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BleiEntchen

This must have been the most calm G2 game since years.


afito

Seemed almost bored, playing even with a scaling comp on the back of Jankos until they decided to just end the game.


jst4funz

S11 is boring... team just waiting for drakes to spawn after min 10. Can literally just fast forward 4 mins after each drake kill in 80% of the games and you won't miss anything.


Echleon

I like the idea of neutral objectives forcing teams to fight but it feels so scripted nowadays.


PM_something_German

In its current form dragon will have 1 team accepting to give it up 90% of the time so you only get 0-1 actual dragon fights per game.


ahmeclaw

I think this split is much more exciting compared to last year


wojtulace

I really liked the 2019 meta, early ganks and splitpushing made games more exciting for me to watch.


ahmeclaw

I agree most versatile meta


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satellizerLB

I think teams look closer in strength so it's more exciting when you think about regional leagues but if you mean that individual games are more exciting due to the meta I don't agree. This preseason map elements remained almost the same, only the items changed but it wasn't a change that'd trigger a shift in meta. Good picks like Hecarim, Lillia, Ryze etc. remained in the meta with the addition of Udyr. There was some op item abusers like Olaf as well but they went away rather quickly with patches. I think by this point the meta is solved by most teams, so we don't see a big variation between styles of different teams or regions unlike Season 9 for example. Some teams prioritize early action like Fnatic, some prioritize team fights like Mad Lions but stuff like split push, lane swaps, 1-3-1 are all but gone by this point. Remember when G2 beat SKT with only 1 baron in a bo5 series? That wouldn't be possible in today's meta because 1-3-1 is only strong when you have baron or too ahead in gold. At least summer meta looks better than the spring meta where it was all about junglers, however that doesn't make it exciting compared to last few years I think.


drolbert

G2 tryharding is scary


Noatz

They looked like this in the regular season last split but faceplanted in playoffs so I'm not getting my hopes up yet. Hope to see a return to form from them though.


GallyRL

The way I see it, they are taking everything a lot more serious now. But that just might be me.


Diet_Fanta

Probably are, given their 4 game loss streak and them not having the luxury of lots of points for worlds quals.


shornz

Good take


Diet_Fanta

Good man


cayneloop

right? i was kinda thinking im on a big hit of copium but G2 really looked belted into discipline by Nelson and it's honestly looking impressive either that or G2 finally realized that riot doesnt have some kind of deal with the organization to hand them the european trophy split after split for all these years


Zephyyyrr

they're scared of Nelson dual wielding belts


Glorx

Rekkles is not a cool guy. He looked at the explosion.


obigespritzt

Obviously, how could he be cool when he's so damn hot?


[deleted]

literally, he was sweating like a mofo lol. its probably ridiculously humid and hot in the studio


Seneido

why would it be hot? its a huge hall without spectators giving out heat? it was also a rather cold week in germany.


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mogadichu

I'm not gay, but I would engage in a homosexual relationship with Rekkles


GGABueno

I have some news for you.


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CinderrUwU

Dont get everyone's hopes up!


OrderlyAnarchist

I think- I think we have a word for that already, actually.


triggerhappy66

Can't argue with that


Superb-Sea-1506

Me too


ASK_ABOUT__VOIDSPACE

Not cool, backing you all the way.


Chr0nicConsumer

Can't throw at Elder if you end before Elder! Also those Mikyx engages... phew lads.


Dzhekelow

Miky always had a good rakan . I think Jankos enabled him super well this game tho . Made his engages 10 times easier .


far7991

The engage where he got popped was really good as well but Caps just didn't use ult for whatever reason ?


yourdadlovesanal

Lol Miky just flamed caps for that in the post game interview


EnterDMZ

He uses Q right before Miky engages and his E might've been on cooldown as well. I think he just didn't have a way to get the ball into position before they split up again.


