LEC 2024: Weekend surprise leader, carmine and vitality already in the sauce?

A lot happened during the offseason yes yes yes. KC took over the Astralis slot, KOI joined MAD Lions to form a primarily Spanish team, Giants and XL also partnered while Rogue returned to the LEC., although the slot is still of infinite reality. This first week of the LEC was a chance for some to settle a few grievances, but when it comes time to take stock, the two teams are already in trouble.

Carmine and vitality at risk?

Until last year, to say that the team was struggling after the first week of competition was often an exaggeration. Only with the new LEC format, Time is a luxury that teams don’t really have anymore. There are only three weeks of competition before two teams are already eliminated. for To ensure qualification to the next stage, 4 wins are required To pass without trembling, while 3 may not be enough. You don’t have to be a great mathematician to figure out that finishing 0-3 in the first week is anything but a good sign.

We knew that The first week will be difficult for Caseye, given that their baptism of the LEC was to take place against two of the most successful teams in G2, LEC history, after Fnatic. although Mad Lions looked to be a team within their reach on paper, and losing to them would mean losing valuable points.

. There is a sound of a bell Same on Vitality, who faced Fnatic and BDS, the two teams that competed in last year’s Worlds. Against that, defeat seems logical, but the bees will have it Was able to give himself some breathing room by managing to defeat the giantsThird team at the back of the pack.

there K.C. Didn’t do too bad Against Fnatic, holding their own for 20 minutes Before you start losing your footing. Game Against G2 Even more complicated, KC is always there ran after their opponentsAnd the last match against Mad Lions is one to forget as the team doesn’t seem to have played around its winning conditions. The consequences for vitality are worse, Because they didn’t really have a good match and He dominated all the matches. Despite everything, both teams still Having shown that the individual level of their players is sufficient for the LEC, we now have to work on drafts and macros which leave something to be desired. Although we don’t necessarily have to worry about the 10-week regular season, the clock is ticking very quickly here and there are still big teams to face.

A promising start

The Thugs and Zolis finally managed to win And not least: against G2, the favorites of the LEC. So of course, G2 isn’t known as the most dominant team in the world during the regular season, but A victory against them, the starting point of which was the good pairing of Zolis/Marcoun at Rome level (and a caps that Niko overdid the trundle of yikes) is pretty good for confidence. The Rogues haven’t fully convinced this first week, but they at least seem to To be able to be a trouble maker In this winter split, or even better.

Another team that “could do well” is Team heretics. As expected, this team will be Very strong on a macro level And it will be complicated to move, but it will do It still lacks a bit of magic to be able to guess that the old G2 is really back. The problem may well arise Perks, which still don’t seem very critical in the midlane.

However, if the Croatian manages to become a real threat again (without necessarily asking for the lane kingdom to return), Team Heretics will gain a lot of strength and be a very serious contender for the top 4.

Obviously we are going to put too G2 in this category, as they remain our European game throwing specialists in the regular season. The point here is not to diminish Rogue’s performance, their win was fully deserved, but we also know that G2 knows how to lock up a game and could have done so, except Caps was obviously in a rush to finish. It’s not so much that we worry about the team here, but we know they can still raise their level of play.

The MAD Lions KOI, however, is a nice surprise. When the team is one With the most rookies in the LECThey managed to pick up wins against Team Heretics and KC, two teams we envision making the playoffs. If the victory against KC was a bit messy at certain points, the victory against TH was much cleaner. The team was not expected to be strong from the start, and its progress will be one to watch, but it is Winter Split can be a good surprise.

Big names

obsessive It was expected, and the team confirmed. The coordination between the South Korean pair and the three soloners can still be improved, but in fact the team showed great things, and not only on an individual level. Even their defeat was far from a stomp, and with a little more success things could have turned out differently (or at least an oscarinin who didn’t lose his lvl 1 leading to a top dive and snowball).

beside them, BDS worked. If they weren’t favorites against G2, they The ruler managed to stop the champion, before taking Special: Lost Battle in Nash, ending the game after 3 minutes. BDS may have faced the best version of the champions, and the team came out honourably. Their win was logical, as they faced VIT and GiantX, two teams believed to be weaker than them., but the job was done without much trepidation. although The real test will be in week 2

With matches against SK and Fnatic.

How can we not conclude on SK? What a first week from Nisqy, ISMA and Exakick! ISMA had a great debut, showing itself to be able to follow the rhythm of the LEC game directly.While SK is far from “easy” in the week as BDS. The idea of ​​taking games from these two former clubs must make Niskey smile a littleWhile Exakick won Prophet of the Week for his statements on the irrelevant. The SK top laner was the undisputed MVP of their team and we are already looking forward to the match against Adam. It’s still too early to get excited about SK, especially since the team will have to succeed in beating top teams without individual exploits (not sure if Irrelevant can blindly block his lane in all games like was the case against Fnatic, Even though it was helped by ISMA’s first gank) SKs sent a strong message.