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We continue our look at the group stage of Demacia Cup 2024, the main tournament of the off-season. It takes place in the Chinese region and is played by top Chinese players.
Among the participants are Royal Never Give Up and LGD Gaming Youth. They will start Demacia Cup 2024 in Group B.
We are trying to figure out which of the teams RNG - LGD Gaming Youth will be stronger in this match and earn the first victory before the determination of slots for play-offs.
Let's go.
Royal Never Give Up Form
Let's open the RNG vs LGD Gaming Youth match with an analysis of Royal Never Give Up's form. In this match they play the first number one with odds to win at around 1.2.
Last year, RNG won the LPL Spring 2022, then triumphed in the MSI 2022 final, and also qualified for the Worlds 2022, where they finished in the top 8.
In the new season, however, Long Corner was worse than before. In the first regional round of the LPL - LPL Spring 2023 - RNG finished top-8.
- RNG's lineup is Xiaoxu, Milkyway, Tangyuan, JiaQi, and Lele.
So far, RNG are moving towards repeating the history of half a year ago. Need to push on and improve their performance in the standings, then you can automatically avoid the top 8.
In the group stage of LPL Summer 2023, Royal Never Give Up finished in the top 7. They fell one position short of making it to the second round of the main stage and now need to play more matches.
In the first round of play-offs LPL Summer 2023 RNG played against NiP. Being the favourite of the series, the title Chinese club Ledgeil their vis-a-vis, and Ledgeil with the score 1-3. As a result - the top 10 of the tournament.
Apparently, the absolutely failed last season affected the mood of RNG in the new one. They seriously approached the game at NEST 2023 and did not know any defeats in the group stage: they beat Bilibili, Anyone's Legend and Invictus Gaming. In the play-offs Royal Never Give Up continued their triumphal march, which eventually resulted in the championship at the local tournament.
RNG looked good at Demacia Cup 2023 as well. At least, they managed to get out of their group by winning all their matches, which is nothing. However, they didn't manage to play long at Demacia Cup 2023, as they ran into Bilibili Gaming in the play-offs and lost.
In the 2024 season, RNG looked and look so bad. The team managed to finish top 14 at LPL Spring 2024 and top 17 at LPL Summer 2024 and top 6 at NEST 2024.
Royal Never Give Up's most popular champions
Top picks for the top line are KSante (4 matches, 25% wins), Renekton (3 matches, 66% wins), Jayce (2 games, 0% wins).
Foresters: Maokai (3 games, 33% wins), Sejuani (3 games, 0% wins), Graves (2 games, 50% wins), Poppy (2 games, 0 wins) and Wukong (2 games, 50% winrate).
In the mid, the classic situation is Azir (2 matches, 50% wins), Akali (1 game, 0 wins), Ryze (1 game, 100% wins).
On arrows is also pretty usual, except for ignoring Lucian-a. The most selectable champion is Zeri (4 games, 75% wins). There was Caitlyn (3 games, 33% wins), Ziggs (2 games, 0% wins) and Varus (2 games, 0% wins).
There were Heimerdinger (2 matches, 50% wins), Yuumi (2 games, 50% wins).
LGD Gaming Youth uniform
We continue the analysis of the match LGD Gaming Youth - Royal Never Give Up with the analysis of LGD Gaming Youth form. In this match they are playing as favourites with odds to win at around 4.
LGD Gaming Youth, as the name implies, is the academic squad of a big LGD club, which is on the competitive scene of League of Legends not for the first day. However, LGD Gaming Youth have also been playing at the professional level for a long time.
LGD Gaming Youth have been on the competitive scene since 2020. Then they were ranked TOP-2 at LDL Spring 2020 and TOP-4 at LDL Summer 2024. The following year was much worse - Top-24 at LDL Spring 2021 and LDL Summer 2024.
The following year was about the same, Top-22 in Spring and Top-12 in Summer. The 2023 season was Top-8 at Weibo Cup 2022 and Top-18-19 at subsequent LDL stages.
- LGD Gaming Youth roster: Nuo, cc, Ninefog, Chips, WuNai.
In the 2024 season, LGD Gaming Youth finally shone on the TIR-2 stage. They finished in the Top 9 at LDL 2024 - Seeding Stage at the Long Stage of the year, before making it to the Top 4 of LDL 2024 - Stage 1 and then the Top 7 of LDL Stage 2. However, at LDL 2024 Stage 3 was the second place and finally at LDL 2024 - Season Finals LGD Gaming Youth got the win by beating MAX.
The match against Royal Never Give Up will be the second match of the Demacia Cup 2024.
LDL Gaming Youth's most popular champions
Fiora (5 matches, 60% wins) was the most frequently sent to the top line у most often. There was also Jax (3 games, 100% wins), Camile (2 matches, 100% wins), Irelia (2 matches, 100% wins).
In the forest Maokai (7 matches, 85% wins), Sejuani (4 games, 75% wins), Viego (2 matches, 100% wins).
The centre line was occupied by Azir (5 matches, 80% wins), Sylas (3 games, 66% wins), Kassadin (2 matches, 100% wins), Ryze (2 games, 50% wins).
Shooters: Varus (4 games, 50% wins), Lucian (4 games, 100% wins).
Sapports: Nami (3 games, 100% wins), Ashe (3 games, 0 wins), Varus (2 games, 100% wins), Miss Fortune (2 games, 100% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings Royal Never Give Up - LGD Gaming Youth
The teams have not played each other in official matches yet.
Predicted result of LGD Gaming - Royal Never Give Up at Demacia Cup 2024
In this match I expect about equal play from the two teams. LGD Gaming Youth, as the LDL champion, should show what the residents of the second division of China are made of. I predict them to win, even though it will be difficult.
Bottom line: victory LGD Gaming Youth.
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