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The LoL Pro League 2022 offseason saw the wildest of changes that the league has had for a while. From the iconic duo Kang “TheShy” Seung-lok and Song “Rookie” Eui-jin going their separate ways to the great Jian “Uzi” Zi-Hao coming back to the league, this year will be sure to change up the competitive scene in China. With seventeen competing teams, you’ll never run out of games to bet on in the LPL. From Monday to Sunday, take a look at what bets you can make during the LPL splits.
With the massive player base that the Ionian server has, it’s only natural that its own competitive league has just as many teams to represent them regionally. As such, we’ll be introducing its seventeen competing teams to help you get started on the LPL. From top to bottom, we’ll introduce who we think are the strongest contenders for the trophy to teams that still need to improve to come close to the championship.
[EDG LOL Roster for 2022 LPL Spring Split] TOP: EDG.Flandre（李炫君） EDG.Xiaoxiang（黄祥） JUG: EDG.Jiejie（赵礼杰） MID: EDG.Scout（李汭燦） ADC: EDG.Viper（朴到贤） SUP: EDG.Meiko（田野） Silver-Dragon Knights will continue to march towards a new record! Let's go! pic.twitter.com/sIc1DqbMbN — Edward Gaming (@EDG_Edward) December 16, 2021
[EDG LOL Roster for 2022 LPL Spring Split]
TOP: EDG.Flandre（李炫君） EDG.Xiaoxiang（黄祥） JUG: EDG.Jiejie（赵礼杰） MID: EDG.Scout（李汭燦） ADC: EDG.Viper（朴到贤） SUP: EDG.Meiko（田野）
Silver-Dragon Knights will continue to march towards a new record! Let's go! pic.twitter.com/sIc1DqbMbN
— Edward Gaming (@EDG_Edward) December 16, 2021
Early into the season, it seems that the pre-season rankings already have a bit of heft to them as the strongest of teams are rising to the surface. EDward Gaming is, of course, at the top of this list as the reigning champions have kept their roster together through the offseason. Now, they remain a powerhouse that will continue to dominate the competitive scene in the coming year.
[LNG LoL Division Roster for 2022 LPL Spring] TOP: Ale ⚔️ JUG: Tarzan 🌳 MID: Doinb 🪄 AD: Light 🔫 SUP: Iwandy ✨ LvMao 🌟 Head Coach: Yil (Liangyi Wang) Coach: Poppy (Bohao Zhang) Rather (신형섭) U (Long Zeng) Leader: Kaka (Tao Lin) pic.twitter.com/MYZnYHQzSD — LNG Esports (@LNG_Esports) December 14, 2021
[LNG LoL Division Roster for 2022 LPL Spring]
TOP: Ale ⚔️ JUG: Tarzan 🌳 MID: Doinb 🪄 AD: Light 🔫 SUP: Iwandy ✨ LvMao 🌟
Head Coach: Yil (Liangyi Wang)
Coach: Poppy (Bohao Zhang) Rather (신형섭) U (Long Zeng)
Leader: Kaka (Tao Lin) pic.twitter.com/MYZnYHQzSD
— LNG Esports (@LNG_Esports) December 14, 2021
On the other hand, we have Doinb and LNG looking to upset everyone in the league. With the mid-laner coming onto the team, one of LPL’s best junglers in Tarzan can further tap into his potential with Doinb at his side. After the team’s stint at Worlds 2021, LNG can only go up in the upcoming season.
Spring Champions and MSI Champions, @RNG have had a strong year but it comes to an end in Quarterfinals. Thank you for your showing and good luck next year! #LPL pic.twitter.com/tBw8hKEJdX — LPL (@lplenglish) October 23, 2021
Spring Champions and MSI Champions, @RNG have had a strong year but it comes to an end in Quarterfinals. Thank you for your showing and good luck next year! #LPL pic.twitter.com/tBw8hKEJdX
— LPL (@lplenglish) October 23, 2021
Meanwhile, Royal Never Give Up has changed it up once again fielding former Suning top laner Chen “Bin” Ze-Bin and putting Li “Xiaohu” Yuan-Hao back to the mid lane. Everyone remembers Xiaohu’s monstrous performances that he was putting up at Worlds last year which we’re sure he’ll be continuing in the mid lane. With Bin fortifying their top side, RNG look like a formidable threat that can contend for the throne in the splits to come.
