Up to now, the LPL has a total of 3 S championships, which are all teams that are eligible to add stars to the jersey.
Each S champion, although the team's staffing, version fit, championship winning history, and playing style are different, but their experience in the LPL is strikingly similar:
First of all, in the spring games, you begin to show your dominance, but in the spring games, it is easy to lose in the playoffs. At this time, it is easy for the audience to think that it is just like that, a strong team on the surface.
Then, in the summer race, it made a comeback, achieved good results (most of them were champions), and then slightly changed the S version, and the whole team directly evolved to take off and win the S race championship.
The performance of the spring round, S9's IG in the spring tournament eighteen consecutive wins are very famous, and still by many black fans to make fun of it; S9's FPX became a black eight background in the spring playoffs and was eliminated by the JDG; S11's EDG was defeated by RNG from the losers group all the way up in the spring.
Failure often leads to growth, especially in EDG. Whether it's losing to RNG in the spring or losing to WE later, or losing to 100T and T1 in the world, they're getting better and better.
Then these championship teams continued to show dominance in the summer race, of course, IG did not win the summer championship, but the cohesion of their team increased, and the RNG of 18 years was really strong, and it was not expected to beat G2.
Being able to maintain good results in both the spring and summer races shows that the strength of their team is really good. The spring race is often one version, the summer race is another version, and the S race has changed another version. If these three versions can be adapted, it will also be a strong team on a global scale, basically one of the contenders for the championship.
There are two teams here that are very special, one is the TES of S10, the runner-up of the spring tournament, the summer champion, but it stopped in the final four in the S race; the other is this year's FPX, the runner-up of the spring and summer races, and it stands to be a contender for the championship. The two teams are very similar, they are both favorites to win the S championship before the game, but the world race is lost because of the state of the players, which is a pity.
The strength of the head team is actually not much different, there is a possibility of winning the championship, if the player's hero pool does not have a big problem state online, and then can actively adapt to the version instead of holding a way to play to the end, then this is basically the championship template.