Yesterday, G2 Esports suffered a shocking defeat towards Los Ratones at LEC Versus, which turned out to be the most-viewed match of the season to date.
The sport between the European powerhouse and the tier-two celebrity staff peaked at over 500,000 concurrent viewers throughout platforms, in line with Esports Charts. G2 struggled all through the sport, and whereas the loss raised eyebrows amongst followers, the staff’s mid laner was not totally shocked by the result.
In an interview with Esports Insider forward of his match towards Los Ratones, Rasmus ‘Caps’ Borregaard Winther revealed that G2 is “struggling a bit” this season.
Points have been on show through the recreation as G2 failed to seek out its footing and repeatedly misplaced key teamfights. A collection of errors allowed Los Ratones to take management of the Rift, slowly constructing a lead that G2 couldn’t recuperate from.
Nevertheless, the one loss in LEC Versus doesn’t inform the complete story, because the best-of-one format itself has been criticised by gamers, together with Caps.
“It’s at all times a bit risky,” mentioned the mid laner, explaining that shorter codecs can shortly punish even small errors. He added that G2 normally feels extra comfy in longer collection, the place the staff can afford to make “a mistake or two,” one thing the LEC Versus format doesn’t permit—for now.
G2 Struggling on the Starting of the Season
For LEC followers, it isn’t uncommon to see G2 Esports battle at first of a season. As such, long-time viewers know higher than to underestimate the staff within the later phases. Nevertheless, it’s simple that, even with the identical roster as final yr, G2 will not be totally coming collectively proper now within the competitors.
“I nonetheless really feel like we’re a robust staff,” Caps mentioned. “However we’re simply having a little bit of some unlucky video games on stage.”
Whereas G2 has at occasions managed to stabilise and discover its method again into matches, early recreation errors and execution points have made that course of more durable than anticipated.
In line with the mid laner, G2’s rocky begin to the season is normally attributed to the gameplay modifications requiring gamers to “unlearn” and “re-learn” some methods.
He defined: “I feel it’s simply that yearly the sport modifications fairly a bit. So we form of should re-learn some stuff, un-learn some stuff and simply get good habits about how we wish to play the sport collectively.
“I feel we’re an excellent staff at realizing tips on how to enhance and determining issues collectively, however we don’t at all times are available in with the very best degree from the beginning.”
ERL Groups within the LEC
Since franchising, the LEC has not included ERL groups instantly in its competitors, making LEC Versus a singular experiment—or so it’s thought. In line with G2’s mid laner, whereas the LEC Versus format brings in new faces, the thought of having ERL expertise coming into the highest degree is nothing new.
“Not essentially ERL groups, however plenty of your gamers joined the LEC all through the years. And generally we have now groups which are virtually totally made from ERL gamers,” Caps mentioned.
He additionally identified that the league has at all times been evolving, with new gamers and groups becoming a member of often, and so the inclusion of ERL squads in LEC Versus looks like a continuation of that development reasonably than a sudden change.
Is Scrimming Essential?
After its first week within the LEC Versus, Los Ratones beforehand complained that few-to-no LEC groups needed to scrim towards the facet. That state of affairs seems to have modified following Los Ratones’ enhancements in week two, with G2 scrimming towards it earlier than the match, as confirmed by Caps.
With out mentioning particulars of the off-stage video games, the G2 mid laner defined that scrim outcomes are sometimes deceptive. Groups experiment, have dangerous days, or just don’t take scrims as severely as stage video games.
“By way of degree, it’s at all times exhausting to evaluate as a result of some individuals simply have … they’ve dangerous days, or some groups additionally simply do so much worse than scrims,” highlighted the participant.
Perhaps they’re not taking it severely, or perhaps they’re simply testing one thing or taking part in some champions that we go on. There’s one million completely different causes, nevertheless it undoubtedly doesn’t translate on to stage.”
Nonetheless, he emphasised that scrims stay essential for studying ideas, constructing habits, and getting on the identical web page as a staff, even when wins in apply don’t instantly translate to on-stage success in LEC Versus.
“Nevertheless it’s simply the results of successful some video games, it doesn’t imply, ‘oh, now you’re one of the best staff on this planet.’ It doesn’t work precisely like this,” Caps concluded.
As LEC Versus continues, G2 can have little time to dwell on its loss to Los Ratones, as it’s set to face Staff Vitality later at this time. Followers can watch the sport on LoL Esports official web site or on Twitch and YouTube through the LEC official channels
