G2 Esports’ Caps highlights competitive year following LEC Summer Finals win

G2 Esports has clinched its seventeenth LEC title on the 2025 Summer time Finals in Madrid, marking its first championship of the 12 months and securing EMEA’s prime seed on the upcoming World Championship in China.

The LEC Summer time Finals have been held on the Caja Mágica over the weekend, with Riot Video games reporting to Esports Insider that 17,000 followers have been in attendance throughout all days.

Movistar KOI have been undoubtedly the native favourites, drawing within the majority of the group, making a sea of blue jerseys out and in of the world. But it was G2 Esports that lifted the trophy amongst cheers.

Delivering a commanding efficiency on stage, G2 defeated MKOI 3–0 within the last match of the 2025 LEC Season. The collection was marked by quick, decisive video games, with G2’s jungler, Rudy ‘SkewMond’ Semaan, incomes the Finals MVP award.

Regardless of narrowly lacking the Rookie of the Yr title to Caliste, SkewMond’s constant performs and synergy with help Labrov have been pivotal in G2’s victory, posting a powerful 84% kill participation and a 16/2/28 KDA, based on GOL.gg.

With as we speak’s win, veteran midlaner Rasmus ‘Caps’ Winther celebrated his fifteenth LEC title with G2 Esports. Whereas the participant and his staff’s names are sometimes related to dominance, this 12 months — for the primary time in LEC historical past — every cut up had a unique champion. 

Whereas Caps attributes his staff’s losses in each Winter and Spring Finals to the shortage of connection between the G2 gamers, he identified how, total, all different groups grew into legitimate rivals.

“I feel with us underperforming a bit and doing a bit worse, I assume I simply left area for everybody else to step up,” mentioned the mid laner.

“We had three completely different winners, however even Fnatic was additionally doing very nicely this complete 12 months, and so they had some sturdy performances as nicely. And I imply even GIANTX, I feel on stage they often did a bit worse, however particularly in scrims, they have been taking a variety of video games from us and their different prime staff. So it was undoubtedly a really aggressive 12 months.” 

Aggressive groups include massive fan bases that cheer rosters on, even when the organisations don’t carry out nicely. In some events, that courtesy and help can lengthen to opponents as nicely. Caps shared that, regardless that most followers have been cheering for MKOI, they have been welcoming and supportive of G2 when the staff visited an area internet café earlier within the week. 

Among the many 1000’s converging in Caja Magica, there have been some followers who had the chance to ask Caps a query. Most have been curious concerning the challenges of being constantly on the prime of the LEC, to which Caps credited his success to sturdy teammates and mutual drive.

He said: “I’ve all the time had very sturdy teammates who push me, and we push one another. I actually wish to win Worlds, and for that, we have to be rather a lot higher than even the LEC groups.”