Natus Vincere vs. GIANTX / LEC 2026 Summer - Lower Bracket Round 1 / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Ultimintree]

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Natus Vincere 3-2 GIANTX

NAVI's Worlds hopes are still alive!

GX have been eliminated from Playoffs and from Worlds contention.

• Player of the Series: Rhilech

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FULL MATCH SUMMARY & STATS

🟦	🧱	💰	⚔️	175:02	⚔️	💰	🧱	🟥
GX - L 1st pick	3	50.3k	8	Game 1 (28:48)	20	61.0k	8	W - NAVI
GX - W 1st pick	9	74.5k	15	Game 2 (35:56)	15	69.7k	5	L - NAVI
NAVI - W 1st pick	11	76.6k	17	Game 3 (36:18)	16	70.8k	4	L - GX
GX - W 1st pick	8	74.6k	15	Game 4 (36:30)	13	71.6k	4	L - NAVI
NAVI - W 1st pick	10	75.8k	17	Game 5 (37:30)	6	70.0k	3	L - GX

Team	Total KDA	KP	CSM	DMG%	Champions Played
🇺🇦 NAVI	82-60-206
🇺🇦 Maynter	14-7-32 (6.6)	56%	8.6	23.7%	Rumble, Olaf, Renekton, Gwen, Jax
🇹🇷 Rhilech	30-15-41 (4.7)	87%	7.8	20.4%	Jarvan IV, Wukong, Shyvana, Naafiri, Aatrox
🇰🇷 Poby	16-13-42 (4.5)	71%	9	20%	Ryze, Akali, Orianna, Annie, Viktor
🇰🇷 SamD	20-10-31 (5.1)	62%	10.8	29.8%	Xayah, Lucian, Ezreal, Varus, Ziggs
🇹🇷 Parus	2-15-60 (4.1)	76%	1.1	6.1%	Nautilus, Milio, Karma, Rell, Leona
🇪🇸 GX	60-82-149
🇪🇸 Oscarinin	15-15-19 (2.3)	57%	8.2	23.5%	Ambessa, Trundle, Kennen, Yorick, Gangplank
🇧🇪 ISMA	6-22-39 (2)	75%	6.8	15.3%	Vi, Xin Zhao, Nocturne, Skarner, Sejuani
🇨🇿 Jackies	20-17-22 (2.5)	70%	9	27.3%	Anivia, Syndra, Locke, Taliyah, Azir
🇪🇸 Flakked	18-13-23 (3.2)	68%	10.8	27.1%	Corki, Ashe, Jhin, Sivir, Caitlyn
🇰🇷 Jun	1-15-46 (3.1)	78%	0.8	6.8%	Rakan, Seraphine, Bard, Alistar, Braum

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GAME 1: GX vs. NAVI

Winner: Natus Vincere in 29m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
GX	K'Sante Seraphine Nocturne	Ezreal Yunara	50.3k	8	3		3, 0, 0
NAVI	Cassiopeia Orianna Syndra	Kai'Sa Caitlyn	61.0k	20	8	🔥1 🌪️2 💧3 💧4	0, 1, 1

GX		KDA	vs	KDA		NAVI
Player	Pick	8-20-20	⚔️	20-8-64	Pick	Player
Oscarinin	2 Ambessa	5-3-1	TOP	4-1-10	1 Rumble	Maynter
ISMA	1 Vi	1-6-6	JNG	2-1-18	2 Jarvan IV	Rhilech
Jackies	2 Anivia	2-4-4	MID	6-2-12	1 Ryze	Poby
Flakked	3 Corki	0-2-4	BOT	7-0-7	3 Xayah	SamD
Jun	3 Rakan	0-5-5	SUP	1-4-17	4 Nautilus	Parus

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GAME 2: GX vs. NAVI

Winner: GIANTX in 36m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
GX	K'Sante Nocturne Qiyana	Skarner Shyvana	74.5k	15	9	⚡2 🔥5	3, 1, 0
NAVI	Cassiopeia Orianna Bard	Camille Vayne	69.7k	15	5	🌪️1 🔥3 🔥4 🔥6	1, 0, 2

