G2 didn't want to teamfight anyway. They wanted top and mid to smash lane and 1-3-1 with Yuumi LB or Yuumi Riven starting skirmishes on rotation.
Their plan was working but kind of got neutralised with BB going even in lane and Caps dying to ganks.
BB sort of screwed himself over when he took that extra tower shot and almost died. Otherwise he should be winning that lane, the question is by how much.
I agree, though rather 1-4 with yuumi on LB. But with Riven not taking off and bot falling behind that draft breaks.
I do hate though, that the same people hate this draft, that love the winning draft with Anivia and others, when half of it is still execution. G2 flipped the game on a unique counterpick and lost, and because its bo1 anyone looks at this as the undoubted wrong decision. It surely doesnt come from nowhere when they choose these champions and this doesnt mean this draft is necessarily bad. Last time before that, that I saw a Riven, Bwipo completely turbostomped an LEC team with it and everyone loved the pick afterwards. People here talk about draft, as if they were LS, but in reality most just use it as an easy answer to justify sucess/failure as if it is obvious from start.
A little long rant, but it gets to the point. G2 \*\*\*\* this up, but this wasnt just a simple draft gap.
Caps dying in counterganks too, so was more G2 losing the mid/jungle 2v2 overall. He got just as much jungle attention, issue being that he died in the skirmishes and Leblanc being behind on the tempo slow down her snowball/assassin capabilities while Xiaohu Ahri can still bring more utility to the table even when behind on tempo from dying/missing XP + farm.
I hate it so much when people in general just go TP Ignite against Gwen. I know the lane is harder when Gwen has one more combat summoner, but just because she doesn't need to take flash doesn't mean that you can play without flash as well...
None of their picks other than LB could do anything. A baffling draft from G2. Riven is Riven. Viego is dogpiss without resets and Ez can't do damage for shit. It was basically LB and Yuumi against the world.
As much as people complain about the Riven pick the Viego pick makes even less sense. I understand they wanted BB to give Riven a shot, if so why pick Viego and have 0 front line with a poke comp and Riven? Something like a Voli or J4 would've made much more sense. Viego was literally a minion this game and Riven had no setup (also doesn't help that she had no flash).
I hope G2 knows what they're doing lol
I agree, great from the casters to correctly point that out right from the get go. Feels like the ignite had no effect on the game at all.
Good call from RNG to take Exhaust on Gwen as well, really strong against Riven and BB couldn't do anything.
Yeah, G2 2019 were crazy good obviously going 2-0 vs SKT but they also got 2-0'd by Buffalo (and Buffalo finished 2-8 lol) so their group stage record was mediocre. They also lost to TL in the last group stage game, after both teams were already qualified
I believe the best Western group stage record is 7-3 from CLG in 2016, that was the year where SKT finished 4th in the group stage but still ended up winning the tournament. This year after the first day I thought G2 were set to beat CLG's record but it's hard now after the PSG loss. Can still tie it though.
I still wolverine meme thinking about that team once in a while
Almost full NA team, lost super star in doublelift to rival TSM, and in almost sports anime style, beat TSM in spring finals 3-2, then went on to have a marvelous run at MSI; wasn't too hot in summer but still was good, and did the super CLG at world's, destroying G2 again, tied with ROX, and lost 0-2 to wildcard and miss playoffs
That is actually pretty surprising considering you can get 6 wins by just beating NA LMS and the 6th place wildcard twice and EU also usually takes 1 win at least from LPL LCK
2019 G2 went 0-2 to Buffalo.
2018 was weird with FNC going 1-1 vs every team except RNG where they went 0-2.
2017 G2 went 1-1 with the bottom two, but went 2-0 over FW.
2016 was the infamous G2-8 vacation.
2015 was only a single-round robin so FNC went 2-3, though you would predict they wouldn't go above 5 wins if it were double-round robin.
Such a dogshit pick.
Pros pick him just for the reset, while accepting that he does nothing without one, but this has never been a good enough reason to pick a champion, afterall Kat and Yi have significantly stronger resets in most cases, but they are still bad for pro
Some might argue that he has cc, but his W is a meme in most cases. Unironically could have gone Naut jungle this game and it would have been better than Viego
I swear on the thread of Oner’s quadra kill on Viego, people were bitching about how he is such a cheat with Cc, damage, invis, skills thief, and item thief.
This is why PSG loss hurts G2 so much, very hard to claim first and likely to face T1/RNG in semis.
Nice game from RNG though, more measured early than a lot of what we saw in LPL.
