The summer transfer window closes on May 22nd, which is exactly the day before the start of the Demacia Cup qualifiers.
This also shows from the side that the main significance of the existence of the Demacia Cup is to allow teams that have conducted lineup reinforcements and player transactions in the summer transfer to conduct training before the start of the LPL Summer Split.
To put it bluntly, it is just a relatively formal large-scale training match, but it actually doesn’t have much gold content.
However, for edg, this German Cup championship has a different meaning, because starting from the second Demacia Cup after edg participated, this championship has never been lost to other teams.
The title of defending champion of the Demacia Cup has been on Edg's head for three full years, so the German Cup is also known as the Edg Cup. Therefore, many LPL viewers have joked in the past two years: The German Cup champion can guarantee the world championship.
Quarterfinals.
However, as the saying goes, "Iron-made trophies, flowing championships", even the global finals trophy can only be made into a replica model to remain in the championship team. Sooner or later, edg's dominance of the Demacia Cup will end.
But for the edg players, this is like passing a flower by beating a drum. No one wants this bomb to explode when it is passed to their hands, especially a newcomer like Yang Yi who just joined edg this year.
Let’s take RNG next door as a distance. They were already the LPL Spring Split champions before Brother Zuko joined, and their opponent happened to be EDG.
As a result, after Brother Zuko joined, rng was happily sent away by edg three to zero in the summer split. In this year's spring split, it didn't even make it to the finals.
If the German Cup champion is lost in the hands of Yang Yi, then when EDG fans ask, how will he explain?
You can't be like Gou Silin and blame it all on the useless coach and teammates, right?
Then Uncle Fengshan has something to say - [Are you a person who destroys the environment? jpg]
So after a short rest for half a day, edg, who had all the team members present, quickly got into training.
The coaching staff also gave the two new top laners enough opportunities. In the two bo3 training games that night, aodi and theshy played once each, and there were no substitutions regardless of winning or losing.
Mouse, the main top laner, was worried about losing his job. After watching two training games, he felt a little relieved.
These two new top laners have their own advantages and disadvantages, and their advantages and disadvantages are obvious.
Aodi's advantage is... he is still very young, born in the 2000s, a few months younger than another theshy who was born in 1999, and has a promising future.*
As for the shortcomings... he is playing pretty rubbish right now.
The advantage of theshv is that his operations are very delicate, so delicate that even Chen Haoyu, a competitor, had a feeling that he should abdicate in favor of others.
And theshv seems to know that he is very powerful in operation, and he plays very confident and aggressive in the lane. In the first training game with omg, he almost killed the crocodile of the fetus man with the Qinggang Shadow.
Fetal Man, also known as Frozen Sunset, is a player who has transitioned from mid lane to top lane. When he first debuted as a mid laner, he even killed faker in a solo, so he is naturally not too bad at laning.
But for such a veteran player to be almost single-handedly defeated by theshy, this is no longer as simple as looking forward to the future.
However, the shortcomings of theshy are also obvious, that is, his playing style is a bit too radical. After Sunset recognized the strength of his opponent in the second game, he took out a big tree and adopted the strategy of being cunning and waiting to be caught, and cooperated with world6 to take this up.
The young man who set 9-1 made it 0-8.
After seeing this scene, Chen Haoyu finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that his career might not have come to an end yet. Just looking at the happy expressions of Abu and Nofe, Mouse also understood that there was not much time left for him.
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Although the team may continue to start him in the summer split, the day when theshy accepts EDG's systematic training may be the time for him to return to the water cooler permanently.
At that time, I am afraid that apart from retiring, I will only have the option of leaving EDG like Korol.
After the training match, Yang Yi took the initiative to bring Tian Ye and go back to the room with Theshy to chat, hoping to enhance their relationship with him. He was an ADC player, and there was no competition with Theshy. The stronger Theshy performed, the more Yang Yi, a teammate,
The happier he will be - if he is the top laner, can he still steal my adc and play?
Because Ye Tianye understands some Korean and has a bunk bed relationship with theshy, he now works part-time as a translator, and is also responsible for occasionally teaching theshy some Chinese.
Yes, this is what shocked Yang Yi the most. Edg’s dormitory was actually a four-person room.
When he first moved here, he saw the two bunk beds in the room that were similar to those in a high school dormitory. He thought that the EDG B team was so cool that they were reluctant to buy two single beds for the team members.
But Yang Yi never expected that the upper bunks of these two iron frame beds would really be reserved for sleeping people. At that time, there was only a personnel change in the EDG, leaving a room for him and Tian Ye.
