Team Vitality have the series. After dropping the first game of their LEC Week 6 best-of-three against Fnatic on May 4, VIT won the next two to close it out 2–1.

The opener belonged to Upset. Fnatic's ADC went 15/2/3 on Ezreal with a 90% kill participation, and his 21,506 gold was the most of any player in that game by a wide margin. Fnatic finished it with eight towers, four dragons and both barons to VIT's four towers, one dragon and no barons. For a moment, it looked like FNC had found a simple formula: get the ball to Upset and let him carry.

Humanoid takes over

VIT's answer started in the mid lane. Humanoid went 8/0/5 on Syndra in game two and dealt 49,693 damage, the highest single-game total of any player across the series. Carzzy backed him up with a 7/2/6 line on Jhin, and the objective count tells the rest: VIT took 11 towers, five dragons and two barons to Fnatic's two towers and one dragon. That gap only grew in the decider. Over games two and three combined, VIT destroyed 21 towers to FNC's four.

Game three was the shortest of the set at 32:39, and arguably the cleanest of the three for VIT. Fnatic managed just seven kills to Vitality's 18. Naak Nako, on Varus in the top lane, finished 6/2/6, while Lyncas went deathless on Aatrox at 2/0/7. Humanoid, for his part, died four times in the entire series.

Questions for Fnatic

The flip side is a worrying one for FNC. Upset scored 15 kills in the opener and just seven combined over the next two games, and with him contained, Fnatic seemingly had little else to fall back on. Empyros had a particularly rough decider, going 0/7/2 on Gnar with 9,523 gold, the lowest of any non-support player in that game.

For Vitality, the series showed they can absorb a loss and adjust within a best-of-three. For Fnatic, the opener was a reminder of how dangerous Upset can be... and the next two games a reminder of what happens when he's kept quiet.