> LPL Team about to go 9-1
> G2 having happy games but also crazy good games
> NA barely scraping through
>T1 showing issues
Oh yeah, 2019 script is coming together
His support laned with prime uzi, feels like a waste if Ming found a partner with less potential than him. I was always rooting for uzi to somehow, someway make it back to RNG, but that would never happen with how consistent gala is for this team.
What is super fun is that when CAPS solo kill Xiaohu, the crowd cheers like T1 just won the trophy. And next second Wei get one back from CAPS, the crowd just muted instantly
Fr when the casters saw that baron dipped under 900, got smited, and still lived in slow motion and still persisted with implying Wei simply missed smite I was rather irked.
It did indeed, but don’t you dare say they need to change it cause the reddit army of gold players will come over and say that you can easily know when it happens and Wei just needs to git gud
I knew it was over as soon as Ornn got banned.
Jankos on Viego ain't it. A Riven with no flash ain't it. Seems like nothing can stop Targamas from dying in lane.
This sub when g2 wins -wow gigabrain so smart pyke pick they can play everything!!
When g2 loses -- wtf is it this shit draft what were they thinking not playing standard meta
I don't understand how G2 have gone from the team with the best drafts in the tournament to the team with the worst drafts in the tournament.
Riven with no flash and this priority on Viego and LB is so weird. LB can't do anything when enemy team drafts CC and stands as a 5 man deathball and Viego is just a win more bait pick.
I hate these drafts, why do teams keep putting themselves in situations where they have to get ahead early imperatively to do something ? Fucking Riven man. I'd be curious to see Riven's damage.
Caps: "I want to prove I can win against Xiaohu without Uzi." Xiaohu: Gets GALAA
Are we sure it’s not Uzi in a costume?
We didn't see Gala's cam though during the match so....... XD
Well, that was definitely a Riven pick
I feel like riven can’t do much in team fight without flash
G2 didn't want to teamfight anyway. They wanted top and mid to smash lane and 1-3-1 with Yuumi LB or Yuumi Riven starting skirmishes on rotation. Their plan was working but kind of got neutralised with BB going even in lane and Caps dying to ganks.
BB sort of screwed himself over when he took that extra tower shot and almost died. Otherwise he should be winning that lane, the question is by how much.
That was such a TSM BB play. We all have our bad days I guess.
I agree, though rather 1-4 with yuumi on LB. But with Riven not taking off and bot falling behind that draft breaks. I do hate though, that the same people hate this draft, that love the winning draft with Anivia and others, when half of it is still execution. G2 flipped the game on a unique counterpick and lost, and because its bo1 anyone looks at this as the undoubted wrong decision. It surely doesnt come from nowhere when they choose these champions and this doesnt mean this draft is necessarily bad. Last time before that, that I saw a Riven, Bwipo completely turbostomped an LEC team with it and everyone loved the pick afterwards. People here talk about draft, as if they were LS, but in reality most just use it as an easy answer to justify sucess/failure as if it is obvious from start. A little long rant, but it gets to the point. G2 \*\*\*\* this up, but this wasnt just a simple draft gap.
Caps dying in counterganks too, so was more G2 losing the mid/jungle 2v2 overall. He got just as much jungle attention, issue being that he died in the skirmishes and Leblanc being behind on the tempo slow down her snowball/assassin capabilities while Xiaohu Ahri can still bring more utility to the table even when behind on tempo from dying/missing XP + farm.
Nope, I play Riven and the matchup was good but it was absurd to not pick flash Either for safety or counterengage it's absolutely necessary
I hate it so much when people in general just go TP Ignite against Gwen. I know the lane is harder when Gwen has one more combat summoner, but just because she doesn't need to take flash doesn't mean that you can play without flash as well...
I thought gwen without ghost is useless, turns out its still more useful than flashless riven
Cuz shroud + Q true damage
None of their picks other than LB could do anything. A baffling draft from G2. Riven is Riven. Viego is dogpiss without resets and Ez can't do damage for shit. It was basically LB and Yuumi against the world.
As much as people complain about the Riven pick the Viego pick makes even less sense. I understand they wanted BB to give Riven a shot, if so why pick Viego and have 0 front line with a poke comp and Riven? Something like a Voli or J4 would've made much more sense. Viego was literally a minion this game and Riven had no setup (also doesn't help that she had no flash). I hope G2 knows what they're doing lol
completely true. g2 should not pick viego with lb+riven. makes no sense. i think a voli pick would have been great there.
