Berlin, Germany – August 12 — during the 2022 League of Legends European Championship Series Week 8 at the LEC Studio on August 12 2022 in Berlin Germany (Photo by Michal Konkol/Riot Games)
The most important mismatch of the knockout stage Rogue, the final remaining western crew who had just lately upset Prime Esports to advance out of the group stage took on match favourite and LPL powerhouse JDG within the first quarterfinals sequence.
JDG got here out of the gates firing in-game with Kanavi being positioned on Graves he created a jungle gold canyon being up over 100 cs over Malrang. His blistering tempo took management of the sport from the get-go permitting for his laners to scale up critically within the prime lane the place Rogue had opted for a blind Renekton that was shortly out scaled by 369’s Gragas. This early lead could be an excessive amount of for Rogue and see JDG come out unscathed in recreation one.
Within the second recreation, Rogue didn’t appear to study their lesson with repeat picks in each the bot lane and mid lane. Rogues bot lane continued to battle in opposition to JDG seeing a cs distinction kind once more whereas Kanavi on Viego ran across the map creating chaos for Rogue. A small hiccup in a prime jungle struggle wouldn’t be sufficient for Rogue to return again as JDG snuffed out any hope of Rogue’s to comeback.
Lastly in recreation three main adjustments come out from Rogue as they switched up the bot lane choose and went for a very early game-centric comp. It will work out early as a two vs two struggle within the bot lane would see Rogue getting a clear double and taking an early gold lead. It simply was by no means sufficient as JDG’s composition and gamers had been general an excessive amount of for Rogue to deal with. The sport was the closest of the sequence however from the surface view, it was by no means one Rogue actually had an opportunity in.
Rogue stunned everybody in week considered one of group levels ending 3-0 and whereas week two was a lot sloppier they nonetheless made their solution to the quarterfinals and ought to be happy with the achievement of the final western crew eradicated from Worlds.
JDG dominated as everybody anticipated and superior to the semifinals the place they’ll play the winner of T1 vs RNG which will likely be performed tomorrow at 5PM EST.
