LEC teams lose opening Swiss matches at LoL Worlds

G2, Fnatic and Movistar Koi faced opening Swiss defeats at League of Legends Worlds 2025.

The EU teams fell in their Best of 1 series, with Fnatic losing to the LCP’s champions, CTBC Flying Oyster.

MKOI fell to LCK’s KT Rolster, who finished third in the most recent LCK season after an impressive upper bracket victory against Gen.G.

G2 fell later in the day to LPL’s 3rd seed of Top Esports after a lifeless showing.

‘Inexcusable’ draft from Fnatic

CFO were always going to be a tough opponent for the LEC’s number 3 seed, but the Asia-Pacific powerhouse was given an easy path to victory due to Fnatic’s bizarre draft.

Fnatic, starting on the red side, were given the ability to counter-pick CFO’s selections, but failed to build a champion pool to challenge CFO.

Shen ‘Driver’ Tsung-Hua, known for his Sion, was allowed the champ. In reaction, Fnatic chose Ezreal on Elias ‘Upset’ Lipp, a historically weak match-up for Ezrael.

Fans were also left questioning the pick of Nautilus into the Caitlyn/Neeko duo, leaving Fnatic fans exasperated before the match had even started.

The overall draft left Fnatic as a low-damage composition, with multiple poor match-ups.

Unplayable draft from FNC this game, Sion can never die.

— Christian Rivera (@IWDominate) October 15, 2025

The resultant contest was not close.

By the first true teamfight, CFO had secured the Rift Herald and won the fight.

Leading by objectives, 3k in Gold, and 5-2 in kills they never looked back.

A solo kill from Driver had also helped Sion scale above his opponents, as the champ took control of the match.

CFO won in 32 minutes, behind a 7/1/7 record from Chiu ‘Doggo’ Tzu-Chuan and 11 assists from Ling ‘Kaiwing’ Kai Wing on Neeko.

Movistar KOI lose the late-game again

MKOI’s contest against KT Rolster was much closer, but faced the same ending in around the same amount of time.

MKOI were careful and calculated in the early game as they eked out cumulative advantages in a very competitive early game, which saw first blood and drake traded for grubs in KT’s favour.

The Spanish team were 5-0 in kills, and 3.5k gold up when the decisive moment shifted the momentum of the match.

It came as both teams were grouped up towards Atakhan, with MKOI flirting with the idea of engaging.

They attempted to regroup for the fight, but got their positioning all wrong as they lined up in front of the Orianna Shockwave, which proved decisive in the contest.

Gwak ‘Bdd’ Bo-seong destroyed MKOI in that fight and as a team going forward, as KT took control of the game.

The next teamfight went the same way, with KT guaranteeing the Baron.

At that point, KT Rolster had full control of the match, and they closed the match in 33 minutes behind bdd’s impact and 11 assists from Jeong ‘Peter’ Yoon-su.

MKOI actually had the game in the bag and they literally overchased into KT TWICE to make sure they can't win

— Marcin Jankowski (@JankosLoL) October 15, 2025

The loss for MKOI is yet another example of the roster losing control of matches in the mid-late game.

They will have to find solutions quickly to that problem if they want a long stay at Worlds 2025.

Update: G2 join MKOI and Fnatic in 0-1 after sorry showing

G2 returned to their worst habits as they were easily beaten by Top Esports (TES) in their League of Legends Worlds 2025 opener.

The LEC’s top seed gave a tepid performance, in which they seemed to almost try nothing, and still failed even at that.

The LEC Finals in Madrid seemed to break G2’s habit of a lifetime, as Rasmus ‘Caps’ Borregaard Winther’s relatively middling performance was propped up by his team.

Against TES, old habits were the only thing not to die for G2, as Caps was the only bright light yet again.

The veteran EU player was somehow up on gold in comparison to his mid adversary, while the rest of his team sat over 1k gold behind each of their opposing pieces.

Yet it was not enough to make a change in the contest’s outcome, as even his efforts were not enough to overcome the gold and item differential.

For TES, Seo ‘Kanavi’ Jin-hyeok was undoubtedly the star of the show.

The jungle was both aggressive and seemingly immortal, finishing with a 9/0/8 record as Trundle.

Fu ‘Hang’ Minghang made sure G2 could not secure those kills, as G2’s approach came under question.

Sergen ‘BrokenBlade’ Çelik was left isolated against a mismatch for much of the contest, with G2 failing to adjust in the contest until their ultimate defeat.

At this rate once I get to China next week all EU teams will already be back home 😑

— Eefje Depoortere (@sjokz) October 15, 2025

LEC teams now sit 0-3, the only region to not secure a victory at Worlds after the first round of matches.

The results will spread fear into EU fans that it will be another MSI 2025, which saw LEC hit a new low in performance, bombing out as the weakest region at the event.