As previously reported, EWC 2024 Department of League of Legends recently officially closed with the championship belonging to T1. After the event ended, Riot recently launched the very noticeable information of the 14.14 version to change the meta of major area tournaments such as LCK, LPL. Accordingly, a series of extremely strong generals such as Corki, Tristana, Zyra, Brand … will be heavy Nerf. In addition, the extremely “error” equipped with Warmog blood armor also received a noticeable editor to no longer be overused in the support position.
T1 recently won the EWC 2024 championship of League of Legends
And just a few days later, Riot published a list of notable changes of version 14.14
It is worth noting that only a few hours after Riot Games announced the 14.14 version, LPL media had quite intense reactions about this version. It should be known that TES has made good use of Corki, Tristana, Zyra, Brand … to compete successfully at EWC 2024. So the LPL said that Riot is intending to target TES when Nerf directly the strongest generals of this team even though they are not the champion of the tournament.
“After EWC 2024, T1 should have been reduced the strength of the generals. However, after Riot announced the update 14.14, sadly, many strong generals of the LPL teams were NERF. Among them, Corki, Brand, Zyra, Kindred and Tristana are the good generals of LPL representatives, especially TES. EWC ” – News.QQ.com from the LPL area is quite annoyed with information about the new version 14.14 published by Riot
However, the bigger problem is quickly pointed out that the LPL teams seem to be too dependent on the meta of each version. Remember at MSI 2024 with the 14.8 version, TES was completely captured by G2 and defeated with a score of 3-0 quickly. Until playing in the 14.13 version that suits me, TES defeated G2 extremely easily in the semi -finals of EWC 2024.
The main reason for this is indicated as the basic skill of the LCK player better than the LPL area. In addition, the press in this area also revealed that many LPL players often have the habit of practicing strong generals in each version. As a result, after those characters were reduced and no longer “hegemony” as before, many players encountered difficulties.
The mid lane of TES – Creme is considered to be much weakened in the version until the chistana chantana of the UK is heavy.
Meanwhile, LCK representatives not too dependent on the version of League of Legends to be able to play successfully. The superiority in terms of basic skills allows leading teams at LCK to adapt well to all updates from Riot. The typical example is the four consecutive LCK championships of Gen.G in recent years despite the League of Legends has experienced too many updates with meta constantly changing during this time.
Gen.G has won the LCK 4 consecutive season despite the fact that League of Legends has changed a lot in recent years.
This has led to a small anxiety of the LPL press about the version applied in the upcoming Worlds 2024. If this version has adverse edits to LPL representatives, they can completely collapse and be eliminated very early. Meanwhile, as shared above, LCK teams will always find ways to adapt to this thanks to the basic skill platform of the players.
If the version applied at Worlds 2024 disadvantages with LPL representatives, this area will probably face a disaster tournament.
Naturally, it is still too early to confirm that Riot's edits during the time will make the LPL area disadvantage. However, the dependence on this update of LPL teams shows that they need to improve a lot in basic skills. If not, it would not be surprising if the LPL representatives continue to be overwhelmed by the LCK area in the international tournament in the future.