Eg has been improving all the year if u see the maps played in the final eg won the exact maps that had losed against fnc in tokyo's final, they improved their map pool otherwise fnc did the same all the time, staff difference.
lol doesn't work like that when you fail at the most important tournament. lockin doesn't count since it was single elim intro tourney and they didn't even win EMEA. If you look at the two international tournaments where all the teams are at peak form. FNC went 1st and 4th. EG went 2nd and 1st. Fnatic literally choked the year away.
lockin was a single elim with a lot of new teams with no protocols, the team that did well are the one who stayed with a core. most teams had like 3 weeks of prac, or around that. i dont count that.
in tokyo every single team was nerfed (PRX sub, EG prac with reformed until literally 2 days before tokyo cuz demon1 situation was unknown, DRX/LOUD crisis, NRG bad form)
champs mattered the most, and when team had their full force fnatic just crumbled.