Bdd's apprehension and fear of facing any other LCK representatives begged a closer look. 1 South Korean seed at the event, no one checked Longzhu's less-than-concrete track record for flaws. While praise went out to GAM for standing up to the No. Playing against teams like GIGABYTE Marines - it was a lot more difficult than expected to snowball in the early stage.' It's also sort of our fault that we weren't able to snowball as fast as we intended to. 'First,' Bdd told ESPN after Longzhu qualified for the quarterfinal, 'we're just trying to play with the current Ardent Censer meta. Toward the end of groups, Longzhu struggled against the likes of GIGABYTE Marines and had to play out late-game teamfights and rely upon Kim 'PraY' Jong-in to carry when Longzhu was pushed well into its base. Interviews with Longzhu mid laner Gwak 'Bdd' Bo-seong shed additional light on the topic. Longzhu made the same mistakes it had always made, but Samsung found new ways to take advantage of them.

Ultimately, the fact that Samsung adapted and changed its focus over the course of groups set it on the right path to upend Longzhu.

Samsung Galaxy's 3-0 handling of Longzhu, however, abused obvious gaps in Longzhu's system. Longzhu found ways to defy the meta and play out 1-3-1 and 1-4 compositions domestically. The only other teams to have gone undefeated through groups in the past, Samsung Galaxy White and SK Telecom T1, ended up winning the entire tournament. 19 League of Legends World Championship quarterfinal between Longzhu Gaming and Samsung Galaxy, commentators had begun to praise Longzhu for its undefeated run through the group stage. It was supposed to be a short day with a 3-0 series between Longzhu Gaming and Samsung Galaxy - it was just also supposed to go the other way.

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