Match Prediction: MAD Lions KOI - Team Heretics | LoL

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We're still keeping an eye on what's happening at LEC Spring 2024. We're talking about the last week of the regular season, where the fate of the remaining play-offs slots is decided.

So far, ahead of the Long Run of the final week, we only know about two participants of the play-offs tournament - Fnatic and G2 Esports. The remaining spots, and there are 6 of them, remain vacant.

Among the contenders for the main stage of LEC Spring 2024 are MAD Lions KOI and Heretics. Both teams need a win, so it will be The International interesting to watch their head-to-head match.

Let's try to see which team will be stronger and get the important win ahead of the LEC Spring 2024 Playoffs slot allocation.

Let's go

In-form Heretics

We open our match analysis with an analysis of the Heretics' form. They will be the number one side in this match, with odds to win at around 1.82.

Heretics have been in the LEC structure since 2022. In their "debut" season, Team Heretics played on the TIR-2 stage, more specifically in Superliga Summer 2022 (Top 1), European Masters Summer 2022 (Top 1) and Iberian Cup 2022, where they finished Top 2.

In 2023, the Heretics entered the LEC series of tournaments. The successes were not so good: first TOP-8 at LEC Winter 2023, with SK Gaming knocking them out.

In spring the situation only got worse: Heretics again failed in the group stage, this time playing it with a score of 3-6 and not making it to the play-offs.

In the next round of the LEC draw, Team Heretics performed their best as an affiliate team. They took the top 4 at LEC Summer 2023, Ledge and Fnatic in a battle for the top 3. Heretics secured $5,512 by finishing in the top 4.

• Team Heretics roster: Wunder, Jankoz, Zywroo, Flakked, Kaiser.

After a series of bad performances last year, Heretics changed their roster by signing top European players. Let's see how they will do against the strongest representatives of the region.

The group stage of LEC Winter 2024 was not so good. The team was quite brisk in the group stage, but later slipped to 4-5.

Going into the play-offs Heretics faced BDS - the best team of the group stage of LEC Winter 2024. The French club fully justified their status by winning 2-0 and Heretics travelled to the bottom of the group stage.

The LEC Winter 2024 play-offs did not last long. Heretics defeated SK Gaming 1-2 in the first match of the Ledge main stage, leaving the championship at the Top 8 stage.

In the first week of LEC Spring 2024 Team Heretics played 3 matches of which they managed to win two. They beat Fnatic, which is commendable. In the second week Heretics closed 2 matches out of 3, which is pretty good and now Heretics are on top of the table with a score of 4-2.

Most Popular Team Heretics Champions

Aatrox (3 matches, 100% wins) and Renekton (2 matches, 100% wins) appear on LOUD's top line.

Sejuani (4 matches, 100% wins) and Wukong (3 matches, 66% wins) take the jungle.

On the centre line, Taliyah (3 matches, 100% wins) and Lissandra (3 matches, 66% wins) are not the most popular.

Among the shooters Aphelios (4 games, 75% wins) and also Xayah (3 games, 66% wins).

Nautilus (4 games, 75% wins), Nami (4 games, 75% wins).

MAD Lions KOI uniforms

We continue the match breakdown with an analysis of MAD Lions KOI's playing form. In this match, they are playing as the number two, but the odds for their victory are at around 1.88, indicating a potentially even game.

Based on the LEC 2023 spring split, it looked like the MAD Lions were all-in. "The Lions made up for the tiebreaker in the group stage and barely made it to the group stage. There, they fought, sweat and blood to reach the play-offs, where they defeated future rival G2 Esports in the first round in a tough Bo5, but their misfortunes didn't end there either: they needed to defeat Vitality (3-1) and complete a Reverse Sweep against BDS in the grand finals.

• MAD Lions lineup: Myrwn, Elyoya, Fresskowy, Supa. Alvaro.

The Lions have a fighting roster, no doubt about it. They have proved it many times in practice, which, however, does not always lead to high performance, first of all on the international stage, but sometimes on the home stage as well.