Cheers for the faith👍🏻 2022 #BLG pic.twitter.com/V2NsD3oMga — Bilibili Gaming (@BilibiliGaming) December 15, 2021
Cheers for the faith👍🏻 2022 #BLG pic.twitter.com/V2NsD3oMga
— Bilibili Gaming (@BilibiliGaming) December 15, 2021
Then, we have the dark horse of the league in Bilibili Gaming with Uzi returning to competitive play. With Chu “FoFo” Chun-Lan in mid and a formidable bot duo in Uzi and Liu “Crisp” Qing-Song, Bilibili is poised to take wins off of formidable opponents across the board. Given that this team has a completely new roster (save for jungler Wei “Weiwei” Bo-Han), it might take them time to ramp up to compete at the highest level.
Welcome Weibo Gaming to the #TeamRazer family! The #LPL is looking mighty green 🐍 pic.twitter.com/B6Wkis2B6O — Team RΛZΞR (@TeamRazer) January 25, 2022
Welcome Weibo Gaming to the #TeamRazer family! The #LPL is looking mighty green 🐍 pic.twitter.com/B6Wkis2B6O
— Team RΛZΞR (@TeamRazer) January 25, 2022
From here onwards, potential is the name of the game. Players that are “past their prime” or trying to prove themselves are all in this division.
As a prime example, we have Weibo Gaming, formerly known as Suning, who are now on a quest to redeem themselves after falling flat in the past year. Hu “SwordArt” Shuo-Chieh returns to the LPL reuniting with his teammates of old to try and recapture the success they had at the 2020 World Championship. Alongside them, however, is the esteemed Kang “TheShy” Seung-lok who hopes to prove his dominance in the top lane once again.
🏆 pic.twitter.com/6iK2Gcdoxn — TOPESPORTS (@TOP_Esports_) December 26, 2021
🏆 pic.twitter.com/6iK2Gcdoxn
— TOPESPORTS (@TOP_Esports_) December 26, 2021
Along the same vein, we have Top Esports who are making way for an all-new top-jungle duo in Zhang “Zoom” Xing-Ran from JD Gaming and Gao “Tian” Tian-Liang from FunPlus Phoenix. In the past year, Top Esports couldn’t even make it to Worlds despite their one hell of a roster that got them to the semis in Worlds 2020. However, with these changes, they hope to make it farther than they should have achieved back in the day. And if the Demacia Cup 2021 was any indicator, it looks like the team is already showing promise this early into the season.
Victory Five stands at a similar position with talented veterans in Hung “Karsa” Hao-Hsuan and former world champion Song “Rookie” Eui-jin. Alongside this cast, they have Ying “Photic” Qi-Shen, a former talent of Top Esports, and Guo “ppgod” Peng who broke through in Bilibili Gaming in 2021. These roster changes come after V5 partnered with Ninjas in Pyjamas to hopefully strengthen the roster that almost made it to Worlds in 2020. Only time will tell if these old timers can get the ball rolling one more time.
[FPX LoL Division Initial Form for 2022 Season] TOP: xiaolaohu JUG: Beichuan MID: Gori ADC: Lwx ADC: jiang SUP: Hang SUP: Lele Keep faith and passion to make infinite possibilities! Fly Phoenix, Fly!🔥#FPX #FPXLOL pic.twitter.com/Xbv4vERo9M — FPX (@FPX_Esports) December 18, 2021
[FPX LoL Division Initial Form for 2022 Season]
TOP: xiaolaohu JUG: Beichuan MID: Gori ADC: Lwx ADC: jiang SUP: Hang SUP: Lele
Keep faith and passion to make infinite possibilities! Fly Phoenix, Fly!🔥#FPX #FPXLOL pic.twitter.com/Xbv4vERo9M
— FPX (@FPX_Esports) December 18, 2021
After them, we have the rising stars that have yet to take off and find their own stride against the ‘big boys’ of the LPL. First up is FunPlus Phoenix coming in brimming with talent as they completely rebuilt their roster around their marksman Lin “Lwx” Wei-Xiang. With Nongshim’s former mid in Kim “Gori” Tae-woo and the veteran jungler Kim “Clid” Tae-min, FPX still looks like a force to be reckoned with in the LPL. Filling in for Jang “Nuguri” Ha-gwon, however, is rookie Ping “xiaolaohu” Xiao-Hu which will be sure to put the team to the test against the more experienced teams in the league.
