Matchförutsägelse: Royal Never Give Up - Weibo Gaming | LoL

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We continue to review what's happening at NEST 2023. We are waiting for the first round of the play-offs, where we are waiting for the fight between RNG and Weibo Gaming.

If you don't know, NEST 2023 is a kind of test tournament. It takes place every year and top Chinese clubs play in it, but often the games are played by youth squads, not the main squads. However, big players can also be found.

Back to the RNG vs Weibo Gaming match. Let's see which of the big names will win this match and move on the play-offs grid, and who will have to say goodbye to the prospect of winning the first official tournament in the 14 competitive season of LoL.

Let's go.

RNG Form

We open the match analysis with an analysis of RNG's form. In this match, the Kings play the first number one, and the odds for victory are at 1.3. This is unexpected, but it should be understood that the game is played with academic squads and this situation plays its role.

Last year RNG won the LPL Spring 2022, then triumphed in the final of MSI 2022, and also qualified for the Worlds 2022, where they finished in the top 8.

In the new season, however, Long Corner was worse than before. In the first regional round of the LPL - LPL Spring 2023 - RNG finished top-8.

• RNG's lineup is PandaC, milkyway, Xzz, zhiqiuyi, Bunny .

So far, RNG are moving towards repeating the history of half a year ago. We need to step up and improve their performance in the standings, then we can automatically avoid the top 8.

In the LPL Summer 2023 group stage, Royal Never Give Up finished in the top 7. They fell one position short of making it to the second round of the main stage and now need to play more matches.

In the first round of play-offs LPL Summer 2023 RNG played against NiP. Being the favourite of the series, the title Chinese club Ledgeil their vis-a-vis, and Ledgeil with the score 1-3. As a result - the top 10 of the tournament.

Apparently, the absolutely failed last season affected the mood of RNG in the new one. They seriously approached the game at NEST 2023 and did not know any defeats in the group stage: they defeated Bilibili, Anyones Legend and Invictus Gaming.

The most popular Royal Never Give Up champions

KSante (4 matches, 25% wins), Renekton (3 matches, 66% wins), Jayce (2 games, 0% wins) are the top picks.

Foresters: Maokai (3 games, 33% wins), Sejuani (3 games, 0% wins), Graves (2 games, 50% wins), Poppy (2 games, 0 wins) and Wukong (2 games, 50% winrate).

In the mid, the classic situation is Azir (2 matches, 50% wins), Akali (1 game, 0 wins), Ryze (1 game, 100% wins).

On arrows is also pretty usual, except for ignoring Lucian-a. The most selectable champion is Zeri (4 games, 75% wins). There was Caitlyn (3 games, 33% wins), Ziggs (2 games, 0% wins) and Varus (2 games, 0% wins).

Heimerdinger (2 matches, 50% wins), Yuumi (2 games, 50% wins) were Saporti.

Form Weibo Gaming

We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Weibo Gaming's form. In this match they are playing as the number two with the odds of winning around 3.

Weibo Gaming can be called a newcomer to the LPL, as the club appeared on the Esports radar and the big stage in 2021, and debuted in the LPL in 2022.

As a rookie, the results were very good. Weibo made the top 8 twice in 2022, finishing top 6 at LPL Spring 2022 and top 8 at LPL Summer 2022.

At the last tournament played before LPL Summer 2023, the previous LPL Spring 2023 split, the team again finished in the top 6. It's not surprising, as the club has a huge roster.

• Weibo Gaming roster: xiaoyu, Youdang, Xiaohu, ZJJ, XBear.

Weibo Gaming entered the play-offs of the championship very confidently. In the group stage of LPL Summer 2023 the team played on the score 10-6, which allowed to take sixth place.

Weibo's first opponent in the play-offs was Ninjas in Pyjamas, who made a great run through the group stage and then surprised in the play-offs, reaching the top 8. But obviously they couldn't win, with Weibo winning 3-1.

Weibo's next opponent in the LPL Summer 2023 play-offs was LNG Esports, who showed top flight performance in the regular season, reaching the top 2 of the league and almost beating JD Gaming in the finals. Nevertheless, it was Weibo LNG that LNG had to deal with in the play-offs, and that match ended with the score 2-3 not in favour of WG.

In the regional finals Weibo started their performance from the lower grid, where their opponent was TES. A willful 3-2 win was a key argument in favour of Weibo's advantage in this match.

Next up, Weibo played against EDG for a slot at Worlds 2023. WBG played quite a game and ended up shutting out EDward with a 3-1 score, earning a place at Worlds 2023.

In the opening match at Worlds 2023, Weibo Gaming faced off against NRG. The match ended exactly as it should have: absolute annihilation of the first team of America and an easy victory for Weio.

Next, Weibo played against G2 Esports, and this match was perhaps the most unexpected of all at Worlds 2023. G2 Esports outplayed their vis-a-vis in a mind-blowing series, thus sending Weibo to a 1-1 score. Spurred on by the loss from G2 Esports Weibo Ledgeili to host the stage in the form of KT Rolster.

Having hit the net 1-2 Weibo Gaming without any problems swatted MAD Lions, and after that went to play with another representative of the LEC - Fnatic. Weibo Gaming won the decisive match in the Swiss stage after falling behind by one card.

In the first round of play-offs WBG met NRG. The only team from the West only put up a fight on the first of the three maps played, but that wasn't even close to enough to give WBG problems.

In the semi-finals, Weibo met fellow vice-champions MSI 2023 Bibili Gaming. The LPL resident derby was one of the most colourful matches and ended on 5 maps with the score 3-2 in favour of WBG.

Going into the Worlds 2023 Grand Final WBG had a chance to take home the Callers Cup, but T1 were relentless. The legendary tag closed out the grand final 3-0 with no chance.

Weibo Gaming's most popular champions in spades

Weibo Gaming is not known for diversity in the top line up. TheShy plays KSante (10 games, 8 wins), Gnar (6 matches, 50% wins). Sion (2 matches, 100% wins) and Renekton (2 matches, 50% wins) make rare appearances.

The ubiquitous Maokai is ignored in the forest (appeared only once and lost). But Vi (6 games, 100% wins), Elise (6 games, 60% wins), Sejuani (4 games, 75% wins) get quite a lot of attention.

The centre line is occupied by Syndra (7 games, 85% wins), Ryze (4 games, 0% wins), Talliyah (3 games, 66% wins).

From shooters like Lucian (5 matches, 80% wins), Varus (4 games, 75% wins), Zeri, Sivir and Caitlyn appeared 3 times each and only Sivir didn't win a single game.

Sapports: Nami (7 matches, 85% wins), Ashe (4 matches, 50% wins), Yummi (3 matches, 33% wins).

History of head-to-head meetings between Weibo Gaming and NiP

WBG and NiP have played each other twice in 2023. One win for each side.

Predicted result of Weibo Gaming - NiP match

Considering NiP's performance at NEST 2023, it is logical to assume that they will be the winner of the match. However, I think that WBG will take at least a card and I will bet on it.

Bottom line: +1.5 on WBG.