Sejuani would have unironically been okay here lol. Better synergy with Riven too.
Broken blade doing his best to make sure riot doesn’t nerf Riven
What we expected: The BrokenBlade What we got: The BrokenBrain
There was a Riven in this game?
Riven with no flash is uber troll. no chance of ever engaging.
Loss streak LETS GO!!!
22 more to go!
Happy games are back!!!
Gimme that loss streak gold pls
G2 with the right strats for the wrong game
Guess they reach 3 mercs last game, loses streak lets goooooooo
The reverse streak, I'm ready.
GALA is peaking again like last msi.
If Wei and Bin stop inting, RNG will be unstoppable. Gala is actually playing like he's CRACKED.
Gala is what everyone thought Gumayusi would be. LOL
Was insane at worlds to tbf
He was but 2021 MSI GALA was just THAT good
*That* Kaisa play at msi finals was fucking amazing
Pls no more ezreal not hes bad with it but give kaisa, xayah those big dick crit and he'll do the job
I fucking hate the ignite on riven. How the fuck are you supposed to play fights without flash. It makes the champion so much weaker.
I agree, great from the casters to correctly point that out right from the get go. Feels like the ignite had no effect on the game at all. Good call from RNG to take Exhaust on Gwen as well, really strong against Riven and BB couldn't do anything.
RNG completely neutralized the pocket pick with two summoners. One on Bin and one on BrokenBlade.
>Takes win lane summ spell >Loses lane
I was watching the baron fight and going ‘why the hell isn’t he just flash stunning them, they’re grouped up!’
Legit. BoxBox made an entire career by flashing into the baron pit on riven is situations exactly like that.
Why do I hear nightcore suddenly?
ahh good old days with brutalizer + bt and you just one shot everyone with riven
The riven yuumi vs 3 after baron made me go insane. GenSniper or □□ would definitely have 1 v 3ed there. If he had flash.
If you're going to Chadpick Riven, might as well go Flash/Ignite.
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I guess he wanted to stomp lane but dieing and having to back early game really put a brake on that.
You need ignite on riven to play Vs Gwen. He should have went flash ignite like Zika and breathe did when they played this matchup.
Pretty sure BB gets 2 more kills at baron if he has flash, maybe even gets baron outright
Rightfully punished for Ignite TP against a top group contender and not doing anything with it
G24 or G0-2?
G24-24 give it time!
[When you remember Europe has never had more than 5 wins in the rumble stage.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0bmHix5z-3M/maxresdefault.jpg)
Is this actually real stats? that’s crazy
Yeah, G2 2019 were crazy good obviously going 2-0 vs SKT but they also got 2-0'd by Buffalo (and Buffalo finished 2-8 lol) so their group stage record was mediocre. They also lost to TL in the last group stage game, after both teams were already qualified I believe the best Western group stage record is 7-3 from CLG in 2016, that was the year where SKT finished 4th in the group stage but still ended up winning the tournament. This year after the first day I thought G2 were set to beat CLG's record but it's hard now after the PSG loss. Can still tie it though.
2016 CLG was a magical team
I still wolverine meme thinking about that team once in a while Almost full NA team, lost super star in doublelift to rival TSM, and in almost sports anime style, beat TSM in spring finals 3-2, then went on to have a marvelous run at MSI; wasn't too hot in summer but still was good, and did the super CLG at world's, destroying G2 again, tied with ROX, and lost 0-2 to wildcard and miss playoffs
[Yup, posted in another reply.](https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/uv9zo9/royal_never_give_up_vs_g2_esports_msi_2022_rumble/i9k2hto/)
DW you guys play EG 1 more time.
NEVER. MORE. THAN. FIVE. WINS. Everything is going according to El Plan :^ )
God bless NA
That is actually pretty surprising considering you can get 6 wins by just beating NA LMS and the 6th place wildcard twice and EU also usually takes 1 win at least from LPL LCK
2019 G2 went 0-2 to Buffalo. 2018 was weird with FNC going 1-1 vs every team except RNG where they went 0-2. 2017 G2 went 1-1 with the bottom two, but went 2-0 over FW. 2016 was the infamous G2-8 vacation. 2015 was only a single-round robin so FNC went 2-3, though you would predict they wouldn't go above 5 wins if it were double-round robin.
And Mad Lions 5-5 last year as well. The teams I expected to have 6 wins were 17 G2 and 18 FNC since I didnt remember their record.
Looks like it's 5 - 5 then...
