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G2 mid laner Caps was feeling himself in today\u2019s LEC game against Astralis, in which he picked an unorthodox Zac in the mid lane to lead G2 to victory in an absolute romp.\u00a0While Caps is no stranger to bizarre picks (this is also the player who\u2019s picked\u2014and won\u2014with champions like Draven and Kayn in the mid lane), Zac is a first-timer for the now-seventh-year pro.\u00a0<\/p>

G2\u2019s team comp in today\u2019s game focused on diving on enemy champions and sticking to them to ensure kills in elongated teamfights. The only issue was that G2 got so ahead of Astralis that lengthy teamfights never really came to fruition, and instead, G2 simply deleted Astralis off the map with ease.\u00a0<\/p>

With his Zac pick, Caps was all over the map. His Elastic Slingshot (E) usage allowed him to roam into Astralis\u2019 side lanes without much contention, while in the later stages of the brief contest, he practically lived rent-free in Astralis\u2019 backline.\u00a0<\/p>

Related: Perkz voices concerns about EMEA Champions Queue time slots: \u2018It\u2019s way more healthy \u2026 to not have to play until 2am\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Eighteen minutes into the game, Caps (who was already 3\/1\/4) pulled off a perfect chase play, diving into Astralis one-vs-four with Elastic Slingshot before pulling JeongHoon and 113 together with a clean Stretching Strike (Q). Caps stayed on Astralis relentlessly, setting up two kills for G2 during that particular chase and being the catalyst for plenty more during the later stages of the game. By the time the onslaught ended, Caps finished with a scoreline of 8\/1\/7.<\/p>

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Once Caps\u2019 damage-oriented build came online in the mid game, G2 were practically unstoppable. Astralis had no answer for the endless chase-and-dive strategy that G2 were playing to perfection.\u00a0<\/p>

In total, G2 racked up 23 kills in 24 minutes\u2014just one less kill than the high mark by any single team this LEC split. Heretics set the number to beat at 24 in their opening game of the winter. G2, who now sit atop the LEC with a perfect record of 3-0, are looking like Europe\u2019s \u201cteam to beat.\u201d Perhaps even more impressive than today\u2019s 24-minute stomp of Astralis was the 23-minute beatdown they gave to Fnatic<\/a> yesterday. Just three games into the season, G2 own the two fastest wins of the year and are appearing to be the cleanest team in the LEC\u2014today\u2019s stylish game only strengthened that notion.\u00a0<\/p>

Caps and G2 will return to the LEC stage on Saturday, Jan. 28 for a matchup with SK Gaming. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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