Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.
The S14 World Finals has ended all the competition for the semi-finals, and BLG, the all-Chinese class in the LPL region, will start a fateful battle with Faker's T1 on November 2 to compete for the final championship.
In the two semi-finals, compared with BLG's history-making, Faker's re-promotion is obviously much more difficult.
BLG is the No. 1 seed in the LPL region, the champion team went out, encountered many difficulties in the Switzerland round, advanced to the quarterfinals after two life-and-death battles, and the strength of the quarterfinals ushered in a transformation and successfully defeated LCK No. 1 seed HLE to advance to the semifinals, and then swept WBG in the civil war link and entered the finals with a menacing attitude.
As for Faker, T1 is the fourth seed in the LCK region, and his form during the league period was very problematic, and he stumbled to advance to the Worlds, only to unlock the Worlds buff again, and after losing to TES, he quickly won three consecutive rounds to advance to the quarterfinals, and then crushed the GEN team that had been unbeaten against T1 in ten rounds in the semifinals.
In terms of previous history, Faker has reached the World Championship finals for three consecutive years, and the T1 lineup has remained unchanged, and it has always been a combination of ZOFGK.
In addition, from the opponent's point of view, Faker is also the champion killer of the S competition in the last three years, for three consecutive years, T1 has defeated the MSI champion of the season in the knockout round, RNG has not been spared, and was defeated by T1 in 2022, as well as JDG in 2023 and GEN in 2024, two LPL teams, and one LCK team, all fell in front of T1.
This has to mention the MSI champion of the LPL division, if you want to talk about the global finals of the S series, the LCK must be the first division in history, but if you just talk about MSI, in fact, the results of the LPL region are better than the LCK region, EDG in 2015, RNG in 2018, and RNG in S11, S12, and JDG last year.
There was even a 2022 China-South Korea match, and it was the LPL team (TES) who won.
It can be said that the LPL region has won the cup six times during the mid-season period, from 2015 to this year, a total of 10 mid-season events, the LPL has won the championship six times, the LEC has also won the championship once, and the remaining three are LCK (two SKT, one GEN).
As a result, the LPL mid-season champion team so many times failed to reach the end in the World Championship, and even the results were not good, which can be said to be the biggest pain point and wound in the LPL division, won the MSI championship but had no way to achieve domination of the S competition, and in the past three years, including RNG and JDG, they have been defeated by T1, and the wound has been ruthlessly torn open.
In such a situation, LPL viewers will only feel more and more that MSI's champion has a feeling of chicken ribs, and it is a pity to discard it without taste, even if the number of teams is increased, its gold content is still not enough.
After Faker became the MSI champion killer, many viewers sighed, fortunately, this year's MSI champion is not a team in the LPL region, from this point of view, BLG's opportunity to break the game is quite precious, BLG is eager to complete the breakthrough, although their BO5 win rate against T1 is 100%, but I personally think BLG still has to face T1 as a challenger.
Although BLG also has a lot of BUFF blessings, in the face of the team led by Faker, the four-time champion of the World Championship, the audience can no longer use the most rational perspective to analyze the advantages and disadvantages according to the performance of the previous teams.
Personally, I think that from an objective point of view, BLG can use more tactics than T1 in the current version, and the hard power of the players is not lagging behind at all, and it has also shown the competitiveness of the dominant level before, but because the opponent is Faker, BLG seems to have a negligible advantage.
All BLG needs to do is be prepared for all eventualities, and then maintain the previous hot competitive form, and then target the core system of T1.
The key to whether you can win the game, I personally think that it is at the operational level, what depends on whether T1's operational skills are still stronger than BLG, if the operational level is flat, BLG will be much more likely to win, BLG is not afraid of team battles, afraid of being pulled by T1 with operations and causing the situation to fall behind.