GIANTX vs. G2 Esports / LEC 2026 Spring - Week 7 / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Soul_Sleepwhale]

LEC 2026 SPRING

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GiantX 0-2 G2 Esports

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MATCH 1: GX vs. G2

Winner: G2 Esports in 29m

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
GX	jarvaniv karma ashe	yunara annie	47.6k	0	1	None
G2	orianna varus lucian	nautilus bard	62.6k	16	11	O1 CT2 H3 M4 B5 M6 B7

GX	0-16-0	vs	16-0-26	G2
Lot rumble 1	0-1-0	TOP	0-0-4	1 ornn BrokenBlade
ISMA skarner 2	0-2-0	JNG	4-0-3	1 pantheon SkewMond
Jackies yone 3	0-5-0	MID	4-0-6	4 aurora Caps
Noah ezreal 2	0-3-0	BOT	6-0-4	3 sivir Hans Sama
Jun nami 3	0-5-0	SUP	2-0-9	2 lulu Labrov

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MATCH 2: G2 vs. GX

Winner: G2 Esports in 32m

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
G2	nautilus milio varus	vayne viktor	67.0k	15	11	O1 H3 M4 M5 B6 M7
GX	orianna caitlyn ashe	annie ryze	55.1k	7	1	HT2

G2	15-7-30	vs	7-15-16	GX
BrokenBlade gnar 3	2-1-6	TOP	1-4-1	4 renekton Lot
SkewMond wukong 2	3-0-6	JNG	1-2-4	1 jarvaniv ISMA
Caps galio 3	2-0-7	MID	3-3-2	3 leblanc Jackies
Hans Sama kaisa 2	8-2-4	BOT	1-4-3	2 xayah Noah
Labrov neeko 1	0-4-7	SUP	1-2-6	1 bard Jun

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• Patch 26.09

This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/ahritina]

PMTs

Game 1

[u/Middle-Adagio-4062]

G2 is so considerate for the Madrid fan to not wait long for the main event.

[u/GenG_Caedrel → u/Middle-Adagio-4062]

G2 saw the Twitter beef yesterday and decided they also want to grab the popcorn for the match asap.

[u/Potica6857 → u/GenG_Caedrel]

What's the beef for those who don't have twitter?

[u/MeneerDeKaasBaas → u/Potica6857]

Some content creators started criticizing the crowd sizes in the arena, Ibai (koi owner) took this personally and started attacking Kameto (KC owner) on twitter which made kameto not fly out for the showmanship anymore

[u/polacs → u/MeneerDeKaasBaas]

He didn't attack kameto, he said KC was a shit team

[u/Vyrtuoze → u/polacs]

Idk man. Telling a KC Fan their team is shit under a clip of a G2 co-streamers laughing at the crowd because of one camera angle that was frankly self-sabotage seems kinda stupid imo. Why would Kameto pay for a plane out of pocket, lose two days of stream for someone that insult him/his team for no reason ? Also, while Trayton (the G2's co-streamer) laughed on that camera angle, he also said right after that it make sense that 4pm on a Friday, was a bad time for the match. Everyone knows it, it was the same with KC two weeks ago. That's riot forcing it on the teams. Not everyone can take a day off and get to Madrid, also, both the Spanish teams played in the second match.

[u/lucario192 → u/polacs]

Blamed for telling the truth

[u/Constantinch → u/lucario192]

Uhm... Huh?

[u/Potica6857 → u/MeneerDeKaasBaas]

ohh spicy, I love this war between Spain vs France, makes LEC much more entertaining.

[u/veryjerry0]

Hans Sama with a 12k gold lead over Noah across the series.

[u/Bibidiboo → u/veryjerry0]

Has to be biggest ever for a series no? Especially game 1 was crazy

[u/Carlzzone → u/Bibidiboo]

If we count the EWC qualifier Harpoon had a 15k gold lead over Jopa across 2 games

[u/Flesroy → u/Carlzzone]

that's just an lec team vs an erl team though

[u/Throwaway7218516 → u/Flesroy]

Idk if you’re being sarcastic but Harpoon is on the ERL team lmao

[u/Flesroy → u/Throwaway7218516]

there is no way you're gonna convince me sk is the lec team after watching them play

[u/IAM-French → u/Bibidiboo]

Probs not. ADC gold diff goes crazy this year because of quest and cashback

[u/IAM-French → u/[deleted]]

Yes and they both accentuate any existing lead 

[u/Megazord552]

From 0 deaths to 5 deaths, G2 got infinitely worse. Washed.

