In the LCK Spring Finals held today (4/9), GEN.G faced off once morest T1. GEN.G took the lead in winning two games. Although T1 struggled to win one, they still lost to GEN.G in the fourth game. In the end, GEN.G defeated T1 in the finals of two consecutive seasons and won the LCK 2023 Spring Championship.
Previously, GEN.G lost 1:3 to T1 in the win finals. In addition, T1 had a dominant record of 17 wins and 1 loss in the regular season this season. The LCK reviewers were all optimistic that T1 might win the championship before the game. Thinking of the stable performance of GEN.G today, not only won the final point first, but also relied on the superb performance of the young player Peyz in the fourth game to successfully reach the top.
In the early stage of the first game, Zeus was repeatedly caught and beaten to 0/4/1. T1 saw that his lineup was no match for GEN.G in the late stage. In 22 minutes, Chovy saw Barong in the bottom lane, and Chovy teleported to the poor position, Faker seized the opportunity to kill, and T1 successfully won Baron.
But this did not give T1 a rolling advantage. On the contrary, GEN.G won team battles one following another with its lineup. T1 was swallowed up. In 36 minutes, T1 used a dead horse as a living horse doctor to open Barong. , let GEN.G win first.
In the second game, both Zeus and Gumayusi took out the heroes who won this season, and T1 once took a big lead in the mid-term, especially Gumayusi’s Caitlin.
However, when T1 opened Baron at 26 points, the rear vision was not cleared, and Doran’s teleportation was not noticed. A beautiful E flashed into the field, combined with Chovy’s side cut to complete the kill, and T1 was defeated.
Then Peyz’s Aphelio gradually took over the game, and Zeus’s several times of entry were also not good, so that Peyz had a perfect space output, scored 10 kills in the end, and led GEN.G to take the lead in drawing cards.
According to the author’s pre-match statistics, T1 has lost two games first in BO5 five times since the team was founded (excluding SKT). Let the second chase the third is the LCK 2017 Summer Split once morest KT.
In the third round of T1, he finally lost his head. He took Doran’s outstanding performance in Gulags’ BAN, and was cheered by all the fans in T1. At 8 minutes, Gumayusi made a big shot with blind vision, and guessed the residual blood to eat wild monsters The Peanut’s position was killed, which boosted the morale of the team.
At 22 minutes, Keria was caught for going too deep for vision, but then Faker used the rune “Unsealed Book” in exchange for a heavy hit, and cooperated with Oner to steal Barong when Baron had only 2,000 HP left, making T1 from the early stage Turned from the underdog and won the game at 28 minutes.
In the fourth game, GEN chose a nearly all-AD lineup, forcing Zeus to use Sion, a tank hero he is not good at, but Zeus still got a solo kill at the beginning, helping T1 take a 4:0 advantage.
However, the situation began to change at 17 minutes. Faker made a mistake in desperation. In order to start the battle, he made his position too deep, and was shot and killed by GEN.G. Then GEN.G played four for two, and interrupted the dragon soul rhythm of T1.
At 23 minutes, the two sides were in a stalemate in the middle. Peyz was accidentally knocked into the air by Sion, and then Faker Ali rushed forward to play control, forcing Peyz to surrender a double move.
Then Faker came to assist once more, but at this time Oner entered the field when the enemy still had a lot of control skills. He mightn’t press the ult and died. Zeus and Keria were also killed. T1, who only had double Cs left, might only watch Baron falls.
In 25 minutes, Faker made another mistake. When GEN.G was forcing the middle tower, he opened up and wanted to start a battle, but he didn’t release E to deposit the gold man. He was killed by Jin Kesi in place, and GEN.G also directly pushed Drop the middle barracks.
At 28 minutes, GEN.G fought too quickly and was arrested one following another. In front of the main castle, Oner even solved the double C by himself, which gave T1 fans a glimmer of hope.
In the 29th minute, the two sides broke out in a team battle in the middle. However, due to the excellent formation of GEN.G, Gumayusi, the only output point in the T1 team battle, might hardly output. T1 might only watch Oner die in battle.
Then GEN.G seized Oner and opened the Baron before he was revived. Under Peanut Maokai’s ultimatum, he might only watch the Baron fall. Then Zeus and Oner were killed once more. GEN.G approached the city and smashed the twin towers. Play, hold a shotgun and use flash to kill the enemy’s double C, and renew the life of T1.
However, following 34 minutes, GEN.G reorganized and marched once more. Due to the formation of the GEN.G lineup, Gumayusi might not move the front row at all. On the other hand, Peyz Ginks was able to output safely from the back. They fell to the ground one by one, and GEN.G defeated T1 in 34 minutes.
After today’s game, on behalf of GEN.G for two consecutive seasons (2022 summer, 2023 spring) defeated T1 in the finals to win the LCK championship, plus T1 lost 2:3 to RNG at MSI in 2022, and the 2022 World Championship Losing to DRX 2:3, T1 has entered the finals for four consecutive games, but ended up as runner-up.
In this series, the 17-year-old Peyz, who made his debut this season, showed his big heart and won the FMVP with a total of 34/7/20 in four games. GEN.G also won the championship following last year’s summer championship , won the second consecutive championship in the LCK season, and will represent the LCK to challenge the MSI mid-season with the first seed.
