We continue to review the main event of the season in the League of Legends. We are talking about the playoff stage, which is marked here by the Knockout Stage.
In New York, the race for the Champion's Cup continues, and the best teams from the previous stages have left for a new round. T1 with Royal Never Give Up also made it to the top eight.
It would be surprising not to see them in the TOP-8, because the scale of the teams is hard to overestimate. From that, the face-to-face confrontation is gaining in showiness.
We figure out which of the teams will be stronger and go to the semi-finals, and who will have to say goodbye to their ambitions for the main trophy at the TOP-8 stage.
Form T1
We begin the review of the quarterfinals with the T1 team, the favorite of the match. In this fight, 1.4 is given to win the South Korean grand.
Such a figure, much more mundane than the situation with Rogue and JD Gaming, however, still paints a clear favorite. They will be T1 and you can understand such a status for the Faker team.
T1 is a symbol of the competitive League of Legends. Even non-disciplined esports fans have definitely heard of T1 and League of Legends.
At the Worlds tournaments of the Worlds series, they have been consistently good since the time of SK Telecom T1. However, that's history, and now we have other T1s that are still good, but not perfect.
The T1 season went well, but not perfect, which is a fact. The first half of the year was successful, the second - a little worse.
In the spring, T1 won the LCK Spring 2022, after which they went to the Mid-Season Invitational, where they lost to Royal Never Give Up in the final. In the summer, T1 took second place in the regional league, losing in the final to Gen.G Esports.
At the World Championship, T1 were placed in Group A. The title club showed its strength during the group stage, taking 1st place almost without any problems.
T1 results at Worlds 2022
- Lost to Fnatic 0-1
- 1-0 victory over Cloud9
- 1-0 victory over Fnatic
- 1-0 victory over Cloud9
- 1-0 victory over EDward Gaming
The only time T1 lost was in the first stage of the group stage. Then Fnatic was surprised, but then T1 did not make any mistakes.
Composition T1
- Zeus
- Oner
- Faker
- Gumayusi
- Keria
I think it doesn't make much sense to go through T1 personalities. The cream of the South Korean League of Legends are defending the colors of T1 led by the indispensable Faker, for whom this year's title could be 4 (!) in his career.
Heroes T1
For the T1 World Championship, the following were chosen:
Top lane: Fiora, Jax, Aatrox. All appeared once, only Jax lost.
Picked into the woods: Viego (2 matches, 50% win rate) and Lee Sin (1 match, 100% win rate)
In the mid lane, Faker played Akali (2 matches, 50% win rate) and Lissandra (100% win rate with 1 spawn).
At ADK, Sivir (1 match, 100% win), Aphelios (1 match, 0% win), Kaisa (1 match, 100% win) were chosen.
Of the supports, Yuumi (100% wins in 1 match), Thresh (1 match, 0 wins) and Alistar (1 match, 100% wins) were honored.
Form Royal Never Give Up
Royal Never Give Up will play as an outsider in this match. The chance of a team from the LPL winning is estimated by the bookmakers with odds around 2.8.
The gap in performance by more than two times hints at the distrust of RNG on the part of bookmakers. In general, this can be explained.
Royal Never Give Up, unlike their counterparts, cannot boast such a rich history of performances at Worlds, but you can’t name a weak team. Especially this season.
At the beginning of the year, Royal Never Give Up won the LPL Spring 2022, after which they went to the Mid-Season Invitational 2022. The key off-season tournament ended with a triumph for Royal Never Give Up, and in the final the team beat their future rivals from T1. Further, the results dipped, but this did not prevent Royal Never Give Up from qualifying for Worlds 2022.
RNG's path to the playoffs has been long and rocky. The “Kings” began their march to the Knockout Stage through two stages of Play-In, after which, having decided on group D, they took 2nd place there, losing to their T1 LCK colleagues - Gen.G.
Royal Never Give Up results at Worlds 2022
- 1-0 victory over 100 Thieves
- 1-0 victory over 100 Thieves
- 1-0 victory over CTBC
- Lost to Gen.G Esports 0-1
- Lost to Gen.G Esports 0-1
In general, the only difficulties in the tournament, the team appears against the teams from South Korea. In the Play-In it was DRX, in the Gen.G Esports group, and now they have to face another representative of the LCK - T1.
Royal Never Give Up line-up
- Xiaohu
- Gala
- Wei
- Ming
- Breathe
It looks like Breathe has gone through an acclimatization period and is now ready to compete with the best players in the world at the same level.
Heroes RNG
RNG play in the “eastern meta”, which is not surprising. Gwen with Gnar for the top lane (12 matches for the first and 10 for the second). Jungle heroes look a little atypical, where Viego and Vi are preferred (the first, quite typical choice is 11 matches, 63% win rate, the second appeared in picks 9 times, 7 of them wins).
On the mid lane, RNGs are favored by Talliyah (9 matches, 8 wins) and Lissandra (9 games, 7 wins).
The best combination in the bot is Aphelios and Nautilus. ADK has 11 matches and 80% win rate, while the support has 13 games with 61% win rate.
History of personal confrontations
The teams played each other as part of the Mid-Season Invitational 2022. In the final of the tournament, RNG won, but after that the “kings” changed ADC, which affected their confidence for a certain period.
The outcome of the fight
In this match, I'm definitely looking forward to a fight and a repeat of the MSI 2022 finals, which ended in 5 maps. Based on the trend that has developed in the tournament, T1 have more chances to win, since RNG have so far been lost in matches with representatives of the LCK, and T1 is a silver medalist, whatever one may say.
My bet is T1.
Result: T1 win.
