Recently, the quarterfinals of the 2023 Demacia Cup ushered in the showdown between WBG and NIP. Because WBG did not send all of its main lineup in this game, it is natural that many people are not optimistic that WBG can beat NIP, not to mention that NIP is still a top midlaner Rookie in the middle. However, although WBG did not defeat NIP, it still played a relatively good performance, and even dragged the BO5 game to the fifth game of life and death. Among them, especially the brilliant performance of the jungler Xiaohao is very impressive, which at least proves that the introduction of WBG in the jungler position in the new season is not bad. It's just a pity that the gap between the top lane position and the middle lane position is still visible to the naked eye. In the end, WBG lost to NIP with an aggregate score of 2-3 and stopped in the quarterfinals of the German Cup
Judging from the overall performance of the players on both sides in this game, the ZDZ performance of WBG in the upper lane position can only be described as decent, whether it is in the handling of the lane end or the team battle end, it can be felt from this game that it is obvious that NIP's Shanji is better. As for the jungler position, as mentioned at the beginning, Xiaohao's performance was still quite good, especially the blind monk used in the third game, and he played a textbook performance. It's just that although NIP's jungler AKI didn't perform as brightly as Xiaohao, it still played a crucial role in the performance of the whole team. The gap between the jungler position is more due to the disadvantage in the upper lane and the middle lane.
In the middle lane, WBG's newcomer mid-laner CYKU played a very bright performance in the first game, and when facing the top mid-laner Rookie, he used the Enchantress to play a perfect supernatural record of 8-0-7. It's just a pity that after the end of the first game, Cyku's excellent performance was obviously limited by NIP, which also led to Cyku being constantly targeted, and in the entire BO5, Cyku played a high and low performance. Of course, for newcomers, it's actually rare for Cyku to be able to play a supernatural performance when he faced Rookie in his debut. And Rookie, a mid-laner player in NIP, it is not difficult to see that the performance in the entire BO5 is still a little up and down, and there are many mistakes. But even so, Rookie still plays a very important role in the NIP team, and in many key team battles, Rookie has almost played the final word.
In the case that Xiaohu did not participate in the German Cup, WBG's two-man road naturally became the core of the team. And in this round, WBG's two-man road is actually the best way. But because the WBG duo lane is the core of the team, it is natural that it has been "taken care of" by NIP. In the case that the other players were not able to support themselves, the WBG double lane can only be said to be the best effort. As for NIP's two-way lane, Photic's play is still quite good, and although Zhuo sometimes makes mistakes, the overall performance is still remarkable.
In the end, it is not difficult to see that the main reason why WBG lost to NIP is actually the lack of mainstay mid-laner players. And in this game, if WBG can send Xiaohu, who loses and who wins, maybe it's not necessarily!
Ladies and gentlemen, how do you evaluate the performance of WBG and NIP?