After two amazing days that included the dethroning of the last undefeated team, the first game win out of the winless OZ Gaming, and a base race between a Tristana and the entire enemy team, it would be an understatement to say Challengers Korea Week 3 lived up to the hype!







To end this exciting week we have a tale of two matches as the 7th place Asura Gaming look for their first match victory while the 6th place Element Mystic looks to prove themselves to be a playoff contender. After these two bottom-of-the-table teams meet, we will see Jin Air Greenwings and Seorabeol Gaming face off to try to clinch a tie for first place going into week 4. Let’s dive into an analysis of these four teams to find out who will come out on top!







Asura Gaming

Asura had a rough time against Brion Blade as expected, but the team failed to pick up even one win in the match which was not expected by some. Asura Gaming’s aggression seemed to either not be existent, or it was used against them this match with matching macro plays to every roam or gank Asura pulled out of their pockets. Not only that, but they also had to face the wrath of Doil’s Nidalee, who is currently the rank 1 Nidalee player in Korea. However, with this match against Element Mystic, Asura have the chance to steal their first win. Asura’s key to victory lies in two things: Banning Tristana and bringing on ruthless early aggression to overwhelm the wreckless aggression Element Mystic often have.

Element Mystic

Element Mystic and being Aced in the first teamfight of the game… Name a more iconic duo.





Element Mystic seems to have an obsession with going all-in on fights no later than 25 minutes that will decide the rest of the game. Sometimes it will hurt them, as we saw in Game 3 versus Seorabeol Gaming where they were aced twice before the 30-minute mark due to picking poor fights, while sometimes it will help then get deciding leads like against Spear Gaming. Element Mystic seems to just look for any opportunity to fight, hoping their mechanics and activated comps will carry them through poor decision making. Their key to victory against a team that thrives with early aggression is to pick mid or late comps, and play safe until win conditions are activated. From there, they just have to pick smart fights, and they can run away with the win tonight.

Seorabeol Gaming

With the mid season approaching, we are starting to see the signature mid-season KaKAO start to come out of hibernation. He started the split with a slow start, which actually could be used as an outlet for their only loss, however slowly but surely we have seen much better play from him. Game 2 of the match against Element Mystic was a rough game for him, but games 1 and 2 showed why Seorabeol made the risky move of replacing Moojin and LirA with KaKAO. Seorabeol’s win condition is to make sure to draft winning lanes, and the right information is given to KaKAO so that he can return to prime form and get his lanes fed to take over the game.







Jin Air Greenwings

It would be an understatement to say that JAG got destroyed by Dynamics, and ‘beaten into submission’ would be a much better word to use. Jin Air had everything right leading up to this game: They had momentum in their favor, Dynamcis were visibly tilted in their previous two match wins due to hardly scraping by teams they should confidently be beating, and Kuzan was put on Malzahar and solo killed by Yaharong. However, The problem with Dyncamics is that they are like Hydra: Cut off one head and two more shall take its place. This is also an accurate statement for Seorabeol Gaming, all of their lanes stacked with carryying-potential talent. The only way for Jin Air to win this match is to find a way to neutralize every member of Seorabeol, and make sure they don’t allow anyone to get significant leads over them.



Day 3 of Challengers Korea, like all day 3’s this year, will start later than usual if you want to watch. Tonight we start off at 5 PM KST (12:00 AM PST) with Asura Gaming VS Element Mystic, meaning Seorabeol Gaming VS Jin Air Greenwings will not take place until around 8 PM KST (3:00 AM PST). You can watch CK go down on AfreecaTV here, or for more information, you can visit the leaguepedia page here.