A look back at previous All-Star team champions: The beginning and end of Korean domination

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A look back at previous All-Star team champions: The beginning and end of Korean domination - Lujuba


2018 League of Legends All-Star Game will be held in Las Vegas, USA at 8 am Beijing time on December 7th. At that time, many professional players, community celebrities, and game anchors from 14 competition areas around the world will gather together to bring you a series of exciting entertainment events. Let's celebrate the end of the 2018 season with the last international event of the year!

, as the first all-star game, has been the most interesting team game since the beginning. Over the years, it has left countless wonderful moments. The all-star teams from all major competition areas fight for their own competition area once a year. Today, let us review the previous All-Star Game champions!

2013 All-Star Team Champion: Korea All-Star Team

A look back at previous All-Star team champions: The beginning and end of Korean domination - Lujuba


In May 2013, the All-Star Game was held as an official independent event for the first time, and the venue was chosen in Shanghai, China. At that time, the South Korean division had not yet become the dominant division that made the world tremble, and their best result was only the S2 runner-up. And it was in this All-Star Game that the South Korean team showed their fangs to the world.

At that time, SKT had not yet become a first-tier team in Korea, and the players who were elected to the All-Stars in each position were all from the giants that were the favorite of the Korean audience at that time. Top laner Shy, jungler InSec, mid laner Ambition, bottom laner Pray+Madlife. These players, who were only slightly famous in South Korea at the time, will spread their prestige to the rest of the world after this All-Star Game.

In the 2013 All-Star Game, Riot announced that the S3 Global Finals will soon expand the competition system, and one of the temptations of the All-Star Game that year was that the winning division will get the third seed of the S3 Global Finals. There are only two places at most. The powerful

Korean LCL All-Star Team and the Chinese LPL All-Star Team swept the European and American divisions all the way to the final. In the final, South Korea used their poke flow and split push system to beat the LPL, which was only attacking and fighting at the time, and easily won 2:0. This All-Star Game became the beginning of Korean teams dominating the world's major international competitions, and it also became the beginning of the nightmare of LPL teams chasing international championships for many years.

Champion of the 2014 All-Star Team Tournament: South Korea-SK Telecom T1 K

A look back at previous All-Star team champions: The beginning and end of Korean domination - Lujuba


In 2014, Riot restructured the All-Star Tournament system and invited strong teams from each division to participate. SKT T1, as the S3 world champion, formed a second team in 2014. The two teams are SKT T1 S and SKT T1 K. The original team who won the S3 championship: top laner Impact, jungler Bengi, mid laner Faker, bottom laner Piglet+PoohMandu were invited to participate in this All-Star Game.

At that time, SKT had slipped from the peak of its state, and the team was struggling in the league. In the spring split, it only won the quarterfinals of the playoffs. In this case, SKT, which is going to the All-Stars, is full of controversy. The representative team sent by the LPL division that year was the OMG team that won the first place in the regular season in the 2014 spring game.

Surprisingly, SKT, who played very mediocre in the league, continued to dominate the Korean team in the international arena. They won both the group stage and the semifinals and advanced. The OMG team only won 2 wins and 2 losses after an unexpected loss to C9, but they completed their revenge in the semifinals, sweeping C9 2:0, and meeting SKT in the final.

OMG and SKT played against each other twice in the S3 group stage. The two sides drew 1-1. At that time, they were the only non-Korean team that defeated SKT in international competitions. full of hope. But the miracle did not happen, SKT swept OMG 3:0 and won the All-Star Game championship.

2015 All-Star Team Champion: LCK representative team

A look back at previous All-Star team champions: The beginning and end of Korean domination - Lujuba


The 2015 All-Star Game was changed to December of that year, and this time has continued to this day, and the introduction of the concept of confrontation between ice and fire has also made various new modes full of highlights. The team competition has also been changed back to the form of all-star teams voted by audiences all over the world. The LCK contestants include top laner Marin, jungler Score, mid laner Faker, and bottom laner Pray+Madlife.

