G2 Esports have ended their relationship with Luka “Perkz” Perković, terminating the head coach of their League of Legends team less than 14 hours after he posted a long personal statement on X. In a statement signed by CEO Alban Dechelotte on 5 November, G2 said some of the views shared “do not align with G2’s stance and values”, and apologised to fans who had been hurt by them.
The decision brings an abrupt end to a second spell that began only in July and included a record 20th LEC title.
G2’s statement does not name Perkz, although it refers to a statement shared “by the Head Coach of one of our teams” the night before, which matches his post. “G2 is a diverse and international organization with different people from all around the world,” it reads, adding that respecting that diversity is “of the utmost importance” when representing the club.It closes by saying G2 will now rebuild its staff and roster, but “will not be able to communicate any changes until free agency officially opens.”
Inside Perkz’s “first and last honest post”
Perkz opened his post shortly after midnight UTC, explaining that he had been “very distant from social media and public touch for many years”. This, he said, would be his “first and last honest post in last decade”. He said he wanted to answer what he called “insanely fake narratives” about him as a person, rather than as a player. “I’m writing it so that at the very least you can hate me for what I really stand for,” he wrote.
The first of those narratives concerned Andrew Tate. Perkz said the claims grew out of him liking “a few tate memes” around 2022, when likes were still visible on Twitter, and he was blunt about where he stands. “I don’t like, support, or stand with tates,” he wrote, adding that he dislikes their views on life and their “wrongful teachings to younglings about women”.
He also defended his past support for G2 founder Carlos Rodriguez, who stepped down as CEO in 2022 after backlash over a video of him partying with Tate. Perkz described Rodriguez as “a good mentor to me”, someone who believed in him as a teenager when few others did. Even so, he criticised how Rodriguez handled his exit from G2, and he said the pair have since gone completely different ways.
The section that drew the most attention dealt with his beliefs. Perkz said he is Catholic and only built a real relationship with God in recent years, and that he does not “really do politics” and has never voted. However, he singled out abortion as the one issue on which his view is “unshakeable”. He described it as murder because “life is created at conception”, calling it “one view I will die by and never change.”
He used the same post to distance himself from Donald Trump, Kamala Harris and Vladimir Putin, and said he does not support war. In a reply shortly afterwards, he added that he would rather people “hate me for not supporting abortion rather than for supporting wars and andrew tate”. Reaction on X was sharply divided, with some fans condemning his views on abortion and others accusing G2 of punishing him for a personal opinion.
How Perkz’s return to G2 ended at Worlds
Perkz came back to G2 in early July as a positional coach, more than a year after retiring as a player, and was promoted to head coach for the Esports World Cup only days later. He said the move followed a call with Dechelotte, but he also wrote that his announcement was “quite poorly handled from G2’s side”, leaving him feeling “thrown a bit under the bus”. Dylan Falco, who had led the team since December 2021, was moved to an inactive role at the same time.
Domestically, the results under Perkz were nothing short of emphatic. With him in charge, G2 swept Movistar KOI to win a record 20th LEC title in September, completing a clean sweep of the 2026 domestic season. In his statement, Perkz said he had come into “a broken and dysfunctional team”, and that he told his players after the final that they could win Worlds.
Instead, G2 went out of the Worlds 2026 Swiss Stage with a 1-3 record. “Losing out in groups was just heartbreaking,” Perkz wrote, admitting that he probably did not do “the perfect job in the last months”, although he insisted he gave everything he could. It was a familiar ending for a G2 side that had already come up short at First Stand and MSI earlier in the year.
His exit leaves G2 without a head coach at the start of a busy off-season. The club is already reported to be bringing in Lyncas to replace SkewMond in the jungle, with Vitality’s Pad said to be joining as strategic coach. Neither move has been confirmed, and G2 have said they will stay silent on changes until free agency opens.
