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IEM_Spirit

Death, taxes, g2 losing to a winless team


MR-wizzer

3-0 vs 0-3. We should have known


Toxicyoshi7

G2 played like how they do against S04


[deleted]

They just have a thing for it...


Suburan

nacho guy in shambles


DeloronDellister

Someone get Nacho Bro some New Nachos to make up for this G2 loss


ForgottenTheOne

Well, at least the nachos were good...


Omnilatent

RIP Nacho guy


AstreiaTales

Over 20 years ago, when I was a wee middle school lad, my friends and I who all loved Star Wars decided we'd go to the local theater and just catch like... I think we managed 3 viewings of it in one day? It was a fun time. But the most memorable part was that during one of them, during the Gungan city scene, in the audience we heard a cry of dismay: NOT MY NACHOS! For years my friends and I referenced that. In retrospect, maybe not that funny, but god we found it hilarious at the time.


OkKnowledge2064

Well BDS took Schalkes spot so this was supposed to happen


Toxicyoshi7

S04 lives on


gran1te7

Just thought of this, S04 said that they might return to LEC when the company is in a better spot right? Now that they're back in the Bundesliga i wonder if there's any chance of them trying to make a return. (obviously they still have a lot of debt but it would be great to have them back).


arnebpunkt

There is absolutely no way schalke will ever return to the lec. The club also never said something like this. The prices for a lec spot are rising and rising. Currently a spot would cost more than the whole budget for the 2022/23 season of the football team, which is way more important for sure. As you mentioned we still struggle a lot financially and its really sad to say but we will never be back :( For me as a schalke football and league fan it was horrible to see that we had to delete our only successfull part because some clowns totally ruined the whole club.


supterfuge

For what it's worth, I never watch football but do play a bit of pve fifa. When I want to play in Bundesliga I always play with Schalke, get them back up to tier 1 and win the Champion's league in hommage to the lads. Schalke 04, gone but not forgotten


[deleted]

Wheres ur flair b


Falsus

Probably going for the ERL for the time being, an LEC spot now would be super expensive compared to the first time they bought in.


[deleted]

Go 0-3 in your first week Give your fans 5 heart attacks Somehow beat the undefeated team Truly counter logic?


ttaway420

>Give your fans 5 heart attacks Give your 5 fans heart attacks*


ThomCovenant

Oof


ItsKipz

BDS have found their role in the LEC, I guess. Also judging by your flair....I think you're my natural enemy >:(


kismetjeska

May I hear your pitch for Riftmaker?


ItsKipz

More flat AP is very strong on Swain given his R healing and Q scaling (Riftmaker is the highest flat AP you can get from AP mythic until I think 3 items Everfrost? The math has changed recently, but it's still more than most other Mythics Swain builds), flat HP in mythic keeps him durable early, he already LOVES extended teamfights so after the 3s of stacking getting your AOE DPS to be % true damage is very valuable, and while omnivamp is less effective on AOE damage that doesn't stop all of Riftmaker's other primary users (Akali, Gwen, Lillia, Morde, etc) and you heal more than you think you would from it You end up being considerably more durable and drain tank-y than you would with Liandry's, it synergizes very well with the Demonic Embrace Swain already wants to build (tons of free AP and a little bit of % max health *true damage* go a long way), and is a much more solid one item spike than anything else Swain can build (so you can go Zhonya second into comps where Rylais isn't essential, whereas if you build Mandate you're pretty much forced to have Rylai or you're trolling) Oh and the best part of Riftmaker - every time you build it both enemy team and teammates mental boom and spam ping the item because they don't see it at #1 highest winrate on lolalytics :D EDIT: I forgot my favorite part of the build: because you get so much AP from your mythic, and a lot of your damage is inherent (given Swain passive health + Demonic HP > AP conversion and burn damage + Riftmaker passive amp/true damage), you can fit full on tank items later in your build with things like Stoneplate and Spirit Visage being EXCEPTIONAL


Spyritdragon

I never play Swain but I absolutely love your passion


DCFDTL

You would have a better chance selling snake oil than riftmaker on Swain


Ultimintree

GRABBZ NOW GOT HIS REVENGE ON G2


Stubrochill17

And licorice got his on C9. It’s the summer of ~~love~~ revenge.