For example, MSI 2023 and top 8 there, which is good in principle, but the result at LEC Summer 2023 is already sad. At the last LEC Championships MAD Lions, the reigning Spring Split champions, crashed out at the Top 7 position, which is clearly not the level.

LEC Finals 2023 MAD Lions started with a match against EXCEL. The opening match of the summer split against MAD Lions temporarily confirmed the thesis of a one-tournament team, losing to the "lions" with a score of 0-3 without a chance.

In the match before that, MAD Lions played against G2 Esports. Obviously, they lost, with a score of 1-3.

In the battle for a slot at the LEC Finals 2023 Grand Final, MAD Lions Ledge and Fnatic. The colourful game ended with the score 2-3 in favour of the Orange. Thus, MAD Lions qualified for the Worlds 2023 on the third quota from Europe.

"Lions" Long Sogpeg at Worlds 2023 with a loss to Cloud9 and continued their performance on the main stage of the year with a victory in the European derby against BDS. In the third game, MAD Lions Ledge fought through a seemingly passable match against NRG Esports. In the decisive match at Worlds 2023, the team played against Weibo. Decisive because MAD Lions Ledge went 0-2 and crashed out of the Worlds.

MAD Lions will try to return to the top of the European League of Legends with a match against Team Heretics. It will be difficult for the Lions there, but they should win the game against SK Gaming, sort of. On the whole, it turned out to be the opposite: we beat Heretics and lost to SK Gaming. In the third match they played against Karmine Corp and it was a real extravaganza: The International ernet war between fans, about 750,000 thousand spectators at the peak and the final victory of MAD Lions.

MAD Lions went through the group stage with problems. The team closed the group with a score of 5-4.

In the first round of play-offs, the Lions met Fnatic. "Orange" played very well and slammed MAD Lions with a score of 2-0. After getting to the bottom of the play-offs MAD Lions KOI played against GiantX, where they beat one of the brightest teams from the LEC Summer 2023 at the end of last season. Next, the Lions also confidently defeated Vitality. But in the third round of the lower grid they had to make serious trouble: they finished the series with Fnatic with a score of 3-2. The game against BDS in the small final of LEC Winter 2024 was similar, where MAD Lions barely defeated the French, who played with substitutes.

In the grand final of LEC Winter 2024, MAD Lions lost to G2 Esports 1-3. With that, they finished in the top 2 at LEC Winter 2024.

The first week of LEC Spring 2024 went 1-2. SK won, but Ledge beat G2 Esports and GiantX. The second week of LEC Spring 2024 MAD Lions KOI went 1-2 and are on the 8th line of the group lineup.

Most Popular MAD Lions Champions

Fiora (2 matches, 100% wins) and KSante (2 matches, 50% wins) appeared in the top for MAD Lions most often. Renekton (1 game, 100% wins) and Gnar (1 game and that defeat) were also taken.

Sejuani (3 matches, 66% wins) is popular in the forest. Next is Wukong with 2 appearances and 50% wins, and there was also Maokai who won his only match.

On the centre line, Viktor (1-1) and Akali (1-1) have 2 matches each. Azir and Sylas won their matches.

Among shooters Varus appeared most often (3 matches, 66% of wins). Lucian was picked 2 times (1-1) and Sivir was picked once more (1-0).

Thresh (1-1), Lulu (1-1) were picked more often than others. Nami and Ashe, who appeared 1 time each, won their matches.

History of head-to-head meetings Heretics - MAD Lions KOI

Previously, the teams have played each other twice and so far they have 1 win each.

Predicted result of MAD Lions KOI vs Team Heretics at LEC Spring 2024

In this match, if it was a full-fledged Bo3, I would bet on a total of +2.5. If I have to pick a winner, I would say it will be MAD Lions KOI. Still, I believe that they, just like at LEC Winter 2024, will gain momentum.

Bottom line: MAD Lions KOI wins.