Ability to adapt to meta
This was expressed in Wei's interview after the humiliating defeat before T1. When asked: “Your team has defeated T1 at the recent MSI, what do you think that makes you unable to repeat that result again?“Wei replied: “Perhaps it was due to Meta. For this meta, we couldn't adapt well to it. We were not fully prepared compared to the efforts that T1 put in, maybe because we haven't studied it all and they did better.”
Wei's answer has confirmed the problem that LPL teams encounter. So far, Riot has always wanted to change the game continuously to create attractiveness and make players adapt to the game, not the game according to the player, European or North American areas always own mutants with unique play style and create a separate path for themselves. Looking at the squad of 4 LPL representatives, they only have about 20 generals to use. Compared to the LCK teams with a broad champion like T1 or Kia Damwon, LPL is almost completely inferior, and 3 out of 4 LPL teams have suffered pain before T1, EDG group stage, quarterfinals and semi -finals.
Lack of stability
The formula in Meta Summer is the rotation of 2 Sivir – Zeri options in the bottom line, then pick a squad towards the final stage of the game – 5vs5 fighting team that win that team will win the final. In the current meta, when Riot has a big change, it leads to the influence of the upper half that helped the team owns the top Lane Carry to make more advantages. That rapid change of rapidly punished players could not adapt to the time.
Teams that are edema in the lines are gradually exploited, such as Jackkeylove, Xiaohu, Scout or Hope – Missing duo. The stability in the gameplay and performance is an important key in competition, but the representatives from China show a pale face. The names are highly appreciated as Knight, Gala, Yagao or Wei are all given in important matches. They could do anything other than standing for the opponent to exploit thoroughly, the decline of LPL this year went on.
Covid-19
It is hard to say that this is the reason because some players from non -LPL areas are also affected, but China is the worst loss team. Anti -epidemic policy in China in a way that protects the health of the players is too good, leading to them to set foot in North America in their mood never once positive. The first Covid has made the health of the players seriously affected, compared to Korea or Europe, their players recover much faster.
The only team that was not infected was the top eSports but they left from the group stage; Rng in the second leg of the group stage playing with the worst condition, Gala – Xiaohu through the camera shows that they are like a lifeless person. Unpaid health has greatly affected the quality of the competition, causing RNG to lose the top spot in the gene hand, so that they were destroyed by T1 in the quarterfinals. EDG & JDG is no exception when one member is positive; Perhaps her family also knew how to blame herself unlucky to get caught in a storm called Covid.
