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Team Vitality will face SK Gaming on Friday in their sixth game of the LEC 2022 Summer season. The league has been underway since 17 June, 2022, and will end on 14 August, 2022. It follows a double round robin format with 10 teams participating in it before heading into a playoffs round where only the top-6 can qualify. The matches are best of one.
Both sides would’ve been hoping for a better start to their season.
Team Vitality vs SK Gaming Match Prediction
Team Vitality have the edge in this one
Team Vitality have looked a bit shaky in their last two games and have now only managed two wins out of their five matches, sitting in 7th place. They head into this match as the favorites but are in no condition to take anyone lightly.
They finished last season in 6th place last, which allowed them to take part in the playoffs. It was by no means an outstanding performance with nine wins and nine losses. That inconsistency has carried on into this season and they’ll have to be careful going forward that it doesn’t cost them a playoff spot. Their gold differential at the 15 minute mark is something they’ll be looking to improve massively, as it currently sits on a middling +455. More importantly, they need to close out games, having lost 66.66% of the time after being ahead at the 15-minute mark.
Games like this are must-wins if you want to make the playoffs and Team Vitality will be well aware of that. Key to their hopes will be Bot Laner, Carzzy. He has managed 3.13 kills, 2.81 deaths, 4.61 assists and a KDA of 2.91 on average this year. These stats highlight how much they’ve declined recently.
SK Gaming are looking worse than last season
SK Gaming would’ve been hoping to make a better start this time around after managing only seven wins and 11 losses last time out but they’re currently tied for the worst record in the league so far. They’ve only got one win on the board, and come into this game with a sorry average kill/death ratio of 0.4. Not a lot else has gone their way either, with their average tower difference languishing at -3.8 and their only win coming through a latter half resurgence while they were down at the 15-minute mark.
They will be buoyed by the fact they’re playing another side that hasn’t really hit the ground running this season, but chances of making the playoffs already look quite slim and they’re still playing a side that beat them twice last time out.
Team Vitality vs SK Gaming Betting Prediction
It doesn’t look good for SK Gaming at the moment. Team Vitality have lost their way a bit but started the season strongly and just need to go back to getting that early season rhythm.
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They should be able to conjure up something against a side like SK Gaming in a must-win game so early in the season.