GX		KDA	vs	KDA		NAVI
Player	Pick	15-15-35	⚔️	15-15-36	Pick	Player
Oscarinin	3 Trundle	4-2-4	TOP	3-1-7	2 Olaf	Maynter
ISMA	2 Xin Zhao	1-4-12	JNG	6-4-6	3 Wukong	Rhilech
Jackies	3 Syndra	5-4-3	MID	2-3-5	4 Akali	Poby
Flakked	2 Ashe	5-3-3	BOT	4-4-5	1 Lucian	SamD
Jun	1 Seraphine	0-2-13	SUP	0-3-13	1 Milio	Parus

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GAME 3: NAVI vs. GX

Winner: Natus Vincere in 36m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
NAVI	Nidalee Jayce Skarner	LeBlanc Gnar	76.6k	17	11	💧2	2, 0, 2
GX	Cassiopeia Qiyana Viktor	K'Sante Zaahen	70.8k	16	4	🧪1 🌪️3	1, 1, 0

NAVI		KDA	vs	KDA		GX
Player	Pick	17-16-44	⚔️	16-17-42	Pick	Player
Maynter	3 Renekton	1-2-9	TOP	1-5-7	4 Kennen	Oscarinin
Rhilech	3 Shyvana	9-5-8	JNG	2-6-11	1 Nocturne	ISMA
Poby	1 Orianna	4-3-10	MID	10-3-4	3 Locke	Jackies
SamD	2 Ezreal	3-2-6	BOT	3-1-8	2 Jhin	Flakked
Parus	2 Karma	0-4-11	SUP	0-2-12	1 Bard	Jun

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GAME 4: GX vs. NAVI

Winner: GIANTX in 36m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
GX	K'Sante Qiyana VIktor	Zaahen Aatrox	74.6k	15	8	🌪️1 💧4 💧5	3, 1, 1
NAVI	Cassiopeia Jayce Lulu	Camille Azir	71.6k	13	4	⚡2 💧3	0, 0, 1

GX		KDA	vs	KDA		NAVI
Player	Pick	15-13-37	⚔️	13-15-25	Pick	Player
Oscarinin	3 Yorick	3-3-6	TOP	4-3-2	4 Gwen	Maynter
ISMA	1 Skarner	1-2-7	JNG	6-3-3	3 Naafiri	Rhilech
Jackies	3 Taliyah	1-3-9	MID	1-4-7	1 Annie	Poby
Flakked	2 Sivir	9-3-4	BOT	2-3-6	1 Varus	SamD
Jun	2 Alistar	1-2-11	SUP	0-2-7	2 Rell	Parus

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GAME 5: NAVI vs. GX

Winner: Natus Vincere in 37m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	💰	⚔️	🧱	Dragons	VG, RH, BN
NAVI	Nidalee Jayce Yone	Camille Yunara	75.8k	17	10	💧3 💧4 💧5	2, 1, 2
GX	Lulu Qiyana Cassiopeia	K'Sante Zaahen	70.0k	6	3	⚡1 🧪2 💧6	1, 0, 0

NAVI		KDA	vs	KDA		GX
Player	Pick	17-6-37	⚔️	6-17-15	Pick	Player
Maynter	3 Jax	2-0-4	TOP	2-2-1	4 Gangplank	Oscarinin
Rhilech	2 Aatrox	7-2-6	JNG	1-4-3	1 Sejuani	ISMA
Poby	1 Viktor	3-1-8	MID	2-3-2	1 Azir	Jackies
SamD	3 Ziggs	4-1-7	BOT	1-4-4	3 Caitlyn	Flakked
Parus	2 Leona	1-2-12	SUP	0-4-5	2 Braum	Jun

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/ahritina]

PMTs

Game 1 / Game 2 / Game 3 / Game 4

[u/Snow-27]

jungle gap of doom and despair

[u/Burntlettuce → u/Snow-27]

Take Notes

[u/OnlyAnEssenceThief → u/Snow-27]

Statement series from Rhilech. ISMA's career is doomed.

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/OnlyAnEssenceThief]

isma got gapped by a way better player his career isnt over

i thought he was overrated but hes still decent lec player, think gx should move on from him tho tbh

[u/slimjimo10 → u/Past_Perception8052]

Hes okay but we've clearly seen it's going to be a hard ask getting him to worlds

[u/polacs → u/[deleted]]

He got gapped by Yike and Rhilech, that doesn't end you career. It just means you are not top 4 on your role

[u/sillybilly-vit → u/polacs]

Who is he good against?

