The last-place AD in LCK pulled off a remarkable comeback.

Since the LPL entered its offseason, many LPL fans have been closely following LCK matches, as the LCK teams have performed excellently at recent World Championships. Even BLG coach Dan Shen recommended in the BLG documentary that jungler XUN and support ON watch LCK game footage during their downtime to greatly enhance their match discipline. Recently, the LCK staged two highly exciting revenge battles.

The match between NS and DRX attracted much attention from fans. NS’s mid laner Scout and AD carry Taeyoon are both former LPL players, so many LPL viewers hoped NS would defeat DRX to prove that players from LPL are just as strong as those from LCK. However, to the disappointment of LPL fans, DRX easily defeated NS with a dominant 3-0 score. With NS eliminated, all LPL players brought into the LCK this season have now been completely defeated.

Among these LPL players, Taeyoon’s situation is the most awkward because DRX’s AD carry Jiwoo used to be NS’s AD carry. Jiwoo was often mocked by fans as the weakest AD in LCK and was even demoted to DRX’s secondary team due to poor performance. But after this BO5 series, Jiwoo successfully proved his strength, delivering near-perfect performances: 10/1 on Yone in game one, 12/1 on Corki in game two, and 6/1 on Rell in game three, showing a huge AD carry skill gap throughout the series.

The world runner-up shows no mercy to his former team.

Besides Jiwoo’s successful revenge against his old team, last year’s world runner-up duo Deokdam and support Peter also recently avenged their former team KT. Fans who followed LCK transfer news know that although KT was the world runner-up last year, they did not renew contracts with all players during the transfer window and instead released the runner-up bottom lane duo. According to insider reports on foreign websites, Deokdam and Peter requested higher salaries, but KT management rejected them, believing the duo had limited potential.

This move by KT deeply hurt Deokdam, who had promised fans during a livestream that he would definitely stay with KT in the offseason. No one expected KT to refuse raises for Deokdam and Peter, eventually forcing them to leave KT and join DNS, last season’s bottom-ranked LCK team. Initially, many KT fans thought losing Deokdam and Peter wouldn’t impact KT much since the team focused on mid and jungle.

However, as KT’s matches went on, many fans realized that the current AD carry Aiming was really underperforming. Meanwhile, Deokdam and Peter have been creating miracles with DNS, going from last place in last year’s LCK regular season to winning three straight qualifier matches and advancing to the LCK playoffs. After personally eliminating KT, support Peter mocked KT’s management, implying that DNS’s management has a keen eye for talent and that you get what you pay for. (I really don’t understand—Peter made it to the World Championship final in his first appearance last year, yet KT refused to invest in nurturing such a top-tier talent and instead kicked him out.)