Will 2024 G2 stay together? 🥺 BrokenBlade post G2 vs BLG interview | Ashley Kang

[@ashleykang_89]

How I feel about the G2's last two years: x.com/AshleyKang/status/1845984212622758105

[@Belegor]

Beautiful, brought a tear to my eyes. Blessed are those who believe without seeing.

[@christopherriordan2057]

Deft didn’t win worlds until 2022 after a long long career…. You just gotta keep trying and keep trying as crazy as it seems

[@satominami6599]

yeah.. -Deft won his 1st World at the age of 26 years old and at his 9th year as Pro. -Faker won his 4th at the age of 27 at his 10th year as LoL Pro. -and BB right now is 24 years old same with age with Caps.

[@christopherriordan2057]

@@satominami6599 you need a combination of luck, skill and hard work… G2 just didn’t have the luck this year in terms of draw and meta. Lane swaps have been their Achilles heel. Maybe an off-season to focus on lane swaps and finding the ideal Jungle replacement for Yike is just enough for this team to make some serious noise… BrokenBlade’s improvement is the single reason I have legit hope for this team. He used to get clapped by the Asian tops at worlds

[@fivosliogas2127]

u also need to be very lucky. Take a look at some world champions: Crown, Pyosik, even Deft (on this stage of his career obviously) if they were on a different team they wouldn't have won

[@Roflmao6173]

@@christopherriordan2057 as Khan told Zeus, winning once can be luck, winning twice is skill, and winning 3 times is mastery. Everyone has a chance to win worlds once with a little bit of luck

[@amosbat8011]

@@christopherriordan2057 Man as an NA fan, I love Brokenblade he is actually an amazing player and one of the best top I've ever seen, He has my respect and I will always be rooting for him and Caps. They are the only team I like watching in EU and its because of the two. Rooting for you BB

[@giovannicausarano1037]

This interview is heartbreaking. But man, BB, you are such a great and strong person, just being able to do this interview at such a moment, being so positive for the future. Apart from the player you are, which is important until one point, you seem to be a great great person. I don’t know you personally, unfortunately, and I would love to. The fact that you have no regrets, that’s the most important thing, it will help you get up and be greater. Lots of love man, now rest and come back stronger, stay great

[@Saltoric]

It was a great run, we all supported you! Just that 5 or 10% and we could of gotten wins vs HLE, T1 or BLG. Keep improving and we try again next year

[@pannkaka5138]

i dont think 5 % overcomes getting 3 barons and still losing

[@cdcidsid9228]

Be careful, T1 fangirls will come for you

[@Jessica-md1xb]

@@cdcidsid9228 ?

[@FloatLikeABee]

Coulda woulda shoulda

[@Milxno]

@@pannkaka5138 against a hyperscaling comp if i recall correctly

[@yas2ne19]

i love BB's first answer that shows that great players always have great mentality

[@BartekJC]

I think, BB and G2 have no idea how proud we are of this team. We saw the improvement, it is actually a huge one. Just comparing to other LEC teams or even some teams like DK and Weibo, they are playing macro on another level. Sadly it was not enough. This time. But: we are all here for the next time. When you, G2, will be on top.

[@janpiet9921]

Yeah absolutely. It was frustrating seeing them throw versus teams that on paper are way way worse when it mattered in other years. This year they had an extremely tough draw and they made some absolutely top teams sweat for it. Absolute pleasure to watch.

[@shmurflHD]

It seems that by learning top macro stuff they sometimes forgot some basic fundamentals like they get tped flank in obvious ways or just give oner a free walk in into the nash pit lol

[@JamesColeman12]

i love bb since his LCS inceptions. I hope one day we can see him become world champion, no one will doubt him when he does. he puts in the work and he has been on the top for so long to his peers. it would be one of the greatest league stories ever told for sure. bb gl next year man!

[@olly.speaks]

Such an inspiring final message from BB! This is why I love this team and will continue to dream. I hope the other teams of the West/other regions strive to do better as well. Would be nice to see a different region lift the Worlds trophy for once. See you next year! 😊🎉

[@aliabubu11]

You did show you were better than last year. I'd say your games were much more coordinated. But maybe the other teams were also better than last year. Just keep going. Energy and persistence conquer all things!

[@BillyHan]

It’s always the baron call that starts the spiral of downfall, so tragic

[@totokoostudios]

​@@unemployed_clowni think that g2 realized that they cant win if they play standard comps. Its so easy to get a pick with nocturne ori and that can open up the game for them

[@Jannus1995]

BB is just a beast. All around. Mentally, as a player, as a person, and as teammate. He is truly him. Thx for everything Topfather!

