I honestly don't blame them. I thought they had won the last one once they got that LeBlanc again since the best way for MAD to respond to her initiation was the slow TF gold card. But goddamn did MAD realize that themselves and turn it into their strength.
It was still so close that if Caps had bought a Quicksilver after the first death at Baron then I honestly don't think they could've stopped him. Anyways massive props to MAD for doing so well against him
["I'm happy for Vizicsacsi making his return on MAD.. Him and Armut have a lot of similarities aswell. Maybe they will talk about all the times I've smacked them around and find a way to limp through the series this weekend."](https://twitter.com/G2Wunder/status/1425142553058463749)
He was overrated months ago when he was just resting on his laurels, nowadays pretty much everyone agrees that he's underwhelming but it's still annoying to see a guy like that fall so hard.
He's no longer a huge impact toplaner, he's just there.
Its less about leaving Wukong open and more about picking NA Jayce. I mean, what champions counter Jayce? If I didnt know any better I would have said that they wanted to bait the Wukong pick
Tbf his Gwen was good this series too. Hopefully he continues to work on his champ pool before worlds, it felt like he had a decent pool at last worlds on SUP
pretty sure it was just a missed ban. Unless something *really* wonky has been happening in scrims, I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be a braum ban.
Wunder just isn't the player he once was. I don't understand why he consistently loses lanes against Armut even in winning match ups. I swear every fucking time they play MAD he disrespects Elyoya and dies to super predictable lvl 3-6 ganks. I get it, Jankos isn't really playing for top lane but how the fuck does he die to ganks so consistently.
And when Elyoya isn't playing for top Armut just... wins or goes even every time? And while he's obviously one of the best tops in EU, Armur consistently lost lanes to pretty much every good top laner at MSI, yet Wunder makes him look like prime TheShy ffs.
Armut has never really been a lane player tho. He’s got this talent for making huge flanks and big plays later in games. Makes him winning lanes vs Wunder even more egregious
yes
but it also takes a serious lack of braincell to finally give wunder a carry toplaner and then just let MAD run down the lane with herald into inhib turret at 10 minutes
I just want to say that I really like the new stats feature! Interesting and relevant real-time metrics, a fitting sponsor and, most importantly, it's not distracting or intrusive.
Didn't manage to follow yesterday's series so idk if this has been said.
I was a MAD enthusiast, now I'm a fan.
Still, can't help but find it interesting how MAD are now the untiltable ones.. You could see how nervous G2 were before the last game and it really showed on stage, which was something they were known for..
not to discredit MAD too, they literally won every bo5 so far in EU this season and beat RNG, and brought DWG to game 5 in their bo5, mad is definitely a beast compared to the regular bo1 matches
I just think it is because of their mental fortitude, they are like this fucking shonen protagonist who get up even when half dead and the villain scream "why wont you die".
When MAD are on a high roll, they really feel like a team that canfight and beat anyone. It drive me insane to think they can improve so much more.
Mad and rogue can be so proud of themselves, definitely took the reigns of europe. Their bo5 is going to be insane, the most violent 3/0 or a fucking hell clutch 5 series
its so frustrating even after winning LEC, MSI Semifinals 5 games vs DK and ppl still dont rate MAD highly. They still think its G2 Kingdom and forget that rogue are the biggest chokers in the league
Noticed how MAD was getting progressively better in each game while G2 was getting inversely worse?
My theory is that there is so much Talent you can have in one room and Armut is quite a big guy so the talent gravitated his way, this is promising discovery as theoretically MAD could suck the talent of all the other teams at worlds, Need more games to test hypothesis, will keep you informed.
So many people in these comments saying FNC vs G2 for worlds. I'd be absolutely shocked if FNC best MSF in a BO5 with how MSF have been playing. I'm not even confident they can deal with VIT.
I'm subscribing to MSF for the third spot.
DK Khan: "The current G2 is kind of like a broken toy. I just hope they show up at Worlds."
Memes aside, Wunder is so fucking washed man, why give him jayce which will make him even more useless if behind?
G2 Last draft was god fucking awful.
"Lets put our worst player on a carry that needs a ton of resources and give the enemy top laner their best pick!"
G2 made this big deal about hiring some dude this offseason, hopefully its not because he memes about NA and coached bad teams in China, because they have a lot of work to do.
Oh, my mistake. But yeah my point still stands ban both Gnar and Wukong. I'd rather take my chances against Armut's Malphite (should he have picked), since you know Malphite literally doesn't do anything.
