Anubis Gaming’s Ahri Sets the Tone in EMEA Masters 2026

TL;DR: Giyuu’s Ahri anchored Anubis Gaming through a tense 35:00 opener against Skillcamp, finishing 3/1/9 and involved in 92% of the team’s kills. Skillcamp claimed both Barons and more dragons, but Anubis held the tower edge and narrowly won the gold battle, turning a coin-flip game into a victory.

Key Takeaways

• Giyuu finished on 3/1/9 with 92% KP, giving Anubis Gaming a dependable center for fights despite the slim final gold margin.
• maged was 1,446 gold behind at 15 minutes on Rumble, but his 69% KP helped Anubis make his top-lane deficit matter less than his late-game involvement.
• Skillcamp took 2 Barons and 3 dragons, yet Anubis Gaming won 69.9k to 67.6k gold and the game, showing how objectives did not guarantee control.

Trading Blows

The EMEA Masters 2026 opener refused to follow a simple script. Skillcamp’s Ezreal ended as the game’s leading scorer with 6/3/5, while Xin Zhao added 5/2/7; their pressure helped Skillcamp claim three dragons and both Barons. Anubis Gaming answered with eight towers to Skillcamp’s six, keeping the map open and the contest close.

At 35:00, Skillcamp had more kills, 15-13, but Anubis finished ahead in gold, 69.9k to 67.6k. That 2.3k difference was narrow enough to keep every late fight tense, yet it reflected Anubis’s ability to extract value across the map even while surrendering major neutral objectives.

The Deciding Factor

The top-lane numbers looked punishing early: maged was down 1,446 gold at 15 minutes on Rumble. But his eventual 2/5/7 line and 69% KP tell a more useful story than the deficit alone. He remained part of the action that mattered, and Anubis could lean on his engage alongside Vi and Ahri rather than asking him to win lane outright.

The center of that plan was Giyuu. His 12.00 KDA and 92% KP made Ahri the reliable link between picks and teamfights. Skillcamp’s Viktor kept pace with a 1/1/7 scoreline, but Anubis’s coordinated tools gave Giyuu room to turn involvement into decisive influence.

What Made the Difference

The live draft model favored Anubis Gaming at 50%. That slight draft edge did materialize in the result, though not as a comfortable structural advantage: Skillcamp’s Baron control and dragon lead show that its composition created real pressure. Anubis instead made better use of its engage-and-carry setup, with Ahri’s impact and the tower advantage compensating for the objectives conceded.

The match also underlined the difference between a draft forecast and execution. Skillcamp’s captures and objective takes kept the game alive, but Anubis converted more of the remaining map into gold and held its nerve in a close finish.

Polymarket Market

At draft close, the game market priced Anubis Gaming at 55% and Skillcamp at 45%, treating the opener as close to a coin flip. The market got the winner right, but the match offered little evidence for a broad pre-game advantage: Skillcamp secured 2 Barons and 3 dragons, while Anubis won by just 2.3k gold. What the market could not capture was how strongly Giyuu’s Ahri would connect Anubis’s engage to its fights, or how the team’s tower edge would offset Skillcamp’s neutral-objective control. This result closes the series at Anubis Gaming 1-0 Skillcamp; the full series-market wrap-up belongs in the series recap.

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*Odds via Polymarket, 2026-09-28 17:09 UTC.*