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She is most often found dying every round in unranked VALORANT, or claiming an LEC team will win Worlds on the Critical Strike Podcast with Henrique DaMour and Tyler Esguerra.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/_megito"],"url":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/author\/megankay"}]}},"raw_content":"The League of Legends World Championship is almost upon us, and with the play-in stage starting Sept. 25, time is ticking away to place your bets on who will take this year\u2019s crown. Europe and China are fielding four seeds for the first time in the tournament\u2019s history, meaning competition truly is closer than ever, and a single game could change everything for any one of these teams.\u00a0 As a fan, it can sometimes be a little difficult to know who you\u2019re rooting for, especially if your team didn\u2019t quite make it to Worlds. Never fear\u2014we spoke to our League analysts from across the world, and compiled our official power ranking of all the major region teams attending the World Championship. With an aggregate score taken from our League of Legends writers, these are the teams we think will go the distance, and those we think will fall at the first hurdle. 16) PSG Talon PSG\u2019s placement at dead last in this list is not entirely their own fault. But with their mid-jungle duo unable to play in the play-in stage due to quarantine restrictions, this team has the impossible task of building a year\u2019s worth of synergy in two weeks with their play-in substitutes.\u00a0 15) Machi Esports There are always very few expectations for minor region teams in the World Championship. But if Machi ruffles some feathers in their group, they can leave the tournament with their heads held high.\u00a0 14) FlyQuest FlyQuest\u2019s weakness is the top side of the map. If Solo cannot withstand a beating from players like Nuguri, 369, and Bin\u2014aggressive laners unafraid to bully their opponents out of lane regardless of jungle proximity\u2014then this team will be taking a one-way trip back to North America 13) Team Liquid Although their slow, consistent style racked Team Liquid up wins in their own region, jungler Broxah\u2019s early-game passivity will be heavily punished at this tournament. In Liquid\u2019s home region, there was no punishment by enemy laners for a lack of early jungle presence, and his team were simply able to safely farm until Broxah decided it was time to gank\u2014but try safely farming into the Knights or the Nuguris of the world . Their hopes rest on the shoulders of the playmaking of one of the three returning World Champions at the tournament, support CoreJJ, but carrying from the support position is nigh impossible with the current champion pool of the role.\u00a0 12) MAD Lions MAD Lions is Europe\u2019s young, firecracker team\u2014where the firecracker is equally as likely to go off in your face as it is to shoot into the sky. MAD\u2019s inexperience is their undoing, with their disappointing performance in the LEC playoffs hinting at future struggles in best-of-five series. Although they have some incredible individual talents, including one of the most exciting AD Carry players to debut in Europe since Rekkles, their youth prohibits them from breaking into the top 10.\u00a0 11) Team Solomid Can Bjergsen single-handedly carry his team out of groups for the first time in six years? In short, probably not. Although he is an incredibly talented midlaner, the mids at this tournament are some of the most skilled players the world has ever seen, and laning into them simply doesn\u2019t offer the leeway to carry one-vs-five. There is some promise in top laner Broken Blade, one of the few Western talents who has the potential to go toe-to-toe with Korea and China\u2019s aggressive top laners. But his all-or-nothing playstyle can just as often lose his team the game as it can win it.\u00a0 10) Rogue Rogue unfortunately drew the short straw for Europe in the groups draw and are now matched up against some of the most challenging opponents in the entire tournament in Damwon Gaming and JD Gaming. Despite finishing first in the LEC regular season, the relative inexperience of their roster in a best-of-five situation became clear in the playoffs, where they lost out on a finals spot in a five-game series against G2. Although taking last year\u2019s Worlds finalists to a five-game series is no mean feat, Rogue are very much entering their group as the plucky underdog\u2014able to upset the standings but unlikely to make it to the playoff stage.\u00a0 9) LGD Similarly to Suning, LGD are a fairly unknown entity on the international stage, although heir key component is Worlds finalist and internationally renowned jungler Peanut. But his performance this split has been relatively inconsistent, and the team has often struggled to close out on early leads gained through an incredibly aggressive playstyle.\u00a0 8) Gen.G As with DRX, Gen.G very much revolve around a single player\u2014in this case, ex-World Champion AD carry Ruler, one of only two returning World Champions at the tournament. But the reason that Gen.G come in lower in these rankings is simply that their star player is in a less impactful role with mid lane being one of the most influential roles in competitive play and AD Carry being one of the least\u00a0 7) DRX It\u2019s unfair to say that any team is being carried by one individual player. But if there were any team for which that statement would ring true, it is DRX. Mid laner Chovy put up one of the best performances of his short career in DRX\u2019s Summer Split, and if he is able to perform to the same standards internationally, then DRX have a reasonable chance for success at this tournament. Their clear drafting issues, however, combined with the health issues that have plagued veteran AD carry Deft for the entirety of 2020, may prove insurmountable in combination with their volatility.