The lights in the stadium flickered, and the most popular LPL game was narrated by the two most experienced and honest hosts.
The players stepped onto the stage, and Miller announced loudly, "Okay, welcome to the third day of the third week of the LPL Summer Split. Next is the highly anticipated focus battle!"
The commentator said, "EDG vs. RNG! Wow, these two teams are the champion and runner-up of the Spring Split respectively. They are currently ranked first in Group AB with undefeated records! And every time they played against each other in LPL, they were the same.
Very exciting!”
Miller said, "Speaking of previous matches, I thought of an interesting mid lane matchup data between the two teams. Do you want to know, baby?"
The doll asked, "Oh, what data?"
"Xiaohu is the only mid laner in LPL so far who has not been single-killed by Mika!"
In terms of overall record, after the reorganization of rng in the spring split, edg's record against rng was a win in three games and only lost three small games. However, the two commentators, Wa and Miller, paid great attention to the analytical perspective and from all aspects, today's
The game is exaggerated to the point where the strong versus the evenly matched.
"Without further ado, the game BP seems to have started. Please hand over the screen to the players on the field!"
As the voice of the doll fell, the director cut out the player shots and the BP interface. Mika was happily sipping the half-cup of milk tea left, while Abu, who was holding a notebook behind her, was already instructing the players to ban heroes.
Miller looked at the BP screen and analyzed, "Edg played Blue Fangha in the first game. The first two hands banned Sivir, Leopard Girl, the ADC that Uzi has been using recently, and Xiang Guo's Leopard Girl. There is no problem."
"Go to rng's side and ban Braum and Digger. You can see from the hero's BP that both teams have studied their opponents carefully before the game."
"Wow! Edg took the initiative to ban Tsar! If I remember correctly, the reason Mika lost to Xiaohu in the Spring Split was because of the hero Tsar!"
"In rng's last move, the mid laner is also banned! Ryze! I didn't expect that Mika's Ryze can now be banned!"
The hero has been disabled.
Go to the lineup selection stage.
Abramovich made two plans for Mika in today's game.
One is to let her play the counter position, so that even if she chooses a newly trained mage hero, she will not be targeted by RNG due to proficiency issues. If there is really no suitable mage hero, she can also choose Kassadin like in the previous game.
A good assassin like Ji can use surprise.
The second is to let her grab the mage heroes that are suitable for the version first, and build a lineup around the mid laner. However, in the current six-ban version, there are still many mid laners in version T1 who are outside, so grabbing the heroes first will not achieve too much.
Advantage.
Abramovich prefers to let Mika counterattack.
However, he still respects the players' opinions very much.
Especially mika.
He said, "Mika, just like in the last regular season, how about leaving the counter position to you? It doesn't matter if you want to play the traditional mid laner or the assassin!"
It was because Abramovich paid too much attention to rng that he seemed to be preparing for the MSI finals, preparing for this ordinary regular season bo3, and even BP made several preparations before the game.
But after Meixia won the MSI championship, she no longer regarded rng as an opponent of the same level——
In her opinion, if even the Tiger Emperor of Xia cannot be captured, then what else can be used to challenge the World Championship in three months, and what can be used to change the fate of edg!!
Meixia expressed her thoughts, "Coach, I want to grab the hero first hand!"
The coach and teammates were slightly stunned.
She continued to speak confidently, "Let me choose the mage hero I trained before, the vampire Vladimir first!"
"What, I thought Mika was going to steal the enchantress..." The factory director breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and smiled happily, "Turns out he was going to steal the vampire."
Director Abby thought further.
When planning the game lineup before, Vampire was only regarded as Ryze's backup hero.
But now that Tsar Ryze is banned, the only mage heroes in Version 1 on the field are Victor, Crow and Vampire, and the only ones Mika has practiced are Vampires.
If we don't grab the vampire first and let Xiaohu grab the rng, then Mika will have no choice but to continue to choose her weird heroes with unknown effects when she becomes the counter!
Mika took the initiative to snatch vampires this time. She must be trying to make compromises and sacrifices for the BP of the entire team just like how MSI chose Tsar Ryze before!
But Abu, who had made up all this in his mind, was so moved that he did not reveal Mika's thoughts to her face, but instead helped her go further!
On the surface, he was as relaxed as the factory director, "Vampire, this must be no problem. It's just that you, Mika, haven't practiced much as a vampire. Why don't you start with the Ice Bird? I thought the last bo3 would be pretty good too!"
"This?" It was Mixia's turn to be surprised by the proposal. When did Abu become crazier than herself?
She hesitated a little, "It wouldn't be good if Anivia didn't choose first..."
"I think Anivia is better!" Abu insisted, "The most important thing is confidence! Last season, Mika, you even had a 90% win rate with Enchantress as the first player. If you start with Anivia, I believe you!"
"
Mei Xia felt that Abu had been trained too much by her.
She originally just wanted to gradually let the coach accept those strange mage heroes.
But I didn’t expect that Abudu would learn to answer quickly!
"Okay, coach, I won't let you down!"
The ice crystal phoenix Anivia lives in edg's first mover.
There were cheers inside and outside the stadium.
The doll said excitedly, "Wow! It's here! The ice bird that mika showed us in the competition last week!"
Miller said, "And it's the first time to grab the ice bird. This BP move by edg is really bold! I don't know what preparation rng has made for this..."
rng quickly revealed the mid lane hero.
The doll was excited again, "Wow! The male gunner Karma, could it be the midlaner Karma!"
Miller said, "It's hard to say. I remember that in a recent game of LCK, Kalma was in the middle. It seemed to be Faker, the mid laner of SKT. But is Kalma easy to play against the Ice Birds?"
Immediately afterwards, edg's side locked Bingbing and Bard in the bottom lane.
This is the result of discussions between deft and meiko in order to counter Uzi’s strong laning style.
Ice Bard's laning intensity is extremely high, so you don't have to worry about being broken by Uzi online. After the laning phase is over, these two heroes are very functional and will not be like policewoman Lucian once the laning phase is over.
The advantage is that it becomes invisible in the middle and late stages.
After knowing that edg's strategy was to place the team's late carry point in the middle, rng immediately responded.
First, Piltover policewoman Katherine determined the strength of the RNG bottom lane confrontation, and then locked down the trickster LeBlanc. All assassin heroes were counters to Icebird.
There was more excitement off the court than when Mika grabbed the ice bird for the first time!
Not only because the Enchantress Assassin is predictable and entertaining, but also because Xiaohu’s Enchantress was taught both forehand and backhand by Mika in the Spring Split!
"Xiaohu wants to avenge his shame!"
"Mi Men makes monsters!"
"Xiaohu is a real man!"
"It's so weird. In the spring split, Mika always used Enchantress to fight against the mage. In the summer split, we can actually see Mika's mage being targeted by the opponent's assassin!"
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After the important BP is completed, the final selections of both sides will be made one after another.
Edg selected top laner Crow, jungler Lee Sin, mid laner Icebird, adc Ice and auxiliary Bard.
erng formed a lineup of top laner Dashu, jungler gunner, mid laner Enchantress, adc policewoman and auxiliary Karma.