In professional League of Legends, stealing someone else’s homework is not just acceptable. It’s considered a power move.
Hanwha Life Esports pulled out the Shen-Lulu-Kog’Maw composition in game 3 of their best-of-five series against T1 on June 12, a strategy that G2 Esports had previously deployed at the First Stand international tournament. The match was part of the LCK 2026 Road to MSI qualifier, the series that determines which Korean team earns the region’s top seed at the Mid-Season Invitational.
Why this composition matters
The Shen-Lulu-Kog’Maw comp is a classic “protect the carry” strategy. Kog’Maw is a late-game hyper-carry marksman who deals absurd damage but has roughly the survivability of a paper airplane in a hurricane. Lulu provides shields, buffs, and polymorph crowd control to keep Kog’Maw alive. Shen’s global ultimate allows him to teleport a massive shield onto any teammate from anywhere on the map.
G2 ran this composition at First Stand, and it clearly left an impression on HLE’s coaching staff. Korean teams have historically been the ones setting the meta, not importing it from Europe. That dynamic has been shifting for years now, but seeing HLE deploy a distinctly G2-flavored draft against T1 signals that the flow of tactical innovation has become genuinely bidirectional.
