We are only about 2 weeks away from The League of Legend’s World Championship, with groups starting October 1st, so with time to kill, lets take a closer look at how these 16 teams stack up against each other. Over at goldper10.com, Pilesos has separated all the teams into tiers, but only 3 rank over all the others in the S Tier:
The playoffs are done, the qualified teams are known and the Hype is insane.
It is time to take a step back and have a look at the teams objectively. Based on the strength of the teams I made a tier list. The tier list is divided into the following five sections:
NOTE: These tiers reflect the relative strength to each other in the tournament and were done before the group draws. This means I am not going to take the group draw into consideration.
The S Tier
Teams included in the S Tier are truly the best teams of this season. They have shown an exceptional performance over both Spring and Summer split and are able to show world class on a very consistent basis. Their strenghts can easily overcome B Tier teams so that potential weaknesses do not matter. A Tier teams can challenge S Tier teams in their strengths but have a very hard time to get an advantage by exposing potential weaknesses. These teams are the clear-cut favorites at this tournament so everything less than a making the finals would be a disappointment for these teams.
Teams:
SK Telecom T1
LGD Gaming
Edward Gaming
Not so surprising, as these 3 are the fan favorites, and each can win the tournament in their own right. The rest of the tiers are not so clear cut, and don’t let the top team fool you, any of the A Tier teams can take this tournament with a little bit of luck. See where everybody else stands against these favorites over at the full article here.
