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On the eve of the Long Cognega play-offs in the regional leagues of professional League of Legends, the most exciting things are happening in The International. Teams are preparing for the Long Run main stage of the tournaments and trying to gain points before the main stage starts.
At LCS Summer 2023 the last week of matches begins. It will be opened by 100 Thieves and Dignitas.
This match is extremely important, as both teams are still not guaranteed to qualify for the American tournament play-offs. Both teams share 7th place, and their head-to-head battle will decide a lot.
Let's find out who will win this Bo1 match and get some important points ahead of the play-offs.
Let's go.
Form 100 Thieves
Let's open this match with an analysis of 100 Thieves' form. In this match they will play as favourites.
Bookmakers believe in the success of the Thieves. The odds for their victory is at 1.6.
Given the specifics of the championship and bo1 in the group stage, such a figure does not guarantee a trouble-free victory for 100 Thieves. The team is a status team, but still not a top team.
Last season, 100 Thieves had a good showing. At LCS Lock-In 2022, the team finished in the top 8 and then improved significantly.
At LCS Spring 2022 and LCS Summer 2022, they finished in the top 2 both times. This guaranteed them an appearance at Worlds 2022, but they failed to get above the Top 14.
- 100 Thieves roster: Ssumday, Closer, Quid, Doublelift, Busio .
The latest additions to the team are Quid and Ssumday, who joined the team in May this year. It's not really clear how much of a difference it made, but 100 Thieves is now close to not making the play-offs of the tournament.
Prior to Long Sogpeg's duel with Dignitas, the team has 6 wins and 9 losses to their credit.
Most Popular 100 Thieves Champions
Gragas (4 games, 75% wins), Sion (4 matches, 100% wins), Jax (3 games, 33% wins), Ornn, (2 matches, 50% wins), KSante (2 matches, 100% wins) appear in the Top 100 Thieves.
Viego, Vi, and Wukong were played the same number of times. All 3 have the same winrate - 75% wins.
Azir (4 matches, 50% wins), Taliyah (3 games, 66% wins), Annie (3 matches, 66% wins), Viktor (2 matches, 100% wins) were picked on the centre line.
Zeri (6 matches, 66% wins), Xayah (5 games, 60% wins), Jinx (3 games, 33% wins) were picking on ADK.
Supports are usual: Lulu and Rakan (5 games each, where the former won 3 and the latter won 4 games. In addition, we tried Azir and Varus. The former lost and the latter won.
Form Dignitas
We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Dignitas' form. In this match the team will play as a number two.
Bookmakers are not ready to favour Dignitas. The odds for their victory are estimated at around 2.1.
Again, for bo1 match in the group stage, such a figure does not indicate a critical gap. Most likely, a close match awaits us.
Dignitas last season showed far from the best result. Rather even disgusting.
If 2022 started with the top 4 at LCS Lock-In 2022, then the performance at the main LCS events ended much worse. At LCS Spring 2022 the team took the top 7, and at LCS Summer 2022 it was already the 10th place.
The situation did not change in 2023. In LCS Spring 2023 Dignitas finished in 10th place. The last, 10th place.
- Dignitas line-up: Rich, Santorin, Jensen, Tomo, Diamond, poome.
Due to the disappointing performance in recent tournaments, Dignitas resorted to the tactic of the two players. Simply put, they swap out Diamond and poome at times, but it doesn't have much effect.
Like 100 Thieves, Dignitas are 7th place in the standings and have a score of 6-9.
The most popular Dignitas champions
KSante (4 matches, 75% wins), Jax (2 matches, 0% wins), Quinn (2 matches, 50% wins) inhabit the top line.
Foresters include Sejuani (5 matches, 60% wins), Maokai (3 matches, 0% wins), Poppy (3 games, 33% winrate).
On the centre line Azir (3 matches, 33% win rate), Annie (2 matches, 50% win rate), Ahri (2 matches, 0% win rate), Orianna (2 matches, 100% win rate).
The most popular shooters are Aphelios (4 matches, 50% wins), Ashe (3 matches, 33% wins), Jinx (2 matches, 0% wins), Xayah (2 matches, 100% wins).
Supporting champions include Rell (4 matches, 50% wins), Rakan (2 matches, 100% wins), Nautilus (2 matches, 50% wins).
Head-to-head history
100 Thieves and Dignitas have played three times in 2023. Not once has Dignitas had an assist.
Outcome of the match
In this matchup, I believe 100 Thieves will win. Given a comfortable opponent, the Thieves can shut down their vis-a-vis without much trouble. I'm sure they clearly want to make it to the play-offs, and they can't achieve that without a win against Dignitas.
Bottom line: 100 Thieves win.
