Fnatic vs SK Gaming – LEC Spring Split 2019

The new LEC season is about to begin. Let’s have a look at one of the exciting matches of the league.

The reason we have picked this match for you is that it is the match of the second-best team of 2018 against the new LEC franchise SK Gaming. Fnatic has made some changes of their own while SK Gaming will be making a comeback to the league. Therefore, it will be an exciting practice to see who will come out on top.

Fnatic

Fnatic could have been the story of the season if the European side had not gone so much complacent at the most important moment of the franchise in seven years. Getting demolished in each compartment of the game throughout the series, Fnatic players had an embarrassing display in LoL World Championship 2018 grand finals. The failure of Bwipo, the complete annihilation of Caps and the bot lane or the questionable plays from Soaz justify the failure of Fnatic. The EU team exhibited a strong progression of its rookies and excellent style of play in Bo1 format of the tournament.

It goes without saying that, the climax of the Worlds 2018 was an utter humiliation for the spectators and at the end highlighted that the Fnatic team was not at all prepared to be crowned the champion. Therefore, the team changes were inevitable come the transfer season.

Departure of Caps

A month ago, the signing of the year in the world of the League of Legends, Rasmus ” Caps ” Winther left the team with which he conquered the second place in the world, Fnatic, and moved to the team’s rival, G2 Esports. This shocking move even made Luka “Perkz” Perkovic change his role to the shooter to make room for the Danish player. He tried to be turned off within hours with the confirmation of an open secret by Fnatic: Tim ” Nemesis ” Lipovsek was going to be your substitute.

Nemesis Signing

Expectations about the potential of the Slovenian have not stopped growing since he debuted a little over a year ago with a 2nd tier EU side, MAD Lions. Playing for the team of Alvar ” Araneae ” Martín, Nemesis has become the greatest promise of the European League of Legends and practically all of the experts considered him as the number one candidate to occupy the position of Caps in Fnatic, without counting Koreans.

Nemesis has produced some fine performance with MAD Lions team. With the EU side, he won the Summer edition of the European Masters on the score of 3 to 0 against Ninjas in Pajamas. He will now play alongside Gabriel ” Bwipo ” Rau, Mads ” Broxah ” Brock-Pedersen, Martin ” Rekkles ” Larsson and Zdravets Iliev ” Hylissang ” Galabov.

Rekkles deciding who plays?

There are many who say that they work hand in hand with Martin ” Rekkles ” Larsson, which may be one of the reasons why all these players would have left while the Swedish shooter is a constant during the history of Fnatic. Possibly we will never know from its protagonists if that is the main reason for its departure.

Of course, that does not mean that he thinks that Nemesis will play a great role in Fnatic. The team can afford something less than quality in the central street in view of the more than possible evolution of actors like Gabriel “Bwipo” Rau or Mads “Broxah” Brock-Pedersen and the unquestionable potential of the Slovenian. Even so, this communication from Fnatic only thing is that if the good Nemesis has a bad game against the G2 Esports de Caps, many fans will crucify him.

Refreshed Fnatic

Fnatic has a very different challenge between hands. After an almost perfect season, it’s time to return to the starting box and prove that they are much more than a good team in which Caps stood out. They have been entrusted to the growth of the other players, but they have also taken over the services of what is for many the greatest promise in Europe: Tim ” Nemesis ” Lipovsek.

The last champions of the LEC are putting high hopes and almost as much pressure on the shoulders of the former MAD Lions star. As much as Nemesis is a genius and possibly closes more than one mouths, it seems that Fnatic is forced to sell a defeat as if it were a victory. The challenge that lies ahead is quite difficult. To forget a player as decisive as Caps is complicated, although in his favor he has to share a very similar profile. Nemesis is a very aggressive online player with a strong ability to get kills in one on one and with a huge champion pool. We will see if he is capable of adapting to the highest level.

After Bwipo signed for Fnatic on a 3-year deal, Fnatic strengthened its workforce for the LEC League of Legends 2019 and unveiled the coaching staff that will supervise the players for the year 2019. It includes the French Mephisto, barely out of ROG school, the French Louis-Victor ” Mephisto ” Legendre was announced as assistant coach for Fnatic alongside Head Coach Joey ” YoungBuck ” Steltenpool, former team manager.

SK Gaming

After the recruitment of Fabian “Sheepy” Mallant (formerly Unicorns of Love) as Head Coach in the early transfer market, we find Jorge “Werlyb” Casanovas Moreno-Torres (ex MAD Lions) in the Top, Oskar “Selfmade” Boderek (ex MAD Lions) as jungler, Korean Jun-sik “Pirean” Choi coming straight from SK Telecom T1 at mid lane, and finally Juš “Crownshot” Marušič (ex MAD Lions) and Min-kook “Dreams” Han (formerly replacing Team Vitality) on the duo lane.

It is therefore not less than three former players of the Spanish team MAD Lions who integrated SK Gaming. As a reminder, the structure won the Summer edition of the European Masters.

Final Verdict

Fnatic 2 – 0 SK Gaming

Odds on bookmakers

Bookmakers	SKT T1 Odds		Afreeca Freecs Odds
	European	American	European	American
GG.bet	1.22	– 454.55	3.82	+282.00
Loot.bet	1.25	-400.00	3.85	+285.00
Bet365	1.25	-400.00	3.75	+275.00
Betway	1.25	-400.00	3.55	+255.00