Markoon's Naafiri Explodes as G2 NORD Stomp Forsaken

TL;DR: G2 NORD demolished Forsaken in Game 1 at EMEA Masters 2026, winning in 27:40 behind Markoon's 17/1/6 Naafiri. A 63.8k to 48.6k gold gap, four dragons to zero and ten towers to one turned a chaotic skirmish fest into a one-sided stomp.

Key Takeaways

• Markoon's Naafiri posted a monstrous 17/1/6 at 85% kill participation, single-handedly dictating every fight and burying Forsaken's early-game plan.
• G2 NORD finished with 4 dragons to 0 and 10 towers to 1, converting constant skirmish wins into a 15.2k gold chasm by the final whistle.
• Tockimo's Nautilus ended 0/2/19, feeding rin's Yunara (6/3/16) while Forsaken's Decay on Aurora won lane at +706 gold yet had nothing to show for it.

Building the Lead

The draft model handed Forsaken a 50% edge, and for a few minutes it looked plausible. The Poles leaned on the Nocturne and Rumble engage pattern, hoping chaos would arrive before G2 NORD's scaling lines came online. It never did. MAXI's Nocturne fell behind early, -723 gold by the fifteen-minute mark, and the promised level-six dive pressure evaporated into failed skirmishes.

G2 NORD answered every fight with a better one. Markoon's Naafiri hunted isolated targets across the map, and behind him Shelfmade's Galio and Tockimo's Nautilus layered engage that Forsaken could not survive. Mid lane told the opposite story of the draft: Toasty on Ryze sat at -706 gold, yet his 1/2/9 line mattered far less than the map pressure his roam timings created for his jungler.

The Numbers Tell the Story

By the end, the stat sheet read like a mismatch. G2 NORD closed the kill race 27-9, took four dragons to zero and one baron, and finished with 63.8k gold against 48.6k. Forsaken's lone tower was a consolation prize in a game where they never controlled a single objective worth keeping.

Forsaken's individual laning was not the disaster the score suggests. Decay on Aurora finished +706 gold at fifteen minutes and Color's Rumble was +386, yet neither converted that into kills, ending 2/3/2 and 2/4/1. Meanwhile Syzyfek's Tristana bled -545 and Nio's Lulu died seven times, absorbing punishment for a bot lane that could never stabilize. G2 NORD's lanes were the ones worth the gold, exactly as the model's elo and win-rate split hinted.

The Final Push

The end came fast. With Naafiri fully online and Nautilus anchoring every initiation, G2 NORD walked through the base at 27:40, cashing in a 15.2k lead against a Forsaken lineup that needed to snowball before minute 25 and never got close. The Prediction that Forsaken's draft advantage would materialize in-game failed completely: the model's 50% nod gave way to a market that priced G2 NORD at 82% pre-game, and the favourite delivered precisely as expected.

Polymarket Market

The pre-game market read this one at G2 NORD 82% versus Forsaken 18%, and for 27 minutes the money looked entirely correct. The market clearly discounted the draft model's 50% lean toward Forsaken, pricing elo and season record over theoretical lane matchups. What the market could not have scripted was the scale: a 17/1/6 jungle performance at 85% kill participation turned a projected edge into a rout. This result closes the series at Forsaken 0-1 G2 NORD; the full series-market wrap-up belongs in the series recap.

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*Odds via Polymarket, 2026-09-26 19:10 UTC.*