G2\u2019s LEC finals loss to Rogue won\u2019t slow them down as they prepare for Worlds 2022 Kirill Bashkirov\/Riot GamesIn an unprecedented 0-3 defeat, G2 Esports were denied their tenth LEC title by first-time champions Rogue \u2014 but they\u2019re looking for redemption at the 2022 World Championship. In one of the biggest upsets in competitive League of Legends this year, G2 Esports have lost 3-0 in the LEC finals to Rogue. With LEC analyst predictions going in the favor of G2 Esports, the crowd at the Malm\u00f6 arena felt fully on their side. But the tides quickly turned as Rogue took hold of the series and never let go, leaving G2 in the dust with a 3-0 and dealing mid laner Rasmus \u2018caPs\u2019 Winther his first-ever finals loss. In the post-game press conference, G2\u2019s post-loss despondency was tempered by a look ahead to Worlds 2022, where they\u2019ll attend as the LEC\u2019s second seed and qualify straight into the group stage. Disappointment for rookies and veterans alike G2\u2019s roster is the perfect mix of rookie talent and veteran level-headedness. But loss stings just as badly no matter how long you\u2019ve been playing. Mid laner caPs took his first-ever finals loss hard, explaining that \u201cit feels weird that we have to play so soon after a bad performance\u201d. \u201cI just feel a bit out of place, I guess. And I\u2019m just hoping that a few days of resetting will help, and that we can get back to the grind and figure out what to do show up at Worlds and be back to our usual selves.\u201d Rookie AD Carry Viktor \u2018Flakked\u2019 Lirola also took the loss hard \u2014 but despite the 3-0, the \u201chype\u201d of the arena and the G2 fan chants wasn\u2019t lost on him. \u201cI\u2019ve never played in a big arena before, and I don\u2019t think I was particularly nervous. I actually felt pretty comfortable. And a lot of the crowd was supporting us as well, but even though I felt really comfortable we just didn\u2019t perform as a team.\u201d The comeback begins now Immediately after the finals loss, coach Dylan Falco\u2019s game plan for the team\u2019s Worlds bootcamp was clear. \u201cWhen we go to Worlds, it\u2019s a completely new patch,\u201d he explained. \u201cWe\u2019ll time travel like three patches, and I know Riot always like to greatly change the meta ahead of Worlds.\u201d \u201cSo our focus and effort now is going to go into research for the new patch. When we come into our Worlds prep, we want to have a very good idea of what we think might be strong, and what sort of draft patterns and meta we want to play.\u201d But that\u2019s only stage one of the process. After those patterns and meta are established, it\u2019s a lengthy process of iteration and practise to get the draft down to a science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
G2\u2019s LEC finals loss to Rogue won\u2019t slow them down as they prepare for Worlds 2022 Kirill Bashkirov\/Riot GamesIn an unprecedented 0-3 defeat, G2 Esports were denied their tenth LEC title by first-time champions Rogue \u2014 but they\u2019re looking for redemption at the 2022 World Championship. In one of the biggest upsets in competitive League […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}