Due to the tight schedule of the Mid-Season Cup, all group matches must be played within two days. The first game is Group A, and the opening game is fpx vs. skt.
In last year's World Finals, fpx lost to SKT, and this season, fpx bought Khan from SKT.
The combination of old and new grudges created a slight smell of gunpowder before the game even started. Originally, the LPL audience had great hopes for this game.
After all, this game was specially prepared by lck to regain the situation after losing in the last Asian competition. They are the challengers, and the lpl audience has a psychological advantage.
However, what everyone did not expect was that in the opening game, fpx, which had not adjusted its state, lost to skt again, and Xiaotian and doinb's midfield rhythm was completely disrupted.
Even the War Horse coach was put on the hot seat because the hero he chose for Xiaotian in this game was Qian Jue, not the rhythm jungler that Xiaotian is best at.
Obviously, fpx is still in a period of struggle this season. The rhythm jungler, which was very popular in the past, has shown difficulty in adapting to the version this season.
If ig hadn't replaced Xiao Leyan and had King Ning play in the jungle all the time, they might have faced a dilemma like fpx. Even if the line was at an advantage and the economy of the jungle could not be maintained, it would be very risky to choose to speed up in the early stage.
It could kill the game quickly.
Seeing FPX losing to SKT so cleanly, a trace of joy flashed in Yun Ge's eyes. Fortunately, he had the foresight to transform ig in advance and enter the half-core jungle era.
After FPX lost to SKT, the LPL audience was very disappointed. There was a lot of curses in the live broadcast room, and the War Horse coach also complained in the group, saying that FPX's problem is very difficult now and he has no solution at all.
There was even an intention to leave fpx in their words. Yun Ge and the other three comforted the War Horse coach a little. Even though fpx was having many problems at the moment, it was still the leading team in lpl. It was not that easy to change to another team for reconstruction.
After fpx lost the first game, all the pressure came on tes, so White Crescent's BP in this game seemed very stable.
In order to be able to provide greater help to Kassa in the jungle, White Crescent gave her left hand an Enchantress that was more flexible in the early and mid-term. Facing the fledgling Showmaker, the left hand played very strongly.
Compared to FPX's slightly stiff mid-jungle linkage in the last game, tes did even better in this game. As a top jungler, Kasa is not very adaptable to the jungle core version, but he has a relatively unique style of play.
Top students are better at this. Even if they encounter a problem they cannot solve, they can still find a general idea. It is this characteristic that keeps Casa's performance from breaking through the lower limit and is very stable.
With the left-handed enchantress recording a 9-0-7 record, tes easily won its first victory in the group stage, giving some comfort to the lpl audience and allowing the trolls in the live broadcast room to calm down for a while.
However, the next game stunned all the spectators watching the game. This was a back-to-back game for dwg and a civil war for lck.
I thought SKT would win easily, but no one expected that the two sides were in a stalemate for forty minutes without a winner. Audiences who are used to watching LPL fast-paced games are really uncomfortable with such a long and smelly game.
Unbearable.
The key is that the scene was not pretty. The two sides fought for nearly fifty minutes, and there were only a dozen heads. It was not as many heads as the previous game where TES easily ended the game.
"Oh my God, is this a high-quality competition? Shakespeare? Sorry, I really can't appreciate it."
"No one really likes to watch this kind of game, no, no."
"One thing to say, I just went to sleep and dreamed that the game was over, but when I woke up they were still playing."
"Hahahaha, in your dreams you can fight cleaner than them, right?"
"This game is so hypnotic that I can't stand it anymore. Brothers, please wait until the ig game starts before calling me."
"It's true at first glance, don't ig fans know that there will be no ig game today?"
Not only was the game process painful to watch, but the result was also beyond everyone's expectations. skt's final tactic was to steal faker's cards, but dwg caught him and finally completed the wave.
After fifty minutes of fierce fighting, skt failed to steal and lost to dwg. This was a small upset in today's game. Before the game, everyone was optimistic that skt would win and qualify. The other three teams were competing for the last spot.
As a result, after three games, the final result was a deadlock, three 1-1. Only fpx had not won its first victory, but in the subsequent LPL civil war, fpx actually defeated tes.