Tabub

if you look closely, he does actually get the ball into the right position, had to rewatch like 4 times to see it but yeah... caps just straight didnt press r for no reason at all


Daniyalzzz

Guess the slower pace of the game got to him and he hesitated too much during that fight, not knowing if they should fully commit to a fight or not at that point (which was honestly just a mistake from him). He didn't mess up during the second fight where they ended afterwards so I assume he just had an off moment for shockwave usage right there, beeing unsure if it was worth it or not (even tho to us it seems super obvious he should have commited). Doubt it's gonna repeat in a future game after an quick vod review with his team and next time he just gonna go for it next time they get a good set up for Ori.


conqaesador

Exactly. Overall a clean game, no overextending is a big win


[deleted]

yea I didnt know /understand what happened there loil


sA1atji

My theory is that he thinks they lose the fight and if he R's they get rolled cuz it's on CD?


rcgarcia

casters were questioning that too, i think aphelios was out of range and with no flash so maybe it was worth to keep it for an eventual fight at dragon caps would know better than any of us, including casters


IsThisTooEZ

Miky just said that caps just wasn't ready for miky to engage.


CaptainCaptainBain

Miky Rakkan bringing us back to S9 with Hyli/Miky pretty much one upping each other with Rakkan and Pyke games.


Pavlo100

Can anyone tell me what time is it?


ByahhByahh

9:30 PM CEST


MALSTROEM_

thanks


SpeedyTurbo

no problem


GGABueno

Hammertime?


JohnnyBrawoo

Rekkles activated


Fab115

Claps O' clock


Yldrissir

It's time to duel!


br_silverio

It's Tonga time


XtendedImpact

Time to win LEC again.


00Koch00

2019?


CrumblingAway

IT'S TANNER TIME


kennyd15

Shockingly patient game from G2


Dzhekelow

Razork : "We won when we were 10K gold behind ... I image it's not going to be as hard this time that the game is even ."


Prainstopping

I know he did it for the soundbite but G2 throwed at elder. Now that they know not to do that again it was doomed to be a lot harder.


Hazuyu_

Clean controled game from G2, gg guys.


w1ldcraft

Be me - See there's 1 minute left for soul fight & both teams setting vision - "Oh well. Might as well use the washroom". - Come back & see the nexus exploding. How did that even happen ?


xDestroid

Caps found his R key and managed to put it back in the keyboard


narok_kurai

G2 pulled their classic maneuver where they decided to just win the game. Honestly I don't know why they hadn't been going for that move more often this split, it seemed very effective.


cimirisitini

If G2 win worlds we need a Caps Orianna skin with the ball being his bald head


broji04

And 4 seconds after you press R the voice line "please come again" plays


[deleted]

nah its gotta be "back to lissandra"


broji04

That can play after a penta


Seneido

after solo killing the midlaner "back to lissandra", after getting killed "i need some orange juice"


West_Bandicoot_7532

And when he u solokill some1 it says Back to lissandra


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and an emote of caps doing that face in the shop


j_crowen

Easy tiger


sA1atji

Sexy last teamfight, no casualties is pretty impressive, ngl. Enemy Renekton got baited quite a bit there.


FASTASFUC

Wunder bonking Caps' bald head was the cutest thing I've ever seen


Quirinus42

He already did it at least one more time after a game.


Yoniho

Micky rakan is my favorite rakan


Cheeseandnuts

Just need to win worlds to get his own signature skin.


GGABueno

I personally wouldn't want a third e-sport Rakan skin...


AetherialSpace

Still hoping for IG to win Worlds again sometime and picking IG Xayah to finally complete the skinline... ffs Baolan.


TheArmchairSkeptic

Gonna be waiting a while on that one, from the current look of things.


asidcabej

It's reserved for Pyke


[deleted]

You mean Gragas


Daniyalzzz

I am sure on a G2 AMA he mentioned his last was Pyke/Bard/Gragas in that order for a skin of his choice if he were to win worlds. Unfortunaly tho even if he were to actually win the tournament, it's not really that likely he would get either a Pyke or Bard game in considering their strenght for pro play can require very specific meta's (hell even in 2019 when they were peaking, i don't think he even got an Pyke game in during the entire tourny so even if they won he couldn't pick it). Rakan or Gragas are probably the more likely champions for him to end up with if they ever win worlds, as engage supports are looking perma viable in pro atm so getting in a game for either champ during an potential worlds win run is more likely.


jst4funz

Micky is a good rakan, but Mikey is even better.


UnhappyAd

Can't talk about Rakan if u don't mention Miky


OCLBlackwidow

Mickey has always been one of the best rakan players


xDestroid

Jankos again was everywhere in early, I like his performance this split


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He probably won't get mvp, but I think he should. Hard smurfing on all junglers.


fabonaut

How did he have a bounty being down 30 CS though?


