LoL: Hobby trainer frustrated – supposedly weak player wins tournament because he can play the strongest champ 3 times

At League of Legends, the finals of the MSI 2022 took place on Sunday, May 29th. The Chinese champions, RNG, competed against T1, the team around old master Faker. Faker’s fans tore their hair out after the series: Why the hell did they only let the Chinese play Gwen 3 times?

That’s why everyone can have a say in LoL: When it comes to football, there are millions of hobby coaches who, sitting at the bar with a beer in hand, tell the national team coach who to field instead of the slobs he strangely lets play.

It’s similar in League of Legends, where the pros have a complicated “pick and ban” phase before each match, where teams decide which champions they’re going to play with and which heroes their opponents aren’t allowed to play under any circumstances.

After a match, the draft is often the subject of heated debate.

“Faker is forever!”

This match was about: On Sunday morning in Busan the finals of the international tournament MSI 2022 took place:

“Form is temporary – Faker is eternal” – A good play by Faker has the casters guessing:

“Blue Team” wins every match – Draft extremely important

How did the match go? The series was a back-and-forth. The teams each won their matches on the “blue” side clearly: the “blue” team gets to choose their champions first, while the red team gets to ban first.

Ultimately, in Match 5, the Chinese on the blue side clearly prevailed in 25 minutes and won the series 3-2.

There was no real jubilation, the winners competed “at home”:

RNG top lane wins matches when Bin gets his Gwen

What was the deciding factor? In all 3 of his team’s victories, the 19-year-old top laner Bin was allowed to play with the heroine Gwen at RNG and he put down strong values ​​with her:

• Game 1: 13-0-3
• Game 3: 4-2-5
• Game 5: 3-0-5

The “weak point bin” decides the tournament

This is how it is discussed: on reddit it is widely agreed that RNG’s superior draft phase decided the tournament.

T1 was a bit clueless in the draft, they kept overlooking Gwen on the bans, giving Bin the opportunity to grab his favorite hero.

• One user says: “I think T1 has thought this through too much. RNG just played the meta and didn’t try to pull any crazy crap – their consistency won them the title.”
• T1’s idea of ​​using a Jhin/Yuumi botlane in Match 5 is being criticized. In Match 5, she couldn’t tear anything for T1.
• Another says: “Perhaps T1 was too arrogant to consider Gwen securing RNG’s weakest link. T1 only won the last game in the Rumble Stage because they exploited the Bin vulnerability – did the analysts shut off their brains?”

In the last game of RNG’s rumble stage against T1, which T1 won, Bin had only played 1-4-6 on gankplank and proved to be his team’s Achilles’ heel.

Apparently, the users on reddit believe that the top laner Bin was actually the weak point of RNG, but felt so comfortable with the heroine Gwen that he became the showpiece of the team.

Ultimately, RNG’s supporter Wei was voted MVP of the finals.

The MSI tournament was played with patch 12.8, so with a completely different status than on the live servers.

At the moment the balance looks very different:

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