The head coach and head analyst are the most recent of those placed on buyout by G2 earlier in the off-season to find a home following Rekkles signing with Karmine Corp for the 2022 LFL season.
After missing the League of Legends World Championship for the first time in organizational history, G2 Esports has confirmed it is making sweeping changes to its League of Legends European Championship roster before the start of 2022.
Understanding why G2 Esports is changing rosters is easy. Understanding what needs to change, however, is incredibly complex.
This is the fourth time Rekkles has won the award, the most of any player in the history of competitive European League of Legends.
G2 will continue on to play its second match in the upper bracket against the winner of Rogue and MAD Lions, who will face off tomorrow.
C9 can’t just plug Perkz in place of Nisqy and expect to become a better team, and that’s even before accounting for Fudge’s LCS debut this coming spring. New head coach Kim “Reignover” Yeu-jin should help a semi-established roster start fresh, and the execution of the new C9 system being put into place will be crucial for the organization to get the mileage out of Perkz worth the price of admission.
Perkz and G2 Esports accomplished many things together, and finding a suitable replacement for the former franchise face is an unenviable task. However, there are a few options that stand out from other available players who are best suited to take Perkz’s place. Let’s take a look at a few of these potential options and evaluate the potential value and likelihood of G2 Esports signing one of these three players.
For the first time in three years, the South Korean region will be making it to Worlds finals.
The Inven Global team has each chosen their Pick'Ems of who they predict will win each match, and we have aggregated each to create an average placement prediction. Each writer has the Finals as TES vs DWG, but their route to that title match, and the title winner, look a bit different throughout. See the average placement here:
Mages are the second most common ranged class, can offer lots of flexibility in draft due to many being viable Mid Lane champions, and in dealing primarily magic damage, can allow for compositional flexibility should other roles want to draft heavily towards physical damage.
Riot Games has fined G2 Esports for 'commercial violation' in the amount of €1,000. The violation in question falls in the lap of Top Laner Martin "Wunder" Hansen, according to the LEC penalty tracker.
Five teams under the G2 brand will don special G2-Red Bull crossover jerseys in celebration of the partnership.
G2 Esports Jungler Marcin "Jankos" Jankowski joined Nick Geracie to discuss his role in G2, the unique attributes of G2's strengths, and of course, his favorite reason for coming to America — the food.