With this result, everyone was shocked again, 1-1 for four, and the next two games directly became a life and death game. Whoever loses the game will go home directly.
Under the pressure of a life-or-death situation, fpx finally performed exceptionally and successfully defeated dwg, becoming the first team in Group A to advance to the knockout rounds.
Before the last game of Group A started, even the audience who had previously complained that the game was not good to watch began to hold their breath, because although the game was not good to watch, the field was so exciting.
dwg had been preparing for so long, but they only played for one day, lost two of three games, and then went home directly. They also helped lpl beat a wave of skt. They are really good brothers.
In the life-and-death game, Bai Yueya had an idea and thought of the ez that he had discussed in the group before. He knew that the AD player Puff of the TES team was not good at laning, so he could just choose an ez for him to develop in the bottom lane.
So in the critical game against SKT, tes chose an extremely weak lane combination for the bottom lane combination, ez and Gabulon. This combination was tantamount to surrendering directly to the lane. Let's start a team fight.
However, this combination, which has room for survival in the lpl bottom lane, is quite effective against the lck team. In this game, tes' bottom lane performance was very good and successfully completed the harvest in the team battle.
tes finally defeated skt, successfully got the last ticket in group a, and successfully advanced to the knockout rounds. No one expected that skt, who had been talking about seeking revenge from ig, actually didn't even qualify for the group stage and was kicked out.
"ig: I heard that someone wants to seek revenge from me? Where is that person?"
"Hey, can you take care of the loser's feelings? Isn't this just inserting a knife into skt's wound?"
"It's so scary. You want to kill someone but also kill your heart?"
"Guigui, is this the dominance of the first division? On the first day of the group match, half of the people were gone."
""Division 1", "No. 1 Seed", and "Go Home One Day" really go together."
When the first day's games were all played, the LPL audience began to constantly mock the team next door, especially those who had been trolling in the live broadcast room when fpx lost before, and were caught and whipped to death by countless people.
Although lpl had a slightly unfavorable start, it ended up with a great victory. You must know that fpx and tes did not even reach the finals of the spring split, but they easily defeated the lck team. What about group b, ig
and jdg are both strong teams that have reached the finals.
The LPL audience is even guessing that if all the LCK teams are kicked out of the Mid-Season Cup this time, the joke will be big.
I originally planned to find a venue, but in the end, even my underwear was taken off. Thinking of the scene of the audience next door wailing, the lpl audience became very excited.
The next day, the Group B match started. The first match was the focus match. IG faced off against Samsung. As the team that lost to SKT in this spring split, Samsung once again became the last hope for LCK.
They don't even want to win against ig, but they want to ensure qualifying and leave the last bit of face for lck. Although it's still ugly to advance four to one, it's better than being shaved off.
"Welcome to the audience, hello everyone, I am the commentator Guan Zeyuan."
Today, he is still on duty as a senior colonel, but the attentive audience can already tell from Guan Zeyuan's tone that he does not seem to be that happy.
You must know that today is his favorite team, Samsung's game. Logically speaking, Guan Zeyuan should be very happy, but considering the current situation Samsung is facing, you can understand why Guan Zeyuan is unhappy.
"After watching yesterday's game, LPL viewers seem to be looking forward to the next game. They hope to see the entire LCK team wiped out today."
Remembering which pot was left unopened and which pot was being picked up, a knife was inserted into Guan Zeyuan's heart. After hearing the words remembered, Guan Zeyuan's expression became very ugly, and the smile on his face was even uglier than crying.
"The current situation of lck is indeed not optimistic. Facing the pressure from ig and jdg, I... it will be very difficult for them to break through."
"I'm more optimistic about Samsung. They should have the strength to compete with JDG for the last spot."
As if he was too nervous, Guan Zeyuan almost said what he felt. Even if he liked Samsung, there was no way to say that Samsung could be promoted stably.
Not to mention competing with ig for a spot, he even felt that Samsung couldn't even beat jdg, but he couldn't accept this situation, so Guan Zeyuan seemed worried.
Yunge and the ig players had no idea that there was a mole in the commentary box. After watching the whole game yesterday, everyone at ig felt very relaxed.
If the other two teams in LCK are also at this level, then there shouldn't be any big surprises in today's game, and it may be a little more difficult than IG's regular season game.