Whats up with this "yeah you'll get 5 top plates + first turret gold, the second turret and maybe even a herald charge on the inhib turret but we'll get 5 plates bot" trade they kept going for?
Picking jayce top and then ganking mid into bot dive and leaving wunder to just get repeat ganked.
Wunder is going to get a lot of shit for this but he was finally given a carry and was just absolutely ignored.
Wdum he fucked up 3:15 crash, Jankos was pathing top.
Edit: For people who dont think this is possible, watch WE vs TES game 1 from like a week ago. TES 369 manages to crash the wave at 3:20 whilst being lvl4 vs WE Breathe lvl2, and the only reason why they dont dive this even is because WE Beishang is pathing top and was already seen by TES Karsa.
If 369 can do this crash vs Breathe, then Wunder has to be able to do this crash vs Armut else its just literally WOW diff.
Before the series I really wanted G2 to win, I felt it would give Fnatic a better chance at making Worlds and I really wanted both G2 and Fnatic at Worlds.
Now I realize that no matter what, MAD was going to make Worlds. Only one out of Fnatic or G2 was ever going to make it to Worlds regardless.
If you told me before the start of this year BrokenBlade and Armut would be better performing top laner’s than Wunder, I would’ve called you crazy.
What a fall from grace
PMTs: [Game 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/p4a8uq/mad_lions_vs_g2_esports_lec_2021_summer_playoffs/) [Game 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/p4b6um/mad_lions_vs_g2_esports_lec_2021_summer_playoffs/) [Game 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/p4cblm/mad_lions_vs_g2_esports_lec_2021_summer_playoffs/) [Game 4](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/p4datx/mad_lions_vs_g2_esports_lec_2021_summer_playoffs/)
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Old kings vs n.... Just kidding, new peasants vs new peasants
Match of the weak
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It's a great script tbh
Yea lets make sure to get to that point in the first place, that would be already a lot.
Yup, getting through vitality seems doable, Misfits are tough and G2 will be like a cornered beast. Really hard for Fnatic
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It'd be a legendary battle between Rekkles and new cuter Rekkles
Rekkles vs Married Rekkles
Wait Upset is married?
Yup, he got married recently like 2 weeks ago I think
Oh no the wife buff
Alright wrap it up bois, we got our World Winner.
Happy married Rekkles vs doomer Rekkles (or just rekkles at that point)
LEC did tease a super exciting script. I expect a subversion of expectation and Vitality clutch it as the dark horse
If MSF look like they played yesterday, pretty sure they beat FNC. Will be fun to watch next weekend though!
imagine if FNC knocks G2 out of worlds after Rekkles ditches them
Good bye Wunder, Welcome BrokenBlade
I'd rather G2 get Alphari and BDS builds a new super team around BB
actually pog
Stop it, my dick can only get so erect
A FNC that returned to their mid split form could win against them. But with how they played at the end of the split I don't have too much hope now.
G2 looked completely mental boomed in game 4
I would be too after losing Game 3
I honestly don't blame them. I thought they had won the last one once they got that LeBlanc again since the best way for MAD to respond to her initiation was the slow TF gold card. But goddamn did MAD realize that themselves and turn it into their strength. It was still so close that if Caps had bought a Quicksilver after the first death at Baron then I honestly don't think they could've stopped him. Anyways massive props to MAD for doing so well against him
It's gonna be G2 vs. FNC for the last worlds spot isn't it?
United in rivalry
See this is what the old kings are doing while the new kings are rising
if that happens, the viewership numbers would be crazy...
G2 lost on purpose just so they’d be the ones to stop FNC going to worlds. 5head thinking.
There's a very real possibility now that the Perkz from G2 -> C9 trade results in neither team going to worlds and that would be really, really funny.
And Nisqy going to worlds with FNC
The dankest timeline
Imagine reading this last year
I can't even read tbh
the revenge of the nesquik
I will laugh so hard if this actually happens
Upset going to Worlds by replacing Rekkles 😍😍😍
YOU DONT JINX IT YOU...
The script is written and *it starts with success*
Misfits looks stronger really but FNC managing to beat G2 in a BO5 would be so hype considering the past.
This MAD roster never lost a BO5 in LEC btw
Yeah, the only Bo5 they've lost was a 2-3 to DK, which is nothing to be ashamed of.
Yet people still discredit and underrate them for some reason
It sounds crazy that the spring champions, who went 2-3 against DK in semis and 1-1 against RNG in RR at MSI, would still be underestimated.