[@Tayuro]

in some interviews i feel like ashley is like the caring mother of the players 😭❤

[@christopherriordan2057]

I get BB’s point about if winning worlds is the goal then your opponents don’t matter, but that’s also not true. In Best of 1 format, it’s such a small sample size that it does generally help weaker teams but for G2, I would like to see them play Bo3 and Bo5 against these top asian teams to see how they adapt mid series in the draft

[@amazingwagon6729]

best interviewer of the last year btw imho

[@jackcobalt2005]

Like im sitting here 5 minutes into the video, and i just cant man, u can hear the sadness and frustration in BBs voice so clearly that it makes me cry qwq

[@kuliblubber9654]

hurts so much ... they can be proud and it was not much that was missing ... but it hurt so much seeing them loose the last fight :°°)

[@KrakkatakTV]

we need those G2 skins!

[@tobiasladdarn1959]

I want that team to stick together. They're doing so well, improving always. I even think Yike has been okay, maybe give him more time. I think that's the only role i'd maybe swap. Maybe if they could get Razork or Inspired

[@HandOfFreedom]

Inspired would be huge. Razork is too yolo, no. Also miky is inting too much for important games. But theres no one better than him in eu so maybe run it back with inspired. He looks like the best weastern jungle by a mile.

[@calistar63]

SkewMond smurfed in ERL and might be the next jgl for G2. Inspired could be a great option too regarding his experience and what he showed in LCS and Worlds so far. For Mikyx people think that Jun is better, but not sure he will leave Noah behind.

[@nununa7963]

Inspired seems like too much of an ego player and I don't think he'll mesh well with g2 tbh

[@CantIllaoiThat]

Yes give Yike one more run so G2 can get blown away in play-ins this time. This filthy transgender jungler got outjungled by everyone. Always needs to be bailed out by Caps. Delete Yike and Miky stop inting

[@janisgustavian]

Inspired doesn't fit team personality and RazorK.... please no

[@Ttangko_]

Everybody is blaming G2 for letting down LEC but in reality LEC is a letdown for G2. Not taking chances of wins for the pride of becoming the best version of you and soft surrendering after giving higher tier teams the lead. Look at bottom tier LCK teams, they still beat Gen G occasionally, because they try, and so, challenge the best to be better. G2 gets a free first place pass year after year, its truly a sad system and mentality in the west

[@yihadistxdl951]

yea i mean bwipo was right about the lec paysteck stealing. it is definitely going on

[@ronlanders7354]

I think its all teams in lec did this to themselves. Trying delay players for certain teams to eliminate competition. This encourages lec players going to lcs or low tier teams? There's less of a challenge. The team did this to themselves.

[@yuujiendless7719]

exactly....i mean fnatic is 2nd seed and they dont even know how to play makro...it feels like watching soloQ game in master tier Remember times when G2 and Fnatic were almost at same lvl of play? These team used to pushing each other to be better and results at worlds/msi were also better...now it is so hard for G2 to improve with no competition in europe. I feel little sad bcs of that. For LEC and for G2

[@ItsOctoberr]

G2 did it themselves, took the best players from their competition and then didn't let them go back. They stopped players from playing in the LEC. It's literally G2s fault.

[@martinkaradjov6153]

@@ItsOctoberr How did G2 stopped players from being in the LEC whatt

[@Zabazoe]

Even if they got 0-1 and 0-2 against HLE, BLG, and T1, all the fights were close and none of it were complete stomps. They just couldn’t find a way to use their leads to close out the game, somehow one or two of them always gets caught and G2 couldn’t bounce back afterwards. If only they got lucky enough to draw anyone but BLG in the eliminations, they’d have a higher chance qualifying to groups.

[@M.B.Win.1886]

👊❤GG 👍

[@martinkaradjov6153]

Props to the interviewer, very empathic towards someone who lost a big game

[@SarahTobias-y7w]

Let's go G2. Will support you guys until you win that Worlds trophy. Will never get tired of rooting for you guys. It will make the victory sweeter when you finally get it.

[@dfmpdx]

Please give him a hug!!!!!!

[@darrenkimberly2648]

I would like to see this roster stick together more often. Expanding on IWD's point about the worsening quality of LEC and LCS teams, its not that G2 are a bad team compared to LPL and LCK. They're clearly competitive from the games we've all watched. The issue is the lack of competition they have in their home region. FNC, the 2nd best team (arguably), make so many macro mistakes that G2 can just bounce back even from an 8k gold deficit. G2 play the losing game like they're gonna win. Every team playing against G2 give up the losing game and play for fun or whatever. Its very clear that what's stopping G2 is their late game ability to make solid calls and close the game because they're not punished often enough in their home region to develop that. Genuine shame, considering none of the players are solely at fault (Mikyx inted but he's still the best support in LEC). I believe the dominant reason for the roster changes will be due to budget anyway (new rookie jungler incoming).