[u/Motorpsisisissipp → u/sillybilly-vit]

Has done well against yoya, razork, skeanz lyncas etc... I feel like rhilech is a bad mu for him and yike and skewmond are way too good

[u/eVill_YT → u/sillybilly-vit]

worse players

[u/MandatedPineapple → u/OnlyAnEssenceThief]

Couldn't have happened to a better person

[u/moonmeh → u/Snow-27]

and still it went to 5 games

[u/Curiousoctos → u/moonmeh]

There was a massive blackhole in the midlane Rhilech had to carry every game, it almost wasn't enough.

[u/moonmeh → u/Curiousoctos]

It was, poby really properly fucked 2 games and almost did another lol

[u/hornyVirgo → u/moonmeh]

Because of mid gap and Samd is just terrible as well

[u/moonmeh → u/hornyVirgo]

The real jungle experience 

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/moonmeh]

NAVI are stupid besides Rhilech. Even he has some mindboggling moments.

[u/desutruction → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

They're like MKOI but instead of getting bored they get nervous

[u/ahambagaplease → u/desutruction]

Yeah, they're a mostly rookie team at the end of the day so it makes sense their games look like this, even if it's a bit painful to watch.

[u/avaislegendary → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

I think Maynter is really solid

[u/SeismicShove → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Maynter gapped Oscar hard this series let's not lie

[u/Andreiiii → u/Snow-27]

Take notes!

[u/Vnaux → u/Snow-27]

haven't seen a jungle gap this big in a while

[u/baelkie → u/Snow-27]

2024 SK playoffs flashbacks

[u/VrelEgg → u/Snow-27]

Astro gapped 5 games in a row. Isma humiliation ritual

[u/ImTheVayne → u/Snow-27]

Massive GAP

[u/Choice-Slight]

NAVI top 4 in their first (real) year in the league with basically 3 rookies. very impressive if you ask me

[u/ZloiAris → u/Choice-Slight]

It is insane how this org keeps finding success in different disciplines while keeping their budget intact.

One series away from Worlds for a squad which most of us see as top-8 at best

[u/DefNotAnAlter → u/ZloiAris]

I think the signs were there all the way back in Winter, personally not surprised

[u/ParkDedli → u/ZloiAris]

Turns out getting rookies in and trusting ERL players is a good choice. God I miss Relegation.

Their 3 best players are the 3 European rookies (or basically rookies in Parus' case). If they get a good ADC (Jopa f.e.) and a good midlaner with some experience (Nemesis, but I doubt he wants to. But someone comparable), they could be a force.

[u/FikariHawthorn → u/ParkDedli]

It's not just rookies ERL players. Since the orgs itself is new, they also got ERL coaches who are here because they proved themselves instead of nepotism.

TheRock7 did a great year with KCB already working with Maynter, and GotoOne is an experienced assistant coach that's likely the reason behind the success of BDS in 2023.

The failures of teams in LEC are always first caused by incompetent GMs, above players factors (Heretics with the constant switcheroo, SK with the blank check to Mikyx and the Köln base, FNC with Dardo, SHT keeping Striker way past is due, etc)

Players showing good promise in ERL but failing to trasform in LEC is mainly because they didn't get the good environment to make the change. I'm sure teams like Galions today have a better working ethics, staff and environment, than half of the LEC.

[u/SeismicShove → u/Choice-Slight]

Basically 4 rookies you mean? They have 3 full rookies, plus Poby who only played 1 split with FNC. And then Parus who played 1 year on a bottom tier team. Might as well call it 5 rookies lmao

Edit: Guys I'm wrong SamD is not a rookie mb

[u/Choice-Slight → u/SeismicShove]

is SamD a rookie? i know he played summer last year same as poby but idk where he was before

[u/Miserable_Ad_1195 → u/Choice-Slight]

SamD is definitely not a rookie he already played in LPL in 2020 with V5 (the cast mentioned them in game 4 or 5 even) and he also made internationals when he was in Latin America I think?

[u/eVill_YT → u/Miserable_Ad_1195]

SamD has played like 4 years in LCK+LPL combined, and an extra year in south america. he's one of the most experienced players in LEC

[u/FlashDab → u/Choice-Slight]

He's been around for a while. He's played in both LPL and LCK before, but not super inspiring outside of a split on a very fun Victory 5 team in LPL.

