The final round of the League of Legends 2024 World Championship Switzerland Round has been announced on October 13, and the 6 teams with a 2-2 record will face a battle of life and death, and the winner will advance to the loser. It's hard to imagine that there are actually two LPL teams in this pool, and they didn't draw the LPL civil war, which is actually a good result, after all, both teams have a theoretical possibility of advancing to the quarterfinals. Although the opponents WBG and BLG met were not weak, they were the champions and runners-up of the LPL Summer Tournament, and if they couldn't even defeat the opponents in front of them, they deserved to go home.
DK vs. WBG: Champion top laner and disbanded game top laner
As the third seed in the LCK, there is a reason why DK's record is so poor, and the Worlds version further weakens the carry ability of the bottom lane, and in the absence of Kaisha, Aiming basically has no room to play. ShowMaker's hero pool was very tough in the Summer, and while the Worlds version weakened the AD midlaner, LeBlanc and Sindra weren't as strong. On top of that, Lucid, as a rookie jungler, is prone to falling into a passive jungler and can't bring the rhythm. The assistant is also a newcomer, and there is also a strange operation of opening a group to take away the whole team.
But for DK, the most uncomfortable thing is that Kingen lost his mind, although the former FMVP top laner has performed well in the past two years, but this time the world championship is directly out of shape, and he can't beat anyone when he encounters it. The situation of WBG is somewhat similar to DK, the retreat of the AP field core and the AD mid-laner version has reduced the influence of the midfield position, although Xiaohu forcibly took the AD mid-laner, but the effect in this version is relatively weak. Then WBG will have to hand over the output to the upper and lower lanes, and they won FNC by relying on the explosion of Breathe and Light.
So the point of this game is to see if Breathe can maintain his form and continue to play on the wing to suppress Kingen, who will be difficult to adjust in the short term. At the same time, Tarzan has to use his rich experience to actively control the map, and in the game against FNC, WBG will get a lot of map resources. Both WBG and DK have a long game time in this World Championship, and if it drags on to the late stage, the number of nest worms and dragons is very important, and DK's late decision is worse than that of WBG. There are many versions of DK that mainstream heroes can't play well, which can make WBG do better in terms of BP.
FLY vs. TL: The Last Hope in Europe and the United States
Originally, I thought that the two North American teams would go to the airport hand in hand, but it turned out that there was another team to ensure the quarterfinals, and the promotion situation was more stable than last year, but this time the NA is greater than the EU. Although it is a pity not to see the European and American battles, this game can be regarded as a repeat of the LCK Summer Finals, when many people were optimistic that TL would win the championship, and as a result, FLY directly exploded to win the first championship in team history. Even TL committed the situation of all the players surviving in the finals, but no one returned to defend against being stolen by super soldiers. However, the Summer version is different from the Worlds version, which greatly weakens FLY's midfield carry ability.
On the contrary, APA's mage hero plays well, Umti's tool man jungler is stable, Impact's resistance to pressure is as good as ever, and TL is more adapted to this version than FLY. On the other hand, FLY did not play training matches with LPL and LCK teams during the entire World Championship, and they figured out their own routines, such as top-laner Olaf and jungler Nunu. However, this kind of trick does not necessarily have an impact on TL, after all, they are from the same division and are already very familiar with each other's tactical styles. If FLY can't break through from the top half, it will be difficult for them to repeat their victory in the summer final.
BLG vs. G2: Redemption for the No. 1 seed
The two No. 1 seeded teams in the four major regions ushered in a showdown in the 2-2 group, if G2 is because the opponent they met is stronger, then BLG is because they have made more mistakes, but both sides have fallen to the life and death game, which means that there are problems. G2 have become less disciplined this year, and their late-game operations have been even worse, as they have rarely faced opponents in the LEC region. Whether it was the three big dragons against HLE in the first round and the three ways against T1 were overturned, it can be seen that G2 made all kinds of mistakes when they encountered strong teams in the late game, and there was always a place to drop points.
Therefore, BLG can slow down when playing against G2, select strong heroes like Jax and Kaisha, and fight with G2 for the operation ability of late-game team battles. But the reason why everyone is worried is also because BLG's previous performance was very bad, even when they played against PSG in the last round, they were forced into a desperate situation by their opponents. In both games, Bin's Jax played the team, and the second game was Elk's extreme operation that allowed the team to win the key victory. Even if knight gets the version of the hero Alora, he doesn't have a very bright performance, which will make it possible for G2 to release this hero.
After Xun returned to the starting lineup, ON seemed to play a little more normally, but he did not return to the form of the spring game, and there will still be some inexplicable deaths, and BLG may need to let the bottom lane choose some characters who are not easy to die, which is also the way WBG thought when playing against FNC. may be because it hasn't played for too long, and BLG's cooperation in the dragon group is weak, which is also something that needs to be re-strengthened. Although I don't want to admit it, BLG and G2 are currently half-hearted, G2 no longer plays acrobatic routines like in previous years, and BLG's laning ability is far inferior to MSI.