\u00a0 6) Fnatic One of Europe\u2019s most historic names, coming in at number six, is Fnatic. A mediocre regular split performance left many wondering if they would even qualify for the World Championship. But an unexpected run of dominance in the Summer playoffs brought them to another LEC finals spot. Although they lost 3-0, Fnatic are slowly starting to look like a dominant team again, with the consistency of AD carry Rekkles providing a cornerstone for the aggressive playmaking of support Hylissang and top laner Bwipo. As long as Fnatic can control their sometimes questionable mid-game decision making, they'll definitely be a team to watch at this tournament. But their teamwork and cohesion, which has been an issue for the team all split long, will be duly tested against some of the best in the world. 5) Suning Gaming As China\u2019s third seed, international fans could be forgiven for having few expectations of Suning heading into this tournament. It is the international debut for all bar one of Suning\u2019s players: support SwordArt, who\u2019s an ex-member of the infamous Flash Wolves lineup. As appears to be the theme for this year\u2019s Chinese representatives, Suning\u2019s secret weapon is jungler SofM, although not for the reasons you might expect. SofM breaks the mold, foregoing the global carry-jungler style in favor of more supportive picks like Trundle, Lee Sin, and Jarvan. This is one of Suning\u2019s greatest strengths, but also a huge weakness, and one of the main reasons they cannot go any higher in our power rankings. They are playing a style unfavorable in the current meta, and if they cannot execute it perfectly, they will be heavily punished.\u00a0 4) JD Gaming JDG miss out on a top-three spot by a hair\u2019s breadth. Their strongest player, jungler Kanavi, is one of the best players at the tournament, and there's an argument to be made that he is the best jungler. The problem is, however, that historically it's not junglers who decide a World Championship, but mid laners. That's evidenced by the fact that the star players on both previous World Championship rosters were their mid laners. The ability for mid lane to affect the whole map while simultaneously getting the kind of gold income junglers can only dream of cannot be ignored. And while Yagao is an excellent player, the mid laners at this tournament are a force to be reckoned with.\u00a0 3) G2 Esports This is a controversial one, with G2 and JDG tied for third place in our internal polls. Although both teams are fairly matched, it's G2\u2019s mid laner Caps that edges them ahead of JDG and into the top-three spot. The LEC has never truly seen a mid laner like Caps before. And he's proven that he's Worlds finalist material, once with G2, and once with Fnatic. G2 have adopted a remarkably different jungle style to the carry champions that have seen so much global playtime, in which Jankos takes one for the team on early ganking tanks to enable his laners, rather than having his laners come to him for early jungle invades. Though unconventional, it has found the LEC team a whole lot of domestic success, winning their regional finals in a clean 3-0 against the carry jungle style piloted by Fnatic.\u00a0 2) Damwon Gaming Korea\u2019s hope for international salvation comes in the form of Damwon Gaming. This team has been turning heads all split in the LCK with their superior teamfighting and objective control, largely courtesy of the roaming style of mid laner Showmaker. In Damwon\u2019s LCK finals matchup against fellow Worlds attendees DRX, Showmaker completely neutralized the effect of an incredibly strong laning mid in Chovy simply by pushing his wave and leaving the lane to assist jungler Canyon in beating the enemy jungler to death. After Korea\u2019s historically weak international performance over the past two years, Damwon are the region\u2019s main hope for redemption. With an impressive performance last year after coming through the play-ins stage, Damwon fell to subsequent finalists G2. Will they be able to take G2\u2019s spot this year? 1) Top Esports As the first seed from the most dominant international region and home of two previous world champions, it\u2019s not exactly surprising that TES are favorites to take the championship. Don\u2019t be fooled, however. It\u2019s not their regional pedigree that secures them the top spot, but their unmatched ability to play for mid lane two-vs-two skirmishes. With the importance of dragon souls in the global meta, early fights around the mid lane have defined victories in every major region, and TES have arguably the best mid-jungle duo in the world in Karsa and Knight. 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She is most often found dying every round in unranked VALORANT, or claiming an LEC team will win Worlds on the Critical Strike Podcast with Henrique DaMour and Tyler Esguerra.","sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/_megito"],"url":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/author\/megankay"}]}},"raw_content":"The League of Legends World Championship is almost upon us, and with the play-in stage starting Sept. 25, time is ticking away to place your bets on who will take this year\u2019s crown. Europe and China are fielding four seeds for the first time in the tournament\u2019s history, meaning competition truly is closer than ever, and a single game could change everything for any one of these teams.\u00a0 As a fan, it can sometimes be a little difficult to know who you\u2019re rooting for, especially if your team didn\u2019t quite make it to Worlds. Never fear\u2014we spoke to our League analysts from across the world, and compiled our official power ranking of all the major region teams attending the World Championship. With an aggregate score taken from our League of Legends writers, these are the teams we think will go the distance, and those we think will fall at the first hurdle. 