[u/SeismicShove → u/Choice-Slight]

Not gonna lie I completely forgot SamD played last year, but yes you're right. My bad.

All in all, these 5 guys COMBINED have less experience than Oscarinin for example. Incredibly rookie team.

[u/pzBlue → u/SeismicShove]

less experience than Oscarinin

SamD (as Hans SamD before dropping Hans) played in t1 leagues for ages now (since like 2020/21 iirc), with small gaps here and there and was on t2 rosters. Oscarinin is in t1 since debut on FNC in 2023.

He even played for HLE in LCK, and had some fun time with V5 in LPL (don't remember which one was 1st)

[u/EliteTeutonicNight → u/SeismicShove]

SamD has played in LPL as early as in 2020, then LCK in 2022 with HLE, then bouncing around several regions. He spent 1.5 years in tier two before Navi, but he's literally the most veteran player in today's match. He made it to tier 1 at around the same time as Zeus, Oner, Guma, and Keria.

Not to take away the overall impressive year that Navi had, just that they aren't a full rookie team, even if their veteran is a Korean who happens to be their weak link.

[u/jfsoaig345 → u/Choice-Slight]

I thought I was on the Dota sub for a second! What a blast from the past hearing from this org 15 years after they captured gold at the first TI

[u/Mr_Bot_Bot → u/Choice-Slight]

Absolutely amazing year for them. Rhilech pulling out his diff jungle champs and playstyle was sick to watch all year

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/Choice-Slight]

if they upgrade on mid and bot they can become really good

[u/Kuszmen → u/Past_Perception8052]

Jackies and Jopa would make Navi solid top3 team

[u/Taivasvaeltaja → u/Kuszmen]

Would also make the roster fully European, not that I care whether they are Korean or not.

[u/desutruction]

This Rhilech guy is kinda good, maybe he'll be the Rookie of the Year

Rhilech on Aatrox and Old Aatrox Pro Max Zaahen is always a beast

[u/desutruction → u/desutruction]

SamD didn't have a very good series but he was doing numbers on that Ziggs, made the game-winning offensive satchel too

[u/Bubbly_Camera9583 → u/desutruction]

SamD wasn’t that bad. He had a good ziggs + Xayah and had some moments on Lucian. His only real bad game was on Ez, where he and Parus were just running it, that varus game is completely on Poby/Maynter.

[u/TricksyZerg → u/Bubbly_Camera9583]

Glad you saw that!

[u/Xarlitosbrown]

Biggest 1v9 I remember in a 5 games series

[u/ImTheVayne → u/Xarlitosbrown]

Bro was 1v9 in every game and NAVI just barely won lmao

[u/beautheschmo → u/ImTheVayne]

I mean realistically it was a 1v1 with 8 spectators for most of the series lol

[u/ricoodo89 → u/beautheschmo]

If this was a 1v1 NaVi wins every game in 8 minutes.

[u/Nadico → u/ricoodo89]

He means 1v1 Rilech vs Jackies.. and 8 spectators.

[u/ricoodo89 → u/Nadico]

Ah, fair

[u/N0Ability → u/ImTheVayne]

Been like this the whole year ,and then he gets all the blame when they flame out in playoffs cause he cant 1v9 the top 3 teams as expected when none of his teammates are top 4 in their roles even.

[u/KruppJ → u/N0Ability]

Are any of them even top 6

[u/ShadowSpiked → u/KruppJ]

Parus and Maynter are probably top 6.

[u/Salohacin → u/Xarlitosbrown]

Rilech was pretty much the team  gold lead at any point in time. 

[u/bernardomoleiro]

Jungle gap: the series

[u/MC-sama → u/bernardomoleiro]

Rhilech statement series with his newly earned rookie of the year

[u/Curiousoctos]

Insane 1 man carry job

[u/falcorn_dota]

And ISMA wept, for there were no more notes to take

[u/AtMaxSpeed → u/[deleted]]

Draft was lost for GX when they gave aatrox to Rhilech, regardless of the other champs in the game.

[u/Beginning-Mark1735 → u/[deleted]]

Imagine for a moment: Game 5, you have a draft where you don't need to fight early or do something because you simply scales. You the 2 first drakes, what Gx do? --> permafight

[u/Blizzgrarg]

Rhilech carried 5 games this series. But take notes.

