In the official live broadcast room, Wawa was the first to speak, "Welcome back to the third game of the semi-finals of the MSI Mid-Season Invitational. There are no substitutions on either side, and edg returns to the blue side."
"In the last game, EDG came up with a Titan routine they had never used in the regular season and won. Miller pointed out what the audience was most concerned about, "I don't know how SKT will handle this game."
Wawa said, "It should be banned. It's impossible for Duke or Faker to grab the ban instead... I just checked and SKT did use Titan in the regular season in the top lane, but the problem is that this game Edg is on the blue side.
As long as skt can't help it, edg will definitely grab the titan."
The selection panel appeared on the big screen, and the BP battle between the two sides officially began!
Miller explained the BP situation, "The blue side edg banned Bullhead, Ekko and Leopard Girl successively. There is no surprise. They continued the BP of the first game, which was to replace Ryze with Leopard Girl to limit the blank hero pool.
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"Skt really banned the Titans in the first hand, and there were changes in the last two hands..." Wawa was very interested in the changes in skt's BP. "In the previous two games, they banned the two mages, the Card Tsar, but this time
But Qianjue and Dashu were banned."
Miller made an analysis, "blank Qianjue's performance in the last game was average. He gave edg too many opportunities, but he didn't dare to let them go to the factory director. As for Dashu, he was probably afraid that edg would grab them first."
Miller's analysis only scratches the surface.
Although skt lost to the Titans in the second game, the BP in this game became extremely difficult, but coach kkoma's three beautiful bans still gave edg a problem!
At this time, the top laner banned Ekko Dashu, and the three t1s left only Poppy on the road.
The jungler banned Leopard Girl and Kindred, and the three t1 junglers also only have male guns left.
So no matter which one edg takes first, skt can carve up another powerful hero.
"Considering that the middle and jungle need to link up, and Mika will try to put her hero selection at the back, should we grab Poppy first?" Abu asked for advice hesitantly.
"Choose the male gun, I can play a lot on the road!" Mouse humbly conceded, "After all, Mika has trained the Titan Tsar Ryze, and I have also trained many heroes..."
"SKT's jungler Blank is not in good condition, let's challenge his hero pool!" the factory director also agreed.
"Well."
With Abu's approval, EDG first selected the male gun.
Then SKT selected top laner Bobby and then locked in adc Lucian, which was a very conventional hero choice.
EDG's second and third picks were respectively focused on wet nurse Soraka and Sivir. With this combination, if Faker dares to pick a murloc as a second pick, he will have to suffer the same pain as Mika in the first game.
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In the third and fourth moves of skt, they selected auxiliary Nami and jungler Spider. The former imitated edg's BP in the first game and was used to counter Soraka. The latter should be Blank's choice after the mainstream jungler was banned.
Forced choice.
Finally arrived at edg’s final selection of players.
"Mika, you really don't want to play Enchantress anymore? This game should be easier than the first game. SKT doesn't have a wet nurse anymore." Although Mi Xia had already rejected Abu's proposal after going to the toilet and returning to the lounge.
At this point, he still advised, "Or, why don't you try attacking the little fishmen first?"
Mei Xia felt that there was something wrong with her coach's thinking.
Forget it if you take the Enchantress first, at least you can get a laning advantage against most mages in the early stage. As for the Murloc, how can a player like me, Mika, in a team like me, take the lead with such a hero that hangs up in the early stage!
Well, the honest Mika must admit that she might have readily agreed to Abu's proposal, but at least today she was not so confident when facing the big devil Faker.
Yu Meixia decisively refused, "I don't want assassins, I want to play czar!"
Abu felt that Mika was very strange today. Why was he not even willing to choose his favorite assassin hero? He lost one game in the last round and did not want to take risks, so he only used Titan's black technology. Such good conditions in this round were still the same.
Want to play the most traditional Tsar!
But since Mika asked like this, he could only agree with confusion and relief, "That's okay..."
So the blue hero selection box first locked the top laner designated by mouse, the troll.
Gu Xin
Then the golden hero avatar lights up.
Desert Emperor, Azir!
Shurima, your emperor is back!
"EDG selected the Tsar in the fifth pick?" Commentator Xi Wawa was very surprised by this choice. Generally speaking, the last two picks in the game are used to obtain black technology or restrain the opponent. The Tsar, a long-handed mage with no natural enemies, is in the top three.
It actually makes no difference whether you take it out with the first hand or the last hand.
Miller was amused by edg's BP of holding the tsar in their fifth hand, "I thought mika was going to choose the Enchantress, but edg actually chose the most stable mage tsar, which is a bit surprising. But then again, it should be surprising.
But there was no accident when it happened, so it’s not an accident at all.”
The audience immediately exclaimed when they saw the Czar, and they were not disappointed at all because of this conservative selection.
"Mika-chan has really changed! Cry to death!"
"Mika-chan has become too unfamiliar to the team. Could it be that General Pawn has taken over her body?"
"Brothers, Mika must have a new routine. Last time, she was a pure magic power. Is it possible to become a half-meat tsar today?"
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bp is still going on, and the game comes to skt’s last counter position.
I saw that the BP box kept changing, from cards and Ryze to murlocs.
The doll quickly guessed with a smile, "Hey, Miller, since Mika chose the Tsar, do you think Faker might choose the little fish man again? Or choose the Enchantress?!"
"That's not appropriate, but even Mika is the Titan Czar. It's not impossible for Faker to choose an assassin as his counter..." Miller didn't dare to make a conclusion for the moment.
SKT coach KKoma stood behind Faker and wrote this message in a notebook with a pen.
Although I had expected that Mika would be unlikely to choose an assassin, I was still surprised to see Edg's last move with the extremely conservative Tsar.
He had studied the regular season of edg and naturally knew how Mika played the game before. "Is it possible that he is the Assassin Czar of the powerful French style? What do you think, Xianghe?"
"If she really treats the Tsar as an assassin, that would be a good thing for us! But no matter which strategy she uses, I can only treat it as the strongest Nash Fang Tsar." Faker made a calm judgment, "Give it a try.
I’ll take Ryze!”
"The only mage who can defeat the Tsar is Ryze..." kkoma nodded.
skt's fifth counter position locked the wandering mage.
The audience also applauded SKT's selection of mage.
"It's so weird. The two mid laners, Tsar Ryze, who are often chosen in the first three picks, actually picked last today."
"Whatever, Czar Ryze, this is a matchup between the strongest mid laners in the version!"
"I declare that whoever wins this game is the strongest mage player in MSI!"
Amid cheers, the lineups of both sides were confirmed.
Blue side edg, top laner Troll, jungler gunner, mid laner Czar, adc Sivir and auxiliary nanny.
Red side skt, top laner Poppy, jungler Spider, mid laner Ryze, adc Lucian and assistant Nami.