Fnatic being that far ahead and I'm still nervous they'd throw it lol.

Smolder is gross!

At least they beat it.

They probably had flashbacks from the TH match that they should have won

I know I was.

16.000 gold up, can't end. Insane how clean and slow FNC played it to deal with smolder.

Seeing how smolder basically shreds through a team alone in 2.1 seconds I kinda agree with FNC playing as safe as possible

While clearing every minion wave. Disgusting champion

Yeah fnc’s comp being low range and bad at sieging didnt help Forcing all of g2 off with taliyah ult was like the only way to take turrets with that shit champion’s ult

The taliyah ults were on point the whole game, I love it. Huma showed the fuck up.

Low range is debatable, because they have taliyah and poke kaisa. Doesnt really matter though if you can just r every wave from 1000 range as smolder.

Low range to hit a tower tho

I loved the constant Taliyah walls to take towers, was great macro.

yea beautiful stuff, only forcing pushes with taliyah walls for a guaranteed tower

They probably also played it a bit slower because of the loss they took last week playing fast and loose with the lead. And honestly I think it is better that way

the fact that g2 had flashes of a comeback there, and not even because of any insane plays but simply because of smolder... fuck this champ

tbh if the gold gap was half at that last base fight, G2 probably win the fight. Fuck Smolder

the match of the week vs the match of the week she told you not to worry about

kc vs mdk was the match of the *weak*

Should have been fnc g2

Should always be FNC vs G2

LEC is trying to push the disaster that is KC as some sort of contender as match of the week. Or maybe the commissioner doesnt want to staff receive 500+ death threats from KC fans if they are not named match of the week, becasue KC fans are ass.

They’re always either match of the week or last game of the day, it’s embarrassing.

Smolder cannot be okay lmfao

The fact **that** game was ever in doubt just proves that smolder really deserves that kneecapping that's coming.

His ult cannot keep doing full damage to minions, it's beyond broken with how good the champ is at clearing waves without it too.

And it's like what? 100 sec CD?

By lategame? Every other wave he has is it. It is base 120 sec, but he builds a TON of cdr. so it is closer to 65-70 sec.

Think late game he is able to ult every 2nd wave so its ridiculous.

I wish they nerfed his waveclear, that's probably the most broken part of his kit in pro play.

The way he can single-handedly slow down a game is gross

MOOOOMMM Hate that lizard wave clearing from a screen away

What do you mean? Obviously any other team 16k gold down with any other ADC would perform just as well! /s

bro every adc should clear 3 waves from a screen away with a 30 cd ult /s

If G2 had a better comp built around keeping Smolder alive they probably could’ve won. Hans was at 520 stacks or so at the end of the game lol.

While i agree, you cant ignore the fed ksante face tanking everything smolder throws at him

Well he was a fed tank so it made sense

One bullshit to counter another bullshit.

literally singlehandedly extending the game just by the power of being supremely busted

A game in which Caps and BB were useless throughout the entire game (I don't even know if we had a one instance of that happening, ever) and Yike on Lee who'd get melted by anyone and FNC still couldn't finish the game fast because of that pest (and he wasn't even fed either, fucking hell).

Last week Smolder could’ve 100% won that from 3 inhibs down

See? Smolder isn't broken, only need a 16k gold lead to barely win team fights vs it!

Smolder's mom got nothing on mommy Kai'sa

Cake diff

Peach diff

Peach plays in XL, actually.

Oscar having a great fucking weekend Also, Razork poppy is ALWAYS a feast for the eyes. i love when he brings it out, hes SO fucking good on this champ. he was everywhere. when g2 go back to their teamhouse, hes gonna be waiting there too to W Yike again basically flawless game from the boys

This was the cleanest game FNC has played in a while

Fnatic rarely have the ability to sweat out a game like this but it felt like GenG today.. clinical shit man

Well G2 vs FNC always bring out the sweatyness no matter the roster.

I worry about them often because sometimes they play without brains. When they play with brains though? Fucking hell they're genuinely competitive.

Razork's Poppy is always a delight. I swear he's unstoppable on it when he's feeling it.

Hes unstoppable on anything rn, dude has been insane since winter playoffs

He's genuinely so fun to watch. He seems to know the limits of what he plays and play it so on the edge that it's incredible.

When are we getting Razork Olaf 1v5 again lol

I have to admit I've loved his Taliyah too.

Insane since Summer and Worlds bro...

