After the defeat against Gen.G, T1 quickly regained confidence in fans with a 2-0 victory in the encounter with the other Dplus (DK). The idea of Faker and the juniors will continue to move forward, they are again “hash)” hleges). Despite great efforts, the world champions only have 1 game to win against HLE and give in with a score of 1-2 final.
T1 failed unfortunately against HLE with the score of 1-2
It should be known that before defeating T1, HLE was underestimated by many viewers when talking about the race to the title of LCK Spring 2024. The reason is because this team has defeated comprehensively against Gen.G and T1 in previous weeks of competition. Therefore, the victory over the recent T1 has a great significance and helps the HLE players have very high confidence.
Zeka even shared that the HLE collective has grasped the way to win T1. “T1 is a very strong team in creating variables and causing the opponent to follow their gameplay. So we have told each other that do not try to guess what the opponent (T1) will do, focus on your job first. We know that is really the best way to defeat T1” – Zeka revealed after the game.
Zeka shared: “The strongest point of T1 is to create a variable. The best way to win them is not to guess what T1 will do and focus on their work first.”
Indeed, the recent way to operate the play of this team has recently revolved around the creation of mutations and wrong exploitation of the opponent. Even choosing special support generals such as Ezreal, Ornn … of Keria's … is also to serve this game. Once they pulled the opponent to play the way they wanted, this team could win easily.
The fact that Keria uses “weird” support is also the way T1 creates a variable to win
However, with strong opponents like Gen.G or HLE to realize this and avoid those “variables”, the world champions have received bitter failures. This is relatively clear in games 3 matches between HLE and T1 when Zeka and his teammates absolutely comply with Smolders. Even when they try to attack, the HLE side still does not get caught up in the risks for themselves.
Despite winning Baron, HLE still withdrew together, not caught up in attacking Faker even though “the Demon King” was standing alone
Moreover, the effects of Riot in the 14th version also make the ability to create mutations from the good generals with the T1 player such as Bard, Kalista or Varus significantly reduced. Keria himself after the match also admitted that T1 is currently having difficulty assessing the strength of the generals in the new village. That has limited the strongest point of T1 and makes it difficult for this team to adapt.
Version 14.4 is really making it difficult for T1 when they have lost 2 matches since it was applied to LCK Spring 2024
With the victory over T1, HLE has risen with this opponent on the Spring LCK rankings 2024. If Zeka and his teammates can continue to realize the defeat of T1 in the upcoming Playoffs, HLE has a great opportunity to compete for the 2024 LCK title.