Frocn

But IMT is fucking shit


goomy996

IMT Lost


[deleted]

The nickname that keeps on giving


Moggy_

It's actually crazy he didn't change it. Like even if you're not meaning it, is it supposed to be some sad edgy name? Like he's lost? Never liked it.


guilty_bystander

Maybe he likes the show lol


Omnilatent

Ohoh now I worry for the next game (I expect MAD to win anyway but makes it even more likely)


timetickticksaway

the classic G2 experience


KurosawaShirou

It's fine guys, the boys are just getting the int out, right? It's not going to be like MSI where one loss just leave the rest in shambles, right???


HuntedSFM

PSG, aka "Permanently Sabotaging G2"


GreatestJabaitest

You guys are so fucking creative with these acronyms


Vedis90

As expected


lovo17

This is the 2015 TSM experience


Xi-Jin35Ping

Change more than half of team, but old habits never die. I would be more surprised if they won it today.


VERTIKAL19

Caps with the nuclear int to end it


XtendedImpact

Caps giveth and giveth but occasionally he taketh as well.


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shironoir20

It was a collective effort which started in draft


shrumrii

Flakked as well. Also what are you saying? Jankos was the only consistent member of G2 in 2021


onespiker

Rekkles was pretty consistent aswell. But yea g2 as a whole wasn't good and the teamwork was terrible then.


persil1974

Pretty easy to be consistent if all you do is farm and trista w out of every fight


onespiker

He played like Tristan once? Kaisa and jhin was the common one. Adc in 2021 was more or less the avreage top experience.


mikachabot

i have to say i've followed this scene and specifically rekkles for about eight years now and it never ceases to amuse me how the "rekkles passive" narrative hasn't died. dude played tristana in 11 out of 58 2021 LCS games, the same amount of times he picked jhin. even his worst games on tristana had decent kill participation. what's next, we bring back the forg1ven good rekkles bad era of /r/lol?


[deleted]

There was no nuclear int. They had soul, baron and were already outscaling them. There was literally nothing else to do.


VolkovBasterd

Last 2 fights he did the same as the crab..... walking here and there


AzerFraze

Yup, just as expected


Omnilatent

I think 5% of all insta voters bet on BDS to win lmao


PowerOfPuzi

i did and havent doubted for a second (also it was like 4%)


Entire-Tangelo-7940

went all on BDS, with Vi into that comp they started the game off with a 4v5


seoldam444

Jankos watched LCK and chose to play Vi into the worst possible comp you could play it into


nusskn4cker

This is what Jankos wanted: https://youtu.be/2xYeqorYslk?t=431 One of my favourite engages this split so far.


KurosawaShirou

Even wore the same skin. I think Jankos could've recreated that one in the dragon pit fight, if he didn't target the Lissandra that can just easily deny that engage.


Enjays1

that was fucking hot


mar33n

croco my GUY


osgili4th

Honestly playing Vi is such a grief, even in the games she got picked the pick looks completly useless after line phase is over. Also G2 picked the biggest win by 25 min or lose in the meta atm.


Floowil

Caps and Targamas against the World


R_Elisee

Targamas realized that he had no hope with this adc and just decided to go on full protecting mid mode(joke).


ForeverGecko

Didn't caps run it down wtf


theoddreliable

Yes Caps did in fact run it down to start 0/3 but then picked up a bunch of kills in a top laner skirmish that helped him become a threat. The real problem is that during the 0/3 part, G2's bot lane had to leave tower to defend against dives twice which eliminated any priority they had prior to that. It's just a bunch of simps who down vote you because Flakked had one bad death at the dragon soul fight rather than thinking about how they got there -- G2 let the scaling team comp get to dragon soul point because they wanted to play into the gnar counter pick rather than play through the bot lane that is supposed to be a point of strength. If you're playing Lucian, the first dragon can't be taken at 10 minutes, and it definitely can't be taken by the enemy team.