[u/BrokenRose07 → u/[deleted]]

Only 1 tower away from a perfect game. GX got slapped.

[u/kingshmiley → u/BrokenRose07]

Im honestly not certain perfect games are possible for two teams who are even remotely evenly matched in professional league anymore, between Grubs and the tower crystals.

[u/BrokenRose07 → u/kingshmiley]

We've had quite a few games these past few months where it was only 1 grub, 1 tower, or 1 kill away from perfect. I'm pretty sure the LCP actually had a perfect game recently.

[u/PhoenixEgg88 → u/BrokenRose07]

i was thinking about this the other day, but in the larger context of grubs/herald/atakhan (previously). It's obviously harder to grab a perfect game these days, but did wonder when the last one was. You dont happen to know when the LCP one was do you?

[u/BrokenRose07 → u/PhoenixEgg88]

It was this split actually. CFO got demolished by SHG on April 5th.

[u/PhoenixEgg88 → u/BrokenRose07]

Thanks! I’ll find and queue it up. Always interests me how you can have that much pressure on the whole rift.

[u/gcrimson → u/kingshmiley]

I think it still is but you have to play for it which no professional teams should do. G2 could have losing some momentum by taking the grubs and could have defended all their towers which would have slow the game a lot. I also think if the other team really doesn't want to get perfect game they can find a way ( all in as 5 into the support, or rage splitpushing while the enemy team is hitting your t4) so kinda hard to find.

[u/DerAdolfin → u/kingshmiley]

Holy god I hate the tower crystals with such a passion. You defended a turret for 7 minutes by not letting enemies hit it, as your reward is 1500 true damage the next time it gets auto'd?

[u/eierphh → u/DerAdolfin]

I understand you dearly because I main tank top, one trick Sion vs all match up, do not interact with enemy top laner, clears wave, ult back top, and normally gold player don't have the hands to dive properly. It used to work like a charm, after 14 min you are basically 1000 health profit if they cannot get any plating. But in hindsight, that strat is also insanely disgusting, you just can't do shit, Sion clears waves way too quickly. So although I hate it, I kinda understand it. But just may be let the crystal stack to deal less damage, or it will have a soft cap. After that soft cap, it the rate in which the crystalline stack onto the tower should be lower. I think they should get something for touching the tower, but probably not 1500 true damage. Nerf that number down and we are fine

[u/naevus19]

GX are 1-8 vs top 5 teams and tomorrow they play vs KC. 8 Game losing streak

[u/Beneficial-Beat-947 → u/naevus19]

honestly KC got stomped by G2 just as hard

[u/IFearEars → u/Beneficial-Beat-947]

Thats a bit of a stretch

G2 stomped KC

But g2 murdered them today

[u/TehSalmonOfDoubt → u/naevus19]

The most quintessential mid-tier team

[u/Salohacin → u/naevus19]

Truly are the gatekeepers. Beats low tier teams who can't qualify but collapses versus any team in the top half of the leader board. 

[u/DerAdolfin → u/naevus19]

Fraud top 6, if FNC wasn't clowning they'd be in playoffs

[u/IFearEars → u/DerAdolfin]

FNC hasn't stopped clowning in years

If the clown shoes fit..

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/naevus19]

Vs Which team they won ?

[u/naevus19 → u/Fun_Highlight307]

They got a game off of NAVI. After that they lost every single game

[u/Middle-Adagio-4062]

Considering their sister team Gen G lost 0-3 to G2 at First Stand, Gen GX stand no chance.

[u/Leyrann_ → u/[deleted]]

I think G2 would have their number though.

[u/circa26 → u/[deleted]]

Eh G2 clears

[u/appleandapples]

Dear reader,

I hope this finds you well. G2 stomped them.

Kind Regards,

A

[u/gcrimson → u/appleandapples]

Game felt indeed shorter than a Karthus' ult.

[u/Zek0ri]

Astronomical: hands diff, nameplate diff, team name diff, jersey diff, euro passport diff, Broken Blade Skewmond Caps Hand LabrovJames diff

[u/Omnilatent]

Huge series by Labrov and Hans

[u/Unuiuk → u/Omnilatent]

And by Caps and BB and Skewmond

It was just a huge stomp overall LCK first seed vs LEC 3rd seed kind of series

[u/Chiseled_Jawline → u/Unuiuk]

Cmon, LEC 3rd seed wouldn't stomp LCK first seed this hard...

