Flawless performance by RNG and more during the second day of Group Stage at Worlds 2018
Few hours ago was the second day of Group Stage at League of Legends Worlds 2018, where this day ended with the full dominance of the Chinese region LPL’s teams, which was scary for the Korean teams.
The Chinese team RNG is one of the strongest teams in this tournament and the favorite one to be the world champion this year, defeated the Korean team Gen.G, who are the defending world champions, and that on their journey to the knockout stage this year. With that, the LPL ends their second day of Group Stage with 4-0 collectively.
Teams Standings:
Group A
- Flash Wolves: 2-0
- G2 Esports: 1-1
- Phong V ũ Buffalo: 1-1
- Afreeca Freecs: 0-2
Group B
- RNG: 2-0
- Team Vitality: 1-1
- Cloud9: 1-1
- Gen.G: 0-2
Group C
- EDG: 1-0
- KT Rolster: 1-0
- Team Liquid: 0-1
- MAD Team: 0-1
Group D
- Fnatic: 1-0
- Invictus: 1-0
- 100 Thieves: 0-1
- G-Rex: 0-1
The second day of Group Stage:
RNG vs. Gen.G
The match of the day was undoubtedly the showdown between Gen.G, who are the defending world champions, and RNG, the LPL’s best team and winners of this year’s Mid-Season Invitational. It was an impossibly close game, with each team taking a decent lead one after the other until eventually one fight blew up the entire map and RNG pushed through to a victory.
Cloud9 vs. Vitality
Cloud9’s win over Vitality was unimpressive, to say the least, as it was the most unrefined and violent game of the stage so far. Fortunately for C9, every win counts, but Vitality had them by the throat for a majority of this game. That being said, C9 is going to have to work to improve rapidly to stand a chance at making knockouts, but at least they have a win under their belt now.
Invictus vs. G-Rex
The second game of the day for Group D was much more competitive than the Fnatic vs. 100T smash in the game prior. Although Invictus, the favorite, won, G-Rex still put up a hearty fight, which is a very good sign for them. The game was extremely close all the way up until one big teamfight that Invictus won and then simply snowballed into a victory. Unfortunately for NA LCS fans, this game puts 100T at the very bottom of their group as the worst team so far.
Fnatic vs. 100 Thieves
100 Thieves have a lot to prove at Worlds this year, as many fans and analysts, us included, don’t feel they really belong at the tournament. That being said, they’re in a tough group, because the only team that anyone considered within reach was Fnatic as a non-China and non-Korea team. Well, Fnatic, as it turns out, it one of the stronger teams in attendance, and they made 100T look like chew toys.
Buffalo vs. G2
G2 kicked off their Worlds track by taking down Korea’s second seed on the first day of Group Stage, successfully ramping themselves up a good bit of momentum to ride forward on. Unfortunately, though, they lost it all today against Buffalo, one of the teams predicted to falter the most in this group. Yesterday, G2’s side lanes popped off to control objectives and slaughter Afreeca, but today, they all slumped simultaneously.
Flash Wolves vs. Afreeca Freecs
Afreeca’s bad luck streak continued today as Flash Wolves struck them down for the opening game of the second day. Heading into the tournament, Afreeca Freecs were considered by many to be the best of the group, but after struggling so hard against G2 and now FW, the scales have tipped. Flash Wolves have proved that, at least right now, they’re the team to be reckoned with.
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