Reality Check

Yesterday we saw the start of the LEC Season Finals and with it the final stage of Europe's top League of Legends competition. The six qualified teams are playing for the coveted LEC champion trophy and the chance to represent Europe in the most important tournament of the League of Legends calendar, the World Championship.

Team BDS vs Fnatic was the series that kicked off the LEC finals. A Fnatic that could come with doubts after losing that final 3-0 against G2 in such an anticlimactic way and a Team BDS that, despite not finding the same level of play as in the regular phase, had a remarkable performance in the playoffs finishing in third position.

The series started with the first surprise of the evening, Humanoid would play for the first time in his career Yone. The first game was evenly matched until the 24th minute where in a teamfight the British team would take advantage and from then on manage to redeem themselves a bit from the final, closing the game in a clean way.

The tone of the first game of the series is something that would be repeated throughout the match, a much more solid Fnatic when it comes to fight objectives, set up skirmishes and play the map, suffocating Team BDS. Fnatic's bot lane once again played an important role with a very solid Oh "Noah" Hyeon-taek throughout the series making the difference.

The second game was where Team BDS had a little more hope of taking the game, having started ahead in the first minutes but without much success once the mid game arrived, as FNC managed to recover the advantages in pure macro game without having to fall into the forced attempts of BDS to fight.

Fnatic would end up with a very clean 3-0, finding themselves as a team again, with the players on the same page and thus sending BDS back to their doubts, which needs to get back to the level of the regular season summer phase as they will play the qualification to the Worlds in two weeks against the winner between SK and GX vs the loser of MDK vs G2 as long as G2 wins in today's series against MAD Lions KOI.

A series that went in Fnatic's favour, as they punch their fist on the table and once again give the impression of being able to fight for the title against G2, the two most dominant teams in the competition so far this year.