BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA – MAY 20: Teams G2 Esports and T1 greet each other onstage after their match at the League of Legends – Mid-Season Invitational Rumble Stage on May 20, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Aiksoon/Riot Games)
The undefeated G2 have been taken down by the unlikeliest of sources, as PSG Talon topple the European giants with a style of their very own medication!
EG vs T1: The King of Gods
With the arrival of Faker successful LCK and returning to MSI with 4 younger gamers, to Keria being being the primary ever help participant to win LCK MVP, to Gumayusi hilariously underperforming beneath the very excessive expectations of the general public, Zeus has usually gone beneath the radar, regardless that he has been mutilating his opposition left, proper and middle this match. The person is a ferocious problem for any staff enjoying towards him, with the ability to persistently discover benefits by Oner’s ganks or simply straight up solo killing his opponents together with his superior matchup data and lightning-fast mechanics. His “Tankplank” construct towards former SKT prime laner Impact was pivotal in stifling EG’s engages onto him, permitting him to show them round alongside Faker’s Sylas to tug T1 over EG in Day 3.
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA – MAY 08: Choi “Zeus” Woo-je of T1 poses on the League of Legends – Mid-Season Invitational Options Day on Might 8, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photograph by Lee Aiksoon/Riot Video games)
G2 vs PSG: Snapped at 24
G2’s win streak lastly will get snapped at 24 by essentially the most unlikely of sources as PSG pull the rug from beneath the LEC champions in a decisive victory! I covered the secrets to G2’s win streak in an earlier post, and positive sufficient, they left themselves susceptible by getting too cute within the draft. The Kalista first decide, whereas I’m not a fan, is smart for its teamfight CC, particularly when paired up with the B5 Gragas help. Nevertheless, Kalista isn’t the most effective teamfighter, and Flakked was smothered in CC all all through the sport with out an ADC with extra dependable repositioning like Kai’Sa or Ezreal.
The Lissandra counterpick into G2’s LeBlanc/Viego additionally reared its head in teamfights, the place the CC from Frozen Thralls have been in a position to hold the battle moving into PSG’s favor after their preliminary ult salvo. Whereas Caps is unquestionably greater than succesful in navigating his method by the Lissandra/LeBlanc lane matchup, Lissandra is unquestionably simpler to teamfight with versus LeBlanc.
The ultimate nail within the coffin got here from the R4 Ornn, which escaped G2’s bans, augmented by the R5 Rell. The large quantity of AOE CC from PSG’s final two picks beefed up their teamfighting even additional, and so they have been in a position to go toe to toe with G2 lengthy sufficient for his or her comp to outscale and ship a reasonably decisive beatdown.
