Although in recent seasons, we have always focused more on the growing rookies, in fact, many of the veterans in the team are still indispensable mainstays. With the 2022 MSI Mid-Season Championship coming, there are 1-2 very important veterans in the four major divisions of LPL, LCK, LEC and LCS. As the saying goes, "There is an old family, such as a treasure!" "So, let's talk about the veterans in the championship teams of RNG, T1, G2 and EG!
RNG: Little Tiger, Little Ming
Compared with Xiaoming, at the beginning of the establishment of the RNG team, Xiaohu was already playing in the team, and he was also the founding father of the RNG team. It can be said that the little tiger is a real veteran in the history of the RNG team. Although The Little Tiger has shown his outstanding talent since his debut, the real team leader and leading the whole team forward is actually from the 2021 season. In the 2021 season, in the absence of a single order, the transformation of the little tiger helped RNG to reap great success, and in the case of not being optimistic, RNG won the 2021 LPL Spring Championship and the MSI championship consecutively. In the 2022 season, the little tiger returned to the middle road again, when many people felt that the peak of the little tiger may be in the single position, this season's little tiger once again used his own actions to tell everyone that he is the most indispensable player in RNG.
Xiaoming assisted Uzi, the top ADC player in China at the time, when he first debuted, and because of this, Xiaoming learned a lot of valuable experience in Uzi, the top player. Under such circumstances, Bob's growth rate is very fast. Although in the 2020 season, Uzi's retirement at that time had a greater impact on RNG, and RNG's performance in the 2020 season was not good, but Xiaoming passed on his valuable experience to GALA, the two best ADC players in the history of the RNG team, Uzi and GALA, can better complete the "inheritance", Xiaoming is actually a key figure. With the official start of the reconstruction of RNG in the 2021 season, if the little tiger is the player with the greatest influence on nakano in the current RNG, then Xiaoming has cast a "copper wall and iron wall" for the RNG double road. Since the beginning of the 2021 season, Xiaoming and GALA's double road has been able to maintain a very stable performance, and even become the most reassuring line of RNG.
Compare the game to two armies against each other, if Xiao Hu is a soldier who charges into the battle, then Xiao Ming is a military master who is strategic. These two veterans are indispensable to the current RNG.
T1：Faker
The legendary story about Faker no longer needs to be narrated one by one, and T1 officially launched the "one old with four new" lineup this season, and achieved great success. The real key to the success of "one old with four new" is actually this "one" word. For many young players, being able to play with legendary players and even their idols is something to be proud of. And Faker's valuable experience in the field over the years has also made the newcomers take many crooked roads in the process of growing up. The existence of Faker gives T1 a very terrible spiritual leader, and it is also the existence of Faker, who influences the team members to climb the peak all the time.
G2：Jankos、Caps
G2 has also opened a "old with new" lineup this season, although the single player Broken Blade is also a veteran, but Jankos and Caps' Nakano is the real core of G2's reconstruction this season. Judging from the overall performance of G2 this season, in the spring regular season, G2 performance is not good because the team as a whole needs to run in, but in the key playoffs, Jankos and Caps' Nakano played absolute dominance. Under the excellent performance of this pair of Nakano, the other players in G2 have also found their own positioning and gradually emerged. Although from the perspective of overall strength, G2 is slightly inferior to RNG and T1, G2's "wild" playing style is one of the most important teams in this MSI.
EG：Impact
Impact, the S3 champion who went to North America with the original sentence "want to prove himself", has long become one of the most iconic single players in the LCS division through his performance over the years. And what is more interesting is that the SKT in the S3 period is now only the two veterans of Faker and Impact who are still insisting. Judging from Impact's performance this season, most of the time, Impact's presence is not obvious, but in the key playoffs, Imapct's rich experience and hero pool began to show its power. So, at any time, don't take down a veteran's desire to win.
Finally, can these veterans continue to bring us wonderful performances in MSI, and what will the scene be like when the veterans fight each other? Let's wait and see!