Hello LPL viewers and League of Legends summoners, this is the World Game Exchange.

The knockout round of the first stage of the LPL Pro League took the lead in two upper bracket BO5 battles yesterday, in which the dark horse matchup, NIP and AL were finally defeated in five games, and AL advanced to the upper bracket finals.

Before the start of this match, the LPL also presented awards for the best team and the best player.

The LPL curse was played out again, and the best player lost

In the first stage of the LPL this year, the competition system was reformed, and the league was changed to a cup competition, but after the group stage, the best team and the best player were selected, and finally the Doinb player of the NIP was elected to the title of the best player, and the awards were also presented on the spot before the start of the NIP and AL matches.

As a result, after Doinb won the MVP trophy, NIP lost the battle against AL, and finally lost the game after five rounds, and the curse of the best player in the LPL was played out again.

Doinb also became the first player in LPL history to lose the first round of the playoffs after winning the regular season MVP three times.

In 2017, Doinb, who was still in QG at the time, won the regular season MVP, but lost to the IM team 2-3 in the first round, and in the spring of 2019, Doinb was once again elected the best player, but lost to JDG 2-3 in the first round of the playoffs, and this year Doinb lost the first round of the playoffs again after winning the MVP, and the score was still 2-3.

I have to say that it is a curse, but Doinb lost the game this time, and he still has a resurrection armor on his body, and then NIP will have a chance to fight back and continue to compete for good results after entering the lower bracket.

NIP strength is insufficient, and there is a problem with the hero pool

In addition to Doinb, there are many players who failed in the first round of the playoffs after winning the regular season MVP, including Rookie, Knight, and Scout players who have lost the first round of the playoffs after winning the regular season MVP, and I have to say that this regular season MVP award is indeed a bit of a curse in it.

Back to the game between NIP and AL, NIP finally lost the game after five rounds of fierce battles between the two sides, which seems to be very anxious, but from the content of the game, there is indeed a certain gap between NIP and AL, and this gap is mainly reflected in the hero pool of the players on both sides.

Last year, AL won the championship on the stage of the German Cup, and it showed a strong hero pool, which can come up with a variety of different heroes and matching systems to play good results, in contrast, NIP entered the fourth and fifth games, and the hero pool of Uenakano was already a little unbearable.

In terms of Doinb, Ruiz, who is best at it, was placed in the first game, and NIP took the lead with a strong offensive rushing system, but AL immediately returned the color, and Doinb paid a lot of price for releasing Tarzan's scorpion despite playing a wonderful roundhouse kick with the blind monk.

The reason why NIP was able to win the third game was that Leave's little fire dragon really played well, and on the other hand, it was a huge mistake made by AL when he was leading by 6,000, which gave NIP a chance.

The Holy Spear made a great contribution, and AL challenged the winner's championship

In the case of falling behind 1-2, AL fought to catch up, and in the fourth game, it only used a wave of wild collisions in the early stage to lay a huge advantage, and successfully crushed to win, and finally the two sides conducted a crocodile SOLO in the decisive game.

The AL team that won the right to choose the side went directly out of the wild boar knife combination, who touched and who died, Tarzan was full of rhythm throughout the game, Shanks single-handedly Yongen crossed the tower and double-killed, the lower road single-kill, the early direct 5-0 start, although it was terminated, it still crushed and defeated NIP by a huge margin, Doinb also ushered in the first defeat after the comeback, and the SOLO of the Holy Gun Brother made a great contribution.

Personally, I think that NIP's hard power is not as good as AL's, but AL is still prone to some big mistakes in the middle and late stages, these need to be improved, and then you can challenge JDG to compete for the champion of the upper bracket, and NIP needs to expand its hero selection as much as possible, and the showdown in the lower bracket will be quite dangerous, and the teams behind it don't seem to be weak.