i'll forever be proud of Fnatic for what they did at Worlds 2018, so many people joke about how they got 3 - 0 but they made EU proud and that i'll never forget
Honestly as a LCK lover its just crazy that there was a time LEC was one of the 2 best leagues in LOL winning MSI and going to the finals twice all while LCK was just struggling to hold on
I still remember 2018. I was so naive. I thought FNC where the favorites since they beat IG in group stage to claim top spot in their group but I got baited so hard
Tbh they kinda were the favourites, but they got into their head hard and also drafted horrible all games. Full ad and Jhin into Sion 1st game set the tone.
@@alexursu563 no they weren't. Sadly even as a FNC fan I predicted 0-3 and guessed right. We were just worse IG (we won because of insane bot gap in the bo1s but our solo laners were a lot worse so we needed miracle in bot while being in solo lane meta) but we were way better than KT and people saying KT vs IG was the real final do not remember that it was 3-0 stomp for IG there too but the shy decided to have some fun and picked fiora instead of sion in game 3 and then was subbed by his coach for game 4.
Parallels between them, SSW, and T1 are so unreal. 2 seeds, insanely dominant runs, their 1 seeds failing to make it to finals, completely shifting the meta mid-tournament, perennial chokers before and after, Korea. Teams of destiny
as a western player/fan nothing was more hype than seeing 3 out of the 4 semifinal spots being eu/na. obviously it was short lived but for that entire week i felt on top of the world
Say what you want but I think worlds 2018 was the most exciting worlds as an EU fan. 2019 yeah we were one series away from having a team which won everything in the year but 2018 there were little to no expectations going in and then every single team we sent performed well beyond our expectations, with G2 pulling off probably the biggest upset in worlds history.
Even as a Fnatic fan, I think G2 had a better chance at beating FPX than Fnatic did at beating IG. Perhaps my fnatic bias causes me to like 2018's worlds more. Maybe its in part to do with C9 as well, seing them get past Afreeca was surprising and exciting even as a non-C9 fan.
@@Niick3015 yes we were never close to beating IG. The solo lanes gap was too big and the meta was full solo lanes focused. I still believe if G2 and FPX played 10 bo5s G2 would probably win 7-8 out of them. 2019 G2 was the best team in the world but the meta favoured FPX so much.
I don't actually think that's true, I just think 2018 is when Riot stopped publishing how much money the annual Championship skin makes, so we no longer know how much additional money is added to the presented pool.
A huge difference is in narrative of opponents, fnc beat edg, whom were good but not too crazy and they never really made it big at worlds alongside having beaten them in 2015(ofc diff rosters, but it makes it feel more okay) and c9, needs no introduction its NA, While g2 beat dwg, a crazy promising looking rookie squad from korea alongside T1 whom have only lost once in the finals at worlds, so them getting taken out by an eu team in semis makes the narrative look cooler
Can’t believe I opened the video and was greeted with such a handsome man on my screen, almost Calvin Klein model esque physique. Come to think of it, I believe he’s something of an animal in the central lane too (he beat faker and dopa btw)
Peak TheShy, Peak Rookie and Peak JackeyLove, 3 monsters at their peak being the best players at their respective roles at the time as well as a really good Jungler and support to complete the team, 2018 iG may just be the greatest LPL team of all time, but of course, theshy and jackeylove being on the same team meant winning Worlds on a good day, and being eliminated by NA on a bad day
@@raidenshapiro6028 yeah Jackey was getting shit on by Rekkles which was the reason why FNC won 2 bo1s. Man Rekkles Hyli were clapping people not only in 2020 but in 2018, too.
SKT failing to qualify iG's Duke switches to TheShy Gen.G kingdom falling down in group stage C9 beating the LCK 2nd seed, who had Kiin his prime Fnatic and G2 destroying the LPL favorites RNG and EDG KT.... being KT.... dude, Worlds 2018 was a vibe
EDG were not favourites btw, everybody expected Fnatic to beat EDG and the Favourites from LPL were IG and RNG who were insanely competitive with RNG being the outright favourites.
