“Super team” IG makes a grand debut but is “extremely criticized” by LPL fans
IG 2025 and its super grand debut
Just as previously announced, the IG squad competing in the 2025 season was announced on the evening of December 8. Not just through posts on social networks, IG organized a grand ceremony at Cao Tan Center Stadium – Chengdu with a player introduction process similar to this year’s World Championship. Furthermore, IG also gave many commentators, streamers, and celebrities in the country’s League of Legends village new uniforms and created an extremely powerful media effect.
IG’s new lineup was launched at an extremely grand ceremony
Indeed, when looking at the “super team” that IG owns in the 2025 season, majestic introductions like the above appear to be extremely worthy. This team has just welcomed two of its legends, TheShy and Rookie, and also recruited stars who won Worlds (Meiko, Jiejie) and MSI (GALA). With the reputation that the players possess and the extremely epic debut, IG promises to stir up LPL in the upcoming 2025 season.
The members of IG 2025 are all big stars in the LPL region
LPL audiences still mock IG 2025 as “nothing but real”
Despite possessing so many stars, the 2025 version of IG has not yet completely won the trust of LPL fans. Many negative, even sarcastic comments have appeared on many League of Legends forums in the land of billions of people targeting IG after they officially announced the lineup. Some viewers even think that this “new” IG is actually just a media ploy and has no chance of competing for the title.
“The aircraft carrier (referring to the “super team” IG 2025) looks majestic but it’s all rusted, it’s really fake” – An audience commented
“Honestly, this team is full of old men. To be frank, the whole squad is on the other side of their career slope” – Another player frankly shared
“The LCK teams will wake up the next morning and laugh at this team when they see the names of the Jungler and Support” – Another gamer agreed.
To be fair, LPL audiences also have their reasons for doubting IG’s ability to succeed in 2025. In fact, TheShy has been out of action for the entire 2024 season, so the audience cannot know about his performance. What level is this guy at? Meanwhile, Rookie and Jiejie had a pretty bad 2024 season and did not have good performances. If Rookie’s NIP had lost 0-8 in the LPL Summer 2024 group stage, EDG and Jiejie wouldn’t have been able to get tickets to the playoffs. GALA and Meiko have achievements that are considered acceptable for LNG or TES, but both teams were eliminated very early at the recent 2024 World Championship.
The stars of the “new” IG had a 2024 season with many regrets
That said, even though IG 2025 is a collection of many stars on paper, it is difficult for them to create trust in the audience about a candidate competing for the title. The positive point that the “new” IG brings to LPL is probably the great media effect to bring the audience back to watch the tournament. Obviously, in the context of LPL’s severe decline in viewership in the 2024 season, the return of big stars is necessary. Regarding competition achievements, perhaps the audience needs to wait a little longer to be able to make a more accurate assessment of IG’s new “super team”.
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