LEC 2019: LEC Week 2 is looking spicy!

Let’s take a look forward to Week 2 of LEC, who will be the first to drop a game out of Misfits & G2? And when will Fnatic pick up the ball and fight for the throne?

Last week was absolutely phenomenal. I don’t think that would be a particularly bold statement to make. Superteams G2 & Misfits took home 2 wins apiece and on the other hand, Rogue & Fnatic lost both of their games. A new team of unremarkable players like Rogue is expected to struggle against other teams in the league, however former world-finalists are not. Week 2 is looking hype.

Looking to twitter you can see Fnatic fans sharpen their pitchforks and lighting their torches, not only to flame their team for doing poorly but to also to flame Paul “sOAZ” Boyer and Rasmus “Caps” Winther for leaving the team and doing so well on their new teams.

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Looking forward to next week we’ve got some pretty exciting games, I’ll highlight my picks for the week and give you my predictions for LEC Week 2!

Game to watch – Day 1 – Game 1: Fnatic vs Team Vitality

Opening week 2 we have a pair of teams who represented Europe in the 2018 World Championship. Team Vitality was knocked out during the group stage but they took games from all of their Group B opponents; Royal Never Give Up, Cloud 9 and Gen G.

And on the other side, we find Fnatic. Despite being world finalists they found themselves struggling to make it out of the gate during Week 1, and knowing Fnatic they’re going to take another few weeks to pick up steam and get their heads around how to utilise rookie mid laner Tim “Nemesis” Lipovšek.

As long as both teams come to this game bringing everything they have, I’d say this game is super close. The bottom lanes both have different objectives, Atilla & Jactroll will look to brute force fights and snowball; whereas Rekkles & Hylissang will absorb pressure and allow for cross-map plays and comfortably scale into the mid/late game.

Fnatic’s main weak spot is Nemesis in the mid lane, and I don’t think it’s controversial to say that Jiizuke will absolutely run circles around him. Give the Italian stallion his signature Ryze or Ekko picks and let him match Nemesis’ roams (since, lets face it… he’s more than likely going to be playing Galio.)

On the other hand Vitality’s main weak point is Lucas “Cabochard” Simon-Meslet; I don’t think he’ll fair too well against Fnatic’s absolute machine in the top lane Gabriël “Bwipo” Rau. Especially when you compare him to Bwipo’s who can comfortably flex between playing tanks like Sion and Ornn or dominating his opponents on carry picks like Aatrox, Swain or Jayce.

I think with a superior mid lane talent, Fnatic getting off to a shaky start and a meta that rewards aggressive play. I’m going to give the win to Team Vitality.