Team Vitality vs FaZe Prediction: Team Vitality has an impressive winstreak

Prediction for the match between Team Vitality and FaZe which will take place on December 13. Who will turn out to be stronger? Check the team conditions! Several betting options are available.

The Bumblebees entered the playoffs of Perfect World Shanghai Major 2024 without any problems. Team Vitality defeated GamerLegion, FURIA Esports and MIBR without losing a single map on their way. In general, in China, if you count RMR, Team Vitality played eight maps, and everywhere celebrated success. The 100% win streak could continue in the playoffs of the majors.

The recent results of the Bumblebees can be viewed in different ways. On the one hand, Team Vitality has shown a grandmaster level of play: 66% of the rounds won, with offensive and defensive efficiency at about the same level. 90% majority realization, 28% in the minority. Five of the eight pistol rounds ended in favor of the Bumblebees. ZywOo is second only to donk in personal stats, Spinx, flameZ and mezii are in the top ten in the group stage. On the other hand, the team has played low ranked opponents in the last month in China, with the exception of FaZe on RMR. In 2024, Team Vitality did not allow upsets, and in Shanghai they did not let the teams from the second and third ten of HLTV upset them.

Team Vitality consistently makes the playoffs and often reaches the semifinals. However, this season the team cannot win titles for various reasons: either ZywOo gets sick, or one of the players loses his form, or the opponents catch a break. In 2024, Team Vitality has only played in three finals, and won only at IEM Cologne 2024. With titles like that, it will be hard for ZywOo to compete for the annual top-1, but a win at a major could add to Mathieu's chances at the HLTV Awards.

Karrigan and company are keeping the mark - FaZe in any form can fulfill the minimum goal and play on stage. The team in Shanghai gave a lot of benefit of the doubt, but ultimately earned three important wins over Wildcard, MOUZ and FURIA Esports. FaZe holds a spot in the top ten HLTV teams, but last took home the trophy at IEM Chengdu 2024 - also, incidentally, a Chinese LAN tournament. Will the magic of the Celestial Empire work with FaZe in Shanghai?

The phenomenon of this team at the major defies statistics. FaZe was the only team in the playoffs with negative Kill/Deaths statistics (-21) and team HLTV rating (0.99). On the individual level rain, frozen and ropz barely broke the positive rating mark, karrigan is habitually down, but broky is surprising. Latvian sharpshooter had a positive performance on only one map out of eight. If we take the statistics of the whole team, FaZe has huge problems with ST-side (33%), low realization of majority (62%) and minority (25%), negative indicator on pistol rounds (6-10).

One just has to remember that FaZe and stats are not correlated concepts. Karrigan and company can play terribly in a group, but on stage they transform and gain momentum. At the last events FaZe didn't play much in front of the audience, but karrigan still remembers how to control the crowd. The team's future depends on the result at the major, it is now as an outsider and has nothing to lose.

Team Vitality has an impressive winstreak not only in China, but specifically over FaZe. However, most of the face-to-face series ended on the third map. Even if FaZe is not in the best playing conditions now, the team will be absolutely different on the stage and will start to dig into every game moment. It is unlikely that karrigan will be able to make it to the semifinals, but his team will be able to grab one map and get on the nerves of the Bumblebees.