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Three Reasons Why DetonatioN FocusMe will,or won’t win the League of Legends Would Championship

By s. samek

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - May 5: --- during the 2019 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational Play-In Stage at GG Stadium on May 5, 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (Photo by David Lee/Riot Games)
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - May 5: --- during the 2019 League of Legends Mid-Season Invitational Play-In Stage at GG Stadium on May 5, 2019 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (Photo by David Lee/Riot Games) /
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Can DetonatioN FocusMe Win the 2019 League of Legends World Championship?

DetonatioN FocusMe is a team whose name you may have heard before. They will represent Japan and the LJL at the League of Legends World Championship in 2019, but do they have any chance to win the title? Here are the reasons why DetonatioN FocusMe (DFM) can and cannot go all the way.

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Why DFM will win Worlds

1. Best in Japan

DFM has been the top team in the LJL for pretty much the last two years. They finished 2nd in the 2018 LJL Spring playoffs, but that’s their lowest finish in two seasons. They have also come in first place the following three splits in a row in both the regular season and the playoffs.

This year, DFM went 20-1 in Spring Split and 17-4 in the Summer Spilt. That’s a 37-5 overall record with a winning percentage of 88 percent in the regular season. During the playoffs, they are 2-0 and 6-1 in their game record for a 86 percent win rate.

No team has been able to beat in Japan. If this high level of play can translate onto the World’s stage they will be good to go.

2. International experience

DFM is not entering worlds for the first time like many of the play-in teams are. They went to Worlds last year as the lone LJL team and during 2018 worlds they were placed in Group C of the play-ins with Cloud 9 and Kabum Esports.

In groups they finished at 1-3 with the lone win coming against Kabum, but still good enough to earn a one-game tiebreaker with Kabum which they won to move onto the knockout stage of play-ins. There the season would end with a 3-0 sweep by Edward Gaming, but it still provided DFM has some international experience that they carried into 2019.

In fact, at this year’s MSI, DFM went 4-2 in Group B with a second-place finish in their group, one game behind Vega Squadron at 5-1. They went 0-2 against Vega Squadron, but 4-0 against Mega and Intz.

Mega is a team in the 2019 worlds field and Unicorns of Love have three of five Vega Squadron players. Cloud9 also returns to worlds as a team DFM has experience against.  Having experience against some familiar foes should help out DFM.

3. Strong bottom lane

The DFM bottom lane duo of Yuta “Yutapon” Sugiura and Yang “Gaeng” Gwang-woo is one to watch. They played well statistically in the LJL during the season and I felt gave them an advantage during the LJL finals which they won. Without too many other playmakers on their team, this would be their best lane to play through to get some wins and try to make a run at a World Championship.

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