The Team Fight That Turned The Tide In An EU LCS H2K Upset
By TJ Denzer ·
Even when all you've got to prove is pride, there's something to be said for pulling together and conquering a giant. Watch how H2K-Gaming rallied in a team fight and sent the Giants packing in their EU LCS Week 6 match-up.
The League of Legends Championship Series has come down to a fever pitch. With the final weeks coming up, we have a pretty good idea of who will be battling it out for the winner’s circle and who will be watching from the sidelines. That said, don’t let it trick you into believing for a second that even those teams that have found themselves at the lower rungs of the EU LCS standings have given up on trying to prove something. H2K has had a rough time of it in their run this year, sitting at 4 wins and 8. It was almost 3 and 9 though as they came up against Giants in their second game of Week 6. The Giants had H2K backed against the wall as many have done this season, but just when it seemed like the game might be over, something H2K pulled off something downright miraculous.
(Caution: The video below contains explicit language from a reasonably stunned and impassioned shoutcaster. View with volume at your own risk)
The Giants had H2K up against their own Nexus with no towers left to defend it. All they had to do was land a handful of auto attacks and the game would have been marked a Giants win, but in the team fight that took place at the H2K base, they missed out crucially on eliminating the H2K carries from play. Marcin "Selfie" Wolski on Corki and Patrik "Sheriff" Jírů on Xayah sat on the outskirts of the fracas, picking off Giants left over from their tankier engagers. As Charly “Djoko” Guillard on Zac tried to distract, Kim “Ruin” Hyeong-min on Gangplank and Raphaël “Targamas” Crabbé on Taric tried their best to land those last precious game-winning hits, but to no avail. Selfie and Sheriff picked them off one by one and successfully cleared out the H2K base of Giants invaders in a ridiculously clutch moment.
The shock didn’t end there. Selfie kept a Teleport summoner spell in hand for post-fight and took Corki to the top lane, capitalizing on the champion’s hefty late-game damage and the long respawn timers of the entirely dead Giants team. He shredded the Giants base in a few precious seconds and stole a win for his H2K allies and their pride.
As we gear up for Week 7 and the late matches of what has been an amazing season, have a jump overseas and see what happened in Week 6 of the NA LCS!