In an unprecedented 0-3 defeat, G2 Esports had been denied their tenth LEC title by first-time champions Rogue — however they’re searching for redemption on the 2022 World Championship.
In one of many largest upsets in aggressive League of Legends this 12 months, G2 Esports have misplaced 3-0 within the LEC finals to Rogue.
With LEC analyst predictions going within the favor of G2 Esports, the group on the Malmö enviornment felt absolutely on their facet. However the tides shortly turned as Rogue took maintain of the sequence and by no means let go, leaving G2 within the mud with a 3-0 and dealing mid laner Rasmus ‘caPs’ Winther his first-ever finals loss.
Within the post-game press convention, G2’s post-loss despondency was tempered by a sit up for Worlds 2022, the place they’ll attend because the LEC’s second seed and qualify straight into the group stage.
Disappointment for rookies and veterans alike
G2’s roster is the proper mixture of rookie expertise and veteran level-headedness. However loss stings simply as badly regardless of how lengthy you’ve been taking part in.
Mid laner caPs took his first-ever finals loss exhausting, explaining that “it feels bizarre that we have now to play so quickly after a nasty efficiency”.
“I simply really feel a bit misplaced, I assume. And I’m simply hoping that a couple of days of resetting will assist, and that we will get again to the grind and determine what to do present up at Worlds and be again to our traditional selves.”
Rookie AD Carry Viktor ‘Flakked’ Lirola additionally took the loss exhausting — however regardless of the 3-0, the “hype” of the world and the G2 fan chants wasn’t misplaced on him.
we performed actually unhealthy as a staff and individually at this time 🙁 sorry to everybody and thanks for cheering for us and respect to Rogue they had been the higher staff See you guys at worlds love you and sorry once more ❤️
— ULTRA BEYOND MENTAL (@Flakked_LoL) September 11, 2022
“I’ve by no means performed in a giant enviornment earlier than, and I don’t suppose I used to be notably nervous. I really felt fairly comfy. And loads of the group was supporting us as nicely, however although I felt actually comfy we simply didn’t carry out as a staff.”
The comeback begins now
Instantly after the finals loss, coach Dylan Falco’s recreation plan for the staff’s Worlds bootcamp was clear.
“After we go to Worlds, it’s a totally new patch,” he defined. “We’ll time journey like three patches, and I do know Riot all the time prefer to tremendously change the meta forward of Worlds.”
“So our focus and energy now could be going to enter analysis for the brand new patch. After we come into our Worlds prep, we need to have an excellent thought of what we predict is perhaps sturdy, and what kind of draft patterns and meta we need to play.”
However that’s solely stage one of many course of. After these patterns and meta are established, it’s a prolonged strategy of iteration and practise to get the draft right down to a science.
