Excel Esports' Caedrel's Top 5 Players to Watch at Worlds 2020

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Who can beat Nuguri in the Top Lane? (Image Credit: lolesports via Flickr)

Who are the biggest threats of the 2020 World Championship? Which players can solo-carry any game even when behind? We had the chance to talk to Excel Esports Jungler Marc “Caedrel” Lamont, who has made his analyst and caster debut during the play-in phase about his opinion on the best players fans get to see at the 2020 World Championship. These are the five League of Legends players you should watch out for at this year’s event:

Yu "JackeyLove" Wen-Bo – Bot Laner, Top Esports

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TES after their win against UoL (Image Credit: TES via Twitter)

"Jackylove led Top Esports to fourth place in the LPL regular session and they won the LPL summer play-offs with a 3-2 victory over JD Gaming.

He’s a former world champion with Invictus Gaming in 2018 and therefore knows what it takes to win at this level. I think he was very underrated at Invictus Gaming, the sole laners got so much praise but Jackeylove always played extremely well too. Now at Top Esports, he seems to be popping off again and his stats are crazy good at the moment - i’d argue he’s one of the top three in his role in the world right now. He’s also very flexible and is definitely someone to watch at Worlds this year.

I think the meta just suits his playing style at the moment and I can’t see any other AD Carries challenging him in his group. The only other AD Carries that can really stand up to him at the moment are Luka “Perkz” Perkovic, Martin “Rekkles” Larsson and maybe Lee “LokeN” Dong-wook."

Rasmus “Caps” Borregaard Winther – Mid Laner, G2 Esports

"He’s a back-to-back World’s finalist which you can’t take away from him and I think he’s carried G2 Esports for most of the play-offs. I think a lot of the G2 Esports players were very consistent, but Caps just dominated every time he played.

He’s also slowly becoming more consistent with his high-level performances in the past couple of years so he’s definitely one of the players to keep an eye on at Worlds, as are G2 Esports generally. He can also play literally any champion he wants to and when it comes to his champion pool, he’s probably the most flexible mid laner in Europe at the moment. I don’t see many other mid laners in his group posing him too much of a challenge either."

Jang “Nuguri” Ha-gwon – Top Laner DAMWON Gaming

"He was the best performing Top Laner in the LCK League this season. He plays Jayce, Renekton and Camille - all the carry tops - really well and his statistics this season are crazy good. He’s been excelling for DAMWON massively since the summer and they’ve been very good ever since. He just seems to be stomping every lane phrase and has loads of solo kills too.

I think he’s going to be one of the curveball players in the top lane and will likely beat every other player in the lane phase. He reminds me of TheShy from 2018 when Invictus Gaming became the first Chinese team to win a World Championship. I think he should be fine against both Rogue and JD Gaming, he’s definitely the best Top Laner in that group. He could potentially even be the best Top Laner in the whole tournament alongside G2 Esports’ Martin “Wunder” Hansen."

Zhuo “knight” Ding – Mid Laner, TOP Esports

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Tes Knight waiting before game (Image Credit: Top Esports)

"Everyone seems to be talking about knight and justifiably, he’s so good. He’s quite similar to Caps - he completely dominates his lane, runs around, and carries his team. He’s also very reliable.

It's his first time at Worlds which is very exciting, and I think he’s going to blow up. I don’t think the occasion will have much of an effect on him either. Most of LPL is played on stage so he’s used to the environment and the Covid situation means there won’t be a crowd so I think he should be ok.

He’s in Group D and I think the only mid laner that can come close to him in that group is DRX’s Chovy."

Seo “Kanavi” Jin-hyeok – Jungler, JD Gaming

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JDG Kanavi during the season (Image Credit: Riot Games China)

"There are a lot of whispers that he’s the best Jungler in the world right now and he’s been carrying his team so much throughout the regular split. I think he had a little bit of a shaky final but the carry Jungle meta is his meta. He’s been playing carry Jungle since the start of the split so he’s definitely going to feel comfortable whereas most Junglers are struggling with the carry Jungle adaptation.

Kanavi’s going to come in and just rock the world with Graves, Kayn and Evelynn so he’s definitely the one Jungler to watch going into the group stage. I think he’s probably the best Jungler in his group and even the best Jungler in the whole tournament in my opinion"

We already got to see some of these players pop off in the group stages and show off why they were chosen as the players to watch. We just hope that they can make it out of groups so fans can get to experience more amazing plays even during the knock-out stage.

Be sure to check out Caedrel on his Twitter as well as Excel Esports!

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Sabrina Ahn

Sabrina Ahn is the League of Legends and Riftfeed Lead. During her time at Concordia University in 2014 she fell in love with LoL and is playing it since – how she hasn't lost her sanity is still unclear....