Although many viewers were shocked by the strength of ig, as the semifinals approached, their attention slowly turned to sn and dwg.
Compared with SN, who is gradually breaking out in the world championship, many viewers are actually more optimistic about dwg, who is killing everyone in the lck. Throughout the summer split, dwg has shown strong dominance just like ig in the lpl.
Although lck has lost its previous dominance, dwg, who can produce a strong record, definitely has two brushes, and the audience is very much looking forward to dwg being able to give ig some trouble in the following games.
Because among the top four at this time, sn and jdg are both the victims of ig. They were beaten violently by ig in lpl. It is very difficult for them to take revenge in the world championship.
So no one is optimistic that sn and jdg will be able to defeat ig in the next game. If dwg really loses to sn in the semi-finals, then there will basically be no suspense about this year's world championship.
Under this circumstance, many viewers have great hopes for dwg and feel that they will become a strong contender on the road to the ig championship.
After a few days of rest, the semi-finals started on time. The sn and dwg teams did not conduct any tests at the beginning. By now in the World Championship, the tactical ideas of all teams have been very clear.
SN and dwg are both teams that mainly attack the top lane. SN is stronger in the top and jungle due to their personal abilities. Bin and sofm are both top players.
DWG is a little stronger than SN. Their top, middle and jungle trio are not weak in personal ability, and are even stronger. Especially in the middle, showmaker is more comprehensive than angel.
Compared with the LPL game, Black Angel's condition is much better, but compared with Xu Xiu, who is currently at his peak, he is still a little behind.
Not only was his laning ability poor, but more importantly, in terms of roaming support, Angel simply couldn't keep up with Showmaker's pace. The attributes of Black Angel's Earthbound Spirit were once again fully revealed.
The situation in the first game was like this. Originally, both sides decided to go head-to-head in the top lane. In the early stage of the competition, sn was not at a disadvantage. However, with the roaming support of showmaker in the mid lane, dwg had one more person, and sn's jungle move was very fast.
It collapsed.
Bin's monkey was caught four times in ten minutes. Showmaker's clockwork was effective in two consecutive waves in the early stage, directly gaining a huge advantage on the top lane.
When Bin was beaten down, sn became sluggish and the others couldn't stand up at all. In the first game, sn lost cleanly.
However, sn, who have been playing in the bubble and play-in rounds, have already developed their mental endurance. The loss in the first game did not affect their performance in the second game.
SN's coach Char Siu also made some adjustments. In the second round when they came to the blue side, they decisively helped Angel steal Syndra first.
Char Siu's idea is very simple. Even if Angel can't stop Showmaker from roaming, it will cost him a little. Syndra's strong laning may be able to help Sn's top lane to save the situation.
And in the second game, sn also brought out Sword Princess, who Abin has been feeling hot recently. After losing a game, sn still had high morale. In this case, he dared to play a hero like Sword Princess with a low fault tolerance rate.
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After winning a game, dwg's players and coaching staff relaxed a lot. Since SN chose Yon's wild core hero, dwg chose Widow when the male gunner, Leopard Girl and Centaur were unable to play.
Jungle.
This can be regarded as the hidden tactical system of the dwg coaching staff. After all, in the wild core version, many teams now choose to play teams to a certain extent.
If the wild core in a team is very strong, then the two heroes of Male Spear and Leopard Girl will definitely not be selected, and SN will deal with dwg according to the idea of dealing with ig.
But I have to say that it makes sense for DWG to be called Little IG. Sn's BP really made it difficult for them to play, and they were forced to play heroes like Widow.
In order to match the jungle widow, dwg had to choose a physical mid laner, but showmaker did not choose Jace, but wanted to play the mid laner Holy Lance Ranger.
In order to match the Holy Spear Ranger in the middle, dwg can only choose Ornn for Niuguli in the top unit to be in the front row. There is no way, the widow jungler and the shooter mid laner must choose a hero who can resist damage in the top lane, otherwise dwg's top unit
The half area is completely unbeatable.
Not long after entering the competition, the dwg players felt awkward because the combination they selected on the spot was not as easy to use as they imagined.