In this year's global finals, the LPL team collapsed, while the LCK team joined forces in the final and won the championship, completely announcing the arrival of the era of Korean hegemony. In this All-Star game, LPL defeated LCK, but lost to LMS and NALCS, and failed to advance to the finals.

And LCK, as the No. 1 team of Infinite Flame and the No. 1 team of Absolute Zero in the EU LCS Division, played a BO3 final. The LCK Division defeated the EU LCS 2:0 and achieved the three consecutive All-Star Team Championships. The Infinite Flame team also won the ice-fire confrontation. As a commemoration, Riot selected Diana, the goddess of the moon, through voting, and customized a "Infinite Flame Diana" skin for her.

Champion of the 2016 All-Star Team Tournament: LCK representative team

A look back at previous All-Star team champions: The beginning and end of Korean domination - Lujuba


The competition system in 2016 is basically the same as in 2015. In this year's global finals, the top four in the LCK division won three seats, and SKT and SSG joined in the final. And in the semi-finals, the epic BO5 match between ROX Tigers and SKT T1 was hailed as the most exciting BO5 in the history of LOL events. South Korea's dominance is getting stronger and stronger, and this year the LCK division also sent out an absolute all-star team in terms of strength:

top laner Smeb, officially certified by Riot as the world's top laner in S6, and the top 20 professional players. The jungler Bengi, he and Faker are the only two players in the world who have won the S tournament championship three times. In the S6 global finals, his wonderful performance as the savior in danger helped SKT win the third championship. Not to mention the mid laner Faker, the FMVP of the S6 global finals, used his wonderful performance to carry the team to sweep away all obstacles and defend the S game champion. He is undoubtedly the greatest player in the history of LOL. Looking at the entire e-sports world, he is also one of the greatest professional players. Bot laner Pray and Madlife are frequent visitors to the All-Stars. Except for S4, they never missed the All-Star games that year. Its position in the hearts of Korean audiences is irreplaceable.

The 2016 All-Star Team Tournament canceled the finals, and directly rewarded points for group battle rankings. The LCK representative team won all three games to help Infinity Flames get the highest points. Later, the Absolute Zero team won more victories in other modes, especially Uzi won the All-Star Solo Championship, which helped the Absolute Zero team win the Ice-Fire confrontation in the All-Star Game this year.

Champion of the 2017 All-Star Team Tournament: LPL representative team

A look back at previous All-Star team champions: The beginning and end of Korean domination - Lujuba


In 2017, Riot once again changed the All-Star Tournament system again, emphasizing the concept of competition in the competition area again, and customized trophies for the champions of the team competition and 1V1 competition. The LPL, who returned with regret at the S7 Global Finals, came this year with the determination of revenge. The members selected through voting include: top laner 957, jungler Mlxg, mid laner Xiye, and bottom laner Uzi+Meiko.

won all three LPL games in the group stage. In the semi-finals, he faced LCK, the overlord of the all-star team competition for four consecutive times. The LPL representative team won consecutive battles. After winning the second key team battle, they were about to comeback, but they were pushed home by the soldiers , but still won the third game with great momentum, ending the LCK's dominance of the All-Star team game.

faced the LMS representative team in the final, and the LPL fought hard against them for five games. In the end, they defeated the LMS with better teamwork and cooperation, and won the hard-won All-Star Team Championship.

The cheering LPL audience may not have imagined that the 2013 All-Star Game was the beginning of the Korean team's dominance, and the 2017 All-Star Game was the end of the Korean team's dominance. After this All-Star Game, LCK lost all international competitions in 2018, and even stopped in the quarter-finals in the S8 Global Finals at home. And this All-Star Game has becomeThis marks the beginning of the LPL's domination of international competitions, and we have completed the grand slam achievement of international championships during this year.

The 2018 League of Legends All-Star Game will start at 8 am on December 7th, Beijing time.

A look back at previous All-Star team champions: The beginning and end of Korean domination - Lujuba


This year’s team competition has undergone changes for the first time. The familiar European and American duels and the Chinese and Korean duels will become the main highlights of the team competition. More entertainment mode, community representatives and celebrity anchors from more competition areas also participated.

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