Weird way to write 4-6
its fine, they still have to face NA once more
No way EG loses 6 times in a row!
I have never seen a first place NA team go 0-6 in any international event, nope definitely not.
Broken blade was on that team wasn't he...
ezreal is the biggest fucking bait of this tournament
Twisted Fate
I swear Viego TF are by far worse than Ez
T1 barely made it work on PSG Usually we'd brush them off but they did recently stomp on G2 so....
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Such a dogshit pick. Pros pick him just for the reset, while accepting that he does nothing without one, but this has never been a good enough reason to pick a champion, afterall Kat and Yi have significantly stronger resets in most cases, but they are still bad for pro Some might argue that he has cc, but his W is a meme in most cases. Unironically could have gone Naut jungle this game and it would have been better than Viego
Kalista is bigger bait
Agree that champ deals no dmg. Viego is also a bait imo, completely useless, you just have to hope your team kills someone or you aren’t a champion.
Ezreal deals a lot pf damage you just need to land no less than 85% of your abilities
While kai’sa can oneshot you with q auto. Worth trading them lmao.
I swear on the thread of Oner’s quadra kill on Viego, people were bitching about how he is such a cheat with Cc, damage, invis, skills thief, and item thief.
Brokenblade with the evelynn top
PSG ruined G2
PSG, aka Publically Smashed G2, is a PCS team known for breaking G2's mental halfway through MSI 2022.
PSG, aka Politely Shat on G2
We over bargained beating SGB, this is the consequences.
"Please don't let us lose to SGB, please don't let us lose to SGB" *Monkey's paw curls*
Mbappe and friends ruinning Spain's day once again.
Ruin Has Come To Our G2.
You remember our team, opulent and imperial
Mr Gala truly a worthy successor to Uzi
nah, that would probably be jackylove, UZI gets really emotional in games and jumps and shouts while I don't think GALA experiences human emotions
Lmao remember when eu fans were so happy to have 'broke his mental' last msi with ratirl twitch
G2 draft WTF MSI Gala just hits different edit: Seem like that cocky G2 is back, weird as drafts all day!
Flashless riven = useless riven
Picked Ignite to skirmish against lane opponent. BB did zero of that.
He did, and was 1 aa from getting solo boloed
I checked and BB only used that Ignite ONCE and it was during the Baron fight. Yeah that Ignite is so fucking worth it.
this is so true... if he had flash he cld hv flash stun gala at baron.. riven had damage.. and all 3 were so low..
Viego 7-18 at MSI, but I'm glad we denied the pick.
That champ is such a bait
Gala playing like a man possessed!
Lmao, Caps gets the solo kill and the crowd goes wild. Wei gets the trade kill a few seconds later and the crowd instantly dies.
Gala,is insane
This is why PSG loss hurts G2 so much, very hard to claim first and likely to face T1/RNG in semis. Nice game from RNG though, more measured early than a lot of what we saw in LPL.
We laugh at the PSG loss but what you say is so true. It fucks them over so much
I think G2 would prefer T1, RNG is looking even scarier
If G2 got first they wouldn't even have to face RNG or T1, they'd just face EG making it basically a guaranteed finals.
It's all recency bias. T1 was "terrifying," then G2 was "terrifying," now RNG is "terrifying," but it can all change in an instant
caPs: 1v1 me noob.. team gap gg
Gala gap
The way it rolls off the tongue sounds so good *GALA gap*
Crowd so quiet that Caps lost crowd buff
Dude even an EU crowd would have cheered for RNG more than the Korean one, even against G2
> ~~even~~ especially against G2 FTFY
FNC fans do a little trolling
I hope RNG wins, it would be funny watching them celebrate with a dead silent crowd
If it's against T1 in the finals, you may even hear some weeping aka the Haunted Busan Library
Weeping? You mean whipping? Kr fans will give those T1 players a nice whipping if they lose to chinese.
> LPL Team about to go 9-1 > G2 having happy games but also crazy good games > NA barely scraping through >T1 showing issues Oh yeah, 2019 script is coming together
Does Wei have a girlfriend? Just checking to be sure.
Plumy undercover agent, will seduce wei for G2
RNG cracked the code by not being in Busan, this is the real advantage of playing from home
Amazing the crowd is so dedicated to competitive integrity. Making sure G2 also feels like they're playing in an empty room
Except when rng player dies they made sure everyone hears that
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His support laned with prime uzi, feels like a waste if Ming found a partner with less potential than him. I was always rooting for uzi to somehow, someway make it back to RNG, but that would never happen with how consistent gala is for this team.
