This year's two LPL summer semi-final matches were held at VG's home court. Gu Xing and other members of the training department took the bus to the venue in the morning.
As soon as I got in the car, I saw a group of seven wolves chatting and making a fuss.
Gu Xing flipped through the chat history and figured out the whole story.
The reason was that Xiang Guo complained in the group that the venue arrangement for the semi-finals was unreasonable and believed that the showdown should not be held at VG’s home court.
mlxgzzz: [Last night, I ran to the airport first and then took a two-and-a-half-hour flight to the imperial capital. Then I ran to the hotel, which was a full half-day delay. I had to play the game when I got up. @VGVirtue@ It’s a pity that there is no if/°, Shiquan
Is it your father, Jiang Zi is taking care of favoritism?】
This statement was immediately recognized by the IG duo and Shi Senming.
Xiangsong and Xiangsong can still barely accept that their other semi-final against RW will have to wait until tomorrow, and they can still have a day's rest.
But when he thought about the VG members who had to eat and live at the base before the game, and then take a bus to the venue that day, Xiangsong felt very unhappy!
Jack, who was sitting in the front seat, also took out his cell phone to look at it. He noticed the complaints from the group of friends and hurriedly yelled at Gu Xing.
"Lao Gu, what should we say?"
"Don't worry..." Gu Xing signaled him to calm down and started typing and sending messages.
VGVirtue: [This is why we VG built a home court. The home court advantage is very reasonable!]
[The question is, why doesn’t RNG build a home court? Do you not want to? 】
Gu Xing originally wanted to complain. Although the VG base is in the imperial capital, it is in a remote MTG area. It takes more than an hour to get to the Ditan Sports Center. And if you rush there on the same day, you will inevitably have back pain and motion sickness. Your competitive state after arriving at the venue is not necessarily certain.
It's better than RNG.
But then he thought about it, and he felt that pouring out the bitterness would not have the effect of choking people, so he might as well admit openly that he had taken advantage.
What can you do to me?
Jack's face glowed red, and he was very satisfied with Gu Xing's arrogant statement.
"Okay, okay, just be a little bit crazier!"
Yu Wenbo kept up with the output in the Seven Wolves group chat.
[Steamed buns, you don’t have a support? If you don’t like it, just hold it in for me!]
After sending this message, he sent a ban package to several people who had caused trouble before.
Now the pack of seven wolves finally became quiet.
"It's cool!" Jack beamed, "Is this what it feels like to be a dog with authority?"
"Comfortable!"
Gu Xing chuckled and shook his head, and opened the anti-bar to see what netizens had to say.
Except for a handful of resurrected dog boys in today’s forums who are discussing how strong IG is this year, the rest are all discussing the upcoming contest between RNG and VG.
[I’ll just tell you a number, 3:0, VG can’t lose even one game! 】
[Fuck you, will the royal family be swept away? Dutiful son V started to dream again]
[Haha, RNG only won one game in the spring finals. No one feels that RNG in summer is stronger than spring, right? 】
[Let’s wait and see Maibo teach Letme a lesson, I’ll lose if I don’t beat Letme to the point where I lose my mind!]
[Laughing, Smeb is so strong, why didn’t he win against Letme in the Asian Games? 】
[At that time, Maibo's jungler was Little Peanut, but now he is Brother Xing! Isn't HZ not thinking about B numbers? Xiangguo is a big boy who is famous on the list, Brother Xing, so he must be stable and filial today!]
After Gu Xing read the post, he found that most netizens held the same views as members of the VG training department.
In this semi-final, RNG could at most steal a small game.
As netizens commented, compared with the spring split, RNG in the summer is much weaker.
The royal family just can't deal with Akali, Sword Demon and Sword Girl, the three top single-line swingers!
Moreover, the bottom lane is popular. This style of play and tactics that emerged because of the Korean team dominated the field environment at the end of the LPL regular season and even during the playoffs. Many teams are imitating and developing them. Now even the Ravens, Vampires and Xinde
Heroes such as La can also appear in the bottom lane, posing a considerable challenge to the players' hero pool.
According to the information currently available to VG, Uzi does not play these characters without AD souls. Not to mention not choosing them in the competition, even in the qualifying matches, they are not fill-ins and do not use magic cores!