[u/whynot1260]

Take Notes

[u/shailemin → u/whynot1260]

looks at notes, they say ‘get jungle gapped.’

[u/RollingGuy]

Really fun series. Today might be Jun’s last game in the LEC so thanks for playing for our region goat 

[u/Large_Love_2563]

Step 1: Pick a late game scaling team comp

Step 2: Force early game fights repeatedly against the opponent that has a really strong early game team comp

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Lose

Rhilech undoubtedly the star of the day but Maynter was very good and lowk gapped Oscar the entire series.

[u/Chr0nicConsumer → u/[deleted]]

You can take Oscar out of fnatic..

[u/b4ck_5t4Bb3r → u/Large_Love_2563]

Finn on the broadcast was actually BEGGING GX to stop man! they had a full scaling comp and Jackies goes for an 18 minute flash Azir ult. Oscar goes for a 3 minion GP ult. Sejuani just invades raptor camp after raptor camp only to lose them too. Who cares if the Sej is 10 levels down???

[u/shailemin]

One must imagine Jackies happy. 

On the other hand, how good is Rhilech? Insane carry job.

[u/KKilikk → u/shailemin]

Well he threw game 5 as much as anyone else at the end of the day

[u/Martinoslav832 → u/KKilikk]

Well if GX didn’t have Jackies they would get absolutli shit stomp. He was trying play high risk, becose if he didn’t, GX wouldn’t get any chance to win. He was playing 1v9 most of the time

[u/KKilikk → u/Martinoslav832]

Jackies was their best player. Game 5 was still throws by him. I get that he needed to go for high risk plays in some cases. But not in this game.

[u/Gazskull]

"our team is cooked" into potentially making worlds loul

[u/TechnicalFriendship6 → u/Gazskull]

Ezra reverse jinx tactic

[u/M8Cheeseman → u/Gazskull]

We all know MKOI will somehow clutch out that spot, the Worlds humiliation ritual is inevitable.

[u/ParkDedli → u/M8Cheeseman]

No offense but please no. I just want some new blood at an international and NaVi really deserves it. Even if it is just Rhilech carrying and the other ones getting shitstomped. The scrimming alone will do them some good and MKOI really doesn't need it.

[u/TheSnekKing]

Putting your best player on the Azir that hasn't won a proplay game in god knows how long is definitely a choice. Like if no one in LCK is playing Azir there has to be a pretty good reason for it.

Though I guess it doesn't matter much if all his teammates keep getting caught

[u/Vnaux → u/TheSnekKing]

that Azir was trying to do a late game move on an early game skirmish that fucked up the whole scaling plan

[u/curlyfriezzzzz → u/Vnaux]

It was insane to attempt that especially when the viktor is safe and close enough to retaliate

[u/KKilikk → u/TheSnekKing]

Jackies trolled a lot though going for unnecessary shuffles. The game went from even to -2k when he tried his first shuffle on Aatrox with flash for 0 reason. Completely trolled his GP who got doven and lost his tower off of it as well.

[u/ElBartimaeus → u/KKilikk]

Jackies tried his hardest to carry throughout the series by making high reward plays, which were high risk most of the times. He really has to step up and pull out some insane moves to carry this team. It backfired more than once but it won them 2 games and made an other closer. I really wish to see him with a real playmaker so he has a bit less pressure on making THE play all the time.

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/TheSnekKing]

hes a good azir let him play what he is good at in a g5 fuck the meta bro nobody plays aatrox jungle either

[u/curlyfriezzzzz → u/Past_Perception8052]

He fucked up the shuffle in the beginning that put them in the hole in the first place, it was bad

[u/deemerritt → u/curlyfriezzzzz]

I mean he didnt fuck up the shuffle he just absolutely should not have gone for it lol

[u/curlyfriezzzzz → u/deemerritt]

Essentially the same thing, even if aatrox didn’t flash idk if they win that

[u/deemerritt → u/curlyfriezzzzz]

Sure it's just a distinction between being bad at a champ and making bad choices

[u/gcrimson → u/TheSnekKing]

I mean it's game 5 and Jackies has not a big champion pool. It's not like there is much meta in fearless game 5.

[u/naevus19]

Getting Caught - The series

[u/GodEren]

ISMA with one of the worst performance I've ever saw in 5 CONSECUTIVE GAME, GX deserve nothing on this BO5.

