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“So I’ve been thinking again…
In pursuit of credit, many G2 fans are doing a disservice to their own team.
I don’t say this lightly — as chiming in on this issue is RATHER EXPLOSIVE at the moment. I’ll also say that there are A LOT of voices chiming in here. This also makes it even more difficult to have the discussion, as many people are arguing about different things. So here, I’ll do my best to describe the sentiment I disagree with, before saying why I disagree.
There is one comment that I think encapsulates what I want to talk about. Here it is: “I remember a few years ago when SKT were the unquestionable number one people praised them how they sometimes get behind early but always manage to climb back through superior map play. Somehow when G2 do it now, they’re criticized for it”
Sometimes I wonder if I’m watching the same games as others. I considered the G2 vs. SKT series as a very tense, competitive series. It even had some HISTORIC stats come out of it. G2 won with 1 baron to SKT’s 6.
There has never been a series where the winning team only had a Major lead or “M-Lead” (>51.5% of the games total gold) for 2.3% of the series! For context, SKT had an M-Lead for 17.8% of the series.
For more context, FNC had a M-lead in 4.4% of their demolition vs. iG in last years finals. (iG had a 59.8% M-lead)
By refusing to acknowledge that G2 didn’t play perfectly, that they would actually have preferred to have 6 barons to SKT’s 1, or that it wasn’t part of some master plan to be down in gold all 4 games, people are taking away from what has made G2 great.
G2 just won a series that NO OTHER TEAM IN THE WORLD COULD WIN. No other team could only take 1 baron and still win, because G2 is un-tiltable and they have insane map/game knowledge.
Take any other team in the World, and give them a 2.3% M-LEAD for a series, and they sure as hell aren’t winning it.
I think what I’m trying to say — is making these points isn’t me trying to take credit AWAY from G2. It’s trying to tell an accurate story of what they did well. To deny the situation they were in, takes away from how incredible their series actually was.”
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