NRG shuts down Fnatic’s comeback, wins Valorant Champions 2025

NRG managed to shut down Fnatic’s comeback at Valorant Champions 2025, winning the series 3-2. This was the second time the two teams faced each other in the tournament, with NRG taking the first meeting in the upper bracket final 2-0.

Fnatic’s hopes and dreams could have evaporated after NRG took the first two games convincingly in the grand final of Valorant Champions 2025. However, the players, led by Jake “Boaster” Howlett, had other ideas.

Faced with an 11-0 half in favor of NRG in Abyss, Fnatic managed to force the map to overtime by essentially doing the same thing to NRG. This eventually led to Fnatic closing the map 15-13, staying alive in the series.

Map four was in Ascent, and Fnatic showed in this map that its previous win was not a fluke. After taking six rounds in the first half, Fnatic shut down NRG and won its map pick 13-8.

The deciding map was Sunset, which would mark the end of Fnatic’s furious comeback and dreams of lifting the Valorant Champions 2025 trophy. While they took the first two rounds of both halves, NRG dominated them, showing glimpses of the kind of team they were in maps one and two. Sunset ended in a 13-5 fashion in favor of NRG.

Valorant Champions 2025 was NRG’s first S-tier win. The team received $1 million for its victory.

Valorant’s next S-tier tournament will be the Valorant Game Changers Championship 2025 on Nov. 20 at the LoL Park in South Korea.