Now that Audi and theshy are here, and several new employees have come to the club for the summer season, the vacancies in this room have been filled. In a place like Edinburgh where land is at a premium, even the big boss Ed Zhu is reluctant to give up an extra room.
Expenditure for employee dormitories.
During free training in the evening, Yang Yi couldn't help but complain about this problem in front of everyone, and immediately heard a little story that happened not long ago.
According to Ai Luoli, theshy actually came to edg for trial training before this year's spring game, and even came a few days earlier than Yang Yi.
Although theshy's performance was the same as in the last two games against omg, and he was caught 0-8 by his opponent, his operation still impressed Abramovich, and he decided to sign a contract with the opponent on the spot.
As a result, before theshy signed the contract, he went to Edg's dormitory for a walk, and found out that Edg's dormitory was a quadruple room, so he immediately made up his mind to run away.
I didn’t even have time to taste the delicacies from the edg cafeteria.
As the saying goes, gold always shines. Abramovich can spot theshy at a glance, and the coaches of we and ig are naturally not blind. Coach Hongmi thinks that the other party is an unfinished jade. After arriving at ig, coach Mafa also found out
Despite the impressive performance of theshy, they each have a more mature 957 and duke in their team, so theshy has never had a chance to play before.
The reason why he was willing to come to edg this time was not only that Su Dashan was willing to sacrifice himself to contribute to the lpl, but also that theshy saw that edg was actually willing to let a person like Yang Yi, who had never been exposed to the professional arena, start the game, so he made up his mind.
Back in the "pig pen" of edg.
"So in general, it is actually beneficial for the official to engage in this capitalization, especially for us players," Tian Ye concluded.
"It is said that every team will have to go to a city to establish its own home stadium. Not only will wages rise, but the accommodation environment will also become much better. At least four people will not have to squeeze into one room."
theshy's eyes lit up when he heard this: "This is so wide!"
Originally, given his Chinese proficiency during the WE and IG periods, he should not have been able to understand what Tian Ye was saying, but now he can understand roughly.
His Chinese proficiency was very poor before, and he didn't look like a Korean player who had been in the LPL for more than a year. You must know that after Rookie and Doinb came to China, they could serve as team members in less than a year.
Translated within.
Maybe it's because WE and IG don't have strict requirements in this regard, or maybe both teams have Korean players who are good at Chinese who can act as translators, so they let theshy spend a year and a half so freely.
However, edg once suffered a loss in public opinion because of deft's Chinese proficiency, so this year it became much stricter. In order to play games as soon as possible, theshy had no choice but to study Chinese honestly.
"The salary will also be increased." Yang Yi doesn't have high requirements for accommodation conditions. You must know that the dormitory in their high school is a six-person dormitory. I heard that some schools even have eight-person dormitories.
The main purpose of Yang Yi's career is to make money. He feels that talking about championships is as hollow and ridiculous as the boss telling you that work is for your dreams. Besides, there is not much difference between playing a career and working part-time.
Now he can add another championship, because winning means he can get more money, and he doesn't want to experience another failure.
After the training match, the edg players and coaches conducted a review as usual. The one who was called out the most was Jiang Chenglu, whose quota for the training match was getting higher and higher.
As the top four teams in the LPL Spring Split, the four teams we, edg, rng and omg can directly advance to the knockout rounds of the quarter-finals without having to play in the group stage or qualifiers, so these days they are making high-intensity training matches with other teams.
"Tianye, go and talk to Xiao Jiang and tell him not to beat him so fiercely, okay?"
Yang Yi pressed his temples and felt his blood pressure rising.
theshy was born in November 1999. Yang Yi is several months older than theshy. China does not have the bad habit of ranking based on seniority like Korea does. Not counting secondary leagues like lspl, he debuted earlier than his opponent.
It's a spring game, so he calls "Xiao Jiang" with peace of mind.
The key point is that Xiao Jiang's performance in the training match also highlighted his youth.
Or the young people don't respect martial ethics and sneak attack on the old comrades in their twenties on the opposite side, beat the singles on the opposite side until they cry for their fathers and mothers, and kill them all the way;
Either the young man didn't know the heights of the world, and was clearly arranged by the opponent Lao Yinbi's top laner to become a breakthrough in the team. This training match against WE was the latter. 957, who knew the shy's personal strength, didn't even think about it.
With his Hard Steel, he directly chose a big tree to start messing around, while theshy backhandedly chose a swordswoman and wanted to perform a wood cutting, but was arranged by his former teammate.
