This year's LCK Summer Tournament is coming to an end, and with the current playoff performance, GEN and T1 are the strongest, KT looks good, and the qualification of the remaining fourth seed is unpredictable for the time being. Recently, LEC commentator Caedrel analyzed the strength of LCK this season, and he believes that LCK is weaker this year as a whole than last year.
Caedrel said that LCK looks like it has five good teams, namely GEN, T1, DK, HLE and KT, but only GEN looks strong. T1 looks hesitant, DK bought Deft to form Team Galaxy, but it didn't work as well, HLE also formed Team Galaxy with Kingen, Zeka and Viper, but it didn't play as much as Team Galaxy should have, only GEN is really strong. Last year, DK, T1 and GEN were strong, and this year only GEN gives people this feeling, but GEN cannot be trusted in international competitions, just like LPL's TES.
It is a fact that this year's GEN has weakened compared to last year, and the main reason is that the team members have changed, from Ruler to Peyz, although Peyz also played well, but it is clear that Ruler is stronger, and after changing AD, GEN still dominates LCK in the summer game, GEN's strength has declined but still leads LCK, which is enough to prove that LCK is indeed declining.
And GEN has really not been able to fight outside in recent years, and KT is the same, now it seems to be gaining momentum, but the world championship always gives people a feeling of instability and feels unreliable. For the LPL division, the biggest threat is T1, Faker's return after T1 state has warmed up a lot, but on the world stage, facing the LPL team, T1 needs to pay more concentration and mental power to face BO5, whether Faker can command while operating, while reducing mistakes, this may be the biggest problem T1 faces. And the cooperation of the T1 lineup is not as good as last year, and many players have experienced a decline in strength and poor condition, compared with last year's T1, it is indeed weaker.
As for TES, it is true that the LEC commentary is right, just looking at the lineup every year, I feel that the book strength of TES is good, and it is definitely a candidate team for the championship, but the performance in the game is always not satisfactory, the biggest problem is the operation problem, the batch of players has changed, the coach has also changed, the operation is still messy, whenever the game is played in the middle and late stages, TES will always make people particularly worried. Coupled with the fact that it was eliminated by Vietnam last year and recognized by the LEC commentary as a team that dropped the chain in the international competition, it is also reasonable. To put it bluntly, he failed to play in the world championship to prove his strength, leaving only some humiliating records, and there was no way to be ridiculed.
However, I feel that before the game can not be too light, last year's four LCK teams, has proved that they can still burst out of energy in the world competition, and there are also version change factors, this year LCK team is playing at home, there are many external factors, so I still hope to prepare for the world championship with a humble attitude, do not despise every opponent, in order to play the best strength.
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