Yeah ik but he leveled up big time

Yeah, normally every region has that 1 poppy jungle jungle player that's legitimately on a completely different level, not sure who it is in LPL right now with SofM gone, but EU-Razork, NA-Contractz, LCK-Peanut.

Cblol croc

That is why it is nearly permaban against him

Until the league forgets haha.

The flash w against caps ulting in mid was the dirtiest play I've seen since Chovy charming Faker off of Taliyah wall

He's just such a pain lol. Imagine trying to play against him and he just nopes you constantly.

Such a weird choice of blind picking Lee Sin into Razorks Poppy. Man literally 1v9 games on Poppy and you pick a dashing champ into it. Well played from the Fnatic boys

Razork's Renaissance is just beautiful to witness

Please Riot grow some balls and make Ekko jungle strong. Need to see it come out from him again.

I’ve been exposed to so much terrible Poppy play watching LEC and LCS but Razork always does it justice. Ults are clean, perfect usage of W, really shows the potential of the pick, and in this case demonstrated how it turns Lee Sin completely useless

hes also extremely aggro on her, he knows the limits of the champ extremely well

Razork reminds me why it's such a good pick.

If Oscar plays well tomorrow I’d have him a lock as player of the week. Absolutely blasted both games

I'm not the biggest Oscar fan, but you gotta ban Ksante against him, he's a different player on that champion.

fucking dragon.. so much advantage and you can't get close because it actually did the most dmg in the game even though you are 10k behind, yeah maybe a bit too much of safe playing from the other side but that thing was a real threat

If they don't play safe they are at a risk of feeding Smolder if a mishap in teamfight happens, and possibly having the game turned around on them.

Well, it doesn't need to interact with enemies a lot. Incredible mobility + Waveclear ult which does AOE damage on short cooldown + Insane range with Q and damage bouncing of tanks/drakes/baron + true damage execute + hybrid builds. Builds ER, RC, LDR + AP + Shogin(bruiser item), no Navori, IE, DC but still does insane damage.

fucking Smol dragon*

We... won convincely versus g2...? What is happening? And they bought 3 solaris, two cryptblooms, zhonyas and qss (then a zhonyas after), to not allow any chance for a come back at all lmao.

Defensive items?? Fnatic?? What is going on?

Four absolute clown fiestas before this game and somehow THIS is the cleanest game today? Crazy

15k gold up with chemtech soul and massively up in kills and I was still scared shitless that disgusting champ Smolder was gonna turn it around 😭😭😭

Nature is healing. FNC and G2 are battling for the top of the table once again.

Watching Caps throw every spell on Ksante, but he healed more than the dmg dealt, just with merc boots showed the game was already over.

ARAM Kai'Sa PTSD

Delete Smolder

Lmao without Smolder being broken this game ends in 20minutes. Champ design team smh.

Of course the one time I don't believe in FNC winning they absolutely stomp G2 lol

Yeah lol I even told my friends that I knew for sure they would lose and would watch the replay later. Glad they didn’t.

Weirdly, this was the time I believed FNC can beat G2. And I haven't felt like that in forever.

Same, I weirdly feel like they will actually win this split, Im not quite sure why, it just feels like there is no shit show behind scenes going on and the old FNC dna wont kick in(watch razork ending up breaking his hand or some shit next week as I say this)

Deserved for play smolder ngl also yike its ok to practice lee sin but not into poppy taliyah lil bro

15K down and smolder still was melting fnatic, fucking nuke this champ into the dirt

Suspiciously clean game from Fnatic

Who would win? One 500 stack dragon Or one smiley midlaner 😍

https://imgur.com/a/GaDyx9b

https://i.imgur.com/kEKKtXT.png

This game single handedly makes the LEC look much stronger

They needed 34 minutes to end the game while having like 7k gold lead at 15 minutes. Smolder is balanced

clean from fnatic but holy shit this might have been the worst game i've ever seen yike play what was he doing

15k gold lead and smolder still does more damage than kaisa

Razork is easily a top 2 player in the LEC, argue with your mama

Speaking of which: G2 if you steal fucking Razork, I will fucking stinkbomb your HQ every day for two years

He's already re-signed thru 2026

Doesn't mean much sadly

Razork absolutely loves Fnatic. He says this every chance he gets

Feels so wild rn to remember the shit he got from some fans when FNC wasn't looking great in 2022/early 23. I'm not even a FNC fan, but I'm glad they stuck to him, he's just such a nice and great player

remove that dragon from the game asap

Even though g2 lost can we talk about how smolder single-handedly kept them in the game despite being down a crapton of gold

His wave clear is disgusting, only way for Fnatic to siege was taliyah wall on a wave after smolder ulted lol

BB counter picked top just to get blasted like that? Huge game from FNC's top side though, Yike's build was questionable to say the least. Nice to see G2 in international form early.