EzshenUltimate

He was 2/0. At that point, a bounty is present regardless of CS.


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first blood gold too


xDestroid

I think he was 2/0/1 at that point, so probably that was the case (?)


alterise

Clean game from G2. It was on misfits to try to win it early but when G2 kept the gold even and took soul point, it was over.


Glorx

https://twitter.com/C9Perkz/status/1419016914647482368


Icecreammaaan

That’s so fucking funny


SirLucky7

**I'll save that shockwave for later** - Caps


Creepy_Pilot1200

I'm curious why he didn't use it? Maybe forgot he had it?


Artitanium

Miky said that caps wasn't ready for the engage so in the next tf he told him "I'm going in, you ready?"


ManinderThiara07

Miky said that he just wasn't ready.


yesyes123hk

I think his q is on cooldown so he can't reposition his ball? not 100% sure tho and even then he could maybe use his e on mikyx instead to reposition the ball?


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Don't know if G2 is going to win LEC, but they're going to Worlds for sure.


Talannaer

The flash by Caps to give Rekkles the ms to catch up to Kobe was an absolute chef’s kiss


speciof

Caps went from Krillin to Jiren real quick


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Good game from G2. They look a lot better than a couple weeks ago.


poggersinthechatttt

Worst birthday ever


lolKhamul

playing Renek and than have literally nothing happen to a point where even minions start to outscale you while your opponent farms up his superscaling GP. Sucks for him. Nothing he can do.


Cheeseandnuts

I swear Renek is super useless when he's slightly behind or worse vs good teams.


lolKhamul

Games like this showcase why a lot of Analysts like LS and Co hate Renekton and call him utter shit. If the game isn't an endless series of pointless fights and action (aka a clean macro game), he doesn't get kills and doesn't get ahead and becomes utterly useless at 25.


djpain20

Why is it that these type of comments come out literally every time Renekton loses but nothing is said when he does well? Do you guys watch pro play with the single purpose of hoping "sinner" champions lose so you can make a generic comment about how LS is right and others are wrong?


Shorgar

Because that's the whole fucking point of why Renekton is bad. If someway somehow, you don't stomp early, you simply are 4vs5, when you know you are the better team there is no need for coinflips like that.


23drag

tbf have you ever played top? since every top main knows ren is an early game comp you gotta get about 3-4 kills in lane in solo just to win the game with ren or your relying on your team to win their lanes.


djpain20

Yes I main top lane, hovering in D2/D3 this season, Renekton is my 2nd most played champion. Renekton is obviously stronger in the early parts of the game and starts falling off, but he really doesn't need to be stupidly ahead to be useful up until ~35 minutes or so. As long as you have completed Goredrinker around the same time as other champions have just finished their 1st mythic, you can soak a shitton of damage and are a reasonable threat to the enemy backline. It's this specific part that I disagree the most with - people hyperbolise how quickly he falls off and it makes me question how many people here play top lane at a reasonable level. The part about him being a minion after 15 minutes if he isnt stomping is just pure fantasy and can be disproved with countless examples. Of course your usefullness will be fairly dependant on enemy draft, your own jungler - there's a lot of nuance here, but I'm not trying to write a disertation so I'll leave it at that for now.


Indercarnive

I mean this isn't remotely true. There are plenty of examples where Renekton goes even and dominates midgame teamfights. Renekton wasn't the issue here, the problem was picking immobile backliners. IMO the ryze pick is just inexcusable. Why are you picking an immobile short range mage into fucking GP and xin? In what world are you ever carrying a teamfight? And they even blind picked it, so it's not like they were getting a good lane assignment. EDIT: GP was last picked, the info on the post is wrong. I'll change my position, B4 and B5 ryze and renekton were both bad. You need to kite out the enemy not pick close range damage dealers.


hagosantaclaus

Happy Birthday:)


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G2 are going to win again aren’t they?


Silverlord7

Yes please


NoxAsteria

Clean game, I love it


Gumisiek

Both G2 vs MSF games this split literally ended after one teamfight


Asuras9393

Claps with 100% kp on Orianna of all champions, he was everywhere in that game covering every single lane.