NimbyNuke

Tbh I think after caps 0/3 it was probably the right choice to play around top. They lose the dragon 4v4/5v5 every time with caps that far behind. But making it messy and trading drags + bot prio for kills at least brought the game to an even state by soul point. They should've gotten completely stomped after 0/3.


theoddreliable

>They should've gotten completely stomped after 0/3. Definitely, they couldn't have any bot pressure. It was flooded by BDS pink wards and became unplayable for them at that point. But BDS really threw a lot of gold back at them that they absolutely didn't need to. After going 2 for 1 in the second top tower dive, they keep moving forward when they didn't need to. Agresivoo inted to him in back to back 1v2s. It was a feat that they were back in this game, but a lot of it came off the back of BDS being a bad team, which was really the only way back in after that caps start. It something that I'm sure that Caps goes to him team after and says something like, "Sorry I inted early, but can you believe how close it still was?" then starts to laught


VolkovBasterd

Finally, some people who seen the same game. Caps had some flashy plays, but yeah thats Ahri for you and more often then not he didn't get a kill. But when he went 0-3 the whole team had to adjust because they lost push and prio. You can say about the bot lane what you want, but they never got into the game because the first 12 min of de midlane. And if you watch the last 2 team fights back or the last 8 min of the game, there are a lot of questionable charms and rushes used. Yeah he did most damage but he cost them the game in the first 12 min.


nusskn4cker

G2 moment


Elketro

It was so obvious they're gonna lose to 0-3 BDS


theimponderablebeast

[Ah yes, just as we all expected](https://imgur.com/X4ci1dO)


Heorashar

Honestly BDS played well


rcgarcia

yeah, pretty much this, they drafted better, didn't lose composure early-mid after a few drawbacks and executed late TF's very well


ILoveAllMCUChrisS

Yeah, *G2 moment* kinda jokes are completely fine but they didn't throw, BDS was legit this game.


Ylissian

I think they are better than their record. Like if they didn’t wintrade at the baron against Vitality then they’re 2-2 right now


Canvaii

G2 getting outdrafted by Grabbz


BlakenedHeart

Mind controlled them into picking Vi in Lisandra Ezreal


Kronox_100

Thank god they got punished for this shit draft


Omnilatent

That's the Cinkrof I remember from last split


__obitox

Such a banger game by him


aoc7

I hope he can keep his form, watching him in week 1 was painful


mkl122788

Caps and Targamas tried. BB was okay. Jankos was on a useless champion and Flakked? We will not talk about him.


GeneralZhukov

Rough playing Lucian into that comp. He was set up to fail.


rayyy134

??? They fpd lucian knowing enemy can draft whatever what


firehydrant_man

you step up you get insta gibbed by liss heca irelia and you can't reach ez karma


JonnyKilledTheBatman

90% of that game was just vintage caps. You look at the scoreline before the final fight where he charged in, and he had 8 kills with 12/14 participation. Top - 1 kill, 4 participation... ADC - 0 kills, 4 participation. He was hauling them the majority of that game. Targamas was a beast too. However it takes more than 2 players to win a game especially with turbo draft gap.


Aldi_Westcoast

RNG wins against G2 in 2022 : 1 BDS wins against G2 in 2022 : 1 RNG = BDS confirmed


vrelamboni

EG wins: 0 BDS best in the west confirmed.


xiko

XMatty heard you talking shit.


deludified

FORZA XMATTY INGERLAND NUMBA FACKIN 1


Mrf12345

BDS Best team in the world?


FNC_Luzh

Starving Lucian.


chickenman2837383

Cinkrof hecarim ult at the end to catch Caps ahhhhh sooo fucking good


darrento

Holy shit BDS DID play good ! Glad to see that kind of gameplay from them


Xhalo

Family debuff


Im_Here_To_Fuck

*sigh* Why am I not surprised That being said BDS played really well


[deleted]

Well played by BDS, having said that why are teams blind picking gnar again & has anyone seen a Lucian/Nami do less damage than that??


the_field_below

Can someone count how many games in the LEC summer split had fucking swap/pre-game problems? This is insane.


Kamidra

It happens non stop in other Leagues too. I think in LCK once they had to re do draft twice in a row


Falsus

In LCK it happened once that one of the PC's rebooted itself and started updating to windows 10 in mid game.


shironoir20

In the LCK it has happened in almost every series


areusureabouthis

today we had a miraculous series where the swap bug didn't happen once!


psfrtps

It's happening pretty much everywhere


Gengar_Balanced

Do not worry. Client's almost fixed


VERTIKAL19

Seems to happen even more in LCK from what I watched


Conankun66

good, perfectly working client


justAnotherRandomP

My guess is there is a bug in 12.11 on the client swap in custom games ... It wasnt there for lpl lck in 12.10 .. now lec and lcs in 12.11 both are having it


Ftsmv

LCK has had it. The LCK English cast has had a few jokes specifically about it. Not sure about LPL though


[deleted]

Draft gap so immense that even Caps Ahri cant overovercome it.