[u/Shadowzed]

Game 5: We're playing a scaling teamfight comp, lets force a play on Aatrox with flash up, didnt work. Okay lets 2 man dive Viktor top when they have double tp ready

[u/Bothbothwushi]

You are a pro league of legends team and you drafted full scaling. You go up 2 Drakes to 0 with full scaling. Do you force fights into a mid game composition in order to further your position more while risking the entire game? Or do you concede and wait for your win conditions to be met so your probability of winning the game is at its highest? 

[u/Back2Perfection → u/Bothbothwushi]

Also all t1 towers (aside from bot I think) were standing at that point. Just give that drake and get more gold on caitlyn and azir.

It‘s not rocket science.

[u/Bothbothwushi → u/Back2Perfection]

Yeah it's genuinely disgusting. Solo queue teams have shown better understanding of composition win conditions than this team. You give the next 2 Drakes guarantee free scaling for 10 minutes and then azir, caitlyn and gp delete whoever walks up

[u/Toofargone9999 → u/Bothbothwushi]

they should posture and prepare to disengage from the fight and let azir take top tower . Some decisions they made were very puzzling and they opted to fight and help enemy team accelerate which they should be preventing at all cost , great job GX

[u/Ashiseu]

That Oscarinin flash at the end was.... something.

[u/Any_Economics_6166 → u/Ashiseu]

miss triple barrel, flash into wall, die, lose game. Tbh it was funny to watch

[u/S_apostrophe_S → u/Any_Economics_6166]

Ziggs literally had to flash the triple barrel, it would have hit. His mistake there was positioning and not flashing onto the other side of Ziggs W.

[u/HB_17]

Let’s go Navi huge dub

[u/GothaV2]

In this episode, Jackies went harsh on Isma:

"I felt speaking gently won't work, so I decided to be a bit harsh."

"You always pick Vi and Nocturne against Naafiri, then you get outganked by opponents' Shyvana and Wukong. Tell me, did you ever manage to smite an objective? "

“Is it that hard to master Nocturne in one season? Dude, you always first pick Xin or Vi, and you played Sejuani like shit.”

Isma: "okay."

Oscarinin: "This is the first time I saw something like this, I was stunned."

Jackies also added in the interview:

"Isma is still young, he can still play, and he can still play for a long time. If he can understand the reason behind it, maybe he can play better and better in the future."

[u/tarutaru99 → u/GothaV2]

Is this the Karsa 369 pasta lmfaoo

[u/ZloiAris → u/tarutaru99]

Yes, it is

[u/SekaiC]

How could fnatic and Grabbz do this to Oscarinin?

[u/Past_Perception8052 → u/SekaiC]

how can oscar play when Upset is taking all the resources and attention?

[u/trying2hide]

Thought the same in Spring playoffs when Lyncas met Elyoya, you just clearly see the gaps in junglers when the games really matter.

Thought GX did well just to get to Game 5.

[u/OreRound]

What a banger, but Rhilech completely made fun of ISMA in every game. All the games GX won were NAVI throws more than anything. What a player Rhilech is.

[u/BleiEntchen]

Jesus that jungle gap

[u/kon13]

Pretty disapointing finale.. tbh if Jackies doesn't decide to go in and gift Rhilech a double kill after second drake, Gx probably wins this. Sad because he was scaling pretty well this year.

[u/kismetjeska]

Someone take Rhilech out back and suck him silly. Lord knows the man deserves it.

[u/xsm17]

There's something poetic in giving Oscar a GP counterpick and him getting caught out being the final blow. Also ISMA looked like he tilted out of this series from the get-go, what were those Sejuani ults

[u/p1stolpewpew → u/xsm17]

Oscar caught out was not final blow, jackies not killing the wave and hitting aatrox for some reason while kiting into blue buff - did

[u/Sorry-Resolution570]

i like how jackies was smurfing the BO and they drafted him on azir who's bad rn and is by far the champ he's the worst at.

putting your adc thats good at weakside on caitlyn was also smth

[u/NeighborhoodHot8981 → u/Sorry-Resolution570]

If only LEC/LCS is playing Azir you know the pick is fucking turbo dogshit and teams keep picking it, I really don't know why.

[u/Danixd_ → u/NeighborhoodHot8981]

It's game 5 with Sejuani, Braum. Only issue with the Azir pick is that Jackies always goes for unnecessary shuffle plays on the champ.