16) PSG Talon PSG\u2019s placement at dead last in this list is not entirely their own fault. But with their mid-jungle duo unable to play in the play-in stage due to quarantine restrictions, this team has the impossible task of building a year\u2019s worth of synergy in two weeks with their play-in substitutes.\u00a0 15) Machi Esports There are always very few expectations for minor region teams in the World Championship. But if Machi ruffles some feathers in their group, they can leave the tournament with their heads held high.\u00a0 14) FlyQuest FlyQuest\u2019s weakness is the top side of the map. If Solo cannot withstand a beating from players like Nuguri, 369, and Bin\u2014aggressive laners unafraid to bully their opponents out of lane regardless of jungle proximity\u2014then this team will be taking a one-way trip back to North America 13) Team Liquid Although their slow, consistent style racked Team Liquid up wins in their own region, jungler Broxah\u2019s early-game passivity will be heavily punished at this tournament. In Liquid\u2019s home region, there was no punishment by enemy laners for a lack of early jungle presence, and his team were simply able to safely farm until Broxah decided it was time to gank\u2014but try safely farming into the Knights or the Nuguris of the world . Their hopes rest on the shoulders of the playmaking of one of the three returning World Champions at the tournament, support CoreJJ, but carrying from the support position is nigh impossible with the current champion pool of the role.\u00a0 12) MAD Lions MAD Lions is Europe\u2019s young, firecracker team\u2014where the firecracker is equally as likely to go off in your face as it is to shoot into the sky. MAD\u2019s inexperience is their undoing, with their disappointing performance in the LEC playoffs hinting at future struggles in best-of-five series. Although they have some incredible individual talents, including one of the most exciting AD Carry players to debut in Europe since Rekkles, their youth prohibits them from breaking into the top 10.\u00a0 11) Team Solomid Can Bjergsen single-handedly carry his team out of groups for the first time in six years? In short, probably not. Although he is an incredibly talented midlaner, the mids at this tournament are some of the most skilled players the world has ever seen, and laning into them simply doesn\u2019t offer the leeway to carry one-vs-five. There is some promise in top laner Broken Blade, one of the few Western talents who has the potential to go toe-to-toe with Korea and China\u2019s aggressive top laners. But his all-or-nothing playstyle can just as often lose his team the game as it can win it.\u00a0 10) Rogue Rogue unfortunately drew the short straw for Europe in the groups draw and are now matched up against some of the most challenging opponents in the entire tournament in Damwon Gaming and JD Gaming. Despite finishing first in the LEC regular season, the relative inexperience of their roster in a best-of-five situation became clear in the playoffs, where they lost out on a finals spot in a five-game series against G2. Although taking last year\u2019s Worlds finalists to a five-game series is no mean feat, Rogue are very much entering their group as the plucky underdog\u2014able to upset the standings but unlikely to make it to the playoff stage.\u00a0 9) LGD Similarly to Suning, LGD are a fairly unknown entity on the international stage, although heir key component is Worlds finalist and internationally renowned jungler Peanut. But his performance this split has been relatively inconsistent, and the team has often struggled to close out on early leads gained through an incredibly aggressive playstyle.\u00a0 8) Gen.G As with DRX, Gen.G very much revolve around a single player\u2014in this case, ex-World Champion AD carry Ruler, one of only two returning World Champions at the tournament. But the reason that Gen.G come in lower in these rankings is simply that their star player is in a less impactful role with mid lane being one of the most influential roles in competitive play and AD Carry being one of the least\u00a0 7) DRX It\u2019s unfair to say that any team is being carried by one individual player. But if there were any team for which that statement would ring true, it is DRX. Mid laner Chovy put up one of the best performances of his short career in DRX\u2019s Summer Split, and if he is able to perform to the same standards internationally, then DRX have a reasonable chance for success at this tournament. Their clear drafting issues, however, combined with the health issues that have plagued veteran AD carry Deft for the entirety of 2020, may prove insurmountable in combination with their volatility.\u00a0 6) Fnatic One of Europe\u2019s most historic names, coming in at number six, is Fnatic. A mediocre regular split performance left many wondering if they would even qualify for the World Championship. But an unexpected run of dominance in the Summer playoffs brought them to another LEC finals spot. Although they lost 3-0, Fnatic are slowly starting to look like a dominant team again, with the consistency of AD carry Rekkles providing a cornerstone for the aggressive playmaking of support Hylissang and top laner Bwipo. As long as Fnatic can control their sometimes questionable mid-game decision making, they'll definitely be a team to watch at this tournament. But their teamwork and cohesion, which has been an issue for the team all split long, will be duly tested against some of the best in the world. 