Digest: LPL Summer 2022 for 21.06
TretiakovWell, welcome back to the LPL Summer 2022!
Let me briefly introduce you what had happened in the 3rd week and 2nd day inside the strongest, for now, tournament in Asia over the LoL discipline. For many reasons, the number of high skill Pro players in LoL territorially gathered in Asia, especially in China. That is why this tournament is so spectacular to watch! But sometimes we can be busy watching the whole battle online. In that case you can easily check out our daily digest about LPL Summer 2022 in China. So, how is it going on the League of Legend front?
To be honest, the second day wasn’t much unpredictable. From one side, we see confident and fast pushing Victory Five against outsider FPX, and from another side also one of the strongest team at this tournament Royal Never Give Up - chinese perfect way of playing passive with high level of map control and gaining net worth for cores against WBG - unique style of playing, but with many mistakes with space creation for objects. As i said before, we can obviously predict the final scores of these two matches.
V5 2 - 0 FPX
How about these games can we describe? Victory Five showed us a solid pick strategy with counterspell heroes like Sylas and Wukong in the first game. FPX answered with Trundle, Ahri and Ezreal - pretty strong heroes, but in case of having enough farm, that is why in the first game V5 vs FPX we did not see any kill before the timer showed up 10 mins.
After that Wukong decided to kill Rift Herald silently, and, with help of this neutral beast, solo pushed two towers on the top lane, meanwhile destroying FPX’s economy. Sylas has already started to control mid lane via pressuring, honestly, it seems that Dream(V5 mid) is one of the best core players in this tournament. All the time when FPX tried to make a fight on their rules V5 ruined it with a really fast ultimate by Wukong and perfect counter stun by Sylas.
As a previous one, the second match didn’t differ at all. TIll the 10th minute teams killed an enemy only once and focused on farming.
Legendary duo Dream(Lissandra) + Photic(Ezreal) didn’t let any chances FPX to win in the second game, at 18th minute both of them already gained massive strength, then V5 team took Nashor and easily ended this with 2-0 score.
RNG 2 - 1 WBG
However, according to RNG and WBG we saw much more interesting confrontations between them.
Nonstop fights in combination with smart map movements made the games more spectacular to watch.
In the first match teams were equal till RNG took Nashor, then Gala and Gwei slashed all enemies around and destroyed WBG’s Nexus.
In the second game WBG understood the sense of opponent playstyle and started to pressure first with strong meta jungle Viego, at 18th minute this hero had already 5 kills and a bunch of strong items. As a result, RNG didn’t come in time to contest the third dragon, same happened with Nashor, and, as a result lost the tempo and started to play defensively. Anyway, RNG confidently took the second game.
Last game showed us pretty strong lineup by both teams, but picking Mordecaiser led WBG to lose top lane, as a result at 20th minute RNG already gained 3 dragons and total map control, after that, team favorite took the 4th dragon and Nashor. They become so enormous according to power and started to wipe out the WBG team all over the map. Destroying enemy Nexus didn’t take much time and we have a sustainable winner of this match - Royal Never Give up.
Matches history: LPL Summer 2022 - Playoffs
LPL Summer is taking place in China from 10th June 2022 till 14th July 2022. 17 best Chinese teams are fighting for ~ 625.000$ and the only one and the smartest team will take an invite for Worlds 2022!