In recent seasons, Riot has always had quite unique moves before major tournaments.
At MSI 2021, the community witnessed a tournament with many interesting options such as Rumble’s dominance, Morgana in the Jungle position or Lee Sin appearing a lot in the Top and Mid Lanes.
The completely changed meta makes the performance of the teams participating in these tournaments very difficult to predict.
Continuing this tradition, Riot is preparing to make drastic adjustments in the updates before MSI 2022. The changes in the upcoming version 12.7 also give the community a first look at the new meta.
First, a series of Gladiator champions whose physical damage has been significantly increased in strength.
Another stepping stone for the return of the Fighter meta is the appearance of Magic Power-oriented Jungle champions.
It can be seen that Riot’s goal is to increase match speed.
After Riot released information about update 12.7, there are many opinions that the balance team wants to `nerf T1`, the team is proving to be too dominant at the present time when winning the LCK Spring Championship.
However, at the present time, the sudden meta change is unlikely to cause difficulties for T1.
First of all, we have to talk about the extremely wide champion pool of T1 members. In addition to `boy 72 champ` Faker, young players like Zeus, Oner, Gumayusi, Keria also show that they are willing to use many different champion qualities.
Assuming the meta at MSI 2022 will shift back to last year, Oner still has good Jungle champions like Diana, especially Nidalee – a champion that this player absolutely loves but is rarely used this season.
Besides, T1 also has a huge advantage which is time to learn the meta.
Finally, there is home field advantage when MSI 2022 is officially held in Busan, South Korea.
With a series of favorable weather, terrain, and human conditions at the present time, T1 has more and more opportunities to win the MSI 2022 championship right at home.