It can be said that RNG, leaving Nosuke aside, the remaining three players all have hero pool flaws!
What are you fighting with me for?
Gu Xing was full of confidence, but he was a little dizzy from the stop-and-go bus, so he simply leaned on a chair and took a nap.
When I woke up, I could already see the silver dome of VG’s home stadium not far ahead.
The area around the bus was blocked by supporters early on and was filled to the brim!
Gu Xing could see their youthful smiling faces through the glass window. As expected, most of the spectators were college students from around the imperial capital.
When he got family tickets for his girlfriend and sister from manager Lu Wenjun, he was teased by the other party. It was hard to get tickets for this semi-final, and they were sold out within a second of being released.
The ticket grabbing event was far better than in previous years!
In the final analysis, it is still a matter of arrangement of competition dates.
Since there are two events this season, the Intercontinental Tournament and the Asian Games, the schedule for the entire summer season is very long, so much so that the playoffs, which were supposed to end at the end of August or early September, are only halfway through now.
After college students returned to school, the number of e-sports spectators in the imperial capital expanded rapidly!
Among them, the number of fans of VG and All-China Class RNG can only be described as terrifying!
Although VG's home stadium has one of the largest number of spectators among all the stadiums in the LPL, enough to accommodate thousands of people, it is still not worth mentioning in the face of the huge demand for spectators!
Gu Xing packed his bag and got out of the car, raised a smile and waved to the supporters, satisfying fans' requests for autographs and photos. As soon as he looked at the number of spectators outside the venue, he knew that there were still only a few people who bought tickets, and most of them were probably
I made a special trip to VG’s home stadium to see myself, and I really couldn’t bear to refuse.
After being busy for a quarter of an hour, he finally got away, entered the venue, signed in, put on makeup, and checked peripherals, and then waited at the entrance of the backstage passage for the game to start.
Compared with the finals, the semi-finals are undoubtedly much simpler, and the entrance process is the same as the regular season.
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They know how serious the playoffs are!
There is no room for trial and error. Losing a BO5 means that all the team's arrangements for the summer split are in vain!
Because of this, the audience will regard every home team's game as the last dance and warmly welcome the team they support!
When they saw the members of the VG team on the stage, countless fans in the stands cheered, creating a momentum that was no less than that of a stadium with tens of thousands of people!
Gu Xing took great advantage of everyone's welcome. When he came on stage, he did not forget to bow slightly to express his thanks. After sitting down at the players' table, he waited for a while and enjoyed himself. Then he put on his sound-isolating headphones to exclude all the noise from the outside world and focus on
On the upcoming competition.
The interior of the custom room is as lively as the outside world.
While Xiaohu was still greeting his old Asian Games teammates cordially, Xiangguo took the lead and attacked.
RNGMlxg: [Yu Wenbo, what do you mean by gods and demons? You will be banned after posting in the group. You can’t afford to have fun, right?]
VGJackeylove: [If you say so, then that’s it, don’t refute it... Since you guys came all the way all night and are in bad condition, then I’ll take the tickets to the finals!]
Shi Senming was very unhappy about this, [We’ll see, I have to teach you a lesson today]
Jack smiled crookedly, his expression resembled that of a Shiba Inu, [Another lesson? We have been fighting from S7 to now, have you succeeded even once? 】
The first love duo chatted endlessly in the chat channel, taking turns to say harsh words and Tibetan language. As a result, the screen was filled with asterisks, just like texting in Morse code.
At this moment, the on-site commentary is ready.
"Welcome to the live broadcast of the 2018 League of Legends Professional League Summer Semifinals. Hello everyone, I am Wawa..."
The commentators responsible for this focused battle are still the Haier brothers.
After the two read the advertisement, they analyzed the current points situation of both parties.
"VG and RNG are the champions and runner-up in the Spring Split respectively, so they have 90 points and 70 points in the World Championship respectively, far ahead of RW and IG in the other half of the region. What is worth mentioning is the point difference between the runner-up and third place in the Summer Split.
It is also 20 points. According to our regulations, if the points are the same, the team with more points in the summer split will be ranked higher!"
Miller was full of energy and analyzed with the audience, "In other words, today's winner will advance to the S8 Global Finals with a points advantage and secure the No. 2 seed seat!"
