G2 arrived as favourites, fresh from sending T1 home, against a North American side few expected to trouble Europe's best. The gap between that expectation and what followed defined the series. LYON didn't out-mechanic G2 — they out-tempoed them, game after game, until G2 stopped playing their own game entirely.
LYON out-think G2 from start to finish
On this series, LYON threw themselves into almost early skirmish available, looking to rattle the European side, then simply outplayed them in the teamfights that followed — clean, decisive, and repeated. G2's vision was the hole underneath it all: they kept committing to objectives without knowing where LYON actually were. The last teamfight of the game was the proof, Saint's Sylas arriving from a flank G2 never saw coming.
The control started at the river and never left. LYON's jungle-mid pairing moved first on every neutral objective, creative pathing and superior vision handing them the opening move each time. — a clean top gank, a dragon steal — but nothing that changed the shape of a game. Even when their draft was built for a long front-to-back fight or a scaling win condition, they never got the lane priority or the river control to reach the point where those plans pay off.
