As the 2022 Global Finals Finals is coming, although on the surface, the situation in this World Championship is the same as the 2021 Global Finals Finals Finals Finals, there are three LCK teams surrounding an LPL team. But in fact, judging from the overall performance of the two divisions of this World Championship, LCK is undoubtedly the better side. In addition to the instability of JDG's two-man road in the previous game, and T1 gradually showed dominance in this world competition, there are actually many voices from the outside world that are not optimistic that JDG can beat T1 in the semi-finals.
Although it seems on the surface, this is another head-on confrontation between LPL and LCK, in fact, if JDG really can't beat T1. Then, LPL's performance in the Global Finals will be back five years. Five years ago, the S7 Global Finals, which many LPL fans were very disappointed, was the first Global Finals held in our China. Why do you say so? In fact, judging from the performance of LPL before the S7 Global Finals, in addition to S3 and S4 in ancient times, the LPL team successfully advanced to the finals, and the best results in the global Finals in the two seasons of S5 and S6 were the quarterfinals. Because of this, it was also called the darkest era of LPL at that time. It was not until the S7 Global Finals that LPL re-entered the top four. Of course, although the LPL team did advance to the finals in the two seasons of S3 and S4, when facing the strongest opponent of LCK, they still had no power to fight back.
It is precisely because the S7 Global Finals failed at its doorstep. 2017 can be said to be a year when LPL has truly ushered in a turning point. Because after the S7 Global Finals, in the S8 Global Finals, the LPL team iG won the first LPL global finals championship; in the S9 Global Finals, the LPL team FPX won the second LPL global finals championship; in the S10 Global Finals, although the LPL team failed to win the championship, the SN reached the final and won the runner-up; in the S11 Global Finals, the LPL team EDG once again helped LPL win the championship in the Global Finals. In other words, from the S8 season to the S11 season, LPL won three championships, one runner-up, and the worst result was also the second. And these, coupled with the results of MSI, have become the real reason why LPL has been called the first division in recent seasons.
However, in the S12 Global Finals, from the current situation, there is a certain gap between LPL and LCK. The second seed TES stopped in the group stage; the third seed EDG and the fourth seed RNG both stopped in the quarterfinals. JDG, the only LPL team that advanced to the semi-finals, did not actually accept the test of the LCK team in the Bo5 game except for having their back and forth with DK in the group stage. What's more, as mentioned above, JDG's two-way roads have not performed steadily in previous games, but they have not encountered a really top two-way road in the World Championship. So, the real test of JDG in this World Championship has not yet begun. T1, which has no obvious weaknesses in all aspects, has become JDG's best touchstone.
If JDG can successfully defeat T1, then LPL will still maintain the bottom of the global finals at least the finals in the past five years. However, if JDG cannot defeat T1 or even suffer a crushing defeat, LPL's performance will be reversed by five years, and the future situation of LPL is not very optimistic.
