During the LCK Spring 2023 season, Faker very often used mid lane Gragas in matches that made game fans curious.
T1’s last two wins against Liiv SANDBOX and Kwangdong Freecs, game fans noticed that Faker continuously used Gragas in the Mid lane and showed its effectiveness very well. Specifically, the Demon King had 4 games with Gragas and achieved a 100% win rate.
Notably, this champion is not an option in the meta in the LCK and only occasionally appears in Top Lane in certain matches. Only 3 mid laners in the LCK have picked Gragas and only Faker has won with this unique card.
With such a good laning ability and handling many matches, coach Bengi often chooses Gragas first for Faker to hide his tactical intentions, thereby having counters at a later stage. It can be said that this brings maximum efficiency with T1’s neat wins. At the end of the match against KDF, Faker also shared something about his new pick.
He shared: “Gragas is a champion that can go many positions and can also perform many roles in the squad. While other Mage champions are a bit boring, Gragas is a champion with interesting gameplay. , so I think this is the most important factor”.
Besides, Faker also emphasized that: “I think this is a champion with good power-ups, can create mutations with unexpected combat opening situations, thereby bringing interesting things.” .
It can be seen that Faker has left a lot of highlights with Gragas in recent impressive games. Coming from beautiful combat situations, coordinating with Oner or even just solo killing situations in an extremely neat way.
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