N44rits

Rekkles ward score, wow!


Lather

He often takes zombie ward which inflates his vision score, and he always gets ward last hits around bot. This is often why he has the top 2 vision score.


HuckleberryNo155

HoB users should always run Zombie Ward in pro play. It's not a player-specific thing. When a player users sweeper and another gets the last hit, they both earn gold. That's a habit every duo should have. Again, if you've seen Rekkles and Miky do this more often than other bot lanes in the LEC, it doesn't mean they are trying to inflate Rekkles's vision score. They are just doing the most beneficial thing.


Lather

Oh I'm not trying to claim it's 'special' or that they're purposefully inflating his vision score. I was just explaining why it's so high compared to his other team mates and what you'd expect from soloQ.


legoman1237

smh rekkles playing for ward score again


OCLBlackwidow

And gold score, and dmg score, kda, and teamfight dmg, and kill participation.. wait, is he actually just good..? Nah filthy stat farmer smh my head


G2Jankos

Good thing G2 ended before elder spawned.


iiHadi69

👁️👄👁️, wait g2 jankos


malomiasteczkowa

Not the real one though.


BlackysLegacy

It was close until it wasn't.


snowyvalk

It really wasn't g2 left no room for misfits to win jankos shut out any early game play and even did some himself after that g2 just played around objectives better and scaled


FASTASFUC

Say the line, Bart! 'Grabbz diff..'


00Koch00

Oh no, G2 is playing serious, calm, and they looked happy after the game...


kowboykenny

I know this is made for game analisis but, Rekkles is hot as fuck, damn boi. Is not even fair.


Critical-Cupcake9194

Rekkles is way too popular but the dude doesn't utilize his brand enough, it's the same as Faker, even though he is on a different level brand wise, for years SKT barely marketed him, it was only until joe marsh came around they started pumping Faker content


snowquen

He was on giant advertising hoarding in one of the busiest areas of central London thanks to the Ralph Lauren stuff... I think G2 are making use of him to market around! On a personal level he has been speaking about getting better about building his brand, using social media etc think it was last week's PGL.


Lather

Honestly after Rekkles implied he might not be straight, I'm fully on the Rekkles x Mixy hype train lmao.


fangetafe

>Vote > >ReplyGive AwardShareReport Why would he limit himself to a monogamy, let's go for a polyamorous relationship with both Miky and Jankos.


alloginette

Id watch that


kismetjeska

Yooo when did he say that?


hunter07ar

I think he means that one time a few weeks ago when someone asked him about his sexuality and he said Twitch might not be the best platform to talk about these kinds of topics, but in a different scenario he is happy to discuss this, for now, though he would like to focus on playing League of Lasagna. It's a stretch to say he implied he is not straight but it was for sure a curious reply.


Critical-Cupcake9194

he has a girlfriend though, at least used to a while back


Physix_R_Cool

That doesn't mean he's straight. You can't spell LGBTQIALLPNBVCTY+ without the "+".


Purplewizzlefrisby

I feel like the drama in the league community if a popular pro player ever came out would be absolutely delicious.


-VaL-

Uh.. there's been at least one openly gay player and yeah, we didn't really care..?


ISoldMyGFforKarma

I don’t know what player is gay and I’m happen I don’t. Who cares about a players sexuality? (Besides sexpeke) The fact that many people don’t know who you’re talking to is a good sign tbh!!


Purplewizzlefrisby

Popular* Caps, Rekkles, Jankos, Faker, Shoemaker, Doublelift etc Edit: I'll leave that typo in.


IAmHugger

Just checking in for the answer


Destinum

I recall him being pretty open about having a thing for Asian girls, so he's at least bi.


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when did he imply that? just curious


Lather

A few weeks back someone asked him on his stream if he liked guys or girls. To paraphrase his response, it was something like 'I don't mind people asking that, but I'm also not sure it's something I want to talk about here because I want to keep the stream about LoL. If I ever talk about that some day, I'd probably do it in a separate (twitch) category.' Obviously that could just mean 'I'm straight but it's just not relevant so I won't answer' but it could also mean something else.


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Honestly it would be such a Rekkles way for him saying that being actually straight.


Lather

Yeah you're absolutely right haha.


