Match Prediction: Team Liquid - 100 Thieves | LoL
LCS Summer 2023 - PlayoffsWelcome to EGamersWorld.
Professional League of Legends is heating up. Regional tournaments are heating up with play-offs stages.
North America is on the list of such regions. One of four Major tournaments, LCS Summer 2023 features matches between the top 8 teams in the region. At stake is $200,000, 3 trips to Worlds 2023, and a slot at the Worlds Wildcard Qualifier.
We're in the bottom set of the main stage of the LCS Summer 2023 split. We're talking about the match for life between Team Liquid and 100 Thieves.
The format of the encounter is bo5. The winner advances to the second round of play-offs, where they will play against the loser of the Cloud9/Evil Geniuses pair. The loser - leaves the championship on top-6.
Let's find out which of the teams is more worthy to pass to the next round of the main stage, and who will have to say goodbye to the ambitions of passing to Worlds 2023.
Let's go.
Team Liquid uniforms
Let's start the match with an analysis of Team Liquid's form. In this match, the North American title club will play as favourites.
Bookmakers confirm the position of Team Liquid before the match. The odds betting on League of Legends for victory are at around 1.6.
Team Liquid is one of the central teams of the LCS. However, in recent times, the team is clearly experiencing difficulties.
While in 2022 the team was consistently in the top of the local league, finishing top 1 at LCS Lock In 2022, and then top 3 and top 4 at LCS Spring 2022 and LCS Summer 2022 respectively, the situation has changed in 2023. At LCS Spring 2023, the team finished Top 8, which is clearly not the level of a top club.
- Team Liquid lineup: Summit, Pyosik, APA, Yeon, CoreJJ .
After the unsuccessful LCS Spring, the team changed the player of the central league. The newcomer was APA, who previously played for Team Liquid Challengers.
Team Liquid finished the group stage of LCS Summer 2023 on the 4th line of the standings. With a score of 10-8, they advanced to the first round of play-offs.
In the opening match of the LCS Summer 2023 play-offs, Liquid faced NRG. The newly-arrived club pulled off a very convincing 3-1 victory.
Team Liquid's most popular champions
Kenen (3 matches, 100% wins), Gnar (3 matches, 33% wins), Jax (2 matches, 100% wins), and Rumble (2 matches, 100% wins) are the most frequently sent to the top line.
Foresters pick Vi (4 matches, 50% wins), Wukong (4 matches, 75% wins), Sejuani (2 matches, 50% wins), Lee Sin (2 matches, 50% wins).
In the mid are Ziggs (2 matches, 100% wins), Tristana (1 match, 100% wins), Cassiopeia (1 match, 0 wins), Neeko (1 match, 1 win).
On Shooters Aphelios (6 matches, 66% wins), Ashe (3 matches, 33% wins), Lucia (1 match, 1 win), Samira (1 match, 1 win), Xayah (1 match, 0 wins).
On supporting champions Rakan (4 games, 50% wins), Renata Glasc (3 matches, 66% wins), Milio (3 matches, 66% wins), Rell (3 matches, 33% wins).
Form 100 Thieves
We continue our breakdown of the LCS Summer 2023 LCS play-offs lower grid match with a betting tier on the 100 Thieves uniforms. In this match the team is in the catch-up position.
The gap is there, but it is not critical. The odds for 100 Thieves to win this match are at around 2.4.
Last season 100 Thieves had a good result. At the LCS Lock-In 2022, the team finished in the top 8 and then improved their performance significantly.
At LCS Spring 2022 and LCS Summer 2022, they finished in the top 2 both times. This guaranteed them an appearance at Worlds 2022, but they failed to get above the Top 14.
- 100 Thieves roster: Ssumday, Closer, Quid, Doublelift, Busio .
The latest additions to the team were Quid and Ssumday, who joined the team in May this year. This has paid off.
100 Thieves took a borderline 8th place in the LCS group stage. Thus the team made it to the lower play-offs.
The most popular champions of 100 Thieves
Gragas (4 games, 75% wins), Sion (4 games, 100% wins), Jax (3 games, 33% wins), Ornn, (2 games, 50% wins), KSante (2 games, 100% wins) appear in the top 100 Thieves.
Viego, Vi, and Wukong were played the same number of times. All 3 have the same winrate - 75% wins.
Azir (4 matches, 50% wins), Taliyah (3 games, 66% wins), Annie (3 matches, 66% wins), Viktor (2 matches, 100% wins) were picked on the centre line.
Zeri (6 matches, 66% wins), Xayah (5 games, 60% wins), Jinx (3 games, 33% wins) were picking on ADK.
Supports are usual: Lulu and Rakan (5 games each, where the former won 3 and the latter won 4 games. In addition, we tried Azir and Varus. The first one lost, the second one won.
History of head-to-head meetings between Liquid and 100 Thieves
In 2023, the teams have parity. In 4 matches played, each team has two wins.
Predicted result of the match Team Liquid - 100 Thieves
Given the overall level of play of the two teams, I wouldn't expect a beautiful League of Legends match. I'm sure there will be a lot of scrapes from both sides.
As for the winner, I see it as Team Liquid. The renewed 100 Thieves roster looks kind of toothless. Completely failed group stage is unlikely to be overcome in the first bo5 play-offs.
Bottom line: Liquid wins.
Bookmakers & Statistics
Team Liquid are listed as the favorites of the match in the majority of bookmakers and odds on them are equal to 1.305. 100 Thieves, in turn, are the outsiders of the match. Odds on their victory are about 4.136.
How the teams played in the last matches
Last Matches | Team Liquid | 100 Thieves |
5 matches (wins) | 2 | 2 |
10 matches (wins) | 5 | 4 |
We will also remind you of the statistics of matches that the teams played with each other. The participants in the battle before the meeting played 31 matches with each other. And Team Liquid won 16 times while 100 Thieves correspondingly became the winner 15 times.