Mikyx Returns to G2 Esports for the 2027 LEC Season to Reunite With Hans Sama as Labrov Departs for Fnatic
The bond between Europe's most decorated support player and the Samurai organization simply refuses to stay in the past. According to corroborating offseason reports circulating across the European competitive scene and discussions on r/leagueoflegends, Slovenian veteran Mihael "Mikyx" Mehle has reached a verbal agreement to return to G2 Esports for the 2027 LEC season in League of Legends. The move marks the 28-year-old support's third separate stint with the Berlin powerhouse, where he replaces Lampros "Labrov" Papoutsakis following the Greek player's decision to join arch-rivals Fnatic, and reunites with French bot laner Steven "Hans Sama" Liv.
Labrov Joins Fnatic: The Offseason Domino Effect That Reunited Mikyx and Hans Sama
This blockbuster change in the bottom lane stems directly from a high-stakes contract standoff that slipped through G2's fingers. Having joined G2 Esports at the end of 2024 as the direct replacement for Mikyx, Labrov enjoyed a dominant domestic run in 2026 capped off by a Summer Split Finals MVP award. With his contract expiring this November, G2's management tabled an upgraded extension offer in a last-ditch effort to fend off rival suitors.
Despite the improved financial terms, Labrov declined to re-sign and instead chose to join Fnatic for the 2027 campaign. Forced to pivot quickly to fill a sudden vacancy in the bot lane, G2 Esports immediately turned to a player who knows the organization inside out: Mikyx. A Mid-Season Invitational (MSI) champion during his first tenure with the club (2019 to 2021) and the winner of multiple domestic trophies during his second run (2023 to 2024) to bring his career total to eleven LEC titles, the Slovenian playmaker now steps right back in alongside Hans Sama, reviving the exact duo that ruled Europe for two full years.
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From Fnatic to a Rough Year at SK Gaming: A Shot at Redemption
For Mikyx, returning to Berlin offers a massive competitive lifeline after two turbulent seasons away from G2. After spending the 2025 campaign with Fnatic following his late-2024 benching, the veteran took a gamble for the 2026 season by spearheading a roster rebuild at SK Gaming. Given full agency to shape a lineup alongside former G2 teammate Martin "Wunder" Hansen in the top lane, French jungler Duncan "Skeanz" Marquet, mid laner LIDER (later replaced by SlowQ), and rookie ADC Jopa, Mikyx was tasked with turning SK into a dark-horse contender.
Instead, the 2026 campaign at SK Gaming unraveled into a frustrating ordeal. The roster failed to qualify for all three split playoffs throughout the year, bottoming out with an eleventh-place finish during the LEC Versus tournament. With SK Gaming opting to tear down its roster for 2027 and early offseason exploratory talks linking Mikyx to other European organizations such as Team Vitality failing to materialize, G2's sudden opening hands him an immediate return to title contention.
Lyncas, Mithy, and the Post-Perkz Rebuild: Inside G2's 2027 LEC Blueprint
Mikyx's homecoming is the latest piece of a sweeping overhaul inside G2's League of Legends division following a disappointing 1-3 exit in the Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage. Just days after CEO Alban Dechelotte fired Head Coach Perkz over a controversial social media post, the organization locked in another familiar face to lead the coaching staff: Spanish veteran Alfonso "Mithy" Aguirre Rodríguez returns as Head Coach, supported by former Team Vitality strategic coach Patrick "Pad" Suckow-Breum.
On the Rift, the reunited bot lane of Hans Sama and Mikyx will join franchise cornerstone Rasmus "Caps" Winther in the mid lane and Lithuanian jungler Linas "Lyncas" Nauncikas, after management confirmed that G2 is keeping its verbal agreement with Lyncas to replace SkewMond. While top lane pillar Sergen "BrokenBlade" Çelik is set to close his five-year chapter with the club to join Movistar KOI as G2 negotiates with Team Vitality over the buyout of Turkish prodigy Kaan "Naak Nako" Okan, bringing Mikyx back into the fold ensures the Samurai retain their trademark mid-game creativity and veteran voice.
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My Take
I was just joking about this with Charles "Grimtag" earlier today: there seems to be an unwritten law of physics in the LEC that pulls G2 Esports and Mikyx back together every two years, no matter how many times they try to move on. Beyond the poetic irony of watching Mikyx reclaim the exact seat vacated by Labrov after being replaced by him at the end of 2024, this move reads like an honest admission of what G2 has been missing on the international stage over the past twenty-four months.
Make no mistake: Labrov was mechanically rock-solid domestically and fully earned his Summer Finals MVP trophy, yet G2 never quite recaptured that unpredictable roaming spark and fearless vision control that Mikyx brings against top LCK and LPL opposition. By reuniting Hans Sama and Mikyx under Mithy's leadership, G2 instantly recovers two years of built-in laning muscle memory with zero ramp-up time required. The real tactical test for 2027 now shifts to jungle-support synergy: if Mikyx can unlock an explosive young talent like Lyncas through the first fifteen minutes, this third iteration of G2 Mikyx is going to be terrifying from day one of the Winter Split.
Born and based in Montreal's Mile End district, Maëlle "Kaelen" became close friends with Chaya during their university software engineering years, bonding over late-night coding labs, campus LANs, and World of Warcraft raids alongside Grimtag and Heimdall. A game systems balancing consultant and lifelong theorycrafter, she cut her teeth in the early 2010s writing boss walkthroughs, frame-data breakdowns, and competitive meta guides for specialized French-language MMORPG and esports portals, including Mondes Persistants, as well as North American strategy collections. On Pro-Gamer, she leads in-depth walkthroughs, build optimization, and tactical esports coverage.
