LoL: Europe and America fail in the worlds – but an EU player impresses even the pros from Asia
The League of Legends World Championship has been running for a few weeks and the group stage is over, as well as the 1st quarterfinals. All teams from Europe and the USA are already out. EDward Gaming (EDG) is considered a great contender for the title. In an interview with “Inven Global”, the top planner from EDG talks about his competitors from the west.
This is EDG’s top laner, Flandre:
- Top planner Li “Flandre” Xuan-Jun started his career with the e-sports team “Snake.Q”.
- Flandre has been playing for EDward Gaming since December 2020, due to sponsorship deals they are currently called EDG Hycan.
- In 2021, the player and his team were able to win the world championship and are the defending champions at the Worlds this year.
- When asked how he and his team have played these worlds so far, he says they’ve played solidly, but he still has room for improvement.
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Chinese pro praises 27-year-old Romanian from Rogue
What does the professional say about his competitors? When asked which players Flandre was concerned about, specifically named top planer Andrei “Odoamne” Pascu (27) of European team Rogue.
He talks about how Odoamne managed to master the Topplane Maokai.
Odoamne is so adept at handling high-health champions that it seems like he’s a master of his role. Flandre could learn a lot from him and his active way of playing in the game.
Rogue manages to dominate the group stage through Odoamne, among other things, but weakens towards the end.
In addition to Odoamne, the top planner from RNG, who also play in the Chinese league, is mentioned.
He can also learn a few things from the e-sports team T1, says Flandre, as they are already very popular as competitors for the title, having already won several world championships.
Rogue eliminated with Odoamne yesterday
What’s next for EDG and Rogue? Rogue played on the evening of October 20th. against Chinese team JDG in a best-of-5 series in the quarterfinals.
According to the LoL Esports prediction game (via LoL esports) Rogue had an 18.4% chance of winning against JDG. Unfortunately, they could not assert themselves against the Chinese leaders and thus the dream of western victory was shattered. Even after Maokai was picked for Odoamne, Rogue struggled. Ultimately, the team lost 0-3 against JDG without a chance.
EDG, on the other hand, still has a few days to look at the opponent’s play style and adjust to it. They get to face DRX and the odds are looking pretty good, at 73.7%, according to fans. Flandre thus has the opportunity to learn from the playing styles of its competitors and, in the meantime, to try out test matches.
Flandre’s team still has a chance to clinch the World Championship title. Towards the end of the interview, he directs the floor to the fans again. Flandre thanks them for their support and hopes fans will continue to stick with EDG and support them loudly in the future.
He promises that they will work on themselves to play evenly against T1 in the future and be able to offer the viewers a nice game.
To what extent is Flandre right in what he said and do you think there are other top-plane players he should keep an eye on? Tell us in the comments.
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