Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The LCK Pro League Playoffs were a do-or-die battle yesterday, with fourth-seeded T1 taking on fifth-seeded HLE, and the loser between the two teams will directly miss out on the semi-finals of this year's LCK Stage 1.
As a result, T1 was directly overturned by HLE with a strong performance and lost the game when it was favored by the vast majority of people.
The two teams were in very different shapes before the start of this game, T1 was very brave after switching to the bottom lane, and seemed to be on an upward trend, but they have not played a real tough battle, while HLE has stumbled in their previous performances, losing a lot of games that should not have been lost, and they have not won the matchup.
HLE was considered by the audience before the game to be a team that was not suitable for playing the global BP mode, but I didn't expect HLE to tell everyone with practical actions that their strength was far underestimated.
HLE defeated T1 with a score of 3-2 in this round, which means that T1 will stop in the top six of the LCK playoffs, which is also the worst result created by T1 and Faker in recent years.
But under the new format this year, T1 and HLE met in advance and did not resurrect the first game, and they were directly overturned with 0 fault tolerance, which can be said to have created a big upset.
Faker was killed three times in this life-and-death match, two of which were given by his old teammate Zeus, and the other was a solo kill by Zeka Yihui.
Faker's form in this round was not outstanding, in the first game, Aurora flew directly into the crowd to send her head away in the crucial Eta Khan battle, and then was directly killed by Zeus's Jace, who was easily crushed by HLE, with a record of 0-2-0.
After losing the first game, Faker sacrificed Victor and played the best performance of the round, and the pioneer team established the advantage with three kills, but was killed by Zeka's Hui alone, but it did not affect the overall situation, and Faker won the game with a full team battle.
In the third game, Mel's performance was average, and the auxiliary one-hand Enchantress had a very poor scientific research effect, and in the fourth game, the fairy fight was used by the fox to beat Viper in a key situation to help the team win the game, and in the last game, Zoe's performance was unsatisfactory, and there was no sense of presence in the whole game, and the accuracy of E skills was insufficient, and the highland team battle was caught by Zeus Olaf and killed alone.
In contrast, Zeus players were directly elected as the MVP of this round of the game with their outstanding individual performance, and Zeus still gave a near-perfect performance when Doran played very well, and it can only be said that the gold content of Zeus's champion is still improving.
It is worth mentioning that after the game, Zeus also came to a wave of heart-wrenching remarks, bluntly saying that he was a little confused when he played the regular season, but now he knows how to play, and he has also developed a lot of confidence.
Judging from the performance of this stage, Zeus's state in the regular season was indeed quite up and down, and there were many mistakes, but in the key playoff games, especially in the life-and-death battle against Faker, he successfully adjusted his state, showed his best competitive state, and successfully led the team to win this key reckoning battle.
You must know that after leaving T1 during the transfer period last year, Zeus was burdened with countless infamy, because there is a huge gap between Zeus's fans and Faker's fans, and Zeus will inevitably be attacked and even cyberbullied once he leaves the team, plus last year's T1 boss also went down and tore each other apart with the agency, everyone has their own reasons.
But after it happened, it was clear that more people were on T1's side.
Including this battle of liquidation, I personally think that if Zeus loses, the degree of his liquidation is far greater than the extent to which everyone is attacking T1 now, it can only be said that Zeus is indeed competitive enough, and after leaving T1, he has proved that he is not only the system player in everyone's mouth, but also has the strength to shine in other team systems.