[u/Dest1ny1]

I've never seen someone get gapped so hard by their counterpart for five games in a row, that was crazy.

[u/Particular-Dig6885]

Generational series from Isma

[u/OkWhateverCynisme]

This is legit a true 1 vs 9

Rhilech was above everyone this serie, not even his grifting team could stop him from winning.

[u/tzukitzu]

You would have a nasty roster combing the best players of these two teams

[u/SsibalKiseki → u/tzukitzu]

Would prefer Jopa over Flakked but yeah somewhat true

[u/zefal12 → u/tzukitzu]

So... NAVI + Jackies?

[u/Sensitive_Egg_2059]

I feel bad for Jackies. He had a good year. That shuffle sucked tho.

[u/255189]

when your gangplank speaks zero chinese

[u/PM_CUTE_CAT_PLZ]

This is NAVI 5-0 ngl

[u/ObviousAd8374]

GX Oscarinin: "I didn't agree with how Grabbz handled our talks after each split ended in Fnatic. It felt like I was sometimes being targeted a bit, and I obviously didn't like that. Regarding FNC, I think they kind of fucked my image. I think it's why I didn't get a team at the start of the season"

[u/likemyupdoot]

OSCARININ IS A HUMAN BEING, YUP

[u/Ultimintree]

How can you give Rhilech Aatrox in Game 5?

[u/Ok-Examination-2869 → u/Ultimintree]

tbh draft is pretty bad for aatrox late but he smurfed so hard early that it didnt matter

[u/AtMaxSpeed → u/Ok-Examination-2869]

I would think this if it was anyone other than Rhilech on aatrox, but there is no bad draft for Rhilech's aatrox to face. It's like a weaker version of Bin's jax (but also against weaker opponents than Bin).

[u/Andreiiii → u/Ultimintree]

He smurfed on them on whatever, it wouldn’t matter in the end.

[u/Biggsy-32 → u/Ultimintree]

Just the definition of bad coaching.

[u/Andreiiii]

Isma take notes!

[u/Fluffy_Fly8497]

Monster series from Rhilech

[u/Shishicorn]

Rhilech is solo carrying SamD and Poby through most if not all of these games, disgusting jungle gap

[u/Sofaboy90]

Navi is having such an impressive debut season, I had high expectations for this org considering the level they perform in other esport titles, but I didnt expect them to be this good in their first season with a roster that probably doesnt cost that much. Lets remember how KCs first season went in comparison. I hope Navi can be a long term addition as a top team, perhaps even rival G2.

[u/Touro_de_Goa]

I understand GX felt like they had to take a chance with the roster to crack top 3 but they literally downgraded in both positions. Isma got astro gapped too, poor Jun and Jackies with them leaving i think the days of GX fighting for the top positions are over

[u/Leyrann_]

I feel like across the league (most notably Naak Nako, Rhilech and Jackies) there's enough talent for a third team that, if they can't beat G2 and KC, can at least make them sweat for it and also not embarrass themselves internationally.

[u/RollingGuy → u/Leyrann_]

Meh, Jackies has talent for sure but he’s just mid Supa he’s super inconsistent and sells the game for no reason 

Agree with your general sentiment though 

[u/gordonpamsey → u/Leyrann_]

Jackies has really progressed as a player but nothing about his style would work with Rhilech. NaVi quite literally sacrifices everything for him on a consistent basis and game plans around him. None of these are Jackies strength and I think they look better apart.

[u/ReplacementFine7807 → u/gordonpamsey]

Same with Naak, lyncas and Fleshy work overtime to pressure the whole map so Naak can sidelane in peace.

[u/NeighborhoodHot8981 → u/Leyrann_]

I think LEC is in a really great spot tbh even though we keep getting dumpstered by NA for whatever reason, the recent international results vs Eastern teams plus having improving players in the league like Naak, Rhilech, Lyncas, Jackies, Jopa and Parus alongside the veterans and a decent ERL system is promising. The only position in which I think LEC significantly lacks in upcoming talent is midlane unfortunately.

