LoL: G2 Esports claim LEC 2025 Summer title

G2 Esports have done it again. After an uneven start to the year and two missed titles in winter and spring, the Samurais roared through the League of Legends EMEA Championship (LEC) 2025 Summer Split and swept Movistar KOI 3-0 in Madrid to lift yet another domestic trophy on Sunday.

The victory restores G2 to the top of European League of Legends and sends them to LoL Worlds 2025 as the LEC’s first seed.

G2’s latest crown arrives with a refreshed identity. The team rebuilt around new jungle and support signings and chose patience over panic when early splits fell short.

That bet paid off during the summer split, with faster setups, bolder drafts, and cleaner execution turning G2 into a runaway train by season’s end.

In the grand final, their proactive reads and relentless skirmishing left KOI with few answers as G2 closed the series in roughly 95 minutes.

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G2 didn’t chase the comfort picks that defined the meta.

Instead, they leaned into flexible, fight-first compositions and weren’t afraid to reach for off-meta looks like Kled, Sett, or Volibear when the situation called for it.

The result was a team that dictated pace from level one, stacked early objectives, and forced their opponents into constant decision-making pressure.

Across the entire LEC Summer Split, G2 dropped just two games.

The title also carries historical weight. It marks G2’s 17th domestic championship since joining the LEC and extends the legacy of mid laner Rasmus “Caps” Winther, who now sits on 15 league titles.

Yet this triumph wasn’t a one-man show; if anything, the split showcased how much broader G2’s threat map has become.

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Rudy “SkewMond” Semaan’s rookie year tracked upward every week.

Early-season jitters gave way to confident pathing, decisive objective setups, and fearless engage timing.

His grand final line—16/2/28 with north of 80 percent kill participation—underlined a series he controlled from the first invade to the last Nexus, topped off with the LEC Summer Finals MVP award.

Alongside Labros “Labrov” Papoutsakis, the new-look jungle-support axis sharpened G2’s mid-game decisiveness and unlocked clean, repeated lane collapses around Caps and the bot lane.

Credit also belongs to head coach Dylan “Dylan Falco” Falco and staff for steady iteration rather than a hard reset.

Draft priorities tightened, contingency plans improved, and the team’s late-series composure—so often a G2 hallmark—returned in full.

With the LEC Summer trophy secured, G2 head to LoL Worlds 2025 as Europe’s top seed and a legitimate contender.

The path only gets steeper from here; Asia’s titans will punish any hesitation, and international metas can shift overnight.

But G2’s blueprint—high-tempo setups, flexible drafting, and multi-lane carry potential—translates well on the global stage.

More importantly, G2 no longer feel dependent on a single superstar performance to win big matches.

If opponents devote resources to slowing Caps, they now risk giving SkewMond agency, letting the bot lane snowball, or opening the map for side-lane bruisers.

That multi-threaded threat profile is exactly what European teams have needed to push deeper into international brackets.