GIANTX vs. Team Vitality Prediction on January 13, 2024

Match info

The major League of Legends (LoL) is back on the schedule. The LEC Winter 2024 (League of Legends EMEA Championship Winter 2024) Regular Season matches will mark its return.

Ten European teams will be vying for awards, both cash prizes and progression to higher-level events. GIANTX and Team Vitality are two of them; they’ll play each other on the first gameday on Saturday, January 13, at 8 p.m. local time at Riot Games Arena in Berlin, Germany.

Let’s try to determine which of these two teams will prevail in what could be a challenging best-of-one encounter and which will suffer an inconvenient loss to begin LEC Winter 2024.

Meeting statistics

The first significant competition of the year is this one. Participants in one of the top four leagues are to compete for 80,000 euros and a spot in the Mid-Season Invitational 2024, the first major international championship of the season. Furthermore, a spot in the 2024 LEC Finals will be awarded to the winning team of the Winter Season.

The current form of GIANTX

We begin our match analysis with the GIANTX’s form. They are the underdogs in this game, with odds of winning more than 2.00 set by virtually every bookmaker League of Legends.

GIANTX is a newcomer to the LEC. The club that took over the Giants’ slot is making its debut with the LEC 2024 Winter split. It should be noted that GIANTX originated from the fusion of Spanish club Giants and British club Excel Esports.

The Europeans had an extremely challenging season last year. The squad didn’t do well at LEC Winter 2023; they placed in the top 10. There was nothing new from them in the Spring split either. They finished last.

Following two disastrous splits, GIANTX switched foresters, bringing in Korean legionnaire Lee “Peach“ Min-gyu in lieu of Raphaël “Targamas“ Crabbé. The magical run at LEC Summer 2023 can’t be explained in any other manner but by this roster shift. In addition to being in the top 3, GIANTX advanced to the split’s Grand Final, securing their place in the LEC Finals. Given the strength of their opponent, it’s not disheartening that they fell to G2 Esports in the championship match.

Looking at the outcome of the first LEC Finals 2023 match, GIANTX’s results at LEC Summer 2023 were undone. They resembled what we saw during LEC Winter and Spring in the match against the MAD Lions. GIANTX took on Fnatic in the following game. That match was already more of a worthy contest and went all the way to a bo5, but Fnatic prevailed. Ex-Giants finished in the top 5 at the last LEC Finals.

The current form of Team Vitality

Next is an analysis of Team Vitality’s form. The “Bees“ are the favorites in their first encounter in 2024, with odds of about 1.60 for victory.

Vitality is a shady team. They showed a really erratic game all of last year. In general, they had a significant failure in their 13th season.

They took part in LEC Winter 2023 to begin the previous season. Vitality easily passed through the Regular Season, having 7-2. They then advanced to the Group Stage, where they fared significantly worse. So much so that they were unable to go beyond the group, following defeats from SK Gaming and KOI. Consequently, they finished in the top 5. The schedule saw them competing at LEC Spring 2023. Vitality’s best split was this one, as they placed in the top 3. But that was that – top 3 and nothing more.

Vitality’s final competition of the previous season was LEC Summer. And it was a complete disaster: they finished the split in the top 10, having their worst season campaign by going 1-8 in the Regular Season.

The execution is the French team’s weak point, despite having a rather powerful roster.

Head-to-head encounters

The teams haven’t actually faced off in head-to-heads.

Match analytics

In this match, we’re more confident in the success of GIANTX. They kept the majority of their talented squad from the previous season, and they’ve already proven they are capable of competing in League of Legends. Despite their incredibly high-profile squad, Vitality is so inconsistent that we simply don’t count on them here.

The bottom line is the moneyline win of GIANTX with odds of 2.34 at 888STARZ.

Results of the forecast

Successful forecast. GIANTX vs. Team Vitality 1:0