[u/Aromatic_Country_987]

Oscarinin brother

[u/falcorn_dota → u/Aromatic_Country_987]

Give me Solarbacca with 200 ping on AP Gangplank over Oscar

[u/SAOsoul]

Imagine giving oscar counterpick every game, when flakked and jun are 10x better than samd parus

[u/eiris91]

Oscar is the definition of anti clutch

[u/Kait0yashio]

In the end Top and ADC still choke for GX, but isma is soo fucking shit

[u/Ok-Examination-2869]

overall pretty good games to watch tbh

[u/tarutaru99]

Successful ISMA Hatewatch

Everyone on GX were just getting caught. What a horrorclass, jeez.

[u/Janusztao]

I think TheRock needs to flame his team more often XD

[u/piotrj3]

Rhilech is really top 3 jungler in EU, maybe even top 2. There is so much wrong with Navi, and yet team looks good thanks to Rhilech

[u/baelkie]

Holy GEN Rhilech 2027 would go so fucking hard

[u/FaelightFilms]

oscarinting

[u/deemerritt]

Mind boggling game lol why are they fighting these drakes

[u/Less_Working7]

Five games of jungle gap

[u/Lerdrit1]

So now we can say gx had a downgrade

[u/ThisOneTimeAtLolCamp]

Notes taken on how to bomb out of qualifying for worlds.

[u/Miserable_Ad_1195]

for once giving out an award before the series did not curse the recipient of it

[u/Avalon_Avalon]

We have Xmithie at home

Xmithie at home:

xIsma

[u/curlyfriezzzzz → u/Avalon_Avalon]

Xmissma

[u/Diss_ConnecT]

JG diff series

[u/GromaxShooterCZ]

Super happy for NAVI. Great org.
Also Rhilech is a monstrum.

[u/squishykkura]

All that scaling, 3 drakes and everything just to get caught out twice

[u/Infamous-Exam9905]

what a series

[u/fesch98]

You can take ISMA out of SK but you cant take the SK out of ISMA

[u/AskJolly7381]

Isma and Oscarinin retire angle

[u/LuisMuMe]

Horrible last game by Jackies, nerves got to him

[u/kalex33]

Oscar, what the fuck was that??

China was investigated for less LMAO

[u/DT2X]

oscarinin…🥀

[u/Shurpresa]

What a stinker game from Isma and Jakies

[u/Hyperry]

Isma. Brother. Your Seju is literally bronze.

[u/Plixpalmtree]

GX were tired of being 4th best so made the changes to become 6th best. You have to respect it.

[u/Fuzzy_Departure_4710]

oscar is my carry Aware

[u/phantasmagoriamoth]

Imagine Na'Vi with a proper midlaner.

[u/revoverlord]

Cant count on Oscar to carry anything tbh

[u/Throwaway7218516]

Classic OscarIntin

[u/Shurpresa → u/Throwaway7218516]

Nah that isn't on Oscar

[u/xSwazyI]

Oscar no way you get caught like that 😂

[u/p1stolpewpew]

Jackies hitting aa instead of clearing the wave

[u/SeismicShove]

This series could've been a NAVI 5-0

[u/likemyupdoot]

Paypal payment received by GP, thank you very much

[u/Fun_Highlight307]

Rhilech turbo fisted ismsa

looks like navi was the better gate Keeper 

[u/j_park0]

Maynter with the Enzo celebration?? Lol?

[u/Other_Broom]

Scaling comp? Fistfight to the death when weak and go 4k down

Scale to infinity off a throw? Fail a flash and counterthrow

Gx are truly tactical and strategic masterminds

[u/id370]

Holy jg gap. I’ve never seen a player with so much ego and so little hands

[u/TheWarmog]

Big boi Oscar, once again good at talking shit till he actually has to play.

[u/350]

Massive by Rhilech, but the moment they locked in Gangplank for Oscar, I knew it was over.

[u/alcard987]

I can't believe Fnatic and Grabbz made them lose the series

[u/cesunoNA]

ISMA was mental gapped, hands gapped, brain gapped, jg gapped, and bloodline gapped

[u/Floowil]

So GX went from solid 4th place to potentially not even qualifying for Demacia Cup, because they wanted to attack TOP3 with these changes

[u/Carlzzone → u/Floowil]

I don't think they knew about Demacia Cup in fairness

[u/Pissyellowknight → u/Floowil]

I mean this series is on isma

[u/WalkingR6]

giving aatrox one trick aatrox in game 5

[u/CaptainTrips22]

Navi worlds train is still alive