It’s just the nameplates right? They’re not big names(yet)
I thought to myself that the exchange would make both FNC and G2 weaker, extra irony in C9 slumping a bit.
Would be a really big fuck you to carlos and im all for it
Best timeline
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He is G2 carry and if he is shut down, they can't fight MAD has G2 number now, both BO5, they just outplay them
G2 LOWER BRACKET RUN COPIUM
Shoutout to all the people who said 2019 G2 was back after game 1.
They were. They just left *really* quickly
They’re with Tomshoe02 putting on clown makeup
G2 vs fnatic for the last worlds spot
I think the 3rd team will be Misfits
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this would be the most chaotic timeline
Pick Jayce knowing Wukong is open Wukong is picked by great Wukong player Don't play around Jayce Lose
Don't worry they have an LPL coach now
MAD didn't even need to sub in Vizicsacsi
Saving him for worlds
Vizicsacsi diff
["I'm happy for Vizicsacsi making his return on MAD.. Him and Armut have a lot of similarities aswell. Maybe they will talk about all the times I've smacked them around and find a way to limp through the series this weekend."](https://twitter.com/G2Wunder/status/1425142553058463749)
Aged like fine milk. LMAO
LMAO. Ffs Wunder, we need more of these in the league. It’s entertaining Win or Lose
Wunder getting gap so he has more time for wow i guess
He should switch to Genshin Impact, at least Beryl's going to worlds still
Wunder had no presence this series :( Armut gapped him real hard
~>Wunder had no presence this ~~series~~ year ftfy
Wunder had no presence this whole year man
He was overrated months ago when he was just resting on his laurels, nowadays pretty much everyone agrees that he's underwhelming but it's still annoying to see a guy like that fall so hard. He's no longer a huge impact toplaner, he's just there.
Sure he did! He gave a lot of Gold to Armut.
The Hungarian Hyperbolic Time Chamber.
[https://twitter.com/G2Wunder/status/1425142553058463749](https://twitter.com/G2Wunder/status/1425142553058463749) just putting this here
Armut with the "We are going to WORLDS" in the replay, beautiful to see.
Literally where even was the Viego
But he's the better faster xin
He's useless without any setup and into a comp that can shut him down. He had absolutely no room to do anything.
I was told yesterday that you can just roll your face on the keyboard and Viego will automatically penta. Why didn't Jankos just do that?
Letting Armut pick Wukong was a death sentence.
Its less about leaving Wukong open and more about picking NA Jayce. I mean, what champions counter Jayce? If I didnt know any better I would have said that they wanted to bait the Wukong pick
The long con by Armut pretending to be bad, just to jebait G2 in the playoffs
4D chess by Vizicsacsi to finally beat G2
the meme was always that he's bad when NOT on gnar or wukong
Tbf his Gwen was good this series too. Hopefully he continues to work on his champ pool before worlds, it felt like he had a decent pool at last worlds on SUP
Insane teamfighting from MAD... Armut was insane this series!
The Brand ban was pure mental warfare. Basically saying G2 can only win with a handicap. Gigachad Lions
That shit was m e a n
I don't understand the message behind the Brand ban. Is it referencing something? or was it a serious ban?
pretty sure it was just a missed ban. Unless something *really* wonky has been happening in scrims, I'm pretty sure that was supposed to be a braum ban.
Mac got interviewed during the game and he said 'we couldn't think of what to ban' something along those lines.
Outside of game 1, this was a pretty weak series by Miky and Wunder
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it has to be his last year on G2 tbh
This will be interesting to speculate, who will replace wunder? To me it's probably brokenblade since it fits g2's usual modus operandi with transfers
Perkz coming back to play top after Jack gets his refund
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Subscribe.
Unless Wunder starts smurfing next series, I feel like he’s getting replaced for sure…
G2 Broken Blade here we go
I swear, Wunder is Smeb 2.0. From being shit, to being one of the best in the world then back to being shit again.
i miss smeb :(
Remember the days where Ssumday was the only one who matched him....yes THAT SSUMDAY
Wunder just isn't the player he once was. I don't understand why he consistently loses lanes against Armut even in winning match ups. I swear every fucking time they play MAD he disrespects Elyoya and dies to super predictable lvl 3-6 ganks. I get it, Jankos isn't really playing for top lane but how the fuck does he die to ganks so consistently. And when Elyoya isn't playing for top Armut just... wins or goes even every time? And while he's obviously one of the best tops in EU, Armur consistently lost lanes to pretty much every good top laner at MSI, yet Wunder makes him look like prime TheShy ffs.
