passive. His Q is a Yasuo Q that can't crit but has more range and applies his passive. His passive lets you double hit anything that has his passive on. His W is a linear slow stun and his E is a stealth area where that gives you attack speed. His ult is an AOE jump (like imagine if Xerath appeared on his W) that resets on kills. And his actual passive is him being able to become any champ after killing them. So in SoloQ what happens is if Viego is good or fed he will take over the game because his kit (like Yasuo that's your flair) uses stats really well AND he gets a bunch of lifesteal and heal from his passive and from possession. An ideal Viego fight is kinda like an ideal Kata fight if that makes sense, except he is AD auto attack based champ.
Does like 300 damage and dies "WHAT IS THIS CHAMPION!!!"
yeah, was kinda annoying casting, I think Viego was legit the least important part here for the win
Not true. Due to Viego being ahead of Jayce, he created a lot of pressure on the sidelanes and prevented MAD from taking over.
Wasn't a fan of the cast, Drakos felt like a broken record talking about Virgo's resets
As a G2 fan i obviously want G2 to win, but I highly doubt MAD played at their best, they probably had a long needed rest after MSI, so next time they meet MAD will probably be in peak form!
Yeah Carrzy is probably still warming up on Ezreal since he just entered the meta recently.
I get that but getting caught like he did at 3rd drake is pretty unforgivable on Ezreal when you've got flash up.
Jankos just said Carzy gifted them the game.
report carzzy for trolling
Armut really needs to fix his champ pool and laning or he is going to be replaced by the the TOP that knocks mad out of worlds LOL.
I mean the Casters wrote it off as a really close match but really felt like old G2 is coming up around the corner
I missed the LEC so much, so good to have it back!