After G2's third title of the year in the LEC, the
League of Legends EMEA championship, their dominance over the region no longer needs to be demonstrated, with Rasmus "
Caps" Winther and Sergen "
BrokenBlade" Çelik leading the way. Fnatic counted on an oustanding Iván "
Razork" Martín performance to climb their way through second place, while Labros "
Labrov" Papoutsakis and BDS got their third 3rd place of the year. Cho "
Rahel" Min-seong, with a splendid regular season, led SK Gaming to a spot in Season Finals. With the final 2024 LEC clashes kicking off this weekend, Sheep Esports has taken a closer look at the last exercise to elect our Summer Split All-Pro team.
BrokenBlade: The Chameleon
With a world class toplaner year so far, BB showed no slowdowns signs during the Summer Split. As the Turkish last two splits were touched by the grace of creativity, inspiring the entire world with his champion pool, the summer was a lot more about versatility. Indeed, BrokenBlade adapted to whatever his team needed, pulled out not less than 14 champions and had very good performances with most of them. If G2 Esports needed a frontline, good, BrokenBlade pulled off Dr Mundo, Ornn, Sejuani or Skarner in which he has 100% WR over 7 games this split.
BrokenBlade lifting his third LEC Shield this year (Wojciech Wandzel/Riot Games)
If the Samurais needed a carry in the toplane, again, no problem for BB and his Camille, Aatrox or Jayce which
also had 100% winrate (WR) over 6 games this summer. Even with his adaptive role on the team, the Turkish achieved to be the best on four of the ten statistics displayed by Sheep Stats. Although, according to our
Player Scores algorithm, the toplaner is the best player in his role over this split. BrokenBlade is already, without a doubt, in
our shortlist of MVPs of the entire year.Razork (MVP): Fury of the jungle
Especially during the first two weeks of the regular season, Razork was completely unmatched in the jungle. The Spaniard was insanely proactive with a champion usually played to control and play slowly like Ivern. But also very agressive, by contesting every objectives, with champions like Xin Zhao or Vi. Especially when in command of the Seneschal of Demacia, Razork had 100% WR but, above all, 13.33 of average KDA over 3 games. Then Fnatic collapsed, winning just one game in the last two weeks and it became clear that Razork was the fuel for Fnatic as he didn't live up to his performances in those.
Throughout playoffs, Razork woke up and gathered his teammates around him, and his Sejuani. He played half of his ten games with the Fury of The North, and won four of them again, with an impressive average KDA of 12.33 on the champion. Although Fnatic lost in grand final (3-0), they were the first european team to defeat G2 in a serie's match this year, during the upper bracket final. There again, Razork took his responsibilities in game 5, to close it out with his Nidalee in 25 min (3/0/12).
Razork after winning game five against G2 Esports (Michal Konkol/Riot Games)
With an average 10.9 assists in playoffs, the Spaniard is way ahead of the other junglers in the league in term of impact by ganking and teamfighting. Especially since his average KDA (6) sets him apart from the other even more (between 2.5 and 3.9). For the way Razork raised his team to really challenge G2, and his overall consistency: he his our MVP of the split.
Caps: A well-oiled machine
The MVP distinction could've also been accorded to Caps. The midlaner from G2 was the one his team relied on, especially during troubled games, like the ones in regular season in which he ended alone while splitpushing. In Grand Final, for example, the Samurais were always behind in early game and eventhough it came from a collective effort and good decisions, it was most of the time the Danish genius that really got them back on track with his Corki. Which is why, he earned the Final MVP. By the way, Caps played 11 games with the Daring Bombardier and it has to be said that he handles the Yordle's machine like no other in the region.
Caps lifting his thirteenth domestic title (Wojciech Wandzel/Riot Games)
Throughout 11 games with him (7 in playoffs), the midlaner only lost one. Although, it is not the only Yordle that Caps manoeuvres extremely well since his potential on Tristana has already been proven before. Many teams banned it against G2 this split, to prevent the Danish from solocarrying (he got to play her 3 times and won the 3 games). Not only the midlaner got the MVP for the Grand Final, he also got it for three of the four playoffs matches G2 won.
Rahel: Son of the Void
"He made him a Rahel" you must have heard something like this in soloqueue, when someone dodges Zeri's Qs multiple times. Well, it all comes from
the Korean breaking the ankles of David "Supa" Martínez's Zeri
while displaying probably one of the best individual play of the year in the LEC. Not only, Rahel is outstanding mechanically, he also possesses a large champion pool which enabled him to get the upper hand in draft phases. However, it is especially (like the outplay he inflicted on Supa) on Kai'Sa that the AD Carry shone the brightest this split. Within five games, he ended up losing only one with the Daughter of the Void.
Rahel during his last playoffs game of the summer, against Karmine Corp (Michal Konkol/Riot Games)
Despite being on his rookie split, Rahel carried on his own a lot of games for SK Gaming this summer. Along with his support, they were playing very agressive duolanes to take the biggest lead possible in early and snowball through that. The Korean pair was possibly the toughest Bot Duo to lane against during the split. Rahel, indeed, got the upper hand most of the time in playoffs (+352 Gold@15). Also, the AD Carry ended the split being the best gold generator of the league (474 Gold/Min) and the best farmer (10.56 Cs/Min).
Labrov: No one gets (or stands) out
Support was the hardest role to rank, since the top three's support teams of the split could've all get it, and no one really seemed to stand out. Even Lee "Luon" Hyun-ho which is the best KDA and the best in terms of assists could've compete for it. So, we decided to prioritze the creativity and risk-taking of Labrov which was the key factor to BDS tremendous teamfighting this summer. The quote from Rell in game: "Nothing gets in and no one gets out" could not be more appropriate than for the Greek, which only lost one out of six games with the Iron Maiden.
Labrov during his BO5 against Karmine Corp (Wojciech Wandzel/Riot Games)
Especially since the support excelled at engaging and finding good flanks, even more during regular season. His performances even got him in two of our four Teams Of The Week, and once, as our
MVP Of The Week. Eventhough, BDS struggled to find the same pace as they had in BO1 during the playoffs, their third place deserves recognition and Labrov deserves a lot of credit for it. It also has to be said,
that during playoffs, his Rell got banned most of the games on the first rotation of drafts, and he was the only support to receive such treatment for a champion, this summer.Honourable Mentions :
- Adam "Jackies" Jeřábek
- Yoon "Ice" Sang-hoon
- Mihael "Mikyx" Mehle
- Yoon "Jun" Se-jun
- Lee "Luon" Hyun-ho
- Steven "Hans Sama" Liv
- Oh "Noah" Hyeon-taek
- Martin "Yike" Sundelin
- Joel "Irrelevant" Miro Scharoll