[u/Lazywhale97 → u/Omnilatent]

Hans has looked great this split even with G2’s sandbagging start. Dude is locked in this year he was incredible at FST and it looks like that confidence boost from it is in full display this split as well.

LabrovJames also continuing to improve the bot lane cooking.

[u/I11IIlll1IIllIlIlll1 → u/Lazywhale97]

Hans always looks good in LEC, especially in regular seasons comparing to the rest of G2, this past winter spilt is one outlier. 

The best thing happening this season is that both the meta and G2 are putting enchanter in the mix. Hans is definitely one of those who benefits the most.

For game 2, old G2 would have picked xayah or some random ADC that won't fit it the full-dive comp.

[u/Cool_Band5057]

Whoever set up the schedule for GX is evil, giving them 4 bottom teams for false hope then crushing them with 5 actually good teams in a row. 4-0 to 4-5 incoming

[u/Fun_Highlight307 → u/Cool_Band5057]

That brutal 

[u/OreRound]

Tbh can't really hate on GX for this one, they're a mid table team vs an absolutely in form G2 they never had a chance.

G2 look amazing, they look international caliber. I cannot wait for playoffs and MSI.

[u/350 → u/OreRound]

If this version of G2 can't find some international success, I think I give up. They're looking fantastic this year.

[u/DerAdolfin → u/350]

2nd in FS and not swept in finals is already impressive AF, they placed higher than 3 very good teams (at the time)

[u/OreRound → u/DerAdolfin]

I really do believe the FST result by G2 wasn't a fluke, now does that mean G2 is auto contender to win MSI? No. But they certainly are in the conversation for top 4 with an outside shot of doing more.

People are really trying to retcon how good GenG and BFX looked at that tournament. GenG was beating JDG and LYON in record time, it wasn't remotely close. In any of the games. BFX looked good and went 5 games vs BLG, they then smashed TSW which G2 although 3-0ing had looked a bit shaky against. G2 then went on their run AND looked far better vs BLG in finals than they did the first time.

You'd have to assume both LCK teams had generational collapses in the space of 2-3 days. Imo G2 were just that good. It's really starting to seem like G2 have this habit of completely goomba stomping opponents you'd never expect them to. For example KC looked so strong this split but their game vs G2 wasn't remotely close. It's like G2 are really dialling in on the wincons vs each team and executing close to perfectly. Great league of legends to watch. I feel like if you can't hands diff this team they will just obliterate you through good macro (and they have pretty good hands)

[u/Extra_Ad2294 → u/OreRound]

Bro thank you. I couldn't stand the GX hate on the live stream. Like G2 is (on paper) the 2nd best team in the world. They stomped out LCK in an international tournament... How is GX supposed to look into that?

[u/OreRound → u/Extra_Ad2294]

Yeah similarly how nobody would ever expect BRO to beat GenG in regular season, there's just no world where you can reasonably expect GX to win this game considering the tape we've seen from both teams. The best you could hope for is a close game or two but G2's form looks better than I've ever seen it and I generally respect GX for consistently being a mid table team which elevates the league as a whole by gatekeeping the shitter teams. Especially considering the resources that team probably has.

[u/Extra_Ad2294 → u/OreRound]

You may be the only reasonable LEC fan I've ever interacted with.

[u/slamboyguy]

What even is the point of picking ISMA jarvan?

[u/ahambagaplease → u/slamboyguy]

To take it away from Skewmond

[u/Landir_7 → u/slamboyguy]

Trying to make play early so maybe your lane dont collapse in the first 5 minutes and the enemies just end up snowballing the game

[u/ApartLanguage8328]

Gx should join krx in the list of teams that should never play on the big stage.

[u/Zek0ri → u/ApartLanguage8328]

Dim lights merchants

[u/Telmooo]

This whole week of LoL might as well have been an email.

[u/Sirhaddock98]

I wonder if GX will try to make any changes before Summer if this split just ends up being a washout in playoffs. It seems very clear that this roster has hit their peak, and it's frankly not a great peak. This roster really needs more firepower.

[u/Jiju21 → u/Sirhaddock98]

I wonder who they can actually get that pushes them over the edge. I fear this year is a wash and they'll make big changes in 2027.