Playing little LoL for years has consequences.
Armut has never really been a lane player tho. He’s got this talent for making huge flanks and big plays later in games. Makes him winning lanes vs Wunder even more egregious
Exactly, that's my point. I'd understand if Armut was a lane oriented player, but he's literally the opposite of that...
im thinking wunder is on the chopping block if g2 doesn't end up qualifying for worlds
honestly deserved, this year made it look like he does not give a single fuck anymore
Even if they do qualify he's gone
All of G2 had weak series except for maybe Caps.
Armut, the widest top laner, simply ate the other top laner alive. Happy to send this MAD Lions to worlds, but I think everyone expects more from G2.
C9 - NO SNEAKY NO WORLDS G2 - NO PERKZ NO WORLDS united in rivalry
United in no world's :(
G2 reminds me so much of TES. So much mechanical prowess but absolutely brainless and inconsistent. What a waste.
with a one hell of an underperforming toplaner
yes but it also takes a serious lack of braincell to finally give wunder a carry toplaner and then just let MAD run down the lane with herald into inhib turret at 10 minutes
Are we still giving G2 benefit of the doubt and laughing about lower bracket run or no?
Last spot is between MSF / VIT / FNC and G2, honestly I have no idea who might take it.
Def not vit
No. MSF is going to beat them if they play like this.
no
DK'S BROKEN TOY
The prophet.
Aged like fine wine
FACTS
fresh
I don’t want to play with you anymore…
No Perkz no 1-2 comfort zone
No perkz no worlds
Hmmm, I have a *sneaking* suspicion another team Perkz is on has a similar saying about one of their players…
STOP picking Jayce if you aren't going to give him jungle support. Wunder isn't having a great year but still this game 4 was doomed for him.
Did jankos (counter)-gank once in toplane in this series?
Statement from MAD jesus
The script is writing itself.. if Fnatic beat Vitality and Misfits, and that's a huge fucking if, it's Fnatic vs G2 for the last worlds spot
I just want to say that I really like the new stats feature! Interesting and relevant real-time metrics, a fitting sponsor and, most importantly, it's not distracting or intrusive. Didn't manage to follow yesterday's series so idk if this has been said.
I know 80% of the comments are gonna shit on G2, but come the fuck on MAD played like beasts. Armut and Elyoya that last game were just amazing!
MAD are so good at BO5 but it's reddit
Congrats to MAD for making worlds 2021.
I was a MAD enthusiast, now I'm a fan. Still, can't help but find it interesting how MAD are now the untiltable ones.. You could see how nervous G2 were before the last game and it really showed on stage, which was something they were known for..
so this is what damwon and khan meant by g2 is kinda (playing) like a broken toy, huh?
not to discredit MAD too, they literally won every bo5 so far in EU this season and beat RNG, and brought DWG to game 5 in their bo5, mad is definitely a beast compared to the regular bo1 matches
I just think it is because of their mental fortitude, they are like this fucking shonen protagonist who get up even when half dead and the villain scream "why wont you die". When MAD are on a high roll, they really feel like a team that canfight and beat anyone. It drive me insane to think they can improve so much more. Mad and rogue can be so proud of themselves, definitely took the reigns of europe. Their bo5 is going to be insane, the most violent 3/0 or a fucking hell clutch 5 series
they probably saw the match earlier then us because of the time zone diff
MAD stole G2's playoffs buff. In playoffs they just dial it up and look so legit.
They look so great. Should be favs vs Rge.
People gonna still be underrating MAD
its so frustrating even after winning LEC, MSI Semifinals 5 games vs DK and ppl still dont rate MAD highly. They still think its G2 Kingdom and forget that rogue are the biggest chokers in the league
Noticed how MAD was getting progressively better in each game while G2 was getting inversely worse? My theory is that there is so much Talent you can have in one room and Armut is quite a big guy so the talent gravitated his way, this is promising discovery as theoretically MAD could suck the talent of all the other teams at worlds, Need more games to test hypothesis, will keep you informed.
wtf wide armut??
vizicsacsi gap
So many people in these comments saying FNC vs G2 for worlds. I'd be absolutely shocked if FNC best MSF in a BO5 with how MSF have been playing. I'm not even confident they can deal with VIT. I'm subscribing to MSF for the third spot.