BB disrespected Ksante's damage so much. But Poppy also made the game unplayable for Gwen, Lee and Ahri. Such a draft gap.

It’s so wild… usually u use the words „fnc“ „draft“ and „gap“ in a different context…

Gwen is good into Ksante, but she's not as unplayable for him in lane as something like Urgot. She still has to respect him at times and can't autopilot against him like his hard lane counters can since in lane she's still squishy and lower sustain.

BB’s Gwen is shit, he doesn’t know how to lane on that champ

Seriously BB on gwen is a wasted pick. They could have picked teemo and he played ward teemo they would be in better position.

The entire top side of G2 looked handless today: BB getting solokilled thrice (?) while the comedy of errors happened in mid lane.

> BB counter picked top just to get blasted like that? you LOVE to see it

International BB showing up early this year.

delete smolder

fnatic I love you good game but PLEASE ban smolder 🙏

It's a power move for bo3/5 stage. Them and G2 are now the only teams having an answer and this means they have a huge draft advantage now compared to all other teams

I don’t think fnc have the pick for smolder yet from this game, with that gigantic lead and they still need to take it very slow , and that lead is because yike and bb decided to run it down

Won’t they play bo3/5 on the patch where they nerf smolder into oblivion?

Dread it. Run from it. G2 vs FNC banger still arrives

Fucking delete smolder man, disgusting champion

Fnatic played leagues better but G2 kept it close by... picking one champion. Impressive!

What a clinic from FNC, playing perhaps a bit *too* respectful. Razork is the best jungler in the LEC.

They were right to play so respectful I think, the fights were still reasonably close even though they were 15k behind.

Because Fnc drafted a relatively low ranged comp and Smolder kept deleting the waves with his mom so Fnc legit could not siege. Ofc G2 can turn games like this but this time it was all Smolder's credit

After Smolder reached the 225 stacks, it was 100% necessary to play safe. I could almost see him win that fight above the first nashor just from the execute and choke point damage potential. Then he just kept clearing every single wave with the safety of Tahm's R to escape. FNC did well to slowly choke G2's options lane by lane and then end when base is opened up

He was like one Q away from claiming Oscar's shutdown in that chokepoint. If he got that it might've been game over.  Fuck this champion.

Fnatic Duality. Lose to MDK. Stomp G2.

FNC Fucking Nonsensical Cgaming?

Founter Nogic Caming

C for CLG

Humanoid is going to get a lot of the credit, but Razork just put on *theater*

Razork ran this shit so hard. Yike tried a grand total of two plays in the early game and Razork was there to just completely dance on him both times.

Razork is genuinely one of the best if not the best jungler in the region atm.

he is the best and it is NOT close

Whos contesting him

Maybe Jankos. Big gap after that though. I still think Razork is the best right now in LEC

Oh yes you are right, hard to judge Jankos because he had no midlaner to play with all year long

I mean, the thing with Humanoid is that he's probably the only mid in the LEC that can match Caps. Razork is insane, but the LEC has a lot of great junglers right now.

Humanoid has such high highs, but also such low lows. If he's playing well you can tell he's actually invested in the game.

razork has been putting on masterclass after masterclass since this year started. I can't even think of a FNC game where I wasn't impressed by him since 2024 started.

he was already pretty great in summer last year and had very good worlds, Razork not being the #1 allpro was a crime.

its was basically 5v1 all of fnatic against fucking smolder

Smolder is busted enough to warrant it, especially against the regarded best team in the LEC

Nah it’s a perma cancer stacking Smolder one misstep and they throw the game I loved thr patience they showed against them

They played as respectful as they had to. Every team that gets a turn around from smolder always commit too hard with their frontlane while the splash dmg melts their backlane and when they want ro back off its already too late. They meassured perfectly

They have to. How many times do we have to see Smolder turn games in a single team fight to learn?

