Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
LPL played the first Knight's Road BO5 matchup yesterday, with the fourth IG in the summit group facing the second EDG in the Nirvana group, and IG easily defeated the opponent with a score of 3-0 and successfully advanced to the playoffs.
And this game also almost condemned the defeat of EDG's entire S15 season.
Many viewers may not have much concept of this game, here I have to tell you that the LPL format this year is like this, after the second stage determines the summit group and the nirvana group, the only chance for promotion in the nirvana group is the knight's road, and once you lose the knight's road, you will lose the qualification to compete for the summit group in the next stage.
To put it simply, two teams (RNG, OMG) have been eliminated in the second stage, and among the remaining 14 teams, the teams that enter the playoffs will automatically enter the summit group of the next stage, and those who fail to qualify for the playoffs will automatically enter the nirvana group.
In other words, whoever loses this game between IG and EDG will directly enter the Nirvana group of the next stage.
It can be seen how dangerous this game is for IG, but fortunately, IG easily won the opponent with stronger hard power and escaped the Nirvana crisis, while EDG has to play the Nirvana group in the next stage after losing the game, which means that there is no hope for the whole season this year.
In terms of the content of the game, EDG's strength is indeed not on the same level as IG, mainly reflected in the operation of the two teams and the handling of team battles in the middle and late stages, there is a huge gap.
Looking at the play of both sides in the three games, EDG can play a good attack and advantage in the early part of almost every game, but it is easy to make such and such mistakes in the middle and late stages, the most outrageous of which is the second game, EDG has played an 8-1 head score, The Shy has been caught in a row and is about to collapse, and as a result, in the key small dragon group, Ahn made a huge mistake.
After being disabled by Rookie's set of skills in the middle lane, the small dragon group did not play any role throughout the whole process, EDG was four and five in front, Ahn's female spear was separated below, and the forced output in the back was easily killed, and a wave of team battles was directly defeated.
Then Ahn sent a big rhythm in the middle again, and IG directly won the reversal of the situation with Dalong.
In the third game, Zdz took out the sword demon, and failed to win the super god play, EDG's double C various mystery performances, team battles didn't know how to play at all, and were finally swept by the opponent.
The failure of EDG also indicates the repetition of the curse of the giants in the LPL region, RNG, EDG and other giants have both failed, and these two teams are not deliberately rotten, they want to produce results by cultivating young players every season, and change a large number of players, but the results all ended in failure.
In addition, the EDG team also has a down-lane spell.,It's not good to change a few down-lane plays.,Leave had a problem when he was there.,As a result, it broke out directly after transferring to NIP.,And then Assum didn't play well.,After going to FPX, the performance was also good.,At least into the peak group.,It's a world of difference with Nirvana.。
Ahn was then introduced, who was considered to be a good player, and Ahn became one of EDG's worst performers in the round, losing the game due to individual mistakes.
As with RNG, no matter how you change people, it's the wrong answer.
And after the end of this game, the remaining three games of the Knight's Road are also worth looking forward to, I personally think that Doinb's current situation is more dangerous, in the face of FPX, the strength of both sides is relatively close, and Doinb and NIP are unable to bear the consequences of defeat, and there is almost no chance of coming out of the Nirvana group.
Facing the same crisis, Xiaohu's WBG is also in the background, TT's recent form has been on the rise, and it may cause relatively big trouble for WBG.
In short, this year's road to the knights is different from previous years, because there is no chance to play in the group stage group, whoever wins will enter the playoffs and the next stage of the summit group, and the cruel attributes are all full.