CTBC Flying Oyster Silences Doubt in LCP Closeout

TL;DR: With the series there to be closed, CTBC Flying Oyster ignored a 44% pre-game market call and crushed Deep Cross Gaming in 30:40. Shad0w Naafiri created the jungle gap with +876 GoldDiff@15, POUT’s Akali finished untouched at 9/0/5, and 3 dragons to 0 turned the draft edge into a clean 2-0 statement.

Key Takeaways

• CTBC Flying Oyster turned a 25-9 kill score into a full map choke, proving the underdog tag never matched how hard they could snowball this draft.
• Shad0w on Naafiri built a +876 GoldDiff@15 lead and finished 8/4/7, the clearest sign that jungle pressure decided the game before Deep Cross Gaming could settle.
• POUT’s Akali posted a 14.0 KDA at 9/0/5, giving CTBC Flying Oyster the assassin anchor that punished every failed engage around mid game.

Building the Lead

This game began with the pressure of a closeout, and CTBC Flying Oyster played like a team that had no interest in letting the series breathe. Even though Deep Cross Gaming entered the day with the better 17W-9L record and had taken the latest meeting 2-0, the opening minutes of Game 2 erased that history fast.

The center of it was Shad0w. His Naafiri found tempo immediately, and the +876 GoldDiff@15 over Pop9 Wukong was more than a lane-state number; it meant CTBC Flying Oyster’s skirmishes arrived first and hit harder. With that early acceleration, the map opened for POUT to knife through fights on Akali, while Kino’s Nautilus kept creating the first point of contact.

Deep Cross Gaming did get something from the top side, where Flauren’s Tristana held a +794 GoldDiff@15 over Rest’s Gnar, but it never became the kind of side-lane pressure that could slow the game. CTBC Flying Oyster simply controlled too many of the important spaces, and once the first neutral setups went their way, the game began to tilt decisively.

The Numbers Tell the Story

The final totals explain why this felt so one-sided: 63.2k gold to 52.7k, 8 towers to 2, 3 dragons to 0, and 1 barons to 0. Over 30:40, that is not just a lead; it is sustained ownership of the map.

The pre-draft focus on Orianna deserves a direct verdict because prediction No. 1 demanded it. She did appear, but HongSuo’s Orianna never delivered the stabilizing control Deep Cross Gaming needed, ending 0/2/2 as the Wukong-Orianna core failed to create the comeback fights red side was drafted to find. On the other side, the live draft model’s 53% lean toward CTBC Flying Oyster absolutely materialized, satisfying prediction No. 2: the Gnar-Naafiri-Nautilus routes into mid-game action were more practical than Deep Cross Gaming’s slower setup.

That let Doggo’s Vladimir play from comfort rather than desperation. His 5/1/7 line and +632 GoldDiff@15 did not need to be flashy because the team already had the fight timing under control. Once CTBC Flying Oyster could layer engage and follow-up, Deep Cross Gaming’s Ziggs composition stopped looking like waveclear insurance and started looking pinned in place.

The Final Push

By the time the Baron entered the game, Deep Cross Gaming were already chasing from behind. CTBC Flying Oyster had forced the match into their rhythm, and every later fight reflected it. POUT remained deathless, Kino piled up 14 assists, and the kill score closed at 25-9 with none of the late uncertainty that sometimes follows a heavy early game.

The last stretch was really about compression: towers disappeared, neutral objectives stayed blue, and Deep Cross Gaming never found the layered engage that might have let Rell and Wukong rescue the draft. Instead, CTBC Flying Oyster converted their lead exactly the way a superior snowball composition should, ending the game before scaling questions could matter.

Polymarket Market

The market had CTBC Flying Oyster at just 44% by draft close, so this result stands as a clear miss on execution risk. Pre-game skepticism made sense on paper because Deep Cross Gaming owned the stronger season record and had been the series favorite at 62% before Game 1, but Game 2 showed what the market underweighted: CTBC Flying Oyster’s draft had cleaner access to early control, and Shad0w Naafiri turned that theoretical edge into immediate map leverage. The 53% live draft read was closer to reality than the broader game price, and this win closes the series 2-0; the full series-market wrap-up belongs in the series recap.

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*Odds via Polymarket, 2026-07-26 12:54 UTC.*