The Worlds 2025 are currently taking place in League of Legends and Europe’s biggest hope is G2. The team recently played for a spot in the semifinals. Besides a great teamfight, the jungle pick was particularly surprising.
What a match it was! The Worlds 2025 are still in the Swiss-Stage phase in China. 16 teams need to qualify for the quarter-finals by winning 3 Best-of 3
s against the other teams. So, whoever defeats 3 teams advances. So far, the following teams are confirmed for the next round:
- Anyone’s Legends
- KT Rolster
- Hanwha Life Esports
Among them, since October 22, 2025, is the European team G2 Esports, which includes BrokenBlade, who was interviewed by MeinMMO during the LEC Summer Finals. They won their 4th Swiss-Stage match against the US team FlyQuest.
They were able to win and surprise with a strong teamfight in the third match, primarily due to a jungle pick.
A pick that was last seen at the Worlds 2012
How did the matches go? The Best-of 3
started off rather poorly for G2. The first match was quite balanced, and although G2 secured the first 2 dragons, FlyQuest steadily built up a gold lead. After less than 38 minutes, FlyQuest won 10:4 with a gold advantage of nearly 10,000.
The second match also started off quite evenly. After about 15 minutes, G2 began to build a gold advantage with 3 kills. In teamfights, they showed calmness and a strategic approach, managing to secure individual kills. After 29 minutes and the Baron buff, G2 applied strong pressure and won the game after about 31 minutes.
The third match would decide if G2 makes it to the quarter-finals. Even before the match, G2’s jungler, Skewmond (seen in the title image), surprised with his jungle pick: Dr. Mundo. This is quite an unusual pick. The last time Mundo was played as a jungler at the Worlds was in 2012. Back then, the team Taipei Assassins
chose Mundo as a jungler in 3 out of 4 matches and became world champions (source: liquidpedia.net).
But with the unusual pick, Skewmond demonstrated that the champion is simply hard to take down. He played aggressively and dealt a lot of damage. Nevertheless, both teams fought hard and it wasn’t until 27 minutes that G2 secured a gold lead of 3,000 gold.
At minute 33, FlyQuest secured the Baron, but there was a great teamfight from G2 in the midlane. Skewmond flashed in with Mundo into the opponents, allowing Caps to use Orianna’s ultimate with her ball. Almost the entire FlyQuest team was caught, and only the jungler Inspired survived. After nearly 35 minutes, G2 won and advanced to the quarter-finals (source: YouTube).
With that, G2 finally makes it to the quarter-finals at the Worlds again. The last time they were able to do this was at the Worlds 2020. There, they lost in the semifinals against Dplus KIA.
What’s next for G2? G2 has advanced but still has to wait a bit. On October 23, 24, and 25, the last teams will play in the Swiss Stage to qualify for the quarter-finals, including T1.
The quarter-finals begin on Tuesday, October 28 and last until Friday, October 31. It’s still unclear who the Europeans will face. The streamer NoWay is also gaming in China and even meets pros in-game: Twitch streamer NoWay meets one of the best ADCs participating in the Worlds and wins a ranked game with him.