[@Kuroma94]

Honestly, if you have seen the games between HLE/BLG and TES/T1, you can see how far western teams are off in skill level compared to eastern Teams. That being said, BrokenBlade and all the G2 members still showed an amazing performance this year at worlds, even though they faced all of those top eastern teams in Swiss stage. Thank you G2 for the amazing entertainment and BrokenBlade for his absolute insane Yasuo performance. It was a blast to watch.

[@michelgehrke8964]

For me the Orianna Nocturne Draft was a huge part in 3 of their 5 losses... is the coach free to explore his options too?

[@yuujiendless7719]

it is op...but not against best teams in world who know which champions to pick against this combo

[@efthymiosn3381]

So perkz was the brain behind g2

[@GuilhermeSRPG]

Yes

[@christopheryuda4029]

yep, but they ego'ed and kicked him out

[@bamusalako]

perkz build is team handmade and lost utterly in lec, he really must be the brain behind the big success of team....

[@NicolasAAudet]

But they didn’t go as far without caps , and caps made 2 worlds finals. Perkz was definitely a plus in the team but i honestly think g2 could’ve made it to finals again if they solved some small problems

[@Beefwelliington]

Alejandro "Anonimotum" Gomis has rumoured for Yike and Mikey to be out, he is a pretty reliable source

[@haz-az]

I saw the rumors, but please tell me they're just rumors and G2 will run it back... I have complete faith in that team. They just need a bit more confidence and practice.

[@אביחיבןחיים-ד9ק]

They've had 2 years with the same roster. Switching Yike and Miky is not the end of the world. So long as they have BB and Caps the main playmaking stays strong. Han sama is doing a lot better and makes better call outs so as long as Labrov meshes decently with hans it's gonna be a great roster. And honestly the new jg seems to have a bigger champion pool than yike.

[@handheld0214]

If they can’t make it out of Quarters two years together, then something has to change. Emotions are for someplace and sometime else. Team compositions (and whether or not the roster stays together) is all about results.

[@HoopDreams_x]

@@אביחיבןחיים-ד9קLabrov is a sidegrade at best… Mikyx is still the best support in the west realistically unless they import

[@granit88]

one more year, surely they will win something with the same roster 3 years in a row! surely! clueless

[@schredo1184]

@@אביחיבןחיים-ד9ק who is going to be the new jungler for g2?

[@velocity7678]

I am getting tired of getting emotional after worlds - I hope we can see an improved result 😢

[@linuskl8036]

I was broken again. How can we always hope and then still get rekt

[@Venemoth123]

I was hopefull when I heard they don't want to waste another year for this same roster but I just heard rumors that they want labrov on supp and skewmond for 2024. It's Joever.

[@18Jeykey]

o7

[@terencechurch7335]

The other big problem G2 have is they think (perhaps not illogically) that they need to change the roster to have a chance to win Worlds. But they won every split of LEC and totally stomp the region. No amount of roster changes will improve the quality of competition in the LEC. Perhaps the best thing that G2 could do is to split the roster between FNC and G2 and then fight it out. At least they’d have some competition to grow.

[@tommysong9931]

Shw looks sick...get well please.

[@terencechurch7335]

Impossible to improve as a team when you’re in a one team region. It’s practically the same issue in NA. Both regions are not really competitive enough to create world class teams. If G2 moved to Korea, and became part of the LCK, I think they could win Worlds in one year.

[@hihelloh]

Problem with teams are they think they can win worlds in 1 year being together. If they don't they change up the whole team.

[@andlol2558]

The problem is EU not G2. Europe have no team that can even reach close to the levels of G2, while LPL and LCK constantly have competitive teams against each other. If EU can't create another EU team to compete against G2 then maybe G2 should goto LCK or LPL for practices.

[@xSkwintz]

I think there's some merit in staying together if you're already so close to reaching the goal you want to be at. I would say at least give it one more year.... last year was a fluke and this year, you guys proved that you absolutely can compete with the best, just need to work on closing out games. Everything else is immaculate and it would be very painful as a fan to see you guys get to close and to give it up right before making it. At least give it one more year.

[@Bazsigood]

The girl humming sadly like a Mommy with her kid is so funny

[@MrTincify]

Stop comparing this year to last year. Other teams also put in time and effort and also became better than last year. You simply did not do enough compared to how far behind you were to last year. Just do twice as much and you might catch up and become relevant for the trophy.

[@tuete7]

Why should a losing team stay together

[@M.B.Win.1886]

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[@yooohann]

Mikyx’s got to go. he’s been a liability for G2 for years. get trymbi in.

