In eSports subjects, especially like League of Legends, the squad cannot be as thick as many other traditional sports. The usual formula of the teams will consist of 5 players playing hard and will have about 1-2 reserve. Of course, there are also abundant teams that may have thicker squads, up to about 9-10 players. However, this is quite rare because teams not only have to take care of the official players but also many other parts. But there has been many exceptions and the most famous recent is T1 of the 2021 season.
The 2021 season will probably be unforgettable for T1 fans
Perhaps many people still remember in the 2021 season, when T1 was under the direction of Daeny coach – Zefa. These are the factors that helped Damwon Gaming ascended the 2020 Worlds. However, the series of days at T1 of the coach duo is “disaster”. In particular, Daeny coach not only causes conflict with Faker but also turns T1 into a mess when using up to 10 players as well as many different teams. And once at that time, people had the feeling that T1 won to be surprised, but losing it was not too strange.
In that year, this team used up to 10 players and many different combined squads
And at the LPL Spring 2024, after the group stage was almost the end, people realized that Edward Gaming – World Champion 2021 (even in the year that T1 fell into crisis because of Daeny coach's tactics) also “learned” this disaster model. Specifically, in this season alone, EDG has used up to 10 different players and each position has 2 people. This means that EDG has almost never had a fixed squad pulling more than 5 consecutive matches. In addition, Gunner Leave was transferred to the EDG youth team in LDL after not regaining the peak form as before being sentenced.
EDG in the spring of 2024 also used up to 10 players and each position had 2 people to change back and forth
And of course, learning a “catastrophic” gameplay, the results of EDG are difficult other than T1 in 2021. Even, the LPL representative is even more tragic when they do not give themselves any Keria, any Gumayusi or someone enough to influence like Faker as a fulcrum. And EDG ended his group stage early with a very bad achievement of 3 wins – 12 losses.
And EDG even received a more tragic ending when they were eliminated in the group stage early and could only wait until the summer to do it again.
Experiencing an unforgettable season, EDG will probably have to have a new direction soon. As the most traditional team of LPL, but EDG is currently making a disaster and they really need the best fulcrums to be able to hope to remake from the beginning in the upcoming summer.