Only a few days left, MSI 2024 will officially start with the matches in the start round. This year, the start -up round is expected to be more attractive and more intense, with the presence of a series of strong teams like T1 or Top Esports. However, with T1 and TES, FNATIC … all have to meet much weaker teams, the possibility of the powerful teams expected will still be fully present in the group stage. At MSI this time, teams like T1 or Bilibili Gaming are still rated as candidates for the title. However, there is an extremely strong opponent that no one can ignore: Gen.G – the reigning champion of LCK.
Gen.G will still come to MSI 2024 as the best candidate for the championship
With strong team changes, Gen.G will be the best candidate for this year's championship. They own a stable competition, Canyon has been too seasoned to fight, Chovy is considered the best mid lane in the world today while Peyz and Lehends are a combination of youth and experience. It can be said that Gen.G owns a comprehensive squad. But there is a factor that makes themselves difficult: psychological problems.
Gen.G possesses an almost comprehensive squad today
All 5 members of Gen.G are currently playing for many years, and the most experienced is Peyz. However, all 5 members have had poor performances at important times. For example, Kiin's “tunneling” in the match against T1, or Canyon “Choke” at Worlds 2022 – World Worlds that he almost was able to overcome the other DPLUS. Lehends is a mutant -rich support but also often has hasty situations. Peyz was completely “shut down” by Gumayusi in the LCK Spring Final 2024. But the most ominous is in ChoVy's position.
But maybe ChoVy will be the biggest weakness
Chovy is currently the best midway LCK, with the 4th consecutive championship. The world is similar when Chovy is still one of the most mid -lines today. But one important thing: ChoVy has never had an international title, from MSI to Worlds. Not to mention, Worlds 2022 is the first and only until now ChoVy has reached the semi -finals of an international tournament. At MSI last year, Gen.G was defeated by T1 in the quarterfinals and was defeated by BLG in the losing branch.
ChoVy when coming out internationally is always not really good
No one can explain why so that so that LCK and ChoVy-international are different from each other. But obviously, this probably also created a certain psychological pressure for the mid lane of the defending champion LCK. Worth mentioning, at Worlds last year, Gen.G's best achievement is just a victory over T1. The rest, as soon as he passed the Swiss round with good results, Gen.G was completely defeated by BLG in a position that this team did not show that they had the appearance of the champion.
In Worlds 2023 last year, the best achievement of Gen.G was defeating T1 in the Swiss round
Not to mention, every time they set foot in an international tournament, the audience always looks back to Chovy with expectations. Experts or any players must admit the Gen.G is the No. 1 candidate for every tournament they attend. And that is probably the invisible pressure that makes Chovy and his teammates always play extremely heavy, different from themselves at LCK.
Invisible pressure from the failures in international tournaments in the past can continue to weigh on ChoVy
Of course, as an outstanding player, and is expected to become the monument of the new generation of superstar after Faker, psychological pressure is what Chovy probably also understands himself facing. Only thing, he can overcome or still just regret, perhaps only when MSI 2024 started the audience to get the answer.