Hello again.
We at EGW continue our review of the LPL Summer 2023 group stage and we have week 6 matches coming up. Slowly but surely, the group stage is nearing its climax.
There's a full week of games left to watch and a couple more days to go. There aren't many matches conventionally, but some of them are clearly worth watching. One of those is the match between Team WE and Royal Never Give Up.
Obviously, you could argue about The International riga in this match. To be honest, both teams don't impress much with their play, but the clubs' tags are iconic, and the teams are in the top 10, that is nominally in the play-offs.
Both teams want to be seeded better, which means they have to fight for the top 6. To get there, we must win the current match and not fall into a loss streak.
Let's see who'll be stronger in this match and earn themselves another important win.
Let's go.
Form Royal Never Give Up
We open the analysis of the match with the analysis of the playing form of Royal Never Give Up. In this match, the team will play at number one.
The bookmakers confirm the pre-match situation. The odds for Royal Never Give Up are settled at around 1.6.
An equal figure for the LPL Summer 2023 group stage. This is despite the fact that Royal Never Give Up have been a top world team in the past, but they clearly did not do well with Long Soppeg in the 2023 season.
Royal Never Give Up were a serious force in 2022. Last year RNG won LPL Spring 2022, then triumphed in the MSI 2022 finals and also qualified for Worlds 2022 where they finished in the Top 8.
In the new season, however, Long Corner was worse than before. In the first LPL regional round, LPL Spring 2023, RNG finished in the top-8.
- RNG's line-up: Breathe, Wei, Tangyuan, LP, LvMao .
So far, RNG are moving towards repeating the history of half a year ago. They need to press on and improve their standing in the standings, then they can automatically avoid the top-8.
Royal Never Give Up are in 8th place in the standings ahead of Long Soppeg. The team has a 6-6 score and still has a chance to make the top 6 and improve their seeding in the play-offs.
Royal Never Give Up's most popular champions
The top picks are KSante (4 games, 25% wins), Renekton (3 games, 66% wins), Jayce (2 games, 0% wins).
From 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% win rate).
In the midrange a classic situation: Azir (2 games, 50% wins), Akali (1 game, 0 wins), Ryze (1 game, 100% wins).
On the shooters too, it's pretty usual, except for ignoring Lucian-a. The most selectable champion is Zeri (4 games, 75% wins). There were Caitlyn (3 games, 33% wins), Ziggs (2 games, 0% wins) and Varus (2 games, 0% wins).
Heimerdinger (2 games, 50% wins), Yuumi (2 games, 50% wins).
Team WE form
We continue the match review with an analysis of Team WE's playing form. In this match they are going to the second number one.
The bookmakers confirm Team WE's underperformance. The odds on Team WE's victory are in the region of 2.15.
Such figures indicate parity, rather than a large gap, it has already been said. And this is because the teams are now de facto on the same level, although globally RNG is cooler.
Last season Team WE frankly failed. The team took 15th place in LPL Spring 2022 and 17th in LPL Summer 2022. However we were able to improve our performance in LPL Spring 2023.
Reaching the play-offs of LPL Spring 2023 is already an indicator. Then to qualify for the main stage Team WE won 8 of the 16 matches played. However, they didn't manage to advance any further than Top-10.
- Team WE's line-up: Cube, Heng, Shanks, Hope, lwandy .
To all appearances Team WE are rushing at full speed to repeat last season's success, that is to reach play-offs. They're doing quite well so far: The team's score is 6-5 and they're in 7th place in the standings. One series separates them from the top 6.
The most popular champions of Team WE
At the top line, Team WE has no revelations. Team chooses KSante (4 games, 50% wins), Renekton (3 games, 33% wins), Gnar (3 games, 66% wins).
In the woods everything is also more or less standard: VI (7 games, 57% wins), Maokai (3 games, 66% wins), Poppy and Sejuani 2 games and 0 wins each.
On the centre line, there are no deviations. Azir (4 games, 50% wins), Ryze (4 games, 50% wins), Syndra (2 games, 50% wins), Cassiopeia (2 games, 50% wins).
Championship among shooters for Lucian. Champion appeared 5 times, but won only 2 matches. Tried Zeri, failed: 0-3 in three appearances.
Among the supporting champions Nami was a success. She was taken 5 times, and her win rate was 40%. Yummi (3 games, 0% wins) and Ashe (3 games, 66% win rate) were also picked.
History of head-to-head encounters
Last season, i.e. in LPL Spring 2023, Royal Never Give Up took down Team WE. We can't call that victory an easy one as the teams finished the match 2-1.
The outcome of the match
From this series I expect an equal fight. Throughout the LPL Spring 2023 I expected a "turn on" from Royal Never Give Up, but it seems the season 2023 they will spend in their own shadow. Therefore, I do not believe that they will be able to finish the match without a run out in their favor. If they manage to win at all.
Bottom line: +2.5.
