Three teams remain undefeated as G2 Esports once again takes down Evil Geniuses

The EU vs NA rivalry leans in direction of Europe’s aspect as soon as once more as G2 Esports defeats Evil Geniuses on Day 2 of the 2022 MSI. The North American consultant is struggling to safe wins in opposition to their European counterpart even when they can get good leads throughout their video games.

Of their first encounter, Evil Geniuses began off falling behind in opposition to a G2 Esports that confirmed a little bit of disrespect within the decide and ban part. The European crew picked Pyke and Anivia very early into the draft, placing EG in a really uncomfortable place from the get-go. Evil Geniuses determined to draft a crew composition oriented in direction of a robust late sport. However from what we’ve seen thus far within the match, this isn’t actually the way in which to safe a victory.

A number of the profitable groups are selecting robust early-game champions which can be in a position to safe early leads to allow them to transition easily into teamfights across the mid-game. G2 Esports is a type of groups as they’ve been selecting champions like Pyke, Graves, and Galio, permitting them to take fights at any level within the sport.

Now if we have a look at their second encounter, Evil Geniuses had a giant alternative to shut out the sport of their favor, however they ended up dropping it. The sport began closely in favor of G2 Esports as BrokenBlade, Jankos, and Caps took over the complete map. G2 Esports had a Camille-Galio composition which meant they had been in a position to decide up fights anyplace on the map resulting from their robust interact. However across the 26-minute mark, they made an important mistake.

The European squad determined to go for a baron play the place Caps can be cut up pushing within the bot lane, they thought-about this a superb play as a result of let’s keep in mind that Caps was taking part in Galio. However what ended up occurring was EG picked up a kill on Caps they usually nonetheless had been in a position to contest the G2 Baron name. It was taking them approach too lengthy to kill baron and EG arrived simply in time to choose up a couple of kills and safe the baron for themselves.

However nonetheless, this wasn’t sufficient for Evil Geniuses to shut out the sport. They managed to destroy G2’s inhibitors however Evil Geniuses struggled loads to take down the Nexus towers. From the skin, it appeared like the sport was over for G2, however EG knew it wasn’t as simple. Evil Geniuses needed to be extraordinarily cautious in opposition to G2 Esports’ flanking potential, they’d Camille, Kaisa, Galio, and Pyke. G2 Esports had so many instruments to punish any mispositioning coming from EG and that’s precisely what occurred.

Even after getting back from an 8k gold deficit, Evil Geniuses nonetheless weren’t in a position to decide up a much-needed victory in opposition to G2 Esports. This makes it secure to say that G2 Esports will come out of the group stage because the Group C leaders. EG remains to be in a secure spot as ORDER hasn’t been in a position to decide up a single victory, which means they’ll most definitely be the crew that received’t make it into the subsequent stage.