2018 was the year i started watching pro more than just worlds. I watched all of LCK that year. What a great year. Started off with kingzone sweeping the league, khans second game of 2018 was a riven penta. Then in summer you have the debut of Chovy and Viper on griffin, the downfall of skt, and old man score (and my favourite player smeb) winning a title. Then, after watching LCK thinking they were the best region, Cloud9, G2, and Fnatic sweep through and suddenly NA and EU look really good. Not to mention TheShy and the entire IG roster’s year. A 36-2 regular split record and crazy worlds run. I definitely think in terms of games 2018 isn’t the very best worlds, but there’s no other league tournament that felt as unpredictable and fun.
dammit man it makes me want to cry being a longtime fnatic fan just realizing this was the last year of true glory for us it’s been so long since i’ve seen them win
2018 was apparently a good time to be a fan of the West. I'm an LCK fan but I really wish the west can be competitive again. It's boring to see LPL and LCK always win man. I don't expect the west to win but at least make it competitive damn
NA and EU should just make 2 allstar rosters and see if they can compete for a title, they always make it to quarter finals but almost never beat LCK and LPL
Oh yeah thats the series where the Shy inted it with kayle in the last game. Think he died with ult and flash up in the final teamfight @@nefelibatas9371
@@nathanhosea489 Squandering in 2022? What? He was literally the best player on that team. Same as pretty much every other year… he has been getting absolutely griefed by some of his teams.
fnatic 2018 and g2 2019 worlds performances were insane. i would even say fnatic 2018 was better , but g2 kinda won 2019 msi so there was a lot of hype aroundd them. And fnatic kinda got easy semi final
@@PeoplePleaser578 it didn’t matter to me that G2 was better than FNC, I lost faith that the west would ever win worlds because we saw FNC play so incredibly well only to get destroyed in the finals. I never believed G2 would be able to win worlds because of it
@@AtlasAdvice254 I mean fair enough. I do think its one of those things, on a different day - G2 and Fnatic potentially could have won worlds, it didn't happen which sucks but it was good to be competitive.
what a poorly edited video, permantently cuts to slow motions of the players infront of the computers. Only showing 1-3 seconds of gameplay at a time so you keep getting blue balled from the plays.
i'll forever be proud of Fnatic for what they did at Worlds 2018, so many people joke about how they got 3 - 0 but they made EU proud and that i'll never forget
me too. Same for 2019 G2 !
Honestly as a LCK lover its just crazy that there was a time LEC was one of the 2 best leagues in LOL winning MSI and going to the finals twice all while LCK was just struggling to hold on
@@GodSIRrrthe good ol' times
@@GodSIRrryeah, now LEC lvl is straight dog shit, only G2 remain good
@@martinhoang9217 g2 are only good in comparison, let's not forget they lost to NA💀
One of the best Worlds memories still to this day imo
I still remember 2018. I was so naive. I thought FNC where the favorites since they beat IG in group stage to claim top spot in their group but I got baited so hard
Tbh they kinda were the favourites, but they got into their head hard and also drafted horrible all games. Full ad and Jhin into Sion 1st game set the tone.
I stand by that the whole series depended on Ning's form as IG lived and died by his coinflips
He played the best League of his career that day 😢
ning sacrificed his whole career for that one series, he 1v9d it so so so hard and went back to being kinda shit
@@alexursu563 no they weren't. Sadly even as a FNC fan I predicted 0-3 and guessed right. We were just worse IG (we won because of insane bot gap in the bo1s but our solo laners were a lot worse so we needed miracle in bot while being in solo lane meta) but we were way better than KT and people saying KT vs IG was the real final do not remember that it was 3-0 stomp for IG there too but the shy decided to have some fun and picked fiora instead of sion in game 3 and then was subbed by his coach for game 4.
@@Eliagiulio IG lived and die by their coin flips. They are the most coinflip team and world champions to date.
