Ahead of the Lunar New Year 2024 of the tournaments in Asian regions such as LCK, LPL or VCS, one of the focus matches is the LNG Esports – JD Gaming match. Besides Bilibili Gaming and Top Esports, LNG is also a very strong counterweight of JDG at LPL this spring. Overall, the overall LNG has not changed too much compared to the previous season, except for the Tarzan jungler who left the team and Weiwei naturally a main fight. Only thing, after a series of matches in the first stage of LPL Spring 2024, LNG only ranked between the rankings with 2 – 2 losses.
LNG has a real achievement that is not really too good at LPL Spring 2024 to the present
One of the factors for this unexpected achievement, coming from the performance of some current players has not been “max ping”. Perhaps after Worlds 2023 Dai Lon before T1, the spirit of the LNG star has not really achieved the best state. Not to mention, one of LNG's two losses is the match against Thundertalk Gaming – the opponent is much weaker than. And the name is receiving a lot of criticism after the last loss to JDG, the Gala – the former MSI 2022 champion, when he almost harmless in the decisive game.
Gala (lower row) has a very bad performance in the decisive game before JDG
Specifically, in the 3rd game, Gala uses Draven – a very strong ad general, especially if the inner activity is activated at the right time. However, throughout the game, Draven in the hands of the Gala is completely harmless and he only deals 14k damage, according to statistics at the end of the match. Of course, if it was another gunner general, 14k damage the total match was not small. But it was Draven and the Gala immediately became the focus of attack. In particular, according to the statistics of an audience, Gala only uses Draven and … hit often throughout the match when attacking the opponent. The specific figure includes: First fighting game 6 times of normal fighting, road 9 times and 13 times in the teamfights.
Gala plays normally 28 times throughout the decision 3 and does not use any moves
Although knowing Draven is a champion that is very difficult to use, requiring players to choose the position in the fight thoroughly. Not to mention, JDG also brought a team of many generals to the opponent like Xin Zhao, Aatrox and Taliyah, but the Gala's contribution was really too small, if not harmless.
Gala made LNG the defeat full of regret
The performance of the Gala is one of the important reasons that LNG lost to JDG in game 3 decided. Because, if the Gala plays better, his Draven at the end of the match will be much stronger than the Ruler's Varus. Draven is the stronger the general, but the gala brings disappointment and also holds his legs in the middle of the chart before the Lunar New Year's vacation 2024.