With every season and every patch of League of Legends there is a so-called meta. The strongest champions are referred to as meta, while weaker champs are called off-meta. One of the best German LoL players explained in an interview why he enjoys playing off-meta.
Which German LoL pro are we talking about? With his team G2 Esports, the German top laner BrokenBlade has already won 8 championship titles in the largest European league, the LEC. In total, G2 Esports has won a total of 16 LEC championships and is the team with the most official titles in Europe.
In the spring split of the LEC in 2025, BrokenBlade played with G2 Esports against the newcomers Karmine Corp. After the first victory, the German top laner with off-meta champ Shen faced one of the currently strongest champions. Gwen is currently in the top 3 of the most banned champs for the top lane during the ongoing season 15.
With the champion Shen, he was able to gain an initial advantage against his opponent, but the new star player from Karmine Corp was unstoppable and showed the 16-time LEC champion how well he masters the champ Ezreal.
In the last decisive game of the series against Karmine Corp, BrokenBlade decided to choose the champion Warwick. This champ has only been played or banned 19 times throughout the entire season 15. In comparison: Gwen was picked over 500 times and banned more than 1500 times (via gol.gg). G2 lost the last game and the series ended with a 2:1 for Karmine Corp.
Why does BrokenBlade enjoy playing off-meta? In the interview with Sheep Esports, BrokenBlade was asked how he started playing unconventional champions. BrokenBlade replied as follows:
I will always turn to unusual champions when they are strong. It is also perfectly fine to rely on meta picks, but I believe I am the type of player who can always deliver with non-meta picks. For me, one thing matters above all: to win. I don’t care if I have to play a boring champion as long as we end up on top. Dylan is a coach who accepts and welcomes creativity as long as it is responsible and makes sense.
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G2 Esports wants to return to old strength
What is going on with G2? After the team won each of the four tournaments of the last LEC season of 2024 the new year 2025 did not start as expected for the top team. After several losses, BrokenBlade was asked how the team and the coaches worked to bring the 16-time LEC champion back to his old strength.
When things aren’t going well, you have to start over from scratch. We sat down and concluded that we need a new plan and a new foundation. The coaching team brought in some ideas that we then discussed together. We had a really, really big conversation, especially the players, with Memento, who is very focused on improving our macro and micro gameplay and how we should play as a team. I feel that we had a really big breakthrough in this conversation.
His teammate and ADC Hans Sama had already spoken about the team’s performance in an earlier interview with Sheep Esports (via sheepesports.com). According to Hans, it felt like G2 played like solo players and that they did not function much like a team. BrokenBlade agrees and added:
I definitely agree with Hans. We were just very uncoordinated. We did not play with the same vision. I believe we have now overcome this slump. While there is still a lot we need to think about, such as how and when we play together, we are definitely starting to look for plays more purposefully together again, and that is really, really nice.
G2 Esports continues to be one of the best teams in Europe despite the recent losses. In addition to the LEC, there is also the Korean league, the LCK. Faker has set one of the most amazing records with his team T1, which could now be reached by a new top team: New top team in LoL rolls over the LCK, scratches at the legendary record of Faker
