After a lousy Worlds, 60% of the best team Europe has ever had is probably getting back together

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Things have been disastrous for Europe recently in League of Legends. All 4 teams were already eliminated in the group phase of LoL Worlds 2023: not even G2 made it to the quarterfinals. But in 2024, the core of the best team Europe has ever had could come together again.

What was the best team Europe ever had? Away from 2012’s Fnatic, who became world champions, but in a completely different time, the best European team Europe has ever had was the 2019 version of G2 Esports. At that time, the two exceptional players Caps and Perkz teamed up to become world champions, although both played the same role:

  • The team beat top Korean teams Damwon Gaming and T1 with Faker at Worlds 2019. They became runners-up in the world championships in 2019 and were only beaten by FunPlus Phoenix in the final in Paris
  • This G2 was dominant in the league and became series champions in the LEC
  • However, the team stayed together for two years and broke up after 2020. At that time, G2 sold Perkz to the USA for a reported $5 million. In the seasons that followed, top laner Wunder, supporter Mikyx and jungler Jankos G2 left the team, with only Hypertalent Caps remaining as the core of a new squad.

    • Since they left G2, their success also left them

    How did the players fare after G2? Mixed:

  • The captain, Perkz, went to the USA for a year, where things went quite well, but then played for the golden pineapple in Europe with Team Vitality. Nothing worked for two years
  • Top laner Wunder had a bad phase with Fnatic, somehow had a falling out with the team and was relegated to the bench
  • It was thought that jungler Jankos (28) let his career with the middle class team Team Heretics come to an end after it was no longer enough for G2

    • Only midlaner Caps and supporter Mikyx are still in G2 – in Mikyx’s case again – and were able to take part in the last World Cup, albeit without success.

    Things haven’t been going so well for Mikyx lately.

    Perkz, Jankos and Wunder will probably play together for Team Heretics in 2024

    Now that’s the news: It looks like Perkz, Wunder and Jankos will play for Team Heretics in 2024, supposedly Perkz and Wunder have already reached an agreement with the team. This is what sheepesports reports.

    This brings together the core of the strongest EU team of all time.

    That’s the catch: All players are now 4 years older than when they were married and haven’t exactly shone in recent years.

    You will definitely find a good supporter for the combo.

    But the player who could make the exception, Caps, has a contract with G2 until the end of 2025 and they probably won’t be able to replace him either.

    Perkz alludes to the move to Spain:

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    So there’s not really much hope that Team Heretics will bring the Worlds to Europe in 2024. It seems more like a way for the frustrated Wunder and Perkz to find fun in LoL again after a few hard years. You always had the feeling that Perkz, Wunder and Jankos got along excellently. Maybe they will end their career there in Spain.

    You could see how cool G2 was back then by playing against the world leaders at the time:

    LoL: Koreans crumble under the pressure of Worlds – G2 Esports fools it away

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