Match Prediction: Team BDS - Team Heretics | LoL

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We are closing out the second week of LEC Spring 2024 games. Just a reminder that there are 8 spots in the LEC Spring 2024 regular season championship play-offs.

Among the contenders to advance to the main stage are BDS and Heretics. And both teams are likely to make it to the next round without much trouble.

Nevertheless, this does not take away from the importance of the match: after all, the fight for the play-offs continues. And we will see which team will be stronger in this match and get one step closer to the main stage of the LEC Spring 2024 Championship.

Let's go.

BDS uniforms

Let's start the match analysis with BDS form. In this match the French will play as favourites with odds to win at around 1.5.

At LEC Winter 2023 BDS reached the group stage, but quickly fell out of it, taking the last place in their quartet. The result was a top-7 finish.

Next up was LEC Spring 2023 and BDS' moment of glory. Completely unexpectedly, they reached the grand final, but there they lost to MAD Lions, who were on a terrific spree in the spring.

• BDS line-up: Adam, Sheo, nuc, ice, Labrov.

Before LEC Finals 2023 BDS played at LEC Summer 2023. They were one map short of reaching the play-offs. The championship ended on the 5th place.

Thanks to the near top places and top 2 at LEC Spring 2023 BDS managed to get to LEC Finals 2023, and also to the top grid, where they got to G2 Esports in the first round. The International didn't end up with anything interesting and G2 had no trouble closing out the match with a 3-1 score.

After the defeat from the main favourite of LEC Finals 2023 - G2 Esports - BDS played against SK Gaming. The German club was unable to give anything to the French and fell with a score of 0-3.

However, BDS' path to the LEC Finals 2023 ended with the game against SK. The team lost to Fnatic 2-3 in the next round of the lower bracket, thus failing to make it into the top 3 of the tournament for direct participation in the main tournament.

BDS have already started Worlds 2023 on a positive note. They ran over Golden Guardians at the Worlds Qualifying Series, thus snatching a slot in the same Play-In.

After a confidence-boosting win over GG at the Worlds Qualifying Series, BDS unexpectedly fell in their first match at Worlds 2023. They lost to No. 2 Vietnam, thus becoming the main losers of the World Championship so far.

They managed to partially rehabilitate themselves in the match against DFM. The Japanese club did not provide proper resistance and BDS closed the series with a very simple 2-0.

In the match for the exit here BDS played against CTBC. The Frenchmen outclassed their opponents, closing the series 2-0.

BDS battled PSG Talon to advance to the group stage. The French were a map away from elimination, but on the third map Adam and his Olaf gave his team a chance to clinch a comeback and BDS took it: a reverse sweep in the group stage match actually allowed BDS to qualify for the group stage.

In the group stage of Worlds 2023, BDS first ran into JD Gaming. Obviously, the first team of the world was not up to the French and they lost without much of a chance. Next was a match against MAD Lions and again an ironclad defeat. The BDS final at Worlds 2023 was as ignominious as their entire stay at the tournament - they lost 0-2 to Dplus.

BDS will make their LEC Winter 2024 debut against G2 Esports. Cheers to them! Later on it will be a match against GIANTX, which will be easier, but not easy.

BDS had almost no equal in the regular season of LEC Winter 2024. The French club lost only 2 matches: the first one of the year against G2 Esports and the last one in the regular season against Karmine Corp.

In the play-offs LEC Winter 2024 met Team Heretics. There, the French beat Heretics 2-0 on class. The quarter-finals were not much harder for BDS: again a confident 2-0 win, but now against Vitality. They fell to the lower set after a scoreless defeat to G2 Esports in the small final of the upper set. And already there they lost to MAD Lions.

LEC Spring 2024 started much worse than the winter split. In the first week BDS lost to G2 and Vitality, and only beat the worst team in the region - Rogue. They will open the second week with a match against SK Gaming and judging by their debut at LEC Spring 2024, they may have trouble there. Next, BDS will meet GiantX, where the French have a better chance to win.

The most popular BDS champions

On the top line the most frequent picks are KSante (4 matches, 50% wins), Gnar (3 matches, 100% wins).

Foresters picks are Wukong (4 matches, 50% wins), Vi (2 matches, 50% wins), Nocturne (2 matches, 50% wins), Viego (2 matches, 0% wins).

On the centre line Gragas (4 matches, 50% wins), Annie (4 matches, 50% wins).

Aphelios (6 matches, 33% wins), Jinx (3 matches, 66% wins), Zeri (2 matches, 100% wins).

Lulu (3 matches, 66% wins), Rakan (3 games, 0% wins), Nautilus (2 matches, 50% wins).

Form Heretics

We continue the match analysis with the analysis of Heretics' game form. Heretics will be playing as number two in this match, and the odds on them winning are at around 2.5.

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 first match of the second week Heretics will face G2 and it will be a huge test for Heretics. Next up will be a match against SK Gaming, which should be much easier than the previous encounter.

Team Heretics' most popular 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).

History of personal meetings BDS - Heretics

The teams have played each other 5 times in the last seasons. BDS lead with the score 3-2.

Predicted result of Heretics - BDS at LEC Spring 2024

I expect an even fight in this match. In my opinion, they will be down a lot after the offensive LEC Winter 2024 and the unnecessary reformatting of the squad. Overall, I'm going to pick Heretics as the winner of this match.

Bottom line: Heretics win.