Post match photo ops! pic.twitter.com/yhTsJXU0DK — JD Gaming (@JDGaming) January 23, 2022
Post match photo ops! pic.twitter.com/yhTsJXU0DK
— JD Gaming (@JDGaming) January 23, 2022
Next up is the high and mighty JD Gaming of old that found success in the Spring split of the 2020 LPL season. Although, now, the team only has Seo “Kanavi” Jin-hyeok and Zeng “Yagao” Qi remaining from their roster of old. But, the good news is that this duo is the core that helped the team succeed in the past. What teams will have to look out for is how JDG’s bot duo Wang “Hope” Jie and Lou “Missing” Yun-Feng will perform given that they have yet to prove themselves from their time in their previous teams.
#LPL2021 RA vs LNG 2021/09/04 16:30 CST BO5 Starting lineup: Top: Cube Jungle: Leyan Mid: FoFo Adc: iBoy Support: Hang Subs: Aix#RAWIN pic.twitter.com/EOwXF7AjxM — Rare Atom (@rare_atom) September 4, 2021
#LPL2021
RA vs LNG 2021/09/04 16:30 CST BO5
Starting lineup: Top: Cube Jungle: Leyan Mid: FoFo Adc: iBoy Support: Hang Subs: Aix#RAWIN pic.twitter.com/EOwXF7AjxM
— Rare Atom (@rare_atom) September 4, 2021
Afterwards, we have Rare Atom who lost their star player Fofo to Bilibili Gaming in the offseason. While he was the primary carry of the team and the driving force for their success, Hu “iBoy” Xian-Zhao has remained and will be playing with up-and-coming jungler Yu “JunJia” Chun-Chia who has been scouted as a top talent from EDG. While it may take time for this roster to find their footing, once they do, they should be able to easily make the playoffs given their competition.
While there is a lot of developing talent in these teams, they will take time to contend for the Playoffs spots in this year’s competitive season. Among these teams, one can see that they have at least one to two players that can rise to the occasion and carry.
OMG comes into the all-new season with their signature carries Lin “Creme” Jian and Dai “Able” Zhi-Chun still intact. With the addition of upcoming talent shanji, the team looks poised to potentially break through their standings at the 9th-10th of the league.
Formerly known as eStar Gaming, Ultra Prime is coming into the season with high hopes with the acquisition of RNG’s Yuan “Cryin” Cheng-Wei. With a formidable center in the mid lane and the mechanics of Zhao “Elk” Jia-Hao to fall back on, Ultra Prime are looking to peak even higher this season.
Despite their current 1-5 standing, the late addition of Lee “Chieftain” Jae-yub and star mid laner Son “Ucal” Woo-hyeon from South Korea is already raising eyes amongst the competition. With their win against Anyone’s Legend last weekend, it seems that the team can only go up from here.
Anyone’s Legend or what used to be Rogue Warriors has chosen to revamp their roster with Taiwanese duo Huang “Maple” Yi-Tang and Lu “Betty” Yu-Hung from the formidable Flash Wolves of old. While they placed at the bottom rung of the LPL in the past year, their synergy might be just enough to pull up the team in their time of need.
Tic-toc… 🕰️ Only 2 days left until our 2022 #LPL Spring Split debut. Who’s excited? To start things off lets see who can guess our draft for the 1st game 🤔 #GoInvictus pic.twitter.com/qoLJwFX1J9 — Invictus Gaming (@invgaming) January 11, 2022
Tic-toc… 🕰️
Only 2 days left until our 2022 #LPL Spring Split debut.
