The MSI 2023 period can be considered a rather special event of the League of Legends village. Because, in this season, Riot has made some changes to the competition format. At the same time, this publisher also increased the number of teams participating in the tournament for the major regions (Major group). This has greatly contributed to creating the first “LPL Open” final in the history of MSI as well as the international tournaments of the LoL village ever.
The first “LPL Open” final in the history of international tournaments of the LoL village
In particular, in getting 2 representatives present at MSI for the first time, the teams from LPL continue to show that they really have no rivals in this arena. Both JD Gaming (JDG) and Bilibili Gaming (BLG) performed very well. Even BLG alone has directly “dropped” 2 representatives of the LCK to the country. As for JDG, their championship is simply inevitable after what the defending champion LPL Spring 2023 showed.
And the championship belongs to JDG as a matter of course
Recently, the Express website has published the KDA statistics (number of kills / number of kills / number of kills) of the players at the last MSI. On Express’s list are the 10 players with the highest KDA throughout the tournament. At the top is no stranger, is JDG’s Ruler ADC. This is completely understandable when Ruler has performed extremely well in addition to his teammates also giving him full support.
Statistics of the group of 10 players with the highest KDA in the past MSI
Notably, both Support of the 2 LPL teams competing for the MSI 2023 championship are included in this list, even in a very high position (Missing 4th, ON 5th). Even Missing and ON are ranked higher than Elk and 369. According to many reviews, this comes from two factors: Both supports do a great job of contributing damage. And the second thing is that they hold their position in teamfights very well.
ON performed brilliantly at the first international tournament of his career
However, this list is completely absent from T1 players. Regardless of the uneven number of matches between the players on the list, the absence of T1 stars surprised many people. However, this absence is also understandable. The T1 players took a lot of kills, but they also fell down a lot in the defeats. Not to mention, in some games like game 1 and 2 against JDG in the Branching round, T1 both finished the match quickly after just 1 big fight, so there weren’t too many kills.
But all the stars of T1 are absent
However, it is undeniable that T1 had an unsatisfactory MSI season. More broadly, the LCK has completely lost compared to the LPL in the first international tournament of League of Legends. In the near future, they will also be able to face each other in ASIAD and the World Finals (Worlds). Those will also be opportunities for T1 in particular and the LCK in general to avenge the past MSI 2023.
