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We continue our review of the Worlds 2023 group stage matches. Since the Swiss system is played here, there is a pool of teams who lost their first match and those who debuted with victories. The latter will be discussed in this betting thread.
More specifically, about the match JD Gaming - Bilibili Gaming. One of the jewels of the second game day of the group stage of Worlds 2023.
Derby of top Chinese clubs promises to be The International heresy, if only because they play the nominal favourites of the whole Worlds 2023 - JD Gaming. And Bilibili Gaming is no slouch, because otherwise they wouldn't be in the 1-0 basket.
Let's find out who will be stronger and get their 2nd win at Worlds 2023, and who will have to go to the 1-1 grid, where they might have to play with the loser of the T1/Gen.G pairing.
Let's go.
JD Gaming's form
We open the match analysis with an analysis of JD Gaming's form. In this match, they play the first number one, which is quite logical.
JD Gaming became the champions of the spring LPL quite easily. The only difficult match came in the semifinals of the top net, where BLG gave JDG trouble by taking 2 games.
- JD Gaming lineup: 369, Kanavi, Knight, Ruler, Missing .
Among other things, JD Gaming became the champions of the first large-scale The International event in 2023 - Mid-Season Invitational 2023. If we remember the group stage of LPL Summer 2023, JD Gaming fell just short of BLG's record, playing the stage with a score of 14-2.
In the first round of the main stage JD Gaming faced LNG Esports. The latter showed top flight and made the current world champions sweat for 5 maps, but the match still ended in favour of Ruler and company.
Next were BLG, who did not offer such resistance as LNG Esports. JD Gaming swept away LPL Spring and MSI 2023 finalists in the LPL Summer 2023 top finals, closing out the series with a 3-0 win.
In the LPL Summer 2023 grand finals, LNG Esports gave a serious fight to the formidable JDG. Scout and company took 2 maps at once, but they were not enough to win.
JDG debuted with a victory over BDS. I would like to mention the European club, which kept in the game till about 20 minutes. It was expected that the defeat would be much bigger than the final 14-6 in favour of the Chinese.
The most popular champions of JD Gaming
The most picked heroes in the TOP: Renekton (4 games, 75% wins), Gragas (3 games, 100% wins), Aatrox (2 games, 50% wins).
In the forest, the most pickable champion is Maokai (4 matches, 100% wins), Wukong (3 games, 33% wins), Sejuani (3 matches, 66% wins).
Centre line - Akali (3 matches, 33% wins), Jayce (2 matches, 100% wins).
Of the shooters JDG likes Zeri (5 games, 60% wins), Varus (4 matches, 75% wins).
On the shooters familiar Yuumi (4 games, 75% wins), Ashe (3 matches, 100% wins).
Bilibili Gaming uniforms
Last season, BLG broke into the top 2 of the Chinese region with lightning speed, thus making their way to the Mid-Season Invitational 2023. Another sensation happened at the international event: BLG made it to the grand finals, only to lose to JD Gaming.
Another plus for BLG is the roster renewed at Long Conference 2023. The club managed to assemble a top company.
- BLG roster: Bin, XUN, Yagao, Elk, ON.
After a really triumphant half-year, Bilibili Gaming has not slowed down at all. The team was the first to reach the LPL Summer 2023 play-offs, and also set a local record: the only team in the history of the series to finish the group stage with one defeat.
The first match of the play-offs was against TES. The game was played under the dictation of vice-champions LPL Spring 2023 and BLG beat TES very confidently with a score of 3-1.
In the final of the upper grid Bilibili Gaming played against their principal rival - JD Gaming team. The reigning LPL champions left their colleagues no chance and shut down BLG with a score of 3-0.
Unlike the spring split, BLG had a slightly less confident performance in the summer. The vice-champions of the Mid-Season Invitational 2023 ended the summer split in third place, Ledgeiv in the match to advance to the LNG Esports Grand Final with a 1-3 score.
Bilibili Gaming got a pretty serious opponent in their first match at Worlds 2023. Yagao and company played against South Korea's top 3, KT Rolster, and in a 45 minute battle they proved to be stronger.
BLG's most popular characters
The most popular characters in the TOP remain: Gnar (3 matches, 66% wins), Gwen (2 matches, 0% wins), Camile (2 fights, 50% wins), Renekton (2 games, 0% wins), KSante (2 matches, 0% wins).
Jungle is dominated by VI with 6 matches and 66% wins. Also peaking are Wukong (4 games, 0% wins), Nidalee (3 games, 33% wins).
Azir (3 matches, 0% wins), Ahri (2 games, 0 wins), Galio (2 matches, 2 wins), Sylas (2 matches, 50% wins) appear in the mid.
Lucian (7 matches, 57% wins), Varus (3 matches, 33% wins), Zeri (2 matches, 0 wins) pick on shooters.
The most popular combination with Lucian is Nami (7 matches, 57% wins), Karma (2 games, 50% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings
Previously the teams have played each other both on the international stage and at home. Statistics are completely on the side of JD Gaming: 5-0 in 5 matches, which is a very telling indicator.
Predicted result of JD Gaming vs Bilibili Gaming at Worlds 2023
Obviously, JD Gaming has all the cards in their hands. They are significantly stronger in terms of overall performance and have clearly prepared for this Worlds. In terms of convenience of the opponent everything is also good: JDG know Bilibili Gaming and know how to "counter" them, which is evident from the results of face-to-face meetings. All these factors speak about the victory of JDG in this Bo1.
Bottom line: victory of JDG Gaming.