"Yes, that's right, this is also the first World Championship ticket that will be born in our LPL division!" Wawa agreed.
"In terms of pre-match data, one thing that must be mentioned is the player hero pool." Miller looked at the E data given by the backstage director and was speechless for a moment. "The number of characters selected by the top and bottom lanes of both sides in this summer game.
There is a clear gap!”
Letme and Xiaohu only used a total of 9 heroes in the regular season, and Uzi was even more ridiculous, only using 5 characters!
Basically ignore the version changes and just play the heroes you are comfortable with!
If we look at other versions, the shooter position is a position where fewer heroes can be selected, so it is understandable that there are not many characters to choose from.
But this is a mid-to-upper version with a bottom-lane Fa-core version!
VG has selected 14 and 15 different heroes respectively, and even Jack has 12!
The director specially opened the table, the contrast is very clear!
"It's still a commonplace question. It's really difficult for RNG to compete with VG in terms of BP. There are too many heroes to be banned." Miller frowned and worried. "During the Asian Games, we could see that the middle and top two were swinging.
There is a problem with hero proficiency, I don’t know if it has been solved now..."
Solved, but not completely resolved.
The Royal Family was on the red side in the first game, and head coach Heart simply followed the plan proposed by Career during the Asian Games - only banning Sword Girl, and double-playing Akali and Sword Demon.
Let VG choose a supermodel monster first, and then get another one. By the way, you can also lock in the remaining powerful heroes.
Gu Xing wanted to laugh when he saw this scene.
The opponent probably just trained Akali to a level proficient enough to appear on the stage, and then they dared to double-open.
Otherwise, I will grab the Sword Demon first, and RNG will not even dare to take Akali!
But this still cannot make up for the royal family’s BP disadvantage!
"Blue Cat, do you have confidence in your Akali?" He turned to ask.
Chaowei said without hesitation, "Of course!"
Although it was his first time to participate in the playoffs, he was at the home court of VG that he was most familiar with, and his opponents were all old IDs that he had played against before, so the Blue Cat was not nervous at all.
"Blank! Blue Cat gives him the whole job!" Jack used Tsukuyomi to encourage his teammates, "Your Akali is much stronger than the opposite tiger, so feel free to take it!"
Duan Deliang laughed out loud, "If you want to find someone better than Xiaohu Akali, it's really not easy..."
Gu Xing also thought of Li Yuanhao's funny performance compared to Akali in the Asian Games, and couldn't help laughing for a moment.
When the royal family saw that VG had captured Akali, they decisively snatched away Sword Demon and support Luo, which was equivalent to banning them to prevent the opponent from taking out Phoenix Legend again.
"Jie Kuo, which one do you think is more suitable?" Hongmi asked, standing behind Yu Wenbo.
"They must be trying to make up for Xia after taking Luo. No matter how bad it is, it's Kai'Sa." Jack thought clearly, "What do you think of a bomb monster?"
Regardless of Xayah or Kai'Sa, their shooting range is extremely short, and their Poke-style play can put a lot of pressure on them!
Moreover, the two shooter heroes lack the ability to recover from the laning. If they are bombed twice during the laning period, they will lose their combat effectiveness, and they can only huddle in front of the tower and be slaughtered by others!
"Okay," Hong Mi followed suit, thinking that Yu Wenbo's idea was not as good as Mao Bi's, "Then the support can just take Leona, it just so happens that Luo can be restrained."
Originally, Bomberman's best partner was Jace, who could form a double poke lineup to play with monsters and turn the canyon into a big brawl.
But Heart fully absorbed the experience and lessons from the Asian Games, knowing in advance that his top laner could not withstand Jayce's pressure in the lane, and sent Piltover's second battalion commander up after the ban position was vacated in the first round.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Hongmi simply let the top laner come out in the second round, and first get the hero for the assistant Duan Deliang.
Sure enough, when Bomberman Leona's combination came out, Uzi's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
He was afraid that the opponent would not compete head-on with him in terms of ADC strength, so he would choose some weird stuff to confuse the lane.
But Uzi had no other choice. After research and development by each team, there were too many French-core heroes that could play, and the bans were endless. Uzi had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue playing traditional shooters to lock Xayah down.
