After two days of thrilling motion on the Summoner’s Rift, G2 Esports stays the one undefeated Western workforce on the 2023 League of Legends World Championship—they usually have Sergen “BrokenBlade” Çelik to thank.
The EMEA first seed has taken down the LCK’s Dplus KIA and the LPL’s Weibo Gaming, however the latter might have led to catastrophe if not for the fast reactions of one in every of Europe’s greatest high laners.
In the course of the remaining teamfight of the match, WBG and G2 discovered themselves locked in a bloody battle close to the underside aspect of the map. Each groups had been battered and bruised after racking up virtually 50 kills in a 38-minute barnburner of a match, however had been decided to emerge from the smoke because the victor.
Whereas the frontline champions had been busy absorbing harm, WBG jungler Wei “Weiwei” Bo-Han was in a position to sneak up behind enemy traces for a straight shot at G2’s star AD carry Steven “Hans Sama” Liv. Because the jungler charged up and casted Vi’s Assault and Battery capacity, nonetheless, BrokenBlade managed to solid Yone’s final capacity simply in time to cease Weiwei from reaching his teammate, thus saving the sport.
If Weiwei was in a position to hit Hans Sama with Vi’s Q capacity, it could have given Li “Xiaohu” Yuan-Hao sufficient time to slip in as Azir and presumably deal a killing blow on the European carry. With out that constant harm, the teamfight would most certainly have shifted in favor of WBG, and presumably ended with a victory for the LPL consultant.
By falling again and peeling for his ADC, Damaged Blade saved the teamfight whereas giving Hans Sama sufficient time and house to gather a swift triple kill on the best way to victory. With this win, G2 earned themselves an opportunity to qualify for the knockout stage of Worlds, whereas WBG should battle for survival within the subsequent spherical.
Catch Damaged Blade and the remainder of G2 in motion once they tackle Gen.G tomorrow at 2am CT.
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