Will WB face off against Wolf Team, or will LGD shake up the top four? WB is expected to advance to the semifinals with a 4-1 victory!

The opening days of the playoffs were very exciting, and it was anticipated that the fight for the losers' bracket semifinals would be even more fierce and thrilling. However, surprisingly, Wolf Team effortlessly swept KSG and moved on to the losers' semifinals! Now, the question is whether the other spot in the losers' semifinals will be equally lackluster.

WB couldn’t continue their spring split storyline in the first round of the winners' bracket, losing 3-4 to TTG and dropping into the losers' bracket. In that match, WB started strong, scoring points from multiple angles and leading 2-0 early on. However, Coach Lin’s strategy in the third game, using four strong heroes to try and support Dream Creek’s low-win-rate Lu Da pick, became the turning point, allowing TTG to gain momentum and wasting more than one team composition.

As for the final showdown, WB’s confident picks were Meng Tian and Mirror, but in the lower bracket they simply copied the meta picks, choosing the Luban father-son duo they barely understand, resulting in a lineup that seemed conflicted and led to a lackluster loss. Now that they are in the losers' bracket, WB’s key to climbing higher might be to avoid getting dragged into such peak matchups again.

LGD defeated Qingjiu 4-2 in their first losers' bracket match, maintaining their undefeated record against Qingjiu and surpassing their best results in recent seasons, avoiding the so-called "big full eight." However, based on LGD’s performance in this match, it’s hard to be optimistic about their game tonight.

Aside from mid laner Xiaoming’s consistently solid performance, the other positions fluctuated just like Qingjiu’s players. The two key contributors from the second round, Xiaoluo and Xiaozai, both played unsatisfactorily in this match. To reach the top four, someone must step up tonight!

Nuanyang’s form this season has been excellent; even though he lost to TTG last match, his KDA remains the highest among junglers. However, his hero choices in this game were puzzling. First, his debut with Daqiming ended 0-2-1, only slightly better than teammate Xiaomai; second, throughout the BO7, he never picked the meta jungler Yuantan, giving Yuanshe to Xiaomai in the first six games and choosing his FMVP hero Mirror in the final showdown.

During the regular season, Nuanyang’s Yuantan had 2 wins out of 4 games and ranked third in jungler KDA, so it’s not an unusable hero. If WB can’t bring out these two strong picks, Yuantan and Daqiming, in the playoffs, it will be difficult for them to draft well and progress further. Tonight’s relatively weaker matchup will be a test to see if Coach Lin changes his jungler choices.

After watching the final showdown, everyone knows that Luban is the meta pick for marksmen! If you want a simple, straightforward hero who can quickly take down tanks, then pick Luban No.7. His tank-busting speed is arguably the fastest among all marksmen, with a passive that grants extra percentage damage when attacking tanks—the tankier the opponent, the more outrageous Luban No.7’s damage becomes.

Luban No.7’s burst damage is already very high, and with penetration items and his passive, neither Zhang Fei nor Lian Po can withstand his sustained output. However, Luban No.7’s self-defense is weak, so players tend to pick Marco Polo more often against tank-heavy teams. Still, when it comes to tank-busting speed, Luban is by no means slower than Marco Polo.