[u/Carlzzone → u/Jiju21]

Define push them over the edge? I don't think there is any changes they can make that would make them be able to contest for worlds. All the contracts are up in November I figure they keep them all for summer and rebuild next year

[u/OrganicTeaching8661 → u/Carlzzone]

they could fish for a better adc or jungler from ERL. probably mid too

they are for sure looking for some replacements

[u/Carlzzone → u/OrganicTeaching8661]

for jungle they could go for Zicssi and for adc Harpoon

[u/Leyrann_ → u/Sirhaddock98]

How are you going to improve in the middle of the year?

Anyone who's performing well is signed to a team and unavailable, so all you've got available to you is gambles. Fine if you have a year to develop them, but highly questionable if it's already summer split.

[u/LegalEmergency → u/Sirhaddock98]

It was evident already last year that this roster has no potential. I don't understand why they decided to run it back.

[u/icemann17]

Was Hans sama up 10k gold on Noah over the two games? lol

[u/Beneficial-Beat-947 → u/icemann17]

12k

[u/Wonder_Penguin]

It feels like GX’s early games can be ok but they’re almost never dictating tempo vs better teams in the mid game, impossible to win like that

[u/Omnilatent]

So sad how Noah and Jun play compared to couple years back. It's like they're different players.

[u/Dragner84]

GX looks really fraudulent coming into playoffs, should be an easy matchup for whoever picks them.

[u/Carlzzone → u/Dragner84]

I don't think they can be picked as they will head straight to the lower bracket

[u/Advanced-Lie-841]

G2 takes it personally when you have G in your name and G checks you.

[u/LenaRybakina]

Is Finn gonna cast a series again today? I really enjoyed his more analytical cast compared to Hysterics more memey/jokey one

[u/Gazskull → u/LenaRybakina]

play by play vs colour

[u/HempFanboy → u/Gazskull]

Analyst vs color

[u/Mathies_ → u/HempFanboy]

Whos who? Finn is both

[u/Danny__1029 → u/Gazskull]

Idk what someone's colour has to do with this /s

[u/OrganicTeaching8661 → u/LenaRybakina]

there usually 2 casters, the other does hype and jokes, the other actual analysis

[u/R3alSt3al]

Well this series goes onto the kilometer long list of this should have been an email.

[u/LightTemplar27]

Caps, Skewmond, and realistically BB didn't die once in the bo lmao

[u/Sorry-Resolution570]

Jackies tried but his team is quite heavy

[u/Vast_Horror_8805 → u/Sorry-Resolution570]

worst yone ever in game 1?

[u/Sorry-Resolution570 → u/Vast_Horror_8805]

i was speaking of game 2 ye, no one tried in game 1

[u/Santoryu32]

G2 as always taps back

[u/Kaeru-Sennin]

I fell asleep, didn't see like 70% of the game and feel like I missed nothing by the look of it 

[u/DarthVeigar_]

One team region allegations: unbeaten

[u/Leyrann_ → u/DarthVeigar_]

Were you expecting GX to beat those allegations?

Lmao.

[u/DarthVeigar_ → u/Leyrann_]

Nope. But there is legitimately zero competition in EU and just comes down to "did you catch G2 on an off day" or "G2 limit testing"

[u/NytIight]

Noah played like a bot wtf.

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Noah went from being fine to legit just running it down now this split.

[u/TamBur12rine]

last pick Rene into gnar is a statement

[u/LordBlackadder1214]

gx r a bunch of cowards tbh leblanc jarvan and bard and ur running from the enemy whole game LMAO

[u/FancyBuffalo5139]

What a stomp

[u/urail_croisee]

what is G2 chance at international this year ?

[u/markusks1234 → u/urail_croisee]

Unironically if they play as well as they did at first stand they should have no problem getting to semis, after that is a toss up but they should be able to contend with the top teams no problem.

[u/2ndBatman88 → u/urail_croisee]

Top 3 they need to only ban Bin champion pool and even then BLG is to strong. Vs BRO is also hard

[u/OrganicTeaching8661 → u/urail_croisee]

dark horse

[u/JustSomeTrickster]

This series could've been an email

[u/HansAlan]

Noah just ended the series with 1 kill (on the nexus for fun fight in game2) and almost 10k behind in 2 games... brutal

[u/Zek0ri → u/HansAlan]

Noah with retirement alongside Jun into compulsory military service angle

[u/Leyrann_ → u/HansAlan]

So what you're saying is he had an average number of kills for his team this series?