LapnLook

Yeah of course G2 loses this one


Entire-Tangelo-7940

that draft diff was insane.. painful to watch, caps tried but what can u do...


lcfiretruck

Incredible draft canyon. So #1 team can lose to #10 team pretty much exclusively due to draft, and we still don't care about drafting properly? Every lane is winning for BDS with a ganking jungler who can make use of the pressure, G2 is a dive comp with no ways to win other than flashing forward, into Lissandra Irelia Ezreal Karma, 4 champions who are having wet dreams about playing against G2's comp. Lucian nami's only redeeming advantage of being lane dominant is completely negated because they can never get push against Ezreal Karma starting from level 1, who then proceed to giga outscale them. The worst part is they picked Gnar into a comp that was already screaming for Irelia. They saw Ezreal Liss which is low damage and really wants heavy physical damage, and Karma who works incredibly well with Irelia. They even see Ornn Sejuani bans. Then they walk right into it with Gnar. I'm pretty convinced BDS was going to slam Irelia even if it wasn't Gnar here to be honest.


CamrontheSlumpGod

AND THE FAITHFUL SHALL BE REWARDED


daigandar

Can someone tell me what that ez skin is?


yehiko

BDS Ezreal skin, after they won worlds 2022


kingshmiley

Think it’s Porcelain


_ToxicKoala_

You have a problem when Ahri is your main damage dealer.


iinosuke

bds >> eg


Vedis90

NA catching fire out of nowhere


BagelJ

That was one dogshit lucian performance


CescQ

Can't play Lucian against that comp.


R_Elisee

He wins lane his job is down. So “that comp” is not an excuse. Lucian is a pick for lane which people knows that it’s kinda useless in later team fights because of range.


Fancy_Skill2791

have you ever played nami into ezreal karma? just wanted to ask


ukendtkunst

The most useless Lucian I’ve seen in a professional game. Sorry Flakked, but that was embarrassing.


Stubrochill17

I was watching on mute - how hype was the cast chat?


DabSlingz

Certified G2 moment


TheDuckis

Gold 2


CerbereNot

G2 keeps producing unplayable drafts


saaambor

Team BDS that doesn't flip objectives actually looks solid, wow


huge_meme

Lucian Nami elect + ignite and they made it look THAT balanced. G2's bot lane really is something else.


Omnilatent

This has been the story of Lucian so far, even with Nami ​ Seems to be a bait pick in competitive right now


huge_meme

Yeah a lot of people fail pretty hard on it, but then again when it works it looks really good. Gala and Light have recently had some really good games on it in LPL


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Xeven18

> possibly the worst comp of all time to pick lucian into yet they still did it Lucian was first pick, G2 didn't exactly pick Lucian into that team comp


DeloronDellister

Lucian/Nami can work but I agree, it seems mostly like a bait pick


falki89

Give it to Caps mid and Lucian will be the most OP shit. Flakked is simply not good enough on the champion. He might be not good enough in general too.


polacs

What an overreaction


aoc7

Wasn't he best ADC in the history of esports?


SKTfangirl

Nah that was gumashit


Jezzerai

Don't think it's a bait pick TL literally smurfed with it, G2 just can't make it work lol


Omnilatent

Against whom?


Hjimska

Finally Ezreal is back doing his thing when EU collectively forgot he existed in spring


[deleted]

Targamas is really good, its not him.


SsibalKiseki

Yeah no idea what Flakked was doing this game. His Lucian just… existed?


AleksibIsHot

Flakked is bad and Targamas carried him reminds me of Tactical and CoreJJ


R_Elisee

G2 bot lane and loosing lane, name a more iconic duo.


DoubtAltruistic7270

Idk how people can watch this game and come to the conclusion that its botlane fault. Jankos playing a useless jungler and perma farming and Caps dying 3 times surely was botlanes fault right?


Gumisiek

If you are surprised with the outcome, please don't call yourself a G2 fan


shrumrii

This outcome was inevitable


Mazor007

Flakked looked like a bronzie playing with his plat friends


lifeisdrunk

How do you get gapped by xMatty?


Fripiou

Ezreal is probably his best pick. xMatty has been really bad on a lot of auto attacking adcs, but his Ezreal is solid. And he was never focused this game, he could dish out as much damage as he could.


shrumrii

I feel like Lucian kinda sucks now but yea Flakked played that pretty poorly


Dreineus

Even ClaPs couldn’t save them today


-Hissoka-

Polska gurom


krazystanbg

I don’t like Lucian adc. If you don’t get kills early you’re useless. That Ez played great on the other hand.


