At LCK Spring 2024, a familiar scenario continued to happen when Gen.G and T1 still appeared in the two highest positions on the rankings. These are also the two teams with the most convincing playing style in the recent Group Stage. It wouldn't be too surprising if T1 and Gen.G continue to be direct opponents for the LCK Spring title this time and together win tickets to MSI 2024.
The LCK Spring 2024 title will probably just be a separate competition between T1 and Gen.G
In addition, other top tournaments such as LPL, LEC… are also gradually revealing potential candidates for tickets to attend MSI. Therefore, it is very understandable for T1 to start tracking and researching these future opponents. And in the latest interview, T1's star support – Keria revealed the most formidable players in the LPL according to his assessment. It's surprising that the names mentioned by Keria are not players from the leading LPL teams.
“To be honest, I've been watching LPL a lot lately. Maybe because the region will become our main opponent (T1) at the upcoming MSI. I see RNG's Tangyuan and FPX's Milkyway playing extremely well at the moment. Although they are not famous or ranked as superstars, these are extremely excellent players and are quite intimidating to face” – Keria shared.
Keria recently shared: “I see RNG's Tangyuan and FPX's Milkyway playing extremely well at the moment. They are formidable opponents.”
At LPL Spring 2024, FPX showed a strong resurgence when ranked 4th on the rankings despite not having a big-name player in the squad. Contributing greatly to this achievement of FPX is Jungle player – Milkyway with many shining matches and “carrying the team” in the true sense. Even the media at LPL called Milkyway the “savior” of the tournament because of his excellent performance. Perhaps for this reason, Keria appreciates the young Jungler on FPX's side.
FPX's young Jungler – Milkyway is really causing a stir in the LPL recently
As for Tangyuan, this guy doesn't seem to be very lucky as RNG is in the bottom group. However, there are many rumors that RNG is a very strong team in scrims. Some people even joked that if Tangyuan played at 80% performance in scrims, RNG could have won the LPL championship. Most likely, T1 and RNG have had many scrim sessions together, so Keria appreciates her colleague from LPL.
Tangyuan and the RNG team are said to be very strong in practice matches but have very poor results in official matches
Basically, the odds of Milkyway or Tangyuan meeting T1 at the upcoming MSI are very small. If Milkyway still has a chance to compete in the playoffs, Tangyuan and RNG don't even have this. Furthermore, BLG and JDG are still too big forces in the current LPL and winning the ticket to MSI from them is too difficult.
JDG and BLG are still huge forces in LPL
However, these players are still at an extremely young age (both 20 years old) and have many opportunities to develop in the future. Who knows, within just 1-2 years, they will rise to become top stars in the LPL and directly challenge for the international title with T1.