Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The LCK Pro League has ended its group matches and is currently entering a short offseason, while the LPL side has not yet started the game after the year, and the first game will be played on February 8.
The first game to be played was the much-anticipated NIP, which successfully overturned the IG team in the previous league opener.
The schedule of this year's LPL league is more interesting for NIP, there is only one game to play before the year, and the opponent is IG, Doinb and Rookie are a pair of old enemies in the e-sports arena, if this game can be won, Doinb will occupy the high ground of public opinion for a long time, and fans can output to their heart's content.
And once you lose the game, Doinb will be sprayed very badly throughout the period from the previous year to the New Year, it can be said that the biggest hot topic in the LPL league now is Doinb's comeback and IG's all-god class, which requires these two teams to bring traffic to the LPL.
After the first game of the league, NIP has 19 days to rest and prepare, so after winning that game, NIP players can take a temporary break to celebrate, and then start training again, and rest for a while in the New Year, which is very cool for the players, but under such a schedule, the team also needs to pay attention to the combination of work and rest, and maintaining the condition is the most important thing.
Soon NIP will usher in the second game of the group stage, and it is also considered by the audience to be the worst FPX in the group stage.
In LPL's grouping this year, Group D can be said to be the most interesting, which was previously identified by the audience as IG's dream group, and the other three teams are not strong, but Doinb's direct comeback wave directly broke IG's plan, which once made IG's qualifying situation worse, while NIP directly enjoyed the benefits of the dream group.
Doinb's excellent state has also caused widespread heated discussions, it is worth mentioning that in the previous live broadcast, Doinb also told the hidden truth of LPL now, that is, the reason why veteran players can play well is because the strength of rookie players can't keep up, and the current game is not the same as before, it is not purely by operation to win, everyone is older, and young players have no good seedlings, so veteran players can also adapt to the arena environment when they come back.
This is indeed a problem faced by the LPL at present, and there were similar problems on the LCK side before, but this year's LCK has some rookie players who have risen and played well, similar to DK's Ueno players and T1's lower lane Smash have played very well, and the performance of young players in LPL this year is still biased.
But one thing I have to say is that even if the strength of the young players in the LPL deteriorates, Doinb's comeback and such a good performance is more due to himself.
Personally, I think that the peak era of LOL e-sports has passed, and everyone is constantly improving in the previous e-sports era, and every year's season update, the strength of the world championship team every year seems to have improved greatly compared with previous years, but in the past two years, it can be clearly seen that the top teams in the world championship can still ensure that their strength does not decline, but the gap in the strength of the teams behind them has begun to widen significantly.
After the number of top newcomers decreased, veteran players could have their own place in the league even if their strength declined, coupled with the deterioration of the LPL environment, match-fixing, crew and accompanying training, etc., resulting in a small number of newcomer players, fewer people entering the professional arena, and the success rate was greatly reduced.
In contrast, the environment of the LCK is better, but there have been few top newcomers in the LCK in recent years, and it can only be said that it is difficult for the current LOL e-sports to have talented players like Faker, Uzi, and The Shy before, so that veteran players can better extend their careers and have the opportunity to impact better results.