Regarding this, the answer is obviously not one-sided T1 wins the championship. After all, almost all fans except T1 shouldn't really not want to see the plot of the LCK No. 4 seed that emerged from the finalists became a super dark horse to fight back and win the championship, right?
World Championship has never been a place to compete for the results of the spring and summer seasons in the past year, but a brand new battlefield. It is a competition of the progress of various teams since the beginning of the World Championship. There is no doubt that T1 and DRX are the best teams in this regard.
In fact, it seems that it is not unfair to get out of the semi-finals of LPL in this S match. Although RNG took out his weapon early as the Counter of Sword Demon has achieved a certain BP advantage, that's all. The LPL team basically did not contribute its own new understanding in the entire world stage. Instead, it follows the understanding of the LCK team and naturally falls behind. The two sides in the finals of
. Although T1 completed the myth of unbeaten in the spring season, it failed to win the championship, and was completely suppressed by GEN.G in the summer season, and was swept by GEN.G in the finals. At the beginning of the World Championship, T1 still played the game mode of quickly winning the economic leadership around the pioneer for a whole year. However, as the schedule deepened, T1's priority for the pioneer was quickly lowered. As long as it could get the economic leadership, T1 no longer cared about the Pioneer's ownership.
Of course, to talk about the results of the game, my personal understanding is that I don’t need to pay too much attention to the team name or player ID. The most direct and obvious comparison is that the player’s hero pool is on the player. Previous competitions have also proved that the hero pool is richer, and teams that can draw out more different understandings can often go further. T1 and DRX are almost 50% in this regard.
T1 is actually the team with the most comprehensive coverage of the hero pool in this competition. T1 has almost nothing that cannot be obtained, which is very similar to last year's T1. Although it fell to DK in the semi-finals last year, T1 has approached perfection last year. The only problem is that Canna's performance in the semi-finals was indeed not satisfactory, but this year Zeus is already at the level of the world first. Although it was still a hero pool of pure warriors before the semi-finals, the barrels taken out when facing JDG still had a very good effect, which is considered to be the only area that T1 did not enter this World Championship.
DRX has become the pioneer of the double hero pool revolution. In this World Championship, Beryl and Deft both came up with the richest duo hero selection. Beryl and the finalists have come up with as many as 12 auxiliary heroes in this World Championship. Deft is not in vain for too many. Including the finalists, it also produced 9 ADC heroes, but the slightly unfavorable factor for them is that DRX has not yet produced the Luna combination, which is their biggest weakness in facing T1. To date, DRX has chosen BAN Luna from both red and blue, but putting aside the duo choices other than Luna, DRX will indeed be richer, which also gives them great confidence to put the duo in the second round of PICK.
And for them, the advantageous factor in the hero pool is that the Qianjue of Pyosik can be easily faced with both male guns and Foyego. It seems that it is currently a choice at the top of the wild nuclear food chain, which is indeed a slightly difficult point for T1 to deal with.
In short, the hero pool of the two teams is almost a 50-5 situation, T1 has the Luna combination that DRX does not have, while DRX has a first-hand Qianjue. The hero selection of KinGEN is indeed a little more stress-resistant, but he really did a good job in this regard. Even so, it seems that it is difficult for DRX to prevent Zeus from performing on the single-band end, which is also the most obvious lead point of T1 on the player end.
Overall, it seems difficult not to be optimistic about T1, because compared with DRX's previous knockout matches, the pressure on Kingen to be put in the upper half is obviously higher.
But DRX has created too many surprises. Whether DRX has new things on the final stage is likely to influence the situation. At least according to the previous competition, T1's lead over DRX is still all-round. Except for Zeka, who seems to be a god descending to earth in this world competition, DRX does not have many win points.