Match Prediction: Team Heretics - SK Gaming | LoL
LEC Winter 2024 - PlayoffsWelcome to EGamersWorld.
The first top professional League of Legends tournament is heating up. At LEC Winter 2024 the lower grid matches are starting.
In the first elimination series we will see a match between Team Heretics and SK Gaming. The format of the match is Bo3.
Let's find out who will be stronger in this confrontation and move further down the lower grid. The winner of the pair will play against Fnatic.
Let's go.
Team Heretics uniforms
Let's open the match with an analysis of Team Heretics' form. In this match the Spanish club plays as favourites with odds to win at 1.7.
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, Perkz, 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 with a 2-0 win and Heretics travelled to the bottom set.
Team Heretics are the 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).
SK Gaming uniforms
We continue the match breakdown with an analysis of SK Gaming's form. In this match they will play in the status of an outsider, with odds to win in the neighbourhood of 2.
The main achievement of SK Gaming last season was the debut winter LEC split. The team, being among the outsiders and previously ranked top 8 at LEC Spring and LEC Summer, managed to not only make it to the play-offs, but also put up a serious fight against MAD Lions in the match for the top 3.
What followed was much worse. At LEC Spring 2023 SK Gaming were not so confident. This time they managed to pass the regular season and bo1 matches, but not the group stage. SK fell in the top 7.
- SK Gaming roster: Irrelevent, Isma, Nisqy, Exakick, Doss.
At LEC Summer 2023 SK Gaming almost repeated the spring result, with a slight improvement. They took the top 6, but thanks to the top 4 at LEC Winter 2023 they still reached the regional finals.
However, SK Gaming's achievements ended at the LEC 2023 finals. There they played the only match against BDS and lost 0-3 without a chance.
SK Gaming passed the group stage of LEC Winter 2024 quite well. The team played the regular season with the score 5-4.
In the first round of play-offs SK Gaming met Vitality. After a disgusting season Vitality cameback, and in such a way that they managed to reach the second round of the upper grid, and SK Gaming went to the lower grid.
SK Gaming's most popular champions
The top SK Gaming picks were Gnar (2 games, 1 win), KSante (1 game, 0 wins), Camile (1 game, 1 win), Sion (1 game, 1 win), Renekton (1 game, 1 win).
Sejuani and Eliza are honoured in the forest. Both champions have appeared twice each and won both matches, but Vi and Kindred have lost their games.
The centre line performs on Sylas (2 matches, 50% wins), Kassadin (1 time, 0 wins), Azir, Syndra and Akali (1 game each and 100% wins).
From shooters - Zeri. The character appeared 3 times and won 2 matches, besides Varus (who lost the only match), Sivir and Lucian.
Karma, who has had enough of Karma, as well as Renata Glasc and Lulu. Yummi won two matches out of 3, Karma lost the only game, and Renata Glasc and Lulu won.
SK Gaming - Team Heretics head-to-head history
During the entire time of tagging in the LEC plane, the teams have played each other 3 times. Twice Heretics won.
Predicted result of the match Team Heretics - SK Gaming at LEC Winter 2024
In this match my sympathies are on the side of Heretics. "Heretics" look much more confident than their SK Gaming counterparts, and the history of personal meetings is on their side.
Bottom line: victory for Team Heretics.
Bookmakers & Statistics
At the moment, the majority of bookmakers unanimously see the team SK Gaming as the favorite of the game with average odds on a victory in the sum of 2.027. Team Heretics chances to prevail are evaluated with average odds 2.215 by bookmakers.
What the team performance statistics say
Last Matches | Team Heretics | SK Gaming |
5 matches (wins) | 2 | 1 |
10 matches (wins) | 5 | 5 |
Also it makes sense to remember the statistics of the matches between the teams. The competitors have held 3 matches. In these battles Team Heretics got 2 victories while SK Gaming managed to take 1 matches.