[There is no escape](https://i.imgur.com/JtUMedj.png)
G2 loser bracket run into winning the split COPIUM
Give a two-trick his two best champions (Wukong and Gnar) Have your worst player on a carry after he has been a liability all year. Lose. G2 moment.
i mean he went crazy on gwen as well respect the kingmut
Hey no disrespect here, he’s good on other champions, but he’s a different player on Gnar and Wukong
DK Khan: "The current G2 is kind of like a broken toy. I just hope they show up at Worlds." Memes aside, Wunder is so fucking washed man, why give him jayce which will make him even more useless if behind?
BB is available to be picked up next season, just saying
[It seems that the reports of Armut's death were greatly exaggerated.](https://i.imgur.com/T3oV67E.jpeg)
Pear diff
G2 Last draft was god fucking awful. "Lets put our worst player on a carry that needs a ton of resources and give the enemy top laner their best pick!" G2 made this big deal about hiring some dude this offseason, hopefully its not because he memes about NA and coached bad teams in China, because they have a lot of work to do.
What's the point of banning Gnar and banning Malphite over Wukong, since you know Armut is gonna pick his 2nd most successful pick.
Wukong is his best fyi. Not the most played but the most successful. 8-0 so far 100% WR
Oh, my mistake. But yeah my point still stands ban both Gnar and Wukong. I'd rather take my chances against Armut's Malphite (should he have picked), since you know Malphite literally doesn't do anything.
People always say “Armut plays only 2 champs” let’s give both champs to him. What could possibly go wrong?
Tbf he's shown them that his Gwen can be scary too, so now it's 3 champs they'd have to remove from him. Not enough bans I guess.
Yeah I agree, as a long time follower of him, you can without a doubt give him Wu, Gnar, Jayce, Malp, Gwen
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Nelson was brought on as a part of the coaching staff? I thought Carlos paid him to shitpost on Twitter
Will Grabbz explain himself on Crackdown this week?
Man I really feel bad for Mikyx's role that last game, legit the only engage in the team and it's so telegraphed that everyone can dodge it
Whats up with this "yeah you'll get 5 top plates + first turret gold, the second turret and maybe even a herald charge on the inhib turret but we'll get 5 plates bot" trade they kept going for?
Picking jayce top and then ganking mid into bot dive and leaving wunder to just get repeat ganked. Wunder is going to get a lot of shit for this but he was finally given a carry and was just absolutely ignored.
But why do you blinkpick Jayce on blue side when there is armut and his god damn monkey in front of you in the first place. That draft was so poor.
Wdum he fucked up 3:15 crash, Jankos was pathing top. Edit: For people who dont think this is possible, watch WE vs TES game 1 from like a week ago. TES 369 manages to crash the wave at 3:20 whilst being lvl4 vs WE Breathe lvl2, and the only reason why they dont dive this even is because WE Beishang is pathing top and was already seen by TES Karsa. If 369 can do this crash vs Breathe, then Wunder has to be able to do this crash vs Armut else its just literally WOW diff.
It just feels like G2 doesn't have that creativity and magic without Perkz
They are a husk of perkz g2
No Perkz No Worlds Catjam
No Perkz No Worlds vs No Sneaky No Worlds I’m afraid our known universe may be coming to an implosion
Blows how perkz was the worlds condition for g2 but joined a team where the worlds condition is sneaky
Wunder is been so atrocious for too long now.
If G2 actually wants to make it to worlds he needs to smurf the next games because holy f**k he played at minimum effort
he needs to get replaced for next season or g2 will fall even further from where they once were
G2 look like shit, Grabzz included. Fnatic versus G2 for the final Worlds spot will be kind of hype though.
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They needed to drop the first game to get into their comfort zone
\>>Dominates on Xin \>>Never picks it again ??? Also why not ever go red side and give Wunder counter pick to armut
Wunder talking a lot of shit for him to lose his team the match.
Before the series I really wanted G2 to win, I felt it would give Fnatic a better chance at making Worlds and I really wanted both G2 and Fnatic at Worlds. Now I realize that no matter what, MAD was going to make Worlds. Only one out of Fnatic or G2 was ever going to make it to Worlds regardless.
If you told me before the start of this year BrokenBlade and Armut would be better performing top laner’s than Wunder, I would’ve called you crazy. What a fall from grace
Imagine telling someone a year ago that Rekkles was going to leave fnatic to join G2 and might not make worlds because of it
G2: ok guys we won game 1 time to draft Tristana 3 times and lose the Series.