Team Vitality vs SK Gaming Game 2 Draft Analysis: Akali and Lee Sin Set the Tempo

Compositions

Team Vitality drafted a proactive, skirmish-heavy composition built to create pressure before SK Gaming’s teamfight tools can fully come online. Naak Nako’s Aatrox, Lyncas’ Lee Sin, and FIESTA’s Akali give Vitality three dangerous solo-lane and jungle threats that can attack side lanes, contest early objectives, and punish isolated targets. Carzzy’s Jhin adds long-range follow-up through Curtain Call, while Fleshy’s Alistar supplies the reliable engage and peel needed to start fights on Vitality’s terms.

SK Gaming chose a more coordinated, scaling-oriented setup. Skeanz’s Nocturne can deny vision and create immediate access to the back line, while SlowQ’s Orianna provides the Shockwave that makes Nocturne’s engage much more threatening. Mikyx’s Skarner adds another initiation angle, and Wunder’s Twisted Fate can influence the map with Destiny rather than matching Aatrox in a pure side-lane duel. Jopa’s Kaisa is the primary carry, with the mobility to capitalize on any target displaced or locked down by SK’s frontline.

Key Picks

Akali is Vitality’s most explosive draft piece. FIESTA has a favorable environment to find flanks because SK Gaming’s back line lacks a conventional disengage support. Orianna can protect Kaisa with shields and Shockwave threat, but neither Kaisa nor Twisted Fate wants to face an Akali entering from fog of war after SK’s key crowd control has been used.

Lee Sin is equally important because Lyncas controls the early pace. A successful early gank into Akali or Aatrox can create a snowball that makes SK’s cross-map plan difficult. However, Lee Sin must respect Nocturne’s level 6 timing. Once Paranoia is available, an overextended Vitality carry can quickly become the center of a Nocturne-Orianna engage.

For SK Gaming, Skarner is the draft’s highest-value pick. Mikyx can force Vitality to play carefully around choke points and vision lines, particularly before dragon fights. If Skarner catches Jhin or Akali before they can reposition, Kaisa has a clean route to follow the engage and secure resets.

Draft Edge

Vitality have the clearer early-game execution. Their solo lanes can fight, Lee Sin can gank with strong setup, and Alistar-Jhin can create bot-lane pressure without needing to scale into a late-game hypercarry pairing. Their composition also has multiple ways to pick off Twisted Fate during side-lane rotations.

SK Gaming have the stronger five-versus-five engage package and a more forgiving late-game win condition. Nocturne, Orianna, Skarner, and Kaisa can erase a priority target if their cooldowns are layered correctly. The concern is that their composition needs coordinated access; if Nocturne engages alone or Skarner misses his first initiation, Akali and Aatrox can punish the exposed back line.

Prediction

The draft slightly favors Team Vitality because their champions can dictate the map before SK Gaming reach their preferred grouped fights. Vitality should prioritize early river vision, use Lee Sin to pressure lanes before Nocturne reaches level 6, and force SK to react to Akali and Aatrox in side lanes.

SK Gaming can still win through disciplined objective setups and decisive engage timing. But if Vitality avoid giving Nocturne and Orianna a clean first fight, their superior early skirmishing should produce the lead needed to close Game 2.