GAM's defeat in the Swiss Worlds 2024 round is not unexpected
Entering the match against Flyquest, many VCS audiences still expect GAM ESPORTS to win the way they defeated Liquid team last year. The LCS representative is also the most “easy -to -breathe” among the 4 representatives of Pool 1 that GAM is forced to confront the Pool 4. However, that prospect is beautiful, only thing is not happening. Flyquest won gently, neatly while Gam did not even have any significant reaction.
At the end of the Swiss round, GAM received a 0-1 defeat and had to fall into a dangerous branch with names like Fnatic, Weibo Gaming or even T1 are also waiting.
GAM defeated for his own strength
After the World Worlds Starting Round ended, Riot announced the list of the top 5 players with the best KDA and was surprising that GAM accounted for 2 positions, Kiaya in the top 1 and Levi position in grade 4. This clearly reflected how the GAM went through the perfect boot. And also highlighted the game of GAM: Whether scientific macro or “touching” as before, the main force of GAM is Kiaya – Levi. Because EMO is also used to damage the champions, but Yone or Tristana of England plays a “main damage” rather than the main force in parallel with Kiaya.
Kiaya and Levi have a very high KDA index in the Worlds Startup Round 2024 and even Kiaya is the tallest person
Thus, GAM also let the opponent know that they will focus on Kiaya – Levi as the main. And in the recent confrontation, Flyquest punished GAM's forte in a very simple way: Choosing a upper line including being defeated many times still did not lose to Lane (Sion) + A Farm forest general faster than Levi (Ivern) and finally the island.
Sion helped Flyquest to perform the tactics of Tang effectively, and eliminating Kiaya's power. Orianna constantly pushed the road that Levi could not help EMO in the middle. In addition to Ivern's farm speed, too fast also causes Levi to lose control of the forest ring. All overall has made the familiar Kiaya – Levi combo being resolved simply after the banned phase.
Kiaya – Levi is the main force of GAM but they are also the weakness of GAM
In fact, although it has evaluated Flyquest as an opponent that GAM can win, this failure does not surprise many people. Flyquest is still in the Major area and they do not usually have “Choke” as TL. Not to mention, they are the reigning LCS champion, no matter how bad, still the champion of Major. Therefore, this defeat of GAM is also in the expected and VCS representatives can only try in the upcoming matches to raise hope to go far in Worlds 2024.