Especially the lane matchup between the middle and top lanes was not comfortable at all. Ornn in the top lane couldn't beat the Sword Demon at all, and the Holy Lance Ranger in the middle lane didn't perform very well against Syndra.
The widow's jungler did not have any advantage against SOFM's unique skill Mantis. After the mid and upper jungle misfired in the early stage, dwg paid the price for their arrogance.
Without too much interference, Abin's Sword Girl became unstoppable and successfully penetrated Niu Guli on the top lane, helping sn gain a huge advantage.
And in the mid-to-late team battles, Sword Girl's performance was very impressive. In a wave of team battles in the middle, she killed five DWG people in a row and successfully got the pentakill.
This stunning wave of five kills not only helped sn win the game, but also boosted their morale that they had lost due to losing the first game.
Just when Sn, who was full of momentum, was about to take down Dwg in one go, Dwg, who had already regained his composure and was introspecting, gave Sn a heads-up.
In the third game, dwg quickly adjusted its thinking and continued to put pressure on SN's top lane while maintaining the mid lane alignment. The difference from the first two games was that in the third game, Niu Guli started to pick up some heroes that were strong in the lane.
After sending Abin's fiery Sword Princess to the ban position, dwg brought out Kennen in the top lane, who has excellent laning and teamfighting capabilities. As a long-hand AP hero, Kennen has no natural enemies in the top lane.
In the second game, Abin, who was already playing high, continued to choose a warrior hero in the top lane. Since Jian Ji was sent to the ban position, sn took out their backup choice of Qinggang Shadow, which was at the bottom of the box.
As a single-band hero, Qinggang Shadow is more flexible than Sword Girl, but compared with the courageous Sword Girl, the flexible Qinggang Shadow does not have the sharp momentum of Sword Girl, and it is difficult to make a single-line breakthrough on the top lane.
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Therefore, the third battle of Tianwang Mountain was easily handled by dwg. SN's momentum in the second game suddenly disappeared. Niuguli's Kennen performed at a Kerry level in both laning and team battles.
He personally took back the limelight that Abin stole from him in the second game, but the duel on the top lane was not over yet, and Abin still had a chance.
But falling behind 1-2 put a lot of psychological pressure on this team. When they lost the first game, they didn't really care. But after losing the second game, they were about to be eliminated. This feeling
totally different.
The invisible pressure did not overwhelm Abin on the road, but his teammates could not withstand the pressure. In the fourth game, Abin used his unique skill of captain at the bottom of the box, hoping to rely on this skill to lead the team to victory.
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Unexpectedly, Nakashimonosuke completely collapsed in the confrontation with dwg, especially the ghost emperor in dwg's bottom lane, who actually successfully cleared SN's bottom lane.
Alone and helpless, A Bin eventually collapsed on the stage in the semi-finals. After losing the game, the young A Bin burst into tears on the field, but no audience blamed them.
After all, sn's ability to reach the semi-finals as the fourth seed has exceeded everyone's expectations, and the boy who cried bitterly on the stage performed very well in the entire bo5.
All LPL viewers understand that young Bin has a promising future.
The audience who watched the entire semi-final couldn't help but sigh at the excitement of this game after briefly feeling sad for SN's elimination.
Especially the various games between the two teams in the first half, the matchup between Abin and Niu Guli is indeed touching, but this is not the most anticipated top lane matchup.
The most anticipated top lane matchup in this year’s World Championship is of course the master-disciple showdown between Matt Shai and Niugu Li.
And after sn lost the game, the lpl audience was not too sad, because they were not the lpl's last hope, and the other semi-final was a civil war for the lpl.
The semi-finals between ig and jdg have basically guaranteed that the lpl team will definitely have a seat in the finals. Although the idea of the lpl eventually meeting in the finals has been scrapped, the lpl's hope of winning is still very high.
And after watching the game between dwg and sn, the audience became extremely looking forward to the game between ig and jdg. After all, these two teams both won the group stage and qualified.
Except that jdg seemed a little anxious when playing tes, but no matter what, jdg completed the following defeats and successfully used the identity of the third seed to overthrow the second seed, which can be regarded as an outstanding performance.
Even though many viewers think that the final winning team must be ig, LPL viewers know that the showdown between ig and jdg is always exciting.