Jackeylove flashing forward against KT is one of my all time favourite plays GIGACHAD
This IG team was so insanely fun to watch
The meta fit their play style perfectly
Parallels between them, SSW, and T1 are so unreal. 2 seeds, insanely dominant runs, their 1 seeds failing to make it to finals, completely shifting the meta mid-tournament, perennial chokers before and after, Korea. Teams of destiny
as a western player/fan nothing was more hype than seeing 3 out of the 4 semifinal spots being eu/na. obviously it was short lived but for that entire week i felt on top of the world
Say what you want but I think worlds 2018 was the most exciting worlds as an EU fan. 2019 yeah we were one series away from having a team which won everything in the year but 2018 there were little to no expectations going in and then every single team we sent performed well beyond our expectations, with G2 pulling off probably the biggest upset in worlds history.
hjarnandinger was something else man
true BEST WORLD 2018 RISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEE
Even as a Fnatic fan, I think G2 had a better chance at beating FPX than Fnatic did at beating IG.
Perhaps my fnatic bias causes me to like 2018's worlds more. Maybe its in part to do with C9 as well, seing them get past Afreeca was surprising and exciting even as a non-C9 fan.
@@Niick3015 yes we were never close to beating IG. The solo lanes gap was too big and the meta was full solo lanes focused. I still believe if G2 and FPX played 10 bo5s G2 would probably win 7-8 out of them. 2019 G2 was the best team in the world but the meta favoured FPX so much.
@@petarpetrov1784they were not the best if they cant adapt to the meta
Nothing but pain. Will always remember this. Part of me. 😢
2018 Worlds actually had the highest #1 prize pool in the history of League Esports
I don't actually think that's true, I just think 2018 is when Riot stopped publishing how much money the annual Championship skin makes, so we no longer know how much additional money is added to the presented pool.
@@emperesque1218 You can look it up in the LoL Fandom. IG won $2,418,750, which is the highest sum of all the other #1's.
People always talk about 2019 G2 but 2018 FNC was just as impressive, will forever be proud to call myself a Fnatic fan
2018-2019 when Caps switched to G2.
A huge difference is in narrative of opponents, fnc beat edg, whom were good but not too crazy and they never really made it big at worlds alongside having beaten them in 2015(ofc diff rosters, but it makes it feel more okay) and c9, needs no introduction its NA, While g2 beat dwg, a crazy promising looking rookie squad from korea alongside T1 whom have only lost once in the finals at worlds, so them getting taken out by an eu team in semis makes the narrative look cooler
@@supremeg0at yeah but fnatic got 1 win vs fpx and g2 got 0 in 2019
@@lukasholthus421 Yeah but G2 took a game from IG in Playoffs were FNC didn't :O
@@santiagoarciniegas722 but fnatic won 2 times vs them in groups wow
Can’t believe I opened the video and was greeted with such a handsome man on my screen, almost Calvin Klein model esque physique. Come to think of it, I believe he’s something of an animal in the central lane too (he beat faker and dopa btw)
6:03 caps said what 💀
Peak TheShy, Peak Rookie and Peak JackeyLove, 3 monsters at their peak being the best players at their respective roles at the time as well as a really good Jungler and support to complete the team, 2018 iG may just be the greatest LPL team of all time, but of course, theshy and jackeylove being on the same team meant winning Worlds on a good day, and being eliminated by NA on a bad day
'really good Jungler and support'
>look inside
>baolan
>kek
That wasn't even close to Jackeylove's peak. He became a much better player years later
@@raidenshapiro6028 yeah Jackey was getting shit on by Rekkles which was the reason why FNC won 2 bo1s. Man Rekkles Hyli were clapping people not only in 2020 but in 2018, too.
@@raidenshapiro6028 Considering what he could've and still can become, I'd say that was the best we've seen from him.
SKT failing to qualify
iG's Duke switches to TheShy
Gen.G kingdom falling down in group stage
C9 beating the LCK 2nd seed, who had Kiin his prime
Fnatic and G2 destroying the LPL favorites RNG and EDG
KT.... being KT....
dude, Worlds 2018 was a vibe
EDG were not favourites btw, everybody expected Fnatic to beat EDG and the Favourites from LPL were IG and RNG who were insanely competitive with RNG being the outright favourites.