Who’s excited?
To start things off lets see who can guess our draft for the 1st game 🤔 #GoInvictus pic.twitter.com/qoLJwFX1J9
— Invictus Gaming (@invgaming) January 11, 2022
After having lost TheShy and Rookie from their line-up, IG are now rebuilding their once championship-worthy roster. It seems as if IG is now putting all their chips on their academy roster to bring the team back to their former glory. With rising talent in Peng “Xun” Li-Xun, we’ll see how this blooming roster will fare in the 2022 season.
Starting Lineup TOP :Biubiu JUG :View MID :Shanks BOT :Xing SUP :Kedaya We're on the red side in Game1. Forward together pic.twitter.com/XZ1Cgwe719 — TeamWE_Official (@TeamWE) January 21, 2022
Starting Lineup TOP :Biubiu JUG :View MID :Shanks BOT :Xing SUP :Kedaya We're on the red side in Game1. Forward together pic.twitter.com/XZ1Cgwe719
— TeamWE_Official (@TeamWE) January 21, 2022
Among the teams in the LPL, Team WE lost key players across the board from Breathe and Teacherma to Elk and Missing. However, they did gain Xiye in the offseason. Their problem coming into the 2022 season then would have to be working around their top-jungle which has proven to be rather inconsistent in the past.
At the tail end of the league, we see teams that have rosters that are quite lacking in the firepower needed to duke it out with the best of the best. For teams like LGD Gaming, Team WE, and Invictus Gaming, they had their rosters downgraded in the offseason while the rest of the league has levelled up. As such, they’ll be having a hard time catching up with the rest of the region.
In the preseason, LGD lost one of their stars in xiye to join Team WE. As such, expect to see LGD struggle early on with their rather inexperienced roster. However, Zhiqiang “Shad0w” Zhao’s performance in the past year will be sure to get them some much-needed wins throughout the split. However, it won’t quite be enough to pull them into playoffs.
As we mentioned earlier, you have an abundance of games to choose from when you start betting on the LPL! From money line to handicap, you can check out how these bets work in our comprehensive LoL betting guide or read down below.
Moneyline bets should be your staple when it comes to the LPL. With the insane number of matches they have; you won’t run out of games to bet on! If you want to go easy with it, you can simply bet on who you think will be the outright winner of the series. But if you want to go even further, you can choose to bet on who will win the individual maps from games one to three.
Though, always remember our reminder to keep it simple and follow a team or two of your choosing when starting out!
If you’ve got the time, propositional or prop betting is a fun way to change it up from simply betting on match outcomes. Through prop bets, you can predict how matches will go from who secures First Blood to the team who’s first to take down an inhibitor. Though it can depend on the operator of your choosing, prop bets have been known as special bets due to their nature described below.
In Rivalry, you can put prop bets on occurrences such as:
Whether you bet on which team will take Baron Nashor first or if both of them will take it down at the end of the game, you can make good on your bets outside of who wins or loses. To maximize your success, do you research beforehand on platforms such as Games of Legends and Oracle’s Elixir to see how teams play from a statistical standpoint. When you’ve got easy-to-use stats such as First Baron Rate (FBN%), First Blood Rate (FB%), or First Tower Rate (FT%), it becomes way easier to decide on your bets when you know the likelihood of it happening on the Rift is high.
If you find that prop betting is too much for you, then you can simply take a few steps back and go to total or over/under betting. As in sports, you simply predict whether the game at hand will go over or under a listed metric such as total dragons slain, total towers taken, game duration, and even total maps played throughout a series.
This makes it simple and straightforward for bettors. This is because if you think that the game will have a longer game time, then you simply pick over because the longer the game, the more dragons, nashors, towers, and kills to be taken. This can be seen in regions with slower playstyles as well such as in the LCK. Again, return to the numbers and see how teams play around objectives to know whether to bet over or under.
For best-of-three and best-of-five series, if you think it will be a one-sided affair, you simply bet under. However, if you want to err on the side of caution, it can be safer to bet over since teams tend to want to try out picks during the regular season. So, unless you’re sure that the gap between the teams is insurmountable, it’s much better to bet over!