The key is that this swordswoman was caught with four bars and zero, and she was beaten as fiercely as four bars and zero. She pretended to be on the face of the big tree on the opposite side, just testing back and forth on the edge of death. Yang Yi cut the screen every time
In the past, my scalp was numb when I saw him, but I can only say that Riven, the number one player in the Korean server, is indeed a sharp double-edged sword.
After each team gradually became familiar with theshy's methods, edg's winning rate in recent training matches also plummeted, and even ushered in a five-game losing streak.
However, in these days of training matches, edg has not gained nothing. In addition to adjusting to the new lineup, Yang Yi and Abramovich also discovered a fatal problem - that is, the nickname edg's top laner "Grave" is not for nothing.
If theshy were on another team, he would probably be the same as he is now. As long as the opponent dares to come up and gank, he would dare to show his opponent his death.
But Yang Yi dares to assert that if you are in a team other than edg and see theshy playing so aggressively, as if they don't regard their jungler as a human being, you must worry about whether the opponent's jungler is reacting behind him.
Squat, so the number of times you have to catch it will be much less.
However, here at edg, they don't need to have such concerns.
"Mingkai, you should go and help on the road. It's strange that he doesn't get caught if he presses so hard on the road. You should go on the road more to give the other side a deterrent!" Abu said dissatisfied.
"No, I'm asked to go down the road, and I'm asked to go up the road. How can I get there?" Ming Kai was also angry.
Although it’s easy for junglers to take the blame, you can’t blame me for everything, right?
"The bottom lane also holds the line, and the top lane also holds the line. The jungler on the opposite side can grab any lane they want. Can I still split up and help them counter-crouch?" "You wait a moment?"
Yang Yi was suddenly dumped, and it was a bit baffling: "Who wants you to come to the bottom lane? Except when the opponent made it clear that they wanted to cross the tower with four packs and two, neither Tian Ye nor I said anything about asking you to help? Even if he shouted
I also asked you to come with Scout?"
"Do you think we can't beat the opponent without a jungler in the bottom lane?'
"I just believe in your ability to play in the bottom lane, so I want to keep you in the bottom lane!"
"But the problem is that we don't need you? Wouldn't it be better for you and Xiao Jiang to practice together more?"
Mingkai was a little embarrassed.
You must know that EDG had the strongest top laner before, or the strongest top laner in the entire LPL, which was the MSI limited version of Tong Wudi. No matter how strong Tong Wudi was at that time, he was only invincible in team play. How had he ever seen it?
Is the top laner so fierce in laning?
And he could see that even though Yang Yi was smiling playfully in front of everyone, the defeat in the Spring Finals actually had a huge impact.
After returning from vacation, Yang Yi gradually replaced Ming Kai and became the last person to leave the training room every day.
Ming Kai secretly observed Yang Yi and found that in the 24 hours a day, except for six hours of sleep, most of the rest of the time was spent on training.
Sometimes Mingkai felt that Yang Yi was so crazy at training, and had to force him to get off the plane and go back to rest before leaving. However, what Mingkai didn't know was that every time Yang Yi went back to the house and hid for a few minutes, he would start again.
Sneak back to the training room.
But for edg, this is also a good thing.
Seeing that Yang Yi, a newcomer, was working so hard, people like Mouse who were under unemployment pressure naturally followed suit. As Yang Yi's bottom lane partner, Tian Ye was too embarrassed to sneak back to the dormitory to watch anime alone, so he could only follow along.
Double overtime
Under such high-intensity training, the duo's tacit understanding and laning ability have also been greatly improved. The bottom lane combinations of some mid-tier LPL teams will be killed in almost every game against them.
Therefore, it is normal for Mingkai to subconsciously regard the bottom lane as a thigh hug. After all, he performed so well in the bottom lane and he has become accustomed to the defensive style of play.
Besides, just because theshy played well in training games, it doesn't mean that he can also achieve the same effect in the game. It's better to stick to the bottom lane that has already proven himself in the game.
Yang Yi knew that Ming Kai had a long history of distrust on the road. The main reason was that Aguang was really a bit of a bad guy. He was actually able to perform magical operations such as reversing the car into the warehouse and setting the mountain on fire more than once.
But Yang Yi has a feeling that theshy is a player different from all the previous top laners of edg.
Let's see, time will tell.
(! The pride of the Chinese people! I just want to see g2 choose psg as the first qualifying team, and then rng play skt in the semi-finals. Then we will know whether Faker has blood suppression on Ah Ba, or skt has blood suppression on rng.)
