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Oft-maligned and inconsistent in common season play within the LCK, Korean fourth seed DRX are making the world neglect their prior League sins with one other win to cap off their undefeated run within the Worlds play-in stage and punch their ticket to teams.
MAD Lions got here into the high-stakes Worlds affair with a really clear technique: get Elyoya forward on Bel’Veth. It was a high-risk, high-reward one, with prime laner Armut’s Mordekaiser additionally making its Worlds debut.
One of many staff’s finest gamers, Elyoya welcomed the inflow of early sources en path to getting his Bel’Veth forward to an unstoppable scaling level.
Or at the least, that was the plan. Early on, it labored nice. Each transfer MAD Lions made early was on the dangerous however finally the higher one, leaving DRX more and more on the again foot and compelled increasingly to react as a substitute of being the aggressors as favorites.
However, as all nice League groups do, DRX held the road and stored the gold lead manageable sufficient for his or her superior play to shine by.
They did precisely that regardless of being down gold and an Ocean Soul with no drakes themselves as DRX received scrappy late-game teamfights on the again of play-ins MVP mid laner Zeka’s Sylas and assist BeryL’s Yuumi.
The jungle matchup additionally mirrored the overall route of the meta for the place. Carry junglers seem right here and there, with Graves being the preferred choice however usually banned and due to this fact by no means seeing the open Rift, however tanky ganking junglers nonetheless stay the safer choice. This can completely be a pattern to look at within the coming video games.
It additionally bolstered a maybe disconcerting reality: Yuumi continues to be *actually* sturdy in the appropriate compositions. BeryL singlehandedly allowed Zeka to behave with impunity within the win and switch the sport on its head. Deft’s Sivir, one other presumed relic of playoff metas previous, was capable of free fireplace from the backline, shredding by MAD’s short-range staff composition with no actual backline entry.
MAD finish the play-in group stage with a 3-2 report, solely shedding to the LPL and LCK squads. If RNG beat Saigon Buffalo to wrap up play of their group, then MAD will face the Vietnamese squad in a best-of-five on Monday for a shot at whoever comes out on prime of the three-way tiebreaker within the different group.
The winner of that may qualify for Worlds 2022 teams.
DRX, in the meantime, land in Group C within the subsequent section of the match alongside LPL runners-up Prime Esports, European champs Rogue, and Vietnam’s GAM Esports. They’ll sq. off towards Rogue subsequent, at 4pm CT on Oct. 8 in New York Metropolis.
