Will the Asian Games gold medal make the Korean team stronger? The last time was the overall championship for 2 consecutive years

★ Game Horseshoe Original

The South Korean team won the first gold medal in the LOL event of the Asian Games

Five years have passed since the LOL exhibition event at the last Asian Games in Jakarta, and at this year's Hangzhou Asian Games, League of Legends, which became an official event, was finally won by the South Korean team to win the first gold medal in the history of the main event. The South Korean national team, which formed with the concept of selecting only the strongest players, won the championship 8-0 this time, without losing a single game, showing that this team deserves to be the strongest in all positions. In addition, the significance of winning the gold medal at the Asian Games is much greater than many people imagined before the competition. Many people may have only one chance in their careers to stand on the stage of the Asian Games and win glory for their country, but this time the South Koreans did it. Their gold medal not only confirmed the absolute dominance of South Korea in the world's strongest league, but also helped consolidate the Korean team's hegemony in the global competition.

The last time was the overall championship for 2 consecutive years

The LPL team may have been inspired by China's victory in Jakarta in 2018, and IG won the S8 title at that year's global finals. Then in S9 the following year, Nirvana's Phoenix FPX won the championship again, allowing the LPL to achieve consecutive championships in the finals. The Asian Games before the finals seem to have become a show of hard power between China and South Korea to win the championship. What kind of changes will this year's LOL gold medal in Hangzhou bring to the Korean team?

To discount the South Korean team in the global finals

The good news is that as players on the South Korean national team, neither Kanavi nor Ruler currently plays in the LCK division. They are all current players of the JDG team in the LPL region of China. Perhaps the gold medal at the Asian Games will indeed have a great impact on the athlete's individual competitive status and self-confidence, but when it comes to the clubs in the global finals, it seems that it is not as exaggerated as imagined. For example, it was not RNG that won the final global finals.

T1 has 3 Asian Games gold medalists, GenG has 1 Asian Games gold medalist, and KT and DK do not have Asian Games gold medalists. However, winning the gold medal at the Asian Games at least proves that South Korea's LCK does have a large number of strong professional players, although LPL has been winning in MSI and the global finals in the past few years, but every year the S tournament is indeed indispensable to South Korean foreign players.

T1 and GenG, the year SKT and Samsung are expected to meet again?

GenG and T1 are the strongest teams in Korea in this year's S13 Global Finals, and because they are held in South Korea and each has gold medalists, they may be able to replicate the prosperous era of two consecutive finals. The return of gold plating has made the confidence of the pros different, especially for the T1 players who have been runners-up for more than a year.

In contrast, some of the LPL's competitors will more or less affect their performance in the global finals after the fiasco of the Asian Games. Although the version and teammates are different, their personal confidence and momentum are naturally not comparable to the Asian Games champions who won gold. South Korea is still the favorite to win this year's global finals, and it is also the biggest obstacle for China to win the championship. The aftermath of the Asian Games, especially for South Koreans, could be far greater than thought.

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