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Professional League of Legends continues. We are still watching the action in South Korea.
The play-offs of the main regional championship, LCK Summer 2023, are heating up. Eight teams are battling it out for $287,000 and a trip to Worlds 2023.
We are in the second stage of the play-offs. That means the Double-Elimination is about to begin. Opening the new round of play-offs will be KT Rolster and Hawha Life Esports.
The winner of the pair will play against the winner of the Gen.G vs. the winner of the T1/Dplus match. The loser will fall to the bottom of the grid.
Let's try to figure out who will be stronger in this match and continue to move on to a slot at Wolrds 2023 on the top grid, and who will have to try their luck at the bottom.
Let's go.
KT Rolster's form
We open the match breakdown with an analysis of KT Rolster's match form. In this match Rolster are playing the first number one.
League of Legends betting sites are confident in the success of KT Rolster. The odds for the club to win are at around 1.3.
KT Rolster deserve such a figure. They have been a solid team before, but they look much more confident in the 2023 season.
Last season, KT Rolster went round and round in the high places. It's safe to say they blew it.
For 2022, KT Rolster finished top 7 at LCK Spring 2022 and top 5 at LCK Summer 2022. The main "achievement" was making it to the Top 4 Regional Finals, but it was useless: they still didn't make it to Worlds 2022.
The new season was better. In the first LCK Spring 2023 KT Rolster climbed all the way to the top 3. They were beaten only by Gen.G, who knocked out Bdd and company with the score 1-3.
- KT Rolster line-up: Kiin, Cuzz, Bdd, Aiming, Lehends .
At LCK Summer 2023 KT Rolster clearly want to at least repeat the result of the spring. In the group stage, KT rolled over all of their opponents, closing it out with a score of 17-1.
KT Rolster's most popular champions
Fiora (5 games, 60% wins) was the most frequently sent to the top line. There was also Jax (3 games, 100% wins), Camile (2 matches, 100% wins), Irelia (2 matches, 100% wins).
In the forest Maokai (7 matches, 85% wins), Sejuani (4 games, 75% wins), Viego (2 matches, 100% wins).
The centre line was occupied by Azir (5 matches, 80% wins), Sylas (3 games, 66% wins), Kassadin (2 matches, 100% wins), Ryze (2 games, 50% wins).
Shooters set is standard: Varus (4 games, 50% wins), Lucian (4 games, 100% wins).
Sapports are diverse: Nami (3 games, 100% wins), Ashe (3 games, 0 wins), Varus (2 games, 100% wins), Miss Fortune (2 games, 100% wins).
Hanwha Life Esports uniforms
Let's move on to the analysis of Hanwha Life Esports uniforms. In this match, the team will play in the status of an outsider.
This is what the bookmakers are hinting at. In this match, the odds for HLE victory is at around 4.
All because of too confident game KT Rolster in the group stage. HLE, on the other hand, can boast of their play-offs record.
HLE, being a solid mid-tier, can reach the late stages of the regular split. And it started to happen only in 2023. Before that, in the 2022 season, HLE were the worst team in the race, twice finishing in the top 10 in regular splits.
They managed to improve by 2023, after a major Reshuffle. Two reigning world champions joined the HLE roster, which significantly strengthened the club.
- HLE roster: Kingen, Grizzly, Zeka, Viper, Life .
With the addition of Zeka and Kingen to the HLE lineup, it was clearly more vigorous. So much so that they made it to the top 4 of LCK Spring 2023. The latest addition to HLE is Grizzly, a jungler who got promoted from the academic roster.
It seems to be working out pretty well. HLE finished in the top 3 in the regular season, which with teams like Dplus, T1 and other top teams is pretty good.
In the first play-offs match HLE warmed up against DRX. The nominally reigning world champions were unable to do anything against their visions and HLE easily closed out the match with a score of 3-0.
Hanwha Life Esports Champions
HLE utilise a wide pool of characters on the top line. The most popular are Gnar (12 matches, 75% wins), KSante (5 matches, 40% wins), Ornn (4 matches, 75% wins), and Sion (4 matches, 50% wins).
Sejuani (9 matches, 11% wins), Vi (7 matches, 85% wins), Elise (4 games, 75% wins) appear most often in the forest.
Azir (9 games, 55% wins), Sylas (5 matches, 80% wins), Kassadin (5 matches, 80% wins), Akali (4 matches, 100% wins) appear on the centre line.
Shooters are chosen as standard: Zeri (11 matches, 63% wins), Varus (7 matches, 42% wins), Caitlyn (7 games, 57% wins), Lucian (5 matches, 80% wins).
From the supporting heroes choose Lulu (10 games, 70% wins), Heimerdinger (7 matches, 42% wins), Lux (6 matches, 66% wins), and also Nami (4 matches, 75% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings HLE - KT Rolster
This season the teams have played 5 times. Not once HLE could not win.
Predicted result of the match HLE - KT Rolster
In this match I expect a quality League of Legends. I am very curious to see if KT Rolster will not lose their fervour after a great group stage. So far there are no signs of that, but we have to check it out.
I believe in the success of KT Rolster, but I will give one card to HLE. They looked very good in the opening play-offs match.
Bottom line: 3-1 win for KT Rolster.
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