In recent years, the teams who have won the World Championship of the LPL area have fallen into the situation of “falling without braking”. From Invictus Gaming (IG) to Funplus Phoenix (FPX), these teams do not retain stable achievements after the world championship. They often spent a bad period before the entire championship team “melted the flock” full of unfortunate.
Both IG and FPX are heavy after winning the World Championship
But no team is as catastrophic as EDG
In the case of Edward Gaming (EDG), this team seems to be going into the pouring trace above. EDG had a period of 2022-2023 extremely bad when constantly eliminated in the qualifying stage. As a result, they lost a series of pillars like Scout, Flandre, Meiko, and Viper in recent years.
Jiejie is the last member in the World Championship team 2021 to stay in EDG
By the stage of the LPL group in the spring of 2024, EDG also fell into a “tragic” state when standing at the end of the rankings with 7 losses. This is also the only team at LPL no victory in the group stage. And EDG even fell into a “unlucky” situation when their best players – Jiejie had serious injuries.
According to the latest notice from EDG, Jiejie fell in the bathroom and was injured in the head on February 23. The player was later taken to emergency and was in the special care process. Most likely Jiejie will not be able to play at LPL in the near future because of this injury.
The EDG side announced: “The Jiejie player recently had an accident when falling in the bathroom and suffered a head injury. He was immediately taken to emergency and was in a special care process.”
It should be known that Jiejie is the best player on the EDG side in the past difficult time. Although EDG is standing on the “book” on the rankings, Jiejie still has a very high position in important parameters such as the rate of damage contributions, involved in defeating. If this player does not play well, EDG will likely not have any winning game in the current spring LPL.
Although EDG is not good, Jiejie is still at the top of the index to take part in the defeat point (82.8%) and contribute damage (17%) at the jungle position.
Therefore, it will not be too surprising if EDG continues to fail, even “losing” in the upcoming matches without Jiejie. In the history of this tournament, the WE team used to achieve a loss of 0-16 at LPL Summer 2022. It will not be too surprising when Edg repeats that sad achievement right in this season.