Match Prediction: Top Esports - JD Gaming | LoL
LPL Spring 2024 - PlayoffsWelcome to EGamersWorld.
The LPL Spring 2024 playoffs are underway. Four teams are now battling for 2 spots at the Mid-Season Invitational 2024, $580,000 and the title of LPL Spring 2024 champion.
Among them are the "mastodons" LPL TOP Esports and JD Gaming. The teams will compete with each other for the right to go to the top 3, but the loser does not lose the chance to succeed, because now the LPL is played Double-Elimination.
We are trying to figure out who will be stronger in this match and will go to the next round of the upper grid, and who will have to wait for the loser of the pair BLG - NiP in the lower grid play-offs.
Let's get started.
JD Gaming uniforms
We start the match analysis with the analysis of JD Gaming's form. In this match JDG are playing first number one, and the odds for their victory are at around 1.8.
JD Gaming became the champions of the LPL spring draw quite easily. The only difficult match came in the semifinals of the top net, where BLG gave JDG trouble, taking 2 maps.
- JD Gaming roster: sheer, Kanavi, Yagao, 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 second match JD Gaming played against Bilibili Gaming, vice-champions of MSI 2023 and LPL Spring 2023. Being the top team in China, JDG easily defeated the third team from the Middle Kingdom, closing the series with a 19-7 score in 24 minutes.
In the play-offs match, JD Gaming played against their compatriots from LNG Esports. They won the match, but not without problems (2-1).
In the first play-offs match JD Gaming played against KT Rolster. Losing the first map, JDG showed why they are considered the main contender to win Worlds 2023: absolutely dominant game without any chances for KT Rolster residents.
Next, the situation was the exact opposite. Facing T1, JDG managed to take only one card in the bo5 series. The defeat by T1 ended JDG's Golden Road in 2023.
JD Gaming started the play-offs of Demacia Cup 2023 with a match against TOP Esports. There, JDG won with a score of 3-2. In the previous match, JDG demolished Rare Atom with a score of 3-0. In the Demacia Cup 2023 grand final, however, they were weaker than BLG, losing 0-3 and finishing top 2.
In the LPL Spring 2024 regular season, JD Gaming finished in 3rd place with a 13-3 record. The first play-offs opponent for JDG was Weibo Gaming and JDG did well: they won 3-0.
JDG Gaming's most popular champions
The most picked heroes in the TOP are Renekton (4 matches, 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).
TOP Esports uniforms
We continue the match analysis with the analysis of TOP Esports form. In this match, they play the number two with odds to win at around 1.9.
In 2022, Top Esports finished top-2 in the domestic league twice and then played at Worlds 2022 where they finished top-10. In the new season, the situation is slightly worse: they finished top-7 in the LPL Spring 2023, managing to qualify for the play-offs but failing to win a single game there.
- Tes Esports roster: 369, Tian, Creme, JackeyLove, Meiko.
The group stage for TOP Esports was pleasant, but far from perfect. TES shared the top 4 of the regular season with LNG, winning 12-4 in the series.
In their first play-offs match, TES faced serious resistance from EDG. TES defeated their counterparts by a score of 3-2.
TES fell to the bottom seed after a clash with Bilibili Gaming. That match ended with a 3-1 victory for the latter. The bad luck continued next, and into the lower grid of the LPL Summer 2023. In the match for life at the tournament TES met LNG Esports, tried to impose a fight, but were powerless, lost with a score of 1-3 and left the tournament on the 4th line.
TES later played at the LPL Regional Finals 2023, where they tried to make it to the Worlds. Again they came up just short, as TES Ledge beat WBG 2-3, thus losing their chances of making it to Worlds 2023.
TES also had NEST 2023, where TES did not make it out of the group, finishing 2-1. The group stage of Demacia Cup 2023 was quite easy for TOP Esports: they didn't lose a single match in Group D and easily made it to the main stage. However, in the play-offs, TES did not have the same ease: TOP Esports lost their first play-offs match to Ledgeiv JDG 2-3, which is not too bad considering the overall condition of the teams during the last season.
TOP Esports had a very good LPL Spring 2024 regular season: the team went 13-3, thus advancing straight to the Double-Elimination stage.
Top Esports' most popular champions
KSante (7 games, 85% wins) and Renekton (5 games, 80% wins) remain the most popular top line picks. Sion (3 matches, 66% wins) and Darius (2 matches, 100% wins) are next.
Sejuani (9 games, 77% wins), Vi (4 games, 75% wins), Maokai (4 games, 100% wins) are ubiquitous in the forest.
Jayce (6 games, 100% wins) appears in the mid (6 games, 100% wins). Next are Azir (4 games, 75% wins), Akali (3 games, 66% wins), Sylas (3 games, 33% wins).
TES has a standard set of shooters: Lucian (6 games, 66% wins), Varus (4 games, 100% wins), Sivir (3 games, 33% wins). Draven (3 games, 66% wins) and Jhin (3 matches, 66% wins).
Pool of players: Nami (6 games, 66% wins), Yuumi (4 games, 75% wins), Nautilus (4 games, 75% wins), Heimerdinger (4 games, 100% wins).
History of head-to-head meetings between TES and JDG
Over the last year the teams have played each other 5 times. All matches were won by JDG.
Predicted result of JDG vs TOP Esports in LPL Spring 2024 play-offs
TOP Esports looked very good in the regular season of LPL Spring 2024, but now they are a real dark horse, while JDG's performance is already known to us. My bet is in favour of Kanavi and company.
Bottom line: JDG wins.
Bookmakers & Statistics
At the moment, the majority of bookmakers unanimously see the team Top Esports as the favorite of the game with average odds on a victory in the sum of 1.731. JD Gaming chances to prevail are evaluated with average odds 3.223 by bookmakers.
How did the participants perform in the last matches
Last Matches | Top Esports | JD Gaming |
5 matches (wins) | 5 | 4 |
10 matches (wins) | 9 | 7 |
Also it makes sense to remember the statistics of the matches between the teams. The competitors have held 22 matches. And Top Esports won 9 times while JD Gaming correspondingly became the winner 13 times.