Schalke 04 faced the best team in Europe, G2 Esports, in the League of Legends. It was about advancing in the LEC Spring Playoffs 2021. Schalke’s top laner, Broken Blade, picked an unusual champion in professional LoL: Darius. He shined with him and achieved the pentakill.
What was that for a game? The playoffs have started in League of Legends. Right in the first match, G2 and Schalke 04 faced each other.
It is a “Best of 5” series; one must win 3 games to advance:
- The winner will be in the semifinals of the playoffs and waits to see who they will face next.
- The loser moves to the “Loser’s Bracket” and is one loss away from elimination.
Experts agreed beforehand: Schalke actually had no chance. The betting odds stood at about 6:1 for G2.
Because G2 is considered the best team in Europe and was already sniffing at the world champion title. Before the start of the season, they signed the legendary ADC Rekkles.
G2 finished the regular season in first place with 14-4. Schalke was only in fourth place with 9-9.
Pentakill with a champion that hasn’t been played in the LEC since 2018
This was the great play: Schalke’s star this season is the top laner Sergen “Broken Blade” Çelik. Schalke acquired the 21-year-old from the US top team TSM before the season.
Broken Blade chose the axe-swinging Darius in games 2, 3, and 4. No one had picked this champion in an LEC game since 2018: he was never seen in Seasons 9, 10, and 11.
After game 2, things did not look good for Broken Blade and Schalke at all. The series went as everyone had expected: Schalke was down 0-2 and was on the brink of defeat when Broken Blade once again selected Darius as his champion in game 3.
Here, he pulled off a spectacular play, a pentakill. This is what it’s called when a player gets all 5 kills for their team.
Broken Blade faced multiple near-death situations but showed that Darius can come back from seemingly hopeless positions and secure kills. Anyone who comes close to the axe falls victim to it. Not even the tanky Sion could escape; he caught him at the last moment.
Broken Blade picks Darius 3 times – in match 5, G2 bans the champion
This is how it ended: Schalke was able to win game 4, bringing them back to 2-2.
In game 5, G2 thwarted Broken Blade’s plans: they banned his Darius and forced him onto Aatrox.
Ultimately, G2 chose a combo with Seraphine and Sion in the last game 5 that was too tanky for Schalke. They lost the last game, thus G2 won the series. In game 5, no Schalke player could stop the WoW junkie miracle.
This is how it goes on: G2 is now in the semifinals of the playoffs. Schalke drops into the Loser’s Bracket and faces Fnatic.
G2 belongs to the absolute elite in global esports. Schalke wants to reach that as well, into the top 10 esports teams:
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