GIDEON’s Malphite Ignites HANJIN BRION’s Game 4 Rout

TL;DR: Facing elimination with Team WE ahead in the series, HANJIN BRION found another gear: GIDEON’s Malphite helped drive a 24-8 rout, while Roamer’s Ahri finished with a 22.00 KDA. The 28-minute win turned the model’s narrow 51% preference into a 14.1k gold advantage and kept HANJIN BRION alive.

Key Takeaways

• HANJIN BRION won the kill race 24-8, converting a close model forecast into a one-sided result.
• GIDEON and Malphite helped fuel the turnaround despite -1237 GoldDiff@15, with 11 assists contributing to the team’s relentless engage.
• Roamer anchored the fight with Ahri’s 9/1/13 line and 22.00 KDA, giving HANJIN BRION a reliable closer.

Building the Lead

Elimination sharpened HANJIN BRION’s play. After Team WE took the first two games, HANJIN BRION had already struck back in Game 3; Game 4 demanded another win to level the series and survive. Instead of letting the pressure stall them, they turned the map into a succession of fights Team WE could not contain.

GIDEON’s Malphite began from a difficult position, sitting 1237 gold behind at 15 minutes. But the deficit did not tell the whole story: his 1/2/11 performance brought the engage and follow-up that let teammates take over. Roamer’s Ahri punished openings with 9 kills and 13 assists, while Teddy’s Xayah added 8/1/12. Their damage and control turned a modest forecast edge into a widening lead.

The model had favored HANJIN BRION at 51%. That prediction materialized in-game—not because the opening forecast promised an easy win, but because HANJIN BRION executed decisively once the fighting began.

The Numbers Tell the Story

By the end, HANJIN BRION had 24 kills to Team WE’s 8, led by 14.1k gold at 62.9k to 48.8k, and taken 11 towers to 1. Both teams secured 2 dragons, so the difference was not an overwhelming dragon count. It was HANJIN BRION’s control of fights and structures: one team converted its wins into a map-wide advantage, while the other could not find a foothold.

Team WE’s Qiyana had a 2/5/5 line, and Nautilus fell 1/7/5 as the pressure mounted. Malphite’s early gold deficit makes the jungle story more striking: despite that setback, GIDEON finished with 11 assists. With Ahri’s 22.00 KDA and Xayah’s eight kills beside him, HANJIN BRION had the tools to punish engagements and carry the advantage forward.

The Final Push

In just 28:00, HANJIN BRION collected the remaining towers and closed out the game without needing a Baron: they finished with 0 barons, compared with Team WE’s 0, and matched their opponents at 2 dragons. The decisive difference was the scale of the fights and the structures taken afterward. Team WE’s single tower against HANJIN BRION’s eleven captures how little room the losing side had to stabilize.

For HANJIN BRION, this was more than a win on the DCGI scoreboard. After facing elimination, the team had forced the series level and earned one more chance to advance.

Polymarket Market

The game market closed with HANJIN BRION at 57%, and the favorite delivered. That was directionally right, but the match was far less close than a narrow pre-game edge might suggest: HANJIN BRION finished 24-8 in kills, ahead by 14.1k gold, and took 11 towers to 1. The market’s 51% draft-model signal also pointed toward the winner; the decisive revelation was how effectively GIDEON’s engage and Roamer’s Ahri turned that small advantage into control. Before the series, the market had already leaned HANJIN BRION, 56% to 44%, rather than flipping to them after this game. Following the result, the series market moved from 30% to 52% for HANJIN BRION, a 22.0 percentage-point swing that reflects renewed confidence heading into the next game.

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*Odds via Polymarket, 2026-10-15 13:52 UTC.*