G2 Yike is the 2023 LEC Rookie of the Year!

G2 Yike was one of the excellent gamers of 2023, so the 2023 LEC Rookie of the 12 months award is nicely deserved!

The 2023 LEC season is nearing it’s finish with solely 4 groups remaining within the run for the LEC Season Finals title. These 4 groups, specifically G2 Esports, Fnatic, MAD Lions and Crew BDS may even be those to signify the EMEA area within the 2023 World Championship – with both BDS or Fnatic becoming a member of MAD and G2 Esports within the Important Occasion of Worlds, whereas the opposite should face LCS’s Golden Guardians earlier than they get a shot on the Worlds Play-Ins.

However there’s nonetheless some League of Legends available within the LEC and with the tip of the season, it’s time to offer out some prestigious awards. After every of the LEC splits, the All-Professional groups have been voted for by consultants and followers alike, with the whole lot of G2 Esports making up the No.1 All-Professional crew after Summer season. However it’s custom within the LEC to additionally choose a Rookie of the Cut up, in addition to the Teaching Workers of the Cut up – however because of the new format, the organizers pushed these two awards to the tip of the 12 months.

Whereas the very best Teaching Workers nonetheless hasn’t been introduced, the Rookie of the 12 months award has been handed out to the very best new participant of the cut up which is none aside from G2’s jungler, Martin “Yike” Sundelin!

G2 Yike – the very best rookie of 2023

The 22-year-old Yike joined G2 Esports on the finish of final 12 months to everybody’s shock. Whereas the younger jungler performed for groups such because the Morning Stars within the PG Nationals, Crew Oplon and LDLC OL within the LFL, he wasn’t a family identify within the ERL’s. Nevertheless, after successful the LFL Division 2 2021 Playoffs with Oplon, he obtained an opportunity to show himself with LDLC, and the Swede delivered: in 2022, Yike and his teammates – for instance SK Gaming gamers Thomas “Exakick” Foucou and Mads “Doss” Schwartz – gained each the Spring and Summer season LFL Playoffs, whereas making it into the Finals of the 2022 EMEA Masters Spring, and to the highest 4 of the Summer season EMEA Masters.

Although Yike didn’t win a world occasion whereas taking part in within the so-called second division of EMEA League of Legends, he did draw the eye of many LEC squads, together with G2 Esports, the place the midlaner, Rasmus “Caps” Borregaard Winther vouched for him (at the least in response to this 12 months’s Topfather video by G2).

Although some followers have been nervous that Yike gained’t reside as much as the crew and gained’t be capable to fill the void that Marcin “Jankos” Jankowski left behind, G2’s new jungler was all the pieces they hoped for. He may play just about something at a excessive degree, even showcasing excessive prowess with distinctive picks like Bel’Veth. Yike shortly rose to turn out to be the most effective junglers of the LEC, additionally successful his first ever LEC cut up.

Yike was by far the highest choose for Rookie of the 12 months, and the award feels nicely deserved. However now, he has an even bigger fish to fry: he and G2 must win the 2023 LEC Season Finals, then go on to turn out to be World Champions – can the Rookie of the 12 months assist his teammates understand their desires?