In the first week of the LCK Cup, the Elder Group, led by Gen.D. Plus, overwhelmed with 7 wins and 3 losses
Jan 20, 2025
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Gen.G, which belongs to the Presbyterian Group, proved to be a strong favorite this year by beating all BNK Pierx 2-0 following Hanwha Life e-Sports, and D-Plus defeated T1, a two-game losing team in the LOL World Cup, 2-1 last year, followed by a 2-0 complete victory over DN Freaks, each adding two wins. In addition, three teams, Nongshim Red Force, DRX, and KT Rolster of the same elder group, each recorded one win and one loss, winning at least one win each.
On the other hand, in the Baron Group, T1 and Hanwha Life Insurance lost to D+ and Gen.G. respectively, and DN Freaks also won and lost, with only five teams in the group winning three games. BNK and OK Savings Bank Brion in the same group lost two games each.
The LCK Cup, which is held in the form of a group competition, adds up the wins of the teams and provides three direct playoff tickets and two play-in tickets to the previous group, so not only wins or losses of individual teams but also wins or losses of the entire group are important. The group stage, which will face the opposing group team once each, will continue until February 2.
The LCK Cup is the first peerless draft competition in LCK history. Peerless Draft is a banpick method that uses a variety of champions by forcing them not to select the champions they used in the previous set.
Head coach Bae Sung-woong of D-Plus "Bengi"The preparation process is quite complicated because the key champions are selected in the first and second sets, so we have to establish a new tier for the champions when we prepare for the next set," said Bae Sung-woong. "I thought the opposing champions would be combined within the expected category until the third set, but there were cases where I left." If we go to the fifth set, I think it will hurt more." T1's mid-liner 'Faker'Lee Sang-hyuk also said "It seems important to be quick to judge the next set of banpicks as well as strategies that penetrate the game as a whole"
Meanwhile, as the LCK Cup was held under the theme of Knox, a new object called Atacan was added. Atacan appearing in the 20th minute is divided into exploration and destruction, and if there is a lot of fighting before the 14th minute, the Atacan of destruction appears, and if there is not much fighting, the Atacan of exploration appears. The team that hunts the Atacan of Doom is given a buff that increases the reward of all Epic Monsters by 25%, and if you hunt the Atacan of Probe, all of the team will be given an additional 40 gold when they die/championed for 150 seconds.
Among the 24 sets played in Week 1 of the LCK Cup, the Atacan of Tamsik appeared in 23 sets, except for the first set of D-plus and T1, which ended without hunting atacan. Of the 23 sets, the teams that hunted Atacan won 18 sets, and the winning rate was considerably higher at 78.2%. On the other hand, only five times were defeated even after taking Atacan. As a result, competition among teams over Atacan is expected to be fierce from the second week, which begins on the 22nd.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