[@kareng544]

G2 isn't my top team. I am a T1 gal, but I do appreciate G2 and I was rooting for them. And it was very sad because they were having a rough 3rd game and then they had that great team fight were they wiped BLG off the map and I was excited that they had just turned the game around. But then they forced a baron without their top laner there... So I can also imagine how heartbroken Broken Blade must be, considering he wasn't able to help the fight at Baron. I believe they would have won, if they waited for their top laner to start baron.

[@Marco-qt5nv]

Just swap mikey with labrov and we fine

[@Melon-el5ln]

[@thecleaner4072]

THERE GOES BB TALKING AGAIN

[@ilmotez8477]

botlane has to go, caps and the topfather only 2 consistent in the roster no comment on jungler.

[@Bozforroz]

lets fail at nocturne/ori again :D awful drafts cost g2 this tournament

[@blackwomangamer2637]

Yeah those comps were disgusting and just ignoring why they got succes on sidelanes

[@WantedMonsterHunter]

nocturne ori was also the reason they lost game 3 against blg btw (it wasn't even picked, they just lost cuz they got outplayed) so just stop coping

[@shunguloy1012]

it felt like g2 were being overconfident drafting the most average comps and hiding their most successful comps

[@apostolskiclips]

@@WantedMonsterHunter Did you watch the other games? They picked Orianna and Nocturne 4 times in a row and lost 3 of them. Did you watch game 2 when they finally picked something else? They stomped BLG.. Game 3 was close as well.

[@WantedMonsterHunter]

@@apostolskiclips still lost game 3, still went home, skill issue at the end of the day maybe next year they improve

[@TheHipPro]

asdfs

[@AndreWDYounitedRevolution]

BB is completely wrong in his attitude. Losing a close series against 3 of the best teams in the worlds makes it not sader. They should be proud of bringing such a great challenge to the best teams in the world. The real takeaway is to stand up again and come back even stronger next year. Now that you see how close you have been, a little more effort and training next year and you might get that last 10% that you need to win against the hardest opponents. It is not the time to be sad but rather to pull yourself back together and grow from there..

[@shunguloy1012]

its sad bc then you realize they couldve went deeper in the tournament and improve had they won

[@Adp32306]

0 quarters since 2021 is not something to be proud at. Rekkles as a sub already made it farther than your hopes and dreams

[@Van1sh]

You don't get it. If they weren't even close, he would probably be fine with changing the roster. But since they were this close, he will obviously be sad to not see the full extend of this roster, he already knew that if they lose this game, Mikyx and Yike would be swapped. So yes it's sad and BB has the best attitude in the western LoL scene.

[@ManicRipper2]

It's a known thing where silver medal feels worse than bronze. Often, the closer you are, the worse it feels to not reach your goal.

[@user-oc5se4lw4s]

@@Adp32306 bro ur the type of guy who says this and then sit there meatriding NA for making it to quarters even tho they didnt win against a single lpl/lck team. g2 was the better team and deserved to be in quarters this year. fly just got lucky with draw and same goes for tl. g2 where 1 misstake from winning against blg and rly close to wnning against hle. results aint everything sadly

[@Adp32306]

Yeah its just skill diff

[@mojodojo-wg9ec]

-MikyX +Rekkles -Brokenblade +Alphari -Yike +Elyoya Easy 2025 worlds win.

[@yuujiendless7719]

u r delusional

[@Chungus_Maximus]

That's the biggest COPE xdd

[@gangasflo9445]

Boomer living in the past 😂

[@TheGreatLabowski]

how can be someone so boring as a reporter? Super boring.

[@Chungus_Maximus]

Childish and dumb comment :) You are boring

[@WaynesWorld975]

for real. she ask question like a wimp

[@sike024]

Bring back TSM for next year and the west might have a chance

[@CantIllaoiThat]

Yes give Yike one more run so G2 can get blown away in play-ins next time. This filth of a jungler got outjungled by everyone. Always needs to be bailed out by Caps. Delete Yike and Miky stop inting

[@mojodojo-wg9ec]

Brokenbrain was also gapped in most games. Look against T1.

[@dylanzelkin8506]

this is so hard to watch wow, really cringe

[@rafaellisiecki]

so happy they lost tbh.. They must humble themselves. BB is so arrogantwhen he pewpew against lower tier

[@erenklc7172]

bozo

[@mihai-soringhergu2647]

he never cam across as arrogant to me, in fact none of the players of this team did, why are you saying they're arrogant?

[@lukasweininger5348]

He definitely played tier 1 top not the best worldwide but matched other toplaners even in teamfights

[@tryfergoodra552]

???

[@Skyflairl2p]

bro's got glass eyes