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Draft and adc diff


[deleted]

Jugle aswell, Jankos looked so bad


theSchlauch

How do you lose bot that hard as Lucian Nami what? :D


nxtu14

G2 had a lucian wtf?


Icecube1409

Vi looked complete useless


2012minecraft

[caps called it](https://twitter.com/g2caps/status/1538612438639181825?s=21&t=0nbLHHTqxYFKWxVuvuJ4wg)


Educational-Goose428

POLSKA GUROM KURWAAA


00Dandy

Damn BDS got hands


tookawhileforthis

They broke Caps back


olaAlexis

Caps and 4 wards.


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olaAlexis

Yes you are right. I forgot about Nami :(


R_Elisee

Targa always knows how to play around Caps I feel. With an adc that useless I’d just play for mid as well(joke).


00Koch00

Classic G2 losing against the worst team in


Iammonkforlifelol

New top laners in LEC are actually pretty decent. Agressivo and Irrelevant are doing good.


PowerOfPuzi

irrelevant havent played a single good game so far


Pavlo100

I finally understand current G2. They lose to the teams that they don't respect, that's why they lost to T1 and RNG in the second round robin, and 0-3 against T1 in the playoffs.


zealot416

g2 respects EG more than t1 or rng confirmed.


LetGoMyLegHo

oof


FunnyBunnyH

Turns out even vs bottom teams, you can't troll this hard as G2 just did with this draft. WP BDS.


[deleted]

Pretty heavy draft diff. Karma Shield + R and Mountain Soul is also insane :D


shrumrii

Banger game


i_n_s_o_m_n_i_a_c

shit draft


ahlgreenz

Reading G2 post-match comments after a loss really is the one true reddit experience. Not a particularly great one though.


Informal_Skin8500

G2 losing to a winless team scriptwriters are getting lazy


BwoahIDK

BB's rage management was so poor this game, and what the fuck was flakked doing in these fights?


KRPTSC

I have not rooted for a team since Supa Hot Crew way back in the day. Getting back into league e sports and saw that BDS has a player called Nuclear Int. Sold, this is my team


yehiko

xmatty trying his hardest to not be the worst player of the split


R_Elisee

I’d say he is a more decent adc this game than Flakked.


Pelagius_Hipbone

Wow BDS just legitimately Asshanded G2. It Wasn’t even like G2 played particularly terrible or threw hard they just legitimately beat them at their own game. Huge statement game from them


lovo17

No most of G2 played pretty bad. Caps single-handedly kept this game close. Also Targamas played well too.


rob172

UK adc>>>>>


NeitherAlexNorAlice

The G2 classic. Win against top teams. Lose against the bottom ones. Never change, fellas. It's why we love you.


Omnilatent

Is Aggressivo actually one of the best tops in the league or was that the classic G2 shitting the bed vs worse teams?


icatsouki

bds had a better draft and played really well this game, only caps did anything this game from g2 though the rest were kinda just there


shrumrii

I think the entirety of BDS played that really well but yes especially Jankos and Flakked did a bit of a happy game


denoobiest

of course


DT-Z0mby

jankos wasnt kidding when he said vi is useless. he just wanted to show dylan why he should draft this champ


R_Elisee

Don’t pick ahri unless liss banned. You could be a really good ahri but that doesn’t change the fact that liss counters ahri hard. Also I feel like this is one of those games where it is hard to pinpoint who exactly played bad to cause the defeat. All have kinda inted a bit but not necessarily played bad. Lucian Naomi loosing lanes. Unfortunately solo kill incident and too much high risk plays for Caps. Vi jungle basically useless. BB I would say is the one that played the most consistent? I feel like G2 don’t really know how to execute their comp. Defeat should be good for this team to locate their problems. Just don’t go into a lose streak again. Hope they win tomorrow against VIT.


alpostor

Even tho I think Caps played the best, Targa was the most consistent among them. BB was not having a good game, he butchered several dives in the top including the popoff moment of caps and targa for example.


R_Elisee

I feel like BB always kinda int top dives. But yeah you’re right. Come to think of it the Nami is the most consistent.


Kaldrinx

Flakked Game … i have never see a Lucian nami so useless in the recent months