In particular, the competition between Coach Yunge and Coach Hongmi on BP is also talked about. Many LPL viewers believe that if the configuration of IG was not too high, Coach Redmi would never be as defeated as he is now.
As JDG, whose lineup has been stable for almost two years, LPL viewers know that the upper limit of their players is indeed not high enough, especially the online players, which are completely incomparable to the three lines of IG.
In other words, jungler Kanavi had a slight advantage against Xiao Leyan, but this advantage could not determine the outcome of the game.
All viewers who know coach Yunge's BP know that IG has always given the first three rounds of bans to the jungle position. In addition to ensuring that the line is comfortable, it is also to make up for the gap in the jungle position.
In particular, some rhythmic junglers who are very capable of ganking in the early stage have always been in the ban position of ig. No matter what team they play against, ig has never released them.
Under this strict defensive BP strategy, the jungle position of IG's opponent is naturally restricted to a certain extent. Kanavi has something to say about this.
Every time he played against IG, Kanavi was able to gain a certain advantage in the jungle, but when he wanted to radiate his jungle advantage to the line, various problems would always arise.
As for that little Leyan who doesn't have to do anything, he only needs to immerse himself in the jungle to take advantage of his teammates and win the game.
Kanavi felt it wasn't fair at all, and sometimes he even thought that if he were in IG, maybe JDG wouldn't be able to last even fifteen minutes.
In fact, the Redmi coach specifically raised the issue of the jungle advantage being unable to be transferred to the online game within the coaching staff and at JDG’s internal tactical meetings.
After discussions with online players, Hongmi coach gradually understood one thing. Under the strong pressure of ig players, it is useless to give in blindly.
Facing the stable lineups selected by ig before, there was no way to be stable. After brainstorming, the Redmi coach decided to make a risky decision.
In the next semi-finals, jdg will have to go head-to-head with ig. They will also select strong heroes on the line to compete with ig for line rights. Then kanavi will launch an attack from the jungle to find ig's flaws.
After deciding on the tactical ideas, the Hongmi coach began to formulate specific tactics. To this end, JDG's three lane players began to prepare for strong heroes in the lane.
The ig players are not idle either. During these few days of the offseason, Yunge arranged high-intensity training for them every day to ensure their feel.
As for the tactical arrangements for the semi-finals, Yunge had actually planned it for a long time. In other words, during the LPL Summer Split, Yunge specially prepared corresponding tactics for JDG, but it was a pity that they were not used at the time.
But at this time, I met JDG in the semi-finals of the World Championship. The tactics I prepared were not too late at all. Although some heroes have changed, the version environment of the World Championship has not changed much compared to the Summer Split.
Those things that were at the bottom of the box before are still effective now. Yun Ge has actually been looking forward to this competition with the Hongmi coach for a long time.
On the day after the semi-finals between dwg and sn, the game between ig and jdg also continued as usual. Due to heart failure in the previous quarter-finals, Guan Zeyuan had to temporarily withdraw from the commentary booth in the semi-finals.
"Hello everyone, I am the commentator for this game."
"I'm Miller."
A familiar golden partner is here to commentate on today's LPL civil war. Since this is a World Championship, the two commentators' attitudes are more cautious, which is completely different from the previous commentary on LPL games.
"IG and JDG are both old faces in our lpl. I believe many viewers are familiar with them. In addition, in this year's Spring Finals, ig played a BO5 with JDG."
"I still have a very deep impression of that game. Although ig won the game 3-0, the situation of the game was actually very thrilling."
"JDG came back several times against the odds and relied on mid-term teamfights to win. Just from the score of 3-0, you can't tell how thrilling IG was at that time."
Hearing Wawa mention the performance of ig and jdg in the spring finals, Miller also carefully recalled the scene at that time, and soon he thought of the same thing as today's game.
"If I remember correctly, ig was very passive in the jungle in those three games, and kanavi once controlled the entire jungle."
"Xiao Leyan's performance in the Spring Finals was not very good, and it was not as stable as the summer games at all. This may be jdg's breakthrough today, and they will continue to cause trouble for Xiao Leyan."
Miller's thinking is still very sharp. Based on previous games alone, he realized that in today's game between ig and jdg, the jungle area must be a very fierce point of contention.
