I greet everyone in the third day of LPL Spring 2022! Earlier we have already seen 4 matches where there were no special surprises. Either the teams are fighting on equal terms, or there is a clear favorite.
Today's first match is clearly from the second category. A meeting between two Chinese teams Rare Atom and Top Esports. As I immediately thought, it will end with the total defeat of the Atoms. It is not surprising, because “Atoms” have been showing themselves mediocre lately, while TE, on the contrary, is on a horse.
Rare Atom Form
The guys from Rare Atom broke into the professional league very well at the beginning of last year with a rather powerful roster, with which they could take decent positions in tournaments in their region.
But the fact is that after changing their roster at the end of the year for NEST 2021 and Demacia Cup 2021, their teamwork disappeared and the results became much worse than before.
After the departure of their former support and mid laner, things did not go very well, to put it mildly.
Rare Atom LPL roster:
- Dai " Cube " Yi is top lane.
- Zhou " Fy " Yang - forest.
- Yu " JunJia " Chun-Chia - forest.
- Lu " Leyan " Jue - forest.
- Chen " Strive " Liang - mid lane.
- Hu " iBoy " Xian-Zhao is a bot lane.
- Liang " yuyanjia " Jia-Yuan - support.
- Yang " Zorah " Chong-Jiang - support.
Top Esports Form
Something is fashionable, something is out of fashion, and something is eternal. Like, for example, the mid-laner of the knight team in the main line-up and his excellent performance, which only becomes more stable over the years.
For the most part, the Great Reshuffle at the end of the year touched Top Esports rather weakly. Maybe it even did them good. After all, only top-laners and foresters were added from the newcomers. Among them, it was Zoom and Tian who were announced at the LPL Spring 2022.
We have seen performances from Zoom and Tian so far only at Demacia Cup 2021. And if I have no questions about the new top lane, I even like his actions and understanding of the dynamics of the game, then there are some complaints about the new forester.
Mostly the guys from Top Esports play from their mid lane and knight. In the final of the Demacia Cup 2021 against the new FPXs, they lost 2 out of 5 games only because the synergy of the forest and the mid lane did not go.
Top Esports LPL roster:
- Zhang " Zoom " Xing-Ran is top lane.
- Gao " Tian " Tian-Liang - forest.
- Zhuo " knight " Ding - mid lane.
- Yu " JackeyLove " Wen-Bo - bot lane.
- Wang " Zhuo " Xu-Zhuo - support.
Match history
The teams have known each other for a long time and well, because they regularly meet in the LPL and Demacia Cup frames since 2018. And 7 out of 9 meetings confidently went to Top Esports.
The outcome of the meeting
In this confrontation, Top Esports must confidently take the victory for themselves. But I don't want to blindly believe in 2: 0 either, because Rare Atom is also not stupid and can play from the opponent's mistakes and crush the mid lane with the forest, so an outcome with 2: 1 in favor of TE is possible.
I would bet Top Esports to win. The riskier bet could be 2-0 in their favor.
KOI
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