At League of Legends, the finals of the MSI 2022 took place on Sunday, May 29th. The Chinese champions, RNG, competed against T1, the team around old master Faker. Faker’s fans tore their hair out after the series: Why the hell did they only let the Chinese play Gwen 3 times?
That’s why everyone can have a say in LoL: When it comes to football, there are millions of hobby coaches who, sitting at the bar with a beer in hand, tell the national team coach who to field instead of the slobs he strangely lets play.
It’s similar in League of Legends, where the pros have a complicated “pick and ban” phase before each match, where teams decide which champions they’re going to play with and which heroes their opponents aren’t allowed to play under any circumstances.
After a match, the draft is often the subject of heated debate.
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“Faker is forever!”
This match was about: On Sunday morning in Busan the finals of the international tournament MSI 2022 took place:
“Form is temporary – Faker is eternal” – A good play by Faker has the casters guessing:
“Blue Team” wins every match – Draft extremely important
How did the match go? The series was a back-and-forth. The teams each won their matches on the “blue” side clearly: the “blue” team gets to choose their champions first, while the red team bans first.
Ultimately, in Match 5, the Chinese on the blue side clearly prevailed in 25 minutes and won the series 3-2.
There was no real jubilation, the winners competed “at home”:
RNG top lane wins matches when Bin gets his Gwen
What was the deciding factor? In all 3 of his team’s victories, the 19-year-old top laner Bin was allowed to play with the heroine Gwen at RNG and he put down strong values with her:
The “weak point bin” decides the tournament
This is how it is discussed: There is a broad consensus on reddit that RNG’s superior draft phase decided the tournament.
T1 was a bit clueless in the draft, they kept overlooking Gwen on the bans, giving Bin the opportunity to grab his favorite hero.
In the last game of RNG’s rumble stage against T1, which T1 won, Bin had only played 1-4-6 on gangplank and proved to be his team’s Achilles’ heel.
Apparently, the users on reddit believe that the top laner Bin was actually the weak point of RNG, but felt so comfortable with the heroine Gwen that he became the showpiece of the team.
Ultimately, however, RNG’s jungler, Wei, was voted MVP of the finals. He also had excellent numbers in his team’s victories: 2-3-3 (Viego), 8-0-7 (Viego), 2-1-11 (Lee Sin). Although there are also voices in the comments on Twitter that see midlaner Xiaohu as the MVP of the finals.
The MSI tournament was played with patch 12.8, so with a completely different status than on the live servers. Currently the balance looks very different, with one champion remaining a problem child:
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