5) Suning Gaming As China\u2019s third seed, international fans could be forgiven for having few expectations of Suning heading into this tournament. It is the international debut for all bar one of Suning\u2019s players: support SwordArt, who\u2019s an ex-member of the infamous Flash Wolves lineup. As appears to be the theme for this year\u2019s Chinese representatives, Suning\u2019s secret weapon is jungler SofM, although not for the reasons you might expect. SofM breaks the mold, foregoing the global carry-jungler style in favor of more supportive picks like Trundle, Lee Sin, and Jarvan. This is one of Suning\u2019s greatest strengths, but also a huge weakness, and one of the main reasons they cannot go any higher in our power rankings. They are playing a style unfavorable in the current meta, and if they cannot execute it perfectly, they will be heavily punished.\u00a0 4) JD Gaming JDG miss out on a top-three spot by a hair\u2019s breadth. Their strongest player, jungler Kanavi, is one of the best players at the tournament, and there's an argument to be made that he is the best jungler. The problem is, however, that historically it's not junglers who decide a World Championship, but mid laners. That's evidenced by the fact that the star players on both previous World Championship rosters were their mid laners. The ability for mid lane to affect the whole map while simultaneously getting the kind of gold income junglers can only dream of cannot be ignored. And while Yagao is an excellent player, the mid laners at this tournament are a force to be reckoned with.\u00a0 3) G2 Esports This is a controversial one, with G2 and JDG tied for third place in our internal polls. Although both teams are fairly matched, it's G2\u2019s mid laner Caps that edges them ahead of JDG and into the top-three spot. The LEC has never truly seen a mid laner like Caps before. And he's proven that he's Worlds finalist material, once with G2, and once with Fnatic. G2 have adopted a remarkably different jungle style to the carry champions that have seen so much global playtime, in which Jankos takes one for the team on early ganking tanks to enable his laners, rather than having his laners come to him for early jungle invades. Though unconventional, it has found the LEC team a whole lot of domestic success, winning their regional finals in a clean 3-0 against the carry jungle style piloted by Fnatic.\u00a0 2) Damwon Gaming Korea\u2019s hope for international salvation comes in the form of Damwon Gaming. This team has been turning heads all split in the LCK with their superior teamfighting and objective control, largely courtesy of the roaming style of mid laner Showmaker. In Damwon\u2019s LCK finals matchup against fellow Worlds attendees DRX, Showmaker completely neutralized the effect of an incredibly strong laning mid in Chovy simply by pushing his wave and leaving the lane to assist jungler Canyon in beating the enemy jungler to death. After Korea\u2019s historically weak international performance over the past two years, Damwon are the region\u2019s main hope for redemption. With an impressive performance last year after coming through the play-ins stage, Damwon fell to subsequent finalists G2. Will they be able to take G2\u2019s spot this year? 1) Top Esports As the first seed from the most dominant international region and home of two previous world champions, it\u2019s not exactly surprising that TES are favorites to take the championship. Don\u2019t be fooled, however. It\u2019s not their regional pedigree that secures them the top spot, but their unmatched ability to play for mid lane two-vs-two skirmishes. With the importance of dragon souls in the global meta, early fights around the mid lane have defined victories in every major region, and TES have arguably the best mid-jungle duo in the world in Karsa and Knight. The only team that can come close to them in two-vs-two power is Damwon Gaming, and the superior skill of TES\u2019s hyper-aggressive bot lane edges the Chinese first seed into prime position for the World Championship title.","apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/18064319\/title-photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304751,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304596\/revisions\/304751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304596"},{"taxonomy":"invoiceable_action","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/invoiceable_action?post=304596"},{"taxonomy":"internal-label","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-label?post=304596"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=304596"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=304596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

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{"id":304596,"date":"2020-09-18T10:37:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/?p=304596"},"modified":"2020-09-18T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:39:53","slug":"dot-esports-official-worlds-2020-power-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dotesports.com\/league-of-legends\/news\/dot-esports-official-worlds-2020-power-rankings","title":{"rendered":"Dot Esports’ official Worlds 2020 Power Rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"

The League of Legends<\/em> World Championship is almost upon us, and with the play-in stage starting Sept. 25, time is ticking away to place your bets on who will take this year\u2019s crown. <\/p>

Europe and China are fielding four seeds for the first time in the tournament\u2019s history, meaning competition truly is closer than ever, and a single game could change everything for any one of these teams.\u00a0<\/p>

As a fan, it can sometimes be a little difficult to know who you\u2019re rooting for, especially if your team didn\u2019t quite make it to Worlds. Never fear\u2014we spoke to our League <\/em>analysts from across the world, and compiled our official power ranking of all the major region teams attending the World Championship. <\/p>

With an aggregate score taken from our League of Legends<\/em> writers, these are the teams we think will go the distance, and those we think will fall at the first hurdle.<\/p>