ShowMaker Leads Dplus Kia Past G2 for Fourth Straight

TL;DR: Dplus Kia closed out the series and stretched their winning run to 4 with a 38:30 Game 2 over G2 Esports at EWC 2026, surviving a chaotic slugfest before ShowMaker's Zoe took control. In a match decided by just 2.5k gold, cleaner mid-to-late execution made the difference.

Key Takeaways

• Dplus Kia finished the game with a 24-20 kill lead and a 78.6k to 76.1k gold edge, showing how small advantages across repeated skirmishes were enough to close the map.
• ShowMaker delivered a stunning 7/1/7 game on Zoe with a 14.00 KDA and 26.4% of his team's damage, giving Dplus Kia the reliable burst threat that anchored every decisive fight.
• Lucid's Xin Zhao posted 7/3/14 while contributing a massive 30.6% damage share, a rare jungle carry line that helped Dplus Kia win the brawls around dragons and towers.

Trading Blows

G2 Esports came into this one needing a response after the rough 4-19 loss in Game 1, and for long stretches they found it by turning the map into a fistfight. This was not a slow, controlled closeout from Dplus Kia. It was a game of constant collisions, with both sides trading engages, counter-engages, and sudden picks until the gold sat almost even deep into the clock.

The European side had real punch. Caps on Sylas put up 7/3/6, repeatedly finding ways into the back line and keeping G2 alive whenever the pace threatened to slip away. On the bottom side, Hans Sama's Lucian added 25.9% of the team's damage, while SkewMond on Jarvan IV finished 5/5/14, giving G2 a dependable engage button whenever they needed to force the issue.

But Dplus Kia kept answering. Smash's Syndra from the Bot role brought 6/5/10, and every time G2 tried to build momentum, the LCK side found another return punch. The tower count told the quieter story beneath the noise: even with the kill score close, Dplus Kia steadily opened the map and ended at 9 towers to 3. That meant more room to move, more vision to set, and more ways to start the next skirmish on their terms.

The Deciding Factor

When a game is this scrappy, eventually one player becomes the calm center of the storm. That player was ShowMaker on Zoe.

His 7/1/7 line does not just look efficient; it explains the ending. While everyone else was getting dragged into messy front-to-back fights, he kept landing the kind of damage that turns a tense standoff into a sudden numbers advantage. With 26.4% of Dplus Kia's damage and only 1 death across 38:30, he was the clearest difference-maker on the Rift.

The most important part was timing. G2 were good enough to contest almost every phase of the game, even securing 1 Baron to Dplus Kia's 0. Normally that kind of objective swing can flip a close match. Instead, the Korean side refused to panic, reset around the next wave states, and trusted their poke and follow-up to reopen the map. Once the mid laner started chunking targets before engages fully began, G2 had to enter fights already damaged or concede space around neutral setups.

What Made the Difference

In the end, Dplus Kia were simply cleaner in the moments that convert chaos into victory. They claimed 3 dragons to 2, took 9 towers, and protected a narrow 78.6k to 76.1k gold lead without handing over the final mistake. That matters in a close game more than any single flashy play.

The jungle pressure was enormous too. Lucid on Xin Zhao was not just participating; he was driving the game with 7/3/14 and a team-high 30.6% damage share. Behind him, Career's Rell absorbed the ugly work of starting fights and finished with 16 assists, while Siwoo on Jayce added 14 assists of his own to keep the side lanes and poke setups connected.

For G2 Esports, there were enough good moments to suggest this game was far more competitive than the series opener. BrokenBlade's Rumble dealt 23.9% of team damage, and the roster found 20 kills in a game where they never stopped swinging. But Dplus Kia's composition handled the repeated skirmishes better as the map widened. In EWC 2026, that was enough to finish the 2-0 and push their winning run to 4.

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