Rare Atom vs. JD Gaming Prediction on January 4, 2024

Match info

We now go on to the playoffs in our Demacia Cup 2023 predictions for the League of Legends. With four teams remaining in the fight for the title, the main stage of the 13th competitive season of the event in Shanghai, China, is approaching its very finish.

The battle between Rare Atom and JD Gaming, starting on Thursday, January 4, at 5 p.m. local time, interests us at this point. Although it wasn’t what we expected to see, this pair will be competing in the match whose winner advances to the grand finals. This is because Rare Atom is an unexpected semifinal participant, and JD Gaming is the team regarded as being in the S-class.

Meeting statistics

We’re aiming to determine which team will be more dominant in this match and go to the grand finals, where it will take on the better from a duel between Bilibili Gaming and Ninjas in Pyjamas, whose match is on the schedule a day before.

The current form of Rare Atom

We’ll start the match analysis by taking a peek at the form of Rare Atom. They are the underdogs in this game by every online bookmaker LoL. They are the official hosts with the chances of them winning of more than 4.00.

Rare Atom was a disaster the previous season. The team placed 15th in the LPL Spring 2022 and 17th in the LPL Summer 2022. But by making it to the play-offs of the LPL Spring 2023, they were able to show some improvement. To get to the main stage, Rare Atom had to win eight of the 16 matches they played. They were unable to advance beyond the top 10, though.

Rare Atom played in the Chinese league’s summer split while competing in the LPL. To put it plainly, they didn’t play well; being 15th out of 17 teams isn’t really impressive. RA went on to the NEST 2023 before the Demacia Cup 2023. They played in the same manner as at most of the tournaments lately, finishing in the top 16.

Nevertheless, Rare Atom displayed a surprising level of class at the Demacia Cup in 2023. They were atop Invictus Gaming and FunPlus Phoenix, taking the first place in their group. Also unexpectedly, Rare Atom emerged victorious in the opening playoff match. They triumphed, not just over anyone but over LNG Esports: 3-1.

The current form of JD Gaming

JD Gaming will start this match as the clear favorite; their chances of winning are about 1.20. With relative ease, JD Gaming emerged as the spring LPL champions. The lone challenging match occurred in the upper bracket semifinals, where Bilibili Gaming caused them problems by snatching two maps.

Among other important results, JD Gaming were victorious in the Mid-Season Invitational 2023. Recalling the LPL Summer 2023 group stage, JD Gaming was just below Bilibili Gaming, with a record of 14-2. LNG Esports and JD Gaming squared off in the opening round of the main stage. Even though the former displayed excellent play and forced the reigning world champions to sweat through five maps, Park “Ruler“ Jae-hyuk & Co. prevailed in the end. In the Upper Bracket final, BLG came next. They lost 0-3, failing to provide JD Gaming with the same level of opposition as LNG Esports. Once again, LNG Esports gave the mighty JDG a real fight in the LPL Summer 2023, which was in the grand finals. Even though they captured two maps at once, they were unable to prevail.

It was time for the Worlds 2023. JDG defeated Team BDS in their inaugural match. The vice-champions of MSI 2023 and LPL Spring 2023, Bilibili Gaming, were then handily defeated by JD Gaming. LNG Esports were defeated by JD Gaming in the final group stage round. KT Rolster took one map from JD Gaming in the opening play-offs round, but the latter proved why they were regarded as the top favorites to win Worlds 2023: they dominated the rest of the match. However, things were exactly the opposite during the subsequent game. T1 terminated JDG’s road to the gold in 2023 by letting them take only one card in the bo5 series. JD Gaming defeated Top Esports 3-2 in a hard-fought victory to open the Demacia Cup 2023 playoffs.

Head-to-head encounters

The 2023 season has seen three games between the teams. JD Gaming won all of these.

Match analytics

Rare Atom have already outdone themselves. The fact that they defeated LNG Esports is itself a huge deal. We’ll be shocked if they defeat JDG as well, so for the time being, we’re backing JDG to win.

In summary, a Correct Map Score of 0-3 (in favor of JD Gaming) with odds of 3.40 at Unibet is what we propose for a wager.

Results of the forecast

Successful forecast. Rare Atom vs. JD Gaming 0:3