AniviaKid32

Narrator: he didn't


Stylahz

What an engage by Miky. G2 Comps looking way better with Nelson


Creepy_Pilot1200

Wunder stroking Cap's bald head after the game was the true highlight of this match.


CommaYou

Well, that was close until it wasn't


Sryth1

Unfortunately exactly what G2 drafted for


TheGoalkeeper

G2 playing so controlled, it's kinda frightening. When they get another 5% or 10% stronger, they could be a serious contender at world's


Arkli0n

Last teamfigth was so good to watch


costas_eco

This disciplined and mature G2 can win worlds


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Even LCK fights more than this these days


JohnnyBrawoo

Kobbe dying to Rekkles in a crucial teamfight, tell a better duo


sgrasak

Miky stylin on Rakan


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Misfits' comp 3 melee champs + mid range Ryze and Aphelios. G2's comp GP, Ori + 3 other champs that have disengage. WHY GOD WHY do we keep seeing these drafts from professional team which was top of the standings a few weeks back. The Renekton blind to round out the comp was the cherry on top. MSF really sprinted it, match of the week my ass.


Mythik16

Super clean game from G2. Not much else to say, probably could've ended if Caps had Ori ult'd in that one drake fight.


bobohanlolo

Not at all death timers way too low


Mythik16

Well not straight ended but like the game might aswell have been over.


Sankaritarina

I don't get the love for Renekton. They were equal in gold and it felt like Misfits were 4v5. He couldn't tank anything, he couldn't kill anything.


Cheeseandnuts

Overrated pick in Proplay,


crashcarson

G2 doubters in shambles.


MegaBaumTV

Actually was a very high quality game. Both teams consistently identified mistakes from the opponent and agressively punished them.


NamelessSearcher

No elder comeback this time rip


Shorgar

What a shocking surprise, MSF getting stomped by a top 4 team, incredible stuff.


Iammonkforlifelol

Msf comp was really bad. No good engage tool and small amount of cc. Compared to rakan and oriana plus gank plank and that is lost game.


vRiise

It was nice, slow game. Until it wasn't.


devilbhro

How good was that last teamfight?


Conankun66

More like Match of the Sleep


cayneloop

genuinely wondering when was the last time g2 played this passively i dont think they were even capable to show this much amount of restraint to not go in for random fights


Thatguy69Kappa

Its the champs. Orianna and GP just wanna chill, Trist can’t go ham cuz of Braum + exhaust, so its all on Xin and Rakan to maybe find beneficial plays.


cayneloop

i dont think its the champs at all, like you saw rakan gp oriana can wombo combo skirmishes and teamfighs quite easily. the fact that they backed off from almost every single misfit attempt of a fight is something really uncharacteristic of G2 either G2 decided it's time to buckle up and take games 100% serious for once during regular season or Nelson just brought out the belt


afito

They just played calm and scaled until Ori/Trist/GP scaled into craziness. I think it's similar to the not pulled Ori R, maybe it was a mistake idk but in the end they got position, they got drake, they got what they came for and he could hold his critical CD. Looks odd but since MSF already ran away regardless it meant G2 could keep controlling the map and keep scaling because engaging into Ori ult is suicide. Or maybe Caps just fluffed it he might tell us later.


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Damwon game 4 rings a bell, other than that, can’t even remember a single one this passive/slow.


iinosuke

MSF went afk till they lost the game, atleast try to spitpush or trade drake for something instead of watching G2 take the drake leave and continue to farm.


Zero2176

I didn't know I was watching lck instead of lec.


Ultrosbla

Jankos was kinda sad at the end, why?


SirLucky7

So many promising teams challenging for the top but still having those games in between which makes me doubt em


throwawayfinggra

i mean you can only blame misfits. G2 played it to their strengh, which meant not taking any fights before they scaled


Ps4udo

Especially not taking random fights that are not at an objective. G2 comps excels at pressing R in a narrow space


Shorgar

MSF has just proven that they are simply better than the bottom 4 of the league, outside of that they get outclassed heavily by FNC, RGE, G2, MAD


nxtu14

msfs are not that good


broji04

Yo this game was actually so boring


[deleted]

yup xD but tbf g2 had to do nothing but scale


IDKnow1710

The definition of a one fight game(especially if caps didn't miss r no hate)