Yesterday Origen was cut at the belt and lost to former World Champions SK Telecom T1, so Europe’s final hope rested in the hearts of Fnatic, who had bested the region so dominantly all year. Before the game, KOO’s PraY stated that he would make the arena a library, as in the crowd would be struck speechless.

Game 1:

The skies looked clear for a Fnatic game 1 victory when they got their hands on their comfort picks. Huni saddled on his Hecarim, Reignover with Rek’sai, and Febiven on his trusty LeBlanc. Febiven has been an absolute monster with LeBlanc this entire tournament and snowballed off early kills from a skirmish in the bot lane. Huni even got off some of his trademark homeguard teleport flanks on Hecarim, even blowing up Pray’s Kalista in a fight in the jungle within a second.

But then, Kuro’s Kassadin and Hojin’s Jungle Zac (yes, you heard right) became mid-game monsters and completely turned the game on its head. They started taking a ton of ground off of Fnatic and a lot of neutral objectives as Kassadin hit late game and KOO began winning teamfight after teamfight. Even though it seemed like a close game, KOO definitely had Fnatic’s number for the entirety of the second half of the game as Kuro got a quadra kill at the dragon pit and ended the game.

Oh, and the clincher? KOO win the game despite being behind in gold for almost 100% of the game.

Game 2:

This game played out quite similarly to game one except for Fnatic’s early game dominance. The interesting thing about the game is that once again, KOO won almost every skirmish and fight despite not having an overwhelming gold advantage. They weren’t behind in gold the entire game like they were in game 1, but Fnatic’s carries all had 50 or more farm on their KOO counterparts. Regardless, KOO completely outdrafted FNC and ReignOver picking Skarner into the Tahm Kench was highly questionable.

Game 3:

This game was the first time KOO took a massive lead early on and just completely steamrolled Fnatic in gold advantage, not just a kill advantage. Maybe it was tilt. It certainly seemed so after the second game where the team looked broken after the second loss, but they were given absolutely no time to recover in this game for a possible reverse sweep through the coordinated engages by Hojin’s Lee and PraY’s Ashe arrows.

With no room to breathe, Fnatic slowly fall to their knees giving KOO the third and final victory in this set. So once again, there has been no 5th game in a set at Worlds this year, but for the first time at worlds you’ll have an all Korean finals ensuring that they bring home the Summoner’s Cup again this year. The question is, however, whether or not KOO or SKT will win the finals in Berlin.