Night Vision is your nightly recap of the 2020 League of Legends World Championships.
Look below for Recaps, Takeaways, and my pick for which player had a Night to Remember.
Recaps
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Game 1: DWG win
G2 Renekton Lillia Sylas Lucian Rakan
DWG Gangplank Hecarim Twisted Fate Jhin Leona
Jankos ganking solo lanes; Ghost Beryl 2v2 kills Perkz Mikyx. G2 force bad crab fight; Canyon gets fed. DWG cleanly control game, hard punish G2’s hyperactive comeback playmaking attempts.
Game 2: G2 win
DWG Fiora Graves Sylas Ashe Sett
G2 Camille Kindred Twisted Fate Ezreal Leona
G2 win bot skirmish. Ghost still gets FT. G2 forcing, finding leads; ShowMaker pulling it back. G2 stack drakes. Caps leads chain of picks in mid, G2 Baron and soul and close.
Game 3: DWG win
G2 Sion Kindred Akali Jhin Pantheon
DWG Lulu Graves Syndra Ashe Leona
G2 nice FB dive bot, fail re-dive. ShowMaker repressing Caps. DWG punish Mikyx aggression, manage G2 flank attempts beautifully, win team fights, stack drakes, Baron to win.
Game 4: DWG win
DWG Sett Kindred Twisted Fate Caitlyn Braum
G2 Ornn Graves Sylas Senna Nautilus
ShowMaker solo kills Caps. Ghost BeryL crush 2v2. ShowMaker helps Nuguri dive Wunder. It’s actually completely over in early laning phase.
Takeaways
- When G2 struggled, it was because Damwon were able to receive, counter, and match G2’s playmaking. Mikyx and Caps were very active, and a large part of the games’s outcomes was decided by whether or not G2’s plays succeeded. We saw Mikyx’s plays failing in game 3, while Caps landed a lot of great plays in game 2, for example.
- In my opinion, G2’s mid-game creativity and approaches to contesting objectives, specifically in game 3, would have been enough to come back against a team like Top Esports or Suning, but Damwon are too controlled and intelligent. Their superior map play and decision-making denied G2 in very impressive ways.
- G2 were mostly attacked in the laning phase, with mistakes from Wunder and from Perkz and Mikyx costing them quite a bit, and with Caps unable to get out of his lane against ShowMaker the way he could against Bdd. That shouldn’t be too surprising: G2 entered today’s semifinal with 55.5 EGR at #Worlds2020, the 6th-best early game in the main event. DWG had 69.1 EGR, ranked 1st. In today’s series, DWG averaged 76.0 EGR (76% probability of winning at the 15:00 mark). So not only did DWG outperform their tournament average in the early game, but their mid-game was more than robust enough to resist G2’s comeback attempts.
Night to Remember
There are a ton of positive things worth saying about ShowMaker, but BeryL was the true hero of the series. His map activity, engages, and counterganks denied so much of what G2 wanted to accomplish, and that’s without saying anything about what he and Ghost did to Perkz and Mikyx in the lane.