WE continued its unbeaten record against SKT and temporarily secured the top spot in Group A.
After the game, the number of LPL fans was unprecedented.
In MSI and the global competition, WE defeated SKT. There are still a group of people who insist that SKT entering the S competition is the real SKT.
Now, WE has slapped those people in the face with a hearty victory.
Is the S game the last sign of SKT’s stubbornness?
Sorry, whoever should lose will still lose!
Why not simply leave your stubbornness until next year and start planning for the next dynasty in advance?
What was once considered an insurmountable peak by LPL has now been climbed by WE. This sudden sense of accomplishment can only be understood by LPL fans.
This year, the chances of LPL teams winning the championship at home are really getting higher and higher!
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The third day of the group stage.
EDG struggled to defeat the North American Light C9. The game was full of ups and downs and was thrilling.
Ohmu is worthy of being the first generation top laner of SKT. His performance in the league stage was mediocre, but once he entered the world championship, he instantly transformed into a top laner.
The single-handed troll is a monster that can be beaten by thieves despite being huge. EDG cannot defeat this troll without dispatching three or more people.
Relying on the troll's single belt involvement, C9 once had a considerable advantage.
Unfortunately, C9 also has a good comrade lurking in the LPL.
At the critical moment, Jian Huang frantically submitted applications and gave EDG opportunities one after another.
iboy's small cannon took the opportunity to develop and updated the armor-piercing bow, which has the ability to deal with trolls.
After more than 50 minutes of hard work, EDG successfully came back and won their first victory in the group stage.
However, even though EDG won the game, they still received a lot of criticism.
Strict netizens believe that the reason why EDG won this game was entirely due to the opportunity given by Jian Huang's crime.
As long as Jianhuang is an individual, C9 can slowly torture EDG to death by relying on the big wooden belt.
One thing to say, EDG's win is really not a good look.
However, it is true that Queen Jian's early crimes gave EDG an opportunity. In the early team battles where C9 established an advantage, the player who performed most brilliantly was also Queen Jane.
If you win, you win, if you lose, you lose. In e-sports, the winner is the winner and the loser is the loser!
That night, there was another highlight of the LPL, between RNG and LZ.
As a long-established and strong team in the LPL, RNG has top players like Uzi in the team, so it is highly anticipated by fans.
As an opponent, LZ is a rapidly rising supernova in LCK, and its strength cannot be underestimated.
What is intriguing is that both sides sent substitute players in this game, which seems to be a bit of a mutual understanding.
LZ replaced their previous unit with Rascal, a newcomer who played in LJL last year, so the LPL audience is relatively unfamiliar with this player.
However, in Zhuge Liang's past life memory, this player once had a famous scene with Lang Xing where "people don't understand each other's joys and sorrows".
RNG did not use the "nuclear weapon" puppy in this game, and substitute ADC player Able played.
Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, Able chose ez confidently, and followed suit with a smile and teleported with his hand.
RNG as a whole has a lineup that is strong in the early and mid-term to crack LZ's development lineup.
It's a pity that Able has learned Uzi's ferocity, but not Uzi's operation.
The two elders, Xuanming and Ming, are the best at fighting this stupid young man. After a slight flaw, Able had no doubt that he was there, and e went up to try to kill him in the lane.
Cuzz, who had been crouching behind for a long time, jumped out at the right time, making ez pay a heavy price for his impulsiveness. Xiao Ming, who was trying to help him cut off his rear, was also killed.
In the middle of the game, the development of ez, which should have been strong, was seriously lagging behind, and it was reduced to a scraping technician, failing to take over the harvest.
LZ steadily expanded its advantage and defeated RNG.
After the game, the crowd was excited. The talented newcomer who was highly anticipated at the beginning of the season was suddenly demoted to be worthless.
RNG gave him a high starting point, but also gave him the same harsh test. After all, it is not easy to take over Uzi's class.
Especially with the newcomer of the same period, EDG's ADC player Xiao Zhao, it becomes more and more obvious that Able hurts Zhong Yong.
According to rumors, RNG executives seem to be planning to move Able to the second team next season and find another successor for Uzi.
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In the final game of the first round, FNC faced WE.
In this game, WE rotated the bottom lane, and Smile took the field.
What’s interesting is that in order to thank LPL fans for supporting them, FNC embroidered the Chinese nicknames given to the players by LPL fans on this campaign.
Among them, Rekkles’ nickname is “Ou Cheng”!
Rekkles, a talented boy who debuted as a bright new star, was set in the background by his bright smile.
However, in recognition of his strength, the LPL audience gave him such a nickname.
After many years, the two met again in the world arena, and there was still a sense of inherited ritual.
Unfortunately, Smile, an old man, had no intention of handing over the baton. A textbook-like teaching of small artillery made Ou Cheng regain the terrifying experience of facing Smile when he was a teenager.
WE has advantages across the board and crushed FNC in less than thirty minutes.
After the game, the two ADC players showed sympathy to each other and posted photos of exchanging team uniforms.
Ou Cheng's emotional intelligence is still good. He has greatly increased his fan following and gained the favor of many players in the LPL.
WE finished the first round of the group stage and led Group A with a record of 3-0.
After that, RNG easily defeated GAM and temporarily ranked second in the group 2-1, second only to LZ who had won three games.
As for EDG, they lost unexpectedly again in their match against European Rabbits MSF.
MSF's bottom lane showed strong creativity and a passionate female tank, which completely exceeded EDG's expectations. It killed EDG's bottom lane in the first level.
Subsequently, the MSF jungler cooperated with the female tank, targeting the EDG bottom lane and constantly attacking.
Hansama's cannon had three kills in five minutes, which was a wild start.
The factory director introduced several waves of rhythm, which helped EDG regain some of its disadvantages. Unfortunately, the development of the small guns was too advanced, and EDG was completely unable to stop the harvest of the small guns.
After the first round, EDG, which was previously known as the top draw, only scored 1-2, which shocked LPL fans.
The overall situation in Group D has also become extremely confusing, and it is still unclear who can stand out.
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After a short offseason, the second round of the group stage begins.
Each day starting from the second round, a group schedule will be played to determine the teams that advance to the quarterfinals.
Compared with the schedule in the first round where each team only had one game a day at most, the schedule in the second round is undoubtedly more frequent and intense.
This also means that the team has less time to adjust and will test the players' on-the-spot status more.
As the host, WE enjoyed a slight home court advantage, and there were no back-to-back games in the second round.
Moreover, the most suspenseful game against SKT was arranged at the end.
SKT must fight a tough battle with FNC before competing in WE.
Don't underestimate these seemingly subtle home court advantages. The importance of the schedule is far greater than imagined.
For example, if WE and SKT play against each other in advance and lose, there is a high possibility that there will be a mental problem, causing the sluggish state to extend to the next two games.
On the other hand, if WE securely wins TSM and FNC, it will at least ensure that it can compete with SKT for first place in the group, and its mentality will have the upper hand when playing SKT.
This chapter has been completed!