★ Game Horseshoe Original
G2
Since European G2 entered the LEC in 2016, the highest moment in the team's history of the World Championship was in the S9 season in 2019. As the club with the largest number of championships in Europe, counting the LEC championship in the new format last year, there are a total of 14 titles. Their position in the civil war in Europe is clearly unmatched, and even the old rival Fnatic has long been left far behind them.
However, after S9 failed to win the World Championship that year and missed out on the Grand Slam, G2 began to decline. Especially in the last two years, the results of the World Championship can only be described as very bad. S12 was even eliminated from the group stage as a European hegemon with a ridiculous 1-5 bottom lineup, and last year blew a perfect lineup for the whole year, and the results were all rounds. So with G2 still dominating Europe this year, will the performance at Worlds be different?
G2 with the same lineup
G2's lineup this year is exactly the same as last year's, with no changes made during the transfer period. This is also what allowed G2 to dominate the Europa League since last spring, and they won 5 consecutive titles (2023 Winter Championship, 2023 Summer Championship, 2023 LEC Overall Championship, 2024 Winter Championship, 2024 Spring Championship), during which only last year's Spring Tournament performance was average. This G2 team is already synonymous with champions in Europe, and no other team can compete with it.
However, the funny thing is that this G2 after the return of HansSama and Mikyx looks invincible in the LEC, but when it comes to the World Championship, it becomes a toy in the China and South Korea division. Since the 2022 World Finals, they have participated in 3 Worlds, and as a result, they have only won 4 small games against the LCK and LPL combined. S13 defeated DK 1-0 and WBG 1-0, and lost 3 games in a row to go home
European comedian
While G2 are not as aggressive on social media as they used to be with the departures of Ah P and Ka Lao Si, there is no doubt that they are still proving themselves to be the best comedians in Europe. The 2022 World Finals was eliminated 1-5 in the group stage, the 2023 MSI lower bracket was eliminated by BLG, and the 2023 World Finals was finally eliminated by BLG after 3 consecutive defeats. Although considered the strongest team outside of China and South Korea, G2 has not made it to the semi-finals of the World Championship for a long time.
Will this year be different?
The G2 style of play has not changed much compared to the past, and the last obvious feature of this year's spring game is to raise HansSama in the lower lane by changing lanes, and likes to play Dravenjinx and Cannon, which are heroes who eat strong plating. However, with the weakening of Zach and Rexey, the MSI version can only use Shuangen to hard-change the line if it wants to play like this. Judging from the style of G2, they can really do it, after all, they have tasted the sweetness of changing lines. And if the opponent passively follows the line change, it will inevitably lose even more. In the face of Chinese and South Korean teams with stronger hard power than themselves, changing lines may become one of G2's important tactics this year.
It's just that China and South Korea must deal with the line change differently from the European team, and the overall strength of the team is also stronger, and it is not something that can be defeated by taking a small advantage. A team like BDS that is directly waiting to lose if it is changed and eats up the plating, at least MSI does not exist. The protagonist of MSI this year is still the showdown between LPL and LCK, and G2 is probably still stronger than other Europe and the United States, but that's all. A champion who does not have high-intensity competitiveness in his own competition will still accompany him in the world championship unless he is upset by black technology all the way to the end. S9 gave G2 a chance to change lanes that year, and this is also the most noteworthy point.
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