BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA – MAY 10: Team G2 Esports and team Evil Geniuses compete at the League of Legends – Mid-Season Invitational Groups Stage on May 10, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Photo by Lee Aiksoon/Riot Games)
The European champions didn’t waste any time persevering with their undefeated win streak from their lower bracket run, beating out each Evil Geniuses and Order to begin off 2-0 on Day 1 of MSI.
Order within the Courtroom
G2 received out to an early lead towards Oceania’s Order, earlier than succumbing to a few wombo engages within the mid recreation. Either side trades solokills early on, with Caps‘ Zoe discovering one on Kisee‘s Yone whereas BioPanther by some means managed to solokill BrokenBlade’s counterpick in Fiora. G2 are a a lot better macro group although, they usually moved swiftly within the early to mid transitions, crossmapping while Kevy tried to camp BrokenBlade to blended success. Nonetheless, the onerous interact wombo comp that Order drafted for themselves lastly confirmed off its true colours because it was capable of choose off straggling G2 members with Yone and Leona ults, whereas Karthus and Miss Fortune offered lengthy vary comply with up harm. If Order had been any higher at enjoying round Baron, they might have received this recreation given G2’s errors and the issue of G2’s comp, however Flakked‘s pristine teamfighting on Aphelios managed to dig them out of the opening and clinch the primary win of their MSI run.
BUSAN, SOUTH KOREA – MAY 10: Rasmus “caPs” Borregaard Winther (L) and Victor “Flakked” Lirola Tortosa of G2 Esports compete on the League of Legends – Mid-Season Invitational Teams Stage on Might 10, 2022 in Busan, South Korea. (Picture by Colin Younger-Wolff/Riot Video games)
EU > NA
G2 should’ve not likely tried towards Order as a result of they undoubtedly tried, and succeeded, in notching one other win for EU towards Evil Geniuses within the ever-evolving NA vs EU “rivalry”. The NA champions didn’t stand an opportunity towards the surging champions of Europe as they had been merely outplayed within the early recreation and outmacroed within the mid recreation. I felt as if Ryze was intentionally left up for Jojopyun, the place it was countered so intelligently with the Anivia from Caps. The Cryophoenix single-handedly countered EG’s comp fully, with all three carries in Aatrox, Ryze and Samira being too short-ranged to function with out being in her vary. Jojo‘s aggressive lane tendencies had been additionally punished by G2’s now-signature mid camp, and he put himself even additional behind by opting to go for the nerfed Tank construct on Ryze. The draft resolution to pair Karthus up with Ryze, which led to a really weak and inactive mid/jg duo that performed proper into G2’s energy, permitting them to capitalize and snowball for a really decisive win.