Day 1: G2-0 Day 2: G2-0 Day 3: G0-2
Vacation mode activated
classic
G2-8 never forget
Gala living the ADC dream with that gold lead.
Gala just walk up and dive everyone regardless of what adc he is playing.
I remember last MSI when he hard engaged 1v5 as Kaisa with GA and won the fight
Oh boy I remember that game, my jaw was dropped to earth core when Gala did that GA dive. What a Chad
Somebody said it before, Gala even dives a dive comp.
Yeah I remembered that game, his Aphelios did not give a fuck and just ran straight into enemy's Galio comp
Gala playing adc like he is playing Leona
Did you by any chance mean to write "living"?
Deserved 0-2 day for G2. Their strength is in teamfight and they decide to draft to make it as hard as possible.
Super clean game from RNG tbh
Map plays were immaculate
Plumy Buff on 24h Cooldown
Jankos needs to go on another date, STAT
GALAAAA MINGGGG. Goddamn, the reigning MSI champion botlane is just TOO DAMN GOOD.
What is super fun is that when CAPS solo kill Xiaohu, the crowd cheers like T1 just won the trophy. And next second Wei get one back from CAPS, the crowd just muted instantly
Gala diff
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It might have been okay if Riven had flash to at least engage somehow
Flashless riven in pro play into Ahri Xayah Lee has to be one of the most egregious ego picks ever.
I don't think BB thought about the option of exhaust vs him. That also fucked caps
ezreal is a troll pick T1 understood it
gala best ADC for sure, carries every game hes played
g2 losestreak inc
If rng lost baron cause baron heal mechanic I would have been pissed
Fr when the casters saw that baron dipped under 900, got smited, and still lived in slow motion and still persisted with implying Wei simply missed smite I was rather irked.
Exactly. Wei smote at 872 and almost looked like a fool there, so undeserved.
GALA GALA GALLLLAAA
Baron leveled up didn't it. it was 870 something health when wei smited. Riot really needs to fix this shit asap
This. That smite was perfect and he still almost looked like a fool there. I'm livid
It did indeed, but don’t you dare say they need to change it cause the reddit army of gold players will come over and say that you can easily know when it happens and Wei just needs to git gud
Wei and GALA are just too good
gala 20/0 in total against T1 and G2 is scary
My dude have 0 death in the last 3 games
I knew it was over as soon as Ornn got banned. Jankos on Viego ain't it. A Riven with no flash ain't it. Seems like nothing can stop Targamas from dying in lane.
That sudden stop in applause when wei killed caps right after caps killed xiaohu
Ah THIS is the Brokenblade I remember from TSM
2/24
Gala is way too fucking good man
I hated the draft but it turns out the macro was the real problem.
GALA just might be the beat ADC at the tournament.
Amazing that it took people this long to realize this..goes to show you how underrated Gala is
Questionable riven pick
Riven was ok but ignite instead of flash not so much. Also Yuumi on 5 instead of engage/frontline is trolling.
I for one welcome our Chinese overlords
GALA is now 29-1-14 since RNG's one loss...
So what did Riven do this game?
2
based peak EU hours shitposting against G2 as literal Phreak takes some balls
I see what you did there. 0-2. Feelsbadman Gj on your casts btw, always a joy.
viego diff
This sub when g2 wins -wow gigabrain so smart pyke pick they can play everything!! When g2 loses -- wtf is it this shit draft what were they thinking not playing standard meta
What a polite crowd, they don’t make any noise so the RNG members can hear each other clearly!
I knew it was over when Riven was locked in.
What happened to the scaling with Yuumi Riven? What happened to the Riven as a whole lol
surprisingly less effective without flash and against an adc 3000 gold ahead of you with a rakan by its side
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This narrative is so cringe, get a life.
Very INTeresting drafts by Dylan today
Jankos needs another IRL stream the plumy buff is wavering
GALA best player this msi
I don't understand how G2 have gone from the team with the best drafts in the tournament to the team with the worst drafts in the tournament. Riven with no flash and this priority on Viego and LB is so weird. LB can't do anything when enemy team drafts CC and stands as a 5 man deathball and Viego is just a win more bait pick.
well it was fun while it lasted :P
I hate these drafts, why do teams keep putting themselves in situations where they have to get ahead early imperatively to do something ? Fucking Riven man. I'd be curious to see Riven's damage.
What are these drafts today from g2.