Then, we have the hardest of them all – handicap betting. But seeing how hard handicap bets can be to figure out, there lies an equal opportunity for reward if you put in the time.
As Pinnacle explains it, handicap betting balances the playing field so that odds for the underdogs stay competitive. Operators do this by placing ‘handicaps’ on teams that require them to win by a significant lead to get their payout. These handicaps are in the form of number of kills they should be ahead by at the end of a game or alternatively, the number of games won in a series.
To illustrate, a +1.5 map handicap on an underdog means that they only have to win one game in a best-of series to get a payout! That is definitely doable if the team you’re betting on has a fighting chance. Oppositely, a -1.5 map handicap on a dominant team means that they need to win two straight games to win the bet. The kill handicap works in the same way.
One last reminder, the outcome of the series hardly matters in handicap bets unless they directly relate to the handicap you bet on. As an example, you thought that the game between EDward Gaming and Royal Never Give Up would be an all-out clash and decided to place a bet for RNG with a -6.5 kill handicap. Here, you only get to cashout if RNG has at least seven (7) kills above EDG.
Due to the expansive following that League of Legends has in China, Riot Games gave them the opportunity to field seventeen teams for their regional league. This means that due to the best-of-three tourney format, they can only have one single round robin to run the league.
After the regular season, only the Top 10 are qualified into the playoffs with two phases held in best-of-five matches. In Phase 1, teams are seeded into a King of the HIll single-elimination bracket. Meanwhile, the second phase features a double-elimination bracket. The sole winner of the Playoffs qualifies as the region’s first seed at Worlds 2022.
The second seed is decided by the team that has the most championship points at the end of the season. Just like in Korea, the third and fourth seeds are to be determined in the Regional Finals.
As the years have come and go, it appears that the region has only grown in stature from its days back with Positive Energy in 2013. Throughout the past decade, it seems as if the LPL was destined to play second fiddle to the dynasty that Korea made for themselves.
It was only in 2015 when EDG won their first-ever international tourney against the esteemed SKT T1 at MSI 2015 that the region lifted off. It started a wave that would bring China trophies to come with RNG at MSI and iG and FPX at Worlds. However, with a deep talent pool combined with the work ethic to succeed, it was only a matter of time before China started racking up the trophies — which they exactly did when historic organization EDward Gaming finally won their first-ever championship at Worlds 2021 after upsetting Korea’s DWG KIA.
For this year’s Spring split, it seems that the competition is very top-heavy. With teams like EDward Gaming, LNG Esports, and Royal Never Give Up at the forefront of the league, it becomes a toss-up to see which one of these teams will end up dominating in the 2022 season.
Presently, EDward Gaming and Royal Never Give Up are performing as expected in their first weeks of play in the Spring split. Given their track record, it’s easy to see them making it all the way to the finish line with the same bravado they’re putting up right now. And alongside them is Doinb’s LNG Esports which is proving to be the one to pressure the powerhouses of old.
However, always be on the lookout for teams such as Victory Five, Bilibili Gaming, and Weibo Gaming as they rise up the rankings and get better with every series. In time, these teams can definitely learn a thing or two from the likes of EDG and RNG and upset them come Playoffs.
You can watch the Group Stage of the LPL live on Twitch and YouTube from January 10 to February 20, 2022. For full coverage of the LPL, go to their official page daily starting as early as 12 A.M. to 4 A.M. (PST).
As of Week 2, EDward Gaming and LNG Esports are ahead of the curve with a 4-0 record. Meanwhile, Royal Never Give Up is trailing behind them with a 4-1 record.
The LPL has a prize pool of ¥ 4,200,000 or roughly $644,082 split between the top 6 teams in the Playoffs.
Among all the bets you can place on the LPL, you can choose between moneyline, prop, total, and handicap betting. For each type of bet, you can head on over to bet365, Rivalry, Vulkanbet, and Pinnacle respectively for the best odds!
The playoffs will begin shortly after the Group Stage which ends on February 20, 2022.