Since ig failed to get the right to choose a side during the coin toss, Samsung decisively chose the blue side. They would have an easier time in the ban position on the blue side.
Samsung even played a little trick with IG. They banned Rookie's three mid lane heroes, but only let go of Tsar, and then decisively took the lead on the blue side.
The most talented player of this Samsung team is bdd, and the Tsar is also his favorite hero. The reason why Samsung's coaching staff played this little trick is to make bdd feel more comfortable during the laning period.
Yunge didn't prepare too much for the tactics of this game. He directly copied the lineup from the third game of the spring finals and gave ig a poke lineup of "Shapechanger".
But Yun Ge didn't expect that in the second round of banning, Samsung's coaching staff directly banned ig's bottom duo of policewoman and robot. Obviously, in order to win the game, Samsung did a lot
I did my homework and even studied the lpl spring finals carefully.
Yun Ge was just stunned for a moment, because the bottom lane combination of policewoman and robot is not the core of this lineup, the top, middle and jungle three [Shapechanger] are the most important.
Without policewomen and robots, Yun Ge gave Ah Shui Xia Luo, which would make him even more powerful and oppressive in the lane, and there weren't many ways to target him.
In order to cope with ig's laning pressure, Samsung not only picked a Czar in the middle, but also picked up Aphelios and Thresh in the bottom lane, which ig didn't pick.
As for how to play the shy in the top lane, Samsung didn’t have a good method. They could only choose the more flexible Qinggang Shadow. As for the jungle position, Samsung did not choose the blind monk who is best at clid, but took the more popular version of Qian Gang.
Jue.
However, Kindred, the hero, never won at all on the first day of the game, and even tricked Xiaotian. After giving up on Kindred, fpx immediately won two consecutive victories and successfully advanced to the competition.
However, Samsung still has not given up, and still plans to try the hero Kindred. Perhaps the training match within the LCK division will be more effective. After all, with the slow pace and few heads, Kindred is indeed very comfortable to play.
But Kindred is ineffective against LPL teams. As a player who needs to get a kill mark, Kindred is actually not suitable for fierce competition in the early stage, but prefers to slowly capture orders in the mid-term.
After determining the lineup, the players from the two teams quickly entered the game. From the beginning of the laning period, the situation on the court was beyond the expectations of the Samsung coaching staff.
In his expectation, Samsung's lineup, even if their players' laning strength is different from ig, will not be at a big disadvantage.
However, from the very beginning of the laning, ig pushed in three directions, and even Xiao Leyan's Leopard Girl got excited. Facing the clid Qianjue, Leopard Girl relied on the advantage of her teammates to constantly harass him in the jungle.
Clid's Qian Jue can only choose to go around Leopard Girl, but in this way, the situation on the Samsung field becomes more passive. With three lines plus the jungle area, there is no advantage at all.
Five minutes later, theshy Gnar seized the opportunity to get bigger and successfully consumed a wave of Qinggang Ying. Samsung's top laner Rascal was a player who was great at talking but average in his hands.
He has a way of bullying newcomers, but when he encounters theshy during the laning phase, he immediately gives up. Since its launch, Qinggang Shadow has been developing poorly, using only passive shields and W skills to stay in the lane at long range.
In just five minutes, he was beaten by theshy with 20 last-hit hits. After theshy took the opportunity to hit him, and after losing half of his health, he chose to return to the city steadily.
Qinggangying, who had finished his supplies, had an extra pair of straw sandals and cloth armor on his body. It seemed that he was planning to fight the shy to the end, but Rascal had a good idea, but some things cannot be avoided.
Six and a half minutes later, after returning to the city for supplies, Qinggangying was once again reduced to half health by theshy's Little Gnar. He was planning to return to the city again, but he failed to resist the temptation of the wave of troops under the tower, and theshy seized the opportunity.
.
Gnar, who was about to become bigger, performed a wave of operations in front of Samsung's tower. The green steel shadow suddenly attacked under the tower, and slapped him against the wall. Then Qawa took action and executed a smooth combo, successfully completing it.
Kill alone and finally walk out of the range of the defense tower.
theshy’s solo kill was so relaxed and freehand that it even seemed a bit ordinary.
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