G2 Dylan Falco: “It seems like destiny. Every international we play”

Dylan Falco is synonymous with modern G2’s prolonged stint as the top team in the region, nowadays. At MSI day one, G2 were taken to the ropes and all five games by a bloodthirsty series in a B05 that is sure to go down as the time EU almost got eliminated by Brazil. After the match against FURIA, we sat down with Dylan Falco to chat about FURIA vs G2, his love for Nunu, and why one shaky series shouldn’t make fans lose faith.

After pivoting from his time on Fnatic, Dylan got the full wrestling heel turn by helping up their greatest rivals. Since then, Dylan has become part and parcel of the new era of Europe’s greatest organization of all time. As they slide into MSI 2025 behind MKOI, we sat down with Dylan to pick his brain on FURIA, Baron Santa hats, and more.

Nick James: We’re here with Dylan Falco from G2. Obviously, a much closer series than many people expected. We were just talking about this, but you talked with Armand Luque at Sheep yesterday, about how you respected FURIA. You knew that they were going to be better than a lot of people expected.

Can you walk me through why the series was so difficult, what you managed to do to pull it back?

Dylan Falco: So yeah, I  think this is one of the most talented teams that Brazil has sent in a long time. They have a lot of young talent. I think a lot of the same names that [go usually] have not performed internationally, so I was expecting this one to be tough. Five games maybe not, as I think we still like we’re coming from a stronger region where the favourites were expected to win.

So yeah, I expect it to be difficult, maybe not this difficult. I think they definitely had a very good plan in the two games that they took. I think in game 1, we’re playing a very engaged focused comp and they clearly are prepared for that. They had a lot of anti-engage. It became very hard for us to do once I think we were winning that game right, and we failed one play, we failed the teamfight, and ended up behind. And I think game 4, we’re also just going for something a bit fancy with Neeko Flex and the Blitzcrank. It didn’t quite pan out. I’m pretty sure I know a few of the reasons why it didn’t pan out, so I understand why we lost those games. And ultimately the games we won, I think we’re we’re pretty solid actually.

I think we played quite well in the games we won. It was clean. We were winning the whole time mostly. So yeah, it was close, but I’m happy we managed to pull through.

Nick James: Yeah, yeah. And certainly you guys pulled it back for that game 5. I think what a lot of people were expecting game 1 to look like came out in Game 5, and you know, where you were able to stabilise there. And so coming out of this, what are your thoughts on FURIA on this LTAS team that you know, they’ve been, they’ve had a sort of a reputation as like scrim gods in the region. [They] didn’t really put it together in split 1, but have managed to, here.

What are your thoughts on FURIA?

Dylan Falco: Yeah, I always like when the teams that are good in scrims are good in solo queue and grind the hardest.
I think there was a time where if you took ELO across the world, obviously not all servers are equal, It was G2 and FURIA were the top solo queue teams in the world on their respective servers. So I love it. I love teams like that.

I’m happy they’re here and I’ll be cheering for them in the lower bracket.

Nick James: So then, looking at the rest of the competition, obviously just behind us, GAM versus BLG is starting up. You know, I certainly think BLG is probably going to walk out of this the victor. Not to say that GAM doesn’t have a fighting chance, but what are your thoughts on the rematch with BLG?

I know that some of the players sounded like they were quite eager to face off against BLG again, but how are you feeling?

Dylan Falco: It seems destiny. Every international event we end up against BLG. Often it’s for the elimination for both of these two teams. That’s why it’s been I think for the last three times. This time at least, it’s in the winners’ bracket, so it’s a bit less stressful. It’s also a different BLG. It’s also a different G2, right? They weren’t as dominant in China and we weren’t as dominant in Europe. So I think we’ve always played them very close, kind of lost. I think we lost every time, but we are always taking games. It was always very tight, so we’re looking forward to tomorrow.

Nick James: Hell yeah. OK, next question has nothing to do with pro play. So the last time we chatted, which was many, many months ago when I was working in EU regularly, we found out that you and the G2 crew are a little bit of Lore nerds.

Dylan Falco: Not me that much.

Nick James: But you know, there’s been some behind the scenes discussions like where you want to see Arcane and stuff. And so the question here is, we’re standing right in front of the Spirit Blossom Beyond. Of course, if you got to decide the theme for a season and right has said it could be a skin line that’s not cannon or a region of the of Runeterra. So we’ve had Ionia, we’ve had a Noxus. They come to you and they’re like, “we need a theme for a season.” You can do a skin line, you can do a region.

What’s the Dylan Falco season?

Dylan Falco:  I think I’d have to go with Freljord, probably because I like the ice champions. Maybe some Nunu is involved as well. My champion, my one trick. So we’ll go with that. I think I always like the winter theme.Also the old winter map, pretty cool in League. hurts some people’s eyes, but I was a fan. Yeah, at least playing casually, maybe not in ranked

Nick James: I miss Baron with a little Santa cap on it.

Dylan Falco: That was good. We’re going to go for that.

Nick James: I think that’s a really good choice. So then, next question, we’ve had a lot of time to sit with Fearless. Last time we were talking, Fearless was just like an inkling, a twinkle in Riot’s eye. And now here we are. It’s the format for just League of Legends.

Dylan Falco: Yeah,, it just is the format for League of Legends.

Nick James: And we’re here at a fully best-of-five tournament, which really gets to push that to its farthest.

What do you think of Fearless?

Dylan Falco: I love it. It makes my job so much more technical and so much more involved. I feel like the impact you can have on games is a lot higher. Like for example, I think we really pulled it together for game 5, today to create a very coherent and good draft under Game 5 scenarios, which is difficult. I also think even if I think we’re good and fearless and we’re improving at it a lot, it adds a bit to the variance. I think that’s all of the reason you’ve seen a lot of different teams win in a lot of different regions. If it’s just a lot more difficult to be consistent when the scenarios you’re put in, you cannot practise 50, 100 times over.

But I think it’s great for the sport, I love it and I think that’s something that the more the good teams have room and time to optimize how they approach it, the more you will see it develop.

Nick James: So most of the time, you know, the banter for inter regions in this type of it would be EU-NA. But I know you are from Toronto, I’m from here. I’ve noticed a little thing which is that there are more Canucks in attendance at MSI than there are Americans. There is Busio for the Americans and then we have JoJo, you, and Massu.

So, do you think being a Canadian just makes you better at everything?

Dylan Falco: Who is the 4th?

Nick James: I think there’s only three.

Dylan Falco: There’s 3, yeah. So I can also hit you with the fact that EU is sending more Canadians than NA is to the tournament. So, who actually is the Canadian representative as a region? I mean…

Nick James: We are part of the Commonwealth so…

Dylan Falco: There we go, yes.

Nick James: Perfect, any last words? Camera is all yours.

Dylan Falco: Just thank you to the fans. I know the sentiment surrounding our team can be a bit hit and miss, but we won. We beat a lot of teams to get here. We won again today, and we are confident that we can keep winning and performing well at the tournament, so I hope you guys can cheer us on.

Nick James: Awesome, pleasure. Thank you for the time, Dylan.