FNC vs. G2 | Final Game 1 | EU LCS Spring Split | G2 Esports vs. Fnatic (2018)

VoD of G2 Esports vs. Fnatic (Game 1)
EU LCS Spring Finals #EULCS

Full Line up:
G2 Esports Line up:
• Wunder – Top Cho’Gath
• Jankos – Jungle Zac
• Perkz – Mid Ryze
• Hjarnan – ADC Jinx
• Wadid – Support Tahm Kench

Fnatic Line up:
• Bwipo – Top Sion
• Broxah – Jungle Sejuani
• Caps – Mid Karma
• Rekkles – ADC Tristana
• Hylissang – Support Braum

[fenchel]

can anyone tell me the name of the pick and ban background music/theme?

[dilloppy]

So that last kill against Jinx for the penta, she throws out her chompers as rekkles is midair with trists w, and it looks like he went right through them without getting rooted... or did her chompers set like right after he passed them? Idk weirded me out.

[PZi]

What is The name of The music with play when fnc is entering The arena

[MasterGaming-vthd]

Can you bring skt t1 back i really in joy that video

[alexs.]

so yamato in semis you banned 5 adcs against rekkles... forced him on ez and could plan a lane and gameplay to win oh wait ban swain... rigjt you forgot to do that... you cant ban out rekkles or caps so dont focus them

[jamesglover]

Props to Hylissang for the helping taking out the adc on second fight. Not one mention on how he block so much damage and slowed him! Support for life!

[ArthurOfThePond]

Hearing Deman in the start there really made me nostalgic

[jareddepew]

LOL that Karma shield is balanced riot. GJ!

[oskari]

I would love to play in one of these but I live in finland...
if a tournament like this comes close to finland tell me :)

[billkat]

At the end of the game after the penta kill, the cameraman thought Caps was the Reckkles they were talking about. He was focused on him instead of reckkes lol

[aisutsurx]

Look at the minimap, look at the minimap, look at the minimap, look at the minimap, look at the minimap, look at the minimap, look at the minimap...

[MrBlutknecht]

since a lot of people are just saying loco is super bias without giving actually any argument, i wanna add a bit of constructive counter arguments.

First of the comparission of Doublelift vs Rekkles.
I personally really dislike comparing them, because i think they have really different strength and therefore it's really depending on the game and composition to decide who is actually the better player. I think Rekkles laningphase overall is pretty mediocre. He is decent, but not outstanding, even in EU there are ADC who are better in the laning phase (of course laning isn't just adc depending), while Doublelift ist quite clearly extremely lane dominant. Teamfight wise they are i guess somewhat equal, but Rekkles imho is much better than doublelift when it comes to wave manipulation, rotating arounde the map, using space the team creates. Like Doublelift actually is really bad at that, as you can see in several games, where he pushes out on the wrong minion waves. When it comes to lane swaps/routations i'd give the edge to Rekkles as well. So deciding who the better player is, is really depending on the style and strategy you wanna execute on.

TSM Top lane.
I think hauntzer has been through out 2016 and 2017 the biggest liabilty for tsm., Hauntzer is mechanicly strong, but outside of laning phase he looks really lost. He seems to be really bad at wave management as well, one of the main reasons imho he looks so underwhelming on splitpushing champions. But that becomes a big problem because stylisticly hauntzer is more of a carry top laner, than a tank top laner lke impact. I actually think the 2016 TSM lineup with someone like SSumday or Impact would have been extremely strong. I don't think Hauntzer is particulary strong on Tank champions either, yeah he does good in lane, but that's not really where tank players shine, but rather in map rotations and teamfights. I think he is decent in teamfights, but never really understood why people hype him up so much when he hit some good gnar ult (i mean let's be honest, you see people hit 4-5men ults in bronze, of course it's a clutch play, but i don't think hitting these kind of ults is something that necessarily defines you as a great player.(if you don't have the basics)

Macro.

While i do think that Western teams usually are quite bad at macro, i think europe usually knows way better how to play towards their win condition. As you can also see this year from G2 for example or last year when MSF had a clear plan they wanted to execute on. For me that is a general problem with TSM (and also now TL) that they don't seem to actually know what their win condition is or at least don't execute on it. Like you see it so often, that they have a better scaling comp, or like a comp that wants to splitpush (looking at you ryze), but rather than executing on some splitpush comp they fight early over relative meaningless objectives, not really playing into what they want. TL fighting a dragon early/mide game, when they have a comp that is heavily outscaling the opponent. Similar to TSM. Not sure why that actually is, if it''s the narrative that you have to actually be proactive or else reddit is going to blame you. Now when i see doublelift in interviews i think it's quite funny when he says from the kt game compared to the edg game, that they played better, more proactive etc. when they had a much weaker early/midgame comp in the edg game and actually being "proactive" taking early teamfights was completely wrong.
I think TSM in 2016 was really similar to that and it's usually overall a problem for na teams. I actually think one of the reasons c9 usually outperforms other na teams at worlds (even though tsm or tl this year had and have arguably better players) is that they actually are more aware of their teams strength and weaknesses and know their win condition better.

So I think if you go player by player and look at their individual strenght (mechanics) you can make a strong argument for TSM 2016, but if you take into consideration their understanding of the game, wave management macro, i think TSM 2016 does worse than both, FNC 2015 and FNC 2018 and therefore aren't the better team.

having a good read on teamifights and good teamfight executing/setup, =/= good macro.

[thisislife]

some times escapes are even more exiting then a pentakill

[pinnnkyton]

Wow, the delivery of “I’d like to ask ocelote to return it” was so butchered . Completely ruined the majesty of the moment and of the finals ceremony importance ....Riot need to hire me for a caster