Hello everyone with analytics and forecasts for the third week of the spring split from the League of Legends Champions region - China. So, compared to the previous ones, the third of the nine weeks of LPL Spring 2022 will be relatively calm. If in the first week the teams played 17 matches, then this time we will see only 8.
And today, at the first meeting, teams from the bottom of the list will converge: 12th place with a score of 4-7 and 1-3 on Ultra Prime games and 13th place with a score of 2-6 and 1-3, respectively, Invictus Gaming.
The match will be held on relatively equal terms, it would be wrong to single out a clear favorite here, but more on that later.
Invictus Gaming kit
iG played both splits of 2021 extremely unsuccessfully for themselves, which they were extremely unhappy with. I guess that's why the organization began to change the composition of the team so often. Since that time, we have already seen the change of two mid-laners and one ADK. Almost all from their own academy.
In fact, Invictus Gaming have now taken the best players of their Invictus Gaming Young academic roster and thrown them into a real tournament. The only active non-iG Young player is their mid laner Yuekai. A guy from the RNG academy, later their replacement, who never fired.
Moreover, already at Demacia Cup 2021, the team signed two new coaches, with whom they had never worked before.
Perhaps such changes in the roster and coaching staff can really help iG get out of the stagnation, but obviously not immediately. What we see on this split. So far, the only ones who have been able to defeat the once world champion are an outsider represented by ThunderTalk Gaming, who lose to everyone in a row.
Invictus Gaming roster:
- neny - top lane.
- xun - forest.
- Yuekai - mid lane.
- xiaoyueji - bot lane.
- Lucas - support.
Form Ultra Prime
Medium-low strength team within the Celestial Empire pro-scene and LPL splits.
Their roster was obviously strengthened by a new mid-laner represented by Cryin from RNG and two new coaches. The main roster itself looks good, but it takes time to implement and teamwork, as well as understanding from coaches.
When players catch the courage, they can defeat teams stronger than their own, as has already happened several times, but more on that later.
I have already said that UP's accomplishments ended with regional favorites like IG or FPX. Serious teams have not yet succumbed to them, as happened in a recent match with LNG. Top Esports continued the series of defeats on the favorites, however, they managed to take one card away from them. The second incident was EDward Gaming, who also managed to win back the second map.
And just recently, they won their first victory for the entire split, taking it away from LGD Gaming. Which can be a good bonus to their morale.
Composition of Ultra Prime:
- Aliez is the top lane.
- zs - top lane.
- H4cker - forest.
- Cryin - mid lane.
- Elk - bot lane.
- ShiauC - support.
Meeting history
Since Ultra Prime is a new face in the LPL, they didn't have too many matches with the rest of the teams. They played with Invictus Gaming 4 times, 3 of which ended in defeat for Ultra Prime.
Now iG have redesigned their roster beyond recognition and post-academy level.
Match result
Although Ultra Prime cannot be called a stable team, they have already played several worthy matches against the favorites already in this tournament.
But Invictus Gaming are far from showing their best side, although they have already managed to play at two more local tournaments.
In this match, I believe in the victory of UP, I would bet on it.
