Los Ratones embarrassed by Karmine Corp Blue and eliminated from EMEA Masters

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

Last Updated: 20/10/2025

The Los Ratones dream of a ‘golden road’ and perfect ERL are over after their elimination from EMEA Masters Summer.

The team founded by Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont had dominated the second tier of European League of Legends all 2025 and hadn’t lost a best-of-five.

Which made it all the more surprising as Karmine Corp Blue annihilated Los Ratones in three straight stomps during the EMEA Masters semis.

The players now have a long break before Los Ratones allegedly join the LEC temporarily for the Winter 2026 split.

Los Ratones only managed five kills across the three games as they were completely outplayed by the LFL champions.

And it was a career-making performance from North American jungler Johnny ‘Yukino’ Dang.

The former Disguised and 100 Thieves Academy jungler ended the first game with a KDA of 6/1/5 and 73% kill participation.

He expertly punished Los Ratones’ early struggles, something other teams struggled to do this year.

Even in game three, Yukino played brilliantly despite his risky pick of Zed jungle to the point that Caedrel is confident he’ll play in LEC or LCS next year:

“I think KC needs to protect him with their lives,” Caedrel added.

It was a sad end to a spectacular season from Los Ratones after they won all three NLC splits and won the first two EMEA Masters championships.

It means Karmine Corp are still the only organisation to win three consecutive EMEA Masters.

Caedrel and Rekkles react to Los Ratones defeat

Following the devastating lossCaedrel and the players , reflected on-stream and discussed what went wrong.

Caedrel tried to remain upbeat, saying:

“We were two best-of-fives from winning everything all year, that’s definitely something to be proud of.

“If you told me that at the start of the year, I think I’d say you’re f*cking crazy.”

Though Martin ‘Rekkles’ Larrson admitted ‘it sucks to lose in this fashion,’ he also tried to remain optimistic:

“All in all, I’m really happy with what we did this year… Definitely need to rethink how we do scrims though, that’s my feeling right now.

“I think towards the end we lost the happiness we normally had, think it’s important we all take a break, chill a bit, and comeback with a smile on our face for whatever we do next.

Caedrel gave one last message to his stream and ultimately agreed with Rekkles’ take:

“I definitely think towards the end of the year, in my opinion, we didn’t have many breaks so I think the way they acted to each other got slightly worse and worse and worse.

“I think our practice got progressively worse. I don’t know if you could tell form the outside, the vibe slowly detoriated.

“The fun went into super serious very quickly, and problems festered. Solutions never found.

I guess the thing with us streaming everything, is you see it all. From my experience, a lot of teams go through exactly what we went through.”

Caedrel has stated Los Ratones won’t be paying millions for a permancent LEC slot but will share an update within the upcoming weeks.

Jack Stewart, Senior Editor

In my seven years of esports writing, I've introuduced esports coverage to newspapers, interviewed some of the biggest names in the industry, and driven viewers mad with the puns in my YouTube scripts. I'm most proud of the latter.

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