LCK is Gen.G's heyday! 5th round of all time
May 01, 2025
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Gen.G beat KT Rolster 2-0 in the last game of the first round of the '2025 League of Legends Champions Korea" (LCK) at LCK Arena in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 1st, winning all nine games and finishing the first round perfectly.
In addition, he set a record for winning the fifth round in LCK history, again proving that he is the best team in LCK, beating T1, which was tied in the fourth inning. Whenever Gen.G challenged the milestone, it attracted interest because it was KT, which blocked it, but it was an unexpected victory for Gen.G.
Gen.G was one-sidedly ahead of global gold in more than 10,000 minutes in the first set, and in the second set, he easily finished both sets in about 30 minutes, recording a fifth round victory.
Gen.G's overwhelming performance, which gave up just three sets while winning 18 sets with nine wins, reached a set margin of +15. Existing members 'Kiin'Kim Ki-in, 'Canyon'Kim Gun-bu, 'Chobi'Jung Ji-hoon have been playing together for two years and have completely dominated the upper body line, and veteran 'Ruler'Park Jae-hyuk, who returned to the team after two years as a franchise star, is clearly taking the center stage. Amid such prominent members, Joo Min-kyu, who experienced the summer season at BNK Pier X last year, finally burst his potential and showed perfect teamwork, so the record of winning the second round is expected to be sufficiently achievable. In the past spring season of 2022, the only record was that T1 won both rounds and won all 18 games.
The two teams formed a two-way system, with Hanwha Life e-Sports losing only to Gen.G, recording 8 wins and 1 loss and ranking second after Gen.G.
Nongshim's Red Force, which has been at the bottom of the list for the past three years, has strengthened its top and bottom lines by recruiting veterans 'Kinggen'Hwang Sung-hoon and 'Rihenz' Son Si-woo, and Jungler 'Geedon' Kim Min-sung finally hit the possibility properly, breaking many people's expectations with 6 wins and 3 losses and finishing the first round in third place after Yanggang.
On the other hand, D-Plus Kia, which had been at the top with 5 wins and 1 loss, recently lost three consecutive games and finished the first round in fourth place with a win rate of just over 50% with 5 wins and 4 losses.
T1, which has been in the top five for many years, has been in fifth place with four wins and four losses as of the 1st, and KT has been in eighth place with three wins and six losses, showing a somewhat disappointing first-round move. DN Freaks will play the final game of the first round against T1 on the 2nd, with all eight losses.
The second round will begin with a match between Hanwha Life Insurance and Nongshim on the 2nd. On the 3rd and 4th, two games will be held at Suwon Convention Center, not LCK Arena, under the concept of 'Home Stand'. On the 3rd, Gen.G meets D-plus as a home team, and on the 4th, KT, a home team, will face T1 as a rival of a telecommunications company.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
