Matchförutsägelse: Karmine Corp - MAD Lions | LoL

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One of the biggest League of Legends tournaments - LEC Winter 2024 - is gaining momentum. The regular season is heating up at the European Championship.

Now we are talking about the last game day of the first week. At the epicentre of attention is the match between Karmine Corp and MAD Lions.

Both teams want to get into the play-offs of LEC Winter 2024, but places are limited. Although 8 teams will be able to qualify for the main stage of the winter split, it is not certain that Karmine Corp and MAD Lions will be among them. To do so, you need to gain points.

We will try to find out who from the pair MAD Lions - Karmine Corp will manage to do it. Let's go.

Karmine Corp uniforms

We start the match analysis with an analysis of Karmine Corp's form. In this match, the club will play the first number one, despite the status of the team on the international stage and in the home region.

Despite its great popularity in Europe, Karmine Corp is an absolute newcomer to the LEC league. Before that, the French team played on the local scene, competing against compatriots, and also played at various TIR-2 events that are part of the LEC ecosystem.

For 2023, the teami has a very strong record, having played in 4 tournaments. For professional teams in League of Legends, this is significant, as most of them play exclusively in a single league.

Karmine Corp started with LFL Spring 2023 and had a terrible start. At the local league the team played 7-11 in the group stage, which was not even enough to qualify for the play-offs.

Things improved dramatically from there and Karmine Corp lifted the championship trophy over their heads twice in a row. The first time at LFL Summer 2023 and the second time at EMEA Masters Summer 2023. Incidentally, Masters Karmine Corp have won 4 times in the team's history and that is a significant statistic.

The last tournament of last season was the Coup De France 2024 championship. Either there was no priority for the event, or they were not in shape at all, but KC took the top 8 there.

• Karmine Corp line-up: Cabochard, Saken, Caliste, Targamas, Kameto.

Karmine Corp became a member of LEC through the purchase of a slot from Astralis. The Danish club, which did not achieve results last season, decided to sell its place in the prestigious league. Whether they did the right thing - we will find out later.

In the first match of LEC Winter 2024 Karmine Corp will play against Fnatic. In that match I believe in the victory of Karmine. After that - the game against G2 Esports and there Karmine Corp will be much more difficult.

The most popular champions of Karmine Corp

The most popular and successful top line champion is Gragas (3 matches, 100% wins) and Kennen (3 matches, 66% wins).

Wukong (6 games, 33% wins) and Sejuani (4 matches, 100% wins) play in the forest.

The centre line is played with Ahri (4 matches, 0% wins), Tristana (3 matches, 100% wins) and Syndra (3 matches, 100% wins).

The ADC position is most often occupied by Lucian (4 matches. 50% wins), Aphelios (4 matches, 75% wins).

Nami (3 games, 66% wins), Thresh (3 matches, 100% wins) are often paired with shooters.

MAD Lions uniforms

We continue our match analysis with a breakdown of the MAD Lions' playing form. In this match, they will play the number two side, with odds to win at around 2.7. This is despite the fact that the Lions are generally considered a title team.

In 2023, the team took 2nd place at LEC Winter 2023 and won LEC Spring 2023, which we would like to pay special attention to.

By the LEC Spring split, it seemed like the MAD Lions were all-in. "The Lions made up for the tiebreaker in the group stage and barely made it to the group stage. There, they fought, sweat and blood to reach the play-offs, where they defeated future rival G2 Esports in the first round in a tough Bo5, but the misfortunes didn't end there either: they needed to defeat Vitality (3-1) and complete the Reverse Sweep against BDS in the grand finals.

• MAD Lions lineup: Myrwn, Elyoya, Fresskowy, Supa, Alvaro.

The Lions have a fighting roster, no doubt about it. They have proved it many times in practice, which, however, does not always lead to high performance, first of all on the international stage, but sometimes on the home stage as well.

For example, MSI 2023 and top 8 there, which is good in principle, but the result at LEC Summer 2023 is already sad. At the last LEC Championships MAD Lions, the reigning Spring Split champions, crashed out at the Top 7 position, which is clearly not the level.

LEC Finals 2023 MAD Lions started with a match against EXCEL. The opening match of the summer split against MAD Lions temporarily confirmed the thesis of a one-tournament team, losing to the "lions" with a score of 0-3 without a chance.

In the match before that, MAD Lions played against G2 Esports. Obviously, they lost, with a score of 1-3.

In the battle for a slot at the LEC Finals 2023 Grand Final, MAD Lions Ledge and Fnatic. The colourful game ended with the score 2-3 in favour of the Orange. Thus, MAD Lions qualified for the Worlds 2023 on the third quota from Europe.

"Lions" Long Sogpeg at Worlds 2023 with a loss to Cloud9 and continued their performance on the main stage of the year with a win in the European derby against BDS. In the third game, MAD Lions Ledge fought through a seemingly passable match against NRG Esports. In the decisive match at Worlds 2023, the team played against Weibo. Decisive because MAD Lions Ledge went 0-2 and crashed out of the Worlds.

MAD Lions will try to return to the top of the European League of Legends with a match against Team Heretics. It will be difficult for the Lions there, but they should win the game against SK Gaming, sort of.

The most popular MAD Lions champions

Fiora (2 matches, 100% wins) and KSante (2 matches, 50% wins) appeared in the top of MAD Lions most often. Renekton (1 game, 100% wins) and Gnar (1 game and that defeat) were also taken.

Sejuani (3 matches, 66% wins) is popular in the forest. Next is Wukong with 2 appearances and 50% wins, and there was also Maokai who won his only match.

On the centre line, Viktor (1-1) and Akali (1-1) have 2 matches each. Azir and Sylas won their matches.

Among shooters Varus appeared most often (3 matches, 66% of wins). Lucian was picked 2 times (1-1) and Sivir was picked once more (1-0).

Thresh (1-1), Lulu (1-1) were picked more often than others. Nami and Ashe, who appeared 1 time each, won their matches.

History of head-to-head meetings MAD Lions - Karmine Corp

The teams have not previously played each other within or outside of the LEC. This will be their debut match.

Predicted result of Karmine Corp vs MAD Lions at LEC Winter 2024

I would expect an even game from the two sides in this match-up. Despite the gap in the odds, I won't rush to bury the Lions. As far as I'm concerned, bo1 is the right option for them, so I will cautiously believe in their victory.

Bottom line: MAD Lions win.