In the second round of BP, RNG focused on the top lane, blocking Gnar and the captain, trying to limit Song Jinghao's hero pool; Redmi blocked all Nightmare and Qinggangying who have the ability to force open, creating a comfortable environment for Bomberman.
Consume space.
"RNG's fourth choice snatched Ryze. There is no doubt about Xiaohu's proficiency." Wawa nodded with great satisfaction. "If he can give Akali enough pressure during the laning period, he can restrain VG well."
Snowball speed!"
In fact, Ball Girl is better, and Xiaohu is also better at it, but VG banned Syndra as early as the first round of banning, so the Royal Family could only fall back and get Ryze.
"VG got Xin Zhao and Thain to support the front row's openness. At the same time, both of them have the ability to defend against strong openers and can protect the teammates behind them." Miller suddenly realized the problem. "This lineup is a combination of midfielder and jungler.
The intensity is very exaggerated. If you can drive up the offensive rhythm and use the vanguard to switch down and cooperate with Bomberman to quickly break the tower, it will be difficult for RNG to deal with it in the future!"
"Besides, the hero pool with Counter slots is now blocked, and there are very few characters that can increase the strength of the midfielder!" Wawa also told the problems faced by RNG, "In addition, the lineup is generally stable.
Speed is also a problem, the whole team doesn’t have a real tank hero so far!”
The royal family thought to the end and could only take out Pig Girl from the remaining heroes that are good at Xiang Guo, and at the same time meet the two conditions of strong opening and replenishing tankiness.
The lineups of both sides are confirmed.
Blue side VG: top laner Sion, jungler Xin Zhao, mid laner Akali, bottom lane bomber Leona.
Red square RNG: Sword Demon in the top lane, Wild Boar Girl in the top lane, Ryze in the mid lane, and Xia Luo in the bottom lane.
After entering Summoner's Rift, the royal family couldn't wait to use the strong level 1 invasion of their own duo, hoping to take advantage and force Gu Xing into the top half.
Bomberman Leona's level 1 combat ability is very limited. Before the bomber equipment is formed, it is impossible to compete with Xia Luo's combination!
If the second lane is robbed, RNG will definitely launch a tower-crossing offensive in the bottom lane, allowing Xiangguo to resist the tower and kill the VG duo!
Gu Xing, who was still in the upper jungle area at that time, was bound to be unable to protect his teammates!
Gu Xing was calm-minded. He knew that his team's lineup could not beat the opponent in a first-level battle, so he gave up the lower jungle area first and ran to the upper jungle area to confuse the opponent.
Just wipe out a group of red BUFFs from the enemy, upgrade to level 2 and go straight to the middle!
Although Ryze pushed the line forward, he was only level one at this time and had no ability to resist!
Xiaohu could only use W [Rune Confinement] to immobilize Akali, and quickly ran down the river.
"Brother Xing flashed E up and used the red BUFF in his hand to chase after and stab him!"
This version of Xin Zhao is all about phase dash, giving out a movement speed bonus and then chasing after him, and the triple claw attack will knock Ryze away!
Before that, Gu Xing also used punishment to kill the long-range soldiers in the second wave of soldiers that had just arrived, allowing Chaowei to reach level 2!
"Akali learned her E skill in seconds, and took advantage of the gap between Ryze being carried away to mount her Falcon Dance and rush over!"
Xiaohu's situation is like walking on thin ice.
Ryze's starting outfit is blue crystal, which does not provide any health boost, but Gu Xing's damage is extremely exaggerated.
Easily stab it to pieces!
Li Yuanhao had no choice but to dodge and distance himself as soon as Akali got close.
Upon seeing this, Chaowei immediately followed him, making it clear that he was determined to kill!
One of the reasons why this version of Akali is rogue is that Q [Cold Shadow] does not require much energy, and the first-level skill only costs 100 points.
He can definitely play double Q E!
Fly up and use Q to slow down and save others. After pulling out the passive, use AQ to send Ryze to the west!
"The birth of first blood!" Miller exclaimed in admiration. "The cooperation between VG's midfielder and jungler has become more and more tacit after a summer season. The two of them are unreasonable!"
After Gu Xing received the assist, he first helped Chaowei push all the troops in the middle, and then immediately led the mid laner to move to the lower half.