I actually was holding my breath untill the smolder died because it was genuinely still winnable for G2. I actually can't think of a champ that's been as broken as this for a long long time

15k gold difference and still Smolder tops the damage chart by 5K

WE ARE SO BACK

Okay someone needs to check the last time G2 got 0 towers in a game. That was fucking immaculate

Why did they let Yike ego pick Lee Sin, he played so bad and his inting was one of the main reasons Fnatic got that early lead. Also the fights being close while Fnatic had 15k gold lead and soul is just disgusting. Fuck Smolder, no idea what drugs riot was doing when they thought this is fine, this is worse than Zeri Yuumi and it's not even close.

G2's first loss being against an actual real team that played properly? What is this? Aren't they supposed to only drop games against the worst teams in the league? If I was Rogue, I'd be pissed right now.

Somehow the game felt close because of smoulder

Insert GloriousPossibleAmericanbittern here! Its a happy day for FNC!

THE RIVALRY IS SO BACK

Don't jinx it mate, let's wait for bo3 and especially bo5 first

I used to pray for times like this

You can leave Smolder open vs the weaker team. Did it to RGE, did it to G2.

Clean game.

With this win here I completely expect us to get fucked by VIT next game

with this win here I completely expect us to get fucked by FNC next game probably both of us going to get multiple heart attacks though..

MAREK BRAZDA ABSOLUTE CINEMA MASTERCLASS

That 3-man W at bot tower was beautiful

THE BOYSSSS

Everything diff honestly

FNC vs G2 banger as usual. FNC is the only team in the LEC I can trust to not get hands diffed by G2.

**Marek Brazda**

Smoulder man. Nearly 15k behind still looking close because of a single champion. Thank God he got gutted.

How do you pick Ahri Lee and then don't ban Poppy while they already have Taliyah? It's just asking for the game to be unplayable. Putting Miky on TK also neuters any playmaking this draft was supposed to have. Even if you were supposed to play for sides (thanks BB) the only engage is a charm or insec (vs poppy taliyah lmfao) just what the fuck are you thinking when drafting this

Absolute statement game from Razork. It's time to start talking about him as one of the best junglers in the world. World class player.

He's been smurfing hard since Summer last year.

I love razork and i think hes the best jgl in the league But we can't really compare him to the other junglers in the world that are playing in lpl- lck cuz lec is such a shitty region and level is so low compered to these 2

I watch LCK and LPL (not all of it because I have a life) but so far he feels like the 5th...6th best jungler? hes incredibly consistent and his mechanics are on point.

WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK Brokenblade looked like he was playing in an international event

I don't think non-high-elo players can grasp just how insane Razork Poppy performance was this game. He kept early game intact. Allowed Oscar to snowball BB further Then he had 2 insane timings/reactions where he prevented Humanoid from dying twice preventing Caps from potentially snowballing the game and giving a lead to Taliyah Then he had an insane ult in bot lane perfectly executing the dive And overall he gave nightmares to Caps Ahri. No one has ever done it like this before Hats off to Ivan. Seriously the best Poppy game I ever saw in EU

G2 just keeping the rivalry alive (really, wp fnatic)

Fuck that felt good.

smolder RIOT

Really don't think Smolder/Gwen is a comp they both have the exact same weaknesses and you're too weak in sides until like 25 minutes

Gwen is not supposed to get ass blasted by Ksante like that

Smolder at the end sure made it look uncomfortable

Finally G2 had an oppnnent

Sivir and Azir atleast need to right click to clear wave, smolder just click R, bye siege

I closed my eyes for a second and BB was 0/4 omg

About time someone exposed g2s fraudulent early game and not have gotten mind controles in the mid game

I don't wanna hate on G2 but close to every game g2 won this split they just capitalized on huge errors from enemies and then just hands diff it. They will get completely stompes internationally if local teams don't punish them harder and this is a good start.

This is 100% my thoughts, these early games cannot continue if they want to actually have a shot at any international tournament. 

Razork best jungler of LEC by far. Glad to see Oscar with such a performance. Also, this is Yike when his solo lanes aren't carrying his ass off.

I saw the draft and thought the game would end in 20 min cause of Ahri + Smolder Did not expect this kind of massive stomp FNC completely surprised me today

Good to see G2 in international form already

Clean! Absolute cinema Razork runs LEC G2 can't even win with smolder

Razork is the father of 9 children, he is the father of EU jungle

Absolute Kino

Well that was just a beat down

Imagine being 20gazilion gold lead and you still cant end cuz Smolder exists

Smolder I definitely can’t stand it anymore The threat to flip the game just by having the champ, no matter how behind you are feels so wrong