The LPL Knight's Road has ended.

The LPL Knight's Road entered its final day's closing battle. Many LPL viewers looked forward to seeing Nirvana group teams "defeat the strong with the weak" in the Knight's Road, overcoming Summit group teams to advance to the LPL playoffs. After all, TT had made history in the previous BO5 by becoming the first LPL team to eliminate a Summit team and qualify. Many viewers also began to hope that EDG and LGD could replicate the miracle, rising up from the Knight's Road to advance to the LPL elimination stage.

And EDG and LGD lived up to the fans' expectations. In today's BO5 matchups, both EDG and LGD defeated NIP and WBG respectively with a score of 3-2, advancing to the LPL playoffs. Many LPL viewers, upon seeing these results, joked that the LPL is about to undergo a major change, as NIP, WBG, and IG, after losing to TT, EDG, and LGD in the Knight's Road, will now be relegated to the Nirvana group.

In today's Knight's Road matchups, both EDG and LGD performed excellently. EDG relied on their bot lane Leave's individual skill to help the team defeat NIP. Meanwhile, LGD relied on superior team coordination and jungle performance to pull off an upset, defeating the premium all-Chinese team WBG. According to insider Hanyi's leak, WBG invested heavily in transfers this season, but they suffered a crushing defeat in the Knight's Road, and someone might be held accountable.

JIEJIE falls into the Nirvana group for the third time.

Before the Knight's Road began, no one believed WBG would fall into the Nirvana group, given that WBG's roster was considered luxurious. Whether it was Xiaohu, the three-time MSI champion, the champion jungler JIEJIE, or ELK, any one of these players could purchase the entire LGD team plus their coaching staff. Even the well-known LPL caster Guan Zeyuan exclaimed after the match that he couldn't believe these players' IDs would be seen in the Nirvana group in the future.

After the match, many WBG fans analyzed the reasons for their disastrous loss. The WBG coach and jungler JIEJIE were heavily criticized by viewers. The WBG coach, Kim, apparently did not treat LGD as "equal-level" opponents in the first two games of this BO5, resulting in WBG's draft being completely outclassed by LGD. In the final game, he committed the "sin of arrogance" — despite the fact that all LPL viewers and casters knew that LGD's bot laner, Shao Ye, was a Draven one-trick, the WBG coach refused to ban Draven, causing WBG's bot lane to collapse early.

Besides the coach's issues, WBG's jungler JIEJIE also made frequent mistakes in this BO5. In the third game, when his team had a huge advantage, JIEJIE playing Xin Zhao actually sold his "Fentian" item, wasting personal gold. In the do-or-die game, JIEJIE was lost all over the map, going bot at level three to feed a kill to LGD's Draven, and even failed his flash E in teamfights. Whether it's bad luck or a mental issue in recent years, every time JIEJIE plays in the Knight's Road, problems occur, leading him to fall into the Nirvana group for three consecutive times. (In 2024, he failed in EDG's group stage; in 2025, he lost in FPX's Knight's Road; this year, he narrowly lost with WBG to LGD.)

Conclusion

Who could have imagined that the all-Chinese team, which fans had high hopes for, would fall on the Knight's Road? Do you think WBG will adjust their roster in the future? After all, WBG changed three supports in three months. Which player would they need to swap in to turn things around? After the Knight's Road concluded, the LPL playoff bracket was revealed: "BLG vs WE, JDG vs TT, TES vs LGD, and AL vs EDG." Who is most likely to win the championship?