As is known, one of Riot's regulations is that each team participating in international tournaments must have 6 players, including 5 official members and 1 reserve. However, for many reasons, many Top teams in the world have not prepared a reserve. They consist of only 5 players who play hard, and when they need to change, they will be able to promote a few young players from the academy teams or Challengers. As in the case of Faker in the summer of 2023 when he had to take a break and Poby instead. However, Riot's regulations also make teams quickly find solutions.
The replacement of people is reluctant to every League of Legends teams but the teams still have to prepare for the reserve as prescribed by Riot
And of course, the LCK teams have made moves, typical and most notable are Gen.G and T1 – the two most powerful teams of LCK Spring 2024 currently and most likely the names will represent League of Legends in Kimchi attended MSI 2024. Therefore, the changes in the formation to conform to the rules of Riot from T1 and Gen.G are more interested than other teams. Accordingly, T1 brought Roach to the preparatory, and Gen.G, news that they added Mata to the squad.
There is information gene.g has tried to reserve the reserve for the main team and T1 has confirmed the case of Roach
For T1, many viewers expressed regret for Rekkles when he was not chosen. However, this is somewhat understandable, when Rekkles is still on the payroll of T1 Challengers. And it will not be reasonable if you withdraw the player who has the best performance of the current T1 CL squad. Nog, no one guarantees the performance of Rekkles well enough to MSI 2024. And it will be quite wasteful if only bring Rekkles on the main squad but do not create conditions for LEC's legend to play.
Don Rekkles will not be reasonable
But Gen.G is somewhat more noticeable, when they can decide to promote MATA to the reserve player (supporting role). If this really happens, Mata will overtake Faker to become the oldest player to register in the one -team squad at LCK. Mata himself is also a player with a lot of debt with T1. He is one of the rare players who used to wear the largest “great rival” pair of Korean League of Legends (Samsung Galaxy/Gen.G – SKT T1/T1). At the same time, at the peak period, Mata is considered one of the best support for LCK in particular and LoL village in general.
If Mata is promoted to the Gen.G team, he will be the oldest player appearing in the one -team squad at LCK this season.
But perhaps, both Roach and Mata are just appropriate fluctuations. Because, both T1 and Gen.G will certainly prioritize stability and only replace personnel when really urgent.