Will GenG and T1 win the MSI championship and runner-up? Preliminary assessment of the strength of 10 teams

★ Game Horseshoe Original

The MSI team is assembled

South Korea LCK: GenG, T1

China LPL: AL, BLG

European LEC: MKOI, G2

American LTA: Fly, Furia

Pacific LCP: CFO, GAM

South Korea, as always, are the two oldest and most influential clubs in the region, and GenG is also last year's MSI champion, rushing to defend their title. T1 unsealed the World Finals ahead of schedule and advanced to MSI with an astonishing 3-0 beating HLE. The Seven Stars brothers are undoubtedly the favourites to win this year's mid-season tournament. Especially in the context of the weakening environment in other regions, the advantage of the LCK still maintaining the top level seems too great.

Unreliable MKOI

MKOI is also the former MAD, and the historical record of the World Championship can only be said to be miserable, and it is also the most hated foreign team for many European audiences. The core is still the jungler Elyoya, and the biggest variable this year is the introduction of Jojopyun from North America in the midlaner, and the result is indeed playing some effect. But this team will definitely not be favored by most people until the World Championship returns to dignity.

G2, where the position of the King of the Civil War is unstable

G2 has not won the championship for 2 consecutive stages, and fortunately, MSI is the champion and runner-up can participate, otherwise they will have no fun. This is obviously a lot weaker than in the past when they were able to dominate Europe for an entire year and win all the titles of the season. The loss of Yike and Mikyx has a great impact on the team, and the newcomers are really unreliable, and the Caps that have been debuting for 10 years are inevitably getting a little bit of flavor. When have G2 had a World Championship result in recent years? Running together to make up the numbers has nothing to do with winning the championship.

North America wants to play with South America

FLY is a new hope for North America in recent years, especially the bloody Bo5 game they fought against GenG last year, which also moved many North American audiences. A team mixed of European, American and Korean players, the hero pool of the Europeans in Ueno is unpredictable, which can be regarded as the team's hole card. The lower road is also good, but it is easy for the Korean aid midlaner to become a breakthrough in the World Championship. Although it is basically impossible to win the championship, North America is now a little more optimistic than the backwater European team.

SOUTH AMERICAN REPRESENTATIVE FURIA JUST IGNORE IT AND COME TO PLAY. We really couldn't figure out why the two strongest teams would not be mixed together to determine the two strongest teams since North and South America had been merged, and they each chose their own champions for a spot in the second stage. Putting such a purely weak wild card in is completely polluting the MSI card pool and lowering the average strength. There is no one who is the most favored team at the bottom.

CFO and GAM

Two acquaintance teams, there is nothing to say, although they can abuse TES, but it is impossible to judge whether they really have the strength to fight against T1, GenG, BLG and AL, so they can only rely on this MSI to test it well. GAM is also likely to be the team that is expected to compete for the bottom position.

LPL new king AL

The first and second stages all entered the finals, which is enough to prove that the current AL is indeed the standard champion team strength in the LPL. Of course, in view of TES's poor performance in the Pioneer Tournament, it is generally believed that the overall strength of the LPL is too weak today. In the second stage, WE and IG entered the semi-finals, which also deepened everyone's impression of this evaluation. At the beginning of the season, more people were indeed optimistic about BLG, TES and JDG, but they didn't expect AL to become the new ruler of the LPL.

The old Ueno who has a lot of experience in the World Championships, the mid laner who wants to produce results when he is young, the ADC who has played for many years but has no highlights but only leaves stable attributes, and an outstanding rookie who has been picked up from the LCK. If you want to talk about the problem of this team, it has almost every position, but it is such a team that seems to be flawed everywhere has become the new king of the LPL. Their performance at the World Championships depends entirely on the form of the team. But the presence of players like Tarzan and Hope, who aren't doing well at Worlds, makes it hard to imagine how far they can go.

Weakened BLG

Last year's finals were the pinnacle of BLG, and if you miss it, you miss it, and it's impossible to go back. This year, after experiencing the jungler substitution turmoil, it looks much better for a while, but in fact, BLG's current team is not as strong as last year's comprehensive strength. Keria's ruthless words are too targeted, after Doran's successful tuning, after all, T1 now doesn't look much different from the past, BLG is different now, and it is really difficult to win T1 again. A team with a certain strength base, but it can't be predicted to pass the level of T1 and GenG Korea.

Chovy is the favourite to win the championship

First, he won 18-0 to win the first place in the regular season, and then Chovy won the top of the MVP list, during which he also broke his own record of hundreds of KDA, and the playoffs were staged to let the two chase three directly beat HLE to the heart. Chovy's unusually flawless performance over the past few months has made it hard to believe that he has been a seven-year veteran of his debut. I thought he was past his peak, but it turned out to be in progress. The newcomer assisted to overcome the tension and gradually integrate into the team, although Ruler was unstable, but the veteran did return to the team as quickly as possible, and Ueno under the blessing of Chovy also had a strong semi-zone dominance. GenG is undoubtedly the favourite to win the MSI title this year, and the defending champion seems to be ready for back-to-back titles.

Entered World Championship status 4 months early

If you've watched T1 vs. HLE, and learned about T1's struggles after this year's substitution turmoil, you may have to pay tribute to this five-time World Championship team. Doran, who has always performed the best before, but still has to be scolded, completely crushed T1's former top laner Zeus in the game against HLE. This kind of performance of the swap team is also better than you, and there is no doubt that T1 fans are completely crazy.

T1, which has solved the problem of topping, is no different from the five-star T1 who has won the World Finals in the past two consecutive years. Still has the strongest midlaner Faker in the world and the strongest in history, the jungler Oner who has carried the team forward for most of the season after Crazy Carry, and Gumayusi's partner with the world's No. 1 support Keria is still the strongest duo in the active team after his return. As long as T1 makes it to Worlds, they will have their names on the favourites.

It's in the bag?

In contrast, there are really not many suspenseful parts of this year's MSI, and the World Championship has returned to the era of all-out resistance to South Korea. If you want to win the championship, you have to cross the mountain of the Korean LCK, and with the intensity that GenG and T1 showed in the second stage, the other four regions will be difficult. Of course, it is by no means without a chance, after all, GenG and T1 are also teams that also have the existence of the World Championship soft-footed shrimp.

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