Gen. G. Defeats China's AL, Has One Game to Go to the Final for the Second Time in a row
Jul 05, 2025
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LCK (Korea) No. 1 seed Gen.G beat LPL (China) No. 1 seed AL (Anyone's Legend) and is one step closer to winning the MSI for the second consecutive year.
Gen.G won the winner's group match of the 2nd round of the 'MSI 2025' bracket stage held at Bancofer Pacific Coliseum in Canada on the 5th (Korea time), winning 3-2 after a close race with AL to the 5th set, and going straight to the winner's group match of the 4th round. If he wins this match, Gen.G will reach the MSI final for the second year in a row.
It was a tough match, but Gen.G was strong as well. Gen.G gave up the victory in about 27 minutes, losing one-stroke battles to AL in the first set, losing not only in combat but also in operation. It was unilaterally pushed to 6-22 in the kill score.
However, Gen.G's counterattack was from the second set. In a one-stroke fight in front of the dragon in the middle, Jung Ji-hoon recorded an ace who deleted all the opponent's champs with the strong performance of 'Chobi', and then won a series of one-stroke battles to pay off the complete defeat in the first set.
It was unfavorable until the middle of the third set, but he won the battle in front of Baron with great concentration and took care of Baron, and also won the ensuing one-stroke battle and wrote a reversal drama. In the fourth set, AL's Korean Jungler 'Tarzan' Lee Seung-yong gave it away, but after leading significantly from the beginning in the last five sets, he maintained his advantage and confirmed his fourth round trip and gained momentum in the first Korea-China match at this tournament. Gen.G will have a fourth round match at 9 a.m. on the 10th.
T1 will play in the second Korea-China match. T1 will play LPL's Billie Billie Gaming in the second round at the same venue on the 6th. If T1 also wins the match, he will meet Gen.G in the fourth round winner's group and compete for the final round. However, the variable is that T1 showed a somewhat unstable history in the first round match against CFO of LCP (Asia-Pacific), which was considered a bit weak, on the 4th.
In addition, there is a painful experience of not reaching the final after losing all two games to Billibilli in MSI last year. However, he met again in the final of the League of Legends World Championship last year and won the championship with a 3-2 victory. Therefore, a fairly interesting game is expected.
Meanwhile, in the first round of the loser's match held earlier in the day, LTA North (North America)'s Flyquest advanced to the second round loser's match with a 3-0 victory over LEC (European) powerhouse G2.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
