After defeating DYN in the first game, KT defeated DWG with a score of 2:0 two days later.
It can be seen that DWG is starting to try a wild core play style, but everyone is just starting to explore the summer split. At present, it seems that the effect of their play style is relatively average and does not pose any threat to KT.
At the end of the first week of competition, KT won two consecutive games and occupied the top spot in the standings with a 4-point difference in small games.
Apart from KT, the only two teams that have won two consecutive games are DRX and AFS. However, the two teams' scores are 4:1 and 4:2, so they can only rank second and third in the standings.
In the second week of the game, KT first swept the sandbox cleanly, giving the opponent three consecutive losses in the summer split, and then defeated AFS with a score of 2:0, personally ending the African team's three-game winning streak.
At this time, only DRX still maintained a record of winning four major games and could barely keep up with KT.
The following DWG, AFS, and T1 all ranked second to fifth in the standings with a record of 3 wins and 1 loss.
In the third week, KT was still unstoppable. First, it ended DRX's four-game winning streak with 2:0, and then defeated the original APK team, which was renamed SP in the summer split, with the same score.
Since the start of the summer split, KT has scored 2:0 in all six games, and no team has even won a small game from KT.
Everyone is exclaiming that KT is still strong, and they are all curious about which team can break KT's winning streak.
Even if we can't beat KT, we can still score a small point.
However, KT still had no flaws in the fourth week, defeating Hanwha and GEN·G with a score of 2:0.
At this point, KT has won eight consecutive games since the start of the summer split, with a score of 16-0, the only one in the world.
Except for T1, which has not yet played, all other teams in the LCK have been defeated by KT.
The current situation in the standings is different from that at the beginning of the season.
The second-ranked team surprised many people and was DWG, which was last in the eastern half of the Spring Split.
After losing to KT in the first week, DWG ushered in a strong winning streak and currently holds the second place in the league with a record of 7 wins and 1 loss.
And DWG's small game score is 14-2.
In other words, except for the 0:2 loss to KT, DWG swept all their opponents in the remaining games they won.
Moreover, DWG's average blood level per game is higher than KT's, and its average game duration is shorter than KT's. The victory is very clean and tidy.
The media began to exclaim that DWG had awakened in the summer.
In everyone's eyes, the one who can end KT's winning streak is DWG in the second round.
Some people even think that DWG's strength is no longer inferior to KT.
After all, it has been a month since KT defeated DWG, and the version has obviously changed. When the two sides play against each other again, there is no telling who will win.
And KT has a point that has been criticized by many people: they don't play jungle core.
Although the LCK does not have pure wild core heroes on a large scale like some regions, and rhythm heroes such as Lee Sin can continue to appear, but in terms of play style, everyone pays more attention to the jungle position, both in BP and in the game.
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At least it's not like before, where if you fall behind in the jungle, you'll fall behind, and you'll be done with just being a tool player.
Nowadays, everyone is consciously ensuring the development of the jungle. Many times, line players even have to actively give up their own troops to help the jungle.
But this is not the norm for KT. Although KT's line players will try their best to ensure lane rights to make the jungler comfortable, they rarely release lanes specifically to protect the jungler's development.
Bono himself often uses heroes like Prince Pig Girl, who are not very fast at clearing the jungle right now. Even if he helps, there is no way for Bono to widen the gap with the opponent's jungler. It is better to focus on the development of online players.
So even though KT often has a big advantage, there are not many times when Bono is ahead of the opponent's jungler.
The reason why the average game time of KT is longer than that of DWG is because Bono was behind in level and was robbed of the baron several times, forcing the opponent to hold him back.
It's also a shame that Bono has a good mentality. As KT's jungler, he doesn't have any pressure to carry. In this version, the enemy's fancy way of grabbing the baron will make ordinary junglers numb.
It’s no wonder that KT’s tactical system is viewed by many as a reverse version of play.
Since the changes to jungle experience, many game-related practitioners have gradually reached a consensus: this is a jungle core version.
It is precisely because DWG captured the essence of the wild core version that they suddenly awakened in the summer. After losing to KT in the first week, their state has been improving. It can be said that they are the best team in the LCK to adapt to the jungle core tactics.
The players in the middle and upper lanes are very suppressive, and the assistants actively roam and coordinate. The cooperation of the three lanes is to make Canyon in the jungle live comfortably.
There is an adapted version and a reverse version. It is no wonder that many people are optimistic about DWG overthrowing KT.
After all, KT tends to play Bono, and there are many times when it falls behind the opponent's jungler level. However, Canyon can often lead the opponent by three or four levels in the mid-term.
When these two people face off, DWG fans are already imagining the scene of the level 13 leopard girl chasing the level 9 prince in the jungle.
In addition, there are also a large number of KT's die-hard supporters who do not believe that the current DWG can defeat KT.
Although it seems that the play style does not fit the version, the way KT wins the game does not violate the rules of the version.
KT wins the game with its strong personal ability and rigorous team execution. Strictly speaking, this game style can be adapted to any version.
It's just that their tactical focus is not on the jungle position.
When Niu Bao was about to use Ornn as a tool player, Lin Cheng was still the absolute core of KT. KT spent most of the time on the road carrying games.
The jungler of many teams has become the core, and KT even gave the reins to the entire Prince Pig Girl.
But they can still win the game.
Supporters of both sides were quarreling on the Internet, and they fought in the void thousands of times. In the end, they had to wait until the second round when the two teams played against each other before they could reach a conclusion.
Even the direct confrontation between the two teams cannot explain too much. Everything depends on the subsequent playoffs or even the World Championship.
It’s the same sentence: running fast doesn’t necessarily mean you win, but not falling down means success.
In addition to DWG, the third place in the standings is DRX with 6 wins and 2 losses.
The two best teams in the LCK that have adapted to the wild core version are DWG and DRX. One is ranked second and the other is ranked third. No wonder so many people think that KT will fall sooner or later if they don't change their play style.
Later, GEN·G and T1 held the last two seats in the top half with a record of 5 wins and 3 losses.
Before the start of the summer split, Li Ge made bold statements about competing for the championship, but T1's current situation is not optimistic.
T1, which just lost to the newly promoted DYN team, will soon face KT. This year's news agency war is no longer decided by Faker. Even T1 fans are not optimistic that T1 can steal the victory from KT.
The bottom half of the standings is a group of fellow sufferers.
AFS, which originally won three consecutive games at the start of the season, once again carried forward the glorious tradition of starting high and going low. After losing to KT, they lost consecutive games and fell to the middle and second half of the standings. This roller coaster ride was almost overturned by the fans of the African team.
This trend has been going on for three consecutive seasons, and the African team's roller coaster VIP seats simply cannot be more stable.
After all, the reason why AFS suddenly became profitable is because of my brother-in-law's declining condition.
Originally, Fei Ge could only be used as half of the C position in the middle lane. If the bottom lane does not support AFS, it will look very empty.
It is worth mentioning that Xiye, who transferred to Lao Gan Daddy in the summer, is now so strong that he and Xiao Hua just pushed Lao Gan Daddy to the first half of the LPL.
WE double C conservation law is still very strong in summer.
It seems that fans of the African team can only hope that the godfather will perform the "laughing at me" drama in China, so that the brother-in-law can return to his former glory.