Damn I remember in 2018 staying up so late to watch c9 vs AF as well as c9 vs fnc. Memories man.
2018 was the year i started watching pro more than just worlds. I watched all of LCK that year. What a great year. Started off with kingzone sweeping the league, khans second game of 2018 was a riven penta. Then in summer you have the debut of Chovy and Viper on griffin, the downfall of skt, and old man score (and my favourite player smeb) winning a title. Then, after watching LCK thinking they were the best region, Cloud9, G2, and Fnatic sweep through and suddenly NA and EU look really good. Not to mention TheShy and the entire IG roster’s year. A 36-2 regular split record and crazy worlds run. I definitely think in terms of games 2018 isn’t the very best worlds, but there’s no other league tournament that felt as unpredictable and fun.
dammit man it makes me want to cry being a longtime fnatic fan just realizing this was the last year of true glory for us it’s been so long since i’ve seen them win
Remember when the player ignores coach and picks fiora for fun, almost won alone, gets benched, team loses and subs him back in to win, THESHYYYYY
The most memorable part of the FNC IG finals was rekkless Jhin critting a 92 against theshy's sion. Kinda sums up the series.
I ain't a fan of NA but seeing C9 qualify through group of deaths is insane
this was my worlds and I really took for granted what i was watching. Fnatic made finals and G2 beating RNG which was on the golden road.
As a KT fan, I remember this Worlds painfully 😢 I'm happy for Rookie finally winning tho.
2018 was apparently a good time to be a fan of the West. I'm an LCK fan but I really wish the west can be competitive again. It's boring to see LPL and LCK always win man. I don't expect the west to win but at least make it competitive damn
the year when skt didn't qualify
Worlds 2018 & 2019 are the Greatness of LEC and LPL: *FNC, G2, VITALITY, SPLYCE, IG, EDG, RNG & FPX* 🔥
NA and EU should just make 2 allstar rosters and see if they can compete for a title, they always make it to quarter finals but almost never beat LCK and LPL
Bwipo over soaz in final hurt me still nowadays
this hurts a lot honestly and the fact that broxah was the only one playing good in finals is shitty
GIGASHY
Where is 2017 😢
Has rookie ever made it back to worlds since winning it?!
LPL is so tough man😭😭
Literally the year after where they got destroyed by Tian and DoinB
Oh yeah thats the series where the Shy inted it with kayle in the last game. Think he died with ult and flash up in the final teamfight @@nefelibatas9371
@@nefelibatas9371 They didnt get destroyed. It was a 3-1 series and was actually fairly competitive.
Also his fault for not getting into winning situations and squandering one in 2022
@@nathanhosea489 Squandering in 2022? What? He was literally the best player on that team. Same as pretty much every other year… he has been getting absolutely griefed by some of his teams.
That was a time to be from eu.
I wanted rekkles and fnatic to win so bad :(
fnatic 2018 and g2 2019 worlds performances were insane. i would even say fnatic 2018 was better , but g2 kinda won 2019 msi so there was a lot of hype aroundd them. And fnatic kinda got easy semi final
I never believed in G2 at worlds, because if this FNC team couldn’t win I didn’t think any western team could.
2019 G2 were better than 2018 Fnatic. More cohesive and flexible team and I am saying this as a Fnatic fan.
@@PeoplePleaser578 it didn’t matter to me that G2 was better than FNC, I lost faith that the west would ever win worlds because we saw FNC play so incredibly well only to get destroyed in the finals. I never believed G2 would be able to win worlds because of it
@@AtlasAdvice254 I mean fair enough. I do think its one of those things, on a different day - G2 and Fnatic potentially could have won worlds, it didn't happen which sucks but it was good to be competitive.
yeahhhh
what a poorly edited video, permantently cuts to slow motions of the players infront of the computers. Only showing 1-3 seconds of gameplay at a time so you keep getting blue balled from the plays.
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