The 2022 League of Legends World Championship continues. Behind 6 matches of the group stage, but ahead - the most interesting.
We move on to the second day of the competition and it will be opened by teams from Group C. South Korea vs. Europe, a battle of styles and philosophies.
DRX and Rogue will open a new day of competition, and at the same time they will hold their debut group stage meeting. We will try to figure out who will emerge victorious and be one step closer to the playoffs.
Form DRX
DRX will play as the favorite in this match. The bookmaker evaluates the chance of South Koreans winning with odds around 1.4.
For a Bo1 match, the coefficient is quite low, and therefore there is an order of magnitude more faith in DRX than in their counterpart. It looks logical, albeit atypical.
It's not often you see a Play-In team as the favourite. To be more precise, the case of DRX and Rogue is the first in the tournament.
Adding two and two in our case is easy: DRX are representatives of Korea, but more importantly, they have already played in the Worlds. They did it very successfully.
In group B, DRX had solid competition, although it was expressed by one team, but what. Having beaten RNG in head-to-head confrontation, having made a comeback, among other things, DRX secured a direct passage to the group stage without losing a match.
DRX Results at Worlds 2022
- Victory over Royal Never Give Up with a score of 1-0
- 1-0 victory over Saigon Buffalo
- 1-0 victory over Istanbul Wildcats
- Victory over Isurus with a score of 1-0
- Defeated MAD Lions 1-0
The result in the Play-In Worlds 2022 strongly resonates with the performance during the season. Playing in the titular region, DRX, being a decent team, failed to show their best within the splits, finishing LCK Summer 2022 (6th place), but snatched 2nd place at the Regional Finals, thus making it to the Worlds.
Heroes DRX
Having played on Worlds, DRX have entered the meta and are ready to play the most effective characters. Let's talk about them.
Aatrox appeared in the top of the South Korean club twice, and Gnar, Sylas and Camile appeared 1 time each. In general, DRX became one of the few, if only, teams using Sylas in the TOP.
Sejuani and Trundle played in the forest. The first was selected in 2 matches, and the second 1 time.
On the mid lane, Akali appeared more often than others. Azir, Yone and the same Sylas were also chosen.
From ADK they honor Miss Fortune (2 games), and besides her Tristana, not the most popular Ezrael and Sivir. They all appeared at once.
Amumu, Rell, Tahm Kench and Yuumi picked in the bot.
Since DRX has not yet known losses, all champions have a 100% win rate.
Shape Rogue
Rogue will play as an underdog in this match. The chance of their victory is estimated by bookmakers with a coefficient of around 2.4.
As mentioned above, DRX is the favorite here, and this is logical. There are reasons for this.
Rogue looks unexpected. I don’t want to say that the team is bad or unworthy of the world championship, just the victory at the LEC was great unsettling and still seems like a coincidence (in the final, LEC Rogue beat G2 with a score of 3-0).
Prior to this, Rogue took 2nd place at the LEC Spring Split. In the 2022 season, the team moved very quickly from the status of a strong “middle” in Europe to the first team in the region.
If you remember Rogue in the Worlds plane, then things are not entirely rosy. The team played at the World Cup in 2020 and 2021 and never made it past the group stage.
However, before the last world championships, Rogue did not dominate the European scene, and therefore, perhaps, this season the fans of the “robbers” will rejoice not only in the regional league, but also in the international arena of the most important event of the season.
Line-up Rogue
- Odoamne
- Malrang
- Larssen
- Comp
- Trymbi
This year Rogue is focusing on an international roster with seasoned performers like Odoamne and Larssen. As you can see, the bet plays.
Heroes Rogue
We take a selection of heroes from the recent LEC Summer 2022.
Ornn (4 matches, 25% wins), Gangplank (4 matches, 100% wins), Gnar (4 games, 50% wins), Gwen (4 matches, 50% wins) equally dominated the top.
Wukong (4 matches, 75% wins), Vi (3 games, 33% wins), Trundle (3 matches, 33% wins) were picked into the forest.
At the center they played with Azir (6 matches, 66% of wins), Taliyah (4 games, 25% of wins).
ADK position was closed by Kalista (5 matches, 40% win rate), Ezrael (3 matches, 66% win rate), Sivir (3 matches, 66% win rate).
Support was chosen by Renata Glasc (3 games, 33% win rate), Rakan (3 matches, 100% win rate), Nami (2 matches, 100% win rate).
History of personal confrontations
Previously, the teams in the current lineups did not play with each other. This match will be the debut face-to-face fight for the teams.
The outcome of the fight
In the competitive League of Legends of recent years, there is an axiom: when Asians play against non-Asians, the former win. It sounds harsh, but in my memory it works flawlessly.
However, we will not deal with the semblance of racism, since, first of all, we are interested in the level of play of the teams. In my opinion, DRX looks stronger, as they showed their ability in the Play-In without giving themselves a doubt. It seems that their procession on this Worlds will continue further.
Outcome: DRX victory.
