Beijing time on August 14th, in the final battle of the LPL summer season regular season, RNG lost 1-2 to LGD and missed out on the resurrection. Although it is still fourth, the impact of the loss in this game may be far greater than imagined. The ones in are much more serious. First of all, before challenging TES, they must cross the mountain of EDG. Since there is no resurrection armor, once RNG loses, they have to go directly to the bubble game.
Although RNG defeated EDG in the previous game, in that game, EDG actually made too many mistakes, which was why RNG completed the comeback. Now in the playoffs, facing only one chance, EDG will definitely be more cautious and will never make the same mistake again. When the two sides compete for strength, it's hard to say whether RNG can beat EDG.
In addition, if RNG loses to EDG, even if they win the bubble match, they will only be able to go to the World Championship as the third or fourth seed, so they will have to face the first seed from other regions. They have to put in more energy in the group stage, and the World Championship is a very long cycle. They are likely to lack stamina in the end, so this situation is very detrimental to RNG.
Therefore, in order to make the situation less passive, RNG must win this battle with EDG. In this way, there will be resurrection armor. In the subsequent match against TES, no matter whether they lose or win, they will still have something to fight for. Of course, the best case scenario is that RNG reaches the finals, so that they can at least go to the World Championship as the second seed. In this case, the pressure on RNG will be much less.
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