In the Chinese competitive region, game day 4 of week 5 of the regular season begins. Open confrontations will be FPX and Royal Never Give Up.
Both teams are experiencing difficulties during the spring split. The teams are in 14th and 15th places, and therefore the victory in the face-to-face meeting has a lot of weight.
Royal Never Give Up will fit into the game with 2-4 series stats and 4-9 map stats. The team is in the 14th place and to get into the playoff zone they need to climb 4 steps up, which requires scoring points right here and right now.
FPX has a slightly worse situation. The team is in the position below, 15th place, and has 1 win in 5 games, with a similar indicator of maps won.
We figure out which of the teams will significantly improve their position in the standings after the next bo3.
Royal Never Give Up Form
Let's start the review with an analysis of the game form of Royal Never Give Up. In this fight, they will act as a favorite.
The bookmakers are confident that Royal Never Give Up will win. The chance of such an outcome is estimated by a coefficient in the region of 1.3.
It is worth noting that such a ratio for the Chinese League of Legends is the norm. However, it does not negate the fact that some are superior to others, in our case, RNG over FPX.
Royal Never Give Up line-up
The line-ups primarily affect the pre-match indicator and the state of the teams. With this item, Royal Never Give Up is doing a little better than their counterpart.
Royal Never Give Up players
- Breathe
- Wei
- Angel
- GALA
- Ming
- Tangyuan
- Bunny
Don't be fooled by the presence of 7 players. Midlaner Tangyuan and support Bunny, the backbone of the team are Breathe, Wei, Angel, GALA and Ming.
RNG players are not obscure and definitely not passable. Wei, Gala and Ming, for example, won last year's Mid-Season Invitational 2023, and later took the top 8 at Worlds 2023 with Breath.
The change of the only player should not lead to big consequences, however, in the case of RNG, it seems to have. It is difficult for the team to perform at the LPL Spring 2023, as evidenced by their performance.
Performance Royal Never Give Up
RNG started the season with a confident victory over OMG. The first series ended for the “kings” with a score of 2-0 in their favor.
Then there was a meeting against IG. The leaders of the spring run closed the series with a score of 2-0, without giving a chance to RNG.
The third series against LNG again brought negative experience to RNG. Updated LNG closed the match with a score of 2-0.
RNG also lost to EDward Gaming and JD Gaming. Both series ended not in favor of the “kings” with a score of 0-2.
Royal Never Give Up managed to get back into action a bit in the match against Team WE. There, the “kings” managed to finish the series with a score of 2-1.
Royal Never Give Up Champions
Top lane picks are KSante (4 matches, 25% win rate), Renekton (3 matches, 66% win rate), Jayce (2 games, 0% win rate).
Foresters: Maokai (3 games, 33% win rate), Sejuani (3 matches, 0% win rate), Graves (2 matches, 50% win rate), Poppy (2 games, 0 win rate) and Wukong (2 games, 50% win rate)).
Mid is a classic situation: Azir (2 matches, 50% wins), Akali (1 game, 0 wins), Ryze (1 game, 100% wins).
The arrows are also quite familiar, with the exception of ignoring Lucian-a. The most selected champion is Zeri (4 games, 75% of wins). There were Caitlyn (3 games, 33% win rate), Ziggs (2 matches, 0% win rate) and Varus (2 games, 0% win rate).
Supports Heimerdinger (2 matches, 50% win rate), Yuumi (2 games, 50% win rate).
Form FPX
We turn to the analysis of the FunPlus Phoenix game form. They will play the role of catch-up in this series.
Bookies are not ready to call FPX the winner of the race. The team's chance of success in the series is estimated at a factor of around 3.
With the pre-match state of affairs in the case of FunPlus Phoenix, everything is clear. The team has not shined in recent seasons, not to mention the performance in the current season.
Composition of FPX
Following the pattern of competitive League of Legends in China, FPX has resorted to standard regional practice. They recruited a lot of players, but this did not solve the problem of building intra-team interactions and only worsened.
FPX Players
- xiaolaohu
- ferness
- haoye
- H4cker
- Care
- Lwx
- Lele
Be that as it may, a large company has its own leaders. In the case of FPX, these are Xialaohu, H4cker, Care, Lwx and Lele. Lele has the highest efficiency indicator: the support has grown from an academic player and now looks good against the background of other performers.
FPX Performance
FPX started at LPL Spring with a loss against Team WE. The first series was approximately equal and ended with a colorful 3rd map with 40 minute battles.
Then FPX played against Bilibili Gaming and failed again. Yagao closed his opponents on the third map and sent FPX to 0-2.
The third series gave FPX their first win in the regular season. The team won Ultra Prime, but not without problems, with a score of 2-1.
It was not possible to start a streak of victories, because already in the next series FPX met with WEibo, and they outperformed FPX in a sharp form. Karsa gave Weibo a 2-0 victory.
FunPlus Phoenix Champions
In the top most often take KSante (6 matches, 33% wins), Gwen (5 games, 0% wins), Jax (2 matches, 100% wins).
The mid lane is occupied by Kassadin (3 matches, 100% win rate), Akali (2 matches, 0% win rate), Syndra (2 games, 50% win rate).
On the shooters, Zeri (5 games, 40% wins), Sivir (3 games, 33% wins), Lucian (2 matches, 50% wins) are the ones who have set their teeth on edge.
By picking Zeri and Sivir, Yuumi will certainly be selected as well. The magical cat has appeared in spades 8 times and has a 37% win rate.
History of personal confrontations
The duel will be the debut face-to-face confrontation between the teams in the new competitive season. Before that, the teams did not play in such rosters.
Match outcome
In this fight, I believe in the success of Royal Never Give Up. They look better in every way.
In terms of performance: RNG in the first weeks had an insane calendar of games with matches against the main favorites of the season, and therefore it is not surprising that they gave away cards. Now is a good time to catch up and earn points, which is what the “kings” will do.
Outcome: victory for RNG.
