G2 Esports Preview – Worlds 2023

G2 Esports Preview is in regards to the workforce that might be the final hope for the West – let’s hope that’s not the case.

The Swiss Stage for the League of Legends World Championship is true across the nook! 16 groups will collect within the KBS Area in Seoul to determine which 8 of them can proceed to the Playoffs. Among the many gamers are legends, corresponding to Faker with T1, Deft with Dplus KIA, Ruler with JD Gaming or Caps with G2 Esports.

Followers of the LEC and all of the West is anticipating quite a bit from the latter workforce, as they’re considered the strongest squad exterior of the LPL and LCK groups. However can G2 Esports ship?

G2 Esports Preview

G2 Esports Workforce Historical past

G2 Esports joined European League of Legends again in 2015, the place they managed to qualify for the EU LCS via the PGL Legends of the Rift event. They made an enormous splash of their first season, as they received each the Spring and Summer season tournaments, and made it to five^th place within the 2016 Mid-Season Invitational. Despite the fact that they solely completed within the prime 16 throughout Worlds, they made it to the finals of the IEM Season 11 World Championship, getting beat by Flash Wolves within the finals.

They have been a prime contender within the European scene within the coming years, making it to the MSI Finals in 2017, the place they first met SKT Telecom T1, however did not beat them. They steadily improved within the subsequent years, however weren’t good: Fnatic defeated them within the 2018 Spring Playoffs, and within the Summer season Playoffs the identical yr, they couldn’t even make it to prime 5. A redemption arc was in retailer for the roster lead by Perkz within the midlane, as they managed to qualify for Worlds via the Regional Finals, and completed within the prime 4 that yr.

That was nonetheless not the highest of the mountain for them although. In 2019, G2 Esport signed Caps and Mikyx, and thus, the legendary roster of Wunder, Jankos, Caps, Perkz and Miky was born. That yr, G2 Esports received the Mid-Season Invitational, changing into the one Western workforce to ever accomplish that since LoL esports. In addition they broke one other file by making it to the Worlds Finals, one thing that Fnatic achieved within the first Worlds and a yr earlier than G2 Esports, in 2018.

G2 Esports solely had one unhealthy yr (in comparison with themselves) in 2021, once they couldn’t qualify for Worlds because the workforce couldn’t carry out nearly as good with Rekkles on board – but it surely wasn’t the Swedish ADC that dragged the workforce down, each member performed poorly.

Since then, they rebuilt the roster nearly fully, solely maintaining Caps and re-signing Mikyx from the legendary 5. This yr G2 Esports dominated the LEC, profitable the Winter and Summer season Splits, in addition to the Season Finals, and making it to the highest 6 of the Mid-Season Invitational. Can the Kings of Europe replicate their 2019 success, or will they falter earlier than the endgame?

G2 Esports Roster

• Sergen “BrokenBlade” Celik
• Martin “Yike” Sundelin
• Rasmus “Caps” Borregaard Winther
• Steven “Hans Sama” Liv
• Mihael “Mikyx” Mehle

G2 Esports Playstyle

G2 Esports is an extremely dominant workforce in nearly all stage of a match. They management their gold leads in most video games, as they misplaced lower than 20% of their video games within the Summer season LEC Break up and within the Season Finals, they usually had main gold deficits in nearer to 10% of their matches.

Their early video games are spent with preventing and profitable these fights, getting leads via skirmishes and goal bouts. They’re essentially the most skirmish heavy workforce at Worlds, they usually have an especially excessive Okay+D@14 with 10.2, which means that they might beat anybody domestically, however the extent they did is promising within the worldwide scene as effectively. All 5 of their gamers are very expert individually, so that they normally come out of the laning section with a lead even when they don’t get assist from others. BrokenBlade is essentially the most excellent on this regard, having 18 solo kills in Summer season despite the fact that the opponent’s jungler tends to focus him down. Caps can also be one other nice instance, who switched his laning type from a supportive midlaner to a carry one.

Later within the sport, G2 Esports tends to decelerate a bit in comparison with LEC groups, however by way of Worlds, they’re the most effective workforce in Main Lead, 2^nd in Kills/Sport and Kils/Minute, and three^rd in Main Deficit, as they don’t get behind that a lot. They’re additionally very quick, rating 5^th in quickest sport time on the earth, because of their early sport domination. In addition they focus Baron Nashor nearly as quickly because it spawns to increase their leads and shut out video games whereas they’re stronger than their opponents.

Despite the fact that they combat quite a bit within the early sport and have an important KDA, they don’t do effectively by way of harm – exterior of Hans sama, who stands out from the workforce with dealing the two^nd most harm/minute within the LEC Summer season and Season Finals. That’s not as a result of they don’t harass their opponents or lack the buying and selling expertise, its as a result of all of them do it so effectively that none of them stands out on this regard.

G2 Esports can also be a really artistic workforce, arising with counters to large issues within the meta. The most effective instance is BB’s Kled which is commonly picked in opposition to Renekton. Hans sama’s Kog’Maw paired with Mikyx’s Braum can also be one other good instance which transforms G2 Esports from an early sport workforce to a late sport one.

G2 Esports has quite a lot of methods up their sleeves and play a really clear and targeted sport on Summoner’s Rift. Despite the fact that they’d their downs in the previous couple of years, they might make historical past this yr by making it to the top 4 even – or even the finals, in the event that they managed to step their sport up sufficient to compete with the Chinese language and Korean groups.