"VG midfielder has launched the first linkage. Their goal seems to be to protect the lower jungle area of Zhu Xingge." Wawa stared at the small map closely, "Now there is only Xiangguo in the jungle. As a pig sister, his efficiency in clearing the jungle is very limited. At this moment,
After dealing with F6, we have to avoid its sharp edges and exit VG’s territory now!”
Although Xiaohu, as Ryze, has to carry unpopular skills to teleport in the middle, but now he is only level 1, and he can't do much with TP. The midfield confrontation is far from VG's opponent.
Xiangguo reluctantly withdrew from the enemy's lower jungle area, allowing his mid laner to teleport back to the mid-tower to supplement his growth.
He knew that this withdrawal meant the failure of the bottom lane tower jumping plan.
Gu Xing moved his position back to the lower half of the map. When the bottom line of soldiers entered the tower, he could act as a bodyguard next to the duo, covering the bomber and clearing out the accumulated soldiers!
This time I failed to cross the tower successfully. If I want to hoard lines to enter Bomberman's tower, the difficulty is not ordinary high!
Xiang Guo was restless.
He knew that Gu Xing's ability to judge the situation had reached an advanced level.
It is to identify the shortcomings of RNG's lack of strength in the middle and jungle, use Xin Zhao to freeze his hands in advance, free up Akali, and then put pressure on the lower jungle area together, forcing himself to leave!
At that time, Xiangguo thought that he was bound to jump over the tower, but he didn't expect that the cooked duck actually flew away, so he was naturally very angry!
"But Brother Xing sacrificed his own development. In order to relieve the pressure on the mid- and lower lanes, he only received one assist for the flash gank, and the progress of clearing the jungle was also greatly limited!" Miller praised full of praise.
, “The style of play is really team-like!”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, his teammates quickly gave Gu Xing feedback and used practical actions to prove that his sacrifice was not in vain.
"When Chaowei reaches level 6, he starts with R to stun the opponent, and then uses QA to deal passive damage..." Wawa opened his eyes wide, "He wants to seek a solo kill!"
Because Xiaohu had been killed once before, he had more or less lost some of his soldiers, and now he was still a little short of level 6 with experience.
Li Yuanhao understood that without flashing, it would be difficult for him to escape the opponent's pursuit with just one leg, so he used Q [Overload] to kill the minions first to reach level 6, and then activated R [Warp Path] to fly to the rear!
But little did he know that this step had already been planned by Chaowei.
The blue cat is still holding E [Falcon Dance] in his hand!
Seeing that the teleportation circle was generated, Chaowei handed over his QE and used a short slowdown to ensure that Falcon Dance could hit.
Immediately use the acceleration to step forward and strike with A. After Ryze uses his ultimate move to teleport under the tower, he then flies over with the second stage of E!
"Xiaohu used EW to imprison Akali in place...but Chaowei laid a smoke screen and successfully evaded the lock of the defense tower!"
At this time, Akali's W also has a shielding effect. As long as she turns on the smoke screen and does not attack, she will not attract the hatred of the defense tower.
When the confinement effect ends, Chaowei uses the recovered energy to Q again, pulls out the passive A and then follows with R!
The second-level internal and external killing of Dazzle easily killed Ryze's remaining health bar!
"Cinsha!" Watou shouted loudly, "The super powerful Akali's operation is Xiaoshuai, and he successfully opened a breakthrough in the middle!"
The crowd screamed and cheered non-stop, applauding Chaowei’s wonderful operation!
The barrage in the live broadcast room was filled with excitement!
【Damn super model!】
[It’s so frustrating, you can’t resist the tower even though you’re trapped under it, you’re a pure scumbag hero!]
[This Akali’s damage is so exaggerated, can she kill someone instantly with just one blood?]
[Unfair! Akali’s BUG mechanism should be banned by default]
[HZ is laughing so hard. Those who don’t know better think that Akali has a 100% winning rate. Do you understand that I let you choose to play? 】
[Does your RNG have such an Akali? Oh no, that’s fine! 】
Xiaohu's face was as dark as water, and his cheeks were slightly red.
No one can withstand being killed alone!
The usually solid and reliable Tatpa could no longer protect him in the face of Akali's smoke screen, and Li Yuanhao suddenly felt desperate.
Ryze, who has not teleported at the beginning of 0/2, will lose a large wave of troops between resurrections, which is basically equivalent to declaring a collapse!