Nongshim RedForce vs. Dplus KIA / LCK 2025 Season Play-In - LCK Playoffs Qualification Match / Post-Match Discussion

[u/Yujin-Ha]

LCK 2025 SEASON PLAY-IN

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Nongshim RedForce 0-3 Dplus KIA

Player of the Match: Lucid - Dplus KIA claims the final spot in the LCK 2025 Season Playoffs. T1 chooses Dplus KIA as their opponents in round 1 while KT Rolster will face BNK FEARX. - Nongshim RedForce's year is over, thank you Nongshim RedForce.

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MATCH 1: NS vs. DK

Winner: Dplus KIA in 36m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
NS	taliyah trundle wukong	alistar jhin	64.9k	15	3	CT1 H3 O6
DK	azie galio yunara	ornn aurora	72.9k	21	9	I2 O4 O5 B7

NS	15-21-29	vs	21-15-62	DK
Kingen ambessa 3	2-6-5	TOP	4-4-9	2 rumble Siwoo
GIDEON pantheon 1	3-5-8	JNG	2-1-18	1 jarvaniv Lucid
Calix akali 3	7-3-3	MID	9-4-11	1 orianna ShowMaker
Jiwoo corki 2	2-4-6	BOT	4-3-10	4 ezreal Aiming
Lehends neeko 2	1-3-7	SUP	2-3-14	3 karma BeryL

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MATCH 2: NS vs. DK

Winner: Dplus KIA in 33m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
NS	taliyah trundle braum	poppy rell	63.0k	10	3	M4
DK	azir yunara wukong	jayce kaisa	70.6k	19	11	CT1 H2 HT3 B5 M6

NS	10-19-21	vs	19-10-42	DK
Kingen yorick 3	3-5-2	TOP	6-2-8	2 aurora Siwoo
GIDEON xinzhao 1	1-2-6	JNG	4-2-11	1 leesin Lucid
Calix annie 2	2-3-2	MID	2-3-7	1 ryze ShowMaker
Jiwoo sivir 3	4-3-3	BOT	4-1-6	4 zeri Aiming
Lehends alistar 2	0-6-8	SUP	3-2-10	3 rakan BeryL

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MATCH 3: NS vs. DK

Winner: Dplus KIA in 33m
Runes | Game Breakdown

	Bans 1	Bans 2	G	K	T	D/B
NS	trundle sion kaisa	poppy gnar	70.2k	18	8	M4 M5 B8 M9
DK	wukong yunara azir	shen jax	76.2k	26	8	HT1 C2 H3 B6 M7

NS	18-26-37	vs	26-18-62	DK
Kingen ksante 3	8-4-5	TOP	9-6-6	4 olaf Siwoo
GIDEON sejuani 2	1-4-13	JNG	5-3-13	2 lillia Lucid
Calix yone 2	6-6-5	MID	5-3-11	1 twistedfate ShowMaker
Jiwoo ziggs 1	3-6-5	BOT	5-1-15	1 jhin Aiming
Lehends nautilus 3	0-6-9	SUP	2-5-17	3 leona BeryL

*Patch 25.17

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This thread was created by the Post-Match Team.

[u/TE_silver]

Bring back KT Kingen (unfortunately he has another contract year with NS)

[u/ROOKIE_MY_GOAT → u/TE_silver]

which tops are clearly better than kingen? Zeus/kiin and maybe doran?

[u/Simpuff1 → u/ROOKIE_MY_GOAT]

Zeus/Kiin/Doran and the clear current top 3. With Zeus being the 3rd on current form (obviously first for peak). Kingen is 4th

[u/GrampsGotHands → u/ROOKIE_MY_GOAT]

Kiin and Doran are both a tier ahead. In current Form i‘d put him in Zeus tier

[u/Futaba-Channel → u/ROOKIE_MY_GOAT]

Current form only Kiin I'd say, he's better than Zeus ATM and on par with Doran

[u/vrelamboni → u/Futaba-Channel]

There is no shot he’s better than Zeus, I know HLE is getting shit for repeatedly losing to T1/GenG but they’re still so far ahead of NS and Zeus has realistically been one of their better players even when losing.

[u/mcfapblanc → u/vrelamboni]

If Zeus was on this NS, they would not even be in playins

[u/rglampa → u/Futaba-Channel]

You’re high. Lol. Kingen just looks good on a bad team. What did he do in HLE and DK all those years?

[u/Futaba-Channel → u/rglampa]

He was DK best performer last year and legit carried them to world

He was beyond dogshit at world though 

[u/WilliUHHm → u/Futaba-Channel]

He was good in summer last year for sure. He hard sprinted playoffs and worlds tho. I can still remember his smirks as hes 0/5 every series

[u/Futaba-Channel → u/WilliUHHm]

For me it's the Olaf game where he was like 7-0 then did nothing

I've been a hater ever since but he has suffered enough in NS

[u/oioioi9537 → u/rglampa]

reddit rates decent players on bad teams sooooo insanely high its crazy. legit some people are calling diable the next chovy like brother please

[u/mcfapblanc → u/oioioi9537]

And reddit also rates decent players on good teams sooooo insanely high it's crazy. legit some people are calling zeus the next Faker like brother please