There used to be a time when nobody in Europe knew what a "G2" was. Or maybe they did, but they thought it was just something you drank during a workout. In late August of 2015, the European League of Legends Championship Series was barely three years old and Fnatic was fresh off their second consecutive title, winning a whopping five out of the league's first six. Meanwhile, an organization called Gamers2, owned by Carlos "Ocelote" Rodriguez Santiago, had been battling their way through the EU Challenger Series for the two years prior, trying to earn themselves a spot to compete in the European

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Support: This role is to protect and support the ADC. If needed, this means taking hits and sacrificing their lives so the ADC can survive. Abilities focus more on crowd control like silences, stuns, slowing down the enemy. Their main mission is to support the t

This build has you use Tahm in Top lane to duel while diving into other lanes to harass opponents. In the early levels most points go to Tongue Lash, level eight or so dump points into Thick Skin, then at level 14 spend it on Dev

This build has Tahm focus on Top Support acting as a meat shield and assisting others with tower dives and ganks. Tongue Lash is important to upgrade in the beginning, but the meat of this build is Thick Skin in the mid-game and Devour in the late-g

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"G2 are inevitable. G2 are inescapable," proclaimed LEC caster Aaron "Medic" Chamberlain as G2 Esports brought down the nexus of rival Fnatic, sweeping the 2020 LEC Spring finals, their third consecutive and seventh title in franchise hist

In the early game focus on Tongue Lash for farming, level 10 or so switch to Thick Skin, and at level 14 prioritize Devour. Your goal is to take the hits with Thick Skin and Devour allies when they’re close to dying letting you take the fall instead. Your goal isn’t to get kills, but to help your weaker allies survive so they can get ki

Following their poor MSI finish, that 2016 summer saw drastic changes to the G2 roster with the departures of Kikis and Emperor, and the arrivals of Jesper "Zven" Svenningsen and Alfonso "Mithy" Aguirre Rodríguez. Zven and Mithy previously composed the powerful bot lane duo from fan-favorite xPeke's Origen that G2 took down in the LCS finals just a few months prior. Armed with their shiny new bot lane, Perkz and the rest G2 marched into the 2016 Summer Split with high expectati

If players need more Pulsefire Tokens, they can buy the Pulsefire Pass for 1650 RP. In addition to immediately getting 200 tokens and 4 Pulsefire Orbs, they will unlock the ability to earn tokens by playing matches throughout the ev

There is also one final free mission that requires playing 30 matchmade games and rewards 60 Pulsefire Tokens plus a Pulsefire Orb that contains a skin shard. Players that are struggling to finish some objectives should note that playing Co-Op vs. AI games will also give credit for most missi

G2's 2018 spring was inconsistent at best, but they managed to finish the split in 2nd place, behind Fnatic. Despite finishing outside of the top spot for the first time ever, G2 managed to make the Spring finals where they'd play Fnatic to defend their title, and try for their fifth straight champions

After a series of roster shakeups and additions, notably Mateusz "Kikis" Szkudlarek in the jungle, Ocelote finally built a Gamers2 roster that would find success. Taking down SK Gaming in the promotion series, Gamers2 qualified for the 2016 EU LCS Spring Split. The team would later rebrand to G2 Esports following their qualificat

This build has you ignore Thick Skin until level 14 and instead focus on Tongue Lash and Devour with only a single point in Abyssal Voyage at level six. The goal is to disrupt enemy attacks using slow and stun, and using Devour to disrupt an opponents attack or give Tahm a chance to recover in pe