The second seed from the 2022 League Of Legends Pro League (LPL) Spring split, Royal Never Give Up (RNG), will take on the third seed, JD Gaming, in what will be the second round one upper-bracket BO5. RNG finished in second place with a 12-4 record and a +11 map difference. Whereas for JD Gaming, they finished in third place with an 11-5 record and a +14 map difference, gaining them the third spot in a tiebreaker with LNG Gaming, Top Esports and Weibo Gaming who all finished with an 11-5 record.

Last time they met: Week 1 – RNG (2) defeated JD Gaming (1), with Chen “GALA” Wei of RNG finishing the clear MVP for this BO3. “GALA” compiled a massive 16.5KDA whilst only dying twice over the three maps.

Royal Never Give Up finished as the clear second best team in this year’s LPL Spring split, even though their record was only one win better than the four teams below them. During the regular season RNG only lost to one team inside the top eight, which was against Victory Five who finished in first place. RNG lost 2-0 to Victory Five in week five of the split but then went on to finish the regular season by winning six of their last eight series, with their two losses coming against Team WE and Rare Atom 2-0, where RNG were far from their best and blew their chances of finishing on top of the standings after the regular season.

Throughout the split, RNG displayed to everyone that they now have a very good AD carry in Chen “GALA” Wei. He has started to come into his own with this roster and has shown that he can take over that coveted AD carry spot that was held by LoL legend Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao for so long. “GALA” and RNG’s long-time mid-laner and Captain Li “Xiaohu” Yuan-Hao have become a deadly duo over this split since “Xiaohu” moved to the mid lane late last year. These two have combined to participate in over 65% of RNG’s kills and both have very good KDA’s with “GALA” having a 5.4KDA and “Xiaohu” having the fifth highest KDA in the LPL with a 6KDA.

JD Gaming ended the regular season with an 11-5 record with the highest round differential out of the four tying teams which gained them the third-place finish and a ticket straight into the last six of the playoffs. JD Gaming have lost five games throughout the 2022 split but they are one of the two teams who recorded a win against the first-place team Victory Five, where they beat them 2-0 in week seven. JD have had an up-and-down split, even though they lost five games, nine of their 11 wins were all clean sweep 2-0 victories, and all of their losses bar one were 2-1 losses showing that they were always tough to beat or they were the dominant team in their series.

JD Gaming have unearthed a talent that could soon be one of the best AD carries in the LPL, Wang “Hope” Jie, since he joined the team in January of this year. “Hope” completed the regular season split with the fourth best KDA of 6.2. Now that “Hope” has found his feet on this roster, the duo of “Hope” and Seo “Kanavi” Jin-hyeok is really starting to develop and become a problem for opposing teams. “Kanavi” himself gained a 1st Team All-Pro award from his outstanding performance in the 2022 LPL Spring split and in doing so helping take JD Gaming to the third seed alongside “Hope”.

Between these two teams there is plenty of talent on display and multiple awards winners on both sides, so we are set for a cracking BO5. We believe that this series is set to go the distance to five maps and GG Bet is giving us great odds of $2.62 for over 4.5 maps in the total maps market. Therefore, we suggest taking advantage of these great odds and enjoy this epic series.